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ScreenSteps 2.0.3 Beta
Trevor DeVore
posted this on February 28, 2008 10:31
We have released a public beta of version 2.0.3 of ScreenSteps for Mac and Windows. If you would like to try out the latest features and provide feedback and bug reports you can download the installers at the following urls:
OS X: http://www.bluemangolearning.com/download/screensteps/2_0/beta/ScreenSteps.dmg
Windows: http://www.bluemangolearning.com/download/screensteps/2_0/beta/ScreenSteps.exe
Change Log:
2.0.3
* New lesson palette allows easy drag and drop of lessons into topics.
* Lesson contextual menus allow you to replace a lesson with a packaged lesson.
* Name of current library now appears in main window title bar.
* "Reveal Library Folder" added to File menu.
* Open Recent for libraries added to File menu.
* Pasting an image now replaces a step image if a step is selected.
* You can now package lesson tags into a single package.
* You can now export and import topic packages.
* You can now rename tags.
* You can now post lesson packages to ScreenSteps Live.
* Added system wide hot key to start capture (OS X only right now).
* Added preference to create new lesson if one isn't open when using hot key.
* You can now duplicate topics.
* You can now duplicate steps using the step contextual menu.
* You can now duplicate lessons using the lesson menu or a lesson contextual menu.
* Command + Control + up/down arrow on OS X (Control + Option + up/down arrow on Windows) moves steps up/down in lesson view.
* Added an "iso" text style to templates. This will encode output as ISO 8859-1 as opposed to utf8. Useful if you need to integrate output into websites using a latin encoding.
* If a static http proxy is assigned on OS X it will now be used for all internet connections originating from ScreenSteps.
* Undo was not being properly initialized unless library was opened at launch.
* When exporting HTML templates, folders in the template directory were not being copied over correctly.
* Split lesson at step is no longer enabled when right-clicking on the first step in a lesson.
* Importing ScreenSteps 1.x lessons would not update the lesson list.
* Lots of undo bugs fixed.
* More actions can be undone now.
* ScreenSteps libraries stored on mounted volumes can now be opened on OS X.
* Pasting a step was placing the new step after the step following the selected step. The new step is now placed after the selected step.
* More visual feedback during long operations.
* Saving data to database running on network drives should be faster now.
* Lesson title and description are now included in spell check.
* Resizing the program window was not resizing open edit fields.
* Scrollbars on OS X no longer appear behind the grow box.
* Resizing the window would erase any unsaved image annotations.
* Setting both max width and height in HTML templates no longer scales images to those dimensions when exporting media.
* The escape key was inserting a printing character into some fields.
* Checking for updates while an edit field was open would cause an error. The updater would close the project database prior before the edit field attempted to save changes.
* Topic lesson count was not being updated when deleting a section from a topic.
* Releasing the mouse button over the camera icon while drag reordering a step no longer triggers a screen capture session.
* Step instruction contextual menu was not enabling/disabling cut, copy and paste appropriately.
* Font family was not being assigned to table of contents file when exporting Topics as HTML.
* When importing a lesson an error dialog would display if the lesson list was somehow being filtered (tag selected or search term entered) and the lesson did not meet the filtered criteria.
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2.0.3 b27 is now available at the above urls.
Change Log:
* Undo/redo of adding and removing tags.
* When importing lesson packages images are now correctly resized and annotations zoomed according to preference settings.
* When exporting to HTML dimensions of images that were a) JPEG and b) had no annotations were not being stored correctly in HTML. This caused the images to look distorted.
* Images now sync to step titles when importing lessons if preference is checked.
* Creating a new step using the capture button was not creating a correct undo entry.
* Topics, sections, lesson titles and step titles now display unicode characters. This was done to support Greek.
* When exporting lessons if there was a "." in the name everything after the "." would be converted to the file extension.
2.0.3 b39 is now available at the above urls and via Help->Check for Updates.
Change log:
* New export to blog feature. Posts lesson to ScreenSteps live and outputs markup with references to the hosted images on ScreenSteps Live. This markup can be pasted into a blog or website.
* Color changes to selected step to make it more apparent when a step is selected and when an image within the step is focused.
