Change Log version 5.0
20120709-5.0.0.14
- Improved: Handling of HTML copied from IE8/IE9. Links and images are copied correctly now.
- Fixed: Topic is not saved if Back is used after a click in an item of the TOC box.
- Fixed: An AV could occur while closing the application due screen repaint (very rare).
20120703-5.0.0.13
- New: Added font configuration in Note views.
- New: Comment mark-up is added in the next line if enter is pressed in a comment line.
- New: Allowed the usage of environment variables in the filename of a script.
- New: Allowed incomplete path in the filename of a script.
- Improved: Font names are ordered alphabetically in Options dialog.
- Improved: Internal browser now supports IE8/IE9.
- Improved: Invalid scripts are not removed anymore during startup.
- Improved: Invalid scripts are shown in red in the Scripts Manager.
- Improved: Columns sizes in Scripts Manager are maintained between runs.
- Fixed: An AV occurs if a note is added to a new topic which is empty.
- Fixed: Notes pane doesn't save its data when it is in auto-hide mode.
- Fixed: Clicking IMG not working if there is selected text.
- Fixed: Program hangs if * is typed in Topic List in tree mode.
- Fixed: No cursor visible when editing an item in the outline view if font size is larger than 9.
20120526-5.0.0.12
- Improved: Handling of errors in Page Configuration function.
- Improved: Handling of database transactions.
- Fixed: "Use another folder" option for storing new folder is grayed out.
- Fixed: An AV occurs in Table of Contents when program is closed.
20120512-5.0.0.11
- New: Added command $NOCALENDAR for suppression of calendar in individual Date topics.
- New: Table of Contents is automatically updated while editing a topic.
- Improved: Table of Contents tries to keep nodes collapsed/expanded when switching between modes View/Edit.
- Improved: Double clicking in an item of the Table of Contents makes the item visible even if the it is already selected.
- Improved: Long lines are word-wrapped in Table of Contents view.
- Improved: Added Auto Backup selection during project creation.
- Improved: Added a CSS class for styling buttons.
- Improved: Last used icon is remembered while creating a new topic.
- Improved: Made ConnectedText more responsive during long delete/rename/merge operations.
- Improved: Minor cosmetics changes in Topic list.
- Fixed: Print Margins were not remembered.
20120403-5.0.0.10
- Fixed: When a single word is selected in View mode with a mouse click Copy function is not enabled.
- Fixed: Some functions in Navigator are resulting in AV due a regression.
20120331-5.0.0.9
- New: Added new modifiers for date related macros.
- New: Added buttons for adding date/time in topic name when creating a new topic.
- Improved: Added standard shortcuts Ctrl+X, Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V to Notes view.
- Improved: Better handling of OPML and MM (Freeplane) files with empty nodes.
- Improved: Enabled the selection of an existing file when saving a template.
- Improved: Full screen is maintained when a topic is clicked in a pinned view.
- Fixed: Merging a topic with an empty date topic can lead to AV if calendar view is visible.
- Fixed: When swapping desktop layouts, macros get re-rendered with wrong style if syntax highlight is active.
- Fixed: Selected node is not updated in Navigator after popup menu is removed.
- Fixed: Link is not created correctly in Outline view if it contains non-ASCII characters.
- Fixed: When exporting to a single HTML file ConnectedText fails to open the generated file it the name contains spaces.
- Fixed: Some very obscure minor bugs.
20120304-5.0.0.8
- New: Custom built-in images.
- New: Title Case function.
- New: Switch DESCENDING for inclusion of topics in reverse order.
- New: Global scope option in Goto function. If marked all open projects are searched.
- Improved: Smarter auto-link.
- Improved: Column widths in Agenda are maintained between runs.
- Improved: Added link to current date in the calendar in date topics.
- Improved: Added Save to Template to Tab bar popup menu.
- Improved: Flat option can now be used to extract just the beginning of topic till the first heading.
- Improved: Goto window is now re-sizable. Size and options are maintained between calls.
- Fixed: Redirected topic doesn't use custom style sheet for topic.
- Fixed: Macros are not handled correctly inside property definition.
- Fixed: Macros are not handled correctly inside category definition.
