Release 1.0.1: extended character sets, typos and bug fixes…
First of all, a huge thank you to all those who provided feedback over last week. I’m sorry I haven’t been able to reply to all, but the response has been pretty overwhelming with dozens of emails flowing in every couple of hours, pretty hard to keep up with!
That being said, be ensured I have been reading all of your feedback, suggestions, bug reports, comments and feature requests, which have helped me establish a clear list of priorities for next steps, leading me today into releasing the first post-launch update.
Version 1.0.1 Release Notes:
- Now supporting a pretty extended character set, including cyrillic alphabet (and thus Russian), German, Czech, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Romanian, Swedish, Norwegian and Turkish special characters! Being absolutely no expert at any of these languages, I am not 100% certain all needed characters have been included, so please let me know if anything is missing for you ! All my excuses to asian users, but the (very large) character sets you guys require are not in yet, but that’s the next thing on my list.
- Fixed a couple of typos here and there in email templates
- Removed passwords from confirmation emails for security reasons
- Changed the preloader’s ugly background color. I promess I’ll skin the preloader some time, but in all honesty I haven’t flagged this as being highest priority, sorry for the purists
- Fixed a bug in the Document, PaperTape and Data Storage symbols that made them expand wildly when typing in labels
- Last but not least, I think I finally got rid of a very annoying bug that I thought had been eradicated during the beta, but not. That bug resulted in strange export results where the exported image looked very small, which was caused by an “orphan” symbol that got placed at the top left corner of the drawing grid for a previously unidentified reason. I don’t want to claim victory too soon because this has been a real tough one to track down and eliminate, but I think I’ve nailed it !
Coming up next, in yet undefined order: AIR offline version, custom symbols upload (for premium accounts), expanded symbols libraries (for premium accounts), PDF export, direct printing, emailing to friends and co-workers, asian alphabets support, and many many many more things, but quality first !

12 February 2009 |
Brilliant application!
But:
Needs a FORUM!!!
When I export my chart it is a tiny thing in the corner of a big white jpg.
I expected to see a User Forum link on the site and to probably find that someone else had the key to this problem.
Save yourself hours!
Please get a user forum.
Cheers
Jim
12 February 2009 |
Hi Jim,
sorry about that problem, but the good news is the problem you are describing is exactly one that’s been solved in this release:
(…) in strange export results where the exported image looked very small, which was caused by an “orphan” symbol that got placed at the top left corner of the drawing grid for a previously unidentified reason.
To remove it, zoom out to the max extent, then pan towards the top left corner, you should see a dark dot, select it and delete it. Exporting should be behaving normally after that.
Cheers,
Jerome.
12 February 2009 |
Ha - funny that you posted that here. I was experiencing the same issue. Thanks for the recommended fix … maybe you want to add this to the FAQ?
15 February 2009 |
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17 February 2009 |
Nursing education is using more and more concept maps. The students however are not adept at drawing boxes, circles etc and so this type of software would be very useful. The problem I see is the ability to make comments on a completed map after the student submits it for grading. Would that be a feature you might include? If so, I would be interested in the beta test, otherwise it will not work for our nursing program.
18 February 2009 |
First: VERY cool product! I can’t wait until it’s finished.
I created my first chart yesterday. Today when I log in (either using Safari 3 or Firefox 3 on a MacBook running 10.5.6), I can see the file I saved, but when I open it: BLANK CANVAS> I have tried zooming out to see if I’m missing something, but there’s nothing there! Please help.