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Banner Effect Changelog

What's new in Banner Effect 1.4.3

Feb 4, 2015
  • Follow Path effect: Corrected an issue when previewing the effect with a zoom factor different than 1.
  • Follow Path effect: Trajectory is now draw on the top of preview trajectory image.
  • Follow Path effect: Enhanced trajectory start/end.
  • Gif export: You can now choose the background (transparent) color when exporting.
  • Outline: Better quality for outline effect.
  • HTML5: Changed the generated code to avoid conflict with Javascript Print() method.

New in Banner Effect 1.4.2 (Jan 6, 2015)

  • Particle effects: Corrected an issue with particles when optimizing backgrounds.
  • Cross fade effect: Enhanced the effect.
  • Background color: Added a "None" option.
  • GIF Export: Corrected an issue with background color.
  • Mac OSX: Corrected an issue when exporting banner with low settings (GIF opacity).

New in Banner Effect 1.4.1 (Dec 15, 2014)

  • Background optimization: Corrected an issue preventing preview.
  • HTML5 preview: Check if IE9 or newer is installed, otherwise fallback to Flash preview.
  • Mac: Corrected a problem when quitting the application using menu.

New in Banner Effect 1.4.0 (Dec 10, 2014)

  • New skin and some UI changes:
  • The default skin has been changed and is much more sober. We also removed the "object toolbar" on the bottom and put the icon on the standard toolbar.
  • New "free trajectory" effect:
  • We added a new start/end/animation effect to be able to move any object where you want following a free trajectory.
  • New Backgrounds tab:
  • The background tab has been entirely reworked and offer now a lot of predefined templates.
  • New Borders tab:
  • We added a brand new border tab that allow you to pick up the border you like in a list of predefined templates or create your own.
  • New Button object:
  • We added a button generator. Create cute buttons in a few clicks.
  • Detailed list of changes:
  • Banner edition: Object outside of the banner are now visible and usable.
  • New effect: New free trajectory start/end/anim effect.
  • Toolbar: Slight changes in the toolbar: Add text/images icons are now on the main toolbar and not anymore on the bottom.
  • Skin: A new sober skin "White" is available, it is used by default.
  • Skin: "Old School" skin is not available anymore.
  • New Logo: Logo/Splashscreen/Icons have changed.
  • Backgrounds: Reworked completely backgrounds tab. Now some predefined template are listed and you can edit or modify the selected one.
  • Borders: Added a new tab for borders. A lot of editable border templates are now available
  • Transparent banners: Removed transparent banner general settings and added an opacity settings for backgrounds
  • .net framework: Banner Effect now uses .net framework 4.0 to avoid unneccessary download on Windows 8 and later.
  • Buttons: Added a new type of objects: buttons with a button creator and a dedicated editor.
  • Anim Effect: Added 4 new anim effects.
  • Mac: Speed optimizations.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.16 (Jul 16, 2014)

  • Opacity Settings: Corrected a problem with opacity on images when the image has no shadow.
  • [Mac] Toolbar: Toolbar settings are now correctly saved.
  • [Mac] Number edition: Float value number edition is now working better.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.15 (Jan 24, 2014)

  • Banner storage: Banners are now stored on another domain name to avoid traffic issues.
  • GIF creation: changed GIF creation to avoid glitch when looping.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.14 (Dec 10, 2013)

  • Shadow on duplicated texts: An optimization on shadows was causing some trouble when creating HTML5 version, it is fixed.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.13 (Dec 2, 2013)

  • HTML Generated: The code generated is now fully W3C compliant.
  • File loading: When loading banners made with old versions of BE sometimes an error occured and a blue screen was displayed on preview, it is now fixed.
  • ClickTAG: Check now for "ClickTag" and "ClickTAG".
  • Mac Version: Installer now correctly signed to work under OSX Maverick.
  • Corrupted files: When a corrupted file is detected, text is now correct.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.12 (Sep 10, 2013)

  • HTML5 Export: Do not use anymore [ and . (dot) character in generated files to avoid problem with Yahoo web hosting.
  • HTML5 Export: Correctly handle IE Quirk mode with clickable objects.
  • Project Settings: Now if this dialog is closed with the red cross, it is correctly handled as a cancel close.
  • Background Panel: If screen is too small to display all effects, a scrollbar is shown.
  • Banner exporter: Corrected an optimization issue with similar texts.
  • Banner exporter: Changed image quality settings output: now the quality will change more when using higher quality ticks.
  • Window Position: Now we check if the stored window position is visible, if not, we display it on the default position.
  • Click handling on touch devices: Changed the way we handle clicks on touch devices to avoid popup blockers.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.11 (May 7, 2013)

  • Mac OSX: Corrected a problem with non 72dpi images.
  • Fonts: Now if a font is not available in a specific style, we open it as regular instead of throwing an error.
  • Google Adwords: Corrected a problem when ads are used as embedded Youtube ads.
  • Flash standard banners: Corrected a problem with popup blocker on some ads.
  • Banner export name: Automatically remove non alpha-numeric characters.
  • Transitions: 2 new transitions: Page Zoom and Page Change.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.10 (Mar 28, 2013)

  • Generated HTML code: Removed "TabIndex=1" from generated HTML code to avoid the page jump directly to the banner.
  • Mac OSX: Corrected a problem with texts (a gray border was visible on white texts).
  • Transparent banners: Corrected a problem on some browsers with transparent banners.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.9 (Mar 21, 2013)

  • Mac OS X: Better handling of transparent images.
  • Images: Better handling of empty images.
  • HTML5: Changed the way we handle clicks to avoid popup blockers on Chrome and Firefox.
  • User Interface: Properties tab is now displayed correctly when using something else than 100% for Windows display size.
  • Flash: HTML code generated for Flash is better.
  • Flash: Corrected a problem when SWF was embedded in another SWF.
  • Effect duration: Corrected a problem - sometimes effect duration was reseted back to default value.
  • Banner size: Added new 'Half page' (300x600) predefined size for Google Adwords.

New in Banner Effect 1.3.8 (Jan 21, 2013)

  • HTML5: Corrected a problem with particles effect on some Android devices (Samsung S3 for instance).
  • HTML5: Corrected a problem with IE when the page was scrolled down (with buttons).
  • Clipboard (Windows): Added an exception handler when copying objects.