Kanzi 3.9.4 release notes

New features

Feature improvements

  • Introduced application configuration that enables you to set the preferred multisampling method. See MultisamplePreference.

  • All binding operations now accept the lowerCamelCase naming convention. See Bindings expressions reference.

  • Improved the performance of the Activity Browser.

  • When you use the iType font engine, Kanzi now supports word wrapping for Thai language. See Font engine dictionaries.

  • In Kanzi Studio you can now create a project that contains only the Screen node in the node tree and does not contain the default Kanzi resources, such as the Default Texture and the DefaultBackground textures.

    For example, you can use such projects to store resources that you want to reuse across projects in a multi-project Kanzi application. See Combining Kanzi Studio projects into a Kanzi application.

    ../../_images/new-resource-project.png
  • Kanzi Android framework (droidfw) now tracks the effective user-visibility of each connected view, and skips the rendering of hidden views. This improves performance in applications with offscreen views. See Handling the user-visibility of views.

  • Improvements to render passes:

    • Introduced in the Pipeline State Render Pass the Polygon Depth Offset property that applies a depth offset to the rendered elements.

      For example, you can use this property to render decals without z-fighting. See Rendering decals.

      ../../_images/decal-z-fighting.png ../../_images/decal-in-preview.png
    • Introduced for the Composition Target Render Pass the Depth Renderbuffer Format property which you can use to set the format of the depth renderbuffers. See Rendering content to composition targets.

  • Added the functionality that enables you to horizontally scale text in Text Block nodes. See Fitting text into a Text Block node.

    ../../_images/properties-horizontal-fit-scale-min-05.png ../../_images/preview-horizontal-fit.png
  • The Android application with Java plugin template now contains a simple unit test project for the plugin.

  • Improvements to focus handling:

  • Added the functionality to Kanzi Studio that enables you to reimport PSD files that you previously imported to your Kanzi Studio project. See Reimporting a PSD file.

    ../../_images/reimport-psd.png

Changes

Documentation

Notable fixes

ID

Description

Area

193755

The Look At property now works with all 3D nodes, not just the Camera nodes.

Kanzi Engine

358796, 360698, 413518

Fixed the issue that prevented the Key Manipulator from handling numeric keys and modifier keys.

Kanzi Engine

384766

Fixed the order of the criteria that determine where Kanzi moves keyboard focus when a focused Activity deactivates in a Parallel Activity Host. The order is now:

  1. The previous Activity in z-order

  2. The next Activity in z-order

  3. Default focus recovery behavior

Kanzi Engine

409365

Fixed the issue that caused Kanzi to flatten an object that rotated to face a camera using the cylindrical mode.

Kanzi Engine

412227

Fixed the issue that caused the Activity Browser to show deleted properties of Activity Hosts.

Kanzi Engine

412462

Fixed the issue that prevented the Grid List Box nodes from receiving the Key Navigation Started (NavigationManipulator::KeyNavigationStartedMessage) message.

Kanzi Engine

413202

Fixed the issue that prevented an Apply Activation Action from activating an Activity.

Kanzi Engine

175797, 219073

When you want to make a 3D node turn towards the default camera of the Scene, you no longer have to set the Face to Camera Target Camera property. It is enough to set the Face to Camera Mode property.

Kanzi Studio

200162

Fixed the issue in the Preview that caused the Camera tool reset to jump to the wrong position when using the free camera.

Kanzi Studio

411933

Fixed the issue that caused empty animation child clips to crash the Preview.

Kanzi Studio

412318

Fixed the regression in the Trigger Action Kanzi Studio Plugin API by adding the method SetForwardArgument to set the forward argument.

Kanzi Studio

412845

Fixed the issue that prevented the Activity Browser from showing the root Activity Host when you created it using the Create root Activity Host button in the Activity Browser.

Kanzi Studio

416907

Fixed the issue that caused animations to continue playing in the Preview even after the animation data is deleted.

Kanzi Studio

422629

Fixed the issue that prevented building of Kanzi applications for projects using C++ Code Behind. See Changes to C++ Code Behind.

Kanzi Studio

See also

Kanzi 3.9.4 migration guide

Known issues