IntuiFace Composer Changelog

What's new in IntuiFace Composer 6.2.4 Build 197

Jun 21, 2018

Fixes:
Fixed an isolated issue preventing the Flip Chart Collection from rendering content accessed via a datafeed.
Web Browser Asset – “Clear cache” action was renamed to “Clear cookies”. Take a guess as to why..... Yep, that's right, all it does is clear the cookies. – Fixed a case where the virtual keyboard was not displayed when touching text input fields on a webpage.
Improved the clarity of descriptions associated with scene-to-scene navigation actions. The original descriptions even confused us.
"Drag and Drop” triggers for items nested in the Flip Chart Collection are now displayed in the Triggers and Actions panel. Conversely, we removed "Drag and Drop" triggers from the Triggers and Actions panel for items nested in the Slide Show and Map collections. (These items never could be drag and dropped so displaying these actions was a bold-faced lie.)
Fixed an issue preventing (in some cases) the correct behavior of the “Play last experience” option set in the Share and Deploy Console. (If you must know, we had been putting the configuration file in a temp folder, so that file was occasionally cleaned by the OS or third party tools. We've moved the file to a safehouse.)
Fonts used in Experience Layers are now correctly embedded in the experience.
Eliminated several crash conditions.

New in IntuiFace Composer 6.2.3 Build 195 (Jun 6, 2018)

New in IntuiFace Composer 6.2.2 Build 193 (May 23, 2018)

New in IntuiFace Composer 6.2.1 Build 191 (Apr 17, 2018)

New in IntuiFace Composer 6.2.0 Build 188 (Apr 12, 2018)

Enhancements:
Sparkling new Web Triggers API. Why should you care?
Out of the box IFTTT support. With IFTTT Applets, your favorite Internet-connected apps, services & devices can talk to IntuiFace. Hey Alexa, tell my IntuiFace experience to display the message "Geoff is the best". Who's Geoff? He's the best!
Out of the box Zapier support. With Zapier Zaps, the third-party Internet-connected apps, services & devices you use at work can talk to IntuiFace. Every time I receive an email with "popcorn" in the subject line, tell my IntuiFace experience it's time to play a video of popcorn in a pot.
If it's not on the IFTTT or Zapier list, third party Internet connected apps/services/devices can talk to IntuiFace through the Web Triggers API. It'll take just the littlest bit of coding on your part. Hey, we can't do everything for you!
Our "External Triggers" support has been renamed to Local Network Triggers to differentiate it from IntuiFace's new Web Triggers support. The underlying APIs are identical but Local Network Triggers target a single, local instance of a Player/experience while Web Triggers can be broadcast to any number of Players/experiences anywhere on the network.
Improved 3D Model support
Four light configuration options: hemisphere, three points, camera, model. How do you know a 3D model expert from a novice? The expert knows what the heck is the difference between those four modes. Oh, and you can also change light color and intensity for each option.
Option to override the default model orientation. Come to think of it, fashion models are also 3D models... Maybe we need to be more specific.
Addition of a "trackball" interaction mode, supplementing the existing Orbit, Pan and None modes. With trackball mode, the 3D model can be rotated through all three X,Y,Z axes without constraint. Ironically, IntuiFace has no trackball support. That's ok, just use a finger.
Faster, more fully featured Experiences panel
In both Composer and Player for Windows, all tabs in the Experiences panel loads significantly faster, no matter how many experiences are listed. We've seen some folks with 200+ experiences and, yeah, it got a bit creaky. Not any more!
A search box is now available on all Experiences panel tabs. It doesn't do anything, it just says "Search".... Ok, I'm kidding. It'll search.
When a newer version of an experience is available in the cloud, the default action - when tapping an experience in the Experiences panel - has been changed to downloading the updated version.
Publishing in Composer no longer includes a display of the Experience panel. It was a distraction and not necessary.
Licensed Player for Windows no longer includes the Marketplace tab in the Experience Panel. Some of you requested this and it makes sense. Why display non-work content in paid Player?
Better Composer license management
You now have fine-grained control over what to do with a Composer license when exiting Composer
Choose whether a license should be retained or released on exit
Composer is smart enough to bring back a released license if it hasn't been claimed, eliminating the need to log back in. Can't remember your password, can you? See, we thought so. Good thing we have this feature!
Credential Key management
Keys give the key holder permission to access IntuiFace account-specific data and capability
Keys are available for each of the following services
Data Tracking (for retrieving collected data points via a REST API)
Web Triggers
IFTTT
Zapier
Web Triggers API
Hands-free Licensing
Multiple keys can be created for each service/capability, enabling you to individually control the access level for multiple colleagues/clients
Enhanced REST Web API support
REST "start request", REST "success" and REST "errors" can trigger actions. For example, you may decide not to refresh visual data if an error has occurred.
An automatic refresh option - and a refresh rate - is available for all REST interface assets. This way, you won't have to set timers anymore. Timers are out, refresh rates are in. Timers, they are a-changing.
Complex JSON bodies for POST request are supported. But don't be fooled. They seem complex on the outside but inside they just want to be loved.
Other improvements
The "Go to scene" action can now be assigned a scene name via binding. This has been a user request for a couple of years now, the ability to assign a destination scene on the fly. Now that we've delivered it, feeling a little lost? It's tough getting everything you want.
"Current scene name" is now available as a read-only property of the overall experience.
Interface asset triggers can be constrained to specified scenes. For example, "This interface asset trigger should only fire if the active scene is Scene 5". This is actually a big help as you're essentially using global triggers in local ways.
"Delete all rows" action is available for the Excel interface asset
The "Experience Started" and "Experience Stopped" data points are now optional and thus can be disabled when using the data tracking feature. It's only two data points so this isn't a big deal in the scheme of things but a couple of you asked for this and, well, why not?
Exposure of touch point coordinates relative to all types of interaction. "Is tapped", "Is double-tapped", "Is manipulated", "Starts to be manipulated", "Drag is initiated", "Is dragged away from", "Is dragged over", and "Is dropped on" triggers generate read-only properties representing X,Y coordinates of the touch relative to the item itself, to the parent collection, to the scene, and to the overall display. Formerly, the only coordinates generated were for the overall display. Now you have much greater control over the appearance of content relative to the touch point.
Pricing changes:
Cost of Perpetual Player for Windows is now 600
Minimum Player license volume for a volume discount is now 16
We talk about these changes in our online library. See here
Fixes:
In some rare case, cloned devices could not be distinguished in the Share & Deploy console, preventing the remote management Player and the deployment of an experience onto a specific device. This has been fixed.
Sometimes an attempt to use the Share & Deploy console to upgrade a Player in the process of uploading data points would fail. Corrected.
More than 20 minors bugs and usability issues are goners.

