NovaMind Changelog

What's new in NovaMind 5.6.4

Dec 2, 2014

Mainly bug fix and usability improvements.

New in NovaMind 5.5.8 (Jun 12, 2014)

New in NovaMind 5.5.7 (Jun 12, 2014)

New in NovaMind 5.5.6 (Jun 12, 2014)

New in NovaMind 5.5.5 (Jun 3, 2014)

New in NovaMind 5.5.4 (Dec 17, 2013)

New in NovaMind 5.5.3 (Nov 15, 2013)

New in NovaMind 5.5.2 (Jul 9, 2013)

New in NovaMind 5.5.0 (Jun 7, 2013)

[New Feature] Added the ability to create presentation slides with the highlight option selected by pressing the Control key while creating it.
[New Feature] Completely reformatted and significantly updated help documentation with help searching fully supported.
[New Feature] Added the ability for the spell checker to work with the screenwriter.
[New Feature] Added the ability to make images their natural size from the context menu.
[New Feature] Added the ability to make images their natural size when adding them (holding the Option key down).
[New Feature] Added the Screenwriter Preferences.
[New Feature] Added screenwriter script export and import options.
[New Feature] Added the screenwriter module to the Platinum edition of NovaMind, so you can create screenplays from within NovaMind.
[New Feature] Replaced the entire theme system with a new version, with a theme editor (Pro and Platinum) and theme chooser, favorites, theme sharing etc.
[Enhancement] Added the ability for dictating screenplays on systems that support dictation.
[Enhancement] Updated the theme chooser controller to comply with naming conventions.
[Enhancement] Silenced an unnecessary warning in the spotlight importer.
[Enhancement] Updated memory management of unique identifiers on persistent objects.
[Enhancement] Updated the find system to be able to handle results in the screenplay script.
[Enhancement] Made the notes preview longer.
[Enhancement] Added summary descriptions within the documentation.
[Enhancement] Multiple changes in the print accessory controller to bring it into line with the export settings where appropriate.
[Enhancement] Added the ability to do additive selections of topics by holding either the Shift or Command keys.
[Enhancement] Added pre-processing of text inputs for non-supported formatting.
[Enhancement] Updated the inspector controller to avoid sending unnecessary change notifications.
[Enhancement] Added recording of the last used task duration units setting so you don’t need to change it all the time on new topics.
[Enhancement] Completely replaced the entire media library framework with a significantly updated version.
[Enhancement] Updated the rainbow angle control to avoid sending unnecessary notifications.
[Enhancement] Made the color set loader more flexible about file formats.
[Enhancement] Updated the application and document icons to make them look better for Retina displays.
[Enhancement] Updated the presentation documentation to reflect the new highlighting option.
[Enhancement] Rewrote the error reporter to be part of the main application instead of a separate application.
[Enhancement] Made the printing settings default to the default settings for new documents.
[Enhancement] Updated the export code so that it works with sandboxing.
[Enhancement] Updated the theme editor documentation to make the scope of themes clearer.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a crasher bug when the web site update check returns the wrong data.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a potential memory error in the Find system.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a problem where the licensing icons would be drawn upside down in some circumstances.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a bug in the find option that was used to go to the previous or next find word, where it would not take into account the search options.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a threading issue with the presenter controller.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a problem with updating of topic controls while the document is being saved.
[Bug Fix] Added protection to ensure that color sets would never have more than 10 colors in them.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a problem where recreating a Mind Map from a copy operation would not set up the link lines properly.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a potential memory error in the Change Spelling system.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a problem where the presenter controls were being updated when no presentation was running.
[Bug Fix] Fixed an error in the shape model processing.
[Bug Fix] Added code to fix issues with creation of Mind Maps from topics where there are link lines on the Maps.
[Bug Fix] Fixed some memory management errors on the theme system.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a threading issue with tooltips during save.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a problem with handling malformed color sets.
[Bug Fix] Added instrumentation to monitor first registered changes on clean documents.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a problem where switching active Mind Map would leave the notes pane non-editable until the selection is changed.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a problem where floating topics wouldn’t have collapse controls when they are initially created.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a problem where colors of rainbow and color set colors would not be updated correctly when inserting part way through the array of subtopics.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a problem where topic colors would not be updated correctly when the theme coloring mode was changed.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a problem where text on topics and notes would not be updated immediately to match theme changes.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a problem where inserting topics in automatically colored groups would not update colors of the related topics correctly.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a bug where boundaries would not update correctly when subtopics were deleted or collapsed.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a problem where the checkin number was not being written to the build information.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a problem with comparison of values for reflection settings.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a problem with style lookups for boundaries.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a problem with loading color sets.
[Bug Fix] Tried to put in a workaround for a crasher bug that occasionally happens, but we haven’t been able to reproduce it.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a problem handling themes with no name.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a problem where switching Mind Maps would not show the topic notes for the selected Mind Map’s selected topic.
[Bug Fix] Fixed a problem where documents got marked dirty when no changes had been made in some situations.

