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ContentsWhat's New in 9?
You're going to love what we've done in AutoPlay Media Studio 9. Our goal was to improve everything you love about AutoPlay Media Studio, while pushing it fully into the realm of rapid application development (RAD).
While AutoPlay Media Studio's roots are in making beautiful interactive menus and launchers for CD-ROM and DVD-ROM applications, savvy software developers have been using it for years to rapidly prototype and build full-scale graphically rich software applications.
AutoPlay Media Studio 9 takes it to a whole other level, bringing visual WYSIWYG software development to the masses. What would take a professional programmer days or weeks to build using traditional software development tools like C, C++, Java or even Visual Basic can now be created by just about anyone in less time than you'd have ever thought possible.
While AutoPlay Media Studio is still the best tool out there for making autorun/autoplay menus, its true strength in visual programming now shines through. There’s no faster or better software development tool for combining multimedia elements like video, image, sound, music and animation with advanced business logic, database manipulation, text parsing, web interaction, data collection and graphically-rich data visualization.
You'll turn to AutoPlay Media Studio 9 over and over again to quickly create full-featured software applications. It's destined to become an indispensable part of your software development toolbox! Here’s just a taste of some of the features new to AutoPlay Media Studio 9.
AutoPlay Media Studio 9's scripting engine was updated. Since AutoPlay Media Studio 8 brought us Lua 5.1, this new release we got even more features:
| • | yieldable pcall and metamethods |
| • | new lexical scheme for globals |
| • | ephemeron tables |
| • | new library for bitwise operations |
| • | light C functions |
| • | emergency garbage collector |
| • | goto statement |
| • | finalizers for tables |
| • | integers (64-bit by default) |
| • | official support for 32-bit numbers |
| • | bitwise operators |
| • | basic utf-8 support |
| • | functions for packing and unpacking values |
A more detailed description of the new features and changes in the Lua language and API can be found online, here:
Changes from Lua 5.1 to Lua 5.2: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/readme.html#changes
Changes from Lua 5.2 to Lua 5.3: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.3/readme.html#changes
You have access to a wealth of free Lua code you can download and use in your AutoPlay Media Studio 9 projects. In most cases you simply copy the module files into your project and "require" them in your script. LuaSocket and LuaSec modules are already bundled in the product and ready for use. Other useful modules out there include Bit Operation, Date, Canvas Draw, Imaging Tool, GD, Crypto, Colors, Speech, Alien, Social (Twitter), CURL, Regular Expression Parsing and so much more. It’s a whole treasure chest of addons and tools just waiting for you!
AutoPlay Media Studio 9 now ships with an ODBC actions plugin, which can be used to allow data exchange with any local or remote database server for which a suitable driver is installed. This plugin can be used for access to any database for which no LuaSQL driver is yet available.
This actions plugin can be used, on 64-bit operating systems, to access folders controlled by the File System Redirector and to read and write registry keys that are subject to Registry Redirection. These functions can also be used on 32-bit operating systems.
Action Plugins and Object Plugins are one of the best features of AutoPlay Media Studio. They allow 3rd party software developers to extend and expand the product in an extremely integrated and seamless fashion. By simply dropping a plugin into your project, you can easily save yourself hours of work and add significant functionality to your application. The great news is that with AutoPlay Media Studio 9, plugin developers can now fully leverage the advantages of the Lua 5.3 language. The Plugin SDK v3 is available for free download on the indigorose.com website.
Hundreds of other changes have made their way into AutoPlay Media Studio 9. Some visible, some hidden deep within the core… All of them designed to make AutoPlay Media Studio 9 your "go to" tool when you’re on a deadline and need to create graphically rich interactive software applications.
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