- Fixed: $ASK with index format is always displayed in 3 columns regardless of the default configuration.
- Fixed: Double quotes are not handled correctly in $CHECKBOX command.
- Fixed: Property names with double quotes are not handled correctly in $LISTBOX and $COMBOBOX commands.
- Fixed: Icons are not drawn correctly after start up under Windows Vista/7.
- Fixed: Failure on full screen resolution change.
20120130-5.0.0.7
- New: Added Union/Intersection options in Filter for categories.
- New: Added Union/Intersection options in Categories view.
- Fixed: \\ is not rendered correctly when used at the end of a topic.
- Fixed: Bad UTF-8 error when script's folder contains non-ascii characters.
- Fixed: An AV could happen in Analysis Dialog if selected a topic that does not exist anymore.
- Fixed: Random crashes under Windows 7/Vista.
20120122-5.0.0.5
- New: Buttons HOME, BACK and FORWARD.
- New: Option for scope in Full Text Search: Filtered topics.
- New: Option for scope in Global Find/Replace: Filtered topics.
- Improved: Added option for grouping date topics by date for HTML export.
- Improved: Better handling of dictionary files.
- Improved: Handling of file locks while exporting to a single file.
- Improved: Export function in Results view now behaves like other views. Exports just the selected topics.
- Improved: Last used parameters are now retained in Insert Image dialog.
- Improved: Project tab panel is now hidden when there is just one project open.
- Improved: ConnectedText is now compatible with Comodo Firewall.
- Fixed: Topics are not sorted correctly when exported to single HTML file.
- Fixed: $ASK command containing non-ASCII characters returns nothing (regression).
- Fixed: A quote is missing in ordered list tags when topics are exported to HTML.
- Fixed: Generation of HTML Help can fail if a invalid extension is used for HTML export.
- Fixed: Some $ASK expressions are not considered valid due improved handling of parenthesis (regression).
- Fixed: Password dialog is covered by splash screen during startup.
- Fixed: Open function in Image and Files Manager could be used when no file was selected leading to an AV.
20111129-5.0.0.4
- Improved: Better error handling when ConnectedText shuts down.
- Improved: Added option for copying dragged URL without page title.
- Improved: Handling of parenthesis in full text query in order to avoid conflict with include command.
- Improved: Error handling when exporting to a single file.
- Fixed: Incorrect handling of values enclosed with double quotation marks in inline style commands.
- Fixed: $NOCROSS: made the category/related box to disappear in any topic that has categories/related topics.
- Fixed: Certain constructs of include command could make the program stop responding.
- Fixed: Incorrect title when URL is dragged from URL button in the internal browser.
20111111-5.0.0.3
- New: Enabled color configuration of selected items in views.
- New: Enabled color configuration of caret in editor.
- New: It is now possible to rename project in Project Manager.
- New: Added site icon in Internal Browser as source for drag and drop.
- Improved: = sign is now accepted as part of attribute value.
- Improved: User Folder is created automatically if it does not exist when license file is saved.
- Improved: Reject key codes lower than space in editor (Ctrl+Letter sequence)
- Improved: Small improvements in HTML generation
- Improved: Several minor improvements in the internal browser
- Improved: Added additional verification in order to prevent spurious "Cannot open clipboard" error in Vista/7
- Improved: Handling of invalid UTF8 encoded characters
- Improved: Allowed deeper nesting when including property values.
- Improved: Enabled usage of $NOCROSS in Category topics.
- Fixed: Internal browser generates "invalid floating point" error under specific situations.
- Fixed: Text alignment is ignored when topic is exported to HTML.
- Fixed: Invalid index error while importing topics containing invalid characters.
- Fixed: Include command with section parameter just includes the first match if $ASK is used.
- Fixed: An error is generated when expanding a node which is a category of a topic in Navigator.
- Fixed: Categories are not expanded correctly in Navigator (regression).
- Fixed: Topic named "CON" generates an error when exported.
- Fixed: AV when tooltip is activated in a dual monitor system.
20110927-5.0.0.2
- New: Property values in format YYYYMMDD are formatted as date in $SUMMARY and $INFOBOX.
- New: Added option Reverse for List format in $ASK command.
- New: Added options NoLetters and Columns for Index format in $ASK command.
