Structura v0.4.0

Changelog

All notable changes to Structura are documented in this file.

Format: Keep a Changelog
Versioning: Semantic Versioning

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[0.4.0] — 2026-06-11

Added

• Export dialog: choose which chapters to export (checklist, dividers shown as section rows), toggle title page (title, subtitle, author), chapter numbering in headings, and divider headings
• Review export: optionally writes one plain-text file per selected chapter to export/review/ — ready to paste into Grammarly, LanguageTool, or ChatGPT

Changed

• Master export uses the rewritten robust DOCX text extraction and the configured chapter number format; exporting with no chapters selected reports an error instead of writing an empty manuscript

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[0.3.0] — 2026-06-11

Added

• Review table ("Review-Ansicht öffnen" on the project overview): all chapters with number, title, status, word count, notes indicator, and open-task count; dividers shown as section rows; double-click or "Zum Kapitel" jumps straight to the chapter
• Markdown preview for chapter notes: a "Vorschau"/"Bearbeiten" toggle next to the notes heading renders headings, lists, checklists, bold/italic/code, and horizontal rules (TurboPower iPro HTML panel, built-in Lazarus package)

Changed

• DOCX text preview rewritten for robustness: extraction happens in memory (no temp directory), list paragraphs get bullet markers, table cells are tab-separated; if the file is locked by another program the preview retries via a copy and reports the real cause instead of claiming corruption

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[0.2.0] — 2026-06-11

Added

• Author dashboard on the project overview: segmented progress bar colored by chapter status, status legend with counts, open-task count parsed from Markdown checklists (- [ ]) in chapter notes, and a suggested next step (problem chapters first, then the least-finished chapter)
• Problem chapters and recently edited chapters listed by name on the dashboard — click to jump straight to the chapter
• Chapter view shows the number of open checklist tasks from its notes
• Keyboard navigation: Alt+Left/Right switches chapters, Alt+O jumps to the next non-final chapter, Alt+P to the next problem chapter (wraps around)
• Configurable chapter number format in settings: 1, 2, or 3 digits (1_, 01_, 001_) — applies to filenames, sidebar, and chapter heading; changing it asks explicitly before renaming existing files
• Proactive file lock check before renaming chapter files: if a chapter DOCX is open in another program, the rename is refused with a clear message before any file is touched (single rename and bulk renumbering)
• Daily zipped project backup: on first open of a project each day, the entire project (excluding the backup folder) is archived to backup/daily/YYYY-MM-DD.zip; backups older than a configurable retention (default 14 days) are deleted automatically
• Colored status dots in the chapter sidebar (gray draft → green final, red problem) — replaces the bracketed status text
• Dividers are now visually distinct in the sidebar; long chapter titles are truncated with an ellipsis
• Welcome illustration (writing owl) on the start view as long as no projects exist yet
• Colored button icons from Streamline Ultimate Color (CC BY 4.0) replace the old two-color BMP glyphs
• About dialog (info icon in the sidebar header): version, MIT license, repository link, and icon attribution

Changed

• Chapter view header row enlarged; back link more prominent
• Removed unused office diagnostic label from the project overview (leftover from the pre-0.1.0 startup diagnostics)

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[0.1.1] — 2026-06-11

Added

• ROADMAP.md with planned milestones and explicit non-goals
• German README (README.de.md)

Changed

• README tagline rewritten to focus on the author's actual workflow
• New project dialog redesigned: root folder (Hauptordner) and project subfolder (Unterordner) are now separate fields — the subfolder name is generated automatically from the project title
• Warning shown when creating a project in a folder that already contains a structura.json
• After creating a project, the root folder is remembered (not the new project's subfolder)

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[0.1.0] — 2026-06-11

First public release.

Added

• Chapter-based Windows desktop workflow for non-fiction manuscript projects
• Real project folders with structura.json metadata — readable without the app
• Chapter and divider management (add, edit, delete, reorder)
• Drag-and-drop chapter reordering in the sidebar
• Per-project and per-chapter Markdown notes stored as .md files on disk
• DOCX text preview extraction for chapter files (no Word required for preview)
• Chapter statistics: word count, modification date, file size
• Project overview with cover image, metadata, and aggregate statistics
• Recent projects dashboard on startup — click any cover tile to reopen
• First-run wizard for setting a default project folder on first start
• Import existing project from folder — scans for .docx files and creates structura.json automatically
• External office application detection for Word, LibreOffice, and TextMaker
• Launch actions for opening chapters in detected external editors
• App settings for project folder defaults and office path overrides
• Configurable clipboard-based workflow buttons for external tools (Grammarly, LanguageTool, ChatGPT)
• Combined manuscript export workflow
• Sample project for contributors and testers

Fixed

• LFM/PAS mismatch: OpenMenuClick, ReviewMenuClick, CopyMenuClick, ExportMenuClick moved to published section — resolved "Invalid value for property" startup crash
• MakeSafeFileNamePart now replaces German umlauts (ä→ae, ö→oe, ü→ue, ß→ss) in filenames
• Access violation on project card click — deferred LoadProjectFromFolder via Application.QueueAsyncCall so LCL finishes event dispatch before cards are cleared
• FPC compatibility: replaced for..in over inline array literal with explicit if/else if chain

Changed

• License: MPL 2.0 → MIT