EditRocket Updates / Change Log

Added Tools -> Ant -> Execute Ant Build for integration with Ant builds
Added jump to compiler error line number option on java compiler
Added jump to compiler error line number option on Objective C compiler
Added jump to parse error line number option on PHP check syntax and execute program tools
Added HTML 5 tags to tag builder and auto lookup / auto complete
XML Validator remembers previously used schemas in a dropdown box
Added Execute Ant Build to the java sidekick and java popup menu

Changes

Changed gcc syntax for objective-c compiler for newer versions of gcc

Bug Fixes

Turning off open previously open files at startup preference has no effect
If too many open tabs, items in the Window menu scrolls off of the screen

3.5.6

Enhancements

XML Validator: Errors are now clickable and take user directly to error location in file
XML Validator: Allow users to specify a schema file or URL for validation
XML Validator: Allow users to validate editor contents or a file
XML Validator: Auto populate schema location based if referenced in XML file

Changes

Mac Launcher: EditRocket now launches in 64-bit mode by default if system is a 64-bit system
Find / Replace Tool: Added clear buttons to the find and replace fields
Find / Replace Tool: If doing a replace all in selected lines, after the replace is complete, the lines remain highlighted
Find / Replace Tool: If multiple lines are selected, the default scope is set to Selected Lines instead of All Lines
Java Compiler: Output path is now selectable and remembers output paths for previous compilations

3.5.5

Enhancements

Added AJAX inserts to HTML inserts tool
Added AJAX example template
Updated Windows and Linux JREs

Bug Fixes

File System Browser context menu too large for small resolution screens

3.5.4

Enhancements

Auto completion enhancements

Changes

Added himem files for launching EditRocket with high memory settings
Added recognition for additional pl/sql file extensions
.cgi files now default to perl syntax
Launching improvements

Bug Fixes

Blurry icon problem on Windows 7
Zip utility display problems on low resolution displays

3.5.3

Enhancements

Added auto detection for UTF 8 and UTF 16 files
Added progress bar and ability to cancel Find in Files and Find / Replace in Files tools
Added methods and anonymous functions to the JavaScript function / method navigator
Clicking on a line number highlights the entire line
Added ability to change the editor caret color
Enabled support of $ and ^ regular expression symbols for the Find and Find / Replace tools

Bug Fixes

Python syntax highlighting errors with certain text
When syntax highlighting is off, keywords are always showing as black, even when custom colors are set

3.5.2

Enhancements

Right-click on a line number in the editor now adds or removes a bookmark
Added smart comment (control or comment /)
Add comment menu to the right-click menu on editor
Add Undo Chunk to right-click menu on editor
Add bookmarks menu to the right-click menu on editor
Print using browser enhancements for better translation of font size, bolds, and italics
Added Run on Local Web Server options to the PHP, Perl, Python, and Ruby tools menus
Added Java util for wrap selection in If
Added Java util for wrap selection in Else
Added support article links to the help menu
Added how to guides to the Help menu

Changes

File, Edit, and Inserts menu now have better support for lower resolutions
View Open Editors option now makes sure it is visible on screen if resolutions were changed
Find / Replace window now remembers last position
Validate the execute program processes to make sure the program actually exists
Change scroll buffer value so that auto window scrolling does not start until cursor is closer to end of the window
Added the Save As button to the default toolbar configuration
Uncomment option now takes into account all selected lines when uncommenting line comments
All Text menu tools now perform their functions on selected text only if there is text selected
Better handling of line break conversions when transferring files from Mac to Windows and vice-versa
Better adherence to default operating system line break formatting rules
Made the CSS and HTML validator results windows resizable

Bug Fixes

Right-click on File System Browser text field not showing popup menu on Mac
Shift down not highlighting line when the line is the last line in the editor
Word Count character count option not factoring in multi-character line breaks for windows
Editor status bar selected text length not factoring in multi-character line breaks for windows

