CHANGELOG.md

6.1.2 (December 6, 2025)

Changes and improvements:

• FlxG.Assets: Check any sound extension before appending in getSoundAddExt (#3511)
• FlxCamera: Honor color transformation in drawTriangles on renderBlit targets (#3503)
• FlxInputText: Honor selectionColor.alphaFloat (#3491)
• FlxGraphicsShader: Remove redundant body glsl (#3512)
• BaseScaleMode: Add setGlobalSize to allow derived classes to modify FlxG.width / height (#3516)
• FlxG: query maxTextureSize when window is created (#3522)
• FlxCallbackPoint: Fix duplicate calls and call xy whenever x or y is set directly (#3524)

Bugfixes:

• FlxDebugger: Fixed watch window position (#3506)
• FlxCamera: Fix filter memory leak (#3459)
• FlxTilemap: Fix tilemap debug drawing on renderBlit targets(#3509)
• FlxCamera: Fix FLX_RENDER_TRIANGLE not rendering anything (#3505)

6.1.1 (Oct 7, 2025)

Changes and improvements:

• FlxSignal: Remove antiquated Hashlink workaround (#3458)
• FlxCollision: Make result optional in calcRectExit (#3448)
• FlxCamera: Honor alpha in flash() (#3455)
• FlxGame: Update inputs before dispatching FlxG.signals.preUpdate (#3442)
• FlxTouchManager: add null-safety (#3440)
• FlxCamera: Improve error message when drawing a destroyed FlxGraphic (#3417)
• FlxCamera: Remove references to unused blending variable (#3467)
• FlxText: Improve pixel font support (#3453)
• FlxDrawQuadsItem: Call endFill() after drawing (#3462)
• FlxFrame: Update uv in clip method (#3476)
• FlxSignal: Allow destroy during dispatch (#3436)
• FlxG.gamepads: Extend PS4 mapping to work with PS5 (#3380)

Bugfixes:

• FlxCamera: Honor filter changes when active = false (#3481)
• FlxUVRect: Fix mixup of right and top fields (#3475)
• FlxCamera: Fix FlxStrip disapearing on zoomed out cameras (#3484)
• FlxFrame: Fix rotated frames not rendering on Hashlink (#3454)
• FlxSound: Prevent paused sounds resuming on focus (#3316)
• FlxTilemap: Fix debug draw when zoomed (#3504)

6.1.0 (Apr 28, 2025)

Changes and improvements:

• Various improvements to debug tools (#3328) (#3374) (#3375)
  • FlxG.watch: Add Float, Int and hexdecimal parsing on all targets
  • FlxG.watch: Add scroll bars
  • Centralize all debugger icons
  • FlxGraphicSource: Add resolveBitmapData
  • Interaction: Fix bug where the cursor blocked mouse clicks and align pointers to system cursor
  • FlxSprite: Improve bitmap tracker info
  • BitmapLog: Change window icon
  • BitmapLog: Change drag from middle click to left
  • Window: Improve window resizing
  • FlxG.debug: add windows and tools shortcuts
  • Refactor Pointer, BitmapLog and Transform windows
  • Transform debug tool: Improved scaling
• FlxGroup: Inline group iterators (#3362)
• FlxFrame: Improve code readability with UVRect (#3371)
• FlxG.bitmap: Query max texture size only once instead of every time it's needed (#3369)
• FlxSprite: Allow changes to clipRect to take effect without the setter (#3381)
• FlxSoundTray: Various improvements for extending classes (#3378)
  • Change volumeUpSound and volumeDownSound to FlxSoundAsset types
  • Add private local _label and _bg fields
  • Add showAnim, deprecate show
  • Dynamically size the background
• FlxSpriteGroup: Remove inline from clipRectTransform, allowing overriding (#3388)
• FlxKeyboard: Add enabled check when preparing to toggle debugger (#3393)
• FlxGraphic: Stop destroying tracking info, for debugging (3402)
• FlxBitmapText: Improve performance, and memory in renderTile targets (3395)
• FlxFrame: Make constructor public (3395)
• FlxColor: Made alpha args optional in most functions (3395)
• FlxSound: Remove Flash compiler conditions (3406)
• FlxSprite: Warn when neither FLX_HEALTH or FLX_NO_HEALTH is defined (3407)
• FlxTilemap: deprecate rayStep (3407)

New features:

• FlxColor: Add luminance (#3357)
• FlxStringUtil: Add capitalizeFirstLetters and isRomanNumeral (#3374)
• New Debug tools: LogBitmap and TrackObject (#3375)
• FlxRect: Add FlxReadOnlyRect, setAbs, setBounds and setBoundsAbs (#3382)
• FlxBitmapText: Add autoBounds (#3396)
• FlxDebugger: Add scale, defaultScale and -DFLX_DEBUGGER_SCALE=2 (3399)
• FlxRect: Add contains method (3395)
• FlxFrame: Add overlaps, contains and isContained methods
• FlxColorTransformUtil: (3395)
  • Add reset, set, multiple scaleMultipliers overloads
  • Overloaded setMultipliers
  • Made alpha args optional in most functions
• FlxG.sound: Added customizable applySoundCurve and reverseSoundCurve (3248)
• FlxSoundGroup: Add muted field (3421)

Bugfixes:

• FlxG.sound: Set volume prior to dispatching onVolumeChange (#3360)
• FlxPoint: Fix math in distanceSquaredTo (#3365)
• FlxCamera: Fix size on the flash target (#3370)
• FlxBGSprite: Cover entire view (#3397)
• FlxAtlas: Fix persist (#3400)
• FlxSprite: Fix bug when clipRect is off the frame (3395)
• FlxBitmapText: Fix Incorrect alpha behavior (3409)
• FlxSubState: Render bgColor to the correct camera (3415)
• Rendering (html5): Fix flickering issue when sprites have varied colors (3356)

6.0.0 (January 31, 2025)

Removals and Breaking Changes

We removed many features and utilities that were previously deprecated

• flixel.util.FlxPath: New package, flixel.path.FlxPath
• FlxSwipe::angle: Use FlxSwipe.degrees, instead
• FlxAngle.angleFromFacing: Use degrees in FlxDirectionFlags, instead
• FlxAngle.getCartesianCoords: Use FlxVector.setPolarDegrees, instead
• FlxObject (legacy directions): Use FlxDirectionFlags, instead
• FlxObject::collisonXDrag: Typo in name corrected to FlxObject::collisionXDrag
• FlxCamera::viewOffsetX/Y/Width/Height: Use viewMarginX/Y/Top/Bottom/Left/Right, instead
• FlxTween (legacy FlxTweenTypes): Use FlxTweenType, instead
• FlxRandom.shuffleArray: Use shuffle, instead
• FlxPoint.rotate: Use pivotDegrees, instead
• FlxPoint.angleBetween: Use degreesTo, instead
• FlxVector: Use FlxPoint, instead
• FlxTilemap.useScaleHack: No longer needed, due to defaultFramePadding
• FlxG.signals.stateSwitched and gameStarted: Use preStateSwitch and postGameStart, respectively
• FlxPath (Legacy types): Use FlxPathType, instead
• flixel.system.FlxSound and FlxSoundGroup: new package, flixel.sound
• FlxState::switchTo: Use startOutro, instead
• FlxAnimation::delay: Use frameDuration, instead
• FlxCollision.pixelPerfectPointCheck: Use FlxSprite::pixelsOverlapPoint, instead
• FlxAnimationController.frames: Use numFrames, instead
• FlxAssets.FlxAngelCodeSource: Use FlxAssets.FlxAngelCodeAsset, instead
• FlxAssets.FlxTexturePackerSource: Use FlxTexturePackerJsonAsset, instead
• FlxUnicodeUtil: Use UnicodeString, instead
• FlxState::switchTo: Use startOutro, instead (#2733)
• FlxCamera.defaultCameras: Use FlxG.cameras.setDefaultDrawTarget, instead
• FlxSave: Deprecate and remove all uses of FlxSaveStatus.ERROR for FlxSaveStatus.SAVE_ERROR (#3294)
• FlxDefines: FLX_POST_PROCESS and all flags pertaining to outdated openfl/lime versions (#3059)
• FlxDirection and FlxDirectionFlags: Deprecate implicit casts to/from Int and all operators (#3308)

Changes and improvements:

• FlxSpritegroup: Setting origin now causes members to pivot around the same point (#2981)
• FlxCamera: Smoother camera lerping, particularly with non-fixed timesteps (#2922)
• FlxState: Removed deprecated switchTo (#2733)
• FlxG: Added deprecation warning on switchState with instances (#2733)
• FlxCamera: Removed defaultCameras
• FlxCamera: Fixed zoom and defaultZoom so it works with values other than 1.0 (#2907)
• FlxBasic: Added getDefaultCamera, used in nearly all methods taking an optional camera arg (#3072)
• FlxG.log: Add PosInfos args to loggers, for better tracing info (#3338)
• FlxSpriteUtil: drawCicle now centers the image to the bitmap, if x/y are omitted (#3340)
• FlxCamera: Calulate adjusted lerp only when needed (#3106)
• FlxGraphicsShader: Compatibility with future OpenFL Shader improvements (#3347)

