Stykz 1.0 RC1

Stykz is the first multi-platform stick figure animation program in the world (as far as we know!). You may use Stykz completely free of charge.
If youve ever used Pivot StickFigure Animator, youll feel right at home and will appreciate the extra features that Stykz has to offer!
And even if you haven’t used Pivot, you’ll find Stykz to be a powerful, easy to learn tool for creating great looking stick figure animations quickly and efficiently.

Main features:
- Stykz is frame-based, allowing you to work on individual frames of your animation; onionskinning allows you to see what was going on in the previous frame so you can make adjustments accordingly.
- Figures can be rotated, scaled, flipped, duplicated, colorized, and relayered. Select multiple figures by shift-clicking or creating a selection rectangle and align them using the alignment options in the Property palette.
- Figures can be created and edited directly in place; no separate “editor” window is required.
- You can have multiple animation “documents” open at the same time, and can cut, copy, and paste between documents.
- You can individually adjust the line segments in a figure, setting their length, width, color, and angle. You can individually relayer line segments within a figure so that you can get a “crossing arms” effect simply and easily, and you can change the layer of any selected figures to create the front-to-back order you desire.
- Stykz’s PolyFill tool lets you fill shapes with just a few clicks! shapes don’t even have to be enclosed to use the PolyFill tool; you simply click on the different nodes of a figure and when you click back where you started, the polyfill region is created! It can be filled with color and will move and resize as your figure is moved and resized.
- In addition to simple pivoting motions, you can utilize the Extend Mode to extend a line segment, which will move all attached lines accordingly, or Distort Mode which allows you to move a node by itself, and have any attached lines adjust like rubber bands (see the Intro to Stykz movie for a demonstration of this.)
- Display the Hints window to help you work within Stykz; it tells you what you can do with each tool, and adjusts as you switch between tools. When you are comfortable with Stykz, you can keep it closed, or use it for a quick refresher in case you forgot something.
- Arrow keys can be used to move selected figure(s) by 1 pixel; hold down the Shift key to move in 10 pixel increments.
- If you have commonly used figures, you can save your figure to the Library where it can be used again and again in other animations by simply dragging and dropping it onto the stage where your animation is being developed.
- Test your animation in Stykz before you export it as either a QuickTime movie or Animated GIF.
- You can share your Stykz files with others, and even include information with the file that tells who created it, when it was last modified, and even provides a place to include usage instructions.

Enhancements
General:
- Fixed bug where double-clicking on a document would open in Stykz but would also open a new document (Mac OS X). [63]
- Made sure file associations for Stykz files (.stykz and .styk) are fully supported on OS X and Windows. [125]
- Fixed location of new document windows so they are relative to the topmost open document.
- Fixed bug where opening a new document with a document already open would cause the underlying documents "dirty" flag to be set.
- Fixed bug where typing an arrow key with nothing selected would cause the current documents "dirty" flag to be set. [180]
- Fixed bug on MacOS where you couldnt use Command-D/Command-./Command-S to trigger buttons in the "Save document" dialog.
- Fixed bug on Windows where if you closed an unsaved document you were presented with the "Save changes" dialog twice. [165]
Error Reporting:
- Fixed bug where the error dialog was not displaying after an error occurred (you just heard a beep sound).
Preferences:
- NEW: Redesigned Preferences dialog into multiple sections for clarity.
- NEW: Added "Save window positions" preference which will optionally save the positions of documents when they were last saved/closed and will also allow you to set the location of the first document opened when launching Stykz.
Figure Manipulation:
- Fixed bug (again) where changing a line to a circle when the line had a thickness that was too large for the circle would cause the circle to invert.
- Fixed bug where selecting static segments with the subselect tool would cause nodes to disappear.
- Fixed bug where changing the width of a line with the subselect tool would cause the nodes to shift if you then tried to drag the figure with the drag node.
- Fixed bug where turning off the antialiasing didnt affect figures created with the Figure menu, or dropped from the Library palette.
- Fixed bug where sometimes you could drag out a new segment and its nodes would be on top of the menubar in Windows.
Menus:
- NEW: Added Undo support for the most volitile actions.
- Fixed bug where occasionally youd see multiple entries of the same document in the Windows menu.
- Fixed bug where "Save As" dialog would display for the wrong document in OS X.
- Fixed bug where you got an error opening a second document in certain circumstances.
- Fixed bug (I think) where menu items in Stykz would become unresponsive and do nothing.
- Fixed bug where sending a set of selected segments to the front or back would not retain the selected segments stacking order.
- Fixed bug where the Insert Frame and Delete Frame menu items were disabled unless you had the Select tool.
Windows:
- Fixed bug where the backdrop stayed up even after you minimized the last open document window.
Palettes:
- Frames Palette
- NEW: Added ability to automatically reload frame thumbnails so that file sizes can remain small.
- Fixed bug where inserting a frame would redraw the rest of the frames following it in blue and then youd see the same thumbnail multiple times.
- Property Palettte
- Fixed bug that was causing an error when a selected item was deselected improperly.
- Fixed bug where the Frames Palette didnt adjust properly when the stage was resized from the Property Palette.
- NEW: Added "Websafe Color Picker"
- NEW: Added "Web" checkbox next to color buttons to allow you to select from the Websafe Colors picker.
- Fixed bug where static nodes dont look static until you deselect them.
- Fixed bug where resizing the lines for a styk would sometimes stop resizing them after a certain thickness.
- Library Palette
- Fixed bug where loading the Library list was taking up more memory than was necessary.
- Made library more flexible to eliminate problems of duplicate library files or other errors.
- NEW: The library list can now be navigated with the arrow keys or by type-to-match, and you can hit the Enter or Return key to add the selected .styk to the stage.
- Fixed bug where flickering was occurring when clicking on a library item that was larger than the thumbnail area could display.
- Fixed bug where clicking the "folder" button wouldnt do anything if the Library folder didnt exist on the hard drive.
- Added option to add the selected library item to the stage through the right-click menu.
- Fixed bug where adding a .styk to the Library with the name of " " would cause the file to be corrupted.
- Fixed bug where letterkey navigation wouldnt select the styk.
- Fixed bug where arrowkey navigation wasnt working.