Release 1.9.I - December 31, 2011 [Enhancements] - The image editor now remembers the last width and height used for an object. For example, when you insert a new arrow, that new arrow will have the same length and angle as the last arrow that had been selected. - Added new Date tags, Day (day name), Month (month name), Year (full year). Also, you can now manually format the $DATE tag value using the following (Example: <$Date:m-yy> will result in 3-11 for March 2011): d - day number without leading 0 dd - day number with leading 0 ddd - day as an abbreviation dddd - full day name m - month number without leading 0 mm - month number with leading 0 mmm - month as an abbreviation mmmm - full month name yy - year as a two digit number yyyy - year as a four digit number - To better accommodate international installations, the State and Phone database fields were increased to 30 chars and the edit masking for phone number and zip/postal code entry fields were removed. - Added a website field for company types (Company, Builder, Real Estate and Title) - Added a new Topic Layout tag: <$Comment:PlainText>. This will insert only the text of a topic comment (no images or formatting other than line breaks); however, it will take on the font and paragraph formatting as assigned to the tag itself instead of the topic comment's own formatting (as would be the case with the usual <$Comment> tag, which inserts the fully formatted topic comment). - Enhanced Database Synchronization to include one-way sync capability. Also, in a bidirectional sync, you now have the option to choose a tie-breaker as to which database wins when an owner cannot be determined, such as figuring out if a something is new on one database or deleted from the other. In such cases, this is used only to add/ignore missing items, not delete them (in case the wrong tie-breaker was chosen accidentally, you wouldn't want a report to be deleted). - Added a Quick Inspector Selection pulldown on the toolbar, only visible if there is more than one registered inspector configured. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a problem where adding a RapidRemark that already existed with the same description was no longer prompting to replace or add as new. - Fixed a problem using Auto-Paste into a table cell when no word is selected. The RapidRemark would end up being pasted into the next cell instead of the cell you were currently in. - Corrected a problem with page counts when using multiple root nodes to restart numbering. - Fixed a problem where the bullet character might be set to a 0 value, thus not appearing by default when adding bullets. Release 1.9.H - October 26, 2011 [Enhancements] - Added paragraph spacing option to the formatting wizard. - Added Font Style option to the formatting wizard - Added a new tag, $ImageFile (Tag > Misc > Insert Image File). This can be used to insert an unmanaged image file (an image file not in the report's database). The image is loaded only at report generation time, and the image is brought in as-is, so any image compression/scaling must already have been applied to the image. Note: there is an optional width specification which defines the presentation size of the image. - When creating a new report using data from Inspection Support Network, you now have the option to use ISN's Order Number as the report number. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a problem restoring Work Views. - Suppressed a bug report trigger which might occur when scrolling a grid to the bottom after sorting on a column. - Fixed a problem attempting to use the Checkbox Group Manager's Rules Builder when no checkboxes exist for the group. - Corrected a problem retrieving buyer/seller agent information from Inspection Support Network (ISN) where both the buyer and seller agent would be assigned from ISN's buyer agent. - Corrected a problem where the General Information Navigation panel could be fully closed and unabled to be reopened. Release 1.9.G - September 30, 2011 [Enhancements] - Auto Collapse All option for RapidRemarks has now been changed to Auto Restore Node State. Now instead of always collapsing all nodes when focus is moved away from the RR panel, the option will restore the tree node state based on the current RR Toolbar setting of Expand All Nodes, Collapse All Nodes, or Saved Node State. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a RapidRemark panel refresh issue after adding a new RapidRemark by drag-n-drop from the comment section to a folder in the RapidRemark panel. It would work the first time, but not subsequent drag-n-drops until a topic switch occurred. Symptoms included placement of the RapidRemark into a different folder, or an access violation. - Fixed a issue that would occur when dragging a node in the Report or Work view manager and there were changes for that node that had not yet been saved. To prevent the problem, an auto-save will occur when a drag operation is started and changes need to be saved. Release 1.9.F - September 25, 2011 [Enhancements] - Added a new option to the Database Selection: Database Server. This allows the use of a Database Server version of our database for use in multi-user or corporate environment. Use of a Database Server incures an additional cost for the purchase of the Advantage Database Server provided by Sybase. - Added a new Audit option (Preferences) for auditing placeholder text (default is XXXX). This can be useful when using a unique text string throughout a report template that should be replaced prior to finalizing a report and where a picklist may not have been the best option. - Enhanced the "Add Border" preference to include "Prompt". Now when adding images to the database, you can be prompted on whether or not you want to add a border for the images selected. - Using the Insert Image from the tool bar will now allow you to select "Photo (scaled)" or "Diagram (no scaling)". Previously you could only select scale/no scale when pre-loading images. - Added an Auto Expand Active / Collapse Inactive nodes option for both the Navigation tree and RapidRemarks tree. When you move from one chapter/folder to another, the chapter/folder that is being exited will auto collapse, and the chapter/folder that is being entered will auto expand. Right-click on the Navigation or RapidRemark panel to select the respective option. - Added an "Auto Collapse All Folders" option to the RapidRemark panel. When focus is moved away from the RapidRemark panel, such as double-clicking a RapidRemark for insertion, or simply moving to the comment area, all folders will collapse. Right-click on the RapidRemark panel to select this option. - Added an option in the PDF Creation dialog to base the default filename on either the report number or the property address. - Added an option in the Print dialog to be able to optionally bring the live preview window to the foreground on a refresh. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a problem syncing work views. - Fixed a situation which could cause a restore of duplicate picklists to add as a new picklist instead of merging into the existing one. - Improved the normalization of the main window and print preview window, especially when changing from a two monitor setup to a single monitor setup so that a window won't appear off-screen (the phantom 2nd monitor). Release 1.9.E - August 28, 2011 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated Spellchecker/Thesauras, version 4.20.2071 - Added a comment ability to a picklist item. Using a comment in a picklist item allows the picklist to show more information than will be inserted into the report. For example, a picklist item of "15:45//3:45pm" would insert everything up until the double slash (//), so the picklist text that is actually inserted would be "15:45" - Improved signature placement. Signatures are now added relative to a paragraph without word wrap (placed behind text for a more natural signature look). Previously the signature was added as a character, possibly causing wrapping to occur. - Added a "Head Size" selection for the arrows in the Image Editor. - Added a "Custom Color" selection to the color pickers in the image editor. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a problem updating a Report View from a backup containing a watermark. - Services list is now refreshed after a database sync or restore of a report. - Fixed a problem introduced in 1.9.B which could prevent the creation of a new folder in the RapidRemarks Manager. - Corrected a problem with the editor where Live Spell would ignore the rest of a paragraph after a hyperlink (which includes checkboxes and picklists). Spellcheck would find it, but the red squiggly line would not be present to indicate a misspelled word. Release 1.9.D - August 16, 2011 [Enhancements] [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a problem introduced in 1.9.B in creating a default inspector on new installs, which would result in Access Violations beginning at startup. Release 1.9.C - August 16, 2011 [Enhancements] - Improved database sync performance. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed issues with the inspector identities and non-local databases. - Fixed a Restore problem with inspector identities on non-local databases. - Fixed an issue with database sync in not always identifying that a table needs to be sync'd. Release 1.9.B - August 14, 2011 [Enhancements] - Added a tool to import InspectionWise Standard Findings from an Excel file. - The Paragraph spacing dialog now adjusts in .05 inch increments instead of in 0.10 inch increments. - You can now run WhisperReporter when connected into your PC remotely over RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol). - Images can now be positioned on top of or under text. Select the image after placing it in the report, then right click to select "No Text Wrap: Image [Under/Over] Text". This positions the image relative to a paragraph. When the image is selected and the image is positioned relative to a paragraph, a pin appears and will ilustrate what paragraph the image is "pinned" to for relative positioning. Keep in mind that an image could potentially fall off the page at a page break should the image not fit in the current page since it is pinned to the paragraph. Use the live Print Preview feature to easily make adjustments as needed should this occur. NOTE: When an image is behind text, you may have to hold the shift key down when clicking on the image in order to select the image instead of the text. - Improved the database sync performance. - When your database connection is other than your personal local database, the prompt about needing to sync with your personal local database will now only occur when switching your database connection to a non-local database. It will no longer annoyingly prompt you every time you start up WhisperReporter. However, a notice will appear in the status bar as a reminder when one is needed (use File > Synchronize Databases to invoke the sync process manually). {Bug Fixes] - Removed the skin engine due to continuing stability issues with that third party add-on product. - Fixed a color issue in the Report/Work view navigation tree and Topic Summary when not using skins. - Fixed a problem identifying if a database sync is required or not. - Corrected an issue in the database sync process where it would not always update the images. - Corrected an issue with the database sync process which could re-add a deleted node in a report view if it still existed in the older report view. - Corrected an issue with license validation when using multiple inspectors with a common shared database. Release 1.9.A - July 19, 2011 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated Skin engine, version 7.44. - Integrated with an updated local SQL database server, version 10.10.0.6. - Widow/Orphan avoidance added in 1.8.A is now optional. See Preferences > Misc - Added a Database Synchronization feature to synchronize your personal local database with an alternate database. For example, if you set your desktop to use an alternate sharable database, and your notebook is set to share that same database, you can synchronize your laptop's personal local database with the shared database so when you go out into the field your notebook would have the same data as your desktop. Upon return, you can then sync again so that your desktop's shared database would have any changes you made to your local database on your notebook. - Now when using enhanced picklists (where a picklist item references a RapidRemark), instead of an exact match of the whole RR Description, it now looks for only a unique partial match of the first n chars, where n is the length of the enhanced picklist item. - Now you can mark a watermark as being suppressible at report generation time. - Added an option the print dialog to specify a watermark override. Useful for global watermarks or to simply add a "draft" watermark until the report is complete. - Added an option to direct the print output to an HTML file. - Added Find/Replace text functionality (by using the tool bar or Search menu item on the main menu). - Due to the new Find Again feature, which typically uses the F3 function key shortcut in other applications, we changed the function key shortcut for "Toggle Paragraph/Selection as Linked Text" from F3 to F11. F3 is now assigned to the Find Again feature. - Added the Passive Mode option to FTP to help with problems associated with firewalls. The default is to now use Passive Mode (previously we were only using Active mode). - Added a new Link Text option to be able to link a complete topic based on a topic checkbox. For example, insert a new $TopicText tag: Tag > Link Text > Full Topic Comment > Select the topic checkbox to use as the qualifier such as "Deficient". Then when the report is generated, any and all topics that have the specified topic checkbox checked will be included where the tag was placed. See Preferences for Linked Text for adding headings etc. - When not using skins, WhisperReporter will now use Windows theming for improved UI rendering in that mode. - The out-of-the-box skin mode is now to not use skins since Windows theming is now enabled. