This page includes the release notes for IntuiFace Composer and
Player for Windows starting with Version 4.8.0.
Releases notes for Version 4.0 thru 4.7 are available at
here.
Releases notes for Version 3.0 thru 3.8 are available at
here.
All known Limitations can be found here.
Release notes for IntuiFace Player for Tablets (iPad
and Android) and Player for Kiosks - Android can be found
here.
Current version is v.5.2.1, released
26-Nov-2015.
v.5.2.1
25-Nov-2015
Enhancements
“Parameter Name” field of the Data Tracking
“Log Event” action no longer permits entry of most
non-alphanumeric characters to ensure compatibility with all
analytic, marketing and data warehouse platforms.
10X speed improvement when saving a project containing or
referencing (via the Excel interface asset) a very large number of
locally saved media files. By "very large" we mean as many as 3k or
more.
Fixes
When upgrading Composer Free to Pro or Enterprise, locally
created experiences - when resaved - will now be properly
represented in the Experiences Panel.
7 crash conditions were corrected. Most notable is a crash
related to particular uses of the Rich Text asset.
v.5.2.0
18-Nov-2015
Enhancements
Data
Tracking interface asset
Define, collect and send data from your interactive IntuiFace
experiences to any platform for analytics, marketing or data
warehousing.
Includes offline data point storage, support for 150+
analytics/marketing/data warehouse platforms, automatic event
detection and much more
See this page for a
detailed overview, including a video-based demonstration.
See the
chapter in our Knowledge Base for all how-to information.
Easy Share
A new frictionless method for sharing experiences with
colleagues and clients. No need for your users to create an
IntuiFace account. No need for manual license entry. Just give them
a URL.
See
this page in our Knowledge Base for all how-to
information.
Access to all font variants in the Text and Rich Text
assets.
Triggers for RFID/NFC readers now expose the captured tag ID,
making it available as a parameter for binding.
Composer Edit Mode performance and capability
Manipulation (drag-and-drop, cut-and-paste) of a large number
of assets and collections is much quicker.
Scene change through use of the Scenes dropdown panel is much
faster
Selection and editing of assets inside collections (AssetGrid,
AssetFlow, Carousel, CircularPanel, Map and Timeline) is now
possible. Double-click the collection to access the content.
Webcam
asset is now available on Android
Brand new Composer and Player splash screen. Can you find the
easter egg?
10+ additional, small usability enhancements to make life even
easier.
Fixes
Installation of Player and Composer on Windows 10 devices
should no longer fail in some rare cases.
Videos used for a scene's "Background" property will no longer
be slightly narrower than the screen width.
Asset Grid collection can now be properly resized in Play Mode
when displaying two or more rows or columns.
5 minor bug corrections.
2 crash conditions fixed.
NOTE
The Kinect and Leap Motion interface assets have been
discontinued and removed from IntuiFace. The code for these
interface assets have been open sourced and posted to GitHub.
v.5.1.4
12-Nov-2015
Enhancements
Configurable Email interface asset
Accepts an SMTP username not formatted as a valid email
address.
Permits specification of a From name and a Reply-to name.
Fixes
Corrects a Dropbox issue that blocked experience
publishing.
Custom interface assets without an icon no longer prevent
experience publishing.
Textures and lights of some 3D models were not rendered.
Fixed.
Minor Composer usability corrections.
Two crash conditions eliminated.
v.5.1.3
15-Oct-2015
Enhancements
"Is being entered” and "Has been entered" triggers are
now activated for the startup scene when using Player for Windows
and for the current scene when launching Play Mode in Composer.
This was already the case in Player for Tablets and Player for
Kiosks.
Web
Browser asset now supports websites using self-signed
certificates.
Fixes
On Windows, in both Composer and Player, multiple interface
assets were broken with the release of Version 5.1.2, including
RSS,
Tweet List and
System Info IAs. This problem has been corrected.
When an experience with a video background in one or more
scenes is saved, Composer recognizes it as saved.
