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New Element: Text Input

NEW

This feature includes the ability to manage input and output serial signals, control statements with focus management, and adjust size options.

Elements state and behavior control

 NEW

Now all elements have at least visibility and enabled state control. Depending on the element type, other controls are available.

State control options for Text Input Element

Project Media Library added

 NEW

Upload your media file and use it as an Image element or background image. Now we allow file formats: .jpg, .png. New updates allow attaching more media formats: .svg, .webm, .mp3, .mp4, and more to create a video background, animated & interactive SVG objects, and other effects.

New Element added – Image

 NEW

Image elements allow rendering images from the project media library or external URL.

Has rich stretching and size options.

Background Color for containers

 NEW

Now containers support background-color property.

Accept any kind of color format.

Editor/Preview mode UI changed

 UPDATE

More clear implementation of changing development mode in the header from icon to Editor/Preview buttons.

Crestron Processor communication

NEW

Real time communication between your AVstudio project and Crestron processor!

• Push to processor any type of signal: analog, digital or serial
• Execute push on tap, on hold, on double tap
• Subscribe to signal feedback and print it

Current Version Limitation Only button elements has been implemented in the current release. In the following updates we will implement for all types of elements and pages actions too.

Smart Console Events

UPDATE

Now when some action is triggered it will be printed in console with additional information:

• Additional information printed in the console includes what type of event trigger was fired, such as onEnter, OnExit, OnTap, OnHold, or OnDoubleClick.
• How many actions should be executed
• Listed all fired actions colored by its type with signal name (or join number) and value pushed.

Auth

BUGFIX

Sometimes project data can’t be fetched due to auth issues. Now redirecting to login.

Instant Crestron Debug

NEW

Just in a few clicks, connect your AVStudio project to the actual Crestron Processor and start testing and debugging your GUI in real time! Send any Signal and work with the true feedback as usual.

Connection options should be set in project settings:

To make a successful connection processor certificate must be trusted by the browser where AVStudio opened. You can make the cert valid manually or install the CA cert on the processor. Follow Crestron Docs.

Auto Sync Crestron Connection

NEW

Auto sync Crestron connection between editor and page fullscreen preview!

Avstudio Console

NEW

Control the connection status and choose what, when, and what type of signals to push to the connected processor, and see the feedback received.

Better Element Layout

UPDATE

The element type is now printed directly on its name in the main menu, making it easy to understand what type of element is being used.

Text Element Icon Support

UPDATE

Now you can attach an icon to any Text element on the page.

Smart Drag Ordering for Elements

UPDATE

When elements are dragged from one container to another, the place where they are dropped makes sense based on the start or end of the elements list, taking into account the element’s current flow (row/column)

Error Editor Page Loading

BUGFIX

Sometimes when a project contains zero global containers, the Editor crashes – fixed.

Project Global Containers have been added

NEW

This feature allows you to easily create global layout containers: menus, headers, footers, and any global data you want.

• Create containers that automatically attach to all project pages;
• It easily manages visibility, position, inner content, and view options depending on display orientation and pages;
• Drag&drop elements between global and regular containers; from the sidebar menu or inside the editor’s preview!

Icons added: +793

NEW

Edit page name and URL directly from list

NEW

Main menu elements group layout

UPDATE

The ‘Create new element’ button is now located inside the ‘Elements’ collapsible group, and a simple element counter has been added to display the number of elements inside each container.

Editor layout Highlighting

NEW

Now all containers presented on the page when bounding box is ON have a border: page layout looks more simple and understandable.

“Save” button fix

BUGFIX

Sometimes after the page was saved to the server, the button state was ‘active,’ but this issue has now been fixed

Project css

BUGFIX

The issue where project CSS wasn’t affecting the preview has been fixed

Redo hotkey

BUGFIX

The issue where the REDO hotkey (CTRL/CMD + SHIFT + Z) wasn’t working sometimes has been fixed

Project listing vertical scroll page

BUGFIX

The issue of a buggy layout when having a lot of projects has been fixed

Preview orientation

BUGFIX

The issue of buggy orientation detection while the preview renders has been fixed

Smart Interactive Selection & Control in Preview

NEW

Smart selection and drag&drop actions inside preview for containers and elements: easy switch between containers to see options, dragging elements to reorder and/or changing its parent.

Smart Selection works only when bounding box is ON. Now supported in fullscreen preview too.

Selection helpers

NEW

Print selected element name.

Editor hotkeys

NEW

• Ctrl/Cmd + S tosave
• Ctrl/Cmd + Z toundo
• Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + Z toredo

More stable previews

UPDATE

The preview is now more stable with super fast initial loading and some bugs fixed.

Smart Save Keeper

UPDATE

Losing data just got harder now

Elements selector layout

NEW

Elements are now grouped into a collapsible list.

Mass actions for the entire element group will be added in the future.

Bounding box

BUG

Bouncing box view now works more stably

Main menu saved state

NEW

Main menu saves its own state after page reload

Preview window

UPDATE

Preview updates 2.5x faster now. Instant display of all your changes.

Preview interactive features

NEW

Now you can select any visible layout container by clicking on it inside the preview window!

To make this feature workShow Bounding Boxmust beON!

Interactive communication inside preview window will be significantly expanded in future updates.

Element and Container details layout

NEW

Is a more clear, simple, and compact view

Element width option

NEW

Now you can set width, max width and min width for your Button Element.

Container border options

NEW

Set any border width for any container side. Pick any colour with possible transparency or enter colour string manually in any format (RBG, RBGA, HSL and more)