NoteCase Lite for Android v1.0.0. has just been released.

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

NoteCase for Android is the companion app to Notecase desktop, and supports the .ncdb file format
so the same files can be shared between desktop and Android editions.
Android version does not use the license system and it must be purchased separately.

Lite edition is a free program, currently available on the website, but  it will also be uploaded to Google Play soon.
Addtionally, I plan to create a non-free version with more advanced features.

Instalation instructions for your Android device:
    - prerequisites: program requires Android 1.6 or newer
    - download the .apk file and transfer it from your to your phone's SD card
    - enable installing applications from unknown source ("Settings" > "Applications" > "Unknown Sources" check box)
    - use some file manager application installed on your phone/tabled to click on the Notecase.apk file to start the installation.
      "ES File Explorer" is a good and free file manager app choice.
    - if you get problem installing the app, try uninstalling the previous version first

Features:
    - uses .ncdb file format compatible as used in the desktop version
    - you can create a new document or open an existing document file
    - Tree Pane is displayed featuring the hierarchical tree of your document notes
    - basic note operations supported in the Tree Pane are: insert, delete, rename
    - short click on the note title in the Tree Pane open Text Pane featuring rich text formatting editor
    - there are two different GUIs, one for phones and one for tablets (landscape mode) embedded in the same app
    - in the file open dialog, there is an additional way to navigate to the parent folder by using the swipe from right to left gesture action

Major changes since the beta version:
    - many bug fixes
    - remove icons from the "Open"/"New" buttons in the starting screen
    - when creating a new node, pre-select the default title text for easier changing
    - when a new file is being created, pre-select the default file name for easier changing
    - file save dialog redesigned to directly include entry field for file name selection
    - file save dialog needs to ask user permission to overwrite existing file
    - option to insert picture taken with the camera
    - write document name in tree view title
    - write note name in text view title
    - write document - note name in the combined view on tablets
    - add file dialog title "Open Document"/"Create Document"
    - created Preferences window with Program Version item (opened from initial window's options menu)
    - pressing BACK button in File dialog navigates to the parent directory
    - do not use "Untitled" for the new item name
    - offerto upload crash log when detected on disk
    - new app icon

Feedback is appreciated. I am interested in your design and general ideas, bug reports, ...
If you would like to donate a program translation for your language, feel free to contact me.

NotecasePro licensing news

Starting with the new version 3.6.3, Notecase Pro got a new license type locked to a single OS platform and to the exact version number of the program (the one available at the time of purchase).

This license is much cheaper than others, so it makes sense to buy it if your budget does not allow you to buy other licenses or if you are not yet 100% sure about the program.

The good news is that the prices of other license types have just gone down for 30%.

Notecase Pro v3.6.3. has just been released

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- add: new "lua://" link type offers executing the linked Lua script by double-clicking the hyperlink text
- add: support to import PhatNotes (www.phatware.com/phatnotes) CSV export file (requires .phat file name extension)
- add: basic support to export document to LaTeX file format
- add: support to import and export Psion 5 data app CSV export file format (as exported by PsiWin program)
- add: support to create relative hyperlinks when dropping the files on Text Pane (while holding the Shift key)
- add: "Help" > "License Info" menu shows the detailed info on the selected license key file from the disk
- add: Lua method net.read now has additional parameter to specify wait timeout
- add: support to select more than one file at once within the import action
- add: show optional info message on each clipboard monitor start
- add: add custom title column into the "Script Events" dialog
- add: new Lua method to set the main window title (Nc_GUI_MainWindowTitle_Set)
- add: Nc_GUI_Note_Select Lua method now displays note icons in the tree widget
- sqlite database upgraded to version 3.7.11
- add: Nc_GUI_DateSelectionDlg Lua method now supports description text in HTML format
- add: Lua method to display date picker dialog (Nc_GUI_DateSelectionDlg)
- add: Lua method Nc_GUI_MessageBox got several optinal parameters to enable having custom button titles and to show a check box in the window
- fix: force linking to Gstreamer on Linux (as opposed to dynamic loading) to fix crash when recording the audio
- Croatian translation updated
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Polish translation updated (work by Kamil Dembkowski)
- help file update (work by Daniel Hertrich)
- many bugs fixed
- removed following deprecated builds: Fedora 14 (64-bit), Ubuntu 10.04, Freebsd 7 and Freebsd 8

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

Note that you can download several Notecase Pro plugins (free and commercial) at:
http://www.hermocom.com/products/notecase/plugins

Important notes:

My plans are to deprecate ubuntu 10.10, Fedora 15, Open Suse 11.4 and Maemo Diablo builds unless there is someone using one of them.
Feel free to contact me if you are using one of those.

First official Android release is planned in two weeks.

I plan to reduce Notecase Pro license prices and introduce new license type within the next several days.

Notecase Pro v3.6.0. has just been released

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- support to create additional (custom) toolbars
- support to rename existing tag through the Tag Pane context menu
- upgraded Lua library to latest version 5.2.0, list of incompatibilities to previous versions can be found here: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#8
- GTK library for Windows 32-bit was updated to 2.24.10
- "--config " command line parameter supports specifying a custom configuration file
- improved support for FreeBSD, load aspell from "/usr/local/lib" instead of "/usr/lib", install app under "/usr/local/bin"
- Windows build is now shipped with .pdb file to enable better stack trace in case of crash
- button "Set Root" in the General Settings window, Clip Manager page can be used to make the clips be pasted under root note (thus resetting the previous target note selection)
- Notecase document now have globally unique ID string property (to prepare for the sync feature)
- Lua method to read document's globally unqique ID property (Nc_Doc_GlobalID_Get)
- two new sample scripts to implement sessions (loading and saving multiple groups of documents): 45_SessionLoad.lua, 46_SessionSave.lua
- several new Lua methods to handle listing or editing document bookmarks (Nc_Doc_Bookmark_GetCount, Nc_Doc_Bookmark_GetEntry, Nc_Doc_Bookmark_Remove, Nc_Doc_Bookmark_Insert, Nc_Doc_Bookmark_Sort)
- new Lua method to change the title of the progress dialog (Nc_GUI_ProgressDlg_SetText)
- "Send via E-mail" feature now offers choosing between .ncd and .html data formats
- error message which is shown when clicking to the hyperlink whose target no longer exists, now has a "Remove Link" button
- several List Pane related Lua methods (Nc_App_List_AddNote, Nc_App_List_Clear, Nc_App_List_GetCount, Nc_App_List_Note_GetID, Nc_App_List_RemoveNote) got optional parameter to specify document ID
(because lists are now stored per-document, it is not global anymore)
- fix: improve internal HTML parser to support hyperlinks where parsing case where tags are placed within the hyperlink text content (mostly seen generated by copy/paste in Chrome)
- fix: save/restore palette when color picker is started for text/text background color formatting
- fix: Clip Manager settings change did not get refreshed until program restart
- fix: Clip Manager now allows you to use only predefined document for a target, not the current one, to avoid the possible bad surprises
- fix: if more than one monitor is used, force main window to start on the primary monitor (if detected)
- fix: do not report "This document was created by a newer version of the program ..." warning when loading plugins
- fix: complex issue that breaks formatting when new color formatting is created within an existing text color/background color span
- fix: remember spellchecker enabled/disabled state when the program is restarted
- fix: Nc_Note_Title_Text_Color_Set Lua method fails to accept color parameter
- fix: add "Close" button in About window because some distros do not show small "x" button in the window's title bar
- fix: some additional number of GTK themes were removed from Windows installer because they did not work well with new GTK
- fix: note sorting by title now respects character order as defined by the locale you currently use (GUI translation language)
- fix: when exporting to HTML with frame, all non-internal links should open outside of the frame
- skip display the Check for Update result window if we have the latest version, and action started automatically
- increased size of undo queue from 10 to 50
- sqlite database upgraded to version 3.7.10
- new build targets FreeBSD 9 (32 and 64 bit) and OpenSuse 12.1 (32 and 64 bit)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- help file update (work by Birte Wenning and Daniel Hertrich)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Polish translation updated (work by Kamil Dembkowski)
- Finnish translation updated (work by Ville Pilviö)
- Italian translation updated (work by Fabio Iannone)
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- Croatian translation updated
- many bugs fixed

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

Note that you can download several Notecase Pro plugins (free and commercial) at:
http://www.hermocom.com/products/notecase/plugins

For more details on how the upgrading Lua engine to a new major version may affect your scripts, please read Paul Merrell's post here:
http://tinyurl.com/7rffc88

Important note: my plans are to deprecate Fedora 14, Ubuntu 10.04, Fedora 12, Freebsd 7 and Freebsd 8 builds unless there is someone using one of them.
Feel free to contact me if you are using one of those.