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a problem introduced in 1.8.A which could cause a new topic to not start on a new page even when it was marked to always start on a new page. - Fixed a problem backing up/restoring real estate data when a real estate agent that was backed up was associated to a real estate company. - Fixed a problem creating a new chapter or topic in the Report View Manager where it tried to use the last layout by default even when it no longer exists. - Corrected a problem introduced in the previous version where multiple selections of enhanced picklist items would simply duplicate the last selection. - Fixed a problem where the node icon for a work view would not get updated if its corresponding report view comment changed, and vice versa. - Corrected a problem switching inspectors which could cause license file to not validate properly. - Fixed a problem with the IMS - Inspection Management Systems, when address information was missing. - Fixed a problem with Inspection Support Services (ISN or IMS), where any new real estate agent information would not appear immediately (it would only show up after restarting WhisperReporter or some other procedure that updated the agent cache). - Corrected the URL to log in to IMS - Inspection Management Systems. Release 1.8.C - April 23, 2011 [Enhancements] - Added Watermarking support via a new Chapter property in the Report View Manager. Watermarking gives you the ability to use any supported image file as a page background, or wallpaper so-to-speak, providing amazing presentation capabilites for your reports. The Watermark can be centered, tiled or stretched, and a different watermark can be specified for each chapter. Note: The watermark will not appear when using the printer option of printing multiple pages per sheet. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed an issue occurring with some skins which would cause a scan line index out of range error. - Fixed a problem where the live print preview window would not update properly (a preview update would show blank pages) Release 1.8.B - April 13, 2011 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated Skin engine, version 7.34. - Moved the new Table Margin/Cell Indent reset menu item out from under the Table menu so it could be used even if your text cursor was not in a table. - Added a qualifier to the Notes tags where you can specify a specific line of the notes. For example, <$Client:Notes> will retrieve all the notes entered for the client details. <$Client:Notes(0)> will retrieve just the first line of the client detail notes, <$Client:Notes(1)> will retrieve just the 2nd line of the client detail notes, etc. (indexes start with 0 to be consistent with the indexes used to build an invoice). This allows yo uto use the notes areas as simple custom fields accessible using tags throughout the report. [Bug Fixes] - Corrected a slight cosmetic artifact with the drawing of the Topic Checkbox panel background color when skinned. - Corrected a problem not being able to insert the Property Notes tag from the Tag menu. - Client Notes tag now retrieves the client notes entered in the Client Details. - Corrected a problem introduced in 1.8.A of not being able to auto update some internal picklists, like cities. - Corrected a problem introduced in 1.8.A of not being able to backspace when in Field Edit Mode, such as with customizable "Other" section or the Texas WDI form. - Adding a new comment checkbox will now honor the Preference setting of 0 for a comment checkbox font size by adding the checkbox at the current font size (was being added at the default font size). - Toggling a Field Edit Mode checkbox will now maintain the current font size of the checkbox. Release 1.8.A - April 10, 2011 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated editor, version 5.58.1. - Integrated with an updated PDF generator, version 3.60.1.0. - Integrated with an updated Skin engine, version 7.33. - Updated to use the new Apex Integration Control, required for Apex Sketch v5, yet still backwards compatible for v4. - Added a new Misc report generation preference: "Do not split tables between pages" - Added a new Misc editor preference: "Always restart numbered bullets at creation" - Reverted back to outline style numbered bullets due to too many inconsistencies/problems with simple bullets. - Added 36 additional colors to select from in the toolbar color pickers. - Added a new option in Preferences > Misc to set the default to allow or disallow resizing of table cells and margins. This was added to prevent accidental table column resizing within your templates. You can temporarily enable sizing in the topic you are on by right clicking on a table and toggling the "Allow Table Resizing" option. - Added a new Filter in the Browse window where you can filter report based on specific inspectors. - Added a new menu item "File > Database Location" to select an alternate database. The database in use is shown in the status bar. Useful when sharing a common database on a shared drive, or for accessing archived reports that you may have restored to an alternate database. Example: You could keep the alternate database on a cloud drive, such as what is provided by services like Jungledisk (https://www.jungledisk.com/) - Added a new menu option when preloading images. Now you can choose to preload photos, which scale very nicely, or to preload diagrams, which typically do not scale well. The Photo option will have the configured scaling applied to the images during loading, and the Diagram option will load the images as-is with no scaling applied. The function of the single photo insert button on the toolbar does not change, it will still treat the image as a photo. - Enhanced the backup of RapidRemarks to be able to selectively choose which RapidRemark folders to backup instead of just always backing up all of them. - Added a new Formatting Wizard option to be able to re-align the table margins with the topic margins and reset the cell indents. You can also place the cursor in the topic comment and use the CTRL_ALT+T key chord instead of using the Formatting Wizard. - The occurance of widowed or orphaned lines from a multi-line paragraph are reduced. (widowed lines are single lines that end a page, and orphaned lines are single lines that start a page) [Bug Fixes] - Corrected "disappearing RapidRemarks text" which had been imported or pasted from Word documents. This was introduced somewhere in 1.7.D - 1.7.I. - Corrected numbered bullet sequencing that had originated from Word documents. - Corrected a report number truncation error if it exceeded 100 characters. - Corrected a problem displaying the inspector's initials in the browse window - Corrected a problem with auto summary formatting if you used the Parent Topic Heading Layout with a <$comment> tag to position the link text items (one problem was that the bullet on the last linked text item would lose its bullet). This was not previously supported since you were supposed to use the Linked Item Layout to format and position any linked text items. However, since it was not intuitive, the Parent Topic Heading can now be used to position the linked text items if that is all you wanted to do. - Changing a topic or chapter layout will now be reflected in the topic editor immediately. - Corrected a situation which could cause an extra blank page to be produced between the end of a topic and the start of chapter when chapters were set to always start on a new page. Release 1.7.I - February 25, 2011 [Enhancements] - All the bugs introduced with 1.7.D through 1.7.H have been fixed! (disclaimer: the above statement is subject to change once again) [Bug Fixes] - Sigh... Fixed a bug introduced in 1.7.E which can cause tables to render incorrectly (the tables rendered fine in the report, just not in the editor). Release 1.7.H - February 24, 2011 [Enhancements] [Bug Fixes] - Arrrg!! Fixed a bug introduced in 1.7.G where if creating a report using one of the Inspection Support Services, it would use neither the Client nor Property information from the service in creating the report. Release 1.7.G - February 24, 2011 [Enhancements] - The default for retaining client and/or property information when creating a new report from another report/template is now set to not retain it. Also if selected to retain it, a warning prompts you as to the impact the decision plays of retaining such information (i.e. any change to client and/or property information will change for all reports which retained such information). [Bug Fixes] - Corrected a problem introduced in 1.7.D where if you were creating a new report from another report/template which had client and/or property information, the new report would use that information whether or not you chose to retain it. Any changes to that information would then change for any report created from that report. In some cases, you might not have known the template had a client or property record associated with that template if that information was simply blanked out. Release 1.7.F - February 23, 2011 [Enhancements] [Bug Fixes] - Corrected one area where the refactoring of bullets was not taking place automatically. Release 1.7.E - February 22, 2011 [Enhancements] [Bug Fixes] - Corrected a problem introducted in 1.7.D dealing with the refactoring of bullets from the old style to the new simple style. Using the Formatting Wizard to correct the bullets is also no longer necessary as Reporter will refactor all bullets on-the-fly. Release 1.7.D - February 21, 2011 [Enhancements] - New font applied to labels etc for improved readability. - Added a new tag for linked text layouts under Tags > Misc > Linked Text, <$LTQualifier>, to be able to show the qualifier as part of the linked text in the auto summary area of your report. For example, if you had a layout set up for all linked text items as <$LTQualifier>: <$Comment>, then all linked text will be prefixed by the qualifier you designated for that particular linked text. - Added a new tag for linked text layouts under Tags > Misc > Linked Text, <$LTCounter>, to be able to format a counter display of the linked text in the auto summary area of your report instead of using the numbering prefix option which does no formatting or font selection. - Added a new option for picklists. You can now declare a custom separator as a prefix so that custom text is used for every element in the picklist and not just when separating each selection. This only applies to the "Custom" choice. - Now when creating a new report from another report, you can optionally retain the client and/or the property data for the new report. - Added a new option to the Email preferences to allow the specification of the subject line. - Numbered bullets now use a more basic "simple numbering". Also added a new option to the Formatting Wizard to revert old style "outline" numbered bullets to the preferred "simple" numbered bullets. The old style was not very predictable or user intuitive in how it would restart or continue numbering. - Multi-Select Picklists can now use enhanced picklist items, i.e. can contain references to RapidRemarks by using the carret (^) prefix. This will allow you to use a picklist to select multiple RapidRemarks. - Added a new option to the Data Manager to be able to backup/restore Real Estate data separately from other data. - Generalized the AHit InspectIt import of Autotext data. Previously it would only import InspectIt Report Pro from Texas, but now it will do the non-Texas version as well. - Basic integration with Inspection Management Systems's Scheduling Center. [Bug Fixes] - Corrected a problem saving changes to the custom separator for multi-select picklists. - Now if just auto numbering linked text (not the source) and not restarting numbering per Chapter/Topic, then then numbers will be sequential as it appears in the linked text results rather than numbered in the order that they appeared in the report itself. - Auto-numbering and auto-prefixing option for linked text will no longer take on the style of the linked text (such as bold/italics). - Fixed a problem selecting a new Topic Comment in the Report View Manager when using the magnifying glass to select a new or existing topic comment (the Report View Manager was not seeing that a change was made). - Corrected a problem with artifacts in the navigation tree when switching from a skin to no skins without restarting Reporter. - Corrected a situation were a topic comment might not restore properly from a backup, such as losing a bullet attribute. - When creating a new report from one of the Inspection Support Services, the Auto Report Numbering preview will now be updated accordingly should it contain client and/or property tags. - Corrected a problem deleting Real Estate Agents. Release 1.7.C - January 23, 2011 [Enhancements] - Added a new Preference under "Misc" to prevent table rows from splitting between pages. - Added a new Preference under "Misc" to prevent numbered bullets from continuing its sequencing between successive topics. - Now remembers the path used when last backing up the current report. - Cursor position of a topic is remembered for the current session so that when you come back to edit the topic again, the cursor is positioned to where it was previously. Note however that focus remains on the navigation tree so you won't see the cursor until you move into the editing area, such as with a mouse click or tab. If you enter the comment editing area using a mouse click, the cursor will then immediately move to where you clicked, so this is more for automatic scrolling of the topic comment into view where you last left off. - Added County to the Property details and as a new Picklist. Also added a <$Prop:County> tag. - Added two new tags: <$ChapterCaption> and <$TopicCaption> so that a topic can refer to itself or its chapter caption in a layout or topic comment. - The editor now allows you to create a nested table (table-in-table) when using the Create Table toolbar item. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a problem which could prevent numbered bullets from restarting on each new topic. Release 1.7.B - December 12, 2010 [Enhancements] - Added an option to a topic comment right-click pop-up menu to invoke the Formatting Wizard as we have for RapidRemarks. This can be used to quickly reformat or remove paragraph formatting of a single topic comment. - Now filenames will wrap in the image panel to better accomodate long filenames. - Now you can click anywhere on the MultiSelect Picklist item to toggle the selection. This is to make it easier to select items using a tablet. - Added a warning when suppressing empty topics when the report is a Texas report. - Added a new "Prevent Suppression" option for topics in the Report View Manager. This way, even if you selected to suppress topics with no comments, it will still print those topics that were marked as "Prevent Suppression". This is useful for reports such as the Texas TREC 7-2 which disallows suppression of topics other than those in the Optional Systems (new Texas templates were also released that uses this new option). - Finished the implemention for the TWI Affiliates Findings import as RapidRemarks tool. - Added an email preference to prefix email address with 'smtp:' or not in order to accommodate other email clients. - You can now delete selected images from the image panel using the Delete key. - The preference to automatically add an image border is now the default setting on new installs. - Added a new "Upload To Support" option under Help to make it easier to send log files to support, or even to send large files to Whisper that might be too large to email. - Added font color change option to the Formatting Wizard. - Added a button to the main toolbar to launch the Data Manager. [Bug Fixes] - Corrected a problem opening the image browse window in thumbnail mode under WinXP introduced with 1.7.A when fixing the browse window under Vista/Win7. - Corrected a problem introduced in 1.6.C where the current set of selected folders for a RapidRemark View would not get checked off in the RapidRemark View Manager when attempting to edit the RR View. - Corrected a problem restoring a Work View introduced in 1.7.A. - Corrected a problem where if the last line of a topic was bulletted and a chapter node was printed next, you would get a "phantom" bullet in-between that topic and the next chapter. - Fixed a problem saving RapidRemark preferences. Release 1.7.A - October 4, 2010 [Enhancements] - Added support for interfacing with the "Inspection Support Network" scheduling and inspection management service (http://inspectionsupport.net) - Added an import tool for the importing of TWI Affiliates Contact information (Realtor/Title data). - Added a character case toggle. Using Shift+F3, the case of selected text will toggle as follows: LowerCase > TitleCase > UpperCase > LowerCase > ... Notes: Mixed case will initially toggle to all Uppercase. TitleCase is loosely implemented (uppercases the first char and then any char after a space). - Now when deleting a RapidRemark Folder node that has child nodes, it will prompt you on whether to just delete the RapidRemarks or delete the folders also. - The Multi-Select Picklist dialog will now show the current value next to the Append/Replace buttons to better illustrate what you would be appending to or replacing. - Added a new configuration option, BaseURL, to the FTP settings to allow a hyperlink to be added to the email referencing the uploaded report instead of always attaching the report. Also added a tag to the email form under Preferences, , which is used to reference this BaseURL + Report Name of the FTP uploaded report. Please note that our current emailing method uses MAPI, not Extended MAPI, so the link may or may not be active in the email being sent, depending on which email client you have configured under Windows. I tested with Windows Live Mail, and it worked fine. - Added Ctrl+Ins and Ctrl+Del to Insert and Delete a row in a table, respectively. - Enhanced the navigation tree by having it maintain the highlighted color of the currently selected node when focus is moved away. Also added "hot tracking". - The Print Preview now shows: 1) Page margins (dotted line) as an aid in layout design; and 2) The physical page number in the page-gap area. - The print preview window will now remember its position and dimensions. - The Print dialog/Print Preview windows can now stay open. So, if any changes are saved and the print dialog is still open, Reporter will auto-refresh the print preview window (opening a new print preview window if one is not already open). This will help in adjusting page breaks for the final report. - Now if the Auto Report Numbering contains tags that are not yet defined when creating a new report, such as the Property Street name, it will appear in the report number as a question mark. This is to prevent a situation where a report number cannot be generated, which in turn prevents a new report from being created. - Added a new option to the Data Manager to backup the current report only, simplifying moving the current report from one computer to another. - When restoring reports, if there is only one report to restore it will be automatically selected for you. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a problem introduced in 1.6.C which prevented cloning of a Work View. - Fixed a problem with the editor where inserting a new row in a table would revert the current font and attributes to what the first char in the previous row had. It will now retain the current font and attributes that were current at the time the "insert row" toolbar button was clicked. - Fixed a problem not being able to select some text in a comment and then "Save As RapidRemark". This would only occur with certain skins. - Fixed a merge issue with restoring a report that already exists where it might not merge. - Fixed a restore issue where a Report being restored would end up without its Work View if the Report View being restore was different and you selected to keep the existing Report View. Release 1.6.E - July 18, 2010 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated skinning engine, version 6.68 - Added a new RapidRemark Formatting Wizard option to allow changes to various formatting attributes on a single Rapid Remark or a Folder set of RapidRemarks. Right Click on a document or folder node in the RapidRemark Manager, and select Formatting Wizard from the popup menu. - When referencing a topic layout in the Report View Manager, it will now automatically reference its chapter layout to obtain the left and right margins that will be used by the topic when printed. Previously you had to manually set those margins of a topic to correspond to the chapter it would be used in if you wanted to set up a WYSIWYG topic layout. If referencing the topic layout from outside of the Report View Manager, you will still need to set the left and right margins since it is not known where the topic will be used. [Bug Fixes] - Corrected a problem on some PCs where the video card and Windows combinations do not support the "Blend" rendering for the RapidRemark Hint popup balloon, preventing the balloon from rendering properly or at all. - Fixed a problem where you could not add a table to a RapidRemark (the toolbar button was inoperative). - Corrected a problem introduced in 1.6.C where if you hit tab at the end of a line and then started entering text, that new text would be in italics (previously fixed in the main editor, but now fixed in the RapidRemark/Hint/Topic Layout/Folder Layout Managers as well). - Fixed a problem where the font size and style gets reset to the default whenever you change the font name. - Fixed a problem introduced in 1.6.C which prevented the rendering of images in topics who's layout did not have a $comment or $document tag, such as the WDI templates. - Fixed a problem where tables were allowed to be outside of the page margins in the editor, yet the printed report did not... causing surprises due to tables being resized (WYSIWYG failure). - Fixed a problem which prevented RapidSketch from being invoked unless WhisperReporter was run with admin privileges. Release 1.6.D - July 2, 2010 [Enhancements] - Added the ability to download additional dictionaries for the spellchecker. - Added the ability to edit dictionaries. [Bug Fixes] - Corrected the Spellcheck user dictionary path introduced in 1.6.C, which would have rendered any previously added words to be marked as misspelled once again. - Corrected a problem introduced in 1.6.C where if you hit tab at the end of a line and then started entering text, that new text would be in italics. Release 1.6.C - June 30, 2010 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated editor, version 5.54-. - Integrated with an updated Bug Reporting module, version 6.0.23 - Integrated with an updated local SQL database server, version 9.10.0.21. - Integrated with an updated Spellchecker/Thesauras, version 4.10.2063. - Integrated with an updated DataManager file compressor, version 4.51.1. - Integrated with an updated DataManager Import utility, version 2.73. - Integrated with an updated DataManager Export utility, version 4.99. - Integrated with an updated skinning engine, version 6.67 (Includes new skins: Beijing Ext, Lucky, Nautilus, Smokey, Spring, Vienna Ext, Vienna) - Partially implemented a TWI Affiliates Findings import as RapidRemarks tool. - Added a MultiSelect dialog option for picklists. - You can now configure different separators for individual picklists when selecting multiple items from a picklist. One of the selections is to use a "new paragraph" as the separator. This can be usefull for propagating a bulletted list from a picklist. For example, if you have a picklist in a bullet and specify a "new paragraph" as the separator, then for each item selected in a multi-select pickist, each item will be on a separate bulleted line. - When using the new Multi-Select picklist dialog, the order in which you select the new items is maintained. - Added a third option for a RapidRemark View: Use saved node expanded state. The other two are: always expanding or always collapse the nodes. - Improved license file management. - Added Ctrl+B, CTRL+U and CTRL+I for setting Bold, Underline and Italics, respectively. (CTRL+U was previously used to unlock text, but now CTRL+L is a toggle for locking/unlocking text). - Added the ability to selectively exclude chapters and topics from the generated TOC. Use the Report View Manager to check or uncheck the new "Include Node in Table Of Contents" checkbox. - Now if you are deleting a table row and that row itself contains a table, you will be prompted to confirm the operation in case you actually thought you were deleting a row from that inner table. This can be troublesome when table lines are hidden. - The RapidRemark background color you set is now used even when skinned. - The Topic Checkbox panel background and font is no longer skinned, and is lightblue with bold font to help it stand out; however, the checkboxes within are still skinned. - Added a new menu item under the Edit menu: "Show Hidden Text". The default is to hide hidden text of course, but in some cases when migrating from WhisperPI, it might be necessary to show hidden text since that attribute used to be used for linking text to the auto-summary in WhisperPI, and might not have been converted properly when imported into WhisperReporter. Any hidden text will then be double underlined in red so that you can then remove the hidden attribute and/or delete the offending text. Hidden text will still be hidden when the report is created. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a problem loading images where the path was referencing a non-existant drive, invoking an annoying prompt to insert a disk into that drive. - Fixed a bug where linked text that has been cloaked still appears in the linked text compilation (i.e. auto summary for example). Release 1.6.B - January 3, 2010 (* indicates new since 1.6.b5 pre-release) [Enhancements] - The last image inserted is now also remembered when using the feature to pre-load images into the database instead of just when inserting a single image form the toolbar button. - When browsing to save the report as a PDF, the default file extension for browsing now defaults to "PDF Files" instead of "All Files". - Text marked as hidden will now be hidden (this attribute was left over from an old style Link To Summary feature that was later replaced with the more advanced Linked Text attribute). You can make hidden text visible by showing extended attributes (clicking on the Paragraph Attributes toolbar button twice within 2 seconds). You can then right click on it and select to "remove old style link text" if you want to make it always visible and possibly remark it as linked text. Text could have been marked as hidden if imported from WhisperPI or if you still had some old text that was using the old linked to summary attribute which has not been supported for years. * Skin selection now uses a dialog instead of a long menu selection, and provides samples so you can get a rough idea of what your skin selection will look like before you apply it. * You no longer have to be sure to mark the end-of-paragraph marker when marking text as cloakable. If the paragraph is empty after cloaking, Reporter will now automatically delete the paragraph marker. This is particularily convenient for bulleted items. [Bug Fixes] - Corrected a problem introduced in 1.6.A which could prevent WhisperReporter from initializing on some PCs if the last report was set to be reloaded on startup and was using client or property address tags in the auto report numbering. - Corrected a problem introduced in 1.6.A with the newly integrated editor which would cause tab