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Data file updated

Matthew Hutton — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:44:27 +0100

I have been sent some further spells and a character class by Ben Sutherland today, these have now been added to the data file. There are also some other minor alterations (and with D&D Manager 2.2 or later you can overwrite existing data correctly). This can now be downloaded from the data page (direct link here).

Thanks for all the contributions so far from Patti Devlin, Go Endo, Eric Rahm, Ben Sutherland and Wordman. If you have any further contributions, please send them to me so they can be included.

The Data File is now at version 2.1.4

D&D Manager 2.2.1 Released

Matthew Hutton — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:16:32 +0100

I've made a couple of changes to improve performance/reliability, especially on PowerPC/Tiger machines.

The new version can be downloaded here or on the download page.

D&D Manager 2.2 Released

Matthew Hutton — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:15:48 +0100

Over the past couple of weeks I've overhauled the attack screen to make it easier to use. I've also improved how attacks of opportunity work as well as made quite a few other minor changes.

The new version can be downloaded here or on the download page.

Thanks to Wordman and omnihedron for the suggestions used to improve the attack screen for this release.

Versioning system changed

Matthew Hutton — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:32:28 +0100

This is the least exciting news ever but is worth recording. I'm changing the way I version releases to make more sense. Minor bugfix releases will be x.x.x (e.g. 2.1.6). Releases with major features which don't break file compatability will be x.x (e.g. 2.1) and those releases that do break file compatability will be x (e.g. 2, 3 etc) which should make the versioning a little clearer.

Going travelling

Matthew Hutton — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:40:15 +0100

At the beginning of August I'm going off travelling for 6 months or so and I'm not taking my laptop with me. If you have any bug fixes or minor features you'd like adding before I leave send me an email in the next couple of days.

I'm currently working on improving the attack screen and I should be making a software release with that complete sometime in the next week. Though I'll be happy to do another bugfix release before I leave if needed.

D&D Manager 2.1.6 Released

Matthew Hutton — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:01:48 +0100

After 3 months, most of which I have been busy doing exams the next version of D&D Manager is ready for release. This includes changes to improve ammo handling, and turn/rebuke undead as well as the underlying coding improvements mentioned in my last post.

The new version can be downloaded here, or on the download page.

Thanks to Ullrich Reichenbach II for the suggestions used to improve the ammo system that have been fixed in this release.

Coding improvements

Matthew Hutton — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:51:30 +0100

Over the past few weeks I have been working on D&D Manager to improve the source code as I mentioned in my last post. Those efforts have been successful and now the code can be downloaded from the source page. These improvements should make it easier to keep the program high-quality.

For developers only: Giving those changes in a more technical language. Basically I have added defined constants, continued to improve the source documentation and converted the .nib files to .xib files, which now have the advantage that they will behave better with SVN so translations and other modifications can be done easier. Unfortunately they now require Mac OS X Leopard to edit, but the program will run on Mac OS X Tiger and will do for the foreseeable future.

D&D 4th Edition

Matthew Hutton — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:53:56 +0100

I've heard that D&D 4th Edition has been released in the past couple of weeks and I've recieved a couple of emails on the subject. Unfortunately I don't think I will personally be updating D&D Manager to 4th edition as I don't really have the time to update it and soon I'm going travelling for 6 months.

I am happy to work with anyone who wishes to update D&D Manager to 4th edition D&D and I will aim to respond to any questions you have on the source code promptly.

At the moment I have been tidying up the code for D&D Manager (a bit like what Apple is planning for Snow Leopard) and these changes should make it easier for others to contribute.

PS If you want to translate D&D Manager to another language I'm happy to provide assistence there too.

PPS As I'm going travelling any bug reports you have are definitely welcome.

D&D Manager 2.1.5 Released

Matthew Hutton — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:55:23 +0100

Today I have made some further bugfixes to D&D Manager, as well as improving the way you add/remove characters from battle.

The new version can be downloaded here, or on the download page.

Thanks to Ace Jay for reporting issues that have been fixed in this release.

