Widget Designer 6.5.7

[Thomas Mrozek]

Dear customer.

please find Widget Designer Version 6.5.7 ready to download.

Thank you for your support for V6.5.7 BETA, it helped to sort out some bugs and it’s much appreciated. There are even more features und bugfixes since, please find them listed in the changelog below.

This version is adding Blackmagic Design Videohub and Blackmagic Design Atem series into the devices configuration. These devices can now be completely integrated to your Widget Designer project.

We also adopted the 'auto-apply' feature into the configuration, we introduced groups for sorting devices and benefit from group scripting and group event listeners, and there is now a search and filter function for devices.

We also introduced a grouping for widgets for more comfortable widget group editing as well as group scripting.

The 16bit fader option for Pandoras Box opacity, color and alpha parameters has been addressed. While the former command still works and your old projects will keep working on PB as well as on WD side, a new script has been added to directly send 16bit values to these parameters. Widgets and node now have an option to send 16bit values to Pandoras Box as well.

We will continue on developing Widget Designer, our next big topic will be Airscan refactoring. Please expect great enhancements for usability, especially for multiple Airscan units setups. We’ll also try to address more devices for the configuration to give you more possible control scenarios. Of corse we'll try to eleminate all the bugs.

If you want to help us we are happy to get you feedback in this forum in the Widget Designer V6 category.

Please enjoy and have great shows,
Cheers
Thomas

Widget Designer changelog v6.5.7 (11.10.2023)
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### General
- added "non saved" state for Configuration devices. This also impacts how a user gets notified about unsaved changes on project level
- added a hint when trying to load a project that was created in a more recent version of Widget Designer
- added project import handling for devices (ticket 8789)
- fixed devices still being imported from a project, despite having cancelled the import (ticket 7972)


### Devices
- added Blackmagic Design Smart Videohub Matrix
- added Blackmagic Design Atem Videomixer
- added Groups, Filter (Text-Search) and Sorting to Configuration to provide ease of use when dealing with a big number of devices
- added GroupEventListener to subscribe to the same event on a selection of devices
- added MessageTester on Configuration devices
- added 'Auto-Apply' to Configuration
- added 'Add multiple' button for device types
- added support for driverless SMPTE-Link
- changed error validation on device configuration UI (ticket8645)
- fixed OSC address not working without additional parameters (ticket 8628)
- fixed Configuration UI not updating correctly after having removed a device (ticket-8582)
- fixed Projector device not sending custom command properly with escape sequences, i.e. '[CR]' (ticket 8589)
- fixed Projector port not assignable by script (ticket 8773)
- fixed default Projector port for Panasonic (ticket 8709)
- fixed Christie Captiva issues querying status data (ticket 8734)
- fixed FaderExtension/JogShuttle not keeping values when 'Auto Apply' is active (ticket 8890)


### Widgets
- added WidgetGroups (properties are also manageable via WidgetExplorer)
- added option to set 16bit values for color parameters in PB (color, opacity, alpha) for Widgets and Nodes where appropriate (ticket 8810)
- changed FaderWidget's 'PB Volume Control' mode to be applicable to 'Asio Master' as well (ticket 8669)
- fixed renaming of Widgets broken after removal of any widget (ticket 8668)
- fixed Label variable not being displayed (ticket 8580)
- fixed ArtNet recorder does not record (ticket 8861)
- fixed XY-Panel not closing (ticket 8922)
- fixed OnScreen Keyboard not accepting 'OK' (ticket 8879)
- removed parameter 'Opacity' from Color Picker (ticket 7532)


### Nodes
- added 'time with miliseconds' parameter for Clock Output node
- added `Draw To Canvas` output node to draw multiple points concurrently on a canvas in Pandoras Box (ticket 8855)
- fixed Ceiling Node dialog not closing on 'OK' (ticket 8622)
- fixed Watchfolder node blocking freezing node loop when watching a non-existent file path (ticket 8570)
- fixed Engine Health node does not work (ticket 7745)


### Scripting
- added WidgetGroups being accessible in scripting
- added `DeviceSetParam16bit` command
- added `DecodeUTF8HexString` command
- added Authentication and HTTPS options to `HTTPRequest`~ scripts (ticket 8700)
- addded `PBSaveProjectCopy` command
- fixed Json variables can now return single array elements (ticket 7089)
- fixed `ArtNetInputStatus` and `ArtNetOutputStatus` always being false (ticket 7758)
- fixed `JsonLoadFileToVar` didn't load for bigger files (ticket 8562)
- fixed `SeqAddPauseCue` was creating a Jump Cue (ticket 8626)
- fixed import project using legacy ProjectorControl node not working correctly (ticket 8664)
- fixed ScriptAssist not working for passing in more than one argument (ticket 8617)
- fixed multiple general ScriptAssist entries
- fixed importing legacy projects that include JsonVariables get corrupted by recent version (ticket 8893)
- fixed search and deleting a parameter from a Macro/Function yields exceptions (ticket 8892)
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