RightBooth 7 Release Notes
7.3.29 & 30 - 25/03/20
7.3.4 7.3.3 7.3.2 - Test builds
7.3.1 - 28/09/19
7.0.8 - 06/03/19
Version 7 Additional Major New Features
Full details of all new features can be found in the RightBooth User Manual and Help File.
Version 7 Minor Feature Improvements
Version 7 Additional Media Library Additions
Additional content folders and content added to the Media Library:
The Media Library folder structure has been re-organised to allow more content to appear when choosing to add images onto event screens, such as background, button and icon images.
Version 7 Bug fixes since last release of Version 6
Release notes for version 6
Release notes for version 5
Notes for earlier versions
- Bug fix: 'Allow remote changes' setting is applied
- Item sizing pickup boxes now change the size of the item relative to its top left corner. The item can be resized relative to its centre point by first holding down the Shift keyboard key and then using the pickup boxes.
- Bug fix: Prevent random app crash when deleting items from question event screens
- Bug fix: Prevent app crashes when showing tooltips in the RightBooth web browser
- Bug fix: Fix broken links from the app to various sections of the Help File documentation
- Allow the 'Key press' click action to send the associated key character into the currently in-focus event screen item (e.g. text box or web browser)
- Bug fix: Prevent the 'Feature not available' message showing when playing events
- Add the new command line parameter rb:photo that can be used in all Run program event actions to pass the path and filename of the current photo to the external program.
- Add the new parameter /resetp that can be used with the 'Show screen' event action to return the photo back to it's original condition when returning back through the workflow
- Add the 'Reset settings' button in the section: Rightbooth Settings --> Log.
- Add new RightBooth specific command line parameters: rb:wait and rb:next that can be used in all the 'Run program' event actions.
- Allow the Screen Click Action 'Next' to be accepted as a valid user input if the screen also has a Next button included on it
- Improvements made to the 'Auto recover files' feature. File recovery will now only be made available if unsaved event changes are detected when RightBooth restarts
- Add tootips to button images in the Screen editor
- Bug fix: Include user defined button images within event packages
- Bug fix: Ensure a photo is taken if the specified 'Photo capture delay' time (in the Event Designer) is longer than the specified timeout time on the 'Take photo' event screen
- Bug fix: The screen timeout property was not always being used on the 'Show photo' screen. For example, the app could incorrectly timeout after the 'On display time' value was reached even though the timeout property was set to 'On screen video' (or others)
- Restrict overlays, stamps, inking and green screen to the primary webcam feed
- Ensure the video recording is started before the karaoke video commences playing
- Turn all webcam feeds on and off depending upon their inclusion on event screens
- Add checks for a valid Internet connection prior to emailing files and FTP file uploading
- Add a 'Coarse' option for the Green screen Colour filter to reduce the green screen processing time
- Bug fix: Improve the webcam feed display routine to prevent incorrect or outdated webcam feeds being shown. This was especially noticeable when showing feeds from multiple webcams
- Bug fix: Prevent lock-ups when changing video backgrounds on the 'Choose green screen' screen
- Increase the maximum allowable Photo capture delay to 20 seconds (was previously 5 seconds)
- Improvements made to the camera flash effect timing on the 'Take photo' screen
- Bug fix: Overlay images are now always added to photos when setting up the event to use a different overlay image for each photo in the set
- Bug fix: Ensure the camera flash effect is hidden when exiting the playing event
- Bug fix: Prevent machine specific app crash when choosing photo filters during Play mode
- Bug fix: Maintain the webcam settings when configuring Overlays and Props
- Add a karaoke video placeholder image for screen editing purposes
- Bug fix: Prevent karaoke videos starting to play twice in quick succession
- Bug fix: Allow animated gifs to be emailed when they are being used on the 'Photo options' screen
- Bug fix: Emojis now added to the Message png files
- Add image caching to the Tasks Print Station to improve image browsing speed
- Tasks Print Station Up/Down buttons now repeat their actions when pressed and held
- Add the 'Volume meter' item. Details
- Allow various folder paths to be manually edited in the Event Designer and Settings
- Automatically hide various screen items on the event Question screen, depending upon the current question type presented
- Fix various issues on the Dark theme
- Add option to create animated gifs in a separate app
