Fixed to not animate handle when animations disabled
Fixed build to reduce application disk image size
Fixed print colors to be black on white
Fixed icon thumbnail colors to be black on white
Quicklook previews should follow system setting
Added Printing
Added Icon previews in Finder
Added Quicklook previews in Finder
Added “New Document” to Dock menu
This is an “early” preview. Probably some bugs, but I’m interested to get feedback. Also I had some problems with the build. It’s 3x expected size right now, hope to get that fixed eventually. I won’t be around much tomorrow, but will be back at it next week.
To get preview releases through Bike’s software update select: Bike > Preferences > General > Include “preview” releases.
Release 115 makes a bunch of changes to the way that Bike’s code is packaged. The end result from a user perspective should just be that the app download is smaller–be on the lookout for any unintended new bugs.
Also can anyone test and see if QuickLook and Icon thumbnails for Bike files is still working for you in this release? They seem to be working for me now, though for some reason they stopped working right after the release for about half an hour, and I don’t really know why or what I did to fix.
I appreciate the preference to disable the font scaling, but how do I stop Bike from increasing the top padding to a comically large amount when the window is made wider?
I thought about a preference for that, but I think it would also look pretty weird with the cursor scrunched up against the top when there were also big margins.
Generally my thinking is:
Most of the time you will have your window size somewhere near text wrap width.
In full-screen mode (when the above isn’t the case) then nearer the middle of the screen feels like a good staring place for typing.
On the current beta (115), the app stopped showing where the cursor would normally appear, and also stopped being able to save files after a few hours of use. Restarting the app fixed it. Not sure if anyone else has experienced this.
Most of the time you will have your window size somewhere near text wrap width.
That’s not how I write. I like having a wider canvas to write on to aid with focus, but I still want a reasonable text wrap width.
In full-screen mode (when the above isn’t the case) then nearer the middle of the screen feels like a good staring place for typing.
Isn’t that what typewriter mode does? Either way, when I scroll to the top of a document, I don’t expect ~30% of my vertical space taken up by padding. Not sure if you have access to these apps, but Ulysses and iA Writer handle this well, imo. Some padding is needed but Bike’s is excessive when the window is wide. It doesn’t make sense to me to have to choose between window width and vertical space.
In full-screen mode (when the above isn’t the case) then nearer the middle of the screen feels like a good staring place for typing.
I honestly thought this was a bug
I enjoy being able to have Bike to fill the full screen and the rows of text to be wide. Now I can sort of achieve this if I use a huge font size, but that is not really what I want. Any chance we can have a way to configure a border size? So this would enable to have whatever font size and let the text fill the window as much as we desire, regardless of window size.
Adds a setting to disable top margin scaling entirely
Related, it also changes typewriter mode so that it adds top margin, previously it wasn’t doing that.
Let me know what you like and don’t like. Ideally I would like a behavior that we can all live with to avoid the extra preference.
For me I think I do like disabling “Enable top margin scaling” for non full-screen-mode, because when I resize the windows there’s a bit less text movement which is nice.
On the other hand when in fullscreen mode I still feel like text is starting to close to the top of the screen. One thought is that I’ll just add a bit more top padding, but only in fullscreen mode? Let me know what you think.
Also I have changed typewriter mode behavior so that when enabled it will always add enough top margin padding to center the typewriter scrolling.
Please let me know if you can duplicate this behavior.
There has been a problem (that I thought I fixed in Bike 1.9 (112)) where the cursor would not show even though the outline editor had focus. I think that problem mainly happened when interacting with the find and text checking panels, and would fix itself if you switched to a different application and then back to Bike.
I have not seen a problem where it could not save documents. Please me know if you keep seeing either problem or can figure out how to reproduce.
Thank you. What I actually wanted was to have the “original” behavior and I now noticed the indications on these options that they are only valid when “text wrapping” is enabled. So what I wanted actually was to “Wrap to Window”. Somehow I missed when the other wrapping options were added, probably because I didn’t update Bike as often.
