What's new in Book Collector? 2016

Improved “Unrecognized ISBN” screen

• NEW: integrated Find Cover tool.
  Easily pick a cover images from internet search results for the ISBN.

• Two extra fields: Publisher and Year.
• Author box now has drop-down with your Author list for easy entry of existing author names.

Fixed:

• Main Screen: after resizing the first column too much, the text was no longer readable
• Edit Book: Closing the edit screen could cause a crash on El Capitan

Fixed:

• Main screen: switching from details to statistics would crash the program

Improved “Unrecognized ISBN” screen

• NEW: integrated Find Cover tool.
  Easily pick a cover images from internet search results for the ISBN.

• Two extra fields: Publisher and Year.
• Author box now has drop-down with your Author list for easy entry of existing author names.

Fixed:

• Dragging and dropping cover images did not work for HTTPS URLs.
• Person grids: problems adding authors when multiple authors exists with the same display name.

Fixed:

• Program would crash on startup or load incorrectly for OS older than Sierra

New:

• Free Trial now has an information panel to show the user how to get started.
• Trial Popup has been simplified to make it easier to pick one of the options.
• The Trial Popup sometimes showed when it shouldn’t for existing users.

New

• Link/Update Books now also supports the “Unrecognized ISBN” screen
• Quick search now also supports Regular Expressions. Enter “matches:” followed by regular expression in the quick search box.

• In Add Books Automatically, when an ISBN is not recognized, a new “Unrecognized ISBN” screen will appear.
• In this screen, just type the Author and the Title, then click Add Book.
• This will:
  1. Instantly add the ISBN/Author/Title entry to our Core online book database.
  2. Add the book to your own database with ISBN, Author and Title filled in AND linked to the new Core entry.

In other words, this new screen not only helps you in adding unrecognized books,
but it also helps your fellow Book Collector users by adding the missing ISBN to the CLZ Core.

( BTW: this screen replaces the “Report Missing ISBN to Core” web-form. Of course, you can still provide more info for the added ISBN using the Submit to Core button in the Edit Book screen. )

Easily add books that come up as “Unrecognized ISBN”

• In Add Books Automatically and Link Books, when an ISBN is not recognized, a new “Unrecognized ISBN” screen will appear.
• In this screen, just type the Author and the Title, then click Add Book.
• This will:
  1. Instantly add the ISBN/Author/Title entry to our Core online book database.
  2. Add the book to your own database with ISBN, Author and Title filled in AND linked to the new Core entry.

In other words, this new screen not only helps you in adding unrecognized books,
but it also helps your fellow Book Collector users by adding the missing ISBN to the CLZ Core.

( BTW: this screen replaces the “Report Missing ISBN to Core” web-form. Of course, you can still provide more info for the added ISBN using the Submit to Core button in the Edit Book screen. )

Fixed:

• Check for Updates was broken for macOS Sierra.
• Templates were broken when User Defined Field headers contained special characters.

Changes:

• Export to XML is now a lot more memory efficient, writing the xml directly to hard disk (can be more slow though)

Fixed:

• Sync with Cloud: First Edition and Abridged fields were cleared when syncing down from the cloud
• Add/Modify Filter: “Contains” filters were always case insensitive even when “case sensitive” was checked
• Edit Multiple: F8 didn’t clear price and dimension values

Fixed:

• Program could throw an “Handle is invalid” error after multiple edits

Fixed:

• Main Screen:
  • The folder tree was wrapping the values in the list
  • A double hint was showing for the thumbnail slider to resize thumbnails in Images View
• When working offline, closing the program could cause Access Violations
• Edit Book:
  • It was possible to sort the stories list where it shouldn’t which caused drawing issues
  • Moving story up or down could make selected story look empty
• Edit Story: some buttons were missing icons
• User Defined Fields: values of check box lists were not loaded correctly in some cases

Improvements:

• Cloud Syncing: Now does up to 5 retries when a sync action fails because of a temporary connection problem.
• Edit Book: Improved “search as you type” behaviour of search boxes for adding authors, credits and characters.
• Dark Skin: active window now has a light grey border, making it stand out more when windows overlap.

Fixed:

• Screen started to “flicker” after leaving the program inactive for a few minutes.
• Add Automatically: adding a checked result would sometimes uncheck a result from another search in the queue.
• Main Screen / Two Panel Mode: selection status text would sometimes show an invalid text when no books were showing in the list.
• Edit Multiple: F8 to clear didn’t work for memo fields like Plot and Notes.

Fixed:

• Edit Book:
  • Changing collection status sometimes would uncheck a radiobutton but not check the selected one
  • Previous/Next/Ok could mess up data when the edit screen was still loading

Fixed:

• Export to HTML: access violation could occur in some cases when using a custom index template
• Edit Screen: Checkbox List hints would sometimes not disappear
• Main Screen: changing font size could make some screen elements disappear
• Quick Filter Panel: filters weren’t applied directly at startup when panel was closed but “Keep Active” was checked

Changes

• Date Fields: Year field’s position now also depends on system’s shortdate setting
• Carbon, Cobalt, Quicksilver Templates: Subtitle now below Title instead of behind

Fixed:

• Edit Book:
  • Date fields didn’t clear their Month and Day values using next/previous when they weren’t filled in for the next/previous item
  • Delete key didn’t work in Month and Day fields to clear their values. Backspace did work normally.
  • Clicking stars to add rating didn’t set “read it” field according to setting

