Remember that this version is still a beta. Your feedback is very important to us. If you are updating from a previous version, you must rebuild all the resources (buildtool.exe rebuild) for each desired platform.

NOTE: iPhone/iPad support for Unity is not available in this version. It will be added in the next release.

PLATFORMS

• Win32: DirectX9 / OpenGL
• Android
• iPhone/iPad
• Ogre3D: DirectX9
• Unity: Windows DirectX, Windows OpenGL, Android
• OpenSceneGraph: OpenGL

CHANGELOG

Features

• OpenGL renderer optimized. Many improvements have been incorporated.
• Improved OpenGL ES 2.X implementation optimized for tiled based architectures. Now samples run fine in Android.
• New platform: iOS. iPhone and iPad supported with iOS 5 or later.
• New SDK platform: Mac OS X v10.5 or later. This SDK is yet experimental and not as complete as the Windows version.
• Support for multisample added in GL. For now only the extensions APPLE_framebuffer_multisample, EXT_framebuffer_multisample and EXT_multisampled_render_to_texture are supported.
• Opacity Groups (aka Render to Texture) have been heavily optimized. Now, you must indicate the resolution of off-screen surfaces when constructing a xaml renderer. By default, two extra textures of the same resolution are created.
• Improvements to the Integration Tutorial. iOS integration described. Simplified interface for loading a xaml and setting up the renderer.
• Tessellation quality improved. Now the aspect of curves at medium quality is better.
• Glyph atlases are now a single channel (A8) texture on mobile platforms.
• Added default style support that is loaded by default with each xaml. Can be overridden by IUISystem::SetTheme().
• Added support for strings in ResourceDictionary.
• Unity improvements:
  • New unity directory layout following the suggestions from the forum.
  • UserControls can be created now on Unity.
  • Unity3d Tutorial updated with UserControl, Binding and Commands information.
  • Primitives sample updated with a ListBox and a ColorPicker.
  • New LoadXaml function.
  • Extended classes are automatically registered now.
  • NoesisGUI API is now inside the namespace Noesis.
  • Added Noesis.Reflection.DoLaunchChangedEvent() function to implement INotifyPropertyChange in Unity extended classes.
  • New demo, Shooter Demo, distributed as an standalone unity project.
  • Video tutorial created with the Shooter Demo. http://vimeo.com/65549290.
  • Added a Command (MVVM) example.

Bug fixes

• Fixed: Masking (Stencil) was not working properly on several scenarios.
• Fixed: DependencyProperty was not taking into account Condition.SourceName to search for the property in the appropriate type.
• Fixed: DynamicResourceExpression was not returning UnsetValue when resource key was not found.
• Fixed: VisualState and VisualTransition were not implementing IUITreeNode and name lookups failed.
• Fixed: BindingExpression was failing when DataContext was being set from code.
• Fixed: Thickness, Point and Size parsers accepting now " " and "," as separators.
• Fixed: UnityDeviceDX9 rendering xamls to textures and to camera in the same scene were failing.
• Fixed: Problems reloading NoesisGUI components in standalone mode.
• Fixed: Crash when rendering to a texture that was not being used.
• Fixed: Atlases between surfaces was not shared properly (same glyphs were inserted several times).
• Fixed: When closing a Pop-up sometimes it was clearing any binding set in the IsOpen property.
• Fixed: TextBox handling Unicode characters properly.
• Fixed: Bugged animation in Button Pressed state in NoesisStyle.
• PlaneProjection FOV adjusted to match WPF.

DOWNLOADS

Documentation, tutorials and tools needed by the rest of packages are contained in the SDK. Always download this package.

• SDKs
  • SDK win: http://www.noesisengine.com/NoesisGUI/0 ... 9.4220.zip
  • SDK osx: http://www.noesisengine.com/NoesisGUI/0 ... 9.4220.zip
  RUNTIMES
  • Android Runtime: http://www.noesisengine.com/NoesisGUI/0 ... 9.4193.zip
  • iOS Runtime: http://www.noesisengine.com/NoesisGUI/0 ... 9.4213.zip
  • Unity Runtime: http://www.noesisengine.com/NoesisGUI/0 ... itypackage
  SAMPLES
  • DXSDK integration sample: http://www.noesisengine.com/NoesisGUI/0 ... Sample.zip
  • OpenGL integration sample: http://www.noesisengine.com/NoesisGUI/0 ... Sample.zip
  • iPhone integration sample: http://www.noesisengine.com/NoesisGUI/0 ... Sample.zip
  • Android integration sample: http://www.noesisengine.com/NoesisGUI/0 ... Sample.zip
  • Unity sample: http://www.noesisengine.com/NoesisGUI/0 ... Sample.zip
  BINDINGS
  • OGRE bindings: https://github.com/Noesis/OgreBindings
  • OpenSceneGraph bindings: https://github.com/Noesis/OSGBindings

NOTE: Since 1.0.0 official release, all beta downloads are disabled.

We just uploaded new version 0.9.9.4213 of SDK and unity package.

Changes:

• Fixed occasional hangs or crashes in Unity Editor after setting SDK path and resources are built.
• Renamed PropertyMetaData classes to PropertyMetadata to follow WPF naming.
• Removed obsolet stats from XamlPlayer stats panel.

New version 0.9.9.4220 of the SDK (Windows and OS X) and Unity package uploaded.

Changes:

• Implementation of GUID creation for OS X, used by BuildTool.
• When rendering GUI to a RenderTexture in Unity, you can now set background of the xaml's root to a Transparent brush, and by applying a Transparent shader you can get translucent textures.
• Changes in merged dictionaries are now correctly notified, so they can be added in runtime and nest them as much as you want.
• ScrollViewer was not updating ScrollContentPresenter correctly, so SetHorizontalOffset() and similar functions were failing.
• Fixed mismatched calling conventions in some functions exported to Unity.
• Extended classes in Unity don't need to call BASETYPE.Extend_BASETYPE(typeof(MYTYPE)) anymore. This task is done internally right now.