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Terrapin Logo 5 Release Notes

5.3.242620 09/18/24

When the user clicks “Run” in the editor panel, the panel does not go away anymore if it overlaps other panels, it is just minimized. Also, focus returns to the Editor panel after the program stops running.

5.3.241330 05/12/24

Bug fixes in the Shape Editor.

5.3.241240 05/03/24

Minor bug fixes.

5.3.241000 04/09/24

Minor bug fixes; added a “Recall” button to the Listener in Visually Impaired mode.

5.3.240090 01/09/24

Added the UNDO and REDO commands.

5.3.232130 08/01/23

The ESC and Enter keys were swapped in the Confirm Restart and Confirm Quit dialogs; pressing ESC in these dialogs caused the action to be taken, which is very undesirable.

5.3.232040 07/23/23

Someone pointed out that the Logo V4 commands TURTLETEXTBASE and TURTLETEXTSIZE were missing, so I added them back in.

5.3.231910 07/10/23

A few minor fixes:

  • bug fixes in the MIDI sound generators
  • (SAVEPIC) opens a dialog in the Web version
  • the InO-Bot splits turns of more than 180 degrees into multiple turns

5.3.231830 07/02/23

A minor fix in the Listener output, plus an updated help file for the desktop version.

5.3.231801 06/29/23

Logo has now a shape editor! Use the Tools / Shape Editor… menu, or the EDSHAPE command to launch. More information can be found in the Logo manual.

STAMPOVAL and STAMPRECT have a new fourth optional input that controls the angle to use for stamping.

5.3.231740 06/23/23

Fixed a minor bug in PLAY, causing unknown notes to be played as an annoying sine tone.

5.3.231720 06/21/23

The Stop button in the Listener title bar remained disabled if a program was run from within the Editor panel.

The default music synthesizer was not the high-quality synth.

5.3.231670 06/16/23

Entering backticks did not work correctly.

The SETTURTLESIZE command now accepts negative sizes, causing the shapes to flip horizontally or vertically. Examples:

(SETTURTLESIZE -1 1) flips horizontally and sets the size to 1.

(SETTURTLESIZE 2 -2) flips vertically and sets the size to 2.

5.3.231520 06/01/23

Fixed a JavaScript error that occurred sometimes when the turtle was drawing onto a loaded bitmap.

5.3.231480 05/28/23

Double-clicking a Logo file did load the desktop version of Logo, but did not load the file contents into the editor.

The icon bar was initially hidden - it should have been visible.

The greeting has changed; the name has been removed.

5.3.231380 05/18/23

Minor bug fixes.

5.3.231370 05/17/23

DELETEMENUITEM changed the menu to use the menu ID instead of the labels.

5.3.231320 05/12/23

The InO-Bot section in the Blocks panel displayed a black block instead of a block that lets you move InO-Bot for a certain distance.

5.3.231290 05/09/23

Dialogs with edit fields would not accept spaces anymore.

5.3.231240 05/04/23

The logon dialog has a checkbox where you can enable the screen-reader friendly version.

5.3.231170 04/27/23

Minor fixes:

  • The Save button on the editor saves a file quietly if saved more than once.
  • DRAW also executes UNFREEZEPIC.
  • The Toggle Comment menu item is back (it was deleted accidentally).
  • Pro-Bot support has been removed, because Web browser access to serial ports is impossible on the Mac for now. It may be added in again at a later time.
  • The Stop/Pause buttons at the Listener panel did not work.

5.3.230890 03/30/23

This major new release offers new accessibility features. Use the URL suffix /a11y or /accessibility to enable the following:

  • A simplified Listener with separate input and output regions
  • A very simple procedure editor
  • A simplified debugger
  • Larger fonts

There is a new icon “?” in each panel’s title bar that, when clicked, displays a short explanation about the panel.

ClassLink support has been dropped from the multi-user versions.

5.2.222971 10/24/22

The desktop versions now loads the Blocks panel from a local file instead of the server.