- Improved: Handling of errors during register.
- Fixed: Syntax highlighter odd behavior when markup contains a "!" or a ":".
- Fixed: $INFOBOX not working if project is not specified.
- Fixed: Add function in the Project Manager not working.
- Fixed: Pinned views are not updated correctly at startup.
- Fixed: An AV could happen when a file is deleted in Files view using DEL key.
- Fixed: Pressing F5 in Files view can cause AV.
20110921-5.0.0.1
- New: Like this section in Summary view with a list of topics similar to the current one being displayed.
- New: $LIKETHIS predicate for queries.
- New: Predicate $TREE for collecting all topics of a given category and its subcategories.
- New: Per-project defined variables called Project macros
- New: Include macros: $CTVERSION and $TOPICREVISION .
- New: Powerful controls: checkbox, combobox and listbox.
- New: Merge topics tool.
- New: Protect your projects with a password.
- New: Added ordering option in $SUMMARY command.
- New: Project Outline view.
- New: Cloud view for categories.
- New: Category view mode is stored per project.
- New: Topics can be filtered from Category view.
- New: Auto tag tool for categorizing current topic based in the previous usage of categories.
- New: Category view now shows the number of members of each category (sortable). Count is automatically updated after any change.
- New: $CLOUD command.
- New: $WHATIS command (Semantic Incoming Properties).
- New: Semantic predicate $IS
- New: Query predicates $ICON , $TOSET and $FROMSET .
- New: Insert Symbol function.
- New: Spell checker engine. Any Open Office 3.0 dictionary can be used.
- New: Spell check ignores plugins, commands and comments.
- New: Language can be selected per project and changed at any time. Spell check is done only if there is a suitable dictionary for the current language of the project.
- New: Editor now supports syntax highlighting for includes and plugins.
- New: Editor now accepts double click command to select a command.
- New: A double click in an $IMG command now opens window which enables to edit all options of it.
- New: Include command now accepts parameters.
- New: Include command now supports user-defined macros.
- New: Added new button type .
- New: Added support for Python 2.7 and 3.2.
- New: Format PIE for inline query results.
- New: Format SUM for inline query results.
- New: Options WholeWordsOnly, UseSynonyms, TitleOnly, TextOnly for inline queries.
- New: First lines of topic are previewed in a tooltip when mouse hovers over a link. File links also have a tooltip.
- New: $INFOBOX now accepts option to display selected parameters only.
- New: Added Included in section in the Summary view.
- New: Entries in brackets in outline creates a link automatically.
- New: Topics can be selected by revision date or by icon in Exporting projects window.
- New: Sections in Summary view can now be selected for display.
- New: Image properties window is now shown after drag and drop or paste of a picture.
- New: OLE classes: Revision collection class and Revision item class.
- New: OLE properties in Topic class: Revision and Revisions .
- New: Method GetRevisions in Topic class.
- New: Double-clicking $FILE command in Edit mode locates the respective file on disk.
- New: Ctrl+ double-click in preview mode selects a paragraph with external spaces trimmed.
- New: Clickable star indicator for bookmarked topics.
- New: Menu commands Project|Files and Project|Images to open respective project subfolders.
- New: Menu command Save and reload.
- New: NOEVENTS switch for Include command.
- New: $NOEVENTS command for event list suppression in Date topics.
- New: Recycle bin for deleted topics. Auto Backup saves deleted topics in a special file recycle.cbk , see Recycle bin for deleted topics.
- New: Option in Analysis tool. It enables to discard empty topics that are categories from the results.
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New: Help buttons (in dialogs) and toolbar buttons
(in windows) linking to Welcome.chm
.
- New: CSS class to control the $CLOUD result.
- New: CSS class to control the attribute links.
- Improved: What links here now displayed as search results for a current topic or selected item in lists.
- Improved: Browser is now a floating window.
- Improved: Removed flicker when main screen is resized.
- Improved: Values in Infobox which are URLs are now displayed as links.
- Improved: Include options are now kept if referenced topic is renamed.
- Improved: wildcard support in query predicates $LINKTO , $LINKFROM , $CATEGORY .
- Improved: Tree in category view now only shows top categories in the first level.
