Collmate 1.36.0 - April 5, 2007
New features:
- Automatic backup of collection packages (To adjust backup
parameters click Tools -> Options -> Backup.. in main menu).
- Importing list of files or folders to the item description.
- The loan history of item in a report or collection catalog.
See Sample 4.
Improvements/Changes:
- Dropdown menu for the "Report" tool button has been added.
- An ability to quick open recent generated report in the report
designer was added (Tools -> Reports -> Design Recent... or
through drop down menu of the "Report" tool button).
- The STRTONUMERIC function has been implemented in report
generator. This function tries to extract a numeric value from
any given string. See the report generator manual for detailed
information.
- The program context help system and the report generator
manual has been converted to HTML Help format to be viewed
under Microsoft Windows Vista.
Fixed:
- The problem with formatting of contact information has been
fixed.
- Minor fixes.
Collmate 1.35.0 - December 12, 2006
New features:
- Support for wide range of image formats.
Complete list of supported formats are:
CompuServe GIF images (.gif)
Portable network graphic images (.png)
JPEG images (.jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .jfif)
Tagged Image File Format (.tif, .tiff)
Standard Windows bitmap images (.bmp, .rle, .dib)
Photoshop images (.psd, .pdd)
ZSoft Paintbrush images (.pcc, .pcx)
PaintShop Pro images (.psp)
Autodesk images (.pic, .cel)
Kodak Photo-CD images (.pcd)
Encapsulated Postscript images (.eps)
Windows metafiles (.emf, .wmf)
Portable images (.pbm, .pgm, .ppm)
Run length encoded bitmap images (.rle)
Truevision images (.tga, .vst, .icb, .vda, .win)
SGI images (.bw, .rgb, .rgba, .sgi)
Alias/Wavefront images (.rla, .rpf)
GFI fax images (.fax)
Dr. Halo images (.cut)
Icon images (.ico)
- Possibility to open location of assigned image from item
properties dialog.
Improvements/Changes:
- Automatically opening of properties dialog for duplicated item.
- Minor improvements.
Fixed:
- Minor fixes.
Collmate 1.34.2 - June 6, 2006
New features:
- Catalan language is added.
Improvements/Changes:
- A new design for the toolbar buttons.
Fixed:
- The group copying of items are fixed.
Collmate 1.34.1 - May 1, 2006
IMPORTANT: All users of versions 1.30 to 1.33 must update the
program as soon as possible.
Improvements/Changes:
- Report generator engine and designer has been updated.
- Predefined catalog templates are modified to speed up
its processing and exporting.
Fixed:
- Sorting/grouping errors in report generator.
- Minor fixes in report genarator.
Collmate 1.34.0 - April 7, 2006
Fixed:
- Complete data loss while exiting the program. In versions
1.30 to 1.33 can appear the cases, when the program exit
leads to the data file deleting.
- Errors while trying to generate report or catalogue of
items with formatted text in description.
- Minor fixes.
Collmate 1.33.2 - December 16, 2005
Fixed:
- Various problems and bugs has been fixed.
Collmate 1.33.1 - November 27, 2005
Improvements/Changes:
- Compatibility and stability improvements.
Fixed:
- Data loss while canceling exit from the program (for newly
created packages only).
- Saving the item properties in the item lists "Novelties",
"Search Results" and "Loaned Items".
- An error appeared while trying to open the item properties
dialog (in huge collections).
Collmate 1.33.0 - November 15, 2005
New features:
- Recognizing URLs placed in item attributes (Item -> Go to...
-> [Name of attribute containing URL]).
Improvements/Changes:
- Flickering of the attributes panel and long delay while
selecting several items was removed.
- Saving data to the package file was improved.
Fixed:
- Loading of description and images hangs while doing a quick
search.
- Loss of the item description while doing a quick duplication
of item.
Collmate 1.32.2 (September 23, 2005)
Improvements/Changes:
- Report generator engine, designer and export filtres
has been updated.
Collmate 1.32.1 (September 13, 2005)
Improvements/Changes:
- An ability to assign images for group of items.
Fixed:
- Some minor fixes.
Collmate 1.32.0 (June 6, 2005)
New features:
- Import from CSV (Tools -> Import...).