alignment to get thrown off. - Corrected the evaluation license location on install. * Corrected a problem where the bullet attribute in the last paragraph of a topic could carry over to the first paragaraph of the next topic layout when the report is generated. Release 1.6.A - November 20, 2009 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated skinning engine, version 6.47 - Integrated with an updated editor, version 5.51. - Integrated with an updated PDF generator, version 3.58. - Incorporated the new TREC 7-2 report form templates (previous installs of WhisperReporter will need to download and install these templates separately, if needed). - Added a new topic under General Report Information called "Other" where you can define your own fields that can be referenced anywhere in the report using custom tags. To use, select the "Other" topic, then right click on the editor area and choose "Form Design Mode". Add labels or whatever you want, then place the cursor where you want to add a field. Right click to select to insert a text field; you will be prompted to name this field so that you can reference the field data using the $custom tag in the report. The field will appear as "[ ]" to indicate the area where you will be able to enter text. The form will revert to Form Entry Mode automatically when you select a new topic (or if you specifically select that mode from the pop up menu). When in Field Entry Mode, the cursor will only move to those fields you created (use tab to move to each field). To reference this data in a comment, simply choose to add a Custom tag using the tag button on the editor toolbar. You will be prompted for the field name (only those currently defined will be selectable). - The CTRL+Del keyboard shortcut was remapped and can now be used to delete the current table row (previously this shortcut was doing the same thing as the DEL key by itself, so it was redundant) - Added a welcome dialog where you select what you want to do. This dialog can be suppressed (note: if it is being suppressed, it can be re-invoked by having the shift key held down while bringing up WhisperReporter). - Added a new Email Preference section to allow the setting of custom email body text when sending reports via the default Windows email client. - Added an "Undo All" function (Edit > Undo All or CTRL+ALT+Z) to revert all changes to the current comment since the last save (simply reloads the comment, checkboxes are left as-is). [Bug Fixes] - Corrected column sorting in the Data Manager's Merge Two Reports function. - Corrected a problem where cloaking multiple lines would still leave one new paragraph marker even though all new paragraph markers were cloaked. - The latest PDF generator fixes a problem which could cause overlapping text on a line when a font changes. For example, in the PDF version of the report, a checkbox might have overlapped the preceding text. Release 1.5.K (only released as betas k1, k2) - October, 2009 [Enhancements] - The Report View Manage will now also warn you if you attempt to modify a report view that is in use by a locked template (previously it only warned if it was in use by a report). - Report View Manager caution labels are now always displayed in red, independent of the skin in use. [Bug Fixes] - Re-Integrated with the updated skinning engine, version 6.44. Note: the quick fix did not properly integrate this version of the skin engine, and caused odd behavior. - Corrected a bug which caused an error when opening the WhisperPI Prepared Comment Import tool. - Corrected a bug introduced in 1.5.H which could cause a SQL syntax error when modifying a Chapter Layout. - Corrected a typo which prevented the Client Address line 2 from being able to be exported to an alternate file format. - Corrected a bug introduced in 1.5.I which can cause an error while attempting to restore RapidRemarks from a backup. - Fixed a bug where fonts appear to mysteriously change to another font. Release 1.5.J - September 22, 2009 - Quick Fix [Bug Fixes] - Removed test code which caused an error when opening the Picklist Manager and when saving a new RapidRemark. Release 1.5.I - September 19, 2009 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated skinning engine, version 6.44 - New skins added: Sapphire, Shine, Snow Leopard, and TV-b - Added the ability to import AutoText, Client, and Realtor data from AHit InspectIt ReportPro. - Added the zipcode when displaying the property info panel in the main window. - Improved license file validation [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a problem that could cause a bug report if shutting down Reporter while Reporter was refreshing the image panel. - If the RapidRemark view is modified while in the Report View manager, the RapidRemark view will now be updated appropriately in both the Report View Manager and the main application view. Release 1.5.H - June 14, 2009 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated Bug Reporting module, version 6.0.20 - Integrated with an updated Skinning engine, version 6.23 - Improved FTP file transfer connection handling. - The Browse Reports window is now sizeable and remembers its position. - A new column was added to the Browse Reports window: "Insp.", which will the show the initials of the inspector who created the report, if known. - Reporter now remembers the navigation panel's expand all/collapse all state. - Instead of asking you to remove overlapping linked text before applying the linked text attribute to the selected text, Reporter will now ask if you want to merge the overlapping linked text with the new selection, and apply the new linked text qualifier to all of it, making it a single linked text selection. - Now if the cursor is not at the last char of some text, the AutoPaste (F2 key) will prompt for the the text to search the RapidRemarks description for, words or partial words separated by spaces. If the search method is "Starts With", then the text entered must match the start of the description. If the search method is "Match Anywhere", then the description must contain all the words or partial words entered (in any order). - Added an option to the Table Of Contents where you can optionally include the page numbers for Chapters and/or Topics. The Preferences > Table Of Contents default settings are: Chapters: False, Topics: True. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a problem restoring companies from individual report backup. - Fixed a problem aligning images that have been set to "position relative to paragraph". If the image ended up at the bottom of a page, it would be repositioned on top of the text in order to prevent it printing the image off the bottom of the page; however, this temporary fix could now cause the image to run off the bottom of a page. This is an editor bug and we are actively pursuing a fix from the company which supplies the editor we integrate into the product. For now, please review the report and make adjustments as needed, or just use the default "position image as char". - The audit which looks for empty topics being printed will no longer flag a topic that only had a topic layout (i.e. no topic comment was defined). - Fixed a problem where the displayed page count could be inaccurate if followed by other root chapters (root chapters are chapters with no parent chapter which starts the page count back at 1). - Corrected a problem where the title/status bars would not update when moving from the Report navigation tree to the General Report Information navigation tree. Release 1.5.G - May 21, 2009 [Enhancements] - Improved performance displaying the list of reports that can be restored from an archive. - For new installs, the font preference to exclude the Wingdings font from being embedded in the PDF version of the report is no longer specified, and as such will now default to be included if needed. There have been situations where the PDF version of the report was being viewed on a clients PC or MAC that did not have the Wingdings font installed, preventing checkboxes from displaying properly. - The first set of numbered bullets will now always start numbering at 1 in each topic when the report is generated. Previously it might have continued the numbering sequence from the previous topic. - Reports now have "ownership", useful for companies that have more than one inspector and use the same database, or merge reports into a common database. The Company and Inspector active when the report is created is saved into the report. Ownership can be reassigned by using the browse report dialog and right clicking on a report and selecting the option to change ther report's owner to the current inspector and company. Previous reports that do not hae an owner will have the current inspector and company assigned automatically the next time it is opened. Templates do not have ownership; when converting a report to a template, the ownership is removed. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a bug which could cause the Data Manager to lockup if you hit the Back/Next sequence too quickly. - Corrected a problem with font selection during report generation if Reporter's default font preference was changed during the course of entering comments for the current inspection report. - Fixed a recently introduced hang condition in the Work View Manager that could occur when assigning a work view to the current report. - Fixed a problem where the image in the comment was not refreshed if you used the internal image editor and used the X or the cancel button to exit that editor yet had saved changes at some point. - When a report is locked, the report number will no longer change should an auto-numbering tag value change. Release 1.5.F - April 26, 2009 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated Skinning engine, version 6.22 - New skins added: Acryl, Topaz - In the image editor, fixed tabing order of the "new text object" dialog. - In the image editor, it will no longer save blank text to the saved text object list. - Images can now be edited from the Image panel. Previously you had to insert an image into the comment before you were able to edit it. To edit from the image panel, select one or more images, and right click to select "Edit Image(s)". Note: If using the internal image editor, its Skip button will cancel changes for that image and move to the next image selected; the Cancel button will also cancel changes but will also abort the image editing process. - Added the ability to upload reports using FTP. Set the appropriate FTP settings in Preferences, and after generating the report, you will have the option to FTP the report. [Bug Fixes] - Corrected a problem trying to view the page properties of a RapidRemark. - Corrected the population of the columns in the DataManager Restore Reports list. Release 1.5.E - March 8, 2009 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated editor, version 5.47.5. - Integrated with an updated PDF generator, version 3.30. - The new editor helps to remove open-ended tags at time of the deletion of an endtag; plus code was added in Reporter to clean out any open-ended tags that still might be left over from previous versions of the editor. - Improved dual monitor support. - A fontname change to selected text in a comment will no longer affect any checkboxes that might have also been included in the selection. Same applies to any characters that use the Wingdings fontname or are in the Symbol character set (can be turned off in Setup > Preferences > Fonts). [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a problem with squished page counts in the generated report. Release 1.5.D - February 14, 2009 [Enhancements] - Images deleted from the image panel are now moved to the recycle bin so they can be recovered in case of an accidental deletion. - The popup image previewer now sizes the images to fit the window at all times instead of maxing out at the image's actual size. - Added a new tabpage to the Preferences to allow more obvious option settings that are applicable to RapidRemarks. Previously, these settings were in pop up menus only. - The "Pages Per Sheet" setting when printing to a printer will now be remembered for future printing. - The building of the Picklist popup is now case-sensitive so that "North" is not the same as "north" as as such will now produce two picklist entries instead of one. - The TREC 7A-0 templates have been removed for new installs. - The TREC 7A-1 templates have been updated. Corrected one spelling mistake in the Boilerplate templates (Thermal pain > Thermal pane), and added additional samples that include the TREC OP-I form. [Bug Fixes] - Switching from a two monitor system to a one monitor system might have left some windows out of view that were last opened on the now non-existant monitor. This would appear as a lockup, when in fact the form was just not visible. Now all forms that save its location will check and reposition itself when re-opened so that its position will be within the current desktop real estate. - Now prevents pasting inside the hidden checkbox tags which would have extended the checkbox attribute throughout the pasted text. - Fixed a bug creating a new blank template that uses a report view that has more than one topic that does not have a topic comment assigned. - Fixed a problem where closing the application while the program is updating the thumbnails for the "Used Images" list panel could cause a bug report that the operation cannot be performed on a closed dataset since the database was closed while the database was still being scanned for used images. we now stop scanning prior to closing the database. - Fixed a problem where the splitter bars in the main window could become unresponsive. Release 1.5.C - January 29, 2009 [Enhancements] - The report-report merge will now try to match the topic description if the comment ID is not found. - Improved comment checkbox deletion so that if you backspace over a checkbox tag (thereby deleting it) it will also delete the checkbox