[an error occurred while processing this directive] This page describes the evolution of Stitch since v0.5. To download the latest version, please refer to our download page.

1.2 2002-04-07
The long awaited v1.2 is finally here. The reason for the long delay was that I had to rewrite a large part of the interanl communication structure. It is now much easier and more flexible which means that it is easier for me to change it. Unfortunately for those who have translated the program into other languages I also took the liberty of changin the names of all widgets in the program meaning that the old translation files won't work. Support for English, Spanish and Swedish is directly available in the program. If you have made another translation then you can send the cus.ini file to us for conversion.
Hopefully the new internal structure hasn't led to any problems besides the translation files. At least I havn't notised anything (now that is, for about a month almost nothing in the program worked).
Among the things taken care of in this version are these:

20+ new patterns in the library plus a few more among the examples. You can also have a look at the patterns some of the programs users has donated here
Support for Spanish (thanks Carmen and Kerrie)
Updated manual
There is now a second palette available which can get all the colors from a pattern. From this palette you can also do a number of other things:
- Search for a particular color
- Sort the colors according to similarity
You can now print Anchor, SEMCO, Madeira and J&P color numbers as well as DMC which was available earlier
A much faster print preview
The "coordinates" of the page is now printed
You can now print a single page of the pattern
You can now print the legend separately if you want
If you change the size of the grid while pasting the size of the pasted pattern now also change
You can now zoom even further out
If you drop an image file (for example a bmp or jpg) on Stitch the import image dialog now opens directly
The symbol mode apparently didn't work on some machines with the wrong fonts. Now they should work everywhere
You can now right click on a library pattern button to edit the pattern or generate a glyph (image) for the button.
If you paste an image when you already have a paste image on the screen, then the first one is no longer copied to the pattern. Don't know if this is a general feeling, but I found the old behavious very irritating. If you miss the old behaviour, let me now, it is easy to get it back
You can now copy a part of a pattern directly to a file without having to create an empty pattern first.
The delete button now works
Hopefully a pasted pattern no longer places itself in the top left corner so that you have to scroll back to the place where you want it. I'm not totally sure about this one, so please let me know if there still is trouble with it
The Edit library command has been removed
In some very rare cases the stitch in the bottom right corner of the pattern wasn't saved. This is now fixed
A button has been added to the Pattern properties dialg which allows you to send email to the pattern creator if an email address is specified and your computer has email facilities
A button has been added to the Pattern properties dialog whcih allows you to open the pattern creators homepage directly if this has been specified and your computer has internet facilities
Hopefully the black boxes that was printed instead of the pattern name on some printers has been removed. Please let me know if anybody still has this problem
There are now keybord shortcuts for rotate and flip
The limit of a hundred concurrent open patterns has been removed. You can now open as many patterns as you like on the same time (if your computer has enough memory)
The menu command for rescanning the library now works
The name of the printer job is now set correctly
You can now sort the color list in the pattern properties dialog on name and number of stitches

1.1 2001-10-30
The language engine has been changed. The new engine is not as good as the old one, but it is completely free (good if you make free software), and it also allows you to translate Stitch into any language you want. For more information about how you do this, look at the FAQ.

1.0 2001-10-17
Sorry, I have been too busy to do much work. Since the program seems stable enough to warrent it we have now officially launched version 1.0. The only real difference to you as a user is the much enlarged library. Unfortunately we had to change the structure, so your old library files will not work. We promise not to do this again.

0.9 2001-05-09
Well, its been a while since the last update, and it should be obvious from the list below that we have done a lot of work on the program. The program is now more or less "finished" and the only reason why we did not call this v1.0 was that we wanted to get some more tests done before this step and finish the manual. The program works flawlessly (ok, there are glitches but what do you expect for this price :) for us though, and it should be fully ok to use. The colors are defined too, and changes there should be kept to a minimum.
New Functionality

All the colors are now defined (thanks Linda)
You can also get the colors DMC numbers printed
The number of colors in the pattern is now shown in the Pattern Properties dialog
The library now points to patterns rather than patterns in a repository.
The edit library dialog is totally rewritten
It is now possible to cancel the loading of an erronous pattern file
Drag and drop from the file manager now works
You can now double click o a file in the file manager to open it in Stitch
There is now an option on the edit menu that allows you to shrink a pattern to its actual size
You can now select if the background should be printed
You can now select if the background should be exported
You can now show up to 64 colors in the color palette
Different types of images can now be imported
You can now set the mid point of a pattern
You can now export the legend
You can now select what color that should be the background color when you import an image
You can now change the size of the image that is to be imported (except for ico-files)
Information about the image used is now automatically assigned to a pattern that has been created by importing an image
When you chose to add something to the library you immediately get a question about what page it should be on
You are now warned if you are trying to overwrite an already existing file
The symbols for outline stitches are now shown in the legend. However, only for those colors where it has been specifically assigned
The eraser tool has been changed to a much smaller version
The color palette now fills the entire space to the left
All of the buttons on the edit library dialog now works

Bug Fixes

The pattern name is now set correctly
Mouse detection on the color palette has been improved
We finally got around the problem with the color names in various lists. They are now shown in the same language as the rest of the program.
A small bug that made it possible to open uneditable patterns has been fixed
The pattern window's caption is now set correctly
The information was sometimes printed to high, it should be better now
The legend is now only printed when it is needed, that is when the print mode is symbols and when it is selected
Fixed some errors in the language support
Fixed a bug in the paste function
If you tried to print something on a page that was to narrow to fit the legend the program looped. It should be fixed now
If you change for example the name of a pattern, but changes it back before you close the pattern properties dialog it is not counted as a change
The preview now looks much more like what is actually printed
The redrawing of the print preview now only occures when the values are in the correct range
The whole legend is now printed, even if it takes up several pages
An intermittent error that prevented changes in the palette has hopefully been fixed
Old names are now removed from the save dialog
You now get a warning when there are no more dynamic symbols available
Rotate of the whole pattern now causes a redraw

