October 29th, 2011· Resolved a number of issues relating to Mac OS X 10.7 autosave, by restoring StoryMill's previous autosave implementation, supported on both 10.7 and 10.6
· Restored Find functionality on 10.6
· Fixed a problem where captions added to pictures were not always getting saved
· Fixed a problem where assigning a Storyline in the Info pane, would fail to save the Storyline selection
· Fixed a problem where assigning a scene to a chapter would not stick under certain circumstances.
September 10th, 2011Implemented new Lion features, including:
· Autosave and versions
· Inspector Bar
· Find Bar
· Removed StoryMill autosave Preferences setting
· Fixed a crash that would occur under Lion when double clicking on a StoryMill 3 file then clicking Import
· Fixed source list indentation under Lion
· Fixed a problem under Lion where artifacts would appear when scrolling in the Snapshots view
· Fixed a problem where typing in Full Screen would sometimes cause styles and formatting to not be applied correctly
· Fixed a problem entering years manually in the timeline view scene editor
· Double-clicking on text in the project find and replace window now navigates you to the instance of the found text in the file
· Pictures can now be saved out of the pictures pane by right clicking on a seleted image and selecting Save Image
· Text selection is now preserved when navigating to and from Full Screen view
· Fixed a problem where renaming a container (like Characters) would cause the contents of that container to fail to display
· Fixed a crash that could happen opening a file after closing that file without quitting
· Removed "untitled document"/"Last Documet" selection in "open at startup" preference
· Fixed a problem where sometimes typing would slow down dramatically
September 6th, 2011· Fixed a problem where corrupted items in the Trash would prevent a file from opening
· Made changes to prevent items in the Trash from getting corrupted
· Fixed deletion of Events in the timeline view
· Fixed a problem where event 'fragments' would prevent the timeline view from opening
· Fixed a problem where Check for Updates would often appear grayed out
· You can now drag images from your web browser to the Pictures pane
· Fixed a problem that prevented certain edits made in the Timeline View from being properly saved
June 29th, 2011· Decreased the minimum window size so that the StoryMill window would be more easily resizable on screens running at lower resolutions
· Fixed a problem where creating scene, chapter, location or character from selected text would sometimes cause the resulting new object to not properly save unless manually edited
· Fixed a problem where creating a scene or chapter from selected text wouldn't properly remove that selected text from the view where it previously resided
· Fixed a problem where typing in the Notes pane would caused typed text to appear invisible under some circumstances
· Updated the Selected Chapters export template
· Fixed a crash that would sometimes happen when deleting a Smart View
· Setting the status via context menu in the source list now causes the title bar for that item to update right away
· Fixed a problem where entering certain non-Latin (accented, Chinese, etc.) characters could cause the text immediately surrounding those characters to shift position
· Fixed a problem where, under some circumstances, unedited items would not be saved when doing a manual Save or Save As
· The order of items in the Source List is now saved
· Fixed a problem where repeated Save As actions could corrupt a file
· Fixed a problem that would occur sometimes where text was not properly synced between Chapter and Novel views
April 27th, 2011· Added an import button to the dialog that appears when opening version 3 files with StoryMill 4
· Added an item list to container views
· Fixed a crash that would occur after selecting a document from the Open Recent submenu
· Fixed a crash that would occur under certain conditions when adding a character
· Fixed a hang that would occur when viewing attached files/file links (like PDFs)
· Fixed a hang/crash that would occur when typing in accented or other non-English text characters
· Fixed a problem that caused StoryMill to stop responding when opening the Timeline View
· Fixed a problem that prevented Snowflake chapters from being imported from a version 3 file into StoryMill 4
· Fixed a problem that would prevent certain edits from marking a file as dirty after doing a manual save
· Fixed the remove (-) button in the Links panes
· Made improvements to StoryMill's performance when saving files
· Restored the ability to double-click an item (such as a character) in order to open that character in its own window
· Reverted to StoryMill 3's time zone awareness functionality to prevent ongoing issues with daylight savings time changes
· The zoom popup now updates correctly
March 16th, 2011· Completely redesigned timeline view with unlimited time spans that scale from minutes to centuries.
· Snapshots so you can make backup copies of your work before making those experimental changes to your prose.
· A full novel view of your book.
· The ability to add pictures to any item in your project independent of your notes.
· The ability to store links with items.
· Completely redesigned UI.
