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New Plugins and Tutorials for Revolution from So Smart Software

June 4, 2005 — So Smart Software (http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/) today announces the availability of three new plugins and sixteen tutorials for the Revolution family of software development tools (www.runrev.com). These new plugins provide additional features that support smart projects reports, windows management and real time access to sixteen tutorials stacks. The plugins come with help stacks in French and English and are available for Mac OS and Windows XP.

"In fewer than 5 months, our tool kit has grown a lot. Now thirteen plugins are available, supporting a wide range of programming necessities for beginners and advanced users. At the same time, we decided that "giving fish" is a good idea but teaching people how to fish is an even better one. That's the reason why we have released sixteen tutorials and this is only the beginning!” said Eric Chatonet of So Smart Software.

Tutorials Picker 1.0 - Real time access to the So Smart Software tutorials
Tutorials Picker interfaces with the So Smart Software website in order to display all available tutorials directly from the web. By using it Revolution users are sure to always have access to the latest updates and new releases.

Tutorials Picker provides automatic notification of new releases, shows which tutorials you have already visited, and which tutorials have been updated since your last visit, etc.

Broadband Internet recommended. English only.

The tutorials already available deal with the following topics:

How to display and manage Answer Dialogs
How to display and manage Ask Dialogs
How to build and manage dynamic menus
How to manage tabbed buttons
How to manage user waiting time
How to drag and drop for files and folders
How to drag and drop images and different ways to store images
How to manage HTML lists on-the-fly
How to manage contextual tooltips on-the-fly
How to magnify images and only images
How to change card dimensions
How to install brushed metal appearance on all platforms
How to manage "Snap to" scrollbars
How to fix stack decorations (titlebar appearance)
How to ask for a password
How to use table fields

Report Picker 1.0 - Programming archiving plugin
Report Picker creates smart reports on your projects and keeps them in its library.

Contents specifications (scripts, global variables and properties, objects properties, custom properties, etc.).
Reports management, powerful search tool, export as text function, etc.
Bilingual help stack included. Identical appearance on all platforms.

Windows Picker 1.0 - On-screen windows management plugin
Windows Picker lets you "dock" any window and call it up on-screen again with a click.

Storage in 3 categories: stacks, scripts/property palettes and IDE tools.
Specification of colors, possible sound and visual effects.
Bilingual help stack included. Identical appearance on all platforms.

This announcement brings to thirteen the number of free Revolution plugins available from So Smart Software. For further details, screenshots and downloads, please visit http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/

About So Smart Software
Located in Paris, France, So Smart Software is an outstanding French team of ergonomists, computer artists and programmers grouped around Eric Chatonet. With over twenty years of experience in Xtalk software and interactive media development, they create specialized built-to-order applications in various fields: management, multimedia, Internet, etc, that combine an incomparable design, exemplary ergonomics, rapid product development and 100% reliability on Windows, MacOS or Linux platforms.