Another news: My short term plans are to make an official release of Notecase Pro for Android in one month. You are welcome to share your thoughts on already published beta version.

NoteCase Pro beta for Android is available for public testing

Thanks to a lot of feedback, an improved version of NoteCase Pro for Android has reached a beta stage and it is now ready for public testing.

The build will expire on March 1st 2012.

You can download the Android package here:
http://www.virtual-sky.com/get.php?android/Notecase.apk

Instalation instructions for your Android device:
- prerequisites: program requires Android 1.6 or newer
- download the Notecase.apk file and transfer it from your to your phone's SD card
- enable installing applications from unknown source ("Settings" > "Applications" > "Unknown Sources" check box)
- use some file manager application installed on your phone/tabled to click on the Notecase.apk file to start the installation.
"ES File Explorer" is a good and free file manager app choice.
- if you get problem installing the app, try uninstalling the previous version first

Changes in beta version:
- add: menu option in the File Dialog to show the hidden items
- fix: change the file dialog swipe (to go to the parend directory) to left to right
- add: swiping from left to right from the text view gets you back to the tree view (saving the typed note changes)
- fix: rename recent file list context menu item from "Delete" to "Remove" to be more precise
- fix: when rotating the device in Tree View, tree content dissapears
- fix: when rotating the device in File Dialog, new list is positioned in different directory
- add: implemented Tags View and List View
- add: context menu item in the recent files list to permanently delete the selected file
- fix: report error when the document fails to load
- fix: clicking on the expander in the Tree View sometimes triggers the item editing (along with branch expanding)
- add: support for large screen devices in landscape mode (custom layout showing both tree view and text view at the same time)
- add: support to create home screen shortcut to the document listed in the recent list
- add: move note up/down/left/right operations
- add: support to open email links ("mailto:")
- add: support for Holo theme on newer Androids
- Chinese Traditional translation created (work by Richard Sun)
- Czech translation created (work by Adam Zivner)
- Croatian translation created
- Italian translation created (work by Fabio Iannone)
- Polish translation created (work by Kamil Dembkowski)
- German translation created (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Chinese Simplified translation created (work by Stephen Zhu)
- Romanian translation created (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Finnish translation created (work by Ville Pilviö)

Features:
- uses .ncdb file format compatible as used in the desktop version
- you can create or open existing document file
- Tree Pane is displayed featuring the hierarchical tree of your document notes
- basic note operations supported in the Tree Pane are: insert, delete, rename
- short click on the note title in the Tree Pane open Text Pane featuring rich text formatting editor
- in the file open dialog, there is an additional way to navigate to the parent folder by using the swipe from right to left gesture action
- swipe in Tree View to go to the Tags View
- click on a tag in Tags View to go into the List View with all matching notes listed

Feedback is appreciated. I am interested in your design and general ideas, bug reports, ...
If you experience crash, please send me the file "ncpro.log" found on your SD Card that describes the crash in some details.

If you would like to create a program translation for you language, please translate the phrases written in this file and mail me translated file (for example as "strings_it.xml" for Italian translation):
http://www.virtual-sky.com/download/translations/android/strings.xml
Currently, the file contains only 36 phrases to be translated.

Graphics (program icons) still needs polish, and the next phase will concentrate on this.
If someone is good at this department, and wants to cooperate, please contact me.
In return for you work, I can offer you free Notecase Pro license or some similar deal.

I expect a final release version within a month or so, so your feedback would be valuable here.

NoteCase Pro for Android alpha version has been released for public testing.
The build will expire on February 2012.

You can download the Android package here:
http://www.virtual-sky.com/get.php?android/Notecase.apk

Installation instructions for your Android device:
- prerequisites: program requires Android 1.6 or newer
- download the Notecase.apk file and transfer it to your phone's SD card
- enable installing applications from unknown source ("Settings" > "Applications" > "Unknown Sources" check box)
- use some file manager application to click on the Notecase.apk file to start the installation

Features:
- uses .ncdb file format compatible as used in the desktop version
- you can create or open existing document file
- Tree Pane is displayed featuring the hierarchical tree of your document notes
- basic note operations supported in the Tree Pane are: insert, delete, rename
- short click on the note title in the Tree Pane open Text Pane featuring rich text formatting editor
- in the file open dialog, there is an additional way to navigate to the parent folder by using the swipe from right to left gesture action

Feedback is appreciated. I am interested in your design and general ideas, bug reports, ...

If you would like to create a program translation for you language, please translate the phrases written in this file and mail me translated file (for example as "strings_it.xml" for Italian translation):
http://www.virtual-sky.com/download/translations/android/strings.xml
Currently, the file contains on 30 phrases to be translated.

As you can see, graphics (program icons) is the area where I need a lot of polish.
If someone is good at this department, and wants to cooperate, please contact me.
In return for you work, I can offer you free Notecase Pro license or some similar deal.

Windows theme problems

Paul Merrell did the test of the themes shipped with the latest Notecase Pro v3.5.7 release for Windows.

Apparently these themes might cause you stability problems and their use is not recommended (they will be removed in the next release):
- Amaranth
- Delightfully Smooth
- Lush
- Nuvola
- Smooth Funky-Monkey
- Smooth Line
- Smooth OkayIsh
- Smooth Sea Ice
- Smooth Tangerine Dream
- Smooth Winter
- Unity
- Wasp

Notecase Pro v3.5.7. has just been released

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- GTK library for Windows was updated to 2.24.8; this release fixes the issues with tree reordering using the mouse, drawing artefacts when resizing the window and possibly many others; note that some GTK themes were removed because they did not work well with this version
- improved export to RTF code, added support for internal hyperlinks in the exported RTF document
- you can now assign shortcut keys to registered scripts and plugin actions using a new page of a "Shortcut Settings" window
- improved default algoritm to select word in text view by double-clicking it, allowing digits and the underscore character to be the part of the word
- add support for links to Outlook items (as created by "Linker for Windows" software), links should work on other, unknown link types too
- support to import Leo outliner files (http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html)
- support to import Toodledo XML export (http://www.toodledo.com), requires .toodledo file extension
- "Copy Link" item in the note title bar context menu allows you to quickly create a link to the current document note (or get the set of "breadcrumb" links if that mode is switched on)
- new action "Remove Link" added to the Text Pane context menu to quickly remove the link under the mouse pointer
- added "YYYY.MM.DD" format in the list of dates
- support to automatically create telnet:// and ssh:// hyperlinks while typing
- when importing a document, you can now choose to import its contents as descendants of the currently selected note (check box option is placed in the "File Open" window for the Import action)
- improved network proxy support protocol to be compatible with squid proxy program
- option to force note clones to share the same title as their original source (does not modify data in the existing documents, untill the clone/note is being renamed or created); see "Global" option page for setting
- integrated LuaFileSystem library v1.5.0 directly into the program (http://keplerproject.github.com/luafilesystem/)
- in "Shortcut Settings" window, when assigning already used shortcut key for some action, allow user to use this keys anyway ("Grab" it from the action that currently uses this shortcut)
- increased maximal count of documents opened at the same time from 10 to 20
- maximal number of registered scripts (in the "Scripts" menu) increased from 30 to 70
- size of a crash log buffer was increased to 100kB
- fix: Gstreamer and similar crashes on Linux were caused by new compile flags needed for Lua to support loading external modules; Lua module loading support is now temporary removed (will be fixed in the next cycle)
- fix: "Link Properties" when started from the Text Pane context menu no longer requires that the text cursor (caret) is placed within the target (existing) link to be edited, it now detects the link by mouse pointer position
- fix: when saving to an .ncdb or .ncde file format overwriting the already existing and loaded document file, program will wait forever until the file is released (use 5 second timeout instead)
- fix: add support relative links to a note inside a document (before, only absolute links were supported for links to note)
- fix: for speed reasons, Notecase does not copy text to clipboard as RTF by default anymore, only as text + HTML (you can enable RTF with the .ini file key "PutRtfToClipboard=1" in "[OTher]" section)
- fix: on Windows use Unicode version of program's command line to improve opening the files with non-ANSI characters in the name
- new build targets: Fedora 16 (32-bit and 64-bit), Mint 12 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- help file update (work by Birte Wenning and Daniel Hertrich)
- Croatian translation updated
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Italian translation updated (work by Fabio Iannone)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Finnish translation updated (work by Ville Pilviö)
- many bugs fixed

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

Note that you can download several Notecase Pro plugins (free and commercial) at:
http://www.hermocom.com/products/notecase/plugins

Another news: I expect to have alpha version of Notecase Pro for Android ready in approximately 10-15 days.
Since this is a completely new project, I'd appreciate testing, ideas and feedback regarding this public (test) release.
Your thoughts can help me to shape the product and make it better.
Once released it will be announced through Twitter, Blog and Google Group for Notecase Pro.

