gnotepad+ older news

Apr 25th, 2000 - v1.3.0pre4 released

Apr 25th, 2000 - v1.2.1 released

Apr 18th, 2000 - v1.3.0pre3 released

Apr 3rd, 2000 - v1.3.0pre2 released

Mar 23rd, 2000 - v1.3.0pre1 released

Feb 29th, 2000 - v1.2.0 FINAL released!

For a detailed list of changes since the previous version (1.1.4), click here.

Feb 16th, 2000 - v1.2.0pre5 released

Improvements:

• Updated internationalization patch, including a French translation.
• New preferences settings for the window list geometry, html view window geometry, and file read buffer size.
• For search/replace, allow replace with empty strings.

• Small autoconf fix to properly use default enabler values.
• Numerous small fixes/improvements in source code control commands.
• Permissions problem with temp file when printing.
• Correctly saving/restoring the locale.

• Revert: do NOT enable project features by default.
• Remove aggressive read method.

Dec 13th, 1999 - gnotepad mailing list now available

Dec 13th, 1999 - v1.2.0pre4 released

New features:

• Support for using the GtkHtml widget for viewing HTML.
• Use new pixmap from JcB, used for the minimized window icon.
• New preference: use fontsets.

• Incorporated a more complete internationalization patch from Yoichi Asai and Yasuhiro Shirasaki.
• The configure script now checks for GTK even if GNOME's gnome-config s found.  The "sh: --version not found" message now goes away too.
• More, basic infrastructure code for project management.
• Add HTML submenu for use with gtk+-1.0.x.
• Various code cleanup.

• Crash when "Ok" button is hit on the source code control dialog.
• Compilation broke in menu.c if --disable-gnome and --enable-nls were specified together.
• Saving/restoring window sizes really works now (except if you are using gtk+-1.0.x).
• Small memory leaks.

Nov 4th, 1999 - v1.2.0pre3 released

New features:

• Internationalization support!  Initial translation is in Japanese.  Many thanks to Yoichi Asai, Akihiro Sagawa, and Yasuhiro Shirasaki for doing the work and providing the patch.
• New preference: tab stop.  You can now change the width of the tab stop.

• The document "Project" code, although not fully implemented, is now enabled by default.
• Squash a compiler warning in gtkefilesel.c

• When doing a "Replace All" from the beginning of the document using a case insensitive search, it would repeatedly replace the same word over and over again.
• When saving preferences, manually print "(null)" if the data is NULL since not all C libraries do this for you e.g., printf() with a NULL string fails on Solaris 5.6).
• If there were unsaved files and the window was closed via the "delete" event (e.g., clicking on the "X" in the upper right corner of the window frame), selecting "Cancel" on the save dialog resulted in the window still remaining hidden.

Oct 7th, 1999 - v1.2.0pre2 released

Improvements:

• When saving a file, if the file has no changes, then don't actually save anything (e.g., write to disk). print a message in the message bar indicating this.
• When a directory is opened, the "File Info" button now shows "D" to indicate the current document is a directory. Contrary to popular belief, it really is OK to open a directory; it just doesn't make any sense to edit one.

• Small memory leak when setting the main window's title.
• Opening files on the command line didn't put the filename into the window's title, but manually opening a file after starting gnotepad did.
• When switching between documents, the position in the document is now preserved. Previously, the position was lost when an unchanged file is unloaded from memory.
• In gtkefilesel.c, fix small mem leak, and handle error if ctime() or getpwuid() fails.

Oct 7th, 1999 - new email address

July 21st, 1999 - v1.2.0pre1 released

New features:

• Source control commands, for interfacing with your favorite source control program (e.g., RCS, SCCS, etc.).  This idea was taken from the CRiSP Visual Text Editor.
• gnotepad+ is now good for editing HTML!  There are tons more HTML editing capabilities, including HTML tags for tables, frames, and forms.  Numerous ideas and toolbar icons, but absolutely zero code, taken from WebMaker and Bluefish.
• Enhanced File Selection Dialog.  Allows you to select multiple files, a "reread dir" button, and more.

• When inserting HTML tags, if text is already highlighted/selected, then put the HTML tag around the currently selected text.
• The HTML toolbar now has an "Advanced" option, where multiple HTML toolbars are combined into one notebook.  To enable this, open the preferences, and under "HTML Toolbar", check on the "Advanced" button.

• Semi-random crashing, especially when selecting "Save" from the preferences dialog.
• Don't open and read directories.
• If no backup directory is specified, save the backup in the same directory as the original file.
• (Try to) preserve original ownership and permissions on original file after making a backup.
• Lots of other internal changes/fixes for better performance and code maintainability.

July 21st, 1999 - gnotepad+ Help Documentation/Manual released

May 6th, 1999 - v1.1.4 released

• fix: don't try to save a backup if the file doesn't exist (e.g., doing a Save/SaveAs on an Untitled document).
• fix: after saving an Untitled document, the document doesn't show up in the recent list/menu.
• fix: drop redundant '/' in preferences directory path (patch from Roderik Muit).
• change: fix ordering of include files for more portable usage; e.g., on OS/2 (patch from Asbjoern Pettersen).
• improve: better automake/autoconf setup in that you can compile from somewhere other than the source directory (patch from Markus Linnala).
• add: more compile time options (for file info popup and win list).
• improve: toolbar buttons for undo/redo now get grayed out when there is nothing to undo/redo.

May 6th, 1999 - development is slowing down.

• Click here for details.

