Hey,

It's my pleasure to introduce to you the new HISESnippet Browser. In the latest development build you can find it under Help > Browse example snippets.

It's intended use is to:

1. Provide a quick glimpse into the breadth of things you can do with HISE (esp. for newcomers)
2. Fill a documentation gap in the middle between reading the docs and digging in the Forum for already existing solutions, by providing commented and working examples.
3. To serve as a local repository for saving your own snippets that can be commented and are easily retrievable.

The menu entry opens a window with a HISE instance decoupled from your main project to quickly browse, save and load HISESnippets. It comes with a bunch (to be expanded) example snippets that you can download in the the Snippet Browsers settings. Here you can set a Snippet directory that will contain the example content and your saved snippets. You can set your username to identify your own snippets, as well. (The icon underneath the settings filters for this).

The examples snippets are relying on a blob of example assets (samplemaps, images, audio and midi files) that can be downloaded, the first time you download the content. (As these static files will not change much in the future, you probably don't need to update them).

After downloading the example content you should see a list of HISESnippet examples that you can browse, sort by categories and filter with tags. Have fun exploring :)

You can add your own snippets to the browser with the plus icon on the top left.

If you think a snippet of yours would look nice in the example collection, please don't hesitate to contribute to the HISESnippet Examples. You can do so with filing an issue or a pull request @ https://github.com/qdr/HiseSnippetDB/tree/main, or ask me for repo access.

Oh, and something else: When the HiseSnippet has an embedded scriptfile (as in "include("Recthelper.js")") you can quickly copy this script to your main project in the File dropdown.

Please let me know if you find some bugs, are having any feature requests, or general feedback or suggestions on this.

All best,
Do

Hey :))

We finally got a new landing page website for HISE.. -> https://www.hise.dev/
Check it out, and let us know if you find any issues!

All best,
Dominik

#1 Embeds are back

#2 Better Video Support

Due to popular demand I added more support for small videos to the forum.
The upload size limit is now increased to 16MB and supports the most common video filetypes: "mov, mkv, webm, ogg,.."

The uploaded video needs to be wrapped in a html video tag to be displayed in the post and can be customized with the html video elements (controls, loop, autoplay..)

Just upload the video in with "Upload File" dialog, and copy the reference into a <video> src="" tag.

<video width="520" height="280" src="/assets/uploads/files/1738592343911-2025-02-03-15-13-46.webm"> 
</video> 

<!-- use or convert your videos to .webm to reduce filesize --!>

With sound..

<video width="520" height="280" controls>
<source src="/assets/uploads/files/1738588497039-2025-02-03-14-12-07.mkv" type="video/mp4"> 
</video>

<!-- .mkv needs  type="video/mp4 and is not supported in all browsers --!>

Loop and autoplay video

<video width="520" height="280" loop autoplay >
<source src="/assets/uploads/files/1738585791656-donut.mov"" type="video/mp4">
</video>

Oh, and because we now added html support to the post composer, we now can also do stuff like this:

Jump to top

and add html and inline css to our posts.

Hey

I added a new search engine behind our forum search. I hope it performs better than the default forum one.

For this also had to do some server upgrades, so the forum still maybe throwing some issues. Please let me know.

All best,
Dominik

Got sth for you @d-healey :)

Best,d

Have a look and check it out:

In the latest scriptnode release, please make sure to try out the shortcut [F1] to directly access the docs in the HISE inhouse documentation. (it even has an inbuild code playground..)

The web-docs and the inhouse.docs are directly mirrored.

If you want to contribute please have a short look here:
https://docs.hise.audio/glossary/contributing.html

The hise_documentations github repo:
https://github.com/christophhart/hise_documentation/

Obviously it's an ongoing process to work on the docs, to fill them up, and making them more precise. So.: If you find a (some) mistake(s) or want to contribute to a page, please don't hesitate to create an issue or a pull-request in the github repo!

But first of all: let's have a little docs unboxing party: :party_popper: :))

Greetings,
d

@orange

I added a new category named: "Newbie League".
Please let me know if there are any changes or additions you might need :).

