0.9.0

Here comes another breaking changes~

Been sitting on this for way too long because I'm preparing for some super important and fancy Big Feature™. But sadly, the Big Feature™ took too long, and I don't want to wait another weeks to roll a new update. So here it is without the Big Feature™ 😔

There's lots of syntactic sugars for this update 🍬

✨ New

• Introducing setter/assigner/property manipulator/whatever you call this thing is. Either way, it sets variables of a scope (previously known as caller, details below on the changes section):

  Player.health = 100
  UI.portrait = "smile.png"
  

  Which is essentially just a syntactic sugar for:

  Player.set("health", 100)
  UI.set("portrait", "smile.png")
  

  And just like function calls, it is position-based too (explained more below). Support for other assignment operators such as +=, -=, *=, and /= will be added in the future.

• Add built-in {eq} variable for = character, to avoid ambiguation with property setter

• Add several BBCodes shorthand tags:

  Shorthand	BBCode tag
  c, col	color
  bg	bgcolor
  fg	fgcolor

🛠️ Changes

• caller is now named scope. I think its more appropriate, especially with the new property setter feature. Caller-named functions are still available, but its deprecated, and will be removed in the future

• Function calls are now position-based by default:

  Before:

  Ritsu:
      "Such a lovely weather today!{d = 1.5}
      {1}
          delay=1.5
      {2}
      I spoke too soon...."
  
  #   {0}
      Portrait.set("ritsu_smile.png")
  #   {1}
      Environment.set_weather("storm")
  #   {2}
      Portrait.set("ritsu_pissed.png")

  After:

  Ritsu:
      Portrait.set("ritsu_smile.png")
  
      "Such a lovely weather today!{d = 1.5}
          Environment.set_weather("storm")
          delay=1.5
          Portrait.set("ritsu_pissed.png")
      nevermind..."

• Better error handling

• Various bug fixes

0.8.0

Yet another small monthly, potentially unstable and untested update, pushed and released on Friday 🎉
Though, its just a bunch of small updates, nothing very big or significant like before.

General

• Various bug fixes & performance improvements
• Updates the documentation
  • Used custom syntax highlighting theme (support for the Dialogue syntax soon)
  • Added more articles & improved some

Dialogue

• Added reimport Dialogue resources button at Project > Tools > 🎭 Theatre
• Written Dialogue resources will be reimported automatically on version updates
• Allowed curly brackets to be written escaped: \{ and \}
• Fixed incorrect syntax highlighting on Dialogue tags
• Function calls now accept arguments from the Stage's callers and singletons
  For example: you have a caller Player, which has a variable health, and you want to double it in a Dialogue line:

  Ritsu:
      "Hold still {player_name},
      I'll double your health!"
  
      Player.set_health( Player.health * 2 )

  You can call Player.health as a part of the arguments.
  But it only works for variables, constants, and functions. Built-in datatype's constants (Vector2.ONE, Color.CYAN) are still not supported.

Stage

• Used WeakRef to represent caller object

DialogueLabel

• Improved performance on Dialogue rendering

Since its a Dialogue-related updates, you might want to reimport the written Dialogue resources. Perfect opportunity to check out the new convenient reimport button at Project > Tools > 🎭 Theatre > ♻️ Reimport Dialogue resources.

0.7.0

It is finally here, the ever-so-needed Dialogue syntax highlighter. The issue #1 has been sitting for almost a year, but it only took a day to implement it. I wish I explored and tried things out sooner 🤦.

Note

Syntax highlighter may not be applied immediately on an existing project. To resolve that, close and re-open all Dialogue files. If that doesn't work, in the script editor, go to Edit > Syntax Highlighter and select Theatre Dialogue.

If that still doesn't work, close all Dialogue files, and disable and re-enable the Theatre plugin in the project settings.

