What's new?

MMB 4.9.5 BETA 1 (download)

MAIN ADDITIONS AND REPLACEMENTS :

MMB Video object:

MMB Video object is now completely rewritten! The days of an obsolete and not reliable MCI video playback are counted! The MCI object still remains there and unchanged (for technical experts), but the Video object is now a fully featured and easy to use DirectShow player. Of course, there are some dependencies on the installed video codecs; however, if you have installed Windows Media Player 7 or higher, you should have all the usual codecs installed. Now it is possible to run multiple video objects on a page at the same time!

Bitmap object enhancements:

Added a lot of new Image related scripting commands and designer enhancement. Now you will be able to preserve the Image size, or stretch image to fit window, resize/rotate the image and preserve its aspect ratio and lots of other things. Look at the detailed  Bitmap Object description .

Polygonal Hot spot:

Added a polygonal hot spot object. Irregular hot spots are now possible!

ZoomTool:

Added Zoom Tool for magnifying the selected part of MMB workspace.

MMB Script:

A lot of new scripting commands were added to work with strings, date/time, video, image/hotspot/polygon object resize and rotation, and many others. BTW, complete list of all MMB functions, CBK variables and predefined functions is now accessible over the right-click menu in MMB scripting dialog (both basic and enhanced windows) and scripting functions are no longer case sensitive.

OTHER ENHANCEMENTS:

• All windowed objects (Flash, HTML Browser, Binding, ListBox or AV) can now be added on Master Page and Master Top Layer and controlled via script! This allows you to use single Flash object on the Master Page as a project menu or single ListBox for entire project.
• RunScript function in MouseOver event ("Interaction with other objects" object properties tab) now detects the objects on Master Page and Master Top Layer.
• Significantly improved "Snap To Grid" feature. Snap To Grid now works with all objects as expected (including creating objects and dragging the object corners! ;)
• Added Drag&Drop event tab to the ListBox script dialog.
• Added possibility to change the colors of a Menu Item button style (in a design time). 
• Added tooltips and ability to change the default cursor on some next objects (Bitmap, Polygon objects, Matrix, Text and Text Edit).
• Added the ability to change the color of HTML status bar and progress bar (designer).
• Added the option to run just one instance designer/compiled application.
• Added a button to delete all guide lines (menu Edit>>> Edit Guides).
• Added buttons and shortcuts to Page Manager for inserting (INS) and deletion (DEL) the publication pages.
• Added the ability to change the colors of AudioVisualization object - Equalizer (both from designer and script).
• Added a Minimize button to the standard project window.
• Added the ability to completely disable the Flash right click menu.
• Added the ability to load Flash file in its original size and maintain its aspect ratio.
• MMB4.9 files can now be saved in 4.8 compatible file format. All 4.9 related things will be removed and scripts will be amended.
• Each change in a Dimension tool can be confirmed by Enter and not only by "Apply" button as previously.
• FMOD audio library updated to version 3.6.2.
• Restored the ability to change the Player.exe icon (Compile dialog).
• The main Object toolbar is now redesigned to popups (according common features). However, if you don't like the popups, you can switch back to the previous long toolbar (View>>>Toolbars>>>Object Toolbar (simple)).
• Video Object now supports audio playback (mp3,ogg, mi, mi, midi, rmi, wav, snd, au, aif, wma, asf), but without the ID tags!
• Added the option to enable/disable multiselection, item numbering and audio time in a ListBox object.
• ListBox object now supports Drag&Drop from outside of MMB application (e.g. from windows explorer).
• Added the option to load the audio and video files as a parameter of a compiled MMB application. Of course, if you want to run a video from command line a video object must be available in the running application.
• Added On Load, On Start and On Stop/Finish events to the Video object (check the Run Script option in Video properties).
• Polygon object can now be resized.
• Already opened and changed projects are marked with * mark in the MMB title bar (behind the project name).
• Added the option to compile final application without the FMOD audio library (NoFMOD option in Compile dialog).
• MMB internal playlist (m3l) now supports Video files storage.
• Improved speed of closing Enhanced Script window.
• Multiple embedded sounds can now be played at the same time.
• Message box caption is now set according the project window title (Project>>Project Settings menu).
• When you type a function to the script window and the function is auto-completed, then cursor now remains inside the parenthesis or quotes.
• ListBox item numbers and time (for audio/video file) can now be disabled (in designer as well as in runtime by script).
• Improved fast clicking detection in hotspot object.
• Added "Search for ID tags" option to the ListBox properties. This option is useful in cases when a non-audio content of the <List> is loaded. Disabling this option can significantly increase the speed of loading.

