What could you possibly want to turn that off for? Well, it’s hard to say as it is quite a specific and unique feature, however I have personally used it. Basically, without this ‘invisible surface’ the runtime has nothing to draw your game onto the screen with. All of your objects are drawn onto that white surface but when you run your game/application, it’s actually drawn to a pseudo-surface. This ‘whitespace’ acts like a duplication object. Basically, when you are editing your frame inside Clickteam Fusion, you usually see ‘whitespace’ or whatever color background you specified for the frame. You can set a frame property that allows you to not even allow the Fusion 2.5 runtime a ‘display surface’. This feature is truly something special and very unique to Clickteam Fusion 2.5 Developer. Ability to Create Frames without Display Surface There are many uses for docking sub-apps in Fusion 2.5 for both game design and app development. In Clickteam Fusion 2.5 you can create toolbars that dynamically flow with the size of the window and can cater for scrolling too. For example, if you look up at your browser icons on your web browser, that is a toolbar that is docked. The term docking comes from having the ability to ‘pin’ a window to the main window. Dock Sub-Applicationsĭocking is another useful window feature inside Clickteam Fusion 2.5. We have seen it used in lots of examples of software development. Having the MDI ability inside your Clickteam Fusion Applications can be quite the life saver. Since then its use has been expanded upon, only ever so slightly changing but it’s a routine that is still widely used today, more particular in software development. The use for MDI was warranted because it allowed users to open and switch to and through, multiple documents in the same window and the same session. A prime example of this can be traced way back to Wordpad which was one of the first Rich Text applications ever released for Windows, circa 1995. A multiple document interface allows you to develop an application that can contain an almost unlimited amount of sub-windows, within one main window. MDI (Multiple Document Interface) is a development concept that has been around for a long, long time now in the development world. This is important for updates, patches and cross-referencing executable files for final distribution. Which means you can ‘increment’ your game or application version number at will. You have no rights under the Free or Standard runtime agreements to modify the version information. These agreements are called the Clickteam Runtime Agreements. Although it’s always nice to include it into the credits, just as a thankyou. You are free to distribute all of your games and apps created using the runtime free of charge with no royalties to Clickteam and no credit required at all. With a Clickteam Fusion 2.5 Developer license, you don’t ever need to do this. The current Standard license allows you to distribute your games or applications free of charge with no royalties to pay to Clickteam, however you must include a splash screen in your finished game/app giving credit to Clickteam and/or Fusion 2.5. Typically, the license upgrade differences are what you can do with your end product. When you purchase (or upgrade) to Developer, you are also upgrading your license for the software also. There is a version comparison chart on Clickteam’s official product website but this is not easily accessible when you are just browsing the products. On the surface, you may not see a reason why you would want to purchase the Developer version over the Standard version and yes it can be a little cumbersome to understand why. The reason for this was, if you were happy with the Standard edition, then you would find yourself paying only a fraction of the price for Developer, usually around a third of the price. Since 2006, Multimedia Fusion 2 was split into two versions, Standard and Developer. Some of these reasons we will explore further down but for now, let’s cover the main product itself Clickteam Fusion 2.5 Developer. The developer version is worth a considerable amount more than the Standard version of Fusion 2.5 and for good reason. It is the ultimate, professional, developer version for rapid game and application development. Clickteam Fusion 2.5 Developer is the flagship game development tool by Clickteam.
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