Kisekae UltraKiss Features

Basic Features for KiSS

  • Layered objects, so the front and back of doll clothes can slide over the doll in a realistic way.
  • Different page sets or scenes, where each page can show new sets of clothes or background pictures.
  • Multiple color sets, so that you can view your doll clothes and scenes in different shades of color.
  • 'Sticky' objects, so that some items may have to be tugged before they will move freely.
  • Object events, so that doll features, hairstyles, or clothes can change when touched.
  • Semi-transparent images, so you can see through them to the objects below.

 

Enhanced Features

  • A complete editing module for selecting, copying and pasting objects on pages.
  • A comprehensive programming model for developers to create active content.
  • A fully integrated text editor for developing KiSS data set configuration files.
  • A fully integrated image editor to enhance and touch up KiSS image files.
  • A full featured color editor for maintaining and updating image palette files.
  • An integrated archive file manager for creating new KiSS archive files.
  • An integrated media player for playback of audio and video files.
  • Support for ZIP, JAR and LHA compressed format archive files.
  • Support for WAV, AU, MIDI, RMF and AIFF music and sound effects.
  • Support for playback of MP3 audio format files.
  • Support for rendering MPG, MOV, and AVI video cels. 
  • Support for animated GIF files used by most popular internet browsers.
  • Support for JPG photographic image files used by most popular internet browsers.
  • Support for BMP bitmap image files popular on Microsoft systems.
  • Support for PNG portable network graphics image files as a replacement for GIF files.
  • Support for PPM Portable Pixel Map image files popular on Unix systems.
  • Support for HTML 3.2 version text files.

 

Kisekae File Support

  • KiSS 16 and 256 color CEL file formats.
  • Cherry KiSS truecolor CEL file formats.
  • KiSS 16 and 256 color KCF file formats.
  • GIF87 and GIF89a graphic file formats.
  • JPEG photographic image file formats.
  • BMP (Microsoft) graphic file formats.
  • PNG graphic file formats.
  • PBM, PGM, and PPM graphic file formats.
  • WAV, AU, and MIDI audio file formats.
  • AIFF, MP3, and RMF audio file formats.
  • MPG and AVI video file formats.
  • ANSI text and rich text RTF file formats.
  • HTML version 3.2 file formats.
  • ZIP and JAR compressed files.
  • LHA compressed archive files.

 

 

FKiSS Specification Support

  • FKiSS 1, FKiSS 2, FKiSS 2.1, FKiSS 3 and FKiSS 4 specifications.
  • Unrestricted length alphanumeric variable names can be used.
  • String and integer variable types are supported.
  • Variable names can be used to reference KiSS objects.
  • Indirect references to variable values is supported.
  • Indexed variables can be used for loop control.
  • For statements and while loops can be used for iteration control.
  • Nested if-else-endif logic can be coded for complex algorithms.
  • Local variable scope for label events supports recursive operation.
  • Label parameters and return values enable function calls.

 

 

New UltraKiss Programming Extensions

  • "letcel" command to identify the currently selected image cel.
  • "letcomment" command to obtain the cel comment text.
  • "while" and "endwhile" commands for program loop control.
  • "for" and "next" commands to perform iteration.
  • "showstatus" command to display text in the program status bar.
  • "concat" command to concatenate string text.
  • "substr" command to obtain a substring of a string.
  • "replacestr" command to replace a substring in a string.
  • "indexof" command to return the position of a substring in a string.
  • "strlen" command to return the length of a string.
  • "clone" command to dynamically create new object groups.
  • "destroy" command to remove cloned object definitions.
  • "animate" command to suspend or restart cel animation.
  • "mediaplayer" command to queue background music.
  • "lettimer" command to return the time remaining on an alarm.
  • "letpal" and "setpal" commands to set a specific palette group for an image cel or object.
  • "letkcf" and "setkcf" commands to adjust the ordinal palette file for an image cel.
  • "confirm" command to show a confirmation dialog and wait for a response.
  • "setmodal" and "letmodal" commands to restrict user events to a specific object.
  • "read", "write", "open" and "close" commands for external file access.
  • "viewer" command to access viewer specific control features.
  • "environment" command to access external information and objects. 

 

 

GUI Components

  • Support for basic Graphical User Interface components for simplified user input.
  • Labels, Buttons, Check Boxes, Lists, Text Fields, Text Areas, Radio Buttons.
  • Individual component attributes to control font characteristics, color, scrolling, and state.
  • Integration with the FKiSS event model to recognize user component events.
  • Ability to replace the viewer menu bar with application defined menu items.
  • "getText" and "setText" commands to set and retrieve component text values.
  • "getSelectedValue" and "setSelectedValue" commands to manage list components.
  • "getSelectedIndex" and "setSelectedIndex" commands to manage list entries.
  • "getSelectedItem" and "setSelectedItem" commands to manage combo box entries.
  • "getSelected" and "setSelected" commands to manage button entries.
  • "getValueAt" and "setValueAt" commands to manage list entries by index.
  • "addItem" and "removeItem" commands to construct list and combo box components.
  • "getIndexOf", "getItemCount", and "removeAll" commands to manage list entries.

 

 

Usability Enhancements

  • Data sets may be loaded from compressed archives or file directories.
  • Expansion data sets can be seamlessly loaded over previously loaded data.
  • Support for extended directory path information in compressed archive files.
  • Animation thread control interface to manage event processing threads.
  • Ability to create an unrestricted number of page sets and color sets.
  • Complete undo and redo control over most data set modifications.
  • Cut, copy and paste of graphic objects within and between pages.
  • Restart option to initialize the KiSS data set and start all events.
  • Reset option to restore all scene objects to their initial positions.
  • Size to Screen option to resize page sets to the available viewing space.
  • Scale to Screen option to scale all images to fit the viewing space.
  • Magnification and reduction and scaling of all images on the screen.
  • Visibility of all cel, palette, page set and programming event definitions.
  • Event logging and diagnostic breakpoints facilitate program debugging.
  • FKiSS visual code tracing and event program source code editing.
  • Preview image magnification, selection, and positioning during color edits.
  • Feature to write current object positions to a new configuration file.
  • Facility to adjust image draw level depth and layering order.

 

 

Web Portal Features

  • Ability to automatically download and open KiSS sets from the World Wide Web.
  • Display of HTML 3.2 specification pages with images, frames, headings, etc.
  • Forward and Back controls to traverse the navigation history.
  • Automatic authentication to secure web sites using the registered user identifier.

 

Search Features

  • Ability to automatically search and catalogue KiSS sets in file directories.
  • Automatic thumbnail image generation in GIF or JPG format.
  • Direct access to catalogued sets through the UltraKiss Portal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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