Daniel Gonzalez
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How to trigger a Screen Transition from Lua
There are a couple of ways that a screen transition can be called from a Lua script. However I've found the simplest and most effective way is as follows: The first step is to create a new gde vari...
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Capturing Custom Events as Part of Capture Playback
I've found that Capture Playback is one of the most useful features Storyboard provides for testing.Allowing for consistency across every test run, it can be invaluable when running performance or ...
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Modifying a Control's Touch Bounds
Some users have encountered the scenario where they wish to expand the area where the control can be interacted with, but without modifying the content of the control. Some have resolved this by ex...
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How to Align Rich Text Vertically
Some users have reported that the vertical-alignment style attribute for rich text does not function properly.Reports mention that after specifying this attribute, the text does not properly adjust...
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Integrating Map Navigation tools into Storyboard
A number of customers have projects where they would like to integration Map APIs to integrate maps for things like navigation. There are a few key points regarding this that are important to esta...
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How to control your application with physical buttons -- no touchscreen
Some users have hardware that do not contain touch screens, only physical buttons, and have wondered how to integrate these button presses into their Storyboard app. As a simplistic, high level vie...
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New Updates To Storyboard Designer's UI
8.0 recently introduced some nice quality of life changes to Storyboard Designer's UI. If you are a user of previous Storyboard versions, you may notice right away when you boot into 8.0 that the d...
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Exporting Your Runtime As Part of a Storyboard SCP Transfer
In 8.0, you may have noticed a change to the SCP Transfer method in the Storyboard Application Export Configurations: As you can see fields have been added to select a Runtime and an Output Direct...
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Updates to the Metrics View
In 8.0 some great new additions have been made to the Metrics view. The Metrics view now has a runtime selection list and will update the metrics values based on the selected runtime: Note: The Me...
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NEW! - Develop With JavaScript!
Not familiar with Lua? No problem; now available in Storyboard 8.0 is the ability to script using JavaScript! A JavaScript callback can be hooked up to a trigger in the same way a Lua callback can....