Support for Microsoft's WinCE 6.0 has been added to the this release for X86 and ARM architectures.

Support for DirectFB 1.4 is now supported on all Linux platforms. Many hardware vendors provide an accelerated DirectFB driver for their hardware significantly improving the performance over using fbdev only.

Support for the Khronos Group's OpenVG is introduced in this version of Storyboard Engine. As a first introduction we have selected TI's Beagleboard as the currently only supported platform (PowerVR SDK version OMAP35x_Graphics_SDK_3_00_00_09 ), with other platforms to follow. Give us a call if you require an OpenVG support on a different platform.

Support for Renesas' SH4 processors has been added in this version. The Linux and QNX6 Operating Systems are supported.

Support for PPC BE processors has been added in this version for the QNX6 Operating System.

A polygon render extension is now part of you render extension choices. The biggest use for this will be for our customers who wish to have a dial on their system. Rotating a polygon it provides an easy and effective method to smoothly move a dial on an embedded system.

In Storyboard 1.0 we linked the LUA library statically into the Lua plugin, this was nice since it simplified deployment with one plugin. It was limiting if you want to extend LUA with your own plugins or extensions and need to link against the library that we used. Now we provide the liblua.so / .lib in the lib directory of your selected target. One caveat with this is now you need to make sure that liblua.so is in your library load path if you are intending to use the LUA plugin.

Now if you pass a "-i" to sbengine when launching the version information of sbengine and all plugins loaded will be dumped to the console. It will also report the version of the gapp file. (The current gapp file version is 2.0)

The layout of the deployment bundle xml file has changed which should have no effect but opens up possibilities for future functionality. For example one of the changes is that the gapp file is now consistantly ordered on export which makes merging of gapp files more straightforward.

This new Lua function, gre.get_string_size(), enables you to determine if a text string is bigger than the control you plan to display it in and make the appropriate accommodations.

This new Lua function, gre.set_layer_attr_global(), enables you to change layers attributes on a every instance of a specific layer, and not only the one on the current screen as in version 1.0. This will easily enable concepts like modal dialogs and alerts.

Target other Storyboard IO channels with last parameter.

You are now not only able to access a controls x and y position but also the width and height. To do this from Lua you can use gre.set_control_attrs(). You can use the control's variable grd.width and grd.height.

Functionality has been added to adjust the z order of a control. This means you can move a control in front of or behind another control as long as it's within the same layer by using the action "Control Z Order".

No longer are you limited by orthogonal rotation, you can now rotate images, rectangles and polygons by any angle....with the exception of text (sorry, but we can't give you everything in one release).

If your target platform has multiple hardware layers and you don't want sbengine to use certain ones you can now define a list of the hardware layers that can be used. Look at the screen manager option "dl" for more information.

Mouse users no longer need to navigate blindly when a hardware cursor isn't available. All platforms now support a software mouse cursor by passing sbengine the option "-oscreen_mgr,sw_cursor=1"

This was omitteed in Storyboard Engine 1.0, however after some discussion there was no actual reason why a data variable couldn't have a layer as it's context, so now you can.

This was a bug that is now fixed. If you didn't notice then just pretend you never read this :)

Small change to decrease the amount of verbosity in the console when running sbengine with many v's. This is mainly for anyone using a mouse since you don't get as many motion events with a touch screen.

The Storyboard IO API can now be used on a Win32 platform using windows mailslots as the transport.

You can now set your Storyboard IO channel using a Storyboard Engine option. Useful on system without environment variables and also if you are using Storyboard IO with the simulator.

If you are loading a large image that will be scaled down for display, such as for a thumbnails screen, this option will only load the smaller scaled version of the image and help save memory. If you are planning to use the image full size or dynamically scale it on the same screen, you shouldn't use this option since it will degrade the image quality and could result in performance issues.