* A "Defaults" folder has been added to the templates directory. This folder contains the default templates that come with ScreenSteps and is reset each time ScreenSteps is launched.
* HTML templates now support exporting a full-size image in cases where an image has to be reduced in size in order to fit within the template constraints. This makes it possible to the ability to open a full size version of the image in another window or using something like a lightbox.
* Sections now appear in the bookmarks when exporting Topics as PDF.
* Image sizing when uploading to ScreenSteps Live is now in sync with HTML export. Previously all images were uploaded at original size and user settings for image size were ignored.
* When opening or creating a library preferences were not being saved. If the application happened to crash (not that it would ever crash) then the last library you had open would not be reopened. This would cause confusion and could lead one to believe that there had been data loss.
* Lesson menu has been reworked to provide more items pertaining to the selected step.
* Closing the program window when a step image had focus would not save the image annotations.
* If you deleted the ScreenSteps preferences file then launched ScreenSteps you would be prompted to locate a library. ScreenSteps now looks in the default library location and opens that library if it exists.
2.0.3 b41 is now available at the above urls and via Help->Check for Updates.
Change log:
* Lesson packages containing steps that had media that had been deleted at one point were generating errors when importing them.
* Posting to blog would fail if the lesson contained no images.
* Label field was not resizing when updating lesson count for tags or topics.
* A drop of a lesson into area of topic that has no sections or lessons no longer appears to fail visually.
* Fixed a bug in new lesson menu. Move step up/down items weren't disabled properly and were displaying at level 1 in the hierarchy when disabled.
* A section is now created when creating a topic.
* You can now drag a lesson from the lesson palette onto the currently selected topic in the topic list.
* Added delete to step contextual menu.
2.0.3 b45 is now available at the above urls and via Help->Check for Updates.
Change log:
* Starting with 2.0.3 b39 you would lose any data entered after a non-fatal error dialog appeared. This has been fixed.
* Blog export button now shows up in Export drop-down.
* Copying and pasting steps with image annotations wasn't working.
* You can now cut, copy and paste annotations.
* Annotation contextual menu added.
* If you had edited image annotations and tried to click outside of the image the first click would not register. This has been fixed.
* If a step image has focus then it is copied to the clipboard (without annotations) instead of the entire step.
* Pasting an image when a step with an existing image is selected prompts you to replace the selected step's image or create a new step.
* Lesson descriptions were not being updating in the topic outline when modified.
* When adding lesson tags the wrong character encoding was being used. This was causing problems with accented characters until the lesson tags were refreshed during a lesson reload.
2.0.3 b54 is now available at the above urls and via Help->Check for Updates. This will most likely be the last public beta before final release.
Change log:
* When viewing a lesson you can drag images or a folder of images from the Finder or Windows Explorer onto the lesson to create steps.
* You can now drag an image onto a step title, image or instructions to import the image for the step.
* Replacing a step image with an image that had the same name as the current image was not working correctly.
* Drag/drop of images onto lesson view area to create steps or replace step image.
* Step image export dimensions were being reset whene changing the step title and preferences were set to synch images names to step titles.
* Parentheses were incorrectly being escaped as ' in HTML output.
* The following actions have been added to the undo log:
- Create, delete, cut, paste and duplicate annotations.
- Image cropping, resizing, creation, deletion and replacing.
- Tag renaming.
- Renaming and deletion of tags
- Renaming, adding and removing tags.
- Adding, reordering and renaming of sections and lessons in a topic.
- Reordering of steps in a lesson.
- Renaming of lessons and sections.
* Undo log is now cleared when changing views (topic, lesson library, lesson).
2.0.3 b61 is now available at the above urls and via Help->Check for Updates. This (hopefully) addresses a start up bug that some users are reporting the first time they launch ScreenSteps.
Change log:
* Possible fix for initialization issue that some experience on OS X the first time they launch. Still can't recreate the issue so we have our fingers crossed.
2.0.3 b63 is now available at the above urls and via Help->Check for Updates.
Change log:
* PDF output was not handling html in step instructions properly.
* Possible fix for initialization issue that some experience on OS X the first time they launch. Still can't recreate the issue so we have our fingers crossed.