What's new in OpenChords 2.4.5.0
Jul 3, 2021
- Fixed: Upgraded project dependencies to latest versions
- Fixed: Upgraded build dependencies such as cake, inno.tools and visual studio to latest version
- Improvement: Replace depreciated package EPPlus with NPOI for exporting song list to xlsx format
- Fixed: Minor build improvements
New in OpenChords 2.4.4.0 (Nov 14, 2019)
- Improvement: Add navigation buttons for Tablet mode
- Fixed: Removed swipe scroll as it didn't work correctly
- Fixed: Improve song spacing in Export to Tablet >> Current Set option
- Improvement: Change encoding to gzip for embedded web server to improve performance
- Fixed: First line in song viewer displays multiple song elements again
- Fixed: Dissallow '' and '/' characters in song names as its putting the songs in a nested subfolder on every save
New in OpenChords 2.4.3.0 (Apr 19, 2019)
- Fixed: Disabled tabs in the lyrics and notes editor because they do not always render as expected
- Improvement: Song section detector now detects "Instrumental" as a music interlude
- Fixed: Pasteing a song with Linux line endings doesn't render correctly until reloading the songs list
- Fixed: When changing song Key all listening devices should refresh current song
- Improvement: Add option of prefer flats to show flats instead on sharps from web server
- Fixed: Web server doesn't change song when clicking on a song from the Set list
- Improvement: Change export to list functionality to use xlsx rather than csv
New in OpenChords 2.4.2.0 (Apr 19, 2019)
- Improvement: Improve song scrolling to work with tablet swipe up and swipe down
- Improvement: When working with tablet always scroll to the top of the page when changing songs
- Improvement: Add option of no capo to disable the capo when pulling songs from web server
- Improvement: Add option of no capo to disable the capo when pulling a set from web server
- Fixed: When a song is changed in the set and you present, the presentation screen opens before the save screen
- Fixed: Issue in song importer if the song has square tags for verses and choruses e.g. [Chorus 1] or [Verse 1]
- Improvement: Add option "Windowed Mode" to general settings to run presentation mode in a window
New in OpenChords 2.4.1.0 (Nov 29, 2018)
- Improvement: Add option to export all song meta data to tab seperated text file
- Improvement: Add Song Subfolder name in Song List Panel and Set List Panel
- Fixed: When you double click on the scrollbar of the Song List it adds the selected song to the set
- Improvement: Increase build speed by changing all content project items to only copy to build if newer
- Fixed: Bug when creating a new song and immediately renaming the song it creates a new song instead
New in OpenChords 2.4.0.0 (Apr 2, 2018)
- Improvement: Upgrade Microsoft.AspNet.Razor to v3.2.4
- Improvement: Upgrade Microsoft.CSharp to v4.4.1
- Improvement: Remove unused Mac implementation files
- Improvement: Converted release notes to markdown format
- Improvement: Handle display resolutions down to 1024x768
- Improvement: Add new field to editor Alternative Title or AKA (Also Known As)
- Improvement: Allow user to customize what song metadata fields are visible in display and print song
- Improvement: Add new option in Display and Print Settings "Display Each Song Section Once" to save paper and screen space
- Fixed: Backup display and print settings not working
- Feature: Add new option under "General Settings" called "Touch Screen Mode" which adds navigation buttons to presentation screen
- Improvement: Update user manual
New in OpenChords 2.3.3.0 (Feb 5, 2018)
- Improvement: Make command line build more seamless
- Improvement: Only do a full lyrics search if the user presses the Enter key when searching for songs
- Improvement: upgrade all nuget packages to latest versions
- Improvement: Replace GridView for SongList with original ListBox to for a massive performance boost
- Improvement: Add new General Setting option "Force Always On Top When Presenting"
New in OpenChords 2.3.2.0 (Jun 27, 2017)
- Fixed: Application crash when saving a new song
- Fixed: Song no longer autorefreshing when viewing song externally on tablet
- Improvement: Adjust OpenChords to work better with the OpenSong File Format Specification v1.5.1
- Fixed: Changed default chord notation to English rather than German
New in OpenChords 2.3.1.0 (Jun 20, 2017)
- Fixed:
- Bug in transposer when when working with flats
- When reverting a song it isn't getting reflected in the song list panel
- Bug when changing a song in a set is not reflecting in the song list
- Bug when transposing I loose any changes I have made in the UI before saving the song
New in OpenChords 2.3.0.0 (Jun 19, 2017)
- Fixed: Font size settings editor to look better on Linux systems
