Yup, that’s right. The next version of StoryBox will export to ePub format. The question I have for you, and please comment if you feel strongly, is whether to release it before it’s complete.

Right now, it will export an ePub without a cover image. There are also some minor formatting limitations, like not being able to add empty lines just by hitting a few times. You can do it by putting
in your text, but that’s not ideal. It also doesn’t convert urls into clickable links.

However, I think it’s soooo cool that I really want to release it and have some or all of you try it out.

So, do you want to see it this weekend? Or would you rather I wait until it’s reasonably complete?

Note that it’s reasonably easy to open it in Calibre or Sigil and add a cover image.

This is mostly a bugfix release. The big new feature I was planning on adding for this release is taking longer than I thought, and I didn’t want to go any longer without some of these things addressed.

http://www.storyboxsoftware.com/download.htm

I will be taking a break from weekly StoryBox updates through the holidays. If some huge bug comes to light, I will, of course, fix it ASAP.

There are two reasons I’m taking the break. The first, of course, is family. We have a lot of gatherings around this time of year, and it’s difficult to skip out on them to code. The second reason is that I am now working on one of the half dozen or so major features that I am adding for 2.0, and it will probably take a few weeks to complete. It’s more complicated than pretty much anything I’ve put into StoryBox so far, and I believe will require a few weeks to complete to a reasonable level of quality.

After much effort the last few days, StoryBox 1.2.97 is here, and fixes the problem that caused the removal of 1.2.96.

One thing I’m really pleased with on this build is that the likelihood of causing seizures when a document loads is greatly reduced. The on screen blinking and flashing of the UI is greatly reduced, and you may notice document load speed improvements, especially when loading a project that had many documents open in it.

It also maintains the window layout in each project separately. If you exited the project having two documents side by side, it will now remember that.

http://www.storyboxsoftware.com/download.htm

The day finally came, and I put out a release that made things worse instead of better. Please do not use 1.2.96. Uninstall it and reinstall 1.2.95.

http://www.storyboxsoftware.com/download.htm

I wasn’t going to release this tonight, but, while testing something, I discovered a potential data loss bug with the merge functionality, and if there’s a bug that I don’t want in StoryBox, it’s one that causes data loss. So… that’s fixed.

Now, this build has an incomplete new feature, so if you’re the type to load multiple projects, and you open them by double clicking them or by using the “recent documents” list in the start menu, you might find that you’ll have some open, blank windows when you start up on occasion. Internally, each document has a numeric identifier, and when reloading, it compares the last opened list against the document windows that were opened. When they don’t match up, right now it ends up with an unloaded window. Just close ’em. It’s mildly annoying, but it’s far better than losing data. I’ll get it fixed/finished by the end of the week.

http://www.storyboxsoftware.com/download.htm