D&D Manager 2.1.4 released

Matthew Hutton — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 22:48:04 +0100

As I was sent a bug report with some bugs in D&D Manager by Wordman I have made a release today, I have improved the attack screen, as well as fixing some other issues, you can see more details on the release notes page.

The new version can be downloaded here, or on the download page.

Also today its one year since the first version was released, there has been a lot of progress in that time, and thanks to everyone who uses the application.

D&D Manager Data File Updated

Matthew Hutton — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:39:44 +0100

I have been sent some further spells by Wordman, these have now been added to the data file. This can now be downloaded from the data page and is only compatible with D&D Manager 2.1 or later.

Thanks for all the contributions so far from Patti Devlin, Go Endo, Eric Rahm and Wordman. If you have any further contributions, please send them to me so they can be included.

The Data File is now at version 2.1.3

Oops with D&D Manager 2.1.3

Matthew Hutton — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:53:44 +0000

Sorry I seem to have screwed up that last update. If you have downloaded the new version from my site or a third party site none of the updated features added in version 2.1.3 will have been made.

Please use the built in upgrade function to upgrade to the newest version or re-download it.

Thanks to Michael Hall for finding this issue.

D&D Manager 2.1.3 Released

Matthew Hutton — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:48:04 +0000

On top of D&D Manager 2.1.2 which I released on Friday and forgot to add to the RSS Feed (sorry about that). I have just released D&D Manager 2.1.3, which includes bugfixes for bugs for cross-class skills and inventory issues in Tiger.

It can be downloaded from the download page.

Thanks to Larry Geyer and Nathan Peterson-Bunker for reporting these. Reporting bugs is always welcome to bugs@erasersoft.com. If you'd prefer to do so anonymously let be know in the email.

D&D Manager Data File Updated

Matthew Hutton — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 11:47:30 +0000

Patti Devlin has send me some more feats and a few weapons, these have been added to the data file. This can now be downloaded from the data page and is only compatible with D&D Manager 2.1 or later.

The data file is now at version 2.1.2

D&D Manager 2.1.1 Released

Matthew Hutton — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:23:18 +0000

The first patch for version 2.1 has been released fixing a few minor issues, it can be downloaded from the download page.

D&D Manager Data File Updated

Matthew Hutton — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:20:44 +0000

I have added weapons sent to me by Eric Rahm, and dug out a few of my weapons that were actually labelled correctly, these have now been added to the data file. This can now be downloaded from the data page and is only compatible with D&D Manager 2.1 or later.

Thanks for all the contributions so far from Patti Devlin, Go Endo and Eric Rahm. If you have any further contributions, please send them to me so they can be included.

The data file is now at version 2.1.1

D&D Manager Data File Updated

Matthew Hutton — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 11:58:12 +0000

I have updated some feats sent to me by Patti Devlin to the data file, this can now be downloaded from the data page. This file is only compatible with D&D Manager 2.1 which was released last weekend.

If you can send me your data files with Feats Weapons and Spells that would be useful. Weapons would be especailly useful.

The data file is now at version 2.1.0.

D&D Manager 2.1 Released

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:55:13 +0000

D&D Manager 2.1 has been finally released today. The changes include printing support for the first time, global skills being configurable by class, a lot of tables have add/remove by double clicking on table entries, the global feats, skills and weapons screens have been tidied up. Also some memory leaks have been fixed, and loading times have been improved by 50% by removing unneeded error checking. More information on new features is available on the release notes page.

The new version can be downloaded from the download page.

D&D Manager 2.0.7 Released

Matthew Hutton — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:56:52 +0000

I've had a few problems with the 2.1 update involving some stuff going missing, I'm carefully re-going over the code but its taking a while. I also found a bug in updating global skills so I've released another 2.0.x version, it can be downloaded now from the download page.

Spells List Updated

Matthew Hutton — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:16:08 +0000

Patti Devlin sent me some more spells which have been updated into the master list, this can be downloaded from the spells project page.

D&D Manager version 2.1 is nearly ready

Matthew Hutton — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:52:43 +0000

As a late Christmas present I have nearly finished version 2.1. This version will have printing support (A4 and US Letter only), as well as a new items system for the inventory, as well as faster loading of documents, and a fair few ease of use improvements.