New in NovaMind 5.5.0 Beta 3 (Apr 30, 2013)

New in NovaMind 5.4.11 (Nov 29, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.4.10 (Nov 23, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.4.9 (Nov 22, 2012)

Added the option of treating selected topics as if they are collapsed if they don’t have any subtopics, when creating slides.
Added the option of highlighting the topics that define the slide when the slide is presented.
Made the application confirm address book access when it first starts, so it is easier to understand for users.
Improved the handling of text color attributes when pasting links externally and internally.
Made the program more robust to handle invalid images.
Made the highlighted topics exclude shapes unless explicitly in the slide definition.
Minor documentation update.
Improved the handling of selection double clicks during slide presentations.
Updated the presentation user interface.
Fixed a problem with topic selection using the arrow keys during presentation walkthroughs when the settings say to not expand subtopics.
Fixed a problem when setting automatic coloring on hyperlinks.
Fixed a problem regenerating text with hyperlinks in it.
Fixed a problem where jumping to a find result where the subtopics had been collapsed would expand the subtopics without showing the connection lines.
Fixed copying and pasting of text so that hyperlink colors and attributes are preserved or set appropriately.
Fixed a lockup problem that could occur when undoing text changes in some circumstances.
Fixed a problem where copying and pasting a Mind Map would not copy the link lines.
Fixed an occasional crasher bug that could occur during user interface validation.
Fixed a seemingly random crasher bug during layout.
Fixed a problem where colorwells were not being initialized properly in the fill color inspector.
Fixed a problem with handling underline colors for hyperlinks.
Fixed a problem setting the text color to the default, where it would leave link text the wrong color.
Fixed a problem reverting to default text where it would also remove hyperlinks.
Fixed a problem in the presenter where drawn lines would not be removed when changing slides using the slide selector.
Fixed a problem with going to the previous walkthrough topic when the settings say to not expand subtopics.
Fixed a problem were presentation slides and other operations would include floating topics unnecessarily.
Fixed an occasional problem where slides would not regenerate.
Improved the handling of opening files where the topics defining slides had been deleted but the slides had not been updated.
Fixed a bug where it was possible to move an adornment to a shape.
Fixed a problem where undoing the deletion of an adornment could lead to a crash in some circumstances.
Fixed a problem where there was an occasional crash on observer removal.
Fixed a problem when using the keyboard arrow keys for topic selection, when the subtopics are collapsed.
Fixed a problem where the connection visuals would not update correctly in some situations where connection types were updated.
Fixed a problem with link attributes overriding what is stored in the file.
Added the new linkback framework version.