- Sorting collections by alphabetical order.
Improvements/Changes:
- Custom width of "Name" field for each collection.
- Item list and collection export: exporting of hidden
attributes.
Fixed:
- Wrong search results while searching with "Whole Words Only"
option.
Collmate 1.31.3 (April 12, 2005)
Fixed:
- An error "List index out of bounds (-1)." appeared while
trying to add first item into empty collection (only in
version 1.31.2).
Collmate 1.31.2 (April 9, 2005)
Improvements/Changes:
- The drop-down list of attribute value editor is reworked.
Now it is splitted into two value groups: predefined (in
order as entered in the attribute properties) and
automatically collected (in alphabetical order).
- Quick Search Field clearup during another item list
selection.
Fixed:
- The sorting of contact/item history is fixed.
- The default sorting of Novelties and Loaned items sections
is fixed.
- An error "'xxxxx' is not valid a date." appeared while
trying to send the list of loaned items by e-mail is fixed.
Collmate 1.31.1 (February 26, 2005)
Fixed:
- The deleted items no longer appear in the contact history.
- Processing of variables [AttrNames] and [AttrValues] in the
report generator has been corrected. The empty attributes no
longer appear in the coresponding lists.
- The "List of New Items" notification has been corrected. The
empty attributes no longer appear in it.
- Calculation of the loan duration (in days) has been corrected.
- English help has been updated and fixed.
- Some strings for English UI has been corrected.
Collmate 1.31.0 (February 03, 2005)
New features:
- History of the contact (the loan history).
- Quick Search in a current list of items.
Improvements/Changes:
- The "Collection" column has been added into the following
lists: "Novelties", "Search results" and "Contacts".
- Report generator engine has been updated.
- Recent packages list (File -> Reopen) has been improved.
- History of item has been moved to the separate page of item
properties dialog window.
- An ability to arrange the history records by any column has
been added.
Fixed:
- Collmate Report Designer: Fixed an error occured while trying
to use "Save As..." command for a newly created report.
- Fixed some language resources for English localization.
Collmate 1.30.6.49 (September 20, 2004)
New features:
- Report generator lets you create and print reports, item
lists and collection catalogs.
There are three basic types of reports:
1. Simple table (flexible adjustment of table contents);
2. Detailed catalog (more than 10 predefined report forms);
3. Custom report (user-designed report forms; examples are
included).
- Exporting of reports, item lists and collection catalogs.
Supported formats are:
1. Microsoft Word (*.rtf)
2. Microsoft Excel (*.xls)
3. Web Page (*.html)
4. Advanced Web Page (*.html)
5. Comma Separated Values (*.csv)
6. Plain Text (*.txt)
- Custom reports and catalogs designer. To design and manage
custom report forms you need to install "Collmate Report
Designer". It's distributed as a free Collmate add-on.
Improvements/Changes:
- Now "My documents" is a default folder for opening or saving
of the new collection packages.
- New hot keys are added: Ctrl-U - loan, Ctrl-I - return.
- Some collection templates are modified.
- "Install Additional Languages" command is added into the
language setup dialog.
Fixed:
- Incorrect appearance of list columns "Status", "Added",
"Modified" and "Loans" if the list contains more than 28
additional columns.
- Previous search results was not cleared if nothing found in
result of new search.
- The contact name in list caption was not updated after it's
changing.
Other:
- Brand-new program logo and icon.
- New version numbering scheme.
Collmate 1.27, build 44 (May 31, 2004)
Fixed:
- Error appeared in "Template Manager" while trying to make a
copy of predefined collection template or create new one
(ver. 1.25 & 1.26 only).
- Page "Advanced" instead of "Common" was activated while
trying to open attribute properties dialog (ver. 1.26 only).
Collmate 1.26, build 43 (May 24, 2004)
Improvements/Changes:
- Protection against removing temporary files created while
using program. Removing these files cause unrecoverable loss
of all the item descriptions and histories.
- Correct display of collection package file path and name in
case of opening package from the Windows shell (Explorer and
etc.)
Fixed:
- Value of the "Loans" counter did not decrease if the "Loaned"
status was canceled by user.