It will need some more testing before I release it, but if you'd like a copy for testing/curiousity send me an email to contact@erasersoft.com.

Sadly I don't feel that I can stick a beta on my website, as it'll get linked without a beta warning, but I will be happy to let you have a copy by email.

Spells List Updated

Matthew Hutton — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:50:12 +0000

Patti Devlin sent me some more spells which have been updated into the master list, this can be downloaded from the spells project page.

I am interested in adding Weapons and Feats into the data file, if you have added any send me an email.

Save File Backup Location

Matthew Hutton — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:36:32 +0000

I'm still pretty sure that the data-loss bug is now fixed with version 2.0.6 and I haven't had any more reports of it, but due to the fact that some users seemed to be experiencing a crash (which I haven't been able to reproduce) at that point, they may have missed where the backups are stored.

The backups are in: [Home Directory]/Library/Application Support/D&D Manager/.

D&D Manager 2.0.6 is still creating these when saving (though not loading) in case the bug re-occurs elsewhere. Also in general they could still be useful!

At some point I'll add the option to clear these backup files in preferences.

D&D Manager 2.0.6 released

Matthew Hutton — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:51:13 +0000

I have been informed by Apple that the data loss bug occurs when saving a file with no changes. I have fixed my code to hopefully remove this problem, if it still occurs however please let me and/or Apple know (Apple Bug ID: 5575683) so this issue can be fixed. The new version can be downloaded from the download page.

Spells Updated

Matthew Hutton — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 23:10:14 +0000

I've added Spells beginning with B from the spells compendium to the spells file. Thanks to Patti Devlin for adding them to D&D Manager.

All Data contributions are much appreciated, and you will be credited for your contributions (unless you'd prefer to remain anonymous).

D&D Manager 2.0.5 Released

Matthew Hutton — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 10:01:34 +0000

D&D Manager 2.0.5 has been released, bug fixes and a few minor changes have been made, see the release notes for more information. It can be downloaded now from the download page.

Spells List Updated

Matthew Hutton — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:42:56 +0000

The Spells List has been updated with Go Endo's Spells from A to Z, some minor changes have been made to other spells, so you may wish to overwrite your existing spells with the "Overwrite Spells" option on the Import Screen. This is available from the Spells page.

D&D Manager 2.0.4 Released

Matthew Hutton — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:42:07 +0000

I have released version 2.0.4 of D&D Manager which alleviates the data loss issue, and allows you to overwrite existing stuff when you import, as well as minor fixes to spells and feats, it can be downloaded from the download page.

Possible data corruption issue found under Leopard

Matthew Hutton — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 12:04:47 +0000

Last night I found out that there seems to be a data loss issue with D&D Manager which involves the users data file being completely wiped. It appears to only occur under Mac OS X Leopard but it seems to occur on both Intel and PowerPC machines.

The next version will backup your data files before saving and loading them to help alleviate the issue, but in the mean time make sure you have created a manual backup of your data file.

If this has happpened to you, regardless of operating system, please send me an email to contact@erasersoft.com.

Spells List Updated (Updated)

Matthew Hutton — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:45:27 +0000

Go Endo has added some new spells for D&D Manager and I have added the first section of those, beginning with letters from A to L to the master list, as well as improving the descriptions of some of the existing spells, these are available to download from the spells project page.

In the next version of D&D Manager you'll be able to overwrite existing spells that have been imported with updated versions if you wish.

D&D Manager 2.0.3 released

Matthew Hutton — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:20:27 +0000

I think that Metamagic feats are working well, and I have a couple of other fixes, including improvements to the ammunition system. So I am releasing version 2.0.3 today. It is available to download from the download page.

Testing for D&D Manager

Matthew Hutton — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:24:22 +0000

I am getting towards the point of releasing version 2.1 of D&D Manager, which will include printing support as well as working metamagic feats (sorry). It would be good to do some external testing of it, so if you are interested send me an email (contact@erasersoft.com). All that will be required is to tell me how well its working with your data file, and information that I can have is useful as I'd like to get this right first time.

