Flying Logic: Version History

2.0.4 — January 18, 2012

New Feature

• There are additional Windows menu navigation keyboard shortcuts.

Bugs Fixed

• On Mac, hidden modal dialogs no longer block the Preferences and About menu items from functioning.
• Fixed an exception in entity class drag-and-drop.
• When a group is hoisted, dragging an element out of a nested group into the canvas background now properly puts the element in the hoisted group.
• The cursor is placed at the end of a newly added hyperlink with the cursor's formatting set to no hyperlink.
• Milestones (entities with an effort of 0 days) now have visible completion spinners.
• Completion is now properly exported to MS Project XML files.
• Example domains can now be either imported into the current document or opened as a new document
• The default English (en) version of a resource is now being properly used in non-English locales when no localized version exists.

Feature Removed

• Export to MS Project MPX files has been removed. Such files were not compatible with later versions of MS Project.

2.0.3 — December 14, 2011

Bugs Fixed

• A bug introduced in 2.0.2 involving Select All and other similar actions has been fixed.
• Order of View menu items now match the order of icons in toolbar.
• Dropped 8 and added 48 to title font size submenu.
• Format menu now has "o" as a menu navigation shortcut (Windows/Linux).

2.0.2 — December 1, 2011

New Features

• Hyperlinks in annotations can now link to local dcouments via an absolute path (using a file: URL) or a relative path to the current document (no file: needed).

Bugs Fixed

• Processing of keyboard shortcuts improved; e.g., pressing Ctrl/Cmd-E no longer adds an entity and opens the Quick Capture dialog.
• Pasting into a collapsed group could cause an exception. Pasting into collapsed groups has been disallowed.
• Pasting into a hoisted group now works consistently.
• Fixed a problem that sometimes occurred when adding new entities to a hoisted group.
• Confidence and completion spinners can now be changed via keyboard shortcuts as documented.
• Custom SVG symbols are saved in Flying Logic documents slightly differently in 2.0.2. This chnage was needed for future compatiblilty.
• Find and Quick Capture dialogs are automatically hidden when the last document closed on Mac.
• In-app registration on Mac should now work when making payments through PayPal.
• The license agreement dialog no longer pops-up each time the program is run with a new installation on Lion.
• Selecting the About Flying Logic or Preferences menu items on the Mac could cause an exception if a modal dialog was open. Now those menu items are non-functional when a modal dialog is open.

2.0.1 — October 25, 2011

New Features

• Improved design for Open Examples dialog
• Added document title to all example documents.
• Window and Linux Installers only deletes the old (1.2) example documents if the user selects that option.

Bugs Fixed

• Context menus have been reorganized so there are no long lists of entity classes.
• Default custom domains are not added to existing documents when opened.
• In-app registration dialog on WIndows now responds to tabbing correctly.
• Problem with in-app registration on Windows 7 resolved.
• Fixed bugs involving drag arrows in canvas.
• Copying text from a just opened inline editor works correctly.
• New .xlogic extension now properly replaces old .logic extension when an 1.2 document is opened and saved.
• Fixed problem with editing annotations containing &, < or > characters.

2.0 — September 18, 2011

New Features

• Sidebar is now a collection of inspectors that can be individually shown or hidden as desired.
• Title and annotation editing moved to Text inspector.
• Create new entities from titles via Quick Capture option in Text inspector.
• Annotations can include styled text and hyperlinks.
• Document inspector allows adding of info like title, author, headers, footers, etc.
• Navigation inspector supports visual scrolling of graph.
• Element inspector can edit all selected graph elements of same type at once.
• Canvas can be zoomed smaller and larger.
• Show unique Entity IDs for each entity element in graph.
• Change entity title width and font size.
• Auto-edit titles of newly created entities.
• Import custom symbols from bitmapped images (GIF, PNG, JPG, etc.) and SVG drawings.
• Helpful highlighting when moving edges.
• Menu option to reverse edges.
• Menu option to swap elements.
• Menu option to swap forward and back edges.
• Select head or tail entity.
• Group background color can be changed.
• A group can be hoisted to become entire contents of canvas.
• Incremental layout option minimizes re-layout of graph when new elements are added.
• Domains can be hidden so they don't appear in the class tree in the Domain inspector.
• Current domains can be set as the default for newly created documents.
• Export diagram to Graphviz (DOT format).
• Create new document from selection.
• Project management features (experimental).

