StrongED Home Page - Changes in 4.67 -

This page covers the changes that were made between version 4.67 and 4.66 of StrongED.

Behind the scenes

• Mode Initialisation rewritten
• Changes to make Select3's customisable buttons work with SE
• Internal version number is now in major.minor format
• Hardwrap code rewritten.
• Restructured and fixed !Run file.
• Inhibit redraw error option has been removed
• Variables relating to Scripting have all been renamed

Bugs fixed

• Comment caching code could go wrong if file had two character newlines.
• Quote characters could cause comment colouring to fail.
• Shutdown on Iyonix with non-empty ramdisc restarted the shutdown sequence rather than resuming it.
• Autoloading files with autowrap set resulted in a silly wrapwidth.
• Double-clicking a URL didn't launch a browser if one was't running.
• Saving a Basic file through F10 didn't update its internal timestamp.
• Search&Replace could fail when the text was displayed in a mode that used EndOfExpr in one of its SyntaxWords groups.
• Saving a LoF window could result in an abort. This should have affected all systems but never caused a problem until the A9, presumably because its version of RISC OS is more strict. (See improvements section below)
• Inserting filenames in a StrongED view, by dragging then with Shift held down from the Filer, always resulted in the names being inserted in reverse order because the 'After block' option wasn't obeyed.
• The above also created an additional, spurious Undo entry that caused an abort when, after inserting a filename, Undo was invoked twice.
• Replacing a word from the spellbox using Return caused an abort.
• Saving a selected word from a Basic file to the Filer saved the entire remainder of the line from the start of the word onwards.
• Saving a ModeWhen/ModeFile with an error in it sometimes aborted.
• Switching mode using Commands window or StrongED_ExecCmds message aborted if mode switched to wasn't already loaded.
• Comment colouring could go wrong when switching modes.
• Switching to ASCII display in Dump mode corrupted the screen.
• Fixed 'Doubleclick on Files' getting unset
• Files with line-endings CR-LF or LF-CR didn't fold correctly
• Exclude rules didn't always work in ModeWhen.
• Oddity in matching modenames.
• Returning focus from LoadDir box caused an error.
• State of Ctrl and Shift not read when loading a file.
• Renaming search expressions in BaseMode could cause problems.
• Permissions for ModeInit didn't work.
• With very long LoF echos of the cursor would appear.
• Under certain conditions output to TaskWindow dropped characters.
• Very long lines caused syntax colouring to fail.
• When EndWith was in quotes comments could go wrong.
• Loading Autosaved files could cause various problems.
• Ignore dictionary was not reloaded after editing.
• Hardwrap would abort under certain conditions.
• Fold icons could fail to redraw properly. (Tentative)
• StrongED$WrapWidth = Line had no effect when wrap was set to automatic.
• Deleting a large block crashed SE when application space was used for data.
• Loading files from AutoSave.List stopped if a file couldn't be loaded.
• Fixed redraw bug in 256 colour modes
• FindNext function ignored case setting if previous search was LoF
• Multiple views on Autosaved files now restore correctly on restart
• Redraw failure with syntaxwords that match words containing quotes
• Trying to insert a non-existing file resulted in an error

