Beta v1.0.1 Released Today
Hey Everybody
I'm happy to announce the release of Sprout v1.0.1...we've added a few new features and, thanks to all of your great feedback, were able to track down and squash a lot of bugs. These updates will automatically appear the next time you login - if you're currently logged in, save your open project and shift+reload to pull down the updates.
This is our first major release since launching a few weeks ago, and we've got a LOT more exciting changes on the way. We really appreciate the feedback you've all provided so far, and I hope you'll see that reflected in the way Sprout "grows" from here on out. I encourage you to keep the feature requests and bug reports coming, and keep your eyes on the Blog and Forums for more exciting announcements.
Also, for every major release, we'll be posting our changelog on the website so that you can keep track of what we've been up to. For this release I'll paste the changlog below.
Thanks!
j
New Features:
- Support for common non-english languages - use "Helvectia (Int'l)" font
- Publish pop up includes a link to save Google Gadget XML
- Selected elements can be deselected with the shift key + click
Squashed Bugs:
- RSS News Component may pull in the wrong feed
- Yahoo Maps Component's zoom levels 14 and higher don't work - Limited zoom levels to maximum of 14
- WinXP / IE 7 Clicking empty space to the left of the Manager Tray Tabs doesn't close opened trays
- When trying to highlight text, the entire text element moves
- Uploading file with spaces in the filename causes an error
- Audio doesn't play in Asset Tray's preview pop up
- When adding multiple assets to the queue list in the Add Asset popup, the list formatting in IE7 breaks
- When text element is in edit mode and is off the canvas, you can't click-select bounding box
- Distribute vertical and horizontal tools don't work as expected
- click tracking pops up a new window with URL 'http:///'
- Slideshow component fails to re-show 1st slide after completing then using manual controls to view next slide
- Double-clicking existing Juke box doesn't show existing tracks in the "Add audio media" pop up
- Objects' height/width may be wrong when published e.g. yahoo map component
- Asset tray doesn't open
- Asset tray doesn't close - Added a highly visible "x Close Tray"
- Jukebox playlist has a gray line toward the right side for every track.
- RSS news Feed Component: text extends past scrollbar
- Javascript Errors: adding tools, components, and assets to the canvas
- Links, buttons, and other components aren't clickable when placed on the master page background
- Links & Tracking: URL links pop up in a new window when 'open in a new window' is NOT selected.
- clicking the play button of an autoplay-enabled Audio component starts two tracks
- Error stating that Terms of service and age requirements must be accepted when registering, but there's no place to select them.
- Slideshow: images displayed in edit mode don't change when assets are edited
- Clicking share, then clicking an internal page link shows contents over the share panel
- First row in jukebox sometimes not correct text highlight color
- Bold italic fonts not showing in the player
- Flash errors appear when the Flash debug / development version of the Flash plug-in is installed







Comments
Great stuff Sproutians!
While it may be off the radar or damn near impossible, I eagerly await the arrival of "CHUMBY Edit Mode" or "Export Sprout to Chumby'ness!"
Overall great work, sproutbuilder is frickin amazing!
Thanks Dan...I would love to see Sprout play nicely with Chumby - unfortunately, Chumby runs a version of Flash Lite that's not compatible with Sprout (which requires Flash 9). I'm hoping that there will be an update to Chumby once the latest version of Flash Lite ships - if that happens, we'll look into adding Chumby into our QA test suite (I'm sure the QA team would be into it!).
j
Ya I knew that Chumby wasn't flash 9 friendly, but I was curious to see if there was any kind of down-grading possible with code. I guess if that was possible, folks would of done it already. :)
Either way, I see Sproutbuilder as potential mass win for Chumby because of its sheer ease and joy to use. Hopefully the Chumby folks can see this limitation in their concept, because with access to tools like Sproutbuilder, creation is a snap.
I fear Chumby is languishing in the sea of extremely gifted coders and that general joes will be left to hang out and watch. This can make a new concept like the Chumby fall flat fast and exposes the idea to the competition who can see Sprout goodness and follow the road to making their own wifi widget gadget clone.
Time will tell no doubt.
dan
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