StoryBox Previous Version Release Notes

Changes By Version

Version 2.0.17
06/03/2016

Added the ability to change the paper and text colors in normal viewing mode
Automatic backup on exit is now turned on by default. This will only affect new installs.
Fixed refresh when paper and text colors change
Fixed epub/mobi export hang when more than one image is inserted into a single document
Fixed an issue that caused some menu buttons to be missing after switching themes

Version 2.0.16
05/12/2016

Improved loading speed, memory usage.
Fixed minor issues with many of the themes.
Using the Recent Projects list to open a project that has been moved or deleted will now give you a warning and remove the missing project from the list.
The backgrounds for additional monitors when in full screen now update when Custom Color or image layout is changed.
[email][/email] tags are now removed from RTF exports
Fixed tool tips for the File Drawer
Fixed excessive flashing when switching to full screen while having a background image set
Improved the draw speed of the background image in full screen
Fixed a bug that caused an error message when emptying the trash
Story selector in the progress tool window now follows the currently active story as determined by the current document. You can change this to see other story information, but when you switch stories, it will change to the new story.
You can now tab through the New Project dialog.

Version 2.0.15
02/03/2015

Added an option to set the default multi-document setting for new projects in Preferences->General
Added export options to convert -- to an em-dash and three periods to an ellipses character.
Fixed the paste so that it no longer puts in unwanted extra paragraph formatting when pasting into an auto-formatted document
Added an option to enable/disable automatic editing of titles when a new document is created (Preferences->General)
New documents are now automatically displayed when created
Added a lock toggle to the documents so that you can lock them from editing.
Fixed scrolling of the edit window so that you can no longer scroll the text off the screen
Minor improvent to export speed.
Added an option to Inline style information for ePub/mobi export. This is for solving problems with styles when uploading to Kobo (which likes to kill the CSS file).
Moved the Search options to a separate window from the search results.
Search and Replace boxes are now case sensitive (they will remember 'I' and 'i' as separate items).
You can now search on just the current document, the current story, all stories, open documents, or everything
Ctrl-F now defaults to searching the current document. Ctrl-Shift-F defaults to searching the current story.
Fixed an import issue where having a scene separation marker (* * *) right in front of a chapter tag would cause the import to hang
During import, text enclosed by a [chapter][/chapter] tags will be used for the document title of the Chapter document, instead of being included in the body of the chapter document.
Fixed an error that would cause a blank scene to keep the export from finishing while exporting to ePub or mobi
Fixed an issue that caused full-screen to not be sized correctly when using two screens with them arranged one above the other

Version 2.0.14
04/22/2013

Fixed the closing of a project so that it releases the lock on the file when the Project load is aborted upon discovering it's open somewhere else
Added an option to toggle Auto Capitalization on and off in the Format tab of the Preferences
Added a Zoom menu to the right click context menu of the document window under the Format submenu
Added a warning message when applying a template to a document with text in it. It warns that the action cannot be undone.
Fixed an issue that could cause an exception message when adding a new document into the outline view
Fixed: Changes to notecards are now saved as soon as you click into another part of the application (even clicking into another notecard).

Version 2.0.13
08/27/2013

Added an option to not indent the first paragraph of a scene when exporting.
Added an option to capitalize the first n words of the first paragraph of a scene when exporting
Added an option to automatically set a raised initial on the first letter of the first scene inside a chapter when exporting
Added a [/chapter] tag for importing. Anything between [chapter] and [/chapter] will be inserted into the Chapter document and not the Scene document
Will no longer create an empty Chapter and Scene if there is nothing in front of the first [chapter] marker in your rtf
Fixed an issue where the wordcount bars weren't getting updated when switching between scenes in two different stories within the same project

Version 2.0.12
07/09/2013

You no longer need to add [br] to have empty lines show up correctly in ePub exports. You should, in fact, remove them if you are using them.
Fixed a bug with ePub validation surrounding the table of contents tag ([toc]).
Added an Apply Template menu item to the Documents menu. Apply Template will replace the existing content.
Made the editor window respect windows system colors in normal mode
If you enter full screen, then exit again, it will now retain the document set and the layout that were open while in windowed mode. If you open a new document in full screen and that document is active when you exit full screen, that document will be added to the windowed mode docuement set and will be the active document when you return to windowed mode.
Fixed a bug that created an invalid ePub if an empty document with the Page Break Before setting set on it and the document following it. The empty document will now be ignored.
Fixed an issue where the suggested spelling word would not get selected in certain situations

Version 2.0.11
06/12/2013

Removed a dependency upon Microsoft VC 2010 runtimes. This makes the download smalle and fixes a problem where some machines would not start the software correctly.
Fixed a problem where StoryBox wasn't releasing it's file lock on the database if it gave you the message about StoryBox thinking your project might be open elsewhere and you told it not to open it.
Fixed a problem where not all of the items in the File Drawer would be visible upon load when there are large numbers of items

Changes From 1.5 to 2.0

Moved menu to center bottom screen
Changed menu items from text to icons
Word count bars have been added to the new menubar. They can be toggled on and off individually through the MenuBar right click menu. The "story" wordcount bars will display the wordcount of the currently active story (clicking on a document that belongs to a story switches the active story to that story).
All of the tool windows can now be opened and docked within full screen mode, allowing for switching between documents, viewing notes and synopsis, etc...
View tabs are now icons instead of text
View tabs are hidden on scenes when the scene does not have any child documents
Characters count display on the document window has been removed
The zoom slider on the document window has been removed. Holding Ctrl-while scrolling the wheel on your mouse will zoom the text windows.
Center Screen typing is now available in the windowed mode
The typewriter sound is now available in windowed mode.
Added shortcut keys Shift-Alt-Left and Shift-Alt-Right to move forward and back sequentially through the documents in your project
Added "Insert Hyperlink" to the document right-click menu
Added "Insert Macro" to the document right-click menu. This has a submenu with all of the macros
Added "Insert Template" to the document right-click menu.
Added view options to the right-click menu on a picture document
Image lists (in the insert Image Link menu and in the Cover and Scene Separator dropdowns) are now sorted by Story with images from the currently active story at the top
There is a new option in the preferences to automatically create a scene document when you create a new chapter. This is on by default.
Now does auto capitalization in the situations where it's possible to determine what is intended.
Items in the "Add To" context menus are now sorted by the name of the thing you're looking for (not the whole path, just the last part of it).
Themes have been updated with larger fonts and other tweaks to make them more accessible
Tablet Dark theme has been added
Mac & Cheese theme has been added
Fixed arrow directions for Carbon, Midnight, Tablet Dark, and Emerald themes in the File drawer tree so that they point in the standard direction
Added the ability for imports to an existing project to import more than one file at a time
Importing from RTF now trims whitespace from the beginning and end of a scene
Indents now adjusted to match StoryBox defaults when importing from RTF files
Importing now uses "[chapter]" instead of "- Chapter -" to split the chapters apart. This will be getting some more options, eventually
Added a new switch for epub/mobi formats in the Exporter called "Open To First Text". This will cause most e-readers to open to the first Act/Chapter/Scene document that is encountered. This seems to be becoming a standard, though some e-readers don't respect it. The default is on.
Title and Author have been removed from the front of export on plain text and RTF formats when there is a blank Story document. They remain in ePub format, as the Story document is the intended first page of an ePub document, and as such, should essentially be the title page.
Fixed: ePub export now passes latest epubcheck validation
Centered items are now stripped of any indents when exporting to ePub/mobi so that they are truly centered on the device. If you hate this, let me know and I'll make it an option, but it should save you from having to turn off auto format where you have items you want centered, since you won't have to worry about the indent.
Exporting to RTF no longer puts an extra empty line after a pagebreak
ePub export now centers properly in Nook reader (and, presumably, other readers based on the same software)
Adjustments made to [br] - it no longer gives double
tags on some readers.
No longer cuts Kindle prepared indents in half (this was originally cut in half for older generation kindles that appeared to double the size of the indents and has been fixed in recent generations/updates)
No longer adds an extra linebreak after a scene separator for Kindle prepared exports
Selecting mobi format in the export no longer shows the Prepare for Kindle option, as modifying that option has no effect on mobi export
[br] tag now gives a proper line break on tested readers (kobo, kindle, nook, iBooks)
All wordcount settings and progress bars (except for the ones you can see on the menu bar, which are duplicates) are now combined into a single tool window called "Progress"
Story properties ( UID/ISBN, Cover Image, Scene Separator Image) are now in the Document Properties window, and will be available when you click on a story document.
ePub Info has been removed from Project Settings - the Publisher textbox was moved to Manuscript Info
Preserve Formatting has been changed to Auto Format.
Fixed an error that occurs when you delete the wordcount target from the wordcount target textbox, and hit enter without typing anything else
Added an option in the preferences to change the user template directory
Added 'Export to HTML' to the outline view context menu
Added 45 day, non-consecutive trial period. Editing will be disabled after StoryBox is opened on 45 different days. Exporting is not disabled.
Fixed: Bug that caused the wordcount statistics page to report wrong values if it was left open when closing the project
Fixed a bug that could cause a project to have the version reset if a file I/O error occurred during load
Better handling of a rare exception when a document might be open already and it tries to find that document and can't. You may be forced to restart, but it shouldn't result in data loss from trying to open it and failing
Changed the layout of the preferences window
Made Word Usage page reflect the currently active story (the story for the document that is currently open)
StoryBox 2 can now run as a 64bit application on 64 bit computers
Installer now installs to the proper directory on 64 bit computers
Installer now includes certain required dll's for machines that do not have them installed. This does not include the .Net runtimes or XP Service Pack 3 - those still need to be downloaded separately
Installer now tries to close StoryBox if StoryBox is running when the installation is started
Added a Lookup item to the right click menu in the document view. You can now look up items on Dictionary.com, Google, and Wikipedia
Changed the trash so that it only shows the outline view. If you have any text in the Trash document, copy it out to somewhere else like the Notes tool, as it will become inaccessible after this upgrade.
Added New Project form that lets you set the author, publisher, and title of your project
Added Author and Publisher fields to the Import wizard
Fixed the positioning of the Import Wizard dialog
Fixed File Drawer expansion arrow directions for the Black theme
Changing the document type for a document will now cause it's properties to be set to the new document type's default settings
Removed the trash document type from the default view list in the options
Right clicking on the outline view in the trash document now shows an "Empty Trash" item instead of "New Document" items
Outline View of Trash now updates once the Trash has been emptied
Export to HTML has been removed as one of the options for the Trash outline context menu
Export, Import As Child, and Import As Sibling have been removed from the File Drawer context menu when right clicking the Trash
Document types of Trash, Item Folder, Character Folder and Locations Folder can no longer be modified (even before, modifying did not change behavior, this just elminates the confusion as to why they don't change)
Document Properties are now disabled when you open up the Trash view document
Fixed: Buy buttons now disappear without having to restart when you verify your registration
Fixed the File Drawer expansion arrows for the Midnight theme
Fixed a scenario where the trash outline wouldn't update when an item was dragged out of the trash.
Clicking the Preview button/menu item will no longer cause an exception when there are no documents in the selection that are marked as "Include In Manuscript"
Import Picture menu context menu item on the picture view is now filtered to show only supported image types (pnt, bmp, jpg)
You will now get a more informative error message (instead of a crash dialog) if you try to open an unsupported file type when importing a picture
Added scrollbars to the picture view when actual size picture is greater than the visible size of the window.
Active Document Selection Menu (next to the document tabs) now displays the documents in the order the tabs appear instead of by the order of when you opened them
Made changes to the default Character, Item and Location templates.
Fixed references in the code that referred to the old default template folder instead of the new location (which is in the common app data folder). This fixes a couple different bugs.
Fixed an error that could cause an exception when a document window tried to load while an existing document window has the same internal id (rare)
Using Add->New Character (or Item or Location) will now place the new document as a child of the currently selected document just like the other document types, as long as they are within the right tree (character is in the Characters tree, for instance). Otherwise, they will be placed in root of the proper tree
Using Add and Add Sibling on the File Drawer Context menu will now show Character, Item, or Location options if the root folder is Characters, Items, or Locations, respectively, regardless of the parent document. This means you can use regular documents as folders, and they won't show up in the Add To... lists
Fixed display names in the Add/Remove buttons of the toolbar for the Align Left, Align Center, Align Right, and Bug report buttons
Added keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+L to make selected text lowercase. Ctrl+Shift+U makes selected text uppercase
Added [ri][/ri] tags so that you can set raised initial caps for ebook exports. They will not affect RTF export.
Added Ctrl+Shift+R shortcut to apply [ri][/ri] tags around the selected text
StoryBox no longer deletes mobi files that get created by KindleGen when there are errors in the KindleGen process.
StoryBox will now detect if Calibre is installed, and if it is, will give you the option of using Calibre to convert to .mobi format (it currently uses default options)
You no longer need spaces around the [chapter] tag for the import to separate the chapters correctly
A mesagebox about a missing [/url] tag during export no longer pops up behind the export window
Importing as a sibling now puts the documents in between the document you selected and the one right after it, instead of at the end
Added a "None" option to the Document context menu under Format->Indent.
Added a backup on project close feature. This feature will eat harddrive space, especially if you are putting lots of images in your projects. You can turn it on and set the backup folder in the Preferences.
Added a countdown timer with an alarm. You can hide and show it from the Configure->Menu Bar->Show Countdown Timer menu.
Fixed a bug that could cause a saved version to not contain the latest typed text or other changes that occured since the last auto save
StoryBox now saves document cursor position/selection when closing project documents
Fixed application of text styles (bold, italic, etc...) so that the behaivor matches industry standard behaviors.
Removed the light gray rectangle around the menu buttons on the Midnight theme
Fixed the problem where the currently active theme menu item would not be checked when StoryBox loads up
Added Session Wordcount and Timed Wordcount indicators to the menu bar
Drastically improved the speed at which StoryBox shuts down
Added a Menu Bar preferences page. It sets the items on the Menu Bar for the current mode (normal or full screen).
Updated the help files so that they match the new StoryBox 2 functionality
Fixed the word count target editors so that they all work the same.
Added a menu item on the Project Tags context menu. Right click a tag, and you can add it to the existing document.
Tags are now sorted alphabetically
Searching Tags via the search button on the tags window now only searches tags and not the other document parts
Rearanged the order of the menu items on the View menu
Removed the "Forum" link from the help menu. The forum was hardly used and a spambot flooded it. It makes me sad, but I don't have the time to kill a thousand pieces of spam every week.
Fixed the Global Tags grid so that it is not disabled when there is a project open, but no documents are loaded.
Document tags grid is now cleared when there is no active document
Tags Search button is disabled when there is nothing to search on, now
Fixed titlebar text so that it is updated correctly when the registration information is verififed

