SonicMood Changelog

What's new in SonicMood 5.2.0

Jan 4, 2014

Compatible with Mavericks (OS 10.9).
Now using the Cocoa frameworks (Intel only) for one version of SonicMood. The "Universal" version using the Carbon frameworks is also available and supported.
Changed the version update code so SonicMood downloads the update that's the same "type" as the version that's running. So if the carbon version is running, it downloads "SonicMood Carbon.app", and if the cocoa version is running, it downloads "SonicMood Cocoa.app". Afterwards, it launches the new version which deletes the old version and then renames its file to "SonicMood.app" (although the UNIX executable retains the name of either "SonicMood Carbon" or "SonicMood Cocoa"). So the first time either version runs, it renames its file to "SonicMood.app", however the menu name will continue to be either "SonicMood Carbon" or "SonicMood Cocoa".
Instrument names are now extracted from ".sf2" (Soundfont) files and used to label the instrument selection controls on the Edit panel. Loading of Soundfonts should be more reliable (less chance of failure) now.
Made a change to the "Volume Settings" window so that it initially appears on top of the SonicMood window. It can be moved and will remember its position during a session, but if closed before SonicMood is quit then the next time SonicMood is launched and the "Volume Settings" window is opened it will again appear over the SonicMood window.
The Soundfiles page on the Edit Panel now displays which soundfiles are actually audible at any moment. There's also a limiter you can apply via a slider at the top of the page which limits the number of selected soundfiles that can be audible at any one time.
The min/max pause/play time sliders on the Soundfiles page are now logarithmic and the range is increased to 600 seconds (10 minutes). The fade time slider is now also logarithmic and the range has been doubled to 120 seconds (2 minutes).
The Soundfile volume now fades in a logarithmic fashion with more steps for a smoother sound.
Added a command ("remove missing soundfiles from selected moods"), available from the Moods menu or the Moods list contextual menu, that would removed any references to missing Soundfiles in the highlighted Moods.
Added ability to replace all soundfiles with the files dropped in a folder (hold the Command key to do a replace instead of an add).
Modified the way the master volume slider works so the soundfile volumes are immediately changed, rather than just changing the endpoint for the volume if a soundfile is fading up or down. This also affects the "sleep / wake" fade volume.
Made some cosmetic improvements to the Edit panel pages.
The name of the current synthesizer is now displayed in the SonicMood window's Title.
Made a few changes so the Dock icon's right-click list includes the "Main Window" now.
The "Live resize..." checkbox on the Preferences window, Windows tab, will only appear if the Carbon version of SonicMood is running. Also true for the SonicMood contextual menu and the "Window" menuitem. Live resize is always on for the Cocoa version.
Moved the menuitems "New Mood" and "New Theme" from the "File" menu to the "Moods" menu since they're really not related to creating, loading, or saving files.
Moved the MenuItem "Sleep/Wake Schedule..." from the Moods menu to the SonicMood menu.
Fixed a crash that could happen if a Moods file with fewer Moods replaced the current Moods file where the Mood being edited was a higher number than the number of Moods in the new Mood file.
Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when doing a "Reset to Original Moods Only" from the Moods menu, if a new Mood had been added and was currently playing...
Fixed a bug that could cause a crash during the check for a new version.
Fixed a major list sort bug that caused the sorted items to be in the wrong places after the sort (initiated by pressing on a listbox header).
Fixed a bug that prevented deleting ".sf2" files from the Synths list in Preferences.
Fixed a bug that caused numbers rather than the Musical Key to be shown in the slider on the Piano Keyboard window.
Fixed a cosmetic issue that confused the "Tempo Multiplier," "Time Sync," and "Time Mode" control's relationship with the Note Timing settings for the instruments (on the "Inst, Vol, Notes" tab).
Fixed a potential bug where long soundfiles are still loading while SonicMood indicates in the soundfile list that they're playing...
Fixed a small cosmetic bug in the labeling of the Mood Sweep Mode and Soundfile Sweep Mode sliders.
Fixed a font size bug.
Fixed a bug in the SuperSlider class control that was causing the values during a drag slide to not be registered properly.
Fixed a small bug that could cause some controls on the "Inst, Vol, Notes" tab of the Edit panel to get scrunched together if the window was resized horizontally so that the vertical and horizontal scrollbars were both visible.
Fixed a minor bug that caused a momentary soundfile volume transient if the fade time slider was set to 0.
Fixed a few contextual menu bugs in the Picture Window.
Fixed a bug that prevented the "Soundflower not found" error message from appearing in the "Record Window".
Fixed a cosmetic bug that caused the "Abort Conversion" button on the "Record Window" to be cut off at the bottom.
Fixed a bug that caused a spurious "Undo Hide Ext Button" undo item in the Edit menu after changing to the Soundfiles tab on the Edit panel after starting SonicMood.

New in SonicMood 5.1.0 (May 7, 2013)

Added two more Moods, "New World" and "Jangoround."
Made the volume settings window a floating window instead of a DrawerWindow, and added checkboxes for "Instruments Enabled" and "Soundfiles Enabled." Removed those items from the "Controls" menu. The "Instruments Enabled" and "Soundfiles Enabled" settings can now be set for the currently playing Mood, a selection of Moods, or all Moods.
Made a change so pause and sustain times included in patterns would exhibit the same random behavior that the standard timing exhibits. Also changed the way those pause and sustains included in note patterns affected the timing. The multipliers now multiply the total note sustain or pause, not just the whole note sustain or pause.
Reworked the way patterns generate notes. This is an "under the hood" change and should be transparent to the user.
Fixed the way the "Tempo" control works so the result is more accurate. Also changed the labeling of the control so it was easier to understand.
Added a few more combinations of soundfiles and used them to modify the default Mood soundfile selections for some of the Moods.
Added two buttons above the Edit panel, just left and right of the name of the Mood being edited. Once button toggles the instruments on/off and the other toggles the soundfiles on/off. They work on the edited Mood only, unlike the volume settings window which has radio buttons for the playing Mood, the highlighted Mood(s), or all Moods.
Changed the behavior of the "-" button under the Mood list. If a Theme other than the "All Moods" Theme was selected then the button would only "cut" the Mood from that Theme, not delete it permanently.
Added a checkmark next to the "Zoom" text on the DockMenu when SonicMood is zoomed.
Changed the "New Mood File" keyboard shortcut from "⌘F" to "⌘N" and changed the "New Mood" keyboard shortcut from "⌘N" to "⌥⌘N".
The keyboard shortcut "⌘F" now does a "Find" by moving the focus to the search field, and the shortcut "⌘G" does a "Find Next" and can be invoked no matter which control has focus as long as the SonicMood main window has focus.
Improved the functionality and understandability of the Mood Schedule window. Also made major changes to the "under the hood" workings of the Mood scheduler.
Changed the way Mood schedule conflicts are calculated to include the interval for repeating scheduled Moods and made significant improvements in the way conflicts are handled.
Added a "Check for Schedule Conflicts" checkbox on the Mood Play Schedule window.
Made a change to un-pause SonicMood if a scheduled Mood event occurs and SonicMood was paused.
The helptag (tooltip) for the "+" button under the Mood List has been re-worded and now includes the name of the Mood to be duplicated as a starting point for the new Mood.
The helptag (tooltip) for the Mood List area has been re-worded to make it clearer. The list behavior has also been modified so double-clicking on a row will start playing that Mood even if SonicMood was paused.
The helptag (tooltip) for the "volume sliders" button (the square button just right of the marquee) has been re-worded to properly refer to the "Sound Settings" window.
Added listbox "helptags" for each column to assist with understanding the contents of the columns.
Updated and improved the wording of some "HelpTags" (aka "tooltips").
Improved the help tags for some of the sheet windows.
Added two new columns to the Mood List, "IE" and "SE" for "Instruments Enabled" and "Soundfiles Enabled." Checkmarks allow enabling or disabling the playing of a Mood's Instruments and Soundfiles.
Improved the look of the "drag image" when a listbox row is dragged.
Streamlined the code for tracking and sorting listbox rows.
Improved the way listbox column widths are adjusted when the font size is changed.
Made some changes to speed up resizing the main window when the edit controls are displayed on slow computers.
Changed the shading of the "tabs" that select the edit panel so that the selected panel's tab is shaded while the others aren't.
Removed the Mood file name info display along the bottom of the window and put it and the current Mood name in the SonicMood title bar.
Made a few other cosmetic improvements.
Made a change to try and recover if an invalid or bad .SF2 or .DLS file is attempted to be added to the list of synths.
Fixed a potential crash if the SonicMood Dock icon was accidentally double-clicked during launch.
Fixed a bug with the Pattern note selection method if the # octaves > 1 but the pattern is only one octave (1,2,3,4,5 for example).
Fixed a bug that caused the "clear button" in the search box to not respond to clicks if clicked on some areas of the button.
Fixed a bug that caused changes to Mood list column widths to not be remembered from launch to launch.
Fixed a bug that caused the volume settings window's location to be incorrect when opened.
Fixed some bugs in the volume support code.
Fixed a bug that caused the Mood Scheduler to not start the next Mood in the schedule list if a Mood schedule other than the first Mood in the list had been edited. In that case the Mood that had been edited had its schedule time entered as the next Mood scheduled instead of the Mood that was actually the one that should have been next chronologically.
Fixed a bug that caused the marquee to display a time for a Mood timer Mood when the Mood timer isn't running. Caused by having a scheduled Mood that ends before the next scheduled Mood when no Mood timer is running.
Fixed a bug that prevented selecting multiple schedule rows in the Scheduled Mood window.
Fixed a bug that caused a crash if SonicMood was launched after shutting down on a Theme that contained no Moods.
Fixed a number of other bugs and cleaned up code.

New in SonicMood 5.0.3 (Oct 2, 2012)

New in SonicMood 5.0.2 (Aug 13, 2012)

New in SonicMood 5.0.1 (Jun 10, 2012)

New in SonicMood 5.0.0 (Jun 9, 2012)