Eliminated Composer crash condition related to frequent jumps
in and out of Play Mode.
Use of
binding to pass an invalid value (e.g. text string) into the
Zoom property of the Web Browser asset no longer causes Composer to
crash.
Additional edge case crash condition is fixed.
v.5.1.2
8-Oct-2015
Fixes
On-screen gesture triggers now work after a "Space reload"
action.
Excel interface asset prevented the use of certain words as
column names, considering them reserved - e.g. "state". This no
longer occurs.
Sharing an experience with Write privileges now works if the
target IntuiFace account has no configured storage option.
Initial scroll effect of the Asset Flow
collection no longer forces view of the first item if some
other item in the collection has been assigned focus.
Occasional Composer freeze when saving an experience on a PC
with powerful CPU and physical hard drive (vs. solid state drive)
no longer occurs.
Small number of edge case bug fixes.
Five crash conditions were eliminated.
v.5.1.1
1-Oct-2015
Fixes
Corrected six crash conditions, all related to the new, high
performance collections algorithm implemented in Version 5.1.
v.5.1.0
24-Sept-2015
NOTE: Do not upgrade Composer to Version 5.1 if using
the iPad Player. Apple has not yet validated and released Version
5.1 of Player for Tablets - iPad to the App Store. Apple's
validation process is a dark mystery with cruelly long, inexplicit
delays. Validation may not occur before the week of October 5. For
you lucky Android users, go ahead and update; Google Play imposes
no validation process.
Enhancements
Performance improvements on Windows
Scene-to-scene transition animation is more fluid. Includes
elimination of the flash visible just before a new scene
appears.
Animation in
general is more fluid.
Rendering of off-screen content in collections - particularly
the Asset Grid collection - happens more quickly and smoothly.
Excel
filtering is almost instantaneous
Composer is zippier in Edit Mode.
Elimination of evil memory leaks, preventing possible
performance issues during long-term playback.
Usability enhancements for the Composer workspace
Quick Properties pop-up for all items in a scene enables easy
access to properties, triggers and editing controls.
Assets, Collections, Design Accelerators, and Content Library
panels can now be independently sized.
Interface Assets and Scene Structure panels can now be
independently sized and positioned.
Number of interface assets and scenes are temporarily displayed
when a new XP is opened.
Enhancement of item resizing options available in multiple
panels.
Simplified drag-and- drop of items in the Scene Content panel.
It is no longer necessary to select an item before dragging
it.
Licensing updates
New
Player for Tablets pack combines Player for iPad and Player for
off-the-shelf Android tablets. Use a Tablet license on either
platform. Preexisting Player for iPad and Player for Android
licenses inherit this benefit.
New
Player for Kiosks combines our Samsung SMART Signage Platform
(SSP) support with that for custom Android devices. Use a Kiosk
license on either platform.
Player improvements
Drawing
tools are now available on iPad, Android and Samsung SSP.
Multiple additional enhancements and bug fixes in Player for
Kiosks and Player for Tablets. Details are
here
Share via Email - Configurable interface asset now permits
specification of Reply To and Sender Name values.
More than 500 new design accelerators inspired by our work
7 Interactive Experience Design Trends
buttons
email forms
vintage-themed banner and object images
Several smaller usability improvements.
Fixes
Media filenames starting with a dot character and temporary
Excel and Word files (i.e. those prefixed with ~$) no longer stop
the
experience publishing process.
Experiences stored on a network drive or stored in a shared
folder accessed via a Mac-based virtual machine no longer prevent
the loading of interface assets and binding convertors.
Experience publishing no longer fails when the name of small
media files (size < 100KB) contain non iso-latin
characters.
3D model importer is no longer case sensitive.
It is no longer possible to maximize more than one asset at a
time. To maximize a second asset - via triggers and actions - the
first asset must be unmaximized first.
Weather, Twitter and Instagram interface assets are now
consistently displayed in Composer's Edit Mode and Play Mode.
More than 16 crash conditions have been corrected.
v.5.0.5
3-Sept-2015
Fixes
Full screen background videos play at full screen again.
