05-27-2017, 05:58 AM
I'm happy to announce that MobileSheetsPro v1.8.1 (Android), MobileSheets v1.8.1 (Windows 10) and MobileSheetsPro Companion v2.5.6 have been released. This is a very large update, especially for Windows 10 where a lot of important bugs have been addressed. I've added quite a few new features in this release centered around MIDI including MIDI Actions (the ability to tie MIDI commands to actions in the application like turning pages), programmable smart buttons (these can be used to trigger other actions as well) and a slew of new supported MIDI commands. I know some users have been anxious to have support for having MobileSheetsPro send MIDI timing messages so that the metronome can be used to control the tempo of their MIDI device. This is now supported and can be triggered when a song is loaded, or by using a smart button. This update contains a lot of database changes, so you must update both the tablet app and the companion app at the same time. The full list of changes can be seen below:
MobileSheetsPro v1.8.1 (Android)
MobileSheetsPro v1.8.1 (Android)
- Added new programmable smart buttons which can trigger actions when tapped
- Added the ability to map MIDI commands to actions in the application, such as page turns
- Added new MIDI listen dialog that shows all received commands, and allows a batch midi command to be created from them
- Added support for new MIDI commands including note off, note on, song select, midi start/continue/stop and MIDI timing clock
- Added support for extracting and opening files embedded in PDFs
- Added support for comment box in chord pro files
- The group editor now shows captions for all songs in the group (the left list)
- Added support for using the chord pro highlight command beside non-highlighted text
- Added new option to control whether a master device sends song change notifications to slave devices when changing songs in a setlist.
- Chords in comments, highlights and comment boxes are now transposable and have the same font size as the rest of the comment, but respect other chord style options
- The capo can now be disabled by default for chord pro files
- Added new option to align the first page to the top of the screen when using the vertical scrolling display mode and bottom page alignment.
- Optimized the storage of annotation points in the database to greatly reduce the number of table entries and reduce the database file size
- Fixed bugs with using the shuffle sorting with setlists
- Content in parenthesis at the beginning of song titles is now ignored when sorting
- Added new setting to show total setlist duration next to setlist names on the library screen
- The import action menu can now be used on all group tabs
- Added new MIDI echo setting that sends received messages back out to all connected devices
- Fixed bug that prevented switching between songs with touch or pedal actions unless a setlist was loaded
- Fixed automatic scrolling to have a consistent speed for all pages when using the vertical scrolling display mode
- Fixed bug where sharing files through other applications no longer worked with Android 7.0 or higher
- Fixed bug where the audio icon for multiple files wasn't displayed correctly on some tabs
- Fixed scaling issues with link points
- Increased the number of recent entries to 1000
- Added new programmable smart buttons which can trigger actions when tapped
- Added the ability to map MIDI commands to actions in the application, such as page turns
- Added new MIDI listen dialog that shows all received commands, and allows a batch midi command to be created from them
- Added support for new MIDI commands including note off, note on, song select, midi start/continue/stop and MIDI timing clock
- Added support for extracting and opening files embedded in PDFs
- Added support for comment box in chord pro files
- Fixed memory leaks that occurred after switching between different screens
- The group editor now shows captions for all songs in the group (the left list)
- Added support for using the chord pro highlight command beside non-highlighted text
- Added new option to control whether a master device sends song change notifications to slave devices when changing songs in a setlist.
- Chords in comments, highlights and comment boxes are now transposable and have the same font size as the rest of the comment, but respect other chord style options
- The capo can now be disabled by default for chord pro files
- Fixed annotation rendering errors when using the half page display mode
- Added new option to align the first page to the top of the screen when using the vertical scrolling display mode and bottom page alignment.
- Fixed bug where the restore automatic database backup option did not work
- Fixed bug with the default ignore articles not being shown correctly in the settings
- Fixed various rendering bugs with chord pro files
- Fixed bug where files being edited would not correctly erase old content before writing in new content.
- Optimized the storage of annotation points in the database to greatly reduce the number of table entries and reduce the database file size
- Fixed bugs with using the shuffle sorting with setlists
- Fixed bugs that could cause two and three finger taps to stop working
- Content in parenthesis at the beginning of song titles is now ignored when sorting
- Added new setting to show total setlist duration next to setlist names on the library screen
- The import action menu can now be used on all group tabs
- The generate song list option now provides three choices: Share, copy to clipboard, or write to file
- Fixed rendering error with words that are shown when a text/chord pro file can't be loaded
- Added new MIDI echo setting that sends received messages back out to all connected devices
- Fixed bug that prevented switching between songs with touch or pedal actions unless a setlist was loaded
- Fixed automatic scrolling to have a consistent speed for all pages when using the vertical scrolling display mode
- Fixed bug where the audio icon for multiple files wasn't displayed correctly on some tabs
- Increased the number of recent entries to 1000
- Added resize bars so that the widths and heights of the lists on the group tabs can be changed
- Optimized the storage of annotation points in the database to greatly reduce the number of table entries and reduce the database file size
- Fixed bug with incorrect date in default backup file name
- Fixed bug with batch imports not correctly handling updating existing songs
- Fixed bug with collections not being set correctly when adding or modifying songs
- Updates to handle new chord pro features (comment box and highlights combined with other text)