Posted April 13, 2024 by Blitz Research
Hi,
Blitz3D V1.111 is now available!
This is a fairly juicy update that includes:
* Added UTF-8 Load/Save support.
* Fixed Undo/Redo.
* Fixed Block Tab/Untab.
* Fixed Find.
* Increased size of tool bar and default font heights.
* Added support for spaces in font names (enclose with "") in blitzide.prefs.
Why all this sudden attention? Well, I've been having to 'eat my own dogfood' recently while working on LibSGD, as I'm using Blitz3D as the main test/demo platform for now, and there were a few things obviously broken that really needed fixing. Some of these things were always broken, but some appear to have been broken simply by rebuilding with a more recent version of MFC. Plus I've added some UTF-8 support since there's been general interest in UTF-8 and LibSGD is supposed to support it. All in all it's been a pretty fun/productive Saturday!
I also tweaked the 'defaults' a bit. A combination of a) being 20 years older and b) no longer working on a 1024x768 monitor means I find the Blitz3D UI to be to be annoyingly small these days, so I beefed up the default font sizes a bit, and scaled the toolbar up a tad from 16px to 18px. I also added support for spaces in font names since my favourite font is 'Fira Code'. I consider adding Fire Code to the release as it's open source, but it's 300K+ so instead changed the default font to Consolas since the old default blitz font is fixed height and WAY too small IMO!
Minor changes really, but IMO they make Blitz3D look a teeny bit more modern. Please feel free to hack cfg/blitzide.prefs if you don't like the new look, simply overwriting it with your old blitzide.prefs should restore the UI.
Blitz3D is also now packaged as a plain zip to make it easier to manage, simply extract it whereever you want. Plus, it prevents windows complaining about 'untrusted software' the way it does with software that uses an installer. I think a few new users can find this confusing - I've certainly had a few emails about it.
Cheerio!
Mark