StrongED Home Page - Changes in 4.64 -

This page covers the changes that were made between version 4.63 and 4.64 of StrongED.

• Init module fully restructured.
• Removed code that located !StrED_cfg, this is now done by an obeyfile.
• Complete rewrite of code that builds up syntax colouring tree.
• Lots of comments added, in particular to Init, Caret and Search modules.
• Code that builds StrongED's RunImage has been put in a seperate file.
• Inside !StrED_cfg is now a new directory UserPrefs, all the configuration files for StrongED have been moved to it.
• A new directory Sprites has been created inside Defaults and UserPrefs.
• StrongED's sprites have been moved from Resources to Defaults.Sprites, this allows them to be overridden by putting new sprites in UserPrefs.Sprites.
• Colour picker problems should now be fixed. As a consequence global keys have been reinstated.
• Comment problem fixed.
• When a modefile from !StrED_cfg is altered it will now be reloaded.
• Saving a LoF no longer throws up an error.
• Clicking on name label in savebox produced an error.
• AS help icon now only updates if pointer is over search window.
• Bounding box for toolbar sprite was not calculated if sprite wasn't found.
• Using LoF in !Dump mode resulted in a crash.
• Fixed bug that prevented autoset caret from working.
• Unknown key combinations were being passed on instead of being claimed.
• New sprites.
• New templates.
• Default position of spell window can now be set.
• Increased buffer size for filename so files with long names can be now loaded.
• Marks are now updated in all views if set by an autosaved file.
• Reinstated \n in advanced search, added necessary code.
• Added hide all, hide changed, hide unchanged and hide view to LoT menu.
• Savebox now accepts things like 'Temp:fred' where Temp is a path variable.
• New modes: ADA, AWK, Lua, Makefile, !StrongHlp, ML.
• Speech support (standard button added to basemode).
• Manuals updated, corrected, and illustrated.
• 'Fold and Unfold' now on 'Base functions' menu so they can now be accessed when the key combination is not available (Clash with ControlAMPlayer).
• More keyboard shortcuts in Save and Search & Replace dialogue.
• Now uses Obey mode for TaskExec and Exec files.
• Process() function extended.
• Help paths updated for modern StrongHelp manuals.