FolioEdit 2.102 released – feature updates and bug fixes

Today we released FolioEdit version 2.102, which includes some feature updates and various bug fixes. The update will install automatically on login.

Feature updates

Improved menu saving

We have rewritten the code for saving the main menu. This will be most obvious to users with very large menus, as they should see a dramatic reduction in time it takes to save the menu. This re-write has also fixed some bugs listed below.

New Colour Picker

The old colour picker had an annoying bug whereby you couldn’t drag some of the sliders until you had clicked on the colour pane. We have replaced this feature with a completely new ColourPicker, that has a more visual colour spectrum that you can click directly to pick a colour. In addition there are some default colour swatches to choose from, that should speed up things like chossing black or white.

Option to choose html-based site

We have added a feature in the Theme Editor which allows you to select “html-based website”, so that your visitors will see the html version whether they have Flash installed or not. We have done a lot of work on the html-based versions of the FolioStop sites, and they are very nearly up to the same quality as their Flash counterparts. Lots of users have asked for this, and they now have the opportunity to beta test their sites using the html version as the default. Please report any issues to support@foliostop.com, and if there are any major problems, you can switch back to a Flash-based site using FolioEdit. It is our intention to phase out the Flash-based sites over the coming months, once all bugs are ironed out.

Please note, “html-based” does not necessarily mean the sites will have no Flash in them at all, rather that the structure of the site as a whole uses html, css and javascript. Video will still display in Flash for the time being, and Flash animations will continue to work as usual. Lastly, some of the features of background layers that use Flash-based rendering will continue to use Flash player to display.

We will post more information on the html-based versions in a forthcoming article.

Migration to AIR 2.0

This might not mean anything to most users, but a lot of work has gone on behind the scenes migrating FolioEdit to use the AIR 2.0 runtime. This move will make it possible to create a host of new features in the coming months. The immediate effect should be a small increase in performance.

Bug Fixes

Menu saving bugs

• Fixed a bug where dragging pages from one folder to another resulted in the page disappearing. Users can now move their pages around with confidence.
• Fixed a bug where changing the name of a page in the menu overwrote the choice of gallery navigation
• Fixed a bug where changing the name of a page in the menu overwrote the SEO settings

Multimedia Page Editor bugs

• Fixed a bug where adding an image gallery as the first item on a new page would result in the gallery failing to save.

We invite all users to share their thoughts and experiences of this update with us.