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Just around the corner, a big update on the whole of formatpixel not only with a new coat of paint but also improved support of file types and the introduction of support for FLV VIDEO and SWF!!!

Launching end of 2006, watch this space…

A new feature has been added to turn text, image or shape objects into a button to either a different page in your project or another web page.

This will allow you to create navigation index pages in your projects, buttons or links to other websites or shopping carts.

A “How to plugin into a shopping cart” post will be added soon.

Enjoy

Next release of the editor jsut gone live for Utopia users:- Order objects sending them to back or front
- Change font sizes from 10 to 100pt
- Change text Kerning
- Change text Leading
- Drop shadow filter on any text object
- Title object removed, just 1 text object needed now
- 40 objects supported on pages of any object type
- Images - Blur filter added
- Page icon index added to player
- Colour mixer fully supported

Grrrrrrrrrrrr.

Who needs layers anyway?…. I guess I do.

OK, so I’ve had to make a decision. Either continue with the way I’m storing data or completely re-write everything.

I guess the same decision was made by the makers of Actionman:

“Do we leave his eyes fixed or re-mold his head, stick in a leaver and market it as ‘Eagle-Eyes’ Actionman.”

If I re-write the data saving then exisiting projects won’t be compatible with the new scripting engine. But the new scripting engine supports layers (hopefully) and also streamlines the database…
hmmmmmm… Sorry I’m going to have to re-write it.

Added and tweaked:

Images
The image loading has been adjusted to spread the load to the server. Also just added animated build in’s for images. At the moment this is top left to bottom right (You’ll see what I mean!)

Colours
Mix your own colours with the addition of an RGB colour mixer. At the moment it does not pick up what colour your object currently is set to.