Virtual Mechanics IMS Web Engine Software

May-14-1999

IMS Web Spinner (Personal) -Version 1.1

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Version-1.1 Notes

Enhancements:

1. An updated Publish Dialog Sheet with FTP support and multiple Profiles has been added.
2. Clean Operations have been added to the Publish Dialog, Object Editor, Geometry Editor,
Action Editor and Behavior Editor. The Clean Operation will check for unreferenced or
orphaned components and offer to delete them from the Project. The component version will
only check for that specific component. The Object and Publish version will check for
all Objects and components. Cleanning the project is useful for optamizing IMS and HTML
files.
3. Startup tips have been added
4. Scrollbars have been added to toolbar combo boxes.
5. A 'Mouse Over Effect' Wizard has been added to assist in the creation of special
effects. Additional Wizards will be added to future release.

Corrections:

1.A limit to the number of characters in a text paragraph has been removed.
2.A problem were a deleted object sometimes caused Script Errors has been corrected.
Version

-1.03 Notes

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Enhancements:

1.Support for Affiliate Distribution has been implemented.
2.Support for up to 1000 Geometry Objects has implemented.
3.IMS Web Spinner will now perform an auto-backup of your project whenever the projecct is Saved.
In the event of an abnormal termination of the program for any reason, the backup file will be
loaded the next time the program is started.
4.Restore and Recover commands have been added to the File Menu. The Restore command will re-load
the project to its last Save state. The Recover command will load the IMS Backup file. This is
usually equivalent to the Previous Save state.
5.You can now right click on an Object to display the Object Editor. If you right click on the
Page outside of any Object, the Page editor will be displayed.
6.The Object Editor now includes Component Editor buttons on the first tag page to display the
Component Dialogs without leaving the Object Editor.
7.The Object Editor now includes a Delete Button.
8.Page/HTML file names of up to 180 characters can now be entered. Previously, Page names were
restricted to 10 characters.
9.When importing HTML, the program will prompt the user to remove Tags outside of and including the
tags if the program finds them.
10.Import HTML and Import Bitmap commands are now available from the File menu.
11.An "Introductory Project" button is available from the File Menu to replay the Introductory tutorial
that is loaded when the program is first installed.
12.The Page Background editor will now display the path of the current background image.

Corrections:

1.Filled Geometry will now display and Export correctly. Previously, some machines would display
a monochrome or incorrect fill.
2.Vector based Geometry should now Export on all platforms without errors.
3.It is now possible to Delete all Events, Actions and Shading.
4.A problem accessing the Help menu in version 1.2 has been corrected.

June 27 -1999

IMS Web Spinner (Personal) -Version 1.21
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Version-1.21 Notes

Version 1.21 is a maintenance update with several none critical fixes.

1. The Publish Dialog Profile name edit box has been corrected to enter characters in the
correct order.
2. A fix for Rich Text that would often appear scrambled in the Work Window when another
Object was moved accross it. This did not affect the output.
3. On rare occasions, a Group Object would fail when ungrouped. This has been corrected.
4. Mouse Over Effects will now work with Group Objects.

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Version-1.14 Notes

Enhancements:

1. The Export operation has been optimized to reduce the size of some HTML files in large projects..

Corrections:

1. Several improvements and fixes have been made to the Publish Dialog.

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Version-1.11 Notes

Enhancements:

1. An updated Publish Dialog Sheet with FTP support and multiple Profiles has been added.
2. Clean Operations have been added to the Publish Dialog, Object Editor, Geometry Editor, Action Editor and Behavior Editor. The Clean Operation will check for unreferenced or orphaned components and offer to delete them from the Project. The component version will only check for that specific component. The Object and Publish version will check for all Objects and components. Cleanning the project is useful for optamizing IMS and HTML
files.
3. Startup tips have been added
4. Scrollbars have been added to toolbar combo boxes.
5. A 'Mouse Over Effect' Wizard has been added to assist in the creation of special effects. Additional Wizards will be added to future release.

Corrections:

1.A limit to the number of characters in a text paragraph has been removed.
2.A problem were a deleted object sometimes caused Script Errors has been corrected. Version

-1.03 Notes

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Enhancements:

1.Support for Affiliate Distribution has been implemented.
2.Support for up to 1000 Geometry Objects has implemented.
3.IMS Web Spinner will now perform an auto-backup of your project whenever the projecct is Saved. In the event of an abnormal termination of the program for any reason, the backup file will be loaded the next time the program is started.
4.Restore and Recover commands have been added to the File Menu. The Restore command will re-load the project to its last Save state. The Recover command will load the IMS Backup file. This is
usually equivalent to the Previous Save state.
5.You can now right click on an Object to display the Object Editor. If you right click on the Page outside of any Object, the Page editor will be displayed.
6.The Object Editor now includes Component Editor buttons on the first tag page to display the Component Dialogs without leaving the Object Editor.
7.The Object Editor now includes a Delete Button.
8.Page/HTML file names of up to 180 characters can now be entered. Previously, Page names were restricted to 10 characters.
9.When importing HTML, the program will prompt the user to remove Tags outside of and including the tags if the program finds them.
10.Import HTML and Import Bitmap commands are now available from the File menu.
11.An "Introductory Project" button is available from the File Menu to replay the Introductory tutorial that is loaded when the program is first installed.
12.The Page Background editor will now display the path of the current background image.

Corrections:

1.Filled Geometry will now display and Export correctly. Previously, some machines would display a monochrome or incorrect fill.
2.Vector based Geometry should now Export on all platforms without errors.
3.It is now possible to Delete all Events, Actions and Shading.
4.A problem accessing the Help menu in version 1.2 has been corrected.