Super Ticker Player V 2.5 Release Notes

This article contains release notes for the Super Ticker Player Version 2.5

Version 2.5.434

Misc Changes

  • ACE: fix project Refresh not restoring the active project when completed

  • ACE: allow story scenes to contain a ^Header without a ^Story

Version 2.5.433

Misc Changes

  • database schema cleanup (remove use of vote table, remove use of weather_city_details locationID, remove use of elc_choice notes)
  • bump Flow pre-req to 9.9.4.4

Version 2.5.432

New Features

  • added support for display max and shuffle rundown features

Misc Changes

  • rollback flow pre-req to 9.4.3.1

Version 2.5.431

New Features

  • use calendar broadcastName
  • weather dynamic field support

Misc Changes

  • add missing telerik reference
  • updated to flow schema 9.5.1.1

Version 2.5.430

New Features

  • event calendar support

Version 2.5.429

Bug Fixes

  • fix memory leak with scheduled items
  • removed unused datasource field additions for backward compatibility.

Version 2.5.428

Bug Fixes

  • No longer resetting all shows when a new show is added. Only shows that have been affected by the change are restarted.
  • The player no longer hangs on load if crawls have zero length. Minimum size of a child scene is 100px

Misc. Changes

  • Stocks are now sorted by symbol

Version 2.5.427

New Features

  • Flow 8.12.4.1 or newer required
  • Dynamic tags for closings now support
  • Support for changes in traffic data
  • If the player does not have a connection to the database when it goes online, the online action fails and the player remains offline.

Version 2.5.426

Bug Fixes

  • Further improvements to disconnect/reconnect code.
  • Restart child crawls when required

Version 2.5.425

Bug Fixes

  • changes to connection checking to recover from a dropped connection better.
  • database changes to recover from disconnects

Version 2.5.424

New Features

  • Native Alert topic support

Version 2.5.423

New Features

  • Added ^Ngraphic tag for weather to retrieve the night graphic

Version 2.5.422

Bug Fixes

  • Scheduler now handles exclusions properly.
  • Fix subtopic change for crawls when the topic is the same.

Version 2.5.421

Bug Fixes

  • don't show crawl ^subtopicchange on the first item
  • don't run both topicchange and subtopicchange

Version 2.5.420

Bug Fixes

  • Now Facebook content works again

Version 2.5.419

Bug Fixes

  • Facebook content works again
  • Telerik control updates

Version 2.5.418

New Features

  • database updates for closings to improve updates

Version 2.5.417

New Features

  • Flow 8.10.6.1 required

Version 2.5.416

New Features

  • Flow 8.10.5.3 required
  • support for closing groups

Bug Fixes

  • Ace: fix error while adding layouts
  • skip institutions that are set not to air

Version 2.5.415

Bug Fixes

  • tcp settings are now updated

Version 2.5.414

New Features

  • Simple automation command overrides
  • Support for running TCP automation as client or server

Version 2.5.413

Bug Fixes

  • Finalized ^MoreContent implementation from 412.

Version 2.5.412

New Features

  • Added ^MoreContent object, removed the ^MoreData animation controllers

Version 2.5.411

New Features

  • Added "^topic" tag which represents the topic type for the content (Story, Score, etc)

Bug Fixes

  • Crawls no longer skip the first update

  • Changing shows or resetting a rundown will cause crawls to restart if they were online previously.
  • Changes to Crawl update events to resolve customer issues.

Misc. Changes

  • Telerik controls update

  • Crawls can now be restarted properly during a layout change.

Version 2.5.410

Misc. Changes

  • image files are loaded as Texture shaders if there is no manipulation required. Otherwise they're loaded with the APITexture

Version 2.5.409

Bug Fixes

  • After a show change, displaying a still after a crawl would cause future updates to fail (and a blank zone to be displayed)

Version 2.5.408

Bug Fixes

  • Items weren't looping properly if not all scenes in the zone were online.

  • When the zone went online for the first time, crawls were firing an update automatically, sometimes messing with the starting of the actually crawl.