3.5.1

Enhancements

Added Goto Directory menu to right-click menu of file system browser path location field
Added copy option to right-click menu of file system browser path location field
Added paste option to right-click menu of file system browser path location field
Added Code - Utils - HTML - HTML Entity Selector option
Added auto complete for HTML entities when typing ampersand
Added more emacs key bindings for Mac (control k, control d, and control y)
Added support for multiple COBOL keyword files for syntax highlighting

3.5.0

Enhancements

Added Search API reference option for PHP, Perl, and Python
Added API reference links for CSS, HTML, Java, Objective-C, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby
Find in Files allows finding of text with line breaks
Replace in Files allows replacing of text with line breaks
Find / Replace in Open Editors now allows find / replacing text with line breaks
Added an Objective-C compile option for Mac
Added an Objective-C execute program option for Mac
Added Objective-C syntax highlighting support
Added an Objective-C Function / Method navigator
Added an Objective-C Sidekick
Added Objective-C code inserts
Added Objective-C templates
Added C and C++ code inserts
Added Scala syntax highlighting support
Added a Scala Function / Method navigator
Added a Scala Sidekick
Added Scala code inserts
Added Scala templates
Added COBOL code inserts and hello world template
Added a COBOL coding mode (Code-Mode-Toggle COBOL Mode) that switches the behavior of the tab and enter key
Added code inserts for Ada, ASP, Batch, and Groovy
Added a compress files option to the file system browser for compressing files and directories in zip format
Added Emacs keyboard shortcuts on the Mac for down, up, right, left, end of line and beginning of line
Added a split file tool to the File System Browser and File - Tools menu to for splitting files into smaller files
Added syntax highlighting auto detection for many language types
Added a preference for whether to auto detect syntax highlighting
Function keys can now be used as keyboard shortcuts
Escape key can now be pressed to close most windows opened by EditRocket
.plist files are now recognized as xml types
Execute Program enhancements

Changes

Hitting the delete key on the file system browser now deletes the file
Fixed load errors on machines with unwritable user home directories
Better support for machines with locked down user directories
If selected text has line breaks, when bring up either find in editors or find / replace, pre-select the tabs / line breaks button
Re-organize the search menu so all of the Find / Replace options are together
Add mnemoics for Start Recording and Stop Recording in the macro menu
Put the insert selector items in alphabetical order
Add Custom to the insert file type selector for the insert select tool
If word wrap is on, copying text to a text file does not get wrapped, only when typing it
If word wrap is on, opening a new text file does not wrap the text
File System Browser, can now copy a file to the same directory as long as a different name is provided
Double-click on a word in PHP file now also selects the dollar sign
Double-click on a word in a Perl file now also selects the dollar sign, at sign, or mod sign
Double-click on a word in a Ruby file now also selects the dollar sign and at sign
Edit - Delete - Delete Line now deletes line plus ending line break
Edit - Select - Select Line now selects line plus ending line break
Triple click now select line plus ending line break

Bug Fixes

HTML validator returning one too many for warning count
Text - Insert text at column - error for please enter a column greater than zero when entering 1 as the column number
Copy Lines Containing window displays Cut in the text instead of Copy
Make sure control / command click deselects an already selected item on the file system browser
Home and End keys not working correctly on Mac
Copying from windows formatted file on a Mac system causing double-spaced lines

3.4.7

Bug Fixes

Insert Selector errors when cancelling language type selection

3.4.6

Bug Fixes

Copy All Bookmark Lines option not working correctly
Mac: Fixed display issues caused by Java Update 4

3.4.5

Enhancements

Added Copy All Bookmarks option
Added Delete All Bookmarks option
Added Cut All Bookmarks option
Allow multiple instances of EditRocket to be launched

Bug Fixes

Fixes to PHP and JSP syntax highlighting when opening files with saved cursor positions

