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Codes:    A:Added feature;    R:Repaired feature (i.e. bug fix);    M:Modified feature

0.9.20           (soon)
A: Grid menu: Added menu to toggle Restore Item Expand States
A: Grids: New grid menu. Behaves as in Ecco
A: HTML Export: Added the ability to choose the table width (i.e. 100%, 50%, 500px, etc)
A: Toggle between grid and HTML pane (F12) and between grid and properties pane (F4)
M: Click on item bullet now select that item (behaviour as in Ecco, but different than Windows Explorer). Enables faster drag-drop
R: Fields marked as read-only could still be changed by a double-click
R: Grid > Column autosize menu was not being updated correctly
R: HTML Editing pane auto-save was not working as expected
R: ItemLocked shown as a column was not working correctly
R: Pivot tables and Charts data file path was not updated as files were moved

0.9.19           (Oct 29th)
A: Ecco Import: add option to just import selected items
M: Ecco Import: Speed-up import of large files

0.9.18           (Oct 29th)
A: Ecco Pro file import
A: File>New and File>Save As commands finally added
A: Added option to use tab/shift-tab to indent/outdent to simulate Ecco. Tools>Options>Modes
A: Drag-drop URLs onto the grid (from IE or FF browser address bar)
A: HTML Editor: Auto-save on/off. More prompts when saving/erasing text in editor.
A: Improved support for UI languages. Now includes Romanian (special thanks to muntealb)
A: ItemForeColor field: can be used to set the item text color
A: Properties windows: right-click to set the Main Parent (shown in bold)
A: Scratchpad grid added. Behaves as in Ecco (double-click folders and items to show content)
A: Scrolling down past the last TLI will add items (hold CTRL key to activate, INS adds a new TLI whereever you are in the grid)
A: Show/hide Grid Source bar
A: Smart display of the source bar elements on the grid based on the grid window width and the source text length
M: Can now open multiple scratchpad and search results grids at the same time. Shift-click on the grid toolbar to open a new one. Right-click on tab to move to a different tab group to see them side by side.
M: Date fields: enters current year if omitted (i.e. 10/31 or oct 31 becomes 10/31/2007 - for US locale)
M: Overstrike/Append mode setting now only applies to text fields. Other fields are always in Overstrike mode
R: Fields that had no value were not auto-updated even though the auto-update was checked
R: Pivot table configuration was sometimes lost: fixed

0.9.17      (Sept 30th 2007)
R: All reported bug in 0.9.16 were fixed.
M: Pop-up editor: Enter now does not close the editor but inserts a new-line. Use Tab and then Enter to close

0.9.16      (Sept 29th 2007)
A: Charts. Live interactive charts, multiple charts on a page
A: Option to show/hide item count on tab: set in options.ini
A: Pop-up text editor added. Sizable window. Shift-F2 to activate (same shortcut as MSAccess)
A: Selectable ContextParents color: set in options.ini
M: Fileref, FileName and FilePath system fields are now visible and can be edited and dragged to the grid (fields are used for file links)
M: Reduced screen flicker on program load
M: Show hierarchy display was improved (no more "disappearing" sub-items!)
M: UI look and feel uniformisation
M: When editing on the tree-column, Enter key now automatically creates a new item, CTRL-Enter creates a new sub-item. Alt-Enter closes the editor without creating an new item.
R: Drag-drop from Windows Explorer fixed.
R: Fix open .PDF files
R: Search source was not retained when executing a new search

0.9.15      (August 24th 2007)
A: HTML Editor: can now load .EML files. E-mails saved (as .MHT or .EML) can be displayed/indexed in SQLNotes
A: HTML Editor: can now Open in Browser database HTML data. Before had to save it on a local drive to be able to open in Browser
A: HTMLEditor file/URL field can now be displayed/edited
A: HTMLEditor: Add Print Preview and Print
A: Parent and child listed in the properties pane no longer have the ID shown, added item bullet
A: Sort sub-items Ascending/Descending. Right-click on a column to sort subs by that column
A: System fields properties can now be modified
M: To enable searching by Item ID, a small change was made to the database format. To upgrade existing database files, simply do Tools>Database>Repair.
R: Closing a file with the HTML Pane in locked mode did not save and clear the HTML Editor. Fixed. Error was generated if another file was opened and tried to save the HTML in that other file
R: Dragged fields from the property pane did not have the correct editor
R: HTML pane now updates its caption to show item text, ID
R: HTMLEditor: Enter key was sometimes not working
R: ItemLocked dragged to the grid was not editable
R: Items tagged are now restored on file open and available across SQLNotes instances
R: Toggle case when whole Item selected caused program stop
R: When multiple items selected, Properties pane and HTML Editor pane were not showing the same item

R: [Edit] Added check to ensure that program window is contained in the current screen. Some users were not seeing the program main window because it was outside screen window!