Notecase Pro v3.5.1. has just been released.


Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php


Major changes in this release:
- support for "Notecase document"-based plugin system
- "Separate Tags Pane Column" option enables showing the Tags Pane in a separate vertical column (suitable for users using large number of tags in their documents)
- new Tag Panes context menu "Show Current Note Tags Only" to allow displaying only tags that are assigned to the currently selected note
- detect if the document file was modified outside of the Notecase Pro program and offer to reload the document
- Ctrl+Click on a note now toggles its "marked" state
- when saving the program configuration to the .ini file, create a backup of the previously existing file to preserve data in case of write error; use backup if .ini file does not exist or its size iz 0
- when inserting/pasting an image, suggest last used file format for a new image or PNG as default (better quality)
- added "None" button in color picker windows to support removal of the current text/background color without defining a new one
- two new Lua methods to get/set "modified" state of the document: Nc_Doc_IsModified_Get/Nc_Doc_IsModified_Set
- new command line parameter "--disable-sound" to disable loading Gstreamer sound library (useful when debugging if the library causes problems to the program)
- new Lua methods to query/set if the spellchecker is enabled (Nc_App_Spellcheck_GetActive, Nc_App_Spellcheck_SetActive)
- set of Lua methods to do the RSA public/private key operations: Nc_Util_RSA_Sign, Nc_Util_RSA_Verify, Nc_Util_RSA_Encrypt, Nc_Util_RSA_Decrypt
(this can be used to implement licensing system for commercial plugin documents)
- new sample script to demonstrate RSA encryption APIs ("44_Rsa_Encryption.lua")
- support to load lua dynamic libraries
- when crash log files are detected on a PC, offer to upload them to the author's site for analysis
- fix: detect the GStreamer-bug related crash and automatically disable sound on restart to prevent such bug to happen again
- help file update (work by Birte Wenning and Daniel Hertrich)
- Croatian translation updated
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Italian translation updated (work by Fabio Iannone)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- many bugs fixed

The new plugin system was designed in collaboration with Daniel Hertrich.
He plans to release some NoteCase Pro Plugins in the near future:
http://www.hermocom.com/products/notecase/plugins

For Ubuntu 11.04 users, I've created experimental GTK3 builds. I am interested in your feedback here, because some smaller features might not work correctly
(tree background color for example).

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at:
http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

Notecase Pro v3.4.8. has just been released

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- import for ActionOutline HTML export format (file needs to be renamed to have .htmao extension)
- you can use Ctrl+Double-Click on Tag Pane to remove matching notes from List Pane (similar menu item added to the context menu)
- support for more than one script to be assigned to a a single application event
- new application event "Before list sorted"
- new application event "After note moved"
- new Lua method to get the detailed info on the note that was moved (Nc_Event_AfterNoteMove_GetInfo)
- new Lua method to return the file size of the specified document (Nc_Doc_FileSize_Get)
- new Lua methods to get/set task repeating field (recurrence): Nc_Note_Task_Repeating_Get, Nc_Note_Task_Repeating_Set
- new Lua method to modify the target of a hyperlink (Nc_Note_Link_SetTarget)
- 4 new Lua methods to work with app event registration/unregistrations (Nc_App_EventScripts_GetCount, Nc_App_EventScripts_GetByIdx, Nc_App_EventScripts_Add, Nc_App_EventScripts_Remove)
- new Lua method to check if "Show line numbers" feature is switched on (Nc_GUI_LineNumbers_IsVisible)
- fix: program crashes on startup on the new OS X v10.7 (code name Lion)
- fix: when importing a Notecase file into the current document, the embedded icons are not being imported
- fix: in the File Save window, show file name without the extension (extension is defined by the selected file filter)
- fix: umlaut in export file name crashes NoteCase Pro
- Croatian translation updated
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Italian translation updated (work by Fabio Iannone)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- many other bug fixes
- deprecated following build targets: Debian 5 and Fedora 13 builds

Important note: the next release will probably be released in two months. I want to take the extra time to start the Android version of the program.
The requests for this version seem to be high, so I will start working on it now.
If you have ideas or you are interested in Android version please give me a note. I want to be able to measure how big is the need for this.

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

Notecase Pro v3.4.5. has just been released

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:

- option to setup Clipboard Monitoring to be started when the program starts (with optional custom target document/note)
- clipboard monitor now has an option to store all clips into a single note (if defined, it stores them directly into the parent note, else it creates a new note)
- support for using Web Proxy when checking for updates, opening from web and embedding images found in the pasted content (see "Network" page in the Options window)
- added basic authentication support for Web proxy
- add: Lua method to get the name of an note attachment (Nc_Note_Attach_Name_Get)
- add: Lua method to run the "Compact Document" action on a specified document (Nc_Doc_Compact)
- add: new Lua method to get the (per-document) setting for the backup folder (Nc_Config_BackUpFolder_Get)
- add: new Lua method to define a clipboard monitor target (Nc_Config_ClipboardMonitor_SetTarget)
- add: new Lua method to start/stop clipboard monitor (Nc_Config_ClipboardMonitor_Start)
- add: new Lua method to convert normal note to the clone (Nc_Note_NoteConvertToClone)
- add: new Lua method to get the folder used to store the configuration file (Nc_Config_ConfigDir_Get)
- add: new application event "Before note deleted" allowing the user to abort the operation using the new Lua method Nc_Event_BeforeNoteDelete_Abort
- add: new menu item "Custom Formatting" placed under "Notes" > "Properties" (context menu too) for quick access to custom note color/font formatting features
- fix: do not offer to load the alread-loaded document twice, just switch to the previous instance
- fix: modified recent script menu to include embedded scripts too in the list
- fix: when exporting a document as HTML with tree view, embedded picture having an umlaut in the name will not load correctly when the HTL is opened in Internet Explorer
- fix: when using a feature to unload encrypted document on inactivity, it was possible that only first such document got unloaded (it the user aborts the password entry for reloading the first unloaded doc.)
- fix: disable Clipboard Monitor action when copying from within the Notecase itself (can lead to unwanted results)
- fix: reordering notes with mouse drag in the Tree Pane gets stuck after going to List pane and back to Tree Pane (Linux fix, GTK for Windows still has a bug in tree reordering)
- fix: a number of items were missing an entry in the Shortcuts Editor window ("Add Marked Nodes to List", "Invert Marked Nodes", "Check New Version", "Clear List", "Join Marked Nodes", "Split Node", "View Attachments Pane", "View Tags Pane", "View Toolbar Audio", "Add Node to List", "List All Notes", "Delete Document")
- add: Audio options page has a presets list with hard-coded entries "Voice recording" and "HiFi recording" for quick setup of the common recording values
- Croatian translation updated
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Italian translation updated (work by Fabio Iannone)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- many other bug fixes
- deprecated following build targets: Ubuntu 9, Centos 5.5, Slackware tar.gz version and PCLinuxOS 2007 "no GnomeVfs used" builds

Important note: my plans are to deprecate Debian 5 and Fedora 13 builds unless there is someone using one of them.
Feel free to contact me if you are using one of those.

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

Notecase Pro v3.4.2. has been released.

