TreePad PLUS 7.7.5 - Changelog

What's new in TreePad PLUS 7.7.5:

September 25th, 2011

Images:
· Added: a new 'Format image' dialog, accessible through: 'Menu: Format/Image'.
· When an image (wider than 440 pixels or so) is inserted into TreePad's article, it is often displayed smaller than its original. The 'Format image' dialog gives you precise control over how an image is displayed.
· Using the 'Format image' dialog it is also possible to display an image at exactly 100% of its original size which avoids resizing artefacts.
· In more detail, the 'Format image' dialog allows one to
· view the dimensions of the original image.
· resize the dimensions of the displayed image by changing the width and height in pixels.
· resize the dimensions of the displayed image by changing the width and height as a percentage of the original dimensions.
· While changing the dimensions inside the 'Format image' dialog, the ratio (between width and height) of the original image is preserved by default. However, if you clear the checkbox 'Preserve aspect ratio', you can change width and height independently. This effectively distorts the way the image is displayed.
· Please also note that images (as inserted into the article) are stored unaltered and in their original dimensions inside the database. Therefore displaying an image at 100% of its original size will always give the best results.

Website export:
[b]Improved: the font selection combo boxes inside the Website export dialog have been updated so that they now contain five basic groups of Websafe font families:
· the monospace group: 'Courier new', 'Courier', monospace
· the wide serif group: Georgia, Utopia, Palatino, 'Palatino Linotype', serif
· the narrow serif group: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif
· the wide sans-serif group: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif
· the narrow sans-serif group: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
· Please note that these font combo boxes are effective on plain text articles, the tree pane, the title pane and the navigate panel. You are not limited to the above list of font families since these font selection boxes also allow you to type in a font manually.
· Improved: the number of spaces inside a plain text article is now preserved during Website export. This means e.g. that when
· your TreePad default article font is courier or another fixed-width font (see the options screen)
· your Website-export default article font is monospace, courier or another fixed-width font (see the Website export screen)
· you have aligned your text using spaces or created columns using spaces
· text alignment and text columns are now preserved during Website export.
· Please note that the number of spaces inside a formatted (RTF, non plain-text) article was already preserved during Website export in prior versions.

Tables:
· Added: 'Menu: Table/Change/Table width'. This allows you to change the width of the current table without altering any of the other table properties.
· Moved: the table 'Borders and Shading' dialog has been moved to 'Menu: Table/Change/Borders and shading'.

Export:
· Improved: while exporting the current article to RTF file, text highlighting (character background color) is now compatible with MS Word.

Toolbars:
· Bugfix: the font-color and -background color buttons did not display the background color of the selected text. Fixed in the current release.

Forms:
· Added: you can now also use "Menu: Navigate/Follow hyperlink" and "Ctrl H" to activate hyperlink fields (inside XML forms). These are fields like 'home page', 'email address', 'phone', 'fax'. Double clicking on these fields works as before.

Help:
· Improved: on Windows 7 systems, clicking "Menu: Help/System info" now correctly identifies the operating system as 'Windows 7'.

Language pack:
· Compatibility: this version of TreePad PLUS corresponds to Language pack version 3.3.

What's new in TreePad PLUS 7.7.1:

June 18th, 2011

Export:
· Improved: while exporting the current article to RTF file, text highlighting (character background color) is now compatible with MS Word.

Language packs:
· Added: the 'Install manual' dialog, 'Install language packs' dialog, several new menu items and messages - which were introduced in version 7.7 - have been enabled for translation through language packs.
· Compatibility: these language pack-related improvements correspond with Language pack version 3.0.

Fonts:
· Bugfix: since version 7.7, the font-combobox was not able to alter the font of the selected text inside the article or the font of the current node title. This has been fixed in the current release.

What's new in TreePad PLUS 7.7:

