Version History

We like to release small updates regularly as this allows us to get requested features out to you quickly!

1.6.2 « 1.6.1 « 1.6  «  1.5.1 « 1.5  «  1.4  «  1.3  «  1.2.1 « 1.2  «  1.1.2 « 1.1.1 « 1.1  «  1.0.1  «  1.0

  1.6.2  |  25th February 2010

A couple of bufixes here and a tweak.

General changes
Fix for Mac Print-via-Preview Workaround
  • The Mac printing workaround (Print via Preview), which unfortunately got broken in 1.6.1, has been now fixed
String Gauge Value Preserved When Cloning a Fretboard
  • Added a fix to ensure the string gauge setting also gets copied when you clone a fretboard (copy/paste or CTRL+drag, Alt/Option+drag on Mac)
Tiny Fretwires for Tiny Fretboards!
  • We've implemented a customer request for small fretboards to have thinner fretwires
  • This adjustment is done automatically by Neck Diagrams, based on the size of the fretboard (click image to see an example)

  1.6.1  |  20th February 2010

We have a few bufixes here and a couple of new items.

General changes
Bug fix for potential diagram page corruption
  • If you've ever had the misfortune to find that your page thumbnail appears blank in the Diagram Gallery and it won't open in the Editor then you'll be pleased to hear this won't happen again!
  • The problem could occur if exiting Neck Diagrams with unsaved editor changes and choosing 'Yes' to save them, then the file(s) saved might have become corrupted - not anymore!
Fix in Error Report Submission
 
  • Error Reports could fail to be submitted under certain circumstances, prompting you to copy & paste the report into an email and sending manually
  • As long as you're connected to the Internet this shouldn't happen anymore!
Diagram Gallery Thumbnail Tooltip Error
 
  • A fix has been added to prevent an error occurring if clicking on a thumbnail's filename tooltip
Hide Filenames in Gallery View Left-hand Pane
  • A new menu item has been added to the Diagram Gallery, under View > Hide Files in Projects List
  • This menu will make the left hand pane show only Projects and Folders, which is especially useful if you have lots of diagram pages!
Option for Small Mute/Open String Markers
  • An option has been added to the fretboard Inspector page allowing for smaller mute and open string markers to be shown, if you find the existing ones too chunky
  • Also the mute 'x' marker has been fixed so it never appears a little off which it occasionally did before

  1.6  |  14th February 2010

This turned out to be quite a large release, so we've grouped items to make it easier to see the changes.
Some of the images below can be clicked for more info

