NoteMaster History

+: Addition; #: Bugfix; ~ Change; -: Removal

Changed from 1.3.3

+ Customizable hotkeys
+ An all-new, well-documented object model for scripting
+ Support for both VBScript and JScript as scripting languages
+ Integration of script editing into the standard editing experience; "NoteMaster Macro Editor" no longer required
+ Several new sample scripts
+ New documentation; scripting reference added
+ Easy-to-use command interface for macros
+ Single instance mode
+ Notification on external file changes
~ Redesign of the "notification box" that pops up to display warnings modelessly; slides in and fades out
~ "Macro" terminology now replaced by "script" throughout the interface
# Fixed major speed lag when selecting text or typing
# Command line parsing issues fixed
# Fixed bug that caused scripts executed through the Tools/Macros menu to fail when they contained commas

Changed from 1.3.2

+ Integral browser supports Mozilla's rendering engine
+ Improved window management: The Document List panels allows saving and closing multiple documents
+ The tool bars' state is now saved and restored on startup
+ Individual tool bars can be toggled on/off (View menu)
+ The tool bars can be locked
+ Manual session management (File/Sessions)
+ Much improved startup speed and overall performance, memory need decreased by about 4000 KB
+ Lots of new documentation and a redesigned Help homepage
+ New button on browser toolbar: "Show In External Browser"
+ Clarified, easier-to-understand captions and labels
+ New sample macro: "RSS Reader"
+ Browser shows status messages
+ Problem solved with Windows 98 and Windows Me: Font was Serif
- Removed "Import Word Document" command from the File menu
- Removed rebar band captions
~ Redesign of the "New Document" dialogue; renamed to "Templates"; Templates tab selected by default
~ Visual changes in the "Locate" dialogue (due to internal restructurings)
~ Some text changed on the Welcome page
# Loading of the syntax schemes could fail if an inappropriate file was found in the /Proglanguages folder
# Some settings were not retained (like Status Bar on/off or Display all Characters)
# Error in save dialogue: Deleting the proposed extension with the "All Files (*.*)" filter set would lead to an illegal "File.*.txt" filename
# Automatic Recovery didn't work with multiple documents sharing the same title (the backups overwrote each other)
# Recovered files had an empty line at the beginning and the end
# Addressed minor localisation issues
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Changed from 1.3.1

+ Added Browser preference page to the Options dialogue
+ Added Tabbed Browsing feature (may be enabled/disabled under Options/Browser)
+ A custom homepage can be chosen for the internal browser (Options/Browser)
+ New menu now allows for the direct choosing of a language to create a new document
+ More keyboard shortcuts
+ Added more links to the Help menu
+ More translated documentation and more tips
+ Auto Complete allows for showing both a list of all words in the document and of keywords in the language
+ New Open Documents panel: Lists all open document tabs, allows to switch between them and shows their save state
+ New Recently Used menu: Shows both the nine most recently used files and folders for quick access
+ Improved usability details: Goto text box contents now selected by default, Incremental Search box contents selected on focus, other improvements
# Installer did not install comdlg32.ocx
# Windows showed a crash report after exiting NoteMaster
# Uninstaller deleted all personal settings of NoteMaster
# Files in the Explorer panel were opened after single-clicking
# Toolbar was not resized after maximising the NoteMaster window
# "Language" toolbar band did not fit on the toolbar by default
# New license agreement, now in English and German
# Incremental Search input field now hides placeholder text after receiving focus
# Checkboxes illegible when a different visual style than Classic or Luna was active
# Pressing Ctrl+Space to invoke the Auto Complete list inserted a space character
# Choosing a word from the Auto Complete list might overwrite the previous word
# Auto Complete list didn't move while typing
# The tab of an empty browser window was captionless and therefore too narrow to easily click
# Addressed minor localisation issues
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Changed from 1.3.0

