* Milestones

  • milestone2
  • milestone2.5 Demo Pack (including media, project and export) 7MB zip
  • Screencast 25MB mov
  • milestone4.5
    • encodes video on export
    • Also includes improvements from previous milestones:
      • Milestone 3
        • now also supports WAV sound format
      • Milestone 4
        • Must have quicktime installed to run (OSX has this by default)
  • milestone6.5
    • updated flash player to correct version
    • minor ui tweaks: Preferences Menu, double click video to create SNU, overwrite prompt on export, widgets take project aspect ratio
    • snu video synchs to selected k3 rule time
    • Also includes improvements from previous milestones:
      • Milestone 5
        • (non-comprehensive list)
        • press space to pause video
        • press 'x' to jump to next link
        • time based rules
        • retain previous links
        • background image for project
      • Milestone 5a
        • better support for video encoding
      • Milestone 6
        • k3 rules
        • snu previews
  • Milestone 9a
    • K3 Import Does not require interfaces.txt
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    • Also includes improvements from previous milestones:
      • Milestone 7a
        • bug: no sound in player
        • bug: interfaces not loaded when opening project
      • Milestone 8
        • subtitles widget
        • associate subtitles with videos by double clicking videos in resource list
        • can drag text files (.txt) into resources
        • double click text resources to edit
        • fonts in text resources should be properly shown in player
        • text can be used as previews
        • default preview for a snu is its video
        • can set tooltip for previews
        • text widget (drag text resources into interfacer)
  • milestone 13.06
  • milestone 14.0
  • milestone 15.0 (5.02)
  • milestone 16.0
    • can press 'ENTER' and 'ESCAPE' to 'OK' and 'CANCEL' Snu Editor
    • when deleting resources there is an option to "break links"
    • minor fixes and improved handling of certain import failures
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  • milestone 17.0
    • Can move all selected widgets at once
    • Widget properties: FontStyle?, FontWeight?, TextDecoration?
    • Use Right arrow instead of 'x' to advacne to next links
    • Pool of Links is more accurate (more like the Flash player)
    • Only used media is exported.
    • Portuguese language
    • Added automated tests
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  • milestone 18 (5.03)
    • [18.0]
    • video quality export options (found in preferences -> export)
    • fixed: video preview in snu editor does not respect aspect ratio
    • error mailer won't send the same error twice in a row
    • ensured flv exports now have proper metadata
    • added test cases
    • updated to newer version of SoenEA (a core library used in Korsakow)
    • added improved logging for some recent user errors
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    • [18.01]
    • fixed: Max links per line not imported from k3
    • fixed: Snu should stay on last frame after playing
    • fixed: H264 exports don't stream
    • fixed: Example project has maxlinks=1 for boy and girl snus
    • fixed: Under windows, tool windows don't get K icon
    • fixed: Media filename with < 3 characters breaks export
    • Name of project appears as title of export
    • Adjusted FLV video quality options
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    • [18.02]
    • Added french translations of "Drag and Drop" and About page
    • Fixed some french translation issues.
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    • [18.03]
    • Option to save as relative / absolute paths
    • Option to "relink" missing files
    • Widget properties internationalized
    • Tweaked FLV encoding settings
    • Some improved error messages
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    • [18.04]
    • Fixed: Loop option for SNU's not working
    • Fixed: Problem importing Shared Interfaces
    • Fixed: "Keep links" rule on first line in SNU editor doesn't work
    • Fixed: Menu colours (all menus now hover as blue)
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    • [18.05]
    • Fixed: strange shuffling of rows when moving the MainMedia? slider in SNU editor
    • Fixed: problem removing rule lines in SNU editor
    • Default size of MainMedia? widget is 640x480
    • Links widgets now called "Preview"
    • Minor UI layout adjustments
    • Contact address now shown in Error feedback message.
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    • [18.06]
    • Fixed: missing tooltips for widgets
    • Removed "Keywords" from Interface Editor
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    • [18.07]
    • Fixed: issue where Korsakow would not start with certain Locales
    • Fixed: issue with max links in Snu Editor jumping around
    • Fixed: issue where K3 imports with keywords shorter than 3 characters would fail
    • Fixed: issue where if quicktime can't be loaded there is no error dialog
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    • [18.08]
    • Fixed: Problem importing shared interfaces (KIF files)
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    • [18.09]
    • Fixed: Problem setting ClickSound in interfacer
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  • milestone 19 (5.04)
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      • [19.0]
      • New Features
      • EXE File for windows
      • Updater (alerts when new versions of Korsakow are available)
      • Events (If/Then rules)
      • "Determining media to export" step now MUCH faster
      • Draft export (exports with low quality default settings and launches automatically)
      • Can save export main file to other than index.html
      • Can drag KRW file into resources to load a project
      • MediaControls? widget
      • Scrubber widget
      • Can pause movie (space or click)
      • Can embed SNUs
      • Can link directly to a particular SNU (DeepLinking?)
      • Can use browser back/forth to navigate seen SNUs
      • Can set background color in project settings
      • Bugs fixed
      • Video sometimes missing when exporting
      • Problems exporting to external drives
      • Can export AIFF files
      • ErrorMailer? not working
      • Fixed errors in Portugese translation
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      • [19.01]
      • When playing film, current SNU is reflected in URL
      • Bugs fixed
      • Subtitles lost when saving (set to same file as video)
      • Other minor bugs.
