July 29th, 2011· Tool "Synchronize countries" was fixed: program crushed during synchronization with active "Countries" list (reported by sharaf on our forums);
Multilingual support:
· Update of Lithuanian translation by Laurius Vaitkevicius.
· Update of Indonesian translation by Wowan Kuncoro.
· Fix: Tab control in the "Edit" window was not updated correctly during resize (problem was reported on our forum by McKenly Roberts).
Main toolbar:
· Fix: Wrong background color in the main toolbar under specific color schemas in Windows XP.
· Speed-up loading of the main toolbar during start up of the CollectionStudio.
· Inner database: new country was added: South Sudan.
· Status bar: Added additional information about selected continent.
· Plugins: Correct parsing of the resulting XML returned from the plagin.
July 29th, 2011Windows 7 and XP Themes:
· Fix background color in "About" box;
· "Item edit" dialog: correctly resize controls to draw the same edges on each side of the frame.
Collectible edit dialog:
· Show country/currency drop down lists with case insensitive sort (suggested by svirepy on our forum);
· Allow modification and removing of old collectible statuses using buttons and/or context pop up menu of the list;
Multilingual support:
· Allow translation of all default statuses;
· Update Ukrainian translation by netavek;
· New translation was added: Catalan language by Sylvain Borri;
Update Checker:
· Fix error in update checker (it always output an error when CS is up to date);
· Show animation when update checker is running.
Collectible status:
· Allow user-defined statues for collectibles;
· Allow initialization of the date value for the new status of the collectible;
· Allow easy dragging of "New status" window.
· Collectible list: show extended information about collectible status;
· "View using" tool: show extended information about collectible status with possibility for fast opening of the contact entry;
· Main menu: add new command for collectible - set new collectible status;
· Images: fix "copy to clipboard" and "save as" commands for collectible photos (problem was found and reported on our forums by sharaf);
· Export tool for coins and banknotes: Krause index was mixed with "Width" value;
· Installation: Installer/uninstaller now is smarter, it checks whether CollectionStudio is running
July 29th, 2011· Custom collectibles: Do not show empty tab page in "Edit" dialog for collectibles without custom fields
· Convert face value 0.5 to 1/2 during output; New trigger in system settings was added; Suggested on our forum by Blaze.
"View using" tool:
· New feature: Output country, currency, contact and quality with hyperlink allowing fast opening of the "Edit" dialog for the item from the "View Using" tool;
· Fixed: face value was omitted in the output;
· Fixed: exception under IE7;
· List: View value of the "Krauze#" field in the list;
Multilingual support:
· Update translation in several language files;
· Add translation of the pop up menu on "Images" tab;
· Import: Fixed application crush after import.
July 29th, 2011· Remote Database: this functionality was disabled in this release.
Collectibles:
· Banknotes: new standard field "Krause #";
· Coins: show weight field value in the list;
· Speed-up displaying of complex data;
· Comments field: fix appareance of the space and dash sybmols in special cases;
List:
· Restore old sort column and its order;
· Show collectible rows with background color specified by collectible status in settings;
Statistics:
· Fix: sort list using "total" column;
· Fix: value in the "total" column was mixed;
· By material: show total weight of coins for each material type;
Settings:
· New settings section was added - "Status / background list color" to setup rows background colors according collectible status;
· Small enhancement of controls in "Settings" dialog;
· New settings and functionality: Auto open last accessed collection (suggested by tegwin on our forum);
· New settings: Automatically set "Index ID" field on duplication of the collectible;
· Filter: Fix: memory leaks during work with groupped values.
· Portable version: Loading/restoring of visibility mode of all main control bars were fixed.
· Multilingual support: update in translation of interface elements.
July 29th, 2011Remote Database:
· "Options" window: collectionstudio.com account setup was added;
· "Containers properties" dialog: setup of the remote collection properties was added;
· Synchronize command was added.
Collectibles:
· Show "status" field in "View using" tool and in the main menu;
· Fixed: wrong national symbols were displayed in "View using" tool for fields of the "comments" type;
· Fixed: collectible template was not initialized with default value during creation of the new collection;
· Fixed: show correct collection title in the caption of the CollectionStudio;
· New: allow modification of the main container using "Container properties" dialog;
· Fixed: showing countries without collectibles in "statistics by country" list;
· Fixed: modification of the images properties (reported by Werewolf on forums);
· New standard collectible status was added: sold;
Filter:
· A new ability was added: auto group years (in decades and centuries), auto groups dates (year and months);
· Fixed: program crush during new item creation with running filter.
