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Method Schedule 0.2.0

A whole invented feature to learn on, ready the moment the app opens, and downloads you can check before you install them.

Field Station, a full feature to try

The stripboard of Field Station: the first days of an 18-day shoot, with scenes, banners and day breaks

  • Help > Open Sample opens Field Station. An invented feature of 90 scenes and nine cast, one of whom never speaks, scheduled over 18 shoot days at three locations with a company move to a lake for three days.
  • Every part of the app has something in it. Every breakdown category is filled, with background counts. There are lunch and company move banners, call times, a second unit for the drive on the fire road, prep and wrap on the calendar, and red flags, one of them a soft clash the board marks.
  • It opens once on its own. The first time Method Schedule starts with nothing to open, it shows you Field Station, untitled, with a line saying what it is. It never does again: open it any time from the Help menu. If you open your own schedule first, or you used an earlier version, you won't see it unasked.

The day out of days for Field Station: each cast member's work days across the shoot

Downloads you can check

  • A checksum for every download. Each release now comes with a SHA256SUMS file listing every installer and update file with its SHA-256, so you can check a download is the one we published before you install it.

For other apps and the command line

  • Two switches to start with. --check-for-updates checks for a newer version as the app opens, and --open-sample opens Field Station, for a launcher or a shortcut.
  • The recent files list is easy to read. Open Recent's list is kept as a plain list of files, each with when it was last opened, so other tools can show your recent schedules.
  • Room for what was shot. A schedule file can now hold what was actually shot on each day, and how much of each scene, for a production report to write back. The app doesn't show it yet.

Fixed

  • A speech in two paragraphs keeps its length. In a Fountain script, the second paragraph of a speech was counted as action, which made a scene's length come out a line or two short.

Known gaps

  • Windows and Linux builds are made automatically, but nobody has installed them yet. The Windows installer is unsigned, so Windows shows a warning before it runs.
  • Printing uses Letter paper only.
  • What was shot isn't shown on the board or in the reports yet.
  • A schedule that holds what was shot won't open in 0.1.0: update first.

Thanks

  • Everyone who tried 0.1.0. Bugs go to Issues and questions to Discussions, both on GitHub.
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