· Much more (a complete list will be posted on or before 3/17/11)
November 12th, 2009· Fixed a problem where doing a Project Find & Replace of a text string could cause text in non-visible views to become scrambled
· Fixed a problem where, when running in French, SmartViews would fail to properly filter items
· Arrow key selection now properly updates word & character counts
· Fixed a problem where doing several Create Scene from Selection actions in a row would prevent the new scenes from appearing properly until saving, closing and reopening the file
· Prevented multiple chapter editor windows for the same chapter from being opened
· Fixed a problem where launching the application with "Untitled document" set to open at startup would result in a blank window on 10.6
· Fixed a problem that prevented importing RTF files when running in German
· Changed the direction of the arrows in the "extend start" and "extend end" toolbar buttons
January 21st, 2009· Fixed Find and Replace in German.
· Fixed a problem where Find and Replace would replace incorrect text.
· When replacing All instances of found word, occurrences of found word now properly.
· update in file until file without having to close and reopen the file.
· Fixed Find results highlighting in Find and Replace window.
· Fixed a problem that prevented tags from being added in single chapter view.
· Full screen mode now uses style from preferences.
· Added a number of fixes for French localization.
December 12th, 2008· Fixed a number of issues pertaining to date entry.
· Scene editing windows now display proper content when defaulted to scene text.
· Fixed issues with date display in the metadata pane.
· Localization fixes.
· Fixed project Find & Replace in French.
· Fixed RTFD export.
· Buy Now menu item now disables when you've entered a valid serial number.
· Fixed a problem with list view drawing in Manage Views.
November 24th, 2008· Added Project Find & Replace
· Serial numbers now cannot be so easily overwritten in Preferences
· Window position is remembered on quit/relaunch
· Selected mode is now remembered on quit/relaunch
· Selected mode is obeyed when navigating from chapter to chapter so that displayed text matches selected mode
· Added numerous localization/translation fixes
· Improved support for lists and tables
· Improved full screen mode margin calculation
· Made text zooming available in all views
· Selection is now synchronized when entering and exiting full screen mode
· Fixed status bar updating in single chapter view
· Scene end date now can be deleted
· Fixed a source of file corruption that could occur when deleting characters associated with scenes
· Added a way to search word frequency
· Fixed a problem that caused Storymill to convert times from PM to AM
· Fixed a problem where renaming a view to "Chapters" would cause the file to fail to load
· Added mouse cursor color for full screen mode
· Fixed one cause of a crash that would occur when clicking around in different views
· Paragraph style defaults entered in defaults are now getting saved
· Quicklook now works on .storymill files
· Sorting a list no longer disables the insert toolbar button (and Shift-Cmd-N)
· Additional file extensions now allowed for plain text exports
· Dates can now be entered in European format (DD/MM/YY)
· Added code to check and insure data integrity
July 4th, 2008· Added the ability to import from .txt, .rtf and .doc files with the option to parse incoming text into chapters
· Added menubar and contextual menu options to create a new scene or chapter from selected text
· Added French and German localization, as well as support for typing in Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters
· Improved overall stability, especially for 10.4 users
· Fixed a problem that prevented locations assigned in the metadata pane from being saved with the scene
· Dozens of additional fixes
April 17th, 2008· Fixed a problem where scenes would wind up in the wrong chapter when dragging them between chapters in the source view
· Status popup menus now display status color swatches
· Fixed a problem editing the name of a chapter (or scene) that was created by duplicating another chapter (or scene)
· Scenes view list can now be sorted by clicking on column header
· Changed file extension from .avenirproj to .storymill (StoryMill will still open files with either extension)
· Smart Views can now be created with partial dates (eg Date Contains "12/25")
· Full Screen mode can be accessed from more views
· Fixed some editing and redraw problems with the storyline list that would appear when creating and editing storylines
· Fixed 'Open Scenes in New Window' functionality in TLV
· SM now saves the 'scrolled-to' location of the TLV window on close
· Set clearer limits on the length of timeframe that TLV can represent
· Fixed a problem that caused the status list to fail to update correctly
· Added higher zoom values for the Timeline view
· Creating a SmartView based on partial dates no longer includes undated scenes
· Fixed a problem that caused poor performance in the Timeline view with certain files
· Fixed an intermittent crash on PowerPC based Macs when the mouse was positioned over the mode bar
· Fixed an intermittent hang/crash that could occur when changing modes
· Fixed a problem where chapter text would not redraw correctly when a search yielded no results
· Fixed a problem that prevented the TLV from updating when a scene's time, storyline or other attributes were edited in the scenes view
· TLV now uses abbreviations for month names
February 13th, 2008· Added new menu option and command key for New Smart View
· Added text & notes modes to Scene Editor window
· Added text editing functions to the Scene Editor window
· Added drag and drop support for scenes in scenes view
· Plus numerous bug fixes.
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