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Changes in version 1.6

Here is a quick summary of major new features in version 1.6, followed by a more detailed list:

+ Fixed: issue with "Filtered" status indicator showing in new installations

+ Added: Special Paste (Shift-Ctrl-V) to paste plain text from clipboard if available

+ Chang: Template toolbar dropdown is now sorted by template name

+ Added: (PALM) Added hotkey (F12) for "Pause" durring playback of voice memos

+ Fixed: issue with refresh when there are no entries causing an error

+ Fixed: issue with large "NEW" button on entry screen no being accessible at times

+ Fixed: issue with no tab area available when a valid data file is open

+ Chang: (Palm) "Edit" tab to default to "Arial" font so that palm bullets show up

+ Fixed: issue with Win98 systems not liking double backslashes in file paths

Changes in version 1.5

Here is a quick summary of major new features of version 1.5, followed by a more detailed list:

Detailed list:

- Added: New status bar panel to indicate "All" entries are being loaded, or "Part" for partial load based on a date range (see previous bullet item)

- Added: Disabled more controls for a more "user friendly" state when no data file is open. This should prevent users from hitting buttons that cause failures.

- Added: Ctrl-Tab to sequence through the three tabs

- Added: Better detection of true password protected data files. Other MDAC/ADO errors should now be reported and not interpreted as login issues

- Added: Template Editing (see menu item "Edit->Edit Templates...")

- Added: Time, Days Since, and Last Modified to CSV export

- Added: Large button on blank screen to select a data file/hotsync user when none is currently open

- Added: Status bar indicator that indicates when the custom view is filtered

- Added: Latest DayNotez handheld build (refer to readme for handheld app for changes)

- Added: Updated conduit (minor wording changes, etc.)

- Added: ability to disable autoURL detect in editor

- Added: ability to define "header" background color in Day View

- Added: Custom Preview, Entry, and Day View background colors are now reflected in "Font" preview boxes in the prefs dialog

- Added: Ability to define if the DateNav list initially starts out fully expanded or collapsed

- Added: Voice Memo panel below DateNav for listening to voice memos.

- Added: Menu item in "View" to exposing or hiding the Voice Memo panel

- Added: Ability to Duplicate an entry. While in the entry tab, right click for context menu. Entire entry is duplicated with the exception of date/time, which is set to current date/time

- Added: A "Now" button next to the date/time editors in the entry tab toolbar. Clicking on this item will reset the current items date/time to the current date/time

- Added: Ability to set a limit to the entries being loaded (to save load time and memory). See "General Preference". Changes made to this will not take effect until after a restart of DayNotez Desktop or until you change users.

- Added: Enhanced menu/toolbar look and feel

- Added: Filter Text (search) will now also apply the search to the keyword. eg: Find "XYZ" in note text OR keyword

- Added: Persistent category (saved on a per-user basis)

- Added: Private and Follow up indicators in custom preview pane.

- Added: URL links in custom preview pane.

- Added: Follow up Flag to printouts

- Added: Private and Follow up to "default new entries" preferences.

- Added: Password protection when restoring from minimized (If password is enabled)

- Added: Password protection when un-hiding private records ((If password is enabled)

- Added: Basic block indent/outdent (Shift+Ctrl+] = indent /  Shift+Ctrl+[ = outdent)

- Added updated printer driver. Should not be noticeable to most.

- Added: Custom tab context menu item for Setting and clearing the follow up flag on mulitple entries

- Added: Custom tab context menu item for assigning a keyword to mulitple entries (basic text edit field for now)

- Added: Custom tab context menu item for assigning a contact to mulitple entries (basic text edit field for now)

- Added: Contact Name completion/lookup/edit added to Entry Tab.

- Added: Contact Name completion/lookup/edit added to Custom Tab context menu dialog.

- Added: Keyword completion/lookup/edit added to Entry Tab.

- Added: Keyword completion/lookup/edit added to Custom Tab context menu dialog.

- Added: Change the status bar just a bit to make a space between user/entry section and "caps/num/scroll" indicators

- Added: Entry tab now displays only a single "New" button if you select a calendar date with no entries. Some users were confused when the Entry tab always displayed a - Added: Toolbar now again shows tooltip when you hover over them with the mouse.