- Fixed: Keep song sort order when searching for songs
- Fixed: Other minor bug fixes
- Fixed: #8 Export All Songs to Tablet and Printer needs to open the file manager where the songs were exported
- Improvement: Moved song search box to top of the grid so its more visible
- Improvement: Allow user to add songs at any point in the set
- Improvement: Changed song rendering to use RazorEngine instead of a custom template
- Improvement: #10 Move sharp/flat key preferences per song to General Settings
- Feature: #5 Add subfolder support to the OpenChordsData/Songs folder
- Feature: #9 Add dropdownlist for switching between English and German Key Notation
New in OpenChords 2.2.0.0 (Sep 18, 2016)
- Fixed: SessionSaveState getting saved outside of the settings folder
- Fixed: When http server is active OpenChords does not close property
- Fixed: OpenChords preference screen not resizable
- Fixed: Preference screen opens very slowly
- Fixed: Preference screen crashes OpenChords on Linux systems
- Fixed: Preference screen widen controls so font sizes are visible on Linux systems
- Improvement: Add "Partial Heading Background Color" to easily see if a song piece is not completely on the screen
New in OpenChords 2.1.0.0 (Feb 6, 2016)
- Improvement: Disable context menu in presentation screen in Windows
- Improvement: Add "User Interface Settings" section to the help documentation
New in OpenChords 2.0.5.0 (Feb 6, 2016)
- Improvement: Disabled some keyboard shortcuts as they interfere with user experience during presentation mode
- Improvement: Upgrade all 3rd party packages to latest version
- Improvement: Allow changing font and font size in song editor and notes fields
New in OpenChords 2.0.4.0 Beta (Jan 23, 2016)
- Improvement: Upgrade to Eto.Forms 2.1.0-build0350
- Improvement: Added help text for when the http server is enabled to help users use this feature
- Fixed: spacing issues in preference screens
- Improvement: Disallow invalid port numbers in preferences
- Improvement: Make "Using OpenChords with Tablets and Cellphones" documentation more user friendly
- Improvement: Add sortable grid to song list view and remove the advanced search screen as its no longer necessary
- Improvement: Add song counter to set list
- Improvement: Add song counter to songs list
- Fixed: Song filter not re-applied when refreshing song list
- Improvement: Allow filtering on phrase in addition to single word searching
- Improvement: Make searching more responsive
- Improvement: Show current song position when presenting a set
- Fixed: Changing a song while presenting not updating in set list or song list
- Improvement: Add back double-click to add a new song to set
- Improvement: Make shortcut keys customizable
- Improvement: Remove the need to restart OpenChords after changing settings
- Improvement: Start presenting set on currently selected song in set list
- Improvement: Changed export set list to csv for easier readability
- Fixed: Prevent multiple instances of OpenSong opening when exporting to OpenSong
- Improvement: Add shortcut for exporting to OpenSong (Ctrl+O)
New in OpenChords 2.0.3.0 Beta (Nov 28, 2015)
- Fixed: Capo field doesn't show in presentation if key isn't filled in
- Fixed: Selected set is reset when adding a new song
- Improvement: More chords detected as chords
- Improvement: Add OpenSong integration instructions to manual
New in OpenChords 2.0.2.0 Beta (Nov 28, 2015)
- Fixed: double pipes || which are used in OpenSong to split a song piece into multiple slides now get ignored
- Fixed: pipes (character used to split song pieces) no longer slices chords in half
- Improvement: Can now switch between vertical and horizontal song presentation
- Fixed: Song key and capo not updating in editor if its changed in presentation mode
New in OpenChords 2.0.1.0 Beta (Sep 21, 2015)
- Added: OpenFileDialogs in General Settings
- Added: Song randomizer
- Added: Break song line
- Added: Break long song lines with pipe character
- Fixed: Removed extra blank pages when printing
- Fixed: Some chords were not getting detected properly as chords (e.g. D/F)
New in OpenChords 2.0.0 Beta (Sep 21, 2015)
- Added: UI rewrite with cross-platform support (Windows, Linux and probably OS X in future)
- Improvement: Use system look and feel.
- Improvement: simplier song searching
- Improvement: improved look of song presentation screen
- Improvement: Faster load times
- Improvement: Settings screen simpified
- Added: Metronome for keeping perfect timing
- Depreciation: Removed pdf support in favor of Html
- Depreciation: By upgrading to .Net 4.5 Windows XP is no longer supported
New in OpenChords 1.6.4.0 (Apr 3, 2015)
- Added: UI rewrite with cross-platform support (Windows, Linux and probably OS X in future)
- Improvement: Use system look and feel.