New in NovaMind 5.4.8 (Oct 17, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.4.7 (Oct 16, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.4.6 (Oct 16, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.4.5 (Oct 15, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.4.4 (Oct 13, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.4.3 (Oct 3, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.3.4 (Jun 6, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.3.3 (Jun 6, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.2.19 (Apr 11, 2012)

Fixed a crasher bug that could occur after 100 actions after a topic had been removed in some circumstances.
Fixed a problem with export to PowerPoint when there are hyperlinks inline in the text.
Fixed a bug with resizing topics when not at 100% zoom level.
Fixed a crasher bug that happened when various export actions were attempted after importing a file, but not saving it yet.
Fixed a problem where using the paste special operation to add formatted text subtopics would create the topics twice if there were over 200 topics being created.
Fixed a problem where some iCal settings were not being saved if they had never been edited.
Added an extra check for edited attachments when closing a file, so that we cover the case where an attachment is a NovaMind file, and has been edited within NovaMind without ever switching to another application.
Added the ability for NovaMind to synchronize changes to topics synchronized with iCal when those changes were made while the NovaMind document wasn't open.
Added the capability for NovaMind to synchronize topics with iCal when automatic synchronization on saving is turned on, when the document is being closed.
Updated the help documentation to reflect the updates to the iCal syncing.
Fixed a problem where sometimes synchronization of iCal events could happen even if it was turned off.
Fixed a problem where task synchronization with iCal could not happen evening some rare circumstances.
Fixed a problem where automatic synchronization on save of iCal events and tasks was happening even if it had been turned off.
Fixed a problem where in some circumstances changing items in iCal could lead to propagation to NovaMind even when that was turned off.
Fixed a problem where users were being prompted to accept iCal changes even after they had turned that option off.
Fixed a crasher bug that could happen when pasting text which has colors explicitly set in it.
Added the capability of generating fill settings using themed colors.
Fixed a problem where the fill color wells would not be updated to show automatic colors in some circumstances.
Fixed a problem where selecting a topics while the fill color had an active color well would immediately set either the previously selected topic's color or the theme default color to the topic.
Fixed a problem where just activating a colorwell would set the fill color for a topic.
Fixed a problem where changing the selected topic could in some circumstances set the fill mode for a topic to be an explicit value when it was already the default value.
Improved the updating of the fill and line inspectors.
Fixed a problem where selections of topics with automatic colors would show the default theme color in the line color well instead of the actual displayed color.
Fixed a problem where if you used automatic colors and changed the line color of one topic and then selected another topic, it would set the line color of that topic to the theme color.
Fixed a problem where the act of activating a color well would fix the color to the active color, thus overriding themed colors.
Fixed a problem where changing the selection would trigger an explicit update of the line color.
Fixed a problem where pasting rich text which is fixed width into topics leaves the text so that you can't wrap it properly on the topic.
Fixed some issues with task report panel localization.
Improved the behavior of track pad scrolling on 10.7+
Improved the responsiveness of scrolling when editing text and other operations using an overlay.
Made it impossible to click the edit font set or choose theme while you are editing a font set or choosing a theme or color set.
Fixed a crasher bug when editing font sets.
Added generic recording of when the main window is showing a sheet, so as to enable and disable appropriate options.
Fixed some issues with French.
Fixed an issue where if the task information prefix was too long, it would not be positioned properly.

New in NovaMind 5.2.18 (Mar 30, 2012)