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:

- support to create a hyperlink out of the embedded picture
- Lua wrappers for basic network socket API functions (net.connect, net.bind, net.accept, net.read, net.write, net.close), see new test script #43
- new menu item "Set Note as Clip Parent" (under "Tools") enables setting the parent document/note for new clips created by clipboard monitor
- Clipboard Monitor now gives more meaningful titles to the generated notes, using first 30 characters of pasted text as a title (if text was on the clipboard)
- new search target "Listed Notes" in the Find window
- new Tree/List Pane column "Clone Source Path" to display the path to the clone's orignal note
- Tag Pane got a "Frequency" column to see the number of occurences of the tag in the document
- new program event "After document saved"
- new Lua methods to manipulate status and priority fields of the task notes (Nc_Note_Task_Status_Get, Nc_Note_Task_Priority_Get, Nc_Note_Task_Status_Set, Nc_Note_Task_Priority_Set)
- make Tag Pane sortable by clicking the column headers, add context menu option to show/hide "Frequency" column
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- Italian translation updated (work by Fabio Iannone)
- (partial) French translation update (work by Gérard Toulgoat)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- German "Tip of The Day" file update (work by Daniel Hertrich)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Croatian translation updated
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- fix: only 10 Lua scripts could be registered in the Scripts menu
- fix: when using two instances of the program, new instance asks to delete autosave file of the first one, even if that instance is still alive (Windows only)
- fix: clipboard monitor crashes on Linux when an image is copied to the clipboard
- fix: Windows build fails to load/save the file having non-ASCII characters in the name
- fix: when searching custom properties, notes that don't have any custom property are matched too
- many other bug fixes
- new build targets Scientific Linux 6 (RHEL 6), Ubuntu 11.04, Oracle Solaris 11, Mageia 1 and Fedora 15: 32-bit and 64-bit packages
- deprecated following build targets: Fedora 12, Open Suse 10.3, Open Suse 11.2, Ubuntu 8 and Maemo OS2008 (Chinook)

Important note: my plans are to deprecate Ubuntu 9, Centos 5.5, Slackware tar.gz version and PCLinuxOS 2007 "no GnomeVfs used" builds unless there is someone using one of them.
Feel free to contact me if you are using one of those.

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

Notecase Pro v3.3.7. has been released

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- Trial mode implemented (user can test advanced features of the program, but it can not load/save or export the document having more than 10 notes)
- add "Store data source URL when pasting" support for Linux too (support when copying from Firefox only)
- support to link to Lua scripts embedded within Notecase documents from the toolbar buttons and in "Register Scripts" and "Script Events" windows
- new program event "Pre application close" (called afer any unsaved files being saved)
- warn user that the license file will expire soon
- "Are you sure ... " message, started when deleting the note, now has additional check box "Do not ask anymore"
- option to automatically check for updates on startup (weekly)
- initial implementation of importer for MindManager (*.mmap) document format (http://www.mindjet.com)
- initial support to import Basket file format (*.baskets)
- implemented "--viewer" command line parameter to start the program in the viewer mode (document can not be edited, many menu items and toolbars hidden)
- new menu item in the Tag Pane (when List Pane is displayed) to insert a new tag and assign it to listed notes ("Listed Notes - Add New Tag")
- finalize port to GTK3 (tested on Fedora 15 alpha)
- 3 new CSS style sheets donated by Daniel Hertrich are shipped as default sheets offered for HTML export styling (replacing old "template1.css" sheet)
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- French translation updated (work by GĂ©rard Toulgoat)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Croatian translation updated
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- fix: exporting the note branch to HTML with tree view broken since the last release (tree view empty)
- fix: when exporting the file to HTML with CSS, try to link to CSS file using the relative path if possible
- fix: when exporting the file to HTML with CSS, allow the usage of http:// URLs to the remote CSS file
- fix: when applying alignment formatting and there is no text selection, the formatting should apply to the paragraph where cursor is placed
- fix: when opening hyperlink on OSX, quote file path being opened (fixes problems for files having spaces as part of the file name)
- fix: applying a style was not stored to .ncdb/.ncde formats
- fix: change of the GUI theme now requires restart (to prevent possible crashes)
- fix: when the invalid date is entered in the Task Property window, program should display the error message when closing the window
- fix: when exporting to HTML with tree view, enable resizing the width of a tree view
- many other bug fixes
- new build target Debian 6 32-bit and 64-bit packages
- new build target Open Suse v11.4 32-bit and 64-bit packages
- deprecate the following (old) targets: Fedora Core 9/10/11, Moblin, Maemo Bora and OSX 10.4.

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

Notecase Pro v3.3.4 has just been released.

Downloads are now available at http://www.virtual-sky.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- enable selecting multiple files at once when opening new document, adding files to AutoComplete, AutoReplace lists, to list of files to be loaded at startup and attachment list
- task priority, status and all task date property fields can now be changed by clicking directly to its Tree/List Pane cell
- new "Custom Property Value/Key" search target added in the Find window
- option for audio note recording to define the sound system (mono/stereo), sample rate and bitrate
- layout when exporting a single branch/note to HTML was redesigned, now we export the "root" note contents first, then optional TOC with the rest of the notes
- (hidden) option to activate custom syntax highlighting color scheme (use "SourceStyleScheme" key inside the "Display" section of the .ini file, for example: "SourceStyleScheme=cobalt")
- implemented "quick search mode" for Tags Pane (type few first characters to quickly jump to the matching tag name in the list)
- fix: add warning message in OSX builds that it is best to switch off the global menu integration before trying to customize program shortcuts
- fix: change shortcut defaults for OSX platform to use "Cmd" instead of "Ctrl" key modifier
- fix: speedup the process of embedding images found into the pasted HTML content
- fix: when displaying note, validate if the content is correct UTF8 string, warn of possible errors and automatically strip the offending characters
- fix: removed "unassigned" task priority value (new tasks should have "normal" priority value)
- fix: disable GTK menu mnemonics on OSX (they kill the shortcuts in some cases)
- update gtksourceview library on OS X to version 2.10.4 (this brings in the AutoComplete support)
- new "Export" option "Export note Tags as CSS class names" where tags are written as <dl class="nc_level01 tag1 tag2 ..">
- Export window now automatically lists all .css files found in the html_css folder (for HTML export format);
one template CSS file is now being shipped with the program (work by Daniel Hertrich)
- new sample Lua script to import a directory filled with RTF files (one RTF file becomes one note)
- add: new scripting events "Post AutoReplace group loaded", "Post AutoComplete group loaded", "Post note title changed"
- help file and "tip of the day" file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- Croatian translation updated
- Russian translation updates (work by Maxim Matrosov)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- French translation updated (work by Gérard Toulgoat)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Italian translation updated (work by Fabio Iannone)
- a number of different new Lua methods created
- many bug fixes

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php.

Important news:

Unless someone is using one of the folowing builds, I plan to deprecate these (quite old or not used) platforms in one of the next cycles:
Fedora Core 8/9/10/11, Maemo Bora and Maemo Chinook, Moblin and OSX 10.4.

Smaller number of builds are missing and they will be built by tommorow.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

Notecase Pro v3.3.0 has just been released.

Downloads are now available at http://www.virtual-sky.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- Auto-Complete word as you type using the predefined word lists (UTF8 encoded text files with one-word-per-line format)
- Lua scripts now can be embedded into the document (note text is a Lua script)
- support to execute the embedded scripts through autoreplace mechanism (just type abbreviation to activate your script)
- list pane (temporary storage) is now stored per-document (not global anymore); when switching between multiple open documents, your list pane view is not lost anymore
- Tree Pane is now also sortable by clicking the header column (Click sorts only siblings of the selected note, Ctrl+Click sorts entire branch). Warning: this will modify the document tree (sorting the List Pane does not modify the document)
- rewrote tree sorting feature to be more elegant and more powerful (1 menu item instead of 4, dialog offering choice of sort parameters like recursive sorting or sorting by columns other than "title"). Note: sort now sorts the siblings of the selected note (before you had option to sort root notes or children of the selected note)
- support for regular expressions in Find/Replace operation
- in the dialog to define the new title of the inserted note, show "create task" check box to be able to quickly create a task out of the new note
- make "Sort" menu item and dialog work in the context of List Pane too
- Sqlite based file formats now use less memory when loading a note with big attachments
- support to correctly parse Chinese and Japanese text when importing from RTF document
- support to use Cmd key in Shortcut Settings Editor (OS X) (I need feedback on this one)
- opening large document by clicking on file in Finder crashes the program (OS X)
- do not create uninstaller and program groups/links when installing the portable (Windows) version
- fix: when inserting the transparent image into the document, transparency is lost
- fix: activating text syntax highlighting crashes the program on Windows (fixed by finding the better build of "libxml2.dll" library)
- fix: Natara Bonsai import improved (import item and task related dates, keyword, category and priority fields; priority is mapped to Notecase Pro range of values; categories are added as tags)
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- Croatian translation updated
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- French translation updated (work by Gérard Toulgoat)
- new build targets Ubuntu v10.10 32-bit and 64-bit (Ubuntu 10.04 has some noted incompatibilities to Ubuntu 10.10, so it is better to have both)
- ancient build targets removed: Fedora 6, Fedora 7 and OSX 10.3.x
- large number of different new Lua methods
- many bug fixes

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

Notecase Pro v3.2.7 has just been released.

