Change Log

• Small changes in help wiki
  
  
  

• Bug fixed: Background rebuild didn't work sometimes
• Bug fixed: Renaming all subpages failed if a subpage is
  an alias
  
  
  

• Bug fixed: MacOS: wx.html.HtmlWindow.GetViewStart() returns
  wx.Point instead of tuple under some circumstances
• Enhancements for Mac OS (thanks to cmore): Support for emacs
  shortcuts, bug fixes
  
  
  

• Bug fixed: Problems with autocompletion if wiki word contains
  question mark
  
  
  

• Bug fixed: WikidPad can't be closed if volume access lost
  during session
• Bug fixed: Crash when rebuilding sqlite wiki on 64 bit Linux
• Bug fixed: Search index from 64bit Python not compatible with
  32bit Python (due to hash function). Changed index format
  number from 2 to 3
  
• Internal: Bug fixed: Error in error handling for plugins
• Internal: Bug fixed: Some functions in plugins were not
  registered for calling
  
  
  

• Bugs fixed: Error in error handling in search index processing,
  lock error when renaming page
  
• Bug fixed: Linux/GTK: Too long grids if too many data to show
  (for grid in MPT-import)
• Bug fixed: Failure when exporting versioning data to MPT format
• Bug fixed: No start of "wiki:" URLs if it should be opened in
  new window and no "wiki:" protocol handler installed (mainly
  Linux problem)
  
  
  

• Handle multi-screen configuration with negative coordinate
  values (screen 2 to the left of screen 1)
  
• Bug fixed: Failure on opening wiki if wiki config corrupted
  
  
  

• Support for URL appendix "prnr" to create a relative link
  which is not relocated (modified) when exported as HTML to
  a different destination. See UrlLinking
  
• Bug fixed: URL links with title give exception
• Bug fixed: Favorite wiki icons may open wrong wiki
• Bug fixed: Misleading error message and bad error handling
  for corrupted wiki config file
  
  
  

• Support for ChangeLog to refer to current wiki page
• Introduced "prel" and "pabs" in URL appendix and automatic
  adaption of relative links. See UrlLinking
• Windows binary installer now supports creation of a portable
  install (no uninstall, no registry or start menu changes)
• Removed annoying "blinking" on current heading in
  doc structure window (thanks to Christian Ziemski)
  
• Bug fixed: Autocompletion for anchors treated wiki links as
  wiki words (no relative or absolute paths supported)
• Bug fixed: Error in error handling for unknown wiki language
  tag on opening a wiki
• Bug fixed: Problems with IE 6 on Win XP SP2 reduced (problems
  with iframe remain)
• Bug fixed: Sometimes relative links not possible due to
  undesired case sensitivity
  
  
  

• Option for translating menu accelerators for special keyboard
  layouts where ctrl-level has other layout than base level.
  See OptionsDialog
• Option to show iframe content from external sources inside
  the HTML IE preview.
  See Options HTML preview_export
• Experimental: Windows: Option to let scroll-wheel scroll
  windows under pointer. Doesn't work for some windows.
  See OptionsDialog
• Index search: Highlight found terms and jump to one found
  term on double-click
• Removed plus signs in front of headings in page structure
  view, used indentation instead
  
• Several bug fixes regarding "whoosh" (index search)
• Bug fixed: Windows: "Invalid handle" error on command line
  bridge insertion plugins
• Bug fixed: Autocompletion for anchors treated wiki links as
  wiki words (no relative or absolute paths supported)
  
• Internal, index search: Store a format number for search
  index and rebuild index if number doesn't match the format
  of current WikidPad version
  
  
  

• Basic support for indexed search. See SearchingTheWiki/Index
• Menu item and toolbar icon to move up from subpage to
  its superpage. See Menu Navigate
  
• Bug fixed: Stack overflow for too deeply nested wikis on
  tree-sorted print/export
• Bug fixed: Deprecated os.popen...() functions used
  
• Internal: Layout changes to better support
  internationalization
  
  
  

• Autocompletion now also suggests builtin attributes
• Command line options to run a saved export profile either once
  or as continuous export.
  See CommandLineSupport
  
• Bug fixed: Autocompletion of attribute keys didn't work
• Bug fixed: Printing didn't work
• Bug fixed: Empty line after table was eaten in HTML export
  
  
  

• Chinese translation of user interface (thanks to yuxiaoxu)
• Hungarian translation of user interface (thanks to Török Árpád)
• Hungarian translation of help wiki (separate download)
  
• Small change in logic to find a template: If a newly created
  page has multiple parents it will be created from a template
  if there are no contradictory "template" attributes in the
  parents but at least one "template" attribute exists.
  
