From Contented Cunjos
Greetings, everyone!
As promised, here is the next alpha of MissionComputer 4, with numerous fixes and a few small feature additions. The most significant changes are as follows:
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The starmap editor now marks systems according to their government, and its New System button no longer erroneously reports all IDs as taken.
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The Resource Selector now shows thumbnails for RLEs, as it already did for PICTs, and once again sorts itself without user intervention.
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The spďn editor now automatically adjusts the sprite dimensions when you select an RLE.
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The RLE viewer's DeRLE function now exports by decoding the RLE for a second time with the appropriate masks, rather than by inverting the ones used for display this significantly increases the speed of decoding, which was apparently a problem for Intel users.
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The Resource Copier's Delete button no longer leaves the first resource intact if you click Yes to All, and has been modernised in various other ways.
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The shďp editor's 'Initial explosion' field no longer rejects negative numbers.
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Removed the last obsolete reference to EV-Nova.net from the ShowException handlers
Please report any bugs or usability issues you find - including ones from previous alphas that are still present - so that I can fix them for the release version. When reporting bugs, please tell me your system version and whether your Macintosh has a PowerPC or Intel processor.
MissionComputer 4.0a5 is 7 MB, and available from <davidarthur.evula.net/beta/crusoe/MissionComputer400a5.dmg>. It requires Mac OS X 10.3 or greater.