New features:

• FlxMath: Add improved, euclidean division mod function (#3341)
• FlxVirtualStick: Add analog directional input to FlxVirtualPad, deprecated FlxAnalog (#3340)
• FlxButton: Added toString and toInt methods to FlxButtonState, deprecate statusAnimations (#3340)
• FlxPoint: Added scale, dist, distSquared, distanceTo and distanceSquaredTo overloaded methods (#3340)
• FlxMath: Added getElapsedLerp for framerate independate lerping (#3340)
• FlxAnalogState: add moved, justMoved, stopped and justStopped getters (#3340)

Bugfixes:

• FlxCamera: Fix color field (#3326)
• FlxCamera: Reset bgColor on reset (#3254)

5.9.0 (December 12, 2024)

New features:

• 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)

Changes and improvements:

• FlxKey: Add NONE to fromStringMap and toStringMap (#3119)
• FlxPreloader: Improve documentation (#3123)
• FlxDrawTrianglesItem: minor optimization (#3121)
• FlxTypedTilemap: Add private createTile method for easier extension, with custom tile types (#3154)
• FlxState: Improve doc for persistentUpdate & persistentDraw (#3155)
• FlxCamera: Improve doc (#3161)
• NextState: Improve doc (#3160)
• FlxSprite: Account for scale, origin, offset, angle and pixelPerfectPosition in getGraphicMidpoint (#3125)
• Major change to FlxTilemap and FlxTiles collision (#3158) (#3189)
  • FlxTile: Various features for allowing custom overlap/collision logic
    • Add dynamic methods overlapsObject and orientAt with helpers orient, orientByIndex and orientAtByIndex
    • Add onCollide signal, when overlaps are detected for collision purposes
  • Tilemaps: Add various new tools and helpers to FlxTilemap and FlxBaseTilemap
    • Added new forEachOverlappingTile which calls a method with every tile that overlaps an object
    • Added new forEachMapIndex which calls a method with every tile of a certain tile index
    • Added new isOverlappingTile method, allows you to check all tiles overlapping an object
    • Added new objectOverlapsTiles to replace the now deprecated overlapsWithCallbacks
      • Eschews flipCallbackParams arg, allowing better typing of both callback params
      • Adds isCollision flag to control whether the Tiles' collision callbacks are fired and allows for processing non-solid tiles
    • Added new helpers: getMapIndex, getMapIndexAt, getRow, getColumn, getTileIndex, getTileIndexAt, getTileData, getTileDataAt, tileExists, tileExistsAt, setTileIndex, setTileIndexAt, getColumnAt, getRowAt, columnExists, rowExists, columnExistsAt, rowExistsAt, getColumnPos, getRowPos, getColumnPosAt, getRowPosAt, getTilePos, getTilePosAt and getAllTilePos
    • FlxObject: Add internal helpers for processing tilemaps in separate, updateTouchingFlags and similar functions
    • Debug Drawing: Various improvements to debug drawing tilemaps
      • Now honors tiles' ignoreDrawDebug and debugBoundingBoxColor fields
      • New getDebugBoundingBoxColor in FlxObject. Meant to eventually replace drawDebugBoundingBox
• FlxBGSprite: Prevent draw call when transparent (#3173)
• FlxArrayUtil: Deprecate resize, use array.setLength (#3094)
• Debugging: Check alpha when point-selecting sprites (#3184)
• FlxBitmapText: Ignore border outline when computing field size (#3193)
• FlxDebugger: Improve console code completion (#3222)
• FlxGraphicsShader: Optimize color math (#3227)
• Improve android config on lime 8.2.0 (#3253)
• Debug Watch: Resize the watch window when watchers are added or removed (#3251)
• Reduce memory of Flixel's embedded assets via oxipng (#3257)
• Debug Stats: Improve accuracy of "Total Memory" in OpenFL 9.4.0 (#3266)
• FlxGraphic: Improve checks for max texture size (#3279)(#3295)
• Debugging: Stop dispatching onFocus event when closing debugger (#3271)

Bugfixes:

• FlxFlickerTween: Fix "Unsupported recursive type" error on hl (#3170)
• FlxBGSprite: Fix draw size when scale is not 1.0 (#3142)
• FlxGraphic: Prevent null ref in getFramesCollections with destroyed graphics (#3180)
• FlxText: Handle null align on HL (#3196)
• FlxCamera: Fix blending issue (#3217) (#3255)
• FlxStrip: Fix color preventing other strips from drawing (#3220)
• FlxButton: Fix label position when moves is false (#3232)
• Debug Console: Fix arrow keys (#3247)
• FlxGame: Fix ACTIVATE and DEACTIVATE event dispatches (#3260)
• FlxAction: Fix bug where multiple check calls wipe analog fields (#3277)
• FlxKeyManager: Remove events on destroy, preventing crashes (#3299)

5.8.0 (April 19, 2024)

New features:

• FlxBitmapText: Add getRenderedText (#3120)

Bugfixes:

• FlxSpriteGroup: Fix propegation of cameras field to members (#3118)
• FlxBitmapText: Fix wrap issues caused from kerning (#3120)

5.7.2 (April 17, 2024)

Bugfixes:

• FlxSpriteGroup: Better long term fix for members cameras (#3116)

5.7.1 (April 16, 2024)

Bugfixes:

• FlxImageFrame: Prevent null ref from destroyed graphics (#3113)
• FlxSpriteGroup: Fix issue where members draw to the wrong cameras (#3113)

5.7.0 (April 16, 2024)

New features:

• FlxBitmapFont: Added setCharFrame (#3037)
• FlxTimer: Added static wait and loops methods (#3040)
• FlxBasic: Added container field and FlxContainer and FlxSpriteContainer where a basic can only be in one container (#3050) (#3055) (#3068)
• FlxPath: Added centerMode to center on TOP_LEFT, CENTER, ORIGIN and more (#3052)
• FlxG.plugins: Added drawOnTop field (#3057)
• FlxCamera: Added stopFade, stopFlash, and stopShake (#3063)
• FlxRect: Added containsXY (#3069)
• FlxDebugger: Added button to toggle ignoreDrawDebug on selected objects (#3071)
• FlxTween: Add tween-based flicker() system (#3086)
• FlxButton: Add DISABLED state (#3087)
• FlxBitmapFont: Honor kerning data from BMFont files (#3035)

Changes and improvements:

• FlxBitmapText: Honor scale when changing width and height (#3037)
• FlxSound: Deprecated sound.group setter, avoiding recursion errors (#3041)
• FlxAssets: Allow the immediate use of async images, once loaded (#3022)
• FlxText: Removed references to FlxUnicodeUtil (#3049)
• FlxObject: Deprecated health and hurt (#3065)
  • Added compiler flag FLX_NO_HEALTH to create your own replacement, if needed (#3067)
• Prevent building debug bitmaps in release mode (#3077)
• FlxUnicodeUtil: Deprecated (#3078)
• Various Changes brought up by EliteMasterEric (#3085)
  • FlxGraphic: Check isDestroyed for better error messages when using destroyed graphics
  • FlxGraphic: Prevent double destroy, and double adding of frame collections
  • FlxFlicker: Prevent double release() calls
• FlxDebugger: Updated the URL to HaxeFlixel site (#3102)

Bugfixes:

• FlxKeyboard: Fix PLUS key on windows (#3093)
• FlxSpriteContainer: Fix error in destroy (#3095)
• FlxSprite: Fix getGraphicMidpoint() (#3101)
• FlxPool: Fix various point and rect pooling leaks (#3103) (#3108)
• FlxAtlasFrames: Prevent errors when adding frames of size 0 (#3096)
• FlxSound: Fix sound panning (#2863)

5.6.2 (February 10, 2024)

Changes and improvements:

• FlxBitmapFont: Prevent crashes from missing xml fields in fromAngelCode (#3029)

5.6.1 (February 9, 2024)

Changes and improvements:

• FlxBitmapFont: Downgraded crashes of missing xml fields to warnings in fromAngelCode (#3025)
• Corrected documenation for the recent FlxG.switchstate arg changes

5.6.0 (February 2, 2024)

New features:

• FlxGraphic: Added isDestroyed (#2974)
• FlxBitmapFont: Support for all BMFont output file types (#2949)
• FlxObject: Add static defaultMoves field (#2980)
• FlxText: Add underline field (#3002)
• FlxBitmapText: Add wrap field to expand wordwrap capabilities (#2722)
  • Can now choose various to split words, conditionally, like if they are too long to fit in one line
  • Also deprecates wordWrap and wrapByWord
• Android: Set the default appCategory to "game" (#3009)

Changes and improvements:

• FlxMouse: Made the private _cursor field public, and renamed to cursor (#2969)
• Interaction: Changes to Flixel's Debug Pointer and Mover tools (#2964)
  • Hold Ctrl to drag selected objects, Shift to add to selection, Alt to remove from selection
  • works better with FlxObjects
  • See detailed list of changes here
• PluginFrontEnd: Allow multiple plugins of the same type (#2952)
  • Add addPlugin, addIfUnique and removeAllByType
  • Deprecate add and removeType
• Remove compile conditionals using FLX_DRAW_QUADS (#2962)
• AseAtlas: Set animation loops to match Aseprite's own settings (#2963)
• FlxMouseEvent: Added links to FlxMouseEvent Demo (#2961)
• NextState: Allow ()->FlxState args in FlxG.switchState and FlxGame.new (#2997)
• FlxSplash: Can now extend FlxSplash to add custom behavior (#2997)
• FlxDrawQuadsItem: Improve performance by pre-calculating alpha (#2996)
• FlxSpriteGroup: Now able to follow its path (#3014)
• FlxAtlasFrames: Remove Hash<T> in favor of DynamicAccess<T> (#3015)
• Various documentation (#3021) (#3012)

Bugfixes:

• Prevent crash when drawing a sprite with a destroyed graphic, by loading the placeholder logo. (#2974)
• FlxG: Fix HTML5 reflection issue where state.switchTo is null (#2985)
• FlxBitmapText: Default text to "" instead of null (#2976)
• FlxPlugin: Fix inline error on haxe 4.3.3 (#2986)
• FlxKeyboard: Fix plus keybind on Mac (#2987)
• FlxSignal: Fix one-time listeners not being removed on hashlink (#3004)
• QuadPath: Prevent crash by avoiding divide by zero in getCurveLength (#3019)

5.5.0 (November 8, 2023)

New features:

• FlxG: Added animationTimeScale (#2937)

Changes and improvements:

• FlxPool: Use factory functions to create instances (#2934)

Bugfixes:

• Fixed errors from OpenFL 9.3.2
• FlxText: Remove warnings about potential typos (#2935)
• FlxText: Regen graphic in getScreenBounds calls (#2942)
• FlxBar: Various fixes (#2938)

5.4.1 (October 4, 2023)

Changes and improvements:

• Various improvements and new features for animations (#2930)
  • FlxAnimation: Make frameDuration and looped public
  • FlxAnimation: Add timeScale (not to be confused with the same field added to FlxAnimationController in 5.4.0)
  • FlxAseAtlasUtils: Use fields repeat and direction when creating animations from Aseprite tag data
• FlxTilemap: Add defaultFramePadding back (#2886)

Bugfixes:

• FlxSoundTray: Fix sound tray hide animation (#2923)

5.4.0 (September 28, 2023)

New features:

• README.md: Add Turkish translations
• AssetPaths: Add allFiles field, and an arg in FlxAssets.buildFileReferences to change the identifier (#2807)
• Debug tools: Add ways to remove custom debug tools (#2792)
  • FlxG.console: Add removeByAlias, removeEnum, removeClass, removeObject and removeFunction
  • FlxG.game.debugger.interaction: Add removeTool
• FlxText: Add fieldHeight field (#2789)
• FlxG: Add compiler flag FLX_NO_SAVE to remove FlxG.save (also counter-flag FLX_SAVE) (#2840)
• FlxCamera: Add pixelPerfectShake field, for pixel-perfect camera shaking (#2841)
• LogStyle: Allow log styles to throw errors (#2842)
• FlxTilemap: add FlxTypedTilemap<T> (#2734)
• FlxGroup: Various changes (#2806)
  • Add killMembers, reviveMembers and keyValueIterator
  • Add new searching utils getFirst, getLast, getFirstIndex, getLastIndex, any and every
  • Replace getFirstNull's loop with a simple indexOf check
  • Improve readibility and simplify loops under the hood
• FlxSpriteUtil: Add setTint and setBrightness (#2869)
• FlxAsepriteUtils: New util class with various helpers (via using FlxAsepriteUtil; (#2860)
  • Added loadAseAtlas, addAseAtlasTagsByIndex, and addAseAtlasTagsByPrefix
  • Added TexturePackerAtlas and AseAtlas types
  • Added Aseprite metadata types: AseAtlasMeta, AseAtlasTag, AseAtlasSlice and AseAtlasLayer
  • Deprecated TexturePackerObject, TexturePackerFrameData and TexturePackerFrameRect for TexturePackerAtlas, TexturePackerAtlasFrame and AtlasRect, respectively;
• FlxAtlasFrames: Added multi-atlas capabilities with addAtlas and concat (#2772)
• FlxAnimationController: add timeScale field to control animation speed (#2913)

Changes and improvements:

• FlxEase: Simplify bounceIn and bounceInOut (#2788)
• Fix typos in various docs (#2793)(#2799)
• FlxBaseTilemap: Log errors rather than throw exceptions in setTileProperties with invalid args (#2815)
• Add hxformat.json to published Flixel release (#2818)
• FlxSprite: Add erroneously unused camera arg when calling pixelsOverlapPoint (#2824)
• Changed references to the flash package to their openfl equivalent, whenever possible (#2832)
• FlxSpriteUtil: Fix cameraWrap and cameraBound error when camera scroll is non-0 (#2851)
• FlxBar: Fix pixel perfect rendering issue (#2853)
• FlxText: Trigger re-draw when text is set to empty string (#2846)
• FlxPoint: Small doc fix (#2873)
• FlxAndroidKey: Fix @:enum deprecation warning (#2876)
• Change FlxSprite.setColorTransform and FlxSpriteUtil.setOffsets args from ints to floats (#2875)
• FlxSprite: Change setGraphicSize args from ints to floats (#2881)
• FlxAnimationController: Accept float for all functions taking frameRate (#2884)
• FlxCamera: Make the filters array public (#2890)
• FlxSubState: Destroy _bgSprite (#2897)
• FlxCamera: Improve SCREEN_BY_SCREEN follow mode and add bindScrollPos method (#2903)
• Watch: Allow addFunction to overwrite existing watches (#2902)
• FlxMath: Wrap methods and imports in conditionals when in macros (#2911)
• Assets: Run DeveImageOptimizer on all of HaxeFlixel's image assets (#2901)
• FlxG: Allow openURL to work with any URL protocol (#2877)

Bugfixes:

• FlxAnimation: Fix issue where finishCallback wasn't being fired on reversed animations (#2811)
• FlxTilemap: Reset buffers when loading maps a second+ time from the same instance (#2883)
• FlxPointer: Fix overlaps calls with a specified camera arg (#2885)
• FlxStrip: Fix black shapes when drawDebug is true (#2906)
• FlxBitmapText: Fix textColor not applied correctly (#2918)
• FlxCamera: Fix camera lerping speeds on lower fps (#2920)

5.3.1 (May 7, 2023)

Changes and improvements:

• Change all @:enum abstract to enum abstract to prevent warnings in haxe 4.3.1 (#2790)
• FlxAnimation: Prevent crash when destroying sprites in an anim callback (#2785)
• FlxCollision: Fix gap in createCameraWall (#2781)

5.3.0 (April 26, 2023)

Dependencies:

• Dropped support for haxe 4.0 and 4.1, use 4.2.5 or higher

New features:

• FlxAtlasFrames: Add addFrameOffset and addFramesOffsetByPrefix (#2746)
• FlxFrame: Add duration (#2752)
  • FlxAtlasFrames: Add fromAseprite which takes Aseprite generated Json, and honors frame duration
• FlxState: Add startOutro, deprecate switchTo (#2768)

Changes and improvements:

• FlxSound and FlxSoundGroup: Moved to the flixel.sound package, deprecate old package (#2726)
• FlxBitmapText: Add x, y and text args to constructor (#2750)
• FlxAtlasFrames: Take Xml in fromSparrow (#2751)
• FlxBitmapFont: Take Xml in fromAngelCode (#2751)
• FlxAnimation: Deprecate delay in favor of the new frameDuration field (#2752)
• FlxAnimation and FlxColor: Small fixes (#2755)
• FlxSound: Fix doc comment (#2767)
• FlxSprite: Better warnings for invalid width/height args on loadGraphic (#2762)
• FlxCamera: Allow followLerp to be used with NO_DEAD_ZONE (#2771)
• Improve docs (#2777) (#2778)

Bugfixes:

• FlxSave: Fixed issue with mergeDataFrom where overwrite = true (#2738)
• FlxText: Fix embedFonts getter (#2749)
• DebugFrontEnd: Fixed freezing bug when pressing tab on debug (2760)
• LogFrontEnd: Fixed null crashes when logging before FlxGame in created (2779)
• FlxSave: Fixed saves with multiple invalid characters (#2779)

5.2.2 (February 15, 2023)

Bugfixes:

• FlxGamePad: Fix various "firstPressed" functions (#2728)
• FlxSave: Prevent crash when hiding debug windows, after FlxG.save.bind is called (#2725)
• FlxCamera: remove uses of camera.camera (#2731)

5.2.1 (January 20, 2023)

Bugfixes:

• FlxSave: Fix save location on android and ios (#2718)

5.2.0 January 17, 2023

New features:

• FlxMouse: added deltaX, deltaY, deltaScreenX and deltaScreenY (#2709)
• FlxCamera: added public view and viewMargin properties, deprecated old, private viewOffset fields(#2714)

Changes and improvements:

• FlxStrip: allows shaders and color transforms (#2696)

Bugfixes:

• FlxSpriteGroup: Fix findMinY() and findMaxY() returning x instead of y (#2713)

5.1.0 December 22, 2022

Changes and improvements:

• SoundFrontEnd: added soundTray getter for FlxG.game.soundTray (#2706)

New features:

• FlxArrayUtil: Added swap, swapByIndex, safeSwap and safeSwapByIndex (#2685)
• FlxDirectionFlags: Added hasAny (#2705)

Bugfixes:

• FlxPoint: fixed math error in rotate, pivotDegrees and pivotRadians (#2700)
• FlxObject: fixed isTouching and wasTouching to check any given instead of all (#2705)

5.0.2 November 30, 2022

Changes and improvements:

• FlxAssetPaths: Warnings involving assets will point to that asset instead of the build macro. (#2684)
• FlxTilemap: Honors FlxSprite.defaultAntialiasing (#2688)

5.0.1 November 23, 2022

Bugfixes:

• Fix lime < 8 not being properly defined to FLX_NO_PITCH (#2678)
• AssetPaths: various fixes (#2680)
  • apply include/exclude args to files, not directories
  • default file renamer will replace spaces with underscore

New features:

• FlxKeys: Added SCROLL_LOCK, NUMLOCK, WINDOWS, MENU, BREAK and NUMPADSLASH keys (#2638)

5.0.0 (November 20, 2022)

The alpha was causing issues with CI due to haxelib issues. We're foregoing the alpha, since the new features are considiered "stable".

5.0.0-alpha.2 (November 19, 2022)

Bugfixes:

• FlxDefines prevent compile error when targeting lime 7 on non-sys targets (#2676)

5.0.0-alpha (November 19, 2022)

New features:

• FlxMouse: Added released, releasedRight and releasedMiddle (#2496)
• Angles: Added various degree/radian specific versions of existing angle helpers (#2482)
• FlxDirectionFlags: Various helpers
  • Added degrees and radians fields (#2482)
  • added fromBools static helper (#2480)
• FlxVector: Added copyTo (#2550)
• FlxCollision: Added calcRectEntry and calcRectExit (#2480)
• FlxTilemap: Overhaul to pathfinding (#2480)
  • FlxPathfinder: Allows customizable pathfinding algorithms for tilemap
  • FlxPathSimplifier: Replace findPath simplify args with a new enum
  • Expose previously private fields: tileWidth, tileHeight, scaledTileWidth, scaledTileHeight, scaledWidth, and scaledHeight
  • FlxBaseTilemap: added calcRayEntry and calcRayExit
• FlxPath: various new features
  • added immovable bool (previously, objects were always immovable when following paths) (#2480)
  • added angleOffset to augment the angle of sprites following paths (2674)
• FlxPathDrawData: added myFlxPath.debugDrawData to allow custom colors and draw properties (#2480)
• FlxAxes: added x and y getters, NONE value, toString, fromStringand fromBools methods (#2480, #2659)
• FlxTween: added ShakeTween and FlxTween.shake() helper (#2549)
• WatchFrontEnd: added FlxG.watch.addFunction (#2500)
• FlxPoint: added binary operators +, -, +=, -=, *, and *= (#2557)
• FlxColor: added rgb getter and setter (#2555)
• FlxSave: added mergeDataFrom, mergeData status, isBound and isEmpty (#2566) (#2584)
• FlxAnimation - added loopPoint to allow looping to a frame other than the starting frame (#2621)
• FlxSound - added pitch to alter the playback speed (#2564)
• FlxSprite - added getPixelAt, getPixelAtScreen, transformWorldToPixels and transformScreenToPixels (#2640)
• FlxStringUtil - added toTitleCase and toUnderscoreCase (#2670)
• FlxAssets - changed parameters to buildFileReferences (Affects AssetPaths) (#2575)
  • replaced filterExtensions arg with include and exclude args
  • changed rename arg to take the full filepath, can return null to exclude

Bugfixes:

• FlxSprite: Fixed loadRotatedGraphic to solve Mod by 0 (#2518)
• FlxText: Fixed alignment issues across platforms (#2536)
• FlxBitmapText: Fixed issue on non-multiline text with wordWrap disabled (#2590)
• FlxTypedButton - prevent onOver sound when releasing a button (#2657)

Changes and improvements:

• Collision: preserve momentum in FlxG.collide (#2422)
• Angles: All angle utils treat right as 0 (affects FlxSwipe and FlxPath) (#2482)
• FlxAngle: deprecated: getCartesianCoords, getPolarCoords, angleFromFacing and FlxPoint.angleBetween (#2482)
• FlxTilemap: renamed ray to rayStep added new ray with no resolution arg (#2480)
• FlxPath: move to flixel.path.FlxPath (#2480)
• FlxPoint/FlxVector: moved all FlxVector fields and methods into FlxPoint (#2557)
• FlxSave: changed the default save name and path to unique values based on Project.xml metadata (#2566)
• FlxTilemap: Replaced useScaleHack with static defaultFramePadding to fix tile tearing (#2581)
• FlxSprite: various improvements.
  • improved pixelsOverlapPoint with scaled or angled sprites (#2576)
  • this also improves FlxMouseEvents with the pixelPerfect arg enabled
  • added defaultAntialiasing (#2658)
• FlxGame: removed misleading zoom arg from constructor (#2591)
• FlxMouseEventManager: Changed from a static manager to an instance. Use FlxMouseEvent for the default manager (#2540)

4.11.0 (January 26, 2022)

Dependencies:

• Dropped support for haxe 3, use 4.0.5 or higher

New features:

• FlxAnimationController: added getAnimationList, getNameList, exists and rename (#2473)
• FlxRect: added getRotatedBounds (#2298)
• FlxObject: added getRotatedBounds (#2298)
• FlxSprite: added getScreenBounds (#2298)
• FlxSpriteUtil: added cameraWrap and cameraBounds (#2298)
• FlxCamera: added getViewRect and containsRect (#2298)

Bugfixes:

• Fixed segmentation faults on Hashlink for linux (#2487)
• FlxSpriteGroup: kill, revive and revive call the respective function on members (#2423)

Changes and improvements:

• FlxCollision: improved pixelPerfectCheck performance, now honors scale (#2298)
• FlxSprite: improved isOnScreen accuracy (#2298)
• FlxCamera: added putWeak call in containsPoint (#2298)
• FlxObject: screenCenter defaults to XY rather than null (#2441)
• FlxState: Clarify restrictions in state constructors (#2479)

4.10.0 (September 12, 2021)

New features:

• Added FlxDirectionFlags and FlxDirection (#2303)
• FlxBitmapText: added support for unicode combining diacritical marks (#2309)
• FlxTextFormat: added leading (#2334)
• FlxAction: added addAndroidKey() (#2393)
• FlxVector: added setPolarRadians() and setPolarDegrees() (#2401)

Bugfixes:

• FlxAssetPaths: fixed paths for iOS (#2345)
• VarTween: fixed an error if cancel() is called during onUpdate (#2352)
• FlxGradient: fixed last pixels sometimes not being filled (#2367)
• FlxTilemap: fixed built-in autotile assets for HTML5 (#2402)
• FlxDebugger: fixed single-character vertical text in the stats window

Changes and improvements:

• FlxSpriteUtil: enabled drawRoundRectComplex() for non-Flash targets (#2332)
• FlxTween: allowed cancelTweensOf() to cancel "grandchild" tweens (#2354)

4.9.0 (April 11, 2021)

Dependencies:

• Compatibility with Haxe 4.2.x

New features:

• FlxTween: added cancelTweensOf() and completeTweensOf() (#2273)
• FlxSound: added an OnLoad callback to loadStream() (#2276)
• FlxState: added subStateOpened and subStateClosed signals (#2280)
• FlxG.cameras: added a DefaultDrawTarget argument to add() and setDefaultDrawTarget() (#2296)

Bugfixes:

• FlxTween: fixed an issue with setting startDelay after tween creation (#2262)
• FlxEmitter: fixed maxSize not being set to Quantity in makeParticles() (#2265)
• FlxBitmapFont: fixed infinite loops caused by "farbling" in the Brave browser (#2300)

Changes and improvements:

• FlxG.plugins: improved type safety for get() and remove() (#2292)
• FlxAtlasFrames: improved animation support in fromLibGdx() (#2278)
• FlxBasic: assign an incremented ID for each created instance (#2266)
• FlxCamera: deprecated defaultCameras in favor of default draw targets in FlxG.cameras (#2296)