character. - New 7A-1 Boilerplate templates, v1.1, which includes a spelling correction on the title page, and movement of stairway checklist from the Walls topic, as it had been in the 7A-0 template, over to the new 7A-1 Stairways topic. Current users will need to install from the WhisperReporterTemplates.zip file. [Bug Fixes] - Many minor bug fixes Release 1.5.B - January 2, 2009 [Enhancements] - Increased the length of the email address fields from 50 to 250 to allow for a name and/or multiple email addresses to be entered, separated by semi-colons (;). Also, The email address list for sending a report will now also look for email addresses in the notes sections, where each email address must be on a separate line and/or separated by semi-colons (;). Email addresses can be in one of two formats: 1) jsmith@theirdomain.com 2) John Smith (jsmith@theirdomain.com) - Now that ImageEditLite is integrated into Reporter, the saved text for reusing in new text objects is now also backed up/restored on full backups/restores. - Added an additional client lookup button on the Inspection Details tab page. - If the "Client Address is same as Property address" checkbox is checked, and you select a new client using the client lookup, it will prompt you whether you want to also set the property address to the same as the client address. This is useful for inspections being performed on the client's property (such as for termite inspections). [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a problem where various buttons etc were not properly disabled when a new report was opened, or when there was no report open; which, at worst case, would cause an index out of bounds error notice. - Cleaned up some selection issues in the client lookup dialog. Release 1.5.A - December 14, 2008 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated Bug Reporting module, version 6.0.18 - Integrated with an updated Skinning engine, version 6.04 - Integrated ImageEditLite (1.5.B) into WhisperReporter - Added new Skins: Calcium (default on new installs) and Beijing - Eliminated the confusing Add Topic and Add Chapter dialogs, and integrated them directly into the Report View and Work View Managers so that the correlation of the different fields being asked for are better represented and also so that results can be seen immediately. Now adding a new Chapter or Topic is very much like modifying an existing one. - Enhanced adding services. You can now designate a service as being a calculated service. When selected, it will prompt for a quantity and automatically enter a new service with the calculated amount. The auto added service will be marked as being for the current report only. - Adding new service fees/discounts will now remember the last selection made for both "taxable" and "only for the current report" - After adding a new service fee/discount, it will now automatically be selected as a service rendered. - If connected to the internet on Reporter startup, it will automatically check to see if there is a new version available; and if there is a newer version, it will display this information in the lower right status bar panel. - The Image Popup Preview window now initially aligns itself to the far right center of the screen, and remembers its width and height for the next time Reporter is executed. - The Image Popup Preview window can now be left open even after focus is shifted away from Reporter's image panel. Simply uncheck the "Auto Close" checkbox on the Preview window. - Cleaned up various window rendering processes. - The "Map It" button is no longer disabled when the report has been locked. - Added a new Merge function to the Data Manager which allows you to append the comments from one report to another. Each report should use the same or similar Report View because the process mates topic comments in each report in determining which comments get merged together. - Enhanced comment checkboxes. Now when toggling a comment checkbox, if there is any cloakable text in the same paragraph to the right and/or below the checkbox being toggled, the cloakable text will also toggle to the same state. In other words, if you checkmark a checkbox, any cloakable text found after the checkbox will be uncloaked. Uncheckmark a checkbox, and any cloakable text will be cloaked. This feature allows you to add conditionally printed text related to a checkbox, such as showing a recommendation only if the checkbox is checkmarked. To have new lines below the checkbox that are part of the same paragraph, use the Shift+Enter key rather than the Enter key. The Enter key alone adds a new paragraph and a Shift+Enter adds a new line to the same paragraph. - If a topic comment is not specified for a topic, Reporter will display the topic layout in the editor instead since that is what will print (the comment will also be locked). This is typically used for when you include topics for informational purposes only, and not meant to be edited, such as disclaimers or consumer related documents for the client to review. These types of things are best put in a layout rather than a template comment area to conserve space and to prevent editing. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a problem in the Data Manager where the Backup of individual reports selection dialog might not list all the reports. - Fixed a problem where the embedded extended tag cleanup was removing horizontal lines and page number and page count tags. - Fixed a problem where the Page Properties were not being saved if it was the only change made. - Fixed a problem restoring a backup of an individual report that did not have client or property information (which is referenced to display in the selection grid). - Fixed a problem where an orphaned checked checkbox would cause Reporter to think it had to save the comment even though there were no changes. i.e. the Save icon would light up simply by moving to that topic, indicating the topic comment needs saving when it really didn't need to be. An orphaned checked checkbox could occur if the checkbox group for a topic was changed where that checkbox was removed, such as assigning a new Report View to the current report, and the new Report View did not use that particular checkbox. - Fixed a problem where topics would use the last chapter printed formatting rather than its parent chapter formatting. This would occur when there were both sub-chapters and topics in the same parent chapter. - Fixed the tag insertion of the <$comment> tag in the Topic Layout Manager. - Fixed a default font selection problem in the editor if the topic layout didn't have a <$comment> tag (the editor uses the layout to obtain the proper margins for the comment). - Fixed a problem with some skins having a black-on-black main menu. - Fixed a problem where licenses could become invalid, requiring a reinstall of the original license file. - Fixed various refreshing of hint windows when changes were made. - Fixed the image placement mode indicator in all the layouts and RR Manager (and the change now sets the modified state). Release 1.4.F - November 16, 2008 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated Bug Reporting module, version 6.0.17 - Integrated with an updated Skinning engine, version 5.67 - Now, instead of reporting that it can't create a unique report number when using auto numbering, it will append a temporary suffix to the report number which will be removed once the report number becomes unique, such as might be the case when using the property address tag in the auto-numbering format. For example, the first duplicate will have a "(1)" appended to the non-unique report number to make it unique and easily indentifiable when browsing reports. - Reorganized the General Information pages so that the property information is in the forefront. - Enhanced Picklists so that you can use picklists to select RapidRemarks. If the first char of a picklist item is a caret (^), the current list of RapidRemarks will be searched. If it finds an exact match, the picklist will be completely replaced by the respective fully formatted RapidRemark body (use CTRL+Z to undo a misselection of this type since it will no longer be a picklist). [Bug Fixes] - Corrected several auto-numbering issues when the auto-numbering format is set to use values that have not been entered at the time of report creation, such as the property address. It might have warned you that it could not create a unique report number. In another instance, if you tried to load an existing report that had not had the info entered still, it might have used the previously opened report information to fill in the missing information to create the report number. - Fixed indentation of a table within a table that caused paragraphs to be indented two or more times during report generation time if those paragraphs were part of an inner table (a table inside of another table). - Fixed a situation that could cause a list index out of bounds error if there is no work view and you modified the report view. - Fixed an error which could occur after installation where it can't find the ReporterDatabase.zip initialization file. Release 1.4.E - October 2, 2008 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated editor, version 5.40. - Integrated with an updated Bug Reporting module, version 6.0.16 - Integrated with an updated Skinning engine, version 5.53 - Added a picklist menu item to allow resetting the picklist to an unselected state. - Added an option to allow all chapter and topic layouts for the report view to be cloned when saving a report view as a new report view. This can be useful when creating a similar report view, and the chapter and topic layouts will be modified later and you didn't want to affect the original report view layouts or have to make copies of them separately prior to modifying them. - User checkboxes will now have a light yellow background in the editor to help make them standout and to indicate that it is an active checkbox as opposed to just a wingding character. - Increased clickable area for clicking on user checkboxes. Plus, if you are inside a checkbox, a space will toggle the state. - Linked images contained within text being copy/pasted from one comment to another will now also be included (both within the same report and also between reports, cloning images as needed). - When selecting a RapidRemark using the AutoPaste feature (F2), it will launch the RapidRemark Manager instead of inserting it into your comment if the Shift key is held down when clicking on the selection. The RapidRemark Manager will automatically load the RapidRemark you had selected where you can then edit it if desired. - Double clicking a RapidRemark in the RapidRemark Manager will now add the RR to the current comment (same function as if you clicked the "Insert info current report comment" button). A new status bar was added to the RR Manager to show confirmation of the insertion. - Updating of the image panel is now performed in a separate low priority process. This will prevent having to wait for the image panel to update in order to continue in the application, which could have been as long as 15 seconds or more if you had hundreds of images imported. - Now includes the address in the subject line when emailing the report. - Now saves into the registry the last license file accessed just in case a full backup is restored which contains old license file information. - The RapidRemark window now remembers where it was last positioned. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a bug which didn't properly restore a topic that had no layout. Prior to 1.4.A, a topic was required to have a layout; however, starting with 1.4.A, this was no longer required and the restore logic was still expecting a layout to be assigned. - The respective Layout or Hint window was not being updated if the current layout or hint was edited in the Report/Work View managers. - Various buttons and text/combo boxes now resize and align properly when the Report/Work View managers or their subpanels resize. - Fixed a bug which didn't copy the chapter layout when cloning a work view chapter. - Fixed an undesirable effect of being able to type when the cursor was positioned inside the hidden checkbox tags, causing text entered to have the wingding font. - Report/Work View managers will now correctly color code the layout view. - Fixed a problem where user checkboxes would not toggle even though it appeared you did click it. - The database collation sequence is now set properly when used outside the U.S. - The new editor corrected a problem processing nested linked text (linked text inside of a wider scoped linked text block). - Corrected the timestamp set in the PDF file. It was using the UTC time rather than local clock time. - Corrected various timestamps and timestamp comparisions when backing up and restoring individual reports. This was causing issues when backing up individual reports in one timezone and restoring in another. - Corrected a problem when restoring a report where the list of topic checkboxes that were checked for each topic did not get remapped properly to the new checkbox group if that checkbox group had to be remapped because it was different than the existing group. - Corrected a problem where restoring a report view as new instead of replacing an existing one, Reporter did not apply the same suffix to the new corresponding work view (if there was one). Release 1.4.D - July 10-11, 2008 [Enhancements] [Bug Fixes] - Corrected a problem introduced in 1.4.A in regards to restoring a duplicate report as a new report. The comments would be saved to the current report rather than the new report. - Corrected the Inspection Time on restored reports (the UTC time was not being converted to local time) - A new set of Layouts, Hints, Checkbox Groups, Checkboxes and RapidRemark Views were being created when restoring a duplicate Report View as a new Report View. Now they will only be created if needed (i.e. different than the exiting one). * Re-uploaded on 7/10 @ 9pm to include this fix: Problem where the editor toolbar was not restoring its default color when skins are turned off until Reporter was restarted. * Re-uploaded on 7/11 @ 6:30pm to include this fix: Now skins the signature dialog and corrects the signature area color. Release 1.4.C - July 8, 2008 [Enhancements] - Enhanced the sort algorithm when sorting picklist items. Click the Sort Items button the first time, and it sorts Ascending, click a 2nd time, it sorts Descending. It will also sort leading numerical values as numeric rather than as a string, i.e. 1, 11, 2, 22, 3 will now sort as 1, 2, 3, 11, 22 instead of 1, 11, 2, 22, 3. - Text fields will no longer be automatically removed if empty while designing a form entry type of template. This also removes the requirement that a space be automatically inserted between field tags when a text field is added. - Added a Checkbox Group Rules builder so that you don't have to be a programmer to create rules for the topic checkbox groups you create. - Corrected the skinning of the editor toolbar. [Bug Fixes] - Corrected a problem restoring an individual report whose report or work view does not currently exist in the database and the folder list being restored is out of order. This could cause an error indicating that it was trying to restore a child folder before its parent folder had been restored. - Corrected the default inspector information license file path... it was not empty, and could confuse the user on new installs. - Updated the evaluation license in the full setup (the no docs setup was already updated). Release 1.4.B - June 29, 2008 [Bug Fixes] - Corrected a Topic Checkbox Group audit problem introduced in 1.3.P where it would incorrectly identify which topics didn't have any checkboxes checked. - Fixed a problem refreshing the checkbox group in the Report View Manager if changes were made. Release 1.4.A - June 28, 2008 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated Bug Reporting module, version 6.0.14 - Bug reports are now sent to us without the need of the user's email client or server. - The report number for the manual entry will now default to the scheme used by the auto-generated report number format. This will allow a manual report number to default to some pre-generated value using the format specified by the auto report number generation setting so that you don't have to always enter a frequently used prefix to your manually specified report number for instance. - Integrated with enhanced splitter control for the Navigation, RapidRemark and Hint panels. - Added a new printing option that will suppress any topics that have no comments. - Added a new function key, F3, to perform one of the following: (1) if the text cursor is over a link, it will be removed without prompting, or (2) if the text cursor is not on a link, it will apply a link type of Linked Text without prompting, using the last qualifier selected. In case (2), if there is nothing selected, it will select the whole paragraph to apply the linked text attribute, else it will only apply the linked text attribute to the seleted text. - Now if backing up a single report, it will use the report number as the default backup file name. - Added the ability to apply various "skins" to the look-and-feel of the application. The default skin loaded is "Elegant", but can be turned off using Setup > Select Skin > "Standard (no skin)". - Added a Print button to the PDF creation completed dialog which will launch the Windows' default application to print the PDF version of the report. - Enhanced the Report View Manager and the Work View Manager by breaking them down to look like the main window, plus it also includes previews of the respective selections. - Added the ability to create submenus in a picklist popup menu by using backslashes for a menu item. For example: Wood\Cedar would create a picklist menu item "Wood" with a submenu item of "Cedar". - Added a configurable zoom level for the hint panel, default is 80%. Right click on the hint panel to change zoom level. - Now you can toggle the Form Entry style even if the topic layout is set to Form Entry style to allow for one off changes to the body of a form template. - Updated the Texas WDI templates to correct the Structural Pest Control Service name. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed an access violation during auto open/close of the panels if there was no active control. - Fixed a problem under Vista where the popup picklist menu would not resize its width smaller to fit the current longest menu item; i.e. it would resize wider, but not then reduce its width if the new menu's longest item was shorter than the previous menu's longest item. This worked fine under XP, but not under Vista. - Now properly defaults the OK button when first loading the Create New Payment dialog. - Fix a problem inserting a Form Entry Text Field introduced in 1.3.P. - Fixed a flicker issue with the general info tab pages. - Implemented a fix to correct a system level MonitorFromPoint access violation when either LogMeIn remote access was installed, or the number of monitors configured was changed without restarting WhisperReporter. - Fixed a problem where Reporter would not save the current modified comment when creating a new report. Instead, it would save it into the new report. - Fixed a bug under certain Windows configurations where it would cause dates in a report to be incorrectly exported when backing up individual reports. The date/time entries would be missing the separator chars ("/" for the date separator and ":" for the time separator) which would cause an invalid date error when restoring the report. Note: The backup file is in editable XML format, and therefore the dates are correctable should the need arise to restore one of these corrupted backup files. - Fixed a problem restoring a duplicate report view that was then specified to be saved as a new report view. The report comments would be mapped to the original report view instead of the new report view. - Fixed a problem changing the Topic Layout of the topic comment currently shown in the editor where it would not update the comment view to reflect the change. Release 1.3.R - May 4, 2008 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated Bug Reporting module, version 6.0.13 - Improved auto-close of the Navigation and RapidRemark panels. - Enhanced auto numbering of linked text in the body of the report so that the numbering includes the full point number as it appears in the resolved linked text. Previously, only the last number of the point sequence would appear in the body. - Combined the multiple Audit Alerts into a single scrollable audit alert dialog. - The Browse Reports dialog now remembers the column widths so that any adjustments you make will be retained. - Now suppresses duplicate named checkboxes in the suppress section of the Print dialog and when creating a new template. Previously, if more than one checkbox group was used, and some topic checkbox descriptions were the same in each, they would appear more than once in the topic checkbox list shown in the print and new template dialogs, causing confusion. Now if more than one topic checkbox group is used in a report view, and a topic checkbox description from one group matches that of another group, they will be treated as if they were the same topic checkbox, and listed only once. - Added an option in the Picklist Manager to be able to automatically build the picklist menu with submenus based on the first character of the picklist. This helps to organize the picklists when there are too many to fit on a single popup. - Added shortcut keys to select All (CTRL+A), Select Paragraph (CTRL+ALT+A), and to invoke the Print dialog (CTRL+P). Also added a menu option to select paragraph. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a problem introduced in 1.3.Q to correct insertion of a RapidRemark into a bulleted list ultimately caused a RapidRemark that started with bullets itself to lose the first bullet if inserted into a non-bulleted list. - Corrected a problem where it wouldn't honor the selection to always make the property address the same as the client address when creating a new report. Release 1.3.Q - April 22, 2008 [Enhancements] - Implemented tags for the various report notes. [Bug Fixes] - Now when inserting a RapidRemark into a new bulleted item, the bullet attribute will not be reset for the inserted RR. - Fixed a "Failed to set data" error introduced in 1.3.P that occurs on new installations. Release 1.3.P - April 13, 2008 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated editor, version 5.36. - Integrated with an updated Bug Reporting module, version 6.0.12 - Added a topic checkbox panel right click popup option to uncheck all topic checkboxes, bypassing checkbox group rules. Useful when creating a new template from another template, but want to uncheck all checkboxes so the audit will notify if any topic checkboxes were not checked. - Enhanced the paragraph attributes toolbar button. The first time that it is clicked, it exposes only the basic paragraph attributes (end of paragraph, spaces, hidden table borders, etc). If it is clicked a second time within 2 seconds, it will then expose the extended attributes, such as bookmark style attributes (linked text, etc) and hyperlink tags (checkboxes, etc). - Added an option to the AutoPaste functionality (F2) to allow searching for the entered word anywhere in the RapidRemark description, not just the first word of the description. Right click on the RR panel, and select the desired search style. - Increased the scrolling speed as you drag an RR item to a new location using the RR Manager. - A payment no longer requires a description to be entered. - A new payment will now prefill the amount field with the current balance. - Doubleclicking a payment will now bring up the payment editor. - Changed the minute increment of the inspection time to be 5 minutes instead of 1 minute. - The inspection time now defaults to the current time when creating new reports (rounded to a 5 minute increment). - The "no topic checkboxes checked" audit will now take into account those checkboxes that are not printed. Previously for example, if you used an unprinted checkbox to suppress a section, the audit would have warned you that no topic checkboxes were checked for that topic even though the unprinted "suppress" checkbox was checked. - Enhanced the audit alert for unchecked picklists by identifying the chapter and topic where the unchecked picklist exists. - Added a Tool menu item that allows you to review the audit alerts that might have been created the last time a report was generated. The menu item will be disabled if there is no audit alert report available. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed an invalid index error if clicking on the list of Real Estate Companies, Agents, or Title Companies and nothing is selected (and you didn't click on one of the items in the list). - Fixed a problem introduced in 1.3.N where clicking "use with current report" in the Report View Manager would not permanently save this new report view setting for the current report. It was only applying it to the current working report, but would revert back to the original report view next time the report was loaded. - Fixed a problem where the mouse cursor would disappear after hitting the F2 key (auto-paste). - If the text within the hidden attribute tags is deleted, the hidden attribute tags will now also be deleted. Also, if the cursor is moved inside an older empty tag, it will remove the empty tag. - Upgrading to the latest editor corrected a problem which would cause a signature to get corrupted if it followed a linked image. - Fixed a problem where if borders were applied to the first paragraph of a comment the borders would not be printed. - Fixed a problem under Vista where Reporter wasn't able to determine if ImageEditLite had been installed in order to make it available as the image editor of choice under Preferences. Release 1.3.O - March 13, 2008 [Enhancements] - Now when enabling to view paragraph attributes, it will also show hyperlink tags. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a page count issue when the TOC extends more than one page. This was introduced in 1.3.N Release 1.3.N - March 9, 2008 [Enhancements] - The Browse Reports dialog now remembers the sort order. Also moved the Inspection Date to be the first column and made the default sort order to be by Inspection date instead of Report Number. - Added a feature that allows the printing of multiple pages per sheet of paper. This can help conserve paper if printing a hard copy for your files for example. - Added a printing option, Scale to fit within printable page margins, that allows the page to be printed fully within the printer's printable page boundries. In other words, the full page will be scaled down as needed so that it will print entirely within the printable area of a page. Previously the pages were not scaled, and therefore, if you designed a form which had text within the paper's physical edges but outside of a printer's physical printable margins, the portion outside those margins would not get printed. - Added support for PNG image files. - Now remembers the setting for "Property Location is the same as the Client's address" for future new reports. - Added a feature to allow you to immediatly view the PDF file just created. - Improved Browse Reports grid (live tracking when using the slider, and sort order is now shown) - Added a Setup > Linked Text option to automatically trim off leading and trailing blank lines of the text being linked in. - Added a TOC preference setting to exclude all chapters and/or all topics from the TOC. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a problem importing a work view that had parentheses in the name. - Fixed a problem trying to update the topic summary when switching to work view when there was no work view. - Fixed a problem which allowed the attempt to save part or all of a comment as a RapidRemark even though no RapidRemark folders were available for the current topic. This would result in an error message since there would be no default folder to place the RapidRemark into. - Corrected a problem where a paragraph attribute, such as a bullet, from the previous linked text inclusion would carry over into the automatic insertion of the chapter and/or topic heading. - Now suppresses the faint section marker in the left margin when printing to a physical printer. - Fixed a TOC issue if there were more than one root folder and the TOC placeholder was somewhere in the last root folder. - Fixed a problem creating a new template if the Report View had one or more topics referencing the same topic comment. Release 1.3.M - January 1, 2008 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated Bug Reporting module, version 6.0.11 [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a problem which could read a license file incorrectly. - Fixed a problem where it would continue to use the current report when deleting it and then canceling out of the browse reports dialog. Release 1.3.L December 9, 2007 [Enhancements] - Improved the way Apex and RapidSketch are loaded. - Added new links to the updated help file (included with the full setup) [Bug Fixes] - Added hooks to prevent the ability to invoke the image editor a second time if you double-double clicked an image too quickly. - Fixed a problem where paragraph spacing would not be updated on the screen until something else updates the comment. - Fixed a problem when restoring a report that already exists, and you selected to have it added as a new report instead of replacing the existing report. If the reports have duplicate payment information, you would get an error saying that the payment information was not unique, and the restore would fail. - Fixed a problem similar to one fixed in 1.3.D where it had allowed a node to be dragged and dropped into one of its own child nodes (for both RapidRemark Manager and Report/Work View Manager). Release 1.3.K November 13, 2007 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated Bug Reporting module, version 6.0.9 - New setup program which is fully Windows Vista compatible. - Now allows more than two digits when specifying the auto-report number starting incrementing value. - Enhanced the New Report dialog. - Updated Texas WDI templates to reflect the 9/01/2007 revision. The updated templates will only install on new installs; if updating an existing install, please download the latest templates from the website and restore from those. - Improved performance of the Topic Checkbox Summary compilation by about 2x. - Added an Inspection Date Range selection to the Data Export feature, and sorts the results by date. [Bug Fixes] - Corrected a problem that allowed the Print button to be double-clicked, causing various recursion errors. - Under Windows Vista, fixed some dialogs which would imprint part of the background onto unused areas of the dialog. Release 1.3.J October 29, 2007 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated editor, version 5.30.3. - In the Backup, Restore and Archive functions of the Data Manager, you can now hold down the SHIFT key to select a range of reports instead of having to select each individual report while holding down the CTRL key. - When saving a comment as a RapidRemark, if the description given is the same as an existing description in the same folder, you will now be prompted to save as new or replace the existing one. - You can now invoke the Picklist Manager directly from the pop up list of picklist items to easily add or remove items from the current list. - Now when selecting a Chapter in the navigation tree, the main panel will show a topic checkbox summary so that you can view at-a-glance the topic checkboxes that are currently checkmarked for each topic under the selected chapter node. - All forms now initialize at mainform center rather than screen center (for improved behavior on widescreen or multi-monitor setups) - Added code to trap for and display jpg file corruption during import of an image rather than having a bug report generated. - Added limits to all the text boxes to prevent exceeding the width of the respective field in the database. - Added the ability to export selected data to XML, XLS, TXT, CSV and HTML format files using the Data Manager. [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a problem where it sometimes would not delete the image database folder for a report that was being deleted. - Fixed a problem where an empty image database folder would be created when saving part of a comment as a RapidRemark even though there were no images in the resulting RapidRemark. - If an image was added to a RapidRemark and then subsequently deleted from that RapidRemark, the image was not being deleted from the image database folder for that RapidRemark (only the link to it was deleted). Now when saving a RapidRemark, any unused images in the image database folder for that RapidRemark will be deleted. - Fixed an Access Violation when updating a node icon which could occur under the following scenario: switching reports from one that had a work view to another that did not, and the report view had some of the same navigation nodes as the previous report view. So when one of the navigation tree icons needed to be updated, such as marking the comment as complete, and the node just happened to have been referenced by the previous work view, the Access Violation would occur trying to update the work view icon which was no longer there. - Fixed a page count issue when a TOC was used in its own topic page. - Fixed an Index out of bounds error when generating a TOC when there was only a single root folder being printed. - Fixed an Access Violation when manipulating tables - Fixed a problem keeping all the city pulldowns in sync when new cities are added on the fly. - Fixed a problem where edit windows would not always get refreshed when it needed to be to correctly represent the WYSIWYG environment. - Fixed an invalid date error when trying to edit an existing client name. - Fixed a problem where changing the taxrate might not get saved. Release 1.3.I September 3, 2007 [Enhancements] - Added a method to remove the old WhisperPI linked text attribute, which can be an artifact of cut/paste using the clipboard to move data from WhisperPI to WhisperReporter. Simply click on the double red underlined area, and then right click to select "Remove Old Style Link Text". Note: This menu item will only be visible if the double red underline is the result of an old style link text attribute. - Improved responsiveness when preloading a large number of images into the database. - Added the ability to reset the WDI sketch by right clicking and selecting the "Reset Sketch Using" item from the popup menu. This allowed for combining all sketch flavors of WDI templates into a single WDI Template. - Added the ability to view an image's properties when in Field Edit mode using the right-click popup menu. You can also select to edit the image from the same popup menu (previously, only a double-click of an image when in field edit mode would invoke the image editor) - Changed the logic flow when creating new reports. It now defaults to create a new report from a template. The template list is pre-populated with the most recently used list including all reports marked as templates. - Added configurable Audit items under Preferences, which include two new audits: No Topic checkboxes checked, and empty comments being printed. [Bug Fixes] - Now converts the path to the Apex sketch to a short path so the Apex integration control can handle it without causing Apex to error with a 2739 error. - Corrected a problem restoring a report having a report number containing a single quote. This was introduced in 1.3.C. - Fixed a problem introduced with the updated editor integrated in 1.3.G where a table could cause a page break when it didn't need to. - Corrected a problem which could invalidate a license file. - If the topic checkbox group changes for a particular topic and contains a different set of checkboxes, the previous list of checked checkboxes will not be discarded the next time the topic is saved. This way, if the checkbox group is reset back to the previous checkbox group, the checked state for the checkboxes in that group will have been retained. Release 1.3.H August 16, 2007 [Enhancements] [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a problem updating the visible folder list when selecting an item in the RapidRemark View Manager. Changes to a RR View might also include the folders selected in another RR view previously looked at while in the RR View Manager. Release 1.3.G August 15, 2007 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated editor, version 5.25 [Bug Fixes] - Corrected a problem introduced in 1.3.E where during auto-summary resolutions the last item in a topic might have its paragraph attributes stripped off (for example a bullet item might not be bulleted if it was the last item resolved from a topic). - Corrected a problem where if a large number of images were included in the report (somewhat greater than 20 or so), the PDF would arbitrarily grow very large (for example, a normally 5MB PDF file might end up being 28MB if it had 65 images). This was corrected with the updated editor. Release 1.3.F July 26, 2007 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated Bug Reporting module (6.0.6) [Bug Fixes] - If the client city was modified, any subsequent reports you loaded would not show the correct city but would instead show the city you last entered. This previous city could be updated in the report if changes were then made to the client address and you didn't also correct the city pulldown. However, if no changes were made to the client address, the report would not be updated with this erroneous city selection. Release 1.3.E July 2, 2007 [Enhancements] - The Add/Edit service fee now includes a pop up calculator. - Enhanced the Merge feature to take into account template data. Now during a merge, if the topic comment being merged differs from the current comment but has not been modified, it will not be appended to the existing comment (the existing comment will stay as-is). Also, if the topic comments differ but the current comment has not been modified, the topic comment being merged will replace the current comment rather than be appended to it. - Now if an installation of WhisperReporter expires before the 14 usage days has been exhausted, WhisperReporter will ask for a license file instead of simply terminating. [Bug Fixes] - Now prevents the "Next" or "Previous" button from being double-clicked in the Data Manager which could result in an blank dialog having just Next/Previous/Close buttons. - If an incomplete or corrupted archive is specified during a restore, an error message will be invoked rather than producing an Access Violation. The actual error was being caught in the archive tool and not forwarded to the Data Manager, which continued on its merry way to try to restore basically nothing. - Fixed another access violation related to a previous bug which had been corrected in 1.3.D (where a RR folder could be dragged onto itself). If the topic currently selected was using a RR View that had the problem (parent folder pointing to itself), then bringing up the RR View Manager would result in an access violation. - Now if a RR folder's parent ID points to itself (earlier bug), it will be treated as if it had no parent. This will prevent this orphaned folder from being lost by now appearing as a root folder. - Fixed a problem where the scrollbars would disappear on the Image Panel. - Fixed a problem introduced with the new editor that was integrated in 1.3.D. You could no longer edit images when in Form Entry mode, such as the WDI structure diagram. - Fixed an access violation which could occur undo'ing a table row deletion. - Fixed a problem when restoring individual reports and the report being restored has updated general information that was user selected to be "added as new" instead of replaced or skipped. The restored report might point to the original general information instead of the "added as new" version of the general information. (in other words, the restore would not remap the general information section). - Fixed several table alignment issues during report generation, including indented tables not being indented, and an adjoining table being indented if there wasn't an empty line between the two. - Eliminated an extra line that was being added between topics of linked text items. Release 1.3.D June 16, 2007 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated editor, version 5.24 - WhisperReporter now remembers the path where the database was installed at the time of the current or previous installation. We have found that the Window's Shell Folders registry entry that points to a user's location that all applications should save user data to, can be modified and redirected to a new location without consent. All apps that relied on the expectations that this path information would not change are affected, including Microsoft Outlook. - Installation no longer overwrites the default autocorrect.adu custom dictionary. This dictionary was intended to be the default custom dictionary as released by the spellchecker, and a user's autocorrect dictionary would hold any newly added items, including custom autocorrect entries. We have found that some users have modified the spellchecker configuration and redirected custom additions to be written to the default dictionary. In such cases, updating WhisperReporter would then overwrite the default custom dictionary, losing any additions the user had added. - Added the checkbox type as a link type, whose properties can be viewed and a type that can be removed. - Added a "New Picklist" menu item to the Picklist pulldown button on the toolbar to provide an easier path to create new