SonicMood v5 is compatible with Mountain Lion (10.8), and is "Code Signed" to comply with the upcoming "Gatekeeper" security requirements. This is a free upgrade for all registered users.
The Mood editing controls are now part of the main window, giving easier access and control of Mood settings. The layout of controls has been changed and, along with changes to labeling, should be easier to understand. The editing controls can be hidden, if desired.
Added three new Moods, "Night Skies," "Workout," and "Blue Rose," and two new Note Patterns, "Close Encounters" and "pi."
Added the ability to "sync" the "Time Base" sliders when editing a Mood's note timing. This allows for a common time base between instruments while still providing for different notes (whole, half, quarter, etc.) for each instrument.
New note patterns are now automatically added to existing ones when new Mood files are added.
Moved the display of the current musical key from the marquee to the label on the "Musical Key" slider on the Edit panel.
Improved the layout of menu items and relocated the items in the "Timing" menu to other menus, eliminating the need for that menu.
Added "Save, Cancel, Don't Save" prompting on "document" windows that have changes, when "Auto Save" is off and SonicMood is quitting. To enable this, some major changes were made to window monitoring and shutdown handling. The shutdown order is now set to insure that the main window closes last.
Moved the "Instruments" and "Soundfiles" volume controls into a drawer window.
Eliminated the need for the "Remove File Refs" button below the Soundfile list on the "Soundfiles" page of the "Edit" panel. Now, whenever a soundfile or files is deleted, any Moods which used those files will be automatically updated.
Moved the "Hide each Soundfile's extension (.MP3, etc)" selection from the Preferences window to the "Soundfiles" page of the "Edit" panel. It's just below the list, where the "Remove File Refs" button used to be.
Combined the Picture list with the Picture window to make it easier to change.
Improved the way "scheme" colors are handled so the contrasts are better and the colors more pleasing.
The list and marquee text size can now be changed using ⌘+ and ⌘- as well as from the Preferences.
Mood and Picture timers can now run up to 4 hours.
Timer values no longer have to be multiples of 10 seconds.
Timer and Schedule values can now be directly edited.
Updated and improved the way the Mood Timer's progress bar works, plus fixed a few inconsistencies with the information that's displayed on the marquee when different Themes are selected. Updated the Picture Timer's progress bar mechanics, too.
Tweaked the display of the event times for Moods that are changed based on Timer or TimeOfDay (Schedule) values.
Multiple items can now be selected for changing timer values (Mood and Picture), and Instrument (MIDI) and Soundfile volumes.
Made a few changes to timer displays and the way the time field's data is handled.
Added the ability to do a ⌘A to "select all" in relevant lists. You can now "select all" and delete all the "Patterns," "Scales," "Soundfiles," "Pictures," etc. However, you can't delete ALL Moods, and deleting ALL Scales will cause a default Scale to be created since SonicMood must always have a Mood to play and a Scale to play it with.
Added "Edit Timer," "Edit Mood Name," and "Edit Schedule" to the Mood list's contextual menu.
Added the "Mini Control Window" to the list of windows that can be opened/closed from the SonicMood dock icon by right/control-clicking and selecting it from the list.
Added the Keyboard window to the set of windows whose minimized state is recalled from launch to launch.
Changed the Theme name highlight, when the Mood that's playing is in that Theme, from bold to italic.
The currently playing Mood is now listed in italics in the Mood List.
Removed the little "value" floater that appeared next to the slider "thumb" on some sliders since it could cover the tick-marks. It was generally unneeded since the value is included in the slider labels when there's a possibility of ambiguity.
Added a red "alert" color to the Edit window's # of notes sliders. It appears if a user tries to set one of the sliders so that the total # of notes is greater than 16.
Made some changes to the way SonicMood handles updates, to make the process more reliable.
Made some changes to the code that's executed when SonicMood starts up.
Updated and improved the "Help Tag" help for many of the controls.
SonicMood has a new registration scheme which includes the date and time the registration code was generated. This will insure that unique codes are created for each user and each registration. SonicMood version 5 will still work with the registration codes used in earlier versions. A few of the most recent earlier versions of SonicMood, v4.9.9.4, v4.9.9.5, and v4.9.9.6, have been updated to recognize this new registration scheme. They are posted on our web site under the "Downloads, Older" tab.
Added a check to be sure the "Event Loop" timers (these control things like the marquee's scrolling, etc.) were running, and get them going again if they stall.
Crash reports are now also added to the System Log as a Log Level Error.
A newly created Theme will be named "New Theme" followed by the number of Themes (including the new one).
The "+" under the Mood list now calls the same routine as the ⌘N under Edit (New Mood), instead of the "Create Custom Mood" routine. This is to have symmetry with what the "+" under the Theme list does. "Create Custom Mood..." is still available under the "Moods" menu.
Fixed the way the Mood list contextual menu's "Reset Column Widths" works.
Fixed a bug that caused the "copy" cursor to be used when just rearranging rows in the Picture window's listbox.
Fixed a "halo" that was appearing sometimes around a newly dropped picture on the picture window's canvas.
Fixed a bug that resulted in the Record window not opening at launch although it was open when SonicMood was quit.
Fixed a bug that would cause a crash if the Record window was open and recording when SonicMood was quit.
Fixed a bug that prevented the selection of multiple rows in the MoodsListbox if the mouse clicked on the "Timer" column when selecting with command-click.
Fixed a bug that was causing the time field's digits to not always be highlighted properly.
Fixed a bug that prevented entering a "1" in the 10s digit of the time of day control's hour if a digit greater than "2" was in the 1s digit. The value would be immediately interpreted as > 12 hours and the display would be "corrected."
Fixed a bug where the "mute" button sometimes didn't work for the relative volume settings on the "Inst, Vol, Notes" page of the Edit panel.
Fixed a small bug that could result in the Sleep/Wake fade time slider in the Preferences and the Sleep/Wake Timer setting window from agreeing.
Fixed a bug that prevented the Mood and Picture timer "set" window from displaying more than 2 hours on the controls.
Fixed a bug that failed to stop a soundfile from playing when unchecked if it was checked while editing a Mood that wasn't playing. It would cause a crash if no other soundfiles were checked.
Fixed a minor problem with the search field that caused a loss of focus when shift-tabbing between controls.
Fixed a crash related to restarting the MIDI instruments every 24 hours. During the investigation it was found that the restart is no longer needed unless the user is running Tiger (OS X v10.4.x).
Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when checking the username and password for the Sleep/Wake timer.
Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause the Mood play start times to not be sorted correctly.
Fixed a bug that made some note selection methods impossible to select.
Fixed a bug that was failing to save changes to the width of the "Mood List" column.
Also fixed a related bug that was incorrectly sizing the width of the "Schedule" column. Its width, as well as the widths of columns 0 and 1, is set based on the current font size (and therefore the row height).
Fixed a bug that could cause a crash if the "schedule" column's header was clicked to sort by that column right after the Moods Menu's "Reset to Original Moods Only" item was selected.
Fixed some bugs related to opening a different Moods file or setting to the default Moods file.
Fixed a bug that was allowing Mood deletion when the Main window was zoomed small.
Fixed a few bugs related to adding a Mood file to an existing file. The bugs were related to updating/adding note patterns.

New in SonicMood 4.9.9.6 (Oct 26, 2011)

New in SonicMood 4.9.9.5 (Oct 17, 2011)

If the version check is automatic, the "Checking..." message now appears at the bottom of the SonicMood window (instead of in a separate window) when SonicMood starts.
Changed the "Check for Updates" window so the user can press a "Cancel" button if a manual check for updates to SonicMood is taking too long.
SonicMood now indicates which Themes contain the currently playing Mood by highlighting the Theme names in boldface (can be more than one).
The state (in/on or out/off) of the "Change All Moods" button on the "Volumes and Tempo" window is now remembered across launches of SonicMood.
Tweaked the location of the red circle containing the # of Moods being copied/moved between Themes during a drag. It's now just right of the cursor arrow and doesn't overlap the "+" if a copy is going to happen.
Added a "Show Toolbar" and "Hide Toolbar" to the SonicMood window's contextual (right-click) menu.
When modifying schedule times for sleep/wake and Mood play, the user can now type "R" in the "In" field to reset the time before the next scheduled event to zero. Also fixed a bug that was preventing the "A" and "P" keys from being recognized as shortcuts to set AM and PM, respectively, in the "At" field for time of day when the next event will occur.
Changed the way the sleep/wake and Mood play times are displayed so that whether the event is "On" or not, the time entry field that's NOT selected ("At" or "In") will be updated once per second.
Widened the "Volumes & Tempo" window slightly and changed it from a Floating window back to a Document window so undo/redo would function properly.
Fixed a minor problem that caused the current row in a listbox to not be centered vertically when the listbox was first displayed.
Fixed a crash caused by adding a folder containing some non-audio or defective audio files to the soundfiles list.
Fixed a rare hang that could have occurred when SonicMood was checking for newer versions if the connection to the remote web site couldn't be completed.
Fixed a bug that caused an "out-of-bounds" crash if the last Theme in the list was deleted, if it was highlighted in boldface.
Fixed a hard crash that occurred when dragging a Mood from one Theme to another.
Fixed a bug that prevented a Theme from highlighting with boldface when the current Mood is dragged to it from another Theme.
Fixed a bug that caused the prompt for deleting a Mood to always ask if the user wanted to delete "Bells At Evening" even when another Mood was selected.
Fixed a bug that could cause SonicMood to not finish launching if it was launched in a folder that contained many other, similar files (instead of its own folder).
Fixed a small bug that caused the Toolbar state (visible or not) to not be saved if it was hidden by right-clicking the Toolbar and selecting "Hide Toolbar."
Fixed a bug that caused the wrong Theme to be highlighted after a Mood was drag-copied from another Theme. After the drag-copy the destination Theme was highlighted instead of the source Theme, even though the list of Moods didn't change.
Fixed a bug: After a Mood was "cut" in one of the Themes, the top (row 0) Mood was highlighted instead of the Mood that was below the cut Mood.
Fixed a bug that caused the SonicMood window to lose focus after double-clicking on a Mood, if the Edit window was open.
Fixed a potential bug that sometimes caused an extraneous "bar" to appear at the bottom of the list of Note Selection Patterns on the "Shared Instrument Settings" page of the Edit window.
Fixed a bug that was preventing schedule times for sleep/wake and Mood play from being set properly under certain conditions.
Fixed a bug that causes an "Out-of-Bounds" error when quitting, under certain conditions.
Fixed a small bug that names a specific Mood in the Marquee when the Mood play timer is set to "Shuffled" and the next Mood is selected randomly. Now it just says "a Shuffled Mood..."
Fixed a small bug that resulted in the Marquee display of the "next Mood" not being updated if Moods in the list were checked or unchecked while Moods were being played in check-marked order.
Fixed a bug that says "Edit/Play: ..." the same Mood on the Edit window's titlebar, when a timer changes the Mood playing but not the Mood highlighted. Should update to reflect that the Edit Mood is no longer the same as the Mood playing!
Fixed a bug that was causing the Mood being edited in the Edit window to change when a timer action changed the Mood playing, even though the highlighted Mood wasn't changing.
Fixed a small bug that caused a row, below a Mood that was just deleted, to not be highlighted.
Fixed a bug that scrambled the Mood schedule time display in the Mood list if a Mood with a schedule time was deleted from the list.
Made a change to SonicMood that should make it slightly more efficient.

New in SonicMood 4.9.9.4 (Aug 5, 2011)

New in SonicMood 4.9.9.3 (Jul 14, 2011)

Changed the labels over the three columns of instrument settings on the Edit window from "Instrument #1" etc., to the names of the instruments. Added button/labels below the "Pattern List" to indicate which instrument was #1, etc., to match the Pattern List headings.
In the Edit window, removed the "Favorites" and made the Instrument "Group" dependent on which instrument is selected. Changing a Group now causes the first instrument in that Group to be selected. The Group selection is no longer "undoable" since the instrument will change and it's undoable. The same goes for the next/previous Group and instrument buttons. There is no longer an "All Instruments" group since no matter which Group is selected all the instruments are displayed - only which instrument is selected changes when the Group changes.
Added a feature to the control knobs on the Edit window so that clicking on a knob position moves the knob pointer to that position. Of course dragging the knob still works too.
Improved the appearance of a row that's being dragged. Removed the lines separating columns in a list.
Widened the button on the "Mood Play Schedule" timer window and changed the text to "Update Highlighted Mood".
Moved the mute buttons to the right of the "speaker" on both the Mixer window and SonicMood window.
Changed the Picture Timer slider scale to match the Mood Timer slider scale.
Removed any manipulation of user interface elements from threads.
Fixed a bug that caused a black line to scroll across the marquee if the list of soundfiles was very long (long names or many or both).
Fixed a bug that caused the "progress bar" text to be cut off if the time was greater than 99 minutes (i.e., 3 digits).
Fixed a bug that was causing the "Mood Timer" and "Picture Timer" sliders to be limited to 60 minutes.
Fixed a bug that was cropping the right edge of the Total Time display on the ProgressBar if the value was equal to or greater than 100 minutes.
Fixed a bug that kept the green "+" visible with the cursor if the user dragged a Mood onto a Theme and then decided to drag the Mood back over the Mood List.
Fixed the Mood List drag so if multiple Moods are being dragged the number dragged is inside a circle.
Fixed a bug that kept the "Hide Keyboard" text on the show/hide keyboard button in the Edit window from changing to "Show Keyboard" after the Keyboard window was closed by clicking the window's red "close button."
Fixed a bug that caused the wrong edit/play Moods to be displayed in the Edit window's title under certain conditions.
Fixed a bug where the Mood created using "Create a Mood" had 6 x 3 notes (max), where 16 is supposed to be the max!
Fixed a bug that could cause a crash while setting up soundfiles.
Fixed disabled text on a few sliders so they match.
Fixed a bug that caused the green "+" (copy) cursor to appear when dragging rows on the Picture List window.
Fixed a bug that caused a Theme row that's dragged to lose its "Bold" setting...
Fixed a problem where two black keys were not visible on the piano keyboard.
Fixed wake volume fade up starting late.
Made changes to the way some threads are implemented to improve their reliability.
Fixed soundfile volume high relative to MIDI sound on Lion Preview 4 using a "workaround." However, overall SonicMood volume is lower now. Issue has been "bugged" to Apple.
Fixed resize tab color issue with Lion.

New in SonicMood 4.9.9.2 (May 6, 2011)

Improved the look of the main window.
Updated to the latest compiler by replacing obsolete or deprecated code.
Extended the max timer value for Moods and Pictures to 2 hours.
Added a set of previous/next buttons and a drop-down list of Moods to the "Pause Button Window". Also changed the name of the window to "Mini Control Window" (in the "Controls" and "Window" menus).
SonicMood's colors now lighten (instead of darken) when SonicMood loses focus.
Added a new scheme, "default," which is a more standard-looking color scheme.
Dropped "Now Playing:" from the SonicMood's Marquee display. Fixed the extra double-quote bug resulting from the change.
Changed the "whistle" note selection in the LightHouse Mood to be a pattern based on "1/5".
Fixed a huge bug in the Edit Moods window that caused the sound to remain unchanged when a new instrument was selected from the menu on the "Individual Instrument Settings" page.
Fixed a bug that causes problems on Tiger (10.4.11) if "auto save" is off and the user makes a change to the sleep/wake timer sheet window then clicks "Done." Can't have a sheet window descend over another sheet window on Tiger.
Fixed a bug that caused the Mood edit window's text to be too dark with some color schemes.
Fixed a bug that caused a crash in the Color window.
Fixed a bug that caused the floating "Pause Button Window" to not receive color scheme updates.
Fixed a bug that prevented the default color scheme from being used after the Preferences "Restore Schemes" button was pressed and accepted.
Fixed a bug that caused delete undo to fail in the Mood search field. Fixed another bug that was preventing the Tab key from working properly.
Removed redundant code to handle tabbing between various controls.
Fixed an old bug that had re-surfaced and was causing the top of the SonicMood window to not be in the same place when SonicMood was quit and then re-launched, if the toolbar was not visible.
Fixed a bug associated with using command-g to search again. Using command-g after using the left/right arrow keys to move the cursor in the text field would not continue the search, but rather add blanks to the end of the search.
Fixed a bug that caused the "Mood Search" label in the SearchFieldCanvas to appear and go full black if the field had focus and the window was resized.

