OverSite

Release Notes

Below are improvements made to current and previous releases of OverSite.

4.0.3 | 4.0.2 | 4.0.1 | 4.0
3.1.8 | 3.1.7 | 3.1.6 | 3.1.5 | 3.1.4 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.2 | 3.1.1 | 3.1   ||   3.0.3 | 3.0.2 | 3.0.1 | 3.0
2.4.9 | 2.4.8 | 2.4.7 | 2.4.6 | 2.4.5 | 2.4.4 | 2.4.3 | 2.4.2 | 2.4.1 | 2.4   ||   2.3.1 | 2.3   ||   2.2.3 | 2.2.2 | 2.2.1 | 2.2   ||   2.1

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4.0.3

• When an unsaved file is open and a new file is opened from the desktop, a prompt to save the open file now appears.

4.0.2

• Fixed an issue where some PNGs were losing transparency when exported/saved.

4.0.1

• Fixed the upgrade code entry dialog.

4.0

• Added new widgets: TabbedPane, Dialog, Clipart, Spinner.
• Added the ability to colorize page background.
• Added the ability to import and export styles, composites, and custom colors.
• Added the ability to colorize individual spreadsheet cells.
• Wireframe canvases can now autosize to fit components.
• Added the ability to group components for easy multi-selection.
• Adding padding controls for text components.
• The composites editor now has controls for duplicating existing composites.
• Added the ability to import and export text variables in CSV format.
• Checkboxes and radio button widgets are now rendered at a fixed size.
• Added component size controls to the wireframe's side edit panel.
• Added component visibility controls to the wireframe's side edit panel.
• Added a side edit panel to the notes view.
• Can now toggle off blank notes.
• Notes identifiers are now assigned more sequentially.
• Sorting in the notes view is more intelligent.
• Made the wireframe component listing panel a bit more usable.
• When zoomed out and a file is closed, the wireframe canvas' zoom is returned to 100%.
• Fonts can now be adjusted in the click-thru view's auto-generated navigation.
• File dialogs on the Mac are now more "Mac-like".
• Contextual menus now work as expected on the Mac.
• When creating a page, entering a filename with no extension now generates a warning.
• Multiple instances of the same composite can now be added to a scrollpane.
• Rearranged the wireframe contextual menu items to make more sense.
• The exceptions control is now disabled when the root node is selected.
• Cleaned up the Notes toolbar.
• Wireframe and Notes side editors collapsing is now animated.
• After deleting a grouping border, the grouping-border page layout controls now become disabled.
• Grouped some actions into submenus in the page layout contextual menu.
• "New Page" and "New Section" now remember the last settings.
• When a spreadsheet is selected but so is another component, the spreadsheet controls will still be enabled.
• Registration now longer requires an email address to be entered.
• Renamed "Grouping" to "Border", to better reflect its purpose.
• When in a version's wireframe, clicking on rearranged components now causes the proper component to be selected.
• Fixed a memory issue that arose in files with many composites.
• Fixed a memory issue that arose when switching projects.
• Fixed an issue where nested containers were sometimes not read back in correctly.
• Fixed some issues when editing containers in a zoomed wireframe canvas.
• Fixed a problem with clickable imagemaps when invisible components were obscuring other linked components.
• Fixed the rendering of version href link indicators on the Mac.

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3.1.8

• Radius percent settings for Starts now persist across saves.
• Fixed an issue that could cause text or links in versioned spreadsheets not to save properly.
• Fixed a memory issue that could occur when closing and opening documents.
• The border drawn around notes is now always drawn at the correct dimension.
• Switching to "Custom" style in wireframe controls panel now enables the style controls.
• Components are now placed in the proper location when wireframe is zoomed.
• Components within scrollpanes are now positioned correctly when canvas offsets have been set.

3.1.7

• Fixed an issue with image components in versions and exceptions.

