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What's new in Dynamic Architect
The most significant updates made to the latest versions of Dynamic Architect are listed bellow.

Version 1.4.5 - October 09th, 2004

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GENERAL: Added correct windows XP theme support
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GENERAL: Menu bar and ToolBars' positions are now remembered when the application is closed
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GENERAL: Fix an exception which could happen with the timer when the project was closed
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TE: Addition of Tables
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TE: Possibility to print the content of the text editor
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TE: Background color is now set to component's background color if it's not transparent
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LIBRARY: Spaces in item's names are enabled again
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VE: Fixed the addition of an image by drag & dropping from the library (bug happenned when the image was from an url)
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PE: Fixed the size reset of the image (bug happened when the image was from an url)
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COMPONENTS: Fix position of Flash Components in Opera

Version 1.4 - September 11th, 2004

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GENERAL: Addition of an unlimited level undo/redo
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GENERAL: Fixed preview of web pages in Internet Explorer on Windows XP with SP2 (Service Pack 2): No security alert will be shown anymore
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GENERAL: Menu appearance now better respects system's colors
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GENERAL: Better handling of temporary files for better multiple instance cohabitation
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SAVE/LOAD: A converter has been provided to registered users to fix a rare and random bug appearing in "dap" files and causing a slow load of those projects.
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EXPORT: Fixed a bug with Flash components positioning in Mozilla
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Export: Library items did not appear in Mozilla when containing illegal characters such as #
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TE: Addition of live spell checking
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TE: Select All (CTRL+A) is now working
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PE: Implementation of a new Properties Editor and Event List
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PE: Ability to modify multiple-selection's properties at once
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PE: Event list now include a description and the number of actions
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VE: Complete reimplementation for better consistency, undo/redo implementation and future enhancements previsions
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VE: Better drawing of selection rectangles
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VE: Fixed incorrect Z-Order handling with multiple selection
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VE: Possibility to "draw" a component when adding it
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VE: Better drawing of antialiased texts when enabled on the system
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VE: Double click on a component now either open its editor or give the focus to one of its key properties
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VE: Fixed the rendering of texts containing the & character
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CL: Some icons have been re-created to better integrate in the interface

Version 1.3 - May 8th, 2004

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GENERAL: Introducing library for flash and image items
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LIBRARY: Ability to export items from library
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LIBRARY: Use item from an URL
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SAVE/LOAD: New file format, allowing compression and faster saving and loading. A converter has been provided to registered users
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INTERNAL: Handling of actions and event has completely been rewritten, allowing better scalability for future versions
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EXPORT: Better handling of temporary path to avoid exceptions on some systems
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CL: Removed exceptions when dragging from empty space
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VE: Faster drawing and less memory used for Image, Flash and iFrame components
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VE: Fixed scrollbar bug when editing large pages
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COMPONENTS: Fixed flash positioning in Opera

Version 1.2.1 - March 31st, 2004

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EXPORT: Fixed unusual processor overload which occurred during a second preview
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EXPORT: Spaces after style conversion are not converted to non-breaking spaces anymore
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EXPORT: Underline, OverLine and Strikethrough are now correctly exported
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INTERFACE: Alignment palette to easily adjust component's position
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INTERFACE: Selecting WebPage in Property Editor didn't update its properties and events
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COMPONENTS: Added Inline Frame (iFrame) component
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COMPONENTS: Added Flash component
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COMPONENTS: Image, iFrame and Flash borders are set to dash lines when they are not defined
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COMPONENTS: Fixed RadioButton icon behavior in Component List
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COMPONENTS: Fixed export of group of radio button
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TE: Fixed a bug that appeared when transforming part of an hyperlink to another one
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TE: Hint of the "insert hyperlink" button did not appear correctly
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TE: Added interface for ASpell spell checker
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TE: Added functionality to show/hide invisible formatting characters

Version 1.2 - March 14th, 2004

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ACTIONS: Add the use of the new text editor for the action text (component Text)
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ACTIONS: Text Align and Font actions are not available for texts anymore. Everything is done in the text editor now
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COMPONENTS: A brand new Text Editor (allows the edition of rich formatted texts)
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COMPONENTS: Added the ability to define a margin between the text and the component's borders into the text editor
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COMPONENTS: Timer iterations could be less than -1
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COMPONENTS: Timer iterations could be up to 5000 which caused extremely slow apparition of Action Editor. Now limited to 500
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COMPONENTS: Text Align and Font properties are not available for texts
anymore. Everything is done in the Text Editor now
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COMPONENTS: The memo's caption change action only allowed 255 characters. Now shows a memo to add multiline texts with more than 255 characters
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EXPORT: Removed possible exception in the "browser list" menu and with the "preview in browser" button
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INTERFACE: Added docking capabilities for the Component List and Properties Editor
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INTERFACE: Right-click in Component list could cause an exception
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VE: Snap To Grid when a component wasn't exactly on the grid when moved or resized
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VE: Double click on components brings their default editor (Combo Box, List Box, Memo, Text, Image)
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VE: Z-Order keyboard shortcuts were broken in DA 1.1 (CTRL + [SHIFT] + UP/DOWN)
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VE: Resizing components didn't always update VE's scrollbars
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VE: The VE now correctly displays justified texts

Version 1.1 - January 15th, 2004

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AE: Multiple selection of actions in available actions and actions list
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AE: Added drag and drop reordering in actions list
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AE: Available actions list Displays informational hint
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AE: Timer delay property must now be an integer value
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VE: Fixed huge memory requirement for large web pages
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VE: Fixed extremely slow with large web pages
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VE: Grid support with Snap To Grid functionality (Can be reverted with SHIFT key)
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VE: Mouse Wheel support
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VE: Multi-Selection (Use CTRL, Middle mouse button or Selection rect)
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VE: Pressing ESCAPE Key while moving or resizing resets component's position
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VE: Corrected Transparent GIF display (they were not displayed transparent)
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VE: Resolved: Half-Pixel Bug when images were resized
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VE: Better component resizing: Resizing is not stopped at (0,0) anymore + components is visible while resized
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VE: Removed bug with multiline Memo drawing
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VE: Better automatic naming of components (if button2 is deleted, next one added will be named button2)
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VE: Better form and timer drawing in the VE
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VE: Memo drawing bugs (horizontal bar, arrows)
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VE: ListBox drawing bugs (arrows)
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EXPORT: Images aren't modified anymore when they are saved/loaded by DA. This concerns the Image component as well as background images and any actions handling images
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EXPORT: Annimated Gif image corruption when exporting has been fixed
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EXPORT: Fixed visibility issues
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EXPORT: ListBox OnChange wasn't working in Mozilla
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EXPORT: ImageOver wasn't workign in Mozilla
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SAVE/LOAD: Load of the submit, reset and history forward actions
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COMPONENTS: Bug with radio buttons check and groups
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COMPONENTS: Added group none

Version 1.0 - October 29th, 2003

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