- Improved: Added Del button as a shortcut to the Delete function in outline view.
- Improved: Del key should respect editing mode in outline.
- Improved: Collapse all/Expand all commands added in Outline view and categories tree.
-
Improved: Icons for category view entries:
and
.
- Improved: Reduced the number of accesses to the database while rendering topic.
- Improved: Numbered lists are better handled in the editor. A starting number can now be enforced.
- Improved: Bullet now disappears on a line if pressing Enter twice in Editor.
- Improved: Brace matching in Editor uses bold and red.
- Improved: Better alphabetical and numerical sorting of properties and attributes in $SUMMARY and $CROSS results.
- Improved: Nesting inclusions in include commands allowed.
- Improved: Headings which contain links are accepted as anchors.
- Improved: Completion proposal now shows 10 lines.
- Improved: Goto window now passes typed text as a proposal of topic name after clicking New.
- Improved: Added a Keep open option in Goto window.
- Improved: $Category and $Related Built-in commands commands do not accept circular reference: a topic cannot be a category of/refer to itself.
- Improved: Expand All/Collapse All in Editor work the same way as in the Viewer.
- Improved: GraphViz plugin can now use Graphviz installed in the USB drive. See: Using Graphviz with USB version.
- Improved: Detection of hhc.exe for Exporting projects. HHC.EXE is accepted without a path (program folder assumed). Environment variables are accepted in HHC path and in destination folder path.
- Improved: h1 tag is now used for topic titles when exporting in HTML.
- Improved: Added column Project notes in Project manager.
- Improved: Added column in Category view with number of members.
- Improved: Changed how indented paragraphs are rendered in HTML.
- Improved: Current topic is saved automatically before Global Search/Replace.
- Improved: Images and files manager now shows unused project's files/images.
- Improved: In Insert image window custom image prefix is deselected to type image file names easily.
- Improved: Increased size of topic notes from 2000 to 10000 characters.
- Improved: Better handling of filenames enclosed in quotes.
- Improved: Better handling of images in header/footer of HTML export.
- Improved: Detection of default browser in Windows Vista/7.
- Improved: Saved name of the active filter appears in its own panel in the status bar of the topic list.
- Improved: Column widths in Files view is remembered between sessions and after docking/undocking.
- Improved: Added an indicator for USB version in the title of main screen.
- Improved: Viewer pop-up menu reorganized. "What Links Here" command added to it.
- Improved: Viewer text size is remembered per project.
- Improved: Accepted configuration of Internal editor without path: program folder assumed.
- Improved: Attribute input window expanded.
- Improved: This project Welcome to ConnectedText is much renewed and expanded, and packed with examples. Lots of images added/updated.
- Fixed: Commands ending with ]]] were not rendered correctly in the editor with syntax highlighter active.
- Fixed: Full text search matches were not highlighted for some full text expressions containing AND and NOT or if word contains quotes or apostrophes.
- Fixed: No match if accented characters and wildcards were used with predicates LinkTo/LinkFrom in full text expressions.
- Fixed: Python plugin generated error message with bad UTF8 for non-English Windows.
- Fixed: No-wiki markup should not be considered inside preformatted block.
- Fixed: A wrong path could be displayed in Insert Image dialog when selecting a file in Windows Vista/7.
- Fixed: Menu for icon selection in Images and Files manager would be enabled even if the selected file was not linked to any topic.
- Fixed: Topics containing several movies in sequence would not be exported correctly to HTML or HTML Help.
- Fixed: Error while building Infobox of a topic belonging to a closed project.
- Fixed: One icon for all .lnk files regardless of what they are linked to.
- Fixed: Topics starting with $ were not rendered correctly in links.
- Fixed: Bad UTF8 when scanning files/images.
- Fixed: If $ASK command was incomplete a BAD_UTF8 error message could appear.
- Fixed: PCRE error -8 due mal-formed command in long lines.
- Fixed: Invalid XHTML ('</br>') in exported property/value pages.
- Fixed: Thumb images 100% smaller than 90%.
- Fixed: Sort order was not maintained between runs in Search Results view.
- Fixes: Typing in viewer could thrown an exception if Topic List was not visible.
- Fixed: Minor memory leaks.