This page includes all IntuiFace Release Notes starting with
Version 3.0.0.
All known Limitations can be found here.
Current version is v.4.3.8, released
14-Mar-2014.
v.4.3.8
14-Mar-2014
Enhancements
Image and Document assets now accept URLs as dynamic links to
media. (Video asset already supports URLs as dynamic links.)
Virtual keyboard enhanced to support additional non-alphabetic
characters.
Alternate Video asset rendering engine (referenced in the Video
asset Style property; still in beta) now
recognizes the Poster property.
Max font pixel size has been raised from 128 to 1638.
RFID tag ID can be captured in Composer Edit Mode by giving
focus to the trigger’s Tag ID field in the
Triggers and Actions panel and then running a tag
over your reader.
REST interface asset trace log now includes specific details
about the property, asset and failure reason
REST interface asset improvements for the support of connected
objects
Fixes
Flip Chart no longer triggers scroll actions when loaded.
Minor Text Input asset bug fixes
IntuiFace log file no longer contains verbose messages when an
RFID tag reader is referenced in a project but not connected to the
PC.
Multiple crash conditions are resolved.
v.4.3.7
27-Feb-2014
Enhancements
In Composer’s Play Mode, the Excel interface asset now
reloads edited Excel spreadsheets whenever the parent workbook is
closed or Excel is quit. While in Composer Play Mode, reload the
space.
Performance counter issue on some Windows PCs now resolved by
the IntuiFace installer.
Fixes
Carousel
“Scroll to index” now triggered in all cases.
“Elasticity” property works again.
“New” and “Open” project-related
functions work again after a second project is opened and edited in
Composer.
Remote actions using the experience name as a parameter work
again.
Additional minor stability and bug fixes.
12 crash scenarios corrected including 1) asset deletion from
Content Library while the Binding or Triggers & Actions panel
is displayed, and 2) recursive binding of properties with numerical
values
v.4.3.6
13-Feb-2014
Enhancements
While in Edit Mode, switches between spaces containing a large
number of assets using triggers, actions and binding will complete
up to 50% faster.
Redesign of the IntuiFace Account
Management website to improve usability.
Map collection no longer
displays a white border when first created.
REST interface asset now supports the definition of min and max
values.
Fixes
Changing the container type of an Asset Flow no longer, under
certain conditions, causes contents to disappear from view.
Switching between vertical and horizontal orientation for the
Asset Grid no longer causes certain property values to disappear
from view.
Playback of videos larger than 2GB no longer causes Composer to
crash.
setOpacity action is no longer lost when saving Version 4.2
projects in Version 4.3.
10 crash conditions corrected.
v.4.3.5
30-Jan-2014
Fixes
Asset size is no longer set to 0 if an asset is hidden in a
group and then moved out of that group in the Space Content
panel.
Pausing a video that has never run will no longer cause the
video to hide.
A double-click on the Player executable no longer disables
multi-touch under certain circumstances.
When changing media for an Image, Video or Document asset in
the Properties Panel, the content files are now displayed in
alphabetical order.
Download of some videos and pdfs no longer fails in the Preview
Mode of Player for iPad.
9 crash conditions and other small issues are corrected.
v.4.3.4
20-Jan-2014
Enhancements
Performance
Almost instantaneous space navigation. Visible assets (text,
images, videos, …) are now rapidly displayed after
space-to-space transition rather than loaded into memory before
transition, providing better visual feedback that navigation is
underway.
Faster initial display of PDF files.
"Duplicate" option now available for a space and a
sequence.
Fixes
Race conditions leading to PDF conversion failure (the red
exclamation mark problem) have been corrected.
The connection between Composer and Player for iPad now work
when the email address associated with an IntuiFace account uses
uppercase letters.
Next/Previous/ScrollTo/ScrollToAsset actions for the SlideShow
collection are back in Composer.
The "Goto page" action works again in all cases when
referencing pages earlier in a book.
A video with "Autoplay" set to true is no longer played if it
is contained within a hidden group.
PDFs added directly from the file system at runtime now display
their first page when appearing.
Document asset widths in a collection are now accurately
calculated.
Space-specific capabilities are no longer displayed in the
right-click menu or in the menu bar for a sequence in the Spaces
panel.
Additional minor issues fixed.
10 crash conditions corrected.
v.4.3.3
03-Jan-2014
Fixes
Significantly faster load times when transitioning to spaces
with a lot of hidden content.
PDF files in a Flipchart collection are no longer blurred when
flipping between PDFs.
The Undo function (Ctrl-Z) no longer causes Composer to crash
when the modified space – or an asset/collection in the
modified space – has an action whose target is in another
space.
“Pause when hidden” property for the Video asset
works again in all cases
v.4.3.2
20-Dec-2013
Fixes
Updates Twitter interface
asset to accommodate significant change in the Twitter API.
