What's new in Version 3.0
New/Changed Features
- New: Google search function. Search in Google the currently selected text.
- New: Editor now supports proportional fonts.
- New: Outline view with checkbox support. Can import/export OPML files. Items can be linked to topics.
- New: Table Of Contents view.
- New: Auto link function.
- New: Footnotes processing.
- New: New Clipboard Catcher option for topic creation.
- New: Included new project options accessible through Properties dialog. UNC paths can now be disabled per project.
- New: Included new export option to control whether files should be included or not when generating HTML Help.
- New: Command $PR for project properties.
- New: Semantic extension enabling markup of attributes.
- New: Summary view. It shows all links, categories, properties and attributes of the current topic.
- New: Project option for Auto Backup.
- New: Command Insert Date.
- New: Command Insert Images, which enables image formatting.
- New: Added predicates for Full Text queries.
- New: Syntax highlighter with color customization.
- New: Highlight Plugin.
- New: Filter manager.
- New: Template manager.
- New: Added popup menu in toolbar buttons for filters and full text queries.
- New: Added print preview.
- New: Added new section in Options dialog for icon configuration. Now icons can be easily configured and renamed.
- New: It is now possible to use BMP, JPEG, GIF or PNG images as icons. Images can be of any size. They are resized automatically when displayed.
- New: Included new command Insert Text. It inserts the contents of a text file into the topic text.
- New: Included new built-in image:
(/O\)
- New: Added Print and Print Preview in Topic list, Calendar and Categories. It is possible to print several topics at once without opening them.
- New: Added new options for date range: Older Than Today and Next Year.
- New: Added a new topic processing option to control whether sub-categories and topics should be displayed together or separately.
- New: Added new system option to control whether categories should be displayed in topic list at the top level.
- New: Added support for using images in the alias part of commands.
- New: Added function Lock and Unlock topics in Topic List, Categories and Calendar.
- New: Added command for deleting the selected revision in Diff window.
- New: Shortcut F10 for moving focus to Editor/Viewer.
- New: Function in Project manager for adding project to ConnectedText. It enables the register of existing projects stored in different folders/drives, like USB drives.
- New: System option to control whether movies should be loaded in pause or not.
- New: Added properties to Topic OLE Automation Class.
- New: OLE classes: Property Collection Class and Property Item Class.
- Improved: Drag and drop can now be used to tag several topics at once with categories without the need of editing them.
- Improved: Editor with new commands. Better handling of long lines.
- Improved: Full text search. Query speed is now 10 times faster.
- Improved: Spell check engine. Better suggestions and faster dictionary loading.
- Improved: Auto Completion. Offers now better suggestions
- Improved: Topic filter. Added date criteria for filtering. Filters can now be saved like full text queries. Shortcuts can be assigned to them.
- Improved: Filter function moved from Topic List to main menu.
- Improved: Speed when exporting to text files.
- Improved: Changed the location where user data and projects are stored. Now they are stored in folder ConnectedText under My Documents (or Documents in Vista).
- Improved: Updated MimeTeX binary.
- Improved: Included topics can now show a list of all topics that include them.
- Improved: Added new options when copying topics to a different project using drag and drop: overwrite and overwrite all.
- Improved: Completion Proposal can now be used for includes.
- Improved: Focus is now moved to Editor/Viewer when incremental search is closed.
- Improved: Included Auto Link option when importing files.
- Improved: Shortcuts for views now select them instead of closing them when they are open.
- Improved: Changed Category, Topic and Agenda views in order to enables multiple selection of items. Is it now possible to change the icon of several topics simultaneously.
- Improved: Changed History View. The most recent visited is now the fist topic of the list.
- Improved: Changed Viewer. Typing any character moves focus to Topic List (when visible), starting the incremental search on the list.
- Improved: Image format for paste/drag and drop can now be configured.
- Improved: It is now possible to drag and drop several topics simultaneously to the editor, creating commands accordingly.
- Improved: Copy operation of topics to other projects. Using drag and drop it is now possible to copy several topics from one project to another, just moving them to the tab of the desired project. If a topic already exists in the destination project, a prompt appears enabling to skip or rename it.
- Improved: When a URL is dragged and dropped into Editor, page title is now automatically added to the $URL generated command as an alias.
- Improved: Update speed in Categories view.
- Improved: Added new Import option for controlling whether existing topics are overwritten or not.
- Improved: Changed internal cache structure resulting in a general gain of speed while loading Categories view.
