Release Notes for Blockpad 1.3.1

April 2023

Summary

This release focuses on bug fixes and usability improvements.

Bug fixes

• Fix to issue with cells not automatically recalculating, in some cases, when cells are copied across a range
• Fix to issue with dynamic equations not recalculating within content created by the Duplicate tool
• Fix to issue in some files where content appears or disappears inconsistently while scrolling up through a document
• Fix to issue where input fields sometimes did not properly appear over the file object or Properties window
• Fix to issue where sometimes, while selecting a cell range, the selection would momentarily snap back to the original cell
• Fix to issue where sometimes, when inserting a textbox in a report or drawing, only a plain rectangle would appear until the frame was reloaded
• Fix to issue where sometimes, while typing beyond the visible part of a window, the program did not automatically scroll to the caret position
• Fix to issue where, when importing CSV files, cells with text beginning with a digit were improperly parsed as numbers, even if following text was not a valid unit
• Fix to issue with subtraction where, if subtracting an empty value from a number, the result was an error, rather than correctly giving the left hand side value
• Fix to issue with some error message displays that were improperly saying just "Error" instead of the proper error message
• Fix to issue with copying cells in a range that has been filtered, such that the hidden rows are properly excluded
• Fix to issue with paragraph backgrounds, which now properly fill the width of the content area of the frame, even if the paragraph content does not fill the full width
• Fix to issue with how bounding areas of blocks in reports are calculated, such that they now properly fill the width of the frame
• Fix to performance issue with filtering a table range when the entire rows are selected (from columns A to XFD)
• Fix to issue with Save to PDF tool where text did not appear at the correct places with some fonts
• Fix to issue with Save to PDF tool where some times of content, such as overflowing cells, were not properly clipped
• Fix to issue with textboxes in notebooks, where they now properly retain their width if resized
• Fix to issue where, if the caret was placed at the beginning of a line, the caret was displayed at the end of the previous line
• Fix to issue with math layout steps where a step value has a negative number, where grouping symbols are now included if used in an exponent
• Fix to issue with charts, where now, if the Chart Height is set, the block will be sized appropriately to fit the resulting chart size
• Fix to issue where an image could not be inserted immediately next to another image
• Fix to issue with the Round function and other rounding functions, where now when used in tandem with the Text function, no excess digits far after the desired digits are included
• Fix to issue where, when there are borders across a cell range, the borders are now excluded from merged cells within the area
• Fix to issue where, when a cell causes an overflowing cell to be clipped, if that cell's value is cleared, it now allows the clipped cell to overflow again
• Fix to issue with retrieving values from external references
• Fix to issue with display of basic headers and footers in notebooks

Other changes

• There is now a Shrink Width property for textboxes in notebooks, to specify whether a textbox should full its whole width or shrink to fit its content. By default this is true, but if a textbox is resized to have a specific width, it is automatically changed to false. This property can be used to manually go back and forth between true and false.
• Blocks in reports are now sized as sections.
• When the Console is visible, a check mark now appears next to Show Console in the View menu.
• There is now a math layout option, Render Scientific Notation, to render numbers such as 2E6 in scientific notation, as if they were input as 2*10^6.
• When trying to give an object a name that is already in use, there is now a clearer error message.
• When sorting tables, now ranges with conditional formatting are not affected by the sorting operation.
• Resizing images inside textboxes now works normally, just as for images in reports and multiline cells.
• The scatter plot chart block now has a Top padding input to adjust the empty space at the top of the chart.
• When navigating between frames, view state (scroll and zoom) is now preserved

See also

• Known Issues and Workarounds