Change Log2006

• "toc" insertion for a page-wide table of contents (with
  appropriate settings in the CSS-file(s)). See Insertions.
• "noerror" appendix for insertions for external graphical apps
  (except MimeTeX) to ignore warning/error messages.
  See ExternalGraphicalApplications.
• For Windows: Option to use Internet Explorer or
  (with restrictions) Mozilla to render HTML preview
  (including a new style sheet to control preview).
  See Options HTML preview_export
• Option to set doctype for HTML preview/export.
• Option to set background color of selected text.
• Internal: Slightly better handling of databases without
  write access.
• Further small changes in incremental search.
• Bug fixed: External graphical apps didn't work if path
  to them contained space(s).
  
  
  

• Changed insertion syntax where value or appendices can
  be quoted to include arbitrary characters. See Insertions.
• Plugins for accessing MimeTeX, Ploticus and GraphViz
  applications via Insertions.
  See ExternalGraphicalApplications.
  
• Tags to mark text as suppressed ( ) are no longer shown
  in HTML preview/export
• "Wiki Info" dialog to show some basic information about the
  current wiki. Rather empty at the moment.
• New behavior and look of incremental search. May change again
  if users don't like it.
• Renaming links to a page when renaming the page now only
  renames whole words.
  
• Windows binary installer: .wiki file of WikidPadHelp are now
  always overwritten on updating.
  
• Internal: Plugin type "InsertionByKey" created which registers
  special insertion keys to be handled by a plugin
• Internal: Plugin type "Options" created which allows to
  register additional options (to be saved in config files) and
  to add related pages in the options dialog.
  
  
  

• Menu items and toolbar icons for zoom in/out also work for
  preview now.
• Better page search. Search starts at cursor position or
  optional at beginning. Before wrapping search from page end
  to beginning, user is asked.
• Bug fixed: Showing (more precisely searching) of words in
  subcategories of todos in tree did not work.
• Bug fixed: Zooming preview didn't show up dynamically.
  
  
  

• List undefined pages (dead wiki links), also appropriate
  insertion added. See WikiMaintenance,
  Insertions
• Better alphabetical sort order for wiki words, todos,
  attributes in tree. See OptionsDialog
• The order how wiki pages are ordered when printing or
  exporting the whole wiki or a subtree to a single HTML page
  is (hopefully) more logical. It is the same as the new
  "As Tree" order used in PageListDialog#"As# Tree" .
• Option to generate a table of contents in tree or list form
  for HTML exports, see WikiExport ,
  Options HTML preview_export
  
• Bug fixed: Detection of Linux OS failed due to a typo
• Bug fixed: Pages were shown as parentless even if an alias
  of the page had a parent
• Bug fixed: Opening a particular page on startup by mentioning
  the .wiki file on commandline did not work
• Bug fixed: Special URLs containing $ couldn't be activated
  (further fixes may be necessary)
• Bug fixed: Bad HTML code if first cell of a table row is empty
  and indented.
  
  
  

• Support for insertion of pages, relations (parents, children,
  ...) and saved searches. See Insertions.
• Support for placing and jumping to anchors in wiki pages.
  See Anchors.
  
• Setting of a few more shortcut keys possible in
  KeyBindings.py (continue search, auto complete, ...)
  
• Fixed bug: Some problems with non-ascii pathes.
• Fixed bug: No selection replacement on Win ME.
• Fixed bug: Renaming of wiki word failed if link modification
  was wanted by the user or if page was not yet saved the
  first time.
• Fixed bug: Opening a wiki page file instead of
  wiki configuration file failed.
  
  
  

• New database format! After updating a wiki it won't be
  readable anymore for older versions of WikidPad.
• Updating of wiki databases to new versions is now done only
  after asking user.
• New position for configuration files on Windows inside
  "Application DataWikidPad" directory. You might have to move
  "WikidPad.config" file and ".WikidPadGlobals" directory from
  "Application Data" to the new location if updating from
  a previous version. Name of "Application Data" directory
  depends on OS language.
  
