Solotility goes Development Outliner

There’s been some quite extensive work done on Solotility the past few months, I’ve rewritten the application with a new framework using WinUI3 ( Fluent ), there are still some issues to sort out before release of the new version- however I feel the overall look of the application is alot better but also performance is smoother.
Worth noting is the Solotility will also be renamed as “Development Outliner” in future releases- primarily due to the name making more sense.

New Item Board behavior

The Node Editor replaces the old Item Board. Future releases will include actions to set up more complex event structures and automation for documents within the active workspace, also work hierarchy is more visual to the user by using this new version of the board.

Editor hotkeys and presets

Solotility compiled the raw document text when exiting edit mode, 2.0.118 use hotkeys to stylize currently marked text instead, this also avoids the need to enter and exit edit-mode continuously.

I originally intended to rewrite the document editor to function more like an IDE that automatically stylize the text on-the-go, however after reconsidering how the application is going to be used it felt overly complicated and quite frankly unnecessary

JSON serialization

Solotility stored data using XML format, I’ve changed this to JSON. This in turn mean that projects created with previous Solotility versions are no longer compatible with future releases unfortunately.

I believe the release build of v2.0 will be ready for deployment sometime in January of 2025!