TouchStudio Updated to 1.1

By Rich Edmonds, Monday, May 2, 2011 at 8:09 pm

We recently covered Microsoft's incredibly entertaining Touch Studio for Windows Phone 7, which allows one to create scripts that take advantage of the API's and access available on the OS and hardware. The app has now been updated to 1.1 (beta). The changes are listed below:

Many bug fixes
Better auto-completion in expression editor
Access to accelerometer, location, maps, translation services, web search, tile customization, charting, and more.
Take screenshots of your actions (if you want to show other people your code), and the execution wall; look for the "send screenshot to library" button under the “…” in the application bar.
API changes (see below). If you update an existing installation, all your existing scripts get renamed to "v1.0 ...". Since we changed APIs, your old scripts might have errors which you have to edit and fix yourself.

New APIs:

senses->acceleration quick/smooth/stable: Access to accelerometer
locations->*: Access to GPS/geo-coordinates
maps->*: Access to Bing maps
languages->*: Access to Bing- and Hawaii-based translation services
web->search *: Searching the web with Bing
tile->*: Configuration of script tile properties
math->create number map: charting functionality

old API	new API
engine->assert	time->fail if not
engine->stop	time->stop
phone->sleep	time->sleep
phone->now	time->now
json->get field	json->field
json->get boolean	json->boolean
json->get number	json->number
json->get string	json->string
senses->snap camera picture	senses->take camera picture
senses->has camerea picture	senses->has taken camera picture
senses->camera picture	senses->taken camera picture
web->deep zoom link	web->link deep zoom
web->hyperlink	web->link url
web->image link	web->link image