Documentation Release History ============================= AkelPad User Manual =================== v10.12.09 - StatusUserFormat added to Settings/manual (hidden) in Index tab - History update (4.5.0, 4.5.1) - Options/MDI vs. PDMI window modes: "AkelPad has 700 file limit in MDI mode." - View/Status bar: new image (all items now left-aligned) - View/Language: new image (languages added), link to language pack download added. - Introduction/About AkelPad and this document: added link to languages pack - Appendix E/StatusUserFormat: new 'symbols' added, table re-arranged (grouping, alphabetical) - View/Font... - added note re: default font - tabs now have XP visual styles - images which showed tabs modified/replaced - Window/Tabs: Tip (tab style - "middle panel") removed, no longer necessary. Tips page amended accordingly. v10.09.23 - "Using this Manual" page modified: Tip added (and embedded manifest file) to enable Windows visual styles in XP (or other), if not already enabled. - "Using this Manual" section modified: new images, better rollovers - many images which use rollovers enhanced by "red boxes" - Window/More Windows... - image changed ("Modified" now gone to context menu) - File/Print... - dialog images added to "Collate" topic - Settings/Execute setup - example image changed (was incorrect) - Appendix F/Using AkelUpdater - minor wording additions/changes, new version image - View/Status bar - new images, minor wording changes (item D. - Read only, item G. - link to StatusUserFormat) - Settings/Execute setup - modified, Windows environment variables now accepted - View/Split window - Context menu sub-section added - Using AkelPad/Drag-and-drop operations - early termination of drag-and-drop added as a tip (added to Tips page) - Edit/Replace - "replace all" count dialog added along with a few comments - Appendix E/StatusUserFormat - new page (Misc/Tips - new tip added) - cross-checked Appendix G (internal commands) with AkelHelp-Eng.htm (v4.4.9), 4501 added - cross-checked Appendix C (shortcut keys) with AkelHelp-Eng.htm (v4.4.9) v10.09.12 - History updated - changes to Options/Window mode (more detail re: MDI/PMDI) - new page: Options/MDI vs. PDMI window modes - changes to Menus/Window (different images, depending on mode) - Window/[More Windows...] changed - Arrange (image added, comments re: PDMI) - context menus added - Window/[document selection] changed to identify as MDI mode only - View/Colors... changed - now possible to save a modified theme - Settings/Mouse dragging - modified (wording clarified) - some internal JavaScript, rollover images and rollover routines improved - Help/About - clicking on website button now opens page in your browser v10.08.02 - Appendix E - tools for manual settings were flawed in INI handling, fixed v10.08.01 - Help/About, new image - History updated, 2 'bugs' removed (now fixed) from Editors note) - Using AkelPad/Working with tabs, context menus added (MDI, PDMI) - Appendix B/Unicode, UTF-32 now supported - Window/tile and cascade pages - added: these options not available in PDMI mode - Options/Settings-Advanced - new image & links - Find/Replace: Search direction - 'In selection' amended (new feature in Settings-Advanced) - Using AkelPad/Command line parameters - SaveFile method amended (-1 parameters) - "box" image on opening page updated (logo updated) - File/Exit - added note re: saving data when leaving Windows - In response to comments on the Forum, manual settings tools have been completely rewritten (JavaScript code): - Security warning (ActiveX) now issued ONLY when reading/writing. Tools may be "played with" or the page read without a warning. - Values may be read/written using the Windows registry or AkelPad.ini. This allows for easy usage in portable installations. - Tools tips (hover mouse) now on all tool buttons. v10.07.06 (fixups) - Edit/Go to... rollover images out of alignment (from new image), fixed - The "Go to line..." dialog is now "Go to..." dialog, fixed several locations - Window/[More Windows...], tab search re-worded (behavior changed) - Using AkelPad/Command line parameters - Openfile method, autodetect Codepage added v10.07.05 - fixed a javascript bug in rollover images (rare) which caused a scripting error - a few minor spelling mistakes, format modifications (not mentioned here) - split up history (new page), added new history (ver. 4.4.4) - Appendix A/Installation, new installer image - Help/About, new image - modified Introduction/About.. page (new version, release date) - Menus/File, Save all as... added (new content page) - "Paste to Columnar selection" now "Columnar Paste" in Edit menu - Appendix C modified, keys checked, added as needed - Edit/Goto Line... is now Edit/Goto..., page modified - "Read only" moved from Options to View menu, tip removed: read only no longer affects new files - View/language - new image (Krgryz, Turkish removed) - Options/Window mode - added PMDI mode, new image - Options/Settings... reworked, now 5 tabs, some items moved to different tabs new page - keyblayout.htm new page - logdate.htm new page - default_ext.htm - note added to File/file_name_input.htm, re: default ext - File/headlines_top.htm & headlines_bottom.htm - new images, %d parameter added - menu images updated, as required - Window/[More Windows...], "Only names" added - Edit/Selection - added Ctrl+5 (cycle case) - File/Exit - tip added re: active tab and settings - Settings/Save settings, note added re: changes to settings triggering config save - Using AkelPad/Command line parameters completely reworked - new page, Appendix G - Internal Commands (for command line syntax) - Appendix E - Settings, page checked against source code, modified as needed - added tool image/link at top of each page (manual settings) - new page, DateInsertFormat - new page, DateLogFormat - new page, PaintOptions - Edit/Find, Edit/Replace - modified tooltip for "Find next" - Edit/Search direction (from Find, Replace) - modified "Beginning" option - Edit/Insert date - modified (DateInsertFormat option) v10.04.12 (fixups) - Using AkelPad/Working with tabs: added open/close tab using middle mouse button - File/Page setup../Colors: SpecialChar plugin does not print colors (removed) - Menus/Options: Ctrl+E (Read only) hotkey removed from image - Options/Read only: Ctrl+E hotkey removed from page title - Appendix E/StatusPosType: page reworked, new tool - Note re: StatusPosType (bit 2) effect added to o Edit/Go to line... o View/Wrap words o View/Status bar - minor wording changes (for clarity), "inhibits" (with reference to Read only) changed - Tip (Read only disables ...) added to pages for affected operations, and Tips page v10.04.11 - new title page "box" to use new AkelPad logo - new page: Settings/Editor/RichEdit mouse selection - new page: Settings/Editor/Mouse dragging - Using AkelPad/Drag and drop page modified - new page: Using AkelPad/Working with tabs - modified Appendix C (Ctrl E now eliminated) - Appendix E/Settings modified (some settings now combined as bitcoded integer) ie. TabOptionsMDI, CaretOptions, MouseOptions - modified File/Page setup: new image, color printing, missing rollover box for font - new page: File/Page setup.../Colors (color printing) - added tip (re: color printing) to View/Colors... and Tips v10.02.15 - rollover image links fixed (a few "typos") - Options/Plug-ins..., added to "Hotkeys" section v10.02.14 - added rollover images to improve mouse navigation (47 pages) - updated some images - reduce image size wherever possible (restrict colors), to reduce CHM file size - fixed typo: Edit/Newline format (Mac -> carriage-return) v09.12.03 - added links to Appendix E (settings) to Options/Settings tabs - updated history, etc. - updated View/Language page, re: language module check, manual installation - new image for Options/Settings-Editor - Settings/Text margin: added Selection checkbox behavior, new image - added note & link re: Selection to Using AkelPad/Selecting text/Using mouse - Appendix E/Settings, added MarginSelection, RichEditClass and WindowListMDI - added Appendix E/RichEditClass page, and tool v09.11.03 - Paste to columnar selection, tip modified - Window/[document selection] modified: 'More windows...' removed - new page: Window/More Windows... - new page: Appendix C/Menu: Window - Menus/Window menu page has new image, link to More Windows... - new heading in Index -> Dialogs, other small modifications - Settings/Wrap, modified for Limit: and Mark: = -1 - File/Preview modified (new behavior, re: zoom, initial size and page) - misc. cleanups, tweaks v09.10.29 - Edit/Replace, new image (whole word search was previously omitted) - added new tip to Edit/Find and Edit/Replace - added note: Options/Don't open a file twice and Options/Don't open a program twice v09.10.17 - ***new versioning number used (YY.MM.DD release date)*** This should make it easier to know if your version is up to date (I hope). - "new" settings added to Appendix E/Settings - new image in Edit/Find: whole words only feature added - Edit/Find page expanded (match case, whole word) - Options/Settings-Advanced: left/right URL delimiters added (hyperlinks) - File/Preview, added note re: "dragging" the page using left mouse button, also added page navigation by mouse scroll wheel - Using AkelPad/Selecting text/Using mouse modified, text selection while browsing - added note (re: browse selection) to Using AkelPad/Document browsing - replaced some images with "Windows themes incorporated" (embedded manifest) - "Command line parameters" moved from 'Appendix A' to 'Using AkelPad' (in TOC, added to Index) - updated Appendix E/Settings (registry entries) - Edit/Paste modified slightly (columnar) - new page for "Paste to Columnar Selection". Added keys to Appendix C - Tips page modified v2.1.0 - new Tips page - update images (Settings/Editor, Settings/Caret limit) - wording change - added Alt-number usage to Edit/Insert character v2.0.9 - expanded Print... page (& new image) - expanded Preview... page (navigation, zoom) - Options/Window mode, added middle mouse button functions to tip - added mouse action images to several pages (for clarity) - Using AkelPad/Selecting Text - mouse, small wording change in "single click" - added new history entry - new 'About' image (version change) - Appendix A - Portablility, mention of Fonts plugin - a few cleanups (external links, cosmetic stuff) v2.0.8 - added Tip to Execute setup page - added note re: no selection=select all to "Case operations", "Trim trailing whitespace", "Edit/Recode..." - added note to Menus (root) page re: shortcut keys on menu items - added new page File/Preview... - added note to Print... page (re: F1 help) - added new page Settings/Wrap delimiters - added new page Settings/Line gap - fixed editing confusion in Settings/Words delimiters, re: Richedit vs Akeledit - Overview - added Windows Vista to compatibility (Windows 7?) - add new section (Appendix F) - AkelUpdater v2.0.7 - added to current History (+ note re: HighLight messages) - add to "Font size" page - ctrl+wheelmouse can be used - Selecting text-mouse changed, re: line vs row in word wrap - link to Sourceforge historical versions added to About page - link (FastStone Capture) added to "Tools Used" page v2.0.6 - View/Status bar modified (A - caret position), note added - added to current History, also added to version 3 history - appendix A (removal) modified - installer changed - Using AkelPad/Plugins - note added re: plugin compatibility check - Settings/Wrap, added help for Marker: (replaced related images) - View/Colors modified, added "Column marker" (new feature), new image - Appendix E/WordBreak modified - new value added, javascript tool updated - Settings/Codepage recognition - additional codepages added - Appendix A/Installation - clarification of installation languages available - a few minor fixups v2.0.5 - View/Split window modified (image fix, resizing, closing panes, hotkeys) - added to current History - modified Appendix C (added new hotkeys for split window) v2.0.4 - added note (re: codepage error) to File/Save - fixed bad link on image (BOM) in File/Save as... - added to current History - add "Limit:" feature to Settings/Wrap (and new image), modified View/Wrap words as well. New image in Options/Settings - Editor - new image for Menus/View (new feature - Split window) - added tip to Settings/Save settings - new "View/Split" window page v2.0.3 - accessibility: font resizing incorporated into toolbar - status bar page reworked - Settings/Tabsize, added note - Edit/Go to line..., added offset mode - added Appendix E (4 pages), with 3 ActiveX/JavaScript tools. - Using this Manual/Options (Refresh) modified - manual Index "compacted" for easier access (no reduction in performance) v2.0.2 - more detail on /deassoc /quit method of removing file associations - added note in "Selecting text - mouse" re: Ctrl key and space/tab delimiters - added Using AkelPad/Plugins page (brief overview of what plugins can do) - Appendix A/Portablility - removed reference to Font, background color, etc and added reference to Plugins portability. - Options/Window mode - TIP: added opening a new document by double-clicking - fixed some broken/outdated internal links - Edit/Selection->/Recode - example was incorrect (!?) - fixed appearance of some external links, added tooltips (address) - updated Help/About image - Options/Settings reworked (new dialog) - new pages: Default newline, Draw caret vertical line, Caret width, Wrap - moved some info from Edit/Newline format to Options/Default newline - File/Reopen, note added - Settings/Remember caret, note added v2.0.1 - fix omissions to Appendix C (by key), cosmetic only (some C -> Ctrl missed) - Drag-and-drop, AkelPad (4.1.3, not yet released) no longer drops past end of line (columnar), REMOVED - Appendix B, AkelPad supports Latin recognition (OEM, UTF-8), ADDED - Settings/Hyperlinks, no noticeable slowdown in URL detection, Tip REMOVED - AkelPad 4 manual now ONLY available in one version - "NORMAL" v2.0.0 - updated program history, split into 5 separate files for clarity - added keyboard shortcut ctrl-Enter = insert new line - changed external links to green highlight (pink was "pukey"!) - changed spelling of a few words (eg. colour, neighbour) from Canadian to American spelling (force of habit for a "Canuck"!) for uniformity - View menu redone to reflect menu deletions/additions. Fontsize (still alive as keyboard shortcuts) now in a new "Miscellaneous" category in Appendix C - new page on color themes (deleted old foreground and background color pages) - deleted page on View/Alignment (feature removed) - newline format, Mac (0D) added, image changed - language image changed (more languages) - installer image changed (to conserve space only) - *BOM message in status bar added to Statusbar page - some new features added to Overview page, some removed where applicable - page on hyperlinks modified to reflect new configuration options - new page for "Caret limit" (Allow caret moving out of the line edge) option - Settings/words delimiter, text changed to reflect use of new AkelEdit control, rather than Windows Richedit - added standard Windows cursor movement keys to Appendix C, re-arranged key order, added left/right/up/dn images, expanded Ctrl/Alt/Shift - add new section on "Using AkelPad" o selecting text, - keyboard - mouse o drag-and-drop - add new section on "Using this manual". Explains navigation of manual, search, toolbar, etc. - slight rework (cleanup) of the About page, new Tools page