0.3
I’ve pushed out version 0.3 of BrainSharper today. This is mainly a bug-fix and a maintenance release. The fixes include a lot of details that make BS “just work”. Here are a few highlights:
- A single node selected by drawing an area is getting focused now.
- The image copied to the clipboard via CTRL-C is now transparent (as long the pasting program supports PNG).
- Fixed a problem that prevented BS from shutdown when multiple nodes were selected.
- Undo works quite well now, even when the user is currently interacting with the document.
- When an error happens, BS asks you to send me an Email containing the version number and a stacktrace.
- A blank document now shows the BS logo and instructions how to start.
- F1 for help!
- CTRL-A: select all, also works now! CTRL-A + CTRL-C is the fastest way to copy a screenshot of the complete document to the clipboard.
- When using CTRL-V (paste), the document from the clipboard is now inserted at the center of the current document.
- When multiple nodes are selected, a move-cursor is shown at the locations where they can be dragged together.
- Virus warnings – which always were false positivies btw – should be gone now. BS uses a new Bootstrapper and also installs all prerequisites for the .NET 4 client profile framework (Windows Installer 3.1 and Windows Imaging Components). So you should get BS running on a Windows XP SP2… . But I don’t see a future of supporting Windows XP, so please get Windows 7 or .. for god’s sake .. a Mac!
- I’ve beautified the setup. That really makes BS look “professional”.
Additionally, I’ve completed the documentation page.
Next on my list are a number of architectural refactorings and … yes … as announced on the download page, the Mac Port. Which I’ve totally excited about. I will learn for the first time how the native user interface on the Mac looks like from the inside. The plan is to drive that via MonoMac as far as possible. If anything gets wrong or annoying, I will choose to build a mixed UI application: OpenGL for the rendering of the document, and the native UI for editing. I just hope that the back-porting to Windows won’t get into a nightmare. But what I know is that the architecture will benefit a lot from making the UI platform independent.