What's New

• bug fix: issue when loading and saving players files with Java 6
  
  

• bug fix: issue with focus on board with CTRL + arrows and mouse wheel
  
  

• bug fix: issue with license control
  
  

• bug fix: issue when exporting a Database to a XOF file
  
  

• internal optimizations
  
• bug fix: issue when synching players games
  

• add new look and feels and new icons
  
• add new statistics for game count or disc count
• add new statistics charts
  
• add players management dialog
• add players games retrieval from Kurnik with automerge
  
• add show player real name on games table
• add table row height change thru mouse wheel (CTRL+SHIFT) on all tables
• update localisation for English, French and Spanish
• bug fixes
  
  

• add better error detection when loading Thor databases
• bug fix: potential NPE when loading Thor databases
  

• bug fix: issues when saving database in XOF format and running on Java 6

• bug fix: issues when pasting moves string
• bug fix: issue with progress bar not hiding during file load
  

• bug fix: issues when parsing SGF files
  

• bug fix: issue when disabling Splash screen
• bug fix: correct activation of options into Options Dialog
• bug fix: do not prompt new Features Warning dialog when non eval license
  

• bug fix: issue when synchronizing server and non-existing local directory
  

• add license deactivation

• bug fix: issue with cancelling license acceptation

• bug fix: issue with cancelling license acceptation
• bug fix: potential NPE with Look and Feel management

• bug fix: issue with buy URL
• bug fix: force locale to en_US for Basic Edition
  
• add new menu entry to go to buy license web page
  
  

• bug fix: progression dialog still remaining after loading a database
• bug fix: shortcuts issues with E, D, G on board
  
• bug fix: issues when loading Kurnik archives
• bug fix: regression for Uniyma support
  
• add double clic on game list for playing a game move by move
• change ENTER key on a game from the game list: now forward only one move
• add ALT+ENTER to play a game from the game list up to its end
  
• add bookmarking of games during drag and drop from game list to board
  
• add license management for Basic, Standard and Pro Editions - no more free beer ;-)
• update to Java 1.5.0_10 on Windows / Linux and to Java 1.5.0_06 on MacOSX
  

• update MacOSX support
• bug fix: problems with accents in French and Spanish localizations

• add read zip format for all supported game file formats
• add database XOF export to zip
• update PGN format support
• update GGF format support
• better games date format consistency
• update Look and Feel
• add Quaqua Look and Feel on MacOSX
• add toggle for small/big Toolbar thru popup menu
• update progress dialog
• update status bar messages
• add sound support and preference for controlling sounds play
• use J2SE default XML parser (Xerces) instead of Piccolo
• use StAX instead of SAX/JDOM for parsing/exporting
• XOF export of big databases now does not consume much memory
• bug fixes

• add support for Yahoo! Japan games import from Uniyma logs
• add pasting move list with spaces
• update Look and Feel choices
• update MRU list max to 6 elements
• update About dialog
• bug fixes

• new rows coloring for games, statistics, bookmarks tables
• new mouse wheel support on statistics, bookmarks tables
• improve memory management for big databases
• update XOF support
• bug fixes

• add checking of duplicate games
• add MRU (most recently used) files management
• better games delete management
• runs on Java 5.0+
• update Look and Feel management (changes will need restart)
• add new Look and Feel items (Ocean, Oyoaha, Plastic themes)
• update Kurnik game format support
• bug fixes

• add Spanish translation :-)
• add filtering enhancements (operators)
• add XOF export with filter
• update GGF support due to format change
• add goto OthBase donation site from Menu bar
• some GUI enhancements
• bug fixes (broken PGN support for Kurnik)

• add new Metouia Look and Feel (sorry not for MacOSX...)
• more robust XOF parsing
• more robust PGN parsing
• add goto OthBase site from Menu bar
• add get XOF Databases from Menu bar
• bug fixes

• default descending sort on tournament name with date
• default descending sort on games number
• default Look and Feel is now platform specific
• file game directory and database directory now have separate values
• multi files loading (any XOF, SGF, GGS, PGN formats) with one Thor database loaded
• memory optimizations (now can load 100K+ games with small memory footprint!!)
• other optimizations (GUI threading, use Piccolo XML parser instead of default Crimson parser, parsing of XOF and SGF and GGS and PGN formats)
• bug fixes (with some MacOSX specific...)