- Add the option to keep the original DSLR photos in a separate folder (in DSLR Settings)
- Add the 'Live view' option to the 'Take photo' section of the Event Structure
- Add the event action: 'Reset relays' to allow resetting all connected HID relay boards
- Add the 'User input sound' feature, with Volume control
- The 'Event email' Body text is now included when sending event message emails
- Modifications made to image loading to help reduce file locking problems
- Add a warning message if setting the DSLR photo W and H values to larger than 2000x1500 pixels
- Add the ability to composite playing video files directly into RightBooth video recordings. Experimental. Video
- Bug fix: The APPxxxx text variables now show the correct values
- Bug fix: Event screens now reliably timeout using the Timeout property: 'On screen audio'
- Bug fix: Prevent the last frame from greenscreen videos (played on previous event screens) briefly appearing in video items on the current event screen
7.3.4 7.3.3 7.3.2 - Test builds
7.3.1 - 28/09/19
- Added more USB HID relay board commands: W (Wait) and R (Repeat) Details
- Video items now provide an additional property to allow optional removal of green pixels on the fly. Details
- Event specific webcam and DSLR photo cropping values can now be applied in the Event Designer
- The 'Thank you' screen can now be optionally shown in a multi type event depending upon which recording type is chosen by the user
- Text message PNG files are now saved so that they are identical to the designed size in the Screen Editor and also include the text message background and border style
- The current user name (if entered) is now appended to the text message PNG file
- More than one USB HID relay board can now be attached and controlled using each boards' model identifier in the 'Set switches' action Details
- The Photo capture delay range can now be set to any value from 0 - 20 seconds
- Ensure that the digicamControl app is running whenever event specific settings require the DSLR for video recording or photo capture
- Create event specific photo placeholders each time an event file is opened
- Add the GIF column to the 'Copy Files' table to allow for optional copying of animated gifs to other folders and FTP sites
- Alignment data files for props and overlays are now included in Event Packages
- Bug fix: Various changes made to improve the process of adding face props, stamps and overlays to DSLR photos
- Bug fix: Allow face props to align correctly on cropped DSLR photos
- Bug fix: The user count is now incremented with the first user interaction after the first screen is shown
- Bug fix: Ensure the marquee select rectangle is hidden when playing an event
- Add 'Photos' and 'Photo print layouts' options to the 'Print photos' section in RightBooth Tasks
- Bug fix: Prevent crashes on certain systems when FTP is attempted while dependent system files are missing
- Bug fix: Allow event specific copy folders to be maintained when only one copy folder is specified
- Allow 'redo' photos to be copied as part of the 'Copy to files' feature
- Bug fix: Video playback fixed on certain systems
- Allow image sequences and text sequences to be added to the Print layout screen in order to allow different content to appear each time the print layout is used
- The 'Hide the Taskbar' setting is now applied immediately when RightBooth starts, to prevent incorrect positioning and sizing of the Screen editor and/or the playing event window on some systems, most notably on Windows 7
- Add FTP Test button in Settings
- Add ftp file uploading features. Details
- Allow stamp items and drawing pad items to be added to the photo print layout on any screen. Previously this only worked on the 'Photo options' screen. Details
- Add new placeholder images for animated gifs and drawing pad items
- Allow the drawing pad background image to be displayed (if defined), rather than the placeholder (when editing screens)
- Drawing pad background image selection now shows the 'Drawing surfaces' folder within the Media Library
- Improve the synchronisation between taking the photo and playing the camera sound on the 'Take photo' screen
- Add a warning message (when playing an event) if trying to show a user defined screen that is not present in the screen list
- Bug fix: Prevent the occasional random delay happening before a screen audio file starts to play
- Bug fix: Prevent a screen timing out while drawing on the Drawing pad item
- Bug fix: Allow the print layout to appear on other screens in the editor without having to first visit the 'Print layout' or 'Photo options' screen
- Add the new option 'Same for all photos' when including lists of Overlay images and Greenscreen images within an event
- Set minimum video and photo cropping values to 12
- Bug fix: Reset to the start of the overlay and greenscreen image lists if stopping and replaying an event