New in SonicMood 4.9.9.1 (Apr 20, 2011)

New in SonicMood 4.9.9 (Apr 7, 2011)

Added two new Moods (numbers 36 and 37), "Forest of Solitude" and "Bamboo Forest."
Added the ability for SonicMood to sleep and wake the computer when SonicMood sleeps and wakes.
Combined the sleep and wake windows into one window and added a checkbox for "Sleep/Wake computer." Also added a slider to allow changing the "Sound Fade Time" for sleep and wake.
The sleep and wake times (if any) are now displayed in the "Marquee" of the SonicMood window.
The Marquee now also displays the next Mood to be played and the time at which it will be played. The current Mood file's name is now displayed in the SonicMood titlebar.
Added the ability to type "A", "a", "P", or "p" to select "AM" or "PM" for the time of day control.
Added a highlight for the time controls to indicate which one has focus.
Modified the sleep/wake window so the scheduled sleep/wake times appear at the top of the window immediately when times are changed or the on/off buttons are clicked.
Re-arranged some of the controls on the Mood Play Schedule window to try and make the operation more obvious.
Changed the Preferences window pages a bit.
Modified the Registration Window's "Code" entry field so it's multiline in preparation for the new, longer code that's coming (existing registration codes will still work).
Added a new color Scheme, "true black," and improved the look of "business gray."
Made changes to the way colors in a Scheme are managed to insure the text colors match on sliders and other controls.
Improved the automatic text/symbol color selection.
The marquees are now dimmed like other items in a window when SonicMood loses focus.
Added a new Color Scheme, "gold cadillac."
Changed the background color on the Color and Scene windows so they're always black.
The picture timer now continues on even if the Mood timer is paused.
The Theme the current Mood was selected from is now highlighted using boldface type. This is a change from previous behavior where the currently selected Theme was highlighted both by the usual row highlight and boldface type.
Added undo/redo to the "Clear All" and "backspace delete" buttons on the "Piano Keyboard" window. Also, the Scale being edited is now displayed in the window's titlebar.
Changed the "# of Undo Levels" button on the "General" page of Preferences so it doesn't show the selected button color, but just shows the "silver" (white) color of the other buttons on the Preferences window.
Made a few "under the hood" changes to the event timers that control sleep/wake and Mood play scheduling.
Improved the way the user's name and code are handled during registration in case there's a mistake in entry.
Improved the error reporter output.
Made a number of other small cosmetic changes.
Fixed a bug that caused SonicMood's controls to not regain focus when some windows were closed
Fixed a bug that caused console messages containing: "NSAutoreleaseNoPool()" to appear when the Preferences window was opened for the first time using the menu item with the mouse.
Fixed a bug where the sleep/wake elapsed time was off by one second.
Fixed a bug that caused the sleep or wake time to switch from "AM" to "PM" or vice-versa if the current time was between 12 and 1.
Fixed a bug that caused the countdown to wake or sleep (in the sleep/wake timer window) to stop at 1 second left and the "On/Off" radio button to not go off. The sleep or wake occurred properly, though.
Fixed a bug in the display of the sleep and wake times where midnight would appear as 0:xx AM instead of 12:xx AM.
Fixed a bug that caused the sleep/wake times to not be updated properly when "repeat" wasn't zero, if SonicMood was Quit and then restarted later.
Fixed a bug that prevented typing an hour's digit greater than "9" into the "time field" if the current time was before 10 (AM or PM) without manually changing the AM/PM button first. Fixed some other minor time field-related bugs, too.
Fixed "seconds creep" when the sleep/wake timer was off and the user tabs between time entry fields on the sleep/wake window.
Fixed a longstanding bug that caused the listbox select-pause-click technique to not work properly. Even after a listbox row was selected, and after editing the cell, a second click was required to re-open the cell for editing.
Fixed a small bug that kept the Picture List window's "Timer" column too narrow so when clicked to edit the time digits didn't fit the width.
Fixed a bug that prevented the delete/backspace keys from working on the lists in the Moods TimeOfDay Schedule and the list of synths in the Preferences window.

New in SonicMood 4.9.8.4 (Nov 5, 2010)

Added a new Mood, "High Plains Asia."
Improved picture file handling when adding files. Adding a folder of pictures should be faster and more responsive now.
The Diminuendo, Modulation, and Pitch Bend effects all now vary linearly up and down (triangle wave), instead of sinusoidally. Future versions of SonicMood will let the user choose between sinusoid, triangle, sawtooth, and square wave variation of these effects.
The main SonicMood window will now always open, even if other SonicMood windows are open, when the dock icon is clicked, unless the "Don't open SonicMood window if dock icon clicked" item in Preferences is checked. The old behavior was to open the main SonicMood window only if no other SonicMood windows were open.
The Edit window no longer has the previous/next, play/pause, and Mood name information at the top of the window. An incompatibility with undo/redo between the Edit and SonicMood windows necessitated this change.
The Preferences option "Quit when SonicMood's main window is closed" is no longer available because it was causing problems during the Quit process if there were unsaved changes. SonicMood can be quit in the usual way using Command-Q or selecting "Quit" from the "SonicMood" menu.
Added "Pause Button Window" to the "Window" menu. It can be opened/closed using command-9. It's also still available under the "Controls" menu.
Modified the ErrorReporter window to show what page is open if the Edit window is open if SonicMood crashed. Used to just show the titlebar of each open window, but the Edit window's titlebar no longer contains the page name info...
Fixed bugs in the "Save, Cancel, Don't Save" prompting when closing the Edit, Mixer, and SonicMood windows. If undoable changes were made and "Auto Save Changes" was off (set in Preferences), then the prompt should appear. Also insured changes were saved for those items that can't be undone anyway.
Fixed a bug that prevented sorting of the Themes List.
Fixed a bug that kept undo/redo from working when selecting synths in the Preferences window.
Fixing a bug that caused a crash when a damaged or mislabeled soundfile was added to the soundfile list. Also fixed a bug that caused a "Nil Object" when selecting a file in the soundfile list after changing the "Maximum Soundfile Size" slider (and clicking "Update") in the Preferences.
Fixed a bug in the version Update window about "Warning! This is a PAID upgrade!" when no paid upgrade was needed. The problem arose because the determination of the paid upgrade version used a method that could put commas instead of periods in the version string, depending on the decimal separator used by the OS.
Fixed the Registration window so undo and redo can be used when entering the registration information.
Fixed a small bug that allowed the "User Text/Symbol Color" to be enabled when "Allow Editing" was unchecked the first time the Preferences window was opened after SonicMood was launched.
Fixed a crash that happened when the red "close" button on the SonicMood window was clicked with "Auto Save Changes" unchecked and "Quit when SonicMood's main window is closed" checked. Unfortunately the fix required removing the "Quit when SonicMood's main window is closed" option from the Preferences.
Fixed a bug that prevented the SonicMood window from re-opening after it had been closed by the Pause Button Window's green "-" button.
Fixed a few more issues with closed or "hidden" windows, the SonicMood Dock icon, and the floating "Pause Button Window."
Fixed a bug that allowed invalid characters to be inserted in the "Note Pattern" for note selection. Now invalid characters are rejected from an edited pattern. Also made some changes to the way the Note Patterns are updated when edited or selected via the checkboxes. The changes should make the process more reliable.
Fixed a crash that could happen (rarely) at launch on certain Moods that have relatively short sustain and pause times.
Fixed a bug in the display of colors in the "Mood Colors" window due to note sustains being computed after the notes themselves were selected. This also had a minor effect on the way notes were played.
Fixed a bug that could cause a short burst of soundfile sounds while SonicMood was launching.

New in SonicMood 4.9.8.3 (Oct 4, 2010)

New in SonicMood 4.9.8.2 (Sep 8, 2010)

Added a "pause/rest" and a "sustain/note" capability to patterns. Values entered in the pattern (using "p" or "r" for a pause/rest and "s" or "n" for a sustain/note) are interpreted as multiples of the whole note sustain time. can include a decimal fraction. For example if you entered the pattern: "1, 3, r0.5, 4, s2" SonicMood will play the first note of the current scale followed by the default note length (sustain) and rest (pause), then the 3rd note of the scale followed by a 1/2 note rest (over-riding the default), then the 4th note held for the length of two whole notes, followed by the default rest. The length of a whole note is set by the "Time (sec / whole note)" sliders on the "Edit" window, "Individual Instrument Settings" page.
Added a "user selectable" text/symbol color. Updated the Preferences window to allow for "Auto, Mono, or User" text/symbol color selection.
Added the new color scheme "ice blue". Access it from the Preferences window, "Windows" page; you will have to click "Restore Schemes" first to make the new scheme available.
Made the background color of the "Editing:" label at the top of the Edit window match the window background.
With few exceptions most control labels and other text are no longer displayed in bold lettering, and only the currently selected Theme is shown in bold.
Editing of items in lists is now exclusively accomplished the "normal" way by clicking a row to select it and then clicking a cell in that row to begin editing. Therefore, the "Edit Highlighted Text" ( ⌘E) item from the "Edit" menu and the highlight that was used to indicate which item in a list was editable were removed. Several buttons on the "Edit" window were also removed, along with several selections in Preferences ("use click pause" and the highlight color).
Made a change to the location specifier for the AudioToolbox file, and several other System Frameworks. Some users were getting an error that it is hoped this will fix.
Improved registration checking code to reduce piracy. Limited the number of registration tries to 10 - after 10 SonicMood will quit. This only affects new registrations.
Added shading to the startup window.
Fixed an annoying "beep" that sounded when a Mood file was added to the current Moods list via drag and drop or "File" menu selection.
Fixed the Keyboard window so the controls fit properly again after the removal of the "Restore" key. Also unbolded the text in the window.
Fixed a small bug that allowed the Keyboard Window to add notes to a scale when the "Shared Instrument Settings" page wasn't selected.
Fixed a bug that prevented selecting text using shift-option left/right arrow or shift-command left/right arrow.
Fixed a bug that caused a cloned Mood to be inserted in the Moods list before the currently playing Mood instead of the Mood that's being cloned (the highlighted Mood).

New in SonicMood 4.9.8.1 (Jul 21, 2010)

New in SonicMood 4.9.8 (Apr 12, 2010)

