New Treepad Lite version available
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Posted by Stephen Zeoli
May 31, 2006 at 05:04 PM
I don’t know how many of you might be interested, but version 3.0 of Treepad Lite (the freeware edition) is now available at
Treepad, I believe, was the first two-pane, hierarchical PIM. The free version, in my opinion, is a handy little tool to have around. Here is a list of the improvements:
New features in version 3.0
*********** Options ***************
* Added: a settings screen containing many new options. You can access the settings screen through “menu: View/options” or the new options toolbutton.
********** Toolbars ***************
* Added: a new button to open the options screen has been added to the file toolbar
* Improved: the ‘Follow Hyperlink’ icon on the ‘navigate’ toolbar has been replaced with a better icon.
* Improved: the ‘Search article’ icon has been replaced with a nicer icon
* Added: the right-click toolbar menu now also contains menu items for the infobars
* Added: the right-click toolbar menu now also appears when right-clicking on the article title bar, just below the article.
********** Skins ***************
* Added: one can now switch between ten skins to adjust the appearance of TreePad’s toolbars. Menu/view/skin or toolbar popup-menu/skin. The following skins are available: classic, silver 1, silver 2, blue sky, blue metallic, chrome, aluminium, vanilla, purple and green. The ‘classic’ skin corresponds to how the program looked during the last few years. * Added: the following skins are available: classic, silver 1, silver 2, blue sky and blue metallic. The ‘classic’ skin corresponds to how the program presented itself during the last few years
* Added: a new skins menu has been added to the toolbar popup menu, as well as to the view menu
********** User-interface *********
* Added: Windows XP themes support
* Improved: the tab below the article has been replaced with a nicer looking panel displaying the name of the article
* Updated ‘About’ screen, menu: help/about
********** Tray icon **************
* Many new tray icon options, such as: show in tray when minimized, show in tray when active, show in tray and taskbar when minimized, etc. etc. Menu: View/options
********* Tree *******************
* Added: a tree folder icon for each node. You can hide (and show) this icon using the options screen, menu: view/options
Steve Z.