- Error message appeared in version 1.25 while trying to modify
properties of group of items.
Collmate 1.25, build 41 (May 18, 2004)
Fixed:
- Problems with "Item properties" and "Template manager" dialog
appearance while using large font scheme.
- Inability to change the size of attributes area at the item
description panel while using large font scheme.
- Problems with context help appearance on some systems.
Collmate 1.24, build 38 (March 28, 2004)
New features:
- Possibility to assign up to 4 images for each item in
the collection. Also it is possible to enter a short comment
for each image, which comment will be displayed under this
image in the preview panel.
- Possibility to enter unique captions for images in each
single collection.
- Now it is possibile to modify the date of addition for each
item in the collection.
Improvements/Changes:
- The item details panel is completely redesigned. This panel
is splitted into the several panels. Now it is possible to
adjust visibility and placement of each panel. Additional
options can be found at "View | Data panels" menu.
- The export of the items lists into HTML is improved. Now the
columns' alignment in the exported document is reflected.
Collmate 1.20, build 34 (December 1, 2003)
New features:
- Collections' templates. To create a new collection now it is
possible to use predefined or user-defined templates of
collections. The manager of templates (Tools -> Template
Manager) lets you to create and manage user-defined
templates of collections. Also it is possible to create
templates from existing collections.
There is a set of predefined templates for the following
collections in this version: Books, Coins, Games, Audio CDs,
Stamps, Video(DVD, MPEG4, VHS).
- Collection creation wizard.
- "Other attributes" panel. This panel is located in the item
details area of a main window.It contains all the attributes
which are not displayed in the list of items.
- Prevention of casual changes while viewing properties of the
item (collection, contact). To save changes it is necessary
to unlock 'OK' button by clicking 'Lock' icon in the left
bottom corner of the properties dialog.
- Possibility to create and send to a contact the message with
a list of new items.
- Possibility to create and send to a contact the message with
a list of the items loaned to this contact.
Improvements/Changes:
- The following operations has been speeded up:
a) Opening the collection package is 100-150(!) times faster
now;
b) Saving a collection package is 10-15 times faster now;
c) Searching of the item description is 5-10 times faster
now.
- Item's attributes editor is reworked.
- Possibility to change size of a dialog window of item
properties is added.
- Support for the "read only" packages is added.
- Problems diagnostics at package opening is improved.
Fixed:
- Bug appeared while copying (moving) items into "Collections"
(root) folder: this folder can't contain the additional
attributes,but they can be added into it by copying (moving)
items.
- Bug appeared after creation of a new collection: caption of
the list of items and contents of item details panel were
not updated.
- Incorrect applying of a password while creating new package
is fixed.
- Disappearing of the collections tree and the item details
panel.
- Main menu has been reconfigured.
- Font in the item's properties dialog window is fixed.
Other:
- Possibility to create and send e-mail message to the
program's technical support team.
Collmate 1.12, build 24 (October 15, 2003)
Fixed:
- Fixed bug appeared while correcting properties of an item in
the collections with a hidden attributes.
Collmate 1.11, build 23 (October 2, 2003)
New features:
- New icons for collections are added.
Improvements/Changes:
- Some optimization and improvements are done.
- Toolbar icons are slightly changed.
Fixed:
- Main window status bar localization bug fixed.
Collmate 1.10, build 20 (September 9, 2003)
New features:
- New interface languages are added: French.
- Copying of items.
- Moving of items between collections.
- An ability to duplicate item in the collection. In the next
beta-versions the copying and moving of items will be
implemented.
- New properties of additional attribute are added:
List of default values;
Inherit to a new children collections;
Show in 'Name' column (in non-collection lists);
Show attribute column in list of items;
Alignment of attribute column in list of items;
Font color of attribute column in list of items;
Background color of attribute column in list of items.
- Formatting of the text of the item description. List of
available commands in description editor: Cut, Copy, Paste,
Delete, Select All, Undo (multilevel), Bold, Italic,
Underline, Strikeout, Select Font, Align Left, Align Center,
Align Right, Reset format, Save as, Load, Print. All these
commands are accessible from the panel of tools and the
context popup menu of the editor of the item description.
