What's new in Appy Text 1.5.12.0
Sep 11, 2019
- Missing app images in About screen should show again (blame the Microsoft Store for this constantly re-occurring issue!), including a new link to ruff for Windows 10.
New in Appy Text 1.5.9.0 (Sep 10, 2019)
- App icons in About screen now also return, including a new link to ruff.
New in Appy Text 1.5.8.0 (Sep 10, 2019)
- App icon finally returns! Sorry for the inconvenience its disappearance over the last few weeks may have caused.
New in Appy Text 1.5.7.0 (Sep 9, 2019)
- Apologies for the app icon remaining missing on the latest update; I'm currently in contact with Microsoft Support to diagnose what the problem is as I believe it's a Store-side (i.e. Microsoft) issue (it's unlikely to be any change from my end, especially considering I've not changed anything in this area!). It may be up to a few days (hopefully not any longer, and hopefully much earlier) before this will be resolved. I appreciate your patience on the matter!
New in Appy Text 1.5.2.0 (Aug 19, 2019)
- A number of safety checks/measures have been added to eliminate the rare possibility of files having their content erased on app launch.
New in Appy Text 1.5.1 (Mar 12, 2018)
- Added keyboard shortcut for em dash (—): Ctrl + -.
- Pressing middle mouse button when cursor over tab will now close the file.
New in Appy Text 1.5 (Jan 25, 2018)
- Back after a break! Updates moving forward will target the Fall Creators Update:
- Bahnschrift added as one of the default fonts to pick from.
- Splash screen will be skipped if possible for a faster start-up.
New in Appy Text 1.4.2 (Sep 26, 2017)
- Changed Ctrl + Shift ← and Ctrl + Shift + → to select previous/next word. This has meant I've needed to move a few other shortcuts around. To navigate between sentences you must now use use Ctrl + ↑ and Ctrl + ↓, and to toggle full-screen edit mode Ctrl + Caps. Sorry for any inconvenience this has or will cause you - I don't expect any of the existing shortcuts to need to be changed again.
New in Appy Text 1.4.1 (Sep 20, 2017)
- More powerful Markdown HTML processor, Markdig.
- Printing Markdown files should now re-direct you to your default browser from where you can view the Markdown's processed HTML and proceed to print using the browser. I would have much preferred not needing to take the user out of the app in order to enable this, but unfortanately current UWP APIs make this difficult and so I consider what I've gone with the best workaround solution for the time being.
- Shift + Home should once again select text from the beginning of the line up to caret's position (as opposed moving caret to the start of text). This and many more keyboard shortcuts are supported by the app but not listed on the Help screen's shortcuts list; I'll look at adding the ones I consider worth mentioning, such as Shift + Home, in a future update.
- Added new keyboard shortcuts:
- End : end of line
- Home : start of line
- To go to start and end of text, you must now use Ctrl + Home / End.
New in Appy Text 1.4 (Sep 11, 2017)
- Improvements made to previous word (Ctrl + ←) and next word (Ctrl + →) keyboard shortcuts so it moves correctly between words, ignoring line breaks and punctuation marks.
- List of keyboard shortcuts on the Help screen now organised into appropriate sections.
- Added new keyboard shortcuts:
- Ctrl + Shift + ↑ : previous paragraph
- Ctrl + Shift + ↓ : next paragraph
- Ctrl + Shift + ← : previous sentence
- Ctrl + Shift + → : next sentence
- End : goes to end of text
- Home : goes to start of text
New in Appy Text 1.3.7 (Sep 3, 2017)
- Fixed display issue when you turn the Markdown live preview on and back off; text should no longer be cut in half when you do.
- When you turn off Markdown live preview, font should change back from Courier New to whatever you had set as your font (assuming it wasn't set to Mono that is).
- Fixed Filebar appearing incorrectly when you clicked on the + button when you have no files open.
- Chinese, Dutch and Russian translators now credited in all languages.
New in Appy Text 1.3.6 (Aug 29, 2017)
- Added optimisations to prevent performing a Find being slow and/or resulting in a temporary hang.
New in Appy Text 1.3.5 (Aug 9, 2017)
- Fixed Filebar incorrectly appearing when you've no files open and click on the Hamburger menu.
- Slight tweak with button layout on PC when you launch the app for very first time: the option to try out the free Premium trial later is now contained inside a drop down, rather than presented as a button visible by default.
New in Appy Text 1.3.4 (Aug 9, 2017)
- Fixed crash when pasting images into the text area.
- Text in full-screen/focus mode at the footer of your window should now have a little more breathing space to ensure the bottom of any character doesn't get cut off.
- Increased line spacing in read mode to be similar to what's used in the editable text area.
- Fixed issue switching between Focus and Read modes when using keyboard shortcut that resulted in needing to use the shortcut twice to go back into Focus mode.
- When you've no files open, you'll now have quick links to create new files or open a file (includes links to most recent files open).
- Save (as) menu option no longer appears in the Hamburger when no files are open.
New in Appy Text 1.3.3 (Aug 7, 2017)
- Fixed issue on mobile preventing the app to default in full-screen or Focus mode when set to launch in either.
- Fixed issue with inability to see characters in a textbox when the number of characters extends past the width of the textbox, as was the case with textbox input in the file rename dialog and find/replace.