SCRIPTING ENHANCEMENTS:  

• Added ListBoxParam () function to setup some of ListBox properties in a runtime (like a Background and Text color, enable/disable Drag&Drop, etc.).
• Added ColorPicker () function with CBK_SelColor to selecting and storing colors.
• Run command now returns the return values from the running applications (of course if return codes were implemented in these applications). The return codes are displayed in CBK_ReturnVal.
• Added commands to resize/rotate Bitmaps, Hotspots (w/o image) and filled polygon objects.
• SearchForSong now supports file extension filtering... SearchForSongs ("C:\",”mp3,ogg,wav").
• Added a lot of new CBK_Time  and CBK_Video related commands.
• Added <Temp >, <Windows >, <System > predefined variables.
• All <> variables (like a <SrcDir >, <CD >, <System >) can now be expanded to a string variable.
• RunScript and ScriptTimer commands can now be called from the Master Page or Master Top Layer - RunScript ("Master Page::Script")
• LoadVideo and  ReplaceImage functions now supports OpenFile button in the "Path" parameter. You will no longer need to Copy and Paste the absolute paths from somewhere else (i.e. windows explorer).
• ViewJPG function now support loading the BMP files and is renamed to ViewImage SongListTime, CBK_Total, CBK_Time, CBK_VTotal and CBK_VTime now returns their values in hh:mm:ss format.
• Better rescaling algorithm is now used in ViewImage function.
• Added some new predefined functions ( WinVer, ScreenCol, PubWidth, PubHeight, UsingWinNT , ...)
• Added new CBK variable for obtaining the current page name - CKB_PageName .
• WMA and ASF now returns correct CBK time variables.
• Audio CBK now supports reading OGG tags.
• Added two new CBK variables for obtaining the total time of songs in the internal song list -  CBK_TotalList and CBK_TotalSecList .
• Added many new string handling functions .
• Added PageExit event.
• FMOD and Flash Error/Warning messages can be disabled (Compile page) and then handled by CBK_Error variable.
• Predefined functions ObjectX , ObjectY , ObjectWidth , ObjectHeight and IsVisible now supports string variables as a parameter i.e. ObjectX (object$).
• Added new ListBoxSort ("object","param") function. Possible parameters: NAME, TIME, REVERSE and RANDOMIZE.
• Added new ListBoxMoveItem ("ListBox1","PositionNum").
• Added FMODConfig function for changing the configuration of FMOD audio library (DX, SW or None + MPEG accurate playback) at runtime.
• Added three new predefined functions for checking the actual mouse state - MouseLButton(), MouseMButton() and MouseRButton() Returns 1 if mouse is pressed and 0 if released.
• If..End conditional loop finally supports Else ;)
• Added WAIT parameter to Run command. This will cause pausing the MMB application until external application is running. Usage: Run ("C:\WINNT\notepad.exe","WAIT") or more advanced example  Run ("C:\WINNT\notepad.exe","TOPMOST,WAIT c:\your.txt")
• Transparent parts of the bitmap objects will not detect the mouse clicks.
• Scripts can now be saved/loaded to/from external files (Designer option...sorry guys, but the runtime loading of external script files is not yet available ;)
• Added BackgroundPlay , BackgroundPause and BackgroundStop commands for controlling the Background music at runtime.
• Added a syntax completion to MMB script. However, because this feature doesn't need to satisfy everyone, you can turn it OFF by right click menu in script window.
• Function SongListSave now allows you to save the internal songlist to file with any extension you want to use. But the file format of the saved list will be still plain txt (or MMB internal m3l format if you want) SongListSave("SongList","c:\test.aaa").
• Added CBK_URLPath for obtaining the actual path from HTML object.
• Predefined String functions can now be merged within the single line of code e.g. s$= CHR( 55 )+ CHR( 60 )
• SongListLoad now supports loading of m3l, m3u, pls and txt file formats.

