1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> 2<html lang="en"> 3<head> 4 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> 5 <title>Release Notes for Cortex r2.1.2</title> 6</head> 7<body bgcolor="#103050" text=white link=white vlink=white alink=yellow> 8 9<table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=630><tr><td width=80> </td><td width=490><big><big> 10<b>CORTEX Release Notes</b></big></big><small><br> </small> 11</td><td width=60> </td></tr> 12<tr><td align=right><small>this release</small> </td> 13<td><b>2.1.2</b></td></tr> 14<tr><td align=right><small>maintained by</small> </td> 15<td><b><a 16 href="mailto:em@be.com">Eric Moon</a></b></td></tr> 17<tr><td align=right><small>last updated</small> </td> 18<td><b>13 June, 2000</td></tr> 19 20<tr><td></td><td><small>For current project info, visit <a 21 href="http://cortex.sourceforge.net">http://cortex.sourceforge.net</a><br> 22 Please send bug reports to <a 23 href="mailto:em@be.com">em@be.com</a></small><br><br> 24<a href="index.html">Back to index...</a><br> 25 </td></tr> 26 27 28<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><img src="images/pix-white.gif" width=550 height=1 hspace=0><br> 29 </td></tr> 30 31 32<!-- section 2.1.2 header 33 ************* --> 34<tr valign=top><td align=right></td><td> 35<b><a name="r2_1_2">r2.1.2</a><br> 36</td><td align=right> 37<small><small> 38 <font color="#e0c0a0">[</font>up<font color="#e0c0a0">]</font> 39 <font color="#e0c0a0">[</font><a href="#r2_1_0">down</a><font color="#e0c0a0">]</font> 40</td></tr> 41<!-- section 2.1.2 body 42 ************* --> 43<tr valign=top><td></td><td><b>Bug fixes & minor UI improvements</b><ul> 44 <li>Fixes for several UI bugs (including a severe one exposed by the BeOS 5.0.1 45 update -- the inability to drag nodes from the Media Add-Ons window.) 46 <li>Errors and confirmation of actions now appear in the status panel in the 47 lower left of the routing window. 48</ul> 49</td></tr> 50 51<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><img src="images/pix-white.gif" width=550 height=1 hspace=0><br> 52 </td></tr> 53 54 55<!-- section 2.1.0 header 56 ************* --> 57<tr valign=top><td align=right></td><td> 58<b><a name="r2_1_0">r2.1.0</a><br> 59</td><td align=right> 60<small><small> 61 <font color="#e0c0a0">[</font><a href="#r2_1_2">up</a><font color="#e0c0a0">]</font> 62 <font color="#e0c0a0">[</font><a href="#dr2_0_2">down</a><font color="#e0c0a0">]</font> 63</td></tr> 64<!-- section 2.1.0 body 65 ************* --> 66<tr valign=top><td></td><td><b>BeOS 5 Version, new UI</b><ul> 67 <li>Cortex is ready for BeOS 5. Thanks to the hard work of 68 Christopher Lenz (<a href="mailto:cmlenz@gmx.de">cmlenz@gmx.de</a> it 69 sports a much friendlier user interface. 70 <li>Bugs fixed, blah blah blah. 71</ul> 72</td></tr> 73 74<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><img src="images/pix-white.gif" width=550 height=1 hspace=0><br> 75 </td></tr> 76 77 78 79<!-- section dr2.0.2 header 80 ************* --> 81<tr valign=top><td align=right></td><td> 82<b><a name="dr2_0_2">dr2.0.2</a><br> 83</td><td align=right> 84<small><small> 85 <font color="#e0c0a0">[</font><a href="#r2_1_0">up</a><font color="#e0c0a0">]</font> 86 <font color="#e0c0a0">[</font><a href="#dr2_0_1">down</a><font color="#e0c0a0">]</font> 87</td></tr> 88<!-- section dr2.0.2 body 89 ************* --> 90<tr valign=top><td></td><td><b>PowerPC Version</b><ul> 91 <li>Cortex now compiles on the Metrowerks PPC compiler. 92</ul> 93</td></tr> 94 95<tr valign=top><td></td><td><b>Features</b><ul> 96 <li>Position reporting: the node inspector window now displays the node's playback 97 position in SMPTE format. Position reporting has been disabled for video-buffer 98 producers that read from files (the video-file players and/or codecs in BeOS R4.5.2 99 don't take well to repeated querying about their position.)<br> 100 <li>Improved tool-tips. 101</ul> 102</td></tr> 103 104<tr><td></td><td colspan=2><img src="images/pix-white.gif" width=550 height=1 hspace=0><br> 105 </td></tr> 106 107 108 109<!-- section dr2.0.1 header 110 ************* --> 111<tr valign=top><td align=right></td><td> 112<b><a name="dr2_0_1">dr2.0.1</a><br> 113</td><td align=right> 114<small><small> 115 <font color="#e0c0a0">[</font><a href="#dr2_0_2">up</a><font color="#e0c0a0">]</font> 116 <font color="#e0c0a0">[</font>down<font color="#e0c0a0">]</font> 117</td></tr> 118<!-- section dr2.0.1 body 119 ************* --> 120<tr valign=top><td></td><td><b>Fixed Bugs:</b><ul> 121 <li>Broken ToneProducer sawtooth waveform. 122 <li>Groups not split when the sole connection joining them is broken. 123 <li>No default group for video input node(s) (which keeps you from starting them.) 124 <li>Thread-control variables not declared <code>volatile</code>. 125</ul> 126 127<p><b>B_RECORDING:</b> support for filtering live streams from physical inputs 128has been vastly improved. 129</p> 130<p><b>Workaround:</b> on the BeOS R4.5.2, some nodes for audio-input hardware (such as the emu10k) stop 131responding when requested to stop. Physical-input nodes cannot be stopped for now 132(once the node has been started, the group inspector 'Start' and 'Stop' buttons will 133have no effect.) 134</p> 135 136</td></tr> 137 138 139<!-- 140<tr valign=top><td align=right><b>n) </b></td><td><b>Change Log</b></td></tr> 141--> 142</table> 143 144<!-- copyright notice --> 145<br><br><br> 146<img src="images/pix-white.gif" width=630 height=1><br clear=all> 147<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=630><tr> 148<td align=right> 149<small><small>Copyright © 1999-2000, Eric Moon. All rights reserved.</td></tr></table> 150<!-- end copyright notice --> 151 152</body> 153</html> 154
