What's new in Version 2.0
New/Changed Features
- New: New Sparkline plugin
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- New: New tree mode for Topic List enabling topics to be displayed in a tree hierarchy.
- New: Desktop layout now can be saved. Added a new submenu in View menu with all available layouts and functions to save and delete layouts.
- New: New commands can be created using external scripts. It is possible to use VBScript, Python, Perl or any other language that supports ActiveScripting.
- New: New toolbar Desktop with combobox for layout selection.
- New: New function for template insertion.
- New: New function Copy Link is available in the popup menu of view mode. It copies the selected link to the Clipboard. It enables Wiki links to be copied to other applications.
- New: New synonym option in Full Text search. It enables the use of a list of synonyms for word expansion in queries.
- New: New command $CSS enabling style selection for a topic. You can use completion proposal in editor for style sheet selection.
- New: New configuration options for views. Font and background color can now be configured.
- New: Added AutoSave option for editor. Time between saves can be configured.
- New: Added new methods and properties in Text Collection OLE Automation Class.
- New: Added new methods in Project OLE Automation Class.
- New: Added function for removing unused images from project's images folder to the Images Manager.
- New: When ConnectedText is installed a new URL protocol is registered, CT, enabling to open ConnectedText using a URL. Example: ct://welcome/welcome opens the main topic of this project.
- New: Links in Viewer can be dragged to other applications or to the desktop.
- Improved: Handling of docked windows in user interface. Fixed empty view problem. Due to internal changes, previous layout file is not compatible with the new docking system.
- Improved: User interface. It is now possible to edit/delete Full Text menu items clicking with right button in them to invoke a popup menu.
- Improved: Bookmarks Manager. Delete function now accepts multiple selection. Minor internal changes.
- Improved view's update strategy making it faster.
- Improved: Now is possible to rename images when they are dragged and dropped from other application. Just hold Control key when dropping images.
- Changed: Made speed improvements in full text search engine.
- Changed: Made some improvements to full screen mode. Added topic title. Esc key now closes full screen window.
- Changed: Categories View to show sub-categories with a different icon.
- Changed: The way lines beginning with spaces are interpreted. Lines beginning with just one space are not merged with others.
- Changed: Behavior of navigation history. Now is always shown the latest revision of the topic, no matter what was the revision of the topic displayed last time.
- Changed: Behavior when multiple files are dropped into editor. Each file link is now automatically spaced on a separate line, with a space between each line.
- Changed: Full Text query parameters are saved between runs of ConnectedText.
- Changed: Dropping a topic in editor holding Control key generates $RELATED command.
- Changed: Focus in forced in the Full Text results window after a search operation.
- Changed: Made several minor improvements in user interface.
Fixed issues
- Fixed: Tooltips were not appearing in some windows when topic title was larger than column width.
- Fixed: problem in editor. It was accepting drag and drop operation in locked topics.
- Fixed: bug when refreshing Categories pane after a deletion of a subcategory.
- Fixed: bug in Bookmarks Manager. An AV could occur when a folder was dropped in a bookmark.
- Fixed: bug when loading saved full text queries. Selected icons were not being read.
- Fixed: minor inconsistencies during screen updates.
- Fixed: memory leak in Full Text Queries Manager.
- Fixed: bug in Full Text Queries Manager. Use of the manager could result in duplication of keyboard entries in the configuration dialog, which could trigger an AV.
- Fixed: bug in full screen mode. Keystrokes were not being processed by the editor.
- Fixed: UTF8 problem when clicking in a new topic with Russian language selected.
- Fixed: bug when displaying PNG images with transparency.
- Fixed: icon drawing in Navigator when color depth is set to 32 bits. Icons were not drawn with transparency.
Open issues
- Spellcheck sometimes marks valid words.
- Python plugin may not work while Python scripts are executed
- Unicode characters when used with underline may be rendered incorrectly, depending of the selected font.
