SlipBox 0.9.7 - Changelog

What's new in SlipBox 0.9.7:

October 24th, 2010

New functions:
· Document format supports the mobile version
· Help menu entry for mailing list

Improvements/changes:
· Changed UTIs to com.tabi-software
· New application icons
· Plug-in table is disabled while plug-in download is in progress

Bug fixes:
· Undoing/redoing when multiple documents are open only switches to the Slip View for the affected Box window
· Enabled changing fonts (bold, etc) for Slip Template window
· Plug-in files are shown as single files in the Finder
· Potential bug: Showing the most recent slip when opening a document works for filenames containing a space
· Add Slip, Split Slip and Merge Slip menu items are disabled in Trash Mode
· After leaving Trash Mode the Slip/Remove menu item is correctly relabelled
· Box window is displayed in the top left edge of the screen (if not restoring old position)
· Slip Text field in Extra Slip window uses full width of the window
· SimpleSpotlightInterface: progress window is closed when returning from not generating for untitled document

What's new in SlipBox 0.9.6:

March 16th, 2010

New features:
· New menu item for searching "Any Textual Field"
· Export as TXT allows to set the text encoding
· Changing a font characteristic (italic, bold, underline, highlight) when no text is selected changes the whole word

Improvements:
· Results table resizes its last column automatically if the column widths are changed
· Slip Scents are updated when the contents of the Keywords field change and another input field is selected
· Reverted the contextual menu in the Slip Text field to the standard menu
· Keyboard shortcuts to set baseline to subscript or superscript
· Keyword field updates its size better; in particular when an entry from autocompletion is accepted by pressing
· Name of "Highlight Text" menu item changed to "Highlight" and moved to the Format/Font menu
· Horizontal line above bottom bar to better separate it form the tab view
· Layout tweaks of the Import accessory view
· Left frame in documentation shows scroll bar
· Added acknowledgements for the ShortcutRecorder

Bugfixes:
· Column assignments in import handles UTF8 encoding
· "Add Keyword To Box Search" button has the desired effect again
· Setting the highlight colour now also works for some special cases, in particular when highlighting the first character of the Slip Text

What's new in SlipBox 0.9.5:

January 11th, 2010

New features:
· Keyboard shortcuts for the items in the Plug-in menu can be changed by the user
· Option to show last viewed slip on application launch
· "Make New Slip" System Service works for webloc files
· PDF and webloc files can be dropped onto the Dock icon

Changes & Improvements:
· Thumbnail preview in QuickLook shows a header section (Filename, Slip ID, Source) and the first 1000 characters of the Slip Text in the body
· Main window uses a draggable bottom bar
· Check whether the SlipBox application version is sufficient before plug-ins are downloaded or activated
· Renamed "File/New" to "File/New Slip-box" and removed the keyboard shortcut

Bugfixes:
· Exporting slips correctly treats titles containing "/"
· Exporting slips correctly appends -1, -2, … to filenames generated from titles

What's new in SlipBox 0.9.4:

December 11th, 2009

New features:
· OpenMeta support
· QuickLook generator also generates thumbnail previews
· Append To Current Slip System Service
· Plug-in update also check for new plug-ins, not just for updated ones
· Search option for "any textual field"

Changes & Improvements:
· Toolbar items now use the rectangular b&w look
· Font characteristics toolbar item is only enabled if Slip Text field is selected
· Updated icons to contain resolutions up to 512 pixels
· Undos for replacing attributed substring scrolls the selection to be visible after undo
· "Open Slip In Extra Window" toolbar item is enabled in the Alternating Scent View for rows containing a Slip ID
· Progress panel is not shown when application is terminating
· If a locally installed plug-in is updated during app launch it is only loaded if the old version was also already loaded
· After undos the Slip Text field scrolls to the current selection (e.g. after a resize image)
· SimpleSpotlight plug-in shows the progress indicator as indeterminate when initialising the writing of files
· Extra Slip Windows are closed when the Trash is opened or closed (open windows prevented the mode switch)
· After an undo/redo the view is switched to the Slip View (1) to make it clear to the user what was undone (2) to avoid possible inconsistencies in the slips listed in the Search Results Table
· Slip ID column in Search Results Table does not resize when table is resized (it got too wide)

