Screenwriter 0.4.0
Added
- Writing together through a shared folder (a network drive, or a shared Dropbox/OneDrive/Drive folder):
set your name once (File → Your Name…); the status bar shows who else has the project open, the binder marks
the documents they have open with their coloured initial, and a note above the page says when someone has the
same document open. Save points, merges and conflicts show who made the changes. - Updates tab in the side panel: recent changes by other people (and your other computers) — who, when,
which documents, words added or removed — with what's new since you last looked in bold. Documents someone
else changed are bold in the binder until you open them, and a notice says who changed what when it arrives. - Quicker sync while writing together: with someone else in the project, sync runs about ten seconds after
you stop typing and checks for their changes every 15 seconds. Two people saving to a shared drive at once take
turns, and cloud apps' “conflicted copy” files of the project are merged back in and set aside.
Changed
- Sync merges paragraph by paragraph: when two people (or computers) edit the same document, changes to
different paragraphs combine, and boards merge card by card. Only the same paragraph changed differently is a
conflict — instead of a “(from Laptop)” copy of the whole document, Review Conflicts shows both versions
side by side to keep either or both. Conflicts sync, so anyone can resolve them.
Removed
- The single “open on another computer” notice; presence (above) replaces it, for any number of people.
- File → Older Snapshots… and the per-document snapshots from before project history. A project's
snapshotsfolder is no longer read; everything since 0.2.0 is in History….
Downloads: macOS .dmg, Windows -setup.exe (or the portable .zip), Linux .AppImage (or .tar.gz).
First launch on macOS/Windows shows a security warning because the app isn't signed yet —
see Installing.