Version 2.0.10
06/04/2013

Updated the help files so that they match the new StoryBox 2 functionality
Fixed the word count target editors so that they all work the same.
Added a menu item on the Project Tags context menu. Right click a tag, and you can add it to the existing document.
Tags are now sorted alphabetically
Searching Tags via the search button on the tags window now only searches tags and not the other document parts
Rearanged the order of the menu items on the View menu
Added a "None" option to the Center Typing dropdown
Removed the "Forum" link from the help menu. The forum was hardly used and a spambot flooded it. It makes me sad, but I don't have the time to kill a thousand pieces of spam every week.
Fixed the Global Tags grid so that it is not disabled when there is a project open, but no documents are loaded.
Document tags grid is now cleared when there is no active document
Tags Search button is disabled when there is nothing to search on, now
Fixed titlebar text so that it is updated correctly when the registration information is verififed
Fixed an issue where covers weren't getting set on mobi exports generated via Calibre
Icon styles are now set separately for each windowed mode, just like the theme

BETA Version 2.0.9
05/15/2013

If you are running on 64 bit Windows, the default installation folder has changed to C:\Program Files from C:\Program Files (x86). Any shortcuts you may have made by pinning the app to the taskbar or the start menu will no longer point to the new installation. You will need to delete these and recreate them. Also, after the installation, you can go into C:\Program Files (x86) and delete the StoryBox 2 folder, if you want to recover the space. Alternatively, you can tell the installer to install over the old installation.

Added Session Wordcount and Timed Wordcount indicators to the menu bar
Rearranged menu items on the Configure->Menu Bar menu
Daily Wordcount bar on the Menu bar no longer displays the session value when "show session value" is selected in the Progress Tool window
StoryBox now remembers the theme setting for each mode (normal vs fullscreen) seperately. It does add a bit of time when switching modes of the normal mode theme is different from the full screen theme.
Drastically improved the speed at which StoryBox shuts down
Moved the Menu Bar settings from a sub menu of the config menu to a context (right click menu) of the menu bar. Right clicking on the menu bar gives access to all the items that can be on it
Fixed an issue that could cause the trial time to count down every time you start the app instead of once every day
The page tabs in the Preferences are now off to the left instead of at the top
Added a Menu Bar preferences page. It sets the items on the Menu Bar for the current mode (normal or full screen).
Made some minor changes to the Midnight theme
Fixed a bug that caused the Index Cards in the StoryBoard view to not tile correcly when in Full Screen Mode
Fixed a bug that caused the cursor to remain as a horizontal drag cursor on the StoryBoard in full screen mode
Made the countdown timer setup dialog show zeros insead of an underscore when numbers are deleted
Double-clicking the timer text now brings up the timer setup dialog, too

BETA Version 2.0.8
05/01/2013

Added a backup on project close feature. This feature will eat harddrive space, especially if you are putting lots of images in your projects. You can turn it on and set the backup folder in the Preferences.
Added a countdown timer with an alarm. You can hide and show it from the Configure->Menu Bar->Show Countdown Timer menu.
Fixed a bug that caused the view tabs on a document to be out of order
Fixed a memory leak that occurred when switching between normal and fullscreen modes
Selecting Exit from the menu while in full screen will now exit full screen before quitting the app
Fixed a bug that could cause the document tabs to not be visible in full screen even though there are multiple documents open
Fixed a bug that could cause a saved version to not contain the latest typed text or other changes that occured since the last auto save
StoryBox now saves document cursor position/selection when closing project documents
Fixed application of text styles (bold, italic, etc...) so that the behaivor matches industry standard behaviors.
Fixed expander items on the export settings property grid for Tablet Dark, Black, Carbon and Midnight themes
Fixed export settings property grid themeing for the Emerald theme
Removed mostly useless default column header context menu from export file selection grid
Removed the light gray rectangle around the menu buttons on the Midnight theme
Removed the slightly darker green rectangle around the menu buttons on the Emerald theme
Added a Mac & Cheese theme (silly name, I know)
Fixed the problem where the currently active theme menu item would not be checked when StoryBox loads up

BETA Version 2.0.7
04/22/2013

Fixed a bug that caused the "Show Replace" option of the search to modify the visibility of the search box instead of the replace box.
Fixed a bug that caused menubar icons to disappear when changing themes
Added tooltips for the menubar icons, the document view buttons, and the Apply setting to children buttons.
Fixed: Buy buttons now disappear without having to restart when you verify your registration
Fixed the File Drawer expansion arrows for the Midnight theme
Fixed (I think) crashes and some other weird behaviors when switching between fullscreen and normal mode after having switched between documents
Fixed a scenario where the trash outline wouldn't update when an item was dragged out of the trash.
Clicking the Preview button/menu item will no longer cause an exception when there are no documents in the selection that are marked as "Include In Manuscript"
Import Picture menu context menu item on the picture view is now filtered to show only supported image types (pnt, bmp, jpg)
You will now get a more informative error message (instead of a crash dialog) if you try to open an unsupported file type when importing a picture
Added scrollbars to the picture view when actual size picture is greater than the visible size of the window.
Adding a new chapter as a sibling now respects the "Add Scene To New Chapter" setting
Active Document Selection Menu (next to the document tabs) now displays the documents in the order the tabs appear instead of by the order of when you opened them
Fixed the Ctrl+Tab Quick Navigator themes for Carbon, Midnight, and Tablet Dark themes
Made changes to the default Character, Item and Location templates. If you want to keep the old one, find an old character, make a copy of it into a new document, delete the information, then use the Documents->Save as Template menu item. Then, use the Templates tab in the preferences to set the default character document to your saved old one.
Fixed references in the code that referred to the old default template folder instead of the new location (which is in the common app data folder). This fixes a couple different bugs.
Fixed an error that could cause an exception when a document window tried to load while an existing document window has the same internal id (rare)
Using Add->New Characther (or Item or Location) will now place the new document as a child of the currently selected document just like the other document types, as long as they are within the right tree (character is in the Characters tree, for instance). Otherwise, they will be placed in root of the proper tree
Using Add and Add Sibling on the File Drawer Context menu will now show Character, Item, or Location options if the root folder is Characters, Items, or Locations, respectively, regardless of the parent document. This means you can use regular documents as folders, and they won't show up in the Add To... lists
Fixed display names in the Add/Remove buttons of the toolbar for the Align Left, Align Center, Align Right, and Bug report buttons
Added keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+L to make selected text lowercase. Ctrl+Shift+U makes selected text uppercase
Added [ri][/ri] tags so that you can set raised initial caps for ebook exports. There will be an option in the export dialog at a later date to add these automatically. They will not affect RTF export.
Added Ctrl+Shift+R shortcut to apply [ri][/ri] tags around the selected text
StoryBox no longer deletes mobi files that get created by KindleGen when there are errors in the KindleGen process.
StoryBox will now detect if Calibre is installed, and if it is, will give you the option of using Calibre to convert to .mobi format (it currently uses default options)
You no longer need spaces around the [chapter] tag for the import to separate the chapters correctly
A mesagebox about a missing [/url] tag during export no longer pops up behind the export window
Importing as a sibling now puts the documents in between the document you selected and the one right after it, instead of at the end
Added a "None" option to the Document context menu under Format->Indent.