Bug fixes:
· Check that at least on table column will be visible in the Search Results Table
· Slip Template could be deleted after Cancel was pressed in confirmation dialogue
· Find Next Orphaned Slip Link correctly deals Slip Links that were edited with the Edit Link menu item
· Plug-in information window correctly displays plug-in information if the panel is closed and reopenend
· Retrieving plug-in update information runs in the background, so it does not block the application (in particular at application launch) if the server is unresponsive
· "View/Result Table Columns/Title" executes the specified action
· Search Predicate Editor correctly updates the content of the search field when restoring a search that uses the same field but has a different condition
· Display of the Search Rule Editor is correctly updates when pressing "+" on an embedded quantifier (i.e. not the topmost one)
· After splitting a Slip the Keyword search works
· Splitting Slips cannot be done in Trash Mode
· Slip Text view is resized correctly when the size of the Keywords field changes in the case that Current Slip is changed in the Search View
· Potential bug that the Current Slip is not initialised during application launch
· Slip Info is updated before the Inspector is shown if the view to be displayed is the Slip Info view

What's new in SlipBox 0.9.3:

November 12th, 2009

New features:
· Added the Transformations submenu in the Edit menu, which seems to be the standard in Snow Leopard
· Slip type column in search results table
· Slip ID, Flagged, Keywords columns are optional columns in search results table
· Selection for the Slip Template is saved in the file
· Option to check for plug-in updates when launching SlipBox
· Contextual menu item for tables: Initiate Keyword Search

Changes & Improvements:
· "Search In SlipBox" Service appears under "Searching"
· Services again appear by default in the Services Menu
· Slip Scents are updated when the Keywords of a Slip change but not before the document is saved
· "Suggest Slip" function does not switch to recently suggested slips, which often led to short circles of suggestions
· The Current Slip changes it's text font when the default Slip Text font is changed in the Preferences
· Changing a slip's author also changes its last modification date
· Dragging a URL into the Slip Text field uses the surrounding font for the inserted text
· Many minor improvements of the interface
· Folders are imported recursively
· Double click on image shows Inspector if is not already open
· Right-clicking on a table selects the row on which the click occurred

Bug fixes:
· Fixed downloading of plug-ins
· Restored ability to resize images
· Undoing changes to a slip restores the last modification date of the slip in most cases
· Installing a plug-in via double click works again
· Fixed an bug in redoing removing a Slip
· Flagged status of slips is correctly updated in all Extra Slip Windows and all Box views
· When creating a new Slip, the default font is set for the Slip Text if no template is specified
· When a new document is created, the slip text uses the specified default font
· Inspector's resize image view is shown on program launch if it was the visible view when app terminated
· Plug-in table in Preferences shows complete icon again
· Updated the Importer for Spotlight, so results of Spotlight searches show correct results for Slips under Snow Leopard
· Information shown in Extra Slip Windows is updated when the content of the Box window is updated
· Slip Text does not change its position when the document is saved

What's new in SlipBox 0.9.2:

June 25th, 2009

New features:
· Image resizing.
· Segmented control for most common font commands.
· Search Results table has columns for source, author, creation date, modification date (set via View menu).
· Arranging the Extra Slip Windows on the screen so they are all visible (if there is enough space; experimental).
· Dock menu containing Keyword Search and Source Search.
· Dock icon accepts drop of images, text, RTF files and web links; this creates a new slip.
· Function to add a keyword to the slips selected in the Search Results table.
· Contextual menu for tables: Searches in Spotlight, Wikipedia, Google; Lookup in Dictionary; Copy (Slip); Add Keyword; Replace Keyword.

