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Macao is a framework based on JavaScript and DHTML for building animated interactive homepages and applications. You can use Macao to enrich your homepage, to build graphic adventures, card games and other puzzle games.

Macao 1.2 has been successfully tested with Opera 9. But one issue was found. The table rows appear in the wrong order in Opera. For more info see the description of bug 1514548. Download Macao Patch 1.2.a to fix this problem.

A feature list for Macao has been added to the home page.

The release brings a module for card games. Try out the online demo Macao Solitaire. The overall performance has been improved and the support for Drag and Drop has been extended. An additional chapter in the tutorial explains how to set the walk interval.

Macao is a framework to build graphic adventures and animated interactive homepages. Version 1.1 of Macao includes a persistence module. You can use this module to let the user save the game score as bookmark in the browser. So the score can be saved and reloaded without the need of a specific server. In addition every page can have its own frameset to show different controllers.

Three examples from the API Documentation of the class MacaoTalkItem have been fixed and added to the homepage.
http://macao.sourceforge.net/homepage/documentation.html

Macao is a framework for building browser based Graphic Adventures. It can be hosted on every static web server. Version 1.0.1 fixes all known bugs and brings better support for the Opera browser. The Sentence Controller has been improved, so the user needs fewer clicks to check out actions.

The new patch fixes a bug, which prevents the talk items to securely switch an object between the wander around mode and other actions. The patch also includes the enhancement of the SentenceController, which was published previously. You can download the patch at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1226571&group_id=135247&atid=732293

This patch implements an enhancement for the SentenceController. The enhancement automatically terminates a sentence in the sentence controller, if there is no fitting action for an extended version of this sentence.
So the user earlier gets the information, that the try will have no success.

See the Patch:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1193349&group_id=135247&atid=732293

There is a Problem with frames in Opera. The property window.frames of Opera only reflects the first frame of a frameset, but not all frames. This hinders Macao to calculate the list of frames automatically and communicate between the frames.

For a workaround see the description of bug 1193326.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1193326&group_id=135247&atid=732291

Macao is a new way to build interactive web applications. The framework uses DHTML to animate characters and interact with objects on Web pages. Macao is intended for authors who want to write Adventure games for the Web in an easy way. Try out the online demo.