- Improvement: simplier song searching
- Improvement: improved look of song presentation screen
- Improvement: Faster load times
- Improvement: Settings screen simpified
- Added: Metronome for keeping perfect timing
- Depreciation: Removed pdf support in favor of Html
- Depreciation: By upgrading to .Net 4.5 Windows XP is no longer supported
New in OpenChords 1.6.3.0 (Apr 3, 2015)
- Simplify portable mode and normal mode
New in OpenChords 1.6.2.0 Beta (Mar 10, 2015)
- Improvement: Added a export set/song to html option
New in OpenChords 1.5.0.0 (Oct 13, 2014)
- Improvement: Changed song editor layout to be more intuitive
- Improvement: Added menu at the top of the presentation screen with all options of modifying the song
- Improvement: Added shortcut keys to song editor to change song key/capo (Ctrl+= and Ctrl+-)
- Improvement: Discarded dual columns option to allow more than just 2 columns of lyrics text
- Improvement: Merged notes into a single file (since song notes are usually shared among the entire music team)
- Improvement: You can now disable the please turn over text in present mode
- Improvement: Added tempo and time signature settings to pdf exports
- Improvement: Set format changed from a simple text list to xml format
- Improvement: You now have much more choice on lyrics/chord fonts when presenting songs
- Improvement: Added chord line detection (if you have an intro piece with just chords it should be detected as just chords)
- Improvement: No longer need to change screen width/height in settings when changing screen resolutions
- Improvement: Set changes are no longer autosaved, you are asked if you want to save changes
- Depreciation: removed the web component from install until I can find a simple way for it to be deployed (not using IIS)
- Note: you will need to resave old sets in order for them to work properly (since the file format changed, just add and remove a song and switch to another set)
New in OpenChords 1.4.0 (Mar 1, 2014)
- Added basic web interface that you deploy on a webserver
New in OpenChords 1.3.0.1 (Aug 24, 2013)
- Improvement: Allow user to set colors of all elements that make up the song (heading color, chord color etc)
- Improvement: Allow users to search songs via quotes
- Bug fix: Allow users to search for songs that start with numbers (entering numbers while selecting the song list did not work)
- Improvement: Code improvements to rendering song on page
- Improvement: Better display settings and file settings page layout
- Bug fix: Reset display/print/tablet settings if there are invalid values in the config file (will help prevent corrupt settings files)
- Improvement: changed the general colour scheme of display and tablet settings (should make the songs readable in dim and bright light)
- Improvement: Export to pdf has been reworked
- Improvement: Added option to export entire set to pdf for printing
- Improvement: better detection of end of page in song display and changed PTO to ...Press space to continue to next page...
- Improvement: Added context menu for song display (for those who cannot remember shortcut keys -- use M to get to the new context menu)
- Improvement: Added option to disable Portable mode (useful for people who share openchords with multiple pc users, each can have their own personal settings)
- Improvement: Updated manual to version 1.3.0
New in OpenChords 1.2.8 (Mar 5, 2013)
- Improvement: Added basic user driven auto upgrading of the application
New in OpenChords 1.2.7 (Feb 28, 2013)
- Notes and lyrics (in the song editor) now adjust as the song order is changed
New in OpenChords 1.2.6 (Jan 26, 2013)
- Fixed program exception on adding a new song.
New in OpenChords 1.2.5 (Jan 19, 2013)
- Allow users to choose between using sharps and flats in the Editor screen
- Made the "S" button toggle between using flats and sharps in Present song screen
- Changed the randomizer to (Ctrl+R) to only select random songs rather than adding them to a set list
- Fixed bug that song notes were lost when changing the key or capo in display mode
New in OpenChords 1.2.4 (Jan 3, 2013)
- Added file/folder dialog support in file and folder settings section
New in OpenChords 1.2.3 (Dec 19, 2012)
- improved song lyrics and notes formatting speed
- fixed general notes not clearing when displaying a set
New in OpenChords 1.2.2 (Dec 15, 2012)
- fixed blank songs being shown if a user tries to import songs from OpenSong and the capo field being blank
- convert flats to sharps before transposing
New in OpenChords 1.2.1 (Dec 13, 2012)
- fixed issue with present set not displaying songs with no notes file
- fixed issue with export and print pdf where song has no notes file
New in OpenChords 1.2.0 (Dec 10, 2012)
- added basic update checker, with option to disable automatic checking
- added a splitter between the song and set lists
- updated the manual
New in OpenChords 1.1.5 (Dec 5, 2012)
- Added export PDF to tablets -lots of minor bug fixes
- put general notes in a box and allow general notes to be hidden
- make all song notes right aligned
- added a split panel between the set/songs panel and the rest of the app
- added another split panel between the lyrics and the notes
- tried to make the application look a little less terrible
- added code to convert all tabs to spaces in "fix formating" methods
- fixed bug where blank settings (all zeros) where getting saved to file
- fixed error where nothing was displaying if the user tries to enter in a non-existant song section
New in OpenChords 1.1.0 (Dec 3, 2012)
- You can now delete songs in the song list from the file menu
- Improved the search for when you selecting the song list, it changes
- focus to the search box on letter press
- The set count is now correct when you delete songs from a set
- You can now add and remove sets from the application
- Moved all settings to a central location, with tabs for each setting window
- Add some pretty icons
- fixed a bug on saving newly added songs
- updated the manual to latest version
New in OpenChords 1.0.1 (Nov 19, 2012)
- The bold chords and the regular lyrics were not aligned, so changed the font of the lyrics textbox for Courier New
New in OpenChords 1.0.0 (Nov 17, 2012)
- Cleaned up the manual
- Minor bug fixes
New in OpenChords 0.9.8 (Nov 17, 2012)
- fixed full screen mode to be full screen rather than maximized
- converted lyrics and notes text area to a richtextbox
- fixed break line functionality
- fixed capo not getting saved
- fixed not returning to top of screen after formatting lyrics
- made entering in the notes more user friendly
New in OpenChords 0.9.6 (Nov 17, 2012)
- Tried to make the display work better at lower resolutions
- Added changelog