CHANGES

Timeline 0.20.0, released on 30 March 2013
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New features, enhancements:

  * Added 'Save As' feature
  * Strategy for allowing multiple users to use the same Timeline file.
  * The timeline view regains focus when the event editor is closed.
  * Enter-key works in date and time fields of the event editor
  * Some help texts updated
  * New version of icalender to cope with years before 1900
  * TimelineComponent can explicitly clear the drawing area
  
Bug fixes:

  * Fixed problem with Event texts starting with '('- or '['-character
  * Delete event by context menu now works


Timeline 0.19.0, released on 30 December 2012
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New features, enhancements:

  * Possibility to define URL on events and execute "Goto URL" to open web browser.
  * Implemented 'fit week' navigation function.
  * Help text added, to describe vertical movement of events.
  
Bug fixes:

  * Build script generates zip file with only LF as line endings in files
  * Year 0 removed from timeline display when using extended date range

Timeline 0.18.0, released on 30 September 2012
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New features, enhancements:

  * Zooming with scroll wheel zooms at cursor position instead of center.

Bug fixes:

  * Adding multiple events without closing event dialog, works again.
  * Alert time comparision problem solved
  * Fixed problem with ends-today property
  * Fit millennium now works close to edges
  * Fit century now works close to edges

Timeline 0.17.0, released on 15 June 2012
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This is a new feature release.

New features, enhancements:

  * Possibilty to define alerts on events.
  * Non-period events can be added to container events

Bug fixes:

  * No Error when fitting month, december, when using extended timetype.

Timeline 0.16.0, released on 31 January 2012
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This is a new feature release.

New features, enhancements:

  * Events can be grouped in containers

Bug fixes:

  * Timeline files with non-English names can be opened
  * Creating new locked events does not raise exception

Timeline 0.15.0, released on 30 October 2011
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This is a new feature release.

New features, enhancements:

  * Custom font color for categories
  * Measure distance between events
  * Only break text in balloon if needed to keep balloon on screen

Bug fixes:

  * SVG export can now handle text with non-english characters
  * Long category names are now visible in category editor
  * Timeline repaints after editing category color
  * No year of out range exception in event dialog

Timeline 0.14.0, released on 30 July 2011
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This is a new feature release.

New features, enhancements:

  * Move all selected events
  * Mark event period as fuzzy and edges will change to triangles
  * Mark event period as locked and edges will be curved and the event can not
    be moved or resized
  * Mark event as ending today and its period will be updated to end today
  * Experimental support for inertial scrolling (can be enabled in preferences)
  * Shows status text when zooming

Bug fixes:

  * Not possible to select too large period when zooming with shift+drag
  * Prevent exception (in cases when year was out of range) when scrolling with
    page up/down
  * Show user friendly message when creating event with too long period
  * Display error message in status bar if period is too long when resizing
    event
  * No time exception when exporting to SVG
  * No exception when using extended date range and exporting to SVG

Timeline 0.13.0, released on 30 April 2011
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This is a new feature release.

New features, enhancements:

  * Events can be moved up and down with Alt+Up/Down
  * Hidden event count is shown in status bar
  * Event text changes color to white if background is dark
  * Timeline can be scrolled with Alt+Left/Right
  * Edit category button added in categories editor
  * Export to SVG

Bug fixes:

  * No exception if "Fit all events" results in a period too large to display
  * No error if pressing left or right in empty categories tree control

Timeline 0.12.1, released on 30 January 2011
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This is a translation update and bugfix release.

Bug fixes:

  * Menu items are correctly disabled if no timeline is open
  * Clicking calendar button when an invalid date is entered gives error
    message instead of exception
  * LANG environment variable is only set on Windows to prevent locale error at
    startup on Linux systems
  * Fit all events ignores hidden events

Timeline 0.12.0, released on 9 January 2011
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This is a new feature release.

New features, enhancements:

  * Experimental support for extended date range (before 1 AD)

Bug fixes:

  * Centuries before 10th are displayed correctly (9 instead of 90)
  * Correct translations are used on Windows

New translations:

  * Lithuanian
  * Vietnamese

Timeline 0.11.1, released on 24 October 2010
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This is a translation update and bugfix release.

Bug fixes:

  * Create event through menu does not raise exception
  * Time removed when saving event and 'Show time' not checked

Timeline 0.11.0, released on 12 October 2010
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This is a new feature release.

New features, enhancements:

  * New improved date and time entry control
  * New navigation function: fit millennium

Bug fixes:

  * Remove import of wx.lib.wordwrap that caused a crash on Ubuntu

New translations:

  * Italian
  * Turkish

Timeline 0.10.2, released on 11 June 2010
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This is a translation update and bugfix release.

Bug fixes:

  * "Add more events after this one" does not give error message when ticked
    in the create event dialog
  * Do not write empty displayed_period tag to xml file
  * Prevent application from crashing with wxPython version 2.8.11.0

Timeline 0.10.1, released on 25 May 2010
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This is a translation update release.

New translations:

  * Polish
  * French

Timeline 0.10.0, released on 9 May 2010
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This is a new feature release.