3.4.4

Enhancements

Added XML Tree View tool for viewing XML documents in a tree structure

Changes

Upgraded Windows JRE to 1.6.0_14
Upgraded Linux JRE to 1.6.0_14

3.4.3

Enhancements

Sped up load time
Added Search -> Bookmark Selector tool
Bookmarks are more noticeable in the editor
Bookmark positions are now saved by default when exiting
Added a selected character count value to the status bar when text is selected
Append text to lines and Prepend text to lines tools now keep modified text selected after the append or prepend
Added Select All and Select All Files Only options to the file system browser
Added uncomment option

Bug Fixes

Certain keyboard shortcuts do not work when there are no open editor tabs

3.4.2

Enhancements

Added auto complete menu option, toolbar button, and keyboard shortcut for most supported languages
Added PHP Execute program tool
Added PHP check syntax tool
Added Perl check syntax tool
Added Ruby check syntax tool
Added a confirmation dialog when closing EditRocket
Added a preference for whether to show a confirmation dialog with closing EditRocket

Changes

Windows: Upgraded JRE to 1.6.0_13
Ability to override EditRocket home directory by setting the editrocket.home Java System property
Rearrange tools menu so that tools are classified by language

Bug Fixes

Function / Method Navigator tool does not recognize PHP functions inside of a class
Match word in the Find / Replace tool does not apply the whole word criteria when there is only one word in the text.
Select Previous word on Mac has incorrect keyboard shortcut
For very large files, such as large XML files, the sidekicks / function, query, and tag navigator tools were causing EditRocket to become unresponsive while building the navigators
On save confirmation window, if close window by not using cancel button when prompted to save changes, treats it as a No response

3.4.1

Bug Fixes

Java Method Lookup and Auto Complete: Slow performance for some classpaths
Execute Java Program requires classpath to have values to work properly
User home directory not being correctly determined on some Windows machines

3.4.0

Enhancements

Added Text - Insert Text at Column option
Added Edit - Cut Lines Containing option
Added Edit - Copy Lines Containing option
Added Search - Replace Until option
Added Search - Replace After option
Added ASP syntax highlighting support
Added an ASP function browser
Enhanced Python code builder
Added a cancel button when exiting
File System Browser - added a file line count option
Added home and end options to the edit menu - can now customize home and end keyboard shortcuts
Copy and Cut Lines - If there is selected text - now included in the text field
Windows Vista painting improvements
Print using Web Browser now automatically displays a print dialog
Next word option now skips white space
Previous word option now skips white space
Added .war and .ear to the list of files supported by the zip utility
Upgraded Deju-Vu fonts

Changes

On Mac, default word skipping keyboard shortcuts are now option right and option left
On Mac, default keyboard shortcuts for begin and end line are now command right and command left
Auto completion now accepts tab key to select and close the auto complete window
Focus changes to make sure EditRocket accepts focus properly when coming from other applications
Zip Utility - do nto close when viewing a selected file
Find / Replace in Files tool now gives the ability to copy the results
Open editors windows now saves position on exit

Bug Fixes

EditRocket occasionally fails to launch on Debian based Linux distributions
Case sensitive option not remembered when using replace and replace all on the Find / Replace tool
Bug when using the Combine Files tool to combine files into an existing file
Search option on File System Browser - if nothing is found, does not display a message
File System Browser - renaming a directory can cause the alignment of the file system browser text to be off
File System Browser - date and time information not always displayed after certain operations

3.3.1

Bug Fixes

Opening an empty file throws an error
Replacing text with empty text throws an error