+ Transparency for NoteMaster's main window (View/NoteMaster Window Transparent) and floating dialogues (Locate and File Properties)
+ "Keep NoteMaster Window on Top" command added (View menu)
+ Zoom functions added (View menu or Ctrl++, Ctrl+-, Ctrl+.)
+ "Whitespace" submenu added to the Edit menu
+ Option to turn off virtual space added to the Options dialogue
+ Some more documentation (mostly German only)
+ The "Locate/Go To" dialogue can now be used to jump to columns
- Removed View/Refresh command
# CRITICAL: Opening the "Tools" menu caused NoteMaster to crash immediately
# Some commands made NoteMaster crash when performed if no document was active
# Help tree now works properly and language-specific
# Addressed some localisation issues
# Broken "Editor" options work again
# "Help/Bug Report" was broken temporarily (use this command to report bugs you may encounter or request features)
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Changed from 1.2.14

+ Entirely new "New Document" dialogue, with inbuilt
+ Template support, folder based (all templates reside in subfolders located in NoteMaster\Templates)
+ Working "Open URL" dialogue
+ Automatic file recovery, e.g. after crashes
+ Option to create BAK files with an appended increment every time a file is saved
+ New "About" dialogue
+ Improved help system, new Welcome Page
+ Improved File Properties dialogue
+ Added "Pretty Listing" option; this is very convenient when editing code. It will beautify a line when pressing Return.
+ Added "Close tags automatically in HTML/XML files"; this option is very useful when editing documents in HTML or XML.
+ The help can now be searched (Help/Search Help or by clicking "Search >" in any browser window)
+ Better Start panel
+ Sleeker internal code
+ 'Save All' command added
+ Tools menu in a more logical order
+ New icon artwork
+ More default filetypes (PHP, LaTeX, Perl, Python etc. filetypes were added)
+ New default templates (divers doctypes for HTML documents and several Hello World programs in different programming languages)
+ The last session can now be restored manually (from the File menu)
+ Much better working macro handling
+ New startup options: Restore last session, load new document, execute macro at startup, with new RSS macro
+ Tabs can now be closed by right-clicking them
+ Improved panels' aesthetic feel; sleeker panel toggle; panel resizing is possible
+ The panels' position can be chosen in the View menu
+ The HTML preview is now bound to the document; clicking "Show Document in Browser" will display the preview in the same instance
+ The dialogue asking to save unsaved documents now has more meaningful button captions
+ Improved Navigator panel, with comprehensive filter support and auto-completion
+ Support for multiple filenames on the command line added
+ Very basic project management support via the Project panel (a powerful new project manager is planned for the 2.0 release)
+ Added C# highlighting. The C++ syntax schema already contained many C# keywords, but as they became more and
more the decision to put them in a new syntax schema was made.
+ Added 'Find Previous' command to the Search menu
- Removed 'Overtype Mode' from the Edit menu (press Ins to activate overwrite mode)
- Removed 'Page Setup' from the File menu
- Removed date display from the status bar
- Removed 'Select Paragraph' from the Edit/Select menu
- Removed 'Refresh' command from the View menu
~ Moved View/Web Browser to File/New/Web Browser
~ Slightly optically improved Options dialogue; the dialogue's controls are now 'flattened' only if no Visual Style is applied
# Statusbar now displays correct, language-specific information and tooltips
# Search/Previous Line Mark caused the document window to empty
# Keywords' case was fixed up even if the language is case sensitive. This could lead to serious problems, e.g. in C#.
# English help was missing
# The Find dialogue now keeps the focus. When the end of the file is reached while searching, a status bar message will appear.
# 'Regular Expression' and 'Match Case' options in the Find dialogue fixed. It should work properly now.
# Characters requiring that the AltGr key is hold down in order to enter them had to be entered by holding AltGr and pressing the desired key twice.

Known issues

- The 'Web Services' panels isn't of any use yet.
- It appears a new line character is appended at every saving.
- Tools/Repeat Next Command not localisable.
- Hotkeys must be alphanumeric or use the F keys in order to be displayed correctly.
- NoteMaster will not notify the user that an external program has modified a file until its main window is re-activated.
- The scripting interface's Documents collection cannot be cycled through using the For...Each syntax in VBScript