May 8th, 2012Fixes:
· When updating a manual to ScreenSteps Live a new manual would be created if a timeout or network error occurred while verifying the existence of the manual on the server.
· Carrying over of tabs from one line to the next was not limited to tabs at start of line.
· ScreenSteps no longer goes into loop and displays multiple error dialogs when starting a Workgroup client and the number of available licenses has been exceeded.
May 8th, 2012Fixes:
· When updating a Google Sites page the original parent page is no longer passed up. This allows a page to be updated even if the parent page was renamed.
· Upgraded the Confluence integration to use a version 2 API call when retrieving pages for Confluence (applies to Confluence 4.x and above).
· When getting the list of Workgroup libraries duplicates were not being filtered out nor were trashed libraries.
· Carrying over of tabs in step instruction text was not working properly if line contained more than one tab.
· Exporting manuals to HTML now makes proper substitutions for accented characters in lesson names.
· The title page logo placement property for PDF templates did not have a default value set. This would cause UI discrepancies when configuring templates.
· When exporting lessons to HTML an existing index.html file would be overwritten if it already existed in the output folder.
· Deleting a lesson now updates the inspector palette.
· Word export now encodes hyperlinks as UTF-8 when inserting into the relevant XML document.
Changes:
· Command + Shift + M on Mac and Control + Shift + M on Windows will now highlight the manuals that a lesson is in.
· When naming step image files "." is stripped form the end of the step title. This keeps names from looking like "NAME..png". Joomla was choking on these filenames.
· Added a workaround for extra newline character that a Joomla XMLRPC plugin was sending back in responses.
· Added mention of fact that lessons are deleted from manuals when you delete them.
· When checking for updates the build number is now displayed in the message telling you no updates are available.
· Updated SSL library used by ScreenSteps on Windows.
May 8th, 2012Fixes:
· Fixed crash on Windows that could occur when getting an image of the cursor.
· Fixed a scenario where ScreenSteps would not update focus to the step that was clicked on.
· When an author/editor is updating a manual on ScreenSteps Live the Spaces menu is no longer displayed.
· PDF table of contents was not setting fonts properly which could cause text to be misaligned.
· Fixed various bugs in screen capture.
· When testing a Google Sites connection the Use SSL setting was not being honored.
· ScreenSteps now converts "/" to "-" when suggesting a name for Google Sites.
· Registering ScreenSteps Workgroup was not working properly if Workgroup was configured to auto generate the DSN string for connecting.
· Fixed dialog bug when adding a space in ScreenSteps Live upload dialog.
· Empty lesson descriptions and step instructions would add extra lines to PDF output where instructions should be.
· Images would sometimes be placed too close to page footers in PDF output.
· Testing a connection with Google Sites would not return the proper error if the error occurred in the call to get the content feed.
· Copying PDF to clipboard was not resolving the full path correctly.
Changes:
· Incorporated PDF pagination improvements from PDF.
· PDF output now uses 96 PPI for images rather than 72 PPI. Images will appear smaller in the PDF output.
· Word output now uses 96 PPI for images rather than 72 PPI. Images will appear smaller in the Word output.
· PDF footers now accept accented characters when using HTML markup. Previously you had to use the HTML entity.
· List of workgroup libraries is now sorted alphabetically.
· Buckets are no longer a target when uploading lessons to ScreenSteps Live.
· Deleting a tag is now an option from the tag contextual menu.
· When importing a manual from ScreenSteps Live the prompt no longer warns about updating existing lessons if the current library has no lessons in it.
· When importing a lesson ScreenSteps checks if the lesson is in the library and alerts you that it will be updated if so.
· ScreenSteps no longer compares a manual with ScreenSteps Live right after importing the manual.
· ScreenSteps now searches out the ids of "Heading1", "Heading2" and "Heading3" in a DOCX template as Word uses the language of install when generating the ids.
May 8th, 2012· Fixed an issue with resizing text annotations on Windows.
May 8th, 2012Changes:
· ScreenSteps.me is now Clarify-it.com.
· When updating a lesson on ScreenSteps Live the upload dialog no longer gives you the option of creating a new lesson. This brings the lesson upload dialog behavior in sync with the manual upload dialog.
· When registering ScreenSteps and one ScreenSteps Live account is configured then the settings for that account are used to populate the registration dialog fields.
· Updated Zendesk integration to support API updates.
· Switched Open Colors shortcut to CMD + Shift + K so that it no longer conflicts with the copy lesson to clipboard shortcut.
· Changed plain text shortcut key to Cmd + Shift + E. Cmd + E conflicted with Clarify-it.com export.
· When importing manuals from ScreenSteps Live ScreenSteps now searches for an existing manual in the library. If one is found then that manual is updated rather than creating a new manual.
Fixes:
· Clicking on the alert icons that appear aftering comparing with ScreenSteps Live were not opening the URL to the manual or lesson.
· Tabbing order is now correct for fields in annotations property inspector.
· Option/alt dragging to create an annotation was not adding an undo entry.
· When option/alt dragging an annotation to duplicate it the annotation being duplicated would often be moved slightly. This no longer happens.
· When duplicating a step the "settings" field was not being duplicated properly. This caused ScreenSteps to forget the region used to capture the step image.
· Trying to break a link between a lesson and ScreenSteps.me/Clarify-it.com would not work.
