Scapple Updates & Release Notes

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This update fixes a crash that was discovered as a result of optimisations that were attempted in 1.5.2. It is a recommended update for all users running 1.5 or greater.

Bug Fixes

High priority

• Reverted optimisations made to note dragging, as they were found to cause sporadic crashing when clicking on notes.

Minor fixes

• Fixed bug whereby adding a note onto a connector by double-clicking on the line could cause other connectors to lose their arrow status, reverting to regular connections.

This update fixes a few important bugs that cropped up in the recent 1.5.1 upgrade and is a recommended update for all users running 1.5 or greater. It also includes compatibility refinements with macOS 26.

Refinements

macOS 26 “Tahoe”

• The icon has been redesigned to conform with the new System Settings for dark, clear and tint modes.
• The title bar will now be drawn seamlessly with the background colour of the board, when it is possible to do so, without sacrificing the ability to open separate boards into a single tabbed window.

General refinements

• Made it possible to copy styles from one board to another, by using drag and drop from any note or style, between open inspectors on different boards.
• Increased the area around connection lines where dragging and double-clicking is detected, making it easier to add notes to lines, or drag notes by their connectors.
• Splitting notes now better preserves their original widths and auto-fit state.
• Improved tooltip labels for preselected colours in the quick selection pop-over.
• Improved smoothness of zooming behaviour under certain conditions, whereby the scroll view would erratically jump around while zooming.

Bug Fixes

High priority

• Fixed a bug that could cause a crash when entering Full Screen mode, or loading boards that had been saved that way, on Intel hardware.
• Fixed a crash caused by incompatible colour storage for default new note or shapes settings.
• Fixed bug whereby closing a board after saving it, with a note left open for editing, would result in losing the recent edits to that note.
• Fixed a crash that would result in loading files that had previously been locked, with File ▸ Prevent Editing.
• Fixed a bug whereby leaving the inspector open with the Note Styles section visible would cause crashing whenever the window lost focus (such as to switch applications, or even to load a dialogue box within Scapple), on macOS 26.0.
• Fixed a bug whereby the size of the board would stay the same when switching to Full Screen mode, with the inspector open, in macOS 11.x and 12.x. The fix requires the inspector to be closed upon transition, but can be opened again once in full screen.

Minor fixes

• Cleaned up window title bar, where the divider between it and the board content was drawn incorrectly.
• Fixed minor drawing issue along bottom of window when footer bar is showing, for macOS 15.x and 26.x.
• Fixed inspector being drawn too low along the top of the window in macOS 10.15.x.
• Fixed issue whereby imported PDFs were being rasterised and embedded as TIFF or JPEG data.

Drag and drop

• Fixed a bug that would cause the scroll view to move erratically, when dragging notes near the edges of the board.

Connections and arrows

• Fixed bug whereby connecting selected notes with Notes ▸ Connect or Notes ▸ Connect With Arrow commands (or from the contextual menu) would not undo/redo properly.
• Fixed bug whereby the Notes ▸ Distribute ▸ Vertically command would incorrectly change the order and placement of notes.
• Fixed bug whereby making new connected notes from the contextual menu, with arrows, would draw the arrows incorrectly.

This minor update fixes a few important bugs that cropped up in the recent 1.5 upgrade and is a recommended update for all users running 1.5.

Bug Fixes

High priority

• Fixed a layout bug whereby stacks could have their contents shuffled.
• Fixed an auto-size layout bug that could cause notes (or whole stacks) to move to different areas of the board.
• Fixed a bug whereby the
  Format ▸ Note Style ▸ Copy Note Style
  menu command would not properly copy.

Minor fixes

• Cleaned up title bar drawing, where a bright line could be seen in dark mode, on dark boards, in some conditions.
• Fixed an external crash in the Quick Look and icon preview thumbnail generators, which could trigger upon viewing Scapple boards in Finder or other contexts that would use icon previews.
• Fixed a layout issue whereby the top of the board might be drawn underneath the title bar, which could cause notes to be hidden at higher zoom levels.
• Fixed a bug whereby updates to the Note Styles list would not be alphabetically sorted until reloading the board.

