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Replace Studio Professional Changelog

What's new in Replace Studio Professional 9.9

Mar 29, 2023
  • Improvements to regular expression mode functions.
  • Improvements to 'Complex File Mask' handling.
  • Improvements to Search Results display involving UTF-8 files.
  • Improvements to special configuration file switch - Text as UTF8=1 (See F1 Help -> Configuration File).

New in Replace Studio Professional 9.8 (Jun 22, 2021)

  • Improvements to the internal context viewer when the program is set to 'Dark Theme'.

New in Replace Studio Professional 9.7 (Jun 22, 2021)

  • View Context and Progress meter now support 'Dark Mode' theme.

New in Replace Studio Professional 9.6 (Jun 22, 2021)

  • Improvements to ^ and ^^ reg expression search.
  • Replace Studio Business Edition only: Simplified the subdirectory naming used in the 'backup path' folder when a script uses multiple file masks and paths. See the program F1 help, Index -> Backup Path for more information.
  • Improvements to handling and search hit display when searching UTF-16 BE files.

New in Replace Studio Professional 9.5 (Jun 22, 2021)

  • Behind-the-scene improvements to UTF-8 file search.

New in Replace Studio Professional 9.4 (Nov 26, 2019)

  • Dark Theme Mode (switchable in Options -> Display)

New in Replace Studio Professional 9.3 (Nov 26, 2019)

  • Application Font (GUI Font Face & Size) are now adjustable in Options -> Display
  • 'Quiet Mode' switch now applies to multi-threaded search.

New in Replace Studio Professional 9.2 (Nov 26, 2019)

  • Improvements to File Open functions for situations where a file is re-named outside of the program.
  • Improved 'Quiet mode' function in threaded searches.

New in Replace Studio Professional 9.1 (Jun 20, 2019)

  • Improved 'View as HTML' and 'Save Results' functions.
  • Improvements to *[] regular expression operator.
  • Improvements to 'Case Sensitive' mode for umlaut type characters.

New in Replace Studio Professional 9.0 (Apr 13, 2018)

  • Multi-thread support for working with the search results while the search is progressing.
  • Improved progress dialog performance during replaces and file discovery.
  • Errors accessing files during processing no longer pause the operation when no prompts are on or when replace remaining is used.

New in Replace Studio Professional 8.3 (Mar 29, 2018)

  • Added notice in Options if a backup path is not specified when a setting is needed for other functions (ie., Write files to backup path).
  • Improvements to functions involving replacements in zip archives.
  • Code signed program executables and installers.

New in Replace Studio Professional 8.1 (Mar 29, 2018)

  • Improved drag n drop handling for complex file masks

New in Replace Studio Professional 8.0 (Jun 27, 2016)

