What's New
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1.15.07
- You can now save your roster as an image - great for sharing on Twitter and other social networks.
- Toolbar in Roster Editor will now scroll when the window is too small.
- Fixed intermittent crash/freeze that would leave parts of the UI blank or unresponsive.
- Fixed issue where some modified profiles would not appear in the output.
- Fixed occasional crash when adding or removing items.
- Forces and Categories can now have negative minimum points values in Game System Editor.
1.15.06
- Pro: See a breakdown of unit/model/upgrade counts, points spent and percentages when viewing your roster.
- Free: Moved ad to just below the selection tree panel to save wasted space.
- BattleScribe can auto-update itself when new versions become available (Windows and Linux only).
- Fixed crash when creating/loading rosters using old/broken data files.
- Fixed show/hide modifiers on profiles/profile links giving errors in Catalogue Editor.
- Fixed new links not generating a unique ID in Catalogue Editor.
- Fixed bug pasting IDs into modifier child textbox in Catalogue Editor.
- More tweaks and bug fixes.
1.15.05
- Output now shows custom roster descriptions.
- Adjusted preview popup delay and positioning.
- Added option to turn preview popups on/off.
- Improved memory management.
- Fixed bug where hidden items would sometimes not stay hidden.
1.15.04
- Preview popups are back! Better than ever, they're prettier and can be scrolled (rather than taking up the entire screen).
- Rule summary can now be shown when viewing single selections.
- HTML output now correctly shows newlines in rule descriptions.
- Fixed double clicks not adding selections on OSX.
- Fixed crash when adding forces to a roster in some cases.
- Fixed crash when creating a roster with a data file that has broken profiles.
1.15.03
(Skipped)
1.15.01 & 1.15.02
- Fixed crash when adding certain selections to your roster.
- Fixed "Direct Parent" conditions not working in some cases.
- Fixed output showing needless decimal points for characteristic values.
1.15.00
Important: Older versions of BattleScribe will not be able to open
roster files created or edited with version 1.15.00 and above. It is highly recommended that you
update BattleScribe on all your computers and devices.
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Roster printout overhauled! The output looks much nicer when viewing your roster
and there are several new customisation options. In particular, take a look at the minimal output option
combined with plain text or BBCode format - it works great for forum posts!
- Redesigned View Roster dialog.
- Improved output when printing your roster.
- Removed preview tooltips/popups. Instead, right click items and you can choose to view them from the menu.
- Performance improvements.
- Roster and data files from before version 1.13.00 are no longer supported.
- This "What's New" dialog ;)
1.14.07
- Fixed modifiers that increment the maxInRoster value (mistype... oops).
- Fixed crash/hang where a catalogue contained root rules with modifiers.
- Fixed crash/hang in Catalogue Editor when a link had "no target".
- Fixed situation where points/error messages wouldn't be correctly updated.
1.14.06
- Added "report a bug" button to the toolbar.
- Improved error reporting when opening or creating a roster. It now shows you details of any selections removed from your roster and any problems with the data files you're using.
- Fixed tooltip/popup text in the edit (right) panel in Roster Editor.
- Repeating modifiers can now be based on roster points limit or total number of selections.
- Fixed sorting of links in Catalogue Editor.
- Fixed bug where root items with "hidden" modifiers would (nearly) always give errors.
- Fixed bug where roster points wouldn't be updated if items were removed from your roster due to a data file change.
- Fixed bug where points/errors wouldn't get updated in some cases.
- More bug fixes...
1.14.04 & 1.14.05
- Error message text re-written so all errors are more consistently worded and give better information on the problem.
- Data file version numbers displayed when creating a roster.
- Saving your roster as HTML now respects the view settings from View Roster.
- Fixes to moving data when you change the location it's stored in.
- Moving your data will now check the destination folder can be written to (solves "parameter is not a directory" error message once you've gone through the process of moving your data again).
- Fixed error message when trying to open a catalogue for editing when you don't have the appropriate game system.
- Added min/max in force limits, distinct from min/max in roster.
- Fixes to error reporting for "global" entries (min/max in force/roster).
- Improved memory usage, which should help when editing large rosters (especially on mobile). There is still more work to do in this area however.
- More minor bug fixes.
1.14.03
- Catalogues and Game Systems can now have a "books" field, so you can enter the publication(s) the data file is built from/for.
- When importing data from a file via Manage Data, .bsi (index) files are now accepted.
- When moving data, the source folder is not deleted if you have moved the data to a child folder of the source.
- "Page" field in catalogues is now text (so can be blank, Roman numerals etc).
- Entries and Entry Groups can now have a negative "min points" value. This allows data authors to prevent incorrect validation errors when using Entries that cost negative points.
- Data file book and revision number now shown when creating a new roster.
- Fixed "Illegal Argument Exception" error when opening catalogue to edit it.
- Fixed incorrect validation errors for min/max in roster for shared items.
- Fixed problem saving rosters if the name has a "*" in it.
- Fixed desktop version "move data" function which wasn't working in some cases.
- Fixed incorrect points calculation for modified entries in some cases.
- Fixed validation of "hidden" catalogue items: The only validation error hidden items will cause is if you have selected the item in your roster.
- Fixed "file is not a directory" error on OSX and Linux.
1.14.01 & 1.14.02
- Performance improvements when adding or removing items from your list.
- Bug fixes.
1.14.00
- Greatly improved support for Firestorm Armada and other similarly structured game systems.
- Changed folder structure that data files are stored in to let BattleScribe work well with source control systems.
- New Roster / Add Force dialog changed to support nested forces.
- Fixed duplicate button allowing you to duplicate things it shouldn't.
- Improved layout of the selection edit panel, fixed slow scrolling.
- Improved layout of Profile panel in Catalogue Editor. Made characteristic cells multi-line.
- Fixed wrong tree node being selected after removing something from a tree.
- Fixed sorting of tree nodes.
- Fixed copy/pasting modifiers and conditions onto links.
- Fixes to weird focussing of controls when selecting an item in the tree.
- Other tweaks to improve the UI.
- Improved naming of saved rosters (it now handles roster names with "." in them).
- Improved handling of corrupted/broken data files and rosters.
- Pro: Fixes to the way favourites are handled.
- Fixed crash in Catalogue Editor where modifier characteristic doesn't exist.
- Fixed "()" being added to rule/profile names in output.
- Fixed modifiers/conditions not working properly for collective items.
- Fixed incorrect default selections from entry groups being added.
- Conditions and modifiers in a catalogue can now depend on the roster points limit.
- Many bug fixes to the way collective entries and entry groups are handled.
- Improvements to the way files are read, reducing memory usage.
- Various bug fixes to roster validation.