4.8.1 (July 16, 2020)

• improved rendering performance on low-end devices

4.8.0 (July 2, 2020)

New features:

• FlxSplash: added muted (defaults to true on HTML5)
• FlxBaseKeyList: added NONE (#2253)
• FlxKeyManager: added released (#2253)
• FlxGamepad:
  • added Switch Pro controller mappings (#2254)
  • added getInputLabel() (#2254)
• FlxText: added support for removing partial ranges in removeFormat() (#2256)

Bugfixes:

• FlxGamepad: fixed pressed not being true during the first justPressed frame (#2253)
• FlxKeyManager: fixed anyPressed([ANY]) not working (#2253)

Changes and improvements:

• Fixed Std.is() deprecation warnings with Haxe 4.2

4.7.0 (April 12, 2020)

New features:

• FlxGroup: added support for specifying cameras (#2232)

Bugfixes:

• FlxButton: fixed mouseButtons handling (#2246)
• FlxTilemap: handle negative tile indices for all load methods, not just CSV (#2250)
• FlxVirtualPad: fixed graphic not showing up on HTML5
• OUYAID: fixed button mappings (#2234)

Changes and improvements:

• FlxAnimation: changed frameRate to a Float (#2252)

4.6.3 (August 21, 2019)

• Compatibility with Haxe 4.0.0-rc.3
• FlxAssetPaths: added support for custom renaming (#2227)

4.6.2 (June 19, 2019)

• FlxGraphicsShader: fixed crashes on some old iOS devices (#2219)
• FlxG.android:
  • fixed preventDefaultKeys handling with OpenFL 8+ (#2218)
  • fixed the key codes for FlxAndroidKey.BACK and MENU with OpenFL 8+ (#2218)

4.6.1 (April 2, 2019)

Bugfixes:

• FlxDebugger:
  • disabled mouse input when the debugger interaction tool is active (#2209)
  • clear the transform tool target on state switches
• FlxBasePreloader: fixed a crash on the HashLink target

4.6.0 (February 4, 2019)

Dependencies:

• Compatibility with Haxe 4.0.0-rc.1

New features:

• Added a new FlxAction API / flixel.input.actions (#1805)
• FlxGamepadManager: added deviceConnected and deviceDisconnected (#1805)
• FlxBitmapText: added clipRect support (#2171)
• FlxTilemap: added 47 tile autotiling (#2184)
• FlxG.signals:
  • added preGameStart (#2188)
  • added postStateSwitch (#2207)
• FlxSave: added support for local storage paths (#2202)
• FlxVector: added weak() support and turned it into an abstract (#2191)
• Added blend mode support for drawQuads() rendering with OpenFL 8.8.0+ (#2199)

Bugfixes:

• FlxFilterFrames: fixed previous offset being ignored in applyToSprite() (#2176)
• FlxBitmapFont: fixed background only being removed on Flash in fromXNA() (#2187)
• Fixed drawQuads() rendering issues if there are color offsets, but no multipliers (#2195)
• Fixed FlxSubState not being updated in the frame it is entered (#2204)
• FlxText: fixed frame size not always being correct when updateHitbox() is called (#2205)

4.5.1 (September 7, 2018)

• Fixed compatibility with OpenFL 8.5.0
• FlxSoundGroup: fixed add() adding sounds twice

4.5.0 (August 10, 2018)

Dependencies:

• Added support for Lime 7

New features:

• FlxTween:
  • added support for tweening sub-properties like "scale.x" with tween() (#2152)
  • added a FlxTweenType enum abstract and deprecated the constants in FlxTween
• FlxSpriteGroup: added directAlpha (#2157)
• FlxDebugger: added a transform interaction tool (#2159)

Bugfixes:

• FlxBitmapText: fixed clipping issues with text using borders (#2151)
• FlxAssetPaths: fixed variables with invalid Haxe identifiers being generated (#1796)
• FlxSpriteUtil: fixed spaceFromBounds in space() not being respected (#1963)
• FlxSpriteGroup: fixed sprites not showing up again after setting alpha to 0 (#1353)

Changes and improvements:

• FlxSpriteUtil: added an argument allowing to use a positioning function in space() (#2154)
• FlxG.accelerometer: enabled accelerometer support on HTML5

4.4.2 (June 12, 2018)

• Fixed compatibility with Haxe 4.0.0-preview.4

4.4.1 (May 10, 2018)

• Fixed an issue with code completion on the Flash target in VSCode

4.4.0 (May 4, 2018)

Dependencies:

• Added support for OpenFL 8 and Lime 6.3.0 (#2136)
• Removed support for Haxe versions < 3.4.0
• Fixed compatibility with Haxe 4 / development

New features:

• FlxStringUtil: added getEnumName() (95615382)
• FlxG.console: added registerEnum() (24905c4b)
• FlxMouse: added justMoved (#2087)
• FlxMouseEventManager:
  • added mouse move, click, double-click and wheel events (#2087)
  • added maxDoubleClickDelay (#2087)

Bugfixes:

• FlxDebugger console: fixed enum completion on non-Flash targets (404c16b3)
• FlxMouseEventManager:
  • fixed mouseOver being fired before mouseOut (#2103)
  • fixed items with mouseChildren = false still allowing events for overlapping objects (#2110)
• FlxAssetPaths: fixed filterExtensions for files with multiple dots (#2107)
• FlxDebugger interaction tool: fixed custom cursors not showing on native targets (ca52e7a2)
• FlxDebugger console: fixed tab not focusing the text field on native targets
• FlxMath: fixed roundDecimals() for large inputs (#2127)
• FlxG.sound: fixed sounds not being removed from the default groups on state switches (#2124)
• FlxBar: fixed bars not reaching 100% by rounding (#2139)

Changes and improvements:

• FlxG.keys: added arrow keys, space and tab to preventDefaultKeys on HTML5
• FlxSpriteGroup: added a camera setter override (#2146)

4.3.0 (July 22, 2017)

New features:

• FlxTween: added cancelChain() (#1988)
• FlxMatrix: added transformX() and transformY() (dcc66b3)
• FlxCamera: added containsPoint() (#1964)
• FlxSubState: added openCallback (#2023)
• FlxSpriteGroup:
  • added insert() (#2020)
  • added clipRect support (#2051)
• FlxSoundGroup: added pause() and resume() (#2043)
• FlxDebugger interaction tool:
  • added tooltips (#2006)
  • added a selection rectangle (#1995)
• FlxDebugger console: added an "Entry Type" quick watch entry (d354352)
• FlxStringUtil: added getHost() (#1996)
• FlxPoint: added toVector() (#2061)
• FlxGamepad: added getAnalogAxes() (#2064)
• FlxMouse: added getters for justPressedTimeInTicks (#2070)
• FlxEase: added linear / smooth / smoother functions (#2080)

Bugfixes:

• FlxAnimation: fixed reversed animations (#1998)
• FlxRandom: fixed getObject() not respecting startIndex (#2009)
• FlxGroup: fixed remove() with Splice = true not decreasing length (#2010)
• FlxStringUtil: fixed an issue with decimals in formatMoney() (#2011)
• FlxMouseEventManager:
  • fixed overlap checks for off-camera sprites (#1964)
  • fixed pixel-perfect overlaps with offset (#1999)
  • fixed reset logic on state switches (#1986)
• FlxPreloader: fixed missing assets with full DCE (764a5a8)
• FlxG.cameras: fixed reset() not removing all cameras (#2016)
• FlxAnimationController: fixed flipX / Y not being copied in copyFrom() (#2027)
• haxelib run flixel: fixed the working directory not being passed on (61f2c20)
• FlxDebugger interaction tool:
  • fixed selection of FlxSpriteGroup members (89a4ee2)
  • fixed selection of objects in substates (69042ab)
  • fixed selections being canceled on interaction with debugger UI (897f21f)
• FlxG.html5: fixed platform detecting iPhone and iPod as "Mac" (#2052)
• FlxTilemap: fixed a missing bounds check in getTileIndexByCoords() (#2024)
• FlxAnalog: fixed mouse input without FLX_NO_TOUCH (#2067)
• flixel.input: fixed Float being used for tick values (#2071)
• FlxCamera: fixed object visibility for zoom < 1 (#2003)
• FlxEmitter: fixed issues with lifespan == 0 (#2074)

Changes and improvements:

• FlxBitmapText: allowed negative lineSpacing values (#1984)
• FlxStringUtil: made getDomain() more robust (#1993, #1996)
• FlxG.signals: changed gameResized to be dispatched after camera resize (#2012)
• FlxAtlasFrames: allowed passing a parsed Description in fromTexturePackerJson() (#2021)
• FlxG.watch: optimized expression watch entries (#2004)
• FlxDebugger console:
  • allowed null objects in registerObject() to unregister (f52c73e)
  • registered a reference to the current selection of the interaction tool (1bb7b48)
  • prevented unpause after manual pausing through UI (56854fc)
• FlxBasePreloader: improved the design of the sitelock failure notice (#1994)
• FlxFlicker: made stop() public (#2084)
• FlxAnalog: several fixes and improvements (#2073)