· When setting the URL for really long strings of text the URL dialog would cut off the bottom of the label field on OS X.
· When capturing a rectangle that was the height of the screen the screen capture instrutions box would jump around the screen. Very scary.
· If an error occurs during screen capture the screen capture session is canceled prior to displaying the error dialog.
· Added a workaround for odd premature ending of links that can slip into step instructions.
· One of the text labels in the Blogger export dialog did not have enough left padding.
· URLs for videos were not being output to PDF [2.9 regression].
· Attempting to change the step body text color in a PDF template would change the step title color.
· Exporting images to a write protected location would generate an unhandled error.
· Fixed issue where text would be cut off in PDF files that used small text sizes.
· Using accented characters in PDF filename no longer breaks PDF output.
July 25th, 2011Features:
· ScreenSteps now exports to Parature.
· ScreenSteps now supports importing manuals and lessons from ScreenSteps Live by clicking on links in your browser.
Fixes:
· Using accented characters in PDF filename no longer breaks PDF output.
· An error could be thrown while checking for updates under certain circumstances.
· Improved check for timeouts in ScreenSteps Live and ScreenSteps.me libraries.
Changes:
· Updated Zendesk integration to support API updates. The URLs that are generated after uploading content no longer rely on the "Location" header that is returned after creating content.
· Changed plain text shortcut key to Cmd + Shift + E. Cmd + E conflicted with ScreenSteps.me export.
· Registering the software with ScreenSteps Live now strips white space from the server, username and password fields.
· ScreenSteps will attempt to open a workgroup connection file and register softare, even if trial has already expired.
· Workgroup connection files are now associated with ScreenSteps.
· Switched Open Colors shortcut to CMD + Shift + K so that it no longer conflicts with the copy lesson to clipboard shortcut.
May 11th, 2011Features:
· Support for bullet and number lists in descriptions and instructions.
· PDF export now lets you select from a wide range of fonts as well as specify different fonts for lesson and step titles as well as body text.
· PDF documents now support all character sets supported within ScreenSteps.
· PDF templates now support borders around images.
· Google Sites now supports encrypted connections.
· You can now import multiple lessons at a time from ScreenSteps Live.
· Key bindings on OS X now match standard platform key bindings.
· New Code Block formatting option for styling programming code.
· ScreenSteps can now automatically check for updates at launch if preference is set.
Changes:
· ScreenSteps no longer creates duplicate lessons when importing a manual from ScreenSteps Live.
· ScreenSteps can automatically submit error reports now. No more copying and pasting the report into an email.
· If the operating system requests that ScreenSteps open a file the request is ignored if a modal window is open.
· Changed "New Step" accelerator key to Alt + Shift + N on Windows so that it no longer conflicts with accelerator key for "New Manual".
· Removed accelerator key on Windows for "Split Step at Insertion Point" as it conflicted with another accelerator key.
· When updating a manual on ScreenSteps Live you no longer have the option of creating a new manual or replacing an existing manual. These options open up too much room for error. You now must delete the link between the manual and ScreenSteps Live using the Web pane of the manual property inspector if you want to create a new manual or replace an existing one.
· Importing documents from ScreenSteps Live now updates existing lesson rather than creating duplicates.
· Added an extra line after the image in the Confluence template.
· Updated DOCX Neutral template to include ListBullet and ListNumber styles.
· Blog/Wiki/SS Live dialogs now use large progress bars.
· When generating tooltips for fields ScreenSteps no longer resolves links to lessons that are outside of the current manual.
· SQL Server is now passed all created_on/modified_on/posted_on dates in YYYYMMDD format. [Workgroup]
· The image resize menu now disables options if lesson is not checked out. [Workgroup]
· Added accelerator keys for Plain formatting.
· Removed and from default Zendesk template as they would appear in the forum post unless the user was an agent who could moderate forum posts or an admin.
· Export images now remembers the last folder used.
· Added "Clear Menu" to the Open Recent menu.
Fixes:
· Fixed a potential crash caused when trying to retrieve the internal id of a tag.
· Text annotations were not being scaled properly when resizing an image.
· Word output no longer inserts a blank line if step instructions are empty.
· Updated Google Sites API error handling so that redirect failures are reported properly.
· Conversion of multiplication unicode symbol was incorrect. This would cause errors in Word output.
· Fixed issue with multiple authors being logged in when using a ScreenSteps Workgroup floating license and logging in as another author.
· Dragging text within document fields now works.
· Zendesk images would sometimes appear out of order when updating a post.
· When syncing step media filenames to step titles a "." could end up at the end of the filename.
· Syncing image names to step titles when the document was not loaded would cause an error.
· Entering a value > 32767 for height or width when resizing an image would generate an error.
· Copying and pasting links with URL links now preserves the links.
· When downloading changes from a chapter on Screenteps Live, ScreenSteps was not accurately detecting when a chapter no longer existed on the ScreenSteps Live server.
· Fixed issues in PAC support file included with ScreenSteps. PAC files that use dnsResolve should work properly now.
· The dialogs used for importing lessons and manuals from ScreenSteps Live now respect the 'use ssl' setting for the web export account.
· Navigating away from the PDF preference pane while editing the name of a template would generate an error if the template name had been changed. The same issue existed for the Web Export pane as well.
· The text annotation font size menu was grabbing the wrong template value if no annotation was selected.