BETA Version 2.0.6
04/17/2013

Changed the trash so that it only shows the outline view. If you have any text in the Trash document, copy it out to somewhere else like the Notes tool, as it will become inaccessible after this upgrade.
Added New Project form that lets you set the author, publisher, and title of your project
Added Author and Publisher fields to the Import wizard
Fixed the positioning of the Import Wizard dialog
Fixed File Drawer expansion arrow directions for the Black theme
Fixed importing projects (broke this in the last update)
Fixed a bug I introduced in 2.0.5 that caused the thesaurus not to show unless you selected the word you wanted to look up
Changing the document type for a document will now cause it's properties to be set to the new document type's default settings
Removed the trash document type from the default view list in the options
Right clicking on the outline view in the trash document now shows an "Empty Trash" item instead of "New Document" items
Outline View of Trash now updates once the Trash has been emptied
Export to HTML has been removed as one of the options for the Trash outline context menu
Export, Import As Child, and Import As Sibling have been removed from the File Drawer context menu when right clicking the Trash
Document types of Trash, Item Folder, Character Folder and Locations Folder can no longer be modified (even before, modifying did not change behavior, this just elminates the confusion as to why they don't change)
Document Properties are now disabled when you open up the Trash view document

BETA Version 2.0.5
04/02/2013

Added a Lookup item to the right click menu in the document view. You can now look up items on Dictionary.com, Google, and Wikipedia
Fixed error messages in the export screen that occurred when selecting dropdowns did not immediately change the items available in the export option list.
Tool window position handling improved when switching between normal and full screen
Fixed positioning error when showing full screen on the second monitor of a two (or more) monitor system
Fixed arrow directions for Carbon, Midnight, Tablet Dark, and Emerald themes in the File drawer tree so that they point in the standard direction
StoryBox 2 can now run as a 64bit application on 64 bit computers
Installer now installs to the proper directory on 64 bit computers
Installer now includes certain required dll's for machines that do not have them installed. This does not include the .Net runtimes or XP Service Pack 3 - those still need to be downloaded separately
Fixed: Will no longer crash when running without administrator priveleges when the user hasn't registered yet (This was an installer error that gave a folder the wrong permissions).
Installer now tries to close StoryBox if StoryBox is running when the installation is started

BETA Version 2.0.4
03/22/2013

Added 45 day, non-consecutive trial period. Editing will be disabled after StoryBox is opened on 45 different days. Exporting is not disabled.
Fixed an error that occurs when using a quote as the first character in a document.
Fixed a bug that kept auto-capitalization from working on the first character in a document.
Fixed an error with wordcount progress bars and wordcount targets when there are multiple stories and the one you are working on is not the one selected in the Progress tool window
Fixed an error that occurs when you delete the wordcount target from the wordcount target textbox, and hit enter without typing anything else
Items in the "Add To" context menus are now sorted by the name of the thing you're looking for (not the whole path, just the last part of it).
Reduced the "larger" font size by a point. I thought it looked to cramped. Extended that font size to all of the remaining themes.
Tweaked the positioning of a few items
Made Word Usage page reflect the currently active story (the story for the document that is currently open)
Minor tweaks to the preferences layout

BETA Version 2.0.3
01/30/2013

Importing from RTF now trims whitespace from the beginning and end of a scene
Fixed a bug that could cause a project to have the version reset if a file I/O error occurred during load
Now does auto capitalization in the situations where it's possible to determine what is intended.
Indents now adjusted to match StoryBox defaults when importing from RTF files
Better handling of a rare exception when a document might be open already and it tries to find that document and can't. You may be forced to restart, but it shouldn't result in data loss from trying to open it and failing
Centered items are now stripped of any indents when exporting to ePub/mobi so that they are truly centered on the device. If you hate this, let me know and I'll make it an option, but it should save you from having to turn off auto format where you have items you want centered, since you won't have to worry about the indent.
Exporting to RTF no longer puts an extra empty line after a pagebreak
ePub export now centers properly in Nook reader (and, presumably, other readers based on the same software)
Adjustments made to [br] - it no longer gives double
tags on some readers.
No longer cuts Kindle prepared indents in half (this was originally cut in half for older generation kindles that appeared to double the size of the indents and has been fixed in recent generations/updates)
No longer adds an extra linebreak after a scene separator for Kindle prepared exports
Selecting mobi format in the export no longer shows the Prepare for Kindle option, as modifying that option has no effect on mobi export
[br] tag now gives a proper line break on tested readers (kobo, kindle, nook, iBooks)
Importing now uses "[chapter]" instead of "- Chapter -" to split the chapters apart. This will be getting some more options, eventually

BETA Version 2.0.2
01/11/2013

Updates to some of the themes. Still work to be done here
There is a new option in the preferences to automatically create a scene document when you create a new chapter. This is on by default.
Added a new switch for epub/mobi formats in the Exporter called "Open To First Text". This will cause most e-readers to open to the first Act/Chapter/Scene document that is encountered. This seems to be becoming a standard, though some e-readers don't respect it. The default is on.
Added the ability for imports to an existing project to import more than one file at a time
Fixed: Bug that caused the wordcount statistics page to report wrong values if it was left open when closing the project
Fixed: Bug that caused the application to not cover the task bar when switching to full screen mode if StoryBox was maximized already

BETA Version 2.0.1
10/29/2012

Made changes to the layout of the export and print dialogs. They now show the list of files that will be included.
You can now save export profiles so that you can quickly export several different versions of your book that may have different settings or include different sets of files. If you want to save to a new profile, type a name in the box at the top of the export dialog. If you want to modify an existing profile, select the profile from the dropdown, make the changes, then click save. Clicking Export or Print does not save the profile.
Progress window added for file exports
Changed: Now, if you want to create a .mobi file, you must select the mobi output format. This will require that you have KindleGen installed for it to work correctly.
Changed: Selecting ePub output format and selecting "Prepare for Kindle Conversion" no longer creates a .mobi file, but will create an ePub that is appropriate for uploading to Amazon
Added: Export option that removes text that has had the strikeout style applyed to it. This is defaulted to on.
Added: You can now use custom text scene separators
Added: you can now specify ISBN numbers to be included in your epub and mobi exports. These can be saved in each export profile. You can still set a default one in the properties of the Story document.
Drastically improved the loading speed of the outline view in projects with large numbers of documents
Fixed: A bug during project file upgrades that reset your wordcount progress to 0 each time, making it look like you wrote a LOT of words that day that you loaded a new file into an update of StoryBox

BETA Version 2.0.0
9/25/2012

Moved menu to center bottom screen
Changed menu items from text to icons
Full screen mode now uses the existing window making the switch between normal and fullscreen much faster
All of the tool windows can now be opened and docked within full screen mode, allowing for switching between documents, viewing notes and synopsis, etc...
View tabs are now icons instead of text
View tabs are hidden on scenes when the scene does not have any child documents
The carbon theme has been changed to be more accessible for touch screens (larger fonts) and tablets.
Tablet Dark theme has been added
Characters display on the document window has been removed
The zoom slider on the document window has been removed. Holding Ctrl-while scrolling the wheel on your mouse will zoom the text windows.
Title and Author have been removed from the front of export on plain text and RTF formats when there is a blank Story document. They remain in ePub format, as the Story document is the intended first page of an ePub document, and as such, should essentially be the title page.
Word count bars have been added to the new menubar. They can be toggled on and off individually through the Configuration->Menu Bar menu. The configuration icon looks like a gear. The "story" wordcount bars will display the wordcount of the currently active story (clicking on a document that belongs to a story switches the active story to that story).
Moved the wordcount bars to a tool window called Progress.
Center Screen typing is now available in the normal view (henceforth called "windowed")
The typewriter sound is now available in windowed mode.
All wordcount settings and progress bars (except for the ones you can see on the menu bar, which are duplicates) are now combined into a single tool window called "Progress"
Story properties ( UID/ISBN, Cover Image, Scene Separator Image) are now in the Document Properties window, and will be available when you click on a story document.
ePub Info has been removed from Project Settings - the Publisher textbox was moved to Manuscript Info
Preserve Formatting has been changed to Auto Format.
Added shortcut keys Shift-Alt-Left and Shift-Alt-Right to move forward and back sequentially through the documents in your project
Added "Insert Hyperlink" to the document right-click menu
Added "Insert Macro" to the document right-click menu. This has a submenu with all of the macros
Added "Insert Template" to the document right-click menu.
Added view options to the right-click menu on a picture document
Added an option in the preferences to change the user template directory
Added 'Export to HTML' to the outline view context menu
Fixed: ePub export now passes latest epubcheck validation
Image lists (in the insert Image Link menu and in the Cover and Scene Separator dropdowns) are now sorted by Story with images from the currently active story at the top

Version 1.5.140
10/19/2012

Fixed: A bug that caused some generated ePub files to fail when uploading to Kobo Writing Life.

9/25/2012

Changed: The thesaurus no longer loads completely into memory from a text file, but instead has been moved to a database file that is accessed as needed. This saves about 80mb in memory footprint with little to no noticable change in performance, and may improve loading speed on low end machines.
Fixed: Spelling and thesaurus now correctly find words that contain apostrophes when smart quotes are enabled.
Fixed: Spelling and thesaurus replacements containing apostrophes now use the correct apostrophe when replacing a word

Version 1.5.138
6/20/2012

Fixed: Import from text file truncates when Unicode object replacement character 0xFFFC is in the text file (Scrivener uses this in text export to replace embedded images, apparently).
Fixed: Crash on some computers when trying to enter full screen
Fixed: In some circumstances, the file vesion of a project could be set incorrectly to 0, making it impossible to load. If you are getting an "later version" message on a project, send me the project at the support email (support @ storyboxsoftware.com) and I will fix the file for you.

Version 1.5.137
6/04/2012

Added: You can now resize the full screen text area by dragging the left and right edges.
Added: 'Export Chapters To Separate Files" option to the export dialog. It exports only the chapter documents and their children. This is useful when you are working on a print publication in applications like InDesign. This is currently only active for RTF and TXT exports.
Removed: The width adjustment slider in full screen mode has been removed since you can drag the edges of the text area.
Added: Currently active highlight around the index cards in storyboard view
Fixed: Toggling the Include In Manuscript checkbox now updates the Story wordcounts properly
Fixed: A bug causing documents added via Add Sibling to not have their text counted in Story wordcounts.
Fixed: StoryBox will no longer crash if the version of Windows you are using does not support ISO8859-1. The Thesaurus will not be available, however if this is the case.
Fixed: Exporting a single chapter will no longer result in an extra blank page at the beginning if the chapter has 'Page Break Before' checked.
Fixed: StoryBox will no longer change the font on a document that has "Preserve Formatting" turned off except by changing the default font either in Preferences, or by clicking the "Set Default" button in the font window.
Added: A popup message to warn about changing fonts on a document that has "Preserve Formatting" turned off.
Fixed: Font size changes now work correctly in most cases when exporting to ePub. There might be one or two instances of something that breaks it. If you see it not working, please let me know.
Fixed: Crash on Windows XP when exiting the application after typing in full screen mode

Version 1.5.136
5/07/2012

Fixed: Some people experienced a bug that caused errors when loading a project, related to the new Document History feature.

Version 1.5.135
5/06/2012

Fixed: A word followed immediately by an em dash or ellipses and then another word without spaces in between is now counted as two words instead of one.
Added: [table][/table], [tr][/tr] (table row), [td][/td] (table column) tags for creating a basic table that will be exported to eBook formats.
Added: If you have smart quotes enabled (Project Settings), pressing <Ctrl>+<Shift>+<quote> will produce a straight quote
Added: If you have smart quotes enabled (Project Settings), pressing <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<quote> will produce a straight single quote
Added: Document history and toolbar buttons to help you navigate back and forth through it. Also, <Ctrl>+<9> and <Ctrl>+<0> will navigate to previous or next documents if there are any in the history
Fixed: Smartquotes in [url=""] tags should work now when exporting
Changed: Made some minor theme tweaks to most of the themes
Fixed: Pasting formatted text into the Synopsis title box no longer changes the font size or face
Changed: Preview now more closely approximates the output of the RTF export mode
Changed: Made a change to the splashscreen
Changed: Made a slight modification to the application icon

Version 1.5.134
4/15/2012

Fixed: Problem with ePub export when separator file type was different than images embedded in the documents
Changed: File Drawer context menu "add" items are now under a sub menu called Add.
Added: "Add Sibling" menu item to the File Drawer context menu that will add a new document right after the currently selected document. If you press Ctrl while clicking, it will add the new document before the currently selected document.
Fixed: Clicking on a cell in the outline view while the File Drawer has a title in edit mode will no longer cause an exception to be thrown.
Fixed: Pasting text with bold or italics into a document that does not have "Preserve Format" checked will no longer lose the italics and bold styles

Version 1.5.133
2/18/2012

Fixed: Textbox is no longer empty when clicking on a File Drawer node to edit the title of a document
Fixed: File Drawer now scrolls to the selected document on load.
Fixed: Clicking from the document window onto the currently selected entry in the File Drawer does not open the entry for editing. It now requires clicking twice (not double clicking).