Mar 20, 1999 - v1.1.3 released

• add: lots of compile time options to the configure script.  most features/options to gnotepad+ can now be compiled out.
• change: gnotepad+ now runs in the foreground by default.
• fix: random segfaults when used with gtk+-1.0.x.
• fix: opening a file from the recent list also produced a document with the file contents listed twice.

Mar 10, 1999 - v1.1.2 released (the glaring bug fix version)

• fix: opening a file after gnp has started resulted in the file's contents listed twice!
• fix: memory leak in the random tips
• add: gnotepad+.desktop file for GNOME to make gnotepad+ appear in the GNOME menu.

Mar 8, 1999 - misc notes

• there is no such thing as a "development" vs "stable" release.  all releases thus far are all considered "stable". please keep in mind that not all software follows the Linux kernel's even/odd <--> stable/development versioning scheme.
• a gnotepad+ user sent in an amusing email which generally said, "It's a better GNOME text editor than the official GNOME text editor." Regardless of whether or not this is true, this is still a nice compliment. :)

Mar 7, 1999 - v1.1.1 released.

• new features:
• regular expressions searches
• search and replace now has "Replace All"
• unlimited undo and redo
• bug fixes:
• autosave was trying to save documents with no filename
• when closing a window, the random tips timeout event was not being removed
• "Find Again" failed if the previous find started at the beginning of the document
• file backup fails if file had a full pathname
• "Find" didn't work if used with GNOME
• lots of other small fixes and improvements

Feb 18, 1999 - v1.1.0 released.

• new options:
• inserting output from a shell command
• create backup file before saving a file
• all toolbar buttons (both the main toolbar as well as the HTML toolbar) are user selectable to be shown or not
• menu options: view HTML files using three different methods
1. in a separate HTML viewing window
2. as another document in gnotepad+'s document notebook
3. using Netscape
the first two options require the gtk-xmhtml library.  if you use GNOME, you probably already have it.  if not, you can also get the sources down below.
• the "Replace" in "Search and Replace" is now available
• random tips in the message bar
• --nosplash option, to disable the initial init/splash screen
• both --nofork and --nosplash are configurable in preferences
• for gtk+-1.1.x, menu items now have toggle and radio buttons
• now with GNOME bloat, err, support!
• drag and drop to AND from gnotepad, either with gtk+-1.1.x, as well as GNOME
• improvements:
• much reduced memory usage and greater speed, especially noticeable when opening and closing numerous files. e.g., try opening 100 or more files on the command line, and then closing all of them using the "Close All" command.  compared to previous versions, it's at least an order of magnitude faster and uses considerably less memory.
• when opening multiple files during startup, only the last 'maxrecent' files "opened" get added to the recent document list.
• bug fixes:
• use free() when malloc() was used, and g_free() whenever g_malloc() was used.
• major bug where duplicates in the recent document list showed up as duplicates/non-existent entries in the menu itself.
• lots of other smaller, miscellaneous fixes.

Jan 27, 1999 - Redhat packages available (in two places?!)

• Redhat RPM's for gnotepad+-1.0.8 for the x86 platform. you can get them here.
• oddly enough, gnotepad+-1.0.8 made it into the latest version (0.99.3) of GNOME RPM's (for x86, SPARC, and Alpha) as well.  i have no idea who actually did this, nor why it was done (since gnotepad+ is not a GNOME application), but it's here if you want to get them.

Jan 21, 1999 - v1.0.8 released.  Highlights:

• add new HTML toolbar and menu options to insert commonly used HTML tags
• make all toolbar icons slightly smaller
• and the usual grab-bag of bug fixes...

Jan 21, 1999 - in need of Redhat packages and a better looking homepage

• it seems the person who was doing the Redhat packages before has now disappeared.  If you are interested in making Redhat packages for gnotepad+, please let me know.
• yes, this homepage is rather bland.  please send me email if you'd like to make a better one.

Jan 6, 1999 - v1.0.7 released.

• this is basically a bug fix version for use with gtk+-1.1.12.  no new features or other bug fixes have been made since v1.0.6.

Dec 15, 1998 - v1.0.6 released.  Highlights:

• compatibility with gtk+-1.1.7
• various bug fixes and optimizations (see ChangeLog for more details)

Nov 25, 1998 - v1.0.5 released.  Highlights:

• compatibility with gtk+-1.1.5
• added menu accelerators and tearoffs (if using gtk+-1.1.x)

Nov 22, 1998 - v1.0.4 released.  Highlights:

• fix erroneous "Read Only" bug when saving a new file
• if using gtk-1.1.x, fonts and color changes now take immediate effect across all documents in all windows
• preferences page now sports a "preview" window which shows what the new font/color changes would look like

Nov 15, 1998 - v1.0.3 released.  Highlights:

• preferences: uses tables to nicely format and align entries; add options to set toolbar buttons to raised or non-raised (if using gtk-1.1.x only)
• toolbar pixmaps are now loaded at runtime instead of statically compiled into the code
• replace a number of toolbar pixmaps with new pixmaps that use fewer colors
• a few bug fixes

Oct 18, 1998 - v1.0.2 released.  Highlights:

• new preferences: font selection, foreground text color, and background text color
• improved detection and portability in autoconf configuration
• Debian 2.x packages now available

Oct 12, 1998 - v1.0.1 released.  Highlights:

• compiles/runs with gtk-1.1.2 (GTK development version)
• uses GNU autoconf, automake, etc.
• bug fixes

Oct 09, 1998 - v1.0 released.