Cosmetic Changes

Pattern Properties is now a true dialog
32 colors is now default
Outline stitches are now drawn slightly longer so that they look better
There is now some margin on the printouts
The file path is now removed from the pattern window's caption for patterns that does not have a name
If you have a pattern that does not have a name assigned its file name is used when asking if the pattern is to be saved
The order between the options in the exchange/remove dialog has been changed
A small note that tells that the pattern is made with stitch is now attached to all printouts and exported patterns
The tab order is now correct in the pattern properties dialog
The print dialog now closes after it has finished printing
The "White" background has been changed to "White, Snow" since it looks better
Some clarifications in the Licence Agreement
The ad space has been removed
The library panel now is visible even when there are no patterns in the library

0.8 2001-03-05
Few but important changes in this version.

A bug that prevented the symbols to be used on Windows 9x has been fixed (hopefully)
Paste is now considered a change, so that you do not need to worry about closing the program
Changed the size of the cells in the Color-Symbol mapping form so that you do not have to scroll horizontally

0.7 2001-02-23
Well, the work continues, and it looks more and more finished.
New Functionality

You now see the coordinates of the grid that you move the mouse over

You can now export the pattern as an image, both to file, and to the clipboard

Full screen mode (a bit buggy yet though)

The patterns now show some sort of identification when they are created making navigation between several patterns more easy

Basic help files are now part of the program. There isn't too much in them yet, but at least there is something

You can now import text files

Information about the pattern such as the number of stitches of a particular color is now part of the pattern properties dialog

The transition from Define Color to Select Color that was started in v0.6 is now finished
There is now a list of open windows/patterns that can be used to find a particular patter quickly
There is now a list of old patterns available so that you can open them again quickly
It is now possible to add more information about the patterns such as address and homepage of the maker
You can now chose to ignore white parts of an image when importing it
It is now possible to remove every stitch of a particular color from a pattern. this is especially useful when importing images
You cna now add text to the pattern
Stitches other than the cross stitch are now drawn with symbols in thesymbol mode. the functionality is rather primitive yet though. You have to select the symbol or get the same symbol for every color

Bug Fixes

The background color is now saved
The background color now works when marking a region
Resource strings are now dependent of the language of the program rather than the settings of the computer
Hints are now shown on the color and tool palettes
No symbol is choosen as default in the color-symbol mapping
Adding text in combination with paste now works as expected
You can no longer add an empty pattern to the library
If you change the color in the color properties dialog the symbols change to reflect the new color
The printing routines for placing the various parts, e.g. pattern, legend, and information, now works much better, there are some problems left though, in particular with large color lists
Printing too small cells no longer causes the text to become black boxes

Cosmetic Changes

All the windows now has the correct borderstyle (i think)
The symbols are now better than before, both concerning size, and look. Still room for improvement though
All visible functionality in the import dialog now works
You can now double click on the color panel in the Color Properties Dialog which is more in line with the rest of the user interface
The speed menu has been removed from the pattern since it interfered with the erase function of the right mouse button
No dialog is shown if you select the color of a cell that only contains one stitch
Blank lines in the beginning and end of the information is now ignored
It is now possible to cancel actions that might take a long time
Printer jobs now gets a title

0.6 2001-02-05
v0.6 brought many welcome changes.
New functionality

Background color of a pattern (isn't saved though)
Printing now works (sort of) it usually looks good (at least here) but there is still room for improvement.
The patterns now has an attribute "Creator" the complements the "Copyright" attribute
You can now import images (e.g. bitmaps) and let Stitch create patterns from them automatically
You can change the size of the pattern
You can now select the symbol that a particular color should have, and symbols for other colors are allocated dynamically

Bug fixes

The program is now capable of loading patterns with national characters in e.g. the description. Not all characters are supported yet though, we are working on it. If you find a character that produces an error, please tell us about it.
The flip function should work now
Right clicking on a cell now removes only a stitch of the slected type, not the whole cell
A stitch placed on the border of a cell is now propagated to the neighbour cell
Comments keep their line breaks after saving, and empty lines are also kept
Memory is now freed when a pattern is closed
You can not open the printer dialog if you do not have aprinter installed. This removes a lot of exception messages
The print preview is now buffered so that it shouldn't take so long to redraw. It takes ages to create, but after that it is ok

Cosmetic changes

The width of the "threads" now changes depending on the size of the cells in "thread" mode.
Full cell is now the default mode when drawing
Symbol mode is now default when printing
The icons for zooming in and out has been switched to better map with other programs
The symbols are now vectorised so that the quality of the printing is much improved
The number of tools has been reduced by combining some of the border stitches tools
The size scale of the cells has been changed to allow for slightly smaller cells when drawing
Patterns are now placed initally so that the palettes shouldn't interfer with them
You now only get a warning for the fill tool when cross stitches isn't selected
Define Color on the Color Properties Dialog has changed name to "Select Color". This might not seem much now, but it will be important in the next release or something like that

0.5 2001-01-15
While going from 0.1 through 0.5 the program has been considerably improved. New in the last couple of versions include:

Install/uninstall software
All the tools work more or less as expected
Language support should work
Many more colors (although not all are defined yet)
Flip (bugs left here) and rotate of clipboard patterns