New features, enhancements:

  * Switch to XML-based file format for storing timeline data
  * Support hierarchical categories
  * Function to duplicate events according to a pattern
  * More user friendly error when application crashes
  * Save window position
  * More shortcuts for navigation commands
  * Selected event gets highlighted line

Bug fixes:

  * Application shows error message in category editor instead of crashing

Timeline 0.9.0, released on 7 February 2010
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This is a new minor feature and bugfix release.

New features, enhancements:

  * Timeline scrolls when creating period events, resizing events, and moving
    events
  * Option to start weeks on Sundays
  * Balloon shown shorter time after mouse out
  * New navigation functions: year, month, week forward/backward
  * Middle mouse click centers timeline on that spot
  * Shift+Scroll moves horizontal line up/down

Bug fixes:

  * Fixed issues with 'Go to Date' dialog
  * Balloon now visible even if event stretches outside screen
  * All keys now work in the search bar
  * Prevent crash if long period events are used
  * Small corrections to documentation

Timeline 0.8.0, released on 1 January 2010
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This is a new minor feature release.

New features, enhancements:

  * Basic search function
  * Weekend day numbers are drawn in bold in month view
  * Experimental read-only support for ics files
  * Timeline that shows last modified dates of files in a directory
  * Allow balloons to stick
  * Write files in a safer way without permanent backups
  * New navigation functions: find first, find last, fit century, fit decade,
    fit all
  * New icons in help browser (Windows)
  * Man page (GNU/Linux)

Bug fixes:

  * Fit month and fit day now work for December and last day of month
  * The same help page can now be opened again after the help browser is closed
  * Recently opened list can't contain the same file twice now

New translations:

  * Hebrew (Yaron Shahrabani)
  * Catalan (BennyBeat)

Timeline 0.7.0, released on 1 December 2009
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This is a new minor feature release.

New features, enhancements:

  * Visual move and resize of events
  * Snap when creating, moving, and resizing events
  * Show balloons with event information on hover
  * Associate icons with events (shown in balloons)
  * Improved drawing of events: new selection and data indicator
  * Added context menu for events

New translations:

  * Russian (Sergey Sedov)

Timeline 0.6.0, released on 1 November 2009
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This is a new minor feature release.

New features, enhancements:

  * Added shortcuts for editing categories from the event editor dialog
  * Mapped backspace key to previous page in help browser
  * Added option to open most recent timeline at startup (default yes)
  * Show exact time of an event in status bar
  * The y position of the divider between period events and single point
    events can now be adjusted

Bug fixes:

  * Period events with description now has correct width
  * The legend is now always drawn on top of events

Timeline 0.5.0, released on 1 October 2009
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This is a new feature release.

New features, enhancements:

  * Added 'Open Recent' menu
  * Replaced manual with a wiki-like help system
  * Visualize description of selected events in balloons
  * Improved error messages when reading or writing timeline data fails
  * Added functionality for printing timeline
  * Added new navigation functions: Backward/Forward
  * Added welcome panel that shows if no timeline is open

New translations:

  * Dutch (Koert Loret)

Bug fixes:

  * Fixed problem on Windows where you could not enter dates before 1752-09-14

Timeline 0.4.0, released on 1 September 2009
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This is a new feature release.

The first step in supporting additional data for events has been implemented.
The file format had to be changed for this. Files written by version 0.4.0 will
not be readable by previous versions, but 0.4.0 can read 0.3.0 files and will
convert them automatically.

New features, enhancements:

  * Translation support
  * Export to Image
  * Legend for categories
  * Longer descriptions for events (visualization will be implemented in 0.5.0)

New translations:

  * Swedish (Roger Lindberg)
  * Spanish (Roman Gelbort)
  * German (Nils Steinger)
  * Brazilian Portuguese (Leonardo Frigo da Purificação)

Timeline 0.3.0, released on 1 August 2009
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In this release the documentation has been improved and a few bugs have been
fixed.

The file format has also been updated to decrease the risk of loosing data.
Users are therefore strongly encouraged to upgrade to this version. The file
format is readable by the 0.2.0 version but it can not take advantage of the
new format.

New features, enhancements:

  * Changed to allow events without categories.
  * Improved what's displayed in the title bar (open file name first).
  * Added application icon.
  * Added Help menu.
  * Converted user manual to DocBook format.
  * Integrated user manual with application (first step).
  * Started experimenting with unit tests.
  * Added copyright notes to all source files.
  * Added AUTHORS, CHANGES, COPYING, and INSTALL.

Bug fixes:

  * Fixed bug where application raised exceptions when scrolling to the very
    end or the very beginning of time (year 10 or year 9999).
  * If multiple timelines were opened, the displayed period would just be saved
    for the last opened one. That is fixed now so it is saved for all.

Timeline 0.2.0, released on 5 July 2009
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This version contains lots of improvements.

File format written by this version is not readable by previous versions.

New features, enhancements:

  * Added support for showing and hiding events from certain categories.
  * Added a week view in one zoom level of the timeline.
  * Added navigation functions such as 'Go to Date' and 'Go to Today'.
  * Improved controls for entering a date and time.

Timeline 0.1.0, released on 11 April 2009
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First usable version.