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Saola Animate Changelog

What's new in Saola Animate 3.1.0

Dec 27, 2022
  • New:
  • Improved UI on high-DPI displays.
  • Export content to video (MP4, WebM, MKV).
  • Preset effects and text animations.
  • Tools for drawing and editing freeform shapes.
  • Line drawing animation.
  • Morphing animation.
  • Elements can show across multiple scenes.
  • Custom elements from HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
  • Support embedding HTML folders or packages into HTML widgets.
  • Image elements support img tags and inline SVG images.
  • Custom line dashes, line join types, line cap types for shapes and freeforms.
  • Enhancements:
  • Resize multiple selected elements on Canvas proportionally.
  • Scale multiple selected animation segments on Timeline proportionally.
  • Search elements and animations in Timeline and Elements pane.
  • Copy/paste/delete elements in Timeline.
  • Ignore mouse and touch events on non-painted areas of elements.
  • Option to fit a symbol to its content.
  • Class names for scenes.
  • Keyframes for changing element text content.
  • Allow converting built-in shapes to freeforms for editing.
  • Allow creating keyframes automatically within a predefined time range.
  • Preview a project in only one browser tab.
  • Copy/paste SVG paths from vector graphic editors as freeforms.
  • Copy/paste and drag/drop images from other applications.
  • Create motion path animations from shape paths of elements on Canvas.
  • Create freeform shapes from motion path animations.
  • Lots of other minor improvements.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Some minor bugs fixed.

New in Saola Animate 3.0.0 (Feb 2, 2021)

  • New:
  • Improved UI on high-DPI displays.
  • Export content to video (MP4, WebM, MKV).
  • Preset effects and text animations.
  • Tools for drawing and editing freeform shapes.
  • Line drawing animation.
  • Morphing animation.
  • Elements can show across multiple scenes.
  • Custom elements from HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
  • Support embedding HTML folders or packages into HTML widgets.
  • Image elements support img tags and inline SVG images.
  • Custom line dashes, line join types, line cap types for shapes and freeforms.
  • Enhancements:
  • Resize multiple selected elements on Canvas proportionally.
  • Scale multiple selected animation segments on Timeline proportionally.
  • Search elements and animations in Timeline and Elements pane.
  • Copy/paste/delete elements in Timeline.
  • Ignore mouse and touch events on non-painted areas of elements.
  • Option to fit a symbol to its content.
  • Class names for scenes.
  • Keyframes for changing element text content.
  • Allow converting built-in shapes to freeforms for editing.
  • Allow creating keyframes automatically within a predefined time range.
  • Preview a project in only one browser tab.
  • Copy/paste SVG paths from vector graphic editors as freeforms.
  • Copy/paste and drag/drop images from other applications.
  • Create motion path animations from shape paths of elements on Canvas.
  • Create freeform shapes from motion path animations.
  • Lots of other minor improvements.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Some minor bugs fixed.

New in Saola Animate 2.7.1 (Sep 18, 2019)

  • [HTML5]: Elements don't show in the correct z-orders in some cases on Firefox browser.
  • [HTML5]: Cannot show content embedded in a HTML Widget in fullscreen mode.
  • [HTML5]: Media may be muted on iOS devices though the user has interacted with the page before.
  • [HTML5]: Video doesn't play inline on iPhones.
  • Timeline preview: Completed media playback animations start again when resuming the timeline.

New in Saola Animate 2.7.0 (Jul 5, 2019)

  • Enhancements:
  • Allow changing the resource of an audio or video element.
  • Update Event Handlers window when element selection changed.
  • Rearrange event types in Event Handlers window.
  • Elements with event handlers defined now have a highlighted icon.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Cannot import SVG images on macOS.
  • Cannot open packages (.saolapack) which their file names have dot (.) characters.
  • Resources have case-insensitive identical names with the project filename are deleted when previewing the project.
  • HTML5: Swipe events do not work on Windows touch devices.
  • HTML5: Document is not focused automatically to receive keyboard events.
  • HTML5: Completed media playback animations start again when resuming the timeline.
  • HTML5: Element.hasClass function does not work.
  • Media target object is selected incorrectly when adding a new media action.

New in Saola Animate 2.6.0 (Mar 27, 2019)

  • New:
  • Initial release for macOS.
  • Enhancements:
  • Save and restore column/grid mode of scene thumbnails.
  • Update "Remove Text Override" button style.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Busy updating scene thumbnail size in some cases.
  • Copying/pasting timeline triggers which have Run JavaScript actions doesn't work correctly.
  • Shadow color of an element is incorrect if the element has other filter effects.
  • Some other minor bugs fixed.

New in Saola Animate 2.5.0 (Jan 22, 2019)

  • New:
  • 3D transformation for elements.
  • Drop shadow effect for elements.
  • Filer effects for elements, such as grayscale, blur...
  • Clipping effects for elements: rectangle, circle or oval clipping.
  • Element alignments support flexible layout.
  • Browser compatibility warnings for features which some browsers don't support.
  • Russian language.
  • Enhancements:
  • Split Properties pane into multiple tabs.
  • Add more element grouping features: add to group, remove from group, layout group.
  • Improve auto-keyframe mode.
  • Improve Google font window.
  • Motion Path can work well with elements that have a flexible layout.
  • Allow changing z-orders and groups of elements in Timeline and Elements pane by mouse dragging.
  • Allow collapsing groups in Timeline.
  • Custom CSS now takes effect right inside the editor.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Crash error when selecting Close All from the right-click menu of any project tab.
  • Copying/pasting animations of multiple elements at once may not work correctly.
  • Some popup windows and menus are cut off on multi-monitor machines.
  • Some other minor bugs fixed.

New in Saola Animate 2.0.2 (Jun 26, 2018)

  • Missing DLL issue on some Windows 7 computers.
  • Google fonts and embeded system fonts don't work correctly with symbols.
  • Cannot save a project as a package if it contains external JavaScript or CSS URLs.
  • Exernal JavaScript and CSS files don't take effect when previewing projects on browsers.
  • Cannot select freeform shapes in a group on Canvas.
  • Alignment tools don't work correctly if elements aren't positioned relatively to the top-left of their parents.
  • Breakpoints pane isn't when switching to the symbol editing mode.

New in Saola Animate 2.0.1 (May 31, 2018)

  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Issue when copying element animations between projects.
  • "Socket operation timed out" error on some computers (Sign-in, Activation, Loading Google fonts,...).

New in Saola Animate 2.0.0 (May 15, 2018)

  • New:
  • Responsive design.
  • Google fonts.
  • System fonts: allow using and embedding fonts installed on the user machine.
  • Freeform shapes.
  • Add autofit option which scales the HTML5 output automatically to fit its container.
  • Add auto unit for width/height property which helps keeping element aspect ratio.
  • Allow importing external HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files or URLs.
  • Allow editing HTML and CSS templates for the HTML5 output.
  • Add class name property for elements.
  • Support perpetual license model (along with current subscription model).
  • Enhancements:
  • Improve Event Action editor.
  • Event actions can be copied/pasted.
  • HTML Widget can display imported HTML and SVG files.
  • Allow customizing HTML5 output resource location.
  • Allow restoring image and video elements to their original sizes.
  • Bugs Fixed:
  • Some minor bugs fixed.