May 8th, 2012· Fixed a variety of minor bugs and updated for new systems.
· Fixed issues affectign stability on 64-bit systems.
· Fixed a bug that prevented DEL key function while editing sheet names.
· Fixed a bug that caused some copy/pasted or duplicated connectors to shift in position relative to other pasted objects when pasted into the same sheet and layer from which they were copied.
· Clicking off sheet edit accepts change to edited sheet name (like Enter) rather than discarding it.
· Added prompt before saving changes to current diagram when following a hyper link.
July 21st, 2010· Fixed a bug that caused mistaken reports of invalid grid spacing in diagram properties, and incorrect interval settings.
· Fixed a bug that preventing seting of shadows in New Diagram Wizard.
July 3rd, 2010· Fixed a bug that caused copied connectors to detach from figures when the figures were in front of the connectors.
· Added text fields to reflect the sheet name and number.
May 13th, 2010· Fixed a bug that caused a crash in some cases when deleting a sheet containing existing object. Not completely fixed in 6.21.
· Fixed a bug in the previous release that caused double scroll bars to appear.
April 12th, 2010· Fixed a bug that caused a crash in some cases when deleting a sheet containing existing object.
· Various minor bugs.
· Various technical improvements.
August 11th, 2009· Diagrams can now contain multiple sheets. A sheet is like a page, though each sheet may itself be divided into multiple 'pages' for printing purposes. Currently each sheet is an extension of the diagram and therefore shares the same diagram properties and styles.
June 25th, 2009· New Copy Properties features.
· Fixed a bug that affected dragging an arc end off a full loop arc with Keep Shape stretch method.
· Fixed a bug that affected how self-transitions retain position when the base figure resizes.
· Fixed a bug that caused screen relics when scrolling upwards with certain screen size designations.
· Fixed a bug that caused margins depicted on screen to appear radically different at different zoom levels.
May 28th, 2009· Multiple arc stretch methods.
· Support for closed arcs (loops), free and to/from a connection point on a figure. Includes support for snap, align, space evenly, and so on.
· Improved self-transitions using arcs.
· Set consistent self-transition size per diagram
· Field text now updates immediately when changed. For example if field text displays the current file name, it is updated when the file is Saved As another name without any need to refesh the display.
· Fixed a bug that prevented proper Undo when moving connection points on figures.
March 24th, 2009· A new type of curved connector, a simple arc, has been added.
February 5th, 2009· For consistency, right-click now exits connect mode as it does for most other modes, returning to select mode. There remains one exception which involves right-clicking on a specific state symbol, in which a context menu is created for the purpose of adding self-references for certain diagram types.
· When editing text in text mode, key combinations involving Ctrl+SHIFT that extended the current selection (such as Ctrl+SHIFT End, Ctrl+SHIFT Home, and Ctrl+SHIFT arrow) were not functioning.
· When saving as HTML, memo text appearing in pop-up balloons did not display the proper character for extended characters in some languages. For example, the problem was reported involving memo text containing the 'ä' character in Swedish text. The problem involved the incorrect mapping of characters with extended codes (>128) to their UTF-8 web text unicode equivalents for use by the Title or Java tooltips.
· When editing text in text mode, it was possible for the range of selected text to be highlighted incorrectly, making it appear as though the wrong range text was selected. Due to the nature of the bug, the circumstances of the problem varied unpredictably but seemed to be most common when the selection was confined to a single line of text.
· When editing text in text mode, there was a case where changing a text attribute for a range of selected text (such as Bold or Italic) did not always work properly.
December 9th, 2008· Reapply Styles - A feature has been added to allow the original style attibutes of an object to be restored.
· When copying figure styles within the styles screen, the original figure style connection points and text margins were not copied to the new style.
· When changing a figure's style (using the properties screen), the figure's text margins were not being updated properly.
· When using search with extended characters in certain languages (codes beyond 0x80) a crash could occur if Match Case was not checked.
November 5th, 2008· Fixes a bug in which changing a figure's style reset the internal figure margin rather than using the margin of the style (if bound) or keeping the current margin (if unbound).
· Fixes a bug in which copying an existing style did not copy it's connection points to the new style.
· Fixes some very minor graphics issues.
September 15th, 2008· Text Edit Context Menu While editing text (in Text mode), right-click now launches a context menu for easy access to commands like Cut, Copy, Paste, and so on, including the new Undo, Redo, and Insert Field commands (see below).
· Text Fields Simple text fields can now be added to figure or label text. A text field is a string of text that reflects information about the diagram. Fields available in this version include file name, creation time, and last save time. Multiple formats are supported for each. Fields can be inserted into text by placing the text caret and choosing Insert Field from the main Edit menu or from the right click menu.
· Text Edit Undo/Redo In earlier versions, figure and label text edits could only be undone in whole, reverting to the full text prior to any editing. Now individual text edits can be undone one at a time as is customary in word processing applications. While editing text in text mode, Undo is available from the Edit menu, from the right click context menu, or by the Ctrl-Z shortcut key sequence. Redo is also available in text mode as well (menu or Ctrl-Y). Note that Redo is currently only available for text editing while in text mode - it's not yet supported throughout the program.