• change Go menu bar item to Game menu bar item
• new Add board Game to Database
• new Delete game / Delete All games from Database
• new Game Properties dialog
• new entering game Diagram support
• new SGF/SOF game tree file support
• new Game Tree management for playing variations (with keyboard navigation)
• change Bookmarks dialog from modal mode to non modal mode
• fix bad PRO License message bug

• add simulateous opening of Thor database and games files (XOF, PGN, GGF) for consolidated statistics
• add New database feature
• add Import database feature for importing games into current opened database
• add Export database feature to XOF file format
• change File Open feature: now close current opened database
• add Kurnik specific PGN file format support
• add better Lost on Time result management for games files (XOF, PGN, GGF)
• add new Date column into games table
• add Date filtering into Filter dialog
• add swap players color for filter menu item
• add clear filter menu item
• bug fixes (e.g bad Theorical Score sorting in games table headers)
  

• add PGN multi games file support (may contains several games; usefull for VOG(tm) games collection import)
• add GGF multi games file support (GGS format)
• add XOF multi games file support (native OthBase XML format)
• better MacOSX support (no icons into menubar items, About / Preferences system events handling, board and navigation toolbar colors)
• change OthBase icon for Java Web Start
• bug fixes

• add Open / Save XOF game file (xml format ready for games collection)
• add games Bookmarks management
• bug fixes (e.g Open / Save database dialog on MacOSX)

• add copy/paste of moves, position and diagram for Board
• add drag and drop support from games list to Board for quick game selection
• add ENTER shortcut on game list for playing the current selected  game until the end
• add new game list Option for putting real winner player in bold
• add new game list Option for putting filtered column in italic
• add new popup menu on games table for tournament/black player/white player filtering management
• change activation of filtering (menubar made simplier as CTRL+Y is now a toggle)
• bug fixes

• add new Option for delaying games list refresh
• speed improvment for games filtering
• add popup menus on games table header for defining sorts and showing/hiding columns
• add columns tooltips for games and statistics tables
• better handling of column sorting for games and statistics tables
• Options dialog refactoring
• add new confirmation dialog and Option for new game
• automatic startup options: nothing / load local database / synchronize local database
• all dialogs now support Escape keystroke
• bug fixes (e.g statistics computing with draw games)
  

• add automatic and overwrite modes for remote database synchronization
• add new look anf feel items: Plastic, Plastic 3D, Platic XP, Windows + (only on Windows)
• first run now prompt for entering PRO license or not
• bug fixes

• add remote database synchronization with a FTP server
• add local database directory cleaning
• new Options dialog with tabs
• new Options for database cleaning
• new Options for database synchronization
• new Option for remote server directory browsing
• better error handling of bad format for Thor database files
• bug fixes

• change license management: entering license is now only requested for PRO version
• enhanced toolbar: add move begin/backward/forward/end, show filter dialog, show options dialog buttons
• add Search menu for easy game filtering
• add new Go menu for move begin/backward/forward/end
• add three predefined board sizes: small, medium, big
• new Option for showing/hiding Move Navigation Bar
• bug fixes

• add new filter dialog for tournament, player name filtering
• fix move pass issue
• new board
• bug fixes

• fix interversion problem; Now should be correct even with big diagonal
• new Option for showing/hiding moves with no games into statistics
• add clic on move number into Diagram Mode for going directly to corresponding move position
• bug fixes

• fix license problem. Now using host name instead of canonical host name. Should enable transparent working with or without net connection. If any problem, please contact bugs@othbase.net
  

• clean keyboard controls on Board and Game List
• add French localisation depending on OS locale

• fix bad date license control
• add tooltips on toolbar buttons
• control Open/Save features (menu items and toolbar buttons) with PRO license

• fix bad game list refresh bug when changing first move

• new Options: first move selection, automatic play of first move, split bar location,  Look And Feel selection
• new Look And Feel management depending on running platform. Recognized  LAF: default (based on metal), metal, windows, motif, macosx, gtk, kunstoff
• new View menu for controlling display of first move, Board/Game list/ Statistics panels, Toolbar and Status Bar
• new Status Bar with message panel and first move view
• new What's New with list of changes
• bug fixes

• bug fixes: few problems with MacOSX, better error handling of Database loading (exception when choosing a non valid directory)

• first external release published on http://www.othbase.net thru Java Web Start