Ayu Mirage theme	Catpuccin Latte theme

Written Dialogue without syntax highlighting:

Dialogue

• Implemented syntax highlighter for written Dialogue.
• Reduced Dialogue folding clutter. Only allow folding on indented blocks.
• Added CI tests for DialogueParser.

0.6.1

Just a little patch update that should've been released like 3 weeks ago.

There's also the new DialogueTestUnit class to hopefully speed up Dialogue and DialogueParser development.

General

• Add DialogueTestUnit to test parsed Dialogue resources.
• Bug fixes & performance improvements.

Stage

• Fix variables not applied to the actor's label.

0.6.0

A somewhat, quite, slightly, partially, moderately, possibly, kinda, rather breaking changes. Though there's no noteworthy new features. In fact this update removed 'features', the redundant one that is.

General

• Re-enabled automatic update check.
• Bug fixes & performance improvements.

Dialogue

• Add dlg extension to "Search in Files" feature.
• #26 Completely refactor & improve written Dialogue import process using EditorImportPlugin. Compiled/parsed Dialogue resource will be saved to .godot/imported. Reducing project files clutter.
  • As a result, .gitignore filters for parsed resources are no longer needed.

0.5.1

Just a wittwe tiny eeny weeny updwate (≧ω≦)

Genyewaw

• Wots and vawious, pewfowmance impwuvments, and bugfixes. (￢‿￢ )
  • Wemove and wefactow wedundant codes.
  • Precompile all RegEx for the Dialogue parser. Reducing the needs to re-create RegEx objects everytime the parser is initialized.
• Wevised and impwuvd documentations. o(>ω<)o
• A-added some t-tutowial awticles. (⁄ ⁄>⁄ ▽ ⁄<⁄ ⁄)

Dialogue

• Squawe bwackets can be wwitten as \[ and \]??!! ヽ(°〇°)ﾉ

0.5.0

General

• Reorganize demo
• Add option to clean compiled Dialogue resource in tool submenu
• Improve built-in documentation
• Flesh out online documentation - https://nndda.github.io/Theatre
• Various bug fixes

Dialogue

• Implement Dialogue section

  Dia:
      "This Dialogue line can be skipped!"
  
  :some_section
  Dia:
      "You can jump to any defined section
      in the written Dialogue"
  

• Improve utility methods: humanize() and get_word_count()

Stage

• Use Node
• Add all autoload and singleton as caller
• Add caller_nodes to add Node-based caller in the scene tree
• Add jump_to(), jump_to_line(), and jump_to_section()
• Add switch(), to switch the Dialogue with the same length

DialogueLabel

• Add render control functions: rendering_paused, pause_render(), and resume_render()

0.4.0-alpha

Big and breaking update, but I'll only bump the minor number version. Also just realized that @export_storage is Godot 4.3 feature 🤦, so the addon is 4.3 only now.

General

• Improved, and refactored major classes: Stage and Dialogue.
• Made some variables and functions private on major classes.
• Improved and flesh out built-in documentations.
• Improved error handling when parsing written Dialogue.
• Added icons for classes.
• Various bug fixes.

Dialogue

• Allows file format *.dlg.
• Used Expression to parse function arguments.
• Created more utility functions.
• Improved error handling
  • Line number where the error is at will be mentioned if possible.
• Implemented positional function calls using its index.
• load() now only allows parsing from written Dialogue text files.
• Improved _source_path for Dialogue that are written in script.
• Separated parser class to DialogueParser
• Implemented more cleaner syntax.
  • Implement single line Dialogue tags and BBCode tags.

Stage

• Reworked class as 'Node'
• Refactored core functions.
• Flesh out some control and utility functions.
• Disabled switch_lang()
• Fixed & improved Dialogue progressing.
• Fixed Dialogue flash when skipping.
• Added more Dialogue control functions.

DialogueLabel

• Implemented positional function calls.
• Improved rendering at node's initial setup.
• Hide and always enable bbcode_enabled.

0.3.6-alpha

Merge pull request #17 from nndda/dev

v0.3.6-alpha