RightBooth 7 Release Notes

7.0.33 - 26/04/19

• Add the AZERTY layout option for the on-screen keyboard
  

7.0.32 - 25/04/19

• 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

7.0.26 to 31 - 24/04/19

• 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

7.0.23 to 25 - 16/04/19

• 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

7.0.19 to 22 - 04/04/19

• 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)

7.0.16 to 18 - 03/04/19

• 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

7.0.15 - 27/03/19

• 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. 

7.0.12 to 14 - 26/03/19

• Photo thumbnails now show photo stamped items.

7.0.11 - 24/03/19

• 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.

7.0.10 - 10/03/19

• 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.

7.0.9 - 08/03/19

• 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.

7.0.6 - 04/03/19

• Bug fix: The title text from the Event Wizard is now included on the Start screen

7.0.5 - 03/03/19

• 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.

7.0.4 - 01/03/19

• 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

7.0.0 to 7.0.3

• 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