Surfulater V1.94, B0.0 Released

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Posted by subs
2006-01-04 15:54:48

Hi and happy new year to all.
For those interested in Surfulater the latest version was released on 2 Jan 2006. A more informative writeup can be found on my blog at: http://blog.surfulater.com/

This release further enhances Surfulaters ability to acquire information from other Windows Applications as well as the Web.

Information on starting a fresh free trial is at: http://www.surfulater.com/faq.html Download from: http://www.surfulater.com

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Surfulater Version 1.94, B0.0 Release Notes - 2 January 2006

This release enables you to append content to existing articles, more easily attach files to articles, access functions with extra menu items, as well as including various other updates.

What’s New

- Append Clipboard to Field has been added to the content window context menu. This enables you to quickly append content to any field in an article. For example you can add more content from a Web page to an article by selecting the text + images in your Web Browser, Copying it to the Windows Clipboard, and then using “Append Clipboard to Field”. You can also Attach files and append images from Windows Explorer. This a great new feature, one that I’ve been mulling over for some time. Thanks to John Rivera for suggesting this specific implementation.

- Attach File… makes it easier to attach a file to a Surfulater article. You no longer have to go to Windows Explorer and then use Edit|Paste, although that is still available. “Attach File…” is on the Article Menu, as well as the main context menus, and on the Standard Toolbar.

- Two new Toolbar buttons have been added to the Standard Toolbar. The first lets you add a Hyperlink to selected text (the same as Ctrl+K), and the second removes the Hyperlink at the cursor position. These commands have also been added to the content window edit mode context editor. ie. Add a Link and Remove this Link.

- When you Attach a Web page to an article the current date and time is included, so you know when it was added.

- New Article from Clipboard has been added to the Folder and Article Knowledge Tree context menus. Suggested by Leigh Wardle.

- Article|New Article from Clipboard is now available on the Standard Toolbar and it now has a menu image.

- Article|Send To|... has been added. This performs the same functions as “Send To” on the Tree and Content window context menus.

- Article|Go to the Search Results has been added, along with a new button on the Search Toolbar. These move the tree selection to the Search Results folder.

- Toolbars are now displayed in two rows and the Knowledge Base Toolbar is now on by default.

- The Search Toolbar Search combobox is wider and deeper.

- The View menu has been changed to move all toolbars on to a Toolbars sub-menu. This new menu also includes “Customize…”. The View menu has also been rearranged slightly.

- Further updates to the Help, including new articles.

What’s Fixed

- A problem where Images which come from a database on a Web site, weren’t showing the correct images, has been fixed. Thanks to David Britton for reporting this.

- Attaching a Web Page no longer stops any images which are in the Attachments field, from from being displayed correctly.

- Articles created from content in the Windows Clipboard, now handle Unicode UTF-8 character encodings correctly.

- The Content window context menu no longer includes “Select All” when the mouse click is not over an editable area. This fixes a problem raised by Arlene Shipley.

- A problem introduced in the last release, where the area behind pop-up tip windows wasn’t always restored has been fixed.

- Article|New Article and Article|New Article from Clipboard are now disabled if the current Folder is not appropriate for adding new articles.

- Article|New Article has been removed from the ‘All Articles’ folders context menu.

- A problem with Surfulater crashing when the Free Trial had ended, has been fixed.
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Neville Franks, http://www.surfulater.com

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