· Undo manager no longer throws an error if undoing a field operation and the field can't have it's selection selected.
· When generating the next/previous links in Manual HTML export the next lesson might be incorrect if the next chapter had lots of lessons in it.
· The category was not being assigned properly when uploading to WordPress.
· When registering ScreenSteps with a ScreenSteps Live account the protocol is now stripped from the domain. This is the same behavior as the Web Export pane.
· Importing a library now checks for lesson/section links that are missing a valid id.
· Upgraded some lesson templates as they were missing a CSS file.
· Image width limitations on OS X removed. Images only limited by available memory now.
· Fixed crash that could occur when processing certain PAC files.
January 15th, 2011Features:
· Now supports multiple libraries with ScreenSteps Workgroup.
· Specify the name to use when exporting a lesson or manual.
· Arrow keys now nudge the capture rectangle in screen capture mode. Hold down the SHIFT key to nudge by 10 pixels at a time.
Changes:
· ScreenSteps now tries to validate ScreenSteps Live licenses in the background.
· ScreenSteps will now open a library if the operating system requests that ScreenSteps opens a library.data file.
Fixes:
· Fixed some crashing issues on Windows and OS X.
· ScreenSteps works on Linux again.
· Searching a Workgroup library with a PostgreSQL backend is no longer case sensitive.
· The '\' character was not being displayed properly in menus. This primarily affect the 'Open Recent' menu on Windows.
· Better detection of locked library file errors.
· Fixed the New Manual and New Chapter menu item accelerator keys on Windows.
· Selecting 'New Libary' from the 'Choose Library' dialog was not reinitializing the UI properly.
· The auto update mechanism in ScreenSteps will now work properly in environments that use a PAC file to determine the proxy server.
· ScreenSteps would generate an error if the first click on a manual was a right-click and auto compare with ScreenSteps Live as turned on and the manual had been uploaded to ScreenSteps Live previously.
· PDF template table of contents, table of contents footer, author and footer fields were not properly storing/retrieving text. This could result in problems with display of certain characters.
· Fixed some errors related to steps that previously had media but no longer do.
December 14th, 2010Features:
· Improved DOCX templates.
· Added ability to replace existing Zendesk post.
· Added File > Import Example Manual... to menu.
Changes:
· Modified DOCX export so as to better support styles.
· Using the "tags:" syntax in the search field now searches for lessons that have all tags listed rather than any tags listed.
· Added crash logging on Windows. Dump file is stored in user application data folder under the name crash_dump.dmp.
· Improved error reporting when uploading to ScreenSteps.me.
· Arial is now the default editing font on Windows. Helvetica wasn't working with Russian.
· If too many users were connected to a Workgroup library the error message was not displaying the total license count.
· ScreenSteps.me lesson urls now appear in the property inspector.
· Added links to help materials on customizing templates to template selection dialog.
· Improved error reporting when unzipping lesson packages during import of a manual from ScreenSteps Live.
· When logging into ScreenSteps Workgroup after a program crash the user is no longer locked out.
Fixes:
· Error message that was displayed during library import if importing a cursor failed was not complete for SQL Server.
· Sorting by "unassigned to manual" in the main interface now works with Workgroup libraries.
· Updated code that detects "invisible" thumbs.db file errors when creating lesson packages.
· Cursors now draw with proper alpha channel on Windows systems with 16-bit color depth.
· ScreenSteps now recognizes images placed on the clipboard by Snagit on OS X.
· ScreenSteps now parses Zendesk location urls that are in the form [id].xml. Previously ScreenSteps only handled [id]-name.xml properly.
· Dragging tags onto the search field now syncs the "x" button in the search field.
· Using the capture palette on Windows now brings the right window to the front after capturing the screen shot.
· Text was not visible when editing tags in the tag palette on Windows.
· If an image had multiple blur annotations then modifying the blur setting would sometimes target the wrong annotation.
November 19th, 2010Fixes:
· Fixed CSS issue in HTML templates. Steps without instructions would cause following step titles to appear in wrong location.
· When uploading to ScreenSteps Live on Windows, packages for lessons with really long file names would fail to be created.
· Upload to ScreenSteps Live menu in lesson contextual was not filtering out non-ScreenSteps Live accounts.
· Enter/return keys no longer try to capture an area if no area has been defined.
· Using the enter key to edit the title of a lesson in a manual outline now works for Workgroup libraries.
· Unable to create or duplicate lessons in Workgroup if database was not PostgreSQL.
· Creating a new library from the Select Library dialog was not working properly.
November 19th, 2010Features:
· The cursor is now available to be included in the screenshots on Windows.
Changes:
· When replacing a step image the export dimensions are maintained if the new image has the same dimensions as the original image.
· Default templates are no longer written to disk at each launch. On Windows this speeds up time between when window first appears and you can interact with the program considerably.
· "default templates" folder is now included in the application folder. This contains all of the default templates.
· Defaults folder has been removed from Templates directory in application data folder. This folder will be deleted from existing installations as it was always overwritten at each launch anyway.
· Enter/return keys now capture the active window. Previously they only triggered a capture in "area" mode.
· Changed wording in ScreenSteps.me Test button error message when credentials are wrong.
· ScreenSteps now checks that VBScript is available on Windows systems.
· Internet logging is now turned on by holding down SHIFT + CONTROL on Windows and SHIFT + OPTION on OS X.