Enabled starting editing using Emacs style key bindings - for example Control+A starts editing with the cursor positioned at the start of the text, and Control+E starts editing with the cursor positioned at the end of the text.
Made it so that a Save As operation on 10.6 does not pre-populate the save file name with the Mind Map's title - it just leaves it as the name of the file as already saved.
Made it so duplicating a document on 10.7+ does not pre-populate the save file name with the Mind Map's title - it leaves it as "OldFileName copy" as per the duplicate command and display name.
Updated localizations of task information so that the right letters can be displayed in different languages.
Fixed some problems with undo where it was necessary to undo more than once for a single undo action.
Fixed a problem where changing the color of some text on a topic and then immediately pressing Return to end editing would return the text to its previous color or a different color.
Fixed a problem where changing the color of some text on a topic and then clicking off the topic would revert the color back to the previous color.
Fixed a problem where it was only possible to set portions of the color of a topic title to theme colors and not other colors.
Fixed a problem where the text on a topic would not update correctly when undoing and redoing changes to the text after the topic was no longer selected or in editing mode.
Fixed some problems with the animations.
Fixed a problem when resizing topics for events such as addition and removal of task information icons.
Corrected French and German translations.
Cached the map background layers for better performance.
Moved the text storage out of the renderer into the model so it can be cached properly.
Only update rendering text when the text actually changes for better performance.
Fixed a problem where resizing a topic would not re-wrap text in it.
Fixed a problem where setting the font would not resize the topic.
Fixed a problem where the inspectors wouldn't always update to show the correct information after an undo operation.
Fixed a problem that could happen when pasting topics above existing topics if there were floating topics included in the topics to be pasted.
Fixed a problem where if you were dragging an image from another program on to a topic that was being edited, it would not finish editing the topic.
Fixed a problem where pasted text with attachments that don't have valid images for the attachment cells would cause a crash.
Fixed a problem undoing the concurrent addition of multiple adornments.
Turned off undo task coalescing on a global basis.
Fixed a problem with undoing and redoing text changes while editing a topic.
Updated the help.
Fixed a unit conversion issue.
Fixed an issue where if the task information prefix was too long, it would not be positioned properly.
Fixed a memory management problem with color sets.
Cached the color set hash for better performance.
Fixed a problem with save panel preparation.
Added a topic deallocation notification to ensure that the topic node visual is not observing. This should never happen, but there is clearly a problem and hopefully this will work around it.
Fixed a crasher bug in the task reports panel that would happen if the topic title column was hidden.
Fixed a crasher bug in the task reports panel if an unavailable row height was asked for.
Fixed a problem with listing observations.
Fixed some localization issues in the inspectors.

New in NovaMind 5.2.16 (Mar 21, 2012)

Added French localization.
Fixed a problem where if you synchronised with iCal, and then turned iCal synchronisation off again, it would still sync tasks and todos.
Fixed potential issue with asynchronous access to filtered dictionary.
Fixed a problem where potentially illegal characters could get into topics using the new paste special options.
Added generic methods for cleaning strings and attributed strings.
Added additional checking for successful creation of topics when grafting.
Added more error reporting when a standard built in image is not found.
Added exception handling for situations where the topic node visual is stopping observing when it wasn't observing in the first place.
Disabled the receipt verification when running in debug mode.
Updated the activation of the options on the task reports panel.
Fixed an occasional crasher bug that could happen when opening or closing documents.
Fixed a crasher bug that would happen when NovaMind is running as a viewer.
Fixed a logic error on limiting changing of topic types.
Worked around a crasher bug on link line creation on some Mind Maps.
Updated the logic for determining whether to run as a viewer.
Updated the menu item enabling for upgrades, newsletter, tutorials, gallery, and importing.
Fixed a problem where the edited state would not be reset if the document was being synchronized with iCal.
Fixed a problem where changing the color set or font set would not immediately force an update of the existing text.
Improved error handling on imports.
Fixed a problem where pasted text with attachments that don't have valid images for the attachment cells would cause a crash.
Fixed a problem where changing the color of some text on a topic and then immediately pressing Return to end editing would return the text to its previous color or a different color.
Fixed a problem where changing the color of some text on a topic and then clicking off the topic would revert the color back to the previous color.
Fixed a problem where it was only possible to set portions of the color of a topic title to theme colors and not other colors.
Fixed some localization issues in the inspectors.
Updated the French localization for the iCal sync inspector.
Fixed a problem with the French localization of the task panel.
Fixed a problem that could happen when pasting topics above existing topics if there were floating topics included in the topics to be pasted.
Fixed a problem where if you were dragging an image from another program on to a topic that was being edited, it would not finish editing the topic.