Experiences created before Version 4.2 may crash if using the
Twitter interface asset. Experiences created and/or saved using
Version 4.2 thru 4.3.1 may display empty tweet lists. This new
version will repair all tweet lists. Just open your experience in
this new version and resave.
v.4.3.1
Fixes
Flip Chart animation works again
Various minor Composer tweaks
Corrected crash conditions related to timers, the Excel
interface asset, Rich Text asset and a few others
v.4.3.0
New Product: Player for iPad
Available in the App Store
here or search iTunes for 'intuiface'.
Build interactive experiences using Composer on Windows, deploy
to the iPad. For detailed information, see these articles.
Enables both online and offline use
Online: Live streaming over any WiFi network.
Offline: Save experiences locally so you can take your iPad
anywhere
Special Preview Mode enables Player for iPad
to communicate with Composer in Play Mode and either stream or
download the experience for offline use
Simplified license management avoids the use of license keys,
making it easy to register and deregister iPads for use with your
experiences.
Web-based device management, through use of IntuiFace
Management Console, enables you to keep track of your iPad
license inventory and of all experiences you want to make available
for online and offline modes. This capability is for Enterprise
Edition customers only.
Freely downloadable from the Apple AppStore. You can even use
Preview Mode (see above) with Composer Free
(limited to live streaming).
Other IntuiFace Enhancements:
Multi-selection is now available in both the scene and Space
Content panel.
New multi-selection capabilities in the scene
Copy, cut, move, resize, rotate and delete multi-selected
items
Align horizontally (left, right, center) and vertically (top,
bottom, center)
Distributed vertically and horizontally using either spacing
between items or space between the middle of each item as a
guide.
Bulk editing of properties common to all selected assets
Undo/redo has been enhanced to support multi-selection
actions
Right-click ability to group all multi-selected items into a
single Group collection.
Ungroup a Group Collection to free all contained items and
render them as multi-selected
New multi-Selection capabilities in the Space Content Panel
Copy, cut, move, resize, rotate, align, distribute, group and
delete multi-selected items
Simplified text editing
To edit text in the Simple Text asset and Button control, just
double-click the text directly in the scene. This is similar to how
things already work in the Rich Text asset.
More Simple Text asset properties are accessible in the
Properties panel at the bottom of Composer.
The name of a Simple Text asset, Rich Text asset and Button
control will now default to the first 20 characters of visible text
if the name has not been modified by the user.
The Font selector now permits use of all fonts installed on the
PC running Composer. (Remember, fonts are not stored in a project
so you must ensure all devices running Player have the same font
installed.)
New Design Accelerator panel with additional accelerator
bundles
Design Accelerator panel is now located in a tab to the right
of Composer and immediately adjacent to the Content Library.
Brand new, downloadable accelerator bundles like animated menus
and linear gauges
Download and install new Design Accelerators without leaving
Composer
Zoomable panel makes it easy to browse a large number of
accelerators.
Enhanced Property panel (located at the bottom of Composer)
Indicates which properties are shared and thus editable in a
multi-selection
Item names are now displayed in the header of the All
Properties panel.
Orange shading indicates binding and reacts to a mouse hover
and show the name of the bound assets and properties.
Triggers and Actions panel has been fully redesigned to make it
easier to adopt and put triggers and actions to use.
New lock feature enables designers to prevent other with
Composer from making changes to items in the scene while in Edit
Mode. Locked items are transparent to the mouse. The lock feature
has no effect on Play Mode and changes can still be made be
manipulating the item directly in the Space Content panel.
Hover your mouse over a new indicator on any item in the Space
Content panel to view both bindings and triggers associated with
that item.
Many guidance messages and tool tips have been added or
enhanced to simplify adoption and comprehension for new users.
Right-click the scene to access new Set Background
functions.
Quickly change asset content by double-clicking the asset or
right-clicking the asset and selecting Change [asset
type] in the right-click menu. The proposed media are
filtered to the asset type.
The z-order of assets (i.e. the stacking order) in the scene is
now identical to the order in the Space Content panel. Be aware
that in rare cases this may change the way a space is displayed in
your existing experiences.
In Composer's Edit Mode, assets are no more limited by their
minimum and maximum size restrictions. If asset sizes are set
outside the bounds
In Composer's Edit Mode, auto-repeat for ctrl-X, ctrl-D, ctrl-Z
and ctrl-Y is suppressed when applied to items in the Spaces panel,
the Content panel and the scene to avoid unintended changes.
When deleting a space you are now asked for confirmation.
When creating a new space, the background of the currently
viewed space is automatically reused.
PowerPoint import improvements
Navigation is now achieved via onscreen swipe gestures rather
than by pressing transparent buttons.
Original slide names are now used to label spaces.
Text Input control now has a new set properties.
