GOWrite2 2.3.9

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New beta-version 2.3.9 is now ready. List of changes is long, but still internal changes are even bigger. This helps in future development work.

New features and improvements
- Thumbnail viewers for Windows and Mac OS X available. See platform integration later in post for details.
- OpenDocument export for diagrams and comments. This makes easy to create small high quality PDF files using OpenOffice.
- GOWrite can now read UGF (.UGI) files.
- Settings menu contains "Layout and Graphics options" where large number of graphics adjustments are available. Most notably is B&W board margin setting, which allows adjustment of "invisible" region around board in B&W boards.
- Print preview is available.

- New icons (and icon resolutions) for application and SGF files. Scalable SVG icons for linux.
- Better main screen layout for small screens, such as Acer Aspire One.
- Normal printing layout is improved and probably now better that 2 column layout.
- Faster search in multi-processor machines: up to 4 processor should give considerable speedup and up to 8 are used.
- Improvements in international (CJK and complex layouts) use.
- Automatic CJK character set recognition has been improved.
- File Open -dialog allows selection of character set. Setting applies when file does not specify character set.
- Font selection improvements, exporting should work more predictably.
- Improvements in game information presentation and entry.
- Most dialogs and wizards now remember last used settings.
- Work-around for sun JRE bug making circles non-round has been implemented.

- Huge number of minor improvements and fixes.

Installation and platform integration
- Linux installer and integration improved. Aspire one desktop icon creation using script (available in installation directory).
- Mac OS X integration is new, and requires OS X 10.4. Thumbnail viewer is also included, this requires OS X version 10.5.
- Windows 2000, XP and vista work. Windows ME, 98 and 95 do not work. Windows installer simplified (from users point of view...). SGF thumbnail viewer is installed as shell extension.
- Note to XP users: If you are comfortable with regedit, you can adjust explorer thumbnail sizes in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer. Make a new DWORD value named ThumbnailSize and set the value to decimal in range from 32 to 256.

Major changes

Keyboard
Keyboard navigation in game has changed! keys are now
* left / right - move in in game; do no change active variation.
* Down / up - Move in game and select active variation.
* Enter / space + - read all of file thru (- key goes backwards).
Active variation is shown in normal colors in gametree. Inactive variations are grayed out.

Gowrite settings
- Preview ignores settings from gowrite 2.2 versions. Thus game search database must be configured again. Configuring may be necessary also if upgrading from older preview.
- Settings are partly stored in (multiple) XML formatted files.

Requirements:
- Java 1.5 or later.
- Java 1.6 recommended.


regards
Lauri

[lpaatero]

GOWrite 2.3.10 is minor update to 2.3.9, version adds few forgotten things, and fixes minor bugs:

• - Printing header and footer got content.
  - Minor bugs in Printing layout fixed
  - Layout and Graphics editing did not work in some cases (reset-button was broken)
  - GOWrite translation tool is improved; new translation can now be sent just bu pushing a button.

regards
Lauri