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GardenSketch - 1.0b5

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This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	1.0b5
Release Date:	2007-02-24
License:	Beta
Downloads (this version):	7,225
Downloads (all versions):	13,558
Price:	free

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Product Description:

GardenSketch is design software which can help plan and lay out a garden or landscape, enabling you to visualize a garden space before any plants are purchased, as they will look in any season. GardenSketch has specialized drawing tools to make designing landscapes easy. The existing landscape can be easily entered by incorporating aerial or satellite photos.

GardenSketch helps you to choose suitable plants with its search capability. It also makes buying plants and mulch easy, by computing the number of plants and/or amount of mulch required for an area. Gardensketch is currently in beta, and we are very open to suggestions which would help it to fit your garden software needs.

What's new in this version:

New Features

Built as a universal binary
GardenSketch now displays most non-plant items in color, for drawing styles which include color.
Added more non-plant items
Added menus of common plants, making it even easier to plants. The menus include plants popular many regions. Since GardenSketch is open source software, you can help add popular plants for your region.
Stays on the current drawing tool after an operation
Grouped drawing, placement, and planting bed tools with the shape tools
Added Select All for plan elements
Enhanced the reference image feature (old aerial photo) to import a scale drawings
Added keyboard shortcuts for zoom in and zoom out
Rearrange menus in active material palette to be set top-down
Added a "ShoppingList" report for plants to purchase.
- You can create the list for one or for all vendors
- You can create list for one garden plot, or the entire landscape
- You can include volume calculations for mulch
- You can display pictures of the plants in the list
- You can include annuals to repurchase for next year
Made many performance improvements
Changed to a new file format
- can include background pictures in the project
- Saves space and load time
- Option to use standard XML
Changed palette icons to 32x32
Added more plants
Added more pictures
Made the ActiveMaterial palette wider, in order to make pictures easier to see.
Added a new new plant style where plants drawings grow and shrink
Added more backdrop materials (dirt, bark mulch, white)
Change some of the icons

Defects Fixed

Creating a new plant without height or spread displayed garbage in the height and spread fields.
The construction draw style showed non-plant rotated incorrectly.
Selecting "in this plot" after adding hardscape didn't clear text or drawing.
Plants could sometimes show up with a spread equal to their height. This was most noticeable with tall thin plants like sunflower.
Plants may have been looked up incorrectly by name.
Adding plant with identical variety twice in the same row made two identical materials
Couldn't drop mulch on an area covered by a plant radius
Items on alternate plots didn't show up in list view
Entering 2'3cm incorrectly set the field to 20"
Entering range as 2-3' should have been the same as 2' to 3' (2" to 3' should still work)
Entering length or maxLength with unnamed plant silently failed
There was a problem clicking on a picture column when used on multi-year lists
Hyperlink text color didn't change when clicked
Selecting alternate picture didn't change the dialog.
Two pastes in a row on picture popup doesn't create two entries on the plant.
If entering name and variant on an unknown quantity as one string, didn't enter data into variety column
Crash opening find dialog with no document open
Couldn't redo moving endpoints on an arc
Couldn't do planChange on more than one element
Having 2 elements selected while dragging would sometimes causes them to jump when moving elements
When alternate move elements and adding attached dimensions, sometimes undo steps seem to be lost
Selecting two elements and dragging deselected only one item
The delete key didn't delete plan elements
Didn't accept copy of item from finder (select jpeg icon in finder, copy)
Non-plant items weren't getting into the "All in document" menu
Used to enable tools which were not valid for the active material (Arc should not have enabled for planting bed)
Fixed some application waits (spinning beachball cursor)
undo /redo resize of title failed
Changing path width should have affected the plant count in the GetInfo window.
keystrokes don't make it through to tools unless a plant had been added to the canvas
Delete key doesn't work for non-material element types
Fill a group, then select. FIll disappears. Save & re-open, fill show until selected again.
There was an error using info tool on group
Some plant entries were missing height and/or width.
There were problems selecting small non-plant items (ex: wall) (Allow click 'n' pixels away from a non-plant item)
Rectangle paths would not resize correctly after save/restore
Dropping turf over bench caused the bench to disappear. GardenSketch now enforces ordering of different types of elements
Backdrops used to show up in monochrome drawing styles
Info tooltip left up when window closed, or possibly just when tool switched, which could cause a crash.
Text & Title boxes drawn incorrectly for sizes smaller than the rounded corner radius
Don't allow changing the border style if the box is tool small.
Don't display title GetInfo for text boxes
Problems using some characters in document properties
Canonical name cell can be too short (not taking italics and font into account)

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.4 or higher

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