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Scapple Changelog

What's new in Scapple 1.4.2

Oct 24, 2022
  • macOS 13 “Ventura” Compatibility:
  • Override SVG drag and drop in macOS 13 to use previous behaviour of substituting a file link for the image. SVG support in macOS seems to be in an early and buggy state, so we will revisit adding native support for SVG images on the board at a future date.
  • Testing has been done against the updated text editing frameworks introduced in macOS 13.
  • Fixed an issue where the selection colour for notes was always black, regardless of system setting.
  • Enhancements:
  • Support for handling unrecognised image types has been added. In such cases, a placeholder will be substituted for the image, using the same size and position, preserving the original image data in the file. This will mainly be of impact to cross-platform users who would like to take advantage of scalable SVG graphics on Windows.
  • An additional shortcut has been added for Quick Zoom, =, mainly for keyboards that lack a physical Z key.
  • Option-Scroll for zooming in and out on the canvas will follow system preferences for scrolling.
  • RTF and RTFD export no longer includes superfluous empty lines around optional separators.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Unrecognised image types will no longer be lost when editing boards that contain them.
  • Fixed bug whereby notes consisting of a single emoji character would cause a crash.
  • Fixed an issue where, for darker background boards, dynamically displaying foreground elements in white would cause the note text to be set to white. This would mean that printing or switching to a light background would cause the notes be unreadable or invisible.
  • Note: this fix only impacts new notes; notes created on dark boards in the previous version will need to have their text colour cleared by hand.
  • Fixed image filename bug which would cause RTFD export to either crash or produce RTFD files without visible images.
  • Improved connection label recognition, which was previously ignoring some labels coming from boards created on Windows.
  • Replace All no longer replaces the entire note text when multiple notes were changed by it.
  • Finder QuickLook plugin fixed, which will also fixes cases of Scapple files not showing their preview when imported into a Scrivener project binder, or in the Bookmark preview pane when linked to files.
  • Note: you may need to restart your system after installing the update if you do not see previews immediately.
  • Update the Internet Policy JSON file, used by Little Snitch, to include a description of the AWS connection, when downloading an update to the software.
  • Fixed a problem with Print and PDF export where determining black or white foreground elements was based on the board background colour rather than the print rendering.
  • Fixed problem where splitting a connection with a new note would delete the label on the connection.
  • Fixed issue on M1 machines whereby the text alignment buttons for new notes in preferences, and in some cases in the inspector, would trigger the wrong state when clicked.

New in Scapple 1.4.1 (May 12, 2022)

  • This is an extensive overhaul of the underlying code, modernising and converting most of the codebase to Swift. As a result of adopting this new programming language from Apple, the minimum supported operating system is now macOS 10.15.0 “Catalina”.
  • If you have attempted to update from an older system, and find yourself with a copy that no longer runs, please visit our legacy download page to fetch an older copy of the software.
  • Refinements and Changes:
  • When pasting or duplicating notes (with Opt-Drag), the newly created notes are now selected, matching the behaviour used with Paste (Cmd-V).
  • Quick Zoom behaviour has been tweaked so that individual notes can be selected with simple clicks, while the Z key is held down, rather than only allowing marquee selection.
  • It is now possible to pan the board by clicking and dragging with the middle mouse button.
  • A keyboard shortcut has been added to the Notes ▸ New Background Shape (Around Selection) menu command: Opt-Cmd-G.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Control-click, to bring up the contextual menu in the inspector’s style list, has been fixed.
  • Bold and italic shortcuts and menu commands have been fixed to work in macOS 12+.
  • Printing legacy boards, those created in versions of Scapple prior to 1.3, now wrap text within notes properly.
  • Styles no longer display the font size in the inspector sidebar unless the font size is part of the style.
  • Dragging notes outside of the currently viewable area, such that the board would expand in its size, would not increase the scroll view size, making it impossible to pan to the notes.
  • Magnetic shapes could not be dragged to the inspector styles pane, to update or create a style from them, if other shapes or notes were dragged along with them.
  • At some zoom levels, editing notes would cause the view to snap to the top of the board making it difficult to edit larger boards.
  • On some systems the selection halo colour would revert to the system default (blue) regardless of the user’s preferred system accent colour.
  • When Default text in the New Notes preference tab was cleared, dragging new notes out of the Note Styles inspector pane would create them at minimum width instead of the established default note width.
  • Fixes have been made to better protect the board from edits, when File ▸ Prevent Editing is enabled.