  • write a warning when we can't find a scene in the loaded project

  • Ace: Improve the reliability of Commit in the Layout window

Version 2.5.407

New Features

  • Ace: Support for importing/exporting Show Layouts

Bug Fixes

  • calling group.GetScene while a crawl is running has a race condition -- if an item is removed, your indicies all change. So now do it a different way to prevent the exception.

  • More preferences are now refreshed when changed without a restart (including log settings)

  • Removed support for VotesLeading field from elections

Misc. Changes

  • SceneLayoutManager now shows the server info as well as has import/export support

Version 2.5.406

Bug Fixes

  • Build 405 for 6.1 was not correctly checking for the right XPression version.

Version 2.5.405

New Features

  • Multiple quads can now have the same tag name while still updating correctly
  • Requires Flow 8.4.4.6 or newer.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed occasional flicker when updating quad materials.

Version 2.5.404

Bug Fixes

  • SubtopicChange animations in crawls were not running if the first child scene was omitted (e.g. no header in the first story)

Version 2.5.403

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed issue where updating project layouts could fail unexpectedly.

Misc. Changes

  • Ace credentials now default to the updater login rather than the player.
  • Telerik UI controls updates to Q2 2106

Version 2.5.402

Bug Fixes

  • Added "Alt. Word Wrap" preference for using either whitespace or boundaries for breaking text for word wrap
  • trim whitespace from the end of a wordwrapped text (issue with right-aligned text)

  • fix typo in use of ^MoreData animation

Version 2.5.401

Bug Fixes

  • Roll/Crawl children are no longer cleared before the ^Out animation is played.

Version 2.5.400

Bug Fixes

  • Fix occasional error when reading Facebook topics

Misc Changes

  • Requires Flow version 8.4.4.4 or newer.

Version 2.5.308

New Features

  • Added AutoUnloadProjects preference
  • Slab support in Ace for XPression 6.2+

Misc Changes

  • Reverted SuperTicker.Data version back to 7.12.4.3 to remain compatible with previous releases

Version 2.5.307

Misc Changes

  • 8.3.2.2 schema update, complete with all tables. (Including data_source)
  • Now listing a "recommended" flow version, instead of failing to connect.
  • Telerik UI controls update
  • setting SuperTicker.Data version to 7.12.4.3, which is the last schema change in the database currently.

Version 2.5.306

Bug Fixes

  • Fix multiple rapid out playback when taking a scene offline

Misc Changes

  • auto-detect supported flow version from SuperTicker.Data assembly version
  • Database update to 8.2.2.5, removing obsolete tables

Version 2.5.305

Bug Fixes

  • If we don't have ^SubtopicUpdate or ^SubtopicUpdateCrawl variations, fall back to the standard. Not vice versa though!
  • An update is applied if we have an ^Update, ^SubtopicChange, or ^SubtopicUpdate controller/director.

Version 2.5.304

New Features

  • ^SubtopicChange child scene in a crawl will trigger an update animation

Version 2.5.303

New Features

  • new feature: ^Start scene is valid for crawls; crawls no longer queue elements after the end marker has played.

Bug Fixes

  • all priority-based ordering is now Descending. (It was a mix. Obviously a bug)
  • refactor code for determining when to show bugs/backgrounds. Fixes show-disabled bugs from airing in a zone with other content.

Misc Changes

  • Schema update to Flow 8.1.4.6
  • mysql entity updated version
  • uniform dynamic field type support (bool, date, number, text)

Version 2.5.302

Bug Fixes

  • Now logging automation commands before processing
  • Cancelling the current update if we're going offline with quickoffline (so we don't start a new update)

Version 2.5.301

New Features

  • add "Free Resource" menus option

Bug Fixes

  • Fix memory leak related to Telerik Controls and lists

Version 2.5.300

Bug Fixes

  • threading changes to calls to ObservableCollections to fix UI memory leak

Version 2.5.299

New Features

  • Added optional Scene metadata field "recordcount" to override the number of records jumped on updates. Allows displaying 2+ upcoming records while only removing 1 at a time, creating a sliding board (for example).

