release-2025-01-27-08.34/+0100

Improvements

• completely re-wrote library for displaying grids: Vue CSS Grid Layout replaces the ancient GridList library, which is the foundation of many changes from this release and makes future maintainence and improvements possible, #451
• new behaviour in drag & drop of elements in edit mode: dropping on another element causes elements to swap positions, dropping in-between two elements causes other elements to move to the right, #451
• grid edit: elements can now be moved out of the grid at right and bottom, which automatically increases the size of the grid, #451
• new UI of settings view: settings are now organized in tabs, #452, #283
• added possibility to disable global grid for specific grids, #399
• added possibility to cut / copy / paste elements in grid edit view, #419
• added possibility to move all elements to top/right/bottom/left in edit view, #451
• context menu for grid elements can now be opened by long-tap on iOS / Safari in edit view, #451
• added keyboard shortcuts for grid edit view, #451
  • Ctrl + C, Ctrl + X, Ctrl + V: copy, cut and paste the current element
  • Ctrl + Shift + C: copy all elements of the current grid
  • Ctrl + Z: undo
  • Ctrl + Shift + Z: redo
  • Del: delete current element
  • Ctrl + Arrow[Up/Right/Down/Left]: move all elements to top/right/bottom/left

Appearance settings

• many new possibilities to specify the appearance of text and cells, #168
• specify text position, font family, font size, font color, maximum number of lines, line height, border color, border width, space between elements and border radius, #390
• specify handling of too long texts: adapt automatically, truncate or ellipsis
• specify if keyboard letters should automatically be sized bigger
• specify font-size, background / border color and font color at element-level overriding the global settings
• specify if background or border should be colored for colored elements (color categories), #259
• added dark color schemes for "Fitzgerald" and "Goosens" in order to be able to use the grids in a dark mode

Bugfixes

• resolve issues in OBZ imports, see #466
• no truncated texts in elements anymore (if not specified by option), #179

Other issues closed as side-effect: #285, #287, #288, #403, #28

Support us

If AsTeRICS Grid is helpful for you or your organization, please consider to support us. AsTeRICS Grid is and always will be free to use for everyone, but we need to run and maintain servers for thousands of users, which costs money. By donating you help us to cover these costs and keep all services running.

   

Acknowledgements

Thanks to ARASAAC, @arasaac-dga and Manuela Santos, @ms-mialingvo - without your immense feedback and testing I would not have been able to achieve the high quality of all of these changes!

The features of this release were funded by netidee.

release-2025-01-21-11.39/+0100

New feature

• added possibility to open app in locked or fullscreen mode with URL parameters locked and fullscreen, see #467
  • example URL for a configuration to open in locked mode: https://grid.asterics.eu/?gridset_filename=default.grd.json&locked

Minor bugfixes

• make sure to resolve imageUtil.allImagesLoaded after max. 2s to prevent getting stuck
• set audio file size limit to 200kB, update error message, see #459
• updated info and help texts, 35f8db6, 0d9ee80, a467527, c80ce1f

Acknowledgements

The features of this release were developed within the research project Inclusion via digital augmentative and alternative communication (InDiKo) at the UAS Technikum Wien, funded by the City of Vienna, Project 38-09

release-2024-11-15-11.54/+0100

Changes

• finished translation of app to Russian and Ukrainian, thanks to Марина Соболева
• fixed import of obf/obz on iOS, see #432

Acknowledgements

The features of this release were developed within the research project Inclusion via digital augmentative and alternative communication (InDiKo) at the UAS Technikum Wien, funded by the City of Vienna, Project 38-09

release-2024-11-07-08.20/+0100

Bugfix

• fixed broken Portuguese app language introduced by last release

Support us

If AsTeRICS Grid is helpful for you or your organization, please consider to support us. AsTeRICS Grid is and always will be free to use for everyone, but we need to run and maintain servers for thousands of users, which costs money. By donating you help us to cover these costs and keep all services running.

   

Acknowledgements

The features of this release were funded by netidee.

release-2024-11-06-11.43/+0100

New features and bugfixes

• Added action to toggle between content languages, see #435
• Improved translation dialog and fixed some issues there, see #431
• allow reading .zip files as OBZ, see #432
• fixed to minor issues preventing AsTeRICS Grid to work on iOS/Safari 11 and 12, see 9476b9f

Support us

If AsTeRICS Grid is helpful for you or your organization, please consider to support us. AsTeRICS Grid is and always will be free to use for everyone, but we need to run and maintain servers for thousands of users, which costs money. By donating you help us to cover these costs and keep all services running.