Minor bug fixes.
Multiple rare crash conditions have been eliminated.
v.5.0.4
13-Aug-2015
Fixes
3 annoying crash conditions we couldn't live with.
Couple of minor usability fixes.
Correction of rare but painful Error 6413 (“missing
file”) when publishing an experience.
v.5.0.3
6-Aug-2015
Enhancements
Filter and sort settings in the Content Library are now saved
between sessions
Weather interface asset now accepts premium keys for World Wide
Weather in addition to free keys.
The
Clock interface asset now supports the ISO 8601 time and date
format.
More than 12 minor usability enhancements.
Fixes
Important fixes for users sharing experiences with
colleagues/clients when Windows is configured to use a comma (,)
instead of a dot (.) to represent decimals.
Filter and sort in the Content Library are working again.
Drag and drop in Scene Structure panel now works properly
More than 7 crash conditions were fixed.
v.5.0.2
29-July-2015
Enhancements
Search in the
Content Library is now case insensitive
IntuiPad (the IntuiFace remote control) on iPad and Android
supports IntuiFace Version 5
Fixes
Layer properties can no longer be edited. These properties were
accidentally exposed in Version 5.0. Editing them would cause an
IntuiFace experience to crash.
Slide Show
collection no longer disappears in Composer's Edit Mode under
certain conditions.
"Change video" action is no longer deleted when entering
Composer's Play Mode.
Trigger "Link is clicked" for the Web
Browser asset works again.
Default data template for the
RSS interface asset is again available for placement in a
scene.
Time property of the
Chronometer interface asset - a read-only property available
for binding - is no longer undefined.
IntuiFace Configuration Tool again successfully prepares a
Windows PC to receive remote actions.
Bindings in nested data templates are no longer lost when
upgrading from Version 4 to Version 5
Several small usability and graphic design enhancements.
3 crash conditions have been eliminated
v.5.0.1
16-July-2015
Fixes
Eliminates a few edge-case crash conditions
Corrects some minor usability issues and bugs
v.5.0.0
9-July-2015
NOTE: IntuiFace Version 5.0 and IntuiFace Version 4.x can be
installed on the same machine. You can even run them side-by-side
and copy content from a Version 4.x experience into a Version 5.0
experience. However, once opened in Version 5.0, experiences cannot
be opened in Version 4.x without following this rollback
procedure.
Enhancements
Composer workspace improvements
New, refreshed graphic style for Composer
Undock and distribute panels across multi-screen setup
Introduction of rulers, ruler guides and gridlines to aid
alignment of design elements
Resizable item icons in all panels
One-click access to online help in all panels
Improved design and organization of Properties categories
Simplified
binding process
Addition of rectangle and ellipse to the Assets panel, no
longer part of design accelerators
Search by name in the Interface Assets panel
Improved interface asset icons
HTML5-based Player upgrade for iPad, Android and Samsung SSP
New gaming-influenced architecture speeds graphic rendering and
touch reaction times
Overall speed improvements of more than 50%
Increased stability virtually eliminates resource-related
crashes, with particular improvement on iPad
Conditional triggers
Add a set of constraints to limit triggers to specified
scenarios
Excel interface asset improvements
Filter action has now a 'clear all active filters' option
Filter values can now be case insensitive
Full path to the Excel worksheet is now available for
binding via a read-only property
Drag-and-drop of an Excel file onto the active scene or Content
Library now creates an Excel IA rather than a pdf document
Localized Keyboard
30+ localized keyboards are now supported, including Arabic,
Chinese, Hebrew, Russian, Thai, etc.
Keyboard can default to local language of the device on which
Composer/Player is running or be specified in advance
Onscreen location and orientation of the keyboard can be
controlled both at design time and via actions
Additional characters are available in the default keyboard
layout
HTML5 Player now available in Composer for Play Mode
Test tablet/Samsung SSP-targeted experiences on Windows,
accessible via the Project menu
REMEMBER, performance of experiences in the HTML5 Player on
Windows may not reflect true performance on targeted devices - it
could be faster or slower - so on-device testing remains
crucial.
System Info interface asset
Returns information about the device running Composer or Player
- including device name and geographic location - and information
about the running experience.
Combine multiple data feeds in a single collection
Access the live data feed from multiple interface assets and
combine them into a single visual
For example, display the content from both a Twitter and RSS
feed in the same datasheet.
Publish and Share improvements
Enhanced publish/download error management when sharing an
experience
Downloading of files greater than 1GB is now possible
REST Web services can be used to delete analytics (useful when
using 3rd party data mining tools with IntuiFace)
New default templates (i.e. visual representations) of multiple
DAs
Menus
Simple Counter
Clock, Chronometer, Countdown
Linear Gauge
Fixes
Reimport of an Excel file now works in all cases
Analytic records containing special characters (e.g. accented
characters) are now properly rendered for XML/REST requests
30+ crash corrections and assorted bug fixes
v.4.8.7
29-June-2015
Fixes
Upgrading Player using Management Console will no longer break
the Player agent. If you are running Player Version 4.8.1 through
4.8.6, you should upgrade directly to this Version 4.8.7
release.
Snapshots created using the “Take snapshot” action
in time intervals smaller than 1 second are no longer lost.
All experiences created using Composer Version 4.7.7 or earlier
can be downloaded into Composer for editing without, in some rare
conditions, causing a crash.
IntuiFace’s Sample experiences can be downloaded into
Composer for editing without failing with the error message
“Error while decompressing project file”.
v.4.8.6
11-June-2015
Enhancements
Weather interface asset now works with the iPad, Android and
Samsung SSP Players.
Increased timeout duration from 1 minute to 3 minutes for both
Hosted and Configurable Email interface assets.
A valid mail server certificate is no longer required for use
of the Configurable email interface asset.
Enhanced Design Accelerators for
Share via USB,
Share via email (both hosted and configurable) and
Share via filesystem interface assets
Player no longer displays a warning when the Windows PC display
resolution is set to something other than 100%.
Fixes
Estimated download time for experiences in Amazon S3 cloud
storage is now accurate (was over-optimistic)
Corrected crash condition
v.4.8.5
18-May-2015
Enhancements
Update to the "default" Video asset style (based on VLC)
improves both overall performance and WMV playback in
particular
New design accelerators for the
Weather interface asset introduce a variety of modern,
eye-catching designs
Fixes
Maximizing an already maximized asset no longer causes
unexpected results
Document assets maximized via actions no longer exhibit a
slight transparency
10 minor bugs and usability issues corrected
9 crash conditions eliminated
v.4.8.4
28-April-2015
Enhancements
New search bar at top of Composer enables a search of the
IntuiFace online documentation, the Knowledge Base. A tab will be
opened in your PC’s default Web browser.
Fixes
Corrects memory leak linked to repeated toggling between Edit
Mode and Play Mode in Composer
Corrects additional memory leak found in Player
Configurable email option for Composer Enterprise customers now
correctly permits HTML-formatted emails
A few minor bugs and usability issues are addressed
7 crash conditions corrected. Of note: a crash when using the
Triggers & Actions panel to specify zoom level or location in
the Map collection
v.4.8.3
7-April-2015
Enhancements
Greatly increased speed and stability for experience publishing
to and download from Dropbox and Amazon S3. Up to three times
faster for non European users.
Significant Composer performance improvement when spaces
contain a large number of Group collections. Includes
space-to-space transition time.
In Composer's Edit Mode, assets can now be resized even if they
are located beneath other assets.
Improved error management when invalid Cron expressions are
used in the Scheduler interface asset.
Weather interface asset now supports Version 2 of the World
Weather Online API. Includes support for custom API keys and
multiple language options. NOTE: API keys
generated for the earlier version of the Weather interface asset
are no longer valid and need to be regenerated.
Fixes
Corrected display of new items added to the Asset Grid
collection while in Edit Mode.
