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Please use Elections Player for Chameleon 7.0.0.0 or later as a replacement for the Elections Player for XPression application. Flow-for-Chameleon v13.5.2.1 or later is required as of Player v6.0.0.64. Gears for XPression v1.0.0.27 or later is required as of Player v6.0.0.99. |
Version 6.0.0.102Version 6.0.0.101Version 6.0.0.100Version 6.0.0.99Added text box control for specifying Flow API Key in the Preferences dialog. Added support for using API Key when using BLADE API calls to Flow. Added a '<None>' Playlist Bin entry for the Bins drop-down lists in the Rundowns tabs. - Gears for XPression 1.0.0.27 or later is required.
Version 6.0.0.98Version 6.0.0.97Added support for filtered playlists and rundowns where the filter defined in Flow is attached to playlists and rundowns. Added label to show area # of total areas for Area/Riding scenes in Fullscreen scenes UI. Modified support for playlists in Fullscreen scenes and Ticker Riding Results to refresh the playlist contests when the last contest has been shown. Removed support for 'Skip Contests if No Votes' preference option since this is now supported by Flow filtering of playlists and rundowns. Fixed a bug in DbSupport::GetCandidates(eventID, officeID, areaID) when attempting to sort based on party info where there is a mix of candidates with and without party information.
Version 6.0.0.96Fixed bug with getting contests when some contests may not have any district information. Fixed bug with Elections Settings dialog with selecting a Date, the list of available Events is not correct. Added tool tips to Scene drop-down list controls to show the selected full project and scene. Made clearing of output on app shutdown more efficient. Added Garbage Collection calls to occur after 100 XPression scenes have been freed. This prevents the XPression Engine from losing too many handles and memory.
Version 6.0.0.95Added support for Ticker Timer section to support Timer scenes. Added support for paged News and Breaking News scenes. Will play out as a crawl or page based on whether the selected XPression scene is a Scene Group or not. Added logs/messaging when GetPreferences fails attempting to connect to Flow.
Version 6.0.0.94Fixes bug with initial click on the PlaylistID drop-downs with allow key entry enabled not opening the drop-down list when clicking on the down-arrow button. Added tooltips when hovering over playlist item Status images. Fixed a bug with updating playlist that wouldn't change the position of the items in the list if the items are the same items but in different positions. Fixed loss of the status of all Playlist items on updating playlists. - Updated to MySql.Data.dll v8.0.29 & ReaderUtils.dll 1.0.48.
Version 6.0.0.93- Fixed bug Playlist Notes not being updated on an 'Update Playlists' action.
- Fixed bug with Playlist Cue label not being hidden after Cueing is disabled.
- Added check for updates on startup and will post a message in the status if a new build is available.
- Added Online Help menu option.
- Changed label of Preferences->General->Playlist Settings->'Show Information Tabs' option to 'Show Image & Notes Information Tab'.
Version 6.0.0.92Version 6.0.0.91- Added support for Ticker Clock Widgets which are useful for displaying clock times, count up or count down clocks.
Version 6.0.0.90- Added check for minimum Flow Version on startup.
- Added preferences to use and set the location of the Generic headshot image if the candidate image is unavailable
- Added ^choice.office.shortname' as an alias of the '^choice.office.code' tag.
Version 6.0.0.89Version 6.0.0.88- Fixed a bug with not saving TagPaths for graphics tags which resulted in duplicate graphics tags not working.
Version 6.0.0.87- Added support for updating the Agent Status of the Player in Flow.
Version 6.0.0.86- Modified the interactions of the Headshots Menu option settings so that they behave more consistently.
- Added support for using the Letter-Specified Headshots File Format.
Version 6.0.0.85- Added missing ^choice.office.positions & ^choice.office.name tags for Choice scenes.
- Added missing ^choice.votesPrevious% tag for Contest scenes.
- Removed unsupported Party tags related to showing differences for party totals or votes between different events. These tags are: ^choice.party.totaldiff, ^choice.party.vote(s).diff, ^choice.party.vote(s).diff%, ^choice.party.gain & ^choice.party.loss.
Version 6.0.0.84- Clicking on the OK button for the Elections Settings dialog will now always force a reload of the DB even if no options were changed.
- Added ^choice.party.colour and ^choice.party.colourvalue tags for Choice, Contest and Party scenes.
- Added an Other Party Colour option for assigning colour values for the Other party.
