Beta 8 -- That's More Like It
03/03/06 22:53 Filed in: Plugin
Release
Last week I released a beta that was, well,
underwhelming. I mean, it wasn't any worse than the
previous weeks, but its only great new feature was
10.3.9 compatability. And as cool as that was for a
few folks, it probably didn't really mean much to
most people.
This week is different. After solving the big transparency issue (see my last post), I could get to work on a few things that had been put off until after that could be solved. Margins, outlines, and strokes have all been conceived and tried, but it just looked really bad in Edit mode when the textblock was just a big white rectangle.
The beta discount is still running. If you're suffering through all my bugs with me, then use this code to get yourself a 25% discount: "BLOCKSBETA"
I'm going to stop commenting right there and just show you my changelist, it's huge, it kind of speaks for itself:
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PB 8 Change List
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- The text area now properly resizes and redraws after the block is changed.
- Text block now expands with changes to borders
- Text block now expands when text runs past the last line
- Text block now resizes to the entire area of the Block when created.
- Cursors for handles added (still needs some work)
- Transparency fixed -- wow.
- Fill and Stroke now work in edit mode.
- Fixed some HTML drawing issues -- they DO NOT grow when their content overflows
- Loading blocks from files more robust to newly added features
- Buy button will no longer pop up if there is not enough space at launch time
- Margins -- interface -- edit mode -- and output
- A text block in edit mode should have exactly the same dimension when viewed in safari no matter what width, height, margin combinations are used. Picture blocks are another story
- New blocks are created with a small offset so they don't overlap.
- HTML blocks now have orange handles to match their icon
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This week is different. After solving the big transparency issue (see my last post), I could get to work on a few things that had been put off until after that could be solved. Margins, outlines, and strokes have all been conceived and tried, but it just looked really bad in Edit mode when the textblock was just a big white rectangle.
The beta discount is still running. If you're suffering through all my bugs with me, then use this code to get yourself a 25% discount: "BLOCKSBETA"
I'm going to stop commenting right there and just show you my changelist, it's huge, it kind of speaks for itself:
------------------------------------------------------------
PB 8 Change List
------------------------------------------------------------
- The text area now properly resizes and redraws after the block is changed.
- Text block now expands with changes to borders
- Text block now expands when text runs past the last line
- Text block now resizes to the entire area of the Block when created.
- Cursors for handles added (still needs some work)
- Transparency fixed -- wow.
- Fill and Stroke now work in edit mode.
- Fixed some HTML drawing issues -- they DO NOT grow when their content overflows
- Loading blocks from files more robust to newly added features
- Buy button will no longer pop up if there is not enough space at launch time
- Margins -- interface -- edit mode -- and output
- A text block in edit mode should have exactly the same dimension when viewed in safari no matter what width, height, margin combinations are used. Picture blocks are another story
- New blocks are created with a small offset so they don't overlap.
- HTML blocks now have orange handles to match their icon
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