September 20th, 2010· New icon
· Windows Vista and 7 - icon now shown in Explorer and the taskbar
· New About Dialog for Windows: looks like GTK, and less crappy than before
· Program translated into Portuguese, latest translations applied.
· PDF Cache viewer's width increased; delete key also removes the selected item
· Bugfix: close button on a sheet allowing the first sheet to be closed, causing crashes
· Bugfix with closing the "import image" dialog
· Bugfix: unicode error on loading a file from the operating system "explorer"
· Bugfix: crash when pressing "okay" in Preferences dialog after changing number of closed sheets to remember
· Bugfix: misc. items not being translated: ok/cancel buttons, text in colour, save and font dialogs
· Bugfix: file types in the "open" dialog not being translated
· Bugfix: languages in the preference dialog not being translated
August 31st, 2010· "Recent Files" list under the File menu is synchronised across all Whyteboard instances
· Improved program updating; removed a dependency on an external library
· Fixed possible Unicode errors on any saving operation to a filepath containing unicode characters >255 (e.g. ø)
· Program language defaults to the system language if possible
· Change Foreground / Background options added to Shapes menu and to a shape's right-click pop-up menu. Background's changeable when shape is not transparent
· Removed code that was handling loading older .wtbd save files from around a year back, as it's no longer needed
· Removed version number from application title (see About Dialog for it)
· Little "*" shown in program title when application has unsaved data
· Removed shortcut key information from popup menus
· Shape viewer dialog handles delete key.
· Deleting shape from shape viewer selects the previous shape; not the first shape in the list.
· Removed "focus" rectangle from the currently selected Tab
· Bugfix: possible permission error on Linux when saving a file
· Bugfix - trying to load a file that's been deleted from the Recent Files list didn't save the file list, so the file would still be shown
· Fix bug on Mac where wrong version of wxPython was being used
· Fix bug with crash on startup with an older install of wxPython
· Fix bug where program was writing the Language preference as the translated language; the program was expecting the language in English
· Bugfix: Using the mouse wheel on the "thickness" selection drop-down with a shape selected would create an undo point for each "scroll" of the mousewheel. Now it creates an undo point after you have finished scrolling.
· Fix "transparent" checkbox under Shape menu and on the toolbox displaying wrong values at times.
· Fix possible "division by zero" bug with Ellipse tool
· Fix tab ordering on many dialogs
· Fix cancelling the Save As dialog in save changes prompt closing the dialog
· Fix the eraser tool appearing as a black square
· Fix undo/redo not making the "sure you want to quit" prompt appear
· Fix preference dialog "view" tab always scrolling to the bottom of the dialog
· Fix bug in opening help files if they had been removed after the program had been run
· Fix opening a save file not clearing the undo tab list
· Fix "Delete" in Shape Viewer actually deleting the shape; and not on "okay"
· Fix the selected item being de-selected in the Shape Viewer, and overriding any resized columns headers after performing an action
· Fix "Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_gc_set_foreground: assertion `color != NULL' failed" GTK bug when drawing with a Pen
· Bugfix: Error dialog wouldn't show with unicode characters in "recently saved" preference option
· Major changes to the program's file structure. Lots of code cleanup and refactorings
May 18th, 2010· Possible crash with deleting shapes
· Shape Viewer's buttons not being properly disabled on changing sheets
· Opening a .wtbd file from a file explorer wouldn't work
· Windows: function and other shortcut keys not working (e.g. F2/F11/Shift+Tab)
· Windows: Shape Viewer dialog drawing its bitmaps as enabled when they were disabled
· Windows: Ctrl+Enter in text input dialog not acting like "okay" button press
May 17th, 2010New features/changes:
· New tool: Highlighter.
· Image rotation is now performed from a special "handle" for rotating.
· Image re-scaling using its selection handles. Also draws a transparent rectangle to indicate its new size
· PDF Cache Viewer - view the list of PDF files that Whyteboard is caching.
· Improvements to rotating an image with the mouse: now "follows" the mouse's position, and can be rotated both clockwise and counter-clockwise.