  CHANGES:  

• Predefined functions are no longer case sensitive. You can type " objectwidth() " or " ObJecTWidth() " and it will be automatically converted to ObjectWidth().
• Function L istBoxAddItem no longer supports RANDOMIZE parameter. Use new ListBoxSort ("object"," RANDOMIZE ") function instead of previous L istBoxAddItem with RANDOMIZE parameter .
• Predefined functions ScreenWidth and ScreenHeight are no longer filled after the publication start-up. If you want to obtain the actual screen width/height size, use the new ScreenWidth() and ScreenHeight() functions. All older scripts that use the old syntax must be updated!
• MXCOL and MXROW Matrix variables are no longer filled after the publication start-up. They are filled only if a Matrix object is used.
• MouseDown/MouseUp events are now performed only above parental objects. If you, for example, click and hold the mouse button above an active object (e.g. button), then you move mouse over another active object and release the mouse button above it, the MouseUp event of the second (target) mouse will not be called.
• String variable used as the first parameter of the LoadText function will no longer load the contents of a second LoadText parameter. The variable used as a first parameter of LoadText can be now used as a name pointer to an object. This will allow you to dynamically replace the text in a series of text objects or buttons.

FIXES:

• Fixed Text object Alignment if the Antialias option is enabled.
• Fixed Edit box refresh.
• Fixed Video FullScreen toggling via the Script object with the assigned shortcut.
• Fixed bug in a ListBoxDeleteItem function.
• Fixed a problem with WMA/ASF playback (right after the MP3/OGG playback).
• Fixed some script highlight issues.
• Fixed a bug with reseting UI.
• Fixed a Copy/Cut bug in the Script right clik menu.
• Fixed an object Width bug when the "Default text" is deleted from the Input text.
• Fixed bug that prevents to change the Video object Width/Height after video load.
• MVM file extension in VideoLoad dialog is now corrected to WMV file extension ;)
• <> macros (e.g. <SrcDir >) can now be assigned to the string variables without the need to use quotes...for example test$=<SrcDir>
• Double click on a function now pass all parameters to the Script wizard. Previously, some parameters were not passed e.g. ScriptTimer("TimerA=MoveTrackSlider1"," 50 ")
• Each change of an mbd project should invoke the "project is changed" event and then mbd file should not be closed without Save request.
• Right click menu (Undo, Copy, Paste,...) in script editor is now back.
• Fixed Alpha button preview in the Alpha button load dialog.
• Fixed bug in Run command, which prevent correct parsing of the program parameter.
• EditBox variables are now correctly refreshed when they are filled via LoadText or DisplayValue functions.
• DisplayValue function can now fill the EditBox with a numeric value (not only Text object as previously).
• ObjectWidth / ObjectHeight now returns the correct numbers for Video object.
• Fixed a long time reported, but never found, the load bitmap crash..uff..it was really tremendous ;)
• Fixed some CBK audio related problems.
• Fixed a ListBox destroy problem after RunMBD use.
• Fixed a ListBox numbering problem. Sometimes happened, that the 10th item in the ListBox was numbered as 1.
• Fixed crash when trying to run an non-mbd file from the command line as a parameter of compiled MMB application.
• Fixed a refresh problem in a Dimension tool.
• Fixed CBK_Total a CBK_TotalSec for continuos CD playback.
• CBK text objects now work correctly if they are placed on Master Top page or Master Layer.
• CD stop should now work correctly with the audio CBK related variables.
• Fixed scroll bars in designer.
• Fixed some memory leaks in Flash and Text object;)
• Fixed a problem that cause 1+1=1 ;)
• Fixed bug in PlaySound and MIDIPlay that cause playing midi files in loop when the LOOP parameter was not turned ON.
• Fixed conflict between Matrix object and GetArrayItem function.
• Fixed memory leak in Designer when Custom Shape was used.
• Fixed LoadText trimming.