Changes

• Date fields now have dropdowns for Month and Day. Order of Month and Day dropdown depends on system’s shortdate setting now

Fixed:

• Edit Book:
  • some fields didn’t keep their focus when using next/previous
  • Audio book length was limited to 999 minutes
• Edit Multiple: F8 in date fields didn’t clear them
• Main Screen:
  • horizontal scrollbar was sometimes showing in folder tree when it shouldn’t
  • Cards View: scrolling using the mouse wheel wasn’t working properly
  • layout wasn’t always restored properly when quick filter panel was showing
• Quick Filter Panel: collection status filter wasn’t showing in filter description at bottom of the screen

Fixed:

• Main screen: right click popup menu to customize toolbar didn’t show.
• Edit Book: “List index out of bounds” error when deleting a local link could occur.
• Main screen:
  • Right click popup menu to customize toolbar didn’t show.
  • Sometimes the screen layout wasn’t restored properly after start of program.
• Filter panel: closing the filter panel didn’t reset the Collection Status filter.
• Lookup Grid: filtering the dropdown then using the arrow keys to select name didn’t update the dropdown’s text.

Quick Filter panel tweaks

• Quick Filter panel is now opened/closed using a new button on the toolbar (to the left of the folders button).
  No more automatic sliding when moving the mouse.

• Smoother filter sliders (Ratings, Year, Running Time)

Fixed:

• Edit Multiple Books:
  • Number of Pages field was always cleared.
  • “Cannot focus a disabled or invisible window” when clearing a check list with F8.
• Edit Book:
  • Number of Pages field was limited to 999.
  • Author grid didn’t restore column widths properly.
• Opening then closing the Quick Filter panel could change the width of the other panels.
• Minimizing a full screen program, then restoring would not restore to full screen.
• Weird problems while resizing program windows.
• Main Screen: Cover flow had a white background with Light and Sytem Skin (now black again).
• Switching to or starting in System skin didn’t always refresh Details Panel.

NEW: Choose between Light, Dark or System skins

Yes, We’re getting rid of the gray!

Book Collector now comes with a skin system, which affects the look of all screens in the program,
main screen, edit screens, add auto-screen, sync screen etc.. even the settings screens.

We have designed two different skins for you to choose from: Light and Dark.
The third option “System” is basically the old pre-v16.3 look.

Read more

Fixed:

• Main Screen: 2 Panels Horizontal Layout: view sizes were not restored.
• Add Automatically: By barcode: Sometimes a new book was added without barcode.
• Manage Pick Lists: sometimes no warning was shown for duplicated items.
• CLZ Cloud Sync: Fixed a crash when down-syncing a new book.
• 2 Panels Mode: Folders were always sorted by article.
• Folders: Preference “Ignore SortName of Person Item” was not working.

Fixed:

• Templates:
  • Credits with role “Author” were not listed
  • Template: ISBN icon was missing
• Duplicate Book: Stories were not copied
• Main Screen: Edit in List
  • un(checking) checkbox lists didn’t trigger a “sync change”
  • changing “Read It” and “Changing Date” didn’t trigger a “sync change”
• Cards View: the new cover was not displayed using Find Cover
• Add Auto: sometimes not selected queue items were also added using “Add Selected” in queue mode

Fixed:

• User Defined Fields for Stories were not saved
• Full Covers Template: Subtitle was not spaced correctly
• New Maintenance tool: Tools > Maintenance > Open database location
• Automatically Close Add Auto screen after queue is emptied was not working
• List Sorting: Empty values were not sorted correctly
• Pseudonym can not be selected in “Manage Pick List” screen if a quick search has been done.

Fixed:

• Main Screen:
  • Cards View: selection wasn’t always restored properly
  • Scrolling the Details View with the mouse wheel would scroll the list when the scroll bar reached the top
• Quick search:
  • pasting text into quick search box didn’t show the clear button
  • Escape button will now clear quick search
• Sync with Cloud: cancelling sync didn’t always work

Fixed:

• Default Fields: “Read It” was missing
• Add auto screen: “Collection Status” setting was not working properly
• Images View: Newly added items with “Add Automatically” were not selected

Fixed:

• Templates: changing Read It/Rating didn’t trigger a change for syncing
• Templates: 2 panels mode with selected folder: selection was lost after changing “Read It”
• Edit in List: Edit Rating was not working
• Templates: Online Links: “https” URLs didn’t open
• Cover Flow panel now has a black background
• Performance: Statistics are no longer updated if not necessary
• Sort Sets selection was sometimes lost after restarting the app
• Main Screen: “Collection status” filter selection was not remembered after restarting the app

Fixed:

• Menu: “View > Cards” item was missing
• Cards View was not working on Mavericks

New view for the main screen: Card View

Next to List View, Images View and Cover Flow, we have added a Card View, a multi-column view with little info cards for each book, showing the main book details and a small cover thumbnail.

Fixed:

• Add Automatically: right click menu didn’t popup when there were no results showing
• Content View: Folder grouping on a field with inheritance didn’t take the inherited book values into account

Fixed:

• List View could crash after opening the program, making it seem like no database was open.

New view for the main screen: Card View

Next to List View, Images View and Cover Flow, we have added a Card View, a multi-column view with little info cards for each book, showing the main book details and a small cover thumbnail.

Read more