Downloads are now available at http://www.virtual-sky.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- implemented AutoReplace feature (can be used to expand abbreviations or auto-correct common spell errors as you type)
- support to embed external picture assigned to the note (tree view) icon directly into the document
- support for importing CSV export file of BestJotter for S60 (*.csv)
- implemented custom color picker buttons for "Note Properties" > "Formatting"
(GTK picker button widget does not allow showing the palette)
- visualize when the current document/note is read-only by setting the different (customizable in Options window) background color to the note title bar
- when selecting internal note link target within the Link Properties window, you can quickly select the note name by typing its name
- temporary disable print preview (for builds using GTK >= 2.17.x) until the GTK developers fix the bugs related to this feature
- if you select a single picture in a document, when copying to clipboard, copy the data as picture (not as HTML)
- plugin loading mechanism changed, now you need to explicitly select plugins to be loaded in "Plugins" page (Options window)
- as a way to customize HTML export, new app event was created "Pre note HTML exported" being triggered once for each note in the document (part) being exported
with a set of Lua methods to customize HTML being exported: Nc_Doc_ExportHtml_CurNoteID_Get, Nc_Doc_ExportHtml_CurNote_Get, Nc_Doc_ExportHtml_CurNote_Set, Nc_Doc_ExportHtml_Type_Get, Nc_Doc_ExportHtml_RootNoteID_Get
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- German translation and a "tip of the day" file updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- several sample online scripts created by Daniel Hertrich and Paul Merrell
- bug fixes

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php.

Important note: my plans are to deprecate Fedora 6, Fedora 7 and OSX 10.3.x builds unless there is someone using one of them.
Feel free to contact me if you are using one of those.

As always thanks to anyone who helped in any way.
I wish you happy holidays and the best wishes for the new year.

Notecase Pro v3.2.5 has been released

Downloads are now available at http://www.virtual-sky.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- improved Freemind import by adding support for hyperlink notes
- improved XMind import by adding support for note formatting
- support to import HP Palmtop Note Database file format (.ndb)
- moved load/save/attach/import operations of the HTML based formats in a seperate thread (cca 10% speedup)
- added Column Bar Editor, ability to reorder columns and support to add note's Custom Property key as column
- support for RTF clipboard format (preserves formatting when content was copied from WordPad into Notecase)
- many new Lua methods created to help you automate your work in Notecase Pro
- new application events "Post content pasted", "Post note text typed", "Post audio played", "Post document imported"
- report errors from audio player/recorder thread, audio support is now considered stable
- new "Toolbar Audio" created
- Note Title Bar, when in "show hierarchy" mode, now allows clicking on the individual note titles for faster navigation
- Win32/Win64 installers now ask you to uninstall the old version before proceeding
- when starting Pro fro the first time, detect if free version of Notecase was used and try importing settings from its configuration file
- menu items reorganized
- new build targets Fedora 14 32bit and 64bit
- Ubuntu 6 and 7 builds are not built anymore
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- German translation and a "tip of the day" file updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- several sample online scripts created by Daniel Hertrich and Paul Merrell
- numerous bug fixes

For a complete list of changes in release 3.2.5, see change log at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php.

Additionally you can find some interesting .lua scripts created by various authors at:
http://www.virtual-sky.com/scripting.php

One of them will enable you to turn your Notecase Pro into a typewriter, by simulating the typewriter sounds while you are typing in the text view.

Big thanks goes for everyone who helped with improving the program, either by sending their feature wishes, reporting the issues, helping with the documentation, donating scripts or translationg the program to their native languages.

Notecase Pro v3.1.8 was just released.

Major changes in this release:

- numerous bug fixes
- experimental support to record audio notes (stored as attachment of the note)
- support to play audio files attached to the document note
- support to import XMind document format (http://www.xmind.net)
- many new Lua methods added
- add "Clipboard Monitor" menu item to the tray icon menu
- support quick search mode within a List Pane too
- you can now select an icon in icon list of the Icon Select window by quickly typing the letters of its name
- tagging feature in now enabled in the unregistered version too
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)

For a complete list of changes in release 3.1.8, see change log at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php
You can find your NoteCase Pro packages at: http://virtual-sky.com/download.php

An interview

I just got interviewed regarding my NoteCase Pro project by www.FamousWhy.com

You can read the interview at:
http://download.famouswhy.com/publisher/miroslav_rajcic/

Notecase Pro v3.1.2 released

Major changes in this release:

- numerous bug fixes
- created new license type (single OS, valid for lifetime)
- new build for Open Pandora Linux
- support to set custom font, text and background colors for the note title (available through the Node Properties dialog)
- support to highlight all search matches in the current document (plain text search only)
- support to use boolean search and regex when searching in note tags too
- integrate theme/gui font selector to change the global program looks ("Configure Notecase Pro" window > "Display" page)
- Windows 32bit installer now ships with large number of GTK themes (allowing for styling the looks of the program in a wide variety of ways)
- support to import Keepnote file format
- created new document event "Post note inserted"
- option to select a folder as a link target in the Link Properties window
- Find window has two new search targets: "Current Node's Children only", "Current Node's Descendants only"
- new Lua scripts implementing these features: get note ID, copy hyperlink to note on the clipboard, copy List Pane notes as a list of hyperlinks to clipboard, write current crash log content to the file
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- French translation updated (work by Henri Spagnolo)

For a complete list of changes in release 3.1.2, see change log at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php.

Notecase Pro v3.0.9 released

Major changes in this release:

- numerous bug fixes
- new OS X installer with GTK embedded (no more separate GTK install) and better OS integration
- support for Maemo 5 PR1.2 build
- Fedora 13 i386/x86_64 and Arch 64bit packages
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- add: new action to clone entire branch
- numerous Nokia Maemo 5 build improvements including kinetic scrolling and some GUI layout redesigns
- add: improve OPML import/export by adding support for OPML values used by Projekt program from www.kylom.com (_category1, _category2, _date, _status)
- Dutch translation updated (work by Lennart Aangeenbrug)

For a complete list of changes in release 3.0.9, see: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php.

New Notecase Pro v3.05 has been released!

Highlights:
- Clipboard Monitoring mode to automatically grab new clipboard contents into the current document (as a new note)
- added approximately 100 new internal icons that can be used through the Icon Picker window
- Icon Picker Dialog now can list icons in an arbitrary directory
- support to use internal icon as the Toolbar Button icon ("Configure Toolbar" window)
- import Palm Memo file format (tab delimited text export format having note contents as the first field and categories as the second field; .palm extension required)
- RTF export now supports note numbering option in "Configure Notecase Pro" window ("Export" page)
- correctly scale pictures embedded in imported RTF document
- "Add Marked Nodes to List" menu item to fill the List Pane with marked items from Tree Pane
- "Clear List" option to clear the List Pane contents
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)

You can read detailed list of changes online at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php

The new release v3.0.1 is out!

Downloads are now available at http://www.virtual-sky.com/download.php
If you are using Windows build, it is highly recommended to uninstall previous version before installing the new one
(GTK layout was changed).

