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ThinkComposer Changelog

What's new in ThinkComposer 1.5.1604

Feb 1, 2017
  • Fixed: Name of a global Detail designator is no longer changed when editing an empty link after trying to access it.
  • Fixed: Views can be exported as image in PDF format again.
  • Fixed: Application crashes when Finding text (the problem is detected and crash prevented).

New in ThinkComposer 1.5.1502 (Feb 24, 2015)

  • PDF generation is now based on an open-source library (PDFsharp) instead of a commercial product.
  • Fixed: Link descriptor are lost for new links after copy+paste.

New in ThinkComposer 1.5.1230 (Dec 30, 2014)

  • New: Default grid size now can be specified in Domain properties.
  • New: While creating new Concepts, by dropping their Definition from the Concepts palette, press [Ctrl-Left] to open the properties editor instead of just edit the name/title over the symbol.
  • Changed: Markers palette display order is changed to show User-Defined Markers on top.
  • Fixed: Change to Symbol Format properties 'Flip Horizontal/Vertical' does not propagate instantly.
  • Fixed: Crash when trying to attach notes to Ideas.

New in ThinkComposer 1.5.1202 (Dec 3, 2014)

  • Fixed: Edit dialog (such as Concept Definition) crash when open in second screen in a dual monitor environment.

New in ThinkComposer 1.5.1149 (Sep 15, 2014)

  • Hot fix: The content tree show changes (again) after deleting an Idea.

New in ThinkComposer 1.5.1127 (Dec 2, 2013)

  • New Domains: Argumentative mapping and Influence diagram.
  • New: Tilt command to turn selected symbols 90º clockwise (flip them to change orientation).
  • New: Show as Multiple command to show selected symbols as multiple stacked ones.
  • Fixed: Cursor is incorrectly positioned, after inserting text with line-break or tab characters, in symbol Name/Title.
  • Fixed: Incorrect selection indicators are shown after deleting objects.
  • Fixed: Visual objects remains orphan after deleting a Relationship.
  • Fixed: Crash when setting Line color brush as none.

New in ThinkComposer 1.5.1104 (Nov 4, 2013)

  • New: Auto-size based on entered text (active by default on new Compositions. Activate/deactivate in View -> "Auto-Size by Entered Text").
  • Improved: While editing an object's text in the View, press [Alt]+[Enter] to insert a new-line, or press [Shift]+[Tab] to insert a tab character. Also, the text input can be always finished by pressing [Ctrl]+[Enter].
  • Improved: Move selected objects by pressing Arrow-Keys using steps of View's Grid size (press [Ctrl] to force steps of 1 pixel, and [Shift] to multiply those steps by 4).
  • Fixed: Toolbar does not show buttons when pressing collapse/expand pin repeatedly.
  • Fixed: While displacing a connector, the handle icon is shown near the target symbol's center instead of the connector's center.
  • Fixed: Symbols with Fixed-Size can be resized on creation by dragging (they should not).

New in ThinkComposer 1.4.4022 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • Improved: Toolbar is collapsed immediately when pressing the collapse/expand pin.
  • Improved: A context-menu, with commands depending on the selected object type,
  • is displayed when clicking with the Right/Alt mouse button, over the Content Tree.
  • Improved: Views can be deleted from the context-menu shown in the Content Tree.
  • Improved: A new predefined output-template has been defined for export "Propositions" (useful in Concept Mapping) from Relationships.
  • Apply it in the "Composition" text Output-Template of the Domain, plus clearing the Concepts and Relationships base templates, and then go to Tools->Generate files.
  • Changed: In Relationship creation, the pointed Idea can be designated as 'Origin' if pressing [Left-ALT]. Previously, any [ALT] key (left of right) was accepted.
  • Changed: In Relationship creation, to insert an intermediate Relationship (applycable only for non-simple Relationships), now you must press the [Right-ALT] key instead of [Ctrl].
  • Fixed: Window maximization or resize does cross the area of Windows taskbar, making inaccessible some buttons and other controls.
  • Fixed: Crashed when undoing creation of Composite Content View.
  • Fixed: Deletion of Ideas does not close Views of affected composite/nested Ideas.
  • Fixed: Edit text-box remains active while Undoing/Redoing commands.
  • Fixed: Undo of automatic created Concepts (like in the 'Mind Mapping' Domain) is partially applied by object (i.e. first Concept, then Relationship), instead as applied to the whole command.
  • Fixed: Apply format does not works from and to Complements.
  • Fixed: Crashes with a simple relationship, just after setting the center on empty-space, while using the ongoing target creator to point precisely (presing [Ctrl]) to the target symbol.

