
Notes
Version
History
Version 1.3.1
- The Application and File Preferences windows now remember
their positions.
- Fixed a conflict with Action Files which could cause List Pad
to crash on quit.
- Fixed a bug where saving File Preferences in the 68K version
could cause List Pad to crash.
- Fixed a bug which caused the cursor to jump in dialogs and
over OS elements (i.e. Control Strip) with Color Cursors turned
on.
- Fixed the color pointer option so that the pointer updates
when the preferences are saved.
Version 1.3
- Item save has been simplified. Now whenever you close an Item
Editor your changes are recorded in the list.
- Auto Save has been updated and improved. The main difference
to the user is the ability to specify that lists be automatically
saved when closed.
- The snooze feature of Alarms has been improved. Snooze now
snoozes from the current time rather than the alarm time. That way
if you open a list and see an alarm that's already a day old
snooze will pause the alarm for the time you enter, rather than
simply going off again.
- Users may now set the display font used in the List Browser.
- New HTML Manual.
- The registration system is now password based to make
upgrading easier and to allow us to use multiple distributors.
- Fixed a number of callback constants which could have
potentially caused problems on Power Macs.
- Fixed a compiler setting which caused List Pad to quit if
certain libraries were not present on the host Macintosh.
- The dialogs were all updated with standard command and control
key support (i.e. escape for Cancel, command + first character for
buttons). In addition, some dialogs were redesigned to better fit
Apple's guidelines.
- The Balloon View was updated to use the standard Mac OS 8
palette look and feel and a more stylish look and feel under Mac
OS 7.
Version 1.2
- Lists can now be sorted, via an easy to use dialog, on more
than one field at a time. All fields are available for sorting,
ascending or descending. Note that when the Notes field is
included in a sort, only the first 64 characters are used when
sorting on the Notes field.
- Streamlined the Open Special Menu. The menu now just lists the
Special Files. The Special Files list is set in the Startup Menu
window, which now has commands for adding and deleting files.
- Implemented "safe save" using standard Mac OS File Manager
calls. List Pad now writes changes to a temporary file, then swaps
file information after the data is safely saved. This protects the
original file should something go wrong with the save.
- The List Pad manual is now accessible via the Window and Help
menus. Balloon View is also accessible via the Help menu. (Note:
in 1.1 the manual couldn't be opened even from the Startup Menu
due to a minor bug. This has been fixed.)
- Now when you hold down the option key while selecting a
Priority/Label/Category filter, any other marked filters are
turned off.
Version 1.1
- Modified the date, time, and currency fields to support
international formats and to use the format settings of the user's
system, set in the Date & Time and Numbers control panels.
- Added a Month of Year repeating option which allows users to
set an alarm to repeat on the same date of every selected month.
- Added a "5th Week" field to the Day of Month repeating option.
5th Week repeats do not occur unless there is a 5th week in the
month, unlike the "Last Week" field which repeats in either the
4th or 5th week. (Setting an alarm to repeat in the 5th week of
February will cause it to repeat in the 4th week instead *if*
February is the only month selected.)
- Added Silence Alarm and Snooze Alarm... commands to the Item
menu.
- The following bugs which were in 1.0 have been fixed in 1.1:
- The Custom Interval repeating option (which
includes all of the 'preset' repeating options) would cause
List Pad to crash depending on the time it was computing from.
Generally users were bound to eventually run into this when the
alarm went off or was silenced, if not immediately upon setting
the option and saving the Item. We believe this bug, which was
due to a minor programming error, was inadvertently added
between final beta and release.
- The Day of Month repeating option would, under some
settings, cause List Pad to "freeze", i.e. List Pad would
search endlessly for the next iteration not realizing that it
was passing up valid iterations. This repeating option has been
rewritten, and this should no longer be a problem.
- With the Day of Week and Day of Month repeating options
users could enter invalid settings (i.e. no boxes checked in
the dialogs), which could potentially freeze or crash List Pad.
List Pad no longer accepts invalid settings, reverting instead
to the old settings as if the Cancel button had been pressed.
- Double clicking an Item in the Alarm Browser would cause
List Pad to crash. It now properly opens the Item Editor.
- List Pad 1.0 saved a file by deleting the original and
writing the updated version. This could wreak havoc with Mac OS
aliases pointing to List Pad files (including the alias records
stored by List Pad), confuse backup applications, and would
also effectively destroy the creation date. This was a bug in
the ABC's (the framework used with List Pad) and has been
fixed. 1.1 saves the new data to the same file.
- The Build New List... command had two bugs. It did not
appropriately clone the Items from the source list, which could
cause some very confusing behavior (i.e. edits to an Item in
one list being reflected in the same Item in the other list)
until one of the documents was closed and reopened. This has
been fixed. Also, File Prefs are now transferred to the
duplicate list.
- Items were previously date stamped 0/0/0. They are now
stamped with the date of their creation, or the default date
for documents with a default Item.
- File Prefs are now accessible from the Item Editor as well.
Previously this menu item was dimmed when an Item Editor was in
front.
- The Item Print Layout did not properly format numbers. It
now does using the same system settings as the fields in the
Item Editor.
Version 1.0
Premier release.
Notes
Taylor Design would like to thank the artists at The Iconfactory
for letting us use their high-quality icons in List Pad. A good
looking user interface is very important to helping the end user feel
comfortable with the application, and their icons add a great deal to
the look and feel of the List Pad user interface. For high quality
Mac OS icons, please visit their web site at:
http://www.iconfactory.com/
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