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Banner Effect Changelog

What's new in Banner Effect 1.4.3

Feb 4, 2015
  • Follow Path effect: Corrected an issue when previewing the effect with a zoom factor different than 1.
  • Follow Path effect: Trajectory is now draw on the top of preview trajectory image.
  • Follow Path effect: Enhanced trajectory start/end.
  • Gif export: You can now choose the background (transparent) color when exporting.
  • Outline: Better quality for outline effect.
  • HTML5: Changed the generated code to avoid conflict with Javascript Print() method.

New in Banner Effect 1.4.2 (Jan 6, 2015)

  • Particle effects: Corrected an issue with particles when optimizing backgrounds.
  • Cross fade effect: Enhanced the effect.
  • Background color: Added a "None" option.
  • GIF Export: Corrected an issue with background color.

New in Banner Effect 1.4.1 (Dec 15, 2014)

  • Background optimization: Corrected an issue preventing preview.
  • HTML5 preview: Check if IE9 or newer is installed, otherwise fallback to Flash preview.

New in Banner Effect 1.4.0 (Dec 10, 2014)

  • New skin and some UI changes:
  • The default skin has been changed and is much more sober. We also removed the "object toolbar" on the bottom and put the icon on the standard toolbar.
  • New "free trajectory" effect:
  • We added a new start/end/animation effect to be able to move any object where you want following a free trajectory.
  • New Backgrounds tab:
  • The background tab has been entirely reworked and offer now a lot of predefined templates.
  • New Borders tab:
  • We added a brand new border tab that allow you to pick up the border you like in a list of predefined templates or create your own.
  • New Button object:
  • We added a button generator. Create cute buttons in a few clicks.
  • Check the detailed list of changes here:
  • Banner edition: Object outside of the banner are now visible and usable.
  • New effect: New free trajectory start/end/anim effect.
  • Toolbar: Slight changes in the toolbar: Add text/images icons are now on the main toolbar and not anymore on the bottom.
  • Skin: A new sober skin "White" is available, it is used by default.
  • Skin: "Old School" skin is not available anymore.
  • New Logo: Logo/Splashscreen/Icons have changed.
  • Backgrounds: Reworked completely backgrounds tab. Now some predefined template are listed and you can edit or modify the selected one.
  • Borders: Added a new tab for borders. A lot of editable border templates are now available
  • Transparent banners: Removed transparent banner general settings and added an opacity settings for backgrounds
  • .net framework: Banner Effect now uses .net framework 4.0 to avoid unneccessary download on Windows 8 and later.
  • Buttons: Added a new type of objects: buttons with a button creator and a dedicated editor.
  • Anim Effect: Added 4 new anim effects.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.16 (Jul 16, 2014)

  • Opacity Settings: Corrected a problem with opacity on images when the image has no shadow.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.15 (Jan 24, 2014)

  • Banner storage: Banners are now stored on another domain name to avoid traffic issues.
  • GIF creation: changed GIF creation to avoid glitch when looping.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.14 (Dec 10, 2013)

  • Shadow on duplicated texts: An optimization on shadows was causing some trouble when creating HTML5 version, it is fixed.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.13 (Dec 2, 2013)

  • HTML Generated: The code generated is now fully W3C compliant.
  • File loading: When loading banners made with old versions of BE sometimes an error occured and a blue screen was displayed on preview, it is now fixed.
  • ClickTAG: Check now for "ClickTag" and "ClickTAG".
  • Corrupted files: When a corrupted file is detected, text is now correct.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.12 (Sep 9, 2013)

  • HTML5 Export: Do not use anymore [ and . (dot) character in generated files to avoid problem with Yahoo web hosting.
  • HTML5 Export: Correctly handle IE Quirk mode with clickable objects.
  • Project Settings: Now if this dialog is closed with the red cross, it is correctly handled as a cancel close.
  • Background Panel: If screen is too small to display all effects, a scrollbar is shown.
  • Banner exporter: Corrected an optimization issue with similar texts.
  • Banner exporter: Changed image quality settings output: now the quality will change more when using higher quality ticks.
  • Window Position: Now we check if the stored window position is visible, if not, we display it on the default position.
  • Click handling on touch devices: Changed the way we handle clicks on touch devices to avoid popup blockers.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.11 (May 6, 2013)

