ChordPro Buddy 1.2.1 has been approved and is now available on the Mac App Store

Today Apple finally approved the new version of ChordPro Buddy, which is now available on the Mac App Store at the old price.
I think about increasing the price a little bit, so fast buying could be a good idea Winking

ChordPro Buddy 1.2.0 has been rejected by Apple, new CPB version 1.2.1 with sandboxing delivered to Apple for new review

Today the new ChordPro Buddy release 1.2.0 was rejected by Apple because they claimed, that it was no bug fix release (which is perfectly true) and I have to implement Sandboxing. So I did today and the new version 1.2.1 with enabled security entitlements and sandboxing is already uploaded to the Apple review team.
What I’ve learned for the future is, that I’ll try to break the upgrades into smaller peaces and to release more often instead of one major upgrade after a more or less long time...

New ChordPro Buddy Status has changed to "in Review" at Apple

- unfortunately I didn’t managed to get it out before the starting of WWDC
- but now it sounds like things are going well and it won’t be long until this release is available at the App Store

New ChordPro Buddy Version 1.2.0 is submitted to the App Store

New Features:
- Graphic chord charts on top of lyrics
- Graphic chord charts on top of the song
- ASCII Text import (chords above lyrics)
- Support for latin (DO, RE, MI...) chord notation
- Support for german (B = H, Bb = B) chord notation
- quick zoom slider
- use zoom gestures on Multi Trackpads
- optional lead time for autoscrolling
- optional screen lock blocking
- MIDI send and receive support (start/stop/rewind) with learn function
- improved layout
- let the user change the default file extension in the save dialog
- preferences for min/max values of the font size sliders
- preference to deny screensaver or screen locking while in View mode
- now while playing(autoscrolling) screen will NEVER lock, even if the preference is not set
- in editor if some text is selected, then the context menu changes to "Mark as..."


Languages:
- english
- german
- italian
- dutch
- swedish

And - of course many bug fixes...

New ChordPro Buddy Version 1.2.0BETA is submitted to the beta testers

New Features/Enhancements:
- added Simple Layout to templates
- let the user change the default file extension in the save dialog
- preferences for min/max values of the font size sliders
- preference to deny screensaver or screen locking while in View mode
- now while playing(autoscrolling) screen will NEVER lock, even if the preference is not set
- in editor, context menu changes, if text is selected to "Mark as..."
- preference to support latin chord notation (Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, La, Si)
- import button/menu to import simple ASCII chord format in western or latin notation like this:

Bm                        F#
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
A                     E
Warm smell of colitas rising up through the air

or in latin notation:

Sim                        Fa#
On a dark desert highway, cool wind in my hair
La                     Mi
Warm smell of colitas rising up through the air


- small additions in the WebLinks Help-file
- preference to select fill char for overlapping chords
- now, if chords are overlapping, CPB inserts fill chars into the lyrics, until chords are visible (see bugfixes)
- the kind of fill char can be selected in the Viewer preferences
- the fill chars are surrounded by whitespaces, so that the lyrics are looking pretty and clear

Bugfixes:
- sometimes, when you scrolled down in Layoutview and switch back to editor only the editor view is blank until you scroll
- fixed bug with irregular replacing of bb in lyrics to bflat symbol
- fixed with overwriting the layout of a file with default settings, after the loading of the file
- fixed log file sending, to avoid empty logs
- fixed some unicode chars were not imported correctly
- fixed overlapping chords if chords are to big 
- fixed language bug for transpose button tooltips

- fixed hide "clear chordpro" button, when preference is set to do this automatically


Planned features, but not ready right now:
- button in layout pane for change flat to sharp chords ( G# <-> Ab )
- swedish, italian and dutch localization