Snap! version 7.0 to be released this weekend

mb82478 · December 10, 2021, 4:29pm

If we worked on projects in the development versions of 7, will they work into the weekend's release?

(I feel like this is a no-brainer, but I just want to be sure about it.)

jens · December 10, 2021, 4:29pm

of course.

warped_wart_wars · December 10, 2021, 8:22pm

6.9.2 will be there? (currently it's 6.0.0)

charmander83 · December 10, 2021, 8:35pm

Sounds really cool I´m excited!

bh · December 10, 2021, 8:37pm

Yeah, good catch, we'll update that.

warped_wart_wars · December 10, 2021, 8:39pm

I'll need to update my Various versions of Snap! topic.

warped_wart_wars · December 10, 2021, 8:43pm

By the way, is it known what dev version will be on https://snap.berkeley.edu/versions/dev/snap.html?

bh · December 10, 2021, 8:59pm

Do you mean what number it'll have? I mean, at first it'll be the same version as the released 7.0, but as we add to it, if there's just a quick bug fix it'll be 7.0.1, and if there's a serious new feature it'll be 7.1. But your question makes it sound as if we have more new code just waiting to jump into dev, and that's not the case.

warped_wart_wars · December 10, 2021, 9:01pm

Ah.

ego-lay_atman-bay · December 10, 2021, 11:33pm

Yay! What a great early christmas present

earthrulerr · December 11, 2021, 3:02am

Early Christmas present, or whatever holiday you celebrate!

confused on project transfer: will our projects be automatically converted to 7?

bh · December 11, 2021, 7:54am

Your projects will work in 7 unchanged. When you save them, they'll be in v7 format.

If your project uses a standard library with JS code, you should re-import that library to take advantage of not having to click Enable JS each time.

slate_technologies · December 12, 2021, 4:53pm

Snap! is still in 6.9.2 whenever I press the "Run Snap!" button on the front page. What can I do to fix this?

cymplecy · December 12, 2021, 5:06pm

From what was said at the conference, there are still a few issues to sort out before it's released

So I think it's best just to carry on coding and wait till it's actually announced that it has been released

warped_wart_wars · December 12, 2021, 11:38pm

Several minutes ago, Jens made this tag: Release v7rc6 · jmoenig/Snap · GitHub

username727 · December 13, 2021, 2:52am

I noticed that the SEND block is missing from the dev version. Is this block going to be depreciated in Snap! 7.0?

Also, I noticed that sometimes when you click blocks with step enabled—this works with any block—the green flag turns blue. Is this a new feature, or is this a bug?

bh · December 13, 2021, 2:55am

The SEND block is being merged with BROADCAST, which now has a right arrowhead you can click to say who should get the message.

As for the green flag turning blue, could you post a screenshot? What is a new feature is that the background of the button turns light green when a script is running.

warped_wart_wars · December 13, 2021, 3:00am

It's cyan to me.

Edit: It's hex 99ffd5:

bh · December 13, 2021, 3:08am

So, more green than blue, which means we're both right, it's a cyan-ish green or a green-ish cyan.

warped_wart_wars · December 13, 2021, 3:10am

It means we're both kind of right. And I see how you (not you specifically) could see it as light blue.