· Maximum width/height restrictions have been removed from the video embed dialog.
· Moved Export to ScreenSteps.me menu option to File menu. Renamed HTML/PDF to clipboard options in Edit menu.
Fixes:
· On Windows, ScreenSteps would crash if the system was set to use WPAD to discover a PAC file.
· After a certain number of calls to VBScript, all further calls would fail. At this point UUID generation for lessons would fail.
· Lesson description and step instruction input now works on Windows computers with a Turkish locale.
· Replacing a manual with a package was not working for local libraries (Workgroup regression).
· All hot keys work again in screen capture session on Windows.
· Escape key was being processed twice during a screen capture session.
· Hot keys work again on OS X running on PPC hardware.
· Using the hot key to start a screen capture session no longer brings ScreenSteps back to the front.
· Pasting text into the video embed dialog was not maintaining vertical scrollbar and text selection properly.
· When exporting a lesson to HTML any periods in the lesson name are now replaced with the separator that is defined for the template.
· Maximum width/height restrictions have been removed from the video embed dialog.
· Video embed code video was wrapping text.
· When using the history feature to capture the last area capture a duplicate entry would be added to the history.
· Hot key wouldn't always activate screen capture on Windows.
November 5th, 2010Features:
· New and improved screen capture tool for OS X and Windows (requires OS X 10.5 or later on Mac).
· New blur annotation tool
· New and improved HTML templates.
· Support for the new ScreenSteps.me sharing service.
· Export directly to Zendesk forums.
· Compare local manuals with the version on ScreenSteps Live.
· ScreenSteps will generate a connection string for ODBC connections on Mac and Windows if an ODBC host is defined in the Connection File (Workgroup).
· You can now log in as a different user when working with Workgroup Libraries (Files > Log in as Different User).
· When connecting to a Workgroup library you will be prompted for new user credentials if a login error occurs.
· Upload to/Download from ScreenSteps Live added to lesson contextual menus.
· Added %ManualTitle%, %ChapterTitle% and %ChapterLessonNumber% to the lesson "START CONTENT" section of lesson HTML templates.
· Added %LessonCount% and %TotalLessons% to lesson HTML templates.
· Color profiles are now respected in images.
· CMYK JPEG images are now supported.
· Hot key support for screen capture is now supported on Windows.
Changes:
· Searching lessons in the lesson library, lesson palette or a manual now includes step titles and instructions.
· The tab key now exits the lesson tag editor if no tag is created.
· "X" button in Hot Key section of the General preference pane now focuses on the hot key field when you click it.
· Search while you type is less aggressive now.
· Holding down the option key (alt key on Windows) when pressing the step camera icon automatically sets a 2 second delay before screen capture kicks in.
· Removed the "Upload lesson package" checkbox from export lesson to ScreenSteps Live dialog. Package is always uploaded.
· All Export to Clipboard menus have been renamed to "Sharing".
· Libraries selected from the Choose Library dialog are now added to the recent files menu.
· Logged in user is now displayed alongside the library name in the Tags/Manual list (Workgroup).
· ScreenSteps handles errors caused by locked library files more gracefully now.
· Added a horizontal scroll bar to the video embed dialog.
· The video embed dialog is now resizable.
Fixes:
· Pressing the escape key while launching ScreenSteps or during long scripts no longer stops script execution.
· Lesson tags now support unicode text.
· The euro symbol was not always translated into proper HTML.
· Hot keys would not trigger actions in ScreenSteps under certain circumstances.
· Trying to paste a step from a lesson that had been deleted would not include the step image.
· Undo/redo now updates the UI with image resizing actions.
· ScreenSteps no longer crashes when capturing images using remote desktop sessions on Windows.
· ScreenSteps no longer changes the input language on OS X.
· ScreenSteps no longer mangles text you input on Snow Leopard (affected non-Western European languages).
· Logic that adds "http://" to prefix of links enterd in URL dialog now bypasses links beginning with ".\" and "./" and only adds the prefix to links that contain a known top-level domain.
· A search entered while the caps lock was key down would never be performed.
· PDF export on OS X now outputs the Euro symbol properly in all cases.
· Adjusting the padding for text annotations would affect all text annotations in a step.
· Replacing a lesson with the version on ScreenSteps Live would display a dialog message even if you canceled the operation.
· Replacing a lesson with the version on ScreenSteps Live would report there were no differences even after you accepted the changes from the dialog telling you there were changes.
· Cateogry/Space/Forum menu text is now escaped properly when exporting to Blog/Wiki.
· Undoing deletion of a lesson would generate an error if it contained a step that never had any media associated with it.
· When viewing a lesson from the lesson library that was already loaded in memory focus would remain with the lesson library list.
· When right-clicking on a lesson in the Lesson Library focus would not remain with the lesson list after making a selection from the contextual menu.
· Quitting ScreenSteps while editing the step instructions of a step with a text annotation would sometimes cause ScreenSteps to not save the changes to the step instructions.
· Canceling a manual ScreenSteps Live comparison and then starting a new comparison right away no longer causes an error.
· Better error reporting when ScreenSteps cannot act on a folder during certain operations.
· Edit > Delete menu now active when viewing the lesson library or a manual outline.
· Under certain circumstances not all links to other lessons would not work in PDF output.
