-- New features/changes:
* New tool: Highlighter. It behaves as the Pen, but draws in a semi-transparent
ink; perfect for drawing attention to portions of a PDF image
* Image rotation is now performed from a special "handle" for rotating. Rotating
draws a transparent rectangle "over" the image to show where its rotation will
end up, instead of drawing the image as it rotates (which was slow)
* Image re-scaling using its selection handles. Also draws a transparent
rectangle to indicate its new size
* PDF Cache Viewer - view the list of PDF files that Whyteboard is caching. From
here you can remove cache entries, meaning that the PDF will be re-converted.
* Improvements to rotating an image with the mouse: now "follows" the mouse's
position, and can be rotated both clockwise and counter-clockwise.
Thanks to Zack Buhman and members of Stack Overflow for help with the coding
* Scaling of Polygon shapes - increase or decrease their size!
* Rotating Polygon shapes. Note that all scaling/rotating operations are from
the *center* of the shape
* 8-way selection handle on rectangle, rounded rectangle and ellipse, allowing
vertical-only / horizontal-only resizing
* Right clicking a shape with the select tool pops up a menu with select/delete/
edit/move operations. Also, from here, new points may be added to a polygon
* Changing sheets scrolls the new sheet's thumbnail into view
* Few UI changes, program now looks neater with less borders, also takes up less
vertical space (takes up ~700 pixels vertically at a minimum)
* Removed many Message Boxes, tried to present more helpful error text to the
user when an error occurs
* Programs remembers last opened file's directory the next time the program runs
* Foreground/background colour swap button added
* "Swap Colours" menu item for when you select a shape that's not transparent
* New toolbar items for Move Shape Up/Down/To Top/To Bottom
* Recently Closed Sheets as a sub-menu to allow you to choose a sheet to re-open
* Improved "save changes?" dialog when you are exiting the program. Now tells
you how long it was since you last saved, and the buttons have better text
than "yes/no/cancel"
* Thick rectangles now don't have a "roundness" to their edges
* Help files updated and improved with more detail
* Improved a few icons (circle/ellipse/polygon/rounded rectangle, move up/down
* Little "close" button drawn on the current tab
* Up/down/left/right arrow keys can pan around the canvas.
* The selected shape may be moved around the canvas using the arrow keys too
* Escape key will de-select the currently selected shape (as well as Ctrl-D)
* Cancelling PDF Conversion on Linux takes a few seconds, so the progress bar no
longer "pumps", and the dialog title changes from "Converting" to "Cancelling"
* The "Shape Viewer" is now in sync with the canvas: adding, deleting, undoing,
redoing, editing and changing shapes' order is now reflected when the Shape
Viewer is open
* Minimise button added to the Shape Viewer
* Undo closed tabs remembers the "viewport" of the canvas when closed
* Removed the "Rotate Image" dialog
* Ctrl+Enter in text input dialog will "submit" the text
* Restructured source code directories -- now just run whyteboard.py from the
main directory to start the program
* Started improving code: removing module dependencies and tight coupling, to
create more readable/maintainable code.
-- New Preferences / Options:
* Under "View", number of toolbox columns, can be set to 2 or 3 to decrease the
vertical space used by the toolbox
* Toggle tool preview on/off (to gain more vertical space)
* Toggle colour grid on/off
* "Send Feedback" added to the Help menu
* Command-line extras added (inc. help). Call whyteboard -f FILE to load a file;
whyteboard -l LANG to set a language e.g. es, spanish, nl, dutch, de, german
-- Bugfixes:
* Important Windows bugfix: drawing a shape would create extra Windows "GDI"
objects; which was taking up unneeded resources. This bug has been present
since version 0.25 (3rd release) - released back in January 2009!
* Recently closed tab list was deleting incorrect entries when it had more items
than the "number of closed tabs" preference
* Bitmap Select could cause some visual anomalies
* Possible crash when loading/saving .wtbd files containing text
* After selecting a shape (and being brought to the front), any shapes that
were on top of the shape would prevent the user from selecting the handles of
the selected shape.
* "Recent Files" menu wasn't working on Linux
* Rotated images weren't being saved as rotated
* Shape Viewer's column widths would not take up the full space
* Fixed shape viewer crashing when an item isn't selected
* Using next/previous sheet buttons in the Shape Viewer wouldn't set the
drop-down control to the changed-to sheet
* "End" key would not jump to the end of the document correctly
* Menu were icons appearing for 3 menu items on Windows when no other menu items
had icons - now removed
* Stopped a crash when wx.GCDC was not implemented on the system, due to a
misconfigured wxPython install. Now, the program just doesn't use transparency
for these users (new highlighter tool is also not available)
* Hopefully stopped a visual oddity/black square appearing underneath the close
and maximise button on Windows
* Hopefully fixed problem with various "UnicodeError" (the problem doesn't
happen on my machine, so it's hard to test if the issue is fixed)
* Fixed unit tests so that they at least run -- need to improve the test's code
coverage, which will come with time.