Major news are:
- add: added support to import images embedded into the RTF
- fix: change default GTK theme on Windows from "Raleigh" to "MS-Windows" (better looking one)
- add: support to export images from Notecase document into RTF (embedded images)
- add: support to import HTML files
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- fix: make Windows installer work even for restricted users (not having Administrator rights), program suggests different install folder for this install mode
- add: new build targets OpenSuse 11.2 64bit and Arch Linux 2009.08 32bit
- changed the Windows installers to copy GTK libraries directly into the app folder, Notecase does not use launcher applications anymore (for portable mode start with "notecase.exe --portable")
This should make the program less vulnerable to so called "DLL hell"
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- updated GTK for Win32 to latest version 2.20.0
- add: new Lua script to change Read-Only flag to entire branch under currently selected note ("24_SetBranchReadOnly.lua")
- add: tags that are assigned to the currently selected note are now painted with underlined text in the Tags Pane
- optimize saving a Sqlite based document (cca 7% faster now)
- fix: when dropping a single image file into the text view, insert the picture into the note text instead of adding it as an attachment
- add: double-clicking the note in the tree view shows Note Properties window (clicking the icon still shows the icon selector window)
- add: experimental Windows 7 integration code for adding recent files list into program's jump list
- fix: use device's Volume up/down keys on Nokia Maemo platform to enter/exit full screen mode
- add: use accelerometer chip information on Nokia Maemo v5 platform to adapt application window to current device orientation (portrait/landscape)

You can read detailed list of changes online at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php

For those not being in the loop, here are some online resources related to NoteCase Pro:

a) Google group http://groups.google.com/group/notecase-pro
converse with other users, post support requests and feature suggestions

b) Twitter http://twitter.com/NotecasePro
tracks the development of program

c) Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Notecase/151626410312?ref=mf
consider enlisting as a fan of Notecase, or read some news

As always any feedback is welcome.

PS. Few additional news:
I am working on a OS X Snow Leopard installer, there is an experimental build available that uses GTK build with Quartz support (no X11 server needed), feedback if higly welcome.
It requires installing GTK from: http://notecase.sourceforge.net/temp/gtk2-2.18.8.dmg
Then, the Notecase is installed from: http://notecase.sourceforge.net/temp/notecase_pro-3.0.0.dmg

Another news is that I would like to start deprecating support for really old distros like
Fedora Core 6 and 7 and Ubuntu 6 and 7. If someone is using one of these let me know.

The new NoteCase Pro release v2.9.8 is out!

Downloads are now available at http://www.virtual-sky.com/download.php

Major news are:
- option to perform auto-save directly to the main document file (as opposed to using a temporary crash-protection copy)
- improved RTF export adding support for bulleted list, hyperlinks, text color and text background color
- support for one-click installation on Nokia Maemo (using .install file pointing to the apt-get repository)
- new build targets: Centos 5.4 x86_64, Debian 5.0.4 i386 and amd64
- GTK for Windows 32bit upgraded to version 2.18.7, for Windows 64bit build upgraded to version 2.18.6
- updated translations for Croatian, Romanian, German and French language (many thanks for all volunteer translators)

You can read detailed list of changes online at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php

As always any feedback is welcome.

Notecase related article/review

I've just spotted a flattering review of Notecase.
The author prefers Notecase to highly popular Evernote.

You can read the article at:
http://www.linuxinsider.com/story/69354.html

Notecase Pro v2.9.6 released

The new release is out!
Downloads are now available at http://www.virtual-sky.com/download.php

Major news are:
- implemented text search mode using logical operators (example "friend AND NOT (Bob OR Jack)" )
- RTF export support (WARNING: still experimental, missing support for fonts, colors, bullets, links)
- two new Lua scripts implementing loading/writing note text to the predefined file (linked file name is stored in the note as its custom property named "ExportFile"). This enables users to keep the code snippets in the note and to quickly dump them to the predefined file.
- 475 TIMES faster first-time save to .ncdb file format
- speed up paste text action with "automatic links recognition" option switched on (from 40sec to 0sec for 600kB test file)

You can read detailed list of changes online at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php

New release

Hi everyone,

I've just released Notecase Pro v2.9.4.

Important info for Windows (x86) users:
please uninstall and make sure the files of the old version of the program are removed before doing new install. This is needed because new version uses latest GTK v2.18 instead of the older v2.16.

Another important news is that since this version, installed Notecase Pro will work even if you did not registered your copy. The unregistered version (called "Lite") will have some advanced features locked, but the program will be usable allowing the user to save the document into the .ncz file format (other formats can be loaded, but they can be saved back only as .ncz).
Feature comparison table will be online tomorrow.

News:

- important bug fixes (major changes related to Maemo and Win64 platforms and bulleted lists)
- new "Add Node to List" method adds the selected node in a Tree Pane into the List Pane
- created builds for Gentoo (Sabayon) Linux distro (with great help with testing and editing .ebuild file by Christoph Zauner)
- List Pane now also supports node marking
- created "Remove Marked Nodes From List" command for List Pane only (context menu)
- when loading Sqlite based file format, warn user if the file is fragmented (fragmentation higher than 15%)
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- approximately 80% faster save operation for .ncd/.nce/.ncz formats
- French translation updated (work by Pierrick Pinot)
- add: free (unregistered) version, add message box on startup: "Some features are disabled unless and until you have registered ..."
- fix: changed "Section" field value for Maemo .deb package to "user/office"
- fix: assign Alt+Up Arrow and Alt+Down Arrow keyboard shortcuts for navigating between the panes that appear in the Tree Pane column (Tree/List, Tags, Attachments).
- it is now possible to see a list of pending tasks through "View"/"Pending Tasks"
- fix: support to open document files when clicked in File Manager on Nokia Maemo platform
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- fix: "optify" the package for Maemo platform (using "/opt" as installation prefix) to save space on root partition
- redirect GTK warnings/errors into the NoteCase Pro crash log

You can read detailed list of changes online at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php

As always feedback is welcome.

PS. Mandriva 64bit and Gentoo packages will be released tomorrow.

Notecase Pro v2.9.1 release

I am now uploading the latest Notecase Pro release

News:

- some important bug fixes
- save algorithm for .ncd/.nce/.ncz formats is now 60x faster (from 30:35.500 to 29.546 on 75MB test file)
- help file improvements (work by Paul Merrell)
- new "Save all on minimize" option to save changes for every document when program is minimized
- Lua script that takes a list of tags from clipboard (one tag per line) and adds them to the current note
- support to store custom properties (name+value strings) in the document file (per-document or per-note properties)
- support to abort loading html based format files (.ncd, .nce, .ncz)
- crash log for Linux now includes crash backtrace in the log
- support aborting the "List all notes" operation

You can read detailed list of changes online at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php

Moblin build

I am looking into creating a support for Moblin based Linux distros.
Is any of Notecase Pro users using Moblin on his/her netbook PC ?

I could use some help with testing so give me a mail if you are interested :)

Notecase Pro v2.8.8 has just been released

Some highlights:

- many important bug fixes
- support for Nokia Maemo 5 OS (Nokia N900)
- node icon is now clickable, double click allows quick change of icon
- implemented node attachment view (with context menu and accepting dropped files)
- saving to .ncd/.nce file now has a proper progress (instead of old "pulsing" progress)
- new "Copy Node Only" action enables user to copy the selected note to clipboard without its children
- many new Lua functions with sample scripts implementing new features:
sample Lua script to fill List Pane with notes who have at least one tag shared with the currently selected note
sample Lua script to sort the selected note text lines
sample Lua script to fetch tags of a current note and put them to clipboard as text, one tag per line
sample Lua script to copy all tags from all notes listed in List Pane to the clipboard
sample Lua script to Mark All Done Nodes
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- help file improvements (work by Paul Merrell)

You can read detailed list of changes online at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php

As always feedback is welcome.

Now on Twitter too

If you want to stay updated (almost real-time) on the development of Notecase Pro,
feel free to track my new Twitter stream at: http://twitter.com/NotecasePro

Notecase Pro v2.8.5 has just been released
Some highlights:

- many important bug fixes
- improved RTF import support (many formatting tags are now imported), Keynote and Treepad format RTF import was improved too (using the same new code)
- new Lua methods to manipulate the List Pane view (a.k.a. flat list view)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- OpenSolaris build is active again (built using Nexenta StormOS distro)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- tag view context menu operation "List Nodes Having Tag" fills the flat list view with notes having the selected tag (double mouse click or pressing Enter in Tag View activates this method)
- tag view context menu operations working with a flat list view ("Tag This List" and "Remove Tag from List"); visible only when flat list view is active
- help file improvements (work by Paul Merrell)

You can read detailed list of changes online at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php

As always feedback is welcome.

