January 3rd, 2012Bug fixes:
· Clipboard: When the Find First/Next/Previous commands find a search match, AceText did not scroll the contents of the Clipboard tab to put the search match in view
· Closing AceText with the X button did not remove AceText's taskbar button if a modal dialog box had been shown (3.0.0 only)
· Forum: Links to AceText forum messages were not highlighted as such and were not handled by AceText when such a URL was invoked
· Help: Disabled context-sensitive help in the 64-bit version of AceText if Internet Explorer 9 is installed. IE 9 causes all 64-bit applications that use a .chm file for context-sensitive help to crash when a link in the help file is clicked
January 3rd, 2012New features:
· ClipHistory: Archive cliphistory into a new .atc file, starting with a blank ClipHistory, optionally opening the archived collection
· Collection|Lock Collection: Lock a password-protected collection without closing it
· Editor: Ctrl+Left Shift and Ctrl+Right Shift toggle the direction of the text to left-to-right or right-to-left when a keyboard for a right-to-left language is installed (though not necessarily active)
· Format|Consolidate Blank Lines: multiple blank lines are replaced by a single blank line
· Format|Delete Blank Lines
· Forum that can be accessed from within AceText via the Help menu
· Options|Right-to-Left: Toggle between left-to-right and right-to-left writing
· Preferences, Appearance: Color of the clip tree can now be configured
· Preferences, Appearance: Instead of selecting a font for text and binary clips, you can now select a complete text layout which includes font, reading order, cursor movement, cursor appearance, and character spacing
· Preferences, Hotkeys: Option for the hotkey to capture text on the clipboard to send a copy command to the active application first, so text can be captured in one go with Windows+C instead of Ctrl+C Windows+C
· Preferences, Hotkeys: Option to switch to ClipHistory when activating AcePaste
· Should switch back to the previously active collection when AcePaste is done
· Preferences, Operation: Option for ClipHistory to capture new clips at the bottom instead of at the top
· Preferences, Operation: Option to automatically make all collections read-only when closing AceText (but keeping it active in the background)
· Preferences, Operation: Option to automatically make all collections read-only when hiding the AceText Editor (i.e. using the Tower only)
· Preferences, Operation: Option to automatically re-lock password-protected collections after the collection hasn't been accessed for a certain number of minutes
· Preferences, Operation: Option to automatically try to get read-write access when activating a read-only collection
· Preferences, Operation: Option to open the file in its default application when double-clicking a clip that consists of nothing but a file name
· Preferences, Tabs: Configure the tabs like in EditPad, with options to put the tabs at the top or bottom, to show an X button, for Ctrl+Tab order, and the tab colors
· URLs: Open URL in Browser command in the AceText Tower context menu for opening the URL associated with a "web snippet" clip
Improvements:
· Auto save now paces itself to try and do most saving while AceText is idle in the background so AceText doesn't become unresponsive too often when working with multiple large collections
· ClipHistory: When a file or list of files is copied to the clipboard in Windows Explorer, add the list of files as a clip to the ClipHistory
· ClipHistory: When HTML is copied to the clipboard by a web browser and the text is captured into a clip in AceText's ClipHistory, extract the page title from the HTML on the clipboard and use it as the clip's label
· Escape key should focus the previously active application when not using AcePaste or AceType
· Flash the AceText icon next to the system clock whenever AceText copies something to the clipboard
· Installer: Create portable installation without admin rights
· Search: Highlighting search matches no longer disables live spelling
· Search: When searching through all clips, folder labels are now searched through as well so folders can be found
· Shut Down AceText item is now at the bottom of the right-click menu of AceText's icon next to the system clock for consistency with other Windows applications
· Tabs of modified collections are now shown in red when automatic save is disabled; locked collections are shown in yellow
· Unicode: Full Unicode application
· Vista & 7: AceText now scales itself instead of letting Windows handle the scaling when the font size in Windows has been increased by more than 125% (i.e. the display resolution is more than 120 DPI) resulting in a much crisper appearance of AceText
January 3rd, 2012Bug fixes:
· Printouts were sometimes missing lines across page boundaries depending on whether you chose to print headers and/or footers
· Right-clicking on collection tabs did not show the context menu specific to the tab but instead showed AceText's main context menu (2.2.3 only)
· Searching backwards did not always work correctly
July 15th, 2011· Occasionally keyboard keys would be virtually stuck after AceText sent a key combination to another application; e.g. after sending Ctrl+V to make another application paste, keys you pressed after that would occasionally be interpreted as if you were holding down Ctrl. This problem only occurred in version 2.2.2.
· Switching from AceText to another application while downloading spell check dictionaries caused a harmless access violation error.
