AutoPlay Menu Builder Change Log v8.0 (04-15-2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - New action type: Drop Down Menu - Popup message box with new HTML action apm://message - Clean up temporary files generated by SFXs - Fix window frame captured by 'Copy to Clipboard' action - Minor bugs fixed v7.3 (05-24-2015) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Ability to load more animated GIF images - Make standalone executables and sfx files be friendly with code signing - Allow standalone executables to be launched from network path - Set parameters in apm://run html action - Optimize save procedure with backup option v7.2 (07-30-2014) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Set text alignment of Button, Cool Button and Shape controls - Toggle background music with one control - Pause/resume Flash and Media Player with control interaction - Run program in minimized or hidden state - Fix a serious bug that can not input characters differ from system's current code page - Minor bugs fixed v7.1 (06-22-2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Dockable user interface v7.0 (03-16-2013) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Full Unicode support - Improve Windows 7/8 compatibility - Many minor enhancements - Minor bugs fixed v6.2 (07-24-2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - New options to customize text message in slide show window - Update ISO Image Creator utility to improve compatibility - Switch page and change page order with menu operation - Minor bugs fixed v6.1 (03-01-2011) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Drag and drop to change page order easily - Add "Password" property to action controls - Support environment variables in some action parameters - Minor bugs fixed v6.0 (03-20-2010) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - New HTML Label control which support basic HTML tags - New Music Player control with Winamp 2 skin support - Add "Opacity" property to many controls - Draw shape controls anti-aliased - Allow to keep aspect ratio while scaling images - Snap edges of menu form to the edge of screen - Allow to show or to hide toolbar of PDF Viewer controls - Send print command to PDF Viewer controls - Import separated images to Cool Button controls - Allow to customize internal text strings - Open dropped project files - Minor bugs fixed v5.7 (06-28-2009) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Full compatibility with Windows 7 - New "Save as" menu item - Add a panel in inspector window to adjust control size - Add help manual in pdf format - Add print job name for Print action - Enhance layout preview to support wide resolutions - Ask to copy files when selecting files out of project folder - Remove obsolete recent file items automatically - Minor bugs fixed v5.6 (03-08-2009) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Run actions from html pages in Web Browser control - Allow setting Text Box control to single line mode - New copy to clipboard action - New print action - Remember custom colors in color dialog - Minor bugs fixed v5.5 (06-28-2008) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Add a new PDF Viewer control to display adobe pdf documents - Add multi-line caption support to Hot Label, Button & Cool Button controls - Allow to stretch pictures to slide show window bounds - Allow to enlarge small pictures to slide show window size - Add the ability to resume background music after launched application closed - Add the ability to synchronize window caption with active page name - Add some Cool Button images - Minor bugs fixed v5.4 (03-24-2008) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - New utility SFX Creator to create self-extracting archives - Restore window size and position to its last state - Fixed the bug that tray icon disappear when explorer crashes - Fixed the bug that can not open help manual in Windows Vista - Forbidden enter space characters in menu filename, or the menu will not launch automatically - Minor bugs fixed v5.3 (10-20-2007) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Improve Windows Vista compatibility - ISO Image Creator, a utility for creating iso9660 images - Allow to name project files other than "autorun" - Enhance PNG image format support - Enhance drawing of stretched cool button control - List available templates in the "Save as Template" dialog - Load images of any supported formats as button icons - Add command line support to autorun.exe - Use PNG images to create translucency splash screen in Windows 2000 and later - Use PNG images to create translucency windows for show picture action in Windows 2000 and later - Fix the bug that can't set caption of menu window to empty - Fix a scrolling bug of scroll text control with center or right alignment - Minor bugs fixed v5.2 (10-30-2006) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - New action type "Control Interact" allows you to interact with web browser, media player, flash movie, text, image controls with any action control - Shrink large pictures to fit the boundary of slide show - Support manual navigation when playing slide shows - Allow to change version information of output file autorun.exe - Allow to store rich text in menu data files - New style "Frame" for hot label control - Enhance auto play feature of media player control - Add a new macro "%Desktop%" to indicate the desktop directory - Fix the short cut key bug that can not work with input box in web browser control v5.1 (10-01-2005) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Support undo/redo with alignment palette - Add right click support to action controls - Enhanced Web Browser control with a control bar - Fix the bug that Rich Text control doesn't display text while loading the menu sometimes - Minor bugs fixed v5.0 (06-22-2005) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Undo and redo support - Show tip of the day at startup - Allow minimize an autoplay menu to tray icon - Add many slide show effects - Customize slide show effects - Display position and size tooltips while designing menus - Allow to skip splash screen and end screen with ESC key - Add a new control, Rich Text, which allows you to load rich text (.rtf) files - Add a new icon group to gallery - Allow to add files to gallery and delete files from gallery - Customize window type of explore folder action - Now Cool Button control support PNG images with alpha channel, that allows you to create partial transparent cool buttons - Allow to choose whether to generate autorun.ico file - Fix the bug of slideshow that can not erase previous picture if the next one is smaller than the previous one - Fix the word wrap bug of Text Box control - Fix the bug that Exit & Eject CD action can not work with an end screen - Minor bugs fixed v4.3 (03-15-2005) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Create compressed data files to reduce file size - Add action support to many controls, Cool Label, Cool Text, Shape, Text Animator and Image - New action property, Minimize before