A Prompter Changelog

What's new in A Prompter 2.3.6

Nov 30, 2013
  • Speed reading
  • Toggle, Smaller, and Larger macro parameters
  • Improved tab bar operation
  • Swap text with clipboard
  • Find missing files
  • Paste multiple with spaces
  • Search word list for matching character patterns
  • Auto unpause when paused at bookmarks
  • Mandalas (pretty animated shapes)
  • Overlays (pictures that scroll with text)
  • Assignable funtion for keypress
  • Stop scroll mode with mouse
  • Hypertext links within the scroll text

New in A Prompter 2.3.5 (Feb 14, 2012)

  • Fixes:
  • crash bug in Syllable Sync window; find again in Edit window; forward delete macro function; bouncing ball when text is rotated; cue mark preferences; chime selection; crash bug in MiddleString macro function; and more.
  • New features:
  • tab stops; import and auto create bookmarks; additional text and window coloring; text merge and word swap; get info; media queue list; repeat command; record audio and video; type command; key equivalents chart; color chart; grab color; windows menu; new command keys and macros; built-in preferences; a game; and more.

New in A Prompter 2.3.4 (Nov 16, 2010)

  • Fixed paste command to check for public.utf8.plain.text before it checks for com.apple.traditional.mac.plain.text
  • Added public.utf16-external-plain-text and public.rtf to the flavors paste will accept
  • Fixed rtf decoder to accept hex data (ANSI characters above 127, such as ü, ö, ä, and ß now work).
  • Also fixed rtf decoder to accept Unicode characters that are part of the Mac character set (√ and some others now work).
  • Added 20 minutes until demo expires warning dialog, only occurs at A Prompter startup.
  • Increased demo time to 720 minutes.

New in A Prompter 2.3.3 (Sep 3, 2010)

  • Temporary scroll speed changes
  • Progress bar
  • Mouse scroll wheel control
  • Copy and paste style information
  • Search text for style
  • Rectangular text selection
  • Multiple text selection
  • Quick return bookmarks
  • Naming of bookmarks
  • Improved help system
  • Additional open at startup options
  • Edit text while another window scrolls different text
  • Macro files
  • Scrolling shape editor
  • Find/Replace for quick searching and/or replacing of text
  • Create your own toolbar commands
  • Save image sequence as jpegs
  • Scroll against live video
  • Insert text command
  • Rotated text
  • Movie looping
  • Drop caps and strikeout formatting
  • Syncing with iTunes
  • Full screen mode across multiple monitors
  • Select and Speak
  • Much more

New in A Prompter 2.3.2 (May 15, 2010)

  • Fixed crash bug that sometimes occurred when opening a file or inserting text.

New in A Prompter 2.3.1 (Sep 20, 2009)

  • Edit text while another window scrolls different text.
  • Macro files.
  • Scrolling shape editor.
  • Find/Replace for quick searching and/or replacing of text.
  • Create your own toolbar commands.
  • Save image sequence as jpegs.
  • Scroll against live video.
  • Insert text command.
  • Rotated text.
  • Movie looping/font>.
  • Drop caps and strikeout formatting.
  • Syncing with iTunes.
  • Full screen mode across multiple monitors.
  • Select and Speak.

New in A Prompter 2.3.1 Beta (Aug 3, 2009)

  • Beta expires on approximately October 25.
  • Adds rotated text and DropCaps and Strikeout styles.
  • The download includes only the app. You should also download the Demo Download OS X 10.4 to get the included files.

New in A Prompter 2.3.0 (Mar 18, 2009)

  • Added quick start and hints macros.
  • Rewrote picture positioning to be more useful.
  • Fixed text special color effects so that they work without loading a picture.
  • Added Sort button to bookmarks window.
  • Added search paths button and dialog to preferences.
  • Added Cmd-. to end movies/music, and Cmd-, to advance to next movie/music.
  • Added Cmd-Shift-S to instantly save text file without save dialog.
  • Removed Try button from Size Dialog.
  • Fixed Auto Scroll Smoothness feature.
  • Added option to have A Prompter change screen resolution while scrolling.

New in A Prompter 2.3.0 Beta (Feb 19, 2009)

  • Added capability to scroll text in different shapes
  • Added saving picture sequence as jpeg as well as PICT
  • Added Flip Horizontal and Flip Vertical capability to Star Wars scrolling
  • Added right-click (or control-click) on text to edit (Cut, Copy, Paste)
  • Fixed bug in Cut/Copy/Paste commands in Edit Window
  • Fixed several bugs in the scrolling style routines
  • Added scrolling on live video
  • Fixed bug in Undo command which sometimes restored info from a previous cut/copy command
  • Fixed cmd-d dismissing ask to save dialog when caps lock key is on
  • Added undo and don't quit without saving to format menu commands
  • Fixed bug which showed error dialog when dismissing queue edit dialog
  • Added mouse scroll wheel support to bookmarks window
  • Added text style to undo command
  • Added more colors to color menus
  • Fixed bug which caused insertion point to stay at beginning of selection during paste action
  • Fixed Undo so that it restores window name after New or Open command
  • Added Find Text command to Edit menu
  • Added Insert Text command to File menu
  • Fixed bug which caused scrolling to get messed up when deleting text from the end
  • Fixed bug which caused scrolling distance to be too little when last character in text was CR
  • Improved functioning of scrolling momentum
  • Added Default button to preferences dialog
  • Added macro capability