Curio 9.4.3 Release Notes

Release Date

November 13, 2014

Requirements

Curio 9 runs on macOS Mavericks (10.9) or Yosemite (10.10).

Status Tweak

  • New Force Reload menu item under the Status shelf's Tasks actions menu.

Collection Tweaks and Fixes

  • If editing a list title and you press Enter, Curio will now automatically shift focus to the first item in list, if it exists, otherwise it will create a new first item.
  • When adding new items to a collection Curio will now make sure the new figure is visible by scrolling it into view if necessary.
  • Fixed a primary cause of mind map "fly-out" issues due to a bad internal calculation.
  • Using the mind map and list inspector buttons to spread figure style information to siblings and cousins should now be more reliable when branch coloring is enabled. When you spread a style to siblings, Curio will now replace all style information for top-of-branch-coloring nodes but, for dependent nodes, spreading a sibling style will only replace geometric information without replacing the specified coloring information since it inherits that from its parent.

Text Tweaks and Fixes

  • Fixed a text tool issue which prevented users from double-click-dragging on the idea space background to create a new, sized text figure.
  • Fixed another text tool issue so you can now click on existing text figures with the text tool to edit them.
  • Fixed minor issue where editing a text figure, resizing it, then stopping the edit resulted in a figure that didn't have a selection glow (so you couldn't tell it was still selected).
  • Fixed flakiness when trying to select a range of text in a figure within a grouped figure.

Organizer Tweaks and Fixes

  • Fixed Organizer crash when drag-and-dropping items into a closed folder.
  • Fixed Organizer issue so you can now hold Shift down while using the up/down arrow keys to select multiple idea spaces.

PDF Figure Tweaks and Fixes

  • Now a bit smarter at determining if a PDF is an image (like from Illustrator) or a document (like from Word, Pages, Keynote, etc). For PDF images we don't show the Curio PDF annotation tools, but we do for documents. The simplified solution is if the PDF has more than one page or is a single page that contains text then Curio's PDF annotation tools will be available.
  • In Yosemite, Apple fixed a rendering bug introduced in Mavericks which prevented Curio from allowing users to annotate PDF figures if the idea space was zoomed. So, while Curio on Mavericks will still forbid annotating until you zoom to actual size, it is now permitted on Yosemite. Good job, Apple!
  • Turns out Mavericks has another issue with PDF's where selections and annotations do not appear when annotating a PDF if responsive scrolling is enabled, which it is by default for faster scrolling. The bug does not appear on Yosemite as it handles this with no problems. This release adds a workaround on Mavericks (by disabling PDFView layers) so selections will work correctly if you want to keep responsive scrolling enabled (it can be disabled via advanced settings).
  • Fixed an issue where if you're annotating several different PDF documents at the same time in the same idea space, then all annotations are now recorded if you close the project or go to another idea space. Previously only the last selected PDF figure would be committed.
  • If you have several PDF figures all showing the same PDF document, perhaps showing different pages like via Spread PDF, then you are now only able to annotate one at a time. If you begin annotating a different figure of the same PDF, Curio will now commit the first figure's annotations to disk before the next one goes into annotation mode. This fixes a bug where simultaneous annotations made to the same PDF via different figures were not all committing to disk.

Other Notable Fixes

  • We now force movies embedded on the idea space to be loaded synchronously so we have what we need to show the correct preview image and begin playback. We also fall back when no poster image or first frame can be found to show a generic movie icon. All of this fixes the issue where movies dragged into Curio could result with an empty image.
  • Fixed tooltip display issues on Retina Macs when resizing or repositioning figures.
  • Adjusted the double-click handling of the select tool so double-click-drags work more reliably to instantly move a figure.
  • Fixed custom, collection-specific toolbar button gallery popups, like List or Mind Map, so the back button isn't visible since that's confusing.
  • It appears that Yosemite has an odd bug where the computer's Sharing name can have numbers appending to the end, like MyMac (26), which can interfere with Curio's session settings file name. If Curio cannot find that session setting file then parameters such as the last expanded state of Organizer items cannot be restored. This release fixes this issue by cleaning sharing names on Yosemite.