Version 2.5.298

Bug Fixes

  • Adjustment to IsOnline changes to prevent race conditions.

Version 2.5.297

Bug Fixes

  • fix rare issue when using ^SubtopicChange at the start of a crawl and it not triggering ^DataIndex updates in other scenes.

Version 2.5.296

Bug Fixes

  • ^End crawl element is now a "starts with" test instead of an "equals" test, allowing names like ^End1
  • ^SubtopicChange element in crawls is not skipped if it's transparent, since it works as an intentional spacer.

Version 2.5.295

Bug Fixes

  • Stories are now properly ordered to match Flow. Introduced in build 285.

Version 2.5.294

Features

  • added ^ResortTemp to ski reports

Bug Fixes

  • Misc. Changes
  • GPI messages are written to the log file as well as the UI
  • Remote log messages prefaced with 'REMOTE:' for easy searching

Version 2.5.293

Bug Fixes

  • removed potential deadlock by removing shows asynchronously after update is applied

Misc. Changes

  • extra debug log messages

Version 2.5.292

New Features

  • added %online, %offline, %sh+ and %sh- commands

Bug Fixes

  • empty crawl templates don't hang the player on startup anymore

Misc. Changes

  • Re-organization of applying state changes when setting online to simplify workflow

Version 2.5.291

Misc. Changes

  • contains telerik controls updated to Q3 2015
  • fix; potential delays or hangs in the player. extent uncertain.
  • remove longer debug sleep time. there was a real issue to resolve instead.

Version 2.5.290

Misc. Changes

  • fix renaming of gpi sets

Version 2.5.289

Misc. Changes

  • added rosstalk app
  • fix reading of multi-line commands. was splitting on \n, not on both \r\n and \n

Version 2.5.288

Misc. Changes

  • look-ahead reduced to 3 minutes. should be more than enough time to load a show.
  • pre-load support so we don't keep removing future shows
  • longer sleep time in debug
  • added IsPreloaded to identify when a show has been pre-loaded for scheduled runs.

Version 2.5.287

Misc. Changes

  • %suspend/%restore disables the scheduler temporarily
  • unload unused shows/projects after a scheduled update
  • a couple thread sync issues
  • support for running the scheduler manually
  • GPI checkpoint. Multi-line advanced commands are supported.
  • removed superfluous log message
  • scheduler no longer changes the online/offline state of the player, just the loaded show.
  • Better fix to crawl issue. (short crawl signaled done twice vs long crawl signalling done zero)
  • gpi set support
  • <clear> support
  • If we don't need to actually play ^ZoneIn, we still need to scrub to the end so we render the keyframes in the correct place
  • no longer a risk of signalling a crawl complete twice
  • jumping all the way to 6.1 build 3437
  • building for XPR 6.0 3318

Version 2.5.286

Misc. Changes

  • when caching new content for a crawl, don't update the content on the other scenes. That needs to wait until the item goes on air.
  • fix for comparison options refactor

Version 2.5.285

Misc. Changes

  • added ^League[Type] so we can do something special for soccer
  • order stories by priority DESC, then ID so it matches flow.
  • Changes to shutdown to prevent threading issues.

Version 2.5.284

Misc. Changes

  • fix telerik-related crash on startup

Version 2.5.282

Misc. Changes

  • sneaking in one more fix to 282 - fix to restoring previous show if a layout wasn't saved (upgrade issue)
  • State change fix: don't process completed events when we've suspended updates.
  • when reloading last show, restore the last state as well
  • protection against firing cancel twice
  • ComparisonData change; thread-safety improvement
  • removed unused Cancelled event
  • using TickCount instead of Stopwatch for performance
  • read metadata once -- on scene load
  • added ComparisonData
  • minor id/log changes
  • Task.Id is a string
  • reducing thread count. What's a good value?
  • using TickCount instead of Stopwatch for performance
  • reduced wait period; using TickCount instead of Stopwatch for performance
  • Moved ComparisonData to RossGraphics to speed up the read time. Reading metadata is slow!
  • increase thread count for MLSE graphics