• Cursor and scroll position are now saved between sessions.
• Possibility to set size and alignment for image URLs.
  See UrlLinking
• Functional pages for "camelcase blacklist". Words on this
  list are not shown as wiki links. See WordLinking
• Option to automatically remove bullets and numbers which
  stand "lonely" on a line by pressing enter.
  See BulletedLists
  
• Menu functions "Show Tree Control", "Show Toolbar" and
  "Stay on Top" moved to "View" menu
• Preview now shows indented paragraphs correctly (or,
  at least, better)
  
• Bug fixed: Wiki word aliases not shown as links on
  HTML export.
• Bug fixed: Wrong URL creation mode when releasing/pressing
  SHIFT or CTRL during drag&drop operation.
• Better handling of non Western-European languages on
  Win 98/ME
  
  
  

• Official support for multiple windows with same wiki in
  them, but only in the same process (therefore necessarily
  on the same machine and by the same user), you can use
  e.g. menu "View"->"Clone Window" for that. This function
  is not meant as collaborative multi-user support.
• Option to handle new WikidPad windows by a single process
  (recommended if you want to open the same wiki in multiple
  windows).
  See OptionsDialog
  
• Better error handling if file access drops (e.g. accessing
  wiki db over a network). See WikiMaintenance
  
• Option to minimize wiki if close button on frame is pressed.
  See OptionsDialog
  
  
  

• "Fast search" text field in toolbar. See SearchingTheWiki
  
• Error log file is now written in the same directory where
  configuration file "WikidPad.config" is, it has a new name
  ("WikidPad_Error.log" instead of "WikidPad.exe.log") and
  writes timestamps and version number for each new session
  where an error occurred.
• More verbose messages/exceptions when executing
  scripts/evaluating expressions.
  
• Optical changes in extension "referrals.py" (thanks to
  schnullibullihulli).
• Menus slightly reorganized, some menu items are at other
  places and/or have another name.
• Wiki specific option to set page title prefix
  (normally "++") for new wiki pages. This allows to freely
  choose the heading level.
  See OptionsDialog
• Possibility to add (absolute) URL with file dialog (menu
  "Editor" -> "Add file URL").
• Fixed exporter bugs: No newline after "Parents: ..." start
  line in HTML export, unnecessary newline after each item
  in bulleted/numbered list.
• Bug fixed: "compact_sqlite" db backend lost creation date.
  
• Help wiki is opened now in the same process so file suffix
  .wiki needs no longer to be associated with WikidPad to
  show help.
• Internal: Different handling of clipboard copy which may
  fix a bug (or not).
• Internal: Extension files are now loaded with universal
  newline support, so newline conversion for Linux shouldn't
  be necessary anymore.
• Windows binary installer now supports installation for
  current user only (on NT-based systems) or for all users
  (if installing as administrator, you are asked how to
  install).
  
  
  

• Support for an additional "Views" tree which can be put at any
  side of main tree, also option to put main tree at any side of
  editor (layout change during session has bugs).
  See OptionsDialog .
• Clipboard catcher: New option to insert at cursor.
  See ClipboardCatcher.
• Option for showing line numbers in editor
• If ++ title of page was unmodified since page creation, it is
  changed on page rename accordingly.
  See RenamingWikiWords
• Fixed bug: Upper case non-ascii letters were not found when
  opening a wiki word (e.g. "É" didn't find Éve).
• HTML-tag <pre> is now handled much better.
• Changed controls in spell check dialog to circumvent problems
  with some languages on Win 98/ME
  
• Fixed bug: No preview if newly created page wasn't saved first.
• Fixed bug: No preview if page contains plain text only.
• Fixed bug: WikidPad didn't work if date pattern for
  creation/modification date in status line created/contained
  non-ascii characters.
• Fixed bug: double-escaped relative URLs (could be seen e.g. if
  path has spaces)
• Fixed bug: Copying text to ScratchPad didn't work if copying
  from ScratchPad
  
• Internal: "C:Windows" is no longer used as configuration
  directory if all other possibilities fail.
  
  
  

• Clipboard catcher (Windows only): Every piece of text added to
  the clipboard is also appended to a wiki page if the clipboard
  catcher is active. There is also an option to set some suffix
  after each caught piece of text from clipboard (by default, a
  newline is added). See ClipboardCatcher.
• File storage introduced: Copy files into a subdirectory of the
  wiki within WikidPad. See FileStorage.
  
