Animated buttons: Version history

Additions in version 5.1

Additions in version 5.0

All versions
1. Point-and-click menumaker application added to make configuration much, much easier
2. New image-reading methods added for more easily adapting the buttons to use your own images (old image-reading method kept as well for backwards compatibility)
3. Clearer setting of index-reading method
Free versions
1. Opening splash is quicker offline so that its easier to use the menumaker
Commercial versions
1. onMouseEnter and onMouseExit events
2. Compressed JAR and CAB files for faster loading

Additions in version 4.x

Additions in version 3.1 (free) and 3.2 (commercial) of the Magic Buttons (April 2000)

Free versions
1. Three new free versions released
2. Minimum width halved so that button columns are now possible
3. Support for non-Latin character sets (e.g. Japanese, Chinese)
Commercial versions
1. Support for non-Latin character sets (e.g. Japanese, Chinese)
2. Line-wrapping on individual buttons of up to 10 lines
3. Text alignment and text positioning parameters added
4. Maximum index size increased from 100 to 500
5. Parameters indices now implemented
6. Pulse effect can be switched off
7. Can activate javascripts (addition of SCRIPT indexing command)

Additions in version 3.0 of the Magic Buttons (August 1999)

Automatic button size calculation
Optional internal button graphics
Two new transition concepts in two new applets: rainbow transitions and folding pages
Additional transition variations: triple-edged wipes
Images for different button states can be loaded from individual files as well as the old image strips
External index files compatible with all our other applets
Multiple simultaneous page loading
Error reporting system for configuration mistakes
Escape page feature for increased website reliability

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