Price reductions, Notecase Pro v2.7.9 release

Some highlights:
- portable mode for Windows was merged with the main installer (choose standard or portable installation mode in the installer)
- add: implemented "Align justify" formatting option
- add: added a "most recently used" menu for Lua scripts (inside the "Tools" -> "Scripts" submenu)
- add: add two new menu items for context menu when cursor is over the picture: "Cut Image", "Copy Image". Both copy the image to the clipboard (previously only selected image would be copied embedded as part of the HTML using base64 encoding)
- better looking icon selector in the Note Properties window (seletor moved to popup dialog window)
- "Reload License" menu renamed to "Install License", if the program is not installed this feature now shows the file picker dialog for you to load your key file and the program will try to copy it in the required paths
- updated Gstreamer build for windows to the latest version GStreamer-WinBuild-0.10.4-LGPL.exe (prerelease)
- add: implemented per-task option to play a sound file when some task expires (is due)
- French translation updated (work by Pierrick Pinot)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- multiple bug fixes

You can read detailed list of changes online at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php

As always feedback is welcome.

Other than program features, important news is the reduction of the program price, in order to generate faster growth of the user base. New prices are lower by cca 20% or more.

Notecase Pro v2.7.6 released

Major highlights of this release:
- 6 - 10 times speed up the file save operation for .ncd/.nce file formats
- drastically lower CPU usage on Linux systems
- formatting Styles feature (apply your custom combination of bold, italic, font, colors, .. to the selected text)
- added "Acknowledge All" and "Snooze All" features for Task Expired dialog
- postpone autosave process by 10 seconds, if the user is currently typing working with the program
- faster find operation when searching by "has attachment" or "is task" flags within the .ncdb file format document
- some fixes to the Windows application launchers, should reduce "dll hell" problems
- help file and tips.en.txt file updates (work by Paul Merrell)

You can read detailed list of changes online at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php

As always feedback is welcome.

Notice of absence

I'll be away starting from 18th until 23rd of this month, I am going to Rome, Italy for a vacation.
If you plan to contact me for any reason, please do it few days before or few days after this period.

Thank you for your understanding.

Notecase Pro v2.7.3 released

The new version is out. Mostly concentrated on bug-fixing and speed improvements, but there are some nice new features too.

Some highlights:
- fix: drastically speed up the file save operation for .ncd/.nce file formats (on my test document new save time is cca 20% or the original save time)
- add: new Windows installer concept working similarily to the already existing portable install (advantages: does not change environment variables on the PC, less vulnerable to "dll hell")
- add: dropping the URL on the tree view creates a note that is a hyperlink (previously it created an ordinary note)
- add: Find dialog was enhanced with the option to search in the note contents (text) only
- add: implemented "Remove From List" command in the flat list view context menu (does not delete actual note, just removes it from the flat view)
- add: left click on the save warning label (status bar) starts the file saving operation
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- add: save reminder in the status bar changes color from gray to red when enough document changes have been accumulated (to remind you it's time to save)
- fix: do not translate the "Insert new node or select an existing one to start typing." string multiple times (should drastically lower CPU usage on Linux)
- fix: greatly improved speed of fetching the image from the internet ("Html contains image links. Do you want to fetch and embed images into the document?")
- moved "Insert symbol" menu command to the "Tools" menu
- honor hoisting when printing the document (only work with notes below the hoist root note)
- fix: "date_last_acknowledged" was not being written back to the document after the task was triggered (caused the already ack. task to be triggered)
- add: implemented "File"/"Document"/"Document compact" menu action that compacts the database-based file format document
- add: added Ini-file key to disable loading gstreamer audio system ("[Startup]" section, "DisableGstreamer=1" key), must be adeed manually, no GUI yet
- add: make flat/tree view column sizes restored on the next application start and when switching between flat and tree view modes

You can read detailed list of changes online at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php

As always feedback is welcome.

User mail problem

For Kouzuki-san: if you are reading this, can you please send me a mail from another account.

I've been trying to send you license key file three times now without success.
Hopefully, another mail account of yours will help me to complete this process.

Notecase article

If you are Japanese user of Notecase or you know Japanese language, here is the link to the online review of Notecase in written in, you can already guess, Nihongo :) .

http://journal.mycom.co.jp/articles/2009/04/01/notcase/index.html

Notecase Pro version 2.7.0 has just been released

Major changes are:
- multiple bug fixes
- add: implement tree view columns (switched on/off through the document tab context menu, columns edited through header context menu)
- help updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- add: draw "completed" notes with strikethrough font in the Flat List View too
- add: show note icons in the Flat List View too
- add: added option to make the note "Completed" from the Flat List View (context menu option, shortcut works too)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- add: new "List All Notes" feature to make a flat list of all notes in the document
- add: implemented "Delete Document" action (under "File/Document") to close the current document and delete it from disk
- add: new "Is Clone" column for tree view having these states ("", "clone", "clone of current" (currently selected note))
- add: add new task status values "planning" and "waiting", old status "initial" renamed to "not started", old status "normal" renamed to "in progress"
- add: support to search notes by task status property (see "Find" window)
- add: added Lua method to get tags associated with the note (NcDocument_GetNoteTags)
- add: find window can now accept empty date field to search for the notes whose task dates have not been filled in
- add: support to accept dropped URL or web page selection from Firefox both in tree view and text view (Linux only, GTK on Windows still does not have full d'n'd support)
- add: implemented "Go to clone's source node" option in the tree view context menu
- add: new Lua method to insert new document note (NcDocument_InsertNote)
- add: new Lua method to set note contents (NcDocument_SetNoteHtml)
- add: new Lua method to create new document (NcDocuments_New)
- add: new Lua method to save the document to file (NcDocument_Save)
- add: ability to search note by "Is completed" property
- add: added "Invert marked nodes" feature
- add: when making the note "completed", make its task state completed too (if the task exists)
- add: ability to search note by "Is clone" property
- add: add new possible flat list columns: "Status", "Completion Date", "Expire Date", "Node Flags"
- add: implemented "Use block cursor" feature (Options -> Display tab) to draw thicker text view/text entry cursors
- add: added "Up", "Down" buttons to reorder entries in the list of files to be loaded at startup (Options window)
- add: implemented "Save All" feature, to quickly save all modified document with one command
- add: support for hyperlink to the local file stored as a relative path
- add: added "Force icon for attachments" feature to force the clip icon to the notes that have an attachment (user's note selection is not removed, just not temporarily used)
- add: store/restore "Store as relative link" state for new hyperlinks in the .ini file
- add: initial support for importing RTF type of the notes in the Treepad document

You can read detailed list of changes online at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php

I am in the process of updating a roadmap page at: http://www.virtual-sky.com/roadmap.php
There you can see major tasks that I would like to implement in this program.

As always feedback is welcome.

PS. Note that some users noticed that Ubuntu .deb when installed on the latest 9.04 beta can end up showing empty list in the File Open window.
It appears that when linking with GnomeVfs library instead of GIO, this problem goes away. That's why I've created yet another build for Ubuntu that explicitly links with GnomeVfs.

Group test: note takers

I've just stumbled upon a nice article (first published in Linux Format magazine) where they compare 6 most popular note taker programs for Linux.

Free version of Notecase got a really nice review and the 8/10 score with the verdict: "The best GTK-based note taking tool around: mature, feature-laden and very snappy in use."
Notecase was placed second in total list (Basket being the first).

You can read the article here.

Notecase Pro 2.6.6 released

I've just released a new Notecase Pro version 2.6.6.

Major changes are:
- faster .ncd/.nce file format saving operation (test document average save time changed from 31sec to 17sec)
- experimental build for 64-bit Windows (looking for testers!)
- if the document title is defined, it will be used as tab title
- added new internal icon ("favorite"-like yellow star)
- new help file update (work by Paul Merrell)
- much faster copy to clipboard of plain text (no formatting links or pictures) document notes (on test PC copying 11MB text note is almost instantaneous)
- using standard File Save dialog (with some usability fixes) for Save As operation
- added "--run" command line switch to enable running a Lua script on start-up
- implemented initial "Send via E-mail" feature (works with OE on Windows, might work on Gnome with gio builds on Linux, does not work on other "platforms")
- loading .ncd document is now much faster (big test document load time changed from 16sec to 7sec)
- support to build Slackware package in its own .tgz format
- support to build Puppy Linux package in its own .pet format (done on Slackware using the tgz2pet script)
- support to reorder document tabs using mouse (drag and drop)
- automatic hyperlink generator now supports "file://" links too
- added support for email hyperlink type (new type in the Link Wizard window)

You can read detailed list of changes online at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php

As always feedback is welcome.