This is an extensive overhaul of the underlying code, modernising and converting most of the codebase to Swift. As a result of adopting this new programming language from Apple, the minimum supported operating system is now macOS 10.15.0 “Catalina”.

If you have attempted to update from an older system, and find yourself with a copy that no longer runs, please visit our legacy download page to fetch an older copy of the software.

Compatibility

• Adjusted Spotlight module’s code signing, which has changed in macOS 15.
• Fixes made to Quick Look and icon previews to support new methods in macOS 15.
• Disabled previous
  Ctrl-Return
  behaviour to allow for keyboard access to contextual menu in macOS 15.
• Fixed crash on loading a .scap file with a background texture found in macOS 15.2+.

Refinements and Changes

• Board textures now attempt to detect the overall lightness of the image, and adjust the foreground colour appropriately, when the
  Default Color
  is cleared in the Document Settings area of the inspector.
• Improved adaptive foreground colour handling in contextual cases where a shape or note background is different from the overall board background. E.g. black shapes on a white board will no longer host black on black notes.
• Native macOS window tab support has been restored. This will mean the window now always uses a native toolbar instead of sometimes showing the background colour of the board within it.
• Experimental live dragging mode added, which shows notes and connections move in real time. Use the Shift key while dragging and dropping to use it.
• Shift-clicking on a note or shape that is partially out of view will scroll the canvas until it can be fully seen.
• The
  Replace All
  button will now replace text found in connector labels.
• When stacking notes together, the width of each note is now respected rather than changed to match the width of the first note. If you prefer stacked notes to have even widths, use the
  Notes ▸ Make Same Width
  command.
• Blank documents that have never been saved or modified now conform better to standard behaviour, closing quietly in the background when another document is opened.

Optimisation

• The Sparkle framework, used to check for and install upgrades for the direct-sale version, has been upgraded to the latest version. This should reduce excessive requests for update checks on some older systems.
• Optimisations have been made to overall board drawing speeds, which may reduce stuttering and lag when scrolling, panning and zooming under some circumstances.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug whereby dragging two notes by their connection line would cause a crash in macOS 13 “Ventura”.
• Fixed a bug that could cause some boards to silently fail to load.
• Fixed a bug and would cause some boards to not save, throwing an error dialogue stating that “there was a problem creating the XML data”.
• Fixed issue with connection labels printing and exporting to PDF as white-on-white if the board itself was dark and the
  Default Color
  was cleared.
• Fixed a crash whereby typing a ‘dead key’, such as
  ´
  , meant to be combined with a letter, like “é”, would cause a crash if typed into a board without a note open for editing.
• Fix issue where dragging an image note could lead to the app hanging for several seconds.
• Fixed bug whereby multi-byte fonts, such as Japanese or Korean, would not properly hold inline formatting applied to portions of the text within a note.
• Fixed copy and paste issues that could cause multiple notes to have their text combined into the same line rather than being separated by newlines.
• Reverted to standard native window title bar, which has resolved:
  • Issue of title bar graphics being drawn at the top of the screen in native Full Screen mode.
  • Drawing issues that could result in zooming or resizing the window causing the solid title bar to “flicker” on and off.
  • Inability to use native window tabbing.