- Forces the XPression engine to be cleaned up on app exit.
Version 6.0.0.83- Fixed bug with playing the 1st page of a multi-paged Rundown item twice when transitioning from another item.
- Fixed bug with Rundown content information not updating for an item that was on air when another item goes on air.
- Fixed bug with attempting to update the Candidate textboxes in the Rundown Information tab when the item that uses a Contest scene but didn't have an assigned contest.
- Fixed bug with Play Rundown timer not being stopped when the app automatically stops the Rundown when reaching the end of the list (with looping not enabled).
- Fixed bug caused by attempting to get an assigned candidate ID for an item that uses a Choice scene but has no candidates assigned.
- Fixed bug with loss of the use of an MySqlDataReader instance when the underlying SQL command fails and throws an exception.
Version 6.0.0.81- Fix bug with not setting the selected Content Group object on startup if the name of the Content Group read from Preferences is not found.
- Fixed bug with not setting the URL correctly when attempting to update the application using CheckForUpdates.
Version 6.0.0.80- Fixed bug with incorrectly playing an item with 'Play Rundown' when there is only a single item (or only 1 active item) in the Rundown and the item can playout multiple pages.
- Fixed bug on 'Update Rundown' with item information not updating in the grid.
- When acquiring list of available XPFs, sub-folders in the Project Folder starting with '!' are also ignored.
Version 6.0.0.79- Fixed a bug with setting the Candidate scenes FillVotePct() function which didn't set the text object content properly.
- Load the new contest total votes and votes previous (i.e., the popular votes and votes previous).
- Modified to Candidate & Contest scenes to get the total votes and total previous votes from the contest itself (if available) and only calculate these totals if they aren't available (i.e., 0).
Version 6.0.0.78Added support for activating an XPression Project on player launch. Selecting which project to activate is done in the Preferences dialog. Fixed a bug with Ticker News and Breaking News (crawls) which cleared off the crawl the items prior to setting the scene offline.
Version 6.0.0.77Version 6.0.0.76Version 6.0.0.75Version 6.0.0.74Version 6.0.0.73Version 6.0.0.72- Added support for ^choice.popvotes% and ^choice.popvotesPrevious% tags for Contest scenes.
Version 6.0.0.71- Fixed a bug with filling of the ^choice.votesdiff% tag which incorrectly used the seats diff%.
- Fixed a bug with getting party name from cached list of parties based on the party shortname/code (which may not be unique).
- Added support for '{partyaltname}' keyword to ^choice.custom tag and fixed but with getting party info based on party shortname/code.
Version 6.0.0.70- Modified handling of Choice percentage values of votes, votesPrevious, votes2 (seats) and votes2Previous based on whether those percentage values are read from the DB or needs to be calculated.
- Added new Choice scene tags: ^choice.popvotes% and ^choice.popvotesPrevious%.
- Added new keywords: {name} and {firstletter} to ^choice.custom tag.
Version 6.0.0.69- Fix a bug caused by missing total calculations for votesPrevious, votes2, votes2Previous and related percentages.
Version 6.0.0.68Version 6.0.0.67- Fixed bugs with cached headshots filename such that DistrictNum is checked to be > 0 otherwise the District.ID is used instead.
- Fixed a bug which prevented acquiring Contests from the DB when using "All Events".
- Checks the Elections Settings on start up for invalid Current Event values. Only does this if the Db Manager has been successfully initialized.
Version 6.0.0.66- Fixed a bug in custom name tags for Candidate scenes.
- Fixed a bug that caused a deadlock situation when the CG Engine failed to initialize.
- Handle CG Engine errors more gracefully instead of throwing out errors constantly.
Version 6.0.0.65Added buttons to force refresh of Ticker Crawls (for News and Breaking News). Fixed bug in showing preview of Contest scenes in Fullscreen Scenes section where it wasn't showing any data. Fixed bug in showing of background scenes where it could be taken off unintentionally when another scene is taken to air. Added separate settings for Preview Framebuffers for Rundowns, Tickers, Fullscreen Scenes and Main Background.
Version 6.0.0.64- Requires Flow-for-Chameleon v13.5.2.1 or later.
- Fixed bug with Rundown Items that uses Party Scenes with Playlists that displays results form all contests of the chosen event instead of those in the playlist.