- Can no longer rename a file to a blank name.
- Fixed issue with the rename dialog for a split second showing an error message when you'd rename a file successfully.
- Fixed button cut-off on the welcome screen for phone users when first launching the app, which made it not obvious how to start a Premium trial.
- Appearance tweaks to make going Premium more discoverable.
New in Appy Text 1.3 (Jul 19, 2017)
- Added Chinese (Simplified) and Chinese (Traditional).
- Can now open any file type (note: as before, Markdown files however can only be opened as a Premium user).
- Added new setting for Premium users to turn tabs on/off.
- Added new setting to determine what mode to start the app in: default, full-screen or focus (Premium only).
- Added new setting for Premium users to determine what should happen when you open the app: pick up where you left off or create a new text/markdown file.
- Added new setting to determine whether to automatically delete untitled files that were not saved before you closed the app.
- Added new spellchecker setting. On by default, but can now be turned off.
- Can now tab key inside a file (previously it would change the focused UI element).
New in Appy Text 1.2.3 (Jun 8, 2017)
- Fixed issue with an empty preview showing when you switch between two Markdown files.
New in Appy Text 1.2.1 (Jun 6, 2017)
- Added new Markdown Live Preview setting to enable a basic side-by-side preview of your Markdown file beside the file's textarea (off by default).
- Added new setting to have the Filebar inside the Hamburger menu if you want to mininise the amount of UI in the content area.
- If you exit the app when you've a file with unsaved changes, then edit the file in another app before re-opening it in Appy Text, the app will realise this and load the most up-to-date version of the file (and not the unsaved version from the app's last session).
- Titlebar UI tweaks (for Brad Sams).
- Fixed issue resulting in Recent files sometimes not showing up in list.
- If you re-arrange tabs, their new positions should now be remembered when you start a new session of the app.
- Hamburger menu tweaks.
- Should seem faster.
- Many other little things.
New in Appy Text 1.1.3 (May 15, 2017)
- Russian translation improvements.
- Hopefully all languages are working again on Mobile. Whatever caused it wasn't by me, but more likely occurred during the submission process Store side.
New in Appy Text 1.1.2 (May 15, 2017)
- Added new "Status Bar" setting (off by default); shows reading time + word count when on.
- Settings screen refreshed for easier discovery of options.
- New Help screen added.
New in Appy Text 1.1.1 (May 10, 2017)
- Added Dutch and Russian.
- Can now rearrange tabs using drag-and-drop.
- Read Mode corrected so text is not horizontally aligned centrally (but to the left).
- Fixed inability to reduce text size via Filebar after you've changed the theme.
- Hamburger menu tweaks.
New in Appy Text 1.1 (May 5, 2017)
- Added Focus Mode for Premium users only (accessible via the Filebar's File flyout or the Ctrl + Shift + ↑ keyboard shortcut).
- Added new setting to set location of Filebar: top or bottom (when in non-compact mode).
- State saving of files between sessions should now work on Mobile too.
- Changing to French should work again now.
- Added character count to the Filebar's Edit flyout.
- Fixed occasionally slight inaccuracy with word count.
- Added tooltips to Filebar icons.
- Fixed issues with Read Mode concerning excess padding and non-optimal line height.
- Fixed bug that would auto-save a file (when auto-saving is on) even if the file has had no changes made to it; this was considered a problem because it misleadingly changes the last modified date for a file.
- Fixed issue with light and dark themes resulting in the background colour of the textarea getting highlighted when focus wasn't on them and mouse pointer was over it.
- Fixed inactive titlebar button colours when system is using dark theme.
- Based on feedback, 'Save' is now duplicated in the Hamburger - doubles up as 'Save As' when file is unsaved.
- Titlebar appearance tweaks.
- Stability improvements based on crash reports received.
- Layout tweaks.
New in Appy Text 1.0.12 (Apr 29, 2017)
- Added Polish as new language.
- Smallest text size that you change to is now 8 pt (was 12 pt previously).
- To be consistent with other apps, the medium (and larger) live tiles now show the app's name.
New in Appy Text 1.0.10 (Apr 24, 2017)
- Fixed auto-saving bug when opening a file it would sometimes be saved empty.
- Fixed auto-saving bug where the last changes to a file would not be saved when you close the file.
- Fixed auto-saving bug where an untitled file would not show an asterisk after its filename to indicate its unsaved status.
- Based on user feedback, increased the maximum text size you can set to 72 pt.
New in Appy Text 1.0.9 (Apr 20, 2017)
- Fixed a few German/French language bugs.
New in Appy Text 1.0.8 (Apr 20, 2017)
- Fixed issue on certain languages when you press the alt key + a character key (to get a 'special' character) incorrectly resulting in an app keyboard shortcut being invoked simultaneously.
New in Appy Text 1.0.7 (Apr 19, 2017)
- Added safety check to greatly reduce, if not entirely fix, the (very) rare occurrence of a file opening with no text showing.
New in Appy Text 1.0.6 (Apr 19, 2017)
- Fixed issue with certain files loading with incorrect encoding the first time they're opened (they would open fine the second time).
- Files with UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE encoding should now save with the same encoding (rather than in UTF-8).