 

0.9.14b: bug when updating grids caused program to close. Fixed. Version still displayed as 0.9.14

0.9.14      (August 17th 2007)
A: Add icons to the grid source bar
A: Added Grid>Properties menu
A: Grid default font property (Grid>Properties>Options)
A: Grid: Option to keep item expand state (as per Ecco). Grid>Properties>Options
A: Improvements in the HTML Editor/Browser. Can now load .MHT and .PDF files. .MHT files are even indexed!
A: Item font can now be selected from the properties pane
A: New setup program. Now associates .sndb files with SQLNotes.
A: Sub-item positioning: Can now move sub-items up/down. Position is stored and restored (if 'Sort criteria applies to sub-items' is not checked).
A: Toggle button to apply/remove Grid Filter
A: Toggle Case. Shift-F3 to activate (same as MSWord)
M: Item movement keys changed from CTRL arrow to ALT Arrow (as per Ecco)
R: Faster display of sub-items (when large number of subs)
R: If no default search results grid was set, search results were not displayed
R: Improved drag-drop, including better visual feedback
R: Search form: now remembers settings

0.9.13      (August 12th 2007)
R: Cleaner program load
R: HTML Editor: Fixed Insert Table
R: Sometimes grids were not able to read data correctly.

0.9.12      (August 4th 2007)
A: Number of items values in each field is now displayed in the Manage Fields form.
R: Grid names with spaces in them were generating an error

R: In Item select mode, hiding a column would hide all columns, not just the chosen one
R: Properties pane did not update when changing grids (when clicking on the grid MDI tab for example)
R: Right-click on column does not select it when select mode is Item or when editing
R: When searching all fields, in some circonstances, items could be displayed more than once in a grid
R: Re-activated the HTML Editor. SQLNotes can now be used as a power 2-pane outliner. Not all editing features are currently enabled. More to come...

0.9.11       (July 21th)
A: Added PV and FV financial functions to the supplied User Code.
A: Auto-search mode: F3 finds next occurrence
A: Can now grab the expand button to initiate drag-drop
A: First column (#) now shows selected items
A: For simple source grids, automatically assign source fields to ensure that items stay in grid as they are moved around in the hierarchy. Warning: Ecco erases dates and text fields when that field is in the notepad as you move an item from TLI to SLI. SQLNotes will not.
A: Shortcuts for undo (CTRL-Z) and redo (CTRL-Y) added
R: Auto-update fields were not updated on file>open or when the system date was changed
R: Better handling when User defined code is unavailable (generally because msscript.ocx is not installed)
R: Errors if no grids defined in the database
R: Fix a few messages
R: Improved drag-drop. Can now drag-drop multiple items (within a grid or between grids). Drag-drop between instances of SQLNotes will be functional in the next release.
R: properties pane did not always display focused item when multiple items selected
R: Properties: double-click on %Done field (or other fields with non standard names) generated an error
R: Properties: double-click on Locked did not show the list of locked items
R: When clicking a checkbox field in the grid, the corresponding item was not selected
R: When creating a grid, Grid properties are now disabled until a name is given
R: When creating a grid, if clicked on Open Grid before saving it caused the program to hang.
R: When Grid select mode as item, impossible to delete a field in the grid (it was deleting the item)

0.9.10           (July 11th)
R: Add item no longer automatically filled fields based on the source
R: Apply form with no item selected generated an error
R: Deleting all items in a grid, left one behing
R: Fixed some drag-drop issues