June 1st, 2011

· Fonts
· Improved: the font-combobox in the formatting toolbar now also lists open-type fonts
· Changed: the color selection combos in the options screen no longer display the set of system colors
· Database
· Fixed: error message 'Cannot create image backup file' which could occur under certain conditions when saving .hjt files
· Changed: the maximum recommended text size for a database has been raised to 35 Mb. When you open a database of which the text part exceeds 35 Mb a warning message will be displayed. Note: the maximum recommended amount of images still is 1 Gb for .tpd databases and 100 Mb for .hjt/.tpz databases
· Backup
· Changed: safety copy files now have the same file extension as regular TreePad files: the string _copyxxx is inserted before the file extension, where xxx is the number of the copy. The advantage is that you can now open safety copy files directly inside TreePad (without renaming the files first)
· Example: instead of test1.hjt.bak, test1.hjt.bak002, the safety copy files are now called test1_copy001.hjt, test1_copy002.hjt, etc
· The safety copy feature can be found inside the settings screen, category: backup
· Keyboard shortcuts
· Fixed: the "Ctrl Alt L" shorcut key (for showing the color dialog) will now be properly disabled when disabling "Ctrl Alt" shortcuts in the options screen
· Hyperlinks
· Added: new category in options screen: Hyperlinks/Appearance
· Added: a new option: hyperlink color. This allows you to change the color of hyperlinks inside the article
· Format
· Improved: Menu: Format/Convert (to uppercase, to lowercase, to title case, to sentence case, invert case) now also functions correctly with other Windows code pages (such as: Cyrillic, Baltic, Central/Eastern European, Greek, Turkish)
· Changed: "Menu: Format/Convert to sentence case" (for the article), now also sees 'line endings' as end markers for sentences
· Improved: you can now enter multiple bullet-numbered lists into the article each with independent numbering
· Manuals
· New: a short help document called 'Quick Start Guide' (it replaces the 'Basic manual')
· You can access the 'Quick Start Guide' in three ways
· 1) from inside TreePad using "Menu: Help/Quick Start Guide"
· 2) using the program group for TreePad PLUS (in the Windows start menu)
· 3) by double clicking on the file QuickStartGuide.html inside the program directory
· Manual: compatibility and portability
· Improved: TreePad PLUS no longer needs the manual to reside inside the program directory (when it finds the manual there it will still use it though). This change is necessary because Windows 7 and Vista by default do not allow users to copy files manually into 'program files' and its subdirectories
· Added: a new 'Install manual' dialog. When you try to open the manual from inside TreePad PLUS and it cannot find the manual, this dialog will be activated. It assists you in downloading the manual and copying it to its new location (by default this is in 'Application data')
· Moved: Menu: Help/Manual has been moved to Menu: Help/Manual/Open
· Moved: Menu: Help/Online manual has been moved to Menu: Help/Manual/Open online manual
· Portability feature maintained: if you are able to copy the manual into the program directory, then TreePad PLUS will use it. The fact that TreePad PLUS still accesses the manual when it is found inside its program directory is especially useful for portability purposes. For instance, you can copy both the program and the manual into a directory on your USB stick
· Added: Menu: Help/Manual/Update. This menu item is only available when the manual is installed outside the program directory. When you click on this menu item, a dialog will appear which is very similar to the 'Install manual' dialog described above. The 'Update manual' dialog assists you in downloading and installing a new version of the manual
· Visibility of Menu: Help/Manual/Update. If the manual resides inside the TreePad PLUS program directory, then this menu item is not visible: TreePad expects you to manually copy the new version of the manual into its program directory
· Search
· Moved: the popup article menu items 'Search article', 'Search tree', 'Search article next' have been moved to "Popup menu article: search"
· Bugfix: case insensitive Tree search now also functions correctly for other code pages (such as: Cyrillic, Baltic, Central/Eastern European, Greek, Turkish)
· Options
· Improved: the resolution of the default tab size is now two decimals instead of one. See the options screen, category "Article/tabs, indents"
· Improved: the case of the database file name is now preserved when "Automatically load the last opened file at startup" is enabled
· Dialogs
· Improved: the directory selection dialogs used by the following functions
· Insert Catalog to files
· Import documents into tree (recursively)
· Import IE bookmarks into tree
· Export Subtree to multiple files
· Export selected icons
· Export to Website
· have been updated to more modern versions
· Language packs: compatibility and portability
· Improved: a TreePad language pack can now reside inside the windows application data directory or the TreePad PLUS program directory. This change is necessary because Windows 7 and Vista by default do not allow users to copy files manually into 'program files' and its subdirectories
· Added: a new 'Install or update language pack' dialog which is accessible through 'Menu: View/Language/Install language pack'. This dialog assists you in downloading the language pack and copying it to its new location (the Windows 'Application data' directory)
· Portability feature maintained: if you are able to copy a language pack into the program directory, then TreePad PLUS will use it. The fact that TreePad PLUS still accesses language packs inside its program directory is especially useful for portability purposes. For instance, you can copy both the program and language packs into a directory on your USB stick
· Website export
· Bugfix: relative file hyperlinks are now exported correctly to Website

What's new in TreePad PLUS 7.5.3:

February 15th, 2009

Multi-monitor support:
· Added: a button to the 'View' toolbar which enables one to send TreePad to a different monitor. Up to eight monitors are supported. This feature only works when you have two or more monitors connected to your computer, and Windows needs to have the option 'Extend my Windows destkop onto this monitor' enabled for the additional monitors in the control panel.

