Official 5.2 Beta Release Thread

[Dean Roddey]

5.1.904 is posted. This one has some general fixes, mostly for WebRIVA. It includes some initial content for supporting web cameras, but don't try it. For one there's no documentation and two it's not expected to work. It's just to get the stuff into place so that I can try it out on a real world user system and try to get one scenario working, which is the Korento WebRTC gateway server.

5.1.904

• Increase the maximum refresh time for the web image widget. It was limited to 10 seconds max, so bump that up considerably for folks who want to use it for things like radar images and the like, which need more on the order of ten minutes than ten seconds generally.
  
• Get some docs on the WebRIVA client into the HTML documentation. It is in the /Tools section along with all other user tools docs.
  
• I added support to WebRIVA for color masked transparency images. But, the code that was converting from 24 bit to 32 bit (alpha based) format was transposing the red and blue color components, so the colors would come out wrong.
  
• If manual flicks are enabled, the flick should be processed even if the content loaded into the overlay is smaller than the overlay. Normally the flicks would be ignored if it would have no effect (which normally it wouldn't if the template isn't large enough to have to scroll around.) But when doing manual flicks they are used for other things often.
  
• Add made a change in a previous drop to get text clipping working right, which had gotten not quite right after the final reworking to deal with overall clipping strategy. I was setting the path, but not applying it as a clip path so it wasn't actually doing anything.
  
• The WebRIVA's Tiled image drawing was offset down and right. For reasons unknown I had to add some arbitrary adjustments to the target area to make it fit correctly.
  
• Add a bit of randomization to the reconnection time of the WebRIVA client so that, if the server is cycled, they won't all immediately see it come back at the same time and all hit the server simultaneously.
  
• Do a first whack at web cam support for WebRIVA. It's intended to be flexible and able to handle various solutions, but this first one is an attempt to deal with Kurento's WebRTC gateway server. It won't work as is, but is just to get the bits in place to start working it out in a real system.