Version 2.5.280

Misc. Changes

  • speed up dynamic fields for stories while still supporting play count.
  • fix db reader error in promos

Version 2.5.278

Misc. Changes

  • when resetting controllers, change the position twice to make sure the SD is applied.
  • pass on the wait parameter

Version 2.5.277

Misc. Changes

  • Added ^CrawlOut animation to play out crawl graphics.
  • DataIndex/Count for crawl items

Version 2.5.276

Misc. Changes

  • Added "Quick Offline" option, which doesn't wait for updates to finish before triggering offline.
  • no longer air -999. treat it as an empty field
  • crawls trigger update animations on each on-air item
  • fixed a minor warning
  • no longer clearing the current show. so we can remember it the next time.
  • Support for datetime dynamic fields

Version 2.5.275

Misc. Changes

  • polls don't need an office
  • update election table
  • fix percentage if there are 0 votes

Version 2.5.274

Misc. Changes

  • election improvements
  • Added some conditions, and support for creating metadata

Version 2.5.273

Misc. Changes

  • when caching crawl items, make sure they're the same topic AND use the same scene name. (TVA fix)

Version 2.5.272

Misc. Changes

  • ^SubtopicIn now supported.
  • Start of re-write to animation task scheduling. shelfing for now to focus on ST3. Currently not in use.
  • TaskChain test

Version 2.5.271

Misc. Changes

  • removed old asserts
  • correctly use the default layout if one is not specified
  • variable rename for clarity
  • fix case where there is no CurrentProvider in UpdateAsRun
  • now removing a show on remote show change

Version 2.5.270

Misc. Changes

  • Using Flow 7.7.3.3, with the data_source table removed for backwards compatibility.
  • election schema changes
  • added txt instructions
  • changes to election schema
  • don't crash if there's a crawl with no children!

Version 2.5.269

Misc. Changes

  • if we have repeats, track the play count
  • building again (for now)
  • story_tag now editable (for play count)
  • intentionally broken
  • fixes to previous changes to work in the SN case.



Version 2.5.268


Misc. Changes

  • fix: master/slave with multiple topics was not playing update animation consistently -- there were 2 copies of players created

Version 2.5.267

Misc. Changes

  • use the playlist name as subtopic
  • return null if an animation doesn't exist, instead of crashing!
  • ^ZoneIn animation/SD support
  • if we're given un-realisitically long templates for crawls (>1600), make sure we have 4, since that's a good fallback.
  • improvements to player shutdown (st and tick-it)

Version 2.5.264

Misc. Changes

  • shutdown improvements
  • option to ClearOutput without passing it off to another thread
  • changes to shutdown code to aid in a clean XPR shutdown
  • added DynamicType.DateTime (not in use though)

Version 2.5.263

Misc. Changes

  • prevent exception
  • improvement of "Remove" button change, so it's only if something is selected AND (we're offline OR that show isn't enabled)
  • allow output change works for tick-it
  • Can only remove shows that are not enabled.
  • A/B quads share materials.
  • using shared VersionAssemblyInfo.cs
  • fall back to stateless version if state version is not present.


Version 2.5.262

Misc. Changes

  • fix to wordwrap bug using the style text when calculating word wrap.

  • telerik interface change

Version 2.5.261

New Features

  • Support for Event Playlists

Misc. Changes

  • Support for Flow 7.3.2.3

Version 2.5.260

New Features

  • Using default player name and project folder (different folder for tick-it)

Bug Fixes

  • Significantly speed up rendering of paged text if there are no styles applied

Misc. Changes

  • Update remote interface to version 1.0.1

Version 2.5.259

Misc. Changes

  • Improved error handling for SceneDirectors

Version 2.5.258

New Features

  • Added TCP Automation support

Misc. Changes

  • Includes many fixes to Tick-it build for proper images, preferences, .ace file, details view, etc.

Version 2.5.257

New Features

  • Support for "number" dynamic fields that can be formatted via graphics
  • Financial data (price/change/volume) are numbers instead of text now. Allows number formatting.

