| Version | Description |
|---|---|
| 8.3 | New: The Edit menu has a new item named Clear Verification Flags. This will clear all the Verification Flags on the Album window to false. |
| 8.3 | New: Added a Refresh button to the list windows for the purpose of refreshing the entries in the case where an album is changed while the list is open. This instead of closing the list window and reopening. |
| 8.3 | Changed: Main menu item Windows has the label changed to Views. |
| 8.3 | Changed: Removed the album filter from the Albums window and made it a separate floating window. Added to the filter is a checklist to filter format types. |
| 8.3 | Changed: Remodeled the Albums window to use "page panels" for the controls. Specific issue information and a more comprehensive album list is contained on the front page of the window while tracks, personnel, cover art and notes are contained on the track info page. Pages are navigated via icons in a common toolbar located at the top of the window. |
| 8.3 | Changed: Updated the lookup field drop down lists used throughout BC to automatically adjust height based on local font size so that there are no truncated rows displayed. |
| 8.3 | Changed: Changed Prefs window to prevent deleting a popup type if it is the last entry for that type. Each popup type MUST have at least one entry. |
| 8.3 | Changed: Changed prefs validation to simply add defaults for any pref that is not set instead of popping open the Prefs window to indicate missing prefs. |
| 8.3 | Changed: Changed the duplicate warning for adding or editing songs to display the duplicate titles in the warning message. |
| 8.3 | Changed: Modified all album lists to show the album verification flag as first column in the list as a clickable checkbox. Clicking the checkbox will update the album record. |
| 8.2 | Fixed: Pressing New Composer button now clears the lookup dropdown list if it is showing. |
| 8.2 | Fixed: Show/Hide button for the album selection list now initializes properly on Windows. |
| 8.2 | Changed: Set the Album Tags list so that if you simply click on the line, it will check or uncheck the box accordingly. |
| 8.1 | Changed: Updated the message dialog routine to place error or warning messages on top of window generating the condition for the message rather than centered on the screen. |
| 8.1 | Fixed: Corrected the tabbing through fields in the Personnel pane of the Songs/Personnel/Labels window. |
| 8.1 | Fixed: Newly created writers had their name indexes set to blank in the Writers table. |
| 8.1 | Fixed: Prevent changing of selected album in Albums window of there are unsaved notes changes. |
| 8.0 | New: Upgraded schema of database. PLEASE NOTE:Upon using this version with a database from a previous version of BC, the database will be converted to the new version 8 schema. Once converted, the database will not be compatible with any previous versions of Beyond Category. Please make sure you have a backup of your database before trying the new version. |
| 8.0 | New: Added Name suffix field for artist name records. |
| 8.0 | New: Added a preference for the track list column order in the Albums window. |
| 8.0 | New: Created index fields for first name and last name fields of Artists and composer tables. |
| 8.0 | New: Added file artist and release year to the Albums For Person list. |
| 8.0 | New: Added release year to the All Albums List. |
| 8.0 | New: Added album title to Instrument Usage list. |
| 8.0 | New: Added a contextual menu to access the Instrument Usage list from the Instruments window. |
| 8.0 | Fixed: Changed Albums for Song list column headed Leader to File Artist. |
| 8.0 | Fixed: All iterations of minutes and seconds in timing now include leading zero if the number is a single digit. |
| 8.0 | Fixed: Sorting of names can now be properly done if the suffix field is used for names containing things like "Jr". Previously the Jr suffix in a name was stored in the last name field which would throw off the correct sort. |
| 8.0 | Fixed: Pressing the New Album button in the Albums window now correctly clears all the fields shown in the window. |
| 8.0 | Fixed: Bug in Instrument window was causing loss of sort order. |
| 7.23 | Fixed: Use of Title field as lookup in Albums window is now enabled for the Windows version of BC. Windows version of BC was preventing the use of the album title field on the Albums window from acting as lookup. |
| 7.22 | New: Added new date field to albums window to notate the last update of an album. Not just the album record, but any record that directly effects the individual album. |
| 7.22 | New: Added contextual menu to Albums window to select one or more albums and change the location setting. |
| 7.22 | New: Added contextual menu to album list for setting date played to selected albums. |
| 7.22 | New: Added display of date played, record added date, and record modified date to bottom of Albums window. |
| 7.22 | New: Added contextual menus for all lookup fields and lists where appropriate. |
| 7.22 | Changed: Preferences window is upgraded to make the date format choices simpler. Date format choices are reduced to only format and a separate locale preference is used to make any date format choice respond to American or European style dates. |
