What's new in Writer's Cafe 2.44.0
Jul 22, 2019
- Fixed a bug when creating a new project after editing both the structure and storylines, and basing the file on a project template. The top level would not have the initial storyline changes.
- Fixed text wrapping in cards to account for languages with no spaces between words, such as Chinese.
- Fixed misspelling of settings.cnf location in mobile drive, when switching to storing settings externally in Mobile Preferences. Also fixed double initial mobile drive selection dialog.
- All dividers now update live instead of drawing a floating sash, to work around Windows scaling problems on high resolution monitors.
- A version for Raspberry Pi 2+, Pinebook and other ARM-based devices is now available.
New in Writer's Cafe 2.43.0 (Jul 22, 2019)
- Fixed a bug when creating a new project after editing both the structure and storylines, and basing the file on a project template. The top level would not have the initial storyline changes.
- Fixed text wrapping in cards to account for languages with no spaces between words, such as Chinese.
- Fixed misspelling of settings.cnf location in mobile drive, when switching to storing settings externally in Mobile Preferences. Also fixed double initial mobile drive selection dialog.
- All dividers now update live instead of drawing a floating sash, to work around Windows scaling problems on high resolution monitors.
- A version for Raspberry Pi 2+, Pinebook and other ARM-based devices is now available.
New in Writer's Cafe 2.42 (Apr 3, 2017)
- Added the ability to change the paragraph style names used in a report, via properties of Elements Styles in the Edit Report Template dialog.
- Removed redundant whitespace from paragraphs in exported ODT files.
- Fixed a crash when dragging a card to the bottom of the StoryLines window in wrapped mode.
- Fixed a bug that lost changes in desktop notes if the note wasn't closed when the program was quit.
- Fixed a crash when dragging a StoryLines card to the pinboard when no pinboard document was open.
New in Writer's Cafe 2.41 (Nov 4, 2016)
- Samples are now copied to Documents/Writer's Cafe Documents/Samples so they do not need to be loaded from the application data folder.
- Fixed font selector dialog for macOS X 10.12 (Sierra) by avoiding the native font dialog.
- Fixed a bug on Mac OS X whereby when the tabbed tools are shown, clicking on a tab sometimes reverted the tab selection.
- Fixed a problem with the master storyline whereby cards were drawn on top of each other.
New in Writer's Cafe 2.40 (Nov 4, 2016)
- Fixed font selector dialog for Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite).
- Now opens the sample StoryLines file from the application data area, not next to the application binary which is not writable.
New in Writer's Cafe 2.39 (May 2, 2014)
- Fixed a crash when editing cards in StoryLines projects with multiple sheets.
New in Writer's Cafe 2.38 (Apr 29, 2014)
- Fixed a crash when deleting a custom StoryLines table.
- Fixed an icon transparency issue (for new StoryLines projects).
- Added a delay before updating the current card after typing. This delay can be adjusted via the option Preferences/Advanced/Card update interval. Setting a larger value can mitigate performance problems for large projects.
New in Writer's Cafe 2.37 (May 7, 2013)
- Fixed a bug redoing commands when viewing a sheet other than that selected.
- Now respects blank lines when showing the summary in cards.
- Fixed a focus bug that disabled mouse wheel scrolling in the StoryLines editor when edit-in-place is used.
- Added the Spanish version of the Cookies.
New in Writer's Cafe 2.36 (Apr 2, 2013)
- Fixed a refresh problem when collapsing or expanding a section.
- Fixed a problem in the online help when showing an external web page.
- The help contents is now synchronized with the page that is currently showing.
- Added missing DLLs to the PortableApps version.
New in Writer's Cafe 2.35.5 (Feb 19, 2013)
- Added "Display content" choice to "Card display policy" in the StoryLines appearance settings, to display content instead of summary in the cards.
- Fixed a problem with indentation output to ODT in a locale that uses commas for decimal points.
- Fixed a problem with storyline layout when the card size was changed.
- Fixed a problem with garbled titles in the help system.
- Importing a dictionary now adds it under the user data, not under the installation folder, since the user may not have permission to write to the latter.
- Fixed problems running on some Linux distributions.
- Fixed a crash-on-exit bug relating to the Find dialog.
New in Writer's Cafe 2.34 (Feb 19, 2013)
- Fixed a bug whereby the scene number would be shown even if disabled in the report template.
- Fixed a display optimization bug that would show cards on the wrong column after a column insertion operation.
- Fixed a bug deleting columns if no columns would be left after deletion.
- Fixed a bug causing a crash when the Content tab was visible when closing the document.
- Fixed disabled menu item problems on recent Ubuntu distributions.
- Added a Latvian UI translation and Getting Started guide, thanks to Janis Eisaks and Antra Ergle.
New in Writer's Cafe 2.33 (Feb 19, 2013)
- Fixed auto-scrolling when dragging a card: no longer need to keep the mouse within a small area at the edge of the window, and scrolling is speeded up.
New in Writer's Cafe 2.32 (Feb 19, 2013)
- Improved auto-replace so that the replaced text does not have to be preceded by whitespace.
- Fixed a crash bug when deleting a chapter via the context menu in the storyline window.
- Fixed a bug when editing a player's name that caused the name to be blanked out when cancelling the dialog.
- The StoryLines report is regenerated if a tag is deleted.
- Fixed a memory corruption in existing tables when editing a schema used by those tables.
- Fixed a bug when searching for tags whereby newly typed text in the content tab was not searched when pressing Update.
- The number of instances of the application is now restricted to one on Windows.
- Improved performance slightly by doing idle processing less frequently.
- Fixed a bug whereby in ODT generation, strikethrough was enabled if it was explicitly disabled via the style editor.
- Editing document styles now marks the document as modified.
- Optimized the StoryLines drawing code so large documents are easier to edit.
- Idle-time updates are called less frequently, improving performance.
- Corrected the bad "Read on..." link in HTB (HelpView) files.
- Fixed a problem whereby clicking or dragging a card that's slightly out of view causes the window to scroll in a distracting manner.
- Added horizontal gesture scrolling on Mac and speeded up vertical scrolling.
- Added "Pixels per scroll increment" advanced preferences option to help speed up Mac gesture scrolling, defaulting to 2 on Mac and 1 on other platforms.
- Fixed a problem with Check for Updates finding the existing release as a new download.
New in Writer's Cafe 2.31 (Feb 19, 2013)
- Fixed a crash if annotation window was the first window in the FCE.
- Fixed non-appearance of location profiles in reports.
- Fixed bad output to ODT when using a tabular report template.
- Fixed raw HTML display in manual on some Windows systems.
- Fixed a bug where annotations were not saved in the Floating Card Editor when pressing Save and then exiting.
- Added +/- buttons to export/print selections panel.
- Fixed lack of paste in the key field of the registration dialog on Mac.
- Now uses xdg-open on Linux to run the default application association with a file, since the previous method didn't work on all systems.
- Added Auto-Replace Preferences command to View menu, and implemented auto-replace in the Content window.
New in Writer's Cafe 1.29 (Apr 10, 2008)
- Improved detection of external applications (for example, PDF viewer) on Windows.