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Note: This message is from the outliners.com archive kindly provided by Dave Winer.
Outliners.com Message ID: 1163
Posted by max30
2001-09-09 04:41:04
Latest beta of Omnioutlner includes the ability to open More files (prefixes are simplified as a result)
Released Aug 28, 2001. Previously released updates: Jan, Apr, Jun…
*New Features
*Level Styles: In the info window you now have a set of styles, one for each level of the outline. Change the style, and all items on that level with that value change.
*Items that didn’t match the default style for that level aren’t touched. (So if your style is black, and you change it to red, all items that were black are changed - all characters actually - and any that weren’t black aren’t touched.)
*New items take on the attributes of the style for their level automatically. Similarly, when you shift items from one level to another their style is adjusted automatically.
*Added another plain text export option. Now we have “Plain Text (with tabs)” and “Plain Text (fixed width, wrapped to 76 columns)”. The latter is formatted in a lovely way for plain text e-mails - like say, for feature lists like this one in our press releases.
*The find panel now includes replace, replace & find, and replace all. It also supports searching via regular expressions now.
*Enhancements
*Many operations sped up on large outlines.
*Added edit menu items ‘Insert Newline’ and ‘Deselect All’.
*Show the current ‘hoist’ed state in the document title.
*Undo/redo of typing as you type instead of just being able to undo all changes to an item at once after you finish editing it.
*With multiple columns resizing columns now automatically grows or shrinks the outline column to fit the window width. This keeps you from getting the ugly blank gap on the right hand side when stretching the window horizontally, and also works more like the single column case.
*(This does mean that you resize columns from the left edge instead of the right edge. Please send feedback if you either like or dislike this new method.)
*Enhancements to the file format make it now considerably more compact.
*HTML export now includes column headers and uses vertical alignment in table cells to make the results look more like they do in outliner itself.
*Checkboxes are now included in the exported documents for HTML and both plain text types, if you have checkboxes showing in your outline.
*The setting for ‘check spelling as you type’ is now remembered with the outline and restored when an outline is reloaded.
*The cancel key (escape) now ends editing on the current item.
*Shift-return now inserts a new item above your current selection.
*We now support the “Stationary Pad” checkbox in the Finder for outline documents.
*We can now import generic .plist files (like preferences) into an outline with 2 columns, “key” and “value”, and it looks much like PropertyListEditor, except that I find it much nicer for looking at plists than that app.
*Bug Fixes
*HTML export and umlauts - we now correctly encode all characters for the web.
*Can open MORE files by type code now without needing a hacked on ‘.more’ extension.
*Fixed redrawing bug when the outline shrank a lot (by collapsing an item with many children, for instance).
*Fixed bugs with removing all items from a parent and then undoing. Previously the item statuses and parent collapsed/expandedness were not getting reset correctly.
*New documents are no longer immediately marked ‘dirty’.
*Made gutter and background color changes undoable.
*Made column title, order and width changes undoable.
*Made ‘Revert to Saved’ work correctly.
*Enforce minimum widths of columns while resizing them. Previously you could accidently resize columns to zero width and lose them entirely.
*There were still some character encoding problems with Japanese in beta 2. It’s really, really fixed now.
*Allow hoisting items with no children.
*Many more action names added so that the undo and redo menu item titles are often more specific.
*If you show/hide checkboxes while editing, the field editor now moves horizontally correctly.
*Check spelling now works as you’d want: throughout the entire document, instead of being limited to the currently edited item.
*Fixed bug with checkboxes and undo. Peer items 1 and 2, with one checked. Indent 2 under 1 and 1 becomes unchecked. In 1.2beta2, undoing would leave item 2 checked.
*Drag-select from the bottom of the view (below any rows) now acts correctly.
*Commented out the code that makes sure that all rows are expanded when printing. That just takes flexibility away from the user, bad idea.
*Change delete forward and delete backward while you are editing, so that if you delete everything in the item and delete back, the item is removed and you end up editing the end of the previous item (and similarly with the beginning of the next item if you delete forward). Previously it would remove the item you were on and select the previous or next row, but wouldn’t edit it.