General changes
Non-English Language Support
  • Neck Diagrams now copes correctly with multi-byte/unicode characters
  • Previous versions did not save certain characters correctly, such as accents or musical symbols - you might've seen "?" characters when you saved/reopened pages
Show String Tunings
  • Show string tunings at the click of a button!
Additional Fretboard Legend Row
  • We've added an option to show another legend row for fretboards
Multi-line Fretboard Titles
  • Neck Diagrams now supports multi-line fretboard titles
  • Simply press ENTER to add a new line and CTRL+ENTER when done
Add Images To Your Pages!
  • Got a logo you want to add to your pages? Now you can!
  • Use the Image Tool to add images to your pages
Automatic Backups
  • We've added an automatic backup feature which will create a ZIP archive file of all your Neck Diagrams projects, folders & pages
  • You can control where the backups are stored via the Preferences page
Mandolin Added To Instrument Library
  • A mandolin option has been added to the Instrument Library
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Print via Preview Workaround
  • The Mac printing workaround (automated export to PDF & open in Preview) now works on Tiger (10.4)
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Note Markers
Mix & Match Note Marker Labels
  • You can now control the label shown on each individual note marker
  • For example, if you only want to show the interval on a specific dot and nothing else, then just turn off the fretboard's "Note marker labels" setting, select your note and choose the label style.
Controlling Note Marker Enharmonics
  • Note name and interval enharmonics, e.g. F♯/G♭ or Δ6, can be specified on the Note Marker Inspector page
  • We now always show both the Interval and Note enharmonic options instead of showing only the one the fretboard is set to show
Use of Musical Symbol Font For Sharps & Flats
  • Neck Diagrams now draws musical symbols using a special font on Mac OS X
  • However, due to a bug in the underlying Eclipse platform on Windows this is currently only implemented on Mac OS X.
  • Fear not Windows users! We'll be upgrading to a newer version of the platform for the next release so this feature will be available then
Setting Fingerings Whilst Adding Notes
  • It's now possible to set fingerings whilst a note creation tool is in use
  • Previously you had to return to the selection "arrow" tool before you could type in the fingering; now you can enter them as you go!
  • If you have the fretboard set to show fingerings, or a legend showing fingerings then you'll see the fingerings immediatedly
Numeric Keypad Support
  • Fingerings can now also be set using the numeric keypad
Open String Markers Now Hollow By Default
  • Open string markers no longer default to the solid style
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Scale Generator
Layout Improvements
  • Changes to the layout of some user interface items mean less clicking and scrolling!
CAGED Position Scales
  • The algorithms and logic of the CAGED position scale generator have been improved even further
Selecting Allow Open Strings When Position Has No Open String
  • The Scale Generator would report an error if Allow Open Strings was selected but there we no open strings in the position selected
  • This has now been fixed & Allow Open Strings can be used safely even when the position has no open strings!
Specifying Fret Ranges Above 12th Fret
  • You now get the correct results when you add a scale/arpeggio beyond the 12th fret!
  • Previously, if you specified a custom range, e.g. 14th to 17th frets, you would actually get notes added between the 2nd and 17th frets
Open String Markers Not Added As Solid Dots
  • The Scale Generator now adds open string note markers (when Allow Open Strings selected) correctly as a hollow circle
Scale Generator Now Works In Turkish!
  • If you're using Turkish as the language on your computer, you'll find that the Scale Generator no longer throws an error
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Diagram Page
Custom Page Size
  • You can now specify a custom page size
  • Just select the "Custom" option in the Page Size section of the Inspector and the Custom Page Size dialog window will appear
  • This can also be used in the Preferences window to set a custom page size as your default
New Menu: Select All Fretboards
  • There's a new editor menu, "Select All Fretboard", on the context and main Edit menus
Export Directly From The Editor
  • We've added a File > Export menu to the Editor view, so you can now export the page you're currently working on
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Connections
Curved "Barre"-style Connections
  • This tool only allows connections between note markers
  • However, an error would occur if an attempt was made to connect to any other item - this is now fixed
Fix for error opening page which had deleted connections
  • If you deleted a connection between items on a page then you would've found that the page could no longer be opened once saved
  • This is now fixed - any such pages can now be opened, and it's safe to delete connections again!
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Text Boxes
New Text Alignment Options
  • You can now align text to the right or center, as well as the default left alignment - available on fretboard titles too!
Deleting The Margin Value
  • The error triggered by deleting the margin value has been fixed
Using the Font Dialog on Windows
  • Fixed an error that sometimes occurred (only on Windows) when setting the font via the Font Dialog
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  1.5.1(aka 1.0.9)  |  9th February 2010

  • This minor update only contains a change to the Automatic Update mechanism to aid future updates



  1.5 (aka 1.0.8)  |  6th October 2009

  • added Fretboard Legends
  • new curved note connection tool, which you can use e.g. to create barre-chords or just plain crazy stuff!
  • create multi-page PDF files and configure the order of those pages
  • Scale Generator:
    • now remembers your previous choices, great if you just want the same again in a different position
    • option to automatically adjust the range of the fretboard, to ensure all notes just added are visible without you having to tweak
    • added blues scale (major and minor), in Hexatonic category
  • fretboard size is now constant
    • showing/hiding fretboard "decorations" such as fret numbers, fretboard title, etc, no longer changes the size of the fretboard itself
  • fixed issue with the backspace key in the Edit view
    • pressing backspace when editing a fretboard title or Text box contents used to delete the whole item
    • now correctly just deletes the previous character
  • Mac printing workaround now works correctly!
    • for more details see 1.0.7 release below
  • fixed error when converting a folder to a project
    • (when dragging a folder to a blank area in the Diagram Gallery below last project)
  • cloning a Text box no longer loses it's "transparent" property (if it was set)
  • fixed the text in the "Are you sure?" confirmation window
    • (when copying or drag'n'dropping a file to a location where a file of the same name exits)
  • version number now displayed at startup on splash screen