- Bug fix: Prevent app crash if trying to set cropped videos or photos to a width or height of 0
- Stamp items will now be stamped if they partially overlap or totally cover photo placeholders
- Bug fix: Email notifications now work across multiple events
- User defined screens can now be set to time out to the 'Timeout event flow' by adding the parameter /flow into the Timeout text box on the Screen Properties toolbox
- If video or photo cropping is being used, the video/photo placeholders are now shown on the event screens with an aspect ratio that matches the cropping values
- Apply changes to DSLR settings without requiring an app restart
- Bug fix: Email notifications now work in Menu events
- Bug fix: Stamps now correctly positioned on DSLR photos when using the 'Event hardware' options to override RightBooth settings
- Bug fix: Prevent the print layout screen appearing briefly during the screen flow when performance settings are unticked
- Add the option to specify a 'Countdown value for each photo' in the Event Designer. Details
- Add the new column: 'Photo numbers' to the 'Copy to folders' table, to allow for copying individual photos
- User defined screens can now be designed to time out to any other screen in the event. Prior to this, user defined screens would only time out to the next screen in the event
- It is now possible to click on a path in the 'Folder' column within the 'Copy to folders' table to allow changing the folder
- Add new APP text variables, e.g. APPPHOTOCOUNT
- Display the name of the licensed user on the Main and About windows
- Bug fix: The 'Event hardware' settings are now correctly showing in the Event Designer
- Bug fix: Prevent a crash caused by adding a new event screen in the Screen Designer, then deleting it and immediately re-adding it with the same name
- Bug fix: The Email notification period is now correctly maintained when playing multiple events
- The following screens can now be optionally shown based on the current number of the photo being taken:
- Choose greenscreen, Choose overlay, Get ready, Countdown, Choose filter, Show photo Details
- Add Boomerang animated gifs. Details
- Improve the performance when creating animated gifs and using the resize option in settings
- Add the 'Event Packaging' feature (beta). Details
- Add the 'Item tooltips' checkbox on the Screen Editor Toolbox. This let's you hover the mouse over content (images, videos, animations, etc) on your event screens in order to see the computer folder in which the content is located
- Bug fix: Photo placeholder images now correctly appear with portrait orientation when rotated DSLR photos are selected in Settings
- Added new application languages: French and German. Details
- Bug fix: When editing the 'Print layout' screen, allow the pickup boxes to show on the 'Print layout' screen after moving, sizing or rotating screen items
- Bug fix: Corrected a number of text anomalies in the UI
- Improvements made to the 'Faster screen updates' video setting for equipment with lower spec graphics cards. Details
- Add 'Event hardware' design choices. Each of your event files can now be designed specifically to use either your webcam, your DSLR camera or whichever device has been chosen in RightBooth Settings
- Improve the quality of the photo placeholder thumbnail images displayed on the 'Show Photo' and 'Choose filter' screens
- RightBooth now reopens the first played event when escaping back to the main RightBooth window after playing a multi-event session
- Bug fix: Greenscreen image selection was not being applied to videos and photos when the webcam item was not included on the Countdown screen
- Improve the quality of the photo printing. Read article
- Add a modern style 'folder selection' dialog box
- Improved memory handling in the Print Station
- Add separate 'Rotate 90' settings for webcam and DSLR camera
- Bug fix: Allow Print Station splitter bar to appear when it is required
- Add a new feature to Diamond Unlimited: event specific file copying
- Reset all sequence item properties when adding sequence items to screens
- You are now asked to enter a recipient email address when using the 'Send test email' feature in RightBooth Settings
- Provide a way to reset the event session when using the 'Show screen' action to move the event flow to any user defined screen that is at (or near) the start of the screen list
- Countdown sounds are now started prior to beginning the countdown animation in order to provide better synchronisation between the animation and the sound
- Bug fix: Allow the selected thumbnail to be printed in Event Tasks
- Bug fix: Allow Mirror Booth events to be created when running RightBooth with the Spanish language app setting
- Modify all sequence items to ensure that any chosen fade effect is maintained during the animation
- Webcam pan, tilt and zoom controls added to RightBooth video settings. Note: PTZ control is webcam dependent.