| 7.22 | Changed: Albums window now dynamically updates the display of last updated date |
| 7.22 | Changed: Changed album title field to be lookup for individual albums. |
| 7.22 | Changed: Modified alternating background color on html album list to use light shades of grey instead of green. |
| 7.22 | Changed: Adding a new album that does not match the set filter in the Albums window now erases the filter and selects the album in the filter list. |
| 7.22 | Fixed: Added a routine to the Post Open processing of the database to look for performance date fields that are spaces and replace them with NULL. The space fields were getting displayed as 1/1/1900. |
| 7.22 | Fixed: Buy date and release date were not being saved when adding an album, but were being saved when editing. The edit routine was using a convert routine to change the DateTime to Date. I added that to the add routine in VC_Albums. |
| 7.22 | Fixed: Importing BC album was not checking for valid album format and allowing load even if not valid causing an exception. |
| 7.22 | Fixed: OCD imports no longer crash if performance dates are not included in XML. This was a change in OCD_UpdateDB.AddTracks. The DateTime parameter was being converted to Date unnecessarily and nil Date can't be converted to DateTime. |
| 7.22 | Fixed: Made change to date entry for entering the year. Previously, any two digit year less than 25 was added as 20nn and 20 or greater was added as 24nn. The cutoff for deciding the century is now current year + 2. This change applies to date fields on Sessions, Issues, Report Notes, and Report Generator windows. |
| 7.22 | Fixed: Album title field on Albums window now has text auto-selected when it gets focus. |
| 7.22 | Fixed: Prevent OutOfBounds exception when tabbing out of album title lookup field when there are no selections in the drop down list. |
| 7.21 | New: Implemented new error reporting that will support sending email reports when an error occurs. |
| 7.21 | New: Added 3 more date format preferences for reports that support using year as the leading element. i.e. yyyy-mm-dd |
| 7.21 | Changed: Preference window now updates preferences as they are changed without the need for the Save button. |
| 7.21 | Changed: Reworked preferences for window location placement to take into account anomalies with different OS platforms. |
| 7.21 | Changed: Changed window placement prefs so that list browsers and display windows of the same type will be placed at an offset |
| 7.21 | Changed: Track list on Albums window now uses date format from preferences for recording date column. |
| 7.21 | Changed: Delete Local Preferences checkbox is removed and replaced with a button that activates the feature. |
| 7.21 | Fixed: Trying to add an album via the OCD import will warn if there are default preferences not set that are required for the album. Previously, it would crash. |
| 7.21 | Fixed: Beyond Category will issue a warning message, rather than crash, when there is a request to print an album with no album selected on the Albums window. |
| 7.20 | Fixed: Album entry in list on Import Albums From Orange CD turns black from red on successful import. |
| 7.20 | New: Added menubar to Import Albums from Orange CD window. This applies to Windows OS only. |
| 7.20 | New: Verify all Appearance Preferences are valid before allowing save of preferences in Appearance tab. |
| 7.20 | New: Added check when starting app to see that all Appearance Preferences are valid. If not, display Prefs window with warning. |
| 7.20 | Changed: Modified storage location of preferences file. Now storing prefs in the dedicated folder within the Application Support folder (Mac) or AppData folder in Windows. |
| 7.19 | New: Implemented search for album list in Orange CD import window. |
| 7.19 | New: Implemented instrument menu on Orange CD import window. |
| 7.19 | Fixed: Albums preferences for window location has been corrected. Adding the DB name to the title bar was interfering with the preferences key for the window. |
| 7.19 | Fixed: Orange CD album load for Nil release date no longer causes exception. There was a mismatch in function calls for Date and DateTime. |
| 7.18 | New: Complete redesign of Orange CD import. |
| 7.18 | New: Added feature to song lookup fields to allow using the search string to search for titles within the song name. |
| 7.18 | Fixed: When updating tracks info or personnel with multiple track selections, the tracks will stay selected after the update is completed. |
| 7.18 | Fixed: Take Type popup will no longer try to set itself to the take of the track selected when there is no track selected. |
| 7.18 | Fixed: SQL for instrument lookups now properly escape apostrophes. |
| 7.18 | Changed: iTunes XML now converted to JSON for import to BC. This is only available for Mac using AppleScript export on iTunes. |
| 7.18 | Changed: Value field on Albums window will now format currency according to the settings of the host computer. New field will display spaces instead of $0.00 if there is no value entered. |
| 7.18 | Changed: Turned off use of focus ring for all fields. |
