Legal Stuff:
This software, manual, and all accompanying files are © Copyright 1997-2003 by Heynow Software, LLC. This manual and software may be distributed to any computer freely as long as they are not modified or repackaged in any shape or form. All other rights reserved.
Savitar™ is a trademark name of Heynow Software
What's New in Version 1.2.4?
Introduction
Savitar™ 1.2.4 will run on PowerMacs running Mac OS 8.6, 9.x, and Mac OS X 10.0.4, 10.1.x, and 10.2.x.
Mac OS 8.6 and Mac OS 9.x users will need to ensure that they have installed CarbonLib 1.6 or later. You can download CarbonLib 1.6 from Apple's website here.
Mac OS X users will find Savitar runs great "right out of the box."
For the New User
Go to Savitar's website at http://www.heynow.com/Savitar/ and learn more about the application. There, you'll find an online help manual and a user conference area. You can also email me, Jay, at the email address given above. Please check Savitar's manual before contacting me or users on the conference board.
For Existing Savitar Users
Upgrade for registered users of Savitar 1.1.4 to 1.2.4 is free. You simply start using Savitar.
Settings and world documents modified and created by 1.2.4 are backwards compatible with shipping 1.1.4, so you should be able to move back and forth between 1.1.4 and 1.2.4 without incident.
What's new in 1.2.4 since 1.2.3 was released:
- fixed bug introduced in the 1.2.2 release -- macro keys are available again
- fixed bug where saving a world with (null) command marker would cause application to hang
What's new in 1.2.3 since 1.2.2 was released:
- fixed bug where Savitar was reporting bad CarbonLib version on Mac OS X 10.1.5 systems.
What's new in 1.2.2 since 1.2.1 was released:
- Worlds that are "File:Save As..." are now being added to the "File:Open Recent" menu.
- Added 'sticky commands' feature. By enabling the new "Keep command selected after selecting
it" checkbox in the Input tab of the World Settings dialog, you can make the last command
you issued "stick around", hitting subsequent return keys will resend the command each
time. Start typing a new command and the "sticky" one will vanish. Default is "sticky
commands" are off.
- Fixed bug where ANSI reverse (ANSI code 7) wasn't drawing background color
- Added support for ANSI no-underline (24), no-reverse (27), and background colors (40..47)
- Fixed crash when trying to send data to a disconnected world
- Fixed problem where Savitar was not gracefully quitting on Mac OS X logout
- Widened some alert buttons
- Moved from WASTE text engine v2.1a6 to 2.1a8
What's new in 1.2.1 since 1.2 was released:
-- Fixed a crashing bug in the registration dialog.
What's new in 1.2 since 1.1.4 was released:
-- Fully Carbonized -- runs on Mac OS X natively as well as continues to run on Power Macintoshes running Mac OS 8.6 and Mac OS 9.x
-- Added mouse wheel support
-- Improvements to disconnect handling
-- Added a Help menu (which points you to the online help manual)
-- Added a "Open Recent" menu item to the File menu
-- Added live resizing (draw as you resize) to the world window
Reporting Bugs
You can always email me, Jay Koutavas, at jay@heynow.com. Please also check Savitar's manual and the conference board for answers to your questions.
best,
/Jay
Revision History:
Savitar's revision history is listed below, in reverse chronological order (most recent changes at the top). The revisions are listed by version number.
v1.2b7 -- October 24th, 2002
-- Better error recovery when trying to playback an unknown sound
-- Tweaked some Alert dialogs to display better on OSX
-- Fixed bug where subsquently displayed text after a local command error message looked odd
-- Fixed bug in titling same-named windows
v1.2b6 -- September 26th, 2002
-- Fixed bug where voices would be forgotten and go silent on speaking triggers once saved to disk
Note: you'll need to go to the Audio tab of the Trigger Editor and re-select the voice of each existing speech trigger you have. Once you do, speech will be fine once more.
-- Mac OS X sound files are playing with triggers now
-- Variable input completion popups are enabled once more
-- No longer attempting to add reference to tooltip window in Window Menu
v1.2b5 -- August 28th, 2002
Noting new. Just a delated the beta timebomb by thirty more days. Going 1.2 gold release soon. Just need to check in on a couple of users with outstanding bugs.
