DateLine Changelog

What's new in DateLine 1.2.0

Apr 18, 2011
  • New features:
  • Caliander support
  • Informative alerts warning about a SyncServices bug
  • Bug fixes:
  • DateLine context menu Help submenu now shows Reset Preferences
  • Tasks floating window "No tasks found" placeholder now disappears when it should
  • iCal calendar names are now refreshed correctly in the filter list

New in DateLine 0.964 (Nov 14, 2010)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug where Chinese days were being incorrectly displayed for users located in Taiwan and Singapore
  • Fixed a bug in month title sizing when different length day names were chosen

New in DateLine 0.954 (Jul 20, 2010)

  • Improved positioning of calendar week numbering.
  • Fixed a bug where themes were not being autosaved in some situations.

New in DateLine 0.953 (Jul 19, 2010)

  • New features:
  • DateLine now has a menu bar status icon, which can be toggled in General Preferences
  • New default theme: Minimalist
  • Added the choice of full or abbreviated month title
  • New Advanced feature: Tasks now appear on their due date, if they have one
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed a drawing bug for month width in vertical mode
  • Fixed a bug where Add New event to Calendar would create a new event on January 1, 2001 instead of the selected day

New in DateLine 0.952 (Jun 14, 2010)

  • New features:
  • New Advanced preferences: Additional ranges of 21 and 69 days now supported
  • New minumum dimension: a minuimum of 300 pixels is now supported to suit the shorter ranges of days. No attempt is yet made to enforce a sensible width for larger ranges, consequently DateLine can appear severely squashed in some configurations. I will aim to improve this in future releases.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Improvements to German localization
  • Fixed a rendering bug on large DateLine dimensions which caused the last element to be clipped
  • Improved the behaviour of the Apply Themes item in the contextual menu, now has identical behaviour to using the Preferences window to apply themes
  • Numerous other small enhancements

New in DateLine 0.950 (May 17, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Tasks (To Do) support in Advanced preferences. Tasks are displayed on Today's events popup
  • BusyCal day selection support, thanks to BusyMac. Requires BusyCal 1.3b2 or higher.
  • German localization.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix for window floating behaviour when DateLine is frontmost, which was broken in 0.932
  • ISO 8601 compliance fixed.

New in DateLine 0.931 (Apr 10, 2010)

  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed a rare bug where DateLine would not show rounded rects for the date elements
  • Fixed a bug where clicking on the DateLine would cause it to float above all other windows in the unregistered version

New in DateLine 0.930 (Apr 7, 2010)

  • New features:
  • New Appearance preferences: Gradient styles for Element and Today Element
  • New Advanced preference: Add Event To iCal contextual menu item
  • New Advanced preference: Float DateLine window on mouseover
  • Bug fixes:
  • More refinements to Floating Window level behaviour on mouse over.

New in DateLine 0.923 (Mar 24, 2010)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Events fetching now handles daylight savings transitions.
  • Events pop-over now displays the date respecting locale.
  • More refinements to Floating Window level behaviour on mouse over.

New in DateLine 0.921 (Mar 22, 2010)

  • New features:
  • Partial rewrite of DateLineEventsHelper for better iCal event handling.
  • DateLine now becomes the frontmost window on mouse over when "Show events on mouse over" is active.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed a bug where multi-day events were not displaying on subsequent days.
  • Fixed a bug where double-clicking on a day was not opening iCal.

New in DateLine 0.910 (Mar 8, 2010)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Corrected a few errors in the Japanese localization
  • Fixed a bug where old iCal calenders were not being removed from the Filter list
  • Now complies with ISO 8601 for week numbering

New in DateLine 0.850 (Nov 26, 2009)

  • New features:
  • Added First Day of Week to General preferences
  • Added live iCal event change synchronisation
  • One, two, three or full day labels are now selectable, depending on orientation
  • Bugfixes:
  • Removed Desktop window level, as it did not work correctly in Snow Leopard. Please use Desktop Icons level instead.
  • Fixed some incompletely localized text in the Portuguese and French versions
  • Improved horizontal calendar label positioning code

New in DateLine 0.840 (Nov 13, 2009)

  • New features:
  • Portuguese (Brazilian) localization.
  • Allows numbering of calendar weeks.
  • Enables a range of dates to be displayed when "Today in centre of DateLine" is checked: 31, 43 or 57 days.
  • Now draws the month title below the DateLine when in the top half of the screen in the horizontal orientation. Also added equivalent behaviour in the vertical orientation for the right half of the screen.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Double clicking on an event in the iCal events window now correctly opens iCal.

New in DateLine 0.830 (Nov 10, 2009)

  • New features:
  • Filtering of iCal calendars.
  • Receives live notifications from iCal about events added or deleted.
  • Circle Day Mark style.
  • Calendar Store updates are now performed on a background thread to prevent interface locking.
  • Bug fixes:
  • French localization of context menu.
  • French localization of Preferences icons.
  • Choosing a Today Mark Shape in the French localization now works.

New in DateLine 0.820 (Nov 3, 2009)

  • New features:
  • Completely new French translation (Thanks to Jean-Marie Calvat)
  • Bugfixes:
  • Open at Login functionality fixed

New in DateLine 0.810 (Nov 2, 2009)

  • New features:
  • DateLine now respects iCal's setting for first day of week
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed a bug where DateLine would not respect the width setting between launches

New in DateLine 0.800 (Oct 31, 2009)

  • New features:
  • Preference to draw shadow or not
  • Register to unlock the new Advanced preferences:
  • Orientation: Horizontal or vertical
  • Today centric dateline
  • Position lock
  • Autosize to new screens
  • iCal events in a pop up window
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed many bugs in the French localization
  • Application architecture bug fixes and improvements

New in DateLine 0.720 (Oct 30, 2009)

  • Fixed a bug where the French localization had display anomalies
  • Reinstated Check For Updates menu item

New in DateLine 0.70 (Oct 7, 2009)

  • Total Rewrite of drawing and date generation code
  • Bugfixes:
  • Fixed a severe memory leak
  • New Features:
  • Added preference for week dividers
  • Added preference for day mark color and transparency

New in DateLine 0.649 (Aug 25, 2009)

  • Bug fixes: French localization update.

New in DateLine 0.5 (May 18, 2009)

  • Sparkle automatic updating support.
  • Pre-defined Window Levels.
  • Contextual menu for Preferences and Quit.

New in DateLine 0.4 (May 11, 2009)

  • Added new preferences for:
  • Width.
  • Line colour.
  • Day mark colour.
  • Dockless running.
  • Month name visibility.