The main focus in this release of Storyboard Designer was to enable collaboration across the entire product development team including embedded engineers, UI designers, graphic artists, Project and Product Managers. Storyboard Designer now enables all users to effectively work on a single project in a collaborative manner in an environment that is comfortable and familiar to them.
Support for Storyboard development under Mac OS X is now available including a complete simulator (via SDL) to verify and test your application. All features included in the existing Windows and Linux Storyboard Designer will be supported with the new Mac OS X version.
Support is for Mac OS X 10.6.0 or greater (X86 only)
In this release we have added support for collaboration which enables a Storyboard project to be effectively managed in a code repository. Storyboard Designer will provide multiple customized views for a user to evaluate changes between project versions. The different views include source, properties and graphical which will enable anyone from an embedded engineer to the UI design or Project manager to effectively track UI changes throughout the project lifecycle.
Users of Storyboard Designer are now able to generate a complete UI Design Report showing images of all the project's Screens and Layers along with details on all the variables and actions that are associated with them. The UI Design Report is able to be exported as HTML or Adobe PDF.
In the properties view for all model elements (application, screen, layers, and controls) you can now include notes to better explain the purpose and functionality of each element. All notes are included in the UI Design Report as well.
When selecting variables for use as properties or animations you can create custom selections and access variables that are out of context.
The Win32 Storyboard Engine is now available in the standard location with the rest of the runtimes [install dir]/storyboard engine/ .
Improvements to the PSD import fix a short coming of the previous release where certain layer and group names would cause PSD layers not to be imported. A fix was added that addresses an issue with duplicate names in the PSD file overriding images in the filesystem.
New alignment buttons have been added to the tool bar to provide additional layout options:
stack vertically
stack horizontally
distribute equally vertically
distribute equally horizontally
The list in the events and action dialogs are now sorted via a frequently used policy making it quicker to find high usage list items. The naming of many actions and events has been updated to provide more familiar naming.
When using Storyboard Designer on Mac OS X there have been on rare occasions that a font can get corrupted and is substituted with a square containing random symbols. Restarting Storyboard Designer appears to workaround this issue. The simulator isn't affected by this issue.
Focus of drop down lists requires the user to hit return to commit the selection to the drop down.