I am just debugging a few small problems with Apple machines and then there will be a release. Apparently the Mac does not like to handle AIR apps the same way Windows does so there are a few things I have to sort out. Luckily though, I have the AIR updater installed into F4D.

The AIR updater will automatically check the server for differences in your version and the latest version. It does not necessarily check for an entirely new release, but it looks for any differences. This way, if there are a few UI changes, or subtle changes in an external file, those will be taken care of automatically without updating anything else. When a new release of F4D comes out, yours will automatically be up-to-date upon launch. These updates are practically instant. It is not like other apps where you sit there and wait for the download, then install, then relaunch… It literally downloads it fast, then launches… No installations.

This can be turned on and off incase you do not want to always be up-to-date. If you are not online, it will skip the update process.

This was essential to put in before I release it so I do not have to constantly announce “Small fix necessary in section X”. Now, you can just download it and always have the fixes without even knowing. You should be able to see something this week!

Security Note: This does NOT affect anywhere on your computer except F4D’s personal directory. It also will not load your computer up with junk. The current installation size is approx 300k and I do not see it needing to go over 500k.

The test below was just the beginning. I am expanding it further to the web and also bringing it to AIR. Features will include the standard as well as:

• attribute panels
• live color monitoring
• change background color
• export to graphic
• resize canvas
• fullscreen mode
• layering
• glow effects
• color sequencing
• color selection
• canvas rotation
• canvas scaling

I am also working with converting it to Illustrator so you can take these vectors and make them huge. The color sequencing mentioned is a way to select the color spectrum you want it to automatically navigate through. Right now it goes through the whole rainbow, but will be able to select something like (red, blue, green, red, purple, red, black, white) and it will follow correctly.

This project is exciting. I hope to have it ready sometime next week. Watch out for it!