CharPad Pro 3.88

Public Release 19/6/2026 (CharPad C64 Pro 3.88)

- Fixed: Colour Palette Settings (form) - There was a noticeable lag when adjusting individual colours compared to ie. filter adjustments (Win32/64).

         nb. this was caused by some slow rendering code for the colour-ramps which is now replaced.

- Fixed: Forms (general) - when a textbox had focus, shortcuts such as CTRL+C, CTRL+V etc were not restricted to the textbox contents only.

- Fixed: Map Editor - Text-entry mode, the END key was just moving the cursor to the rightmost column, now it properly selects the end of the text (if any present).

- Added: Map Editor - double-click to select/highlight a clicked word or horizontal block (SPACE delimited).

- Added: Map Editor - Text-Entry mode, multi-line (pulling) DELETE.

- Added: File dialogs - now remember/restore their last used folder between app uses (ie. for each different type.. project, binary, text, image, snapshot etc).

- Added: Main Form - native C64 image files (Koala Painter, Art Studio, Advanced Art Studio) can now be loaded as projects by dragging/dropping on the form. 

- Added: Main Form - SEUCK (background files) can now be loaded as projects by dragging/dropping on the form.

- Added: Import/Export > Text/Asm > Export Tile Names.

- Added: Import/Export > Text/Asm > Export Tile Tags.

- Added: Map Editor - now (also) shows the current cursor coord in terms of the flexi-grid if it is enabled.

- Added: Help - VIC-II subroutine library - added some default colour & raster constants.

- Added: Help - VIC-II subroutine library - added some address "getters".

- Added: Help - VIC-II subroutine library - added a "vic_test_raster" function to test/indicate the off-matrix and off-screen positions.

- Added: Help - VIC-II subroutine library - added a "vic_fill_bitmap" function.

- Added: Help - File format technical descriptions (Koala Painter, Art Studio, Advanced Art Studio).

- Added: Examples/Pictures (game rips) - Navy Seals.

- Changed: Help - VIC-II subroutine library - changed some function names and revamped the notes.

- Changed: Forms (general) - dynamic sizing of the status bar panels now prevents the right-side panel becoming hidden when reducing form width (Win32/64).

- Changed: General - all references to "screen matrix" are replaced with "video matrix", this applies to the software itself, the help files and field names  written to exported text files, also the addition of an 'x' in the abbreviated names which refer to matrix colours.

  ie. Names such as 'SmLo' / 'SmHi' / 'SmB' are now 'VmxLo' / 'VmxHi' / 'Vmx'. 

- Changed: the "per map" (matrix colouring method) has now been reverted back to the name "per project".

  nb. this better reflects the reality, "per map" suggests that a map is required in order to know how to colour the chars when in fact those matrix colours are stored in the project (object) and not the map.

  As there is currently always one map in a CharPad project it becomes a bit ambiguous.

- Changed: Emulator Snapshot Ripper - 'Picture Rip Mode' will now only select Bitmap MC mode if neither bitmap mode is already active.

- Changed: Forms (all, graphic) - Keystroke auto-repeats are now prevented, preventing strobing of ie. single-key shortcuts if a key is held down (grid, blur, zoom etc).

- Changed: Map Editor - keyboard shortcuts for 'Insert blank row', 'Insert blank column' are now 'alt + r', 'alt + c'.

- Changed: Map Editor - keyboard shortcuts for 'Delete blank row', 'Delete blank column' are now 'ctrl + alt + r', 'ctrl + alt + c'.