· Fixed issue with copy/paste from Safari.
· The field displaying the text that a link will link to in the URL dialog no longer extends beyond the appropriate bounds.
· The File menu was displaying both Exit and Quit on Windows.
October 2nd, 2010Fixes:
· When working with multiple Mindtouch web export accounts during the same ScreenSteps session a "Bad Gateway" error occur when trying to upload to the second account.
· Fixed a bug caused by an empty title parameter being passed to Mindtouch. This would occur when targeting a specific page.
· Mindtouch UI would sometimes disable the link to field when it shouldn't have.
· The "Link lesson to user space" button was not working properly in the Mindtouch export dialog.
July 24th, 2010Features:
· When uploading a lesson to Mindtouch you can now insert the lesson into an existing Mindtouch page by targeting a section.
· When updating a Mindtouch page with an existing lesson you can target a specific section on the page.
Fixes:
· Word export was using "bookmark" instead of "anchor" for links between lessons.
· If the last template you used for blog export was no longer available when opening the blog export dialog then no template would be selected.
· When registering the software using a ScreenSteps Live account the "use ssl" property was not being set properly.
June 8th, 2010Fixes:
· After having selected a manual, creating a lesson would always place it in a manual even if no manual was selected when creating the lesson (introduced in 2.8).
· Using the delete/backspace keys after deleting the last lesson in the lesson library would display an error dialog.
April 21st, 2010Changes:
· Lessons now have a UUID that is used when linking between lessons in a manual.
· Exporting multiple lessons from the lesson library to HTML no longer prompts you for the filename of each lesson if there are no conflicts.
· You can now specify that you would like to overwrite files when exporting multiple lessons to HTML.
· When replacing a manaul on ScreenSteps Live with a manual from ScreenSteps Desktop all lessons and chaptes are uploaded. No comparison is performed.
· Added alert when replacing a manual on ScreenSteps Live.
· Creating a tag in the tags palette resets the search.
· Registering software with ScreenSteps Live will now try without SSL if an SSL error causes registration to fail. Useful in ScreenSteps Live behind the firewall.
· When trying to fetch a PAC file ScreenSteps will make mutiple attempts unless a timeout appears.
Features:
· Added support for restructuredtext to HTML templates.
· Added StepTitle, WebSafeStepTitle, StepNumber, StepIndex and StepIndexZeroBased to Media sections in HTML templates.
Fixes:
· When exporting multiple lessons to PDF and a default PDF template was defined the template was not being used.
· Exporting to Word now ensures that image file names are unique so as not to overwrite existing image names in DOCX templates.
· Using the return or enter keys in the URL dialog was closing the dialog but not applying the link.
· target="_blank" now removed for HTML template types that don't support it.
· Downloading manual updates from ScreenSteps Live now respects the Use SSL setting.
· Deleting a tag from the tag palette now updates the main UI.
· Fixed focus issue in annotation saving code.
· When deleting a tag from the tag palette the tag that was selected afterwards was sometimes offscreen.
· Importing a manual or lesson from ScreenSteps Live now respects the Use SSL settings for the account.
· Deleting steps within a lesson could adversely affect where new steps were created.
· Use SSL setting is now respected when replacing a lesson with a copy on ScreenSteps Live.
· Edit > Delete was not working when selected from the menu.
· When cutting a step image the step would appear to have focus after the image was cut but keyboard operations would not target the step.
· Focus is removed from annotator when cutting an image.
· Lesson draft status is now included when updating a lesson with ScreenSteps Live version.
· When saving media annotations focus would sometimes be stolen from the focused control.
· Deleting a tag from the Tags palette now maintains focus within the palette.
· Replacing a manual with a package was not updating the chapters and lessons properly.
· Setting the corner radius of a text annotation would not always work. (Broke in 2.8.1).
· Replacing a manual with a package was not providing any UI feedback.
· Fixed an issue that could break accelerator keys when resizing a window on OS X.
March 22nd, 2010Features:
· Revamped UI.
· You can now specify that links should be opened in a new browser window.
· You can now link between lessons in the same manual.
· You can now customize the "Table of Contents" bookmark label for PDF templates.
Enhancements:
· Lesson tag interface now wraps tags across multiple lines.
· Typing in lesson description and step instruction fields is faster now.
· ScreenSteps now looks for a preference file alongside the application when launching. This allows you to store ScreenSteps and your registration/pref info on a USB drive.
· Links are no longer carried over to the next line when adding a carriage return to lesson description/step instructions.
· Enter and Return keys now load a lesson in the main UI from the Lesson Palette. Previously only double-clicking a lesson would load it.
· ScreenSteps Live accounts can now be configured to use SSL only when logging in, always or never.
· Holding down the Option key (Mac) or Alt key (Windows) when choosing to export a lesson or manual to PDF or DOCX will open the resulting file in the default application rather than revealing the file.
· When deleting a PDF template you are alerted if the template is set as the default for a lesson or manual.
Changes:
· Pressing delete key while step image has focus now deletes the step image rather than the step.
· Heading styles in exported DOCX files are now capitalized.
· External editor selection dialog only allows you to select applications now. Previously you could select any file.
· Added "Cancel" button to Paste Image dialog that prompts you as to whether or not you want to create a new step or replace existing step image.
· Modifications for interfacing with custom installs of ScreenSteps Live.