| 7.17 | Changed: Added New Record to the Edit Menu using the menu key code shortcut of Cmd-Shift-N (Ctrl-Shift-N for Windows). This will press the New button for the active window that has that feature without having to move hand off keyboard. |
| 7.17 | New: Added menu bar to Preferences window. This only effects Windows version. |
| 7.17 | Fixed: Fixed the mutex checking to correctly prevent two simultaneous executions of BC. |
| 7.17 | Changed: Disallow moving off an album in the Albums window if the notes tab is under edit. This was causing lost work by clearing changes without saving. |
| 7.17 | New: Adding or editing a person record now warns if the name is duplicate even if the skill field is different. |
| 7.17 | New: Adding or editing a label record now warns if the name is duplicate even if the cc field is different. |
| 7.17 | Fixed: Clear skill field when entering new person in Songs/Personnel/Labels window. |
| 7.17 | Fixed: Clear country code field when entering new label in Songs/Personnel/Labels window. |
| 7.17 | New: Added country code to the lookup list for label lookup fields. |
| 7.16 | New: Added album format to the single album reports. |
| 7.16 | New: Added a feature to export the track lists of playlists into a .tsv (tab-delimited) file for use with Excel. |
| 7.16 | New: Changed the export feature in the lists windows to use .tsv as the file extension. |
| 7.16 | New: Added list to display tracks using a selected instrument. |
| 7.16 | New: Added new list for All Songs to include composers. |
| 7.16 | New: Updated the check for new version to remove auto install and instead direct users to website download page. |
| 7.16 | Fixed: Addded track rating stars to fields that should be shown/hidden for song lookup in Tracks tab on Albums window. |
| 7.16 | Fixed: Remove the underline from the Title field label in the Albums window. It is no longer a lookup field. |
| 7.16 | Fixed: Fixed bug in displaying dates in list routines. Bad SQL looking for text dates was causing the field to always be blank. |
| 7.16 | Fixed: Fixed error log report file name so it correctly has the program name as part of the file name. |
| 7.16 | Fixed: Fixed bug where blank text dates were being overlooked in list routines because the field was not returning NULL. |
| 7.16 | Updated: Removed use of focus ring for listboxes on Albums window. |
| 7.16 | Updated: Removed use of focus ring for listboxes on Report List window. |
| 7.16 | Updated: Changed the Print button on the Playlists window to actually print the playlist rather than write it to a file for printing. |
| 7.16 | Updated: Removed the Print and Export buttons from the Playlist and Lists window and replaced them with menu items under the File menu. |
| 7.16 | Updated: Added skill field to the All Personnel list. |
| 7.16 | Updated: Changed SQL keyword from LIKE to ILIKE when searching for embedded strings. |
| 7.16 | Updated: Updated Songs Used on Album list to include track timing and recording date. |
| 7.16 | Updated: Modified lookup fields to react better when artist not found. If dropdown is empty because lookup failed, the New or Edit button can be pressed. No longer have to erase the field first to clear the dropdown list. |
| 7.16 | Updated: Consolidated "are you sure" dialogs so they behave in a consistent manner. |
| 7.15 | Reintroduced feature to import and export album data between BC users. |
| 7.15 | Fixed album reporting. When selecting report with Personnel by Track, it would only show personnel if people were different, not if same people were playing a different instrument. |
| 7.15 | Enhanced the UI for drag and drop between personnel lists and tracklist to playlist. |
| 7.14 | Fixed bug in album list report. Access of database cursor had a mismatched field count causing nilObject Exception. |
| 7.14 | Fixed the album tags list so it can be scrolled with the mouse when the Albums window is not in edit mode. |
| 7.14 | Removed vestiges of old version checker. |
| 7.13 | Fixed date validation to account for a leap year. |
| 7.13 | Upgraded version update checker to be more robust and include ability to download and install new version. |
| 7.12 | Support removing a all stars from a rating via contextual menu. (right-click) |
| 7.12 | Add a star rating for Albums. |
| 7.12 | Modified the Ratings list window with a radio button to support lists for tracks or albums. |
| 7.12 | Added new menu item under lists for selecting Albums Rating List. |
| 7.11 | Implemented star rating for album tracks. |
| 7.11 | Implemented new window - Ratings - to allow select of ratings for listing tracks. |
| 7.11 | Implemented use of showing Text Date, if used, wherever date is displayed in track lists. |
| 7.11 | Added "are you sure" nag for changing multiple tracks. This can be bypassed by pressing the shift key while pressing the change button. |
| 7.11 | Fixed the issue where full display of cover image was opening under the Albums window. (This is only working for the Mac version. More investigation for Windows version needed.) |
| 7.10 | Added take type to album report. |
| 7.10 | Fixed album cover drop to correctly handle drop of image directly from a web page. |
