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Springboard Changelog

What's new in Springboard 1.03

Nov 16, 2011
  • Licensing problem when Springboard is shared by many users on a single computer. Now the license is correctly picked up by other users after an administrator installs and licenses the product.
  • Runs out of memory under 64-bit Windows 7 with more than 4 GB of memory. Now correctly understands the size of memory and scales its use accordingly.

New in Springboard 1.01 (Apr 23, 2011)

  • Bugs fixed:
  • Ease types "None" and "In And Out" for Zoom Frames were swapped in the user interface (though the underlying implementation was correct - so this fix will not change existing animations' playback).
  • Layers palette, frame indicator, and Movie view are out of sync after dragging the third node in the Story Tree to the second position.
  • Use Shell Play on newly-exported AVI files, if available; otherwise, Shell Open. Used to use Shell Open, and fail if there was no Open verb registered for .AVI (even if Play was registered).
  • Issues that arise when you fumble the buttons on a pen: Disallow context menus while drawing, and handle the double-click messages correctly when you press a pen button that's assigned to click or double-click while drawing.

New in Springboard 1.0 (Jan 27, 2011)

  • New features in this version:
  • Export Wave audio.
  • Rotate layers more intuitively, support multiple rotations, and show the angle numerically while rotating.
  • Undo for Layer > Inflate, Layer > Merge Down, Layer > Merge Contained Layers.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • After converting a layer to full-color, the color picker isn't activated until you select a different layer and then switch back.
  • Vector layers can't be animated yet, but the keys shown on the animation timeline aren't erased when a vector layer is selected.
  • Changing the current drawing color clears the undo stack.
  • New Layer, then undo, then undo a second time causes an exception.
  • Inflate and Deflate need to adjust all keys in the current frame, both for the current layer and all its child layers.
  • Pressing Del would delete something even if Edit > Delete was disabled.
  • Redo Fill Layer raises an exception.

New in Springboard 0.96 (Oct 23, 2010)

  • Added more Undo and fixed bugs. Added moving a layer's pivot point, to make it easier to animate rotating layers. New features:
  • Undo for:
  • Image Size and Canvas Size
  • Paste Layer, Paste Frame, Paste Sound Clip, Paste and typing in Text vector
  • New Layer, Duplicate Layer, Reset Layer Position, Scale Layer To Fit Frame
  • Set Layer Visibility, Set Layer Properties
  • Edit > Clear Undo Information
  • When the Move Layer tool is selected, show the layer's pivot point, and allow dragging it.
  • Allow rotations larger than 360 degrees, for animating revolving objects.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Exceptions are reported twice.
  • Undo Clear Layer didn't always restore the layer size correctly.
  • Looping exceptions when deleting the bottom-most layer of a frame, if it's not the Base layer.
  • Shearing went in the wrong direction on the left and right sides of the layer.
  • Unhelpful error message when loading a file from the "most-recently-used" list on the File menu, if that file no longer exists.
  • Delete key didn't work in some text fields.

New in Springboard 0.95 (Jul 24, 2010)

  • Added more Undo and fixed bugs. Now officially supports Windows 7. New features:
  • Undo for:
  • the remaining kinds of deletions in the story tree
  • Delete Layer
  • drag-move in the Story tree and in the Layers palette
  • all remaining objects in the Properties palette (story, section, sound clip)
  • Toggle Split and Split All
  • Mirror Image and Mirror Layer
  • Clear Image and Clear Layer
  • Set Background Color
  • New macros for use in titles, headers, and footers when printing: FileName and FullFilePath.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Pasting text containing newlines and other control characters into frame titles makes black rectangle characters.
  • Searching doesn't find the text if the search starts after the beginning of the frame.
  • Exceptions when doing things with a file that has no frames.

New in Springboard 0.94 (May 5, 2010)

  • Mostly bug fixes; also clipboard support for sound clips and Undo for deleting some types of objects.
  • Looks good on Windows 7, but has not been rigorously tested yet.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • New layers weren't centered correctly.
  • Couldn't copy and paste frames or layers in some situations.
  • Looping error dialogs when drawing with Bamboo under Vista.
  • Error when cutting/pasting a frame with sound.
  • Fixed clicking during audio playback, at audio buffer boundaries and at the beginnings and ends of sounds.
  • Increased responsiveness and quality of sound scrubbing in the Movie View.
  • A problem undoing and redoing recording that includes audio, timing, and transitions.
  • Various audio playback errors with newly-recorded audio inserted into multiple frames before the story is saved.
  • Error when inserting a section while a sound clip is selected.
  • Error when interrupting a drawing stroke via the keyboard.
  • Garbage on screen when drawing outside the frame in single-frame mode.
  • Error when redoing a change to frame duration.
  • Data loss in original file after Save Numbered Backup with certain configurations of split files.

