StrongED Home Page - Changes in 4.68 -

This page covers the changes that were made between version 4.68 and 4.67 of StrongED.

Behind the scenes

• Saving of Autosave.List and desktop boot file now share same code.
• Choices are now saved as token-value pairs in a text file.
• Redraw in 32-bpp modes now uses colour tables.
• Increased redraw speed on Iyonix.
• Saving of Autosave.List made more robust.
• ModeFile parser converted to a more generic parser.
• Switched fold start/end pointertypes over.
• Changed error handler, now always produces a StrongDump.
• Moved crash tools from StrongSrc to a new app StrongDbg.
• Refactored code for interactive help.

Bugs fixed

• Low memory access with LoW.
• Resizing a file with wrapwidth set to automatic.
• Errors in ModeFile and ModeWhen could lead to aborts.
• Comment colouring oddity when switching modes.
• Stack handling in handler for LoadDirectory box.
• PreviousMessage() in case of pointer to error message.
• Modes where not test-compiled when reload modes option was off.
• ExportText() didn't save out hash of style name correctly.
• ToogleStr() could go wrong under certain conditions.
• Selecting the Colours section of Global Choices aborts.

Improvements

• Bracket matching highlights both brackets if caret is to the right of one.
• New function GotoBracket(), moves caret to matching open/close bracket.
• Better handling of ctrl/tab embedded in another element.
• Reformat function extended, now allows entire file to be wrapped.
• Warnings added for loading/saving Basic files with too big line numbers.
• Taskwindow mode can be based on name of task running in it.
• LoF has a new display option; 'Match only'.
• Switching modes causes a text to take on the settings of the new mode.
• Additional Search and Replace scopes; Backward and Forward.
• Wrap options extended with LongestLine, including minimum and maximum.
• Files can now have line numbers displayed in the left margin.
• Automatic horizontal scrollbar option has been moved to mode options.
• Updates all views when turning hardwrap on/off.
• Auto-scrolls much better during DragNDrop.
• The option 'Kill changed' has been added to LoW.
• Added BinSuffix and HexSuffix to SyntaxOptions.
• Offers to copy config files to UserPrefs if a file from Defaults is altered.
• Function section of ModeFile now allows things like 'cs-Select'.
• New parameter for Shortcuts; 'Space', expands shortcut only if followed by space.
• Shortcuts can recall previously entered fields.
• PreviousMsg function now toggles alert window open/close.
• Alert/Error messages are sent to SysLog, if present.
• New function ToggleWorkView.
• Support for the ViewFinder card.
• Sort function extended with descending sort order.
• Sort function extended to allow case sensitive sorting.
• Sort function extended to allow removal of duplicate lines.
• Added dialogue box for sorting.
• ReplaceAll has been made much faster.
• Replace; number of elements and length of replace string now unlimited.
• Often used Search and Replace expressions can be stored in a global file.
• Various ID fields in ModeFile no longer use default values.
• Text not matched by any syntax colouring definition now coloured as 'Text'.
• Added Functions keyword to SyntaxOptions section of ModeFile.
• Shift-click on a line in a LoF deletes that line or section.
• Ctrl-click on a line in a throwback window opens a new view (if file already loaded).
• Added variable based indenter.
• Added ReindentText() function which uses above indenter to reindent (part of) a text.
• Bitmap configuration moved from ModeFile to Mode choices.
• Bitmap font configuration moved to Fonts section of mode choices.
• Added configuration of outline fonts to Fonts section.
• Added option to use ViewFinder to Fonts section.
• Moved Caret type configuration from Global choices to Mode choices.
• Removed option 'Use Fastchars when possible' from global choices.
• Toolbar and Infobar autoscroll when parts are outside of window.
• Added ability to print in graphics mode using outline font.

ModeFile changes