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Written by Jeffrey Bedell
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Sunday, 09 July 2006 |
Announcing the release of beta3 of Redstart GardenSketch.Beta 3 adds significant new features and resolves a number of issues, including: - Plant images will be automatically downloaded from the internet when the plant is first viewed. GardenSketch currently handles 226 pictures for 194 selected plants, with more to come
- A new plant picture window with larger pictures, alternate pictures, and the capability to add data to pictures.
- Default picture displayed in the palette when loading the plant by name
- A new plant aging control, to show how plants will look as the garden grows.
- Over 270 new plants in the database.
- An 'add variety' menu on the list views.
- Displays a smaller color square when a variety color is assumed based upon the species
- Allows for different values in fields for varieties from species
- Mature plant size represented by a dashed circle instead of a solid circle.
- Improved document opening speed for large projects.All variety rows are automatically updated when data is added to the species
- All variety rows are automatically updated when data is added to the species
- improved formatting of the botanical name
- Planting beds in freehand shapes correctly fill to the edges with no large gaps in the platings .
- An improved search dialog.
- Fixed problem setting source column in SourceDatabase window
- Fixed handling of unknown names and varieties
- In GetInfo window, changing the spacing of existing plants now updates the # of plants listed
- Enlarged pictures in the GetInfo window and the palette
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Last Updated ( Friday, 10 August 2007 )
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