The Storyboard Suite 5.3 release includes new features, stability and performance enhancements. Storyboard 5.3 will automatically convert Storyboard 4.x and earlier workspaces and project files. Once converted to Storyboard 5.3 format, Storyboard projects are no longer compatible with Storyboard 4 and earlier projects.
Resource allocating object tracking: animations, timers, controls
Broad range of pre-configured statistics
Event filtering for content in statistics
Event filtering for generation at command line
External runtime performance start/stop event support
RGB color creation API (gre.rgb, gre.torgb)
Engine integrated logging API (gre.log)
Clone support extended to tables (and tables in groups)
Line information for gre function errors and warnings
Lua GREDOM moved from a library to a plugin
Automatic open of generated files (design report)
Screen transition names better labelled
Timer names available as drop down selection
Timer Stop action now available
Consistent default name (sbengine_model.h) on C/C++ header export
Design report screen transition reporting overhaul
Text editing undo operations
Save As option for component editor
Alignment controls decoupled from the editor
Multi-select editing of animation FPS values
Image rotation center point guidelines
Starting with MacOS version 10.13.4, users are now notified when they use 32 bit applications for the first time with a pop-up. This will happen when you launch Storyboard Suite Installer.
HTML generated designer notes cannot be viewed within the Ubuntu 16.04 and 17.10 version of Storyboard Designer. To work around the issue libwebkitgtk-3.0-0 needs to be installed.
sudo apt-get install libwebkitgtk-3.0-0
Ubuntu 17.10 now uses Wayland as it's default compositor. The Eclipse version that serves as the framework for Storyboard Designer has some issues with Wayland. There are rendering issues when Storyboard Designer first comes up, and it will crash fairly quickly after starting with a "No more handles" error. To work around this, start Ubuntu with the Ubuntu Xorg configuration. To launch this configuration, click your username. Select the gear icon that is displayed below the password box, and then select "Ubuntu xorg". This will start the UI without using Wayland.