SHIPTide v5.1.100

Introducing SHIPTide 5.1.100

SHIPTide, our WYSIWYG GUI development software, is getting a Serious upgrade. Version 5.1.100 will be along soon, with faster performance and powerful new features. See below for a comprehensive list of features and updates.

SHIP v5.1.100 at a Glance

Improvements

• Faster runtime performance
• Faster SHIPTide project loading and editing performance
• Improved pixel-accurate font rendering with better anti-aliasing
• Improved SHIPTide control of connected SIMs (Launch/Restart toolbar buttons, etc.)
• Improved Modbus protocol string handling
• Improved support for USB thumb drive updates
• Improved firmware and GUI integrity checking and version stamping
• SIM535 now supports full 24-bit color

New Communications Features

• The new SHIPBridge v2 protocol supports
  • Data tunneling for data interchange that is orders of magnitude faster, more tunable, more flexible than Modbus
  • Supports over-the-wire (UART, USB) updates of all firmware and GUI files
  • Read/Write/Create access to generic files on the SIM file system (and thumb drive, if available) over the wire
• USB CDC support on the USB Device port
• The "raw" link type so you can debug-text or raw data in/out the USB/CDC or UART
• Serial streams (USB, USB/CDC, UART, etc) can now be configured to come up with SHIPBridge v2 in the SHIPTugBoat boot loader

New Font-related Features

• Support for .otf (OpenType) font files, including multi-glyph variants
• New font manager for multi-font waterfall glyph support
• Enhanced auto-codepoint collection
• New ".missingglyph" property on FontFamily objects that control how/if missing glyphs are displayed
• New ".scaletofit" property on text objects enables auto-resizing to fit in a parent container

New SHIPSail Language Features

• Added support for Float, Double, Long (64-bit Integer), and Buffer data types
• string = getTranslation(Node node, String languageCode); returns the translation for a defined language code
• Sub-scripts in the resource area that can be called from other scripts (i.e. limited function support)
• Do/While and While/Do loops
• Dynamic QR codes (create a QR code at runtime from binary or string data and display it)
• JPEG file decoder support

New Tools:

• New SHIPHarbourMaster MS Windows toolbar-based program that manages and monitors multiple connected devices
• New SHIPCrane tool for parallel production programming of all firmware and GUI files
• New SHIPSeashell tool for command line (single threaded) programming

New Platform Support

• Added support for new SIM243, SIM543, SIM553, SIM853 to all tools
• Added support for new SCM208 communications platform from SHIPHarbourMaster, SHIPCrane, and SHIPSeaShell