0.9.9           (July 10th)
A: Ask if want to keep item values when deleting all children and a parent calc exists
A: E-mail adresses are now recognized. Double-click on an e-mail and it opens your default email program. Will expand to support multiple adresses in future versions
A: Field property: Hyperlink now enables single-click to send email, open web page (in properties pane only for now)
A: Locked items. Locked items cannot be erased, must unlock first. Use the properties sheet to lock/unlock items
M: Faster erase of items when Parent Calc
R: Add item by form required clicking on the top half of the form icon. Bottom half did not work as expected
R: Apply form when no items in grid generated an error
R: Forms: form was applied to focused item. Now applied to all selected items
R: Import: allow for up to 64k per text cell
R: Import: Y/N  text now imported correctly into a yes/no field
R: Improved drag-drop. Drag-drop items to change parents. Hit CTRL when dropping to add to another parent (hence item will have 2 or more parents). Drag-drop across grids. If dropped on an item text, becomes a child. If drop on the item bullet, becomes a sibbing.
R: Options: erasing all fields in the POP email section caused a crash. UI was not updated to reflect changes
R:If grid>select mode is item, settreecolumn is greyed

0.9.8           (July 6th)
A: Add items by form. Add sub-items by form: Without leaving forms, can add a contact and a call, or a order and order details!
A: Apply form default values and default equations to items
A: Auto-search mode (starts with or contains): default set in options. Each field can override the default. Auto-search selected text is cleared after 10 seconds or if Auto-search is turned off.
A: column headings can now overlap for narrow columns. Ideal for grids with many checkboxes
A: HTMLExport: All level settings now referenced to the first selected item. This allows more control over the layout when the item list is deep into the tree.
A: Improved visibility of grid (selected cell, row, column, scroll bar, columns)
A: Pop-up values now auto-drop down
R: Autosearch highlighted the wrong item starting at P, due to mismatch between the lower case and uppercase character sets
R: Grid Management: prohibit erasing a grid name
R: Only 1 copy of the Manage Grids button was updated with grid list
R: phone number was not recognized if extra characters were present after the number
R: Reduced the CPU usage when idling from 10-14% to 2-4%
R: Theme setting was not kept on some systems

0.9.7          (July 1st)
A: Add redo
A: grid property to set all sub-items to the source, not just the TLI
A: right-click on heading: add link to field properties
A: Search: fields should use a combo
A: Tags: Add Clear tag list
M: Alpha toolbar display is linked to the A checkbox of the grid, no longer a property of the grid
R: child inherits did not work correctly when changing the parent
R: deleting chrs in the source box causes a crash
R: Dialer drops the 4th character for numbers using the 2223334444 format
R: Dragdrop a field does not format it (HTML)
R: Field properties: Enabled Input mask, translated from french
R: properties pane icons were removed in 0.9.6

0.9.6
R: Select item. press q: hangs!
R: Hiding the # column hides the whole grid and looses columns.
R: If don't hit enter, some items are not saved
A: Enter creates a new item, CTRL-Enter creates a new sub-item
A: Locked row colors = same as unlocked
A: add version in the caption
R: HTML Export form did not open

0.9.5
A: Field Properties: New field move focus to name field
R: Clean up some error messages
R: Click on the property sheet to expand items adds an item in the grid: fixed

0.9.4
A: New item button on forms: adds a new item and moves focus to the first form entry field
R: Filter criteria applies to sub-items did not work if Sort criteria applies to sub-items was not checked also
R: Import CSV files containing commas in the text failed
A: Compact now removes empty fields
A: list of fields: select current grid field
R: nb locked coumns is not update when opening
R: toolbar not updated when closing grids
R: Tree columns cannot be set on the # column
A: ItemsTagged field. This field gives the list of tagged items. Can be used to allow users to build extension to SQLNotes and retrieve the list of tagged items

0.9.3
R: fields like $$ caused bug with hierarchy calc.
A: Improved phone number recognition
A: Removed Single column select mode: useless

0.9.02
R: hide hidden fields from properties pane
R: Application crash when clicking Update in Field properties
R: Some remaining french text string were translated
R: overflow bug after a certain time
A: Single undo
R: Hide Toolbar options from column context menu
R: (any) for search fields
R: message window does not close (remove modal)
R: bug fix for hierarchy calculations

0.9.01
R: Fixed properties pane editing when more than 1 item is selected
R: Fixed overflow error at startup on some systems

 


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