Summary of updates

[Makoto]

I was a decent user of Codea Ver2. However, since I stopped using Codea since then, I am having a hard time to catch-up changes for Ver3 and Ver4.
Is there any documens summarizing those changes for me to chatch-up.

[Dinoball901]

I can’t say for version 3 but I can say this is a summary for Codea 4.0 from John a few years ago.

Codea 4 - Official Thread

@binaryblues The documentation is hosted on github and is automatically regenerated from source when new commits are pushed. So any approved pull requests will automatically update it. In case you are interested we’re using https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/ for our new documentation @Bri_G I’ll be sure to add a section that will make note of any features that are missing and still in the works. From off the top of my head the following are currently missing: Voxels AR Sensor data - came…

It talks about the new:

1. Scene and Entity system (supports Ui, Camera, Lights)
2. Game Pad and Keyboard Support
3. Simple Tweening
4. Compute Shaders and overall just simplify shaders and materials

The document below shows the changes from 3.0 to 4.0:

Migration from Codea 3.x - Codea 4.0 documentation

this shows how Codea 4.0 changed the coding style of how Codea looked from going from something like this:

pushStyle()
fill(255)
stroke(128)
strokeWidth(5)
rect(WIDTH/2, HEIGHT/2, 100, 100)
popStyle()

to

style.push().fill(255).stroke(128).strokeWidth(5)
rect(WIDTH/2, HEIGHT/2, 100, 100)
style.pop()

making coding more modular

More features has been added like:

1. File Management (picking and working with/moving files).
2. Objection C support which allow one to access the Apple API (very big feature)
3. Require function which allow the easy inclusion of other Codea project)
4. Upgraded Text drawing allowing TEXT_RICH which supports html like tags for customization

There are more but this is most of the major changes. Hope this helped.

If you want a tutorial for Codea 4.0. You can watch this video series I made:

[Makoto]

Dear Dinoball901
The document you provided is very helpful. Thank you very much.
Is there any document describing the changes from Ver2 to Ver3?

[Dinoball901]

I don’t think that there was a massive change from v2 to v3. I feel the main thing is adding add features like file management and extra improvements. Most of the work during the time you were away was working on v4.