New in ThinkComposer 1.4.3928 (Sep 30, 2013)

  • Improved: New symbol geometry shapes added (arrows and double-arrows).
  • Improved: Widened Shape selector in Idea-Definitions.
  • Improved: Brush color selector now have fields for entering RGB values and the fine selection range is adjusted on each selection.
  • Fixed: Brush color selector appears with an unused blank area at the right side.
  • Fixed: File/Code Generation sometimes crashes when Ideas have custom brushes.

New in ThinkComposer 1.4.3909 (Sep 11, 2013)

  • New: Table Details now can contain Pictures as specified in Table-Structure field definitions.
  • Improved: Extended palette of predefined Styles.
  • Fixed: Paste tool works as Paste Shortcut.

New in ThinkComposer 1.4.3826 (Sep 11, 2013)

  • New: Drag and drop of files from outside ThinkComposer into the diagram (works as Paste).
  • New: Idea Definitions can be grouped in clusters, improving their organization. Create the Clusters in the Domain definition.
  • Improved: HTML Reports now include the current path/route, plus navigation links, at the top of each page (labeled as "At: ").
  • Improved: Paste of text delimited by tab or comma, suchas as that copied from Excel, is now pasted as a Table detail (must select the "as detail" check-box).
  • Improved: Paste now can create Link Details when pasting text starting with "http://" (must select the "as detail" check-box).
  • Improved: A Relationship from another Relationship can be created while dragging the pointing connector and pressing [Ctrl].
  • Fixed: Export Image fails to save it as PDF.
  • Fixed: Formats applied to individual Ideas are loss for undo/redo.
  • Fixed: After pressing [ALT] the diagram editor losses the focus.
  • Fixed: Related origins are not shown/collapsed when pressing the Related icon in the symbol selector and [ALT-Left].
  • Fixed: Some predefined Styles have transparent background (instead of white), producing display problems.

New in ThinkComposer 1.4.3730 (Jul 31, 2013)

  • New: Content-tree now presents a box to Find Ideas by text within their Name.
  • Improved: Concepts can be created also by dragging the mouse after dropping a Concept Definition, thus giving a custom initial size.
  • Improved: Extra origin links can be created by pressing [ALT] while dragging the mouse from the center of the Relationship symbol.
  • Fixed: Pointing not using Snap-To-Grid works incorrectly.

New in ThinkComposer 1.3.3721 (Jul 20, 2013)

  • Fixed: Instability at startup on x64 machines.
  • Fixed: Deleted Idea remains in content-tree and application crashes when clicking at it.

New in ThinkComposer 1.3.3528 (May 31, 2013)

  • Fixed: Button "Apply", intended only for the File Generation Configuration saving, appears on all edit windows (not applying changes).
  • Fixed: Marker assignments direct edit (over Idea's symbol) only works when details are shown.

New in ThinkComposer 1.3.3522 (May 23, 2013)

  • New: File generation from Ideas, based on text Output-Templates using the "Liquid" format. Very useful for code generation and custom data exports.
  • New: Domains can declare External Languages, to base Output-Templates -for file/code generation- on them.
  • New: Domains can declare generic Output-Templates at Composition, Concepts and Relationships levels.
  • New: Idea Definitions can declare Output-Templates (ad-hoc to their particularities) and optionally extend its base Output-Template.
  • New: Text editor for Tech-Specs and Output-Templates with: Line numbering, auto-indenting and syntax coloring (currently only available for Output-Templates editing).
  • Improved: Marker assignments can be edited just clicking over them (while shown over an Idea Symbol).
  • Improved:. In the Detail Link editor window, now a drop-down list of recently visited websites is shown.
  • Fixed: Relink fails over Ideas based on Idea-Definitions having Origin/Target Roles linkability restrictions.
  • Fixed: Snap-to-Grid feature not working over precise grid positions.
  • Fixed: When Relationship is Simple and hidding Main-Symbol, then is no way to edit Relationship properties. Now you can right-click on a connector and select "Relationship Properties".
  • Fixed: Cannot select Relationship by pointing over its name Label (when the symbol is hidden).
  • Fixed: Visually misplaced Connector selector (in yellow color) after Connector displaced.
  • Fixed: Crash in Search or Replace if scanning the Description property.

New in ThinkComposer 1.2.3219 (Mar 18, 2013)

  • New: A Table cell can contain a whole table inside. These new "Nested" Tables are created on Fields based on the new Table data-type.
  • Improved: Legend complements now also shows the Variants of Relationship Definitions.
  • Improved: No more sudden auto-resize of windows depending of their content.
  • Improved: Application error window provides a way to report it to Instrumind Software.
  • Fixed: Replace text causes corruption of Ideas' Description properties (in its RTF+XML format).
  • Fixed: Reports (all types) does not show the Pictogram of the Domain's Definitions.
  • Fixed: Advanced properties are not always shown when required (in various edit windows).
  • Fixed: Exceeding numeric field limits (such as allowed decimal digits) in Table manual edit, makes the typed value to be overwritten by the stored value.
  • Fixed: Table editor for single-record, with form style, shows an empty list for fields based on the Switch data-type.
  • Fixed: Moving an Symbol with auto-reference (having a Relationship pointing to itself) does not move the two Ideas along.

