•Attempted to fix NilObjectException crash fired the first time you select "Select Spellchecker..."
•Fixed NilObjectException bug fired when doing HTML export.
•Fixed bug with AW attempting to save keywords even though that feature was removed.
•RTF files are now saved as Microsoft Word documents.
•Fixed bug with “Replace & Find Again” sometimes being enabled when it should not.
•Fixed bug with HTML export hanging on texts containing special alphabetic characters (like å, ä and ö)
•AllWrite now warns you when you try to open an RTF file, since opening of RTF files isn't supported.
•Files larger than 68 kilobytes can now be opened if you hold down the Option key while selecting “Open” from the File menu.
2.1b1
•Fixed lots of crashing bugs (thanks, REAL software)!
•Removed the Idea Manager. If you really miss it, please tell me.
•Document optimization is now automatic - when you print, AllWrite will attempt to optimize your document.
•Removed the "keywords" feature.
•Changed icons and about box graphics.
•Updated the ReadMe file.
Final Candidate 5
•Added some more names to the thankyou list in the about box.
•Fixed misspelling of Björn's name in the about box.
•You can now set up AllWrite to play a sound when it's making backup from a schedule.
•Probably fixed the bug with contextual menu disappearing immediately on some machines.
•Fixed glitch with Library floaters appearing behind the Organizer window.
•You can now add Library items directly from the lib window.
•Fixed bug leading to problems when deleting items from the Organizer.
•Fixed a lot of crashing bugs.
•Text length is now always shown at the right bottom of text windows.
•Open text files are now found even if they are moved or renamed at runtime.
•AllWrite now shows a nice message if it's my birthday :-)
Final Candidate 4
•Optimized code for Text Statistics.
•Some more GUI fixes and improvements.
•More of the documentation added.
•Fixed bug with document icon not being enabled after saving.
•Fixed bug causing a crash when scripts were double-clicked in the scripts window.
•Fixed bug causing the human-language schedule description in the Backup dialog to sometimes mention the wrong days.
•Removed "Make backup" from the Organizer menu, since it's obselote.
•Disabled the InDesign export (only temporarily, this will be the first thing i implement in 2.1).
•Fixed bug making it impossible to paste the registration code into the serial number field of the Register dialog.
•Library posts can now be moved up/down.
•Bundled libraries updates (removed obscene test entries and added more stuff to the e-help lib).
Final Candidate 3
•Fixed bug causing a crash when the document icon was dragged from a text window.
•Fixed bug causing a crash when using the Organizer menu.
•Specified command-K as menu shortcut for Add To Keywords.
•Splash screen now automatically closes after two seconds.
•Made some fixes to the InDesign export code.
Final Candidate 2
•New icon, designed by Jonatan Uppström, maker of the REALicons collection.
•New splash screen/about box design. I think i like this one.
•Text files can now be exported as Adobe InDesign tagged text.
•A lot of GUI improvements.
•Reduced default sizes for Organizer, Idea Manager and library windows.
•Removed the balloon help, since it didn't work properly.
•When clicking on the help icon in a document window, the HTML documentation's index file is now launched.
•You can now use the "+" and "-" keys to increase/decrease the value of numeric text fields.
•Fixed bug that made it possible to open the same library file twice.
•When AllWrite documents are double-clicked, AllWrite no longer opens them until the splash screen is disposed. (Works now!)
•Added a lot of more abbreviations.
•Fixed bugs with auto-correction not recognizing ellipses as punctation characters and not recognizing some special characters (for example, "å") as letters. Particulary embarassing for me, since the letters Å,Ä and Ö are used frequently in Swedish.
•Fixed bug with Organizer somtimes not adding items at the right position.
•Removed the Print Headers option, since i didn't have the opportunity to test it and people told me it didn't work.
•Fixed some AppleScript problems.
•Fixed bugs that made backup schedules useless. Why didn't anyone alert me on this?!
•Text Info dialog now shows text properties correctly (i hope). The code i was first using tured out to be the very oldest code in the entire project.
•The document icon in text windows is now enabled only if the file is saved.
•Fixed bug causing BODY tag to be misplaced in HTML documents... Yes, i have fixed this before. Actually, the fix just made the problem worse!
•Visiblility, size and position of Organizer, Idea Manager and Backup Status floaters are now remembered.
•Implemented memory-effective Undo.
•Moved "Convert Quotation Marks" from Clean Text dialog to Text menu. And fixed it -- earlier, it treated the zero character ("0") as a quotation mark (which i admit was quite strange), while not recognizing normal inches at all.
•Instead of beeping when caps lock is down, AllWrite can now simply ignore the state of the CapsLock button.
•You can now edit a document's priority directly from the Organizer window.
•You can now double-click scripts in the Scripts floater, to open them.
•Organizer search was removed, since no-one would ever use it anyway.
•Made some changes to the Text menu, and moved some items to the contextual menu.
Final Candidate 1
•GUI fixes
•When AllWrite documents are double-clicked, AllWrite no longer opens them until the splash screen is disposed.