· Text Style "All Caps" A range of text can now be given an All Caps style which forces the text to be displayed in all capital letters (if possible). The All Caps style works similar to Bold or Italics. By default, it is available only in the context (right-click) menu, but you can add a custom toolbar button if you prefer. The main usage is to provide a way to force inserted text fields to be all capital letters.
· Fixed a very minor bug in which page margin could be dragged and changed by accident when behind a diagram object.
September 9th, 2008· Text Edit Context Menu While editing text (in Text mode), right-click now launches a context menu for easy access to commands like Cut, Copy, Paste, and so on, including the new Undo, Redo, and Insert Field commands (see below).
· Text Fields Simple text fields can now be added to figure or label text. A text field is a string of text that reflects information about the diagram. Fields available in this version include file name, creation time, and last save time. Multiple formats are supported for each. Fields can be inserted into text by placing the text caret and choosing Insert Field from the main Edit menu or from the right click menu.
· Text Edit Undo/Redo In earlier versions, figure and label text edits could only be undone in whole, reverting to the full text prior to any editing. Now individual text edits can be undone one at a time as is customary in word processing applications. While editing text in text mode, Undo is available from the Edit menu, from the right click context menu, or by the Ctrl-Z shortcut key sequence. Redo is also available in text mode as well (menu or Ctrl-Y). Note that Redo is currently only available for text editing while in text mode - it's not yet supported throughout the program.
· Text Style "All Caps" A range of text can now be given an All Caps style which forces the text to be displayed in all capital letters (if possible). The All Caps style works similar to Bold or Italics. By default, it is available only in the context (right-click) menu, but you can add a custom toolbar button if you prefer. The main usage is to provide a way to force inserted text fields to be all capital letters.
· Fixed a very minor bug in which page margin could be dragged and changed by accident when behind a diagram object.
September 1st, 2008· A minor 'bug' has been fixed in which a different registered clipboard format was used by each of our different products. This meant that copying data in editable form would not work between products. Such copies would occur as graphic images which were not editable. The issue had a simple work-around by opening a diagram created with a different product in a separate window, then copying within the same product. All products now use an identical clipboard format for greater compatibility.
· A bug has been fixed in which large imported graphics such as JPG or PNG files which are typically used for background images could not be reloaded once saved. An improvement has also been made so that large imported graphics (over 50k) are stored in their native compressed format (JPG or PNG) rather than being expanded for the more complex processing afforded to smaller graphics which are more typically used for figure shapes rather than backgrounds. This results in better performance and much smaller diagram files. The trade-off is slightly slower drawing performance. And more significantly, for large imported JPG and PNG files, certain processing options are no longer available. These include adding transparency around the edges and cleaning up of the background color of JPG files. Fitted bounds capability is thus lost for large JPG graphics, but not for large PNGs containing transparency. Color tinting capability is retained for both formats. For complete flexibility the file size threshold of 50K will become configurable with the next release.
August 5th, 2008· Fixes a critical bug introduced in v6.04.2019 which affects the Save As screen when used with Windows XP. A compatibility issue causes an "Unsupported Operation" message and interferes with the the save
July 31st, 2008· The background layer is now drawn behind the grid, page boundaries, and margins.
· Holding down the Alt key while doing a lasso selection in Normal view now selects objects on all layers.
· Copy copies only the selected foreground objects. Background layer objects are not copied unless also selected.
· The export screen now contains a "Background" option under the following conditions (1) foreground objects are selected (2) background objects are NOT selected (3) "Selected" option is chosen in the export file selection screen. When the background option is checked, the exported graphic will include the cropped background image behind the selected foreground objects. However, the exported image will remain cropped to the bounds of the selection rectangle, rather than being extended to include the entire background if the background is larger than the selection. See user guide or online help for further description.
· Copy now adds a bitmap to the clipboard.
· When editing a diagram embedded in another document, the view is now automatically adjusted to fit the embedded objects and the unnecessary page boundaries and margins are suppressed.
· Exported metafiles (EMF and WMF) are now properly sized.
· A bug has been fixed that caused certain text to appear in the wrong place when exporting to enhanced metafiles, or copying using OLE.
· A series of mostly minor bugs has been fixed that affected the appearance of metafile images used for exporting and displaying OLE embedded images when pasting diagrams into external documents.
· A bug has been fixed that caused some distortion of certain bitmap images imported or copied into diagrams, particularly those created by newer versions of MS Paint.
· A bug has been fixed that caused a crash when selecting a new font from within the New Diagram Wizard.
· A minor bug has been fixed in the Save As screen that caused the filename extension not to match the selected output format when a graphics format (not EDG) was selected.
June 28th, 2008· Tools Options Screen The interface to this screen changed from tabbed format to tree format in order to better categorize options controls, make room for more descriptive graphics, and prepare for additions in upcoming releases.
· The default color palette included a duplicate color. Cyan and Aqua were equivalent in accordance with the X11 specification. This was both wasteful and confusing as either color would appear as Cyan when later reviewed. Aqua has now been re-defined to represent an appropriate new shade of the same color.
