What's new in FrontFace for Touch Kiosks 2.2.2
Oct 18, 2017
- This new release offers an improved integrated browser engine (based on Chromium 60) and further optimized support for high DPI (multi-screen) systems (on Windows 10) and includes some minor fixes
New in FrontFace for Touch Kiosks 2.2.1 (Aug 16, 2017)
- This new release offers better support for high DPI (multi-screen) systems (on Windows 10) and includes some minor improvements and fixes.
New in FrontFace for Touch Kiosks 2.2.0 (May 10, 2017)
- This new release offers the long awaited, integrated user tracking option plus a content protection feature which is based on passwords or RFID transponders and bar codes.
New in FrontFace for Touch Kiosks 2.1.0 (Aug 15, 2016)
- Migration to .NET Framework 4.6.1:
- Starting with the recent releases, all FrontFace products require .NET Framework 4.6.1 or higher. During the installation process this system requirement is checked and if required, the necessary prerequisites are downloaded and offered for installation automatically. On Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 systems, the new .NET Framework is already present so there is nothing to care about. Also on most Windows 7 systems, .NET Framework 4.6.1 is already installed.
- Due to the switch to the new .NET Framework versions, the support for Windows XP and Windows Vista ends. In case you are still using these Windows version, you cannot install the latest versions of FrontFace.
- The only exception from these new system requirements apply to the FrontFace Player Application of FrontFace for Public Displays which is still supported on Windows XP and .NET Framework 4.0 (Full Profile). This means that you can still run the FrontFace for Public Displays Player Application on Windows XP (Embedded) systems. We have deiced to keep Windows XP support for this component because still some customers run Windows XP Embedded-based player PCs.
- New plugin format and simplified installation process for plugins:
- Plugins offer a great way to add extra functionality to the FrontFace products in order to enhance the set of available use cases of the software. Until now, the installation process of plugins required some manual action (copying of DLL files). With this release, we have introduced a new file format for plugins (*.ffapx) and added a convenient installation wizard for plugins. This means that now even less experienced users are able to install and use plugins. For customers that want to stick to an older version of FrontFace, the manual installation process is still supported.
New in FrontFace for Touch Kiosks 2.0.3 (Mar 23, 2016)
- Searching online for updates and new versions is now supported by the Kiosk Assistant
- Improved URL whitelist filter for the integrated Web browser
- A warning message is shown in case a Website is blocked by the URL whitelist filter
- Zoom factor for Web pages can be set individually
- Loading progress animation is now shown, even if the Web page is shown in full screen mode
- A problem with focusing the input controls on a Web page when opening the onscreen keyboard has been fixed
- Loading animation when displaying contents
- The circle theme now also supports hiding the default button artwork
- A problem with video playback on systems with no sound card has been fixed
- A clock (date and time) can now be shown optionally in the user interface
- The remote update feature has been improved
- Compatibility with Windows 10 has been improved
New in FrontFace for Touch Kiosks 2.0.0 (Mar 23, 2016)
- Fully reworked user interface of the Kiosk Assistant application for managing content and menu structures in a convenient way, plus many improved details.
- The integrated Web browser has been further enhanced in concerns of security aspects.
- Not only static PNG images are supported as menu icons on the front-end: It is now possible to also add animations as menu icons.
- Apart from the integrated onscreen keyboard you can now also select the built-in Windows onscreen keyboard as alternative.
- Color pickers throughout the Kiosk Assistant now store any user-defined custom colors within the project.
- When sending exotic content formats such das XPS using the e-mail content sharing feature, these files get converted automatically to common formats such das JPEG before being sent.
- The new demo project “Digital Product Catalog” has been added.
- Stretching options for content files (images, videos, XPS or PDF) can now also be defined per file instead of a global setting.
- Paging through multi page PDF and XPS documents has been improved.