•Fixed crashes and cosmetical bugs that occurred the first time AllWrite was launched.
•Fixed a bug that caused some HTML chars to get the wrong case.
•Fixed a bug causing the BODY closing tag to be misplaced in HTML documents.
•Exported HTML documents now get a white background.
•Removed the "apply" applescript command, since it didn't work.
b15
•Font menu can now show font appearance (requires MacOS 8.5 or higher).
•Fixed a funny bug causing exported HTML files to get the creator "user" if InternetConfig (or similar) was not installed. This was beacuse i mixed up the default email address constant ("user@host.com") with the one for default browser ID ("MOSS").
•Added Idea Manager. This is a tool that lets the creative writer collect his writing ideas in a list, for future reference. If you are the type of person that gets lot of ideas that you forget before you get a chance to turn them into words, this is something for you.
•You can now let AllWrite go through all the fonts/sizes used in your document and check if there are font/size combinations that would look bad in print (ie Teletext, 14pt). To do this, select "Optimize" from the File menu.
•Changed splash screen/about box. Please help me decide if this one looks better/more inspiring than the old one.
•Removed toolbar. If you really miss it, i will re-implement it.
•Updated Register application.
•Removed some trash code.
•Internal changes, decreasing the size of created documents (only a couple of bytes, though).
•Lots of other internal improvements, decreasing the number of plugins used by more than 50%.
•Many GUI improvements.
•App is now compiled with uncompressed PPC code. This makes it larger, but it requires less memory, and the StuffIt file is actually about 100k smaller.
b14
•Font menu now always checks the right fonts.
•Fixed a bug that caused a crash when adding new style formats.
•Printing Options dialog no longer redraws its entire content when you click on the margin buttons.
•DOS and Windows export now works for longer texts, and linebreaks are properly converted.
•Added "Reveal In Finder" to File menu (added because i used this to debug AppleEvents in the application)
•Added some menu icons (i normally don't like menu icons, but these looks really nice)
•Added the ability to schedule backups. You specify the backup schedule in the backup settings dialog, and you can see the current status in the "Backup Status" floating window.
•Searching with Sherlock no longer causes crashes.
•Scripts window now shows script descriptions.
•Exported HTML files now get the creator of the default web browser, as defined in internet config (or Internet Preferences in MacOS 8.5 and later)
•When printing a document by dropping it on the printer icon (or choosing "Print" from the Finder's File menu), AllWrite now prints the text with styles.
•Word Services support added. You can now choose any word services savvy application and use it as spell checker. Excalibur is "default" (ie, when choosing "Select Spellchecker" from the edit->spelling menu, you get a download link to Excalibur). Real-time spellchecking (that checks while you write, like in MS Word) will probably come, in some shape.
•Added "cool" secret about box... (check it out!)
•About box now "jumps" onto the screen.
•Added annoying shareware reminder, that pops up when you save your documents.
b13
Fixed crashing bug with Printing Settings dialog. It used some bevel buttons, i and i had simply forgot to change from RB's to my own.
b12
*Fixed crashing bugs in last version. The crashes were caused by the BevelButtons used, and they have now been replaced by a home-made bevelbutton substitute (which probably draws faster, too).
*Numeric text fields now accept backspace key.
b11
*HTML- and Quark export moved to "Publish" submennu of File menu.
*Export As RTF moved to "Export As" submenu of file menu.
*Documents can now be exported as SimpleText read-only.
*Documents can now be exported as DOS or Windows text.
*Numbers over 999 999 are no longer deleted when translated to words.
*You can now add keywords to your documents. To add a word, control-click it and select "Add To Keywords" from the contextual menu (alternatively, choose "Add to keywords" from the Selection menu). To edit keywords, select "Keywords..." from the file menu. Keywords are added to the META source of exported HTML documents, and will work as search words when AllWrite PRO comes out with its text database.
*Various GUI improvments.
*Fixed bug with style format names not updating properly when editing them.
*Added "Contact Info" in Apple menu (replaces "AllWrite Webpage").
*Added "Previous Paragraph" to selection menu.
*Changed toolbar appearance.
*Added printing margins option to Preferences->Printing dialog.
b10
*AllWrite can now alert you when attempting to open a document using fonts that aren't installed.
*The app no longer use any XFCNs - As a result, some processes that handle fonts may have gained in speed.
*Size menu now shows "real" font sizes (font sizes that are supported by the font bitmap) in outline.
*If there is a style format called "Plaintext", it is the default for new documents.
*Style menu items now have the character style they represent - ie Bold is bold, Italic is italic, etc.
*Default style formats changed.
*Many GUI improvements.
*Added "Larger" and "Smaller" to size menu (increases/decreases the size of the selected text with 1pt).
*Rewrote HTML export code from scratch. The new code is more effective, can handle fonts, produces more readable code, and is more accurate on font sizes.
