GP 2.0.10, Lion update

GanttProject package for Mac OSX used to require Rosetta (software which runs Power PC binaries on Intel processors). Since there is no Rosetta in Mac OSX Lion, I rebuilt this package. It should run fine without Rosetta and it also should run fine on previous Mac OSX versions on Intel processors. A new version is available for downloading on Google Code:
http://code.google.com/p/ganttproject/downloads/detail?name=ganttproject-2.0.10-lion.dmg

Old version is also there for those who still run Mac OSX on Power PC: http://code.google.com/p/ganttproject/downloads/detail?name=ganttproject-2.0.10.dmg

1000000 downloads

Sunday evening, Google Code shows that GanttProject 2.0.10 for Windows has been downloaded one million times. 

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GanttProject Praha: beta1 is out!

Hello everyone!

The first public beta of the new major update of GanttProject is available for downloading. All traditional packages plus a new DEB package for Linux (Ubuntu) users are waiting!

There are many updates, some of them have already been around for a while, so here I enumerate those which appeared after the last alpha build.

• Notification area in the status bar which reports errors, if any, and keeps you tuned by reading updates feed from our site. It checks the updates just once per day and it incurs no startup delay. 

• Simple search service which can search in task/resource names and task notes. You can activate it by hitting Ctrl+F

• Rubber dependencies are now rendered as dashed lines

• If you're sharing with your colleague a project file on a network disk and your buddy overwrites it while you're working on your part, GanttProject will show you a warning

• WebDAV over HTTPS is now supported, and overall is expected to work better.
• Column resize mode is now "next column" instead of "proportional resize" which turned out to be annoying. 

It is a public release, and we encourage you to try it, but keep in mind it is still beta. There are bugs, some of them are already known, so please check the existing issues before submitting new bug reports!


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Move the whole project

If you planned to start your project on January 1 and created a big plan, but after that decided to go hiking to New Zealand until February, you would want to move the whole project somehow. You can use some tricks to do it in the old good GanttProject 2.0.10, but starting from build 428 of GP Praha you have an explicit option.

In the Calendar page of Project Properties dialog you see a date chooser. It shows the current project start date, that is, the start date of the earliest task in your project. Choosing another date will move some or all of the tasks, depending on what rescheduling option you select.

Move all tasks will just add the same number of days to all tasks in the project, and it is the default option. However, sometimes you want to move the project start but prefer to keep the remaining tasks intact whenever possible. You can use the second option for that.

GanttProject Praha build 428

A new build of GanttProject Praha is available for downloading.

What's new and noteworthy (I will try to give more details later on the most important items) :

• Major rewrite of the options dialog. I hope it now looks much more clean and professional.
• Move the whole project feature. Checkout Calendar page in the project properties and set a new start date, with two rescheduling options.
• "Project states" renamed to what they're supposed to be, that is, to baselines.There is a new baseline edit dialog, and the button which shows it sits above the gantt chart timeline next to "show/hide critical path" button
• Some more intelligence with respect to the custom properties in MS Project MPP import
• Many small UI fixes everywhere.

We're approaching the wide beta testing phase, with announcements on the home page and all. It hopefully will start with the next public build of GP Praha. Stay tuned and give the alpha build the first try!

Download link: http://ganttproject.googlecode.com/files/ganttproject-praha-r428.zip

GanttProject Praha build 306

Hello GanttProject friends,
the next build of GanttProject Praha is available for downloading. The most noteworthy changes are:

1. Microsoft Project export and improved import
2. Months at the bottom of the timeline and thus ability to fit a few years into the Gantt chart viewport

You can download it from http://ganttproject.googlecode.com/files/ganttproject-praha-r306.zip

Read more about GanttProject Praha: http://ganttproject.blogspot.com/2010/11/announcing-ganttproject-praha.html

Announcing GanttProject Praha

Hello GanttProject community!

We haven't been publishing any news for quite a while, but today we have pretty sweet ones!

We are announcing a new GanttProject update with codename Praha. It is a successor of the old good GanttProject 2.0 but with many important updates. Its first alpha version is available for download. It is by far not complete and we will be adding more features and more stability. At the same time we want to make this release cycle short and release the final version of GanttProject Praha as soon as possible.

So, what's new?


What can you try in the first Praha build?

• New Microsoft Project import. It should be able to import the most recent MS Project files, and it also supports importing custom properties, project calendar and resource days off.
• New timeline which is less cluttered and has navigation and zooming controls built-in.
• New weekend option for those who love weekends but have to work 24/7 :). It allows for rendering weekends still counting them as working days. By the way, you can change now weekend setup in your existing projects.
• Task end date is now the date when a task finishes, not the next day. So 1 day long task starting on Nov 12 will finish on Nov 12.
• Task properties dialog UI was rewritten. Now it looks more professional, and task notes are located next to the main properties.
• Additional priority levels

What about Loire?

Well, it turned out that changing that much as had been planned in Loire was impossible. Loire is still in very unstable state while GanttProject absolutely needs a major update. So I decided to build a new version based on 2.0 code. However, many things were backported from Loire and I hope that Praha will eventually evolve to Loire.

Acknowledgements.

Many thanks to Maarten Bezemer whose amazing job on bugs, features and on code cleanup kicked off this development.