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OutWit Hub Portable Changelog

What's new in OutWit Hub Portable 2.1.3.1

Apr 23, 2012
  • Feature - Significantly improved the HTML export layout, especially when data includes image URLs (display of Hires images, row highlighting, full text display on hover...).
  • Feature - Added a new #checkIf# directive, allowing to set the values of the OK checkboxes in a scraper if a condition matches. (Example: Description:#checkIf#, Format:Detail, Replace:01001 - the OK checkboxes of the five first lines of the scraper will be respectively set to false, true, false, false and true, if the string "" is found in the source code of the page.) You can put as many #checkIf# directives as you want in a scraper.
  • Fix - Minor fixes in update check.
  • Fix - Corrected a bug that prevented the Dig function to work in some cases.
  • Fix - Removed error messages than appeared in the console in certain cases, when quitting the application.
  • Fix - Upgrade/Downgrade uninstall problems were still happening in certain cases. They were fixed.
  • Enhancement - More Hi-Res images should be found in common galleries.
  • Enhancement - Minor fixes were made to the 'Guess' algorithm in cases of very small numbers of rows.

New in OutWit Hub Portable 2.1.2.32 (Mar 29, 2012)

  • Feature - Dragging data from the catch to the Page now works.
  • Fix - Multiple selection for exporting automators was not working on Windows. This was corrected.
  • Enhancement - Works with Firefox 4 to 13.

New in OutWit Hub Portable 2.1.2.14 (Mar 29, 2012)

  • Fix - Corrected reload button sometimes hidden on Windows.
  • Fix - Fixed a regression in "Browse All Pages".
  • Fix - In very rare cases, sites with javascript generated popups could crash the application. This was fixed.
  • Enhancement - Works with Firefox 4 to 11.
  • Enhancement - Very large directories of queries are better handled. Usually 50k items are working smoothly. We have tested up to 500k. At these levels, the application requires very large RAM space.
  • Enhancement - Moving very large numbers of rows to the catch could be extremely long. This was optimized further.
  • Enhancement - A confirm dialog was added to the datasheet Empty buttons.

New in OutWit Hub Portable 2.1.1.26 (Mar 3, 2012)

  • Fix - History/typeahead fixed in the search bar textbox
  • Fix - Corrected a bug that prevented exports in certain cases for the document and news views
  • Fix - Minor fixes and enhancements in the query manager

New in OutWit Hub Portable 2.1.1.20 (Feb 13, 2012)

  • Feature - Added more options to the browse popup menu.
  • Fix - Corrected issue with the "active" and "matrix" checkboxes of the "queries" view.
  • Enhancement - Optimized the loading and of very large directories of queries.
  • Enhancement - Optimized the launch time before a browse or a fast scrape on very large numbers of URLs

New in OutWit Hub Portable 2.1.1.9 (Feb 13, 2012)

  • Enhancement - Kernel update for Firefox 10.
  • Enhancement - Improvements in the upgrade/downgrade system.

New in OutWit Hub Portable 2.1.1.5 (Feb 13, 2012)

  • Fix - Removed time limitation that was added during beta period (sorry for the inconvenience).
  • Fix - Various fixes.

New in OutWit Hub Portable 2.1.1.3 (Jan 28, 2012)

  • Feature - Added a preference to make popup links open within the Hub instead of a new Firefox Window.
  • Feature - Added a preference to prevent an alert to be displayed 10 seconds before the execution of a job.
  • Feature - First implementation of POST queries in the Hub (to automatically fill forms). POST data must be added to the URL like ordinary parameters (after ? and separated by &, but the name of each POST parameter must simply be prefixed with #POST#

New in OutWit Hub Portable 2.1.0.51 (Jan 20, 2012)

  • Enhancement - The Hub is now available on all platforms, both as a standalone application and as a Firefox extension.
  • Enhancement - Number of fixes and enhancements in the scraper engine.
  • Enhancement - The ctrl-S, ctrl-F / cmd-S, cmd-F (save & find) commands are now working on the page even if the browser doesn't have the focus.
  • Enhancement - A count of visited and remaining pages is now displayed in the status bar during automatic exploration.
  • Enhancement - A throbber was added in the address bar while loading a page.
  • Enhancement - A list of available tutorials is displayed at first run. It can then be accessed with the Tutorials item of the Help menu.
  • Fix - The addition of a "i" flag is now working properly in regexps, when clicking on the "ignore case" checkbox of the find bar.
  • Fix - Openning a Help window from a tutorial works again
  • Fix - A bug was corrected in the clean text function which was trimming +=- characters at the end of a string in the extracted data.
  • Fix - The #replace# directive could lead to an infinite loop in some cases. This was corrected. browser doesn't have the focus.
  • Known Issue - There are occasional problems in the renaming of queries. (Workaround for now: edit the cell and hit return.)