Redid the way colors are handled and streamlined the code significantly. Added the ability for the user to load/add/save color schemes to/from a file. Rearranged and simplified the "Color Scheme" section on the Preferences window.
Simplified the look of the main window by adding a "Mixer" button to the toolbar and removing the extra volume sliders. Pressing the toolbar button opens a "Mixer" window that contains the volume sliders for "Overall Volume", the instruments and soundfiles, and the Mood Tempo slider. The "Mixer Window" item under the "Controls" menu, and the "Mixer" item under the "Window" menu also open or close this window. NOTE that your toolbar will be reset to the default button set on first launch of this new version.
Added the "Record" toolbar button to the default set of toolbar buttons.
When a menu command to close a window is given, if that window isn't in front then it isn't closed but is instead brought forward. This allows the window to be seen if it's become hidden behind other windows. Toolbar buttons which open/close windows will behave in the usual way, closing a window if it's open without further consideration.
Made the main window slightly more compact so it can take up less space. The Edit window is also slightly more compact.
Improved the appearance of all sliders a Little.
Made a few improvements to the look and operation of the "Update Check" window.
Added the "Edit" window to the list of windows on the "Window" menu, and renumbered the others so the "Edit" window can be opened/closed by pressing ⌘2.
Made some usability improvements to the Edit window. Rearranged controls on the "Individual Instrument Settings" and "Soundfile Settings" pages, and added checkboxes for selecting which instrument used what pattern on the "Shared Instrument Settings" page.
Improved the look and function of the buttons and Mood name field at the top of the Edit window.
Put the "BPM" / "sec" buttons at the top of the "Individual Instrument Settings" Edit page and made a few other re-arrangements, too. Also improved the labels on the note timing buttons and removed the horizontal dividers.
Improved the way the buttons for affecting "This Mood" or "All Moods" worked on the Edit window's soundfiles page by making their effect more logical.
Made an improvement so that if the user has selected to have "All Moods" use the selected soundfiles, a soundfile will start playing if the user checks it in the soundfile list on the Edit window, even if the Mood being edited isn't the Mood that's playing.
Streamlined how pictures are added to the Picture window so that the Add Picture Window closes by itself if all pictures are successfully added.
Changed the Picture timer interval range from 0 to 5 minutes to 0 to 60 minutes (it's now the same as the Mood timer).
Allow for longer names in the Mood and Picture timer window titles by adding ellipses ("...") to the middle of a name that doesn't fit. Also improve some of the labeling.
Cleaned up the right edge alignment of a few listboxes.
Improved the random number note generator.
Made some improvements to address a crashing bug that occurs infrequently when another OS process, like Time Machine or Spotlight, is scanning files. If the OS process is accessing the Prefs or Moods file at exactly the same time as SonicMood tries to do a save, the result could have been a "Nil Object" exception. The changes should eliminate this error.
Fixed two soundfile manipulation bugs that could cause "Out-of-Bounds" crashes.
Fixed a bug that caused the currently playing soundfiles to not be displayed in the marquee. This happened if soundfiles were deleted and SonicMood was reset to the default set of Moods that used the deleted soundfiles, if those soundfiles were later added back.
Fixed a crashing bug that occurred when the last Mood in the Moods list was playing, and a Mood file was dropped onto the list while the "Command" key was held down (to replace the current Moods), if the Edit window was open.
Fixed an old bug that caused the "copy cursor" (green "+" pointer) to disappear and reappear if the mouse was moved when a Mood file was dragged over the "Moods list" while SonicMood had the focus. Fixed a similar bug for the "Soundfiles" list (Edit window), the "Pictures" window, and the "Synth" list (Preferences window).
Fixed a bug that prevented undo from working on listbox checkboxes if the row the checkbox was in wasn't highlighted when the user clicked the checkbox.
Fixed a bug that caused the sorting of the note pattern listbox to be wrong (wrong instruments associated with the patterns) when a column header was pressed to cause the sort.
Fixed a bug that caused the "Scheme Colors" to revert to pre-edit values if the user clicked the "Black or white text only" checkbox while editing the colors in the Preferences window.
Fixed a bug in the "Scheme Colors" that caused the color scheme that was selected when a scheme was saved to not be the one selected if the scheme was added to the existing schemes.
Fixed a bug that prevented ⌥-spacebar from working to check or uncheck a Mood timer checkbox in the Mood's list.
Fixed a bug that caused a funny "space" character to appear in the "Controls" menu, "Pause/Play" item instead of the word "Space", if the user was running under "Tiger" or "Leopard". Also fixed the same problem with the "Pause Button Window" item.
Fixed a bug that prevented the "Schedule" button's caption from being updated if the button is added to the toolbar and schedules are running.
Fixed a bug that could cause a crash and/or the SonicMood window to become confused. The bug was related to having "Auto Save" turned off and quitting when one window was "dirty" (had unsaved changes). The SonicMood window would close but the "dirty" window wouldn't and would instead prompt for "Save, Don't Save, Cancel". Now the changes are saved automatically if the user quits SonicMood.
Fixed a bug that caused the Soundfile volume to "jump" to a high value if the Edit window Soundfile Settings page's "Fade Time" was set to a low value when the volume had stopped changing up or down.
Fixed a small bug that kept the Edit window's, "Soundfile Settings" page, "Clear All ✓" button disabled unless a checkmarked row was selected. Fixed similar bugs for the Sound Motion controls (at the top of the page). They showed enabled even if the "Enable" button (the small round button at the right side) wasn't activated. Also fixed a bug that prevented the "Enable" button from being activated if a checkmarked soundfile wasn't highlighted in the list below. Fixed a similar bug that kept the "Remove File Refs" button from being enabled unless a checkmarked soundfile was highlighted.
Fixed a potential "out-of-bounds" error in the SelectNote method by applying limits to all array indices.

New in SonicMood 4.9.7.1 (Feb 9, 2010)

New in SonicMood 4.9.7 (Jan 29, 2010)

Added a new Mood, "Bells Knells," number 32!
Modified note selection so each instrument can use a different pattern.
Re-arranged the note selection button's items to "incremental, decremental, pattern".
When a Soundfile is deleted now (not just de-selected from a Mood) it is removed from the lists of all the Moods that used it.
Moved the "Register" menu item from the Help menu to the SonicMood menu and added "Purchase SonicMood" to the same menu. Also made a slight improvement to the way registering SonicMood from the SonicMood menu works.
Changed the shortcut for the "Mood" menu item "Create Custom Mood..." from "⇧+" to "⌥⌘+".
Improved the way the Mood menu's "Restore Highlighted Moods" item works so that, if possible, the original Scale and note patterns are restored for the selected Mood(s).
The shortcuts for the "Controls" menu items "Instruments Enabled" and "Soundfiles Enabled" are now ⌥⌘Y and ^⌘Y respectively.
Changed the wording of some of the items on the dock icon menu and the Window menu.
Adjusted the size, curvature, and up/down triangles of the List buttons on the "Individual Instruments" page of the "Edit" window.
The "Edit" window now remembers which list had focus on each page and restores the focus when that page is selected again, as long as the window remains open.
Improved the display of the current musical key on the Edit window's "Instrument Group Setting" page.
Changed the default Undo limit from 0 (no limit) to 20. The limit can be changed in the Preferences.
Rearranged many items on the "General" and "Windows" pages of the Preferences window. Improved the appearance of the "Color Select" buttons on the "Windows" page of the Preferences window. Also fixed a bug related to the highlighting of the currently selected button.
Improved the calculation of the text color. The text can still be either black/white, as before, or a color which contrasts with the background. Added the "Use B&W Text Only" checkbox to the Color Scheme setup/selection part of the Preferences window.
Added two new color schemes, "charcoal" and "moby grape."
Improved the way scrolling text is handled in the marquee, added "Playing" or "Paused" to the marquee's Mood name display, and added a note to the display that the "Soundfiles Folder Empty" if it is.
Changed the "loudspeaker" icon in the Moods list that indicates which Mood is playing.
Made improvements to several of the Moods.
Updated/improved the icon used on the "Soundfiles" toolbar button on the "Edit" window. Also changed the icon for the "Edit" toolbar button to an "i" in a circle, and the Mood timer's "start/stop" button from round to square and its icon to an hourglass.
Made the "startup message" window slightly smaller and added the version # to the bottom. Also made it slightly transparent.
Made several changes to improve the reliability of SonicMood's startup process.
Added a test for some invalid characters in the Registration window's Name and Edit fields.
Improved the performance of the routines that add pictures to the picture window. Also, the "cancel" button is now more responsive.
Added the ability to double-click on the image in the Picture window to show the Picture list. Double-clicking on a row in the list will select that Picture and possibly close the list window. Added a checkbox to the window to indicate whether to close it after a picture is selected by double-clicking.
Reduced potential confusion as pictures are added to the picture window. Now no mention of bad pictures is made unless at least one bad picture is encountered.
Added a "Checking for Updates" window that appears when SonicMood launches if the automatic check is enabled in Preferences or if the user requests a check.
Made a change to the version update routines so the operating system's "tmp" folder is used to temporarily hold the downloaded update.
Improved the way error crashes are reported to us by making it a more automated process for the user. Now the user can just click a button to send the report instead of having to "copy and paste" the error message into a separate email. In addition, we get more information about the state of SonicMood at the time of the crash, improving our chances of finding and fixing the bug that caused the crash.
Redid the methods associated with selecting the next/previous Moods or Pictures and set the buttons and menu controls to just go forward/back by rows, not considering check marked Moods/Scenes or random change.
Added menu items for Previous Timer Mood and Previous Timer Picture, and changed the keyboard shortcuts for selecting next/previous timer Mood or Picture (they're now the same as the non-timer versions with the addition of the Shift key).
Added the ability to double-click on the Mood timer progress bar to display the timer settings window, and the same for the Picture timer progress bar. Can also click the Picture info in the marquee to open the Scene list.
Fixed a bug that could cause an "out of bounds" error when the checkbox next to a soundfile was checked or un-checked to select or de-select a soundfile from the "Soundfiles" tab of the Edit window.
Fixed a potential problem with the registration check that could cause an infinite loop with certain codes. It was a rare problem that had never actually occurred in practice, but was discovered during testing.
Fixed a possible bug connected with the "Open Folder" button on the "Synth" tab of the Preferences window.
Fixed a small bug that caused the word "space" to appear twice in the "Controls" menu for "Play/Pause" of a Mood.
Fixed a bug related to adding a new Mood when SonicMood is launched.
Fixed a rare bug that could cause a non-integer "max notes" value to be assigned to an instrument.
Fixed a bug that caused the next Mood in the list to start playing if the Mood timer settings window was opened and then closed with the timer on and the "Mood Play Order" check-Marked selected but no Moods checked.
Fixed a small issue with adding pictures using the file selection window. If the window's "Cancel" button was pressed, a window would still open indicating no files added. Now no further action is taken.
Fixed a bug that caused the ⇧⌘K shortcut to not change to the next picture if no pictures were check-marked and the "✓Marked" timer "Picture Display Order" was selected.
Fixed a bug that caused the "Save," "Cancel," "Don't Save" window to open twice if "Auto Save Changes" was off, the main window had unsaved changes, and the user clicked "Cancel" in the process of quitting SonicMood.
Fixed a bug that left a check mark next to any floating window's open/close menu item, even though the floating window had closed by then, if the user was in the process of quitting, then cancelled closing a window that had unsaved changes.
Fixed a bug that prevented the "Colors" window from remembering its position and size on the desktop.
Fixed a few bugs that caused the vertical position of the main window to change depending on the state of its toolbar (hidden or visible) and whether the window is "zoomed" or not. For example, under certain conditions the top of the main window could wind up underneath the menubar.
Fixed a bug that was preventing the note "colors" in the Color window from being cleared in some cases when the Mood changes.
Fixed a possible hang on startup if Internet access is unavailable (blocked, ISP down, etc.) and SonicMood tries to check for updates.
Fixed a few "List Button" button's up/down arrow shapes (they weren't quite symmetrical horizontally).
Fixed a bug in the Message display field on the Record window that prevented the message from appearing.
Fixed a bug that failed to set the soundfiles volume when SonicMood was started for the first time (no prefs file yet) so that nature sounds were not audible.
Fixed one bug and several potential bugs relating to checking for and downloading version updates.
Fixed a small bug that prevented the Mood timer's "progress bar" from resetting to zero immediately after the user manually changed Moods.
Fixed a bug that caused a crash if the last row of a list was edited and then that row was deleted and then an undo of that edit was made.
Fixed a bug that kept the background color of the soundfile name display from being updated when its color scheme was changed.
Fixed a problem with the way file selection windows worked for several cases (Synth selection and Soundfile selection). The file selection window would open but any files selected would not get passed on, so it was as if no file was selected.
Fixed a bug that prevented the spacebar and some edit controls from acting normally when entering file names in some save file windows used for saving Moods, etc., when the edit window was open to the "Individual Instrument Settings" page.

New in SonicMood 4.9.6.1 (Oct 10, 2009)

New in SonicMood 4.9.6 (Oct 9, 2009)