Version 1.5.132
2/12/2012

Fixed: Error message when a paste fails now explains what is happening. Usually, this is because another application has the clipboard locked.
Fixed: Some errors that occur on some computers when StoryBox is starting up and trying to update the word count

Version 1.5.131
1/6/2012

Added: You can now specify different display text in the url using the following syntax: [url="http://storyboxsoftware.com"]StoryBox Software[/url]
Changed: Removed extra spacing around scene marker for Kindle exports

Version 1.5.130
12/5/2011

Fixed: A problem that caused the starting value for Daily Wordcount to start out negative if there were items in the trash that had the "Include in Manuscript" box checked.

Version 1.5.129
12/2/2011

Fixed: Statistics pages no longer force themselves to the front on project reload
Fixed: A problem where notes would get changed to incorrect values on "some" computer configurations
Fixed: Error in ePub export that caused the table of contents to show an error message on iBooks

Version 1.5.128
11/28/2011

Fixed: Synopsis and Notes not displaying text when project is initially loaded
Fixed: Word count issues when clicking between documents
Fixed: Word count issues when documents are trashed/restored from the trash
Changed: Include in Manuscript property is no longer changed when a document is sent to the trash.

Version 1.5.127
11/27/2011

Added: Tool tips to the File Drawer that shows some information about the documents without having to open them.
Added: Font toolbar button and dialog now works on the notes pane when you have clicked in the notes pane. The "set default" button on the dialog will set the default font for the notes pane
Fixed: Problem where the text following the cursor would be lost if you split a document and the new document could not be created for some reason
Fixed: The active document is now selected in the File Drawer when the project is reloaded and the documents are reloaded

Version 1.5.126
11/26/2011

Fixed: Error message when splitting documents.
Changed: Split document now opens the newly created document
Fixed: Deselecting the reopen documents option in Preferences no longer leaves blank document windows open when the project restarts
Fixed: Error that happens with the File Drawer after changing the theme while a File Drawer Node was in edit mode

Version 1.5.125
11/16/2011

Changed: StoryBox now only needs the Client Profile version of .Net 4.0 (the full version still works, too), which is delivered by Windows Update
Fixed: Changing a document type to Story now correctly adds the story to the story selector in the Story Properties panel.
Added: Progress indicator for file version upgrades (you probably won't see it in this build unless you load a file from prior to 1.5.120)
Fixed: A crash message when opening a document in certain circumstances.
Fixed: Missing buttons on Import Wizard when the operating system is using large fonts or is set to a dpi of larger than 100%
Fixed: Some out of place controls in the Project Settings tool window when the operating system is using large fonts
Added: F1 Keyboard shortcut to activate the Help documentation
Added: F3, F4, and F5 keyboard shortcuts for switching between the Document, Storyboard and Outline tabs in the main document window
Fixed: Story Properties tool window controls are inaccessable when the window is too small. The panel now scrolls like I intended it to
Fixed: Crash message when in single document mode and certain situations occur that cause the current document to not be set (like Trashing the current working document)
Fixed: A crash when right clicking an existing picture and using the "Import Picture" menu item to change the image

Version 1.5.124
10/26/2011

NOTICE!!! StoryBox now requires Microsoft .Net 4.0
Fixed: Outline Builder entries are now sorted correctly when closing and reopening the Outline Builder
Added: You can now click and drag to move an entry in the outline builder
Added: Outline Builder double-click option under the default double click options to allow double-click to initiate edit mode.
Fixed: Minor color inconsistancies in the emerald theme
Fixed: Error message eliminated that happened when target word counts were changed and then the project was closed without clicking anything else
Fixed: Changing wordcount targets and then immediately closing the project without clicking anywhere else now properly saves the target wordcount change
Fixed: Project Daily Word Target and Project Word Target text boxes now properly disabled upon project load if Calculate Gaols From Stories is checked

Version 1.5.123
10/20/2011

NOTICE!!! StoryBox now requires Microsoft .Net 4.0
Fixed: Project tree remains expanded when Duplicating a document.
Added: Better checking for invalid window layouts from the 1.4.xxx builds. If an error is encountered while loading a project's window layout, StoryBox will close, clearing out the offending layout, and you will need to restart it. The project should load correctly after that.

Version 1.5.122
10/17/2011

NOTICE!!! StoryBox now requires Microsoft .Net 4.0
Added: Duplicate menu item to the File Drawer right click menu. It will duplicate the document and it's children.
Fixed: Nesting a story node within another story node now treats the child stories as regular documents on export
Fixed: Bulleted and Numbered items no longer cause ePub export to truncate sections of text

Version 1.5.121
10/10/2011

NOTICE!!! StoryBox now requires Microsoft .Net 4.0
Added: Emerald Theme
Fixed: Using an ampersand in text no longer causes ePub export to truncate the section of text.
Fixed: Importing a picture no longer causes the image file on the disk to be locked.
Fixed: Adding a new picture document now updates the story cover and separator selection lists
Fixed: Changing the title of a picture document now updates the story cover and separator selection lists
Fixed: Color of text in the font dropdown lists in Carbon and Midnight themes is now readable
Fixed: Images embedded in a document (not the image links) no longer cause the ePub exporter to run out of memory. However, they still don't show up in the ePub export. Use Image Links for that

Version 1.5.120
10/5/2011

CHANGED!!! StoryBox now requires Microsoft .Net 4.0
Added: Double-clicking the session time display in the main window status bar now restarts the session. Nothing is lost - only the session start time is reset and the session wordcount is reset.
Added: Insert Image Link to the document context menu. This inserts sbcode that points to a picture document in your project. This will be converted to an image on export. Can be used for things like chapter headers, etc...
Added: Exports images (including separator images) in RTF format
Added: Import To New Project wizard that should (I hope) make it less confusing
Added: Support for KindleGen (creates .mobi files from epub files). If you have KindleGen on your computer, and you set the path to it in Preferences, clicking the "Prepare For Kindle Conversion" box will also create a .mobi file from the generated epub.
Added: Now checks to see if a project is already open, and will warn you if it thinks it is.
Changed: Pasting into synopsis now ignores formatting like color and font (since they won't be saved anyway).
Changed: Blue theme has been changed because the old theme would no longer function correctly with the updated components
Changed: All themes but the blue theme may have some minor changes due to a change in the underlying component
Fixed: Error in import process that might have caused certain import operations to fail
Fixed: Spellcheck word list scrolls to selected word (for real this time)
Fixed: Initializing the spellcheck custom dictionaries now verifies the settings files are open and no longer throws an exception if they aren't
Fixed: Switching projects from one that has a closed tool window to one that has the same tool window open no longer throws an exception
Fixed: Now remembers positions of hidden tool windows correctly
Fixed: Fullscreen mode color dialogs are now themed according to the selected theme. This will be changed later to use a specific theme for the full screen view.

Version 1.4.119
08/28/2011

Fixed: Fullscreen now respects the smart quotes setting.

Version 1.4.118
08/26/2011

Fixed: ePub exports for kindle no longer cause kindlegen (or KDP converter) to put two copies of the cover page in the .mobi file
Added: You can now insert a Table of Contents page into ePub exports using the [toc] (including square brackets) SB code. The best option is to create a blank document where you want the TOC to be, make sure "Preserve Format" is checked, then set the indent to 0. Then type in the [toc] code. Check "Page Break Before" if you wish, and make sure "Include in Manuscript" is checked. Having this code in your document is required for ePubs that are converted to Kindle format if you want the Table of Contents to work on the Kindle.
Added: Toolbar formatting and cut/copy/paste buttons now work on notes/synopsis/index card text areas as well as the main document window. Currently, index cards and synopsis will not maintain most formatting as they store only text. This will be addressed in a later build.
Added: SmartQuotes. There is a new checkbox under Project Settings to enable smart quotes for a project. This defaults to on for new projects. Existing projects will not be affected by it (they will be off) until you change it for them. Toggling this checkbox will not adjust your existing quote style in your document.
Added: Context menu to Synopsis and Notes text areas
Fixed: The Add To ____ context menu items no longer include documents that have been trashed
Changed: The Add To ____ context menu items no include their full path in the case that you have multiple files with the same name and type in different places in the project

Version 1.4.117
08/18/2011

Fixed: Error message when creating a new image document

Version 1.4.116
08/17/2011

Fixed: Cover and separator images can now be set on a per story basis using the dropdowns in the Story Properties panel
Changed: Removed the checkboxes on picture documents for cover and separator images
Added: Alignment buttons on the toolbar (about time, isn't it?)
Fixed: Situation where a picture document could not get saved if the application crashes any time after setting it
Added: Some instructions to the bug reporting tool. The important one: add cases@laughingd.fogbugz.com to your contacts/whitelist and include your email.
Fixed: Errors due to innappropriate closing of the file connection when a connection doesn't exist.
Fixed: Problem causing the "Add To..." menu items to not add text to the appropriate documents notes.

Version 1.4.115
07/22/2011

Fixed: Exception when there is no story in the document. This may happen if you changed the type of your story document before updating to 1.4.113.
Fixed: Changing the document type to Story now creates the proper data for a story and updates it's children correctly. In this build (and later) if you have a story document where you changed the type away from story, you can change it to story and it will work correctly.
Added: Warning about changing a document type to Story that informs you that the change is permanent
Fixed: Dragging a document with children from one Story to another Story now updates the children correctly

Known Issue: Currently, you can only set the cover image and the scene separator for the whole project. This means that, before exporting a story, you should make sure the proper Cover Image and Scene Separator image have the appropriate boxes checked in their document properties. I'll get this in a later update

Version 1.4.114
07/18/2011

Fixed: Even more speed improvement to the paste operation
Fixed: Layout reset notification should now appear in front of the splash screen
Fixed: Small typing speed improvement. You won't notice on most normal sized documents, but it's noticable as you approach a couple hundred thousand words (which I don't recommend doing in a single document).
Fixed: Document load speed improvement. Mostly noticable on stupidly large documents (I tested with a 270k word document and the difference was about 6 seconds faster).
Fixed: Possible error while loading projects when a file read fails
Fixed: Speed of the context menu appearing improved greatly on large documents
Fixed: Selected spelling suggestion should now scroll into view properly

Version 1.4.113
07/11/2011

Added: Story Properties panel to support multiple stories in the same project. A dropdown list lets you select which story you want to view. You can set wordcount goals by double-clicking the progress bars.
Added: Separate Daily and Total wordcounts for each story (shown in the Story Properties panel)
Added: Separate UID/ISBN for each story
Added: 'Calculate Goals From Stories' checkbox in Project settings. Will calculate your wordcount goals from the separate goals that are set for each story in the Story Properties Panel
Added: Export menu in the Project menu now expands to allow you to select which story you would like to export
Added: Toolbar button and View menu items to show the new Story properties panel
Changed: You can no longer change a Story document to another type
Fixed: Using %20 to represent spaces in url links now works correctly
Fixed: Printing or exporting to RTF now applies correct line spacing to all parts of a document if it has changed
Fixed: Large images were not pasting properly when using Ctrl-V
Fixed: Rare issue wth apparent screen freeze when pasting using Ctrl-V
Fixed: Improved speed of pasting while Preserve Format is not set for a document, especially when pasting large blocks of text
Fixed: Checking document properties checkboxes no longer try to save the whole document when only changing a single setting (speed improvement)
Fixed: Document wordcounts no longer happen when saving a document if the document hasn't changed
Fixed: Index cards now have themed scrollbars
Fixed: Index cards now support shortcuts for em dashes and en dashes and elipsis
Fixed: Desert theme now updates dropdown list theme appropriately when changed from another theme
Fixed: Text export now recognizes additional story documents as stories
Changed: Exported titles now come from the title of the story documents, not the project titles. These titles can be changed by renaming the document in the File Drawer, or by changing it in the Synopsis tool window.
Added: Export filename now defaults to the title of the document being exported. Characters that are not valid for file names will be removed.
Changed: Separated the 'New Story' menu item so that it is easier to distinguish from the other documents
Fixed: ePub export options no longer appear on Print dialog
Changed: UID/ISBN no longer appears in the Project Settings tool window (it's now in the Story Properties)