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      • [19.02]
      • Allow project movie dimensions up to 99,999
      • Share button now visible even when paused
      • Scrubber widget default size now 10x10px, and can be adjusted
      • Tweaked pause graphic
      • Tweaked share button graphic
      • Updated 'Update' text
      • Bugs fixed
      • Embed sometimes doesn't load
      • BackgroundImage? not working
      • Error when canceling the file dialog in the FindMissingResources? dialog
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      • [19.03]
      • Scrubber motion smoother
      • Share button text in SansSerif? font
      • StartScreen? no longer shown when loading a direct link to a SNU
      • Exports now centered more properly
      • Example interface now includes scrubber
      • Preview images now show a loading % if taking longer than 1sec to load
      • Bugs fixed
      • Error when setting Scrubber barWidth/Height to empty
      • Bug causing main media not to show (and other strange effects)
      • Media controls play/pause button jumping left and right
      • Media controls scrubber position not updating
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      • [19.04]
      • Scrubber allows transparent background color
      • Srubber widget now known as Playhead
      • Bugs fixed
      • Problem importing/exporting AIFF
      • Problem importing/exporting MP3
      • Incorrect embed code shown due to deep linking
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      • [19.05]
      • Can set duration of Images by right-clicking on the media
      • Bugs fixed
      • SNU Preview clickable even when empty
      • "---" on first search line gets lost
      • Keep links now works like in K3
      • Video not playing under windows
      • Export draft doesn't open in browser in windows
      • Fixed problem with EndFilm?
      • Fixed Javascript errors on windows
      • Playhead properties now shown as "Background Color" instead of "backgroundColor"
      • SNU Rating problem
      • Embed issues
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      • [19.06]
      • Disabled seeking in embed because it sometimes breaks the video (needs looking into)
      • Bugs fixed
      • Fixed bug where videos with subtitles would cause embed to auto play
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      • [19.07]
      • Bugs fixed
      • Problem where SNUs would not play back when viewed from the harddrive on Windows
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      • [19.08]
      • Bugs fixed
      • Security error
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      • [19.09]
      • Share button only shown when viewed online
      • Bugs fixed
      • Circle of Life movie size
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      • [19.11]
      • Removed FlexSDK (thus reducing download size significantly)
      • Bugs fixed
      • Exception when changing a Preview(Fix)'d SNU property
      • Windows exports not playing online or when played locally on a Mac
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      • [19.12]
      • A proper error message is shown to users attempting to run Korsakow without Quicktime installed
      • Command(Apple)+Delete deletes selected resource. (CTRL+Delete on windows).
      • Player now less strict on whitespace when parsing K3 Subtitle format
      • PreviewText? now animates at a constant rate (25 letters per second).
      • Command(Apple)+I (CTRL+I on windows) in player now shows about screen in player.
      • Updated H264 encoding parameters
        • I did some tests, seeing what bitrates vimeo and youtube use for their regular and high quality video, and tried to match them.
        • Low = 400kb/s, Med = 700kb/s, High = 1700kb/s
      • Bugs fixed
      • Fixed a problem when exporting h264 to mounted volumes (external drives) on OSX
      • Fixed a problem where exporting media already encoded as H264 caused FFMpeg to crash under windows
  • milestone 20 (5.??)
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      • New Features
        • Background sound fades in/out
        • Can rename resources by clicking twice with a delay in between
        • Can select scaling mode on widgets (whether to respect aspect ratio)
        • Comments widget allows placement/configuration of comments when used with plugin
        • Korsakow Splash screen is sometimes grey for a moment
        • new Media and Preview widgets sized according to the grid's aspect ratio
        • Preview sounds should fade in/out
        • Preview's are dimmed on rollover when there is preview text
        • Random link should only acive if no future searches would have results
        • Should be able to adjust z-ordering (depth) of widgets in interfacer
        • Snu rules set to a time later than the snu's duration should execute at the end
        • status bar at bottom of main window should file location on rollover
        • Web version should have a continue/restart option
        • When the SNU editor opens, a loading animation is shown in place of the media until it loads (experimental!)
      • Bug Fixes
        • Fixed: canceling export properly cancels the process
        • Fixed: current snu somtimes appears in search results
        • Fixed: main media video sometimes doesn't show
        • Fixed: previews sometimes don't show up when they use the same media as the current snu
        • Fixed: problem with history widget
        • Fixed: snu multilink not working properly
        • Fixed: "Revail in Finder" now shown as "Show containing Folder" in windows
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      • [20.1]
        • added better handling of security errors for local storage
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      • [20.2]
        • Fixed: version # in KRW not being updated (this was not causing bugs yet)
        • Fixed: pausing does not pause the background sound
        • Fixed: searches at a time after (or at the end) of a snu should still happen (at the end)
        • Fixed: exported video no longer scaled up, only down
        • Fixed: scalingPolicy always set to None by default
        • Fixed: extra blank lines in SRT files break the player
        • Fixed: changes to project settings are not kept
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      • [20.3]
        • Fixed: problem where Korsakow would crash when opening SNU editor
        • Fixed: SNU volume should fade out when preview is clicked
        • Fixed: should be able set background sound to "keep", "none", or a specific sound
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      • [20.4]
        • Fixed: problem where keywords are lost when renaming a SNU
        • Fixed: UUID lost when changing project settings