New in IntuiFace Composer 6.1.7 Build 187 (Mar 8, 2018)

New in IntuiFace Composer 6.1.6 Build 182 (Feb 21, 2018)

New in IntuiFace Composer 6.1.5 Build 181 (Jan 26, 2018)

New in IntuiFace Composer 6.1.3 Build 178 (Jan 8, 2018)

New in IntuiFace Composer 6.1.2 Build 177 (Dec 7, 2017)

New in IntuiFace Composer 6.1.1 Build 167 (Nov 25, 2017)

New in IntuiFace Composer 6.1.0 Build 163 (Nov 14, 2017)

Enhancements:
Major update to Web Browser Asset on Windows:
Jumps embedded Web rendering engine to Chrome 55, enabling support of the latest in HTML5, JavaScript and WebGL. You guys know Chrome 55. Yeah, that was a great version....
Takes advantage of GPU acceleration to achieve 3D Model and video performance parity with the stand-alone Chrome browser. Our goal: eliminating calls into support saying "But it's faster in Chrome!"
Built-in touch management improves gesture recognition and eliminates needs for the old "Interaction Mode" property. You will NOT miss this property.
Natively supports audio (MP3, AAC) and video (H.264, MPEG-4) codecs. All videos should work now in the Web Browser Asset.
More than 15 existing Web browser issues were also solved. We're mentioning this in the Enhancements section to make it look like there haven't been any bugs.
Overhaul of 3D Model Asset across all Player platforms:
We've started over with a brand new 3D engine, using developer favorite three.js. Not a developer? If you were, you'd love three.js. Great personality.
Orders of magnitude increase in facet count support with better performance than in earlier releases of IntuiFace. We've increased our recommended facet limit per scene from 10k to 200k+
Added new properties for auto-rotation, the addition of camera constraints, and selection between camera rotation and pan modes.
Supports all popular 3D model formats and quite a few more niche formats. You and your niche formats. What makes you so special?
More than 5 existing 3D Model Asset issues were solved too. Ditto as with the Web Browser asset -> hiding bug fixes in the Enhancements section.
New HTML Asset for all Player platforms:
Display CSS-enabled HTML content directly within IntuiFace, no Web Browser required. This is your back door to adding capability where IntuiFace lacks it.
Incorporate any Web component simply by pasting its embed code. Everything from YouTube and Google Calendar to Facebook and user-developed collections. You hear that? That's the sound of crazy yhappy applause. Really. We've had a bunch of customers ask for this.
Also acts as a powerful alternative to the Rich Text Asset for displaying HTML-formatted text.
Incorporated within API Explorer to improve the representation of HTML-formatted content. API Explorer just gets better and better.
Enhanced drawing tools on Windows:
New eraser options: three spot erasers, total line erase and erase all
Ability to undo each drawn line, one line at a time backwards into history
The ability to draw backwards ... ok, just kidding. Not even sure what that means.
Additional improvements:
Accelerated project open and project save times, especially when using the Excel Interface Asset with a multi-tabbed spreadsheet. Our customers are getting more advanced so we have to adapt.
New triggers for the System Information Interface Asset indicating when a device goes online or offline. This has been a super popular request because it enables your experience to react to the loss of an Internet connection and do something about it.
New Map Collection properties to constrain navigation with a particular geographic area.
New variant of Player for Tablets on Android - a protected Player - that hides all soft buttons. Think of it as a semi-kiosk mode. We have no way of disabling hardware buttons but you can purchase Android devices without physical buttons - or enclosures that cover buttons - to do that.
New Composer and enhanced Player Settings panels:
Composer and Player for Windows: Specify GPU and framerate preferences for 3D model and Web-based video performance
Player for Tablets: Disable shake-to-quit behavior on Android tablets.
Fixes:
The snapshot for published experiences in the Share and Deploy console are now consistently accurate. How that picture of Geoff Bessin get in there?
Ability for secondary accounts to automatically check out Composer licenses owned by their primary account now correctly works with Premier-level primary accounts, not just Enterprise-level
When canceling a publish activity and then restarting the publish process, the error 6405 will no longer occur. But really, this error is your fault because, I mean, make up your mind!
Fixed heavy CPU use by Composer and Player for Windows when disconnecting the PC the from the network
6 other minor issues and 5 crash conditions were corrected