Version 1.3.112
06/28/2011

Fixed: The document windows were not being unloaded when closed, causing potentially significant extra memory usage when loading and closing lots of documents
Fixed: Memory leak when closing the full screen view
Added: Project wide list of tags
Fixed: Image on the tags window context menu is now properly themed

Version 1.3.111
06/24/2011

FIXED!!!: The crash message that would happen when you were editing in the outline and then clicked somewhere else in the app is FIXED!!! Finally. Sorry it took so long. It was really obscure.
Fixed: ePub options visible in export when ePub is not selected
Fixed: Wordcount stats now display weeks that have negative word counts

Version 1.3.110
06/22/2011

Added: Fullscreen center typing mode now centers when using arrow keys to navigate
Fixed: Displayed cursor not correct around main text window
Added: Error handler will save out an rtf of the last save of the active document in case things go wonky
Fixed: Mousewheel works in Storyboard
Fixed: Theming of Plus/Minus buttons in the Outline View
Fixed: StoryBox should now start up as the foreground app and you shouldn't have to click it before beginning to work with it
Added: New theme "System Dark"
Added: New icon set - "Embossed Black"
Fixed: Storyboard default image themes set for Midnight and Carbon themes

Version 1.3.109
05/17/2011

Fixed: Removed a bug that caused several different crash messages, and could potentially cause issues with documents not being ordered correctly. This is a critical fix.
Fixed: Displayed cursor not correct around main text window

Version 1.3.108
05/13/2011

Added: Progress meter under full screen daily wordcount
Added: Small margin around text in full screen mode
Added: Today's Wordcount progress bar can be toggled to show current session word count by clicking on it or right clicking on it and selecting the menu item. This toggle affects the full screen wordcount display, too.
Fixed: Toggling to fullscreen should now make the textbox active immediately without having to click in it
Fixed: Problem where kindle would add an indent when your text did not have a first line indent
Fixed: Kindle indent sizes should now appear appropriate to what you specified in your document
Fixed: An error when the document order is not set correctly while loading index cards
Fixed: Exception message removed when the templates directory does not exist in the expected directory
Fixed: A problem that caused text background colors from copy/paste to be moved to full screen mode

Version 1.3.107
05/7/2011

Fixed: Fullscreen Options Menu popup not displaying in the right place
Fixed: Fullscreen Options Menu Popup now themed correctly
Fixed: Storyboard Popup Menu now themed correctly
Fixed: Storyboard outline menu popup now themed correctly
Fixed: Wordcount popup menu now themed correctly
Fixed: Tags popup menu now themed correctly
Added: The ability to set a background image in full screen mode
Added: Can now set the full screen textbox to center, left, and right positions

Version 1.3.106
05/6/2011

Fixed: Colors of font/fontsize dropdowns in editor context menus for Carbon and Midnight themes
Fixed: Dragging items up in the File Drawer drops them in the right place
Fixed: Dragging multiple items in the file drawer works again
Fixed: Size of edit box in To Do list is now the correct size
Fixed: Large Memory Leak when resizing the app and certain windows.
Fixed: New Project automatically expands all items in the File Drawer
Changed: The underlying toolbar control has been updated to a new toolbar. Saving and loading of the positions of the bars and buttons should work better, Toolbar themes may be slightly different.
Fixed: Typed font sizes in the Options dialog for default font size are now set correctly.
Changed: Lots of dropdown boxes changed to non-obsolete versions, enabling their themes to be more consistant
Changed: The initial scene document automatically opens when creating a new project.
Added: Shortcut keys for left and right double quotes (Ctrl+'[' && Ctrl+']') and single quotes (Ctrl+Shift+'[' && Ctrl+Shift+']') for those times when the automatic quoting doesn't get it right.
Fixed: Error on some computers loading full screen when some libraries for supporting sound were missing
Fixed: Fullscreen no longer closes when Ctrl+'[' is pressed

Version 1.3.105
04/16/2011

- Changed: Chapter Title Font Size option for Outline view has been changed to Base Font Size. This means the text of the other columns will also be affected by this size, making for easier reading by those with less than perfect eyes
- Added: Carbon theme
- Added: Midnight theme (this looks best if you've set your system window color to a darker gray in your desktop properties)
- Fixed: Drag and Drop in the File Drawer is much less fiddly. There are two known bugs with it, and these should be fixed next month some time
- Fixed: White vertical bars when rearranging windows in black theme are gone.
- Fixed: Difficult to read tabs on auto hidden tool windows with black theme
- Fixed: File Drawer state now restored correctly
- Fixed: The little buttons next to Status, Include In MS and Preserve Formatting no longer show the button outline (like I intended originally)
- Fixed: Clicking the OutlineBuilder button when no project is loaded will no longer cause a crash
- Fixed: Search no longer misses items that have formatting information in the middle of them (ie... part of it is italic and part not)
- Fixed: Some theme problems when switching to blue from the darker themes
- Fixed: Rare scenario where the Statistics page would refuse to display
- Fixed: Scrollbars on properties pane are now themed
- Fixed: Document Properties items are no longer enabled when a project is not open
- Changed: Moved Word Count stats to a submenu of Statistics
- Added: Word usage statistics as a submenu of Statistics
- Fixed: Recent Projects menu now fills correctly when the Project menu opens, but is not specifically clicked
- Fixed: Centering of text in ePub in certain e-readers like iBooks
- Fixed: Positioning of scene spacer in epub export
- Added: ePub panel to the project settings which allows setting of the publisher and UID/ISBN
- Fixed: Export now remembers last file format
- Fixed: Vertical centering of scene separators. Should work across most eReaders now.
- Added: Option to make minor changes to the ePub to prepare it for conversion to mobi (Kindle) via Calibre
- Changed: On new installations, scenes no longer default to preserving the format. The change was made to facilitate easier exporting. This value can be set in the Preferences->Format tab. Click the Set Default Document Properties button.
- Changed: Default Chapter template now has [doctitle] instead of Chapter [chnum]

Version 1.3.104
03/12/2011

- Added: Menu item to toggle blacking out all screens when in full screen mode (View->Prefences->Blackout All Screens)
- Fixed: Exception message when trying to read settings out of the settings file, usually when the file wasn't able to be created. It will just load a default setting instead, now, like intended
- Changed: Search results now ordered by document type
- Fixed: A bizarre issue that only happened sometimes when the loading process would stall if there were entries in the outline builder and the outline builder was not visible
- Fixed: Search results now correctly select the first listed document when the search is complete
- Fixed: Searching now loads the document correctly if there is only one result

Version 1.3.103
03/04/2011

- Fixed: Copyright Symbol not appearing correctly in epub export
- Fixed: Various extended characters not showing properly in epub export
- Added: Ctrl+<period> now inserts an elipses (…)
- Added: [url][/url] tags (put the url in between them) to create an external link in an ePub. (like this: [url]www.storyboxsoftware.com[/url]
- Added: [email][/email] tags to put an email address into an ePub that will open the users email program to send an email [email]nouser@noplace.com[/email]
- Added: [br] tag. Insert where ever you want to create a line break in an ePub. I'm working on a solution so you don't have to do this. This is a temporary solution.
- Fixed: Problems with using < and > in text when exporting to epub. Note that this fix means that you can't put html tags in your document and have them work in the exported epub
- Fixed: Problem with spaces being eaten after special characters on ePub export

Version 1.3.102
03/03/2011

- Fixed: First line of each epub output section did not get intended properly
- Fixed: epub identifier now generated only once and retained
- Added: Ctrl+Shift+'-' now produces en dash (smaller than em dash)
- Fixed: Index outside the bounds of the array error when trashing a document in certain situations
- Fixed: Zoom Scrollbars now reflect zoom values of the documents when they are set by using Ctrl+MouseWheel
- Fixed: Zoom Value of fullscreen window is now remembered when set via Ctrl+Mousewheel
- Fixed: Background color of notes should be light gray on export to rtf in all cases
- Fixed: Various rtf control words now have their color values updated properly when exporting
- Fixed: Em dash and en dash now included in epub export
- Added: Straight quotes are now converted to curly on export to epub
- Fixed: Pictures with transparency (png's) retain their transparency after closing
- Added: Pictures can be used as scene separators on export to ePub. You need to set the separator on export to "[picture]", and on the picture you want to use as a separator, make sure the "Scene separator" box is checked

Version 1.3.101
02/24/2011

- Fixed: Crash when scrolling up in outline view
- Changed: Outline view always expands all entries when opening or reopening a document (temporary change, I hope)

Version 1.3.100
02/13/2011

- Fixed: Active tool windows are restored when a project is reloaded
- Added: File Drawer now remembers it's expansion state on a per project basis
- Added: Project tool window grip now remembers how many buttons are showing below it
- Fixed: When a new project was opened (or previously, when the expansion wasn't stored), trash folder would be opened automatically. This no longer happens

Version 1.2.99
01/26/2011

- Fixed: Missing scrollbars in storyboard mode. I hope I've fixed this permanently. The issue is something related to the development environment where it keeps resizing them when I'm not looking
- Added: Initial ePub export. Still does not support setting of the cover image, and likely many other things.
- Added: Picture documents. This will allow you to import a picture in a much nicer format than the previous cut/paste into an existing document. Like ePub - there are additional features planned for these.

Version 1.2.98
01/09/2011

- Fixed: multi-line editor support in the outline view
- Fixed: theming of auto-hide tool windows
- Fixed: display of notes and synopsis tool windows when they are displayed after being auto-hidden
- Added: clock to full screen status bar
- Fixed: Project settings selected page is now remembered
- Fixed: Font dialog now sets fonts correctly when only size is changed

Version 1.2.97
12/10/2010

- Fixed: Expanded/Collapsed state of outline now remembered when switching between documents
- Fixed: Improved performance/appearance of document loading
- New: Document and tool window layouts are now stored with the project. Whatever state you left the project in when you closed it, it will return to when you reopen it
- Removed: Notification about reloading a layout on reinstall. It will now default to reloading your layouts except in the cases where I have explicitly told it not to
- Fixed: Issue that could cause open documents that were not involved in a merge operation to take on the properties of the final merged document
- Fixed: Problem with toggling include in manuscript off and on and not having it update the wordcount properly afterward until the document was closed and reopened
- Fixed: Issue that cropped up in 1.2.96 with other situations where documents would take on the properties of other documents.
- Fixed: Some minor black theme tweaks
- Fixed: Exception that occurred when double clicking blank space in the outline

Version 1.2.95
12/04/2010

- Fixed: White text on white background in Outline Builder with Black theme
- Fixed: White text on white background in Outline view with Black theme
- New: Outline view is now properly heirarchical
- New: Outline grid is now themed
- New: Outline builder grid is now themed
- Fixed: Large outlines should load faster
- Changed: Outline builder now uses the same grid as the todo list. To enter items, just start typing (replaces text) or hit F2 to edit existing text in a cell
- Fixed: ToDo list is now multi-line while typing
- Fixed: Tags list is now multi-line while typing (not that tags are usually all that long)
- Fixed: Now, there is a more visible separation between the title and the synopsis text in the synopsis pane.
- New: Hitting Ctrl-F or the Search button on the toolbar now sets text selected in the active document as the default text to search on. If there is nothing selected, it won't set a default
- Changed: Default Document Properties popup in the preferences panel no longer uses a grid (bypassed white on white issue with black theme)
- New: Desktop popup in the corner of your desktop when an export completes
- New: Desktop popup when a new version is available if you have check for new versions enabled

