May 9th, 2012· Encrypted Clips
· Log on sets
· You can now leave the text editor open and paste clips from the main window into it. (Easily combine clips)
· The context menu has been extended
· In the text editor, the text manipulation functions which previously were applied to the entire clip, are now applied to selected text. They are still applied to the entire clip when no text is selected.
· Search and replace has also been added to the text editor.
March 8th, 2012· Fixes occasional run time error 384 on startup under 64 bit systems.
February 13th, 2012· Now compatible with custom text size (DPI) without the need to use XP Style scaling.
February 3rd, 2012· Fixes bug where large clips from MS Excel created unreadable files.
January 7th, 2012· Fixes conflict between hot keys and accent characters on non English keyboards.
December 4th, 2011· Installer change only. Installer now adds shortcuts to the all users desktop and start menu.
November 23rd, 2011· Fixes bug in trial versions where clicking links in the "About" dialog could unload the program
October 31st, 2011· Fixes bug where the second of two consecutive macro clips did not paste.
October 31st, 2011· Fixes conflict with the ^ key on French keyboards
· Adds option to save large graphic clips in Bitmap format
October 14th, 2011· The text clean up functions previously only available via the Txt buttons can now be applied directly to the Windows clipboard. You can now copy formatted text, say from a Web page, and paste only the plain text directly with Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V.
September 23rd, 2011Macro Clips:
· Macro clips are clips with which you associate a short string of characters. Spartan then monitors your keyboard input for macro strings. When you type one, Spartan jumps in and replaces the macro with the associated clip. You can paste clips without ever bringing Spartan to the screen.
· The clipboard is on the left and there are column pairs headed "Macro" and "Clip". The clip slots are exactly the same as clip slots in other views. You can drag clips to them from the clipboard, you can copy and paste clips in from other views or you can right click and create new clips. After creating a clip, click on the Macro slot to the left of the clip and type in the characters you want for the macro. Here is an example..
· Activate the macros by switching back to another view.
· The letter heading clip can now be inserted into a document simply by typing .head and the signature block by typing .sig Etc.
· You need head and sig as something easy to remember and you need the other (unusual) character so that you don't get your macro clips by accident. If you didn't use the extra, unusual character and for instance used just sig for you signature block then Spartan would paste in your signature block every time you started to type signal or sign post.
September 23rd, 2011· Fixes conflict between Excel and Spartan image size reduction pasting
September 23rd, 2011· Fixes a bug which prevented changing the clipboard from "Show Vertical"
· Fixes sorting A to Z bug in Lite version
· Enables hot key clips in Lite version
September 23rd, 2011· Fixes a bug which grayed out the "View 9 Hot Key Clips" menu item
September 23rd, 2011· Fixes a bug in the picture browser which could crash the program when the mouse wheel was used
September 23rd, 2011· Fixes a minor bug in the picture browser which prevented any unreadable image file from being deleted
September 23rd, 2011New Features:
· There has been an extensive rewrite of all menus and dialogs to make them suitable for keyboard and speech control operation. All parts of the program except the graphics editor can now be operated without a mouse.
· You can now choose the format for graphic clips at the time of pasting. When you move the mouse over a graphic clip, four buttons appear...
· You can now browse your pictures directly from your picture folders (No need to import)
· The sheet menu is now in dialog form
Minor enhancements:
· You can now print multiple pictures at the same time.
· You can now print from the graphics editor.
· You can now scroll using the mouse wheel.
· Dragging to the edge of the window now scrolls the display.
· In the "Arrow keys and enter" mode you can now display the cell numbers and move the marker to any particular cell by typing its number.
· The time delay between clips during bulk pasting can now be varied between 0.2 and 1 second.
· You now have a choice of function button size. Right click on one for
September 23rd, 2011· Fixes a minor bug in the logon dialog.(Back and Forward buttons did not work on some machines)
September 23rd, 2011· Fixes a minor bug in the way time is displayed in the window caption.(06.00 was displayed as 60.00)
September 23rd, 2011· Date / Time Clips. You can now create clips which include codes for all elements of the system date and time. When you paste these, Spartan replaces the codes with the actual date time data at the time of pasting
September 23rd, 2011· When Restoring with the inbuilt backup and restore system, the dialog asking what to restore is now correctly captioned "Restore What?". In previous versions the caption read "Backup What?"
September 23rd, 2011· Fixes a minor bug which could cause the program to freeze if "New Text Clip" were selected in a view set to "Keep on top of other windows"
September 28th, 2010· Fixes a minor bug which could cause the program to freeze if items from the Pictures menu were selected in a view set to "Keep on top of other windows".
May 25th, 2010· Minor bug fix. In v4.02 it was possible to crash the program by launching the year planner from the system tray while one of the main window editors was open. This has been fixed.
