HaxeFlixel 5.9.0 Released

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HaxeFlixel is as the name suggests an implementation of the Flixel game framework using the Haxe programming language. Flixel is an incredibly easy to use game library for creating 2D games from back in the Flash/ActionScript days. It is an incredibly easy to use framework and due to the nature of Haxe, it is easily ported (or technically compiled) to a variety of different platforms. I like HaxeFlixel to the point that I actually did a pretty in-depth tutorial series on getting started with it.

We discuss HaxeFlixel today because HaxeFlixel 5.9.0 was just released with the following changes:

  • FlxInputText: Add improved input text to core flixel (flixel-ui’s implementation will be deprecated) (#3219)
  • FlxReplay: Add getDuration (#3135)
  • InputFrontEnd: (#3134)
    • Add addInput and addUniqueType to replace add
    • add destroyOld arg to the replace method
    • Allow more than one instance of a certain IFlxInputManager type
  • SoundFrontEnd: Add onVolumeChange signal (#3148)
  • FlxBasePath: (#3153)
    • Create base class for FlxPath for simpler custom path following logic
    • Add signals onEndReached, onFinished and onNodeReached
    • Replacement fields: startAt, direction, loopType, target, currentIndex, nextIndex, current and next
  • FlxGraphic: Add trackingInfo to help debugging graphics (#3183)
  • FlxFlicker: Add pause and resume (#3179)
  • FlxRect: Add clipTo and fix intersection bug (#3190)
  • FlxPointer: Add getGamePosition, gameX/Y, getViewPosition, and viewX/Y, to replace “screen” fields (#3210)
  • FlxAnimationController: Add onLoop, onFrameChange and onFinish, to replace callback and finishCallback (#3205) (#3216)
  • FlxStrip: Add support for blendmodes (#3213)
  • FlxTextBorderStyle: Add SHADOW_XY, prevent border clipping (#3236)
  • LogStyle: Add onLog signal to replace callbackFunction (#3239)(#3307)
  • FlxBar: Add custom border sizes (#3234)
  • Gamepads: Add acceptMode and “mapped inputs” (#3276) (#3280)
    • Add ACCEPT and CANCEL input IDs that conditionally map to either A or B depending on FlxG.gamepads.acceptMode
    • Add gamepad.getMappedInput to get an anum value of every possible gamepad input from various devices, i.e. PS4(PS4ID.X)
  • FlxG.assets: A way to overwrite and customize the way HaxeFlixel fetches or produces assets from ids (#2982)
  • FlxG.cameras: Add insert method (#3290)
  • FlxSave: Allow custom handling of parsing errors (#3286)
  • FlxDirectionFlags: Add up, down, left and right fields (#3303)
  • FlxG.assets: Add getSoundAddExt (#3311)
  • FlxG.assets: Add -DFLX_DEFAULT_SOUND_EXT to automatically append file extension to sound asset ids (#3314)

Key Links

HaxeFlixel Homepage

HaxeFlixel GitHub

HaxeFlixel 5.9.0 Release Notes

Haxe Programming Language

You can learn more about FlaxPixel and the 5.9.0 release in the video below.

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