Version 1.2.94
11/30/2010

- Big Change: Updated to newer versions of various components which should fix several minor issues. There may be bugs lurking that I haven't found.
- Updated: The themes have all been updated due to the component upgrade. There will likely be additional theme tweaks as time goes on.
- New: Text to speech - use Ctrl+Shift+S to toggle it on and off. This will work in notes, synopsis and the main text areas, as well as in full screen. Select what you want, and use the shortcut keys to start it. If nothing is selected, it will speak the whole thing. Use the same key combination to stop the speech. It uses your default speech settings set in the windows control panel for now.
- New: Text in the todo and tags will automatically wrap into a taller cell instead of being cut off if the cell is not long enough

Version 1.1.93
11/21/2010

- Fixed: Scenes couldn't be added to acts
- Fixed: Pasting selections with styles like italics or bold into a document that does not have preserve format set no longer wipes out the style
- Fixed: Pasting into long documents should be faster if preserve format is not set on that document
- Fixed: No longer double formats documents that do not have preserve format set while loading - should see a load speed increase in this case
- Fixed: Scrolling problem with really long documents

Version 1.1.92
11/12/2010

- New: Context menu items in StoryBoard view for adding new documents
- New: Context menu items in Outline view for adding new documents
- Fixed: Unhandled exception when the focus leaves the outline view and there is no active cell
- Fixed: Errors crash on startup when trying to load an icon with a theme that is unset. Haven't figured out why the theme isn't set, though.
- Fixed: Defaults to silver theme if theme gets unset for some reason
- Fixed: Crash on load when selecting "Yes" from the maintain my windows positions message box and the help/browser is open

Version 1.1.91
11/12/2010

- New: Act document type
- New: StoryBox will now ask you if you want to retain your layout from a previous build the first time a build is run. In some builds, this feature may be disabled when new features are added to the main window or the toolbar
- New: Added ability to set a default template for Story documents in the Preferences->Templates tab
- Fixed: Added "New Scene" to the options on the context menu when right clicking the Story in the File Drawer
- Fixed: Incorrect wordcount when doubleclicking from outline to go to a document in single document mode
- Fixed: StoryBox not closing properly in at least one case (maybe more)
- Fixed: Document types are now counted separately at the same level of the File Drawer tree for purposes of auto numbering
- Fixed: Not able to trash the first chapter created in a new project(I swear I fixed this before)
- Fixed: Statistics not working correctly for European date formats (d/m/y) - I tried to fix existing dates in the database where I could. If yours are still messed up, file a bug, attach the project, and I'll fix 'em by hand
- Fixed: Size of items not adjusted correctly in Project->Manuscript Info pane when the vertical scrollbar is visible

Version 1.1.90
11/08/2010

- Fixed: Speed of document context menu format->font dropdown opening when large blocks of text are selected
- Fixed: Changing font name via the context menu no longer affects size
- Fixed: Changing font size and name via the context menu should be quicker

Version 1.1.89
11/08/2010

- Fixed: Error on project load when tool windows are docked as documents
- Fixed: Font size combo in the document context menu no longer ends up with duplicate entries
- Fixed: Font type combo in the document context menu no longer ends up with duplicate entries
- Fixed: Crash when font type text in the font type combo is changed but no font exists to match the text
- Fixed: StoryBox will no longer load projects with file versions that it does not recognize

Version 1.1.88
10/28/2010

- Fixed: Scroll position saving behavior. Now saves according based on the top line of text, and not the scroll bar position. This should give a better experience when loading a document after changing the size of the window.
- Fixed: Unhandled exception when loading a document and the scroll position is out of range.
- Fixed: Toggling between fullscreen and normal view now scrolls based on the top line of visible text instead of scrolling to the caret
- Fixed: An issue where toggling between data formats on the computer could cause multiple versions of the same date to exist in the stats resulting in a number of dates at the end of the list being skipped
- Fixed: Dates in statistics that can't be converted for some reason (some custom date formats on some operating systems may cause this) will no longer throw an exception when encountered, and will be skipped when displaying data

Version 1.1.86
10/27/2010

- Fixed: Spelling Error in 'Set Default Document Properties' list
- New: Daily word count stats from View->Statistics menu (it will be prettier in the future)

Version 1.0.85
10/23/2010

- New: Export/Print Synopsis and Notes text
- Fixed: Error that could cause the active document to take on the metadata of a document that is being trashed
- Fixed: Unhandled exception when deleting all the text in a cell in the Outline Builder and hitting enter or clicking on something else without adding new text to replace the deleted text
- Fixed: (Bandaid?)Another bug that could cause scene separators to take on properties of the previous document when exporting
- Fixed: Fixed an issue that could cause font styles (italics, bold, etc...) to pass through to the next document when exporting

Version 1.0.84
10/10/2010

- New: StoryBox now saves the scrolled positions of open documents when exiting.
- New: Printing. Single documents or document trees
- New: Background images for the StoryBoard. Right click on the background to change
- New: Status column added to outline view
- Fixed: Some help text left over from pre-release versions removed
- Fixed: Deleting versions in the version management panel now compacts the file. It also asks if you would like to back up the file first. I recommend doing that.
- Fixed: Backups created when upgrading file formats or when deleting versions are now numbered
- Fixed: Tools that are hidden when theme was changed are now themed properly when they are shown again.
- Fixed: Removed an extraneous label that was causing a little dot to show on the project word count bar

Version 1.0.83
10/07/2010

- Fixed: Cleaned up some positioning of items in the storyboard.
- Fixed: Updating of themed elements in the storyboard view
- Fixed: Context menu on index cards now shows properly themed icons for 'Move Previous' and 'Move Next' items
- Fixed: Rare unhandled exception when right clicking on a document to bring up the context menu
- Fixed: Theming of the Project pane when changing while not visible
- Fixed: Position of "Zoom" text on the document status bar
- Fixed: Icons in Preferences Template tree now match the current icon theme
- Fixed: Theming of panels in the Preferences dialog
- Fixed: Theming of checkboxes in the export dialog
- Fixed: Clicking the "Default Font" button in the font dialog now closes the font dialog and updates all appropriate open documents with the default font
- Fixed: Improperly themed arrow on Recent Items menu item in the file menu
- Fixed: Cleaned up some theme change issues with the Storyboard

Version 0.9.82
09/28/2010

- Unimproved: Seems my workaround for that Microsoft bug had some unintended side effects.

Version 0.9.81
09/27/2010

- Changed: When creating a new document, the title of the new document in the File Drawer is now in edit mode.
- Changed: When splitting a new document, the title of the new document in the File Drawer is now in edit mode.
- Changed: When the File Drawer node text is in edit mode, and you hit enter to end the edit, then hit enter again, it will open the document if it's not currently open.
- Fixed: Scrollbars appear in fullscreen view when Center Typing is on and the text is longer than half the height of the screen
- Fixed: Scrollbar visibility is updated when toggling between Center Typing states
- Fixed: Toggling center typing off will now reset the position of the text if the text length is less than the height of the screen
- Improved: There's a bug in Microsoft's Rich Text control where, if you use paragraph spacing (extra space between paragraphs), starting a line off with multiple spaces causes some weird formatting behavior (it seems to add extra vertical lines for each additional space). This is just a drawing bug, and can be "worked around" by resizing the text area which will reset the text back to it's proper spacing. Of course, that's annoying to do all the time by hand, so if you are in this situation and you need several additional spaces at the start of a paragraph, StoryBox will do this for you. It's an ugly hack, though, and the text still jumps a bit after each space, but it's better than nothing. I wish I could fix Microsoft's code, but I can't.

Version 0.9.80
09/18/2010

- Fixed: Exceptions when making changes to task list items after you've closed and reopened StoryBox
- Fixed: The colors are actually fixed this time for the blue theme. I forgot to include the file that fixed them in the installer
- Fixed: (I think) Project Word Count bar should be the correct size now (and stay that way).
- Updated: Help file. Still mostly the same content, but organized and prettified.
- Fixed: Clicking buttons to show the help or other pages in the browser now brings the browser to the front

Version 0.9.79
09/12/2010

- Fixed: Scrollbar not showing in Search Results
- Fixed: Problem with separators in export picking up the previous text style, whatever it was.
- Fixed: Added a couple carriage returns to the default Chapter template

Version 0.9.78
09/08/2010

- Fixed: Scrollbars disappeared from view in storyboard on 0.6.76

Version 0.9.77
09/08/2010

- Fixed: Daily wordcount was getting updated when include in document is not checked while in fullscreen mode
- Fixed: Bug that would cause loss of text when dragging from a document to the notes pane
- NEW: Synonyms item added to context menu in full screen
- Fixed: Default font is now applied correctly to all documents when exporting (if they are not marked "preserve formatting"
- Improved the speed of switching between Storyboard and Outline view if the outline view was previously opened.
- Fixed: Trying to expand a node in the File Drawer when another node is selected but not open no longer causes the selected document to open
- Fixed: Dragging a document from one node to another will no longer open it
- Changed: Swapped the order of the import and save dialogs when importing to a new project. Now, you select the file you want to import first, then choose where the new project goes.
- NEW: Buttons next to status, include, and preserve format allow applying those values to children of the document

Version 0.6.76
09/07/2010

- Fixed: Crashes involving the Todo list
- Fixed: Text in todo list not changing when clicking in another area of the app without hitting enter
- Fixed: Scrollbars not responding to pageup/pagedown keys
- NEW: Hyperlinks in document now open in the browser

Version 0.6.74
09/02/2010

- NEW: Thesaurus on context menu in normal view mode
- Fixed: Bug with long documents that caused the position of the text to change when you click in it
- Fixed: Bug that caused text to change position incorrectly when resizing the window (generally when making it larger) - especially noticeable on long documents
- NEW: Right click on the Daily Word Count bar to reset it to 0
- Fixed: text styles (italics, bold, etc...) lost when changing fonts
- Fixed: current document scroll position no longer moves when the document is split
- Fixed: bug that could cause loss of data if you split a document, then didn't open the document, and the application crashed before anything caused a complete save of all documents (very unlikely)
- Fixed: Changed the default title so that the added tag is "(Split)" instead of "SPLIT"
- Fixed: Scrollbar doesn't match up with how far you can scroll the document via mouse scroll wheel

Version 0.5.73
08/29/2010

- NEW: Select multiple documents in the File Drawer and drag them where you want
- NEW: Merge documents by selecting muliple documents and right clicking on them and selecting merge from the context menu
- NEW: Split a document in two at the current selection by right clicking and selecting either of the split options from the context menu
- Fixed a bug where the daily wordcount wasn't getting updated correctly when all of the text was cut from a document (wordcount would not be stored)

Version 0.5.72
08/23/2010

- Fixed a bug when using single document mode that would cause the parent document's metadata (titles, notes, synopsis) to be replaced with a different documents metadata when double-clickng an item in outline view, or when creating a new document.