New in IntuiFace Composer 6.0.7 Build 162 (Oct 6, 2017)

New in IntuiFace Composer 6.0.6 Build 161 (Sep 14, 2017)

New in IntuiFace Composer 6.0.5 Build 159 (Aug 30, 2017)

Fixes:
Two memory leaks were eliminated. These things are the worst. We hate them as much as you.
These happen:
When changing the current scene with the action "Go to scene”.
When switching between Composer's Edit Mode and Play Mode - or restarting Player - for an experience containing Toggle Buttons sets
Some crash conditions were eliminated. These are all edge cases (i.e. super rare) so we hate them too but most of you wouldn't have seen them anyway. ◾Player no longer freezes if you frequently, quickly navigate from one scene to another without transition animation.
What's the hurry:
The use of experience layer triggers involving a deleted scene caused a crash and project file corruption. It was a mess and now it's fixed.
4 other crash conditions were corrected. They're just too far in the weeds to describe so just rest easy in the knowledge that the product has gotten better.
Others:
"Go to scene" action had stopped working when no transition animation is applied. That's ridiculous so we got it working again.
Accented characters perviously missing from the IntuiFace onscreen keyboard - Áá Éé Íí Óó Úú Ćć Ńń - can now be entered by typing ‘ before the corresponding letter. Sórry!
Player for Windows will no longer bother you with a crash report window. Not that it ever crashes. But if it did, and we're not saying it does, and you wanted to see the crash report, we've also given you a way to turn it on.
Image buttons would fail to display an image if their text value was assigned a font whose copyright prevented IntuiFace's ability to embed it in an experience. Now we find an acceptable, installed font alternative to ensure the image is displayed. Why show an image and text at the same time in the same button? A good question, says this writer of the release notes. But we permit it so there shouldn't be any problems.
We've corrected an issue involving experience deletion when the corresponding project's .ifx file was moved out of its typical folder. The result was accidental deletion of non-project files. We're only telling you this to be complete because, really, leave the project file structure alone!

New in IntuiFace Composer 6.0.4 Build 157 (Jul 17, 2017)

New in IntuiFace Composer 6.0.3 Build 152 (Jun 22, 2017)

New in IntuiFace Composer 6.0.2 Build 144 (Jun 10, 2017)

New in IntuiFace Composer 6.0.1 Build 131 (Jun 8, 2017)

New in IntuiFace Composer 6.0.0 Build 118 (May 30, 2017)

New Features:
Experience layers, experience triggers and experience background: No, we didn't mean lions, tigers and bears. We're talking about some of the most frequently requested features for IntuiFace. The wait is over!
API Explorer: Create dynamic connections to any REST-based Web Service without writing a line of code. Wait! You don't think this applies to you? There are tens of thousands of APIs out there waiting to give you their amazing content for free, plus your company probably has its own digitized archives and/or content management systems. This thing is a game changer.
X-Ray: A quick and simple view of all properties, triggers and actions for any interface asset. They can't hide from us now!
Design assistant: Combines a machine learning engine that anticipates optimal designs for collections with quick-change dialog to swap collection styles.
Simplified external triggering: We've made it much easier for any device outside of IntuiFace to let a running experience know when something important has happened.
Shared licensing, packaging and pricing: It's been five years so it's time. Biggest news of all might be that all subscription licenses now support unlimited transfers. Large teams may need only a small number of licenses.
Enhancements:
Composer and Player for Windows are with a 64-bit architecture. This update should just about eliminate memory issues and could help performance. Plus who doesn't like more bits?
Completely revised Share and Deploy console. Every Management Console did but better, faster and with more features.
Lots of performance optimization in both Composer and Player thanks to smart people beating up on weak code.
Max size for multi-screen experiences is now 20k x 20k pixels. Show off.
The Phidgets RFID interface asset now ships with Composer. No, we don't mean those spinners kids are using to annoy their teachers. It's the other kind.
All Composer messages and popups were given a facelift. Stylish. Dare we say, sexier.
Brand new Composer and Player for Windows installer.
Web Browser asset has a new property to force the display of scrollbars. For a small number of websites, this is necessary to make them work.
Fixes:
Composer and Player for Windows no longer get stuck in some annoying loop if you lock and then unlock your Windows session.
6 undo/redo issues were fixed. Sounds minor until this issues affect you!
20+ minor bugs and usability issues corrected.
6 Composer crashes conditions eliminated. NOTE: Most are only solved in the 64-bit version. We needed those bits!
Limitations:
Our out-of-the-box support for RFID tags are only available in the 32-bit version of Composer and Player for Windows. Take a look at our super-simple external triggering mechanism instead.
The legacy Web rendering engine - Awesomium - was removed. In some rare cases, this may introduce behavior or rendering differences so if you used the "legacy" option, check your website.
Visual tags are no longer supported. Don't worry, you weren't using this feature.
Reminder: Dropbox support will be eliminated as an experience publishing option on 28-June. For details, see this article.