• Options to choose text colors for editor. See
  OptionsDialog and following.
• Control background and text color of HTML export (and partially
  for preview) by attributes (for wiki or page) or by options for
  the whole application.
  See Options HTML preview_export
  
• If a wiki word node is clicked which is subnode of an attribute
  node, the particular attribute is selected as it worked already
  for todo items.
  
• New menu item to hide/show toolbar.
• New menu item to keep window always on top.
• New options dialog consisting of multiple pages.
  
• Simpler function for some standard dialogs for scripts.
  See ApiDocs
  
• Changed method to find configuration directory, more suitable
  for WikidPad on USB-stick and more reliable. See WikidPadOnUSB
  and ApplicationConfigurationFiles.
  
  

• Todo item part shows up twice in tree with same content if part
  is also right side of a todo entry. Now shows up only once.
• Wrong cursor position after using bold or italic from
  menu/toolbar
• "Show referring Wikis" in the "Plugins" menu didn't work
• Exception when refreshing tree while "saved searches" node is
  expanded
• Exception when trying to paste something non-textual from
  clipboard
• Workaround for wxPython bug: Crash when showing colored menu
  items on Win 98/Me
  
  
  

• One or more of the characters .,;:!? can directly follow
  an URL and aren't counted as part of it. If you need such
  a character as last one in an URL, enclose the URL in brackets.
• Attribute names can consist of all alphanumeric
  (unicode definition) characters.
• Support for zoom in preview (with Ctrl-+, Ctrl-- and
  Ctrl-Mousewheel).
• Better formatting of titles of newly created wiki pages
  (e.g. wikiword "URLViewer" now leads to title "++ URL Viewer"
  instead of "++ URLV iewer"
  
• Bug fixed: Tree always visible on WikidPad start, even if
  made invisible before previous termination.
• Bug fixed: Creation of new wikis didn't work
• Bug fixed: Searches not saveable, saved searches not usable
• Bug "reduced": Scroll position of page in editor not remembered
  properly. The fix may lead to some visible jumps: sometimes
  you will see the beginning of page for a short time before
  it jumps to the stored position. Moreover, even with the
  fix the stored position may be imprecise sometimes.
  
  
  

• Better alias support. E.g. pages linking to an alias of
  WikiWord are now listed as parents of this word.
• Support for relative URLS with rel: protocol, see UrlLinking
  
• Initial support for checking special attributes for validity
  (currently only "alias", "icon", "color", "bold") with an
  own "Log Window" for error messages, see WikiDocumentAttributes.
  
• Support for spell checking, see SpellChecking.
• Todo items can now be terminated with newline or |
• On multiple attributes of same name on one page (e.g.
  multiple "icon" attributes) the last one is now preferred
  instead of the first one.
  
• Bug fixed: Cursor position on a page is now stored for
  each page even if page is not modified and saved
• Scroll position of editor is now stored (during session) as
  cursor position already is.
• Scroll policy of editor modified to better handling
  
• Bug fixed: Command line export didn't work because of wrong
  default additional options
• Bug fixed: Gaps between paragraphs in editor when using some
  fonts (e.g. Verdana) and asynchronous highlighting.
• Bug fixed: Tree not shown if set invisible and then made
  visible by dragging splitter sash.
  
  
  

• Importer/Exporter for new multipage text format (mpt).
  See (WikiExport, WikiImport, Multipage text format)
  
• Tree node context menu allows now also choice of color and
  icon of a node as well as appending or prepending of
  wiki words to a page.
• Options to switch off automatic bullet/numbering creation
  and auto-indent (see BulletedLists)
  
• Introduced <<pre >> block to create preformatted,
  monospaced text
• Todo items (e.g. "todo:", "track:") can start after
  arbitrary text now, not only at the beginning of a line.
  This is currently experimental! It might be changed back
  if user have problems with this (see TodoItems).
  
• Display of modification and creation date of page in status
  line (customizable date format, see OptionsDialog)
• Support for changing of file suffix of page files in the
  config file (not part of options GUI) (see ChangeFileSuffix)
• Uses now also environment variable "USERPROFILE" to find
  configuration directory
  
• Bug fixed: page-wide "Replace All" could run in an endless
  loop (e.g. when replacing "e" by "ee").
  