Minor fixes

• Fixed issue with the cursor colour not following the board’s current foreground colour, causing it to become invisible in some cases.
• Fixed crash on adding new notes to connection lines that also contain labels, in .scap files that were originally created with the Windows version.
• Modified inspector’s behaviour to end the editing of notes when it is opened, to avoid issues with modifying a notes appearance while it is being actively edited.
• Fixed issues where stack order was corrupted by array ordering, where stack order sometimes produced unexpected results.
• Fixed a display bug which would cause exception reporting to use black text on dark grey, when in Dark Mode.
• Fixed bug that would cause stacks to break formation, when editing notes within them that contain multiple lines.
• GUI layout fixed in the RTF and RTFD export dialogues.
• Fixed bug whereby notes containing more than one line would not auto-fit after editing the note, when applicable.
• Fixed bug in style storage and application whereby the Size attribute was not properly read when loading an existing board, and would be subsequently lost once saved.
• Fixed bug whereby changing the text colour while editing a note would not set the note colour upon concluding edit.
• Fixed bug whereby the text content of Scapple boards were not being saved into the Spotlight index.
• Fixed bug whereby under some conditions multiple save confirmation dialogues could be presented, when closing a new unsaved board.

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This contains compatibility fixes for macOS 13, Ventura. This update is recommended for all users intending to upgrade their operating system.

macOS 13 “Ventura” Compatibility

• Override SVG drag and drop in macOS 13 to use previous behaviour of substituting a file link for the image. SVG support in macOS seems to be in an early and buggy state, so we will revisit adding native support for SVG images on the board at a future date.
• Testing has been done against the updated text editing frameworks introduced in macOS 13.
• Fixed an issue where the selection colour for notes was always black, regardless of system setting.

Enhancements

• Support for handling unrecognised image types has been added. In such cases, a placeholder will be substituted for the image, using the same size and position, preserving the original image data in the file. This will mainly be of impact to cross-platform users who would like to take advantage of scalable SVG graphics on Windows.
• An additional shortcut has been added for Quick Zoom (=), mainly for keyboards that lack a physical (Z) key.
• Option-Scroll for zooming in and out on the canvas will follow system preferences for scrolling.
• RTF and RTFD export no longer includes superfluous empty lines around optional separators.

Bug Fixes

• Unrecognised image types will no longer be lost when editing boards that contain them.
• Fixed bug whereby notes consisting of a single emoji character would cause a crash.
• Fixed an issue where, for darker background boards, dynamically displaying foreground elements in white would cause the note text to be set to white. This would mean that printing or switching to a light background would cause the notes be unreadable or invisible.
• Note: this fix only impacts new notes; notes created on dark boards in the previous version will need to have their text colour cleared by hand.
• Fixed image filename bug which would cause RTFD export to either crash or produce RTFD files without visible images.
• Improved connection label recognition, which was previously ignoring some labels coming from boards created on Windows.
• Replace All no longer replaces the entire note text when multiple notes were changed by it.
• Finder QuickLook plugin fixed, which will also fixes cases of Scapple files not showing their preview when imported into a Scrivener project binder, or in the Bookmark preview pane when linked to files.
• Note: you may need to restart your system after installing the update if you do not see previews immediately.
• Update the Internet Policy JSON file, used by Little Snitch, to include a description of the AWS connection, when downloading an update to the software.
• Fixed a problem with Print and PDF export where determining black or white foreground elements was based on the board background colour rather than the print rendering.
• Fixed problem where splitting a connection with a new note would delete the label on the connection.
• Fixed issue on M1 machines whereby the text alignment buttons for new notes in preferences, and in some cases in the inspector, would trigger the wrong state when clicked.

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Scapple 1.4.1 requires a manual update.

If you are upgrading from 1.4.0, simply download the 1.4.1 update installer and run the .exe file when Scapple is closed to update to the latest version.

If you are upgrading from 1.2.6 or an earlier version, this upgrade represents a switch from a 32-bit app installation to a 64-bit and requires a 64-bit version of Windows 10 or greater to run. Please follow the directions for upgrading detailed here.

If you have attempted to update from an unsupported system and find yourself with a copy that no longer runs, please visit our legacy download page to retrieve an older copy of the software.

Refinements and Changes

Scapple’s Qt framework has been updated to version 6.3.2.

A new Styles tab in Options allows customising the shortcut key modifier for styles. The settings for default note styles have also been moved to this new tab.