Excel file management has been improved when switching between
Composer's Edit and Play Modes.
Assorted minor fixes
7 crash conditions have been fixed
v.4.8.2
19-March-2015
Enhancements
New watermark for Free Edition users
Multiple installer enhancements, particularly for users who do
not have Admin privileges.
Fixes
Update released 24-Mar-2015: Corrected error
preventing Composer Free and Pro Edition users from working with
interface assets.
Composer now properly embeds OTF fonts in an experience. Player
Version 4.8.2 is required to ensure the fonts are properly
rendered.
Right-click menu in the Triggers and Actions panel no longer
lingers if unused.
Multiple sort and update actions via the Excel interface asset
no longer potentially leads to corruption of the spreadsheet.
"Set viewport" action for the 3D Model asset works again.
"Set font" action for the Rich Text asset works again.
Additional seven minor issues corrected.
More than 12 crash conditions eliminated.
v.4.8.1
3-March-2015
Enhancements
Instagram
interface asset
Improved performance of the
FTP connector
New sample experiences: "Science Quiz" and "4.8 Features
Highlights"
Fixes
Corrected display of an image referenced via URL
Corrected errors related to use of accented characters and
single quotes in text recorded by the Analytics feature. Records
containing this formatting were not saved and remaining records
were duplicated several times
"Share as Play Only" works again if name or description of that
experience contains non-latin characters
Eliminated five crash conditions, including when adding a Group
to the end of a preexisting collection and when dragging items in
or out of an interface asset's data template
Several minor fixes
v.4.8.0 "Apollo"
12-February-2015
Enhancements
Player
for Samsung SMART Signage Platform
HTML5-based Player identical in capability to Player for iPad
and Player for Android
First solution on the market bringing multi-touch content to
the Samsung SSP
More about the Samsung SSP can be found
here
Customizable
project styles
Personalize the look of buttons associated with every asset and
collection in IntuiFace
Choose from three built-in styles or create your own
Replace every button icon with your own
Styles are set at the experience level but can be overridden
for any specific asset or collection
Value
Converters
Enhances the IntuiFace
binding capability by transforming input values
Converters include Math & Logic,
Text Manipulation, Number and Date
Formatters, Linear Converter and a
Custom Script option that takes JavaScript-like
code
Users can also create highly complex converters outside of
IntuiFace and import them for use in a project
Enhanced 3D model
support
IntuiFace now uses the Open Asset Import Library -
aka Assimp - to increase the number and quality of 3D imports
40+ formats can now be imported
Model-based lights and cameras can be used
Assimp limitations affect IntuiFace as well. Be sure to let us
know if you have import issues.
New and improved interface assets (IAs)
Completely revised Twitter IA can display both text and image
tweets
New Instagram IA returns filterable search results
New Orientation IA can be used to make tablet-based experiences
sensitive to device orientation
Additional IA protocols are now supported: REST/XML, file/XML,
file/JSON
Additional features and quality improvements to Player for iPad
and Android
Player for Windows features now on iPad and Android
Excel formulas
3D models
Additional book-style document properties and actions
Large collection of bug fixes and performance enhancements
Usability enhancements
Triggers and Actions
Reorder actions in the Triggers and Actions panel using
right-click menu
Default values are retained when changing actions
links to online documentation are now in Composer
"Move direction" property can limit asset and collection
movement to a single axis
When adding an Excel Interface Asset onto a scene, spreadsheet
cells using URLs or local file paths for graphic media will be
loaded as those asset types and not just as text
IntuiFace Composer and Player for Windows now support Version
4.5 of the .NET Framework, enabling use of that framework in
.NET-based interface assets
Due to a touch screen bug in Version 4.5.2 of the .NET
Framework, we recommend using Version 4.5.1 until Version 4.5.3
becomes available
"Has been active" trigger reacts to on-screen touches within a
specified time period
Multiple bug fixes including 9 crash conditions
Known limitations are listed here.
NB: Releases notes of version 4.0 - 4.7 are available at
Releases
notes of 4.0 - 4.7 releases