Version 0.5.71
08/21/2010

- Modified the way that the active document is determined. This means you should be able to turn notes, tags, and syopsis panes into tabbed documents and still be able to edit them
- Fixed an error when trying to insert a recently added item from the outline builder into the project
- Tags list is no longer enabled when there is no active document
- StoryBox now remembers selection and position of page during the same session when switching between documents in single document mode
- Fixed some typos in the character template
- Removed the default auto numbering in the notes pane - it shouldn't have been there.
- Put the auto update check onto a seperate thread so that it won't slow down the loading process
- At least one instance of disappearing taskbar icon syndrome is fixed on windows 7

Version 0.5.68
08/14/2010

- Added the ability to set the default document properties (status, page break, include, preserve format) used when creating new documents. This can be accessed from the Format tab in Preferences
- Fixed a crash when typing some characters on non-US keyboards
- When Show Multiple Documents is not checked (single documents), it reuses the existing document window, which will keep the window arrangement correct if you hvae done something like dock one of the tools as a document, or are viewing the help, etc...
- Double clicking an item in the Outline Builder no longer causes an insertion if the Used box is checked
- Fixed F7 and F11 shortcuts not working in full screen mode
- Fixed Bold Chapter Title Font checkbox in the preferences dialog so that it is themed correctly
- Fixed Template selection dropdown so that an document type is selected by default

Version 0.5.67
08/08/2010

- Fixed issue with "Include In Manuscript" checkbox disappearing
- Fixed a potential crash on exit when storing settings
- Improved error checking code around writing application settings on shutdown to help with problems closing storybox after extended sessions
- Added default insert options for double clicking a cell in the Outline Builder
- Added a delete button to the Outline Builder toolbar
- Fixed a bug that would cause a crash if inserting an empty Outline Builder item into anything
- Added daily word count to the full screen status bar

Version 0.5.66
07/29/2010

- Added the Outline Builder tool (if you can think of a better name, please send it to me!). Read the help file for a description of how to use it.
- Darkened the outline grid lines a bit[270]
- Outline grid row resizing works correctly for rows that are offscreen when loading
- Index card size is stored across a restart of StoryBox [270]
- Index card size bar now adjusts all cards for all open documents
- Non-document windows (Help, bug report, tools docked as tabbed document) are no longer closed when opening or closing a project, or when switching documents in single document mode
- StoryBox may appear to load a bit faster as project loading is now delayed until after the splash screen has disappeared
- Documents may load slightly faster and should be cleaner looking while loading

Version 0.4.65
07/27/2010

- A toggle for grid lines in the outline view has been added (right click on the outline view)[254]
- Typing the name of a font in the textbox on the font dialog now searches the font list for the text that is typed[259]
- If you close a project and exit StoryBox, it start up in the state you left it in (no project open)[255]
- Rename item added to File Drawer context menu [267]
- The way the file drawer clicks work has changed, yet again. Now, clicking once on any document will open it. If you want to expand a node, you must click the expand icon to the left of it. Clicking twice in succession (without clicking fast enough for a double click) will cause a rename. Double clicking will open the document and expand any children. Trying to make this work any other way results in either the need to not open documents except on a double click - or just plain bizarre and complicated behavoir, neither of which I want. [258]
- Exporting via the File Drawer context menu now automatically checks the box "Include Unmarked Documents" if the root exported document is not a story, chapter or scene type. [269]
- When opening the font dialog, if it can't determine the font currently being used (mostly when a section of text is selected has multiple fonts) it now defaults to the default font.
- No longer inserts a blank page at the front of the exported rtf document when exporting a single chapter. [263]
- Fixed a problem where some sql commands weren't being reset when a project was closed that could cause errors when switching between projects
- Fixed a crash when importing as a sibling of a chapter when the parent story node had not been opened [262]
- Fixed a bug where titles, when changed in the File Drawer without opening the document would not be saved [262]

Version 0.4.64
07/23/2010

- The font button now just changes the font of the currently selected text
- An button has been added to the Font window to set the font as the "Default Font"
- The default font is now ONLY applied when opening a document for the first time that is not using a template. Templates have their font settings in them
- The default font can be set in the preferences->format tab
- Fixed font selection box not displaying some fonts
- Fixed font size not changing when font size is typed into size textbox
- Added some font options to the normal mode document context menu (these will be coming to full screen later)
- Modified the crash reporting - now, instead of the big message box, it puts that information into the clipboard and directs you to send the info to the support email address, or to use the bug report tool
- Spellchecking has been added. For now, only a US english dictionary. Right click the document in the normal view and select Check Spelling at the bottom of the context menu. You can add words to a global dictionary as well as a project specific dictionary.

Version 0.3.63
07/21/2010

- Fixed text color in Preferences->View->Icon Style box for blue theme[250]
- Modified colors of word count progress bars in blue theme [251]
- Modified colors of the node selector for the File Drawer in the blue theme[251]
- Window position is saved on exit and restored when restarting.[249]
- Word counts are now immediately updated when the "Include In Manuscript" box is toggled.
- Gave the storyboard a themed scrollbar
- When moving an index card (either by using the buttons or by dragging) it will be scrolled into view correctly now [248]

Version 0.3.62
07/18/2010

- Made the status bar in Full Screen mode capable of auto hiding. Right click the status bar and select "Auto Hide" from the popup
- Replaced the scrollbar for the main text area with one that is styled based on the theme [119]
- Replaced the text scrollbar in full screen mode with one that is themed similar to the status bar [119]
- Removed some extra files that weren't in use
- Modified the registration of themes, now, only the active one is registered at startup - may decrease loading time VERY slightly
- Center Typing option now available in full screen mode (when you type, the input is automatically centered vertically). There is a menu option under the view menu on the status bar to turn this on and off
- Fixed various focus issues on the full screen mode to elminate the need for clicking back into the text area after adjusting settings
- Full screen mode edit area now receives the focus immediately upon entering full screen mode
- Delete option has been added to the Restore/Manage versions dialog
- Fixed visibility of information on the register tab of the Nag screen when using the Black theme
- Added scene separation selection option to Export dialog. There are four default options, plus you can type into it whatever you want. It will remember the last selection.[236]

Version 0.2.61 07/16/2010

Please note - when installing this version - uninstall the previous versions of StoryBox that are earlier than 0.1.58. If you don't, you may see some weird display issues.

CAUTION!

If your previous version was less than 0.2.60, back up your projects before running this build for the first time! It creates backups of them when it adjusts the file format, but it's better to be safe, if you know what I mean.

- Em-Dashes, when strung together, no longer revert to markup when toggling between normal and full screen modes[245]
- Em-Dashes no longer are replaced with hyphens when toggling between normal and full screen modes (this was caused by turning scroll bars on and off, believe it or not)[247]
- Fixed documents not being able to be emptied from the trash. Some documents - (Trash, Items, Characters, Locations, Box of Notes) cannot be deleted, and a message now is displayed when it's attempted[243]
- < Ctrl - > shortcut now works to place em-dashes in full screen mode and the notes as well
- Fixed pasting of text that contains an emdash character[247]
- Improved performance of applying various styles (bold, italics, underline, etc...)
- Fixed an issue with dates that could cause issues with daily word counts if the system culture is not US English (I'm so provincial, I know)[215]
- Dated entries now use local culture info to define the look/feel of the date that is used for their title
- Keyboard shortcuts for italics, bold, underline and strikethrough now work in ALL RTF capable text areas (main document area, notes, and full screen view).
- Added Strikethrough option to the context menu in full screen mode

Version 0.2.60 07/15/2010

CAUTION!

Back up your projects before running this build for the first time! It creates backups of them when it adjusts the file format, but it's better to be safe, if you know what I mean.

- RTF Importing! See the added section in the help file for details on formatting it (similar to .txt import - it's not large)[97]
- Fixed import as child option on context menu - now it actually does something
- Fixed search form - I managed to break it totally in the previous build
- Modified the word count algorithm slightly. It will probably come in slightly under MS Word and Open Office as I don't count a single punctuation mark surrounded by spaces as a word. For example, ' - ' [207]
- Added some whitespace on the left hand side of the main text area to help with readability
- Fixed issues with word count progress bars not getting themed correctly if they were not visible when StoryBox was opened[237]
- Changed numbering system of scenes on import to reflect the numbering system when scenes are added individually
- Document tab tooltips now show the full path to the document as it's listed in the File Drawer
- Added document types for the root folders (Story, Characters, Locations, Items, Box of Notes and Trash[238]
- StoryBox now makes a backup of the .box (filename.box.bak) before trying to upgrade the file to the latest version. Note that not all builds upgrade the file format, so won't always generate a .bak file
- Added the ability to create additional story nodes for those that like like to keep similar stories or novels in the same project.[238]
- Clicking on an unexpanded document in the File Drawer that has children (like a chapter with scenes) will not open that document, but will instead expand the node. It will open the document if it is already expanded.
- Clicking on an already selected node after working in a scene or closing a document will not go immediately to the title edit mode, but will instead, open the document again or expand the node if it wasn't expanded and has children. Clicking on it a second time will enter title edit mode for the node.
- Double clicking an item in the outline will open that document[240]
- Fixed an occaisional crash when using the eye icon on the the first index card in the Storyboard to open a document

Version 0.1.59 07/14/2010

- Fixed Ctrl Key shortcuts that were broken in 0.1.58 (Ctrl + B, Ctrl + I, Ctrl + U)
- Fixed outline changes not being stored (introduced in 0.1.58) [ 234]
- Emdashes no longer get converted to hyphens when a document is reloaded or exported[235]
- Emdashes can be inserted using Ctrl - (Control + minus)
- Added options to set the Outline View Chapter Title font style (size and bold)[234]
- Fixed the Preferences->Format tab so that it is stylistically similar to the other tabs (you can read it in the black theme)
- Various items no longer cause updates when exiting the Preferences form if their values weren't changed (should be a speedier return)

Version 0.1.58 07/13/2010

- Added Whole Word and Case Sensitive to search options
- Added Strikethrough formatting toggle to the context menu (also Ctrl-K) [198]
- Added the ability to set spacing between paragraphs to the Format tab in Preferences [223]
- Fixed who/whom issue in character interview (I never get these right) [220]
- Updated to a newer version of the control library. Supposedly there is a speed increase with regard to load times (I'm not sure I see it), but there were some bug fixes and dragging documents from one place to another in the tree seems slightly less fiddly.
- Increased the height of and the distance between the items in the file drawer to help improve dragging documents around (made it even less fiddly)
- Switched out the control I was using for the Outline view for a different one that is less broken.
- Removed an extraneous spacer item on the Edit Menu
- Made some changes to the information bar at the bottom of the full screen view.
- Tasklist '-' button is now enabled correctly when adding and removing the first/last task
- Added tooltips for task and search buttons
- Added Icon Style menu items under themes so you don't have to go into Preferences to change them
- Chapter titles get a larger, bold font in the outline view (the document must be marked as a Chapter in the document settings).
- Context menus for the document editor and the File Drawer are now themed appropriately.

Version 0.1.57 07/11/2010

- Zoom state is restored correctly when returning from full screen. [232]
- The "Document" tab to the left of the document view is now labeled with the type of document it is instead of saying "Document". I'm not entirely sure that this won't be confusing to some people - so if you're confused, let me know and I'll revert it. If you like it, let me know, too.
- Added a "Forum" menu item under help that will take you to the support forums.

Version 0.1.56 07/09/2010

- The state of the toolbar is now saved when exiting if it's turned off via the View->Toolbars menu. [227]
- "Trash Document" item added to the Binder context menu [230]
- Added Next/Previous Search bar that displays during a search that allows finding the next and previous instance of search text in a document [217]
- Ctrl-F now brings up the search pane instead of F3
- F3 Searches next in the current document. Shift-F3 searches previous. The document must be active (click in it) for this to work.
- Toggles added for searching notes, synopsis, tags and title. The default had been to always search everything [130]
- The notes field now accepts the tab key [225]
- Search/Replace added. You can show the replace tools by selecting "Show Replace" from the menu that decends from the "Search Options" button next to the search box. [231]
- Fixed an issue with controls in the Project->Manuscript Info pane not resizing properly when the Project pane windows is resized horizontally

Version 0.1.55 07/06/2010

- Export to RTF is much better now. General formatting settings are preserved. More esoteric settings may not be. If you see something that's really not right, file a bug and send me the project so I can figure out how to fix it.
- Importing existing books via the Import feature now places the default chapter template in the chapter documents
- Pasting images larger than 1024 pixels in any direction now resizes them so that they are no larger than 1024 pixels in any dimension so that they shouldn't cause an out of memory error in the rtf control on some operations. You should take care when pasting multiple images into a single document, however, as that may still cause an out of memory error when trying to view that document
- Added [doctitle] macro that will be replaced on export with the title of the document

Version 0.0.54 05/23/2010

- Preview no longer includes files that do not have the "Include In Manuscript" checkbox checked.
- Fixed an issue where text from the clipboard was being copied into an rtf export in place of an "excluded" document

Version 0.0.53 05/22/2010

- Fixed crash when using the search functionality
- Fixed font color in full screen mode when typing into an empty document
- Fixed additional monitors not being blanked when fullscreen mode is entered (if anyone doesn't like this, file a bug and I'll add an option)
- Fixed some issues with the Notes field. It can now accept images that are copied and pasted from web browers and graphic software. Currently, dragging a file in directly will not convert it to an image. Paste usincg Ctrl-V.
- Fixed an issue with pasting into a document while "Preserve Format" is checked that would cause the document to be reformatted.