4.2.1 (March 4, 2017)

• fixed rendering with Haxe 3.4.0 and OpenFL Next

4.2.0 (October 11, 2016)

New features:

• FlxG.html5: added platform and onMobile (#1897)
• FlxText: added support for multi-character markers in applyMarkup() (#1908)
• FlxG: added onMobile (#1904)
• FlxPreloader: added HTML5 support (#1846)
• FlxTweenManager and FlxTimerManager:
  • added forEach() (#1782)
  • added completeAll() (#1782, #1933)
  • added manager, renamed static manager to globalManager (#1934)
• FlxPath:
  • added setProperties() (#1875)
  • added a this return to some methods (#1875)
• FlxG.cameras: added cameraAdded, cameraRemoved and cameraResized signals (edf93b5)
• FlxDebugger: added a tools panel to interact with objects (#1862)
• ConsoleCommands: added a step() command (#1910)
• FlxG.console: added stepAfterCommand (#1910)
• FlxSound:
  • added length (#1915)
  • added endTime (#1943)
  • added an EndTime argument to play() (#1943)
• FlxMouse: added registerSimpleNativeCursorData() (73b0ff2)
• FlxRandom: added shuffle() (#1947)
• WatchEntry:
  • added support for cycling through true / false with up / down (39f7dca)
  • added support for cycling through enum values with up / down (5702c92)
• FlxAnimation: added support for changing frames (#1967)
• FlxObject: added debugBoundingBoxColorSolid, -NotSolid and -Partial (#1847)
• FlxTilemap:
  • drawDebug now colors partially collidable tiles differently (#1847)
  • non-colliding tiles are now transparent by default in drawDebug (#1847)
• Added an HTML5 template to center games horizontally (#1918)
• Added support for haxelib run flixel as an alias for haxelib run flixel-tools (#1950)

Bugfixes:

• FlxBitmapText: fixed alpha not working (#1877)
• FlxEmitter: fixed properties not being ignored if their .active is set to false (#1903)
• FlxCamera:
  • fixed scroll bounds not taking zoom into account (#1889)
  • fixed rendering issues with bgColor == 0x0 on Next (#1793)
• FlxTilemap: fixed buffers not being resized on camera changes (#1801)
• FlxSpriteGroup:
  • fixed drawDebug() not being called (#1905)
  • fixed revive() not setting children's alive (#1891)
• flixel.input.gamepad.mappings: fixed some mappings for digitized stick movements (c04ce96)
• FlxAtlasFrames: fixed offset parsing for whitespace-stripped atlases in fromLibGdx (#1923)
• FlxKeyboard: fixed some FlxG.debugger.toggleKeys and FlxG.vcr.cancelKeys not working on native (470c8e8)
• FlxMouse: fixed FlxButton presses during VCR playback (#1729)
• FlxSprite:
  • fixed a position discrepancy between simple and complex render (#1939)
  • fixed default graphic not showing on HTML5 (2da3523)
• FlxCollision: fixed an animation-related crash with FlxG.renderBlit (#1928)
• FlxTimerManager: fixed issues related to adding / removing timers in onComplete (#1954)
• WatchEntry: fixed variables being turned into String on Neko (#1911)
• FlxVector: fixed normalize() returning (1,0) for (0,0) (#1959)
• FlxFrame: fixed inconsistent sorting across platforms (#1926)
• FlxSubState: fixed close() if same instance is used in two different states (#1971)
• CompletionHandler: fixed completion mid-text (#1798)

Changes and improvements:

• flixel.util.helpers: changed the default value of active to true (d863892)
• FlxGitSHA: optimized for compiler completion (f5dca1d)
• FlxRect: added an optional result argument to intersection() (c52b534)
• FlxG.debugger: added F2 to toggleKeys (f3f029c)
• FlxRandom: deprecated shuffleArray() in favor of shuffle() (#1947)
• FlxEmitter: emitParticle() now returns the particle (#1957)
• FlxG.bitmap:
  • optimized getUniqueKey() (#1965)
  • clearing the cache now only affects unused graphics (#1968)
• FlxFramesCollection: frame sizes are now checked and trimmed (#1966)

4.1.1 (August 5, 2016)

• fixed the check for Lime <= 2.9.1

4.1.0 (July 10, 2016)

New features:

• FlxG.vcr: added an OpenSaveDialog argument to stopRecording() (#1726)
• FlxSound:
  • added loopTime (#1736)
  • added a StartTime argument to play() (#1736)
  • added fadeTween (#1834)
  • added a setter for time (#1792)
• FlxMouse: added enabled
• FlxGamepadInputID: added IDs for analog stick directions (#1746)
• FlxG.watch: added addExpression() and removeExpression() (#1790)
• Console:
  • added watch and watchExpression commands (#1790)
  • added Reflect, Std, StringTools, Sys, Type and FlxTween to default classes
• CompletionHandler: added locals declared with var to completion
• WatchEntry:
  • added a remove button
  • added Float rounding (to FlxG.debugger.precision decimals)
  • added support for in- / decrement of numeric values via up / down keys
  • added support for moving selection to start / end via up / down keys (non-numeric values)
• FlxStringUtil: added isNullOrEmpty()
• FlxDefines: added inverted versions of all FLX_NO-defines (e.g. FLX_DEBUG for FLX_NO_DEBUG)
• FlxTileFrames: added spacing and border arguments to combineTileSets() and combineTileFrames() (#1807)
• FlxBitmapDataUtil: added copyBorderPixels()
• FlxGame: GameWidth and GameHeight in new() now use the window size if set to 0 (#1811)
• FlxPoint: added scale() (#1811)
• FlxBar: added numDivisions
• FlxBaseTilemap: added loadMapFromGraphic() (#1525)
• FlxAnimation: added the ability to set paused directly (#1538)
• FlxTilemap: added antialiasing (#1850)
• Added GLSL shader support for FlxSprite, FlxTilemap, FlxBar and FlxBitmapText (#1848)
• FlxGraphic: added an optional Cache argument to fromFrame()
• FlxG.debugger: added visibilityChanged (#1865)

Bugfixes:

• FlxText: [Flash] fixed blurry lines on multiline texts with FlxTextAlign.CENTER (#1728)
• FlxSound: fixed fadeOut() and fadeIn() not canceling the previous tween (#1834)
• FlxGamepad: [Flash] fixed potential range errors when checking axis values
• CompletionListEntry: fixed text width exceeding list width
• FlxGame: [HTML5] fixed ticks holding the current date's timestamp instead of ms since game start
• FlxCamera: fixed background scaling for zoom < 1 on native targets (#1588)
• FlxBaseTilemap: [Neko,HTML5] fixed invalid array access in overlapsPoint() (#1835)
• FlxObject: fixed overlapsPoint() at x / y = 0 (#1818)
• FlxReplay: fixed simultaneous recording of key and mouse input (#1739)
• FlxVelocity: fixed accelerateFromAngle() setting maxVelocity to negative values (#1833)
• Fixed compilation with hscriptPos defined (#1840)
• FlxDrawTilesItem: fixed numTiles value with color offsets
• FlxBitmapFont: fixed a crash related to incorrect UTF-8 handling (#1857)
• FlxAtlas: fixed a crash when the constructor is called with powerOfTwo == true (#1858)
• FlxTween: fixed nested tween chains (#1871)
• FlxTypedGroup: fixed recursion in forEachOfType() (#1876)
• Tracker: [Neko] fixed a crash in setVisible() (#1879)
• Fixed some flixel-internal fields being accessible when they shouldn't be (#1849)

Changes and improvements:

• Console: removed resetState, switchState and resetGame commands
• FlxArrayUtil: optimized flatten2DArray()
• FlxSpriteUtil: changed alphaMask() arguments from Dynamic to FlxGraphicAsset (#1806)
• FlxG.signals: changed preUpdate to be dispatched after FlxG.elapsed is updated (#1836)
• FlxG.debugger: changed drawDebugChanged to be dispatched after drawDebug is updated
• FlxDefines: added a check for incompatible OpenFL / Lime versions (should be < 4.0.0 / < 3.0.0 respectively)

4.0.1 (March 19, 2016)

• FlxDebugger: [HTML5] fixed version text color (#1727)
• FlxFlicker / LabelValuePair: fixed DCE issues (#1757)
• FlxMouse: fixed useSystemCursor = true not always working with native cursor API
• FlxDebugger mouse handling fixes (#1775):
  • fixed FlxMouse's visible and useSystemCursor not being restored properly
  • fixed cursor disappearing after losing Console focus with native cursor API
  • fixed mouse focus area of windows being too big
• FlxAnimationController: fixed finishCallback firing multiple times in one frame (#1781)
• FlxPreloader: [HTML5] fixed preloader not showing up (#1750)
• FlxStringUtil.formatMoney():
  • fixed formatting for Amount < 0 (#1754)
  • fixed formatting for negative amounts
  • [HTML5] fixed formatting for amounts > Int32
• Debugger Stats window: fixed paused time being taken into account for average FPS