Added three new Moods ("Rainy Day," "Aurora," "Inside"), and added a "Check for New Moods" Mood menu item. The new Moods should be added automatically so the check is there "just in case."
Improved drag row reorder and drag Moods to a Theme. If dragging a single row, the dragged row is shown as it is being dragged. If dragging multiple rows, the # of rows is displayed and the SonicMood icon is also displayed. When dragging from the "All Moods" Theme to another Theme, a "+" is added to the mouse cursor. If dragging from one Theme to another (not "All Moods"), the Mood(s) are moved, not copied, unless the "Option" key is held down during the drag.
Dragging a Scale or Pattern doesn't revert to the currently selected item after the drop. Instead, now the highlighted row stays highlighted. This is also true if a Scale or Pattern is deleted or a new one added or if a column is sorted.
Updated and changed the Help system to use a browser to display the Help files, instead of using the Apple Help system.
Changed the Help behavior so the last Help page/item opened is restored when Help is called (added "Last Help Page" to Help menu). Doesn't update if user selects another Help page while viewing.
Added a "drop picture folder" capability to the "Picture Window" (formerly the "Scene Window"). The new capability allows for nested folders so you can drop a folder containing picture files and folders containing more picture files. Picture files/folders/images can be dropped anywhere on the window. Added this "drop picture folder" ability to the list window, too. Generally cleaned up the code to make it more efficient and improve error trapping.
If more than 10 images are being added to the "Picture Window", SonicMood will pause while they're added.
Added some code to prevent errors if the Picture window is closed while pictures are still loading. Also added a check so that if disk space becomes low a warning message will be displayed and the loading of pictures will stop.
Made a change to allow the mouse wheel to scroll back/forward thru pictures when the "Picture Window" has the focus.
Added a "Restore Highlighted Moods" item to the Mood menu which will restore any SonicMood-supplied Moods, highlighted in the Moods list, to their "built-in" settings.
Changed the "enable/disable" type buttons to be small round buttons with a blue center which looks recessed.
Improved the registration code so that "mailto:" at the start of the "Name:" field is automatically recognized and removed.
Updated the look of the toolbar buttons to a more "metallic" look.
Made a few small changes to the "Chime Chorus" Mood.
Changed the double-click behavior of the Scales and Note Pattern lists in the Edit window so double-clicking a row doesn't center the row vertically, but changing the edit Mood does.
Made some cosmetic and functional changes to the "Edit" window's "Shared Note Properties" and "Soundfiles" pages.
Replaced the "Mute" buttons on the instruments page of the Edit window with the round blue buttons used elsewhere. Added a "Mute" button to the soundfiles page ala the ones now on the instruments page.
Added an "OK/Cancel" check to the Scales and Patterns "Restore" button function.
Gave slider "thumb" buttons a more realistic look.
Changed the listbox cell edit behavior to closely match iTune's. No longer is it "click-pause-click" - instead, once the cell is highlighted, it's click and pause. If the pause is greater than the double click time then the cell becomes editable.
Now when adding a Theme to the Theme list the new Theme is always added AFTER the highlighted Theme.
Took out the "Remove Mood" item from the Menu since the "Cut" Edit menu item does the same thing.
Rearranged the sliders on the SonicMood window. The volume sliders now slide continuously.
Modified all the sliders so that holding the Shift key changes the mouse wheel change increment from 1 to 10.
Made a change to allow a user's setting to over-ride the "optimal" solution for slider and multiplier value in note timing.
If the "Green + zooms SonicMood full-screen" is checked in Preferences, then clicking the green "+" causes the SonicMood window to zoom to full-screen while "Option clicking" causes the window to shrink to its small size.
If SonicMood isn't the app in the forefront, then its shading changes to gray.
Added a red highlight color to the active digit in a time entry field, and got the "finger pointer" cursor to work when the mouse cursor hovers over a digit.
Improved the way marquee text is displayed and updated, and changed the marquee size a bit.
Simplified the way the "color schemes" selection operates in the Preferences window.
Added a new window color scheme, "business gray" and made "Furnace" the default scheme for new users.
Removed the "Unified Toolbar Titlebar" Preferences item if SonicMood is running under Leopard or Snow Leopard since they are always on.
The user can now access the "File" menu item "Save Selected Moods" from both the SonicMood and the Edit window.
Added a "Cancel" button to some sheet windows.
Fixed some bugs on the "Individual Note Properties" page of the Edit window:
Fixed a bug that caused the BPM/seconds conversions to be inaccurate.
Fixed a bug that caused the note time multiplier to be wrong and to display the wrong values next to the selection buttons.
Fixed a bug that caused some sliders to indicate zero instead of the correct settings.
Fixed a bug that caused listbox rows near the bottom to have a gap between them and the actual bottom of the listbox. Also fixed a long-standing bug that caused the selected cell highlight to be visible in all lists instead of the currently active one.
Fixed a bug that caused the "this Mood" / "all Moods" setting for sliders on the SonicMood window to not stick.
Fixed a bug where selected Moods weren't copied to a Theme using the "Copy Moods" sheet window.
Fixed a bug that kept the Tab key from shifting focus between the several time entries in the sleep, wake, and time of day
windows.
Fixed a bug that could give a non-zero value for the play or pause time when the "note multiplier" select button was on "no rests" or "max notes".
Fixed a bug that prevented the "delete" and "backspace delete" keys from deleting a Theme or Themes in some cases.
Fixed a small bug that caused the "Remove Mood" ("-") button below the Moods list to be enabled even if no Mood was selected.
Fixed a bug that reset the size of the Picture list under certain conditions.
Fixed a small bug so that the Mood that's highlighted (or being edited in the Edit window) if the SonicMood window is closed is the same Mood that's highlighted when the SonicMood window is re-opened.
Fixed a bug where the undo limit wasn't being set properly. It also wasn't being changed when the user changed the Preferences setting.
Fixed a bug that prevented proper updating of the Edit window when a Mood file was dropped onto the Moods list.
Fixed a bug that caused the Scheme color that's selected with the "color picker" window to be off slightly from what's selected in the picker.
Fixed a bug that caused the name of a newly selected soundfile to be truncated if a different Mood file was loaded under certain conditions.
Fixed a bug that caused the Picture window's "Picture Timer" to continue running when the window is closed.
Fixed the way the "+/-" green button on the "Pause Button Window" is supposed to work hiding and showing all SonicMood windows.
Fixed a problem when downloading a newer version - unzipping the downloaded file in Snow Leopard (10.6.1) causes the containing window (ApplicationSupport.SonicMood) to open. Fix uses an AppleScript to close the window again.
Fixed a bug that causes an "Out-of-Bounds" crash when changing to the "favorites" instruments group if there is no favorite instrument saved.
Fixed a bug that could under certain conditions cause an "Out-of-Bounds" error when clicking the pause button on the "Pause Button" window.
Fixed some other oddities associated with the selection of instruments and instrument groups.
Fixed a crash that occurred if a long digital audio recording was stopped and the Record window closed quickly before the conversion to a different audio type was finished.
Fixed a bug associated with zooming the window.
Fixed a few potential bugs that could happen if many Scales or Patterns are deleted. Now at least one Scale and Pattern must remain. And if all the Moods are selected and the "Restore Highlighted Moods" menu item selected when only one Scale and Pattern remain there is no crash. Same if the user selects "Check for New Moods".
Added three new Moods ("Rainy Day," "Aurora," "Inside"), and added a "Check for New Moods" Mood menu item. The new Moods should be added automatically so the check is there "just in case."
Improved drag row reorder and drag Moods to a Theme. If dragging a single row, the dragged row is shown as it is being dragged. If dragging multiple rows, the # of rows is displayed and the SonicMood icon is also displayed. When dragging from the "All Moods" Theme to another Theme, a "+" is added to the mouse cursor. If dragging from one Theme to another (not "All Moods"), the Mood(s) are moved, not copied, unless the "Option" key is held down during the drag.
Dragging a Scale or Pattern doesn't revert to the currently selected item after the drop. Instead, now the highlighted row stays highlighted. This is also true if a Scale or Pattern is deleted or a new one added or if a column is sorted.
Updated and changed the Help system to use a browser to display the Help files, instead of using the Apple Help system.
Added a "drop picture folder" capability to the "Picture Window" (formerly the "Scene Window"). The new capability allows for nested folders so you can drop a folder containing picture files and folders containing more picture files. Picture files/folders/images can be dropped anywhere on the window. Added this "drop picture folder" ability to the list window, too. Generally cleaned up the code to make it more efficient and improve error trapping.
Added some code to prevent errors if the Picture window is closed while pictures are still loading. Also added a check so that if disk space becomes low a warning message will be displayed and the loading of pictures will stop.
Made a change to allow the mouse wheel to scroll back/forward thru pictures when the "Picture Window" has the focus.
Added a "Restore Highlighted Moods" item to the Mood menu which will restore any SonicMood-supplied Moods, highlighted in the Moods list, to their "built-in" settings.
Changed the "enable/disable" type buttons to be small round buttons with a blue center which looks recessed.
Improved the registration code so that "mailto:" at the start of the "Name:" field is automatically recognized and removed.
Updated the look of the toolbar buttons to a more "metallic" look.
Made a few small changes to the "Chime Chorus" Mood.
Changed the double-click behavior of the Scales and Note Pattern lists in the Edit window so double-clicking a row doesn't center the row vertically, but changing the edit Mood does.
Made some cosmetic and functional changes to the "Edit" window's "Shared Note Properties" and "Soundfiles" pages.
Replaced the "Mute" buttons on the instruments page of the Edit window with the round blue buttons used elsewhere. Added a "Mute" button to the soundfiles page ala the ones now on the instruments page.
Added an "OK/Cancel" check to the Scales and Patterns "Restore" button function.
Gave slider "thumb" buttons a more realistic look.
Now when adding a Theme to the Theme list the new Theme is always added AFTER the highlighted Theme.
Took out the "Remove Mood" item from the Menu since the "Cut" Edit menu item does the same thing.
Rearranged the sliders on the SonicMood window. The volume sliders now slide continuously.
Modified all the sliders so that holding the Shift key changes the mouse wheel change increment from 1 to 10.
Made a change to allow a user's setting to over-ride the "optimal" solution for slider and multiplier value in note timing.
If the "Green + zooms SonicMood full-screen" is checked in Preferences, then clicking the green "+" causes the SonicMood window to zoom to full-screen while "Option clicking" causes the window to shrink to its small size.
If SonicMood isn't the app in the forefront, then its shading changes to gray.
Added a red highlight color to the active digit in a time entry field, and got the "finger pointer" cursor to work when the mouse cursor hovers over a digit.
Improved the way marquee text is displayed and updated, and changed the marquee size a bit.
Simplified the way the "color schemes" selection operates in the Preferences window.
Added a new window color scheme, "business gray" and made "Furnace" the default scheme for new users.
Removed the "Unified Toolbar Titlebar" Preferences item if SonicMood is running under Leopard or Snow Leopard since they are always on.
The user can now access the "File" menu item "Save Selected Moods" from both the SonicMood and the Edit window.
Added a "Cancel" button to some sheet windows.
Fixed some bugs on the "Individual Note Properties" page of the Edit window:
Fixed a bug that caused the BPM/seconds conversions to be inaccurate.
Fixed a bug that caused the note time multiplier to be wrong and to display the wrong values next to the selection buttons.
Fixed a bug that caused some sliders to indicate zero instead of the correct settings.
Fixed a bug that caused listbox rows near the bottom to have a gap between them and the actual bottom of the listbox. Also fixed a long-standing bug that caused the selected cell highlight to be visible in all lists instead of the currently active one.
Fixed a bug that caused the "this Mood" / "all Moods" setting for sliders on the SonicMood window to not stick.
Fixed a bug where selected Moods weren't copied to a Theme using the "Copy Moods" sheet window.
Fixed a bug that kept the Tab key from shifting focus between the several time entries in the sleep, wake, and time of day windows.
Fixed a bug that could give a non-zero value for the play or pause time when the "note multiplier" select button was on "no rests" or "max notes".
Fixed a bug that prevented the "delete" and "backspace delete" keys from deleting a Theme or Themes in some cases.
Fixed a small bug that caused the "Remove Mood" ("-") button below the Moods list to be enabled even if no Mood was selected.
Fixed a bug that reset the size of the Picture list under certain conditions.
Fixed a small bug so that the Mood that's highlighted (or being edited in the Edit window) if the SonicMood window is closed is the same Mood that's highlighted when the SonicMood window is re-opened.
Fixed a bug where the undo limit wasn't being set properly. It also wasn't being changed when the user changed the Preferences setting.
Fixed a bug that prevented proper updating of the Edit window when a Mood file was dropped onto the Moods list.
Fixed a bug that caused the Scheme color that's selected with the "color picker" window to be off slightly from what's selected in the picker.
Fixed a bug that caused the name of a newly selected soundfile to be truncated if a different Mood file was loaded under certain conditions.
Fixed a bug that caused the Picture window's "Picture Timer" to continue running when the window is closed.
Fixed the way the "+/-" green button on the "Pause Button Window" is supposed to work hiding and showing all SonicMood windows.
Fixed a problem when downloading a newer version - unzipping the downloaded file in Snow Leopard (10.6.1) causes the containing window (ApplicationSupport.SonicMood) to open. Fix uses an AppleScript to close the window again.
Fixed a bug that causes an "Out-of-Bounds" crash when changing to the "favorites" instruments group if there is no favorite instrument saved.
Fixed a bug that could under certain conditions cause an "Out-of-Bounds" error when clicking the pause button on the "Pause Button" window.
Fixed some other oddities associated with the selection of instruments and instrument groups.
Fixed a crash that occurred if a long digital audio recording was stopped and the Record window closed quickly before the conversion to a different audio type was finished.
Fixed a bug associated with zooming the window.
Fixed a few potential bugs that could happen if many Scales or Patterns are deleted. Now at least one Scale and Pattern must remain. And if all the Moods are selected and the "Restore Highlighted Moods" menu item selected when only one Scale and Pattern remain there is no crash. Same if the user selects "Check for New Moods".
Fixed a bug that kept the Soundfile volume control from changing all the soundfile's volume.
Fixed a small bug that could cause no color scheme to be selected if all color schemes were deleted and then a "Restore All" of the color schemes was done. Now the first color scheme will be selected by default.
Fixed a small bug that caused a "halo" to appear around the controls on the "Picture Window" when they are pressed.