Best,d

@orange @Christoph-Hart @Dan-Korneff

Back up. Sorry for this whole mess the last days. updating the forum software messed with deprecated config files, socket.io was sending messages to wrong port, the docs rebuilder raised us in the memory threshold...

As last resort we can still raise the memory bar, but lets see how it goes the next days..
Apologies again for the downtimes,
Best
Do

Jup, this error happend quite a bit recently.. sorry for this. Tonight the server had 5h downtime and this morning I updated to the latest forum version.
I hope that this resolves the most major issues, and that the connection drops stop happening.

Please let me know if you experience any errors and I'll take a look at it.

best d

Hey,

That's all in my area. :)
I had to change some forum configurations to get the forum back up.. and as you probably noticed it's still in a kind of unstable state.. There are still some missing underlying node-js updates that i think are causing the disruptions.

In the next days i will finally have some free time to take a look into this.
Thanks for your reports! And hopefully this is all resolved soon,

All best
Do

@Oli-Ullmann

Oh, the .mkv trick might not work on all browsers.. would have to convert to .webm then..

:) Yeah, autoplay is not activated by default.

bst,d

#1 Embeds are back

#2 Better Video Support

Due to popular demand I added more support for small videos to the forum.
The upload size limit is now increased to 16MB and supports the most common video filetypes: "mov, mkv, webm, ogg,.."

The uploaded video needs to be wrapped in a html video tag to be displayed in the post and can be customized with the html video elements (controls, loop, autoplay..)

Just upload the video in with "Upload File" dialog, and copy the reference into a <video> src="" tag.

<video width="520" height="280" src="/assets/uploads/files/1738592343911-2025-02-03-15-13-46.webm"> 
</video> 

<!-- use or convert your videos to .webm to reduce filesize --!>

With sound..

<video width="520" height="280" controls>
<source src="/assets/uploads/files/1738588497039-2025-02-03-14-12-07.mkv" type="video/mp4"> 
</video>

<!-- .mkv needs  type="video/mp4 and is not supported in all browsers --!>

Loop and autoplay video

<video width="520" height="280" loop autoplay >
<source src="/assets/uploads/files/1738585791656-donut.mov"" type="video/mp4">
</video>

Oh, and because we now added html support to the post composer, we now can also do stuff like this:

Jump to top

and add html and inline css to our posts.

@DabDab

Ok, I'll hook it up again. I don't know, I had the impression that quite some users use the HISE or Forum Link mainly as a page refresh and therefore dont need the link to the homepage (+ accidentally open it quite often and then have to backtrack).. Otherwise its a nice quick shortcut to the homepage, granted.
Best,d

@Morphoice

Thanks for pointing this out. Made the timestamp sortable :).

And it indeed sometimes might definitely makes sense to sort the entries by descending post time. Now its just 2 clicks away: Sort by Post time and Save Preferences to set this as your default.

All best,
D

Got sth for you @d-healey :)

Best,d

@orange

I added a new category named: "Newbie League".
Please let me know if there are any changes or additions you might need :).

Best,d

FYI: I took the update as an opportunity to change the font for better readability and to get rid of some quirks.. If you find glitches etc. please let me know and I'll adress it in the next days.

Best,
Do

@d-healey

Applied the latest update and switched to a new email backend. The layout is still lacking a bit, but i'll take care of that in the next days.

The search plugin hasn't been upgraded yet, so we still have to wait for the advanced filter options.

But most importantly: In the settings you should now find a setting with which you can turn the "CMD+F" Topic Search on and off. :)

Best,
do

@DabDab @Lindon
Ahh, this was changed to "only visible for logged in users". I set it to back to "visible for everyone".
Hope this solves it.

Hey @DabDab

First of all, sorry for the downtimes.. the latest update + search currently runs into memory overshoots and I'm still in the process of fixing this.

The latest design updates indeed don't show the upvotes anymore directly but only in a popup when you click on the little number.

Is this behaviour satisfactory for you or shall I try to change it to sth else?

Best, d