Bugs Eixed

• Document extension changed to xlogic to resolve problems related to a popular Mac program.
• Margin and page calculations in Print Preview dialog improved.
• Other stability fixes.

1.2.3 — August 10, 2010

• Fixed exception when scrolling graph by dragging mouse.
• Ctrl-Y (Windows) / Cmd-Y (Mac) is an additional shortcut for Redo.
• Ignores some exceptions reported by Java involving text selection that aren't really bugs.
• Bundle full JRE with Linux build.

1.2.2 — February 25, 2010

• Opening the Preferences dialog no longer causes an exception if no document windows are open on Mac.
• Workaround for a Mac-only Java bug related to text rendering.
• Improved exception reporting dialog.
• Ability to specify a proxy server in General Preferences. Allows version checking and other web features to work from behind a firewall.
• Windows version now bundled with an international release of Java.
• No longer causes an exception under Windows when ill-formed start-up parameters are received.
• Stability enhancements.

1.2.1 — October 31, 2009

• When no documents were open in the Mac version, the About, Preferences and Open Document menu items sometimes caused exceptions or did not function. Fixed.
• Custom domains with the same name as a built-in domain could corrupt a document on save. Fixed.
• The Create Domain menu item was sometimes enabled when a document first opened, even if the selected domain in the list was a built-in domain. Fixed.

1.2 — October 29, 2009

• Improved printing support.
• Better memory management— much larger diagrams can now be created without running out of memory.
  
• The arrow keys can be used to navigate the selection.
  
• Exported notes now include entity class and title of entities and title of groups.
  
• Import a set of custom domains directly from another Flying Logic document
  
• "Redact" command to quickly remove sensitive information from a selected part of your diagram.
  
• Many other fixes and stability improvements.

1.1.1 — January 16, 2008

Bugs Fixed

• Fixed bug that preventing Opening a template or domain file.
• Saving a document under another name now resets the export path.
• Better alignment of symbol icons in sidebar class list.
• Windows: Glitch in Default Bias label in Preferences dialog fixed.

1.1 — January 3, 2008

New Features

• Symbol tagging: Individual entities and custom classes can now be assigned a graphical symbol. The entity-assigned symbol overrides the class-assigned symbol (if any).
• All Editions can now access a set of general-purpose symbols.
• The Pro Edition has access to a set of symbols useful for flowcharts, influence diagrams, causal loop diagrams, etc.
• Support for exporting to OPML (outline processor format.)
• The menus have been reorganized. In particular, the Entity menu has been split into three menus: Entity, Group, and Domain.
• Edge annotations can now be displayed and edited inline.
• Edge weights and edge annotations can now be displayed or hidden individually using commands in the edge contextual menu. The individual settings are overridden by the Show Edge Annotations and Show Edge Weights switches in the toolbar.
• The layout of the diagram can now be "biased" towards the start of the flow or the end of the flow. This affects how the elements of the diagram are ranked for layout, and thus which end of the diagram they will "stack up" on.
• Multiple selected entities can now be collapsed and uncollapsed together using new commands in the Group menu.
• Back edges now have edge weights. This is useful for Causal Loop Diagrams and other diagrams where every edge can use weights. Weights on back edges are still ignored for confidence value calculation purposes.
• A memory meter is now shown to the right of the entity title field, and shows the amounts of memory in use (dark blue) and currently allocated to the app (medium blue) relative to the maximum the app will ever ask for (light blue)
• The application will now start with a heap of 16MB and grow up to a heap of 192MB. This should help when working with larger diagrams.
• There are now keyboard hortcuts to move the focus between the Sidebar and Canvas.
• The title/annotation area at the bottom of the window can now be hidden.
• Diagrams zoomed down to a smaller size are now drawn more clearly.
• The modifier key to use to cause recursive expand/collapse when clicking on a group disclosure triangle has changed to Option (Mac)/Alt (Win). In previous versions it was Command (Mac)/Ctrl (Win).
• The hotkey to set the selection confidence to 0.5 has been changed from "N" (which stood for "Indeterminate") to "U" (which stands for "Unknown").
• Text in stack trace dialog can now be saved for debugging purposes.
• New examples for flowcharts, causal loop diagrams, and influence diagrams have been added to the Examples folder.