· Scaling of Polygon shapes - increase or decrease their size!
· Rotating Polygon shapes.
· 8-way selection handle on rectangle, rounded rectangle and ellipse, allowing vertical-only / horizontal-only resizing
· Right clicking a shape with the select tool pops up a menu with select/delete/edit/move operations. Also, from here, new points may be added to a polygon
· Changing sheets scrolls the new sheet's thumbnail into view
· Few UI changes, program now looks neater
· Removed many Message Boxes,
· Programs remembers last opened file's directory the next time the program runs
· Foreground/background colour swap button added
· "Swap Colours" menu item for when you select a shape that's not transparent
· New toolbar items for Move Shape Up/Down/To Top/To Bottom
· Recently Closed Sheets as a sub-menu to allow you to choose a sheet to re-open
· Improved "save changes?" dialog when you are exiting the program.
· Thick rectangles now don't have a "roundness" to their edges
· Help files updated and improved with more detail
· Improved a few icons (circle/ellipse/polygon/rounded rectangle, move up/down
· Little "close" button drawn on the current tab
· Up/down/left/right arrow keys can pan around the canvas.
· The selected shape may be moved around the canvas using the arrow keys too
· Escape key will de-select the currently selected shape (as well as Ctrl-D)
· Cancelling PDF Conversion on Linux takes a few seconds, so the progress bar no
· longer "pumps", and the dialog title changes from "Converting" to "Cancelling"
· The "Shape Viewer" is now in sync with the canvas: adding, deleting, undoing, redoing, editing and changing shapes' order is now reflected when the Shape Viewer is open
· Minimise button added to the Shape Viewer
· Undo closed tabs remembers the "viewport" of the canvas when closed
· Removed the "Rotate Image" dialog
· Ctrl+Enter in text input dialog will "submit" the text
· Restructured source code directories -- now just run whyteboard.py from the main directory to start the program
· Started improving code: removing module dependencies and tight coupling, to create more readable/maintainable code.
New Preferences / Options:
· Under "View", number of toolbox columns, can be set to 2 or 3 to decrease the vertical space used by the toolbox
· Toggle tool preview on/off (to gain more vertical space)
· Toggle colour grid on/off
· "Send Feedback" added to the Help menu
· Command-line extras added (inc. help). Call whyteboard -f FILE to load a file; whyteboard -l LANG to set a language e.g. es, spanish, nl, dutch, de, german
Bugfixes:
· Important Windows bugfix: drawing a shape would create extra Windows "GDI" objects; which was taking up unneeded resources. This bug has been present since version 0.25 (3rd release) - released back in January 2009!
· Recently closed tab list was deleting incorrect entries when it had more items than the "number of closed tabs" preference
· Bitmap Select could cause some visual anomalies
· Possible crash when loading/saving .wtbd files containing text
· After selecting a shape (and being brought to the front), any shapes that were on top of the shape would prevent the user from selecting the handles of the selected shape.
· "Recent Files" menu wasn't working on Linux
· Rotated images weren't being saved as rotated
· Shape Viewer's column widths would not take up the full space
· Fixed shape viewer crashing when an item isn't selected
· Using next/previous sheet buttons in the Shape Viewer wouldn't set the drop-down control to the changed to sheet
· "End" key would not jump to the end of the document correctly
· Menu were icons appearing for 3 menu items on Windows when no other menu items had icons - now removed
· Stopped a crash when wx.GCDC was not implemented on the system, due to a misconfigured wxPython install. Now, the program just doesn't use transparency for these users (new highlighter tool is also not available)
· Hopefully stopped a visual oddity/black square appearing underneath the close and maximise button on Windows
· Hopefully fixed problem with various "UnicodeError" (the problem doesn't happen on my machine, so it's hard to test if the issue is fixed)
· Fixed unit tests so that they at least run -- need to improve the test's code coverage, which will come with time.
