{"id":3002,"date":"2015-11-23T21:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T03:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=3002"},"modified":"2015-11-27T11:20:03","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T17:20:03","slug":"checkbook-and-checkbook-pro-2-5-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=3002","title":{"rendered":"CheckBook and CheckBook Pro 2.5.8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent Mac App Store technical &#8220;event&#8221; mostly in our rearview, <a href=\"http:\/\/splasm.com\/checkbook\">CheckBook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/splasm.com\/checkbookpro\">CheckBook Pro<\/a>\u00c2\u00a02.5.8 are\u00c2\u00a0now ready for folks who purchased directly from the Splasm Store.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unfortunately,<\/strong> we recently found that the third-party software inside our applications that\u00c2\u00a0notifies\u00c2\u00a0folks about updates can crash on OS X El Capitan. \u00c2\u00a0We&#8217;re\u00c2\u00a0not comfortable with that, so we&#8217;ve decided to not let previous\u00c2\u00a0versions &#8220;see&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0new updates going forward. \u00c2\u00a0Instead, we rolled our own update check code (actually, we went back and enhanced our own, significantly simpler code from years ago) in 2.5.8 so this won&#8217;t happen again. \u00c2\u00a0Once you download and install 2.5.8 or later, you&#8217;ll be able to check for updates from within the application, as (almost) always.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nWhat&#8217;s new?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>CheckBook 2.5.8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fixes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prevents a crash that can occur after importing a statement or dismissing a dialog window<\/li>\n<li>Eradicates a misleading error that would indicate the current document is inaccessible<\/li>\n<li>Moves a key temporary file to a private location, preventing an error that could occur if the application is left open but unused for more than a few days<\/li>\n<li>Makes several adjustments for user interface and system font changes in OS X El Capitan<\/li>\n<li>Better supports documents shared with others on a network volume<\/li>\n<li>Uses an improved method of finding documents from significantly older versions<\/li>\n<li>Provides enhanced error tracking and reporting<\/li>\n<li>Improves performance when opening and closing documents<\/li>\n<li>Corrects a rare glitch that could result in duplicate dates appearing for the same Schedule<\/li>\n<li>Prevents a crash that can occur when checking for updates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nCheckBook Pro 2.5.8<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fixes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prevents a crash that can occur after importing a statement or dismissing a dialog window<\/li>\n<li>Eradicates a misleading error that would indicate the current document is inaccessible<\/li>\n<li>Moves a key temporary file to a private location, preventing an error that could occur if the application is left open but unused for more than a few days<\/li>\n<li>Makes several adjustments for user interface and system font changes in OS X El Capitan<\/li>\n<li>Better supports documents shared with others on a network volume<\/li>\n<li>Uses an improved method of finding documents from significantly older versions<\/li>\n<li>Provides enhanced error tracking and reporting<\/li>\n<li>Improves performance when opening and closing documents<\/li>\n<li>Corrects a rare glitch that could result in duplicate dates appearing for the same Schedule<\/li>\n<li>Prevents a crash that can occur when checking for updates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nGet the update<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>If you purchased from the Mac App Store<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Open the Mac App Store app, click the\u00c2\u00a0Purchased\u00c2\u00a0button at the top of the window, then click the Update or Install button next to your purchase. Be sure you&#8217;re signed in with the same Apple ID you used for your original purchase.<\/p>\n<p><em>If you\u00c2\u00a0purchased from the Splasm Store<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CheckBook 2.5.8:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/splasm.com\/checkbook\/update.html\">http:\/\/splasm.com\/checkbook\/update.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CheckBook Pro 2.5.8:\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/splasm.com\/checkbookpro\/update.html\">http:\/\/splasm.com\/checkbookpro\/update.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nAfter You Install<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first time you launch the application, you may be asked to update or upgrade your document. Agree to the update and your document will be ready to work with 2.5.8.<\/p>\n<p>If you see a message about a damaged document, please visit\u00c2\u00a0<a class=\"postlink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=2855\">http:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=2855<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0for details.<\/p>\n<p>If you open the application and your data doesn&#8217;t immediately appear, try going to the File menu, down to the Open Recent submenu, and clicking each document there until your data appears. If this doesn&#8217;t cure all,\u00c2\u00a0<strong>don&#8217;t panic<\/strong>. There are several ways data can appear missing when it&#8217;s either hidden or in another document. <strong>We can help with that,<\/strong> so get in touch at\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:support@splasm.com\">support@splasm.com<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the recent Mac App Store technical &#8220;event&#8221; mostly in our rearview, CheckBook and CheckBook Pro\u00c2\u00a02.5.8 are\u00c2\u00a0now ready for folks who purchased directly from the Splasm Store. Unfortunately, we recently found that the third-party software inside our applications that\u00c2\u00a0notifies\u00c2\u00a0folks about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/?p=3002\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-checkbook","category-development","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3002"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3026,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3002\/revisions\/3026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splasmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}