Thursday, December 23, 2010

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.

Thursday, December 02, 2010

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.