More New Settings

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2.3

• You can now set spell checking preferences on a per outline basis
• Zavala will now automatically complete a parent row if all child rows have been completed. It will also automatically uncomplete a parent if it was previously completed, but one of its subtasks becomes uncomplete.
• You can now select the color that you want your font to be in the Settings.
• The Max Editor Width is now configurable in Settings.
• Added a Help menu entry for Community Discussion.
• Added tooltips to font Restore and Add buttons.
• Disabled toolbar buttons on the iPad if an outline isn't selected.
• Reduced the lag associated with creating new rows.
• Changed the Move Right, Left, Up, Down toolbar icons to a more compact design. This will more accurately represent the hit area of the buttons.
• Automatically completing and uncompleting parent rows now works correctly when dragging children rows in and out.
• Using the return key while focusing and in the Tag input field no longer will create a row above the Focused rows.
• Fixed a crash that could happen when deleting a block of rows at the bottom of an outline.
• macOS
  • Added text zooming commands to the View menu
  • The editor selection and cursor now correctly match the system accent color if a specific system accent color has been selected.
  • Work around an bug that would cause the toolbar buttons to be in an incorrect active state.
• iOS
  • The keyboard no longer hides and comes back if you delete a row by backspacing it out of existence.
  • Added Disable Editor Animations setting

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This discussion was created from the release More New Settings.

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This is for the TestFlight build and are features coming in the 2.3 production release.

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Zavala version 2.3 Beta 1 is now up in TestFlight for both macOS and iOS. https://testflight.apple.com/join/iFbND23m

There are some new settings in the 2.3 release. I really try to keep the number of settings to a bare minimum, so adding this many is a big deal to me. Some users had to work at it to get me talked into these, but I happy with them now that they are added.

You can now set spell checking preferences on a per-outline basis. That allows you to completely disable spell checking and autocorrect for an entire outline, which wasn't possible before. Before, it was on a row by row basis and was non-persistent.

There are now a couple of different max editor width options. The Normal option is about 44em, which is considered by some to be the widest readable width for text. The Wide option is around 30% wider than that. There is also a Full Width for those who like to hold a ruler up to their 27" monitors to be able to read stuff.

I got a couple of requests about font color that I rolled together. One was for color theme support and one was more of an accessibility issue. The accessibility issue was that the user was having trouble seeing the Notes fields because they are too dim. I take accessibility very seriously, so I knew that was something I needed to work on. Since I had to do that, I added some theme-like functionality with it.

You can now specify what color you want your font to be in the Font Settings. The number of colors is limited to a set that will self adjust based on if you are in dark mode or light mode. Still, there are enough of them now that you can absolutely make your eyes bleed rainbow tears if you want.

One new suggested option that I just made as a default is autocompleting parent rows. If a row has children that are all completed, it will complete itself with out a user needing to do anything. The opposite also happens to completed parent rows that have uncompleted children. They become uncompleted. I'd appreciate any feedback on if I got the behaviors correct. It works how I expect it too, which means I probably missed something. :-)

The document Find function has also been rewritten to use the new native Find Interaction controls. On iOS that means the Find area is attached to the keyboard instead of at the top of the outline. You can also do whole word or case sensitive finds. Since I was in there mucking around, I also added the Replace functions as well.

I also spent some time trying to make Zavala feel snappier. Creating new empty rows is one area that is noticeably quicker.

All-in-all this is a pretty solid minor release.