The file browsing dialogues (Open, Save, and Save As…) now remember the last location through closing and relaunching Scapple, rather than only during the session.

If the currently-set dictionary is deleted, Scapple alerts the user on startup and internally disables the spell check, rather than attempting to default to English. Open Edit ▸ Spelling ▸ Dictionaries… to download and select your preferred dictionary and re-enable spell checking.

The default inspector width in new boards now accommodates Windows text scaling. The width can also be manually adjusted in any board by dragging the divider between the canvas and inspector.

Scapple now stores image heights as well as widths to allow the upcoming macOS version to create same-size placeholders as a fallback for any image types it does not support.

Bug Fixes

Hot fix applied, 2022-09-21, to fix application metadata and certification on the executable.

Fixed a bug whereby Save As… could overwrite the path of a different board currently open in Scapple.

Fixed a bug whereby some dictionaries were not correctly recognised after downloading and could not be used or did not display in the dropdown menu for selection.

Fixed a bug whereby creating an empty note in a stack would delete the empty note as expected but then misplace following notes in the stack.

Fixed a bug that could cause the top note of a stack to shift out of the stack when using right or centred alignment.

Fixed a bug whereby creating new notes stacked below an image ignored the image’s attributes (width, border style, etc.) even when Use selected note style for new notes was enabled.

Fixed a bug whereby toggling the inspector in a board maximised across multiple screens could cause the Scapple window to size down to a single screen.

Fixed a bug whereby Edit ▸ Substitutions ▸ Smart Links could not be deselected.

Fixed a bug whereby the menu toggle options in Edit ▸ Spelling ▸ and Edit ▸ Substitutions ▸ (set either from the menu or the Substitutions panel) acted as global settings rather than being saved per board, with new boards using the most recently toggled settings.

Fixed a bug whereby Edit ▸ Find distinguished between straight and smart quote marks, so a search might not return expected results.

Fixed a bug whereby the Default style preview in the inspector incorrectly displayed the shadow and text alignment set for default notes in Options.

Fixed a bug in the auto-update process so that future updates can be downloaded and installed from within the app.

Ensured the starter help text that appears on empty boards remains legible by dynamically adapting to the board background colour.

As part of this extensive update, the code base has been upgraded for 64-bit support, meaning that Scapple 1.4 requires a 64-bit version of Windows 10 or greater to run.
This change also requires a manual update from earlier versions of Scapple to 1.4. Please follow the instructions on our announcement page to upgrade your copy of Scapple.
If you have attempted to update from an unsupported system and find yourself with a copy that no longer runs, please visit our legacy download page to fetch an older copy of the software.

Refinements and Changes

General

Scapple is now a 64-bit app, with its Qt framework updated to version 6.3.1.
Compatibility has been improved both between Mac and Windows and between different screen resolutions, significantly reducing cases where auto-sized notes would wrap unexpectedly when opened on a different system.
Scapple’s dictionaries have been updated from Aspell to Hunspell and include more languages.

Inspector and Styles

Access to note and document settings has been streamlined into an inspector sidebar with a new styles panel that previews available styles and allows easy application, creation, and editing via drag and drop.
The inspector is now shown or hidden per board and its state will be remembered when the board is next opened.
You can now easily create a style by dragging a note onto the Default row of the Note Styles section in the inspector. Existing note styles can be updated by dragging and dropping notes from the board onto the style name.
Styles can be conveniently copied between boards by dragging and dropping from one board’s inspector to another’s. Styles can also be updated across boards by dragging and dropping a note from one board onto an existing style in another board’s inspector.
Dragging a style from the inspector onto an empty space on the board will create a new note using that style; holding the modifier keys while dragging will connect the new note to previously selected notes just like when double-clicking to create a new note.
Style modifications (creating, redefining, deleting, and importing styles) can now be reverted using Edit ▸ Undo.