Bug Fixes

  • Prevent incomplete shows from causing no shows to populate on the player (case 225)
  • Fix missing ^SubtopicChange scene from not showing up in crawls.
  • Greatly improve processing of crawls. much less likely to fall behind in rendering.

Misc. Changes

  • Support for Flow 7.2.2.4

  • Removal of player.deleted field

  • Re-removal of promo.spotID field

Version 2.5.256

New Features

  • Added new fields: ^Sunrise, ^Sunset, ^AirVisibility, ^AirQuality, ^AirPressure, ^AirPressureDir, ^DewPoint, ^Humidity, ^Period
  • Added support for "part" types, like morning, afternoon, evening, night

Bug Fixes

  • order playlist entries by priority

Misc. Changes

  • speed up loading of crawl scenes by not continuously querying the children sizes

Version 2.5.255

Bug Fixes

  • fix: crash that happens on the last day of every month (at midnight)

Misc. Changes

  • "No Data Provider" message dropped from Warning to Debug. (It's perfectly fine.)

Version 2.5.254

Bug Fixes

  • static promos respect channel and campaign ranges

Misc. Changes

  • using promo_topic table instead of promo.spotID
  • dropped promo.spotID from the schema

Version 2.5.253

Bug Fixes

  • prevent zones from not going online when new data is added.
  • also remove the potential for a zone to get stuck waiting for an update to happen that won't
  • player now gets updated stories

Misc. Changes

  • Multi-preference support uses text instead of ints (for more convenient names)
  • reduce debug messages
  • no longer wait "forever" for loops to start before doing the next update.

Version 2.5.252

New Features

  • Added ^PublicationDate to twitter data

Bug Fixes

  • Only play promo scenes with visible promo objects.
  • Disabled the file system version check. Now exclusively using the API call
  • Animations/directors that are stopped or taken offline will no longer hang the zone.

Misc. Changes

  • no longer try to create a player for scenes that don't exist.
  • Refactor to GetAnimation logic to not continually create objects and query the COM API

Version 2.5.251

Bug Fixes

  • Clear button clears secondary promos as well

Version 2.5.250

Bug Fixes

  • Promos output on the correct channel, not the first
  • Promo as run reports are fixed (for child scene implementation)
  • Fix Issue with CheckCGVersion when multiple XPresssion.exe are found

Version 2.5.248

Misc. Changes

  • client/server work
  • comment out benign assert
  • Scheduler/Bypass settings added
  • TimeOffset works again. It's the time offset of the first enabled show.

Version 2.5.247

Misc. Changes

  • not using format for date/time -- using dateformat and timeformat (interchangeably)

Bug Fixes

  • fixes to ^Time and ^Date objects (support for format metadata)
  • fix crash with empty show (no zones)

Version 2.5.245

Misc. Changes

  • Support for Flow 7.1.2.4
  • Conditional logic now supports binary data as well, allowing the selection of a template based on the existence of a ^Graphic, for example.

Version 2.5.244

Bug Fixes

  • Avoid ClearMaterials crash. It's not really needed either, since we're just replacing a material.

Misc. Changes

  • Updated mysql connector install link

Version 2.5.242

Misc. Changes

  • Reduced database connection count from 10 to 8
  • Player records are now detected by player name, not by machine name
  • Preferences are updated on settings confirmation, restart no longer required.

Bug Fixes

  • Fix for missing material updates on file-based textures (like weather animations)

Version 2.5.241

Misc. Changes

  • Support for Flow 6.11.5.5 (Election changes)

Version 2.5.240

New Features

  • Image scaling now supports anchors: top, bottom, left, right

Misc. Changes

  • Log message if media is failed
  • Fixes to material clearing (introduced in v.238)
  • Election playlists are now correctly ordered

Version 2.5.239 

New Features

  • Added ^SubtopicUpdate, which will run instead of SubtopicChange + Update if present