New in NovaMind 5.2.15 (Mar 13, 2012)

Added a complete German translation of NovaMind.
Added the ability to switch to a different Mind Map on initial activation.
Added the ability to switch to a different Mind Map in a document with a single click even when editing text.
Tidied up handling of non-editable iCal calendars.
Added context menu items for all the paste special options.
Added a context menu item for pasting.
Added extraction of multiple lines of text to create a hierarchy of topics and subtopics when pasting.
Added the ability to paste plain text or formatted text as callouts on the selected topic.
Added the ability to paste plain text or formatted text as subtopics of the selected topic.
Added the ability to paste text from the clipboard to replace the title of a selected topic, either as plain text (using the theme formatting), or as rich text (using the formatting of rich text).
Added optional toolbar item for creating link lines, for those who work with them a lot.
Made it so dragging on a file and hyperlinking to it uses the file name without the full path as the display name.
Made it so double or triple clicking on a different topic when you are already editing a topic will select the word/paragraph under the cursor.
Changed the topic and Mind Map copy operations so that they put rich text on the clipboard.
Ignore empty pasted lines when creating topics.
Updated the documentation to explain the new Paste Special commands.
Forced an autosave before pasting multiple topics.
Added balancing of multiple added topics on radial parents.
Blocked adding of so many topics that NovaMind would not be able to cope.
Added warning when pasting would create lots of topics.
Updated the default shortcut keys for switching between editing topics and notes in the German localization to be Command+# and Shift+Command+# to work better with German keyboards.
Prepared for French translations.
Improved the German localization of the outline view, the outline numbering, the line inspector, the theme selector, the print controls, the zoom menus, the main menu, the font set chooser, and the error reporter.
Made the Spanish and German error reporters specify to use English for error reports, so we can understand what the problem is.
Improved the Spanish version of the theme selector.
Added localization of preference controls.
Added localization of preferences panel titles.
Improved the behavior of topic insertion when the Mind Map title is selected.
Made is so that you can drag a color onto either a line topic or a link line to change the stroke color.
Made the topic being edited retain its editing status when dragging text within the topic.
Improved the Spanish font set chooser.
Made using the resize handles to resize a topic while it is being edited retain editing status, and retain text selection.
Improved the behavior of grafting and moving topics that are being edited.
Assorted bug fixes.

NovaMind Changelog

What's new in NovaMind 5.6.4

New in NovaMind 5.5.8 (Jun 12, 2014)

New in NovaMind 5.5.7 (Jun 12, 2014)

New in NovaMind 5.5.6 (Jun 12, 2014)

New in NovaMind 5.5.5 (Jun 3, 2014)

New in NovaMind 5.5.4 (Dec 17, 2013)

New in NovaMind 5.5.3 (Nov 15, 2013)

New in NovaMind 5.5.2 (Jul 9, 2013)

New in NovaMind 5.5.0 (Jun 7, 2013)

New in NovaMind 5.5.0 Beta 3 (Apr 30, 2013)

New in NovaMind 5.4.11 (Nov 29, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.4.10 (Nov 23, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.4.9 (Nov 22, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.4.8 (Oct 17, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.4.7 (Oct 16, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.4.6 (Oct 16, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.4.5 (Oct 15, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.4.4 (Oct 13, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.4.3 (Oct 3, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.3.4 (Jun 6, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.3.3 (Jun 6, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.2.19 (Apr 11, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.2.18 (Mar 30, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.2.16 (Mar 21, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.2.15 (Mar 13, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.2.11 (Mar 8, 2012)

New in NovaMind 5.0.0 Beta 5 (Jun 6, 2011)

New in NovaMind 4.7.4 (Sep 4, 2009)

New in NovaMind 4.7.3 (Aug 11, 2009)

New in NovaMind 4.7.2 (Aug 11, 2009)

New in NovaMind 4.7.1 (May 11, 2009)

New in NovaMind 4.7.0 (May 11, 2009)

New in NovaMind 4.6.2 (Jan 23, 2009)

New in NovaMind 4.6.1 (Nov 21, 2008)

New in NovaMind 4.6.0 (Nov 19, 2008)

New in NovaMind 4.2.4 (Jul 14, 2008)

New in NovaMind 4.2.2 (Jun 10, 2008)

New in NovaMind 4.2.1 (Jun 9, 2008)

New in NovaMind 4.2.0 (May 24, 2008)