New in ThinkComposer 1.2.1217 (Dec 17, 2012)

  • Fixed: The "Select all" tool crashes.
  • Fixed: Connectors not repainted correctly after collapsing a Symbol Details Poster.
  • Changed: No repositioning of connecting points inside a Symbol head as result of hide/show the Details Poster.

New in ThinkComposer 1.2.1123 (Nov 23, 2012)

  • Improved: New Plug geometries are available.
  • Improved: Plug is now visible while cycling-through-variants (not hidden by re-linking indicator).
  • Fixed: Reports crashes when Composition has Markers without descriptor.
  • Fixed: Reports show Marker's incorrect pictogram or empty definitor.
  • Fixed: HTML Report generation fails if Composition names have non standard characters (such as quotes). Now these characters are changed by standard ones.
  • Fixed: Export of View's image suggests a file-name truncated at the final characters.
  • Fixed: The "Line Format" command does not change thickness and dash style of the selected objects.

New in ThinkComposer 1.2.1113 (Nov 14, 2012)

  • New: HTML Reports (in the Professional and superior editions).
  • New: PDF Report "save as" option, also for export View images.
  • Improved: Simplified Table creation and Custom-Fields edit (structure is editable in a tab). *NOTE*: Compositions saved with this version are not readable with previous ones. Therefore, if you share your Compositions, make sure the receiver also has the latest ThinkComposer version!
  • Changed: Resize command is symmetric only with the [Alt-Left] key, and Move command locks positon only with the [Alt-Right] key.
  • New: Predefined Domains (Flowchart, Class diagram, Use Case diagram and Sequence diagram).
  • New: Group Line Complement and context-menu option to change its axis (useful as "Lifeline" in UML Sequence Diagrams).
  • New: Quote Complement.
  • New: Symbols' format can specify fixed width and height.
  • New: A Table or Custom-Field can reference an Idea. Idea-Reference type available for declaring Table-Structure fields.
  • New: A Table or Custom-Field cell allows the user to pick values from tables (for text and number fields) or from an Idea of the Composition (for text fields).
  • New: When editing a Table-Structure, a Field Definition, of numeric or text types, enables users to pick values from a Source Base Table (records).
  • New: When editing a Table-Structure, a Field Definition, of text type, enables users to reference an Idea of the Composition by selecting which property use to reference it.
  • New: Idea Definition's Symbol Format can show the symbol As Multiple (with a stack of 3 shapes) and with a Separator line between Details.
  • New: Edit a selected Idea by pressing [F4].
  • Improved: Increased number of "Representative Shape" geometries to choose.
  • Improved: Reports inform Details contained in Ideas.
  • Improved: Reports inform Links associated to Ideas (origins, targets and companions/siblings) and Links implemented by Relationships.
  • Improved: Reports inform Tech-Spec of Ideas.
  • Improved: Content Tree now includes the Idea's pictogram (just after the Definition pictogram).
  • Improved: New "Arrange" tab on Idea-Definition edit windows with properties about autocreation and grouping.
  • Improved: An Idea now can have multiple Group-Regions.
  • Improved: Line Dash-style selectors (combo-box) now shows a visual sample.
  • Improved: Line Thickness now can be selected from a combo-box showing a visual sample.
  • Improved: "Line color" and "Connector color" tool-bar buttons now edits "format": color/brush, plus thickness and dash-style (also for Complements).
  • Improved: Idea Definition's Symbol Format now can specify Flipped Horizontally and Vertically states, plus Tilted 90° clockwise.
  • Improved: New geometric shapes added.
  • Improved: More space is provided (while editing and displaying in symbols) for data field of type Text-Long.
  • Improved: Symbol samples, shown in the Concepts and Relationships Palette, now are presented with the correct aspect-ration between initial widht and height.
  • Fixed: Links with Role-Type of "Participant" are incorrectly shown (the "Target" plug is still used).
  • Fixed: Crash after creating Idea Definition clones or Field Definition clones.
  • Fixed: View aiming position (to the current visible area of the diagram) is lost after save/open the Composition or change to other View.
  • Fixed: Idea Details are not shown in the order they are declared (in the "Details" tab).
  • Fixed: Background brush/color for Group-Regions of Idea-Definitions symbol format is not applied.
  • Fixed: Applying particular style properties (colors, line thickness) to Symbols incorrectly also applies them to Connectors.
  • Fixed: Creating a Relationship starts from a precise position when the source Idea Definitor has the "Precise Connect by default" option not checked.
  • Fixed: Copied Ideas has its Complements in the same place as the original ones.
  • Changed: Minimum size of a symbol now is 2x2.
  • Other minor improvements and bug-fixes.