Bugs Fixed

• In rare cases, back edges reversed direction. Fixed.
• The filled-in part of spinners had a white "tinge" along the edge. Fixed.
• When typing text into title or annotation fields, whitespace (spaces, tabs, etc.) are now automatically removed for the start and end of the entered text.
• When attempting to export a diagram that to JPEG or PNG that is too large to fit in application memory, an exception dialog appeared. A more informative error message is now displayed.
• Under Windows, the Open File dialog did not properly show the file modified date. Fixed.

Known Issues

• There is an issue under Windows when running on multiple monitors. When the document window is moved to the larger of the two monitors then scrolling the document may appear incorrect. We are continuing to investigate.
• The Flying Logic User's Guide has not yet been updated for version 1.1.

1.0.4 — November 1, 2007

Bugs Fixed

• Live search and Find dialog now properly share settings.
• Orientation popup shows correct direction when document loaded.
• Units settings in Image Export dialog are now saved between sessions.
• Image export dialog disables resolution field when units of width and height are not inches or cm.
• Operators can now be AND or OR in Student edition.

1.0.3 — October 31, 2007

New Features

• Basic printing is now supported.
• Previously, pressing the Tab key with more than one element selected would do nothing. Now, pressing the Tab key with more than one element selected will reduce the selection to a single entity (if the selection only has one entity to begin with.) So now, after adding an entity to the diagram, just press Tab twice to begin editing the entity's title.
• Added hotkeys to change confidence and edge weight values for selected entities and/or edges. For selected driver entities, pressing "T" sets the confidence value to True, pressing "F" sets it to False, and pressing "N" sets it to "Indeterminate". For selected edges, pressing "+" sets the edge weight to 1.0, and pressing "-" sets it to -1.0. For selected driver entities and edges, pressing a number key "0"..."9" sets the confidence value (or edge weight) to 0.0 through 0.9 in 0.1 increments. For edge weights only, holding down the Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows) key while pressing a number key "1"..."9" will set the edge weight to a negative value from -0.1...-0.9.
• The "Copy/Cut Includes Successors/Predecessors" commands have been replaced in favor of two new commands: "Select Successors" and "Select Predecessors".
• Exporting to JPEG and PNG now has options for setting the dimensions of the exported image.
• Finding text in the document is now supported both via a live search field in the toolbar and via a Find dialog box.
• "Add Entity as Successor" shortcut key changed to Cmd-Shift-E (Mac) or Ctrl-Shift-E (Windows), and the shortcut now appears in menu.
• New shortcuts for Show Confidence: Cmd-Shift-C (Mac) or Ctrl-Shift-C (Windows), Show Edge Weights: Cmd-Shift-W (Mac) or Ctrl-Shift-W (Windows), and Show Note Numbers: Cmd-Shift-N (Mac) or Ctrl-Shift-N (Windows).
• New shortcuts for New Domain: Cmd-Opt-O (Mac) or Ctrl-Alt-O (Windows) and New Class: Cmd-Opt-C (Mac) or Ctrl-Alt-C (Windows).
• The orientation popup menu now has arrow icons that provide a visual indicator of the orientation.

Bugs Fixed

• No longer throws exception when running under Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard".
• State of "Add Entity as Successor" switch is now saved with the document.
• Moved "Evidence-Based Analysis Domain" last in list of built-in domains.
• Graph component's Add Entity context-menu correctly displays custom domains and entity classes.

1.0.2

New Features

• Documentation: Welcome to Flying Logic and Thinking with Flying Logic now complete and included in distribution.

Bugs Fixed

• Watermarks made less obtrusive for registered Student Edition versions.

1.0.1

Bugs Fixed

• Turning off animations no longer causes an exception.

1.0

• Initial release