Wednesday, February 15, 2012

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.