FIXED: Setting the html property of a WebXtra member with a cyrillic text string works correctly.

IMPROVED: Key handling is improved. Special behavior is defined for the DELETE and arrow keys, which were registering twice in HTML forms after the 5.5 upgrade.

NEW: Added sprite.zoom property. Now it is possible to implement optical zoom in the browser: the whole page will be zoomed inside the sprite visible area, from 10 to 1000 percent of the original size.

NEW: Added execDirectorScript event. With this event it is now possible to call a Director script (Lingo or JS) directly from the browser HTML code.

NEW: Added execBrowserScript method, allowing direct access to JavaScript functions defined in the browser from Director.

ADDED: Support for native Windows themes in HTML elements (buttons, selectors, etc.)

IMPROVED: Key and mouse event handling is improved in the browser. It is possible to detect key and mouse events using JS in the browser page and forward them to Director using execDirectorScript, for example.

NEW: Compatible with Director 11 and Unicode (UTF8) strings

NEW: When used with Director 11, support for Windows Vista is added

ADDED: Support for IE6 and IE7, 3D border in browser sprite removed

Certified for operation with the Director MX 2004 10.1 update

ADDED: cross platform resources needed to build Classic projectors from MX 2004 10.1 Windows.

FIXED: the scrollWindow function was accidentally disabled in version 4.02, and is now restored. Users that are not using this function don't need to upgrade.

This free update introduces a number of small changes in order to improve compatibility with popup windows containing JavaScript code that attempts to close, manipulate or resize the window content.

ADDED: The new CloseWindowRequested event indicates when a script in the HTML page is requesting to close the browser window. Documentation, sample movies and behaviors have been updated to incorporate this new property.

IMPROVED: The Xtra can now detect when a script in the HTML page has repositioned the content, common in popup ad windows. The result is that the browser window no longer exhibits redraw artifacts in this situation.

IMPROVED: Behaviors have been improved to wait until the browser sprite is loaded before navigating to an initial URL. This avoids redraw issues in some situations, and it is recommended that all users update their code to use the same technique.

CHANGED: The sprite.title property now returns the title of the HTML page for local files as well, matching the behavior of network addresses and WebXtra 3.

FIXED: Bug that caused an error when writing large text strings to the sprite.html property.

FIXED: Corrected documentation and implementation of the sprite navigateFrame function.

TECHNICAL CONSIDERATION: WebXtra code was completely rewritten for this release. All dependencies on MFC and standard ActiveX host technologies were removed, in order to make it possible for the Xtra to bypass all limitations introduced by these frameworks. As a result of this change, WebXtra 3 movies need to be modified to work with WebXtra 4, as some properties and functions have changed

NEW REQUIREMENT: WebXtra 4 requires Internet Explorer 5 or 6. IE 4 is no longer supported

NEW: Support for Director MX 2004

NEW: Includes split files needed to support cross-publishing of projectors when using Director MX 2004

NEW: Support for authoring movies containing WebXtra members on the Macintosh platform, using a stub Xtra.

NEW: Event model. Lingo and JavaScript syntax scripts attached to WebXtra sprites receive events directly from the browser object, and can respond to these events to customize the browser operations directly. Please consult the documentation for more information on this feature.

NEW: The html property of the sprite is now available. It is possible to get the html text of the page currently loaded, or to pass a new HTML string to be rendered by the browser directly.

NEW: The image property of the sprite is now available. It returns an imaging lingo object containing the current browser sprite image

NEW: Scripts can use the new browserServicesAvailable() member function to determine if the system contains the minimal resources necessary to spawn a working web browser in the Xtra sprite.

FIXED: As a result of the rewrite of the Xtra it is now possible to use the TAB key to jump between fields on the loaded HTML page

FIXED: WebXtra 4 includes tailored code to handle an issue that affects all other browser containers using the Flash 6 and Flash 7 ActiveX players. In the new version of the Xtra it is possible to issue repeated GetURL() and mouse events on a Flash sprite without causing the Flash player to loose the input focus.