Define Guidance Text, define when to hide this
text and set font properties.
Opening and closing of the keyboard can be animated using the
Space property category Text Input Keyboard
Change keyboard background color and opacity using the Space
property category Text Input Keyboard
It is now possible to add assets or collections by
dragging-and-dropping them from the Quick Access Toolbar to the
left of Composer.
If a
REST-based interface asset uses an enumeration, a combo box
menu will be displayed in Composer to ease the selection of one of
the options.
Improved
IntuiFace Configuration Manager should reduce networking issues
when working with the
IntuiPad remote control.
New menu option Help -> Send diagnostic is
now available to send diagnostic info to IntuiLab Support.
Many other usability tweaks in Composer including graying out
of inapplicable functions and content previews with mouse hover in
the Content Library.
Performance
Improved Composer and Player memory usage which should solve
various Out Of Memory issues.
The memory footprint of large images has been dramatically
reduced, especially when large images (i.e. images with a large
pixel resolution) are resized to fit in a small area. For example,
a 1920x1080 Full HD image placed inside a 200x200 Image Button
control will no longer take up the amount of memory required to
hold a Full HD image.
The memory footprint of videos have been dramatically reduced
by only loading videos when the user chooses to play one.
Thumbnails generated for collections are now properly scaled
rather than being set to a fixed size.
The time needed to navigate from one space to another in Player
was reduced by a factor of 30% to 75% depending on the number and
pixel resolution of images and videos involved.
Fixes
After use of "Import from PowerPoint”
triggers and actions automatically inserted to enable
navigation are again visible and editable in Composer.
resulting experience uses onscreen gestures rather than
transparent buttons to trigger navigation between the
slides.
Multiple license issues have been solved
Composer and Player again work correctly on the Samsung SUR40,
no longer recording a double-touch for the first finger.
Circular Panel collection behavior - when the inner radius was
set to something other than zero - has been corrected.
Next action for a Flipchart collection with
only one image now works.
When opening and saving an existing project, Composer now
automatically upgrades all interface assets whose version in
Composer is later than the versions used in the experience.
When a trigger had several actions, each opening an item in a
collection, all items now open in front of the collection.
All bound properties are now marked with an orange-colored
mask.
Sample Experience downloads via the Composer start-up panel no
longer consumes the CPU.
In Composer, the Exit action and Exit remote action no longer
quit Composer. They just exit Play Mode of Composer.
Six crash conditions corrected as well as a large number of
memory-related crashes thanks to the memory optimization work
mentioned above.
v.4.2.3
Enhancements:
Map Collection support for
all recognized geocoordinate formats including DMS and E6. For a
list of supported formats, see this article.
Fixes:
Copying properties from one button to another no longer copies
the button text.
A few minor bugs and crash conditions you probably didn't run
into yet but we didn’t like knowing they were around.
v.4.2.2
Enhancements:
New Set Viewport Boundary action for the
Map Collection.
Text Input asset now
enables the entry of linefeeds using the Enter key.
Keyboard size for the Text
Input Asset and Web
Browser Asset is now configurable.
Excel
Interface Asset has a new read-only property containing the
total number of rows in a spreadsheet.
The duration of a Timer can be now pulled in
from an external data source through binding.
New Index changed trigger for the Item Picker Collection (located
in the
Design Accelerator panel).
Fixes:
Corrects edge case in which the new licensing mechanism –
first introduced in Version 4.2.1 – prevented a project from
being saved.
An Excel-based URL reference to a PDF file can now be used,
through binding, by the Document Asset’s
Content property.
IntuiFace no longer crashes in cases when malformed information
is returned by the Twitter API to the Twitter Interface Asset.. See
how to update an Interface Asset in an existing project
10 crash conditions have been corrected.
Additional corrections for edge case scenarios you probably
didn't run into but will be glad to know we have fixed anyway.
v.4.2.1
Enhancements:
This version enhances the IntuiFace licensing mechanism,
ensuring Composer and Player license keys continue to work after OS
upgrades. For example, license keys will now remain valid after
upgrading a PC from Windows 8.0 to Windows 8.1
v.4.2.0
Enhancements:
Replacement of the Bing Maps asset with the Map collection, enabling
manual, Excel-sourced or cloud-driven (via interface
assets) placement of interactive points of interest. Use either
OpenStreetMaps or Bing Maps for the map display.
Text Input
asset improvements for better form construction
Use regular expressions for entry validation.
Password mask to hide typing.
On-screen numeric keypad for fields only requiring numeric
entry.
Additional design configuration options to customize
appearance.
Select any video frame or image to act as a poster for the
Video Asset. This feature
fulfills a
popular customer request.
Direct manipulation of objects using Microsoft
Kinect. Turn a page, play a video and much more.
Real-time data feed updates every time an Excel spreadsheet -
referenced by an Excel
interface asset - is closed. Previously, changes to the
spreadsheet were only recognized when restarting an
experience.
