Release Notes
Glass Writer Pro 2.5.2 released 4/5/06
- Moved: Backrop (black, white, none) from Edit menu to Preferences
- Moved: Fonts and Sizes to Preferences
- Fixed: a bug which caused GWP to crash when exporting chapters with chapter notes.
- Fixed: a bug which caused the cursor to spin endlessly when hiliting a recurring word with only one chapter.
- Improved: stability of all Export functions.
- Simplified and completely rewrote drafts.
- Added: default text size to Preferences.
- Fixed: unusual (and sometimes amusing) Undo behaviors.
Glass Writer Pro 2.5.1 released 3/25/06
- Fixed: positions of drafts fields now positioned correctly in small screen version
- Added: single-spacing option in Preferences (user request)
- Renamed page-down and page-up to match standard conventions
- Fixed: error when clicking in a blank space in the chapter list.
- Fixed: Preferences for text-to-speech now properly work
- Fixed: an error message returned by clicking the Pages read-out on the right-side.
- Added: ability to select any text-to-speech voice including Cepstral voices.
- Adopted the convention of naming the larger screen version of GWP as “a” and the smaller screen version as “b”
- Updated About box graphics
Glass Writer Pro 2.5 released 3/22/06
- Added: text to speech to assist in proof-reading
- Added: command-s: page down, command-d: page up
- Added: Log window to keep track of how many words are written each day
- Added: (user-editable) tabs for Characters, Dialog, Plot, Misc.
- Added: a daily word count readout to the left of the chapter word count.
- Added: a progress bar at the bottom of the writing window which shows proportional progress toward a set word count goal.
- Added: default font to Preferences window.
- Added: export of Global Notes (including tabbed categories)
- Added: Find Notes and Find Again Notes under the Search menu.
- Added: delete all Reminders when clearing a novel
- Added: text from Reminders now can be dragged and dropped into other fields and vice versa.
- Added: 9 new texture themes -- 18 total
- Added: a preference to automatically removed double-spaces from text during start up.
- Changed: Title bar now shows “Glass Writer Pro” rather than “Glass Writer.”
- Changed: theme text color now also applies to Reminders
- Fixed a numbering problem when deleting chapters.
- Fixed: problem with deleting one chapter (rather than all) when only one chapter remains
- Fixed: a problem which slowed pasting text into notes.
- Fixed: a problem which caused the Chapter title hilite to disappear when using Replace function.
- Removed: single- and double-space icons. Main writing area will always be double-spaced, notes (global or chapter) will always be single-spaced.
- Removed: left-align and center-align icons and move this function to the Edit menu.
- Various other small “beneath-the-hood” enhancements
Glass Writer Pro 2.0 released 12/20/05
- completely redesigned side-by-side layout to give more room to write notes, refer to other chapters
- added Reminders feature
- choice of 9 background themes
- enhanced import and export featues
- enhanced hiliting features
- added quick links to internet resources
- updated SuperCard engine to 4.5.2
- many various small fixes and under the hood enhancements
Glass Writer 1.1.3 - Free version released 12/20/05 - last update of this version
- Removed multiple clipboard function
- added automatic chapter renumbering when inserting new chapters between other chapters.
- improved the behavior of Global Notes when moving from chapter to chapter.
- added rulers to both Global and Chapter Notes
- updated SuperCard engine to 4.5.2
- fixed a behavior which might cause a loss of text (in lower screen) in Split screen mode when quitting Glass Writer.
- various small fixes and enhancements
Glass Writer 1.1.2 - released 11/5/05
- Tweaked the hilight feature to work more quickly and catch all instances of a word or phrase
- Added ability to insert a chapter between other chapters
- Fixed a bug which caused renamed chapters to be exported with previous name
- Changed the method which the independent clipboards insert text
- Added: click on the number of pages (for the entire book) to learn the number of pages for the current chapter.
Glass Writer 1.1.1 - released 10/1/05
- Tidied up Edit menu
- Added Swap commands
- Added shift-click to clear extra clipboards
Glass Writer 1.1.0 - released 9/5/05
- Added 3 additional, independent clipboards
- Fixed a bug which caused Glass Writer to quit when creating a new chapter if the previous chapter title ended in punctuation.
Glass Writer 1.0.2 - released 8/28/05
- Fixed a bug where ending a chapter title with a question mark would cause Glass Writer to quit.
- Sped up switching between chapters.
- Various small tweaks and enhancements.
Glass Writer 1.0.1 - released 8/21/05
- New icon
- Changed Buy/Web button link to http://www.glasswriter.com
- Moved chapter bookmarks to left side of screen where they are grouped with the chapter list and the unversal book mark.
- Created a warning for those who try to “Select all” but haven’t yet put their cursor in a field.
- Created a Preference for Tool Tips.
- Added numerous Tool Tips to buttons and fields.
- Split button is now a disclosure triangle.
- iconized "left align text" and "center align text."
- fixed bug which prevented the 30 day registration count-down being displayed.
- Various other small bug fixes and enhancements
Glass Writer 1.0 - released 8/18/05