Version history for TextPad

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Changes for v5.4.0 - v5.4.2

• Enhancements:
• Numeric sorts now use 64-bit integers.
• Issues resolved:
• Checkboxes and radio buttons in Preferences lists were not displayed correctly on XP with the Windows Classic Theme.
• Read Only and Selection Only checkboxes on the Open and Save As dialog boxes were not displayed correctly on XP with the Windows Classic Theme.
• The context menu for Search Results and Tool Output sometimes acted on the active document.

Changes for v5.3.1 - v5.4.0

• Enhancements:
• Windows 7/Vista Open and Save As dialog boxes, when running on those operating systems.
• Increased size of visible spaces for monitor widths greater than 1024 pixels.
• Scale the user interface fonts when the display DPI is set greater than the default 96.
• Improved the appearance of checkboxes and radio buttons in preference property lists.
• Toolbar for macros.
• Breaking change: user tools now appear on the toolbar in the same order as on the Tools menu.
• The Send command now detects the default MAPI email server.
• Italian user interface.
• Issues resolved:
• Crash when Search Results not dockable, Find in Files active, and Close All command executed.
• Crash when right clicking a line of 10 or more characters, ending in "<".
• Line numbers missing in split views on Windows 7.
• Missed leading "http:" for URLs starting with "www".
• The Synchronize Scrolling command was disabled when document tabs were in use.
• Clicking at the beginning of an indented, wrapped line did not place the cursor there.
• When activated by a right click in a docked window, the context menu commands were applied to the active MDI window.
• Print Previewing Search Results or Tool Output windows cleared their contents.
• Intermittent file sharing error when opening files.
• In the Japanese user interface, user tools appeared on both the Tools main and submenus.
• The Startup folder was incorrectly set to \windows\system if specified one does not exist.
• Screen flashing when opening multiple files.
• Protect against crashes due to tracking device drivers that don't allow for sibling scrollbars.
• Reject regular expressions starting with "*" or "+".

Changes for v5.3.0 - v5.3.1

• Help menu commands did not work.
• Explorer crash on double clicking Desktop item.
• The Stop Recording command on the Macro menu was not reset if the recorder was running at program exit.
• underscores were not rendered in Print Preview for some fonts.
• The IME did not work with the Incremental Finder.

Changes for v5.2.0 - v5.3.0

• This release implements the following enhancements, and fixes problems that have been reported in version 5.2:
• Enhancements:
• Incremental Find command on the Search menu. It finds the next instance of a string, as you type it in the Incremental Find toolbar.
• Normalize command on Windows menu when document tabs are displayed. It eliminates any tiling and tab groups.
• Option to order document tabs leftmost first.
• Option to substitute TextPad for Notepad.
• Added commands to copy the filename and browse its folder to the Document Selector and tabs context menus.
• Added commands to create new tab groups to the document tabs context menu.
• Sets the Explorer path when opening a workspace.
• Tool names on the Configure/Preferences/Tools dialog box can now be edited by pressing F2.
• The Explorer now uses the Windows Explorer context menu.
• Optional toolbar for print commands.

Changes for v5.1.0 - v5.2.0

• This release implements the following enhancements, and fixes problems that have been reported in version 5.0:
• Enhancements:
• New commands on the Window menu to arrange or tile document tabs in horizontal or vertical groups. Tabs can be dragged and dropped between groups.
• When the desktop theme is set to Windows Classic, TextPad automatically adopts that appearance, after it is restarted.
• Now available with the French and Japanese user interfaces.
• Issues resolved:
• When a bookmark was placed on the last, empty line of a document, it was not scrolled into view by the Next/Previous Bookmark commands.
• On the General page of the Preferences dialog box, "Program Menu" was not checked unless TextPad had been installed for all users.
• The wrong font was used in the Tool Output window for DOS commands.
• After opening a workspace, the focus should have been in the active document, rather than the Search Results or Tool Output window.
• The list of documents in the Document Selector was sometimes not displayed.

