This version brings a major change to the layout of the screen, enabling greater user control of the tracker appearance.

The following issues were handled:

• #88: Have acting Combatant informationation available at all time
• #101: Navigating vcc with keyboard
• #113: Hit DELETE to Cancel Effect
• #125: Use docking frame to allow reorganizing interface
• #131: Loading Party files from previous version does nothing
• #132: Confirm close of main window
• Redesign and simplification of the Initiative action panel;
• More flexible compendium location;
• Improvements to make VCC Mac friendly, mostly allowing it to be packaged as a Mac Application Bundle.
• Sample compendium data for those that want to give it a try.

This is the first release with the new Compendium format. It allows collection of monster information from the D&D Insider website and reusing collected data in several encounters. Among the new features:

• Full combatant statblock (as imported from the the D&D Insider site)
• Create encounters from your captured monsters, including calculating all XP;
• Add Perception, Insight, senses and comments to character stat blocks;
• Add XP and comments to user-made/edited monster stat blocks;
• Improved start-up procedure and logging of errors, which will help treat errors in the future;
• High quality HTML stat blocks (looks like the ones on the books and site);
• Now stores data in a base directory, keeping all data in the same place;
• General improvements in stability.

This is a roll-up release containing several fixes and a new directory, distribution and update strategy. For those using 0.92.3 the only new feature is the "Update Manager". This feature should make keeping Virtual Combat Cards up to date much easier.

This version brings:

• Update Manager: this will make VCC update itself; go to Help > Check for Updates ... to check if you VCC is up to date.
• Minor changes on the user interfaces (like the help menu).

For users that are using older versions (0.90, 0.91, or 0.92) we strongly recommend moving to this version. As of 0.92.3 several fixes made the core operations much more stable.

The fifth release of Virtual Combat Cards D&D 4th Edition combat tracker is out . The version number was bumped to 0.90 to reflect the fact that the tool, as originally planed, is nearly done. The most important new feature is the tracking of effect and conditions. Now effects can be tracked individually and those that have time bound duration are expire automatically (such as: End your of Next Turn). This makes tracking effects much easier, avoiding the need of going back and forth and checking if the effects are still in effect.