Method Schedule 0.5.0

Method Schedule 0.5.0

Method Schedule is ready for scripts with their exact pages from Method Storyteller, merges against any copy of a schedule, and prints the drift since a schedule lock.

Ready for scripts from Method Storyteller

• Exact pages, nothing estimated. File > Import Script reads a script scenes file (.mscenes), the format Method Storyteller's coming export writes. Every scene arrives with the script's own page and length in eighths, so the board adds up to the script.
• More of the script comes with it. Lettered scene numbers and locked pages, story days, the characters who are in a scene without speaking, the episode and act, the scene's title and summary as its synopsis, and the scenes the script has omitted, struck on the board and counting no pages.
• Revisions too. Import Script Revision reads the same file, so once that export is out, a new draft from it updates the schedule you already have.

Working together

• Merge against any copy. When you merge changes from another copy, the version both copies started from can now be any schedule file you pick, not only a backup or the file on disk.
• Print the drift. Schedule Locks prints the drift since a lock, actor by actor, beside the spreadsheet and CSV exports.

Smaller changes

• Plainer names for files. Exports, imports and their settings now name file types, such as spreadsheet (.xlsx), .fdx and .mscenes, rather than other programs.

Known gaps

• On an Intel Mac, the app has been tested by the automated tests, run the way an Intel Mac runs them, but not yet by a person on one.
• Windows and Linux builds are made and tested automatically, but nobody has installed them by hand yet. The Windows installer is unsigned, so Windows shows a warning before it runs.
• On Windows and Linux, opening a second file while the app is running starts a second copy of the app.
• Printing uses Letter paper only.

Thanks

• Everyone who has tried Method Schedule so far. Bugs go to Issues and questions to Discussions, both on GitHub.