DramaQueen 1.7.5 – 1.7.8 – Update-Report

This update contains improvements and fixes bugs:

IMPROVEMENTS

• With our christmas release, we give all users three testing
  days for working with all features of the PRO version. This
  means that any DramaQueen version which has not been licensed as
  PLUS or PRO version, has at least three testing days available.
  PLUS users who also want to work 3 days with the
  full version, can click the DQ logo in the upper right and activate
  “Change license key” to temporarily remove their license key and
  copy it back into the text field after the 3 days have past.
• On Macs with Retina display the text rendering
  is no longer scaled up, but instead as crisp as the
  rest of the texts in the user interface.
• While the performance of text rendering was
  already on a good level, we have improved it quite
  drastically for Retina support (up to 10x speed up). This is
  for the benefit of users with “normal” resolution displays as well.
• In the description texts of the ideas, characters, locations and
  storylines, links are recognized, i.e. character
  sequences that start with “http://”, “https://” or “www.”. Links can
  be clicked and open in the default browser.
• In the Dramatic chart the curve of a
  storyline will now show gaps by default, where
  scenes are not part of the storyline. To show the lines without gaps,
  the checkmark “Gaps in curves” (below the chart) can be unchecked.
• At each mouse position in the Dramatic chart,
  the respective element (step or scene) and its outline is shown as
  a tool-tip.
• The Dramatic chart will now highlight the element
  which is selected in the Outline or Texts panel. The
  selection can be navigated with the cursor
  keys. When the Outline or Texts panel are open, the selection
  will be affected there accordingly.
• The link between concurrently open synopsis, treatment and
  script has been somewhat relaxed:
  1) When a treatment and script is showing, and a new scene is created,
  the treatment will no longer switch to showing the script.
  2) When the treatment and script are showing, and the script shows
  a scene which spans more than a page, the scroll position will not
  move in the script when the treatment is switched to the synopsis.
• When a text range is removed in the treatment or
  script, such that the remaining part of a scene is
  merged with the scene before the removed range, the text of
  the last removed scene will also be merged with the preceding element
  in the higher text levels.
• The status line in the Texts panel shows the
  position of a step or scene within the current text in
  addition to its number, in case it is different.
• When outlines in the Outline panel don’t fit the available width,
  the outlines fade out instead of being cut off.
• The default export format for scripts via
  “Export texts -> script” is now also “.rtf” as for the
  other text types.

BUG FIXES

• All graphic glitches of the text rendering known
  to us have been fixed: At the page top and bottom,
  depending on the zoom factor, letters could be cut off and with some
  fonts also within the text. There was also sometimes a stray pixel line
  after scrolling where paragraphs have been split between two pages.
• The action Insert new scene has not inserted a new
  scene, but instead another subdivision when the current element was a
  sub-divided scene. “Insert new scene” will now always insert a normal
  scene regardless.
• On Windows, DramaQueen files will now have the
  correct document icon again.
• The individual labels of the turning points in the
  tool-tips of the ‘Dramatic chart’ analysis graphic had
  sometimes been shown for the wrong turning points.
• In certain situations, a dragged text range
  could be inserted one letter two early.
• When dragging a text range which contained the
  last paragraph of a step or scene, a new empty step or scene had been
  inserted after the moved text.
• The option Spacing between scenes in the gear
  menu of the treatment now controls again the spacing before scenes
  that start in a new step. The Layout settings for the treatment and
  script allow to configure the spacing before such scenes to be different
  than other scenes. The option in the gear menu however, as a quick
  access setting, was supposed to control both spacings at once.
• A crash in the context of using the formatting or character
  popup has been fixed.