New property
Opacity for all
assets and collections.
New triggers
Tapped and
Double-tapped for all assets and collections. This feature
fulfills a
popular customer request.
Last Item
Reached for Asset Grid, Asset Flow, Carousel, Circular Panel,
and Flip Chart collections.
New actions
Toggle
maximize and Toggle minimize for all assets and
collections.
New experience templates to quick start experience
creation.
New "IntuiFace Composer in 90 Seconds" video for those
unfamiliar with IntuiFace.
Complete redesign of the Composer start-up panel
Download & run experience templates and business samples
without leaving Composer.
Display and access history of recently opened experiences.
Free Edition-specific enhancements
Free Edition experiences can now be opened and edited on any PC
running Composer Free.
Use the Excel
interface asset to work with static Excel spreadsheets.
Pro Edition-specific enhancements
Work with Microsoft Kinect and the Leap Motion Controller. Use
of these devices is no longer exclusive to the Enterprise
Edition.
Excel
interface asset improvements
Filter and sort the Excel data feed.
Add and save new rows.
For annual subscribers, the ability to "release" licenses 3
times in a calendar year to protect against PC failure and hardware
refresh.
Enterprise Edition-specific enhancements
Everything in the Pro Edition, plus
Introduction of PUT, POST and DELETE request methods for the
REST Interace Asset
For annual subscribers, the ability to "release" licenses 5
times in a calendar year to protect against PC failure and hardware
refresh. NOTE Perpetual license holders can
release their licenses an unlimited number of times during the
year.
Fixes:
When copying the properties of a space, the background image or
video is also copied.
Vertical alignment of Text Input assets. This fix addresses a
popular customer request.
Default action for newly created Text Input asset now works
after renaming the asset.
Original data is no longer deleted when adding a very big
folder to the Content Library and then deleting the reference
before the copy process is completed.
Project filenames can now contain periods without any risk of
losing resources from the Content Library (identified by a red
exclamation mark).
Importing empty or bad images files no longer causes Composer
to crash.
10 additional crash condition have been fixed.
v.4.1.6
Enhancements:
Computer name and IP address appear in the About window –
helpful when using Player for iPad (still in preview) and IntuiPad,
our remote control
During startup, Composer splash screen is no longer topmost,
freeing view of other windows
Fixes:
Copy/paste of Space bindings between two instances of Composer
now works correctly
Corrected scenarios resulting in broken bindings
Kinect video no longer freezes
Additional crash conditions have been addressed
v.4.1.5
Enhancements:
Time to delete an asset in a scene or select a different space
in the Spaces panel has been dramatically reduced, with up to 90%
reduction in time for a large project.
Memory footprint of large images have been reduced in
Composer's Edit Mode to reduce the likelihood of Out Of Memory
issues. In Play Mode, original image sizes are used.
Any asset popped out of a collection now immediately displays
its Close button for a duration of about 6 seconds. The Close
button then fades away but reappears whenever the asset is
manipulated.
The filename of a Space background image or video is now fully
displayed even if the filename has a large number of
characters.
Fixes:
Action targets are again displayed in the Triggers &
Actions Panel.
An asset in a Pinboard no longer inherits that Pinboard’s
min and max width and height restrictions when the Pinboard is
placed in a Group collection.
Fixed size assets inside a Group no longer mistakenly resize
when the Group’s bound width and height values are
changed.
Rich Text asset is now shaded orange to indicate it is bound
when the “HTML Text” property is bound to an external
source.
The “HTML Text” property of the Rich Text asset now
shows the source text when it is bound.
Composer Free can now modify and close (without saving) a
non-Free Edition project before opening a Free Edition project.
(Free Edition can never save changes to a non-Free Edition project.
See
here for a discussion about experience sharing.)
On Windows 8, the Management Console agent process now starts
correctly.
Deleting then undoing the deletion of a folder-based collection
in a scene now correctly displays all folder content.
In rare cases, Button configuration settings (e.g. background
color) are no longer reflected in collection controls.
