Release notes 0.8

New in 0.8

• Plug-in architecture
  • Moved some existing code their own plug-ins
  • Downloading of plug-ins form the SlipBox site
• Plug-ins available for:
  • Spotlight (comes with application)
  • Keyword extraction (very simple)
  • Summarisation
  • Graphviz
  • BibDesk
  • Bookends
• Import of
  • SlipBox documents
  • Tab-delimited text files (*.txt)
  • Comma-delimited text files (*.csv; e.g. export from Excel or Zettelkasten)
• Auto-saving of SlipBox documents in a user-definable interval
• Slip Templates
• New application icon
• New document icon
• New toolbar icons
• Function to empty the Trash
• System Service to searching for keywords
• Source included in Spotlight cache files
• Preferences:
  • Plug-in management
  • Switch off auto-completion of keywords
  • Auto-save time interval
• Link to Online Forum in Help Menu
• Slip Info contains the word count, keywords count, and counts for both scent types
• Additional Application Launch options: "Open nothing" and "Open Dialogue"
• Dragging onto the Source field for Web URLs, BibDesk, Bookends
• Bookends IDs can be dropped into the Slip Text field and show the title
• Auto-completion of keywords shows pop-up window to choose from existing keywords

Changed/improved behaviour

• Button that determines whether the double-clicked keyword in the Keywords Drawer is added to a search moved to the Drawer
• Case-insensitive sorting of lists in: Slip Type combo box, Keywords Drawer, Keyword Scent View, Alternating Scent View
• Better display of focus ring
• Dragging of files from the Finder creates a textual link to the file. For copying the ALT or COMMAND key has to be pressed as well.
• No default Slip Types
• "Marking" a slip is now called "flagging" a slip
• "Unflag all slips" menu item is always available
• "Make New Slip" System Service uses the default slip font specified when inserting plain text
• Undo for changing slip author
• If multiple items in the Search View or a slip in the Alternating Scents View are selected the "Copy Slip" function copies all selected slips.
• Dragging hyperlinks onto the Slip Text or copying a webloc file creates a link
• Removing some clipping of views in the main window
• Results Table has alternating row backgrounds (in keeping with Leopard)
• Outline Views uses the OS X default behaviour for cursor key downs
• Dropping of files onto the Slip Text (mostly for dropping graphics files from web browsers; works best for Safari)
• Improved management of slip history
• State of the Keywords Drawer is saved in the preferences file
• Renamed menu items:
  • "Import…" menu item
  • "Slip(s)" to "Slips"
  • "Export Slip(s)…" to "Export…"
  • "Find Related Documents in Spotlight"
• Export panel is a sheet
• Better warning if the default file cannot be opened
• Corrected typo in the Add Slip toolbar icon tool tip
• Corrected spelling in tips of toolbar icons
• Double click on Slip Scent Table made cell editable instead of changing to the slip
• Simple Spotlight interface: Slip Text and Creation and Modification Time are saved to cache file
• Selection in the Keywords Field is reset to the whole field when the Current Slip changes

Bugfixes

• 076: If the keywords field was edited and a new slip added the changes were not saved. This might also have happened when simply changing to another slip in the box.
• 078: Changes to the text of the Current Slip were not committed when the current slip was not changed to another one.
• 075: Application crashed when installing a plug-in.
• The Startup Mode was set to 1 (last document), but when the app was launched for the first time, this resulted in an error message.
• The "Edit Text" undo was added twice to the undo stack when the document was saved with pending changes in the Slip Text.
• 071: Unsaved changes in the text fields and the combo box are now checked before a document is closed.
• Slip Types combo box reported an error when it was left and the field (a) remained empty or (b) the user clicked beyond the last element.
• 084: After the Print dialogue was shown, the Export dialogue did not display its accessory view.
• 050: When running the Export Panel the Progress Window was hidden behind the Save panel (Export panel is now a sheet).
• 083: Undo of Add Slip did not restore the correct number for the next new slip.
• 066: The Current Slip was not saved before Extra Window was opened.
• Printing now uses its own view instead of the Slip Text view, so the content of the Slip Text view doesn't change any more.
• 044: Error in determining the number of the slip with the highest number in the box (regular and trashed slips).
• 086: Source field was erased if keywords are changed and the document was then immediately saved.
• 085: Drag and Drop onto an empty Source from BibDesk could not be undone.
• 079: Opening a slip in an Extra Slip window did not work for slips with an empty Slip Text.
• 080: Export window did not open for untitled documents.
• 082: Opening document via double click also opens the one specified in defaults (seems no way around this).
• Memory leak in the data structures for Keyword Scents and Alternating Scents caused the program to crash when: (1) new document (2) enter a keyword in Keywords Field (3) add Slip (4) quit program.
• Document was marked as changed when (1) Slip Text was changed (2) document saved (3) Current Slip changed.