  • Fonts: Now if a font is not available in a specific style, we open it as regular instead of throwing an error.
  • Google Adwords: Corrected a problem when ads are used as embedded Youtube ads.
  • Flash standard banners: Corrected a problem with popup blocker on some ads.
  • Banner export name: Automatically remove non alpha-numeric characters.
  • Transitions: 2 new transitions: Page Zoom and Page Change.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.10 (Mar 28, 2013)

  • Generated HTML code: Removed "TabIndex=1" from generated HTML code to avoid the page jump directly to the banner.
  • Transparent banners: Corrected a problem on some browsers with transparent banners.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.9 (Mar 21, 2013)

  • Images: Better handling of empty images.
  • HTML5: Changed the way we handle clicks to avoid popup blockers on Chrome and Firefox.
  • User Interface: Properties tab is now displayed correctly when using something else than 100% for Windows display size.
  • Flash: HTML code generated for Flash is better.
  • Flash: Corrected a problem when SWF was embedded in another SWF.
  • Effect duration: Corrected a problem - sometimes effect duration was reseted back to default value.
  • Banner size: Added new 'Half page' (300x600) predefined size for Google Adwords.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.8 (Jan 21, 2013)

  • Installer: On Windows 8 we don't try to install .net 2, because it is automatically detected by the OS.
  • HTML5: Corrected a problem with particles effect on some Android devices (Samsung S3 for instance).
  • HTML5: Corrected a problem with IE when the page was scrolled down (with buttons).
  • Clipboard (Windows): Added an exception handler when copying objects.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.7 (Dec 5, 2012)

  • New features:
  • Transitions: Added "Wipe (particles)" transition.
  • Transitions: Duration of transitions is now customizable.
  • Full release note:
  • Banner Export: "Space" and "%" characters in background images of banners are changed to "-" to avoid problem with HTML5 version.
  • Banner Export for Adwords: Changed the way we handle the click to avoid popup blockers.
  • Transparent images as background: Corrected an issue with the Flash export when using a transparent image as background. The background color is now correctly applied.
  • Zoom Transition: Changed the effect to be more effective and nice.
  • Banner Export: Publication Settings are now stored directly in the BEF file (except FTP username/password), this way you don't have to update publication data for each banners.
  • File/Exit menu: When exiting this way, the application was not correctly closed: it is fixed.
  • Transitions: Duration of transitions is now customizable.
  • Loading File from recent items menu: If a full directory of files was deleted/moved then, later, tried to opened via this menu a crash occurred. It is fixed.
  • Banner Size: Now limited to 5000x5000 pixels to avoid crashes.
  • Dialogs: Corrected tab order of fields to be, well, ordered.
  • Banner Export: Corrected a crash when exporting banners containing empty images with shadow.
  • Transitions: Added "Wipe (particles)" transition.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.6 (Sep 24, 2012)

  • 3D Flip Transition: Corrected a problem on some old Firefox version (version before and including FF 14) : the banner stopped playing, it is fixed.
  • Banner Export: "Space" characters when creating a banner are replaced by "-" to avoid problem with HTML5 version.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.5 (Aug 21, 2012)

  • Animated GIFs: Corrected a problem with animated GIFs introduced in 1.3.3.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.4 (Aug 16, 2012)

  • Player: Changed the loading of the banner: Removed a bug on some transitions.
  • Keyboard: Removed a problem when pressing arrow keys when no object is selected.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.3 (Jul 31, 2012)

  • Player: Changed the loading of the banner: now banner starts playing only when everything is fully loaded.
  • Texts: Some unicode characters were not saved correctly, it is fixed now.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.2 (Jul 11, 2012)

  • Text and image rendering: Texts and images are much sharper now.
  • Transparency: A new flag is available on Project/Settings menu to set the background as transparent.
  • Menu entries: Removed faulty PPT Import/Export menu items.
  • [Trial] Uninstall: Added an uninstall survey.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.1 (Jun 25, 2012)

  • Text gradient and outline: Text gradient and outline is now available in Standard edition.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.0 (Jun 20, 2012)

  • This release fixes some bugs, and introduce Animated GIF export.

