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From: <je...@re...> - 2007-05-12 00:12:14
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All, We have posted a new development build of GardenSketch at: http://www.redstartsw.com/gardensketch-downloads/ This release still needs more testing and updates to the help files, =20 but should have all of the beta 6 features. Please let me know what you think. -Jeff New Features (since previous beta) * Added user-defined palettes * Added cursor displaying length during shape add/change * Changed the =E2=80=9CColor=E2=80=9D style to show plants flower, = foliage, =20 fruit, and bark colors * Changed the default to showing plants full size * Added gray background outside of the plot area * Added zoom limiting to not allow zoom out once gray background =20= is showing. * Changed the default style to the =E2=80=9CColor=E2=80=9D style = for new =20 drawings * Added more non-plant items * Changed zoom to cmd-=3D Bugs Fixed * GetInfo inspector didn=E2=80=99t update in real-time when a shape = was =20 resized * GetInfo inspector didn=E2=80=99t close when document closed * The GetInfo inspector would opening multiple windows for the =20 same element. This now brings the original inspector to the front. * Allow user to type 2 to 4=E2=80=B2 in addition to 2-4=E2=80=B2 * Couldn=E2=80=99t do HideColumns on more than one column * Adding a new list entry without a name caused a re-sort but =20 didn=E2=80=99t scroll, which made it look as if the entry had vanished. = The =20 list is now not sorted if there is no name in the column. * At the =E2=80=9Cis this the material & variety=E2=80=9D dialog, = if there is =20 only one variety, you couldn=E2=80=99t pick =E2=80=9Cunspecified=E2=80=9D.= Sometimes you =20 couldn=E2=80=99t pick any but the last variety in the list * Made it easier to click on a path * Dimension line text was displaying at the wrong size when zoomed. * Adding dimension lines to shapes wasn=E2=80=99t working. Now, you = can =20 click on a painted line with the dimension tool to add a dimension or =20= shift click to remove * Make it easier to select items planted under deciduous trees. * Planting a plant under a tree should show as under, even if =20 was planted later * Fruit duration had spelling error (uner one month) * If editing a plant name (click,click somewhere else) doesn=E2=80=99= t =20 change the name, used to do another lookup & produce another dialog. * List view should have showed colors regardless of the month * Uncheck FullSize when using variable year. * Reduced the plant database to those with pictures |
From: <je...@re...> - 2007-02-15 13:16:06
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Greetings from Redstart Software, Gardensketch beta 5 is nearing release, and you have the opportunity to try it and comment on the changes before release. The program can be found at: http://base.redstartsw.com/GardenSketchBeta5.dmg Beta 5 adds significant new features and resolves many issues, including: New Features Built as a universal binary Added menus of common plants, making it even easier to plants. The menus include plants popular many regions. Stays on the current drawing tool after an operation Grouped drawing, placement, and planting bed tools with the shape tools Rearranged menus in active material palette to be set top-down Enhanced the reference image feature (old aerial photo) to import a scale drawings Now displays most non-plant items in color, for drawing styles which include color. Added a "Shopping List" report for plants to purchase. You can create the list for one or for all vendors. for one garden plot, or the entire landscape You can include volume calculations for mulch You can display pictures of the plants in the list You can include annuals to repurchase for next year Made many performance improvements Changed to a new file format which can include background pictures in the project, and saves space and load time. Kept an option to keep using standard XML Changed palette icons to 32x32 Added more non-plant items, plants, pictures, and backgrounds Made the ActiveMaterial palette wider, in order to make pictures easier to see. Added a new new plant style where plants drawings grow and shrink Added Select All for plan elements Added keyboard shortcuts for zoom in and zoom out Changed some of the palette icons Defects Fixed Creating a new plant without height or spread displayed garbage in the height and spread fields. The construction draw style showed non-plant rotated incorrectly. Selecting "in this plot" after adding hardscape didn't clear text or drawing. Plants could sometimes show up with a spread equal to their height. This was most noticeable with tall thin plants like sunflower. Plants may have been looked up incorrectly by name. Adding "foo" variety 'xyzzy" twice in the same row made two identical materials Couldn't drop mulch on an area covered by a plant radius Items on alternate plots didn't show up in list view Entering 2'3cm incorrectly set the field to 20" Entering range as 2-3' should have been the same as 2' to 3' (2" to 3' should still work) Entering length or maxLength with unnamed plant silently failed There was a problem clicking on a picture column when used on multi- year lists Hyperlink text color didn't change when clicked Selecting alternate picture didn't change the dialog. Two pastes in a row on picture popup doesn't create two entries on the plant. If entering name and variant on an unknown quantity as one string, didn't enter data into variety column Crash opening find dialog with no document open Couldn't redo moving endpoints on an arc Couldn't do planChange on more than one element Having 2 elements selected while dragging would sometimes causes them to jump when moving elements When alternate move elements and adding attached dimensions, sometimes undo steps seem to be lost Selecting two elements and dragging deselected only one item The delete key didn't delete plan elements Didn't accept copy of item from finder (select jpeg icon in finder, copy) Non-plant items weren't getting into the "All in document" menu Used to enable tools which were not valid for the active material (Arc should not have enabled for planting bed) Fixed some application waits (spinning beachball cursor) undo /redo resize of title failed Changing path width should have affected the plant count in the GetInfo window. keystrokes don't make it through to tools unless a plant had been added to the canvas Delete key doesn't work for non-material element types Fill a group, then select. Fill disappears. Save & re-open, fill shows until selected again. There was an error using info tool on a group Some plant entries were missing height and/or width. There were problems selecting small non-plant items (ex: wall) (Allow click 'n' pixels away from a non-plant item) Rectangle paths would not resize correctly after save/restore Dropping turf over bench caused the bench to disappear. GardenSketch now enforces ordering of different types of elements Backdrops used to show up in monochrome drawing styles Info tooltip left up when window closed, or possibly just when tool switched. Text & Title boxes drawn incorrectly for sizes smaller than the rounded corner radius Don't allow changing the border style if the box is too small. Don't display title GetInfo for text boxes Problems using some characters in document properties Canonical name cell can be too short (not taking italics and font into account) -Jeff |