ActivInspire users should be aware that Promethean have released a patch which fixes some of the initial bugs that were present on release.
You can get hold of the update by running ActivInspire and going to Help > Check for Updates. You will then be directed to a download page. Download and install the patch file.
For a set of patch notes, and discussion about the changes, go here.
Bug Fixes
- Start-up crashes on MAC related to internet plugins/phonon.
- Intermittent window jitter when docking toolbar on Windows Vista.
- Extract text by dragging selected text in text edit mode not working – Mac
- Text symbols not being displayed properly on Mac
- Text edit, to fix missing cursor issue
- Text edit marquee select issue, text marquee select was not recalculating text height properly
- Screen recorder does not display an error response if user has configured unsupported codecs
- Color on main toolbox not being saved between sessions, only in Studio mode
- Teacher lock not handled properly in case of desktop flipchart, desktop tools, switching browsers
- You can NOW select a printer in the print dialog
- Vote results now display in numeric order
- Fixed crash when using legacy votes
- Can now enter accented characters onto page on the Mac
- Fixed crash when printing on Mac
- Clock now remembers countup/down value
- Import from mathtype improved
- Extract text now copies the correct text
- Screen recorder now displays progress
- Mac help will display correctly
- Admin.ini will create a path if it doesn’t already exist
- Fixed screen recorder crash on Mac
Functionality Changes
- Now available in Arabic, Spanish, French, Russian, Trad Chinese, Simp Chinese, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Turkish, Swedish, Korean, Kazakh, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Hebrew, Brazilian Portuguese, German & Vietnamese
- Arabic, Turkish, Hungarian handwriting recognition languages added.
- Trial mode length increased to 60 days
- Mac system keyboard shortcuts Cmd-Q, Cmd-H and Cmd-Shift-Q are no longer overridden by Inspire.
- When inserting flash and/or videos using the menu main (Insert->Media) a placeholder object will be created and not a link.
- When dragging on flash and/or video files onto the canvas a placeholder object will be created and not a link.
- If the display size of a video cannot be obtained then inspire will display at 400 by 300.
- New shapes now snap on creation.
- Flipchart object settings – transparency now works OK.
- Property Grid. Numbers now use correct floating point separators for locale
- Grid Designer. Numbers now use correct floating point separators for locale.
- Clear Grid. Undo / redo now works correctly.
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