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.7.5 (Apr 6, 2017)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.7.0.8 (Nov 3, 2016)

ENHANCEMENTS:
Scroll Collection: Place assets and collections on a large canvas visible through a window. Move the canvas in any direction with swipe or mouse gestures, revealing different parts of the canvas within the window. It's the microwave of IntuiFace: you didn't know how much you needed it until you tried it.
Toggle Button sets: Enhancement of the Toggle Button control, automatically permitting one and only one Toggle Button within a set of buttons to be checked. Yes, show-off, it's like a radio button.
Speech Recognition Interface Asset: (Windows only) Use the spoken word as a trigger for one or more actions. Supports 26 different languages. "IntuiFace, make me dinner!"
Google Analytics Connector: Automatically load data points collected by the data tracking feature of IntuiFace into any one or more of your Google Analytics properties. -"Change language" action: (Windows only) Change the keyboard language to any of the 30+ languages supported. You'll find this action next to the "Call URL" and "Launch application" actions for the "Overall experience" in the Triggers & Actions panel.
Speaking of the "Launch Application" and "Call URL" actions, their parameters can now be derived from an external source via binding. No more being limited to hard coding it at design time.
"Display loading images" property of all ordered Collections determines whether or not items in the process of loading should be represented visually.
Chronometer Interface Asset can be started from a specific time instead of always from 0.
Custom .NET interface assets can write to the Composer/Player trace.log file for debug purposes.
"About" panel of Composer and Player displays renewal and expiration dates for subscription and perpetual licenses
Additional small usability enhancements you won't notice but will subconsciously love.
FIXES:
"Reaches percentage" trigger of the Scratch Card Design Accelerator will correctly fire only once.
"Moved into focus" trigger works again for the Slide Show Collection
“Next" and "Previous” actions are now working for the Slide Show Collection
Additional minor bugs or usability enhancement
crash conditions have been eliminated. We've crashed the crashes

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.6.5.435 (Oct 21, 2016)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.6.4.432 (Sep 20, 2016)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.6.3.407 (Aug 31, 2016)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.6.2.269 (Aug 17, 2016)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.6.0.345 (Aug 10, 2016)

ENHANCEMENTS:
Transparent video support: (Windows only) Play videos containing an alpha channel - i.e. transparent videos. Specific formats are required; see here for guidelines. Or did we make those guidelines transparent……
Transparent experience backgrounds: (Windows only) A mind blower. Show third party apps running behind Player and even enable users to interact with both IntuiFace and third party apps at the same time. Also referred to as a transparent Player, you're not going to believe your eyes.
"Fill behavior" property: Permits greater control over how images, videos, webcams and image buttons are displayed within their container. Options include fit, fill and deform. You can read about them here
Animated GIF support: Animated GIFs (with or without transparency) are hip again and IntuiFace is as cool as a cucumber so they make a great pair. Show your favorite animated GIFs in IntuiFace.
"Enclose" binding converter: Added in response to numerous requests. An addition to the Text Manipulation family of converters, the "Enclose" converter is used to place specified text both before and after input text.
"Scroll offset" property: For Asset Grid collections, this new property reflects the number of pixels through with an Asset Grid has been scrolled. With it you can synchronize - via binding - the scrolling of multiple Asset Grids at the same time.
Composer launch performance: We've tweaked some aspects of Composer that enable it to start 50% faster than it has in the past. Who doesn’t love faster?
Improved Excel support for Play Mode: When Play Mode is set to use "Player for Tablets/Kiosks" - described here - the Excel interface asset actions "Add row" and "Update cell" are now available
Increased size of IntuiFace Cloud Storage: 3GB for Composer Free, 10GB for Composer Pro, 30GB for Composer Enterprise.
FIXES:
They're all minor / edge cases so we'll be mysterious about them, keeping our relationship with you fresh.
Eliminated edge case where collected data points - for the Data Tracking feature - would not be uploaded to the Data Tracking Hub
other bug corrections
usability updates
crash conditions eliminated
OTHER:
Terms & Conditions: Added clause expressing IntuiLab's ability to change any posted price after 15 days notice.

