What's new in StoryMill 4.0.5
Oct 29, 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.
New in StoryMill 4.0.4 (Sep 10, 2011)
- Implemented 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
New in StoryMill 4.0.3 (Sep 6, 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
New in StoryMill 4.0.2 (Jun 29, 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
New in StoryMill 4.0.1 (Apr 27, 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
New in StoryMill 4.0 (Mar 16, 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)
New in StoryMill 3.2.3 (Nov 12, 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
New in StoryMill 3.2.2 (Jan 21, 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.
New in StoryMill 3.2.1 (Dec 12, 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.
New in StoryMill 3.2 (Nov 24, 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
New in StoryMill 3.1 (Jul 4, 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
New in StoryMill 3.0.2 (Apr 17, 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
New in StoryMill 3.0.1 (Feb 13, 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.