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Slide Effect Presentation Creator has been nominated for the Epsilon Awards 2008!

What is the Epsilon Awards?

The Epsilon Award stands for a combination of Excellency, craftsmanship and visionary ability. These are characteristics of an outstanding
programmer and a piece of true software art.

In other words, it is an award for new and outstanding products made by small company like us.

So if you like Slide Effect, please take the time to vote for us! (click on this link, then on the blue link image, select Slide Effect then click on submit).

To help promote Slide Effect and to celebrate the release of 1.2.0 version, we decided to cut the price to $39 instead of $49 for a limited time.

You have no excuse: Act now, and purchase Slide Effect!

Edit: Promotion is over.

Version 1.2.0 of Slide Effect has been released.

Here follows the main changes and new features:

Transitions: massive update for transitions: 15 new transitions are available! Some are only usable on the full version. Almost each of these transitions are customisable.

Please take a look to the following movie to show the new transitions in full effect:

Backgrounds: 2 new backgrounds are available: water and clouds. These backgrounds are only available on the full version.

Object Properties GUI: Changed the GUI to be more ergonomic. It uses a bit more screen space, but it is more ergonomic and easy to understand (and less geek-coder style).

For a complete list of changes, check the “Version History” page in the help file.

Trial and full version have been updated.

Enjoy this new version we are very proud of it!

I have added 2 new examples of Slideshow in the Slideshow Examples section (previously named “Resources”):

Funky Musical Presentation: A music synchronized presentation.

Ancient Egypt Presentation: A classic slideshow about ancient Egypt.

You can download the standalone executable version or the .sef project file.

More examples will come in the near future.

Version 1.1.4 of Slide Effect has been released. Here follows the main changes and new features:

• Movies: Now supports Flash video (*.flv) as input.
• 2D/3D Text: Double click on a “2D Text” or a “3D Text” item open a small dialog box where you can enter your text. (easiest to use than properties).
  
• Background/Transition GUI: Fixed some display problems when using several different backgrounds.
• Garbage Collection: Manually added many garbage collector calls when opening/saving/erasing a document to avoid “Process cannot access” problems.
• Fade transition: fade with logo was a bit strange, it is now fixed.
• Reflection effect: bug fix: sometimes reflection image was not removed when object was hidden.
• Color Pick Dialog: Custom color are now stored.

For a complete list of changes, check the “Version History” page in the help file.

Trial and full version have been updated.

This morning I released 1.1.3 version of Slide Effect.

It corrects only one more bug than version 1.1.2: When opening several project files, no more errors are displayed.

Version 1.1.2 of Slide Effect has been released. It is another bug fix release.

Changes:

• Screensaver export: Slightly modified event handler.
• Reflection effect: Corrected minor bugs.
• Move slide up/down: Corrected a problem when a slide has been deleted.
• Multiple shape background: Bug fix when zoom effect is off.
• Slide preview control: Added a scrollbar when a slideshow has many slides.
• Bug report: Added an optional description field.

As usual, trial and full version have been updated.

A new version has been released to correct, mainly, one bug in the screensaver export on Windows XP.

I have also slighty modified the error/bug report: you can now insert your email in the bug report, so I can contact you for feedback and tell you when a particular bug is corrected, or also to ask you more information about a particular bug. Please fill this field it will help me a lot to correct issues.

Obviously, this address won’t be used for spam or promotional emails.

Trial and full version have been updated.

The new version of Slide Effect (1.1.0) is available, Trial and full version have been updated and are available for download.

The main new features are:

Screensavers and Standalone Executables Exportation

A new menu item has appeared on the file menu: Export Presentation…

If you click on it, a small wizard will appear and you will be able to create your own installable ( thanks to Inno Setup ) screensaver or executable.

Wizard first step

Installable screensaver is created

And finally, show the preview of your screensaver in Windows

Reflection Effect

Reflection effect is available for 2D Text, images and movies objects. I have already described this feature in one of my previous post.

Bug fixes

I have fixed some major bugs in the previous version:

• Bug fix: Add slide when a slide has been removed does not throw an error anymore.
• Bug fix: Load twice the same sef file does not throw an error anymore.
• Bug fix: Music settings does not throw an error anymore when open twice.

I would like to thanks all the users who send me automatic bug reports: I read each of them, and it helps me a lot to track issues and bugs, please keep it going!

What’s next?

Well, I am still working on more export formats (movies and shockwave flash export). I really pushed hard to put these format in this version, but, even if movie export is already working, I need more time to polish everything, so I decided to postpone these features to the next version.

I will also try to add new background effects in the next version and more 2D text options. Comments are welcome if you need something specific.

Have fun!