| 7.10 | Fixed placement of "Drop File Here" label so it disappears after adding an album cover. |
| 7.10 | Fixed display of full picture to display correctly when double clicking on album cover. |
| 7.10 | Now support printing of list windows. |
| 7.10 | Changed the instrument list of Instrument window to allow sorting of the columns. |
| 7.10 | Changed position of the cancel button on the Notes panel to be at the far left. |
| 7.9 | Updated Prefs window to handle American or European style dates. |
| 7.9 | Update Orange CD import to add leading 0 to minutes. |
| 7.9 | Fix date display in album reports. Now use Prefs window to set format. |
| 7.9 | Modified List Tracks by Artist list to include instruments played. |
| 7.9 | Modified DateEntry class to properly handle tabbing through dates when using European dates. |
| 7.9 | Fixed SQL for printing album report when printing a selection of genres. |
| 7.8 | Added new list - Tracks by Composer |
| 7.8 | Modified Tracks by Person list to include album file artist, track timing and performance date. |
| 7.8 | Changed export feature of lists to append .txt to the file name. |
| 7.7 | The file name of the opened database is displayed in the menu bar of the Albums window. |
| 7.7 | Added code to the printing of multiple albums so that if the album can't be completely printed on the remainder of a page, it will break to a new page. |
| 7.7 | Album print reports no longer print empty parens where there are no composers entered for a song. |
| 7.7 | Some users of starter database had a corrupted schema for the Playlists. A routine on database open has been added to look for and fix this issue. |
| 7.6 | Fixed display of artist with last name only so that the leading space is trimmed. |
| 7.6 | Fixed instrument popup so it refreshes after adding or editing an instrument without having to close and reopen the Albums window. |
| 7.6 | Added feature for importing Orange CD albums. |
| 7.5 | Fixed version check to work on startup |
| 7.5 | Fixed sql for playlists list on Albums window so playlists with no tracks will show up. |
| 7.5 | Fixed the Take type popup on the Albums window to refresh itself on mouse down. |
| 7.4 | Fixed problem where popup preference updates would cause exception. |
| 7.3 | Added feature to song lookup field so it will show composers in the dropdown selection. |
| 7.3 | Fixed bug where track performance text date was getting entered in tracklist date column regardless if it was blank. |
| 7.3 | Update date formatter module to default to short date is no preference is set. |
| 7.3 | Fixed the tabbing in the Albums window so tabbing out of the year field will now go to text date field. |
| 7.2 | Fixed Windows installer to accommodate removal of 64 bit dlls that were conflicting with the 32 bit release. |
| 7.2 | Fixed bugs in lookup fields that were introduced by changes in the new compiler. |
| 7.1 | Added sorting of the album and track personnel by instrument or name by clicking the header of the column. |
| 7.1 | Enhanced functionality of multi-track editing. |
| 7.1 | Added new list - Playlists |
| 7.1 | Modified tracklist of Albums window to include medley indicator using a checkmark |
| 7.1 | Widened Albums window so as to allow for a wider tracklist |
| 7.1 | Save column widths of Album window tracklist |
| 7.0 | Reorganized project and uploaded changes from version 6.7 that never made it to the public version. No user functionality added. |
| 6.7 | Printing of albums can now be done on multiple albums as selected in the albums selection list on the Albums window. |
| 6.7 | Removed lists for Albums by Date Last Updates, Albums by Date Added. Instead, allow dynamic sorting by these fields in the generic Complete Album List. |
| 6.7 | Fixed tabbing through ImportAlbum fields. |
| 6.7 | Fixed ImportAlbum so that label field is mandatory before allowing load. |
| 6.7 | Implemented ComposerList class for Songs window that will allow reordering of composers |
| 6.7 | Cleaned up tabbing in controls for Albums window. |
| 6.7 | Label field is now required when adding or editing album. |
| 6.7 | Added record updated and record created time stamps to all tables. Also updated all VC cursors to update these fields where appropriate. |
| 6.7 | Add Person to Track button will be disabled if no track is selected. |
| 6.7 | On change of tabpanel to personnel in Albums window, clear track personnel if no track selected. This includes for album with no tracks. Previously, the list was populated with last album personnel. |
| 6.7 | New menu item for dump/reload of database. This can be used to fix various data corruptions. |
| 6.6 | Upgraded database software to new version. |
| 6.5 | Fixed problem with newly added personnel and writer names breaking their index. |
| 6.5 | Added pref to remember Auto-fill ax checkbox. |
| 6.4 | New lists: Songs Used on Album, Personnel Used on Album, Albums by Last Update, Albums by Added. |
| 6.3 | Various small bug fixes. |
| 6.0 | Several updates not detailed including: • New database schema. • No longer allow creation of new DB - must use starter DB • Drag and drop implemented for moving personnel and tracks • Added cover image ability to Albums window |