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Construct Animate r462

Pinned bar improvements; performance optimizations; Timeline fixes & more

18 November, 2025 ()

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Notes

The previous release introduced the ability to pin editor bars to tabs. In this release we've looked at your feedback and made some fairly substantial improvements for pinning. Most notably the tabs are now placed in a separate margin, and they remain visible when the bar is shown. This allows easily changing bars when multiple bars are pinned down the same side, and also makes possible additional features like dragging and dropping tabs to reorder them, adding tab context menus, and setting custom tab colors. UI changes like this are complex so keep an eye out for any bugs that might show up!

There's also a set of smaller additions, a number of which are based on user requests. These include a new HexColor system expression allows using CSS-style color strings like "#FF0000" for red, and entering single values for multi-properties in the Properties Bar now applies to all sub-properties.

Other improvements include some performance improvements: video playback in the Windows WebView2 exporter should be significantly more efficient for large videos now, and importing lots of files in the editor should be faster too. There's a batch of bug fixes, several of which for Timelines, and a few other changes and improvements. Happy testing!

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Changelog iconNew Additions

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Allow dragging pinned bar tabs to reorder them
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Allow changing pinned bar tabs text and background colors
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Add system expression HexColor

Changelog iconChanges

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Place pinned bar tabs in a dedicated margin for easier access
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Use shorter names for some pinned bar tabs
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Various usability improvements for pinned bars
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Properties Bar: entering a single value for multi-properties now applies to all

Changelog iconBug Fixes

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Possible crash opening popup window from pinned pane
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Pinned pane positions could become misaligned after minimizing/switching window
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Timelines: rotating a wrapped selection in an absolute timeline producing wrong feedback in the editor
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Timelines: duplicating nested timelines not restoring the starting offsets
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Timelines: nested timelines editor preview leaking memory
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Timelines: animation frame changes not previewing correctly in the editor when scrubbing
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Timelines: show project file path in audio tracks
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Layers bar: prevent adding sub layers to an overridden layer

Changelog iconPerformance Improvements

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Windows WebView2: improve video playback performance
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Project Bar: improve performance importing many files at once

Changelog iconScripting updates

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Fix error importing from the 'Imports for events' script (regression r460)
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Fix loadScripts() method resolving relative paths incorrectly in worker mode

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