What's new in HyperNext Studio 4.21 Build 164
Jan 9, 2024
- Single line fields:
- Changing the font and text attributes did not work!
New in HyperNext Studio 4.2 Build 161 (Nov 30, 2023)
- Improvements"
- Portable as now no installer:
- simply unzip to your desktop or wherever.
- now makes no changes to Windows Registry.
- Developed and built with a newer compiler. Please note, this required 100s of changes and their testing so there are likely to be some bugs remaining!
- All install folders now stored in the unzipped HyperNext Studio folder
- Preferences are stored in the Apps / Roaming folder for future compatibility.
- You can still create and save your project anywhere.
- Creator GUI toolbar height increased for easier viewing.
- Creator built-in help updated.
- All example projects no longer use PICT images, now use png, jpg etc using PICTs meant Apple Quicktime had to be installed in Windows platform.
- Bug Fixes:
- No 30+ second startup delay on Creator etc or User's app.
- Single field borders now work fully on separate cards.
- Field attributes now independent on separate cards.
- Creator Help Window now in front of Designer Window.
- Control objects in Designer earlier could randomly go to invisible.
New in HyperNext Studio 4.1 Build 132 (Dec 1, 2021)
- Improvements and Bug Fixes
- Work on this only restarted 2 months ago so there is still a lot more to do.
- The included projects are not fully checked for v4.1 but many are working well.
- The documention in the inbuilt help guide has some small improvements.
- Improvements:
- Guide help now has options to set fonts, text color and background color.
- Property Toolbar icons now PNGs.
- Default Creator project now shows some help when Previewed.
- Creator GUI - some buttons etc have floating help text.
- Creator GUI - property/toolbar height increased, more info text and tidied.
- All projects now have their PICT images replaced by PNG or JPG PICTs caused problems on Windows if Apple QuickTime was not installed.
- Compiler error less buggy.
- GUI looks better in Windows 10.
- Creator - File Close now hides the project ready for opening another one.
- Creator Library Picture Window now has the option to replace an image both in its list and in the project's scripts.
- works for 1 image in listbox
- uses FileDialog to locate the replacement image.
- searches whole project and replaces any matches
- has error trapping for invalid images.
- Bug Fixes:
- HN command BFileReadValue for binary reading of data into a variable.
- SaveAs now correctly saves the project to a user selected location, then continues to work on current project.
- Field alignments now work across different cards.
- Field text color sometimes did not work when a card opened, but did work when set via an HN script call.
- Developer did not create a new project correctly.
- Developer Properties Toolbar too small in height.
- Creator Image Library - selected image now displays fully in canvas.
- HN command MovieSetView did not reliably hide/show the movie player.
- Creator property-toolbar now shows the target card edit box correctly,
- MoviePlayer was visible on next card even if card had no movieplayer
- MoviePlayer more reliable stopping.
- Compiler crash in an IF statement that had a function call.
- Register option removed from Creator menu:
- Users can still enable/disble Register option in their running/built project
- by using HN script commands.
- User Register window:
- UserCode field now changed to Date and can hold text or numeric. Creator toolbar/property had buggy card limit checking on target.
New in HyperNext Studio 4.01 (Mar 7, 2017)
- FontListFN as lines had missing carriage returns.
- Button texts not updating correctly on screen
- Slider controls could cause a crash at startup.
- Screen controls now update correctly acrosso cards.
- Intermittant IDE bug where come controls were shifted.
- Controls were much slower to display.
- Eratic tabbing across fields.
- Compiler - call to a procedure with undeclared parameter caused a crash.
- Show/hide button now works reliably.
- Field paper color now works reliably.
- Card save color now working properly.
- Menu bug affecting standalones.
- Improved control refreshing.
- Blowfish encrypt/decrypt added encoding UTF8 as strings could be corrupted.
- Preview Card works better.
- RBscript bug workaround - fatal exception caused crash - user can now add own handling.