Drago - Release Notes

Version 3.11
2008/04/30
New
  • German help file

Version 3.10
2008/04/27
New
  • User interface is Unicode aware (UTF-8)
  • SGF files are correctly displayed with various multi byte character encodings.
  • Exporting to preview, RTF, PDF, HTML and DOC respects interface encoding and SGF encoding.
  • Commands for position symmetry and color swap.
  • Advanced tab in option dialog.
  • Some options for PDF export tuning have been added in the advanced tab.
  • Advanced option to play engine games in same tab.
  • Advanced option to abort or not on file error.
  • Some more options in advanced tab.
Change
  • Drago uses Haru Free PDF Library instead of PowerPDF, both from Takeshi Kanno.
  • Game information in column format is now always printed at top of page. This is because HaruPDF (and PDF) has no "Keep Lines Together" command. It was availaible through a hack in the library source code with PowerPDF.
  • Some options have moved to advanced tab.
  • Better handling of move commands in thumbnail view.
  • Better handling of default dimensions when opening Export position dialog (only diameter is saved, suppression of "Selection minimum dimension" parameter).
  • Ctrl-clicking on a variation markup in sibling mode creates or goes to a possible next move.
  • Clicking on Options menu opens the menu, not the window. New icon on toolbar to open directly the option window.
  • Add result calculated by Drago when not calculated by engine when saving a game against engine
  • Handle LB properties with empty text as L properties (PocketGoban compatibility)
  • Use game komi and handicap when starting a game with engine from current position
Fix
  • Separators cannot be added in toolbar configuration.
  • Game information view is not updated after calling game information dialog.
  • Move pointer in game tree is not updated when clicking to sibling.
  • Do not open previous instance when minimized
  • Crash or freeze when starting a game engine from a position with a pass move.
  • Crash when inserting a pass move when showing variations as alternate moves.
  • Error when starting a problem session in sequential mode with more problems than in the current file.
  • Error when replaying (guess mode) with pass moves.
  • Error when pushing the up button in an empty favorite box.
  • Fix doubling of komi property when saving a game against engine

Unicode

Chinese translation

Version 3.03
2008/03/01
New
  • German translation
Fix
  • Error when inserting a pass move when showing variations as alternate moves.
  • Error when pushing the up button in an empty favorite box.

German translation

Version 3.02.02
2007/12/01
Fix
  • Filename is not displayed in tab caption when saving a new file (bug introduced in 3.02).

Version 3.02.01
2007/12/01
Fix

Version 3.02
2007/11/24
Change
  • No more default filename when saving as from folder or db.
  • Saving as from folder or db opens new tab.
  • Save as available from Game information view and thumbnail view.
  • 2007/11/28 patch: update Slovak translation.
Fix
  • Crash at end of engine game under Vista.
  • Area counting doesn't take handicap into account.
  • Possible crash with 1-handicap and Suggest move outside game.
  • Suggest move should not be available outside game with MoGo.
  • Strange things when playing a suggested move while showing variations as alternate moves and not in engine mode.
  • Alt-Left-Click starts to draw a rectangle.

Version 3.01
2007/09/30
Change
  • Some modifications to play with MoGo.
  • Area counting added.
  • 2007/10/02 patch: update Russian translation.

Version 3.00.04
2007/09/16
Fix
  • An error may occur when exporting to RTF or printing some files (thanks Alain).
  • Exporting or previewing to RTF very big files (kogo) may cause some resource errors.

Version 3.00.03
2007/07/02
Fix
  • When selecting a position to export, clicking in the coordinate area and draggging to the center can launch an exception (thanks Chinmay).
  • Games with long property names are not displayed in a database (thanks Chris).

Version 3.00.02
2007/06/24
Fix
  • Adding files to an existing database was not possible (thanks PhK).

Version 3.00.01
2007/06/03
Fix
  • Problem when installing without uninstalling on a version previous to 2.20.

Version 3.00
2007/06/02
New
  • LibKombilo
  • Game information preview and thumbnail preview open in tabs.
Change
  • Opening a sgf file outside Drago (e.g. by double clicking in Windows Explorer or a browser) creates a new tab, not a new window.
  • Add specific sound for engine moves.
Fix
  • All commands are now disabled when setting free handicap stones. This is cleaner and corrects a crash when trying to close the current tab when setting the handicap stones.
  • Crash when inserting a button already in a toolbar.
  • Some board grids were not visible when exporting to PDF.
  • Flag for coordinates missing when exporting to SL.
  • Incorrect English wording for game results.