Install/uninstall:
· Added: automatic uninstaller icon to the TreePad program group (only visible after using install.exe)
· Added: an entry inside the Windows control panel (category 'add remove programs') which can activate the automatic TreePad uninstaller. Please note that this control panel entry is only visible after previously having used install.exe to install TreePad PLUS.

Skins:
· Changed: skin 'Purple' has been renamed to 'Purple 1'.
· Added: a new skin called 'Purple 2'.
· Improved: the looks of the skins 'Purple 1', 'Blue Sky', 'Blue metallic' and 'Green'.

Keyboard shortcuts:
· Added: Ctrl+Alt+L shows the font color dialog.
· Added: Ctrl+F7, when the article has focus, the article statistics screen is shown.

Compatibility:
· Improved: both the installer and the program itself should now be compatible with all available DEP settings in Windows Vista and Windows XP (DEP = Data Execution Prevention and can be found in the Windows control panel).

License:
· Added: the first time you start TreePad PLUS it asks you to read and officially accept the EULA or 'end user license'.

Bugfixes:
· Fixed: access violation when TreePad closes on Windows shutdown.
· Several bugfixes related to the 'Insert hyperlink' screen.
· Various other smaller bugfixes and improvements.

Obsolete features:
· Removed: advanced mode, basic mode, viewer mode. TreePad PLUS now exclusively runs in advanced mode.

What's new in TreePad PLUS 7.4:

November 23rd, 2007

· Format Menu
· Added: Menu: Format/Convert/Invert case
· Website export
· Added: new options for the title frame. On can set the title to: (1) the caption of the most fundamental node (in the exported Website), (2) the title in the metatags section, (3) a custom text See: the category 'title' in the Website export screen.
· Added: an option to set the meta-title to (1) the title of the first exported node (root node of exported Website) or (2) a custom text.
· Bugfix: node hyperlinks inserted into .hjt files using older Treepad edition are now exported correctly to website as well.
· Bugfix: file hyperlinks are now exported including forward slashes (instead of backslashes).
· Settings
· Bugfix: the article background color was not always stored correctly
Manual:
The manual is no longer included in the download package, it can be downloaded from:
· http://www.treepad.com/docs/tpp/
· To install the manual, just download the file tpp_manual.exe and copy it into the program's directory. After this it can be opened (from inside TreePad) by clicking Menu: Help/Manual. The manual runs by itself, it has its own built-in viewer. You can also start it by double clicking on the file tpp_manual.exe.
· Added: Menu: Help/Online manual. This opens the online edition of the manual, which resides on www.treepad.com/docs/tpp/manual inside your default Webbrowser.
· Portability and Registration
· Added: one can now load/save registration number to/from a text file (just right-click on the textarea in the registration screen).
· Added: when running the program from a USB drive on a non-registered computer, the program still shows the registration screen, but now the registration screen is pre-loaded with your registration number (from the text file "tpreg.txt" which is created after entering your registration number once).
· In other words, when running the program from USB drive on an unregistered computer you will no longer have to (1) open a file containing the registration number in a separate program, (2) select it, and (3) copy/paste it into the registration screen. All that is now done automatically.
· Improved: new registration reminder screen.
· Language packs
· Improved: various screens, texts and buttons have been widened to accomodate for the - often - larger size of translated words and phrases.

What's new in TreePad PLUS 7.3.5:

October 31st, 2006

· Icons: Added: context menu for icons pane
· Bookmarks pane: Added: Menu: Bookmarks/Activate bookmark
· Bookmarks pane: Added: context menu for bookmarks pane
· Tree: Added: One can now copy the text-formatting of a tree node. (Menu: Tree/Copy/Formatting node or Tree context menu: Copy/Node formatting)
· Tree: Added: To apply the text-formatting (just copied) to another node, click Menu: Tree/Paste/Formatting/Into node (or Tree context menu: Paste/Formatting/Into node)
· Tree: Added: a new function to copy the node path to the Windows clipboard. Menu: Tree/Copy/Node path (or Tree context menu: Copy/Node path)
· Icons: Bug fix: error message when adding icon to icon library: 'Internal error: TreePad Library 01"
· Settings: Bug fix: the article background color was not always stored correctly
· Export: Improved: subtree-export to single RTF file now includes fields
· Export: Improved: article export to RTF file now includes fields
· Compatibility: Improved: TreePad PLUS is now compatible with Windows Vista