- The following improvements have been made to the RightBooth Print Station feature:
- Added the new start up setting: RightBooth Settings --> Start & Stop --> Show Print Station. This will cause RightBooth to immediately show the Print Station in fullscreen mode when the app is next started.
- The thumbnail Up/Down arrow buttons now work correctly when viewing print thumbnails.
- There is now a draggable splitter column linking the Up/Down buttons. This lets you alter the size of the thumbnail area, by dragging the splitter left or right.
- Right click on any thumbnail to select the number of required thumbnail columns (1 - 4).
- The on-screen keyboard now shows the '.' and '@' keys when in numeric mode
- Hide the on-screen keyboard emoji key when entering names and email addresses
- Bug fix: Prevent the on-screen keyboard sometimes moving when a mouse button is not pressed
- Bug fix: Allow face prop alignment to work in Settings
- Bug fix: Video and photo cropping widths are now restricted to multiples of 4 to allow face props to work correctly
- Bug fix: The 'Bring forward' and 'Send back' editing actions now being applied consistently
- Add the AZERTY layout option for the on-screen keyboard
- Add support for playing Apple MOV video files in video items and video sequence items
- Prevent a stamp item from being sized and rotated when its 'Can move' property is not ticked
- Add the 'Show with photo' property for screen items and user defined screens
- Bring stamp items to the front of all other items when selected while the event is playing
- Hide the main window when playing an event by moving it off the bottom of the display
- Alter the way software updates are obtained
- Bug fix: Animated gifs are now emailed in the correct format
- Bug fix: Ensure pen colour and width is correct when drawing on a photo item or drawing pad using a touchscreen
- Bug fix: Save stamp size setting between sessions
- Add on-screen keyboard property: 'Enter key'. Un-tick this to hide the Enter key
- Add the 'Show Busy screen' option for Animated GIF settings
- Allow setting the default size of the photo stamp 'size and rotate' handles
- Hide the most recently created animated gif after each use of the event
- Prevent mouse interaction in the event preview on the main window
- Add a range of Performance settings to help prevent lock ups on older, slower systems
- Show the cause of the error on the Error Message popup window
- Remove the 'default' option from the list of available webcam video/photo sizes in settings
- Bug fix: When swapping and changing webcam devices in Video settings, ensure that new, valid video and photo sizes are correctly selected and applied within the app
- Bug fix: Prevent any 'Can move' screen items from permanently 'attaching' to and moving with the mouse
- Bug fix: The on-screen keyboard now generates the correct upper and lower case characters when the physical keyboard is placed in 'Caps Lock' mode
- Bug fix: Prevent app crash if multiple monitor settings are ticked, but no secondary screens are defined
- Text messages are now saved as PNG files to allow for transparent backgrounds
- Label sequence items can now show event text messages
- Label sequence items now show RTF file contents (as plain text)
- Stamp items can now be added to the Print Layout item on the 'Photo options' screen
- Stamp items can now be sized and rotated
- Add the 'Maximum print count' feature
- Improvements made to DSLR video recording
- The text box input caret cursor colour is now the same as the text colour on the User Details and Type Message screens
- Bug fix: The on-screen keyboard is working more consistently
- Bug fix: Prevent app crash when creating Message events that don't include the 'Choose recording' screen
- Bug fix: The webcam preview was occasionally showing black in Video Settings
- Improvements made to the 'Copy to folders' feature. The app no longer copies photo to folders when user chooses to Redo the photo.