Action - Customize time intervals of tool tips - Pause Flash Movie automatically when jumping to other pages - Fixed a bug when applying resource to multiple controls from the gallery - Minor bugs fixed v4.2 (01-20-2005) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - New action Launch Slide Show, internal slide show support with a large set of effects - New action Show Picture, display a picture in a popup window, can be used to create about box - Play CD audio of mixed mode CD with Media Player control, need Windows Media Player 9 or later - Use animated gif image as splash screen - Display an end screen when closing the menu - Display text in shape controls with new properties Caption and Font - Now you can use an exe-packer with overlay support such as UPX to compress stand-alone menus - Minor bugs fixed v4.1 (07-10-2004) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Gallery explorer available - Support PCX images - Enhanced Cool Button, support other formats besides bitmap, decrease size of menus with many Cool Button controls - Set subject with Send Mail action - Hide context menu in Web Browser control - New project option, Require Administrative Privilege - Fix the bug that can't get base dir in Flash control - Fix the bug of testing shaped menu which is hidden in task bar - Minor bugs fixed v4.0 (04-10-2004) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Create stand-alone executable files - Customize the icon of executable files - Export graphic and music files from menu data files - Jump to previous or next page action available - Use system message box to show messages - Lock position of controls at design time - Group controls at design time - Support clipboard operation in picture choosing dialog - Package specified template to a .zip file for distribution - Install templates from .zip files - Set a shortcut key to action controls, and draw this key char with underline effect - Control menu background music automatically, play when menu activates, and stop when menu deactivates - Pause Media Player automatically when jumping to other pages - Fix a serious bug of Media Player that can't open file when it is not on the startup page - Minor bugs fixed v3.6 (01-15-2004) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Add a screen layout preview window - Tile picture in Image control - Unlock expired menu with an unlock code - New action property, Exit after Action - Fix a bug of tool tip & comment editor - Minor bugs fixed v3.5 (11-01-2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Splash screen with fade in & fade out effect - New option for menus, Allow Continue When Expired - New control based on Internet Explorer, Web Browser, used to display HTML files or browse web pages - Embed Windows Media Player in menus with the new control, Media Player - New property of Cool Label, Shape and Image controls, Window Moving Handle, allow moving window by holding these controls - Support Portable Network Graphic (PNG) format now - Add some new templates - Add some new cool button images - Add a 'visited' status to Hot Label - Fixed the background drawing bug of transparent text box - Make Virtual Drive Manager Windows 95 compatible - Minor bugs fixed v3.4 (09-01-2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Fixed bug that menu runs incorrectly in large font mode - Protect menus from being modified by others with password - Add a tiny but useful utility, Virtual Drive Manager - New option for menus, Exit with ESC Key - New option for menus, Hidden in Task Bar - Set an expire date to menus - Change size of Cool Button - Minor bugs fixed v3.3 (07-07-2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - New action type, Exit & Eject CD - Control background music with action controls - New control, Flash Movie, support macromedia flash movies - Add Ogg music files support for background music - Minor bugs fixed v3.2 (03-20-2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Add an alignment palette to set layout of controls - Add alpha blend support to menu window in Windows 2K and later - Add two Hot Label styles with background - Change font of user interface to Tahoma - Fix bug of can't show Hot Label with transparent Text Box sometimes - Fix bug of can't show some animated cursors in project options dialog - Fix many minor bugs v3.1 (02-18-2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Add a background window for the application, but also support the old separate window mode - Windows XP themes support for user interface - Add XP Theme Support property to Button - Add Text Shadow Color property to Scroll Text - Fix many minor bugs v3.0 (12-01-2002) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Add images on Cool Button, like the images on Button control - Add a new control Cool Text, support multi-line text and cool aspect like Cool Label - Tool tip support - Beautiful customized tool tips - Graphic comment support, and add a new control Graphic Comment Shower - Enhanced designer, support multi-select and multi-edit - Load default editor window when double click on controls - New designer option, minimize other windows when testing - Using strings to name pages - Duplicate page - Adjust page order - Auto adjust parameter of jump to page when deleting a page - Add file and folder select dialog in action editor - Using system font of message box to show popup messages - Enhanced color selector - Associate with autoplay menu data files - Fix bug of can't save content of text box in test mode - Fix bug of can't show customized icon on task bar v2.2 (10-01-2002) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Template support, let you save your own menus as template - Change transparent color of Cool Button & images on Button - Add 3D caption style to Button control - Pick screen colors in color select box - Preview animated cursors when load .ani files as cursor - Fix tiny bug of playing button sounds - Fix bug of can't play some MP3 files v2.0 (08-01-2002) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Full screen support - Semi-transparent button - Cool Label & Text Box, much more beautiful than before - Shape control added - Add much more gradient styles - New property editor - Clipboard support for visual designer - Customized icon - Customized cursor - Play background music looped - Support MID/MP3/MP2/MP1/WAV/RMI/XM/IT/MOD/S3M/MTM files for background music - Show splash screen, even in shaped - Install fonts before loading menu v1.0 (03-01-2002) ---------------------------------------------------------------- - Multi-pages support - Many kinds of style for your menu, normal, gradient, wallpaper and even shaped - Many kinds of action - Play background music - Many styles of button - Bitmap Button, customize the aspect of your buttons entirely - Play sound when mouse moves over buttons or clicks - Show text in gradient colors, cool - Scroll Text, like billboard, also with graphic - Text Animator, make your text animate like wave or wind - Image support - Animated GIF support - Show comments of the controls