LibKombilo

Version 2.21
2007/01/04
New
  • Hungarian translation
Change
  • Drago is compiled with the English version of Delphi 7. At least, this has as a consequence to display all error messages in English. This could help also to fix some problem reported with the decimal separator.
  • Komi combobox in New dialog becomes enabled when creating a file or game.
Fix
  • Force open folder dialog to open as modal.
  • Better display of large background images in the Export position dialog.

Hungarian translation

Version 2.20.01
2006/10/10
New
  • Add a tag in format of caption when printing to specify next player (\player)
Fix
  • Remove a new line when starting each event when printing.

Version 2.20
2006/09/29
New
  • Configurable and floating tool bars.
  • Dialog to configure shortcuts.
  • Autoreplay mode.
  • Extended move commands.
  • Extended stone setup command: optional "setup, swap color, remove" click sequence and right click to setup stones of the opposite color.
  • Handling of folders as multigame files.
  • Ctrl-click on a stone returns to the position of the stone.
  • Read only mode.
  • Optional tab close buttons.
  • Selection of light source (left or right).
  • Optional sound for illegal move.
  • Commands for toggling coordinates and move markers.
Change
  • New handling of translations.
  • View tab in option dialog is split into View and Panels tabs.
  • Some changes in menu captions.
  • Only one shortcut to set up a stone or a markup on goban with keyboard (Return).
  • Warning for illegal moves becomes optional.
  • New layout for sound tab in option dialog.
  • Much faster when closing option dialog under W2000.
Fix
  • Crash when appending to an unexisting file.
  • Creating a sibling move with Ctrl-click doesn't erase the current move.
  • Problem with editing markup properties with already several occurrences in the current node.

Version 2.12
2006/07/18
New
  • Slovak translation.
Change
  • "Cancel" replaced by "Close" in Print and Export position dialogs (Tim :).
Fix
  • Text label markups are incorrectly printed on empty intersections.

Slovak translation

Version 2.11
2006/06/09
Change
  • Display of text on ghost stones is improved.
  • Display of text on empty intersections preserves the background.
  • Display of ghost stones is improved.
  • Active links on about form.
  • New URL in about form.
  • Down arrow for the game edit toolbar button.
  • Sub menus for game edit comands.
Fix
  • Game Info button in Index window shows always game information from current game in main window (since tabs).
  • Problems when modifying game information from index.
  • When jumping to a move with goto command or tree view, time left is not updated for the color before the selected move.

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Version 2.10
2006/04/11
New
  • Export games to PDF and MS Word.
  • New look for the export format dialog.
  • Paper size and orientation selection in export format dialog.
  • One figure every markup or comment mode available when printing or exporting.
  • Export flatten position to SGF.
  • Diameter of stones can be selected when exporting positions.
  • Sound for stone placement.
  • Better handling of some game engines.
Change
  • When displaying and displaying move numbers with 2 characters, numbers are now always displayed with 2 characters ("101" gives "01" not "1").
Fix
  • Memory leak when exporting to GIF with more than 256 colors.
  • Crash when resizing to the lowest size with an inactive tab with the vertical split bar on the left side.
  • Maximize state is not restored. If closed in maximized state, main window is restored in normal state, but split bars are restored with their maximized coordinates.

PDF

Version 2.00.01
2006/02/18
Fix
  • When a GTP engine doesn't handle the Undo command, the Undo toolbar button is still enabled (if Undo is allowed). If the button is pressed, the game is aborted.
 
Version 2.00
2006/02/04
New
  • Tabbed interface.
  • XP themes support.
  • Goban background accepts also GIF and PNG images.
  • Coordinate border background can be set independantly of goban background.
  • Game tree background can be set independantly of goban background.
  • Window background can be configured.
  • Graphic index can be configured.
  • Size of font in comments can be configured.
  • Color of text panels can be configured.
  • Undo is now allowed: never, always or only after capture.
  • Option to enable or disable places bar in open save dialogs.
  • Options to display hoshis and board edges as thick lines.
  • Command to suggest next move.
Change
  • New option dialog look.
  • Increase in speed of graphic index display.
  • No more default color for goban background (was 12632256)
  • Number of characters in move numbers shifts to Options/Moves.
  • Two different values are stored for Goto Move and Goto Game commands.
Fix
  • Strange things after quitting a GNU Go game started from "Current position": "Save" command is not enabled, "Save as" saves an empty game, "Append to" crashes.
  • During engine game, with undo disabled, Ctrl-Z still allows a single move undo.
  • Ctrl-clicking on goban to swap between variations does not update the move pointer in game tree.
  • Adding a stone (AB, AW) in the middle or the end of a sequence hides the previous move on goban.
  • Game engine aborts when undoing a move at starting position.
  • During free handicap setting, menus and tool buttons should be disabled.
  • After cancelling free handicap setting, it is impossible to add stones with dragging.
  • Input of game or move numbers in goto commands are not protected.
Tabbed interface
Version 1.46.01
2005/12/06
Fix
  • Problem with long file names in the extract file dialog.
 
