ContentsWhat's New in 7?
Application development has been raised to a new level in AutoPlay Media Studio 7.5 with the addition of customizable dialogs. Dialogs support the same background settings, objects and events as pages do...but the options don't stop there. Dialogs have features above and beyond pages including custom sizes, multiple windows styles, and even a custom icon. Complemented by both its own "DialogEx" action category containing 21 new actions, as well as 6 additional "Application" actions, you'll surely find this powerful new feature a welcome addition to your design arsenal.
The new rich text object allows you to display rich text (.rtf) in an object. It supports background transparency as well as design-time and runtime character and paragraph formatting.
The slideshow object allows you to show a series of images in a set area. It supports automatic resizing and scaling as well as transitions between images.
The new checkbox object wraps the standard Windows checkbox control but takes it to a new level by allowing transparent background and mouse state text color changes.
The new radio button object is great for quiz and test applications. Radio buttons support transparent backgrounds and changing text color as the mouse passes over them. Radio button selection and grouping is also handled automatically.
The new grid object allows you to add spreadsheets, grids and list controls to your applications containing an extremely flexible action set.
Button objects now support multiline text. You can have multiple lines of text with word-wrap and specify custom left and right margins.
The file browsers in the product now support thumbnail view, making it much faster and easier to locate files.
The addition of the Page.Print and DialogEx.Print actions allow you to print pages and dialogs at runtime including options for whether or not to show a print dialog and whether to scale the page/dialog to fit the paper.
The new Auto-Resize options for each object allow you to control how each side of the object responds to the page or dialog being resized at runtime. This makes it very easy to have resizable applications look right at different sizes.
Specify a list of keywords associated with each page. Then at runtime use the new actions to search for keywords on pages, create an indexed table of keywords, or even show a common dialog to allow the user to perform keyword searches.
Includes many new project templates that demonstrate many of the new features in version 7.
You can now burn CD/DVD projects on Windows Vista/Windows 7 systems.
New actions, Application.GetPageProperties, Application.SetPageProperties, Application.GetDialogProperties and Application.SetDialogProperties allow you to query and modify page/dialog properties such as background colors and images dynamically at runtime.
Automatically have your applications code signed during publishing. This provides a more secure experience for users and helps make applications Windows Vista or later compliant.
Over 35 MSI actions that leverage the Windows Installer service technology on the user's system. These actions make it easy to query the state of products, features and components on the end-user's system that were installed with a Windows Installer package.
Now when you build to a Web/Email executable and turn on the Encrypt data segment option, a unique key is used to protect the data ensuring that your data cannot be decrypted using a common key.
Now when you export a project to a project template and enter instructions in the Description field of the Project Template Information dialog, the text will be displayed for the developer to read when a project is created from that template.
The new project dialog now scans the "My Documents\AutoPlay Media Studio 7.0\Templates" folder for project template files as well as the "Program Files\AutoPlay Media Studio 7.0\Templates" folder. This allows the storage and use of project templates from a per-user folder.
Added support for minimum page sizes for resizable projects. These dimensions can be entered on the Appearance tab of the Project Settings dialog.
The XML.SetValue action now has an extra parameter that allows you to specify whether the data should be written out as a CDATA section.