PS. Don't forget that you can converse with other NoteCase Pro users, post support requests and feature suggestions, and talk about anything
related to the program by joining the NoteCase Pro user group at <http://groups.google.com/group/notecase-pro> (also linked from the
NoteCase Pro Help menu). You can read archives online or subscribe to receive posts by email.

If you are a Facebook.com user, consider enlisting as a fan of Notecase, or rad some news at:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Notecase/151626410312?ref=mf
Additionally, Marco Costanzo opened Facebook group related to his data analisys technique related to Notecase at:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=56792619209&ref=mf

One more note: if the English is not your native language, consider helping to
translate Notecase Pro to your own language.
You can find more date and information at these pages:
http://www.virtual-sky.com/translations.php
http://www.virtual-sky.com/translating.php

Interesting article

I've just been informed by the authors about the online article titled
100 Free and Useful Portable Apps for College Students

Authors selected 100 best free programs useful to students and the free version of the Notecase is in the list!

Anyway, you might also be interested in other 99 programs, so feel free to take a look at the list.

New release

I've just released the new Notecase Pro version 2.6.3.

This release was almost exclusively concentrated on bug-fixing. The new release should be more stable, and taking much less RAM memory when doing the export operation.

Additionally, major news in a complete help file redesign, thanks to the great work by Paul Merrell. Thank you Paul.

Next version should also concentrate on removing some issues with bulleted list. Additionally, there are plans to finally integrate Gstreamer library in order to add initial support to play audio from within the program.

You can read detailed list of changes online at:
http://virtual-sky.com/history.php

As always feedback is welcome.

Don't forget that you can converse with other NoteCase Pro users, post support requests and feature suggestions, and talk about anything related to the program by joining the NoteCase Pro user group at (also linked from the NoteCase Pro Help menu). You can read archives online or subscribe to receive posts by email.

How to handle dependencies

Recently, Notecase Pro became dependent on a GtkSourceView library in order to implement syntax highlighting and a few other cool features.
Slight problem is that the program requires at least version 2.4.1 of this library, because it fixes a crash when the library needs to display a picture inside the note.
The problem is that many distros still offer the old versions of the library, for example Ubuntu is still stuck at 2.2.2 which is not good for us.
Windows installer for Notecase Pro comes with this library already prepared for you, so there is not problem there.

To resolve the problem on Linux, you need to compile this library by hand. Here are the steps (adapted for Ubuntu):

• download the library sources (see website link above) and unpack them
• open the terminal application and go to the sources directory
• execute these 3 commands: "./configure", "make", "sudo make install"

Note that if you are missing some dependency for the library, you'll get notified in the configure phase. In that case, install the required dependency and repeat the 3 commands written above.

Once the GtkSourceView library is installed, you might need to install the notecase .deb with force option (because you didn't install the .deb for the GtkSourceView library - because it
doesn't exist).

To do this, from the directory with notecase .deb file execute this command (again from within the terminal application):
"sudo dpkg --install --force-all packagename"
(where packagename is the name of the notecase .deb file)

That's it. Now your Notecase Pro should work fine.

New year

I hope everyone had a nice holidays. I know I did.
I've just returned from the vacation, so I am now ready to start preparing the new release.

Not that I didn't do anything though. During the vacation I've fixed some bugs and added support for Bonsai Natara outliner import (as requested by one potential user).

But the best news I've got this morning by mail. Daniel Hertrich managed to get the Notecase Pro installed successfully on OS X 10.5! Thank you Daniel, really great work!

Here is the description from his mail:

All commands entered on Mac OS X Terminal, not X11 terminal.
Precondition: Intel Mac (in my case MacBook) with Mac OS X 10.5.6
(10.5 with all recent online updates as of 2009-01-08).
Internet connection must be active for the procedure.


- Installed XCode tools from the Mac OS X install DVD
- Installed Macports from http://www.macports.org/install.php (use the "Leopard universal" package)
- XQuartz installed (X11-2.3.2.1.dmg from
http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki (use the inconspicuous
download link in the "Latest release" section of the page)). XQuartz
is needed because otherwise gtk2 will fail to build
- sudo port -d selfupdate
- sudo port install gtk2
(this takes a while, maybe hours, because it fetches and compiles a
LOT of packages GTK depends on)
- sudo port install dpkg (actually not needed in this scenario, because Notecase cannot be installed from the .deb package anyway due to a packet architecture mismatch: i686-apple-darwin8 (package) vs. i686-darwin (system))
- sudo port install Xrender (this is a library which is needed by Notecase, otherwise it won't start)
- Downloaded tar.gz version of Notecase Pro
- cd /
- sudo tar xvf /Users/YOURUSERNAME/Downloads/notecase_pro-2.5.7.tar (adapt version number)
(Binary is then in: /usr/bin/notecase.x11app)
- sudo ln -s /usr/bin/notecase.x11app /Applications/Notecase.x11app
(This generates an Alias entry in the Applications folder)

Now, you can start Notecase by clicking its entry in "Applications".
When a new version is released, download the tar.gz and do the steps
- cd /
- sudo tar xvf /Users/YOURUSERNAME/Downloads/notecase_pro-X.Y.Z.tar
This will upgrade Notecase to the downloaded version X.Y.Z.

New release

I've just released new Notecase Pro v2.5.7.

Major news:
- syntax highlighting support (only newer distros were compiled to use this)
- optionally show line numbers in the text view
- subscript and superscript text formatting
- "Scripts" / "Register script" window to register up to 10 scripts to be displayed in the scripts menu
- "Scripts" / "Script events" window to register scripts to be automatically executed at the specified program events
- OPML export support
- plain text with tabs file format (import and export)
- "Find and Replace" can now be run globally (over the entire document)
- new .ncz file format (basically it is a compressed form of .ncd file format)
- new link execute code for Nokia platform (I need your feedback on this)
- new Fedora 10 build

You can read detailed list of changes online at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php

All builds that were built to include syntax highlighting feature (see if "Node Properties" window has "Source language" combo box) now require that you install gtksourceview library (at least version 2.4.1). It can be found at: http://projects.gnome.org/gtksourceview/index.html

Note that the Solaris build is delayed, distro broke apart while running its package update program. That's why I would like to know if any of you uses Solaris build (the logs show only one download for Solaris).

As always feedback is welcome. I am especially interested in the feedback on the new Maemo code to handle hyperlink clicks.

Additionally, if you are interested in having the program in your own languages, why not contribute a translation? You can find more info on Notecase Pro translation here:
http://www.virtual-sky.com/translating.php
http://www.virtual-sky.com/translations.php

New (last) free Notecase release

I am now in the process of releasing new Notecase v1.9.8.
The major news are:
- syntax highlighting using GtkSourceView library
- text line numbers
- text formatting can now be applied even it there is not text selected
- fixed undo issue

GtkSourceView usage in the code is optional. Not all builds where done with support for GtkSourceView! The reason is simple: some distros are quite old and I couldn't compile GtkSourceView for them. For example, when compiling on Fedora 6, GtkSourceView complained it requires GTK+ >= 2.12.x, but I could not find the newer GTK package for this distro. That's why only newer distros are compiled with this library.

Note that this is my last release of the free Notecase. It's been 4 years since I've started the project, and it was a great experience. I had a great feedback and the project seems to become popular.

As always, the problem is basically my free time. I have less free time than before, and now my time is mostly reserved for my Notecase Pro project. It became more and more hard to maintain two different projects who are growing more and more apart in their code base.

This is my final decision, it's been "cooking" for more than several months now. I won't make any new releases or builds, but you can send me your translation updates, and I'll post the at the project's website.

The beauty of open source is that the source code is here, and anyone can fork and improve the project under a new name.

Anyway, enjoy the new release. My feeling is that I've left the project in decent state and it is pretty usable for all the standard tasks you might want to do with the program.
If you want something more, consider buying Notecase Pro.