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[Rickard Johansson]

New features in this version:

Alternative Font
An alternative font is a second font you can switch to, e.g. if you want to display the text using a fixed or proportional font.

* Set an alternative font for all file types in options.

* Select an alternative font in the view menu.

* Switch between fonts in view menu (or using keyboard shortcut).

TODO list
Added a TODO list to the code explorer tab. It will find comments like

// TODO
// NOTE

You have to use a line comment, there must be a space after the comment mark and the letters must be capitalized.

Search result context menu
Added a context menu in the search result view. It contains items to:

Load from file... (load a previously saved file)
Save to file... (save the result to an XML file)
Export to text file... (save the results to a plain text file)
Clear (clear the view)

Replace All Undo/Redo
Rewrote the functions to use much less memory. If you use replace all repeatedly, you may end up with a very large undo buffer in previous versions.

The difference with this new code is huge.

Select/Delete functions
Added several new select and delete functions.

Select:
- Sentence
- to begin of sentence
- to end of sentence

Delete:
- Sentence
- to begin of sentence
- to end of sentence

Also fixed select/delete to begin/end of line when using word wrap.

Nested comments
Fixed some issues with nested comments and made sure you can use comment identifiers that contain a line comment identifier.

E.g.

LineComment = '
CommentStart = '*
CommentEnd = *'

Auto Complete and Tag Complete Variables
You can now define variables when creating completion items in a syntax file.

E.g.
In the syntax editor we can add the following items to the auto complete section:

@myVar1
- Item 1
- Item 2
- Item 3

@myVar2
- Item 1
- Item 2

MyClass1.
- @myVar1
- @myVar2
- Item 6
- Item 7

Spell check dialog
Tags are now ignored when using the spell check dialog. attributes in XML tags are still checked.

New script object (WStrings)
This object can be used to store WideStrings (Unicode). It's basically a normal string list but uses WideStrings instead of ANSI strings.

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Feedback on new features are welcome, but I may not add anything until the next major release.

The help file has not been updated in this beta version.

[pjj]

Many thanks for the new build! Alas, TODO doesn't work for me at all I inserted TODO notes into two files, but they are flickering in Code Explorer pane, so what I see is:
1) TODO note from one file
2) then it is quickly replaced (in the same line) by TODO from 2nd file
3) then it quickly disappears
4) then for a second nothing is displayed
then it starts all over again.

Two comments, though:
1) I don't use Code Explorer at all, therefore I would like to ask to move it to Project Manager, where it--I believe--belongs*), OR give an option to move it there
2) I don't know how you plan it, but I think that this tool would be the most usablepresenting TODO notes from all project files, and not just the active one; however, it'd be handy to have the current file's notes highlighted

*) but this, of course, would mean no TODOs for files from outside current project... which makes sense to me: you want to organize your code, use projects!

When I click (well, randomly, it goes to fast for me) on TODOs, line with TODO is being set as current; this is great; I understand the same would apply to the file (even though it's not open)? Or only open files would be scanned for TODOs? I'd preferred the second option (when project is being opened, its files may be scanned and TODOs displayed; those from files not open could be greyed out).

I'm (still) on WinXPSP3, RJ TE installed.

[Rickard Johansson]

The TODO list on the code explorer tab is only supposed to display TODO's in the active document. The code explorer works the same way. It only display classes and functions from the active document.

I think a project wide TODO list (or Task list) should be part of a project wide class list (Class List Tab). Displaying classes, methods, functions and TODO's in all project files. This may be added in a later version. I don't think we have to chose just one implementation of the TODO list. We can have both.

[pjj]

[Walti]

I love the TODO and NOTE but it ssems that it only works in php and other C-like syntax files it would be great if it works too for html and css files,
eg:
<!--
// TODO Test
-->

and

/*
// TODO Test
*/

THX Walti

[Rickard Johansson]

1. I've fixed the TODO list issue. The list wasn't updated properly when you had more than one file opened.

2. All comment types can now be used with TODO's in your source.

E.g.

[jwayne]

1) Startup seems a bit slower.
2) Major issue with menu delays. After closing a file (and sometimes after opening one), there is a noticeable delay before the menu works. Same thing after closing Tools, Options.
3) Scrolling between top-level menu items (File, Edit, Search...) also has some delay problems; the new menu selected is drawn before the previous one disappears.

Going back to 6.0.

[pjj]

[H.Seldon]

Not noticing any problems mentioned above. Startup, menu opening, file opening/closing all appear to be as fast as 6.0 to me. Also, /hex switch now works from command line. Thanks!

[pjj]

I assume you're on Vista x64, maybe that's why?

[H.Seldon]

Actually, I'm running it on 2 machines. One is 2.4 GHz quad-core, Vista x64. The other is a single 1.8 GHz Pentium 4, XP SP3. On both machines, I see no significant difference in speed between versions 6.0 and 6.1 beta. On the Vista machine, it takes about 3 sec. to open Texted the first time, and about 1.5 sec. after that. On the XP machine, it takes about 5 sec. the first time, and about 3 sec. after that. Menu opening/switching is very fast on both machines. Opening projects appears the same to me between versions as well.

[Rickard Johansson]

I don't see this issue either running on Windows 7 x32. It is a debug version though, containing an exception trapper that does slow things down a bit.

[jwayne]

Installed on my Windows 7 (32-bit) machine, and do not see the same problems as I mentioned earlier (XP Pro pc.) I'll see what happens when I do a clean install (I usually just run the setup and let it replace previous version files) on the problem PC.

[jwayne]

I did a clean reinstall after ensuring that all old components were removed. The problem has not recurred so I will assume that it was due to some conflict with files from multiple versions.