Changes & Improvements:
· Removed `Show title column in Search View' button from Preferences window.
· Find related slips in documents in Spotlight' works depending on the current view.
· Changing a slip scrolls the visible area to the top of the slip, not the current selection.
· Highlight colour is now also an on/off feature when no text is selected.
· Moved `Close All Extra Slip Windows' menu item to Windows menu.
· Copying a slip also puts a String and an RTFD representation on the pasteboard.
· Toggling the flagged status in the Search Results Table works if multiple results are selected.
· Option to set titles as filenames for export to separate files.

· Bug fixes - Restored menu item to unflag all slips.

What's new in SlipBox 0.9.1:

June 8th, 2009

New features:
· QuickLook plug-in for Spotlight cache files
· Sparkle Framework for updates
· Garbage collection for improved stability (requires OS X 10.5)
· Inspector to contain old Keywords Drawer and Slip Info (also contains Saved Searches)
· Zooming of the text in the Slip Text; zoom factor stored in the file
· Slip Text view remembers selections and saves them in the file
· New options for export & print
· page break after each slip
· export each slip to a single file
· Menu items
· editing hyperlinks
· opening the table panel
· floating the main window (useful when reading PDFs)
· Maintenance functions
· finding slips without keywords or slip scents ("orphaned" slips)
· replacing a keyword in the whole box
· finding orphaned slip links
· finding singleton keywords
· URLs entered in a slip's Source are exported as hyperlinks
· Tooltips in Slip Scent Table show the Title and shared Keywords of the associated slip
· Playing system sounds for removing slip and emptying trash
· Input from Make Slip Service is scanned for BibTeX commands and offers to move the label to the source field
· Splitting of slips
· Merging of slips
· Saving of searches
· < June 7, 2009 19:28 ID Auto-completion for the Source field including option in preferences
· Option to redirect tab to activate the next key view from Slip Text view; tabs can be added to the text with alt-tab
· Option to terminate application when last window is closed (preferences)

Changes & Improvements:
· Improved design of the main window
· Increased minimum size of Box window and Slip Scent sidebar to preserve better interface
· Slip scent table is displayed as sidebar
· Removed the Labels of the fields in Slip View
· Improved tracking of the mouse above the snap back button in the Source Field
· Slip link dialogue can create slip links with titles other than slip IDs
· Inserting a slip link with dialogue uses the font to the left of the current position
· "x-bdsk://" is a known linking prefix for the source (interacting with BibDesk)
· The bottom bar in the Search View also displays the number of selected search results
· Button for showing duplicates in keyword scent path is now two `filter' buttons
· Improved efficiency of searching
· Support for "Check Grammar With Spelling"
· "Substitutions" submenu
· Context menu for Slip Text view is the application's Edit menu
· Keywords Field is a token field and automatically adjusts to a size so that all keyword tokens are visible
· Window title displays current view
· Current Slip is indicated in Box window title; slip ID field is gone
· Window title of Extra Slip Window uses n-dash instead of brackets for document title
· Import from tab-delimited or comma-delimited file also takes the 0x0a (line feed) newline character for starting a new slip
· Flags in the Results Table have better offset from the baseline
· Extra slip windows fields don't have titles any more
· "Show title column in search results" preference option does not require reopening the box
· Modified key bindings and order of menu items
· Changed New Slip shortcut to cmd-N and Remove Slip to cmd-delete; new file is now shift-cmd-N
· Updated Format menu to current OS standard
· Renamed default button on Import dialogue to "Import"
· Better accuracy in counting words for Slip Info and Box Statistics
· Changed the default creation/modification date of Slip (if not specified by the Slip) to 1/1/2001
· Bookends plug-in now opens bookends:// link with command if that is specified in source field
· Removed the help button from the parameters window of Graphviz, which did not find the entry in the help book
· Spotlight
· Text field to set Spotlight generation interval uses number formatter
· Time interval for Spotlight timers can be changed while documents are open
· Removed "Generate Spotlight files" option from preferences
· Spotlight files are generated if a Spotlight plug-in is loaded; only one Spotlight plug-in can be loaded
· Progress panel is only displayed if more than 10 cache files must be written
· Only if something changed when storing a Slip, the Spotlight module is called
· Slip Template menu item moved to Windows menu
· Progress indicator of Progress Window uses spinning progress indicator style when terminating application
· Font Preferences panel looks more like preferences in Mail.app