New in Springboard 0.93 (Jan 22, 2010)

  • Now uses Unicode text throughout the product, for better support for world languages.
  • Dropped support for Windows 98.
  • There is no specific support for right-to-left languages yet, though right-to-left Unicode characters are rendered properly on Windows Vista. On Windows XP, they are rendered left-to-right during printing.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Mirror Horizontally doesn't work on a color layer.
  • Error messages when importing print settings from a file where the print rage was selected by frames and there were more frames than in the current file.
  • Error messages when printing files with certain combinations of layout options and content.
  • Section headings were truncated when printed with certain layout settings.
  • Error message on Text tool use after empty Text vector created.
  • Dragging Text vectors with certain patterns of word wrapping leaves "crumbs" behind.

New in Springboard 0.92 (Oct 17, 2009)

  • Added a frame range ("from" and "to") to all Export dialogs.
  • Added an option for simple timecode burn-in on export to AVI.
  • Added a time bar to the Movie view, with audio scrubbing support. Undo recorded frame timing.
  • Support audio playback while recording timing in the Movie View. Sound clips attached to the story root play normally. Sound clips attached to frames have their beginnings cut off while recording timing, because of the audio buffer latency. Reduced the audio buffer size to mitigate this. If that in turn causes problems, experienced users can change the Registry setting at HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareSix Mile Creek SystemsSpringboardMainAudioPlayer_BufferLength to 500 to get the old buffer size.
  • Display a visual representation of opacity in the Swatch Box above the Opacity slider when the Move Layer tool is selected.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Exception when playing after Undo Record.
  • Error message "Specified device handle is invalid" after some combinations of play and pause commands.
  • "Range error" after coming out of pause while recording.
  • Make Fill Layer sometimes raises an exception and loses the source layer.
  • Exceptions after undoing and redoing Make Fill Layer and then redoing other actions.
  • New layers have their pivot point in the wrong spot (upper left corner vs. center).

New in Springboard 0.91 (Jul 17, 2009)

  • New Layer > Make Fill Layer command to help make opaque objects from your sketches.
  • Added Start, Duration, and End controls to Section Properties, and Duration to Story Properties.
  • Added additional options for importing images: import into a new frame in a new layer named after the file; and import and scale but don't discard pixels.
  • Added hotkeys N, Q, and T for selecting the peNcil, Quill, and Thin pen tools.
  • Undo for Deflate Layer.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • When outlining frames, one particular printer (Panasonic DP-C262 PCL6) blacks out the entire frame.
  • Exception repoted when playing an animation that has a layer out of frame.
  • Exception on Text tool use after empty Text vector created.
  • Transforming a full-color layer in some ways trashes its colors.
  • Fixed saving and restoring the current tool so that Move and Erase don't get stored, so that the V key doesn't get stuck toggling between Move and Move.

New in Springboard 0.90 (Apr 21, 2009)

  • New Mute, Volume, and Play controls in the Sound Clip Properties dialog.
  • Undo for Import Sound and Record Sound.
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Frame Forward button, when clicked, produces two events.
  • Exceptions while drawing on color layers in certain rotations and scales.

New in Springboard 0.89 Build 2 (Jan 24, 2009)

  • Now allows Edit > Split Out and Edit > Split Every for sound clips.
  • Split sound clips are saved to Wave files, and can be edited in other programs while the story is open in Springboard. Changes are used immediately in Springboard.
  • New commands: Edit > Edit Sound Externally, Edit > Split And Edit
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Coming out of Pause Record, while Record Timing is on, by doing Frame Forward loses recorded audio on XP and gives a system error on 98.
  • The same bug was fixed again, better, in the "a" revision.

New in Springboard 0.88 (Nov 6, 2008)

  • Can't animate opacity of translated full-color layers.
  • Recording sound across multiple frames doesn't split it correctly.
  • Sound clip offset control isn't updated right.

New in Springboard 0.87 (Oct 20, 2008)

  • File format version 9.0. Can read all previous formats; earlier versions cannot read this format.
  • Expanded support for WAVE audio import. Now supports importing any uncompressed WAVE file.
  • Added Text Only export format for HTML. May be useful in its own right, and is intended as a workaround for extracting all text.
  • Added a Title field to Frame Properties, for display in the Story Tree and accessible when printing through the macro.
  • Added frame image border width option to the Layout tab of Print Setup.

New in Springboard 0.85 (Mar 1, 2008)

  • Added Search/Replace, time indicators, more undo; bug fixes.

New in Springboard 0.84 (Dec 9, 2007)

  • Added Search/Replace, time indicators, more undo; bug fixes.

New in Springboard 0.82 (Jun 15, 2007)

  • Added layer animation recording opacity.

New in Springboard 0.81 (Mar 30, 2007)

  • Refined layer animation; bug fixes.

New in Springboard 0.76 (Sep 9, 2006)

  • Bug fixes.

New in Springboard 0.75 (Aug 1, 2006)

  • Can read all previous formats; versions earlier than 0.75 cannot read this format.
  • Internal architecture improvements completed.
  • Improved Undo: Unlimited undo and redo of individual drawing strokes.
  • Some performance increases.