Widget Studio enhancements
Custom List Designer
Update 7/2: We want to give this feature a little extra love, so we're going to move it to the release following the 7/7 release. Stay tuned!
The new Custom List component enables you to design completely customized lists using text, image, and any other components. You'll have complete control to add whatever components you want in a list cell, as well as layout, styles, and formatting, and the design you create will be replicated in every cell of your Custom List. Used in conjunction with the new Feed Parser, you can populate the components in your list with the contents of any node in any RSS or ATOM feed, and soon any XML feed.
Feed Parser
Update
7/2: We want to give this feature a little extra love, so we're going
to move it to the release following the 7/7 release. Stay tuned!
The Feed Parser lets you drill into any XML document and assign the contents of any node within it to populate text and image components.
Widget Assets
Now you can upload images and .swf files directly into the App Studio. These files won't go on your KickApps play pages; instead you can use them within the App Studio for things like backgrounds, logos, and custom animations. You can access these files via the Widget Assets window. To add them to your widget, simply drag and drop them onto the stage, or into the background image field in the properties panel of any component.
KickApps Media Window
Much like the Widget Assets window, the KickApps Media window lets you run simple searches on your KickApps community media and drag and drop results onto the stage, or for use in playlists.
Playlists
You no longer have to rely on dynamic feeds to populate your video players! With playlists now available for all players, you can create playlists of media in any order that you please. To create a playlist, simply select the Playlist option in the Content panel of one of these components, open up the KickApps Media window, and drag and drop items from it into the Playlist panel.
Action Panel UI Improvements
We've streamlined the workflow in the Actions panel to make the process of adding Actions to your components easier and much faster. Instead of adding an Action in a modal pop-up window, you now create Actions in a panel that extends directly from the main Actions window. All dropdown menus have been replaced with autocompleting dropdowns, you can tab between fields, and to save an action you just have to press return.
Copy & Paste
We've all been waiting for this one. You can now copy via CTRL-C and paste via CTRL-V, as well as from a right-click context menu.
Pixlr Integration for image editing
You can now edit Widget Assets images via Pixlr, a powerful image editor available as a free web app (pixlr.com). Just select the image you want to edit in the Widget Assets window and click the Edit button. You'll be whisked off to Pixlr.com, where you can edit the image to your satisfaction, and then save it back to the App Studio. Pixlr, we salute you!
SSO enhancements
We updated the registerNewUser SSO call so that you can now set the extended profile questions, about me and postal code using this call. After the release is complete, you can view the updates on the Member Register page in KickDeveloper.
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