December 29th, 2009· This is a pretty big change, adding in a new save format. .wtbd files are now renamed zip files, and all associated images are now stored inside the zip, instead of being a relative file path. This allows files to be exchanged between users.
· Many bugfixes and UI improvements have also been made.
December 17th, 2009· This adds in a Polygon tool and a Media tool, allowing you embedd audio and video playback into the canvas
· Many bugs have also been fixed.
December 15th, 2009· New Media tool - embed audio and video files into Whyteboard! Each sheet may have as many Media panels embedded as you wish
· New Polygon tool - draw a shape with [x] many points, as complex as you wish. Each point can then be adjusted separately
· Paste text from the clipboard. Doesn't preserve any font/colour data, though
· Pasted images "into a new sheet" will resize the canvas to the image size
· Support for drag/drop of multiple files; e.g. drag/drop 3 .jpg files will open 3 new sheets, each containing one of the images
· Stopped a crash when PDF conversion with ImageMagick fails (due to no install of GhostScript)
· Saving a new file suggests the current date/time as the filename
· The Arrow tool's arrows are drawn at a smaller degree
· Middle clicking a sheet in the tab list will close it
· A check for a minimum wxPython version of 2.8.9.0
· The uninstaller on Windows will prompt for feedback on why Whyteboard is being uninstalled
· Bugfix: the program's process could sometimes remain after closing the program
· Bugfix: text objects were being re-drawn twice after using the Select tool
· Bugfix: can now drag/drop files onto the canvas once again (0.39.0 broke it)
· Bugfix: Changing background colour with a shape selected would change its background colour, even with "transparent" checked
· Bugfix: Exporting as PDF on Linux without typing ".pdf" into the filename now works
· Bugfix: Updating the EXE was broken on Windows, now fixed
· Bugfix: ensured some strings were displayed in their translated form
· Bugfix: sheet counts were appearing wrong, sometimes.
· Bugfix: pasting with the menu/toolbar buttons could position the image wrongly
· Bugfix: copying a Bitmap Select "outside" of the canvas could cause a crash
· Fixed a few spelling mistakes
· Latest translations. New translation: - Galician
November 18th, 2009· added an Arrow Drawing Tool
· an issue was identified, installing from .deb that could potentially hang a linux box
· fixed windows key accelerators not working
· bug with pressing "cancel" on the "you have unsaved changes" dialog
November 17th, 2009· A shape viewer, allowing you to change the order that shapes are drawn in. This is useful for...
· Shape fill. Shapes can now have their background colour set instead of always being transparent.
· Export each sheet into a PDF
· Import/export preferences
· Drag / drop tabs to re-arrange them
October 28th, 2009NEW:
· Resizable canvas
· Rotate images
· Icons in the toolbox
· Delete shapes
· Printing support
BUGS FIXED:
· languages not loading
· eraser cursor being offset
· pasting always placing the image in top-left of the canvas
NEW TRANSLATIONS:
· Russian
· Japanese
· Hindi
· Traditional Chinese
· Portugese
October 18th, 2009Support for internationalizationWhyteboard will be available in other languages once translated. Currently (almost) fully translated into:
· Dutch
· English
· Italian
· Welsh
and, partially:
· Czech
· French
· German
· Spanish
User preferences, allowing customisation of the program:
· Language
· Preferred default font
· Your 9 colours in the left-hand panel
· PDF conversion quality options (normal/high/highest)
· How many sheets to remember for "undo closed sheets"
· Toggle toolbar / statusbar
· Whyteboard remembers your converted PDF files' image locations, so when you load that PDF again, it will not need to convert it.
· Export all sheets (as a series of images) functionality
· Cancel button added to the PDF conversion progress bar
· Added right-click pop-up menus to each thumbnail / Note tree item. From here you can also rename, close or export that sheet
· User Interface improvements
· Help Files improvements
· Eraser now erases a larger surface
· Shift + Tab / Shift + Ctrl + Tab shortcuts now work on Linux (GTK at least)
· Bugfix: the "Paste" menu was always active, even with nothing to paste (fixed)
October 6th, 2009· There is a terrible bug in 0.38.0 involving closing a tab, both of which have been fixed in this minor version (as well as bringing in some small usability improvements)
July 3rd, 2009· No development was done for nearly a month and half due to basically just getting stuck by a silly coding error which should have been trivial to solve. This has now been fixed, and the Select tool is almost implemented, with a few oddities to sort out and features to add.
