Drawshield Release 2.3o
Date posted: January 19, 2012
A new release of the Drawshield Suite of programs is available. This largely involves improvements to existing charges. Try if for yourself at http://www.karlwilcox.com/drawshield. Full release notes are available here. This RSS feed only contains release notifications, for more in depth discussion please check out the to a Google+ page at https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/110593577831754313389/,
Drawshield Release 2.3n
Date posted: December 29, 2011
A new release of the Drawshield Suite of programs is available. Recent improvements include a more complete set of swords, additional new charges, and various layout and positioning tweaks. Try if for yourself at http://www.karlwilcox.com/drawshield. Full release notes are available here. I am moving most of my Drawshield discussion to a Google+ page at https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/110593577831754313389/, please join meRead the Rest…
Drawshield Release 2.3m
Date posted: December 8, 2011
Drawshield Release 2.3m will be uploaded and available from midnight today (GMT). Features 16 newly drawn metal crowns – see the drawshield Google+ page for examples of each.
Drawshield 2.3l
Date posted: November 7, 2011
New Drawshield releases are coming thick and fast! 2.3l features more layouts for “in each” and the addition of “for difference” to indicate cadency. I will probably concentrate on bug fixing rather than new features for a while and then change the release number to 2.4. This is partly because I will soon run outRead the Rest…
Drawshield Release 2.3k
Date posted: November 6, 2011
A new release of the Drawshield suite of programs has been uploaded. It fixed a silly bug that broke lots of blazons, but also has a complete rewrite of the code that handles arrangements and layout, adding much flexibility! Try if for yourself at http://www.karlwilcox.com/drawshield. Full release notes are available here.
Drawshield Releases 2.3i & 2.3j
Date posted: November 3, 2011
A couple of new releases of the Drawshield Suite of programs have been uploaded recently. Improvements include a complete rewrite of the edge drawing code, resulting in much better looking divisions and ordinaries with variant edges; a rewrite of the cross drawing code, with many new cross types added, most of which can be fimbriated, voided, pierced and fitchy; plus many smallerRead the Rest…
Drawshield 2.3h Release Notes
Date posted: September 28, 2011
New Features The background (i.e. the area outside the shield itself) is now transparent, rather than white. This fits in nicely with coloured pages. All code that tried to do workarounds for browser SVG rendering bugs has been removed. There are still known issues with rendering objects filled with a division or counterchanged in ChromeRead the Rest…
Drawshield 2.3f.1
Date posted: June 18, 2011
A point release for two small bug fixes: In some cases a missing tincture was causing the program to crash instead of providing an error message A function name was mis-spelled, also causing a crash in certain circumstances I am now logging all shield drawing requests to see what features and charges it would beRead the Rest…
Drawshield 2.3f Release Notes
Date posted: June 6, 2011
New Features As per issue 211 there are new and improved error and information messages available "behind" the shield, press click for information. The divisions tierced in bend, tierced in bend sinister and tierced in chevron have been added, all require three tinctures. I have been raiding wikimedia commons again. The following charges have beenRead the Rest…
Release Notes for Drawshield 2.3e
Date posted: May 29, 2011
New Features Added field division per chevron inverted. The division parsing code has been generally tidied up and the various options and modifiers can now appear in any order. Added charge question mark. Not actually a heraldic charge but used to mark missing tinctures. May however be useful if developing arms for Batman’s arch-rival, TheRead the Rest…
Release Notes for Drawshield 2.3d
Date posted: March 1, 2011
New Features Improved text letters, now work much more as described in Parker – e.g. a text ‘K’ gules . Can also use roman instead of text to get a nice serif font. If no tincture is given, sable is used Added charges character of the planet x, where x is one of Earth, Moon,Read the Rest…
SVG Support in Internet Explorer
Date posted: February 27, 2011
The Drawshield suite of programs has for a long time used SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) as the drawing medium. SVG has never been supported natively in Internet Explorer (although Adobe provided a now discontinued plug-in). This has meant that a large number of web users have not been able to access Drawshield IE9 will supportRead the Rest…
Updates to Parker's Heraldic Glossary
Date posted: February 12, 2011
Parker’s Glossary Updates I have been tidying up my new version of Parker’s Heraldic Glossary. It now has about 2,600 separate entries, rather than the 26 huge pages of the original. The recent fixes include: Backward and forward navigation on the name index pages 45 entries were missed out in my original import (they hadRead the Rest…
Parker's Heraldic Glossary
Date posted: February 7, 2011
Parkers Glossary of Terms Used In Heraldry You may be aware that the 1894 version of James Parkers "A GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN HERALDRY" has been available on line for some years. It is however somewhat dated and difficult to navigate, with some extremely long pages. Since the content is available under an OpenContentRead the Rest…
Drawshield 2.3c
Date posted: February 1, 2011
Release Notes for Drawshield 2.3c New Features Added charges chess rook, castle, ox, ram {armed,unguled}, horse {unguled}, Virgin and Child, fir tree, salmon (trout), boar {armed}, mill wheel, cog wheel, water wheel and paschal lamb. Most of these charges have been adapted from Wikimedia Commons, appropriate attributions have been placed in title elements of theseRead the Rest…
Drawshield Release 2.3b
Date posted: January 28, 2011
Drawshield Release Notes for 2.3b New Features The charges estoile, church bell, bomb {fired},spear {hafted, pointed}, saxon crown and hawk bell have been added Also added the gorge or whirlpool. Although this is actually a charge I have implemented it as an ordinary since you can only have one of them and it occupies theRead the Rest…
Drawshield Discussion Forums
Date posted: January 23, 2011
New forums created for discussion of Drawshield and blazonry
New Website Design
Date posted: January 21, 2011
Announcement of new website design
Drawshield Release 2.3a
Date posted: January 19, 2011
4 New charges, new charge arrangments
Drawshield Version 2.3pre
Date posted: December 24, 2010
Release notes for version 2.3pre