New in ThinkComposer 1.1.0824 (Aug 25, 2012)

  • New: View background brush/color and background image (*). See View properties.
  • New: Domain default View background brush/color and background image (*). See Domain properties.
  • Improved: Features related to Idea Details:
  • Button (green-arrow with disk) for directly extract Content of Attachments and Tables.
  • Context-menu to access Details tab of Idea's Properties.
  • Go-to link now is called "Access content" and also is used to externally access Attachments (the OS will call the associated application).
  • Improved: Export of Details Table allows append records to an existing file (not only overwrite).
  • Improved: Dialogs for Open/Save files now remember the last used directory (per file type).
  • Improved: If only one tab remains open and you close it, then the whole Composition is closed (currently it requires to have at least one tab open).
  • Improved: Safer saving of documents. If a crash happens while saving your original file is preserved in a ".old" file.
  • Fixed: A composite-content view does not immediately show its changes in its owner Idea (when showing the composite-content as detail).
  • Fixed: Detail tables (and other data grids) have too little height to show complete letters.
  • Fixed: Content Tree does not reflects visual style changes after an Idea Definition is edited.
  • Fixed: View position is altered after switching to other Composition.
  • : If the image is bigger than 500x500 then it is adjusted to fit in the View, else it is repeated/tiled.

New in ThinkComposer 1.1.0810 (Aug 11, 2012)

  • Fixed: Crash when showing/editing Details linked to properties such as 'Summary'.
  • New: Capability to update document (Composition or Domain) structure in order to support new features and improve stability.
  • New: Connectors can be precisely positioned inside a symbol (pres [Ctrl]), not only from/to its center.
  • New: Idea Definition's "Precise Connect by default" property: Indicates to connect from/to precise aimed positions inside the Symbol, by default, else from/to the Symbol center.
  • Fixed: Last modifier cannot be changed in Versioning tab while editing object properties.
  • Changed: Color schema of predefined Domains.
  • Fixed: Connector Plug 'Triline-Circle' has the circle crossed by the connector's line.
  • Improved: Color brushes now can be set to nothing/null from any drop-down color brush selector.

New in ThinkComposer 1.1.0802 (Aug 3, 2012)

  • Fixed: The "Representative Shape" property shows only Rectangles while editing Concept or Relationship Definitions.
  • Fixed: Crash when editing globally predefined Details (such as Custom-Fields) on a Converted Idea.
  • Improved: Connector lines now can be straighten even when linking an auto-reference Relationship.

New in ThinkComposer 1.1.0731 (Aug 3, 2012)

  • New: Convert tool to change the base Idea Definition type of Ideas.
  • New: View properties editing allows change of the Grid Size.
  • New: Idea's Context-Menu for edit Markers.
  • Improved: Image exporting quality of JPEG files enhanced to 90% (for 100% quality use PNG).
  • Improved: Initial size of the Domain selection window is proportional to the main window.
  • Improved: Faster switching details on multiple selected ideas.
  • Improved: If user clicks a View in the content tree, then it is opened if not current else its properties are edited.
  • Improved: Naming of Views has been simplified.
  • Fixed: Relationship Connectors are not updated when the Relationship Definition is changed (origin/participant or target plugs variants).
  • Fixed: Crash when picking the same internal image (icon) twice.
  • Fixed: Crash when copying a visual object not having background color.
  • Fixed: Images exported have a light gray border partially surrounding them.
  • New: Export data from Table details (from Table Editor) into tab or csv files, the later using Windows (regional setting) list separator*.
  • Changed: Importing of csv files now uses the Windows (regional setting) list separator*.
  • It uses ";" to avoid conflict with decimal separator if the Windows list separator is comma.

New in ThinkComposer 1.0.7701 (Aug 3, 2012)

  • New: Report Generation Configuration.
  • New: Preview as graphic representation of Concept and Relationship Definitions.
  • Autoresizing of windows is now constrained within screen.
  • Controls adjusted for Concept Definition and Relationship Definition edit windows.
  • Fixed: Autopositioning (i.e. for Mind-mapping editing style) losses text of nodes beyond primary level.

New in ThinkComposer 1.0.7618 (Aug 3, 2012)

  • Fixed initialization of diagram view from upper-left corner instead of center

New in ThinkComposer 1.0.7502 (Aug 3, 2012)

  • Fixed crash while generating Composition Report

New in ThinkComposer 1.0.7430 (May 2, 2012)

  • Fixed bugs since closed Beta period.