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.5.2.269 (Jul 6, 2016)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.5.1.242 (Jun 17, 2016)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.5.0.233 (Jun 8, 2016)

Enhancements:
The Hide and Show actions can apply the opposite effect to all other items in the same layer or same Group/Pinboard collection
Use the new Move to front and Send to back actions to change the visual stacking of items on-screen. (In Composer's Edit Mode you can also move things in the scene to the front or back of their layer/Group/Pinboard using the right-click menu.) Call it 'z order' to impress your friends.
Webcam asset permits camera selection (if more than one is available) and resolution (320x240, 640x480 or best available for the webcam)
Ability to disable the next and previous swipe gestures of the Flip Chart collection. The old method was to yell "Darn!" and swipe back to the original item.
Improved organization of the Triggers and Actions panel - as well as of the binding panel - should make it a lot easier for all of you who don't read manuals to figure out how to work with triggers, actions and binding.
8 additional, minor usability enhancements
Fixes:
Improved text rendering in Text assets and Buttons when using line wrap, justify, & margins (in Buttons) and when text contains multiple consecutive space characters.
YouTube asset no longer displays YouTube's 'similar videos' selector when the active video is finished. It's none of your audience's business!
“Clear column filter” action for Excel works again
Binding for output of the Linear Converter interface asset works again. Congrats to those who noticed!
Keyboard 'Close' button is again properly displayed
X, Y and Z coordinates of a manipulated 3D Model asset are now the same during Edit Mode and Play Mode in Composer
Rounded, translucent rectangle displayed in the background of a Video asset is no longer displayed when starting a video. We were displaying the Play button to be helpful but it was kind of obvious that the video was playing.
An orange veil is no longer displayed in Composer's Edit Mode in the scene over Text assets and Buttons when their content is bound. The veil is only displayed when clicking on these assets to edit their content.
On Windows running .NET Framework v.4.6 or v.4.6.1: If Player is launched while the touchscreen is off / not connected, touch events will again work after the touchscreen is connected / turned on.
NOTE: In Player for Windows, to get access to the mouse after touching the screen, the user must right-click once
When drag-and-dropping PowerPoint projects onto Composer, you will now be warned by a popup message that all running instances of PowerPoint will be killed if import proceeds. (PowerPoint will not be killed if using Composer's formal import function.)
12 additional minor bug fixes.
6 crash conditions were corrected.
Also:
We've discontinued our Instagram support. For information, see this posting in our User Community.

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.4.1.113 (May 20, 2016)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.4.0.87 (Apr 27, 2016)

Enhancements:
Design for accessibility, because 1 in 7 people worldwide possess some kind of disability
Text-to-speech: Generate speech for both static and dynamic text. (Windows only) You should check it out; you’re a bit of a mumbler.
Keyboard triggers: Key presses can act as triggers for any IntuiFace actions. For example, use arrow keys for navigation. The keyboard is no longer just a pretty face.
Gestures for static assets: Any onscreen gesture initiated on a static asset can act as a trigger for any IntuiFace actions. Don’t overdo it or it’ll look like you’re massaging the screen.
Support for beacons using the iBeacon™ and Eddystone™ protocols. Why care? It means your experiences can know what is brought near them; you can then do something about it.
Application notification (i.e. beacon detection): Capture unique ID of any beacon brought near a running experience and use that ID to trigger specific actions, show specific data, etc. This is very cool stuff.
Proximity detection: Like application notification but trigger occurs only if the beacon is moved a specified distance from the running experience. For example, show information for items lifted away from a shelf. Freak out your guests!
URL broadcast: Running IntuiFace experiences act like Eddystone-URL beacons, broadcasting URLs for user-selected items. These URLs can be picked up by any mobile device supporting Eddystone-URL - e.g. Android tablets. Broadcasting is available on Windows only. Sorry other platforms!
New value converters for binding. However, still no way to turn lead into gold….
Is Equal To: Compares two values and returns true or false. Found in the list of Math & Logic binding converters. It’s nice to get a black-and-white answer once in a while.
URL Shortener: Converts any URL into a 16 character URL. Very useful for the URL broadcast feature mentioned above. They’re also cute.
Default Web browser asset now stores cookies as files, enabling continuity between multiple Player sessions. We’ll never forget you!
Major performance improvements in Player for Tablets on the iPad. We’re squeezing every drop out of that stingy platform.
Fixes:
Fixed a memory leak related to JavaScript-based interface assets and binding converters. IntuiFace Player will be much more stable when IAs and converters are used. Nobody likes leakage!
Experiences in portrait mode have now correct thumbnails in Composer and on Management Console. (We’ve also put portraits in experience mode…. Ok, not really.)
"Allow navigation" property of the Web Browser asset works again. We told it to get a job!
Many smaller usability corrections. Can you live with the mystery?
Four crash conditions have been eliminated. Gangster-style.