Version 1.46
2005/12/03
New
  • Czech translation.
Czech translation
Version 1.45.01
2005/11/27
Fix
  • Some size problems of the thumbnail image in the Export position dialog.
 
Version 1.45
2005/11/20
New
  • Russian translation.
  • Shortcuts, see Readme file.
Change
  • Better handling of large fonts.
  • Better handling of translations.
  • Better drawing of antialising circles.
  • Wrapable toolbar.
  • Change top and bottom margin default sizes (10 -> 15)
  • Change default value for 'Accept long names' option (False -> True)
Fix
  • GNU Go error when asking for the score after a game, on the node with TB and TW properties.
  • Warning message after Games/Index or Problems/Index on an empty file is in French.
Russian translation
Version 1.44
2005/06/18
New
  • Export current position dialog.
Change
  • Optimize calculus of font size on stones.
Fix
  • Crash when showing in the status bar an illegal B or W property (since 1.43.01)
Export position
Version 1.43.02
2005/05/25
Change
  • When mark is set to Number, clicking again a stone with a move number mark hides the number.
  • Deleting the text of a label mark deletes the property.
Fix
  • With some traversing commands, all of the move numbers are not displayed when Show last move is set to all.
  • Crash when exporting games with some options.
 
Version 1.43.01
2005/05/07
Change
  • Property names with more than 2 characters are optionnaly accepted.
Fix
  • Display of move n when displaying another move as move n with MN property.
  • Compressing list of points with coordinates outside the goban gives an overflow error.
  • "Compress lists of points" option is always on.
 
Version 1.43
2005/04/30
New
  • Related to game engine:
    • Optional Undo when playing with engine.
    • Free handicap placement.
    • Score estimate when playing or browsing.
  • Delete branch command.
  • Option to compress lists of points.
Change
  • Adaptable size of coordinate font.
Fix
  • Position when starting is not restored if option is set.
  • Dragging setting stones can give coordinates outside board.
  • Moving cursor with keyboard (Alt-RightArrow and other keys) can give coordinates outside corner when zooming on corner.
  • When toggling the Displayed zone option, the effect is not immmediate.
  • Marks are not printed in the last move diagram.
  • Last diagram is not printed if Number of moves = k x Step + 1.
  • Curious display problem in the status bar when ending a game under XP.
 
Version 1.42.01
2005/03/30
Fix
  • Minor translation fixes.
 
Version 1.42
2005/03/29
New
  • Add PNG format for exporting diagrams.
Change
  • English version of help file is reviewed.
  • Modification warning becomes optional.
Fix
  • Crash when starting Drago after closing a file on a new variation without saving it, in 'Start with last move' mode.
  • Some display imprecision in the tree panel.
  • Saving on read only file crash (msg form not allocated).
  • Aborting a save operation on read only file doesn't abort following operations if any.
  • Problem with stone style saving.
PNG
Version 1.41
2005/03/21
New
  • Add Jago stones.
  • 'Start with last move' option.
  • Add 'Add current' button for favorites.
  • Collection related commands (merge, extract one, extract all)
Change
  • Stone selection control for goban and variation tree.
  • Append to command is available in the Collections menu.
Fix
  • After editing, comments and node names are not saved after some actions.
 
Version 1.40
2005/02/23
New
  • Game tree display.
Change
  • Handling of GTP resign.
  • Change look of View option panel and add view option for game tree.
  • Avoid warning if no printer installed when exporting or previewing.
  • Move markups are more visible on small stones.
  • Store position of Insert and Option windows.
  • Add a toll bar button for Insert...
Fix
  • Resignation allways updates autohandicap parameters.
  • Pass edit command is not handled.
  • Alt-Return is not handled.
  • Cancel when closing Drago with a modified game is not handled.
  • Ghost stones are not erased in some cases with the Goto command
  • Some transparency problems with white stones and 16 bits color screen
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