- Added: Reports now contain "Category / Keyword" information

- Added: DayView now contains "Category / Keyword" information

- Added: "Category/Filter" toolbar to the view menu.

- Added: Ctrl-Shift-F as a hotkey for the text filter.

- Added: "Aggressive Live Spell Menu" option in prefs. If you have problems right clicking on the live spell "squigglies" to get a context menu of suggested words, then enable this option.

- Added: Added a prompt for overwriting existing files when exporting.

- Added: You can use Alt-D to jump directly to the Date edit from the entry tab.

- Added: Printout templates modified to reduce the amount of empty space between entries.

- Added: Header for each entry in printouts now updated with same font of the user defined print font.

- Added: Page header font now reflects font selected by user for printout.

- Added: DayView Tab "Date Header" area now set to same font selected for the DayView entrys.

- Added: Re-arranged main menu to be more in line with other standards.

- Added: You can right click on the Custom list and choose "Export->Text/HTML/CSV" and do the same type of exports that you can do with the

standalone export tool we offer non-DayNotez Desktop users.

- Added: In the Entry view, there is now a toolbar field for Keyword.

- Added: Entry view, there is now a checkbox to set or clear the followup flag.

- Added: Entry view, the toolbars now wrap instead of hide with a cheveron. This is to avoid confusion for customs who didn't have the entry area large enough to show those items.

- Added: Custom view, the Keyword field is now visable in the preview pane.

- Added: Custom view grid, you can use the field chooser to add Keyword and followup fields to the list of columns

- Chang: Improved speed time to create a new entry when there was a large data file.

- Chang: DateNav list and Custom list should now always highlight the current item and not the parent item if the current item is the "topmost" grouped item

- Chang: Double clicking on Preview pane header will now always take you to Entry tab with current entry

- Fixed: bullets/numlist insertion when editor is not in "edit" mode

- Fixed: More aggressive refresh after a hotsync.

- Fixed: Tab order in entry area.

- Fixed: Keyword printout from custom view

- Fixed: Copyright date on Help/About box

- Fixed: Removed 3d font effect in password dialog for easier reading

- Fixed: Removed ability to click on date/time in status bar to jump to today since it had too large of a boundary

- Fixed: Select HotSync User now centers on window

- Fixed: Password dialog now centers on window

- Fixed: Reworded dialog that informs users they need to sync prior to accessing their data

- Fixed: security hole in encrypted data files.

- Fixed: the "Save" icon to only be enabled when changes have actually been made

- Fixed: When renaming one category to the same as another (Case Sensitive), the two are merged

- Fixed: Category Edit dialog now correctly handles setting the proper category in the list

- Fixed: Category Edit dialog now properly returns the selected category

- Fixed: Category Edit dialog properly disables appropriate buttons

- Fixed: print engine only printing 1 page

- Fixed: When multi-selecting entries in custom view, same entry would print multiple times if grouping was included.

- Fixed: Preferences (esp. category color) should not get wiped out if there are issues when initing the app.

- Fixed: The data file name is based on the hotsync name, which may contain chars that are not legal for filenames. DnD now subst. _ for illegal chars.

- Fixed: Persist cursor position in entry text after doing a "save".

entry for a previous date when they clicked on calendar dates with no entries.

- Fixed: The "Find" feature is no longer available unless you are in the entry tab. This is to help with confusion where some expect the "Find" to look through all entries as opposed to just the current one.

Changes in version 1.3

+ = New Features

- = Bug Fix or Change in behavior

- Added drag and drop of entries from either list to calendar to change date of entries

+ Day View now uses category colors for entry headers

+ Main menu is now detachable

- Added menu item "View->Toolbars->Contact" to restore or hide contact entry field toolbar

- Fixed problem with selecting multiple entries in the custom list. They now should not loose focus while control or shift clicking.

- DateNav calendar is better at reflecting days with entries after a new, delete, or change of entry date.

- Fixed problems with gradient header printing with some systems.

- Saves and Restores printer preferences more reliably.

- Cleaned up printouts. Made more consistent. Removed truncation problem for right justified fields.

- Print Preview now more accurately reflects how the printout will be produced.