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.3.3.76 (Apr 2, 2016)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.3.2.72 (Mar 19, 2016)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.3.1.45 (Mar 5, 2016)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.3.0.17 (Feb 17, 2016)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.2.6.250 (Feb 8, 2016)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.2.6.250 (Jan 15, 2016)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.2.5.226 (Jan 9, 2016)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.2.1.123 (Nov 27, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.2.0.97 (Nov 20, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.1.4.140 (Nov 17, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.1.3.140 (Oct 31, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.1.2.126 (Oct 13, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.1.1.109 (Oct 7, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.1.0.102 (Sep 24, 2015)

ENHACEMENTS:
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:
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.

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.0.5.383 (Sep 20, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.0.4.354 (Aug 14, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.0.3.339 (Aug 7, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.0.2.308 (Jul 29, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.0.1.272 (Jul 28, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 5.0.0 (Jul 28, 2015)

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

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.8.7.455 (Jun 29, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.8.6.445 (Jun 11, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.8.5.420 (May 18, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.8.4.382 (Apr 28, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.8.3.334 (Apr 8, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.8.2.290 (Mar 24, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.8.1.234 (Mar 3, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.8.0.195 (Feb 13, 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
"Remove row" action for the Excel Interface Asset
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

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.7.7.305 (Feb 10, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.7.6.302 (Jan 27, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.7.5.292 (Jan 13, 2015)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.7.4.275 (Dec 16, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.7.3.250 (Nov 28, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.7.2.236 (Nov 21, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.7.1.189 (Nov 11, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.7.0.169 (Oct 30, 2014)

Enhancements:
Signage-inspired deployment capabilities in Management Console
Tag Players (Windows, iPad and Android) and filter devices by tags for group functions like deploy, reboot and analytics download
Monitor running experiences in Players for iPad and Android (already possible with Player for Windows)
(Windows only) Restart Player and/or reboot Windows PCs running Player
(Windows only) Configure Player(s) to automatically restart and play the last run experience in case of PC reboot
(Windows only) Upgrade Player to a new version (won't work with Player Version 4.6 or earlier)
Additional deployment improvements:
Publish to and deploy from both Internet and LAN-based FTP storage. This complements existing cloud storage support for Box, DropBox and Amazon S3
(Composer Enterprise required) Toggle whether or not to the automated notification email should be sent when sharing experiences
(Composer Enterprise required) Hands-free licensing for large scale installations of Player through use of a ghost image
Photoshop support:
Drag-and-drop Photoshop psd documents directly into Composer for automatic image conversion and import. Every tagged layer and group is transformed into an image.
Drag-and-drop of revised psd files will result in updates of only changed content.
New Video asset:
VLC-based Video assets support significantly increased number of file-based video codecs, including mpeg, avi, mkv, and mov (aka QuickTime)
Also includes extended list of supported streaming video formats
Video playback performance is also greatly improved
Map collection enhancements:
New Set coordinates action for moving items within a map
New Tap and Double-tap triggers capture the touchpoint's latitude and longitude for use as action parameters
Enhancements to the Basic Shapes design accelerator (applies to both ellipse and rectangle):
New actions: Set fill color, border thickness, border color and curvature of rectangle corners (aka radius)
Support Tap and Double-tap triggers
New assets and collections:
(Windows only) New Webcam asset. Display live feed coming from PC-connected webcam. Capture screenshots for post-processing (e.g use of drawing tools) and sharing via email or saving to a local file.
(Windows only) New Helix collection. Present items in an interactive DNA-like spiral. Like the Carousel collection, the Helix is endless. It can rotate automatically or respond to user touches.
Scheduler interface asset:
Specify dates and times for triggering events
Supports use of Cron expressions
Optionally enables use of UTC to coordinate actions across geographies
Analytics interface asset:
Collect usage info from an experience and store it in cloud-hosted, IntuiLab-managed database
Logged information is aggregated across even the largest multi-device deployment
Download logged information to an Excel file using Management Console
(Composer Enterprise required) Pre-filter dataset before download and access the past 365 days of collected data. Free and Pro Edition have access to one day of data.
(Composer Enterprise required) Download logged data to an XML-based dataset via REST-based query. Useful for generating dynamic queries that will be used by third party analytics software.
Additional new interface assets:
Address to Coordinates / Coordinates to Address: Uses Google Maps API to convert addresses into latitude/longitude coordinates or vice versa.
Comparison: Compares two text strings or numbers. Set triggers that call events when the comparison is true.
Text Manipulation: Combine two text strings, extract a substring or replace one substring with another.
Usability improvements:
Redesign of New Project panel
Composer now asks whether to duplicate or replace media when re-importing that corresponding file into an experience
Improved 3D model conversion tool - converting 3ds, obj and dae into XAML
The Change content action now has a content selector.
Improved filters in the Content Library
Empty collections display "ghost assets" that reflect the visual structure of the collection
Assets in a scene can now be drag directly into collections
The listing of container styles in the quick access Properties panel are now display short animated tooltips
Main properties of the rectangle and ellipse are now accessible in the Properties panel
Font selector for Text and Rich Text assets now contains previews of each font
Increased, from four to six, the number of properties available in the quick access Properties panel for interface assets
Improved search in the Design Accelerators panel
Items in the Triggers and Actions panel can be used to open either the trigger or the action depending upon where they are clicked
Height and width of Composer Panels, plus filter and sort settings, are saved as user preferences for each project
Enhanced feedback when editing a collection
Bindings are now exhibited for all visible Text asset properties in the quick access Properties panel.
More than 25 other usability enhancements
Improved performance and memory footprint:
Reduced memory footprint of pdf-based Document assets
Better memory management for JavaScript-based interface assets
New sample experiences available for download:
Self-Service Photo Booth: (Windows only) Includes Webcam asset and Helix collection
Photo Exhibition: Formatted for Android. Includes use of Excel.
Real Estate Property Search: Includes Address to Coordinate interface asset and a custom REST-based interface asset for the Zoopla property search website
Fixes:
REST-based interface assets now send requests even when optional parameters are not set
The ESC key on a physical keyboard again exits a running experience in Player and Composer in Play Mode
Memory leak in animations has been fixed
Map collection no longer uses a different centerpoint when entering Composer's Play Mode or first running in Player
Images in Image Buttons are now resized even when the button size is smaller than 30 pixels
Carousel and Asset Flow collections now scroll to a specified index when triggered by a timer shorter than 3 seconds
Accelerated creation of new projects on a Windows PC with hundreds of installed fonts
Number Generator interface asset can now generate a value equivalent to the upper limit
In case of a low level crash, Player no longer displays the Microsoft crash window. Player just restarts automatically and plays the last run experience.
15+ additional fixes, including various crash conditions