Saving

You can now adjust the auto-save interval or disable auto-save entirely from the General tab in File ▸ Options… .
Previously open, unsaved boards are now restored on launch in the event of a crash.
Undo now works on changes made to the Document settings (board background colour, font, etc.) in the inspector.

Note Connectors

Labels can now be added to connections between notes.
Text in connection labels will be included when using Replace All.
You can now choose whether to use dashed lines (default) or solid lines for connections without arrowheads, by toggling the new setting in the General tab of File ▸ Options… .

Import and Export

ODT files can now be imported as editable notes.
SVG rendering has been improved so that images remain crisp when resized on the board. (For compatibility with the Mac version, Scapple also provides an option on import to add the image as a bitmap instead.)
Imported PDFs are now drawn with a transparent background.
Pasting notes or clipboard text (via the right-click menu or Ctrl+V ) when a note is selected will now paste the notes as a stack beneath the selected note, including inserting notes or text into an existing stack.
The Export as Plain Text dialogue has been spruced up and now more clearly displays multi-line separators and whitespace characters.
Exporting as Plain Text List now produces single-spaced notes rather than double-spaced, matching Mac.

Board Navigation

The middle mouse button can now be used for panning. (Holding the space bar still allows panning with the main mouse button.)
You can now hold the Ctrl key to increase the speed while moving notes via Shift+ArrowKeys .
Movement mode ( Edit ▸ Arrow Keys Move Notes ) is now toggled simply with an unmodified M key.
Numerous keyboard shortcuts have been added and several have been updated for simplicity or to harmonise with Scrivener’s similar menu actions.

UI

Scapple now offers a Dark Mode, which can be set in File ▸ Options… .
The default background, note styles and colours of new boards have been refreshed and brightened, matching those used in the Mac version.
Page guides have been slightly darkened for better visibility.
Note padding has been slightly adjusted for new boards, improving readability for longer notes. (Existing boards will not be impacted, retaining their original spacing and layout.)
The note border selection menu now displays a visual representation of the border width.
The default font for new boards has been changed to Arial. (You can set your preferred default font under Document Settings in the Inspector.)
When multiple notes are selected, the footer bar now displays this count as well as the total number of notes.
The footer bar now displays a lock icon when File ▸ Prevent Editing is enabled.
Notes now inherit the board colour when they have no fill colour, ensuring their text remains readable even when overlapping another note or connection label.
Previews of new machine translations have been added, available from the language dropdown menu in File ▸ Options… . Since these are incomplete and unreviewed, they must be set manually (“system language” will still default to English even if your language is available as a preview). If you would like to volunteer to improve these translations, please let us know !

Note Manipulation and Editing

The minimum width for notes has been reduced.
It is now possible to deselect notes using a marquee drag by holding the Alt key while dragging.
Two new alignment commands have been added, Center Horizontally in Background Shape and Center Vertically in Background Shape.
New shapes are created layered behind existing items to simplify interaction with enclosed shapes. (Use Notes ▸ Bring to Front or ▸ Send to Back to adjust the layering.)
The default spacing for stacked notes, as well as the margin of tolerance for detecting a stack, has been slightly increased and now matches the spacing used on Mac, ensuring compatibility between platforms.
Notes overlapping a coloured background shape now take on that shape’s fill colour if they have none of their own, making the association more apparent.
When Enter ends editing is enabled, new lines in notes can be created using Shift+Enter .