Changes in version 1.2.5

- Added the ability to view and edit the "Contact" field new to version 2 on the handheld side.

Changes in version 1.2

+ Password protection and data encryption.

+ Bullet list behavior that mimics the palm side.

+ Numbered lists.

+ Options for Start of Week being Monday or Sunday in DateNav.

+ Printing from Custom View now prints the entries in the same order as displayed in the list.

- Added Printing preferences for optional printing of Title, Header, and Footer lines.

- Added Printing preference to set user definable report title.

- Added new Look to printouts, including preference feature to gradient color code entry sections based on category color settings.

- Added icons to the preference tabs for easier visual clues.

+ New "Live Spellcheck" option. This give you the ability to have real time spell checking when entering text. (Please see the above notice about obtaining the new dictionaries required for this release).

+ Autocorrect spelling option

+ Ability to use MS Word user dictionary as part of spell check.

+ Printing Font: The "Print Font" for your entries is now a separate preference. We will no long be setting the print font based on each tab. Additional "Print Options" will be added later. Also note that the Print Font is restricted to "printer" fonts only. Previously, you could choose a "Screen" font which did not print correctly.

+ Preference "Enable Column Filters" to turn on and off the filter column options (for those none power users, this makes the columns look a little more readable).

+ Time Rounding for New Entries: There is a preference on the "Entry View" prefs page to set time rounding. You can also choose a "Hard Time" if you wish all of your entries to be set to a particular time.

- Fixed the way that Page Setup is initiallized. Some users reported having trouble with Page Setup even if they had a default printer defined, but that printer was off-line/networked. Now the Page Setup dialog is only ever initialized if you actually summon it from the menu. This should also make for much faster startup time for users that had either "Windows Printers" or poorly written/out of date printer drivers.

- Fixed a bug where you were not able to use the splitter bar to resize the preview pane if it was initially not shown (hidden) when you started the application.

- Added the "15th" user definable custom color control. It was one short previously.

- Fixed "out of index" problem when you had the list of entries filtered in some way, and then did a group operation in the custom grid which put the items out of the filtered set. e.g. You select "don't show archived", select 3 entries in the custom grid, right-click and select "Archive", and then the "out of bounds" error would occur.

- Preview Pane in the Custom View tab now saves and remembers it's height.

- The conduit now has better behavior for it's z-order. What that means is that if you choose to have progress turned on at sync time, DayNotez will no longer force itself to be the top dialog on your screen.

- DayView now resets itself to the top position when a lot of entries exist for that day

- Rearranged the categories in the preferences to be in a more logical order

- Auto Refreshed to category filter dropdown upon "Refresh Data" menu option and on a hotsync.

- Fixed error message that appeared when there was no default printer assigned. This could prevent you from properly exiting the application. Now if no printers are defined, you are no longer allowed to print or set page settings.

- Fix printing problem on ceratin systems where the last line or more of text did not print.

Changes in 1.1

- Updated printer driver. Appears to fix problems seen when printing with certain fonts that caused infinite pages to be printed.

- Creating new entries now properly focuses current entry on the newly created one instead of the top entry listed for the day in the DateNav list.

- Fixed missing "Next Day" button behavior on some Win9x systems.

- Fixed "New Category" to not allow duplicate categories.

- Conduit does a much better job at detecting multiple desktop syncs, which previously caused it to skip hotsyncs because it thought nothing had changed.

- Updating the lists due to a cateogry or text filter change now defaults to the selecting the most recent entry upon completion instead of the oldest.

- Fixed a bug in "Control-Click" on calendar which may have not placed the next entry on the date actually clicked.

- Added preferences for color coding list entries by category.

- Added support for "Excel Like" filtering directly from the column headers in the custom view. This is yet another "power user" feature.

- Added font selection for DateNav Calendar so users with non-English language systems can view calendar with a different font.

+ Changed the entry page category selector to use a default_font to try to support non-English fonts.

+ New icon to represent private in both custom list view and entry. (Looking for suggestions for a new "Archive" icon to replace the current one.)

- Added new column "Days Since" to refelect the number of days since the entry date.

+ Changed behavior of DateNav list to "Expand All" upon refiltering the list.