10+ crash conditions fixed
v.4.1.4
Enhancements:
Item width and height are no longer limited within
collections
Use of Copy Painter with Button and Toggle Button no longer
copies button text
Binding details can be revealed by clicking on orange triangle
in Properties editor
Fixes:
Improved Save functionality to prevent project corruption if
crash occurs
Item Shadow Property for assets in a Pinboard Collection is now
taken into account under all circumstances
Change Stroke action for the Drawing Tool’s stroke width
and color now works
Copy/paste of a space between two instances of Composer now
copies the images associated Image Buttons
Default style for Audio and Text Assets is no longer empty
Undo/redo for the Rich Text Asset restores the text
In binding mode, Properties pane to the right no longer
disappears when selecting another asset
Crashes:
Edge case conditions while editing remote actions
Working with unsupported formulas in Excel (cell contents are
now left blank)
Edge case conditions for undo/redo
Launching Composer while not connected to the Internet
Edge case conditions when adding a document into a scene
v.4.1.3
Fixes:
IntuiPad again works with Player for Windows
Tab key again enables property field switching after editing
Rich Text asset or selecting a space
Visual tags again work with Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft
Pixelsense
Crash conditions eliminated
changing a Flip Chart collection into an Asset Flow
collection
changing content of an image inside a Flip Chart
typing the % symbol inside the name of an asset
changing 'Scroll by' property to a value greater than the
number of items in a collection
Inserting the same Excel file into an experience more than
once
Associating a 'Goto Space' action with an 'Entering Space'
trigger
v.4.1.2
Enhancement:
New “Update Cell” action for the Excel Interface
Asset.
Fixes:
Eliminated multiple crash conditions, including when
Version 4.0 experiences are converted to Version 4.1
an Interface Asset is not found (results in a blank
screen)
an Interface Asset is located directly in the “Interface
Assets” folder rather than in a sub-folder
using a Carousel collection
using the “Import from folder” option in the
Composer Startup panel
v.4.1.1
Fixes:
Significant performance improvement when deleting objects, more
than 80% reduction in time. This also fixes crashes that occurred
when deleting assets or spaces.
Leap Motion Interface Asset has been updated to accommodate
Leap Motion’s SDK Version 1.0.4 and later.
Excel Date and Number formats are now respected when bound to
Text assets.
2 crash conditions related to the Excel Interface Asset have
been corrected.
Time Interface Asset now correctly manages all time zones.
Corrected error in the json file generated by Composer for use
with Player for iPad preview.
Corrected appearance of blank Property panel for assets under
various conditions.
Corrected conditions preventing the ability to save an
experience.
PowerPoint import no longer causes Composer to freeze under
special conditions.
Eliminated scenarios causing loss of remote actions when
converting Version 3.8 experiences to Version 4.x.
Eliminated scenarios causing loss of bindings in a Version 4.0
experience when converting to Version 4.1.
Asset Grid collection with “Right To Left”
orientation is no longer blocked after a “Scroll to”
action.
“Center” action on the Timeline collection works
again.
v.4.1.0
NOTE: If a feature name is preceded by an
asterisk (*), only Composer Enterprise can be used to create
experiences incorporating that feature. Composer Free and Composer
Pro can open and run the resulting experiences but saving
won’t be possible.
Enhancements
IntuiFace
Management Console: Web-based control panel enabling
deployment of cloud-hosted IntuiFace experiences to any Windows
device running IntuiFace Player. Available for Composer Enterprise
customers only.
Microsoft
Kinect support: Use Kinect-specific gestures and
postures to trigger events in your IntuiFace experiences.
Leap Motion
Controller support: Use Leap-specific gestures and
postures to trigger events in your IntuiFace experiences.
New Circular
Panel collection: Create rounded, swipeable menus
containing your own images, videos, or other content types.
Three new
out-of-the-box interface assets: Prebuilt interface
assets for a clock, count-down timer and chronometer are now
available.
New Linear
Gauge asset: Use your own graphics to represent
progress along any scale of your choice. Use to illustrate concepts
like percent completion, distance travelled, or money
collected.
Unlimited Trial Version
of Composer: We have replaced the trial version of
Composer – which is limited to 21 days – with a
time-unlimited version of Composer, referred to as Composer
Free.
Player for iPad Preview: Available by invite
only for Enterprise customers - so an incentive for you to go
Enterprise! More information available for those who participate in
the Preview program.
Crash recovery mechanism: On the VERY rare
occasion of a Composer crash :-) you will be able to recover all
work performed no more than 60 seconds prior to the crash. This
feature fulfills a popular
customer request.
Reduced installation burden: It is no longer
necessary for installation to be granted Administrator rights.
Limitations of installation without Administrator rights:
Microsoft Office document cannot be imported into a
project
The IntuiFace Configuration Tool, necessary for working with
IntuiPad and remote actions, will install without Administrator
rights but must be granted those rights in order to run.
Autoupdate mechanism will not work.
New actions
Reset all assets for a space. This feature
fulfills a popular
customer request.
Scale, Resize and
Move for items inside of a Group collection.
New triggers
Space: Leaving, Entering,
Left and Entered. When moving
from space A to B, the order of events is Leaving A, Entering B,
Left A, Entered B.
Document Asset: Page changed
Video and Audio Assets: Time changed
Carousel, Asset Flow and Flip Chart collections: Index
changed. This feature fulfills a popular
customer request.
Timeline collection: Date changed
Additional new features
The Interface Asset (IA) panel now supports IA-specific
right-click menu options.