4.0.0 (February 16, 2016)

Restructures:

• Changed static inline vars to enums: (#998)
  • FlxCamera follow styles
  • FlxCamera shake modes
  • FlxText border styles
  • FlxTilemap auto-tiling options
  • FlxBar fill directions
  • FlxG.html5 browser types
• Moved FlxMath, FlxPoint, FlxVector, FlxRect, FlxAngle, FlxVelocity and FlxRandom to flixel.math
• Moved "typed" classes: (#1100)
  • FlxTypedGroup into FlxGroup.hx
  • FlxTypedSpriteGroup into FlxSpriteGroup.hx
  • FlxTypedEmitter into FlxEmitter.hx
  • FlxTypedButton into FlxButton.hx
• The signature of update() functions was changed to update(elapsed:Float). The elapsed argument should be used instead of FlxG.elapsed. (#1188)

Rendering:

• Added flixel.FlxStrip which supports rendering via drawTriangles()
• Added an experimental rendering method using drawTriangles() (enabled by defining FLX_RENDER_TRIANGLE, requires FlxG.renderTile to be true).
• The tile renderer now uses Tilesheet.TILE_RECT instead of addTileRect()
• Renderers are now distinguished by FlxG.renderMethod (FlxG.renderBlit / FlxG.renderTile for easy access) instead of defines (FLX_RENDER_BLIT / FLX_RENDER_TILE). This allows for a fallback to software rendering on certain targets if hardware rendering is not available. (#1668)

flixel.FlxCamera:

• added pixelPerfectRender as a global setting for sprites and tilemaps (#1060)
• pixelPerfectRender now defaults to false with FlxG.renderTile (#1065)
• bounds -> minScrollX, maxScrollX, minScrollY and maxScrollY (null means unbounded) (#1070)
• setBounds() -> setScrollBoundsRect() (#1070)
• added setScrollBounds()
• added targetOffset (#1056)
• added scrollRect sprite which crops the camera's view when the camera is scaled
• camera now scales from its center, not its top left corner
• followLerp is now a range taking values from 0 to (60 / FlxG.updateFramerate) - the closer to zero the more lerp! (#1220)
• added snapToTarget() (#1477)
• fade(): fixed FadeIn == true not working in a fade out callback (#1666)
• follow(): removed the Offset argument (#1056)

flixel.FlxG:

• debugger: fixed a crash when calling addTrackerProfile() before track()
• signals:
  • split gameReset into pre/post signals
  • added preStateCreate (#1557)
• android: preventDefaultBackAction has been replaced by preventDefaultKeys
• inputs: added resetOnStateSwitch
• added FlxG.addPostProcess() / removePostProcess()
• added resizeWindow()
• Added filtersEnabled and setFilters() to FlxCamera and FlxGame (#1635)
• version now includes the commit SHA via a build macro

flixel.FlxObject:

• added getPosition() and getHitbox()
• split some of separate()'s functionality into updateTouchingFlags(), allowing touching to be used without any separate calls (#1555)
• added path (#1712)

flixel.FlxSprite:

• added graphicLoaded()
• getScreenXY() -> getScreenPosition()
• removed the NewSprite argument from clone()
• added clipRect
• frames -> numFrames
• added frames which reflects the sprite's current frames collection
• removed loadGraphicFromTexture() and loadRotatedGraphicFromTexture()
• cachedGraphics -> graphic
• added setFrames() which allows you to save animations which already exists in the sprite
• colorTransform is always instantiated
• added loadRotatedFrame() which allows you to generate prerotated image from given frame and load it
• added error message then trying to get pixels and graphic is null
• drawFrame() is no longer inline so it can be redefined in subclasses.
• set_angle(): always change the prerotated animation angle to prevent delays
• removed resetFrameBitmaps() method, since frames don't store bitmaps anymore. Set dirty to true to force the frame graphic to be regenerated in the next render loop.
• added useFramePixels
• setColorTransform()'s offset arguments now work with drawTiles rendering on OpenFL 3.6.0+ (#1705)
• getFlxFrameBitmapData() -> updateFramePixels() (#1710)

flixel.FlxState:

• onFocus() and onFocusLost() no longer require FlxG.autoPause to be false
• added switchTo() (#1676)

flixel.animation:

• FlxAnimation:
  • added reversed var which allows you to play animation backwards
  • second argument of play() method is Reversed now
  • added flipX and flipY (#1670)
• FlxAnimationController:
  • curAnim does also return animations that have finished now
  • removed get()
  • callback: fixed old frameIndex value being passed instead of the current one
  • add() now makes a copy of the Frames array before calling splice() on it
  • fixed finished not being true during the last animation frame in the callback
  • added Reversed argument in play() method, which allows you to set animation's playback direction

flixel.effects:

• FlxEmitter:
  • at() -> focusOn()
  • on -> emitting
  • emitters and particles now use FlxColor instead of separate red, green, and blue values
  • removed FlxEmitterExt, FlxEmitter now has two launch modes: CIRCLE (the new default) and SQUARE (#1174)
  • removed xPosition, yPosition, life, bounce, and various other properties, and property setting convenience functions (see below) (#1174)
  • a variety of values can now be set with much greater control, via lifespan.set(), scale.set(), velocity.set() and so on (#1174)
  • simplified start() parameters (#1174)
  • added angularDrag and angularAcceleration (#1246)
• FlxParticle: (#1174)
  • maxLifespan -> lifespan, lifespan -> age, percent indicates (age / lifespan)
  • age counts up (as opposed to lifespan, which counted down)
  • range properties (velocityRange, alphaRange) which determine particle behavior after launch
  • "active" flags (alphaRange.active, velocityRange.active, etc) which FlxEmitter uses to control particle behavior

flixel.graphics:

• FlxGraphic:
  • renamed from CachedGraphics and moved to flixel.graphics
  • added defaultPersist (#1241)
  • added fromAssetKey(), fromClass() and fromBitmapData()
  • bitmap is now settable
• FlxAtlas:
  • moved to flixel.graphics.atlas
  • added addNodeWithSpacings()
  • added minWidth, maxWidth, minHeight and maxHeight (the size starts at min and grows up until max as images are added)
  • added powerOfTwo (forces atlas size to a power of two)
  • added allowRotation (indicates whether added images may be rotated to save space)
• FlxNode:
  • moved to flixel.graphics.atlas
  • added getTileFrames() and getImageFrame()
• Introduced a new frames collections concept replacing regions:
  • added FlxImageFrame frames collection which contains single frame
  • added FlxTileFrames frames collection which contains frames for spritesheet, which can be generated from image region or frame (including rotated and trimmed frames)
  • added FlxAtlasFrames frames collection instead of various texture atlas loaders (like SparrowData and TexturePackerData). It contains various static methods for parsing atlas files
  • added FlxFilterFrames frames collection instead of FlxSpriteFilter (see filters demo)
• Rewrote PxBitmapFont and renamed it to FlxBitmapFont. It supports AngelCode, XNA and Monospace bitmap fonts now.
• FlxFrame:
  • doesn't store the frame's bitmapatas anymore, so getBitmap() and other bitmap methods have been removed
  • added paint() and paintFlipped() methods instead. This solution requires much less memory, but will be a bit slower.
  • added flipX and flipY (#1591)

flixel.group:

• FlxTypedGroup:
  • added a recurse argument to the forEach() functions
  • removed callAll() and setAll() - use forEach() instead (#1086)
  • replaced the parameter array in recycle() with an optional factory method (#1191)
  • revive() now calls revive() on all members of a group as well (#1243)
  • added insert() (#1671)
• FlxTypedSpriteGroup: added iterator()

flixel.input:

• FlxSwipe: duration now uses seconds instead of milliseconds (#1272)
• FlxMouse and FlxTouch now extend a new common base class FlxPointer instead of FlxPoint (#1099)
  • adds overlaps() to FlxMouse

flixel.input.gamepad:

• FlxGamepadManager:
  • better handling of disconnecting and reconnecting gamepads. getByID() can now return null.
  • anyButton() now has a state argument
  • globalDeadZone can now be 0
  • globalDeadZone now overshadows instead of overriding the gamepad's deadzone values
• FlxGamepad:
  • refactored gamepads to include mappings, removing the need to write separate logic for each gamepad type (#1502):
  • each gamepad now has a model, mapping and name
  • moved the ID classes to flixel.input.gamepad.id
  • all IDs are now mapped to a value in FlxGamepadInputID
  • the previous "raw" gamepad IDs are now available via separate functions
  • added pressed, justPressed, justReleased and analog
  • removed the dpad properties, they are now mapped to buttons
  • added a connected flag
  • added deadZoneMode, circular deadzones are now supported (#1177)
  • anyButton() now has a state argument
  • added support for WiiMote (#1563) and PS Vita (#1714) controllers

flixel.input.keyboard:

• FlxKeyboard:
  • added preventDefaultKeys for HTML5
  • added an abstract enum for key names (FlxG.keys.anyPressed([A, LEFT]) is now possible)
  • the any-functions now take an Array of FlxKeys instead of Array of Strings (string names are still supported)
  • removed FlxKey.NUMPADSLASH (SLASH has the same keycode)

flixel.input.mouse:

• FlxMouseEventManager:
  • moved from flixel.plugin.MouseEventManager to flixel.input.mouse.FlxMouseEventManager
  • added removeAll() (#1141)
  • fixed inaccurate pixel-perfect sprite overlap checks (#1075)
  • now supports all mouse buttons (mouseButtons argument in add() / setObjectMouseButtons())

flixel.math:

• FlxAngle:
  • changed rotatePoint() to not invert the y-axis anymore and rotate clockwise (consistent with FlxSprite#angle)
  • rotatePoint() -> FlxPoint#rotate() (#1143)
  • getAngle() -> FlxPoint#angleBetween() (#1143)
  • added angleFromFacing() (#1193)
  • fixed wrapAngle() (#1610)
  • removed angleLimit() (#1618)
• FlxMath:
  • bound() and inBounds() now accept null as values, meaning "unbounded in that direction" (#1070)
  • wrapValue() -> wrap(), replaced the amount argument with a lower bound
  • changed MIN_VALUE and MAX_VALUE to MIN_VALUE_FLOAT and MAX_VALUE_FLOAT, added MAX_VALUE_INT (#1148)
  • added sinh() (#1309)
  • added fastSin() and fastCos() (#1534)
  • optimized isEven() and isOdd()
  • added remapToRange() (#1633)
  • getDistance() -> FlxPoint#distanceTo() (#1716)
• FlxPoint:
  • inFlxRect() -> inRect
• FlxRandom:
  • FlxRandom functions are now member functions, call FlxG.random instead of FlxRandom (#1201)
  • exposed currentSeed as an external representation of internalSeed (#1138)
  • removed intRanged() and floatRanged(), int() and float() now provide optional ranges (#1138)
  • removed weightedGetObject(), getObject() now has an optional weights parameter (#1148)
  • removed colorExt(), try using FlxColor to get finer control over randomly-generated colors (#1158)
  • updated random number generation equation to avoid inconsistent results across platforms; may break recordings made in 3.x! (#1148)
  • can now create an instance of FlxRandom to create deterministic pseudorandom numbers independently of HaxeFlixel core functions (e.g. particle emitters)
  • chanceRoll() -> bool()
  • added floatNormal() (#1251)
• FlxRect:
  • added weak(), putWeak(), ceil() and floor()
  • containsFlxPoint() -> containsPoint()
• FlxVelocity:
  • accelerateTowards*()-functions now only take a single maxSpeed argument (instead of x and y)

flixel.system:

• FlxAssets:
  • cacheSounds() -> FlxG.sound.cacheAll() (#1097)
  • OpenFL live asset reloading is now supported (native targets)
• FlxSound
  • can now be used even if FLX_NO_SOUND_SYSTEM is enabled (#1199)
  • looped is now public
  • added pitch (#1465)
  • added FlxSoundGroup (#1316)

flixel.system.debug:

• Console:
  • refactored the console to be powered by hscript (#1637)
  • added auto-completion
  • fixed focus on native targets

flixel.system.scaleModes:

• BaseScaleMode: added horizontalAlign and verticalAlign
• RatioScaleMode#new(): added a fillScreen option
• The FlxCamera sprite is now scaled (instead of FlxGame)

flixel.text:

• Rewrote FlxBitmapTextField and renamed it to FlxBitmapText
• FlxText:
  • added an abstract enum for alignment (text.alignment = CENTER; is now possible)
  • font now supports font assets not embedded via openfl.Assets (i.e. @:font)
  • font = null; now resets it to the default font
  • fixed an issue where the value returned by get_font() wouldn't be the same as the one passed into set_font()
  • added applyMarkup() (#1229)
  • fixed issues with borderStyle and FlxTextFormat on native
  • added stampOnAtlas() method, which stamps text graphic on provided atlas and loads result node's graphic into this text object
  • retrieving text dimensions (width and height) can now trigger text graphic regeneration (if any changes led to a dimensions change) to report the correct values
  • borderColor now supports alpha values / ARBG colors
  • fixed setFormat() resetting alignment (#1629)
• Moved FlxTextField to flixel-addons

flixel.tile:

• FlxBaseTilemap: added setRect() method which allows you to set a rectangular region of tiles to the provided index
• FlxTile: added frame variable which holds tile's "graphic"
• FlxTileblock:
  • added setTile() and tileSprite (#1300)
  • added loadFrames() method which allows you to use frames collection as a source of graphic
• FlxTilemap:
  • separated rendering and logic, adding FlxBaseTilemap (#1101)
  • added getTileIndexByCoords() and getTileCoordsByIndex()
  • fixed a bug in overlapsAt()
  • loadMap() now treats tile indices with negative values in the map data as 0 (#1166)
  • added blend, alpha and color
  • added frames property, so you can change tilemap's graphic without reloading map
  • loadMap() accepts FlxGraphic, String, FlxTileFrames or BitmapData as TileGraphic now
  • loadMap() has been split into loadMapFromCSV() and loadMapFromArray() (#1292)
  • added loadMapFrom2DArray() (#1292)
  • added offset property (#1444)
  • allowCollisions now sets the allowCollisions property of each tile
  • fixed ray() not detecting a collision with perfectly diagonal start and end points (#1617)
  • findPath(): replaced WideDiagonal argument with DiagonalPolicy (#1659)

flixel.tweens:

• FlxTween
  • complete callback parameter in options is now called onComplete. Its type, CompleteCallback, is now called TweenCallback. (#1273)
  • added onStart and onUpdate callback parameters in options (#1273)
  • fixed active = false; not doing anything during onComplete() of LOOPING or PINGPONG tweens
  • angle tween sets sprite's angle on start now
  • added then() and wait() for chaining (#1614)
  • made start() public (#1692)
  • active is now only true when in progress
• Motion tweens:
  • the original FlxObject#immovable value is now restored after completion

flixel.ui:

• FlxAnalog and FlxVirtualPad now have their own atlas to reduce draw calls
• FlxTypedButton:
  • now implements IFlxInput, adding pressed, justPressed, released and justReleased
  • now uses animations for statuses instead of setting frameIndex directly for more flexibility (removes allowHighlightOnMobile, adds statusAnimations)
  • disabling the highlight frame is now tied to #if FLX_NO_MOUSE instead of #if mobile
  • labelAlphas[FlxButton.HIGHLIGHT] is now 1 for FLX_NO_MOUSE
  • set_label() now updates the label position
  • added maxInputMovement
  • added mouseButtons to control which mouse buttons can trigger the button
  • label is no longer initialized if the text passed to new() is null
  • added stampOnAtlas() for draw call optimization
• Added FlxSpriteButton

flixel.util:

• FlxArrayUtil:
  • removed indexOf()
  • moved randomness-related to FlxRandom (#1138)
• FlxBitmapDataUtil:
  • renamed from FlxBitmapUtil (#1118)
  • added replaceColor() (used by FlxSprite#replaceColor())
  • added addSpacing()
  • added generateRotations()
• FlxColor:
  • FlxColor is now an abstract, interchangeable with Int - the FlxColorUtil functions have been merged into it (#1027)
  • the color presets have been reduced to a smaller, more useful selection (#1117)
• FlxPath:
  • the original FlxObject#immovable value is now restored after completion
  • active is now only true when in progress
  • fixed velocity being set even if the object position matches the current node
  • exposed nodeIndex as a read-only property
  • removed the Object argument from start(), now the path has to be assigned to FlxObject#path (#1712)
• FlxPool:
  • improved pooling performance (#1189)
• FlxSignal:
  • fixed a bug that occurred when calling remove() during a dispatch (#1420)
• FlxSpriteUtil:
  • drawLine(): default settings for lineStyle are now thickness 1 and color white
  • fadeIn() and fadeOut() now tween alpha instead of color
  • added drawCurve() (#1263)
  • removed FillStyle, the same functionality is now covered by FillColor
  • moved screenCenter() to FlxObject and changed the the arguments from two booleans to the FlxAxes enum (#1541)
• FlxTimer:
  • complete -> onComplete (#1275)
  • active is now only true when in progress

Other:

• Added an initialization macro that aborts compilation with helpful errors when:
  • targeting older SWF versions with invalid defines
  • using an unsupported Haxe version
• Flixel sound assets are now being embedded via embed="true"