  
  

• Introduced new db backend "Original Sqlite".
  See WhereIsTheDataStored and MigrationBetweenDbTypes.
• For "Set Date Format" dialog last 10 entries are remembered
• Option to interpret image URLs for HTML preview and export
  either as images or as normal links (see OptionsDialog)
• Export dialog has checkbox to temporarily override this option
  setting.
  
• Attribute [pagetype: form] introduced to support special
  behavior of the editor for form-like pages. (see FormPages)
  
• Support for global.child_sort_order attribute.
• Support for [child_sort_order: natural] (but not really
  stable). See WikiDocumentAttributes.
• Presentation attributes (bold, color, icon) in todo entries
  used to format the entry in tree instead of the page.
• See WikiDocumentAttributes.
  
• When trying to run a script, but script security doesn't
  allow to run scripts, a message box appears to explain.
  
  

• No titled URLs/wiki words in tables
• Invalid HTML anchors created
• Exporting of raw .wiki files didn't work for
  "Original Gadfly" databases
  
  
  

• Commandline support for exporting (parts of) a wiki and
  deletion of personal configuration (see CommandLineSupport)
• Windows binary installer: Support for deleting config.
  files on uninstall
• Support HTML tags in WikidPad
  
• Support for wiki specific text blocks (see TextBlocks)
• Editing of text blocks files from within WikidPad as
  "functional pages", located under Views in tree
• Editor font now changes instantly after saving page
• Now at most one script is executed when pressing
  Ctrl-Number (search order: local page, imported scripts,
  global imported scripts page)
  
• Better handling of property "camelCaseWordsEnabled" during
  database update/rebuild.
• Gadfly database backend: Rebuild does no more loose
  creation and modification date of a page.
  
  

• Crash on non-ascii characters in path to wiki database
• Refresh of text blocks menu didn't work
• When word in tree node had no children but got one after
  update, no '+' icon appeared after refresh.
• Problems with wiki-wide search and page search
• Jumping to wiki word didn't work if cursor and word were
  at end of page.
  
  
  

• 'global.import_scripts' property introduced (see
  InlinePythonEval)
• Security option to control if scripts should be executed
  and (global.)import_scripts property should be respected
  (see InlinePythonEval)
  
• 'template' property introduced to use content of one page
  as template for children of another page. (see
  WikiDocumentAttributes).
  
• Hierarchical global presentation deduction: e.g. a property
  'global.work.color' will be applied to pages containing
  'work', "work.somewhere", "work.somewhere.else" ...
  properties, except there is e.g. a
  'global.work.somewhere.else.color' property. This works for
  'color', 'icon' and 'bold' properties which control the
  presentation of the tree nodes (see WikiDocumentAttributes).
  
• Differential user_extensions: A file in "user_extensions"
  now only needs to contain the definitions which are
  different compared to the file in "extensions"
  
• In configuration directory, a directory ".WikidPadGlobals"
  will be created if not existing
• In ".WikidPadGlobals" a file "TextBlocks.wiki" will be
  created if not existing. This file describes content of
  the "Editor"->"Text blocks" submenu and can be customized
  (see TextBlocks).
  
• Bug in autoNew.py script fixed
• Bug with renaming in "compact_sqlite" database fixed
  
  
  

• No more brackets around wiki words in the "Open Wiki Word"
  and all other dialogs
• Characters can be escaped with backslash and are then
  interpreted as normal text (see TextFormatting)
• New dialog to choose which pages to search for, to export
  or to print (see [PageListDialog], Printing, WikiExport,
  SearchingTheWiki)
• New options to control the auto save timing
  (see OptionsDialog)
  
• Some bugs fixed
  
  
  

• WikidPad and WikidPadCompact merged into one application
  (therefore the new version number) (see DatabaseTypes)
• In wiki-wide search cycling through found matching occurrences
  on a page with F3 or clicking on the little blue bar
• Basic printing support (see Printing)
• Support for titled wiki words and URLs (e.g
  Somewhere
  This text is shown in preview and HTML export )
  The title of the link is not stored in the XML export!
  
• Options to control timing behavior of syntax highlighter (see
  OptionsDialog)
• Option to set background color of text editor (works only
  partially)
  
• Bug fixed: non camel-case words starting with camel-case word
  (e.g. [WikiWord with something]) incorrectly recognized in tree