Misc. Changes

  • Protect against invalid rundown data

Version 2.5.238

New Features

  • Support for LayerOffset and multiple preference files
  • Story Playlists

Misc. Changes

  • Support for Flow 6.11.3.5
  • Added Election Poll Percentage
  • Changes to material clearing

Version 2.5.236 

Misc. Changes

  • Election data fixes

Version 2.5.235

New Features

  • Scale support for file-based media
  • Added Election Leader tags

Misc. Changes

  • fixed the caching of large media
  • Support for Flow 6.10.4.6
  • Fixed stale data in rarely-changing data (bad words, etc)

Version 2.5.234

New Features

  • Added support for Number data, which can be formatted as numbers (currency, decimals, significant digits, etc)
  • Textures now maintain aspect ratio by default, scaling the texture to fit. Metadata options exist for cropping instead of scaling, as well as doing nothing.
  • Initial support for the Election topic

Bug Fixes

  • Fix "value can not be null" exception when looking for cached media
  • Fix to ![layout] naming convention for resetting content to work when resetting the current layout
  • Fix potential error with metadata
  • Ace: Lists objects of any primitive format, not just quads

Misc. Changes

  • Tick-It settings using correct name and icon

Version 2.5.233

Bug Fixes

  • Fix COM error occuring when using SceneDirectors

Version 2.5.232

Bug Fixes

  • Improved graphic control of show changes and multi-show support

Version 2.5.231

Misc. Changes

  • Updated Telerik controls
  • Logging Exceptions in animation playing
  • Refreshing graphics will refresh the rundown as well

Version 2.5.230

Bug Fixes

  • Improvements to player threading
  • (Ace) Minor fix to populating object list

Version 2.5.229

Bug Fixes

  • Scenes can no longer have no name
  • Project is no longer reloaded if output is set to channel 2+
  • Reloading previous state on startup works again
  • (Ace) Backgrounds show up
  • Added High and optional Low command to GPI settings
  • Removed Key from GPI settings
  • Improved how new content is updated after a loop

Version 2.5.228

Bug Fixes

  • Taking a scene offline/online via details view resumes data updates again
  • Zone with one provider won't go offline between data loops

Version 2.5.227

Bug Fixes

  • Added ^LastModified to all topics.
  • This is always the last tag updated, giving a safe place to inspect the new values and apply scripts.

Version 2.5.226

Bug Fixes

  • Log Message reduction
  • Resetting animation/director position to start before playing to prevent potential render jumps.
  • (Ace) Load project layouts faster
  • (Tick-It) Added banner to UI
  • Fixed time update failure at midnight (when h>=24)
  • Checking both animations and directors for existence of named controllers
  • Added ^Subtopic support for closings
  • Fixed output selection
  • Fixed disabling of output selection
  • (Tick-It) Removed Details view

Version 2.5.225

Bug Fixes

  • Traffic feeds are downloaded to the player for display (network access required)
  • No longer splitting up text and braces, quotations, etc in english text.
    • Word wrap use spaces if present, uses word breaks if extended characters are present. (Issue introduced in build 223)
  • Scene Directors will be set to reverse so scripts play only when desired

Version 2.5.224

Bug Fixes

  • Fix hang and eventual crash when all the topics assigned to a zone have zero content.

Version 2.5.223

New Features

  • Crawls now support a child scene called ^SubtopicChange. It will be displayed when topics change in the crawl.
  • Better support for languages that don't use spaces for word breaks.

Bug Fixes

  • Scores and Financials now have content in their ^Subtopic tag. Required for crawls.
  • Clear button works again
  • Output selection works again
  • Constrained text no longer gets stuck if there are no word breaks that would fit inside the max width/height.

Version 2.5.222

New Features

  • More consistent UI. Buttons are no longer coloured and the text describes the action the button will accomplish rather than a state.
  • Additional UI added to describe the state of different features, with icons for a quick glance.

