What's new in The Form Letter Machine 1.15.01

Jan 3, 2015
  • [Feature] You can now write specific instructions/comments for a form while editing it, and it will be shown at the top when filling out the form.

New in The Form Letter Machine 1.14.01 (Jul 15, 2014)

  • Added icons to menus.
  • Changed default background color of text window.
  • Added menu item to explore userdata directory.
  • Added display of userdata directory in statusbar.
  • Added print menu item to print text directly from program.
  • Fixed bug where variables were not discovered on first startup.

New in The Form Letter Machine 1.13.01 (Jul 15, 2014)

  • Portable zip now uses ConfigDir_Default.ini which is overridden by the presence of a ConfigDir.ini file, so users unpacking the contents won't overwrite any custom ConfigDir.ini they may have.
  • Now using a dual package (installer and portable zip), with portable zip preconfigured for portable use; installer and executable are now signed.
  • Option to check for updates at startup.

New in The Form Letter Machine 1.12.01 (Jul 15, 2014)

  • Options form now fixes up userdata directory if invalid.
  • Better browse for custom userdata directory.
  • Incorporated new built-in (optional) update checking.

New in The Form Letter Machine 1.11.01 (Jul 15, 2014)

  • Leading and trailing spaces in variable values are no longer trimmed
  • When an output file is specified on commandline and user quits without saving, the output file is deleted (used to write a blank file)

New in The Form Letter Machine 1.10.01 (Jul 15, 2014)

  • Added ability to export trees in XML form (great for backing up, transferring to another tool, and most importantly, using with the new online tfdocs.com Tree Form Machine Online).

New in The Form Letter Machine 1.09.01 (Jul 15, 2014)

  • Added Text Manipulation Functions.

New in The Form Letter Machine 1.07.01 (Jul 15, 2014)

  • [VISTA FIX] - now defaults to configuration settings in user documents subdirectory.
  • [VISTA FIX] - program no longer volunteers to run after installation, in order to prevent it from running as admin.
  • Now supports the configdir.ini setting to override default configuration directory location.
  • You can now set a custom directory for your userdata\trees and userdata\vars directories.
  • Added warning text when saving trees and vars to make sure user knows they need to be saved in userdata directory.
  • SaveAs directories were sometimes not initializing properly.

New in The Form Letter Machine 1.05.01 (Jul 15, 2014)

  • bugfix: the -out=filename commandline argument was not being honored.

New in The Form Letter Machine 1.04.01 (Jul 15, 2014)

  • Text now has proper CRLF even if you select and copy a portion of it.
  • Added right-click popup menu to copy selected text to clipboard.
  • New bug was forcing CR's at word wrap position on newly edited text blocks.
  • Resizing edit dialog now expands text area.
  • Added %CUSTOMDATE% field

New in The Form Letter Machine 1.03.01 (Jul 15, 2014)

  • Text was being copied as LFLF instead of CRLF.