Bugfixes:
· Window was sometimes only half vivisble when opened
· Application became sometimes unresponsive
· When opening a slip-box, the first slip was sometimes not added to the slip history
· Box window correctly becomes key window after progress panel for generating Spotlight files is closed (this prevented proper focussing of the application if SlipBox was not the key application during the process)
· Pressing Cancel in Export dialogue correctly does nothing
· Initial window position is correctly placed on the screen
· After document was loaded the Go Back button was selectable
· Selected search results stay selected when Search View is left and selected again
· SimpleSpotlight plug-in restores the old key window after progress panel is closed
· Two subsequent slips in the slip history cannot be identical any more (this cause the Go Back button to be available on application launch)
· After changing the fixed width font in the Preferences the display in the corresponding Box is updated correctly
· If the document is already open when a Spotlight cache file is opened, the window is made key window
· Saving documents does not change the current view
· Correct undoing of dropping a link on the Source field: The undo did not switch back to the affected slip first
· Undo of changing slip author
· Removed the close button form the Slip Template window, because program becomes unavailable if closed this way
· Deleting the redos when the current slip is changed after a save, which is less annoying than having the document marked as changed after saving and changing the current slip.

What's new in SlipBox 0.9:

April 30th, 2009

New features:
· Garbage collection for improved stability (requires OS X 10.5)
· Inspector to contain old Keywords Drawer and Slip Info (also contains Saved Searches)
· Zooming of the text in the Slip Text; zoom factor stored in the file
· Slip Text view remembers selections and saves them in the file

New options for export & print:
· page break after each slip
· export each slip to a single file

Menu items:
· editing hyperlinks
· opening the table panel
· floating the main window (useful when reading PDFs)

Maintenance functions:
· finding slips without keywords or slip scents ("orphaned" slips)
· replacing a keyword in the whole box
· finding orphaned slip links
· finding singleton keywords

· URLs entered in a slip's Source are exported as hyperlinks
· Tooltips in Slip Scent Table show the Title and shared Keywords of the associated slip
· Playing system sounds for removing slip and emptying trash
· Input from Make Slip Service is scanned for BibTeX commands and offers to move the label to the source field
· Splitting of slips
· Merging of slips
· Saving of searches

What's new in SlipBox 0.8:

March 31st, 2008

· Plug-in architecture: Moved some existing code their own plug-ins, Downloading of plug-ins form the SlipBox site
· Plug-ins available for: Spotlight (comes with application), Keyword extraction (very simple), Summarisation, Graphviz, BibDesk, Bookends
· Import of SlipBox documents, Tab-delimited text files (*.txt), Comma-delimited text files (*.csv; e.g. export from Excel or Zettelkasten)
· Auto-saving of SlipBox documents in a user-definable interval
· Slip Templates
· New application icon
· New document icon
· New toolbar icons
· Function to empty the Trash
· System Service to searching for keywords
· Source included in Spotlight cache files
· Preferences: Plug-in management, Switch off auto-completion of keywords, Auto-save time interval
· Link to Online Forum in Help Menu
· Slip Info contains the word count, keywords count, and counts for both scent types
· Additional Application Launch options: "Open nothing" and "Open Dialogue"
· Dragging onto the Source field for Web URLs, BibDesk, Bookends
· Bookends IDs can be dropped into the Slip Text field and show the title
· Auto-completion of keywords shows pop-up window to choose from existing keywords
· Button that determines whether the double-clicked keyword in the Keywords Drawer is added to a search moved to the Drawer
· Case-insensitive sorting of lists in: Slip Type combo box, Keywords Drawer, Keyword Scent View, Alternating Scent View
· Better display of focus ring
· Dragging of files from the Finder creates a textual link to the file. For copying the ALT or COMMAND key has to be pressed as well.
· No default Slip Types
· "Marking" a slip is now called "flagging" a slip
· "Unflag all slips" menu item is always available
· "Make New Slip" System Service uses the default slip font specified when inserting plain text
· Undo for changing slip author
· If multiple items in the Search View or a slip in the Alternating Scents View are selected the "Copy Slip" function copies all selected slips.
· Dragging hyperlinks onto the Slip Text or copying a webloc file creates a link
· Removing some clipping of views in the main window
· Results Table has alternating row backgrounds (in keeping with Leopard)
· Outline Views uses the OS X default behaviour for cursor key downs
· Dropping of files onto the Slip Text (mostly for dropping graphics files from web browsers; works best for Safari)
· Improved management of slip history
· State of the Keywords Drawer is saved in the preferences file
· Renamed menu items: "Import…" menu item, "Slip(s)" to "Slips", "Export Slip(s)…" to "Export…", "Find Related Documents in Spotlight"
· Export panel is a sheet
· Better warning if the default file cannot be opened
· Corrected typo in the Add Slip toolbar icon tool tip
· Corrected spelling in tips of toolbar icons
· Double click on Slip Scent Table made cell editable instead of changing to the slip
· Simple Spotlight interface: Slip Text and Creation and Modification Time are saved to cache file
· Selection in the Keywords Field is reset to the whole field when the Current Slip changes
· Bugfix: If the keywords field was edited and a new slip added the changes were not saved. This might also have happened when simply changing to another slip in the box.
· Bugfix: Changes to the text of the Current Slip were not committed when the current slip was not changed to another one.
· Bugfix: Application crashed when installing a plug-in.
· Bugfix: The Startup Mode was set to 1 (last document), but when the app was launched for the first time, this resulted in an error message.
· Bugfix: The "Edit Text" undo was added twice to the undo stack when the document was saved with pending changes in the Slip Text.
· Bugfix: Unsaved changes in the text fields and the combo box are now checked before a document is closed.
· Bugfix: Slip Types combo box reported an error when it was left and the field (a) remained empty or (b) the user clicked beyond the last element.
· Bugfix: After the Print dialogue was shown, the Export dialogue did not display its accessory view.
· Bugfix: When running the Export Panel the Progress Window was hidden behind the Save panel (Export panel is now a sheet).
· Bugfix: Undo of Add Slip did not restore the correct number for the next new slip.
· Bugfix: The Current Slip was not saved before Extra Window was opened.
· Bugfix: Printing now uses its own view instead of the Slip Text view, so the content of the Slip Text view doesn't change any more.
· Bugfix: Error in determining the number of the slip with the highest number in the box (regular and trashed slips).
· Bugfix: Source field was erased if keywords are changed and the document was then immediately saved.
· Bugfix: Drag and Drop onto an empty Source from BibDesk could not be undone.
· Bugfix: Opening a slip in an Extra Slip window did not work for slips with an empty Slip Text.
· Bugfix: Export window did not open for untitled documents.
· Bugfix: Opening document via double click also opens the one specified in defaults (seems no way around this).
· Bugfix: Memory leak in the data structures for Keyword Scents and Alternating Scents caused the program to crash when: (1) new document (2) enter a keyword in Keywords Field (3) add Slip (4) quit program.
· Bugfix: Document was marked as changed when (1) Slip Text was changed (2) document saved (3) Current Slip changed.