Storyboard Designer

Storyboard Designer
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The Storyboard Suite 4.0 release includes stability and performance enhancements. Storyboard 4.0 will automatically convert Storyboard 3 and earlier workspaces and project files. Once converted to Storyboard 4.0 format, Storyboard projects are no longer compatible with Storyboard 3 and earlier projects.

In addition to these enhancements, the following changes have been made to Storyboard Designer and Storyboard Embedded Engine.

Changes

Eclipse 4.x Update

Storyboard Designer is now using the Eclipse 4.x framework.

Lua Editor Updates

The Lua editor has been updated to include a number of productivity enhancements, including code auto completion, code folding, jump to variable and function definitions, and documentation tool tips.

Lua debugging has been streamlined to allow one-click application debugging.

Control Rotation

Control rotation now supports alpha.

Relaxed Naming Conventions

We removed the restriction in Storyboard Designer that requires the name creation of elements to be unique within the entire model space to only requiring name uniqueness at a peer level.

We've also provided the capability to name your render extensions.

Known Issues

Error When Updating or Installing Plugins

When Eclipse tries to update/install plugins, it doesn't request an escalation in privileges which causes the update to fail with a strange error. Always run Storyboard Designer as administrator when doing an update or installing plugins.

Require Mac OS X 10.8 or greater

Storyboard Designer requires Mac OS X 10.8 or greater due to the requirement by the Java 8 runtime from Oracle.

Resource Cleanup tool

Images that are not referenced directly, but are pulled in at runtime-based on a Lua script action, will not be identified as used by the Resource Cleanup wizard and may be removed accidentally.