Bug Fixes

Fixed a crash that could occur using Replace or Replace & Find.
Fixed a bug whereby pressing Ctrl+Delete or Alt+Delete when a shape was selected would crash Scapple.
Fixed several bugs with Find/Replace that could cause unpredictable results in the replacement order, skip matching terms when using Replace All, or cause Scapple to freeze when using Replace & Find on the last instance of the search term.
Fixed a bug whereby table content could be pasted into a note as an editable table which would then be lost on save. Table content now pastes purely as text.
Fixed a bug whereby notes that had been auto-sized down retained that reduced width, or narrowed further, during editing. Automatically-shortened notes now expand to the default note width when editing.
Fixed a bug whereby file names containing periods would be truncated in the title bar and in the Save As name field.
Fixed various discrepancies in the order of notes when exporting to OPML, plain text, and rich text formats and when dragging and dropping into Scrivener’s binder. These should now better follow the order described in §9.2.1 ( The Order of Things ) of the user manual.
Fixed a bug whereby notes exported to RTF with the separator field left empty were separated with a blank line rather than a single return; this bug also padded any separator entered with blank lines, which now are instead single returns.
Fixed a bug whereby moving a board across monitors with different resolutions could cause the font size to shift, disrupting the board’s layout.
Fixed a bug that affected Scapple boards opened on the lower-resolution monitor of multi-monitor setups, causing notes to temporarily enlarge while dragged, making it difficult to accurately position notes.
Fixed a bug whereby the board would scroll unnecessarily to keep items entirely within the view when they were dropped near the edge of the visible space.
Fixed a bug causing a delay when moving images on the board via drag and drop.
Adjusted the auto-save algorithm to reduce lag.
Fixed a display bug whereby fill colour applied to a note via a style might not appear until the board was reopened if the note’s font size did not match the font size saved in the style.
Fixed a bug whereby resizing a note with the mouse switched the note to editing mode when the mouse button was released.
Fixed a bug whereby resizing multiple notes together could not be undone in a single action (each size increment needed to be undone one at a time).
Fixed a bug whereby dragging multiple selected notes onto a connected note failed to disconnect the notes.
Fixed a bug whereby copying and pasting a group of notes, or duplicating them via Ctrl+drag, did not leave all the pasted notes selected.
Fixed a bug whereby the first character of text pasted from Google Docs could appear with hyperlink formatting.
Fixed a bug whereby text containing a hyperlink pasted from Google Docs could have the link formatting extend to the end of the paragraph after closing and reopening the Scapple board.
Fixed a bug whereby hyperlinks were lost from imported DOC files and linked text was missing from imported DOCX files.
Fixed a bug whereby notes copied from one board to another retained their original font until the board was reloaded.
Fixed a bug whereby the board’s default text colour would be used when exporting to RTF or copying and pasting from Scapple in a rich-text format, which could result in unreadable text. Scapple now uses black text in these cases whenever a note does not have its own text colour applied.
Fixed a bug whereby applying a note style with font formatting did not remove existing formatting that was not part of the style.
Fixed a bug whereby scrolling the board while dragging an item could misplace the drop position.
Fixed a bug whereby selecting or deselecting the Enter ends editing option could toggle the state of the other Enter key behaviour setting in Options.
Fixed a bug whereby the magnetic setting for shapes was entirely hidden in the inspector rather than disabled when a shape was not selected.
Fixed a bug whereby the temporary zoom state while pressing the Z key could get stuck when the Ctrl key was also held down.
Fixed a bug whereby aligning or distributing magnetic background shapes did not also move any overlapping notes; the notes are now treated as a unit with the shape.
Fixed a bug whereby Alt+clicking a shape selected surrounding shapes rather than only those fully contained within it.
Fixed a bug whereby the Select ▸ Notes Overlapping Selected Shapes failed to select notes and shapes within the selected shape.
Fixed a bug in the export order of notes, improving predictability per the description in the manual.
Fixed a bug whereby the spelling dialogue could be hidden behind the Scapple board.
Fixed a bug whereby the language dropdown in Options appeared blank when using the default setting (system language).
Fixed a bug whereby the shape-related alignment options for notes were not available unless the note fully overlapped the shape.
Fixed a bug whereby note indentation level was not preserved when exporting to RTF.
Fixed some buggy behaviour of note text and connections not properly updating to a contrasting colour against background shapes or after certain changes to the board background when the default foreground colour is cleared.
Fixed a bug whereby the commands in Edit ▸ Transformations ▸ always affected the entire note, even when only a portion of the text was selected.
Tidied the output when exporting to OPML with the option to create a “notes” field enabled, so that the heading always uses the shorter of the first line or the first 50 characters and includes an ellipsis if the line must be cut.
Fixed a bug whereby the check spelling dialogue opened in a disabled state when accessed via the accelerator key shortcuts.
Fixed a bug whereby merging notes from one stack into another did not reform the stack the notes were taken from.
Fixed a bug whereby edits that changed the width of notes when the auto-size notes setting was enabled were not properly reversed or restored with Edit ▸ Undo or ▸ Redo .
Fixed several bugs whereby a Scapple board could be altered despite File ▸ Prevent Editing being enabled, including disabling Edit ▸ Redo , Format ▸ Note Style ▸ Delete Note Style ▸ , and Edit ▸ Spelling ▸ Show Spelling… , as well as adding the ability to copy notes, note styles, and note text while in this mode for pasting into another board or application.
Fixed a bug whereby shadows could appear lighter against dark backgrounds.
Fixed a compatibility issue with the Mac version whereby notes containing only whitespace would have that space removed on Windows, resulting in the note disappearing if it were toggled into and out of editing mode.
Fixed a bug whereby notes could jump position when edited while Auto-size notes was enabled in Options, which could also cause stacks to break.
Fixed a bug whereby notes created by dragging a style from the inspector would shrink to fit the default text if Auto-size notes was enabled in Option, rather than retaining the default width until the text was edited.
Fixed a bug whereby Notes ▸ Bring To Front|Send To Back did not adjust the layered position of the selected note if it was not currently touching another note.
Fixed a bug whereby a note with no fill colour overlapping the edge of a shape would obscure the shape’s shadow but not its border.
Fixed a bug whereby Format ▸ Note Style ▸ Copy|Paste Note Style incorrectly included the copied note or shape’s size and its magnetic and faded states.
Fixed a bug that could leave a temporary ghost copy of a note after dragging the note.
Fixed a bug affecting high-DPI monitors whereby dragging notes, making marquee selections, and similar drag actions could leave lines and other drawing glitches on the board.
Fixed a bug whereby, when editing a note, Ctrl-clicking another note selected the second note without ending editing on the first.
Fixed a bug whereby pressing Z to activate QuickZoom would always zoom out if the board had been zoomed in, even when all notes were already visible.
Fixed a bug whereby pressing Z did not enable the QuickZoom feature in some cases when a single note in a certain position in the board was scrolled out of view.
Fixed a bug whereby creating a stack with right or centred alignment could cause the first note to end up outside the stack.
Fixed a bug whereby Alt-clicking on a shape to include its overlapping notes in the selection did not combine with Ctrl-clicking to create a multiple selection.
Fixed a bug whereby the Replace All Scope setting in the Find dialogue affected the scope of functions beyond Replace All.
Fixed a bug whereby changing the board font could additionally remove bold formatting from notes and require Edit ▸ Undo to restore the formatting for each note individually.
Fixed a typo in the Options.

