9.3.5

• Fixes memory leak when SCRIBBLE_ALLOW_GLYPH_DATA_GETTER is set to true

8.8.4

• Fixes memory leak when SCRIBBLE_ALLOW_GLYPH_DATA_GETTER is set to true

9.3.4

When updating your GameMaker version to 2024.1100 and later, please ensure "Automatically remove unused assets when compiling" is unticked. You can find this checkbox in Game Options / Main Options / General. If this box is ticked then you will likely encounter "Font not recognised" errors and missing in-line sprites.

• Adds automatic checking for situations where GM2024.11 asset stripping behaviour may cause fonts to be unrecognised
• Adds automatic checking for a few other situations where Scribble cannot be supported (mostly old versions of GameMaker)

9.3.3

• Fixes crash in region_detect() and region_set_active()
• Fixes scribble_refresh_everything() not refreshing long-term cached text elements
• Fixes tags not generating unique data arrays

9.3.2

• Adds better error checking for preprocessor functions
• Also fixes horrible performance when using anonymous functions with the .preprocessor() method
• Fixes .refresh() and scribble_refresh_everything() not updating bounding boxes
• Fixes incorrect member variable names returned by .region_get_bboxes()

9.3.1

• Fixes Scribble functions sometimes unexpectedly crashing when called on boot

9.3.0

• Adds .region_clear() as a convenience function
• Adds .region_get_bboxes(). This returns the internal data structure used to track regions
• Adds .get_delay_paused() to typists
• Fixes inter-word spacing when using fa_justify with a manual linebreak or manual pagebreak

9.2.0

• Adds .sdf_outline() as an alias for .sdf_border(). "Border" was always the wrong term to use, oops! .sdf_border() will be removed in v10 but for now .sdf_border() will still work the same as before
• Adds scribble_font_bake_outline_and_shadow() which uses a new multichannel storage system to split outlines and shadows from the "core" glyph shape. This allows for separate colouring of glyphs, outlines, and shadows
• Adds .outline() and .shadow() as text element methods to control the colour of outlines and shadows created with scribble_font_bake_outline_and_shadow(). These are mutually exclusive with .sdf_outline() and .sdf_shadow().
• The old outline/shadow baking functions (scribble_font_bake_outline_4dir() etc.) will still work as before but have been deprecated and will be removed in v10. You should transition your code to use the new function
• Adds scribble_whitelist_sound() and SCRIBBLE_USE_SOUND_WHITELIST. This works the same as the sprite whitelist
• Fixes a couple minor bugs
• Added a new "constant macros" script that contains public constants, see __scribble_constants

9.1.0

• Released using 2024.6 though Scribble should work with most recent versions of GameMaker (provided they support SDFs and asset_get_ids())
• Increased maximum length of sprites to 127 but reduced maximum image speed to 2.0
• Adds font alignment offset feature (scribble_font_set_halign_offset() and scribble_font_set_valign_offset())
• Adds scribble_anim_disabled() and getter
• Adds .set_sound_tag_gain() method to typists
• Adds [offset] and [offsetPop] as formatting commands. Offsets can stack and are particularly useful to nudge sprites into position
• Adds scribble_whitelist_sprite(). Please set SCRIBBLE_USE_SOUND_WHITELIST to true to use this feature
• Adds .preprocessor() method to text elements and also adds scribble_default_preprocessor_set() (and getter) global use. Preprocessor values are cached so be careful if you use them to insert variables that might dynamically change during the lifetime of some text
• Fixes typist .skip() not skipping in the middle of a delay
• Fixes forwards compatibility vis à vis asset scanning (thank you @biyectivo)
• Fixes glyph centres being calculated incorrectly in the shader
• Fixes space widths being calculated incorrectly after being manipulated
• Fixes SDF shadow smearing when using a large shadow offset
• Fixes text element bounding boxes when scaling (thank you @sohomsahaun)
• Fixes kerning being applied to the wrong glyph in a pair (oops!)
• Adds SCRIBBLE_USE_ASCENDER_OFFSET, which is set to true by default. This fixes many vertical offset bugs compared to GameMaker's native text rendering
• Fixes .align() not regenerating the bounding box
• Improves .align() default behaviour (thank you @AtlaStar)

8.8.3

• Fixes sprite positioning when using font alignment offsets