Unoccupied areas inside of a Group collection are now
transparent to touch events.
C#-based interfaces now support DateTime and URI types
The Content parameter of the Change
content action can now be modified through binding.
Start Composer directly into Play Mode. Details here.
The Composer and Player license file has been replaced by a
License Key.
Easily change the license key by using the menu item
Help->Enter a license
key.
Usability improvements
Redesigned color picker with support for both RGB and HSB
(hue/saturation/brightness).
Collections with the notion of focus – i.e. Asset Flow,
Carousel and Flip Chart – now have an Index
property containing the index of the item in focus.
Actions initiated by the Space triggers Visual tag
down, Visual tag move, and Visual
tag up can now be bound to the following properties of the
visual tag: Tag ID, X coordinate,
Y coordinate and Orientation.
This means you can have assets and collections "follow" your visual
tags as they move.
Actions initiated by the asset and collection triggers
Manipulation started and Manipulation
completed can now be bound to the following properties of
the touch event: X coordinate, Y
coordinate, Orientation.
Images and videos preserve their original pixel dimensions when
added into a space or pinboard. The pixel dimensions are displayed
beside their preview image in the bottom-right of the Content
Library. This feature fulfills a popular
customer request.
Assets moved out of a collection retain their size.
When only Allow rotate is set for an asset or
collection – thus when Allow move and
Allow resize are deselected – only one
finger is required to cause rotation.
Overall utility improvements to the Start-up panel and Help
menu.
While in binding mode, the All Properties
panel more cleanly displays all property values.
Properties panel has been streamlined to
display only the most used properties.
Improved organization of properties in the All
Properties panel.
Right-click context menu now available in the Triggers and
Actions panel located in the bottom-right of Composer.
Copy/paste of a collection creates a sibling collection rather
than a nested child collection.
Both the Space Content and
Spaces panel now autoscroll when reordering
items.
Composer now opens an experience at the Startup
space (set in menu item
Project->Project settings),
not the first space in the Spaces panel.
When copy/pasting an asset, the copy now appears at some
distance from the original.
Improved management of a Group's size when added into a parent
collection.
Composer now represents enum values - found in REST
and C#-based interfaces – as dropdown lists.
And don’t forget the crazy good performance improvements
introduced in Version 4.0.5 for HID-based touch displays (i.e. most
of them).
Fixes
5+ additional crash conditions have been resolved.
Scroll To Asset action for the Asset Grid
works again
The Inactivity Timer is now reinitialized every time content is
moved.
v.4.0.5
Enhancements:
Greatly improved response time - especially for multi-object
interactions such as those with collections - on multi-touch
displays using Microsoft’s HID protocol (i.e. most touch
displays)
Fixes:
Moving an asset or a collection from one layer to another no
longer resets property values.
Performance improvement for the Excel Interface Asset when the
referenced workbook contains multiple spreadsheets.
The Flash asset no longer displays a white rectangle just
before the animation begins.
Dropdown lists for form fields in the Web Browser asset now
respect the “Allow form entry” property.
The Item Shadow property is now taken into account when an
asset is placed inside a Pinboard.
Remote actions are no longer lost when upgrading a Version
3.8.3 presentation to Version 4.x.
Additional crash conditions are resolved.
v.4.0.4
Fixes:
Double-clicking media in the Content Library now places them
into the center of the active scene.
Insertion of images into the scene now works under all
circumstances rather than resulting in an image asset with
exclamation mark.
All assets within remote experiences can now be accessed when
creating remote actions in the Triggers and Actions panel.
Remote actions directed at collections are no longer lost after
exiting Play Mode in Composer.
Corrected deletion of assets bound to Interface Assets after
exiting Play Mode in Composer.
All primary Toggle Button asset properties are now displayed in
Composer’s Properties Panel.
Various usability improvements.
Multiple crash conditions corrected.
v.4.0.3
Fixes:
The All Properties panel is no longer empty when PC display
resolution is greater than WUXGA (i.e. greater than
1920×1200).
Correction of crash and “cannot save” error when
copy/pasting then deleting assets or collections in the same
instance of Composer.
Removed a security restriction from the Web Browser asset
preventing websites like Spotify to work correctly.
Exiting Play Mode with Escape key works again in all
cases.
It is now possible to use the numeric keypad of a physical
keyboard to input a number in the Text Input asset.
The binding of a property with an Interface Asset as the source
is now correctly displayed in the binding panel.
When binding an action parameter, the target is now displayed
and editable.
It is again possible to use a video for the background of a
space.
After ”Save as…”, newly added Interface
Assets are added to the new project.
When the content of a collection is a folder, it is now
possible to change the folder of that collection in the Properties
panel.
The moon phase control now works even if the All Properties
panel has a visible scrollbar.