Multilingual support:
· New Indonesian localization was added (thanks to Wawan Kuncoro);
· Update of the Ukrainian localization (thanks to netavek);
· Update of the Turkish localization (thanks to Ali Koc);
· Update of the Polish localization (thanks to Duszkiewicz Krzysztof);
· New countries with their flags were added according to users suggestions. Fix appearance of several african countries on the map
January 17th, 2010· Multilingual support
· New translation (18th one): Ukrainian language (thanks to novatek)
· New translation (19th one): Flemish (one of the two official languages of Belgium); thanks to Rudy Matton
· New translation (20th one): German; thanks to Frank Winger
· Update of the Italian localization (thanks to svietla)
· Update of the Belarussian localization
"View using" tool:
· "All fields" and "Non empty fields" listings now are sorted ascending
· New setup possibilities were added
· More faster drawing of the content
Custom collectibles:
· New field type: Comments (multi-line edit area with formatting options)
Custom containers:
· New functionality: Add/delete container; change containter properties
· Settings: Enable/disable custom containers functionality
Custom fields (standard collectibles):
· Display correct names of custom fields in "View Using" tool (suggested on our forum by brucec)
· Show statistics by each custom field
· Print & Print Preview: Fix columns order and columns visibility
· Start-up: Fixed start-up of CS using file association (discussed on our forums)
· Import: Small fix in work with standard fields
Statistics:
· Maps: Several countries were fixed on political maps (discussed on our web-site, forums section)
· New statistics view "By catalogue price" was added (with similar behavior of the "By price" statistics view)
List:
· Statistics by field: ascendant sort by field value
· Indicate column with sort when view is changed (applied for statistics views)
· Even more faster drawing of the list
· Fix: restore of the column widthes
· List settings: fix modifying of list properties
Filter:
· New value selector was introduced for list with huge amount of values. This selector allows grouping by first symbols
· Filter was translated in several interface languages
· Fixed error on item delete/add
· Edit: fix selection of the country for books and posters (reported on forums)
July 27th, 2009Multilingual support:
· New translation: Dutch language;
· Update of the Lithuanian localization;
· Do not show asteriks for not translated strings.
Custom collectibles:
· New functionality: field actions. This allows open web link with field value as paramter;
· New field type: GPS Coordinate (with 2 predefined links to online maps);
· New field type: Floats;
· Fix: edit quality state;
· Statistics: Statistics "By collectible price" was added.
· Statistics "By spending each year" was added.
· Statistics "By continent", "By face value", "By collectible year" were expanded with information about prices (total spend, and total catalog value);
· Show world map for "By country" statistics view;
Fix: Sort of the "Price" column. "View using" tool:
· Fix: Empty comments were removed from the list of non-empty fields;
· Fix: Enumeration of all fields for item;
· New 2 templates were added: one to show only images, another - to show only comments. Loading: Recover corrupted col dat files (user request). Minor bug fixing.
April 1st, 2009Custom collectibles:
· New field type - quality;
· Automatical enable/disable quality state functionality (views, tab "Quality state" etc);
· Fix: Editing of value in Combo fields.
All Collectible types:
· New collection option
· Use collectible prices;
· Automatical enable/disable collectible prices functionality (tab in "Edit" window, statistics).
Attachments:
· Allow insertion or linking of any file for any item;
· New "Attachment properties" dialog;
· Allow/disable "Attachments" tab for particular item types. Images: - View information from EXIF.
Multilingual support:
· Update of the Russian localization;
· Update of the Belarussian localization.
· Export: Speed-up generation of the file being exported.
· Date format: A checkbox was added to enable/disable custom date format. Minor bug fixing.
February 27th, 2009Custom collectibles:
· Show used countries/currencies in bold according settings;
· Show icons for countries and currencies in "Collectible Edit" window;
· Fix auto-filling of the country and currency fields using previously added item.
