Ultraviolet Framework 1.3.15

Core

• Localization databases will attempt to fall back to another culture with the same language as the current culture, rather than defaulting to American English. The en-US culture will still be used as a fallback of last resort if no appropriate same-language cultures exist in the database.

Content

• Implemented watched content. You can now indicate that you'd like Ultraviolet to watch an asset file for changes by loading it using one of the new LoadWatched<T>() methods on ContentManager.
  • If Ultraviolet believes that it's running inside of a Visual Studio solution folder, it will attempt to watch the original solution files, rather than the copies that are placed in the bin folder at compilation time.
  • If reloading a file would cause an exception to be raised, the last known good version of the file is automatically restored.

Graphics

• FIX: Cleaned up shaders for core effects and improved cross-platform compatibility.
• FIX: Added some missing constructors to the SpriteFrame structure.
• FIX: DrawScaledSprite() was ignoring the effects and layerDepth parameters [from Scellow]
• Added GetAnimation() method to SpriteAnimationController [from Scellow]

Input

• Added GamePadButton values corresponding to each of the supported analog axes. Corresponding button events will be generated whenever any of these axes cross a certain threshold value (by default, 90% of their maximum value).

Presentation

• FIX: Tab navigation should now move correctly through controls using KeyboardNavigationMode.Once.
• Reduced memory usage of dependency objects.
• Implemented commands, command bindings, and input bindings.
  • Commands in UPF work basically the same way as they do in WPF; see this MSDN article for an overview.
  • Updated TextEditor to use commands.
  • Updated HScrollBar and VScrollBar to use commands.
  • Updated ScrollViewer to use commands.
• Added a ScrollBar control. This control can represent either a horizontal or vertical scroll bar by changing the value of its Orientation dependency property.
• Added a Slider control. This control can represent either a horizontal or vertical slider by changing the value of its Orientation dependency property.
• Added support for deferred scrolling to ScrollViewer
• Added support for watched content. Modifying a view definition or style sheet will now cause the corresponding view to be automatically reloaded at runtime.
  • You must opt into this feature by setting WatchViewFilesForChanges to true when configuring the Ultraviolet context.
  • You can make sure that the global style sheet is automatically reloaded by making use of the new CompositeUvssDocument class -- see the debug application for an example of how to do this.
  • Reloading views should be tolerant of errors, but the system wasn't originally designed to handle this scenario, so some things may have fallen through the cracks. If changing a file causes the application to crash from an unhandled exception, please report it as a bug.
• Made some adjustments to layout rounding (again).
• Made some adjustments to navigation using game pads.