Changes for v5.0.3 - v5.1.0

• Enhancements:
• Now available with the German user interface.
• The Search Results and Tool Output windows can now be treated like ordinary document windows, rather than being dockable. To enable that behavior, uncheck the appropriate option using Configure/Preferences/View/Dockable Log Windows.
• A Save As button can now be added to the toolbar.
• Issues addressed:
• On some Vista systems, the program would crash as menus were highlighted.
• Wrong document sometimes selected when choosing from the Window menu.
• Tool parameters that referred to the active document failed for dockable Search and Tool Results windows.
• Cursor occasionally positioned incorrectly.
• Keyboard selection did not correctly switch out of line selection mode, when extending the selection.
• Save As should not have changed the read-only state of Search and Tool Outputs.
• Eliminated screen flashes while executing the Open All command from Search Results.
• Eliminated screen flashing when all documents were closed while the document selector was displayed.
• After double clicking a line in Search Results, the focus should have been placed on the corresponding line in the opened document.
• The option to write the UNICODE and UTF-8 BOM was ignored, if it was set for an individual document.
• On first run, the license should not have been copied from HKEY_USERS\.Default to HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
• All instances of the main window are now displayed at the same screen position, corresponding to the behaviour of TextPad 4.
• The Tile commands on the Window menu now apply to the selected documents on the Document Selector (if any), corresponding to the behaviour of TextPad 4.

Changes for v5.0.2 - v5.0.3

• Fixed transparent Search Results and Tool Output windows.
• Crash when resizing to zero Search Results or Tool Output windows
• Fixed Close command for Search Results or Tool Output windows.
• Dragging user tools to toolbars is implemented.
• Patches paths in registry to previous release.
• When syntax highlighting is turned off for a document, it no longer prints in colour.
• Disabled Replace, Compare & Block Select commands for binary files.
• Changed online help for Tile Windows commands to match current behaviour.
• Stopped screen flashes when switching between maximimized windows with the Document Selector.

Changes for v5.0 - v5.0.2

• Block characters on menus.
• Customizing toolbars.
• Persistent window position.
• Show Full Paths and Close Selector commands on Selector context menu.
• Underlining of keyboard mnemonics on menus.
• Context menu for document tabs.
• Tips for user tools on toolbars.
• Keyboard commands for activating dockable panes.
• Transparent areas on Search Results.
• Clock doesn't fit.
• Help for environment variables.
• File names containing '&' were not displayed correctly on menus and tabs.
• Single click should not have opened TextPad from the tray.
• Split wrapped lines command not on Edit menu.
• No longer requires MSI 3.1 on Windows 2000.
• Macros using Replace All.
• Loss of keyboard focus.
• Problem with quoted filenames in Manage Files.
• shellext64.dll dependency on vc80.crt.dll.
• ddeopen32.exe was not installed.
• Open With context menu command.
• Double click of file association made with Explorer did not work.
• Transferring files from version 4.x.
• Fix shortcuts on first run.

Changes for v4.7.3 - v5.0

• Dockable File Explorer.
• Dockable Search Results and Tool Output.
• Tabbed document selector and clip library.
• Resizable Find/Replace dialogs.
• Drag and drop reordering of document tabs.
• Configurable environment variables.
• Vista 64 compatibility.
• Partial URLs of the form www.domain.com are now syntax highlighted.
• After opening a .LOG file, the cursor should have been at the end of the document.
• Change sentence case changed "I am" to "I Am".
• The shell parses strings starting with "file://", to determine which application should display the folder or file. Unfortunately the parser does not interpret embedded hex codes, so cannot find URLs such as file://C:/Program%20Files/ and rejects the request. TextPad now treats these as a special case.
• The Unicode/UTF-8 byte order mark setting was taken from the default file extension's document class, rather than the Save As document class.

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