*Added floating toolbar. Please help me deciding whether it looks good or not.
b9
*You can now type a number (ie "17") and press control-tab, and AllWrite will change it into words (ie "seventeen").
*Organizer now updates deadline properly when changing document information.
*Find feature, that was broken in b8 and b7, now works again.
*Fixed bug with Clean Text and Replace All applying the first text style to all text. (This was a tough one! I bet the new implementation has got some bugs, so test this throughoutly)
*Default style formats are now loaded even if the prefs file doesen't exist.
*Follow Link in Selection menu fixed.
*Untitled documents are now properly named.
*Added more AppleScript commands.
*Added "Go to next paragraph" (command-shift-G) to selection menu.
*Shortcuts now use F-Keys instead of command-0, command-1, etc. You can assign shortcuts to keys F1 - F8, which means you can now have eight different shortcuts.
*Whole Word option in Find dialog fixed.
*Date&Time format options added to prefs dialog.
*You are now warned if you attempt to export a document not using any style formats to QuarkXpress.
b8
*Splash screen added - great design work by Jakob Bock.
*Even more GUI improvments.
*You can now create a folder called "Startup" in the same folder as AllWrite, and all items in it will be opened when AllWrite launches.
*Close All command in Libray menu implemented.
*More AppleScript commands added.
*Fixed bug with "Extended" sometimes being checked when "Condensed" shold be.
b7
Mainly a bug fixing release
*More GUI fixes.
*Delete key substitution now works correctly.
*Auto-correct "i" option removed.
*Case-sensetive search implemented.
*AllWrite no longer hangs when you press the enter key.
*Implemented RTFexporter 1.5.2, giving more relieable RTF exports.
*Font & Size menus now behave correctly when window is closed.
*AllWrite now checks if files are in use before attepmting to open them.
*Insertion point is now in the beginning of text when opening a file.
*Condensed and Extended styles added.
*Organizer window can now be closed.
*Possible bugs with Organizer fixed.
*Bugs with disabled menus after closing dialogs fixed.
b6
Thanks to Jakob Bock, Justin Christie and Jonatan Uppström for more suggestions and bug reports.
*RTF exporting added. (RTF is a standard PC format.)
*Intelligent quotation marks option added.
*Option-Backspace can now be used as forward delete key. Useful on iMac keyboards, since they don't have any fwd delete key.
*Added option to auto-correct the letter "i" to uppercase.
*Fixed bug that crashed the Organizer when adding the first file.
*Fixed bug with Style menu items.
*AppleScript support now fully working. (should work, at least)
*Organizer now finds files even if they are moved, renamed, etc.
*GUI improvments.
*Saving window positions and selections is now optional.
*Organizer now directly shows when an item's deadline is passed.
*All dialogs should now be AM savvy.
*Style menu items now use standard shortcuts.
*Plain option added to style menu.
*Printing options added to Prefs menu - gives you the ability to print texts with page header. Untested, I can't connect a printer to my iMac!
b5
*Various GUI improvements, including more AM savvy dialogs.
*Text colour can now be edited.
*Texts with style formats applied can now be exported with QuarkXPress tags.
*Parts of the online help implemented.
*Libraries improved. File format changed, so don't try opening old ones with this version.
*Some new libraries put into the Extras folder. They are incomplete, but will be improved.
*HTML export can now convert text colours to web safe ones.
*Fixed some bugs with style formats.
*Single-line editfields now 'cut' multiline text pasted into them.
*Text Info is now enabled even if the file isn't saved.
*Fixed the problem with Organizer menu button sometimes crashing and sometimes showing the wrong menu.
b4
Thanks to Lars Rosenberg, Matt Ridley, Jonatan Uppström and Jakob Bock for submitting bug reports and feature requests.
*Style formats now implemented.
*Scripts window implemented.
*Bug with serial numbers fixed. (thanks Matt!)
*'Turn Balloon Help On' button in help window now works.
*Abbreviations now ignore text case.
*Text font, size and style menus should now work properly when switching between open windows with different text faces.
*Organizer no longer shows "7 items (0 in use)" when empty.
*Solved problem with Organizer menu button sometimes showing the wrong menu.
*Backup directory is now remembered.
*Insert Time no longer inserts time with seconds.
*Improved automatic case correction
*Delete Multiple Spaces in Clean Text now works.
*All prefs files are now stored in the same folder.
*Dialog boxes are now AM savvy on MacOS 8.x systems. (Thanks to Jakob Bock!)
*Fixed bugs with AppleScript support.
*Other small bugs fixed.
b3
This version's special thanks goes to Luciano Di Croce for sending me the first bug reports!
•Fixed bug with "Last saved" text behaving strangely when resizing the window.
•The icon at the right of the window now works (it indicates whether you file needs to be saved or not)
•Fixed bug with Window menu item titled "Window" being visible and causing a NilobjectException when selected.
•Removed embarassing debugging alert that showed whenever the app recieved an apple event.
•AppleScript support added - may work or may not work. Test scripts included.
