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Acknowledgements

Contributors

Any complex undertaking, such as writing a novel, creating a complex piece of software, or a marriage, requires cooperation.

We would like to express our sincere appreciation and gratitude to those whose generous ideas and time helped make StoryCAD possible. If we've missed anyone's contribution, our sincere apologies. Let us know and we'll rectify that.

Thanks go to these wonderful people:

  • Rarisma
  • Mylo
  • Tina
  • Tim
  • Syncfusion

Software

StoryCAD uses or links to the following software:

We are especially grateful to elmah.io commercial products who make their livelihood freely available to public open source projects like ours.

(StoryCAD Versions before 2.14.2 relied on SyncFusion Controls and we are eternally greatful for their support.)

Origins

Hi, I'm Terry Cox.

I started StoryCAD as a hobby, for my own attempts at fiction writing, back in the late 1980's. It began to attract attention at writer's conferences (I had a very early laptop), and in the early 90's I had the dubious idea of polishing it and selling it commercially. StoryCAD had modest success, selling over 3,000 copies, but inevitably software rot set in as my day job consumed more of time and energy, and first fell into disuse and then became unusable. The original StoryCAD is the ancestor of this one version.

After I retired, I had the idea of rewriting StoryCAD and selling it again, and started down that road. However, looking at my tired old face in the mirror one morning, I came to realize that I wasn't interested in going into business again. I wasn't interested in scrapping my project either, which realization led to the decision to distribute StoryCAD as free and open source software (FOSS.)

I'm pleased with how it's developing and I hope you find it useful.

Software Influences

Unless I'm deluding myself, version 2.0 of StoryCAD is a better program than the original. That's because I know the trick of how to write better software: You shamelessly shamelessly good ideas and code patterns from other developers. Five individuals and their work deserve mention for this reason.

Laurent Bugnion, Galasoft, MVVM Light Toolkit https://github.com/lbugnion/mvvmlight

MVVM Light was one of the most influential early MVVM projects. Although it's fallen into disuse, it was a direct influence on Windows Community Toolkit MVVM,

Perigrin66, Pergrine's View, StaffManager http://peregrinesview.uk/mvvm-bringing-it-all-together/

The navigation tree and details panel design is very old; it was one of the early driving forces in the creation of C++. StoryCAD V1 used it (poorly.) When StoryCAD V2 was just a vague idea, this small project suggested a way forward.

Diederik Krols, XAML Brewer, Using a TreeView Control for Navigation in UWP https://xamlbrewer.wordpress.com/2018/06/08/using-a-treeview-control-for-navigation-in-uwp/comment-page-1/#comment-296

This project lead me toward UWP, and the birth of the WinUI 3 project cemented the way forward. XamlBrewer is a great stylist and his posts are always worth reading.

Ryan Demopoulos https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/winui/

The WinUI3 project has a

Michael Hawker (XAML Llama) https://dotnetfoundation.org/projects/windowscommunitytoolkit