v1.2b4 -- August 1st, 2002
+ Added mouse wheel support
+ Fixed a bug when replacing logfiles
v1.2b3 -- July 3rd, 2002
+ When saving a logfile, Savitar now appends a date to the default name, as Savitar v1.1.4 would do
+ Fixed a bug that occurred when you attempted to cancel a file capture
+ Fixed the "Other Size Font" dialog
+ Improvements to disconnect handling
+ Fixed the "creating a trigger on a new world" bug
v1.2b2 -- June 8th, 2002
+ support for Mac OS X 10.1.5's Quartz anti-aliased text
+ registration dialog is working (broke it in 1.2b1)
v1.2b1 -- May 18th, 2002
+fully Carbonized -- runs on Mac OS X natively as well as continues to run on Power Macintoshes running Mac OS 8.x and Mac OS 9.x
+added a Help menu (which points you to the online help manual)
+added a "Open Recent" menu item to the File menu
+added live resizing (draw as you resize) to the world window
+fixed problem where modified world state was getting lost
+changed the "send" local command to automatically open a window if one hasn't already been opened
v1.1.4 -- May 10th, 2000
+Fixed error handling for unreachable worlds.
v1.1.3 -- April 26th, 2000
+ Added the WINDOWSIZE parameter to world documents. This ensures that world session windows always accurately retain their last saved screen position.
v1.1.2 -- April 12th, 2000
+ Fixed problem where the world setting :"echo CR only" wasn't being honored.
v1.1.1-- March 23rd, 2000
+ Reduced the size of the application considerably and add some performance.
v1.1-- March 13th, 2000
+ Fixed problem in world settings where selecting "carriage return + linefeed" in the input pane would case the radio buttons to come up blank unset next time the settings were opened.
+ Fixed bug where the 'use defaults' button could cause a crash on ANSI color settings.
+ Fixed bug where Savitar would hang during clear screen and clear to end of line ANSI escape sequences.
+ Fixed crasher when hitting apple-delete whilst inline editing an item's name.
+ Fixed bug where Savitar would report "OTInetClientLib could not be found" error.
v1.1fc2-- Feb. 22nd, 2000
+ Fixed problem where macro key chords containing the option key would not fire.
+ Fixed a tooltip crasher
+ fixed ##select window bug
+ fixed problem with tooltips covering size gadget when window was full screen.
+ fixed problem with world editor not saving pane size settings when editing a template (no connection)
+ fixed problem I introduced with finding relative path names in local commands such as ##open text window
+ fixed problem where tasks weren't being deleted at session close
+ When attempting to change the font/size of a text file window, the menu selections have no effect until the color/background color are changed. At that point, the window contents are updated with the new font/size.
+ Removed the mysterious appeareance of the "(Temp Files)" folder being created in the app's folder.
v1.1fc1-- Jan. 28th, 2000
+ added world setting options for using bold in place of ANSI intense and italic in place of ANSI blink
+ added support for opening locked text files
+ changed syntax of ##[wait=<secs>] to ##wait <secs> [<cmd>...] Old style will work still, but you'll get warned.
+ In the world session window, when disconnected, changed the default button to the 'reconnect' button (it was the 'close' button)
+ fixed bug where tooltip may be drawn offscreen when close to an edge of the monitor.
+ fixed bug where tooltips may dissappear if multiple session windows were open and one was closed.
+ fixed bug where opening and closing the world editor may cause the session window size to shift slightly.
+ fixed problem with toggle icons coming up with weird icon on some iMacs
+ fixed sound file path lookup problem in the ##play local command.
+ fixed problem with scrolling session window up, then down, wouldn't take you to the bottom of the pane.
+ fixed bug where making a trigger by dropping text on the trigger pane would create a trigger with the name "<doc>"<name"</doc>". (It should just have created <name>)
+ fixed annoying white flash whilst entering commands and whilst changing the session window's font, colors, and font size.
+ fixed problem where input pane size was not being restored on window close
+ fixed problem with command input when command marker is blank
+ fixed annoying little background drawing bug in the world settings appearance pane.
+ fixed a bug where font size wasn't been honored when opening 1.0 worlds
+ fixed a bug introduced in 1.1b2 that broke file-less ##open text window.
+ neatened up ##help output a bit more.
+ made it so local commands having errors are not passed on to the server.
v1.1b2-- Jan. 5th, 2000
+ implemented the ##help command
+ added robust local command error reporting
+ fixed bug where the speaker button in the trigger audio settings
pane wasn't working for "speak exactly" (introduced in a15)
+ added ability to toggle word wrapping on text files
+ added "Capture File Binding" setting to application settings. Now you can tell Savitar to make its log files into BBEdit(tm) or MS Word(tm) docs.
+ added ability to enter carriage returns as part of a trigger's name. Example: say you want a trigger for:
<return>
foo
<return>
so, create a trigger called "\rfoo\r". The "\r"s stand for carriage returns.
+ added current date as part of the default capture file name
+ fixed problem where opening a text document would force artificial word wrap when it should not word wrap
+ fixed problem with scroll bars disapearing when text window loses focus
v1.1b1 -- Dec. 15th, 1999
+ Savitar 1.1 goes to public beta. The manual has been moved from the installer up to Savitar's updated website <http:/www.heynow.com/Savitar>
[end of v1.2 Release Notes file]