 

  1.4 (aka 1.0.7)  |  25th July 2009

  • new diagram page Templates feature
  • Diagram Library
    • added cut/copy/paste plus full drag & drop support for moving projects/folders/pages
    • New Project/New Folder/Save dialogs now check whether name entered is already in use
    • moving a page that is open in the editor & unsaved now saves and closes the editor
  • Scale Generator:
    • now works with instruments with less than 6 strings
  • Instrument/Tuning Wizard
    • fixed last wizard page which was broken
    • added double-click support to the category/instrument lists
  • Mac printing workaround due to issue in underlying platform - automatically Export pages to PDF and open in Preview ready to print
  • Inspector tidied up so no scroll bars showing on Windows Vista
  • editor toolbar items should now never appear in the diagram gallery/instrument library views!
  • Windows installer improvements
    • better support for Vista & Windows 7 : installer & application executables are now signed
  • Update wizard tweaked to provide more space for update details and a link to the version history webpage - you won't see this new dialog until 1.0.8 comes out though!

 

  1.3 (aka 1.0.6)  |  7th June 2009

  • intelligent interval naming
  • new feature for users to override interval & note names
  • new feature to control string gauge appearance
  • new options in the Scale Generator to specify note marker style to use
  • new Gallery 'List' view mode, shows smaller thumbnails and file name to the right of the thumbnail
  • existing Gallery 'Icon' view has feature to show file name below icon
  • tooltip shown when mouse hovered over a Gallery icon with a filename that is too wide to show fully
  • added ability to move (drag/drop) folders and projects in the Gallery view
  • note marker outline now bolder
  • PDF export note marker improvements
  • diagram editor now larger on Mac so less need to use the zoom
  • see this blog post for more detailed info

 

1.2.1 (aka 1.0.5c) | 14th May 2009

  • fix for auto-update issue in 1.0.4 and 1.0.5 builds
  • see here for more info if you installed 1.0.4 or 1.0.5 - NOT an issue if you've been upgrading via auto-update from earlier versions!

 

1.2 (aka 1.0.5) | 10th May 2009

  • new Spacing tool + Help topic
  • label colour control for solid note markers, plus defaults and per-dot override
  • option for US-style interval labels in Preferences (no major/perfect prefixes, just b's and #'s)
  • user-controllable grid spacing
  • option for fret marker dots to be outlined only (ie hollow)
  • Trial version now allows 10 pages to be printed/exported before watermarks are applied
  • major 7th arpeggio corrected
  • improved bug reporting, providing automated user submission of error report

 

  1.1.2 (aka 1.0.4)  |  11th April 2009

  • added Help documentation
  • string drawing tweak
  • Trial version now allows 8 fretboards per page
  • editor Zoom commands now have keyboard shortcuts

 

  1.1.1 (aka 1.0.3)  |  22nd March 2009

  • allows placement of text on top of fretboards
  • new 'transparent' text property
  • printing fix

 

  1.1 (aka 1.0.2)  |  20th March 2009

  • added fret marker dots option
    • round & oval, configurable colour
  • fretboard title and mute/open string area can now be hidden
  • defaults for all these can be controlled via Preferences

 

  1.0.1  |  8th March 2009

  • Windows printing fix
  • three note per string scale generation fix
    • notes in higher registers could end up starting an octave lower than they should
  • added 7th arpeggios and symmetrical scales
  • fixed error that was occurring when deleting a diagram file

 

  1.0  |  5th March 2009

First Public Release