Improvements

• Spell checking has been reworked to make it more user friendly.
• Dragging a file to a view with Ctrl&Shift held down inserts leafname only.
• The RunImage now has an AIF header thanks to Chris Bazley.
• StrongED should now be completely compatible with the A9/RO 4.42+. All executable files have the headers that are/will be required.
• When replacing a misspelled word the caret is no longer moved to the end of the replacement word.
• Character &7f is now handled correctly.
• Warns if saving a Basic file would result in line numbers too large.
• Warns if Basic file being loaded has line numbers that are too large.
• The message StrongED_ExecCmds has been added
• New function FocusToMRU()
• Support for AcornURI
• Colour section follows caret
• New function CharsToBuffer()
• Handling of File history dbox improved
• Horizontal scrollbar options take immediate effect
• Refresh updated:
  • Now works correctly with Basic files
  • Filetype icon now shows filetype of file on disc
  • Replace button removed, Load renamed to Load new
  • Global option to control whether undo is used or not
  • No longer triggers the 'file on disc has been altered' message
  • New function RefreshFile() created to refresh a file directly
• Current window/element now ticked in menu in global colours.
• Colour for text with caret in LoW has been made configurable.
• Pop-up menu icons respond to Select clicks.
• Commands and Snippets windows obey option 'Show previous text ...'.
• Regular expressions option only unshaded if module present.
• Returning caret from Dialogue boxes made more reliable.
• Count button in Search window works.
• Ctrl click in LoF opens new view and moves to selected line.
• 'Same as BaseMode' option uses lookup rather copy the colours over. This way the original colours will be restored when turning it off.
• Savebox doesn't lose leafname when closed accidently
• Fileinfo window auto-updates
• Line numbers not stripped when a BASIC file contains line references
• TabIt converts all spaces to tabs not just the ones at start of line
• Support for two colour schemes
• Assembler colouring extended to ARMv5, and support for FPE instructions
• Clicking Adjust over Scope and Display will move through the options in reverse
• Removes icon from pinboard when re-opening iconised LoW/LoF/Throwback/Choices windows
• Changed autotrim from a global option to mode option
• New functions TrimLines which trims trailing spaces and respects _NoTrim expression
• Changing the Bitmap in a ModeFile now has an immediate effect
• If there are multiple matches in a single line then LoF now displays a line for each
• Ctrl-dragging a directory to iconbar allows loading of specific filetype
• New /StartWhere/ keyword for SyntaxComment, so comments can be tied to start of line.
• Files are only added to file history if they're completely killed, ie no duplicates left.
• Dump mode now supports proper word editing when in word display
• Output to TaskWindow no longer has newlines inserted.
• Enlarged buffer for spell suggestions to 512 bytes.
• TabIt function can now insert any number of tabs, was restricted to 64
• number of highlights allowed per line was limited
• Cursor information on Infobar can display ASCII code of character under cursor
• Cursor position can also be displayed as Line,Column
• New section 'SmartIndent' in ModeFile.
• Spell window now updates when a misspelled word is edited.
• LoF can display line numbers of matches.
• LoF shows number of hits per file.
• The active display option on the LoF menu is now ticked.
• Colours of LoF, LoW and Throwback wimdows are now configurable.
• Sorting a LoF based on match only.
• New function ToggleHardwrap, allows hardwrap to be turned on/off using the keyboard
• FindNext function can now use both simple and advanced search expressions
• FindPrev function added to complement FindNext
• Option to show each line once in a LoF even when it contains multiple matches
• Matching of CursorWord now takes case sensitivity of search into account
• Maximum size of CursorWord extended to 256 characters
• Option in global choices to place cursor at end of block after copy/move/insert
• New ModeFile keyword: *OnLoad*, executes a list of functions after loading a file
• Menu holding syntax colouring groups now only lists groups that are defined

ModeFile changes

• BaseMode
  • Speak support has been revised
  • Tied Reformat() to c-R and cs-R.
  • Moved Pop() and PopAll() to c-Y and cs-Y.
  • Updated export key bindings for updated export utility.
  • Added key bindings to give input focus to LoF (cs-F7) and Throwback (cs-F8).
• Basic
  • SyntaxWords Group2 split into several smaller groups.
• FTPupload
  • Upload application moved to Defaults.Tools
• News
  • Added In-Reply-To: to Group3.
  • Removed c-F to reformat text, now tied to c-R in BaseMode.
  • Breaking into quoted text (cs-Return) altered so it handles bullets better.
  • Added new icon for Txtidy by Gavin Wraith.
  • Replaces top-bit set characters and control codes with spaces.
• StrongMode
  • Included additions by Joe Taylor.
  • Added FoldParm1 and FoldParm2 to group1.
• Added Ruby and RubyRails modes by Andrew Hodgkinson.