· I'll try and get in some other new things for the initial 0.38 release and then over the course of the release I'll add further options and expand upon them, bringing in some other new stuff, mainly an internal image database of sorts which will allow windows/linux/mac to share images and will remember previously-loaded PDF's already converted PNG files.
May 6th, 2009· * 'Check for Updates'- Whyteboard can update itself
· -- will download an .exe / .tar.gz as appropriate
· -- on Windows, running via source will download the tar, which is cool because Windows doesn't support .tar.gz by default
· -- shows progress of downloaded file
· -- program restarts with new version loaded, also re-loads the current .wtbd file
· * HTML Help system/manual built into the application
· -- well, via a folder containing HTML help files
· - if they are not present, they can be downloaded (optional)
· * 'About Box' standardised
· * Exit dialog more like other apps: "sure you want to save?" (yes/no/cancel), instead of "sure you want to quit?" (yes/no)
· -- also asks when opening a new .wtbd file with an unsaved .wtbd file open
· -- and after downloading the update, before the program restarts it will prompt for save: yes/no
April 20th, 2009· Memory use improved from undo closed sheet improved
· Bugfix: paste / paste as new sheet - not updating the thumbnail
· Backwards/forwards compability improvement
April 13th, 2009· Undo closed tabs, last 10 tabs are stored
· Bugfix: closing a sheet would make all other sheet display the closed sheets'
· image until drawn on
· Bugfix: Saving a document which has Notes would result in duplicate notes being
· visible in the Notes tree view.
April 8th, 2009· Bugfix with drawing "outlined" shapes having inverted colours lines when drawing over other colours.
· Bugfix with opening new window with Windows EXE
· Bugfix: thumbnails not being drawn white initially on Windows
· Added icon into the EXE
April 8th, 2009· Performance increase from drawing shape 'fix' added in 0.36.2
· Paste image from clipboard into a new sheet
· Toggle full screen view
· Tool panel is now collapsible to give (a little bit) more room in full screen mode.
· Bugfix with eraser cursor in Windows
· Bugfix with Windows not drawing new lines from text input
· Misc. code improvements
April 7th, 2009· Tooltips for each item on the toolbox
· "New Window" menu item to launch a new Whyteboard instance.
· Important Windows bugfix: .wtbd drawings being "overwritten" on load.
· Important Windows bugfix: .wtbd drawings not restoring the saved selected tool.
· Paste image support. Pasted images will be saved to a temporary directory; duplicated pasted images will be saved in one file.
· Copy selection as bitmap with new tool: RectSelect
March 31st, 2009· Windows UI improvement: change the thickness by scrolling the mousewheel on the drop-down box, no need to click it. (this is the default behaviour under GNOME)
· Next/Previous sheet in the "Sheets" menu (which previously was "Image") - Ctrl+Tab / Ctrl-Shift+Tab shortcut keys
· Side panel is now "collapsible" instead of a "toggle" menu item
· Menus renamed, organised differently
· Popup context menu on Notes tree: Edit (note), Switch To (sheet)
· Text/notes appear on the canvas as you type
· Eraser has a custom rectangle cursor, depending on its size
· Escape button exits "History" dialog
· Updated "About" menu
· Bugfix: can no longer add a blank text/note object
March 18th, 2009· Bugfix: toggling side panel on/off caused a lot of lag, should only be noticeable now with around 65+ tabs open.
· Drag and drop support: drop any file that Whyteboard supports into the drawing panel to load it
· Hold down the middle mouse button to scroll (was the right btn)
· Improved undo/redo functionality. It is now possible to undo and redo the clear all drawings/clear all tabs' drawings functionality
· Redo is also fixed to more like other applications now: when you undo twice and then draw a new shape, your redo history is lost.
