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- Interactor 1.0 Release Notes
- mBED Software
- Monday 3 March 1997
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- Included:
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- - List of contacts at mBED Software
- - Bugs fixed since 1.0b2
- - Bugs fixed since 1.0b1
- - List of known bugs
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- Email contacts at mBED Software:
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- support@mbed.com: To get help with installation of
- Interactor or the Netscape plug-in or to ask general
- questions about the functionality of Interactor.
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- bugs@mbed.com: To report bugs in Interactor (product
- or documentation).
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- info@mbed.com: To request general information about
- mBED Software and its products.
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- Changes since 1.0b2
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- - Splash screen added.
- - Redraw problem that sometimes occured when
- sublets made visible
- - Random crash could occur when selectin mbedlet
- in score view.
- - Add SHUTDOWN, ACTIVATE and DEACTIVATE handlers
- to the mbedlet.
- - Add clear message to audiostream.
- - We've upgraded the players to 1.02. For a list
- of those bug fixes, please see
- http://www.mbed.com/noembed/relnotes.html.
- - Redraw glitch when switching effect types while
- effect preview is running.
- - Property dialog now only draws the name of players
- in black.
- - Path player only takes visible players
- - Mbedlet can be lassoed in score view.
- - STARTPOINT and ENDPOINT are written correctly for
- path players.
- - When changing properties of path in layout view,
- the property view is updated correctly.
- - Remove LOAD from Audiostream because its not
- loadable.
- - Remove PLAY as an action for an effect.
- - RealAudio plays correctly in runtime window ...
- finally.
- - Hierarchical popup menus for property setting. Now
- those menu hierarchies parallel the same hierarchy
- in the property dialog.
- - Property changes did not propagate from prototype,
- to prototype to player.
- - Remove DURATION from the audiostream player.
- - Made only scrollable things scrollable.
- - Added the CALL action to the mbedlet.
- - Clicking outside of the layout window deselects
- everything.
- - Correctly deal with spin control updates now.
- We're no longer 1 behind.
- - Update sprite's duration when FLIPINTERVAL,
- FLIPTYPE, or data changes.
- - Fix window menu to always show open windows.
- - Fixes to runtime window code for PARALLEL,
- STARTANGLE and TOTALANGLE.
- - Sublets with no data that were postable
- would crash.
- - Crash when clearing data of a visible sublet.
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- Changes since 1.0b1
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- - Added "From Scratch" wizard that steps you
- through building an mbedlet from scratch.
- - Fixed slow drawing bugs.
- - SHOW/HIDE EFFECT are "duration events" in the
- score window, so you can change the length of an
- effect directly (and also see how long it is).
- - Added "DROPPEDON" to visible players and MBEDLET.
- - Editing a STRING value in the score or handlers
- shows the previous string in the dialog box for editing.
- - You can make prototypes of scores.
- - Added PAUSE to RealAudio streams.
- - Fixed a bunch of wierd bugs with editing Handlers
- and stuff on prototypes.
- - checkboxes are now square in the property view.
- - Fixed a crash when you edit a players name and then
- make a prototype of it.
- - Restore the maximize state of the app across runnings.
- - We correctly handle strings with $ and () in the
- value of a text player. Always take the value of a
- TEXT player as a literal.
- - Write REGPOINT and LOCATION in the correct order.
- Always write the REGPOINT first.
- - Rename of KEYPRESSED to KEYPRESS.
- - When the type of a button changes, we update the
- ONVALUE and POSTNAME correctly.
- - Correctly quote the value field of text player when
- we save to the .mbd file.
- - We list appropriate effect directions for the effect
- selected.
- - Always default the open .mbd file dialog to the
- directory where the last .mbd was opened.
- - Making an instance will correctly rename all references
- to the player when the player is changed (like in
- handlers and scores). Undo works too.
- - We correctly detect external changes to the file and
- asked to reload.
- - Scroll a player into view when it is selected.
- - Multiple player copy and paste.
- - Fixed the mysterious bug where your asked to save
- even though you have more than 1 window open on the
- document.
- - Score view dosn't throw away plain old MBEDLET UNLOCK's
- (without an effect). They now appear in the correct
- place in the mbedlet.
- - We only show the three "curve type" buttons when you
- have a curve selected in the layout view. This stops
- confusion over whether hitting the play button play's the
- curve or the mbedlet.
- - The window menu now show's all windows that are open.
- - The score and layout view allow group selection with a
- "marquee" (lasoo tool).
- - We now have an alignment toolbar.
- - Pasting players is now undoable.
- - If the text player is the same color as the window color,
- then draw it in the window text color.
- - When you rename a player in the property view,
- the window title changes correctly.
- - When you open a document, any unmodified, unsaved documents
- (from the "new" command) are closed.
- - When you select a view from the view menu, if it wasn't at
- the front then it is brought to the front. If it is at the
- front then it is closed. If it is closed then it's opened.
- - Better error handling while loading in the mbedlet
- (for syntax errors etc).
- - The delete key will do the same as the delete button in
- the handler view.
- - Property view remembers where it was last opened.
- - Effect view has tooltips.
- - Right click in the layout window is the same as right
- click in the player window.
- - the curve editor is smarter about the way it redraws
- (in general, the redrawing speed in the layout view is
- significanlty better).
- - drawing optimizations in the player view when you
- select and deselect players.
- - Simply clicking on something in the layout window won't
- ask you to save the document.
- - more menu accelerators.
- - Mbedlets are written with a LF/CR combination at the
- end of each line so they can be read by Notepad.
- - Sublets: Remove DURATION, POSTNAME.
- - Sublets: Remove DRAGGABLE, DRAGRECT properties because
- the runtime doesn't support these properties.
- - Sublets: Removed Playable tab.
- - Add support for drawing multiply nested sublets.
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- Known Interactor bugs:
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- - The BROWSER object does not exist as a receiver
- in the handler window.
- - The layout window does not scroll. Because the
- size of the layout equals the size of the mbedlet,
- the window has no scrollbars.
- - Sometimes the resizing of a circular path can get
- "jumpy".
- - If you choose to type a bogus player name into
- the property of a path, there is no warning
- generated.
- - The curve preview doesn't do autoreverse.
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