Statistics:
· Statistics "New countries by income year" was added;
· Statistics "New currencies by income year" was added.
Images:
· Loading of images from removeable devices (with different device letters) was added (Suggested by Catalin);
· Changed: Show all possible types of the image in "Image Edit" dialog.
Usability changes:
· Filter: During selection of the column value, all possible values are sorted ascending;
· List: Default sort order now is ascending.
· Face value: Face value (nominal) now supports large numbers, such as 500 000 000 000 Dinars (Suggested by otelaru).
· Export: Information about document code page was added to display correctly national symbols.
· Regional settings: Date is outputed according current regional settings.
· Save view: Usage of the current columns order was added.
· Fix: Editing of the income year (was found by Catalin).
· Plugins: "Copy Field" plugin was enhanced.
· Minor bug fixing.
January 31st, 2009Custom collectibles:
· Load/Save collection structure into separate configuration file (extension: csds);
· Fix editing 5 custom fields for country/currency/contact.
Multilingual support:
New localization was added:
· Norwegian flag Norwegian language (thanks to Renate Gulbrandsen);
· Update of the Brazil flag Portuguese (Brazil) localization (thanks to Rodrigo Spano).
Export:
· Export into HTML (web page) without images was added;
· Export into HTML with collectible images was added;
· Prevent exporting of empty columns (this filter applied only for rarely used fields).
· Filter: The correct comparison of numerical values was added.
Miscellaneous Settings:
· Selection and edit of the date format was enhanced.
· Fix: Prompt for password on opening existing document.
November 20th, 2008· Import: Add support for import of CSV with semicolon divider;
· Options for custom collectible: Two buttons were added "Move up" and "Move down" to change order of fields in the "Edit" dialog;
· Plugins: A new plugin was added - Embed all linked images;
· Fix: Problem with national symbols was fixed. All plugins were updated;
· Fix: Display correct country of the contact in the list;
· Import: Fix import of the "Nr." column;
August 1st, 2008· Import: Import feature was revised. A new format for import - CSV, was added.
· Multilingual support: New localization was added - Portuguese language (thanks to Antonio Mendona).
· Multilingual support: New localization was added - Belarusian language (thanks to Piatrenko Igor).
· Movie: New fields were added - country, production year and original title.
· Contacts: Show country column in the main list.
· Edit: Work with combo-box for custom collectible was fixed.
· Search tool: Search tool was enhanced for better work with custom collectibles.
· Fix: Prompt for password on opening existing document
· Minor bug fixing.
June 28th, 2008· Custom collectible was added in order to create custom collections. It's very easy to manage collection fields using new dialogs.
· Multilingual support: New localization were added - Romanian language
· Translation was updated for several dialog controls in Collection Studio.
· View: Colored map of Asia, North America and Oceania were added into statistics section.
· Settings: Create a backup file during saving of the Collection Studio Document.
· View Using: Two additional views of collectible were added (listing of all fields and listing of all non empty fields).
· Images: A new functionality was added - Paste image from clipboard.
· CS Exit: Prompt for changes saving when CS exits (reviewed).
· Save view: Dialog for selection of the file for "Save view" tool was enhanced.
· Statistics: Ruler in histogram control was enhanced. Statistics by income year was enhanced.
· Toolbar: Buttons in main toolbar were reviewed.
· Minor bug fixing.
August 31st, 2006· Export/Import: Support of images during export/import was added for XML files
· Stamps: New fields - Topic (Category) and Postmark (location, city/country) were added
· Coins: New flag for coins - Commemorative coin or not
· New View: A new statistics view "Commemorative coins" was added for coins collections
· New View: Statistics by continent using easy expandable database
· View: More faster drawing of the huge data in the main list
· Country flags: A huge amount of country flags were added
· Country flags: New open database format was implemented for countries flag in order to easy add synonyms of countries names
· Statistics View: Statistics view was enhanced in order to show additional information about collection
· Mainbar: Additional information was appended in the item description
· Histogram: Our histogram view was enhanced in order to show more data with nice look
· Update of the Collection Studio Help file
· Kernel: Speed-up several kernel methods of the Collection Studio
· Kernel: Saving more compact Collection Studio Document
· Collectible Edit: Addtional page was added into collectible edit dialog for country comments (and currency comments)