New in SonicMood 4.9.5 (Jul 23, 2009)

SonicMood can now record digital audio with the help of soundflower, a free utility. The "Audio Record" window has been updated to support both MIDI and digital audio recording. Also, the window's elapsed time display's digits are larger and look like "LED" digits.
Changed the MIDI file format so each instrument now has its own track. Further manipulation of MIDI files in programs like Garage Band will be much easier now. However, MIDI recordings can no longer be appended to the end of other MIDI recordings.
Added an "undo/redo" capability to all the controls and added an undo limit setting in Preferences. Values are 10 to 100 (in 10 step increments) or "No limit."
A new Preferences setting, “Auto Save Chages” has been added. With "Auto Save Changes" on, changes are automatically saved after a delay that is also set in Preferences. With "Auto Save Changes" off, the user must save changes manually by pressing ⌘S. In this case the user will be prompted to save when closing a window if changes were made to items in that window. Users upgrading from an earlier version of SonicMood will continue to see the same behavior as before (“Auto Save Changes” on). New users (those who haven’t run an earlier version of SonicMood) will be prompted to save when they change something.
Changed the behavior when a Mood or Moods is dragged from the Moods list to a Theme. After the drop the Moods list stays with the source Theme and does not change to the target Theme.
Made a few "under the hood" changes to the way the Mood volume fade down and fade up is handled. The way the sound starts up in a new Mood should be less abrupt now. Also changed the default (first time user) "Volume Fade Up" time from 0 back to 5 seconds.
Added previous/next (back/forward) buttons to the Edit window's Instrument and Group select lists. Pressing one of these buttons will select the next or previous instrument in the current group, or the next or previous instrument group.
Improved the look of the "Mood Name Editfield" at the top of the Edit window and made some cosmetic changes to that window and the Record window to enhance the look and logical layout of those windows.
Updated a few HelpTags in the Edit window’s “Soundfiles” page. Changed the labels on the play/fade/pause sliders to be a little better (maximum instead of max, etc). Made the sliders stop so the min pause can't be more than the max pause, etc.
You can now use the “shift” key to move up one octave on the “Piano Keyboard.”
Added ".caf" (Core Audio File) to the list of audio files SonicMood can play as "soundfiles." Just drop a ".caf" file onto the soundfile list on the "Soundfiles" page of the "Edit" window to add that file. If you have iLife installed, you may find some interesting sounds here: “/Library/Audio/Apple Loops/Apple/iLife Sound Effects”
Scene data is now stored redundently in the Scenes folder as well as in the Preferences file. If the Preferences are deleted or reset the Scene name, etc., information is no longer lost.
The Scene List’s height is saved now (the Scene List is a “sheet window” that drops down when the “Scene List” button is pressed in the Scene window).
If the "command key" is held down while SonicMood launches, the user is asked if they want to reset the preferences.
Changed a few menu item's labels and shortcut keys. The Mood menu's "Restore the Current Mood" shortcut is now ⌥Z and the "Restore the Original Moods" shortcut is now ^⌥Z. Removed the Window menu's "Zoom" shortcut key and changed "MIDI" to "Audio Record." Rearranged the items in the "Timers" menu so the Sleep/Wake items are first, etc. Changed the File menu's "Save Mood File" item to "Save Mood and Prefs Files".
Rearranged the volume sliders on the SonicMood window.
Right/control-clicking on the "Instruments" and "Soundfiles" sliders on the SonicMood window will popup a contextual menu that allows the user to specify changing the volume for the Mood that's playing or "all Moods." If "all Moods" is selected, an asterisk ("*") will appear just right of the slider's label. The current setting is also indicated by the slider's HelpTag.
Fixed a small bug that caused the "Download" button in the "Update" window to be enabled even if the user is supposed to acknowledge (by checking a box) that the download is for a paid update.
Fixed a few small bugs that caused the instruments and soundfiles play/pause buttons (next to the volume controls on the SonicMood window) to not update correctly when the ⌘Y and ⌥Y shortcuts were used. Also fixed similar bugs that caused the buttons to change state if clicked or the shortcuts were used and SonicMood was paused.
Fixed bug that causes fade down time to be ignored (no fade) if the MasterVolume is > 50% (mid scale). Also fixed slight sound glitch that happened sometimes when the Mood timer changed Moods.
Fixed crashing bug that causes "out of bounds" error when changing the Max Notes slider setting on a Mood that's not the one being played. The bug appears if SonicMood is already paused with the EditMoodsWindow open at launch, and the MaxNotes slider is moved.
Fixed a weird bug that caused the Edit window to not update when different Moods were selected in the SonicMood window's "Moods List" if the heading in the first column was clicked.
Fixed a bug that prevented updating the heading on the "Note Pattern" list on the "Shared Note Properties" page of the "Edit" window when a pattern was selected as a note "Selection" method on the "Individual Note Properties" page.
Fixed a small bug in the Preferences "Window" page so a "highlighted" (thicker black border) color selection panel doesn't stay highlighted when "Use Scheme" is checked.
Fixed a minor bug that caused the marquee to not be updated when a Scale name was changed.
Fixed a bug that sometimes caused musical key changes while chords were still playing.
Fixed a bug that prevented typing "12" as the hour when "PM" is showing in a time control.
Fixed a bug that caused a crash if a picture file of unrecognized format was added to the Scene window.
Hopefully fixed a bug that caused a crash if the user edited a Mood while it was being recorded.
Hopefully fixed a bug that caused an "out of bounds" crash when double-clicking on a Mood with the EditMoodsWindow open, if new Moods files were dropped onto SonicMood that extended the length of the Scale list.
Made some changes to controls on the SonicMood window:
Changed the Theme list behavior so double-clicking on a Theme edits the name.
Clicking on the "+" under the Moods List now brings up the "Create a Mood" sheet window.
A Mood can now be cloned even if the current Theme is empty. In this case the Mood that's currently playing is used as the clone template.
Replaced the play/pause buttons above the instrument and soundfile volume sliders with small round buttons just right of the sliders. The button graphic is more indicative of its purpose.

New in SonicMood 4.9.1 (Feb 28, 2009)

New in SonicMood 4.9.0 (Jan 16, 2009)

Expanded the piano keyboard to five octaves and added base octave and a musical key controls, whose values are saved. The octave and musical key settings can be changed using the arrow keys, and sustain can be toggled using the Tab key. Also, sustain now works with the computer keyboard keys.
Changed the "upgrade" criteria so it's based on incrementing the second version number digit, and not comparing the third digit. So if the user registered with v4.8.9 they would get free upgrades until v6.9.0 instead of v6.8.9.
Increased the volume for the instrument (MIDI) output.
Changed the icon for SonicMood to a shiny circle containing seagulls, notes, and sun over the sea.
Improved the look of the SonicMood toolbar icons and the mute/live (red/green) buttons above the Instrument and SoundFile volume sliders.
Adjusted the Tempo slider’s range to have more of an effect on the tempo.
Double-clicking on the “marquee” in the main window now toggles (opens or closes) the “Edit” window for the currently playing Mood.
Changed the "Scene" icon on the SonicMood window to a static scene instead of a thumbnail to make its purpose clearer.
Updated control labels and "Help Tag" text, capitalizing as appropriate.
Removed some text and replaced it with icons on the SonicMood window.
Replaced the "Previous" and "Next" buttons with their iconic equivalents on the "Edit" window. Also replaced the "Play Me" and "Edit Mood Playing" buttons with shaded buttons.
Changed the default color scheme to "iTunes" (was "mellow yellow").
Re-wrote the code for "note selection", especially the "pattern" selection code, but including the other selection methods ("uniform", "Gaussian", and "incremental").
Tweaked the default Mood settings for all 28 standard Moods. Not big changes, but took advantage of some of the newer features. The default Moods should sound slightly more interesting.
Changed the behavior when the "delete" or "backspace" key is pressed so a Mood is only removed from the current Theme (not deleted), if the Theme isn't the "All Moods" Theme.
Fixed a "Nil Object" bug in the automatic "save changes" routine.
Fixed the Theme bug where the # of Moods shows up in column 0 if a Mood is deleted, wiping out the Theme names.
Fixed a crash that occurred if the note pattern is "0".
Fixed a small bug that caused the "Edit" window instrument pan slider's "thumb" to be slightly off near zero.
Fixed the slider control's "Thumb" vertical position for Tiger.
Fixed a bug in the Edit window's instrument volume Mute buttons that caused them to sometimes not toggle their display state when pressed.
Fixed a small bug that kept the Instruments in the list on the "piano keyboard" from changing if the Mood was changed or an Instrument was changed for a Mood, and the "Current Mood" radio button was selected.
Fixed a bug that causes a Keyboard key to continuously repeat if sustain is on and the key is held.
Fixed other lingering piano keyboard issues.
Fixed a small bug that failed to properly update the "Instrument mute" button when option-y was pressed to toggle it.

New in SonicMood 4.8.9 (Dec 10, 2008)

Made the edit window more compact to save screen space. In addition, the edit window is now resizable with vertical and horizontal scrollbars so the controls can be scrolled. The width and height of the edit window, along with the position of the scrollbars, is saved.
Changed default starting size and position of windows. Made changes to the default locations of windows so they open over the main window.
Tweaked the look of the various lists.
Changed some of the toolbar buttons on the main window.
Made a small tweak to the "color scheme" selection area of the Preferences window and changed the default color scheme to "mellow yellow". Also put a "spiral galaxy" graphic background on the Register window.
Changed the button appearance so that a pressed button would display as convex rather than just darker.
Made a few improvements (I hope) to the "version update" function, including adding a check to see if the SonicMood folder is read-only. If it is, SonicMood will tell the user to fix it before an update can happen.
Came up with a way to trap the user's pressing of the oval button at the right of the titlebar to know when the toolbar is hidden or shown.
Changed the URL for the "Bit of Paradise Products" link on the "About SonicMood" window from the BitOfParadise home page to the SonicMood home page. Also changed the URL for downloading updates.
Added more error checking in the "version update" code.
Got the "Cancel" button on the "version update" DownLoad window to work even if the connection is interrupted.
Changed the behavior if a network connection isn't available. Now no user message is given (it "fails silently") if the check is not requested explicitly by the user (auto check).
Replaced the HTMLViewer with an EditField in the "version update" window to hold the version notes. This avoids the crashing problem on PPC with Tiger (don't know about Leopard with PPC...) when scrolling with the mouse scrollwheel.
Removed some unused "Help" variables.
Fixed an "out of bounds" error that happened if a Mood was moved to the last row, and it was playing, when it was deleted.
Fixed a bug that caused the wrong Mood to be removed from the "play times" schedule list if a scheduled Mood was deleted.
Fixed a problem with the way user names were saved if the name was in a multi-byte character set like Kanji, etc.
Fixed a bug that erased a good registration if the user started to re-register and then pressed Cancel. Also fixed a bug that caused a good registration to be erased if the user entered an invalid re-registration code and then pressed Cancel.
Fixed a bug that prevented the horizontal scrollbar from appearing when listbox column sizes were increased.
Fixed a bug that ignored the Toolbar visible setting when SonicMood started.
Fixed a bug that caused the SonicMood window to move to the 2nd monitor if they were stacked vertically with the "main" monitor on top. Issue was with the "limit a window's position" Preference setting.
Fixed a bug that prevented the Themes listbox from scrolling when dragging Moods over from the MoodsListbox.
Fixed a bug that prevented the command-E key combination from allowing the editing of the Scene list.

