Howdy all, Doggiebox 1.0.5 is now available for download. This latest update brings a couple of new features and a number of bug fixes. Notably, several issues that were causing crashes for people should be eliminated. Here is the complete list of changes since 1.0.4: - Added a new preferences option, "Allow final sounds to decay completely". The default setting is on, which maintains the standard behaviour where Doggiebox intelligently lets sounds (e.g. crash cymbals) decay at the end of song. However, if you are exporting patterns for use as loops, you can now turn this off to achieve output of precise duration. - Added support for cut/copy/pasting of drums (with all attributes, e.g. sound, name, and icon) in the drum kit editor. - Improved the play/stop button so that response during playback is now instant, instead of sometimes briefly hanging. - Improved handling of the licence registration key so that it is now automatically recognised for all user accounts on the computer. - Fixed a bug that caused Doggiebox to truncate the last beat of each bar by a fraction of a second. While imperceivable under normal circumstances, this was causing problems for people exporting files to use as loops, etc. - Fixed a bug where drum kit reconciliation did not work properly under Mac OS 10.3. - Fixed a bug where the position indicator would sometimes stop moving in mid-song during playback. - Fixed a bug where selecting a different drum kit while editing a song would sometimes affect only some of the drums. - Fixed a font dependency that could cause mysterious non-behaviour under some circumstances. - Other minor fixes for Mac OS 10.1 compatibility (the playback indicator now works instead of crashing; a hang after exporting should be eliminated). - Changed the keyboard shortcut for Preferences from cmd-; to cmd-, in respect of Apple human interface guidelines. - Added a few additional sounds to Ben's Premier Kit. Due to bugs in the current version of Stuffit Expander in dealing with permissions in .sit files, I'm bundling Doggiebox this time as a .bz2 archive. Stuffit Expander will handle it fine though (I've tested with both 7.0.3 and 8.0), and it affords slightly better compression to boot. Grab it at <http://www.doggiebox.com/distribution/Doggiebox.bz2>. Enjoy, -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca