FOREWORD:
Finalizing a stable and efficient program is impossible without its users help. Without that, each new version fixes some bugs while bringing new ones in an endless process... Please report all encountered bugs and give suggestions!
- New language for the interface: Swedish. Thank you Spillemanden!
- Various optimisations and minor bugs fixings.
- New language for the interface: Danish. Thank you PerSonne!
- Updating the embedded external tools with the last available stable releases.
- Various optimisations and minor bugs fixings.
- New language for the interface: Dutch. Thank you Baç!
- Various optimisations and minor bugs fixings.
- Fixing a major bug of the version 1.3.4. which prevented to transpose or export in MIDI from a user-account with a non-ascii name.
- The contents of the Temporary list are now saved if the option of re-opening the files is active.
- Various optimisations and minor bugs fixings.
- Adding the multi-user capacity: each user keeps his own configuration, his default folders, his own trashcan, etc. in the case of using ABCexplorer on a shared computer.
CAUTION: if you defined, in a previous version, templates, drones, searching masks, etc. These will not be accessible with the new version. They are however not lost. If you want to recover them but fail to do, contact the author.
- Various optimisations and bug fixings.
- Various improving (among that, improving compatibility with various ABC>Postscript converters) and fixing bugs, minor and major (protection of PS blocks, exporting the Temporary list).
- In comparison with the version 1.3.1, this version has no new feature but various improving and bug fixing.
(the version 1.3.0 was downloadable only a few hours because a bug that is fixed in 1.3.1.)
- Taking into account external files (%%abc-include field) in file headers (partial taking into account in tune headers). Previous versions displayed the contents without taking them into account.
- Functionality of Html export. Creation of a full Web structure with an index file, from an ABC file, the Temporary list or a single tune.
- Tune editing: command 'Accept' is more flexible by adding a dropdown menu to the button (accept > accept and save > accept and save without quitting)
- Filtering is now possible without case-sensitivity (case-sensitive filtering remains the default filtering because of the case-sensitivity of ABC).
- Adding a new tab in 'File Tools'; tab 'Analyse' to find in large files the incompatibilities of some tunes with the score display engine.
- Interface: adding multiple buttons for context help (doubles of F1 using).
- Bold and Italic settings for all the fonts in the page setup module of the export functions.
- Taking into account the global tempo (file header) for MIDI export of ABC tunes (but not for that of full ABC files).
- Tool for manual measure of tempo.
- Fixing a bug leading to crash of the program while calling memorised drone data.
- Fixing a bug generating and invalid syntax at opening a file containing a beginning repeat followed immediately by a standard field.
- Optimisation of the loading of files including certain invalid ABC patterns.
- Asking for confirmation when the user quits a tune during editing by 'Cancel'.
- Various minor bugs fixed.
- The part of the help file dealing with the program is now translated in English (thanks to Chrisp!).
- Adding a feature of extraction of fields contents with pointing to source-tunes.
- Improving compatibility with manual format files of Abcm2ps for the Export features.
- Adding a feature for comment/uncomment a block of text in the editor.
- Fixing a bug preventing to edit tunes in files of more than 30.000 lignes.
- Adding a feature of automatic recovering the tune in editing after a crash of Windows or the program.
- Improving maximised displaying in edit mode.
- The edit keyboard can be hidden to save space.
- The ambiguous name of the "Favourites list" has changed: "Temporary list".
- Various minor bugs fixed.
- New interface language: Norwegian (thanks to Bjørn!).
- Adding a panel for personal notes.
- Improving interface ergonomy for using with the keyboard.
- Bug fixed (added in the previous version) preventing to open the chord generator.
- Various minor bugs fixed.
- New interface language: Italian (thanks to Giannino Barba!) .
- Adding a mixer panel for the MIDI channels and ABC voices.
- Improving stability for creating new ABC files under Windows Vista.
- Debugging and improving context help (context help in French only).
- Various minor bugs fixed.
- Chord finder improved, all valid keys in all western modes are now handled
- Bug fixed that prevented graphic resolution change in export/print function
- Bug in checking new version fixed and adding manual checking
- Various minor bugs fixed.
- Improving chord finder
- Bug for editing header fixed
- Bug in chord finder for mixolidian keys fixed
- Slight interface improvements
(1.0.1 versus 1.0.0 is just fixing a bug preventing editing file header)
This version is not called "Beta". That doesn't mean this version is really very more stable and finalized than the previous one. That means only that ABCexplorer now includes most of the main features that user can hope to find in a tool for ABC.
- Adding an automatic accompaniment chord finder (with the help of Bushranger).
- New interface language: German (thanks to Wald Gyst!) .
- Adding an independent tool for helping transtation of the lang file.
- Direct playing external MIDI file.
- Import and convert MIDI files in ABC (function using Midi2abc).
- Enabled access to the player commands while the score is maximized.
- Big bug preventing in some cases MIDI file export fixed.
- Support without dammage of the Postcript blocks of Abcm2ps.
- Faster creating a new tune in a very big file.
- A few interface improvements.
- Various minor bugs fixed.
- Adding a tune toolbox similar to the file toolbox (will be updated with an automatic chord generator in a next version).
- New funtions for cleaning file or tune.
- Direct access to the tablatures of Abcm2ps (for displaying on the fly and for the export functions).
- Various minor bugs fixed.
- Sending files, tunes or batches of tunes by e-mail directly from the interface of ABCexplorer.
- Possibility of saving the ABC files in formats Unix/Linux and Macintosh.
- Bad initialization of the pitch fixed.
- Various minor bugs fixed.
- This revision only concerns the correction of a big bug : it was impossible to type "A" by Shift+a without selecting the whole text... (as Ctrl+A does).
- Interface slightly improved (new buttons, icones in menus, etc.).
- Homogenization of behaviour between tunes with and without tempo field (Q:).
- Homogenization of behaviour between ternary tunes with and without explicit beat unit.
- Capacity of setting the tempo by default (for tunes and files without given tempo).
- High resolution direct printing of the score of one tune, one file or the Favourites list.
- Direct printing of the adjustable text list.
- Adjustable delay before starting tune playing to allow taking one's instrument and synchronous starting.
- Possibility of direct deleting a tune without throwing it in the trashcan.
- Adding a context menu for file.
- Modification of the highlighting of searching in ABC code.
- Various minor bugs fixed.
(several preliminary rather incomplete and instable Beta versions)