picklists, especially when in the RapidRemark Manager. - Added the ability to change the background color of the RapidRemarks panel. Simply right click on the RR panel and select the background color from the list of available colors. - In the RapidRemark Manager, added a button to allow the insertion of the selected RapidRemark into the current report comment. - Hitting the ESC key in the RapidRemark Manager will now close the dialog as if you hit the close button. The ESC will have no effect if editing a RapidRemark. [Bug Fixes] - The Report View Manager now prevents topic nodes from being able to be created under the root folder (topics can only be created under chapter nodes). - Fixed a race condition which could have caused an Access Violation when using the Report View Manager and changing the Report View that is currently shown. - Fixed a SQL error if the autogeneration of the report number included an apostrophe. - If toggling the "Comment Complete" on or off, all work view nodes will now reflect the change, not just the first one. - Fixed a problem which allowed RapidRemarks folders and Report/Work View Chapters to be drag-n-dropped into themselves, corrupting the parent reference of the node. - Fixed a stack overflow condition when selecting a topic that had the above parent reference problem. To correct such an instance, simply use the RapidRemark View Manager to clear and reselect the folders desired for the particular RapidRemark View causing the problem. i.e. Use the Report View Manager to select the topic you are having problems with, and then click the "..." button next to the RapidRemark View pulldown. This will load the RapidRemark View for that topic, where you can then reselect the folders for that RapidRemark View. - Corrected a problem backing up and restoring custom spellcheck dictionaries. - When creating a new report from a template, it will no longer use the current client name and property address for the autogeneration of the report number when those tags are used in the report number format. - Fixed a problem where the scrollbars would disappear on the RapidRemark Panel. Release 1.3.C 2007-05-28 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated Bug Reporting tool, 6.0.4 - Integrated with an updated Apex integration control, 2.7.2.0 - Added Next Topic/Previous Topic toolbar buttons to allow incremental browsing of your comments using the mouse. - Added a View Image toolbar button on the image panel to make it easier to view a large sample of the image using the mouse without having to right-click and select from a popup menu. - Now remembers the last Print Preview zoom mode. - Now if during a restore, either the internal report ID or the user's report number matches an existing report ID or report number, respectively, you can now optionally merge the two reports. During a merge, if comments or notes differ, the comment/note from the report being restored is appended to the existing comment/note. Other information is added only if there is no entry in the current report for that same entry, for example the client or property ID. Services are also merged (appended). - If you click on the same RapidRemark you currently have selected but had closed the preview balloon, the preview balloon will reappear. - Enhanced Auto Report Numbering by allowing to specify the starting point for incrementing numbers: Zero (as in previous versions), Last Number Used, and Other (you can specify a number to always start from) [Bug Fixes] - Fixed a race condition which could have caused an Access Violation when using the RapidRemark View Manager to change the RapidRemark View that is currently shown in the RapidRemark panel. - Fixed a problem with RapidSketch integration - Fixed a problem with Apex Medina integration on Windows Vista. On Vista only, the integration control would close before the edited image was finished being saved, resulting in WhisperReporter refreshing the image with the image that had not yet been updated. On new Apex sketch insertion, the image would never even be added to the comment. Release 1.3.B 2007-05-04 [Enhancements] - Updated the RapidSketch integration DLL to version 1.0.0.1. - The default cursor in the edit window is now the I-Beam (text edit) cursor rather than a pointer. - If editing in the report comment, RapidRemark comment or the Hint editors, the mouse pointer will now be hidden while typing. Moving the mouse over the respective window will cause the mouse pointer to be visible once again. This feature will work whether your mouse driver supports it directly or not. - Enhanced prefix ability to linkedText items, so you can now add chapter.topic.item numbering or a symbol at the beginning of a linked text item. - Now if you click on the Link toolbar icon without any text selected, it will automatically select the current paragraph. - Added a new tool to allow import of WhisperPI's Realtor information (Agents and Real Estate Companies). [Bug Fixes] - Fixed an Access Violation issue with the RapidRemark panel if you closed the RapidRemark Manager without making any changes and then tried to bring it up a second time without changing topics. - Fixed a Database warning that the data was truncated if you edited a RapidRemoark TOC description and the new length exceeded 100 chars. - Fixed an image quality bug which caused images being imported to be scaled using the draft quality no matter what the setting was in Preferences. - Fixed an Access Violation which would occur after closing the RapidRemark dialog under this scenario: You drag selected text to the RapidRemark panel to save the selected text as a RapidRemark, which in turn launches the RapidRemark dialog; then, while in the RapidRemark dialog, you drag the item to a different location in the TOC and then close the dialog. (the two drag operations were actually overlapping one another) - LinkedText resolution now honors the topic heading indentation of the <$comment> tag if used. - Fixed a problem where Print Preview button could be clicked a second time while processing the first preview, causing a error about a closed dataset and the print preview would be blank. Release 1.3.A 2007-04-12 [Enhancements] - Integrated with an updated editor, version 5.22.1. - Integrated with an updated PDF generator, version 2.94. - Integrated with an updated image compression component, Version 1.8.1 (this also caused the scaling method of "nearest" to be deprecated by the Cosine method) - Improved responsiveness of user checkbox toggling when using a mouse. - Added the ability to print the report using the work view. This change also required an enhancement to be able to set a layout for a work view folder. - Enhanced image import support by allowing a configurable border to be added to all images as they are brought into WhisperReporter. The border can range anywhere from a solid border to a drop shadow, using a wide variety of colors and widths. A plain white border could even be used to simply act as an image separator without having to manually space the images apart from one another. - Added the ability to rename an image file that has been imported into the database. Simply right click on the image in the image panel and select to rename the file. - Added zoom in/out buttons for the image panel to quickly change the thumbnail size (and added an 4th "extra large" size). - Added a thumbnail image preview window. Simply right click on an image in the thumbnail panel and select "View Image" to pop up a large preview of the image. Subsequent clicking on thumbnails will show the image in the preview window while still opened. - Added an easier emailing procedure. Now upon completion of creating a PDF file of the report, WhisperReporter will prompt you whether or not you would like to email the report at this time. If you answer yes, it will prompt with email addresses used in the report to select from, and then launch the user's default email client with the report already attached and the recipients filled in. Previously, the user had to do this all manually, such as bringing up their email client, typing in the recipients' email addresses, locate the report PDF file to attach. Note that this was only tested with Outlook Express, so not sure how it will work with other email clients. - Now WhisperReporter will invoke the default web browser instead of Internet Explorer (which might be the default) when selecting the link under the Help menu to go to Whisper's web site. - Added "Map it" buttons to be able to use Google Maps to pull up a map of either the client or property address. Connection to the internet is required. - Enhanced Autonumbering of linked text items. Now the sequence number can be reset per chapter or topic and the adding of the sequence number to the source text is now optional. - Added a bug reporting module that will trap serious errors and ask you to email to us vital information we've collected to help us diagnose the problem, such as on an Access Violation. - Removed the warning about modifying Whisper distributable view/layouts. Whisper will always release new versions of views/layouts without overwriting exiting views/layouts... so this warning was unnecessary. The new version of a view/layout will have a different version number in the description. - Added example work views for each of the new Texas 7A-0 templates (existing users will have to download the new templates separately). - Added new Report Views and checkbox group for Texas 7A-0 templates to be able to suppress the optional systems. See templates with the v1.1 label. - The label "Report #" is now a hyperlink to modify a report number (this is in addition to the double-click of the report number panel and the right-click of the report number panel that has been there for a while but wasn't obvious). - Changed the application color scheme. - Corrected the sample Invoices for the Texas and California Invoice Layouts. Multiple items would not line up the costs properly. [Bug Fixes] - Corrected a problem restoring from a complete backup where it could not rename the current database to preserve in case of a failure during the restore. - Corrected a problem switching printers using the Print Dialog to select a printer from the pulldown list; the printer mode was not reset in this case. Most noticible if switching from a B/W printer to a color printer (it would print in B/W). This was not a problem if switching printers using the Printer Setup dialog. - Corrected a paragraph alignment issue for linked text merged into the report. - Corrected a situation where an access violation could occur when opening the RapidRemark View Manager or saving a comment as a RapidRemark. - Corrected an access violation if you double-clicked on the RapidRemark Panel and there were no entries in the panel. - If viewing paragraph attributes and the linked text qualifier is changed, the text is now refreshed automatically to reflect the change. - If a linked text item has a qualifier that is not in the picklist for linked text qualifiers, it will be properly shown in the linked text properties window, and you will be prompted whether you want to add it in. - Corrected the order that folders are saved when backing up individual reports or views to guarantee that root folders are backed up and restored first (precaution in case a work view is distributed to a user with an earlier WhisperReporter version that doesn't have the following fix) - Corrected a problem during a restore of individual work views where the root folder might not be restored ahead of a child folder, causing the work view to not be restored properly. Release 1.2.B 2007-02-26 - Improved Work View creation by presenting the available topics to select from when creating a chapter. This way, when you create a chapter, you can quickly create the related topics in one operation. - Corrected a problem updating the thumbnail view after editing an image. An error indicating "Invalid Image Size" popped up... referring to the updated thumbnail image. This problem was introduced in 1.2.A. Release 1.2.A 2007-02-18 - Added a set of tabs at the bottom of the image thumbnail panel list to filter the thumbnails as follows: "All", "Used" and "Not Used". The tabs can be dragged to change the order if desired. - Made a slight performance improvement in report generation. - Added the ability to specify the default font for form fields separate from the default font for the comment area. - Added the ability to sepecify a default font color - Fixed a problem where the service list's up/down arrows could be enabled even though a service was not selected. - Corrected a problem where the image captions would become disassociated with the correct image after deleting one or more images from the Image panel. - Updated database engine (8.10.0.6) for Microsoft Windows Vista support. - Database moved to a new location that is compatible with Microsoft Windows Vista. Release 1.1.B 2006-10-21 - The page number hint when using the scrollbar is now suppressed unless in Page View mode. - Corrected a situation where spellcheck corrections were not marking the comment as having been modified. - If you select to "Spellcheck All" while in the General Info area, the comment area will become visible. - If you select to "Spellcheck All", it will spellcheck using the currently selected Report or Work view navigation tree instead of always trying to use the Report View navigation tree. Release 1.1.A 2006-10-13 - First release! - For reports that have no client or property city/state set yet, e.g. new reports, it now defaults to the city and state of the inspection company instead of blank. - The "Location is same as Client's address" option no longer defaults to checked since it is more likely that the inspected address will not be the client's own address. - Fixed a problem with page numbers printed on a page if (1) a TOC was used which caused the total page count to increase once the TOC was generated, and (2) the report had multiple root chapters, i.e. chapters which restarted the page numbering at 1.