3.3.0

Enhancements

Added an open editors window that contains clickable links to all currently open editors
Added the ability to execute Perl programs
Added the ability to execute Python programs
Added the ability to execute Java programs
Added the ability to execute Ruby programs
Added the ability to include line breaks and tabs in the Find tool and the Replace tool
Enhanced the word list for the spell checker
Added Text -> View as HTML in Browser for viewing syntax highlighting in a web browser
Added Print -> Print Using Browser to print source code using the web browser (allows for better color support, etc.)
Added date modified and size information to the single directory view file system browser.
Added the ability to sort the file system browser by name, date modified, or size
Added a filter option to the file system browser for filtering files ending with or containing user specified text
Added detail view to the right click menu of the file system browser. Shows file names, types, dates modified, and sizes in a sortable view
Added tooltips to file system browser that show name, date modified, and size
Added the ability to search a directory on the file system browser search option
Added ability to change the background color of the text editor and file system browser
Added the ability to change the main text color of the text editor and file system browser
Added the ability to change the colors of the current line highlight and line selections
Mac OS X Java compile now searches for the java compiler so that users do not have to enter it manually
Improved C# syntax highlighting
Improved speed on Text -> Remove duplicate lines
Enhanced auto-indent to include programming language specific indentation
Added Not Contains option to the file search tool
Added a combine files option to the file system browser and File -> Tools menu
Batch and Shell Script syntax highlighting improvements
Delete now moves files to the recycle bin on Windows
More fonts now included with Linux version
Wrap at column number and format to fit screen now handle comments in text by making sure commented text that gets wrapped stays commented
Show in Web Browser for PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, and JSP now has options for specifying the local web server URL and document root
Added Show In Web Browser icon to the toolbar
Web templates added for Python, Perl, and Ruby
Auto indent and Auto bracket complete enhancements for when text has both preceeding tabs and spaces

Changes

Java compiler now stays open after clicking compile
Default Windows and Linux editor font changed to Deja Vu Sans Mono
Windows and Linux fonts now default to anti-alias on
Default auto completion delay increased to 800 milliseconds
Removed functionality where option key opens menus on Mac OS X
Linux JRE now ships with the server JVM
No longer ask for file reload on changed files if close is clicked on the tab
HTML form tag auto complete now inserts a line break after the form tag
Auto Indent - when a closing curly brace is entered for C style languages, automatically line up the closing brace with the appropriate opening brace

Bug Fixes

Windows: File system browser width not being remembered correctly
File System Browser: previous dir not working when current dir and the previous dir are the same name
Code -> Utils -> Java -> Open Selected Class in Editor - classpath not being handled correctly on Windows
When closing multiple unsaved editor tabs at once, changes not always getting saved

3.2.0

Enhancements

Added Spell Checker in Tools -> Spell Check
CSS Validator: Added clickable buttons to take users directly to the line with the validation error
HTML Validator: Added clickable buttons to take users directly to the line with the validation error
File Compare: Added clickable buttons to take users directly to the line that has changed
File System Browser: Windows: Added drop down for all of the mounted drives to allow navigation to drives other than the main drive
Added undo chunk functionality in Edit -> Undo Chunk
Added Text -> Remove Lines Containing option
Added Text -> Remove Lines Starting With option
Added Text -> Remove Whitespace option
Added Text -> Duplicate Line option
Added Edit -> Copy File Path option
Added Code -> Utils -> HTML -> Convert selected or all chars to character or numeric entities
Added Inserts -> HTML -> img
Added Code -> Utils -> Java -> Open Selected Class
Added auto method lookup for Java arrays
Added a View -> View Open Editors option that displays a clickable list of open editors
Added Sort Tabs option to the Window menu
Added the following options to the right-click menu of the current editor tab: Close All Except Current, Sort Tabs, Copy File Path, Rename, Move, Size, Get Info
Linux: Improved key response when typing

Changes

Open URL, CSS Validator, and HTML Validator now use any proxy settings configured for the system
Font anti-aliasing now turned on by default
Added cancel option when closing modified files that have not been saved
Added better support for 800 X 600 displays
Open URL, CSS Validator, and HTML Validator view source option now do better job of matching syntax highlighting type.
CSS Validator now has better support for proxy servers that limit HTTP Get sizes

Bug Fixes

Show in Web Browser sometimes hanging
Soft tab preference not being remembered on exit
Problem with shell script syntax highlighting when line only contains a variable name

3.1.1

Enhancements

Added a plugin API for users to add custom functionality to EditRocket
Added new templates pertaining to the plugin API
Added a new Font preference for turning off/on anti-aliased fonts in the editor
Added an Open Copy option to the context menu of the active tab
Added a Make Backup option to hte context menu of the active tab
Sidekicks now open with the tab selected that was selected when the sidekick was last closed

Changes

Space character now selected lookup dialog values in addition to the ENTER key
Delete and Backspace characters now close lookup dialogs in addition to ESCAPE key
Function / Method selector now trims names longer than 120 characters
Auto lookup dialogs no longer modal and now can be moved.

