What's new in XWord Portable 0.5.4
Nov 17, 2011
- New Features:
- New printing options: Current progress, blank grid, solution
- Letters that have been checked and found to be correct are indicated with a green circle in the top right corner. These squares are not allowed to be overwritten.
- Panes resize proportionally when the window is resized.
- Help files
- New menu item: Erase Grid.
- New menu item: Erase Uncrossed Squares.
- New menu item / toolbar item: Rebus Entry (previously only accessible by pressing INSERT)
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix regression where .puz files did not load sections (e.g. timer, circles).
- Diagramless puzzles: fixed crashes and/or error messages on loading.
- Diagramless puzzles: clicking on a clue no longer moves the cursor to the start of the word (revealing information about the grid).
- Odd numbering schemes are correctly displayed (XPF; see NYT 10/21/2011).
- Removed Features:
- Run Script menu item removed from the Tools menu (redundant: the package system should take care of all script needs).
New in XWord Portable 0.5.3 (Nov 17, 2011)
- New Features:
- Option to save a history of recently opened files.
- Option to reopen the previous puzzle.
- Bug Fixes:
- Fix major regression that prevents saving .puz files.
- Puzzles with background images can't be saved in XPF format.
- Puzzle loading errors do not include line information: e.g. "../import.init.lua line xxx: error message"
New in XWord Portable 0.5.2 (Nov 17, 2011)
- New Features:
- Background images (only jpz).
- Marks in the corner of squares (only jpz).
- Auto Save.
- Bug Fixes / Improvements:
- Save button is grayed when no changes have been made (it used to change to Save As).
- Focus remains on grid when the clue list is clicked.
- Rebus entries are actually allowed to be any length.
- Long rebus entries are truncated and given tooltips.
- Rebus entries are displayed slightly larger.
- Fixed a crash on puzzles with non-linear words (e.g. Looking Glass).
New in XWord Portable 0.5.1 (Sep 27, 2011)
- Bug Fixes / Improvements:
- Improved diagramless navigation
- Timer info is loaded/saved correctly for jpz.
- Formatted clues are saved correctly for XPF.
- Scripts that have any kind of error when loading are disabled.
New in XWord Portable 0.5 (Sep 27, 2011)
- New Features:
- Added a preference to start the timer when a puzzle is opened
- Added a Delete Puzzle button
- Read/write support for XPF
- Read/write support for jpz
- Partial read support for ipuz
- Script updater / package manager
- Better printing layout (could still be better and faster)
- Support for more puzzle features:
- Diagonal clues
- Clues made up of arbitrary sets of squares
- Empty squares
- Rebus entries with unlimited length
- Bug Fixes:
- Lua errors result in the script being disabled.
- Fixed problems with puzzles being wrongly reported as incorrect.
New in XWord Portable 0.4 (Sep 27, 2011)
- New Features:
- Embedded lua for scripting. Included scripts:
- Puzzle downloading
- Puzzle database
- "Swap across and down" written in lua
- OneAcross.com search
- Wikipedia.com search
- Non-native file import
- Try all letters (A-Z) in a blank square of the current word.
- User is now prompted before revealing the entire grid.
- Shift+8 (asterisk) toggles a circle in the current square.
- Check / Reveal can use a user-defined selection of squares.
- Bug Fixes:
- .puz files now correctly use the full Windows-1252 code page instead of latin 1.
- Fixed a bug with obscure rebus entry behavior resulting in incorrectly reported solved / unsolved puzzles.
- "Move to next blank" will now wrap to the first blank in the word if the last blank has been entered (i.e. A-A-T; the user enters "I" as the 4th letter, and the cursor moves to the second letter).
- Spacebar always deletes the current letter and moves to the next square regardless of preferences.
- XWord correctly loads puzzles using webdings for rebus entries (entering webdings symbols in the grid is not currently supported, though XWord can display symbols in a puzzle previously saved by Across Lite).
- Misc:
- Revamped build system using premake4 to generate platform-specific project files and makefiles. Projects for MSVC2006, and MSVC2008. Makefile for linux.
- Removed conversion dialog.
New in XWord Portable 0.3.1 (Sep 27, 2011)
- Fixed "Move to next blank" bug
New in XWord Portable 0.3 (Sep 27, 2011)
- New Features:
- If a puzzle file is corrupt and not entirely unrecoverable, an option is given to load the puzzle anyway.
- A dialog supporting batch conversion of puzzle files (from .txt to .puz and vice-versa) has been added under the tools menu. If the -convert [-c] command line option is given when XWord is invoked, only the conversion dialog appears. Closing the dialog ends the program. Files to convert can still be given as command line parameters, and other options (-directory [-d], -output-files [-o], -overwrite [-w]) work as expected. If XWord is invoked with -c, conversion begins immediately.
- Added a clue prompt format preference.
- Added separate preferences for grid clue number and text fonts.
- Added an option to tweak the proprtion of text size to clue number size in the grid.
- Rudimentary printing.
- Added "Swap across and down" under the tools menu for a new perspective on your crossword puzzle!
- Bug Fixes:
- A correctly filled grid with revealed letters is noted as solved instead of displaying the message "The puzzle is completely filled, but some letters are incorrect."
- "Reveal letter" and "Reveal word" now reveal squares if they are blank or incorrect (previously they only revealed incorrect squares).
- The "Check while typing" option does not attempt to check squares if the puzzle is scrambled. If this option is selected when the puzzle is unscrambled, the puzzle is immediately checked for incorrect letters.
- "Move to next square" and "Move to next blank" preferences under the "After entering a letter" section now work as expected.
- All preferences now update immediately when then are changed (so you can preview the changes in the main window).
- Removed the pencil color setting until a pencil is implemented.
- Notepad window can always be opened or closed.
- Loading and saving the LTIM section of puz files is aware of whether or not the timer is running.
- Misc:
- Changed the name of the "Options" dialog to "Preferences".
- The default "crossing clue background color" is now white.
New in XWord Portable 0.2.1 (Sep 27, 2011)
- Fixed timer starting/stopping issues when activating and deactivating XWord.
- Notepad window can be closed.
- The grid is replaced with a "(Paused)" message if the timer is running when XWord is deactivated.
New in XWord Portable 0.2 (Sep 27, 2011)
- Rebus puzzles can now be solved!
- Scrambled puzzles are checked once the puzzle is completely filled.
- "Corrupted" .puz files with the wrong version string are automatically tested with other version strings.
- Puzzle information sections (clue prompt, author, title, and copyright) are now centered instead of left- and top-aligned. This will be configurable in the future.
- Puzzle title is displayed in the title bar.
- File Locations:
- XWord will now search a set of directories for its files rather than expecting all the files to be in the executable directory. Directories searched depend both on the OS used and the directory that XWord is run from.
- Portable mode: if a file named "config.ini" is found in the executable's directory (linux or windows), XWord will write all config settings to that file and will not touch any other folders.
- Config:
- Added configuration settings!
- Created a very basic options dialog with wxFormBuilder
- Config file is named "config.ini" on windows and ".xword" on linux
- Windows-specific:
- Removed icons from menus, as menu icon rendering is not implemented well in wxWidgets under Vista