Microsoft’s TouchStudio App Gets an Update – A lot More Access

May 2, 2011 1 Comment

Microsoft Research has updated their TouchStudio App on the WP7 Marketplace! now we get access to things like the accelerometer, location, maps, translation services, web search, tile customization, charting, and more. This completely free app is a lot of fun and for developers it has been a cool new tool to help the develop for the platform. You can read the release notes below.

TouchStudio – Release Notes

v1.1.0.0 beta (5/1/2011)

Many bug fixes
Better auto-completion in expression editor
Access to accelerometer, location, maps, translation services, web search,
tile customization, charting, and more.

Notable 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

Notable API changes:

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

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App Info: Script your phone! TouchStudio is a radically new software development environment on the Windows Phone, bringing the excitement of the first programmable personal computers to the phone. Bring your songs and pictures to life, and use the sensors on the phone. You write code by tapping on the screen. TouchStudio comes with many samples that you can tweak.