5.2.222920 10/19/22

Logo minor version bumped to 5.2 for technical reasons.

Logo editor: If a TO command had an error (as in, e.g., ‘TO SQUARE 1’), the error message was not displayed.

5.1.222020 07/21/22

SETBOUNDS does not throw on inputs that are too large, but limits them to max 1000.

5.1.220750 03/16/22

Commands like SETXY now adjust for internal rounding errors when using SETSPEED other than 1.

5.1.220660 03/07/22

SETSHAPE and DRAW did not reset the size of a widget if it was altered with the SIZE property. Updated the help to the latest version.

5.1.220630 03/04/22

Each widget has a new property WRAPMODE which, if not set to DEFAULT, overrides the wrap mode set at the Graphics window. This lets widgets use different wrap modes.

5.1.220590 02/28/22

Updated the internal UI framework to the latest release; added the FREEZEPIC and UNFREEZEPIC commands.

5.1.220480 02/17/22

All READxxx commands did not return an empty list or empty word on empty lines, but rather skipped them. This fix may break existing programs which, for example, rely on user input from the keyboard not being empty.

Widget movements have been updated to 30 frames per second, which makes movements much smoother.

5.1.213600 12/26/21

We removed the ability to define a password for the login code log-in. People have confused the Logo password with their Magento password often enough, and it has created some support workload.

5.1.210380 02/07/21

  • SNAP, LOADPIC and SAVEPIC have a new MODE input that can select between background and drawing.
  • Enhanced Load/Save/Print Graphics dialogs.
  • PE did not erase properly.

5.1.202461 09/02/20

  • Added a Select Layout dialog.
  • Added a button to the Help panel to display the current page in a separate browser tab.

5.1.202390 08/26/20

  • Created a custom version of a list box that displays properly on tablets and phones.
  • Fixed clipboard issues.
  • Fixed a bug where repeated saves of the editor saved into the “Terrapin Logo” folder.
  • iOS devices are prevented from playing sounds.
  • Hit testing has been added.

5.1.202322 08/19/20

Commands for Tuff-Bot have been added. These begin with TUFFBOT, and are very similar to Blue-Bot commands. Also, the free trial has been removed in favor of free 14-day login codes.

5.1.202230 08/10/20

This desktop fix display a message box if the Logo executable is from 2019 or below - too much has changed internally to keep backwards compatibility with older desktop releases.

5.1.201730 06/21/20

LOAD, LOADPIC, LOADSHAPE, etc., cannot load from disk anymore from within a Logo program. Use the new FILECHOOSER control instead, and use GPROP “chooser “FILE as input for these commands.

5.1.201490 05/28/20

  • Online help was switched to the new resources server.
  • Controls did not display well on Chrome if the display was zoomed.
  • KEY did not report shifted letters correctly.

5.1.201290 05/08/20

The URLs in environment files were not compatible across browser and desktop versions of Logo.

5.1.200930 04/02/20

Browser specific fixes:

  • Edge did not honor the INDEX property of a LISTBOX.
  • Safari and Firefox reported images sizes incorrectly sometimes.
  • Better Bluetooth error messages for Opera and Edge.
  • Firefox drew a border around STATICTEXT controls, and did not honor the BORDER property for GRID.
  • Fixed a Safari bug where reloading the same image did not fire any events.
  • Logo hung during startup if Firefox launched the window in private mode.

5.1.200850 03/25/20

  • Bluetooth and Pro-Bot have been enabled for the trial version.
  • Cut/copy/paste now use the high level browser events. The trial version lets you not use copy/paste to move source code between Logo and another app anymore.
  • Minor bug fixes.

5.1.200770 03/17/20

  • The name of an image loaded with LOADSNAP contained the file extension (eg .PNG).
  • LOADSNAP crashed with a JavaScript error.

5.1.200730 03/13/20

  • Added TELL list contents to undo actions.

5.1.200710 03/11/20

  • Windows: UNC paths were converted to local paths when saving a file
  • Desktop release: When saving a file failed, no error message was displayed.
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