June 17th, 2010Improvements:
· AceText now waits for all modifier keys to be released before sending keystrokes to another application. This avoids problems like Ctrl+Enter being pressed to paste a clip and Ctrl being released while AceText is sending the Ctrl+V key to the target application, resulting in a V typed in the target application rather than a paste command being executed.
· When an application rapidly and repeatedly copies and pastes text (e.g. when running a macro in a text editor that copies and pastes thousands of times) AceText no longer attempts to capture all that text into the ClipHistory. Because the Windows clipboard does not allow two applications to access it at the same time, the other application's copy/paste actions may fail if AceText attempts to access the clipboard during its copy/paste sequence.
Bug fixes:
· ClipHistory: Auto Append would append multiple copies of text copied by applications that violate Microsoft's rules for the Windows clipboard by opening and closing the clipboard multiple times for a single copy operation (including Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft's own Excel).
· If AceText remembered that a collection tab was previously active and the AceText Tower was not visible, then the collection would appear with a blank clip tree until you switched to another tab in AceText. This bug only occurred in version 2.2.0. Older versions did not remember the active tab.
June 1st, 2010New features:
· Preferences, Applications: Default clip collection to be used when activating AceText from a particular application.
· Preferences, Windows: Allow AceText's behavior to be configured per window, with the ability to use regular expressions to identify windows. This allows different configurations for different parts or states of applications. It also allows 64-bit applications and applications running as administrator to be configured. Window configurations take precedence over application configurations.
Improvements:
· AceText now remembers which tab was active when you shut down and restart AceText
· Empty clips can now be copied and pasted.
· Windows Vista & 7: Use AddClipboardFormatListener and WM_CLIPBOARDUPDATE for increased reliability of the ClipHistory.
Bug fixes:
· Making a modified collection read-only caused it to be reloaded the next time you switched to it even if it hadn't been modified on disk.
· The parameter history was duplicated whenever a read-only collection was reloaded.
· Using AcePaste to paste a before and after clip replaced the selected text instead of surrounding the selected text if the target application was 64-bit or running as administrator.
April 16th, 2010Improvements:
· Double-clicking a URL to open it in a browser now cancels AcePaste, AceType, and AceEdit just like closing AceText's window or pressing Escape does.
· Preferences, Applications - The process name labels now indicate that AceText cannot access a process name because it is running as administrator (and AceText is not) or it is a 64-bit process (which AceText is not) instead of going blank.
· Search - Ctrl+F focuses the search box, or starts the search if it already has focus.
· Spell check - Improved the default position of the spell check dialog when AceText is on the right hand monitor on a dual monitor system.
· Windows Vista & 7 - Vista-style open and save dialog boxes.
Bug fixes:
· Clip, New - Pressing F4 while the AceText Editor is hidden now makes the editor visible instead of showing an error.
· Collection, Open - AceText no longer keeps a lock on files that it fails to load (e.g. because the file is not a valid AceText collection file).
· Deleting a clip should select the next clip instead of the first clip.
· Moving multiple clips with Shift+Ctrl+Up/Down sometimes caused a harmless access violation.
· Renaming a clip collection now properly renames the file instead of creating a copy under the new name.
· Spell check - Switching to another application while AceText was showing its spell check dialog and then back to AceText caused the dialog to end up behind AceText's main window.
April 16th, 2010Improvements:
· Search - Pressing Enter when the search box has keyboard focus finds the next search match.
· Word wrap - Allow text to be wrapped after any ideograph, even if there is no whitespace.
Bug fixes:
· AceText's icon next to the system clock now reappears automatically when Windows Explorer (explorer.exe) crashes or is forcibly terminated and then restarted.
· ClipHistory - AceText lost its ClipHistory if it was password-protected, and AceText was shut down without unlocking the ClipHistory.
· ClipHistory - AceText sometimes caused applications that violate Microsoft's rules for the Windows clipboard by opening and closing the clipboard multiple times for a single copy operation (including Adobe Reader and Microsoft's own Excel) to show error messages about being unable to open or clear the clipboard.
· Clip|Move Up - In an unsorted collection, moving a clip or folder upward when it is the first child in a folder did not make the clip a sibling of its parent folder as it should but placed it as the last child into the sibling folder of the parent folder.
· Collection|Save triggered an Invalid Class Typecast error when the Clipboard or Recycle Bin tab was active.
· Double-clicking file - URLs did not always open the file.
· Search - Incremental search using the search box on the AceText Tower either focused the AceText Editor after each keystroke, or caused an error if the AceText Editor wasn't visible.
March 27th, 2009· Improved drag-and-drop;
· improved compatibility with applications that don't use the clipboard correctly
April 19th, 2007· Improved Windows Vista compatibility
January 10th, 2007· AceText is now fully compatible with Windows Vista
July 24th, 2006· Minor fixes and enhancements.
June 21st, 2006· Minor fixes and enhancements
· additional spell check languages
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