New in Banner Effect 1.2.5 (Jun 6, 2012)

  • HTML5 banner generation: Added "style='outline: none'" to the generated code to avoid an outline when the banner is displayed.
  • FTP: When doing FTP upload, if user entered something like "ftp.hostname.com", the "ftp." part is removed when creating the code template.
  • Click on banners: Click on touch devices should work better.
  • [Mac] Clipboard: Corrected a problem when the clipboard was filled with unknown objects.
  • Google Adwords compatibility: Changed the SWF player to enhance Adwords compatibility.

New in Banner Effect 1.2.4 (May 8, 2012)

  • HTML5 banner generation: Enhanced the way we handle paths internally: It means you can now move the banner's files anywhere and banner will continue to work (you just have to adapt the js path in your HTML code).

New in Banner Effect 1.2.3 (May 4, 2012)

  • Fonts: On windows, fonts initialization is made before displaying the window to avoid an empty window displayed a few seconds.
  • Clipboard: Better handling of a clipboard exception.
  • HTML5 banner generation: When a filename was empty an error was displayed, fixed.
  • [Mac] banner generation: Corrected a problem that may arise when interpolating pictures.
  • HTML5 banner generation: Corrected a problem with shadows on images.

New in Banner Effect 1.2.2 (Apr 25, 2012)

  • HTML5 export: Corrected a problem when storing banners on banner-effect website and using shadows.
  • Fonts: Previously, only fonts with regular/bold/italic/underline style available were used. No we use every fonts available even if a style is missing.
  • HTML5 export: Javascript compression changed.
  • HTML5 export: It is now possible to display several HTML5 banners on the same HTML page.

New in Banner Effect 1.2.1 (Apr 23, 2012)

  • Corrected a problem when importing old banners: Some effects were not correctly converted, resulting to plain blue banners.
  • Corrected a problem when previewing empty (templates) images: An error was thrown - now we just ignore empty images.
  • HTML5 export: It is now possible to display several HTML5 banners on the same HTML page.
  • Export Wizard: Size computation does not anymore use 100% CPU with big banners.
  • Background Image Preview: If images of width or height of 1 pixel are used and displayed as stretched, the preview was not correct.
  • HTML5 export: Corrected a problem when storing banners on banner-effect website and using colored particles.
  • HTML5 export: Javascript files are more compressed now.
  • FTP export: Added a default host directory to handle cases where FTP account does not match HTTP account.

New in Banner Effect 1.2.0 (Apr 11, 2012)

  • HTML5 export:
  • Yes, Banner Effect is now able to generate the same banners in Flash format and in HTML5 (Javascript) format. It means you are now able to generate a banner that will work everywhere (Windows, Mac, Android, iPhones, iPads, ...) in one click.
  • We had to rewrote completely the player to be able to support both technologies... and there is one bad news: Banner Effect is not able anymore to display the 3D cube in this new version. As HTML5 is not yet as powerful as Flash we had to remove this effect.
  • We are sorry about that, really, but it was not possible to render the cube effect in an effective way using Javascript and we think HTML5 export is more valuable than 3D cube effect, so we had to cut this feature.
  • Anyway, the previous version of Banner Effect (1.1.2) with the cube effect is still available from the "Product Updates" section of our website if you really need this effect.
  • New customizable effects:
  • Effects have been reworked with a lot of new Start/End and Animation effects. Effects are also customizable now, so you can change, for instance, speed, duration, color or amplitude of many effects.
  • You can also add a shadow or a reflection to every objects on the banner.
  • Texts effects and Unicode:
  • The text engine of Banner Effect has been completely rewritten. It now supports Unicode fonts, it means you are now able to display texts in Chinese, Russian or Arabic.
  • You can also set the text as Bold, Italic or Underline.
  • You can add a gradient or/and an outline to the text to create nice titles.
  • You don't have anymore to use the "font importer" tool: Banner Effect will directly use the fonts installed on your system.
  • Background effects:
  • The background tab of Banner Effect has been changed and now allows the following:
  • Background Color: To set a background color. You can also create a gradient.
  • Background Image: To set a background image. You can now set the position of the image.
  • Border: To add a border around the banner.
  • Background Effect: Using this feature, you can add a predefined animation effect running in the background.
  • New Help & German/French translation
  • Help has been completely rewritten and is now available in English, French and German (thanks to Lokaldo for the German translation).
  • The user interface is also now available in German.
  • Reworked export wizard:
  • The export wizard is now more complete and allows to directly copy the banners to any server using FTP protocol or store the finished banners on Banner-Effect's server.
  • Clickable objects:
  • You can now set any object as "active" and associate an URL, a Javascript call or another slide. This way you can create menus or interactive banners (a clickable text, for example or a button to go to another slide,...).

