MPF 0.80 + GMC: Ready for Release?

[Anthony van Winkle]

Hello folks!

It's been a year since MPF 0.80 and GMC entered the world, and it's about time to make them the official release of MPF. This won't change much for you except that you won't need to include --pre when using pip install.

Before the release though, I wanted to check in with folks who are on 0.80 and see how it's going. Anything missing from 0.57 or behaving weird? Any annoying workarounds you've been doing that ought to be corrected?

[Owen Underwood]

I think mpf imc (the slide builder/test) is broken in 0.57, last version that worked for me was 0.56.2.

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[Anthony van Winkle]

Unfortunately there are no test runners for iMC and very few people use it, so breakages are hard to detect. It's based on Kivy, so it is also deprecated along with the old MPF-MC and won't get any updates or fixes.

The good news is that MPF 0.80 and GMC are built in Godot, which is a fully-visual editor so you can see all your slides and widgets in realtime as you make them! 

[Samuel Chauviere]

Hey Anthony,

We've been using MPF 0.80 GMC for 6+ months  now, and it's working fine ! A few things we encountered lately in our test process :

• sound's "events" posted to MPF like I mentionned here https://groups.google.com/g/mpf-users/c/3GOIYuDJHVU
• multiplayers high score slide that need to be updated somehow when more than one player has to use it in the same game, the second one needs to delete first one initals manually. I made a little test case here : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1X_5mtcduwCbvcmwU6wr7l4JTrBvt4h5l/view?usp=sharing
• it seems there's still the same little bug while "error while switching music between modes" https://groups.google.com/g/mpf-users/c/0LfJc60e3mE/m/8GZSBl2QCQAJ you've already patched for us, but I get this one back while switching to "special" modes like bonus or game_over, maybe due to the " use_wait_queue" mode's setting, but I needed to start sound_player a bit off (like one second) otherwise the I get no sound. No test case ready for this one, but I can make one if you need to.

Anyway, I think you can go for a release right now, it's already awesome !

Thanks for all the work.

Samuel