· The Page Set-up screen was limiting page dimensions to 32 inches square unnecessarily. Some large format printers support larger page sizes that were being handled improperly. A design limit of about 64 inches (but not 32) was required, and has been set as the new limit
June 13th, 2008· Tools Options Screen
· Slight change to interface - option tree replaces tabs
May 13th, 2008· Interactive margins adjustments: Page margins can now be adjusted with the mouse in addition to using the Page Setup screen.
May 12th, 2008· Interactive margins adjustments: Page margins can now be adjusted with the mouse in addition to using the Page Setup screen.
April 12th, 2008· Minor bug fixes and programmable zoom scroll interval
March 21st, 2008· Fixed an important bug for users in countries that rely on non-Western font scripts. The character set for figure and label fonts was not loaded correctly in version 6.0. Prior to this fix, loading and resaving a diagram would convert its character sets to Western, requiring them to be set back manually if resaved.
· New User Interface: Improved Windows Vista compatibility and support for Vista and XP visual styles and custom themes.
· Memo Tips: Custom data in the form of text memos can now be attached to any figure or label. The memo displays you hover over the object with the mouse. When saving a diagram as a web page, memo tips can be included with similar functionality.
· Color Palettes: A number of new color palettes are included for a wider variety of convenient color selections.
· Tool Tips: Tool tip help is now available when hovering the mouse over styles, drop menus, color selections and so on.
· Property Apply: Object properties can now be applied from the properties screen without terminating the screen. The same is true for diagram properties and options. These screens also remember their positions from one invocation to another.
· Shortcut Keys: Some key shortcuts have been added for more convenient and standardized text editing. For example, Ctrl-B can be used as a shortcut to Bold text, Ctrl-I to italicize text, Ctrl-L to left-justify text, and so on. These function in the same manner as other leading software packages.
· Copy/Paste Fill: The Fill properties screen now contains a simple feature to copy all of the fill properties from any object or style to another. In prior versions, only the solid fill color was easy to duplicate from one object to another. Now all the possible combinations of gradient options can be easily copied and pasted as easily from one object or style to another.
· Import/Export: Graphics import and export have been improved, as reflected in both the Export feature and the Save as HTML feature. Bitmap formats such as BMP and JPG have been improved and better standardized, and PNG output has been both corrected and improved. The Export screen now contains a preview control and checkbox to select the entire diagram or only selected objects. Export is now also available using the SaveAs command. Import support for the outdated and less popular PCX format has been discontinued.
· Font Previews: Font family controls now support sample text previews.
· Text wrap and figure size constraints have been improved and some related bugs fixed.
· Fixed raster output to avoid edge effects created by scaling and interpolation.
· Import support for the outdated and less popular PCX graphics format has been discontinued.
November 16th, 2007· A feature has been added at a user's suggestion to allow the page set-up defaults to be saved and applied to new diagrams avoiding the need to set up the page for each new diagram. The Page Setup screen now contains a checkbox that allows the settings to be saved as the new defaults and applied to new diagrams. The screen can also now be accessed when no diagrams are open in order to accomplish the same purpose.
· A convenience change was added whereby changing to a metric page size (or to an English) page size in the Page Set-up screen automatically adjusts the display units to match, and upon exit asks whether the global option should be set to match.
November 1st, 2007· Fixes a very critical bug introduced in build 1841 that caused connection points to load incorrectly, resulting in connectors being attached to figures improperly (at the wrong points). This case only occurred when connections attached at connection points, not when simply attached at the center of figures. Once saved, the errors introduced become permanent and require connections to be adjusted manually. Therefore, this update is very important if you are using v5.09 between build 1841 and 1848, please update immediately.
October 24th, 2007· New print and page setup, text margins, tabs, bug fixes
October 23rd, 2007· Fixes two bugs that could cause diagrams saved in versions prior to 5.09 to lose page set-up information such as page size and orientation, and possibly text line spacing settings when loaded in version 5.09.
September 21st, 2007· Internal text margins can now be set individually for any figure.
· A new page set-up model allows setting of pages with any dimensions regardless of printers available on your computer. Page sizes that are larger than the selected printer can handle are automatically divided into multiple pages similar to poster mode. This feature makes diagrams more portable from one computer to another in which different printer drivers are installed.
· Tabs support in figure text. Figures can now include tabs and settable tab stops (left, center, and right justified).
· Text wrap and figure size contraints have been improved and some related bugs fixed.
· Crop marks printed on partitioned pages are printed more intelligently, only where needed.
· Fixed a bug that made connecting to graphic symbols a bit awkward by requiring the adding of connection points when no fill color (the default) was used.
· Fixed a bug that could result in connectors not fully reaching the edges of some graphic symbols when printed (to printer or PDF) or exported to a metafile.
June 15th, 2007· The previous build would often report that an update was required when using the Check for Update feature when no update was available.
December 13th, 2006· Bug fixes,
· user interface improvements
May 11th, 2006· Improved graphics, drop shadows, shading, and gradient fills
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