Various consistency tweaks to All Properties panel
Several crash conditions corrected.
v.4.0.2
Enhancements:
Improved performance – fastest ever achieved for
IntuiFace - on multi-touch displays running either Windows 7 or
Windows 8
Fixes:
Again possible in all cases to associate several actions with
the same trigger
Pixel size of Quad Full HD configuration is corrected
After drag-and-drop of a space in the Spaces panel, the moved
space remains selected
Default value of a remote action parameter can now be
modified
Action parameters no longer lock and prevent binding
Copy and pasting bound assets from one Composer instance to
another no longer prohibits saving the destination project
Using Ctrl+Z to undo asset deletion no longer loses binding
relationships
Video background works again
9 crash conditions eliminated
v.4.0.1
Fixes:
Crash conditions corrected:
Various group editing scenarios, including movement of groups
from one layer to another, deletion of groups containing bound
assets, and changing visibility property of groups or assets in a
group
Movement, in the Spaces panel, of spaces containing Interface
Assets
Running Player with limited rights (e.g. in an IT-managed
domain)
Assets no longer have potential to become unresponsive in Edit
Mode
V3 licenses are new properly copied after running 4.0
auto-update
v.4.0.0
NOTE: IntuiFace Version 4.0 and IntuiFace
Presentation Version 3.x can be installed on the same machine and
run side-by-side. All spaces and assets in a Version 3.x
presentation can be copy-pasted into a Version 4.x experience. You
can also open a Version 3.x presentation directly in Version 4.0.
However, once opened in Version 4.0, experiences cannot be opened
in Version 3.x without following the procedure
outlined here.
Enhancements:
Interface
Asset for external data and API integration :
Establish real-time integration between visual assets in your
IntuiFace experience with external data and business services.
Works with Web Service APIs, C#
dll's, Microsoft
Excel and folders on your file
system.
Out of the box Interface Asset examples:
Incorporate Twitter,
Local
Weather, RSS
feed, Flickr,
QR
Code and a Simple
Counter in all of your IntuiFace experiences.
Asset
binding capability: Bind
properties, trigger
parameters and action
parameters across two or more assets. Use it to create
multi-space templates and choreographed visuals.
Group collection:
Enable collective resizing of multiple assets at the same time.
Useful for the creation of product cards and data sheets.
Text
Input Asset: Enable users of your IntuiFace
experiences to enter data that can then be passed along to 3rd
party services using the Interface Asset concept (mentioned
above).
Toggle
Button: Two-state button to complement the existing
one-state (pressed/released) button.
Item
Picker collection: Enable users to browse and select
an item from within a scrolling list.
Numerous Usability improvements:
Full graphic redesign of Composer, including improved color
scheme and layout flexibility
Enhanced Space Content panel for clear identification of nested
collection and Interface asset template designs
Simplified access to All Properties panel
Redesigned All Properties panel, including advanced capability
for “binding” and improved organization of
properties
Use of right-click menu to insert all assets &
collections
Improved, more descriptive “Check for Update”
panel
.Net 4.1 is no longer required for installation
In trial mode, the user has the option to “Continue
trial” after encountering the two minute time limit.
New properties:
"Visible to interactivity" for assets: Specify whether an asset
outside of a collection will respond to touch events. If set to
false for a given asset, then assets behind the original will
receive touch events instead.
"DPI" for documents: Specify the pixel resolution to be used
for the display of a document (pdf, pptx, docx).
"Language" for Bing Maps: Specify the label language for the
Bing Maps asset
"Keyboard" for Web Browser and Input Text assets: Choose
between either QWERTY or AZERTY onscreen keyboards. The AZERTY
keyboard enables the input of diacritic characters.
"Resize ratio for opened item" for collections: Use to specify
how large an item should be - relative to its original size - when
a copy is opened (using tap or drag-and-drop) from inside a
collection.
New triggers:
Manipulation started: Triggered the moment a non-static asset
is touched / gestured.
Manipulation ended: Triggered the moment interaction with a
non-static asset interaction is completed – i.e. when the
hand/gesture is released from the asset.
Shape-based Design Accelerator: Add rectangles and ellipses to
any space
Removal of asset size limitation: Assets are no longer limited
to a maximum size of 4k x 4k pixels.
Fixes:
"Map & Zoom Mode", useful for Web-hosted maps like Google
Maps, works on Windows 8.
The "Set Text" action no longer has potential to break
preexisting text formats.
Improved stability when editing content in the Rich Text
asset.
Copy/paste of buttons copies all associated bindings.
Flip Chart animation works when nested collections are
contained within the Flip chart
"Tapped" trigger works for thumbnails (i.e. when the property
"Show items as thumbnails" is set to true) in a collection.
Onscreen interaction with Flash assets works again.
In the Space Content panel, only spaces with associated
triggers and actions display the lightning bolt symbol.