New in SonicMood 4.8.8 (Oct 27, 2008)

New in SonicMood 4.8.7 (Sep 11, 2008)

Combined all the controls that worked on individual instruments into one page called "Individual Note Properties." Musical note scale selection, note pattern selection, and musical key selection are now on a page called “shared note properties.” Removed the “Notes” page.
Moved the "sound motion" controls to the "shared note properties" and "soundfiles" pages and removed the "sound motion" page.
Moved the “synth” page to the preferences window.
Changed the note timing, note selection, and volume variation controls to work on each instrument individually. The pattern selected is the same for all three instruments, however.
Each instrument can set its own # of notes now, although the maximum number of notes playing at any time is still 16.
Increased the maximum "octave range" from 5 octaves to 8.
Increased the maximum number of sound files that can be played at one time from 16 to 32.
Changed the method of setting pause and sustain times so you can specify either a time in seconds or set a "tempo" (in Beats Per Minute), and a note value (quarter note, eighth note, etc.) The timing slider supports either "seconds" or "BPM". There are two buttons above the slider to select either one.
Added the ability to delete a Mood, Add a Mood, or Create a custom Mood, using Menu items, from the "Edit" window.
Made other cosmetic changes to the “Edit” window to make it more attractive and understandable.
The last "Instrument Groups" (pianos, strings, etc.) selections are saved and restored now.
Changed the way the "Mood Tempo" slider on the main window worked to be compatible with the idea of "tempo" and note values (quarter note, etc.) Also made the slider's setting "per Mood", so each Mood can have its own “Mood Tempo.”
Tweaked the MIDI note generation to work more reliably with new features like the ability to adjust the number of notes for each instrument individually.
Updated some of the Mood instrumental settings to make them more pleasing.
Enabled the use of the mousewheel to adjust all sliders (volume, pan, etc.) and the time/date digits in the sleep/wake/TimeOfDay windows. Shift-key + mousewheel will change all the Mood’s volumes for the instruments and soundfiles sliders on the SonicMood window (Note that PPC-based Macs using the Apple "Mighty Mouse" (with trackball) need to scroll horizontally instead of vertically.)
Changed the title bar caption in the “Edit” window from “Mood Info/Edit” to just simply “Edit”.
Changed some default soundfile names.
Removed the default Scenes that used to be supplied with SonicMood. Scenes are no longer "embedded" in SonicMood, but a variety of public-domain photos will be available on the SonicMood web site for users to download.
Made cosmetic changes to the "default" color scheme to make it more "mainstream".
Changed the slider knobs to round and tweaked the location of slider elements a little to give more space.
Added background color to the "Edit" window. Fixed the text so its color would contrast properly with the BackGround color.
Made a slight correction to the Scene marquee's "progress bar" so it doesn't overlap the buttons at each end.
Fixed an issue where the absence of a soundfile extension could cause the file to be ignored if it was one of the default soundfiles supplied with SonicMood.
Sometimes a Mood would start and play in a given key, but change keys while some notes were still playing in the previous key, causing unwanted dissonance in some cases. Fixed.
Fixed a few bugs that caused the sound timing, etc., to be affected if the “Edit” window was opened and a Mood other than the one playing was highlighted in the Mood’s list.
Fixed a bug in the Create A Mood function that caused some settings to be reversed.
Fixed a bug with the "Clear All" and "Restore" buttons/functions on the Keyboard Window. They weren't working.
Fixed a bug the was causing fast notes to sometimes not continue after a few seconds.
Fixed a bug that kept buttons from darkening when pressed.
Fixed a small bug that caused the initial volume to be low for the Mood that plays the first time SonicMood is launched.

New in SonicMood 4.8.6.2 (Jun 30, 2008)

New in SonicMood 4.8.6.1 (Jun 24, 2008)

New in SonicMood 4.8.6 (Jun 12, 2008)

Refactored several major components of SonicMood to reduce the code size a bit, lower the chance of bugs, and make future changes easier.
Changed the way Soundfiles and Scene files are handled so they're kept in a centralized location. Both sets of files are located inside the �Application Support/SonicMood� folder inside the user�s Library folder. The Soundfiles are located in the "Soundfiles" folder and the Scene files are located in the �Scenes� folder. PLEASE NOTE: There is a bug in the PowerPC version of OS X v10.4.10 (fix = update to 10.4.11) that causes the initial copying of Scene files to the new location to fail. The original five Scenes will be substituted instead.
Improved the �drag & drop� behavior for the Moods list and soundfiles list. You can now drop a folder containing other folders of soundfiles and even including Mood files and they will all be copied to the appropriate places and the Mood files will be added to the current Mood file.
Added a separator between the Scales and the Patterns lists in the "Mood Info/Edit" window so their respective heights are adjustable.
Made the Time Of Day window resizable, and changed its Mood selector from a �ComboBox� to a �Popup Menu� to avoid problems with Moods with similar names.
The Time of Day minimum play time (�For at least�) and repeat interval (�Repeat every�) settings are remembered if they were changed by the user.
For the Time of Day and the Sleep and Wake timers, the digit last selected in each of the time fields is remembered. The user can press Tab and Shift-Tab to switch between the time fields and (in the case of the Time of Day window) the schedule list. Control-left/right arrow will move the highlighted selection digit between the days, hours, minutes, and seconds entries for each time field.
Made the Scene List Window into a sheet window and limited its width to 600 pixels or the Scene Window width, whichever is smaller. Changed the Scene window�s marquee slightly.
Made the green " " button zoom either to a compact size or full-screen, depending on a Preferences setting on the windows page.
Holding the shift key down while using the mouse to adjust either the Instruments or the soundfiles volume setting from the SonicMood window will now change the volume of all the Moods.
The �log� volume setting on the �General� page of the �Preferences� window is now a checkbox. The user can select a volume increment for the log volume setting now.
Improved the behavior of the Mood timer so it doesn't start if the current Theme is empty of Moods.
Changed the word "Marked" to "Checked" for the Mood and Scene timer display, etc.
Changed both registration window's placement setting so they appear in the middle of the screen.
Made a number of other �under the hood� improvements to SonicMood.
Fixed a bug that prevented the display of the changing sleep/wake/TimeOfDay timer digits when an arrow button is held down.
Fixed a few minor bugs relating to the way the Time of Day window worked.
Improved the way the Mood and Scene timer progress bars look and work.

New in SonicMood 4.8.5.3 (May 14, 2008)

New in SonicMood 4.8.5.2 (May 7, 2008)

The "register" menu item (under "Help") is no longer disabled if the user is registered. Instead, it changes to read "Register Again?" and allows the user to re-register (under a different name, for example).
Modified the behavior of SonicMood when a Mood file is added. If a Mood in the added file has the same name as one in the current file, then that Mood's settings will replace the settings of the Mood in the current file.
Changed the drag & drop behavior for Mood files and soundfiles. The default behavior is now to copy a file (add it) to a Mood file or a soundfile folder. Hold the "command" (?) key down to replace the Mood files or a soundfiles folder.
SonicMood now allows soundfiles or soundfile folders to be dropped onto the Moods list.
Made a change that keeps a soundfiles' selection unchanged if an added Mood isn't using any soundfiles. Also allows for adding new selections of soundfiles if they're not already in the Mood (soundfiles merged).
Made a slight change to the "soundfiles" page of the "Mood Info/Edit" window. Changed the soundfile Min and Max Pause time from 120 seconds to 240 seconds.
Increased the length of sound motion for both the Instruments and the Soundfiles on the "sound motion" page from 30 to 60 seconds.
Added more note patterns.
Made a change so a Mood won't stop playing when a Mood file is added as long as the added file doesn't contain the same Mood that's playing.
Changed the logarithmic volume fade to be more like the way a logarithmic volume control works (i.e., powers of 10 change in volume).
Also improved the logarithmic volume slider change and the volume slider tickmark representation.
Made a slight change to the marquee display of the Mood name and Mood file name.
Opening a sheet window no longer causes floating windows to "hide." That behavior worked around a bug that's been fixed with our updated compiler.
Fixed two olds bugs that caused the current Mood to start playing over if any Moods were removed from a Theme or any Mood except the Mood that's playing was removed from the "All Moods" Theme.
Fixed a BIG bug that had the effect of mixing and scrambling the Mood settings and the Mood names. So if a file with more than the default 28 Moods was added to another file those Moods really got scrambled!
Fixed a bug that causes multiple soundfiles to be merged with the same name if their parameters are different.
Fixed a bug that caused the Mood timer progress bar to keep going after time had elapsed if either the current Theme was empty or the Mood Timer Mode was "list" and no Moods were checked.
Fixed a bug that caused an added Mood file to not have it's soundfile parameters correctly set for display in the "Mood Info/Edit" window if the window was open when the Mood file was added.
Fixed a bug on PowerPC-based Macs that causes Mood volume and pattern to be zero under certain circumstances.

New in SonicMood 4.8.5.1 (Apr 25, 2008)

New in SonicMood 4.8.5 (Apr 21, 2008)

Changed the free demo time limit from 30 days to 14 days of "actual use". Users demoing an earlier version will have their trial period reset to 14 days. Also, until SonicMood is registered its main window's titlebar displays the number of days left in the trial.
Added two new Moods: "Japanese Wind Chimes" and "The Ocean".
Added a big "Pause" button window that's Global Floating. It's semi-transparent until the user moves the arrow cursor over it. By clicking the button, the user can easily pause SonicMood (make it quiet) even when SonicMood isn't visible. The window includes the "Master Volume" slider too, so overall SonicMood volume can be adjusted here. Note that this window used to be the "Restart Info" window, which indicated when the next restart would take place. Since restarts (which occur every 24 hours to circumvent a bug in QuickTime) are transparent to the user, this window has been re-purposed.
Made a significant improvement in the way Mood files are handled when they are added to the current Mood file. More care is taken in handling Themes, musical scales, schedules, and other Mood-related items.
Added an option for Notes and note timing to be selected based on different criteria, instead of just randomly, on a per-Mood basis. Selections are made from the "Mood Info/Edit" window, "Notes" page, and note "patterns" can be selected / added / changed from the "Scales / Patterns" page.
Made some improvements to the way Instruments were used during the generation of sounds.
Reduced the size of the "Now Playing" PushButton on the "Mood Info/Edit" window so it looks like a PushButton again under Leopard.
Changed the way the volume fade works by using time, not volume, to track the fades. "Fading" includes the fade up/down of the overall (Master) volume when changing Moods (fade down of overall volume only occurs if the Mood is changed by timer). It also includes the way soundfile volumes fade up/down (settings on the "soundfiles" page of the "Mood Info/Edit" window), and overall volume fade up/down during a wake/sleep event.
All the fades now occur with a logarithmic volume change.
As an option, the volume slider scale can be logarithmic or linear. The user can change the scale in the Preferences window, General page.
Added a menu item to the Windows menu to display the simulated piano keyboard. The key velocity, instrument, and whether the current Mood's instruments are selected or not are now saved. Also, now there's a checkbox for "Hold Notes". If checked, notes are held until the mouse leaves the keyboard area, otherwise they're only held until the mouse button is released. This setting is also saved.
Added the ability to record the piano keyboard onto a MIDI file, along with the SonicMood generated instruments.
The Instrument volume setting that's controlled by the slider on the main window is now kept separately for each Mood.
The musical scale octave range is now saved for each instrument and Mood. The setting is made via a slider on the "Instruments" page of the "Mood Info/Edit" window. Previously the octave range setting was saved with each Scale.
When Mood files are added and some Mood names already exist, the case of the names is ignored and the settings of the added Moods are used, replacing the settings of the same-named Moods in the current Mood file.
Added a save of the Mood file and prefs file before doing the "Reset All".
Removed text from the checkbox above the "note patterns" listbox in the edit window, and changed behavior so that just double-clicking on a pattern will enable the "pattern" note selection method and select the pattern.
Changed slider and up/down arrow controls so the cursor changes into a "finger pointer" when it is over the control, just like the button controls. Added an option in the Preferences to turn this behavior on or off.
Changed the name of the slider on the left side of the SonicMood window from "note pacing" to "Mood tempo" to better convey its purpose.
The user can now add a Mood when a Theme other than the "All Moods" Theme is selected.
Made it so you can use the File menu to create / open / add / save a Mood file from anywhere, not just the main window.
Added a �font size� setting in Preferences that changes the size of text in the lists and marquees.
Added access to on-line help (http://www.sonicmood.com/SonicMoodHelp.htm) from the Help menu. This is most useful to users running OS X 10.3.9 since the on-line help is identical to the built-in help available to Tiger and Leopard users.
Added a "restore" capability to items in lists.
Eliminated the "Random Key Change" checkbox on the "Notes" page of the "Mood Info/Edit" window by allowing a KeyChangeAmount slider setting of 0 (zero).
Changed the gain in the MIDI volume for each instrument to possibly reduce speaker distortion for some users.
Each Mood can now have its own setting for the amount of key change that's set on the "Notes" page of the "Mood Info/Edit" window.
Made some improvements to the way the MIDI synth is loaded to reduce the possibility of errors.
The "Pause button", "Chimes", and "Colors" windows now all have custom titlebars whose colors match the window color.
Modified the "colors" window to display the color bars separately for each instrument, in 3 columns.
Added numbers (#1, #2, #3) to the Instrument names on the "Instruments" and "Notes" pages of the "Mood Info/Edit" window, to indicate their relationship.
Added a delete synth button to the "Mood Info/Edit" window, synth page.
Added a "Add Scene File(s)..." menu item (and contextual menu item) to the Scene window. Allows multiple pictures to be loaded.
Added the word "" to the "progress bar" area in the marquee on the main window to indicate what that area represents.
Rearranged the columns for the "Time of Day" and the "Timer" in the Moods list. Also removed the columns for the Scale and key.
Changed what's displayed in SonicMood's marquee. Now the top line is the Mood name and the Mood file name. The 2nd line is the Instruments, Scale and key, and soundfiles. The SonicMood window's titlebar now just says "SonicMood".
Changed the Scene window so there's a smooth color gradient all the way down.
A bug in Leopard causes mouse clicks on sheet windows to not register if a floating window from the same app is open. Due to this, SonicMood's floating windows are temporarily hidden when a sheet window is opened, if you're running Leopard. Once the sheet window is closed, the floating windows reappear. This affects the Chimes, Colors, and Pause Button floating windows. Sheet windows that prompt for file or folder names or display messages only are not affected by this bug.
Fixed a bug that caused the right-arrow pointer to not be erased when a new pattern is created with no rows hilited and the new pattern row is double-clicked. Bug appears when the 2nd column is edited.
Fixed a bug that causes the "Mood Info/Edit" window's note pattern select button to list each pattern twice when another Mood file is added to the current Mood file. Also fixed a bug that kept the current note pattern text dim when the button first appears after the "pattern" note select method is chosen, if not editing the currently playing Mood.
Noted an incompatibility with the "Smart Scroll" System Preferences app and developed a work-around. The problem caused a window to "jump" if its title bar was clicked right after scrolling in the window.
Fixed a bug that caused selected timer digits to not be highlighted in the time setting controls like sleep/wake, etc. Revamped the way this is handled to achieve more consistent results.
Fixed a bug that sometimes kept the "time to event" from updating when an item in the schedule list was selected in the "play times" window.
Fixed a bug that caused the instrument's volume (slider on the SonicMood window) to be zero after a Mood is dropped onto the Moods list and that Mood is played.
Fixed a major bug that affected how selected Moods were saved and loaded when the original Mood file contained any "time of day" Mood play data.
Fixed a bug that caused the wrong settings to be to the first Mood in the list when a Mood file is loaded to added to an existing Mood file.
Fixed a bug that prevented deleting a Mood or Moods if the "Mood Info/Edit" window is open to any page.
Fixed a bug that caused a crash if the Mood that's playing is the last Mood and that Mood is deleted while the "Mood Info/Edit" window is open.
Fixed some bugs related to deleting Moods when the "Mood Info/Edit" window is open.
Fixed a bug that kept the SonicMood marquee's progressbar from displaying the minimum play time when a scheduled Mood ran while the Mood timer was running.
Fixed the control order for all edit window controls. Tab and Back-Tab (shift-Tab) now switches between Listboxes, EditFields, and ComboBoxes.
Fixed a bug that would cause SonicMood to try using a file that's dropped onto its application icon even if the file isn't a "Mood file".
Fixed a problem where the Moods file name wasn't being updated when the Moods file was changed via a drag and drop on the Mood's list.
Fixed a problem where if a Moods file was dropped on the app it was as if we were starting SonicMood from scratch. May also fix a crash when this happens.
Fixed a bug that would cause an "out of bounds" error crash if a Moods file was added to the existing file if the added Moods file had more "parameters" than the current file.
When a different Mood file was loaded (MenuItem "Open Mood File...") SonicMood wasn't changing to that Mood file's saved SoundfileFolder. Fixed.
Fixed a small bug that didn't display an added favorite instrument if we were viewing the favorite Instruments list on the "Instruments" page of the "Mood Info/Edit" window.
Fixed a bug that didn't update the Instrument name on the "Mood Info/Edit" window's "Notes" page if an Instrument was changed on the "Instruments" page.
Fixed a bug that caused the note sustain value to be incorrect (too big) at start.
Fixed a bug that caused a "NAN" (Not A Number) to be displayed instead of the time on the "Time of Day" window under certain (rare) conditions.
Fixed a bug that prevented the "delete" key from working in the Time of Day window.
Fixed a bug that caused the "combo box" to be empty sometimes when the Time of Day window is opened. Also fixed a bug that prevented an "event" from being deleted from the list.
Fixed a bug that caused the Instrument volume to be zero if another Mood file was dropped on the Moods list. Also fixed a related bug that had the problem with normal Moods files.
Fixed a bug that kept the Moods list from scrolling when dragging a row to a new position and the list needed to scroll.
Fixed a bug that caused an "outline" to appear over a scene if it was dragged/dropped on top of another scene.
Fixed a bug that caused delete to not work under 10.4.x if deleting from the Time of Day list. Problem was that the "Are you sure?" prompt is on a sheet window, and so is the Time of Day window. Apparently a sheet window over a sheet window is ok in Leopard (10.5.x), but not Tiger (10.4.x). So the fix was to use a "box" window for 10.4.x.
Fixed a bug that prevented selection of synth's from the "Mood Info/Edit" window, synth page, add button.
Fixed a bug that caused the "window splitter" (left/right arrow) cursor to revert to just an arrow when the mouse button was clicked and held down.
Fixed a bug in the Edit menu display of the "Copy" menu item when listbox rows are highlighted vs when a listbox cell is being edited.

