NodeBox 1.9.1

Posted by Frederik on Oct 02, 2007

Hi folks!

We're very proud to release NodeBox 1.9.1 today. Amongst the new features are:

* Export types: export the output of your script to PDF, PNG, TIFF, JPEG or GIF.

* Console running: run NodeBox scripts from the console or from any other Python application. Read http://nodebox.net/code/index.php/Console for all the details.

* Clipping: a new clipping implementation that fixes all the bugs.

* The canvas: access all of your drawing through the canvas; the canvas is now a variable in your NodeBox script, that you can use to list all objects on it, or even save or clear it. Here's an example:

for i in range(100):
    rect(random(WIDTH), random(HEIGHT), 20, 20)
canvas.save("manyrects.png")
canvas.clear()

The "save" command saves the canvas as it is at that point (again, "save" supports pdf, png, tiff, jpeg or gif -- we use this method ourselves internally). The clear command clears out the entire canvas, and you'll end up with an empty canvas.

* Keyword arguments for setting color and fonts. These leave the state intact, so you can quickly
throw an in-between object that has a different fill or stroke than what you're working with.

rect(0, 0, 100, 100, fill=(.2, 0.3, 0.5), stroke=0, strokewidth=10) 
text("hello", 300, 400, fontsize=72, font="Helvetica-Bold")

* Change graphic objects ("grobs") attributes later on:

myrect = rect(0, 0, 100, 100) 
myrect.rotate(200) 
myrect.fill = 0.8, 0.2, 0.3 
 
mytext = text("hello", 300, 300) 
mytext.scale(2.0) 
mytext.font = "Helvetica-Bold"

* Colors now output correct RGB values. If you'd rather have CMYK, use the outputmode command at the top of your script:

outputmode(CMYK)

Additional changes are available in the Changes.txt that comes with NodeBox.