15+ crash conditions have been corrected.
v.3.8.3
Fixes:
The Web Browser asset no longer crashes (in rare occasions)
when using the virtual keyboard.
The virtual keyboard works again in all cases with the Web
Browser asset.
The virtual keyboard is now fully visible even if the Web
Browser asset window is small.
Selection of a space in the Presentation Tree no longer crashes
Composer.
Changing an Asset Grid collection into an Asset Flow collection
no longer crashes Composer if the Asset Grid contains a Web
browser.
The “Open Item” action works again for all
collections
v.3.8.2
Enhancements:
New “Close all” action for collections. Closes all
opened collection items.
Greatly improved Composer and Player update download speeds
(following this release)
Ability for multiple users to type URLs into multiple Web
browsers simultaneously
Fixes:
Corrected presentation conversion issue involving Asset Grids
with height greater than width
Variety of stability improvements
v.3.8.1
Fixes:
Collection items displayed as thumbnails are now updated when
Replace Content function is applied to those items
Player and Composer no longer crash when a non-visible asset is
opened in a collection
Bug fixes in the white label Player
v.3.8.0
NOTE: Some of the collection types have been
renamed
Asset Browser is now the Asset Grid
Asset Conveyor is now Asset Flow
Flip Slide Show is now Flip Chart
Enhancements: Starred items (**) fulfill feature
requests submitted to our Ideas Community
For collections:
Collections can be nested inside other collections
** &
**.
Properties, behaviors, triggers and actions are now consistent
among all collections.
New Slide Show
collection, based on the Ken Burns effect. See an example at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNTiyRDhlRY
Use tap or drag-and-drop to copy any asset out of its parent
collection. You can even copy out entire collections.
Directly manipulate assets inside a collection without first
having to copy them out
Optionally use thumbnails instead of real assets when
displaying a collection to optimize performance
Uses "progressive loading" algorithm to maximize performance
and minimize memory use
Includes new Scroll into focus action, causing
an item to move into an interactive display position within a
collection
Option to show or hide the visual tooltip displayed when a
collection first becomes visible
**
Folder-based collections will reflect updates to files in that
folder both in Preview Mode and in Player (requires space
refresh)
Improved Asset Grid: Supports multiple rows and columns for
vertical and horizontal scrolling, with additional configuration
options like scroll orientation and fill direction
Timeline collection has been completely reimplemented to add
greater stability and functionality - e.g. now you can change the
visible time span using More Properties panel
Bounce visual effect complements asset flow and asset grid
Option to have more than one collection item in focus. When an
item is in focus, it becomes interactive
Optional scroll animation is available for the asset flow and
carousel
Addition of vertical/horizontal orientation parameter for the
carousel
Improved memory management for folder-based collections
Enlarged touch zone for the controls in the Flip Chart
collection
Other improvements
Copy images from any external application (e.g. PowerPoint) and
paste them into the current space
White label option: the no splash screen Player can be
customized to show any image when launched
New Toggle Visibility action for assets will
flip visibility regardless of its current state
**
New Scale to action will increase or decrease
the size of a container relative to the original container
size
Flash assets have two new properties: Autoplay
and Play loop
**
Composer and Player update downloads are faster by a factor of
4
Document asset now as a property toggling whether or not to
display the scroll indicator
**
IntuiPad updates
Increased on-screen presentation size by introducing a drawer
for remote control and annotation controls
Saves history of computers previously identified by IP address
or domain name
On-screen annotation now available for phones
Improved method for retrying communication with a remote Player
unless user explicitly cancels the retry attempt
For WinRT: Automatic discovery of running Players on a LAN.
This feature already exists for iOS and Android
Fixes:
Assets copied outside of a collection retain their properties
rather than inheriting default display properties
Assets placed in a Carousel now respect the predefined item
size
Items in the Asset Flow collection (formerly known as the Asset
Conveyor) are now properly centered
Video controls are no longer displayed when the video is in a
default or unpinned container
The Call URL action now recovers and can be recalled if the
remote server does not initially respond
Asset deletion no longer, on rare occasions, causes the entire
space to be deleted
Unnecessary lines situated above assets in a "flat-view"
Carousel are no longer displayed
Opening and closing the drawing tool now consistently turns
drawing mode on/off respectively
Visual states of layers and collections in the Space Content
panel are preserved when switching in and out of Preview
Mode
Composer/Player update window no longer steals focus from other
running applications
More than 25 crashes conditions have been corrected
v.3.7.3 (no auto-update; download using online Account
Management website)
Enhancements:
improved speed and stability of the Web Browser asset
RFID tag IDs are written to a file by Composer (in Preview
Mode) and Player
Fixes:
Corrected Web Browser asset crashes represented by the
notorious blue smiley face
v.3.7.2
(recommended upgrade for 3.7 users)
Fixes:
Fixed memory leak when using the Deep Zoom asset
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