release-2025-04-08-15.43/+0200

New features

• added possibilities to select and edit multiple elements at once in edit mode, #299, #1
  • select multiple elements with Ctrl + Click or Shift + Click (desktop) or by just tapping them (touchscreen)
  • transfer one or multiple properties to other elements using context menu of selected element -> Transfer properties:
  • see full list of new (and old) keyboard shortcuts in keyboard shortcut docs
• added possibility to set vocabulary level on elements in order to implement progressive language, see #344
• added possibility to specify if a grid is a keyboard or not (or leave automatic decision), see #471

Closing the first issue #1 which I've created more than 6 years ago. At this time I never imagined that AsTeRICS Grid will be used by thousands of people from all over the world. So thanks for using it! 🥳😄

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-2025-03-27-11.18/+0100

Bugfixes

• #506 always navigate to start grid on click on "Main" menu item
• fix bug of non-working default voice in some cases

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-2025-03-05-19.59/+0100

Bugfixes

• #503 convert all labels to lower/uppercase if set in settings, also for live elements
• bugfix: prevent updating all live elements every second in some cases

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-2025-02-21-15.24/+0100

New features

• added "Predefined actions" which allow to configure complex actions more easily. The first use-case is the possibility to easily control smart Shelly devices. See #476 and docs for Predefined actions.
• added "Live elements" which can display dynamic information, see #75 and docs for Live elements

Minor changes and bugfixes

• #472 import images of obz boards first by url, if available, in order to save disk space, import author and author url
• prevent long grid labels to break layout of grids overview
• #487 select high contrast font color based on background
• ensure popup for input options is shown above elements with scanFocus of the grid
• added Turkish app language
• update collect element on change of user settings (content language)
• all elements containing text are listening on the same event, triggered from predict elements, live elements and stateService.js (word forms), no settings elements with jquery anymore

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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-2025-02-11-16.34/+0100

Changes

• fixed bug of empty popup after last release, see #496

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-2025-02-11-10.05/+0100

Changes

• fixed bug where sometimes there are elements without coordinates created
• improved default text sizes for keyboards (prediction texts bigger, keyboard letters a little bit smaller on big screens), e79f0ae, 8a524cb
• #494 fixed reset of border color
• #492 replaced Jost-500 by Jost-400

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-2025-02-06-10.26/+0100

Changes

• added possibility to import .obz format boards from AsTeRICS Grid Boards, precondition for #472
• #474 ignore keydown events if any modal is open
• #489 fix bug aborting at hidden cells in pdf export
• #482 show really used locales in translate modal
• prevent jquery context menu not working on small screens, if menu doesn't fit screen. Still just a workaround.
• removed possibility to delete all images in UI (some people accidentially did it), only available via console window.deleteImages now
• increased z-index of scanFocus, prevent outline to be behind the menu

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-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