3.1.6

• Made the font dialog more usable.
• Exceptions now work as expected when exporting a website as clickable images.
• Fixed an error that occurred if non-numeric page ranges were entered into the print dialog.
• Right-aligned textareas no longer let text run into the scroller.
• The main divider can now be opened to be at any position.
• Fixed an issue where sometimes text components appeared all black when exported to PDF.
• Fixed some color issues on Mac OS X.
• Fixed a Mac OS X painting issue with the status bar in Click-thru mode.
• Added button on registration popup to allow entry of code.

3.1.5

• Fixes an issue with transparent components in versions

3.1.4

• When editing a text component inline in a composite edit window, and enter is pressed to end editing, the composite window is no longer closed
• When editing text for a list's elements, if you close the Properties dialog before you "save" the text, the text is no longer lost.
• When editing a list's contents in the free-form text editor, then close the Properties dialog, the first row will be implicitly selected as the default option

3.1.3

• Can now click OK, or hit Enter, on a Global Style Editor to commit changes
• Dynamic text tokens are now properly replaced within dropdown list options
• Links exported in clickable images are no longer affected by elements that are arranged behind them
• Hotspots are now accurate when exporting a composite as a clickable image
• Links within nested composites now work correctly in the Click-thru browser
• The Edit Composites dialog is now disabled if no composites exist
• Composites can no longer be inadvertantly added to themselves
• Links within scrollpanes when exported as an imagemap now work more reliably
• Links within scrollpanes in the Clickthru browser now appear as hotspots

3.1.2

• Fixed an issue where dropdown lists found a "Dropdown list" option added when their projects were closed and reopened
• Fixed an issue where copying and pasting text sometimes did not work
• Addressed an issue with spreadsheets sometimes not being read back in properly
• Fixed an issue where right-clicking caused components to sometimes be incorrectly selected
• Components that are resized in a version, then copied and pasted into a new node, are now pasted with the correct size
• Undoing an add-row/column-after edit now preserves the text of the selected row/column

3.1.1

• When adding and editing a version, then undoing the add, then redoing add and edits, edits are now retained
• When moving one end of a line, the x-y-coordinate popup now repaints properly
• Split slider in Notes panel no longer breaks into two lines in a contrained window size
• Improved the speed of scrolling for right-hand wireframe components list
• Added a contextual menu to the right-hand wireframe components list

3.1

• Improved memory usage
• Performance improvements during startup and closing/opening files
• It's now possible to use the dynamic text button in a versioned Dropdown List's options editor
• Round corner editor and foreground editor are no longer activated when only a shape is selected
• Fixed an issue with using spreadsheets in composites
• Fixed an issue where clickable images were sometimes not being exported correctly
• Buttons with a 3D paint style, but no background, will now not display any 3D artifacts when drawn
• When copying components within a border as an image, the components now correctly appear above the border in the pasted image
• When dragging a component, the location indicator now clears completely from the wireframe canvas
• Components that are copied as image now have a white, not black, background
• Components within scrollpanes can now be copied and pasted elsewhere

3.0.3

• Improved the OS X look and feel
• Updated some inline documentation

3.0.2

• Boxed-format maps now export to image or PDF in proper format
• Fixed Composite Editor so that the expand-component-controls button doesn't appear

3.0.1

• Fixed performance issues caused by large textareas
• When map is set to Boxed format, it now actually prints in Boxed format
• Improved some animation effects