New in FrontFace for Touch Kiosks 1.5.0 (Sep 16, 2014)
- New Features of this Release:
- Support for Image Maps and freely-positioned Buttons:
- Starting with the latest release of FrontFace for Touch Kiosks, it now also possible to not only arrange menu buttons freely on a wallpaper image – it is also possible to create so called “image maps”. Image maps are mouse/touch sensitive “hot” zones that serve as hyperlinks to sub-menu items or content files. By using image maps, you can design your fully-customized user interface with custom artwork and buttons of any size or shape. You could even use a photo showing different objects as a wallpaper image and make these objects then act as touchable menu items of your navigation menu which creates endless possibilities for custom-styled touch screen menus!
- Native Support for PDF Documents:
- Besides XPS documents, Print2Screen, pictures, videos and Web pages you can now also directly integrate PDF documents into your front ends. Thanks to the native PDF support there is NO need to install a 3rd party software like Acrobat Reader on the kiosk terminal PC!
- New Demo Project “Hotel & Tourism”:
- The new sample project shows a lot of the stunning features that FrontFace for Touch Kiosks has to offer. But it also gives an idea how hotels or anyone from a tourist-business background can create a useful and professional-looking touch screen self-service terminal that gives visitors and guests access to valuable information. Even small hotels that only have a very limited budget can now create professional, fully-sized, interactive kiosk terminals that otherwise only big hotel chains and touristic organizations can afford!
- Enhanced User Manual:
- The user manual has been reworked and explains step-by-step how to create a professional kiosk terminal front end using FrontFace for Touch Kiosks. The manual is available both in German and English language.
- Heavily improved Performance of the integrated Web Browser (with GPU Acceleration):
- The integrated security Web browser now has full hardware acceleration which tremendously increases the speed of browsing Web content. Even very complex Web pages that tend slow down a normal Web Brower now run much more smoothly!
- Optimized Loading and Displaying of Documents and Content Files:
- The visual appearance of the process when a content file such as a XPS, PDF or image document is loaded has been improved to look even better and much smoother now. Even if a very complex PDF document is loaded on an otherwise slow computer, the time it takes to load feels like nothing to the end user due to the visual loading animation and effects used.
- Many Enhancements and Optimizations regarding the Kiosk Assistant:
- The Kiosk Assistant of FrontFace for Touch Kiosks is the command center that allows you to create, configure and customize the menu structure, the content and the visual appearance of your touch screen front end. A lot of work has been put into this software application to make it even more intuitive and to allow a maximum of productivity!
New in FrontFace for Touch Kiosks 1.3.0 (Nov 14, 2013)
- Videos can now also be used a wallpapers (running as infinite loop). This makes your menus and front-ends even more vivid and interesting for the user!
- Projects can now be easily be imported and exported. This allows you to work on several projects for different terminals at the same time.
- The software now comes with four new demo projects (digital company blackboard, hotel and tourism information system, real-estate portal and digital menu board for restaurants) which you can use to instantly try out the great features of FrontFace.
- The Print2Screen functionality has been improved in the same way as with FrontFace for Public Displays: You can now also update existing Print2Screen content with a single click!
- You can now set a custom background color for Print2Screen pages. This gives you many new ways to create stunning content without having to stick to white “paper” as background.
- The background color of your menus can now be customized which is e.g. very helpful for screens like the language selection screen that do not have any wallpapers.
- The new “circle” theme that comes with FrontFace allows you to use round buttons in your front-ends that are aligned on a circle. Furthermore you can also integrate your logo in this new theme!
- The preview feature has been massively improved and is not much faster than before.
- The “home” button can now also be activated on the content viewer pages for a quick navigation option back to the main menu screen.
- Many themes now allow disabling the integrated button artwork so you can create your own, custom button style by supplying a custom button artwork using transparent PNG files.
- The Touch Kiosk Configurator application has been massively improved and is now even more intuitive to use.
- Global settings like font style, color and font size are now available for most of the integrated themes.
- Updating content on the terminal PC using a USB thumb drive is now supported and works also in combination with FrontFace for Public Displays when being used as digital signage screensaver.
- A problem with video files residing on a network shares has been fixed.