New in Banner Effect 1.1.2 (Jun 7, 2011)

  • Fixed a bug on preview: When a text with no characters was shown.
  • Ring Transition: Fixed a problem in z coordinates when used several times.
  • User Interface: User interface has been optimized in speed and memory usage.

New in Banner Effect 1.1.1 (May 21, 2011)

  • Error Handling: More information is displayed and sent when an error occurs.
  • Copy Paste: Corrected a problem occurring sometimes when pasting a deleted object.
  • Banner Size: Corrected 300x250 predefined size (was 300x225).
  • Popup blocker problem: Corrected a problem with the popup blocker on Google Adwords preview.
  • Slide Thumbnails: Thumbnails are now real thumbnails of slides and not anymore static pictures.
  • Background Color: Better handling of background color to avoid artifacts.
  • Settings: Target window for click is now modifiable (_blank,_parent,_self,_top).
  • Fixed a bug on preview: when choosing a picture background without any filenames.

New in Banner Effect 1.1.0 (Jan 20, 2011)

  • Internal structure change: Changed the way data is stored to be more compatible with popular advertising systems (DFP in particular).
  • IE8 Popup blocker problem: Changed the way we open clickTAG to avoid blocking in IE8.
  • Version checker: A small popup is now automatically displayed if a new version is available.
  • Browser: We now use default browser when opening a URL instead of Internet Explorer.
  • Banner Output: Enhanced the quality of picture and texts on banners.
  • Banner Output: Corrected a problem with flicking objects when changing slides.
  • Italian Translation: Corrected some texts.
  • Project Settings: You can now set the frame per seconds (FPS) for the banner.
  • Project Settings: You can now change the width and the height of the banner.
  • Main Tab: The size of the banner is now displayed on the main tab.
  • Drift Effect: 3 Drift Start/End Effects have been added.
  • Boing Effect: Boing Start/End Effect has been added.
  • HTML Preview: When exporting a banner, a html preview file can now be displayed to see the banner and the according code.
  • Fall Down Transition: Cleaned the fade effect, sometimes the text were not correctly displayed after this transition.
  • Cross Fade Transition: Cleaned the fade effect: looks better.
  • Ring Effect Transition: Fixed a display problem.
  • General Output: Texts and images look less blurry.
  • Ad Words Size: Added Mobile Leaderboard (300x50).
  • Minimum time for a slide: It is now 1[s] instead of 0[s] previously.
  • Effect List: List alphabetically ordered now.

New in Banner Effect 1.0.2 (Jan 20, 2011)

  • Trial Limitation: It is not anymore possible to add more than 5 slides in the trial.
  • Gradual Slowdown: Banners running for a long time have a FPS drop in time. It is fixed.
  • Most Recently Used Files: Added 4 more recently used files in the file menu.
  • Dutch Translation: Dutch Translation added.
  • URL parsing issue: Banners were not correctly displayed on Google Adwords or on some other ads system: fixed.

New in Banner Effect 1.0.1 (Nov 2, 2010)

  • Text Not visible: Fixed an issue with text displayed as color rectangles on some computers.
  • Compatibility: Changed the way the banner is loaded so the banner can be used in services like SlideRocket.