The version number will be printed as “1.40.1” in the Mac App Store version.

This is an extensive overhaul of the underlying code, modernising and converting most of the codebase to Swift. As a result of adopting this new programming language from Apple, the minimum supported operating system is now macOS 10.15.0 “Catalina”.

If you have attempted to update from an older system, and find yourself with a copy that no longer runs, please visit our legacy download page to fetch an older copy of the software.

Refinements and Changes

• Apple has changed how colours are stored and retrieved in preference files. This means that upon upgrading to this version, if applicable, you will lose your custom default new board background colour, causing the software to revert to the factory default (an off-white colour). To restore your preference, simply load any existing .scap file that used that colour, and follow the instructions provided in the user manual, in §6.1.6, Changing the Defaults for New Boards.
• When pasting or duplicating notes (with
  Opt-Drag
  ), the newly created notes are now selected, matching the behaviour used with Paste (
  Cmd-V
  ).
• Quick Zoom behaviour has been tweaked so that individual notes can be selected with simple clicks, while the
  Z
  key is held down, rather than only allowing marquee selection.
• It is now possible to pan the board by clicking and dragging with the middle mouse button.
• A keyboard shortcut has been added to the
  Notes ▸ New Background Shape (Around Selection)
  menu command:
  Opt-Cmd-G
  .