New in SonicMood 4.8.1 (Dec 13, 2007)

Fixed several bugs which could result in crashes, one relating to Theme selection and the other associated with opening the "Preferences" window under certain conditions.
Improved SonicMood's error handling and report capabilities. Added OS version, Mac version (PPC or Intel), CPU freq, other user computer info, to the error message.
SonicMood now closes the colorpicker window when the "Preferences" window is closed.
Made sure instruments and soundfiles are "turned on" (not muted) for older (v4.0.0, etc.) versions that didn't have a mute capability.
Added multiple item delete capability to the list in the TimeOfDay schedule window. Also fixed a bug that failed to refresh the "Play Time" Column of the Moods list in the SonicMood window after changes were made in the schedule.
Got rid of the rectangular box outline when dragging Moods, Themes, etc.
Fixed a bug that kept the sleep/TimeOfDay/wake toolbar buttons from having their color updated when selecting a window color using the color picker, if the "window" radio button was selected in the "Preferences" window.
Added "Add", "Update", "Delete" to the TimeOfDay window's contextual menu.
Fixed a bug that prevented the correct Theme from being displayed in the Moods list if the Theme had been dragged to a new position without being selected (highlighted) first.
Changed message prompts for the TimeOfDayControls "Delete" method prompt and the CreateMood "no name" error message from a "Modal Box" to a "drop-down sheet". This is the way all other messages are displayed.
Changed the behavior of the Themes list so that when a Theme is deleted, the highlight goes to the next Theme, not the previous.
Add ESC as a way to cancel a listbox cell edit and restore the original contents.
Fixed a few other listbox row drag and highlight issues.
Changed the Moods listbox sort so user rearrangements are preserved unless a column is explicitly sorted (by clicking on the column header).
Changed the Moods listbox sort so user rearrangements are preserved.
Fixed bugs in the "Preferences" window Scene page that caused a "Nil Object" exception if the SceneWindow wasn't visible and either the "Auto size the Scene window" check box or the "Auto size the Scene list" check box were clicked.

New in SonicMood 4.8 (Dec 5, 2007)

Made a change to the way registration is handled to allow for user names that contain "extended" characters like umlauts, etc. Also improved the code checking and developed a way to handle pirated codes.
Moved to a new "Help" system that uses Apple's "Help Viewer" to display HTML-formatted help.
Changed the default toolbar so the "Sleep" and "Wake" buttons are on the toolbar and the "back/play-pause/forward" buttons are back on the window. To accomplish this we added a provision that allows the toolbar to be re-initialized to a different set of items.
Added the capability to start Moods at specific times and repeat at specific intervals. To open the "Mood play time" schedule window a button was added to the toolbar and a menu item called "Mood Play Time" was added to the "Timers" menu. Finally, a new column was added to the "Moods list" that displays the "next play" time (or "not set") for each Mood.
Implemented a "Fade up volume" when switching Moods. It can be turned on or off and the time it takes the volume to fade up can be adjusted from the "General" page of the "Preferences" window.
Combined the instruments into one column in the Moods List.
The Moods list column sort direction and "mode" (ascending, descending, no sort) are now saved.
The SonicMood titlebar now contains the name of the current Mood file.
Made the left/right arrow keys select columns that are available for editing. Made #E a global for editing any list cell that is available for editing. Removed the individual menu commands for editing Mood, Theme, and Scene cells. Moved the "Mood Info/Edit" Menu item from the "File" menu to the "Edit" menu and renamed it "Edit Mood (Info)". Removed the "Mood Info/Edit" Menu item from the "Mood" menu.
All lists now support "wraparound" when using the up/down arrow keys. The "page up", "page down", "home", and "end" keys now function properly as well.
Changed the look of the "Mood Info/Edit" window to accommodate the additions to the instrumental controls and some improvements to the way soundfiles are handled.
Added a contextual menu and an "Add Synth" button to the synths list on the "Synths" page. Also extended the "drag & drop" of synths on the list to allow dragging & dropping of multiple files.
The "control-left/right" arrow keys now change the selected instrument on the "Instruments" page. Also added a mute button for each instrument.
Changed the way the "Notes" page looks. Now, there's a group of three sliders (one for each instrument) in a common color for each setting. Added "Pitch Bend", "Modulation Depth", and "Volume Diminuendo" to the instrumental effects available. Each instrument can be controlled independently with one of the sliders. Also changed the "Key", "# Notes", and "Variations" sections.
On the "Soundfiles" page, extended soundfile "Play" time from 100 seconds to 240 seconds, and soundfile "Pause" time to 120 seconds. Added a new item ("remove missing soundfile(s)"), to the soundfiles list contextual menu. Changed the path file separator from ":" to "/" for the soundfile path display and moved the display down so it's just above the soundfile list. Also put both the soundfile path & the number of soundfiles selected on buttons that can be pressed to select a new folder and to refresh the soundfile list, respectively. Provided buttons for adding soundfiles or folders, or deleting soundfiles from the current soundfile folder. Also added a "Remove missing soundfile's reference" button. Finally, the length of a soundfile is now displayed to the tenth of a second, and the default soundfile play maximum time is set to roughly 3 times that length.
Changed the behavior for dragging a Mood file onto the Moods list so that it adds the Moods to the current Mood file if the "Option" key is held down, otherwise the Mood file will replace the current file as the file being used (which was the previous behavior). In addition, when soundfiles are dragged and dropped onto the soundfile list in the "Mood Info/Edit" window or the "soundfile folder path" field in the "Preferences" window, they can be added to the current folder if the user holds down the "Option" key.
Added a green " " for drags where an object is being added to something, like Moods, Themes, Scenes, or synthesizers.
Added a round graphic with a " " and the number of items (rows) being dragged between and within (row reorder drag) lists (10.4 ).
Tweaked the looks of the "Preferences" window a little.
Replaced the modal color chooser with the mode-less floating color chooser for selecting window, marquee, button, and highlight colors on the "Windows" page. You can watch the effect on the windows, buttons, etc., as you change the color.
Removed the "transparency" sliders from the Scenes and Chimes pages and added a "Window Opacity (%)" slider to the Windows page. This slider controls the opacity/transparency of the SonicMood, Scene, Chimes, MIDI, and Mood Colors windows. Also removed the "Window Shadow" checkboxes and added one to the Windows page that updates the same windows as previously mentioned.
Changed the slider knobs from ovals to triangles to better indicate their settings.
Changed some of the button captions in message windows to better reflect what clicking the button means (instead of just "OK" all the time...).
Introduced a feature that limits window positions so they can't be accidently (or through a software glitch) positioned too far outside the screen's limits. This should work fine with multiple monitors (although it's only been tested with one or two monitors).
Added a "Reset All Size & Position" menu item to the "Window" menu. This is an emergency measure to be used only if a window is missing and presumed lost...
Changed the checkbox toggle key combination from #-spacebar to #%-spacebar to avoid a conflict with the shareware program "LaunchBar".
If SonicMood throws an error, a "SonicMood Error" window now opens instead of just a Message Box. The window contains more information about the error and an offer to help compose and send an email to us with that information.
Made some internal changes to improve SonicMood's reliability and performance.
Fixed a bug in SonicMood's MIDI file format that caused MIDI files created by SonicMood to be unplayable on the latest versions of iTunes and QuickTime. The error given was "Mac OS error -208" (which means badFileFormat).
Fixed a bug that could potentially cause a crash if a Mood file was dragged and dropped onto the Moods list when the "Mood Info/Edit" window was opened to the soundfiles page, and the Mood file used a different soundfile folder that had fewer soundfiles than the current folder.
Fixed a bug that could cause an "Out of Bounds" error if the "Mood Info/Edit" window was open when a different Mood file was opened. If the Mood being edited was a higher number than the total number of Moods in the opened Mood file, the crash would occur.
Fixed a bug that sometimes would not update the "Mood Info/Edit" window when a different Mood file was selected.
Fixed a bug that caused the Scene window to use Live Resize even if it's off.
Fixed a bug that caused the Scene window's scene timer on/off button to indicate "off" if the timer was running with the window closed before it was opened.
Fixed a small bug that caused the currently playing Mood's row to not be highlighted when SonicMood first starts.
Fixed a bug that caused extra steps to be executed when Moods were copied to other Themes. This slowed the copy down and, if the "Mood Info/Edit" window was open, caused controls to jump around to the settings for each Mood as it was copied.
Fixed a bug that caused the "Preferences" window position to reset if the MIDI window is opened, then closed.
Fixed a bug that would cause the Sleep and Wake timer's initial "Time Until..." value to be set ahead 12 hours if the user was trying to set the Sleep/Wake time in the AM.
Fixed a memory leak that occurred when the graphic on one of SonicMood's toolbar buttons was changed. This only affected users running OS 10.4.9 or 10.4.10.