3.0

• Added rulers in wireframe mode
• Allowed zooming in wireframe mode
• Added inline editing of most component attributes
• Added per-page controls in the map panel
• Allowed editing text on texted components right on the component
• Fixed and issue where components in parent nodes overlapped components in children nodes
• Provided a hand cursor to drag around the wireframe screen
• Component edit controls, plus component list, now appear either in side editor or in a palette
• Added print preview
• Added fullscreen mode in the click-thru view
• Each of the options in a select list can now link to a different page or version of a page
• Made snap-to-grid undoable edits in the same compoundEdit as the actual move edits
• Cutting & pasting an autosized versioned component now retains autosize setting
• Added page-level annotations along with component-level ones
• Added the ability to export notes as inventory in csv, html, or tab-delimited format
• Auto-generated click-thru navigation is now set on a per-project basis
• Allowed the configuration of colors for auto-generated nav bar in the click-thru view
• Added quick preferences dropdown to wireframe toolbar
• Fixed alignment for some components when snapping-to-grid
• Fixed performance issues caused by large text paragraphs
• Added new components:
• Slider
• ScrollPane
• Spreadsheet
• HTML
• Triangle
• Left hierarchy navigation now does not reset to the top of the list every time a new section or page is created
• Can now add components to, and remove components from, styles
• Can now create text variables as dynamic text
• "Layout" menu/tab is now "Wireframe"
• Ability to export notes as tooltips, within HTML exports
• Popups in Clickable-image-exports now work
• Composites now clip properly when rendered
• Fixed drawing issues with lists in click-thru view
• Comments form now remembers email address
• Ability to attach log file with comments submission

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2.4.9

• Fixed document settings issue where switching between inches and pixels yields too-small values
• Fixed an issue where href links were sometimes off for versioned pages within a clickable-images exports

2.4.8

• A title at the top of the notes page no longer affects clicking on notes and badges
• Focus is put back into wireframe canvas after clicking a toolbar button

2.4.7

• Fixed the exporting of images that are subsequently read by Internet Explorer
• Invisible grouping borders are now no longer exported in clickable images

2.4.6

• Added the ability to change the name of a version
• Added the ability to reset the divider location to its default location

2.4.5

• Fixed an issue where text paragraphs in node versions sometimes didn't read line breaks back in properly

2.4.4

• Added auto-sizing as an option for exceptions and versions
• Added "export to image" option
• Grouping borders now size themselves as expected when their components contain thick borders
• Added the ability to set encodings for html exports
• Fixed an issue where exporting to images or PDF sometimes behaved incorrectly
• Added a sample file and tutorial

2.4.3

• Added ability to adjust size of dropdown options textarea.
• Display size of clickthru panel is now affected by content region marker.
• Copying/pasting a component from a version now prompts whether version changes should be retained.
• Fixed Copy as Image on the pre-Leopard OS X.
• Font changes new work within exceptions.
• Can again cut & paste from within the composite window.
• Fixed a cosmetic GUI issue with instant hyperlink line.
• Exceptioned styles now render their underlines correctly.
• Exceptions now work for groupings in click-thru panel.
• On HTML export, line breaks are converted to <br>.
• Improved vertical texts placement on HTML export.
• Improved usability of dynamic text chooser.
• Dynamic text showing page/section names now doesn't show page identifiers.

2.4.2

• Added ability to hold 'Shift' down while Ctrl-dragging from a text widget to a page, in order to set the widget's text to the page's name.
• Options can now be entered in dropdown lists.
• Fixed up auto-indent in Rapid Structure Creator textarea.
• Added the ability to toggle Rapid Structure Creator help open and closed.
• Can now move a node to underneath another node if that target has no nodes under it.
• Allowing users to create new composites while in the composite editor.
• Fixed copy to clipboard for editable labels in structure editor.
• Status bar now displays information about selected components in the wireframe, as expected.
• Exceptions are exported to PDF as expected.
• Links within nested composites now work as expected.
• Can no longer add a composite to itself.
• When dragging a node upward and hitting the top of the editor, the editor now scrolls up.
• Made the status-bar icon for the current Version also be the blue circle-V (instead of clearing it out when on a Default version).

2.4.1

• Added italic font style
• Added underlined text style
• One-off font changes now work as expected
• Nodes can now be dragged to the bottom of the structure editor
• Fixed an issue when the first page of a section was re-dragged into that same section
• Added copy components as image
• Added the ability to print wireframes without notes
• Components no longer remain selected when switching from 1 context (a section wireframe) to another (a page under that section)
• Added URL to splash screen
• Fixed up help text and links (thanks for Brian Weiss for copy-editing)

2.4

• Versions can be duplicated.
• Nodes can be duplicated.
• Editing notes in the Notes view now once again works.
• Notes view now repaints when changes occur.
• When pasting multiple components, then undoing, each pasted component is now enclosed in one undo as would be expected.
• Status bar now shows selected components, and coordinates when dragging.
• When launching edit-composite frame, the buttons are now disabled as they should be.
• The dirty (unsaved file) indicator is now more accurate.
• Can now set a default size for new pages.
• When choosing images from filesystem, the file dialog returns to the previously-selected location.
• Added reg validation code generator.
• Fixed issue where undoing an add-component edit left the old, un-added component in the selection model.