Bug Fixes

  • Ace: Editing scenes works again.
  • Improvements to COM Exceptions occurring with XPression 5.7
  • Details View once again displays the contents of the selected topic in the third pane

Misc. Changes

  • Reduced message level of "excluded tags" to a Debug message
  • UI additions for promos in the Details View

Version 2.5.221

Bug Fixes

  • Fix hang/crash that can occur if a promo has no image data stored

Misc. Changes

  • Only supports XPression 5.7
  • Improvements to how timecode is retrieved from the system

Version 2.5.220

Bug Fixes

  • When a zone had no topics assigned, it would fail to occasionally check for added topics, causing the zone to never be displayed.

Version 2.5.219

Features

  • Player supports a layoutrules.xml file. If found in the project folder, it will support conditionally changing the name of the layout used in a state change. This allows automation commands to only contain a subset of all available layouts.

Bug Fixes

  • When a zone had no topics assigned, it would fail to occasionally check for added topics, causing the zone to never be displayed.
  • If there is no ^NextPage animation, the player will use ^Update to display the next page of contents

Version 2.5.218

Bug Fixes

  • Scheduler, GPI, and Serial control (along with flow control) will correctly alter the player online state as required.

Misc. Changes

  • Scheduler UI now displays the time until the next query, which has been reduced to every 10s.

Version 2.5.217

Bug Fixes

  • Scheduled shows no longer automatically become unscheduled
  • Fix "random" skipping of topics if the player is falling behind in data caching
  • Content list is no longer restarted on state changes if the content is the same

Misc. Changes

  • HIDE/SHOW button changed to ONLINE/OFFLINE status text.

    • Better matches the ON/OFF status on the rest of the UI
    • A green ONLINE button means the player is online, a red OFFLINE button means the player is offline.
    • In general, RED is a warning/error and GREEN means good.

Version 2.5.216

Misc. Changes

  • Bypass Control will now enter bypass mode within one second of inactivity, or if test mode is enabled.

Version 2.5.215

Features

  • Player works without activating projects, allowing other XPression applications to run simultaneously

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed crash which occurred after 10 minutes of playback (introduced in 2.5.214)

Misc. Changes

  • Uses XPression 5.7.3036

Version 2.5.214

Features

  • Scene Directors can be used instead of Animation Controllers for building graphics

Bug Fixes

  • Some additional fixes to improve functionality while running multiple XPression applications

Misc. Changes

  • Uses XPression 5.7.3034


Version 2.5.213

Features

  • Player now supports SceneDirector objects as well as AnimationControllers
    • Create multiple SceneDirectors using the animation names to gain multi-animation support, effects, audio, and more!
    • e.g. SceneDirector with the name ^Update will be used first. If not present, Animation Controller with the name ^Update will be used.

Version 2.5.212

Bug Fixes

  • Scheduler only disables scheduled shows when no scheduled shows are found.
  • Update button is now yellow, and only enabled when there is a modification to apply

Misc. Changes

  • Help Menu Changes
    • "Show Current Log" opens log files in default editor instead of always using notepad
    • "Online Documentation" takes you to Super Ticker specific docs page
    • Added "Logs -> Open Log Folder"
    • Added "Online Release Notes"

Version 2.5.211

Features

  • Ace: Using a tab control for the object properties UI

Version 2.5.210

Bug Fixes

  • Manual bugs are once again separate from other Bug/Background scenes (introduced in 2.5.207)

Misc. Changes

  • Supports minimum requirements for Flow versions greater than 6.7.2.4
  • Version order has been changed to MAJOR.MINOR.REVISION.XPRESSION

Version 2.5.209

Bug Fixes

  • Projects without Layouts play correctly
  • Ace no longer hangs when a scene includes 3 objects in the object hierarchy with the same name.
  • Ace no longer refreshes all projects twice on launch
  • Tick-It UI now has matching 2.5 changes
  • Removed the Free Resources menu item

Misc. Changes

  • Removed the Free Resources menu item

Version 2.5.208

Bug Fixes

  • Launches properly on Bluebox systems. (Previously required XPression version containing the user interface to be installed)

Version 2.5.207

New Features

  • Supports Flow Scheduler
  • Multiple Show support
  • Bypass monitor (with supported hardware)



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