Version 0.0.52 03/15/2010

- Added "Import as Child" to the file drawer context menu
- Added "Import as Sibling" to the file drawer context menu
- Fixed unhandled exception when right clicking in the file drawer when the pointer is not hovering over an item
- Changed the description of the "Import" in the file menu to make it more clear that it's importing to a new project
- Importing a document that is not split into chapters will no longer create chapter folders
- Fixed an unhandled exception when clicking in the file drawer while a project is not open
- Clicking on and index card synopsis area and typing will now work without having to double click
- Using the tab key to go from an index card title area to the synopsis area now allows you to type without having to click or hit enter
- The unusable storyboard and outline tabs have been removed from leaf nodes
- The titlebar and outer frame should now be skinned to match the rest of StoryBox

Version 0.0.51 01/05/2010

- Empty trash by right clicking on the Trash entry in the File Drawer and selecting "Empty Trash"

Version 0.0.50 12/06/2009

- Tab key now works in Full Screen view to insert tabs into the document
- You can now right click on a document in the File Drawer to export that document (and it's children if you wish)
- Document export options allowing to include all documents, or only the specific document when exporting

Version 0.0.49 11/13/2009

- Fixed an unhandled exception when reloading toolbar settings
- Fixed an unhandled exception when loading the last wordcount date from the project when it was (for some as yet unknown reason) not in the proper format
- The selected item in the File Drawer now matches the active document when the document tabs are clicked in the main window, if the document is not a browser window or a preview window

Version 0.0.48 11/9/2009

- Changed session word count to Daily word count. It will remain the same day until you close the project, either from Project->Close, or by exiting the app.
- You can now drag index cards around in the storyboard. Drag the index card to the position you want it to be. Dragging to empty space will result in the card not moving
- Open documents now are restored to their state when the project is reopened. Option can be toggled from the Preferences->General tab
- Fixed a bug that was wiping project properties whenever the project file needed to be upgraded
- Pressing F3 will bring up the search box and put the focus to the input area so you can type the text you want to search on
- Session time now shows on the status bar in full screen view. Can be toggled of in view->preferences

Version 0.0.47 11/6/2009

- Fixed crash when wordcount is triggered while browser or preview windows are active (can be triggered by changing word count goals)
- Fixed a problem related to the scrollbars issue in 0.0.46 where toggling the scrollbars the first time makes it impossible to type in the text area or even select it.

Version 0.0.46 11/6/2009

- Timers now pause when StoryBox is minimized
- Fixed disabling scrollbars in fullscreen makes text disappear

Version 0.0.45 11/1/2009

- Improved handling of large DPI settings should solve the problem of not being able to close the nag screen

Version 0.0.44 10/31/2009

- Fixed the indented "Name:" in the Character template
- The indent change dialog now accepts the value entered and closes when [Enter] is hit
- Made checkbox labels easier to read in the black theme
- Added a "Dated Entry" document - this is just a regular document where the title defaults to the date
- Moved the related document types to the top of the context menu for the File Drawer - so if you right click on a chapter, new scene will display first in the list of available options on the context menu
- Added Recent Projects list to the file menu
- Preferences menu will remember which tab was last selected during a session and bring you back to that tab the next time it opens
- Preferences menu will now always open to the general tab the first time during a session

Version 0.0.43 10/30/2009

- Added a global line spacing option (Preferences menu - Format tab)
- Added basic bullets and numbering from right click menu

Version 0.0.42 10/28/2009

- Fixed a bug that caused the Preview menu item to always be disabled
- Fixed a bug that caused newly typed text to be white when switching to full screen while the cursor was at the end of the document
- Fixed a bug that would cause the document area to not have focus when returning from fullscreen
- Removed some unused .dlls from the installer
- Changed the default button icons for the Black theme from "Black" to "Plain"

Version 0.0.41 10/26/2009

- Selected text in the regular document view is no longer hidden when clicking buttons or menu items
- New option to set the default indent in Preferences menu. This will not affect existing documents that have Preserve Formatting checked
- New menu items for setting indentation and alignment on a paragraph basis in the document right click popup menus
- Full screen right click popup now has most of the same options as the normal document view right click popup menu
- All document types except "New Document" and "Scene" now default Preserve Format to on

Version 0.0.40 10/25/2009

- Fixed a bug that would cause a crash on startup if 0.0.38 or later was uninstalled and then reinstalled
- New button icons that change with the themes
- Cleanup on some of the themes to (hopefully) make them a little nicer

Version 0.0.39 10/22/2009

- Fixed a bug I introduced in 0.0.38 that caused the last project not to reload even if the reload setting was checked in preferences

Version 0.0.38 10/22/2009

- Trash button is no longer enabled when there is not a document selected
- Script errors from web pages are now suppressed
- Made the Nag screen autoscale based on the font. Will hopefully solve a problem with people having large fonts enabled not being able to close that window
- New option for Projects - Remember Document Views will cause StoryBox to remember the last view a document was (Document, Storyboard, or Outline). Unchecking this setting will revert to previous behavior of always opening to the default view
- Default views can now be set for all document types in View->Preferences->Views
- Most StoryBox settings are no longer being stored in the registry, and are instead in a settings file in the user/appdata directory in preparation for allowing them to be stored anywhere (on a thumb drive or in a DropBox folder)

Version 0.0.37 10/20/2009

- Added view, left, and right buttons to the index cards. They appear when you move your mouse over the uppper right corner of each card. View will take you to the document for that card.
- Made some changes to the background on the storyboard for each theme
- Imroved performance of StoryBoard view
- Fixed bug that was causing document to save if nothing in it had changed
- Fixed a bug that was causing an unnecessary save after loading a document

Version 0.0.36 10/18/2009

- Added a preview (or combined document view) that allows you to see and read how a document and it's children will be when exported.
- Fixed a bug that would cause any document opened in full screen view to have a white highlight in combined doc view. A couple notes about this. To remove highlighting from any existing documents that have this problem, open the document in full screen view and close it. The highlighting will be stripped. The stripping of highlights will change in the future as I add the ability to highlight passages for various reasons (search, interdocument links, tags).
- Fixed a bug where scrollbars would not automatically appear in the main editor window if a large portion of text was pasted into the document
- Added scrollbars to the synopsis window and the index cards
- Fixed a bug where pasting into the main document window would cause a white highlight to be added to the text which would display in the preview and fullscreen modes
- Fixed default templates to remove highlighting that was in some of them

Version 0.0.35 10/16/2009

- Fixed background of dropdowns on options menu when using the Silver theme.
- Split Fullscreen, Theme, and Font buttons onto their own toolbar
- Toolbar settings are now saved when closing
- Fixed a bug that allowed you to click the search button with no project open, which caused an exception
- Fixed a bug that allowed you to click a search result after a project had been closed, which caused an exception
- Tags are now cleared from the Tags window when a project is closed
- Version field is now pre-filled in the bug report form
- Clicking the search button in the tags window will now make the Search window visible if it wasn't already

Version 0.0.34 10/14/2009

- Added default document templates. You can change the defaults in Preferences.
- Cleaned up preferences menu somewhat

Version 0.0.33 10/8/2009

- Fixed an exception when alpha values were set in the color dialogs in full screen that would cause it to not go to full screen.

Version 0.0.32 10/7/2009

- Modified the Theme and New Document buttons so that they're not quite so ugly (they no longer have the square box around them
- Fixed a problem that could cause newly typed text to be black when first entering full screen
- Fixed the really hard to read View button on the full screen status bar
- Fixed undo and redo menu items. They weren't working at all
- Added undo and redo buttons
- Added versioning support. See the Project Menu and the help file

Version 0.0.31 10/6/2009

- Fixed an issue with import that would cause imported text to not have any paragraph indents
- Added template loading and saving. Can be accessed from the Document menu.
- Added a typewriter sound to full screen mode. It can be disabled from the View->Prefences menu on the status bar in full screen mode
- Made a change that may help a crash on some systems when starting up and loading some items from the registry

Version 0.0.30 10/4/2009

- Moved registration of the document type to the installer, which makes it so you only have to have admin rights to install, not to run it.
- Disabled project settings options when a project is not loaded
- Binder window pops up now when a new document is added
- Outline works somewhat more like an outline. Still WIP, though.
- Synopsis text box now accepts the return key
- Added ToDo List item to the View menu

Version 0.0.29 10/4/2009

- Fixed a bug that would cause it to throw an exception when trying to register the document type when not logged in as an administrator. It will still require being an admin, I think, in order to register the document type. I'll fix that later.

Version 0.0.28 10/3/2009

- Fixed a bug that caused new projects to not create correctly...

Version 0.0.27 10/3/2009

- Fixed Bold/Italic/Underline so that they toggle on and off when no text is selected
- Added a ToDo/Task list

Version 0.0.26 9/25/2009

- Scrollbar visibility setting in full screen is now remembered across restarts
- Fixed an exception/crash that could happen when Opening a project without closing a currently open project
- Load Last Project On Startup option added to Preferences
- Added code to register .box as the filetype for StoryBox
- Added ability to start StoryBox by double clicking a .box file

Version 0.0.25 9/24/2009

- Added tooltip text to all the buttons
- Fixed menu items getting out of position on Documents menu
- Added option to hide the session timer
- Fixed new document options enabled when there is no project open
- Added some keywords that get replaced in exports [chnum],[author],[title] - Root node of tree ("Story") now added to export correctly

Version 0.0.24 9/23/2009

- Added Session and Project timers
- Fixed a bug where Move Next would be enabled on the context menu if there was only one index card
- Made new chapters have Page Break Before set to on by default
- Added right click menu option to the tags tool window for searching the project for the selected tag
- Moved import progress bar off of the main screen status bar

Version 0.0.23 9/22/2009

- Added Move Previous/Next context menu to index cards in storyboard
- Fixed bold/italic/underline buttons being enabled when no document is active
- Fixed various menu items being enabled when their button counterparts were not
- Added Export Dialog
- Fixed Text Export so that newlines also get a carriage return. Makes it easier when loading the exported file into Open Office or Microsoft Word
- Added basic RTF export

Version 0.0.22 9/21/2009

- Fixed Search finds characters in the RTF code
- Fixed Trashing an already trashed item causes an exception
- Added a bug report button to the toolbar

Version 0.0.21 9/21/2009

- Fixed reordering of documents so that they aren't reset on close if they are visible in the outline view when reordering
- Fixed outline view not updating order of documents when reordered
- Fixed storyboard view not updating order of documents when reordered
- Added a "Report Bug" menu item to the help menu
- Added a "Check Case Status" menu item to the help menu

Version 0.0.20 9/21/2009

- Fixed a hang when clicking the verify registration button when no text had been entered in the email or reg key boxes
- Added a menu item under help to allow entering registration data without having to restart

StoryBox Previous Version Release Notes

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Version 1.1.88 10/28/2010

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Version 1.0.85 10/23/2010

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Version 1.0.83 10/07/2010

Version 0.9.82 09/28/2010

Version 0.9.81 09/27/2010

Version 0.9.80 09/18/2010

Version 0.9.79 09/12/2010