  • Added pdf file search functionality to search pdf files in the search path and launch the default pdf viewer on search hits. This is search-only function. Replacements are not possible.
  • Added a 'character fill' function which replaces the search string with a specified number of fixed characters.
  • Search/replace strings consisting solely of blank spaces now handled correctly.
  • Improved handling for UTF-8 files.
  • Improvements to progress meter, including larger size and percentage indication.
  • Added 'Stop' icon to cancel search/replace if progress meter is disabled. ESC still works as it always did.
  • Added additional prompt for Context Viewer if changes are made to file.
  • Expand All/Collapse All added to Context Menu in Search Results list
  • Additional Copy choices added to Copy function in Context Menu in Search Results list, including File Name, Path, File Path
  • Complex File Masks (Include/Exclude Files & Subdirectories) can now be applied to folder structures inside of archives when Search Archives' is enabled.
  • Date/Time and Size Filters now work on files inside of archives when 'Search Archives' is enabled.
  • Improvements made to Include/Exclude Files & Directories dialog.
  • Implemented faster logic for exclude masks. When * or *.* or also process subdirectories' is used a part of an exclude mask the folder(s) is skipped entirely from the initial scan for possible files.
  • When a search hit is in a .docx, .xlsx, or .pptx file the Explore From Here' now launches Explorer on the path where the file resides.
  • Summary statistics when 'Display Number of Hits in File' is enabled was improved.
  • Handling for .xml files improved.
  • Handling for the Esc and Enter keys was improved.
  • F5 key launches 'Default Viewer' per Options -> General.
  • Added interface support for Chinese (Simplied PRC).
  • Added configuration file switch to disable grid line display in Search Results List.
  • Improvements made to Prepend/Append functions, including new confirmation prompting.
  • Improvements to Unicode BE regular expression mode handling.
  • Loading a Favorite that does not contain a file mask or path now retains the existing path/mask.
  • Mouse tooltip now displays the Favorite name in any of the primary GUI fields when a Favorite is loaded.
  • Added option for special handling for UTF-8 files without BOM.
  • See 'Configuration File' in F1 Help for more information.
  • Added one-use choices in Flags menu to 'Process Clipboard'
  • or 'Process Files'. Process Files is default. Process Clipboard is available for use in lieu of the keyboard shortcuts for
  • clipboard processing (Shift+Ctrl+Search icon or Shift+Ctrl+Replace icon).
  • A bookmark is automatically set in the internal Context Viewer based on the highlighted hit when the Context Viewer is opened.
  • Indicators are also shown for other hits in the file.
  • Multiple Lines' search & replace dialogs now use the same font face and sizxe settings as the internal Context Viewer. To change that setting use 'Options' button in the Context Viewer.
  • Switch added to adjust the font face and size for the main window. See F1 help -> Index -> Configuration File for more information.
  • Ctrl+F and F3 now activate a 'Find' dialog in the internal context viewer.
  • Selected Hit' button added to Context Viewer to bring focus back to the hit selected when the context viewer was opened.
  • Filter' indicator in status bar to show when date/size filters are in use.
  • Ctrl + About menu (under Help Menu) displays the settings file.
  • The program now maintains both file attributes and Vista/Win 7 special security permissions for files.
  • File Operations dialog now shows all files if none selected.
  • xlsx;*.docx;*.pptx added to list of default Archive extensions to make it easier to search/replace newer MS Office files.
  • A "Fix Line Endings" switch was added to the .cfg file which can be used to prevent the program from issuing prompts to modify files when mixed line boundaries are detected in file(s).
  • Find function added in View Context right click menu.
  • Change to 'Open with Associated Viewer' function for better operability with file types associated with Visual Studio.
  • Improvements in handling for multiple monitors.
  • Improvements to Ignore Whitepace & HTML Mode.
  • Added Windows Explorer shell extension to all search/replace on one or more files by right clicking on files (or single folder) in Windows Explorer. Select 'Replace Studio Pro...' in Explorer right
  • click context menu.
  • Drag n Drop files from Explorer into the program adds that file to File Mask/Path.
  • Search Hits centered in internal context viewer.
  • Support for FSHED - Funduc Software Hex Editor - as context viewer for hits in 'binary' files.
  • Improvements in handling for hit in 'binary' files.
  • Added 'Zip Mask' switch for further control of files treated as archives'. See F1 Documentation - Configuration File.
  • View Context hit bookmark.
  • Added line numbers to internal Context Viewer.
  • Options dialog added to Context Viewer to set the font face & size and tab-to-space expansion setting.
  • No ESC' switch added to the configuration file setting to disable the default behavior of ESC causing a program close. This must be set by hand. See F1 help.
  • ESC key closes the application.
  • Added context viewer prompt to (optionally) repair files with mixed line boundaries upon opening with context viewer.
  • User configurable font face & size settings added.
  • Faster processing of internal context viewer for files over 8 MB.
  • Added user-configurable settings for the display in main window fields when a Favorite is being used.
  • Various accelerator key functions added.
  • Unicode BigEndian support added.
  • xml script file format added.
  • Support for search/replace in archives added.