· Right-clicking in empty step area of a lesson now displays contextual menu.
· Reworked naming of media when duplicating a step.
Fixes:
· Certain database erros were showing an error dialog rather than displaying the Choose Library dialog (introduced in version 2.7).
· Clicking on the ScreenSteps icon in the dock after the application had launched but before the main window was displayed for the first time would generate an error.
· The toolbar would get out of sync after replacing a step image with another image.
· Setting step video embed code now logs an undo operation.
· After export operations complete focus is restored to the proper control.
· Trying to draw a circle annotation in the topleft corner of a step image was not working.
· Changing chapter draft status using the contextual menu now updates the Draft checkbox in the UI.
· Modifying text annotation attributes while editing the text now updates the text being updated.
· When updating a post on WordPress new images were being created rather than the images being replaced. After uploading a post with 2.8, anytime you update a post the images will be replaced.
· Fields in a lesson no longer pretend to accept an image drop. This was causing ScreenSteps to crash if you dragged an image onto an open text editing field.
· Clicking on a lesson description to begin editing it when part of the text was offscreen now scrolls properly.
· Creating a step after clicking on the lesson description creates the step in the 1st position.
· HTML Template code was escaping ' with ' as of 2.7.1 build 16. This is no longer done as it causes issues with some HTML web page encodings.
· When entering an empty name for a Web Export account the original name is now restored after displaying the error message.
· Pressing the delete key while editing a lesson would sometimes display the delete step dialog even though a step was not selected.
· ScreenSteps will no longer record the clipboard image if a contextual menu is being displayed.
· Deleting a lesson step now syncs the inspector palette if annotation properties are being displayed.
· Displaying the progress dialog would generate on error on rare occasions.
· List of lessons in the lesson palette no longer loses focus when changing searching option using menus.
· List of lessons in the lesson library no longer loses focus when changing searching option using menus.
· List of lessons in the manual outline no longer loses focus when changing searching option using menus.
· Search results alert now resizes when resizing the left column.
· "Add Lesson Description" no longer remains in text field if you edit an empty lesson description and then edit it again.
· Revealing media files with comma in name wasn't working on Windows.
· Google Sites and Blogger upload was not treating array data as UTF8 when converting from array to XML.
March 6th, 2010· When updating a post on WordPress new images were being created rather than the images being replaced. After uploading a post with 2.8, anytime you update a post the images will be replaced.
· Fields in a lesson no longer pretend to accept an image drop. This was causing ScreenSteps to crash if you dragged an image onto an open text editing field.
· Lesson tags list now wraps if there are more tags than can fit on one line.
· Deleting the last lesson in a library properly syncs the toolbar now.
February 26th, 2010Features:
· The URL dialog now supports linking to a lesson within a manual.
· Record button now uses a grey center when turned off.
Changes:
· Black is now grey in toolbars.
· Added "Cancel" button to Paste Image dialog that prompts you as to whether or not you want to create a new step or replace existing step image.
· Modifications for ScreenSteps Live behind the firewall.
Fixes:
· MANUALS is no longer selected after deleting the last manual.
· TAGS is no longer selected after deleting the last tag.
· You can no longer drag lessons on to the MANUALS or TAGS labels.
· List of lessons in the lesson palette no longer loses focus when changing searching option using menus.
· List of lessons in the lesson library no longer loses focus when changing searching option using menus.
· List of lessons in the manual outline no longer loses focus when changing searching option using menus.
· Search results alert now resizes when resizing the left column.
· HTML Template code was escaping ' with ' as of 2.7.1 build 16. This is no longer done as it causes issues with some HTML web page encodings.
February 22nd, 2010Changes:
· Disassociating lesson with Google Sites page if page has been deleted.
· Holding down the "L" and "O" keys when launching ScreenSteps ("lo"gging) will log internet connection information to screensteps_network_log.txt on desktop.
· &, , ' and " are now escaped in HTML output. Validators should be happier now.
Fixes:
· Blogger now works properly when only one blog is set up.
· Title of Blogger post is now set when uploading a lesson for the first time.
· Blogger was setting post title to empty when updating.
· Connecting to a Confluence installation with a path (not just a domain) in the url was not working properly.
· Clicking reset search button above lesson list now removes "x" in search field.
· UI for chapter draft status still referred to chapters as being hidden in ScreenSteps Live sync dialog.
· In ScreenSteps Live sync dialog accepting all server changes would not accept draft status for Chapters.
February 17th, 2010Features:
· Redesigned UI.
Changes:
· Added "Check Spelling" to toolbar.
· Right-clicking in empty step area of a lesson now displays contextual menu.
· ScreenSteps Live library now tries to download S3 files a 2nd time if a timeout occurs.
· Media names are now limited to 64 characters when syncing with step title.
Fixes:
· "Add Lesson Description" no longer remains in text field if you edit an empty lesson description and then edit it again.
· Fixed bug in new media name length limiting code.
· Reworked naming of media when duplicating a step.
· Revealing media files with comma in name wasn't working on Windows.
· Google Sites and Blogger upload was not treating array data as UTF8 when converting from array to XML.
January 8th, 2010Features:
· Export lessons to Blogger (Standard or Pro)
· Export lessons to Google Sites (Pro)
Fixes:
· The list of lessons in the Lesson Palette would sometimes list duplicates entries.