• Bug fixed: Problem with selection of tree item using keyboard
• Bug fixed: Bad link in exported html for list of parents of
  a page
• Bug fixed: Error due to subtle change in API of newer Sqlite
  versions
  
• Internal: Changes in GUI layout to better support internationalization
  
  
  

• "WikidPadParser.py" modified. If you have your own version
  you must update it!
  
• Some changes to better support of subpages (pages with
  slashes to create some kind of path). If you do not use
  them you shouldn't notice a difference.
• See Subpages:
  • "alias" and "template" attributes now process wiki links
    instead of wiki page names
  • Replace text by wikiword dialog now processes wiki links
    instead of wiki page names
  • Auto-completion updated
    
• If an attribute value in "Views" subtree is empty it is
  replaced by its children (the wiki pages containing the
  attribute)
  
• Bug fixed: Linux: Problem when opening a wiki where not
  the left-most tab was selected last
• Bug fixed: Menu item "Search and Replace" remained gray
  after going back from preview to editor
• Bug fixed: Harmless exception during searching
• Bug fixed: No update of syntax highlighting under some
  circumstances
  
  
  

• Inline diff between versions.
  See ChronViewWindow
• Windows: Option to warn about other WikidPad processes running
  in single process mode.
  See OptionsDialog
• Option "coldir down" in appendix of "rel" insertions to sort
  found wiki words downwards in columns instead of rightwards.
  See Insertions
• Wiki properties dialog now also shows configuration path and
  if wiki is read-only explains why
  
• Bug fixed: Homepage not prepared properly when creating new wiki
• Small problems with non-ascii paths fixed
  
  
  

• When dropping files you now have options to move files to
  file storage (instead of copying) and to be asked every time
  what to do. See OptionsDialog
• Option to define what to insert before, after and between file
  links when dropping files.
  See OptionsDialog
• Spell check while type.
  See SpellChecking
• Commandline options to start tabs in preview mode and to
  prevent list of recent opened wikis from updating.
  See CommandLineSupport
• WikidPad now remembers active tab and view mode
  (editor/preview) of each tab
  
• Bug fixed: Missing string "Set of *.wiki files"
  for i18n
  
  
  

• Export of previous versions of a wiki page in multipage text
  file format is supported now.
  See WikiExport
• Fine grained import control of multipage text files: Rename on
  name collision, decide which data to import, decide if
  versioning data should be imported for each wiki page.
  See WikiImport
• Simple log rotation for error log to keep maximum disc space
  needed for log at about 1 MByte. If log is over 512 KBytes on
  WikidPad startup, it is renamed to "WikidPad_Error_bak.log"
  (if this file existed already, it is deleted).
  
• Bug fixed: Errors due to bad cache when using different
  versions side-by-side with non-English UI language
• Workaround: Option to forbid cancelling of running
  wiki-wide search.
  See OptionsDialog
  
  
  

• When creating new wiki, dialog also asks if ascii-only
  file names should be used for wiki page files (default is on
  for Mac OS, see OptionsDialog)
• Option to slow down background tree update (to reduce
  response delay of WikidPad).
  See OptionsDialog
• Support for processing right-clicks on toolbar icons from
  plugins (see file "extensions/referrals.py" as an example)
  
• Process "binInst.ini"-file (needed for Windows binary
  wxPython downgrade)
• Windows: Workaround for too short labels in wxListCtrl
• Mac OS: Further changes to keybindings
• Bug fixed: Setting wiki to readonly failed
• Bug fixed: Linux: Problems when switching tabs too fast
  (thanks to Christian Ziemski)
• Bug fixed: Wrong focus position after opening wiki in
  same window
• Bug fixed: Linux: Crash when closing WikidPad
  