- Loading item description from and saving to RTF text
document.
- 'Red person' icon for those contacts, how has items from
your collections.
- Cancel button for "Transferred to" status.
- Automatic opening of last or new collection package at start
up of the program.
- Commands 'Check In' and 'Check Out' are added in to the main
menu and the context popup menu of the list of items. As
before they can be performed, using combination
Alt+drag-n-drop or through a window of properties of an item
(or group of items).
- Context popup menu and hot keys in the list of additional
attributes in a window of collection properties.
- Storing of last directory, the image from which were
appointed during the current session of work with a
collection package.
Improvements/Changes:
- 'Check In' and 'Check Out' commands can be performed by
using drag'n'drop with holded Alt key.
- Dialog of item properties has been modified. The description
and a picture are placed on different pages.
- Resorting after change of a set of collection attributes
(after the change of the order or hiding of attributes in
the item list).
- Reflection of a sorting direction in "Novelties", "Search
results" and "Contacts".
- Appearance of the grid of attributes in a item properties
dialog window.
- Controlling of the grid of item additional attributes
values. Now Tab/Shift+Tab and Ctrl+Up/Ctrl+Down are used for
moving on attributes. Alt+Down and Up/Down are used for a
selecting of values from list.
Fixed:
- Fixed highlighting of column on which the list of items is
sorted.
- The bug bringing outflow of system resources is corrected.
Versions with this bug is: 1.02.012 (release) and is later.
Necessary conditions: a) execution of Collmate under
Windows95/98/ME; b) active scrolling of the item list of a
collection in which there are items with a 'Transferred' and
'Private' status. Consequences of a bug: crash of
operational system to reset.
- Incorrect change of the order of attributes columns in case
of added attribute located first.
- An error 'Cannot focus...' is corrected.This error appeared
if setting the status of group of items to 'Transferred' and
when pressing 'Ok' without the entering of contact name.
- Clearing of description viewer at closing of collection
package.
Other:
- The toolbar "Collections and contacts" removed.
Collmate 1.02, build 12 (June 1, 2003)
New features:
- Windows XP Themes support is implemented.
- New interface languages are added: German and Ukrainian.
- An ability to move a collection in a tree of a collections
using drag'n'drop:
Hold SHIFT to place selected collection into specified;
Hold ALT to place selected collection near to specified.
- "Owner's e-mail" in a properties of package.
- Dropdown button 'Reopen' is added into toolbar 'Files' in
main window .
- Context popups with standard edit commands (Copy,Paste,...)
are applied to editors and viewers of description of
collection, item and information of contact.
- Highlight contacts which have items at present.
- Highlight column on which the list of items is ordered.
- An ability to open exports' results.
- Hot keys Ctrl+S, Ctrl+N, Ctrl+O.
Improvements/Changes:
- Interface look of all dialog windows is slightly corrected.
- Optimization of HTML export.
- Autoselection of collection while expanding or collapsing is
disabled.
- Flickering of the main window during its size changing is
reduced a lot.
Fixed:
- Bug at transferring group of items to new contact in the
items group properties dialog.
- Exception at opening 'Reopen' submenu in main menu (in some
cases).
- ESC, Ctrl+TAB, Ctrl+Shift+TAB in a "Item description" input
field.
- ESC in a "Description" input field of the collection
properties window.
- ENTER in a dialog window at opening a package of collections
from Windows Shell.
- Displaying "&" in the collection name.
- Problem with updating the data in the panel of the item
details.
- Small bugs.
- Hot keys handlers in the password dialog window.
- Hot keys handlers in the item properties, collection
properties and contact properties window.
- ESC in the "Information" input field of the contact
properties window.
- Mistakes in .lng files.
Collmate 1.01, build 8 (April 15, 2003)
New features:
- New interface languages are added: Byelorussian and
Estonian.
Improvements/Changes:
- Optimization of HTML export.
Fixed:
- Eliminating "garbage in some dialogs" problem appeared on
several locales.
- Problems with English text in some dialogs.
- Incorrect states of buttons "Go to collection" and "Go to
contacts" in some cases.
- Small bugs.
Collmate 1.00, build 7 (March 4, 2003)
! First public release.
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