- Bug fix: Stamped items are now correctly re-applied to a photo when user chooses to Redo a photo.
- Bug fix: Stamped items are now added to photo filters.
- Bug fix: Cater for the 3 different decimal symbol characters in decimal numbers.
- Photo thumbnails now show photo stamped items.
- The 'Can move' property can now be applied to any item on any screen.
- Add the new property: 'Stamp' which can be applied to any item on any screen. This allows any item that is positioned over a webcam item or a photo placeholder item to be stamped onto a captured photo. Stamp items can also be positioned over a drawing pad item in order to be stamped onto the saved drawing pad image. Stamped items are added to photos and the drawing pad using all their properties, e.g. angle, border, opacity, etc.
- The screen timeout is no longer reset when interactively browsing in the web browser item. This allows screens containing web browser items to correctly timeout if they have been designed that way.
- Overlay images and face props now fit correctly onto cropped DSLR photos.
- Option to customise the RightBooth Main window and the About window with text (e.g. your contact details) and/or an image (e.g. your company logo).
- RightBooth now incorporate new video and photo placeholder images that no longer include a misleading black border.
- Bug fix: Prevent an app crash when selecting certain combinations of items in the Screen Editor.
- Bug fix: Remove translucent vertical lines from thumbnails in the Media Library.
- Bug fix: Allow 'missing file' items to be selected in the Screen Editor.
- Add the actions: Next desktop and Previous desktop. Allow users to switch to different Windows virtual desktops during Play mode.
- Include the app: DesktopSwitch.exe. To facilitate switching back to the RightBooth event desktop.
- RightBooth now assumes that Snap Camera lenses are OFF when you click the Play button.
- The event setting: 'Reset snap camera' is now saved.
- Snap Camera lenses are turned off when exiting the Screen Editor and Play mode.
- The screen background properties: Opacity and Filter are now included in the Screen Formatter.
7.0.8 - 06/03/19
- Add the new 'Browser Sequence' item. This allows showing animated sequences of SWF files, HTML files, PDF files and online web pages.
- Work done on improving all sequence item progression and animation.
- Changes made to allow border and background properties to be applied to each of the individual sequence items rather than the sequence item container itself.
- Hide the Repeat SWF animation property when not required.
- Bug fix: The 'Random video start' setting now works on video sequence items.
- Bug fix: Screen animation transitions are now working correctly when playing events.
- Bug fix: The title text from the Event Wizard is now included on the Start screen
- User defined screens can now be duplicated by copying and pasting them into the same event file.
- Copied items (and screens) can now be copied from one event file and pasted into another event file.
- The right click popup menu now appears on 'mouse up' in the Screen Editor.
- Screen items can now be locked into place in the Screen Designer.
- New major product release.
- Add more button icons to the Media Library
- Modifications to the event creator to suppress warning of print layout design size when a default printer has not been selected
- Pre-release test versions.
Version 7 Additional Major New Features
Full details of all new features can be found in the RightBooth User Manual and Help File.
- Ability to set up a maximum of 4 webcams in RightBooth Video Settings.
- Allow the live feed from a maximum of 4 webcams to be shown on event screens.
- Allow 'picture in picture' video recordings and photo captures to be made from a selection of layout combinations of up to 4 webcam feeds.
- Ideal for recording face to face videos, e.g. interviews, chats,
- Capture bothies, threesies, fourthies
- Option to create animated photo gifs from user's photos.
- Options to select the animated photo gif frame size, frame delay and color depth.
- Option to display the most recently created animated photo gif on event screens.
- Option to include the animated photo gif file in emails sent to users.
- Start an event via a keyboard keypress. Allows for coin mechanism support via devices such as the Stealth Switch 3.
- Emoji and image stamping feature for allowing images to be added onto user photos and the drawing pad item.
- Images can now be designed to be dragged around event screens using the new Image property: 'Can Move'. Facilitates image stamping.
