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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Acrux Software announces X-Builder version 1.0.2, the company's flagship authoring tool for OS X Version 1.0.2 is a maintenance release with minor bug fixes and improvements, as listed on this web page: http://www.acruxsoftware.com/xbuilder/version_history.php Registered users of version 1.0 can upgrade for free. A new registration code is not required. About X-Builder X-Builder is an authoring tool specially designed for creating multimedia projects and applications for Apple Macintosh computers running OS X. X-Builder combines a powerful, intuitive multimedia authoring environment with the ability to save projects as standalone applications. These are royalty-free, so you can give them to friends and colleagues, or sell them as shareware or as commercial applications. X-Builder distinguishes itself from other authoring systems with it's modern, simple and intuitive project development environment. Much less intimidating than most other comparable authoring systems. Using a single menu command or function key shortcut you can instantly switch between run mode and X-Builder's development environment; no compilation required. X-Builder projects contain slides, and each slide in a project is constructed using X-Builder's built-in tools for creating text, banners, lines, rectangles, buttons, input boxes, controls, choice lists, graphs etc. You can add objects by "drawing" them, or by dragging ready-made examples from a Library. Text can by typed directly in the project window. The appearance and behavior of other types of objects are governed by properties which can be set via a floating "Inspector" palette; changes are immediate and there's no need to open and close dialogs for each change. It's also easy to import graphic elements and movies, for example Photoshop files, PDF's or QuickTime movies. Simply drag the files on the X-Builder dock icon and then position the image in the project window. Creating a standalone application from a project is a simple as saving the project as an application. You can optionally provide a custom icon, about box or custom menus. A context-sensitive online Guide is always at hand to provide explanations of the program's facilities. More info: http://www.acruxsoftware.com/xbuilder/index.php Download: http://www.acruxsoftware.com/xbuilder/X-Builder.dmg (7.4Mb) X-Builder is shareware and a single-user registration code costs $49. Registered iBuild users can upgrade for $19.60 (60% discount). Details on our web side. Unregistered demo copies of X-Builder are fully functional and can be used to save projects of up to 30 slides. More X-Builder features: * Constant visual overview of projects provided by thumbnail pictures of slides. * Library of ready-made objects and example projects. * Dynamic slides, with objects appearing and disappearing when users press buttons or perform other actions. Visual effects can be applied to both object and slide transitions, and sound effects can be added as well. All this can be done without any scripting. * Slides shows with visual effects. * Button and hypertext links to slides, web pages, files and applications. * Suitable for tests, quizzes and educational courseware: X-Builder can put questions in various forms, check answers, and keep and display scores, making it the ideal tool for educational applications and courseware. * Spoken text: X-Builder can read out text which it displays, using the Mac's synthesized speech facility; no need to record! It can also display or highlight individual words as they are read out, and can also spell out words. Great as a learning aid. * Scripting: You can create substantial projects and applications with X-Builder without any scripting at all. (All features listed here are implemented without scripting). But for really serious projects X-Builder provides built-in support for Apple's AppleScript scripting language. This can be used not only to control X-Builder, but also to communicate with any other scriptable application or to control the standalone applications generated with X-Builder. * Multilingual facilities: X-Builder has just about the easiest facilities for creating multilingual projects and applications; no separate files to worry about, simply switch between each language as you are building your project and type or import the translated text. Users can even switch languages at run time. * Report generation: A number of built-in reports are available as aids to the project developer, and you can also generate your own reports via the scripting facility. These can contain data from the project's slides, or from other sources. Headings and tables are supported. * Cascading master slides: these allow commonly used objects to be placed on a single slide and then utilized on any number of other slides, avoiding the need for duplication of objects, and ensuring visual consistency. And of course this makes it easy to change the layout of an entire project. Master slides can be cascaded, which means that master slides can use their own master slides. This provides a highly structured and easily changed construction. * Form auto-fill for retaining users' data on a slide. 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