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Change log for Splash version 1

Note - upgrading to version 2 is free.  Anyone still using v1 should download the v2 installer.

1.21.0

Duplicate page option added on Page menu

Fix to the auto update which was incorrect in version 1.20

1.20.4

Bug fix: The hundred grid did not permit the user to type "100" into a cell.

Minor fixes to a few of the new resources.

1.20.3

A lot of new resources added for Infant and Junior users.  (They will appear automatically if a user's menu has not been customised - otherwise they can be added manually by using the edit slider, or the complete resources can be seen by creating a new user)

Fix for possible bug when using multiple document tabs and closing them in a particular sequence

Some technical changes to the licensing and auto-update

1.12.6

Bug fix: going into the user settings from the menu screen, without ever opening a document, and then changing the "Display page list" option was previously causing an error

1.12.5

Behaviour of Q tool changed when the "Colour filler (paint bucket) only changes the colour of individual existing shapes" is on.  Previously it did nothing when clicking on overlapping shapes; now it changes the colour of the clicked shape regardless of other shapes.

1.12.4

Angle snap is now used when moving an exiting text-at-any-angle (previously it ignored angle-snap)

Display of typed answers advanced palette improved on machines with Windows set to show text at 125%

Arc tool modified to allow drawing of a complete circle

Fix to Q tool when filling 2 circles which only overlap slightly - previously the fill was incorrect.

1.12.3

The size of arrowheads on curved lines with very small final segments has been increased (if line is with a very short curve at the end large arrowheads can be limited in size so that they fit the curve)

Option added to axis to choose whether number displayed on every tick or only some.

Some minor corrections to the display, especially of palettes, on machines where the resolution in Windows has been adjusted.

1.12.1

Fix for possible crash when pressing delete in empty text.

If a document failed to print due to an external problem, such as printer installation error, Splash was giving the unexpected error box; the message is now reported nicely.

Swedish translations updated.

1.11.4

Page up key will not return to the initial selection between users if the user is keyboard only (otherwise the user may be able to navigate to a screen from which they cannot escape by switching to a non-keyboard user)

Fix for bug when editing the order of entries on a user's menu page which has >10 entries and the user is a keyboard-only user.

On Danish and Norwegian machines Splash will default to Swedish rather than English

1.11.3

Added an option on the accessibility page to replace white backgrounds in all documents with a different colour for VI users

Bug fix for possible error when changing users after adding a new licence which expands the age range available

Navigation through tools panel on left using tab and shift-tab works after using a key shortcut to activate a tool

Added key shortcut: ctrl+0 (zero not oh) to type degree symbol

1.10.1

Bug fix: when renaming a user, Splash was always renaming the current user, rather than the one selected in the list (usually they would be the same, but not necessarily)

When importing a user from another machine, Splash better handles the situation if the file has been externally corrupted during transfer.

The arrow keys can be used to navigate around the fill pattern and line width/pattern palettes.

Improved the usage of the HundredGrid for keyboard only users (space/enter makes initial selection within grid, and grid starts with an initial selection if created from the keyboard)

When a new document is created from the File menu in the work screen, it uses the same page size as the current document

Tweaks to senior activities (Q tool added to geometric drawing; Maths displays text and number palettes; electrical shows quick transform palette and rotational buttons on toolbar at top; in electrical activity F9 is selected after placing each component)

Added arithmetic activity for Senior version.

Added Home and PageUp keys in menu screen as equivalents of the buttons at the top left.

1.09.1

When using the numbers tool it is now possible to use space (or equivalent) to add "1" as a prefix even when the cell contains a decomposed number.

Tools available in teacher mode changed again: the number of tools has been reduced again, but with a new menu added to allow quickly changing between activities, giving access to the other tools.

Swedish translations of the inclusive image library should now appear correctly.

1.08.5

Change to user editing panel in the menu screen on very small screens - the buttons on the left will be displayed in 2 columns if necessary.

Minor change when adding a second licence for a single age group - the sample user is created automatically (this already happened, but only when adding licences for multiple age ranges)

1.08.4

Minor bug fix: when editing user or activity config from a blank document, Splash asked to save changes when discarding the still blank document.

Button on toolbar to replicate shift-click with F9 tool for pointer only users hidden by default for Junior users.

Default zoom option in settings has new 150% option

The display of the origin position when moved has been changed, if there is also a grid (previously the grid largely obscured the origin marker)

Numbers tool added to geometric drawing activities

In most activities teacher mode now contains most tools - previously teacher mode was more filtered to be relevant to the activity;  now the tools available in teacher mode only vary slightly and most tools are always available in teacher mode.

