So, last night, I released 0.1.58 – and there were two GLARING issues in it (one I found, one that was reported to me by one of you). Those are fixed in this latest build, along with a couple other goodies. Next stop, RTF import – unless you all find something else utterly and annoyingly broken.
StoryBox 0.1.58
Yes, there’s another one. This one has updated UI components, so you should uninstall any previous version before installing this one. It’s not critical, but if you don’t, you may see some odd UI behavior. There may still be some odd behavior – I think I’ve caught all the issues, but I probably haven’t.
StoryBox 0.1.57 and the Future
Uploaded a new build with some new features, like auto numbered scenes and chapters, and a menu item that will open the support forum in the internal browser. A couple bug fixes finishes it off.
Version 1.0 is coming, really. If you are already using StoryBox, whenever 1.0 eventually arrives, there won’t be a big host of new features over what you’re already seeing. I have one or two more semi-large items to add, and a lot of tweaking to do, but it’ll be basically the same as what you’re looking at now. I’m really feeling pretty good about it now. Tell your friends, if you haven’t already. Get them in on the Early Adopter version before the price goes up.
StoryBox 0.1.56
Look what happens when I get big huge bugs that annoy me for months fixed… I release a new update in less than a week with quite a few fixes (for the time I have available to me). Get the latest version and see the release notes. Fixes/improvements to the search features and a few other minor annoyances. Enjoy!
StoryBox 0.1.55
Yay! It’s graduated to 0.1 status. I fixed a few other minor things, along with the export that I mentioned in the previous post. Please, if you find errors in your exports, report them to me and send me your project (zip it up if it’s too big) with the bug so that I can debug it and fix your error. With that big headache out of the way, I’ve got a whole bunch of requests and bug reports to tackle now. I’m really happy, though. It can be used from import to export in the basic generic case and not be too terribly annoying in the process.
StoryBox Progress
Finally, finally, I have merged documents that don’t lose formatting. I still have some things to clean up, and I’m sure, once you get your hands on it, you’ll find all sorts of situations where it doesn’t work right, but, at least now, I’ll be able to fix those things.
Basically, right now, the only things that will break the exporting would come from text and other things that are pasted into the document. Not all pastes will break it, but anything with odd formatting might.
I spent far too many nights fiddling with oddball solutions that I just couldn’t wrap my head around or get to work right, so I finally gave up and just wrote my own RTF parser/merger. Hopefully, in the next couple of days, you’ll get to try it yourself and tell me how badly it’s broken. I can say, however, that it is currently FAR better than before.