2.3.1

• Selection button now disables in view-components dialog when component is locked.
• Auto-sized components are now sized properly (e.g. text doesn't get ellipses sometimes) in Notes.
• Seletion anchors are no longer present in exports.
• OSX Leopard fixes:
  • Editor panel textfields are transparent again.
  • Help indices are created again.
  • Copying & pasting components now works again.
• Undoing page/section drags now work as expected.

2.3

• Added export-to-PDF.
• Added distribute-components horizontal or vertical functionality to wireframing.
• In wireframe, clicking ] or [ on a selected component horizontally moves the component to the next/previous gridline (and holding down shift does it vertically).
• Added export formats: text, sitemap-xml.
• Added icon to current-page-indicator in status bar.
• Cutting components now works as expected.
• Fixed issue with copying & pasting images from some applications on OS X.
• Node selector now shows all nodes, even if some sections are closed in the structure editor.
• Selected components' anchors look better, and are rendered differently for auto-sized components.
• Comments text area line-wraps now.
• Hitting ESCAPE cancels a window; hitting RETURN saves it.
• Fixed issue with component properties dialog sometimes opening twice.
• Fixed issue with labels-within-a-composite sometimes looking different in the wireframe panel.
• Added ability to open a selected composite for editing from within wireframe panel.
• Added the concept of insignificant to selection events, so that undos aren't muddled with selects/deselects.
• Improved the rendering of dropdown lists.
• Fixed an issue with some exported auto-sized labels and hrefs.

2.2.3

• Added a fix for writing out some special characters that couldn't be read back in.
• Fixed where lassoing an un-snapped component makes it snap to grid even if you didn't plan to move it.
• Fixed where an unsnapped component, when being resized, seems to find its bottom-right corner snapping.
• Placed components now snap to grid when they're supposed to
• Pasted components snap to grid now when they should
• Added more useful verbiage on the registration window.
• Added popup to enter desired wireframe canvas size.
• Added the ability to to shift-click to *de*select selected components.
• Added more items to Nodes menu.
• Fixed an issue with deleting the currently-selected node.
• Added ability to lock components, via the list-components dialog, to prevent editing.

2.2.2

• Added dirty (unsaved file) indicator in main frame title bar.
• Added togglable alert to indicate that a file was saved successfully.
• Added prefs-configurable ability to save backups, along with num-backups limit and "clear backups now" button.

2.2.1

• Fixed issue where an imported site's nodes' attributes could not be edited
• Added the node attribute excluded from navigation.
• Allowed selection of components from the component properties popup.
• Made the font preview label be able to be bigger.
• Section and page node icons are indented in popup menus.

2.2

• Added auto-sizing components.
• No need to shift-click and drag multiple components anymore.
• Fixed snap-to-grid not working.
• "Platform Default" uses platform colors.
• Adding a new node now causes that node to become selected.
• Fixed issue where exported site links didn't work in Safari.
• Fixed an issue where notes preview page wasn't always being drawn at correct size.
• Added ability to select components' default style in preferences.
• Added ability to adjust the color and visibility of notes wireframe border.
• Added more tool tips.
• Changed "Default" stylename to "Platform Default".

2.1

• Pasting text into wireframe creates a new label or paragraph.
• Pasting an image into wireframe creates a new image.
• Added ability to edit notes from within the notes panel.
• Pasting components from one screen to another now remembers the exact original position.
• Register frame now links to registration website
• Made memory-management improvements.
• Made improvements to improve startup time.
• Set "Show Page Decoration" to true by default.
• Users can include auto-nav in pure HTML exports.

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