release 4.2.24

[sean]

New release, content from Dan Kulp.
Thanks Dan!

Tom Langley, this releases fixes  the crash you were having on saving your sequence.

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Issue Tracker is found here: https://github.com/smeighan/xLights/issues

XLIGHTS/NUTCRACKER RELEASE NOTES:
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4.2.24  Nov 23, 2015
    -- bug(dkulp) Fix for crashe occuring during RenderText
    -- enh(dkulp) Increase the range for the text movement to accomodate longer text
    -- enh(dkulp) Add "Update" button to Color panel that will update just the palettes for the selected effects
    -- enh(dkulp) Reduce the number of wxString objects created during rendering.  Speeds up rendering of large LMS imports by 50% or so.

[plaberge]

    -- enh(dkulp) Add "Update" button to Color panel that will update just the palettes for the selected effects
 

Thank you Dan!!!

[drlucas]

This is a nice feature. I think I want 8 colors as well in the palette to chose from. This may allow me in the situation where I have my 8 legs of a spinner to be able to pick one color for each arm using the bars effect. Unless there is a way to use layers some how.  I guess I'll go log it in github as a future enhancement.

[Gilrock]

Yeah I have 12 legs on my spinner can we get 12 colors?

[nutz4lights]

I'm just curious what are all the colors y'all are using?  I find that I can make blue, red, green, cyan, yellow, purple, and pink look good, then cool white and warm white.

Louie

[drlucas]

Yeah I have 12 legs on my spinner can we get 12 colors?

Technically I just need one color and a "palette skip" option vs a palette rep option I think in the bars effect.

I have found similar to what Louie said...7 colors look awesome. My white SUCKS..but I have a killer black :-)

[Woody929]

Or how about the "add to custom colors" actually storing the custom colors.

I've written an Excel macro that parses the RGB effects file & displays all of the colors stored.  I can then use that to reduce my number of pallets and verify all of my blues, reds, greens, etc are  consistent.

[sean]

xlights 3 could store a palette and load a palette. we lost this feature when we went to xlights 4. Probably , next year we will get it back.

[Gilrock]

Yeah we still have the old palette save/load dialog in the code just need to bring it back to life.

[jnealand]

And I see my old saved pallets still in the file so they did not get thrown out.