Post by Murariu Alexandru on Jan 4, 2005 12:04:43 GMT -5
January 5, 2005 - Autorun Pascal Builder 1.4 released.
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What's new, in this version?
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- Added support for the Portable Network Graphics image format (*.png), and YES, the semi-transparent feature of the PNG format is also supported.
- Enhanced the IDE (Now you can see the controls on categories - just right click on the toolbox).
- You can now choose which player to use ("Full" or "NO BASS" which is smaller with about 100Kb but disables sound playing).
- Increased security (New: Password Protection option - protect your project from being modified by others - The projects will still play with the player, even if password protected).
- APB File Format Changed (older versions, egg 1.3, will not recognize the new files; they will say that those files are not apb files or are corrupted
, but it is not true).
- Added the TMSAgent object that lets you use really easy the Microsoft agent technology (see the "MSAgent Demo.apb" sample) – Load an agent character (egg: Merlin) and show it, make him speak some text, move him, etc.
- Added TScrollingCredits, a component which displays scrolling credits like at the end of movies, videos, etc.
- Now you can generate images for the TImgBtn from existent templates: select a template, set your text, and the 3 images are created automatically (available in the menu Quick Edit – images – Generate button from template).
- Added support for animated cursors (*.ani) - see the "AnimatedCursorDemo.apb". Now you can load .ANI and .CUR cursors and assign them to any control at runtime.
- Enhanced the Picture Editor(now you can copy/paste pictures to/from clipboard).
- Added some new functions to use in script (including 7 new function to get informations about CPU(s) and usage).
- 2 samples were added to show you how to create transitions between pages and how to show like a splash screen (like APB's starting splash screen with effects): "Splash.apb" and "Page Transitions.apb".
- Added "SystemInformation.apb", "OneInstance.apb" samples.
- Now you can extract projects from exported "single-exe file".
- Added some functions to be able to create and use a TrayIcon - see the sample "TrayIcon demo.apb".
- Added "Multi Software CD" template - Do you have lots of downloaded programs and want to put them on a CD/DVD? Then use this template to make an an autorun similar to the CHIP CD interface,etc.
- Added "APB Magnifier" tool - "zoom.exe".
- Fixed an issue that prevented you to use Timage.Picture property (instead of loadimage, saveimage, etc now you can just use image.picture.loadfromfile, savetofile, assign).
- Some other minor improvements.
===============================
What's new, in this version?
===============================
- Added support for the Portable Network Graphics image format (*.png), and YES, the semi-transparent feature of the PNG format is also supported.
- Enhanced the IDE (Now you can see the controls on categories - just right click on the toolbox).
- You can now choose which player to use ("Full" or "NO BASS" which is smaller with about 100Kb but disables sound playing).
- Increased security (New: Password Protection option - protect your project from being modified by others - The projects will still play with the player, even if password protected).
- APB File Format Changed (older versions, egg 1.3, will not recognize the new files; they will say that those files are not apb files or are corrupted
, but it is not true).- Added the TMSAgent object that lets you use really easy the Microsoft agent technology (see the "MSAgent Demo.apb" sample) – Load an agent character (egg: Merlin) and show it, make him speak some text, move him, etc.
- Added TScrollingCredits, a component which displays scrolling credits like at the end of movies, videos, etc.
- Now you can generate images for the TImgBtn from existent templates: select a template, set your text, and the 3 images are created automatically (available in the menu Quick Edit – images – Generate button from template).
- Added support for animated cursors (*.ani) - see the "AnimatedCursorDemo.apb". Now you can load .ANI and .CUR cursors and assign them to any control at runtime.
- Enhanced the Picture Editor(now you can copy/paste pictures to/from clipboard).
- Added some new functions to use in script (including 7 new function to get informations about CPU(s) and usage).
- 2 samples were added to show you how to create transitions between pages and how to show like a splash screen (like APB's starting splash screen with effects): "Splash.apb" and "Page Transitions.apb".
- Added "SystemInformation.apb", "OneInstance.apb" samples.
- Now you can extract projects from exported "single-exe file".
- Added some functions to be able to create and use a TrayIcon - see the sample "TrayIcon demo.apb".
- Added "Multi Software CD" template - Do you have lots of downloaded programs and want to put them on a CD/DVD? Then use this template to make an an autorun similar to the CHIP CD interface,etc.
- Added "APB Magnifier" tool - "zoom.exe".
- Fixed an issue that prevented you to use Timage.Picture property (instead of loadimage, saveimage, etc now you can just use image.picture.loadfromfile, savetofile, assign).
- Some other minor improvements.