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.6.4.310 (Sep 11, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.6.3.265 (Aug 19, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.6.2.246 (Jul 31, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.6.1.218 (Jul 25, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.6.0.201 (Jul 23, 2014)

Enhancements:
Support for drag-and-drop behavior. Both drag and drag-and-drop events now act as triggers for any IntuiFace action.
Collaboration and Team Management capabilities (for Composer Enterprise customers):
Share an experience as play-only. Permits only Play Mode; the recipient cannot view experiences in Composer's Edit Mode.
Share an experience with Write privileges. Permits collaboration with published experiences. Changes overwrite the original.
Temporarily loan subscription licenses and permanently transfer perpetual licenses with other IntuiFace accounts.
Create secondary accounts to achieve fine grained control over license and experience sharing. Useful when juggling multiple projects and/or multiple users with unique needs and sharing rights.
Create your own Design Accelerators to capture and save templates and frequently used components.
Multiple Player for iPad improvements
Ability to logout of Composer. Makes it possible to have multiple users and multiple licenses on the same PC. Also simplifies use of floating licenses.
Global variable support, making values accessible across spaces.
New graphic effects: hue rotation and brightness
Fonts used in Simple Text asset are saved as part of the experience. No need to preinstall fonts separately. Works on both Windows and the iPad.
New value-themed interface assets including random number generator, random from list and a linear scale converter.
Usability improvements:
Content Library displays resizable thumbnails for all imported media.
Built-in text-based search for the Content Library and Design Accelerators panel.
All possible copy/paste scenarios are now supported whether occurring within one experience or between two or more instances of Composer running on the same PC
Content within Group collections now resizes when the Group is resized while in Edit Mode.
Separation of owned experiences from those shared with you in Composer/Player Experiences panel.
Improved state icons for published and shared experiences.
Multiple usability tweaks including streamlined content import, simpler space creation, more user-friendly background color for new spaces, trigger preselection and much more.
Replacement of REST-based Philips hue interface asset with more robust JavaScript version.
Improved feature set for Free Edition. Free Edition users can now use Kinect, Leap Motion and Excel filter/sort/add item.
Fixes:
Navigation buttons in the Web Browser asset continue to work when webpage is zoomed greater than 100%
Reduced memory usage for documents (Both pdf and Office) with many pages.
Eliminated memory leaks and performance issue linked to use of the animation timeline.
Elimination of GDI leak in the Web Browser asset, thereby correcting many crash conditions. (Fix was released in IntuiFace 4.5.5 but we thought it worth mentioning again.)
Correction of 6 other crash conditions.

