AutoPlay Menu Builder Change Log

v6.2 (07-24-2011)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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)
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- 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