| General
- No Browser Plug-in Needed to View Presentations
- Reaches a Wide Audience
- Short Time-to-Market
- High Performance Presentations
- Expandable
- LiveUpdate
Hardware and software
engines
Publish either as OpenGL hardware accelerated
presentations or as software presentations.
Productivity
- Comprehensive Visual Tools for Event-Driven
Programming
- Supports 3D Models Specified in X3D and VRML
Format
- Java Language Support for Advanced Scripting
- JavaScript Support
- Robust 2D Authoring Capabilities
- Supports MPEG Video and MP3 Audio
- Supports Macromedia® Flash (SWF) Animations
- External Communication
- Memory profiler
- CPU profiler
- Debugger
- Unlimited Layers
- Real-time Filters
- Animated Parameters
- Animated Alpha Channels
- Anti-Aliasing
- Easy GUI Creation
- Menu Structures
- External Parameters
- Reuse of Code
- Super Fast Compilation
- Compression
- Encryption
- Streaming
- Password Protection
- Shareware Objects
Export (Publish as)
- Java Applets
- Java Applications
- Java Web Start Application
- Java Components (Java Beans)
- Animations
- ServerRenderer
Import
- 3D (X3D/VRML2)
- Image (JPEG, PNG,
GIF, GIF animations)
- Video (MPEG-1)
- Sound (MP3, WAV, AIFF, GSM, AU)
- Flash (SWF)
- Logic and Scripts (Java code, JavaScript code)
- WireFusion Projects
Below you will find deeper explanations of selected
features.
No Browser Plug-in Needed
to View Presentations
WireFusion's web player is a Java applet that
is downloaded to the viewers browser just like
other files from the web server, using the HTTP
protocol. There is hence no need to download and
install (or upgrade) any browser plug-in in order
to view a WireFusion presentation, only a Java
1.1 (or higher) enabled browser is required.
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Reaches a Wide Audience
Java is today installed on more than 90% of
all computers worldwide, and on is available for
most platforms, which ensures that a very wide
audience will see your WireFusion presentations.
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Short-Time-to-Market
WireFusion is a RAD (Rapid Application Development)
tool, which allows you to quickly create and deliver
robust and secure applications to your clients.
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High Performance
WireFusion presentations are high performing,
small in size and loads quickly.
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Expandable
Ability to expand WireFusion with new objects
and technologies. Special Add-ons expand WireFusion
with new original objects, while derivatives of
original objects can expand the object library
with new functions.
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LiveUpdate
A built-in LiveUpdate function ensures your
software is always up-to-date with the latest
fixes.
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Comprehensive Visual
Tools for Event-Driven Programming
WireFusion has a comprehensive visual programming
environment, which allows even non-programmers
to create advanced logic quickly, and without
any prior programming or scripting skills.
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Supports 3D Models
Specified in VRML Format
WireFusion is capable of importing and handling
3D models specified in the ISO standard VRML 97/2.0.
Most 3D authoring tools can export directly to
VRML. More 3D information
here.
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Supports Macromedia
Flash (SWF) Animations
Support for playback of Macromedia® Flash™
animations within WireFusion presentations. The
Flash player, which is purely Java based, is only
about 50kb in size and does not require a Flash
player to be installed on the computer in order
to playback SWF animations.
Create cool looking intros, animated menus and
hotspots, or vector based text animations, and
play them in your WireFusion presentations. Just
as with the video player in WireFusion, you can
play your Flash animations as textures on your
3D models.
The animations, which have to be in the Flash
version 2 format, can contain both interactivity
and sound. Even though Flash 2 is rather old and
primitive compared to the latest Flash versions,
it allows for the inclusion of high quality vector
graphics into WireFusion presentations.
Note: All Flash versions from Flash 2
to Flash MX can export animations in the Flash
2 format.
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Supports MPEG
Video and MP3 Audio
Support for MPEG-1 video with MPEG-1 Audio Layer
I&II, when expanding WireFusion with the free
WF-Video add-on. Support for high quality MP3
audio, when expanding WireFusion with the free
WF-MP3 add-on.
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Java Language
Support for Advanced Scripting
A Java object allows Java programmers to write
and compile advanced Java code directly from inside
WireFusion. The Java object is also used for the
3D API.
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JavaScript Support
The External Link object allows WireFusion presentations
to communicate (send/receive parameters to/from)
with HTML pages, using JavaScript. JavaScripts
can also be executed directly from inside WireFusion
presentations.