- New actions: Print more copies, Print less copies. Allow the user to select how many photo layouts to print
- Allow up to a maximum of 4 RightBooth web browser items to be included on each event screen.
- The RightBooth web browser content can now come from local html and/or swf files. Local content is added from the web browser content panel.
- Added support for playing Adobe Shockwave Flash files (SWF) in the RightBooth web browser. This requires the Adobe Flash Player to be installed on the computer.
- The RightBooth web browser now supports interactive SWF content, such as puzzles/games etc.
- Added more on-screen keyboard design features: Outline buttons, Round buttons, No buttons.
- Emojis are now available on the on-screen keyboard.
- Option to include an email address pick list on the 'User Details' event screen and the 'Email address' event screen.
- .Webm video files can now be played on event screens within the RightBooth 7 video item.
- The 'Create Event' panel now provides options to create the following event types:
- Create an event using the Event Wizard.
- Create a Video recording event.
- Create a Photo capture event.
- Create a Message event.
- Create a Video recording and photo capture event.
- Create a Mirror booth event.
- Added support for USB HID relay boards to control external relay boards. denkovi boards continue to be supported.
- Improved Event Wizard:
- Option to choose solid colour backgrounds.
- Improvements made to facilitate creating mirror booth events.
- Added the following keyboard short cuts in the Screen Editor:
- F1 Show the RightBooth Help.
- F4 Toggle the Properties Toolbox on/off.
- Alt F4 Close the editor.
- The RightBooth user interface has been redesigned with a 'black on silver' color scheme to improve legibility.
Version 7 Minor Feature Improvements
- Increased the number of buttons, labels and images that are permitted on each event screen. Increased from 20 to 50.
- Added the 'Missing file' message. When an event screen is trying to display an image or a video file that is missing from the computer it will display the full path and filename of the missing file.
- Clicking the 'Add images' button (in the Screen Designer) now takes you to the Media Library for immediate multiple image selection.
- Images are now initially added to screens at their original sizes.
- Clicking the 'Add video' button (in the Screen Designer) now takes you to the file dialog for immediate video file selection.
- By default, the 'Choose recording' screen is not included when creating a single type event.
- The default web browser properties have been changed to: Browse: Web page, Scrollbars: None.
- Added 'Repeat', 'Repeat Delay' and 'Hide at End' properties to animated gifs (on the Screen Editor Properties panel).
- Improvements made to the timing between showing the 'Take photo' screen and the camera sound playing.
- Allow 2 video items to be added to each event screen.
Version 7 Additional Media Library Additions
Additional content folders and content added to the Media Library:
- Themes: Mirror Booth.
- Backgrounds: Film, Photo.
- Images: Banners, Borders and frames, Portrait Frames 9x16, Bows, Film, Photo, Silhouettes, Mirror Booth animations.
- Buttons: Square and round outline buttons in various colours.
- Icons: Lined icons in various colours.
- Videos: Mirror Booth, Mirror Booth Backgrounds.
- Links are included to a set of online games (suitable for touchscreen or mouse input) that can be played in the RightBooth web browser item. Accessed via the new 'Games' button in the web browser content panel.
The Media Library folder structure has been re-organised to allow more content to appear when choosing to add images onto event screens, such as background, button and icon images.
Version 7 Bug fixes since last release of Version 6
- Sequence item positions are now correctly maintained when the 'Reset list to start' setting is not ticked.
- RightBooth now correctly closes the main event window via the Windows Alt-F4 key combination. This fixes the problem where RightBooth could be left running in a completely hidden state.
- Allow webcam items to immediately appear in the Screen editor after being added or pasted onto an event screen.
- Include various Spanish translations that were previously missing from the RightBooth Spanish version.
- Prevent the RightBooth web browser locking up when switching between Screen Editor and Play modes.
- Block all popups and page navigations when setting the web browser item to Browse: Web page.
- The Video Sequence item now works correctly when using the property: 'Show 1 only'. This also helps to facilitate Mirror Booth events.
Release notes for version 6
Release notes for version 5
Notes for earlier versions