New in Scapple 1.3.1 Build 61 (Dec 1, 2017)

  • Patch for 1.3 that fixes a crashing issue on systems older than 10.10.

New in Scapple 1.3 Build 12 (Nov 21, 2017)

  • Make Connections:
  • You can now label connections between notes. To do so, select two notes and choose “Connection Label…” from the “Notes” or contextual menu. Double-click on an existing label to edit it.
  • Updated UI:
  • The Inspector has been modernised and now appears as a sidebar rather than as a floating panel.
  • The footer bar and other UI elements have been refreshed for a more modern appearance.
  • Note Styles:
  • You can now assign note styles via the inspector using the new “Note Styles” palette.
  • Create new note styles by dragging notes into the inspector.
  • Drag a style out of the inspector to create a new note of that style.
  • You can now assign the keyboard shortcuts Cmd-Opt-1 to Cmd-Opt-9 to note styles.
  • iCloud:
  • A “Scapple” folder now appears in iCloud Drive.
  • Other:
  • Holding down Shift and Command in Movement Mode now speeds up moving notes even more than just holding down Shift.
  • New options added to align notes horizontally or vertically in background notes.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Tiled background images should now appear the same when exporting and printing as in the UI.
  • Quick Look previews now appear correctly on High Sierra.
  • Numerous bug fixes.

New in Scapple 1.20.1 Build 4661 (Aug 7, 2015)

  • Bug fixes and minor refinements for Yosemite compatibility.
  • Many minor bug fixes.

New in Scapple 1.1 Build 4507 (Oct 24, 2013)

  • Refinements and Changes:
  • Mavericks Compatible
  • Enhanced for Mavericks, including support for tags and responsive scrolling.
  • Enhancements
  • When creating a new note with Cmd-Return, the new note now maintains the indent level of the selected note.
  • Showing or hiding the footer bar will now determine the setting for new documents.
  • Added View > Page Guides, which provides guides showing where page boundaries will fall when printing.
  • Minor changes to file format and file reading for compatibility with Windows version.
  • Scapple now drags out rich text to Scrivener (requires Scrivener 2.5).
  • Rearranged inspector for consistency.
  • When exporting only selected notes, only the selected items in a stack are now exported (previously the whole stack beneath the first note selected in it would be exported).
  • Export now prioritises stack order over cluster order.
  • When notes are stacked, they now always maintain their left alignment with other notes in the stack, even when auto-sizing is enabled and the notes are right- or centre-aligned.
  • When splitting a note, the new note now uses the default note width rather than the width of the note it was split from while editing.
  • The Preferences panel now applies changes when it loses focus even if the focus was still in one of its text fields.
  • Indenting notes is now limited so that you cannot indent so much that a note’s text disappears.
  • When double-clicking to create a new note, the placement of the note will now depend on the default alignment as set in the Preferences.
  • Notes created by double-clicking on lines now use the default note style rather than the style of one of the connected notes, even if “Use selected note style for new notes” is set in the Preferences.
  • You can now drag any file type onto the canvas. Notes containing links will be created for files other than text or image files.
  • You can now drag URLs onto the canvas from web pages.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fixed bug whereby the board would not reload when versions were restored.
  • Fixed bug whereby notes set to use black text colour would always use the default text colour.
  • Fixed bug whereby the “z” QuickZoom shortcut didn’t work on all international keyboards.
  • Fixed bug whereby printing documents with coloured or patterned backgrounds may result in the arrows or text not being visible in the print-out (or exported PDF) because the text would always be black and the connecting lines would use the default text colour regardless of whether the background was set to be printed or not.
  • Fixed bug whereby connecting lines did not use default text colour.
  • Fixed bug whereby quitting the app while editing a note would cause the edits to that note to be lost.
  • Fixed bug whereby Paste would not work for images on the clipboard.
  • Fixed minor bug whereby auto-sizing wouldn’t work if you changed the font size while a note was being edited.
  • Fixed bugs affecting stacks when used with right-to-left direction.
  • Fixed display bug which would cause the window to appear before it was fully set up.
  • Fixed bug whereby double-clicking on a line inside a shape would create a new note that was not connected to the line.
  • Fixed bug whereby alignment and indent was lost when pasting text into a note.
  • Fixed bug whereby the default alignment set in the Preferences wouldn’t be applied when using Apply Note Style > Default Note Style.
  • Shadows at the edges of the board no longer get clipped when printing or generating a PDF or PNG.