   

Acknowledgements

The features of this release were funded by netidee.

release-2024-10-10-09.52/+0200

New features and bugfixes

• added possibility to translate content to localized languages like de-ch (German, Switzerland) or en-in (English, India), #369
• add audio files instead of recording for sound action, #429
• action to change global volume (and therefore be able to separately change volume of speech synthesis voice, webradio and YouTube), #420
• action to enter or leave fullscreen mode, #81
• option to see whole text in the accumulated phrase (without cut off), #300
• upper/lower case settings for labels are applied to generated PDFs, #303
• global grid can be printed to PDFs, #277
• PDF export: also print empty rows, #304
• added possibility to select the voice Default device voice, which in some cases is a high-quality offline voice, which cannot be selected in other ways (especially on iPad), see #223 (comment),
• prevent screenshot update to hang
• added possibility to delete all images https://github.com/asterics/AsTeRICS-Grid/discussions/413

Other changes

• updated info about fundings in about section, 327af19

Support us

If AsTeRICS Grid is helpful for you or your organization, please consider to support us. AsTeRICS Grid is and always will be free to use for everyone, but we need to run and maintain servers for thousands of users, which costs money. By donating you help us to cover these costs and keep all services running.

   

Acknowledgements

The features of this release were funded by netidee.

release-2024-07-16-12.47/+0200

Changes

• added Russian to the application languages (current translation progress 33%, feel free to contribute at https://crowdin.com/project/asterics-grid/ru )
• some updates in other app translations, e.g. Ukrainian fully translated
• improvements at auto-caching of resources in the background, don't fail if resources are permanently removed (404), see b7e70bd and 92a8508

Support us

If AsTeRICS Grid is helpful for you or your organization, please consider to support us. AsTeRICS Grid is and always will be free to use for everyone, but we need to run and maintain servers for thousands of users, which costs money. By donating you help us to cover these costs and keep all services running.

   

Acknowledgements

The features of this release were funded by netidee.

release-2024-06-19-12.08/+0200

Changes

• redesigned the page for importing a configuration for a new user, made more visually appealing:
  
• all data for default communicators are now managed within an external repository AsTeRICS-Grid-Boards. This makes it easier to maintain the configurations by different people and independent of releases of AsTeRICS Grid.

Bugfixes

• fixed some issues with word prediction, see #389
• fixed issue with increasing volume of YouTube player, #405

Support us

If AsTeRICS Grid is helpful for you or your organization, please consider to support us. AsTeRICS Grid is and always will be free to use for everyone, but we need to run and maintain servers for thousands of users, which costs money. By donating you help us to cover these costs and keep all services running.

   

Acknowledgements

The features of this release were funded by netidee.

release-2024-06-03-14.05/+0200

Changes

• implemented export to OBF/OBZ format, fixed some issues with importing OBF/OBZ #47 - see https://www.openboardformat.org/
  • go to Manage grids -> More -> Save custom data to file and tick Export in OBZ format there to use it
• added icon with 512 px to comply with PWA install criteria https://web.dev/articles/install-criteria?hl=de#criteria

Support us

If AsTeRICS Grid is helpful for you or your organization, please consider to support us. AsTeRICS Grid is and always will be free to use for everyone, but we need to run and maintain servers for thousands of users, which costs money. By donating you help us to cover these costs and keep all services running.

   

Acknowledgements

The features of this release were funded by netidee.

release-2024-04-24-11.01/+0200

Changes

• added possibility for creating direct links to default grid configurations. Example for direct link to hospital configuration. See 472615a
• added polyfill for String.replaceAll() and therefore making AsTeRICS Grid usable on iPads below iOS 13.4, see String.replaceAll on caniuse.com and cdae9ea

Support us

If AsTeRICS Grid is helpful for you or your organization, please consider to support us. AsTeRICS Grid is and always will be free to use for everyone, but we need to run an maintain servers for thousands of users, which costs money. By donating you help us to cover these costs and keep all services running.

   

Acknowledgements

The features of this release were funded by netidee.