• Internal: Changes to multipage text file import (you should not
  notice a change)
  
  
  

• CSS style classes for the heading levels (named "heading-level1"
  to "heading-level15")
• Appendix "adjheading" for insertion "page" to adjust headings of
  a page included into another. See Insertions
• Menu item to convert between absolute and relative URL.
  See UrlLinking
• Context menu item for file: and rel: URLs to open
  containing folder
  
• Internal: Function stdDialog() now also accepts type "listmcstr"
  to show a list where user can select zero or more list entries.
  See ApiDocs
  
• Mac OS: Several enhancements and bug fixes (thanks to
  Christian Ziemski)
• Reduction of used CPU time while WikidPad is minimized
• Workaround for problems to detect screen size
  in multi-display environments
• Internal: Clearer error message for missing XML-ID
• Internal: Windows binary: Plugins are now compiled at
  run-time with "-O" option (keeps doc-strings)
  
  
  

• New database format! It is recommended to make a backup before
  updating and run "Maintenance"->"Update cache" after that
  
• Storing of timestamp of last visit to a page. The
  "Open Wiki Word" dialog allows now to sort by newest or oldest
  visit time. See Menu Navigate
• Context menu entry to apply a particular page as template on
  a newly created page (and option to define which pages to offer
  as templates). See ChangeLog
• In wiki-wide search in boolean search mode, the "todo:" prefix
  now behaves exactly as the "attr:" prefix.
  See SearchingTheWiki/BooleanRegex
• Tabs close now if a wikiword is deleted and no other word is
  in the history of this tab
• Context menu of "file:" and "rel:" URLs now offers to open
  containing folder of a file
• When using headings as wiki word links and opening a heading,
  cursors now jumps to this heading in editor
  
• Internal: Renaming "properties" of a wiki page to "attributes"
  in function and token names to get a more consistent naming.
  Currently there is compatibility code to keep plugins working.
• Internal: Todos are now processed (and especially parsed) in
  a similar way as attributes. If you have your own parser, update
  it according to "extensionswikidPadParserWikidPadParser.py".
  
• Some key bindings in Scintilla editor component removed to avoid
  interference with WikidPad key bindings
• Some changes to better handle missing Unicode support for
  filesystem in Python (affects mainly Mac OS)
  
• Bug fixed: Keyboard shortcut for ActivateLinkBackground
  doesn't work
• Bug fixed: Updating wiki database fails if a pagefile is missing
• Bug fixed: Linux: Sometimes focus doesn't switch from tab label
  to tab automatically
• Bug fixed: Focus not going back when aborting the opening of
  a wiki
  
  
  

• It's now possible to copy whole directories into the
  file storage of a wiki
• F6 cycles now also through chronological view and page structure
  if they are visible
  
• Bug fixed: No meaningful error message if exporting from
  commandline fails
• Bug fixed: HTML export of subpages failed
• Bug fixed: Using F6 to switch between tree and tabs switched
  also to invisible tree.
  
• Bug fixed: Linux: Automatic focus shift from tab to tab content
  did not always work
• Bug fixed: Linux: Selecting page in tree shifted focus to
  tab content, therefore no keyboard navigation in tree
• Bug fixed: Linux: Problems with tab switching by keyboard
  
• Bug fixed: Windows: Incomplete or foreign enchant installation
  may crash WikidPad on startup
• Bug fixed: Windows 7: Error message when using font dialog
  
  
  

• Support for renaming of subpages when renaming superpage.
  See RenamingWikiWords
• More logical behavior when closing tab if MRU order is active
  
• Bug fixed: In wiki-wide search "Replace All" didn't work
  
  
  

• Support for clipboard catcher on Linux (at least Gnome).
  See ClipboardCatcher
  
• Bug fixed: Linux: Spell checking did not work (thanks to
  Christian Ziemski)
• Bug fixed: Linux: Character input not working after
  switching of keyboard layout for certain languages
  (e.g. Russian). Can now be fixed with the
  IME workaround