Sports Tactics Board Changelog

What's new in Sports Tactics Board 0.2.1008

Mar 24, 2010
  • Added new playing surfaces (Futsal and American football)
  • Added FIFA Futsal pitch
  • Added American football (NFL) field (players are a bit random and possibly labelled wrong -- need someone with expertise)
  • Relabelled sports to be more specific and add governing body designation related to field markings and layout

New in Sports Tactics Board 0.2.1007 (Mar 24, 2010)

  • Added 20 triangular cones to the soccer field for documenting drills
  • Updated Saved Layout Information dialog to use labels of field objects instead of "tags"
  • Added German translation of main user interface - translation courtesy of Ralph Rinschen
  • Added Floorball field - code courtesy of Ulrich Jenzer
  • Added support for "playing back" (or animating) the sequence - idea and some code courtesy of Ulrich Jenzer
  • Fixed installer on Windows XP SP3
  • Changed/added more icons in tool bar
  • Added support for moving to the beginning or the end of a sequence

New in Sports Tactics Board 0.2.1005 (Oct 21, 2009)

  • Various minor fixes and lots of build/release improvements
  • Updated build environment to use more recent tools, Visual Studio 2008, .NET 3.5, Wix 3.0.4805.0, FxCop 1.36, and NAnt 0.86 Beta1
  • Exit menu item wasn't working.
  • Fixed locating of installed documents and library files when installed using updated installers (that have bin folder).
  • Added code analysis using FxCop to build process.
  • Removed Votive project from solution to allow building solution without WiX.
  • Added WiX build to NAnt build files, re-organized installer building slightly.
  • Added NAnt build files to build main targets and build "release" target files.
  • Various modifications to version generation, MSI installer building.
  • Added Volleyball court - code courtesy of Lukas Kawalec (kadeon)
  • Made the hockey benches and penalty boxes slightly deeper and wider to fit players better.
  • Moved "root" menu back to "Sequence" menu and moved position of "Playing Surface" menu to end.
  • Added menu items in Help menu linking to installed documents (readme, changelog, license)

New in Sports Tactics Board 0.2.0 (Oct 21, 2009)

  • Copying current layout to clipboard as an image for easily importing into other programs, such as PowerPoint.
  • Ensure that "Saved Layouts" are only available for the currently selected sports field type.
  • Improve layout sequence creation and management.
  • Exporting image sequences as bitmaps.
  • Clean up initial hockey player placement, bench layout and devise new labelling system to support sports like hockey.
  • Implement saving and loading of "Saved Layouts" as they currently don't save to disk.
  • Provide sample layouts for library and improved installation and usage instructions related to the library and file locations.
  • Added Windows installer
  • Corrected missing centre line on soccer field.

New in Sports Tactics Board 0.1.1 (Oct 21, 2009)

  • Minor fixes and features

New in Sports Tactics Board 0.1.0 (Oct 21, 2009)

  • Supports more than one sport (currently Soccer and Hockey), more to be added.
  • Records sequences of positions for documenting tactical strategies or plays.
  • Save and loads tactical sequences from files - allows building a library of plays or drills.
  • Supports pre-defined layouts that position players, ball/puck and officials.