Bug Fixes

Custom inserts with underscores in the name not accepted
Java wrap selected in try catch util invalid error message if no text selected

3.1.0

Enhancements

Enhanced Python auto completion
Enhanced Java auto completion
Added Ruby auto completion
Enhanced and renamed code assistant to Sidekick. Sidekicks now available for 18 programming langauges
Added Regular expression search to the find tool
Added Macros
Added Code - Utils - HTML - Convert selection to hyperlink util
Added Code - Utils - HTML - Wrap selection in tag util
Added Code - Utils - HTML - Wrap each selected line in tag util
Added Code - Utils - HTML - URL Encode selection
Added Code - Utils - HTML - URL decode selection
Added Code - Utils - XML - Convert characters to entities util
Added Code - Utils - XML - Convert entitis to characters util
Added Code - Utils - XML - Insert tag util
Added Code - Utils - XML - Wrap selection in tag util
Added Code - Utils - Java - Wrap selection in try catch util
Added Code - Utils - Java - Generate get, set, and get/set methods for selected members util
Added Code - Utils - C - Include guard util
Added Java Code Builder
Added CSharp sidekick
Added Groovy Syntax Highlighting
Added ActionScript syntax highlighting and function lookup
Added Ada syntax highlighting
Enhanced Ruby Code Builder to include all core library and standard library files
C, include the include type in <> after function name in function lookup
Added new inserts
Added Edit Insert Tool
Added Insert Tool
Added PHP function signature tool tip when typing an open paren after a recognized function name
Addec C function signature tool tip when typing an open paren after a recognized function name
Enhanced XML, HTML, PHP, and JSP auto tag close to show the closing tag for the last open tag first
Added refresh button to Function, Tag, and Query Navigator
Enhanced Python code builder
Added an icon to the toolbar for the code builders
Added an icon to the toolbar for Sidekicks
Added icons for Add bookmark, Next bookmark, and Previous bookmark to the toolbar
Function / Method Navigator: method/function names text now bold and in different color
Added default keyboard shortcut Command or Control Shift M - Macro selector popup
Added default keyboard shortcut Command or Control Shift I - Insert selector popup
Added default keyboard shortcut Command or Control Shift N - Function / Method selector
Added default keyboard shortcut Command or Control Shift U - Utils selector

Changes

New menu structure: File, Edit, Search, Text, Tools, Code, Sidekicks, Inserts, View, Window, Help
Changed editor tabs font size on Macs
Changed list tool names to navigator
Removed function navigator, tag navigator, and key ahead button from the default toolbar
Function / Method lookup - If no programming language is selected, prompt the user for the language to use
Increased scrolling increment on several windows to make scrolling more responsive
Initial memory increased from 16 to 64 MB
Removed select line icon from default toolbar
Warn if modified now checks everytime focus is gained

Bug Fixes

JavaScript - copy to editor for properties does not work on code builder
PL/SQL autocomplete needs to ignore case
Perl function list top level control statements recognized as functions
JavaScrpt function list top level control statements recognized as functions
Key Ahead with no syntax highlighting displaying key ahead list on far right of screen
If tab is scrolled, closing a tab closing the wrong tab
Opening multiple code builders for the same language not working

