NCL Composer 0.2.0 released

Release 0.2.0 of NCL Composer is out. This release has been developed during the last year, and includes the improvements and bug fixes implemented during this last year. Probably, you will found only few changes on the user interface, but several internal refactoring and new features for plug-in developers have been implemented since the 0.1.9 version.

The main issues included in this version are:

  • Composer Core - Feature #542: Support to Qt 5.x
  • Composer Core - Feature #711: Add a message in the API which allows for adding a subtree to the document.
  • Composer Core - Feature #713: Change addEntity with a subtree to allow the specification of the parameter 'format'.
  • Composer GUI - Feature #541: Support to Qt 5.x
  • Composer GUI - Feature #661: Remove close button from Welcome tab.
  • Composer GUI - Feature #719: Change executable name to nclcomposer.exe
  • Composer Plugins - Bug #623: Structural: Creating a link (without a connector) is not creating a default connector to it. (Structural2)
  • Composer Plugins - Bug #648: Structural: Remove invalid characters when drag and drop media objects. (Structural1 / Structural2)
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #217: Structural: Enable Undo/Redo actions (Structural2)
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #411: Layout: Handle zIndex
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #518: Structural: Link dialog should omit the connector stuffs. (Structural2)
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #534: Structural: Add a menu option to add link. (Structural2)
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #540: Support to Qt 5.x.
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #638: Structural: Ask the user if he is sure when deleting the body or a context.
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #640: Layout: Drag over region must highlight the region.
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #645: Layout: Draw safe area
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #660: Remove close button from Welcome tab.
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #663: Textual: Order of attributes of element <region> should be fixed.
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #665: Property: Keep NCL_STRUCTURE attribute order.
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #667: Textual: Update to QScintilla 2.8.
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #675: Rules: Add a default id when creating the rule.
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #676: Rules: Set a default operator (maybe “and”) when creating a composite rule.
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #701: Structural: Change default instance attribute to “instSame” when creating a reference. (Structural1)
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #702: All: Make a standard to plugin dll/so.
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #704: Rule: Command to insert elements should be: Insert > Element. Following the same conventions as structural and layout.
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #705: Layout: Support to keyboard (e.g. LEFT, RIGHT, UP, DOWN) to move regions.
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #709: Layout: Support to keyboard (e.g. SHIFT+LEFT, SHIFT+RIGHT, SHIFT+UP, SHIFT+DOWN) to move regions with a small step.
  • Composer Plugins - Feature #720: Layout: Move “Add region” for the first level in contextual menu.

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