What's new in Autoplay Menu Designer 5.7
1. Support for SVG 1 (Scalable Vector Graphics)
Use image files in the SVG format for images, buttons, panels and other interface elements as easily as standard graphics formats. Vector graphics helps turning your apps more responsible and adaptable to a range of screen resolutions.
2. Custom object states
The new version introduces several new preset object states. Now an object can have the following states:
- Default
- Over (activates when a mouse cursor above an object)
- Pressed (activates when the left mouse button is pressed on an object)
- Active (activates by the "change state" action or by the default setting)
- Active + Over (activates when a mouse cursor above an "active" object)
- Active + Pressed (activates when the left mouse button is pressed on an "active" object)
- Disabled (activates by the "change state" action or by the default setting and ignore any mouse events)
You can select the object state individually, in the Properties panel :
You can choose the default state of the object, and control and modify it in runtime using the new action called "Change object state", or by changing the internal variables of the object.
Conveniently, each object state can be assigned with its own different visual style. This greatly simplifies designing user interfaces. Previously, in order to display the active state of an object, you had to create a dummy object and show it in place of the real object when the object state changed. Now, you assign the desired visual style for the Active state, and then simply set the object state to Active whenever you want.
3. New object: GridView
The new GridView object is designed to represent various data as a structured view. Typical examples are part catalogs, product galleries, restaurant menus, document lists and so on. In all these examples the data can be represented visually in the same unified style.
In the new version, we've completely eliminated the need for monotonous duplication of similar data, such as product cards. Instead, you create a template for the item data, choose the variable fields in the template, and set the values for these fields as a table. The program automatically creates and arranges the data - product properties, restaurant dishes, tutorial covers, photo album envelopes etc. - in a grid and makes them available for viewing and interacting with them.
And when you decide to change the design of your catalog, simply edit the design of the template and enjoy your brand new catalog ! Moreover, you can load the data from an external CSV file, so to update your catalog you don't even need to rebuild the project !
Examples of projects with GridView features you can find here :
The live guide: How to create my first GridView
4. Smart arranging objects
Using smart guides easy to arrange objects on the pages.
5. KeyBoard events
Assign usual actions to keyboard events, for example, to make a transition between pages by pressing a key.
6. Many other improvements
Autosave projects, new grid settings, Media object events, the new gallery "Icons"(svg-based), etc...