1.08.0

Fixed use of space to select within drawing area when using separate cursors.  Was sometimes ignored previously.

Minor corrections to Swedish resources

Hundred square grid added to tools palette in Junior numbers activity.

Changed grid on new, blank worksheets to be plain paper with show grid ticked (rather than square paper with show off)

Minor changes to Senior resources (mainly addition of Move tool to tools palette)

Selecting 'New document' from the menu now creates a document of the same type as the previous one (previously it always generated the generic, complete Splash document)

1.07.1

Added "=" to the popup number pad for pointer users

When a new licence is added, if it adds more user age ranges, the matching default users are added to the start page.

Added config option to disable all grabspots except move.

1.06.1

Swedish text, manuals. Added Swedish coins to stamps

1.06.0

Updates to English resources lists on help.  Creating worksheets manual updated slightly.
A few more pictures added to the stamps.
Some more updates to Swedish text.
Q Fill corrected: it was sometimes failing to trace where an irregular polygon crossed over itself.  The irregular polygon also failed sometimes to detect when two of its lines, one of which was the final line closing the shape, crossed.
Bug fix: rotational grab handle could be drawn in the wrong place in some cases for irregular polygons.

1.05.5

Fixed a rare error if the machine was hibernated for several days while on the menu screen

List of images in stamp selection screen better maintains aspect ratio when drawing images

Updates to Swedish text and resources

1.05.4

Made names of symbols in Maths activity translatable

Bug fix: ctrl+enter would not always open the popup text editor

Added key equivalents for symbols in Maths activity

Modified tool palette buttons to cope with longer key equivalent text on small buttons

1.05.3

Alt + key was not working correctly in the menus, if the key also had a meaning in the tools palette. This is now fixed.

If the optional Shapes menu was switched on, it crashed when displaying the chemistry activity.

1.05.1

Senior resources and activities included

1.04.2

Locale can be overridden by the registry value HKCU\Software\Splash! : Locale. It must be a complete locale, e.g. “en-gb”

Added some senior activities

The Numbers tool change in 1.04.1 was deselecting the numbers tool too frequently; this has been adjusted.

1.04.1

Bug fix: When editing user menu screen, the automatically generated page notification wasn't always hidden when the editing panel was closed at the top. The collapse and hide buttons in the open position were also not always correctly erased on complex pages.

Prompt text for text-on-line tool for keyboard (only) users, when some text had been typed, describing how to finish typing was incorrect (said press Enter – should be Escape)

Pressing escape in the Numbers tool removed the currently selected number. Changed to deselect it but leave it, making this more consistent with other typing tools (but less consistent with drawn shapes)

Bug fix: on Axis tool, selecting range -1 to +1 with interval 0.1 produced a couple of labels such as “0.1499E-09” (ie 0.000000000149) due to rounding errors. Default is now 5 dp rather than Windows default.

Bug fix: sometimes the configured default zoom in a worksheet was not correctly applied.

Splash will now accept some old (Swedish?) AccessMaths 4.2 files which have a different file header (“MA TTEPRO”)

1.04.0

Revised text popup editor: previously pressing return closed this. Now pressing return while typing into the text area types a new line. Return only closes if the focus is on the buttons.

If Splash starts in a document, not the menu, when returning to the menu it is in the user screen, rather than the selection between user(s) and teacher.

1.03.2

Bug fix: new documents created with ctrl-N or menu displayed the page including margin. When the document was saved and re-opened, some content could disappear off the top.

Bug fix: rare error when changing typing method of document fixed – software could hang after returning to user mode if typed answers was enabled in teacher mode, and then tab pressed.

Option to save Palette defaults also now saves the Point style and the selection of the NumberGrid auto move (previously these were not included)

1.03.1

When a new user is created the teacher can choose between Infant, Junior and Senior.

Stopped editing of number line settings in user mode.

Added icons for Quit, Texture fill and Set origin verbs so that they can be added to the toolbar.

Numbers tool no longer shows snap-to-shape purple prompts (it never has snapped-to-shape, but previously the prompts were still displayed)

A few Inclusive images were previously omitted if they did not have sub-categories defined (eg History category)

Added support for Infant/Junior combined licence.

1.02.2

Added features to numbers tool:

  • Press “[“ to add a second digit to left of first. Similar to pressing space to add “1” but any digit can be typed.

  • It is possible to enter negative numbers in a single cell.

Option in number line to make it start counting downwards when the worksheet is opened.

Fix: page up/page down buttons added to the toolbar at the top were not previously becoming enabled/disabled when changing between pages.