- Removed scenes read from the DB if their projects are not in the selected projects list (in the Preferences dialog).
- Updated Rundown Contest column to show information about the Events or Playlists in items that use Party scenes.
- Modified Rundown information tabs to show Event, Playlist and Parties for items that use Party scenes. This is similar to the items that use Contest scenes.
- Indicate Rundown items that use scenes from unloaded Projects in the Type column and also uncheck the items' output checkboxes.
Added Ticker functionality which includes support for Bug, Sponsor, Ticker Background, Party Totals, Contest Results, Utility Party scene (Party Majority), News and Breaking News crawls. Added Candidate Paging support for Ticker Contest Results functionality. Added Party Paging support for Ticker Party Totals and Party Majority functionality. - Added Party Paging support for Rundown items and Fullscreen Scenes. Paging information for Rundown items that use Party scenes are shown in the Content column just like for items that use Contest scenes.
Implemented sorting results by Results descending, Party Order ascending, Last-name ascending, First-name Last-name ascending, Party abbreviation ascending and Party name ascending. - Indicate the results sort type for the Rundown items in the Type column.
- Converted all play back and most database access functionality to be asynchronous and decoupled from the UI thread.
- Added setting to Preferences to enable or disable showing of the Image & Notes tab in the Rundown Information tabs. Default setting is disabled.
- The image in the Image & Notes Rundown Information tab will show the live thumbnail of the selected item (if the Live Thumbnails option is enabled).
- Removed the Preview Layer setting in Preferences since this setting is never used. Layer of scenes shown in Preview are derived from their default TakeItem layer setting in XPression in the same way that as for Program output.
- Forces a Garbage Collect call on exiting the app. This clears all XPression scene handles and causes the XPression UI to close consistently after the app is closed.
Version 6.0.0.63Version 6.0.0.62Version 6.0.0.61Fixed a minor bug with Check for Updates option that doesn't show a message dialog if the currently installed app is up to date. Made the names of the Elections tags identical to those that are in use in the Chameleon Web Server. - Added the 'Check for Updates' option to the Help menu.
Version 6.0.0.60Version 6.0.0.58Version 6.0.0.56Fixed issue with Db instances becoming unavailable due to collision caused by generating live thumbnails and playing output at the same time. Fixed bug with Fullscreen Scene UI showing the Candidate controls in the wrong spot for Contest scenes following the selection of a Choice scene. Candidate IDs are no longer shown as part of the displayed candidate info. This is a settings.ini option 'CandDisplayShowID' that has to be manually edited to be true to show the IDs. Changed Rundown grid cells to allow text wrapping of contents for the 'Type', 'Content' and 'Contest' columns.
Version 6.0.0.55Version 6.0.0.54Version 6.0.0.52Modified Thumbnail rendering to give priority to the playlist items of a Rundown when it's 'Update Playlists' button is pressed. Changed the default auto-update playlist timer interval from 6 seconds to 1 minute. Fixed issue with XPression application not closing after the Player is closed. This was caused by the live thumbnails feature keeping some scene references active. Fixed manifest version build # to match exe version.
Version 6.0.0.51Fixed a bug with Rundown playback which clears the currently showing item before playing the next item. This bypasses TL functionality. Added support for generating Live Thumbnails for Rundowns. Live Thumbnails can be enabled or disabled via Preference settings. Fixed a bug with the auto-scrolling of the rundown grid when auto-playing a rundown that doesn't account for the row size.
Version 6.0.0.50Version 6.0.0.49- Initial release candidate.
Fixed a bug with Update Rundown causing the grid to freeze. Fixed bug with rundown items that have empty contents that causes an unhandled exception to occur. Fixed bug with XPression Preview settings not being sticky. Fixed bug with Rundown On-Air and Cued status not being maintained when the Rundown is updated. Removed the hidden StatusCode column from all Rundown grids as they are no longer needed. Added ability to resize the grid rows using a drop-down list. Added tab LEDs to indicate whether an item in the respective tab is on-air. Added a textbox in the Cache Headshots dialog to indicate that the headshots are only being cached for the current event. Headshots are cached using the LASTNAME_Firstname_PARTYCODE_AreaID file format. Ensure scene tags are blank if the content is missing.
Version 6.0.0.48Version 6.0.0.47- Initial build with UI built using Telerik controls. Internal test build only.
- Based on code and UIs from Elector Player v5.1.xxxx.46
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