If you only have a little time email me anyway, the more help I get the better!

D&D Manager 2.0.2 Released

Matthew Hutton — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:20:12 +0000

D&D Manager 2.0.2 has been released, it includes a few minor fixes and improvements and characters with targetable feats now work in battle.

Sourceforge Project Created

Matthew Hutton — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:10:56 +0000

After finding that Google hard limited 100MB for file storage (and you can't delete existing files). I have created a Sourceforge account for D&D Manager.

The Google Code stuff will be moved over as and when I have time and then it will be closed.

D&D Manager 2.0.1 Released

Matthew Hutton — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 20:20:59 +0100

D&D Manager 2.0.1 is now available to download from the download page. Importing has been improved as well as other minor changes and it is fully Leopard Compatible.

Leopard Testing Complete

Matthew Hutton — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:58:34 +0100

My copy of Leopard arrived this morning and I have tested version 2.0 and version 1.3.11 on Leopard, and both seem to be working fine. There was a minor bug in version 2.0 which has been fixed, along with improving the importing system in version 2.0.1 which is now available to href="http://www.erasersoft.com/download.html">download page.

Leopard Compatability

Matthew Hutton — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:38:04 +0100

I haven't as yet tested D&D Manager with Leopard as I only have a free developers account with Apple (and I haven't been naughty and torrented it :p). Once I get my copy installed (which is hopefully arriving today), I'll report back on whether it is compatable, I will test version 1.3.13 as well as version 2.0 and if its easy I'll release an update for that version too if its required.

D&D Manager 2.0 Released

Matthew Hutton — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:57:57 +0100

I fixed another round of bugs in D&D Manager 2.0 beta 4, and felt that it was probably stable enough. So I've released D&D Manager 2.0 today. It includes a brand new and much prettier (though sadly art free as I have no drawing talent), toolbar, as well as globalised feats, weapons and skills so they can be shared with any character. The UI has also been improved in many cases. The new features are now on the features page.

As usual bug reports are always welcome, the more the merrier as far as I'm concerned. To send them my email address is bugs@erasersoft.com

Finally thanks to those external sites (Apple, CNet, MacGameFiles and Versiontracker) who followed my request and keep the beta off their download sites, I realise that you are keen to add new software, but the betas, except for possibly the last one, were really not ready for general use, I really only stuck it on my site so that users if they were curious and knew what they were doing could see what was coming.

The reason I felt I had to make the request is that the beta tag gets overused so people don't understand that it means unpolished software, maybe I'll have to use a different tag line in future.

D&D Manager 1.3.13 Released

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:22:09 +0100

I found a bug in the support for dexterity feats while testing the beta of D&D Manager 2.0, and it was also in the 1.3.x code so I've released an update to fix it, it is downloadable from the download page.

D&D Manager Beta Items Moved to Beta Feed

Matthew Hutton — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:16:55 +0100

To avoid posting so many posts about the 2.0 Beta in the site news feed and on the home page, I have moved the beta feed information to a separate feed. This feed is here.

2.0 Beta 1 Available for Download

Matthew Hutton — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 19:14:50 +0100

The version 2.0 beta is now avaible to download, more details are available on the beta page.

Please however refrain from adding the beta files to external websites, it is intended to only be available to download here so that users who aren't comfortable with unfinished software do not use it.

Printing Support

Matthew Hutton — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:19:51 +0100

I am just finishing off the first beta release of D&D Manager 2.0, and the most requested feature which it is missing is printing support. I haven't included this yet as I have been trying to generalise the program on the computer. I will be releasing a beta of D&D Manager very soon and after that I will have some bugs to fix, but Printing is the definitely the next feature on my radar.

RSS Added

Matthew Hutton — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 16:14:37 +0100

Today I downloaded an application called Feeder for a 15 day trial. This application allows easy RSS feed creation. So along with manually creating one for new versions of D&D Manager. I have decided to create one for this news page.

Icons Required

Matthew Hutton — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 16:00:00 +0100

Version 2.0 of D&D Manager needs some icons for the toolbar, if you could contribute even one or two that would be brilliant if you want to send me an email to contact@erasersoft.com.