· If a step image had focus and a new image was added to a lesson the toolbar was not being synced properly.
· Checking for selected annotation index in an annotator wasn't verifying that control actually existed.
· Clicking "Back to Manual" when editing a lesson now propertly focuses on Manual outline lesson.
December 17th, 2009· Send visual emails
· Insert ScreenSteps content into existing documents you are working on in your word processor
· Use ScreenSteps to capture knowledge and store it in information collection applications such as Evernote and Yojimbo
· Improved HTML export templates
December 6th, 2009· Copy lessons to clipboard: Instantly copy your lesson to the system clipboard and insert it into an email. There simply isn’t an easier way to communicate visually.
· Drop shadows on annotations: Your annotations will look much better with the new drop shadow effect.
· Smart annotation selections: You no longer need to change tools to reposition annotations. Just click and drag.
· Replace content in blogs and wikis: ScreenSteps will now smart about updating lessons you post to your blog or wiki. If you add content before or after your lesson in your blog/wiki editing software ScreenSteps leaves it alone.
· Improved search: Filter by draft or status settings.
· Markdown support for custom templates.
October 3rd, 2009Features:
· Lessons and manuals have a Draft status.
· Draft status for manuals, chapters and lessons are uploaded to ScreenSteps Live.
· Load your ScreenSteps Live account administration screen in your browser using the File > Go To ScreenSteps Live Admin Page menu.
· Filter content using Draft setting when exporting to HTML, PDF, or Word.
Enhancements:
· Exporting to Confluence now uses fileName property rather than URL property for image embedding. This makes pages portable between different urls.
· Holding down option key while dragging lesson(s) onto a manual now adds a copies of the lesson(s) to the manual.
Changes:
· The chapter "Hidden" property has been changed to "Draft".
Fixes:
· When working with manuals, splitting a lesson at a step now adds the new lesson to the manual.
· More detailed error reporting when exporting to HTML.
· Fix for 10.6 (Snow Leopard) spell check lock up.
· Fixes for several UI related issues that would generate error dialogs.
· Blogger XMLRPC API now takes off preceding "/" in path. XMLRPC library was tacking on slash without checking for existence.
June 22nd, 2009Features:
· ScreenSteps Pro can export to Word
· You can now specify HTML embed code for step media. Just right-click on step or step image. When exporting to HTML or ScreenSteps Live this code will be use instead of the image. For document output (PDF or Office Open XML) a url can be supplied that the step image will link to
· You can specify the starting number for step sequences in the Sequence property palette
· ScreenSteps now displays a preview of changes that will be made to a manual when uploading and downloading to/from Screensteps Live
· ScreenSteps only allows one user at a time to upload a manual or lesson to ScreenSteps Live
Enhancements:
· ScreenSteps handles disappearing library connections better now. Error dialogs are no longer displayed. Rather ScreenSteps tries to reconnect and if that fails a dialog telling the user what happened is displayed
· Updated default templates to include media:text section
· If the default templates that come with ScreenSteps are newer than the defaults installed on the computer then ScreenSteps prompts you. It will upgrade standard templates if you want and also points to a lesson showing how to do it manually
· Reordering steps in the inspector palette now adds an undo entry
· When editing text annotation text the cursor now matches the color of the text
Changes:
· ScreenSteps now sorts image files dropped on it before adding to step
· Since the cropping operation converts image data to the PNG format the resulting file is changed to a PNG extension if it isn't already
· Orphan lesson chapter is now hidden when syncing with SS Live
· Spell check only tries to spell check if a single word is selected
· Changed default colors for annotations
Fixes:
· Unicode characters now work in text annotation tool
· Pasting unicode characters into lesson and step titles works again
· If an error occurred while uploading to blogs or some wikis then subsequent uploads to other accounts could potentially fail
· Error could occur if you renamed an item and switched preference panes shortly thereafter
· Undoing "split lesson at step" now restores lesson media
· Pasting text now longer positions cursor at beginning of text
· If ScreenSteps is launched by double-clicking on a file then ScreenSteps processes the file upon launch
· Palette windows were having their position reset if they were positioned along top or left of screen when ScreenSteps last quit
· When exporting manuals to HTML lesson names such as 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 no longer overwrite each other
· Dropping a folder of images onto a ScreenSteps lesson imports properly again
· When right-clicking on step instructions the selection is no longer changed for spell checking unless you click outside of the current selection
· Importing manuals/lessons from SS Live dialogs now show "no results" found message and disable "OK" button if there are no results
· Tabbing out of web export account name list no longer generates an error
· Deleting a PDF template now selects the next template in the list. Previously no new selection was made and data of deleted template would still be displayed
· Cropping BMP images on OS X now works properly
· SS Live accounts are now sorted alphabetically in the export dialog
· When importing lesson packages step media records were not being created if no media file was attached
· Double-clicking on a lesson in the lesson palette now leaves the selected manual before loading the lesson if the lesson is not part of the current manual
· After uploading a manual to SS Live the first time the manual outline is now refreshed so that SS Live icons appear next to chapters
· Number keypad now works for password field entry
· When uploading a manual to SS Live lessons that have been uploaded once before but deleted from the server and now uploaded again
· Inline editor is now saved when opening new libraries
· Inline editor content is now saved before drop operations are performed
· Additional fix for https when working with WordPress
· Text annotation font now updates properly when changing the font while editing the text
· File filter in Import File dialog still said "Topic Package"
· Preference pane toolbar was not resized the first time the Prefs winow was opened after launching application
· If a step image had more than 1 text annotation and you repositioned the bottom text annotation then the x,y coordinates would shift up and to the left slightly
May 25th, 2009· Selecting multiple lessons in the Lesson Library would cause an error if the inspector palette was open.
· When exporting to Mindtouch the uri.ui node is used for the lesson url if present. This is more reliable with lessons that have characters such as "?" in them.
· Removed an answer dialog that appears when holding down the shift key while ScreenSteps checks to see if text can be cut.
April 24th, 2009· Text annotation tool.
· Relayer annotations.
· Option | Alt drag an annotation to duplicate.
· Shift drag an annotation to constrain movement on the horizontal/vertical axis.
· Added an option to scale image to fit constraints defined in preferences. Useful if you've resized the image but want to restore it to the maximum output size.
· Added 'Scale Annotations' item to the image resizing menu. Toggles whether or not annotations are resized when changing the export size of an image.
· You can now post a manual to ScreenSteps Live.
· You can upload/download changes to/from ScreenSteps Live for individual chapters.
· New Web tab in inspector shows you servers you've posted lessons and manuals to.
· You can download lessons and manuals directly from ScreenSteps Live into ScreenSteps desktop.
· You can update a lesson in ScreenSteps Live with version on ScreenSteps Live.
· New manual navigation bar while editing a lesson within a manual.
· Reorder steps using the lesson inspector.
· Assign lesson status.
· Filter exported lessons by status when exporting to HTML, PDF, or ScreenSteps Live.
· Find text in a lesson.
· Creating a new lesson while editing a lesson in a manual will add the new lesson after the current lesson in the manual.
· You can now select multiple lessons at once in the lesson library.
· You can now duplicate, delete, package and export (PDF/HTML) multiple lessons from the lesson library.
· When deleting a manual, a chapter or a lesson from a manual you can optionally delete the lesson(s) from the library as well.
February 25th, 2008· Lessons can now be exported as a single file (package). Packages can also be imported.
· You can now insert tabs into step instructions using option (alt on Windows) tab. This allows you to indent text when exporting to HTML or ScreenSteps Live.
· New "Reveal Files After Export" preference. When checked the files you export will be revealed in the Finder or Windows Explorer.
· You can now set whether or not to scale images on import and what the maximum height/width should be in general preferences.
· Added buttons that reveal template folders for lesson and topic HTML templates.
· PDF files now default to real size when opened in a PDF viewer and use the default page layout view (single, continuous, etc.).
· Improved use of space on page when outputing PDF files.
· Sequence tools do a better job of centering numbers within the circle.
· Double-clicking on an annotation or an annotation toolbar button will open the Inspector.
· Fixed a scenario where the spell checker would enter an endless loop and crash ScreenSteps.
· Lesson description no longer has extra tags between paragraphs when exporting to HTML or ScreenSteps Live.
· When editing step instructions odd font sizes are no longer introduced for some text.
· Topics can now have two lessons of the same name when exporting to HTML.
· The tag creation field in the lesson info inspector was adding return characters when using return key to create a new tag. This no longer happens.
· Removing a tag from a lesson in the inspector palette would generate errors on occasion.
· Move step up/down is no longer active when not viewing a lesson.
· Dragging a lesson from one topic to another will no longer generate an error if the lesson did not already exist in the other topic.
· New step instructions contextual menu. Quick access to formatting options as well as the ability to create a new step using the selected text or to split a step at the insertion point.
· PDF header image retains correct position when steps span multiple pages.
· When viewing a tag, creating a new lesson tags the new lesson with the tag currently being viewed.
· Tag list lesson count is now kept up to date when deleting lessons with tags.
· Fixed list jumping when return from a lesson to the Lesson Library.
· Enter key now opens title fields for editing (topics, sections, section lessons, lesson and steps).
· Setting topic PDF or HTML template no longer updates all topics.
· Adding a lesson to a topic no longer causes the the topic list to jump around.
· When cropping an image in an external editor ScreenSteps now updates the image export dimensions properly.
· Cropping an image now repositions annotations appropriately.
· Clipboard recording is now disabled when the lesson window is closed while a lesson is being viewed.
· Lesson menu now disables accordingly when lesson is open but main window is closed.
· Lesson menu disables move step up/down if there are less than two steps.
· Capture palette camera now stays in sync with main window based on whether or not it is open.
· ScreenSteps windows now reposition and resize themselves appropriately when changing the display resolution of the monitor.
· Lesson pdf/html template selector was not enabling in lesson view.
· Using arrow keys to navigate lesson library now keeps the Inpspector palette in sync.
· Unsaved annotations are now saved before the clipboard image is used to create a new step (clipboard recording is active).
· Tags no longer overrun the tag count label in the tag list.
· ScreenSteps Live preference pane no longer allows data entry if no accounts exist.
· Sync image names to step titles is now working again.
· File->Export->PDF for a topic was not hooked up.
· Trying to export a topic using File->Export would try to export a lesson unless the topic had focus.
April 27th, 2007· Screen capture tool now allows you to define a region to capture.
· Deleting a step that is linked to an image that is shared by another step no longer deletes the image file.
· Shortcut keys are now reliable.
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