- Improved: Speed when filtering topics using categories.
- Improved: Handling of tabs when text is pasted from other application and/or files.
- Improved: Included link for the current month in topic's calendar.
- Improved: Comparison speed in Diff window.
- Improved: Changed the way $FILE and $MOVIE commands are generated when a file is dropped in editor. The filename without its path is now used as the default text for the link.
- Improved: ConnectedText now becomes the active application when files and/or URL are dropped into editor.
- Improved: Command Insert File. It now recognizes movies and creates commands accordingly.
- Improved: Clicking in a $FILE link which contains an outline file (CTO) opens it in the Outline view.
- Improved: Changed the include processing to enable the inclusion of part of a topic.
- Improved: Text selected in Viewer is now used by Search function in the same way it is used in editor.
- Improved: Better handling of includes when they contain footnotes.
- Improved: Analysis tool. New option for topics that do not contain categories. Faster processing.
- Improved: Import function. It now accepts a single file. Added option to ignore existing topics.
- Improved: Image handling in links when converting HTML to ConnectedText's markup.
- Improved: Added optimization for resolving file links using UNC network paths.
- Improved: It is now possible to pan the graph in Navigator clicking in the background and moving the mouse holding the left button pressed.
- Improved: It is not necessary anymore to activate a filter to use it.
- Improved: Several small changes in Diff window.
- Improved: Several minor tweaks in user interface.
Fixed issues
- Fixed: skyrocketing handles problem.
- Fixed: bug in import function. HTML files were not imported if encoded with Asian charset.
- Fixed: bug in Web Browser. If dock position was changed for any view its content would disappear and if refresh was called an "Unspecified Error" would occur.
- Fixed: bug in Import function. Some empty topics and some with suffix could be created unnecessarily.
- Fixed: bug in Python Plugin. Lines longer than 256 were split in several lines. That could lead to unexpected results when topic was rendered.
- Fixed: memory leak when creating a new project.
- Fixed: bug in $FILE command. It was not working if file name contained [ or ].
- Fixed: bug in topic's calendar. Previous month link was not working.
- Fixed: bug in export function. Main topic link in menu line was not working if it contained non-standard characters.
- Fixed: bug in Topic list. If a category was used to filter topics and it was erased, the content of the list was not updated correctly.
- Fixed: problem when dragging multiple shortcuts into editor. Only the first selected shortcut was being added.
- Fixed: problem with character "&" when used in titles of queries and filters.
- Fixed: ordering of date topics in Topic List.
- Fixed: problem when copying non-ascii characters to Word. Asian and Arabic characters were not being copied correctly.
- Fixed: problem when loading layouts. The error "Control XXX has no parent window" could be triggered by corrupted desktop layouts.
- Fixed: command Insert Date/Time. Only date part was being inserted.
- Fixed: bug when copying a topic as link when its title contained accented characters. The pasted command was not working correctly.
- Fixed: bug that prevented renaming PNG images in Images Manager.
- Fixed: bug in the popup menu for images. Sometimes all options were disabled.
- Fixed: bug in redirect command. Links where not treated correctly when a topic with redirection was exported.
- Fixed: bug when displaying icons. The wrong icon could be displayed in certain situations.
- Fixed: bug in the HTML generation engine. It was not using the current locale configuration when generating the calendar in date topics. It was assuming that week always starts on sunday.
- Fixed: long standing bug in spell check. Auto check was marking some words as misspelled incorrectly.
- Fixed: bug in rename/delete. The current topic would not have its links adjusted correctly if the version being displayed wasn't the latest one.
- Fixed: bug in script management. Registering keyboard shortcuts didn't work (assignment was lost after closing configuration screen).
- Fixed: bug in $SCRIPT command. It was not working if the topic containing it was opened from Full Text search.
- Fixed: bug when saving Full Text queries. It was possible save a query with duplicate name.
- Fixed: bug when selecting an older version of the current topic. Navigation buttons were being enabled.
- Fixed: bug in filter dialog. Categories list was not ordered.
- Fixed: bug in Full Text query dialog. Under certain conditions some fields were enabled erroneously.
- Fixed: bug when headers were collapsed and topic contained footer. Footer was hidden when top most header was collapsed.
- Fixed: bug in topic processing. Header and Footer were not being added if enabled in Project properties.
- Fixed: bug in installer. OLE interface was not registered in Windows Vista.