Bug Fixes

• Control-click, to bring up the contextual menu in the inspector’s style list, has been fixed.
• Bold and italic shortcuts and menu commands have been fixed to work in macOS 12+.
• Printing legacy boards, those created in versions of Scapple prior to 1.3, now wrap text within notes properly.
• Styles no longer display the font size in the inspector sidebar unless the font size is part of the style.
• Dragging notes outside of the currently viewable area, such that the board would expand in its size, would not increase the scroll view size, making it impossible to pan to the notes.
• Magnetic shapes could not be dragged to the inspector styles pane, to update or create a style from them, if other shapes or notes were dragged along with them.
• At some zoom levels, editing notes would cause the view to snap to the top of the board making it difficult to edit larger boards.
• On some systems the selection halo colour would revert to the system default (blue) regardless of the user’s preferred system accent colour.
• When
  Default text
  in the New Notes preference tab was cleared, dragging new notes out of the Note Styles inspector pane would create them at minimum width instead of the established default note width.
• Fixes have been made to better protect the board from edits, when
  File ▸ Prevent Editing
  is enabled.

Scapple 1.4 provides compatibility for both macOS 11 Big Sur and Apple Silicon.

Note: This is the last version of Scapple that works on macOS 10.11 thru 10.14.

Refinements and Changes

Big Sur Refinements

• UI and icons updated to match the new look of macOS 11 Big Sur.

Apple Silicon Support

• Scapple is now a Universal app, running natively on both Silicon and Intel machines.

Speed Enhancements

• Optimisations to drawing boards with many notes and connections.
• Optimisations to typing in zoomed boards with many notes.

Changes

• Added a preference that allows you to use solid lines instead of dashes for connections without arrows.
• Replace and Replace & Find are now disabled if there is no replacement text or if the selected text does not match the find text.
• Note shadows are now always black and no longer invert to white when against a dark background.
• Removed the recent search menus from the Find panel as they did not work correctly.

Refinements

• Improved Paste, so that image and multiple pastes from the Finder now work better.
• Scapple now fixes invalid characters on paste (such as replacing tabs with spaces and page breaks with newlines).
• Improved clean-up in XML file format for deleted notes (previously data recording which notes had arrows pointing to them could be left around after notes were deleted).
• When using “Stack” to move notes out of one stack into another, the original stack is now adjusted and no longer leaves a gap where the removed note used to be.
• Stacks are now maintained when notes within them are merged.
• When pasting, if notes in a stack are selected, the pasted notes are now placed under the first selected note in the stack. (This does not apply when pasting via the contextual menu.)

Bug Fixes

• Quick Look preview bug fixed.
• Fixed some minor bugs relating to pasting text into Scapple.
• Fixed bug whereby pasting text into a note would result in black text until editing ended, even if the board was set to use a custom text colour by default.
• To work around a bug with certain fonts (such as Chalkduster) whereby descenders can draw outside of the text area, which could lead to descenders being unfaded when the rest of a note was faded, text drawing is now clipped to the text area when a note is set to be faded.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug whereby images could not be dragged in and would drag in as URLs instead.
• Fixed bug whereby the bold and italic shortcuts may not work as expected on 10.15.
• Fixed a drawing issue whereby the appearance of notes scrolled out of view may not be updated when edited or selected.
• Worked around a dark mode drawing issue in the styles area of the inspector when using a background texture. The background of the styles area is now drawn dark grey when using a background texture, rather than showing the texture itself in this area.
• Fixed bug whereby shadows drawn against background textures would be white.
• Some performance improvements.