May 25th, 2010· New option to minimize to tray. With this selected, closing the main window leaves the program running. It can be shut down from the tray icon.
· Year planner now minimizes to the system tray instead of the task bar.
· New options to have the year planner start automatically when Spartan starts (either on screen or in the system tray).
· The year planner no longer shuts down during backup or restore.
· Open and Run buttons now recognize filenames which have quotation marks.
· In previous versions, Spartan could hang up when a corrupt graphic file had been captured. This has been fixed.
March 10th, 2010· The paste letters no longer disappear after using the text or graphic editors
· Ctrl+O and Ctrl+B work correctly when using Ctrl + a pasting letter.
· When Minimize after paste is selected, the program minimizes correctly after the Txt, Uc or Lc buttons have been used
· When the Deleted Clips or Windows Clipboard History sheets are full, new additions overwrite the old ones and in previous versions it was difficult to see where the latest addition was on the sheet. In v4.01 a black bar has been added as a marker.
April 17th, 2009· Graphics import and picture browser.
December 16th, 2008· Fixes double spacing bug when printing from the text editor.
December 1st, 2008· All the text cleanup facilities available in the text clip editor can now be applied automatically when you paste. This is achieved by applying user selected clean up routines whenever a clip is pasted by clicking the TXT (Unformatted Text Button) instead of the clip name. To select the clean up routines you want performed, click "Txt Button Options" in the view options dialog on the view menu.
November 10th, 2008· Digital Photo Utilities. There is an import routine for graphics. Point it to a folder with JPEG digital photos and they are imported as clip files ready to paste into your emails and documents. There is also a full screen picture viewer where you can browse or slide show your pictures. There are tools to print, rotate, fix red eye, and basic brightness / contrast adjustments.
· In the graphics editor, you can now select inches or centimeters as well as pixels for the size units. This allows you to size or crop to real sizes for example to create passport size pictures.
· There are two book marks in the shape of finger pointers. One is a freehand bookmark that you just drag to wherever you want to remind yourself of something. The other is a "last used" bookmark. It points to the clip that was last pasted, edited or viewed in the new picture browser.
· The inbuilt backup now has the option to backup or restore a single sheet.
July 31st, 2008· Adds "Hot Key Clips". You can now assign clips to hot keys and paste them from the keyboard without activating the main window..
July 24th, 2008· Changes to the default option settings only. Now defaults to starting up minimized and not shown in the Windows taskbar.
June 21st, 2008· Allows pasting either way between editions. If you keep hard disk and portable versions synchronized, you can paste new clips from one to the other without going through a full backup and restore.
· The clipboard capture off notice now correctly positions over the clipboard when "Show Clipboard Vertically" is selected.
· In previous versions, if "Arrow Keys and Enter" was selected as the keyboard pasting method and Enter was used to action a menu item, the highlighted clip was also pasted. This is now fixed.
June 3rd, 2008· New text editor with undo / redo and print
May 20th, 2008· The matrix of clip cells has been expanded from 5 columns by 35 rows to 9 columns by 62 rows.
· The main window is now sizable over this matrix.
· A new keyboard option allows all aspects of the program to be operated without recourse to the mouse.
· The 25 clip clipboard can be displayed as a single column as well as a 5 by 5 matrix.
· Hot keys upgraded. (Win 2000, XP and Vista only)
· Showing in taskbar when minimized is now optional. (Allows activation by Alt Tab)
· V2 introduces the concept of "Views".
April 4th, 2008· New sizable text editor with undo, redo, search and print.
· Change view from the keyboard with F12
March 8th, 2008· Fix for compatibility with Vista Snipping Tool. (Also cures "Run Time 380" Errors)
February 9th, 2008· Option for a one second delay before edge buttons appear.
· Outlook pasting format for graphics is now optional.
· Creating a graphic clip when a graphic file is copied is now optional.
· Single click "Clear the Clipboard" item now on the right click menu.
· Right click on a form filling button sends the TAB key.
· Ctrl C now works in clip preview.
· Deleted clips are now moved to a "Deleted Clips" group.
· If you drop a new clip from the clipboard on an existing clip in a group, the clip contents are replaced but the old clip name and highlight color are retained.
December 28th, 2007· Fixes bug when copying from Microsoft Excel under the Vista operating system.
August 30th, 2007There are now 3 options for the positioning of the preview window:
· Automatically in the screen corners as previous versions
· Automatically in the main window corners
· Manual positioning.
· Also corrects display bug in V1.40 (Not showing XP and Vista style buttons)
July 18th, 2007· Activation hot keys now include all letters as well as function keys.
· New special function button "DOS" allows pasting text into DOS windows.
· Automatic starting at boot up is now an option.
· New option to delete clips without confirmation dialog.
· Preview window is now scrollable.
· Upper, Lower, Proper and Sentence case utilities added to the text clip editor.
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