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The following are the changes since 3.0.0-prerelease.53+2024-05-08:

Features

ZScript

• add LEGACY_ARRAYS option as more lenient approach to array syntax caeb93357
   

  This replaces the OLD_ARRAY_TYPECASTING option with LEGACY_ARRAYS. It can be set to on, off, or warn, and defaults to warn. This option supports usage of deprecated syntax for arrays. This will continue to work:

  int arr = {1, 2};
  Trace(arr[0]);
  

  • by default, this will warn that int[] arr is the preferred syntax
  • legacy arrays syntax is currently not allowed for objects that must be
    free'd, such as custom classes or bitmap (but, for example,
    lweapon is fine)

   

  Additionally but independent of this option, parameter types are cast to/from arrays when resolving a function call. There was an existing feature that selects the function that required the fewest type casts, and this taps into that. For example, this code works:

  void fnArray(int[] arr) {}
  void fnLegacyArray(int arr) {}
  
  ...
  
  int legacy_arr = {1};
  fnArray(arr); // arr is cast to int[]
  int arr = {1};
  fnLegacyArray(arr); // arr is cast to int
  

Bug Fixes

Player

• reset playing_field_offset at beginning of scroll 5a520f4d4
   

  This prevents the draw offset from a quake from persisting during a scroll.

  See https://discord.com/channels/876899628556091432/1238226802867048529

Editor

• 3-stair warp dialog not properly listing catchall purpose 6ab8d137e

ZScript Standard Library (std.zh)

• use template for Cond to support arrays af4293cd6
   

  Also deprecate and suggest using ternary expressions.

ZScript

• dealloc owned objects for all combos in loadscr 50a9996df
   

  For some reason, only the combo at position 0 had its owned objects deallocated when loading a new screen. Now they all do.

• 'OwnArray()' not working properly at all d706df903

Refactors

ZScript

• make all command strings match enum name 08e0c08e5
   

  This normalizes all the string names for commands to be the same as the enum name used in code, and rewrites get_script_command to be an explicit mapping of this string representation and the enum value. These not matching was confusing, and was a potential source of future bugs.

• tweak Region-> and screen script internals in preparation for z3 7b421826c
   

  Region->OriginScreen is now of type screendata, and Region->OriginScreenIndex is added to return just the screen index.

  Similar change made to Region->GetScreenForComoboPos(int pos).

• remove unused features from ZScriptArray c09b58133
   

  Various things are just a wrapper around what std::vector does, and we don't need dimensions, a template, or a custom iterator.

• remove duplicated function deallocateZScriptArray d061e3c55

Tests

• add newbie_boss.zplay and recompile test b1b4d8203
• add snapshot test for compiling the zscript database 46e71c1d8