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Robust 2D Authoring
Capabilities
WireFusion has a set of tools to author 2D graphics
and to create 2D presentations, which can be used
as standalone presentations or combined with your
3D presentations.
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External Communication
The External Link object allows for communication
between WireFusion presentations, Java Applications,
Java Beans and external technologies such as Flash
presentations. It can also be used to read Java
applet parameters from the HTML code.
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Debugger
A built-in debugger analyzes your visual code.
Highlights wires in correct execution order and
lists all parameters (values and pulses) sent
between objects using optional breakpoints.
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Unlimited Layers
Graphics elements in WireFusion are placed in
layers, similar to the layers in Adobe Photoshop®.
Layer orders can be dynamically changed (animated).
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Real-time Filters
Advanced real-time image-processing filters, similar
to Adobe Photoshop®. Filter parameters can
be dynamically changed (animated).
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Animated Parameters
Ability to dynamically change (animate) parameters
and settings, such as opacities, colors, positions,
dimensions, filter parameters etc.
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Animated Alpha Channels
Programmable and animated alpha-channels for complex
effects.
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Anti-Aliasing
Anti-aliasing on graphics
ensures smooth edges.
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Easy GUI Creation
Easy GUI creations with widget objects. Create
buttons, sliders, checkboxes, radiobuttons, panels,
labels etc.
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Menu Structures
Easy creation and navigation of menu structures.
Useful when creating product simulations like
mobile phones etc. with working menus.
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External Parameters
Applet parameters from the HTML source code
can be read into your presentations.
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Reuse of Code
WireFusion always reuses code (objects) to
ensure compact presentations and small files.
10 or 100 Flash players in a presentation doesn't
matter, it only uses the code once.
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Super Fast Compilation
Presentations are compiled in a flash.
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Compression
JAR compression is used for smaller presentations
and faster loading.
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Encryption
Published HTML presentations can optionally
be encrypted, preventing users from stealing your
resources.
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Streaming
Resources can be streamed into the presentations
and a Loading Manager helps to order the streaming.
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Password Protection
Password protection of Library objects makes
it safe to share proprietary work with other WireFusion
users.
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Shareware Objects
A Shareware system for those interested in
developing, sharing and selling WireFusion Library
favorite objects to other WireFusion users.
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Java Applets
Publishes a WireFusion presentation as a Java
Applet and prepares it for the web by inserting
it into a default HTML page. The applet can easily
be integrated in your own HTML page via an HTML
editor.
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Java Applications
Publishes a WireFusion presentation as a stand-alone
Java Application. Can be run in both window mode
and full screen mode.
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Java Web Start Application
Publishes a WireFusion presentation as a Java
Web Start Applications, with adjustable memory
limit.
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Java Component (Java Bean)
Publishes a WireFusion presentation as a Java
Bean. Java Beans are used as software building
blocks from which you can create more complex
software programs, or Java Applications. This
feature allows for more advanced Java developers
to include WireFusion presentations into their
own Java projects or applications.
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Animations
Exports WireFusion presentations as either a JPEG
image sequence or as a GIF animation, with adjustable
frame rate. Use third party tools to create e.g.
AVI, QuickTime (MOV), Flash (SWF), RealMedia (RM),
Windows Media (WMV) and GIF animations.
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3D (VRML2/VRML97)
Imports 3D models specified in the ISO standard
VRML 97/2.0. Most 3D authoring tools can export
directly to VRML. More
3D information here.
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Flash (SWF)
Imports Macromedia® Flash™ animations
(SWF) specified in Flash 2 format.
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Video (MPEG-1)
Imports MPEG-1 movies with MPEG-1 Audio Layer
I&II.
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Sound (MP3, WAV,
AIFF, GSM, AU)
Imports several different sound formats (MP3,
WAV, AIFF, GSM, AU). Playback is either in AU
or MP3 (requires WF-MP3 add-on).
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Image (JPEG, PNG,
GIF, GIF animations)
Imports images saved as JPEG, GIF and PNG. Transparent
GIF and semi-transparent PNG images are supported,
as well as GIF animations.
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Logic and Scripts
(Java code, JavaScript code)
Java source code can be copied and pasted into
the built-in Java object and then compiled. JavaScript
code can be copied and pasted into the External
Link object and executed.
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WireFusion Projects
Saved WireFusion projects can be loaded and used
as sub presentations in root presentations.
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