· Before you could redo the two undone shapes after the new drawing
· The ImageMagick folder locator will only pop-up when trying to convert a file and when the directory is not set, not at application start-up
· Added dragging around Whyteboard by holding down the right button and moving the mouse
· Big bugfix on Windows: ImageMagick's convert program not being found. Whyteboard prompts for its installed location and remembers it. (will also notify Linux users if ImageMagick isn't installed)
· Bugfix: thumbnails getting cut off with too many tabs. Can load in a file from the commmand line when running Whyteboard
· Bugfix: Can no longer cancel file load progress dialogs.
· Performance increase: loading large .wtbd files
· Notification of "updating thumbnails" after load/converting a file
March 15th, 2009· Big bugfix on Windows: ImageMagick's convert program not being found.
· Whyteboard prompts for its installed location and remembers it.
· Bugfix: thumbnails getting cut off with too many tabs, can load in a file from the commmand line when running Whyteboard.
March 11th, 2009· text notes. When adding a note to a tab, a tree view in a side panel will show an overview of every tab's associated notes. These notes can be edited by double click the note from the tree.
· When loading in a large Whyteboard file (85 saved tabs full of drawings), refreshing the thumbnails takes time, so a progress dialog is shown for that
· Bugfix with thumbnails not loading properly
· Bugfix with closing a tab sometimes not removing the thumbnail's text label
March 9th, 2009· Bugfix: thumbnails not updating on file load.
February 23rd, 2009· Bugfix with drawing 'outlined' shapes in the previous version.
· F5 will refresh all thumbnails since they're not refreshed upon loading a save, PDF or PostScript file.
February 22nd, 2009· Export current tab's view as an image.
· Live thumbnails, get updated when the selected tab is drawn upon
· Thumbnail panel toggleable on/off
· Drawing Preview window now shows a preview of the actual shape instead of always showing a line.
February 21st, 2009· Text input overhaul, with a custom dialog for inputting the text and selecting a font. This new method fixes many previous bugs such as the text being un-undoable and drawings not "overwriting" the text.
· Long text updates the scrollbars, vertically or horizontally.
· Program maximises on startup.
· History improvements: draws all shapes back in the correct order.
· Save files store the version number; loading an older save file into a newer Whteboard version which has added save data will say the older save file's version.
February 16th, 2009· Added line drawing tool.
· Sure you want to quit?" dialog when user hasn't saved.
· Only allowing one .wtbd file to be loaded at once
· Last Selected tab is stored in the .wtdb file - also added some backwards compatibility here
· Undo/redo tool/menu bar items are disabled/enabled as appropriate
February 13th, 2009· In this version, saving and loading files is now working properly. Your currently selected tool/thickness and colour are stored and reloaded upon file load, and the undo/redo/history of drawn shapes is maintained.
· Undo and redo is fixed in this version, which adds 4 "clear" optins: clearing current/all tabs of all drawings and clearing current/all tabs, keeping any image files (essentially restoring the PDF)
· Temporary images are now stored in $HOME/.whyteboard/wtdb-tmp/
· Remember, the program is still in its infancy, not everything works, check the README and TODO files for further information.
February 12th, 2009· better performance
· scrolling windows properly
· saving/loading files
· bugfixes in replaying history
February 10th, 2009· Whyteboard deletes converted PDF/PS/SVGs correctly, more code cleanup / unification, can load multiple PDFs into the app.
February 10th, 2009· The latest Whyteboard version, 0.25 has been released, which fixes some performance issues (high, unneeded CPU usage) and some bugs.
· A few bugs remain (saving/loading .wtbd files), but I released this because the performance gain should be worth it, before, the application was laggy on some machines and utterly unusable on others, hopefully this should be fixed.
February 6th, 2009· Loading/saving working (better, still some issues).
· Added a toolbar; undo/redo/clear now works for each tab (each tab has its own undo/redo).
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