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.5.5.602 (Jul 8, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.5.4.592 (Jun 24, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.5.3.549 (Jun 11, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.5.2.500 (May 27, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.5.1.463 (May 16, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.5.0.412 (Apr 30, 2014)

Enhancements:
Animation:
Move, rotate, blur, scale and much more for any asset or collection.
Includes multiple animation profiles: linear, ease-in/ease-out, ease-in, ease-out, bounce.
Timeline enables choreography of multiple animation actions launched by the same trigger
Preview button runs animation while in Composer's Edit Mode
Multiple configuration options to fine tune speed, frequency and timing
Publish experiences:
One-click functionality in Composer
Use your own - or your company's - Box, DropBox or Amazon S3 cloud storage account.
Differential upload ensures faster publishing on subsequent attemps
Share published experiences:
Accessed online through Management Console.
Just list email addresses and click the Share button.
Composer's Experiences Panel flags all shared experiences waiting for download.
Share images, videos, documents, audio files - and annotated images and spaces
More flexible and functional Share via USB Drive interface asset replaces existing USB control
New Share via File System interface asset makes it possible to save media to any locally accessible file system, including networked drives.
New Email interface asset let's you send media as email attachments. See next feature.
Native email support:
Hosted option offers a free email service supplied by IntuiLab.
Configurable option works with any SMTP server.
Both options accept one or more attachments as well as fully customizable To, From and Body fields.
New visual effects for all assets and collections:
Blur
Sepia
Grayscale
Licensing and Pricing improvements:
Perpetual Enterprise Composer licenses with active MSU entitlement now float.
New subscription White Label Player license for Enterprise Edition customers. See our pricing page.
50% cost reduction for the annual Composer Enterprise license.
Addition of JavaScript as a supported protocol for Internet Assets:
Complements IntuiFace's REST support as a way to introduce cross-platform - i.e. bothiPad and Windows - capability.
Includes a Javascript rewrite of Composer's out-of-the-box Counter and Time interface assets, making them usable with Player for iPad.
Assets can now be placed fully outside a space, particularly useful for animation
Improvements to Composer’s Experience Panel (formerly known as the Startup panel), including built-in publish and share notification capabilities.
In Edit Mode, the selection lasso (i.e. left-click+hold and drag) works even if initiated outside the bounds of a space.
Improved organization of Interface Assets (IA) in the IA panel
Multi-asset/collection selection is possible in the Actions section of the Triggers & Actions panel.
Additional parameters are now accessible in the Properties panel:
All major asset and collections properties are now displayed.
If applicable, the binding indicator is displayed.
Harmonization between Text and Rich Text asset properties.
New Scratch Card asset, located in the Design Accelerators panel.
Inactivity Timer now accepts values via binding.
Improved speed of exit from Composer's Play Mode.
ifx backup file created when upgrading to new version of Composer is now labeled with the older Composer version number.
Fixes:
Eliminated memory leak linked to switching between spaces.
Leap Motion and Kinect support works again in all circumstances.
"Create asset" action correctly accepts a URL.
When importing a PowerPoint presentation, slides are now correctly organized in the “Home” space.
When selecting an asset in the Space Content panel, its border is displayed when located within an Asset Flow or Asset Grid.
Fixes crashes related to the Timeline collection.
Actions “Change drawing” and “Change stroke” work again.
Action “Scroll to” applied to an Asset Flow collection now scrolls to the correct index position.
When referencing external media, the Excel IA now accepts absolute paths containing spaces.
z-order of elements is now maintained after grouping them.

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.5.0.249 Beta (Apr 18, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.3.8.266 (Mar 25, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.3.7.221 (Mar 3, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.3.6.201 (Feb 14, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.3.5.168 (Jan 31, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.3.4 (Jan 31, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.3.3.97 (Jan 4, 2014)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.3.2.87 (Dec 21, 2013)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.3.1.78 (Dec 19, 2013)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.3.0.55 (Dec 13, 2013)

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 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 left of Composer and immediately adjacent to the Content Library.
Brand new, downloadable accelerator bundles like animated menus and linear gauges
Download and install intuilab new Design Accelerators directly from the 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 shared and thus editable in a multi-selection
Item names are now displayed in the header of the All Properties panel.
Orange shading that indicates binding will now react 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 an existing project, Composer now automatically proposes to upgrade 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.

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.2.3.252 (Nov 26, 2013)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.2.2.231 (Nov 15, 2013)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.2.1.9 (Nov 6, 2013)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.2.0.167 (Oct 25, 2013)

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.
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.
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:
ree 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.
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.

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.1.6.216 (Oct 4, 2013)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.1.5 (Oct 4, 2013)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.1.4 (Oct 4, 2013)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.1.3.122 (Aug 23, 2013)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.1.2.109 (Aug 20, 2013)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.1.1 (Aug 20, 2013)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.0.10 (Aug 20, 2013)

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 or iPad 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.

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.0.5 (Aug 20, 2013)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.0.4 (Aug 20, 2013)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.0.3 (Aug 20, 2013)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.0.2 (Aug 20, 2013)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.0.1 (Aug 20, 2013)

New in IntuiFace Composer 4.0.0 (Aug 20, 2013)

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.

New in IntuiFace Composer 3.8.3 (Aug 20, 2013)