3.0

Enhancements

Added Coding Tools - HTML Validator
Added Coding Tools - HTML Tidy tool
Added Coding Tools - HTML Entity selector tool
Added Coding Tools - HTML Tag Builder tool
Added Coding Tools - CSS Style Builder tool
Added Coding Tools - CSS Validator tool
Added Coding Tools - CSS Class List tool
Added Coding Tools - XML Validator tool
Added Coding Tools - Code Builder for the following programming languages: C, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Shell Script, and Transact-SQL
Added Coding Tools - Code Assistant for the following programming languages: C, C++, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Java, JSP, Perl, PHP, PL/SQL, Python, Ruby, Shell Script, SQL, SQL PL, Transact-SQL, and XML
Added Tools - Color Chooser tool
Added Tools - Function List option for displaying a list of functions or methods depending on the programming language of the text editor
Added Tools - Tag List option for displaying a clickable list of tags (HTML or XML) contained in the text editor
Added Tools - Query List option for displaying a clickable list of SQL queries contained in the editor
Added Auto Close Tag option for HTML, PHP, JSP, and XML
Added Auto Tag Lookup option for HTML, PHP, and JSP
Added Auto Bracket close for C Style programming languages
Added Auto Complete for JavaScript
Added Auto Complete for PL/SQL
Enhanced C, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, and Shell Script function lookup to return function signature information as a tooltip when selecting a function
Python function lookup now includes methods, functions, and members from the core Python modules.
Added Python auto-complete for functions, methods, and members in the core Python modules
Added Search - Bookmarks: Add Bookmark, Remove All Bookmarks, Next Bookmark, Previous Bookmark
File Tools / File System Browser: Added regular expression file search tool
File Tools / File System Browser: Added ability to move files and directories
File Tools / File System Browser: OS X: Delete files now moves files to the trash instead of deleting permanently
File Tools / File System Browser: OS X: Non-empty directories can now be deleted
File Tools / File System Browser: Added head option for displaying the beginning of files
File Tools / File System Browser: Added tail option for displaying the end of files
File Tools / File System Browser: Added get section option for displaying sections of files
File Tools / File System Browser: Added copy option for copying files and directories
Added File - Conversions menu for converting to Windows, OS X / Linux, and Mac Classic line breaks
Added syntax highlighting and function lookup support for COBOL
Added Edit - Select - Select None (Escape) option
Added Edit - Next Paragraph and Edit - Previous Paragraph options
Added target version of 1.6 to the target dropdown for Coding Tools - Java - Compile
Reload File option now remembers the cursor position
Added File - Show in Web Browser option
Added preference for the default file encoding for opening and saving files to allow users to specify a file encoding other than the operating system default
Added File - Open with Encoding, File - Reload with Encoding, and File - Save with Encoding options for specifying file encodings when opening, reloading, or saving
Added the current file's file encoding to the editor status panel
Added the ability to customize which icons appear on the toolbar
Find / Replace in Files and Find in Open Editors - Found or replaaced lines now have clickable icons to take the user to the line in the file.
Find / Replace Tool - Show Found Line option now has clickable links to take the user directly to the found line
Replace all now shows the number of replaced items
Search - Replace All speed enhancements
Added Backup on Save option
Added Show Word Wrap Guide option and preference
Added Word Wrap functionality
Java method lookup now does a hover help with the method signatures
Add soft tabs preference. When selected, automatically convert all typed tabs to the equivalent number of spaces
Added Edit - Text - Tabs to Spaces option
Added Edit - Text - Spaces to Tabs option
Added Edit - Code - Line Comment option
Added Edit - Code - Range Comment option

Changes

Updated HTML lookup list
Updated CSS keywords
Updated JavaScript keywords and functions
Added .xsd to the list of file extensions recognized as XML files
Changed Ruby syntax highlighting to not highlight method names
.h files now recognized as C syntax highlighting
.hpp files now recognized as C++ syntax highlighting

Bug Fixes

No wait cursor when opening large files
Find, Find / Replace, etc. - If more than 512 results were found, an error was being thrown
PHP Function List - Global if else statements were showing as functions.
OS X Leopard - Errors thrown in rare situations when adding or removing tabs

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