Change Log2007

• New letter for time formats (e.g. Statusbar time format option):
  %u shows ISO-8601 weekday number (1=monday, 7=sunday)
• Windows: Option to set a prefix string before each snippet from
  clipboard catcher (prefix and suffix now support time formats).
  See OptionsDialog
• Non-Windows: Support for a file-launcher program which takes the
  path to a file and opens the right application. Normally the
  "xdg-open" script does this.
  See OptionsDialog
• Support for multi-value attributes and quoted values.
  See WikiDocumentAttributes
• New attribute "paragraph_mode" to control if single newlines
  in text should be ignored and only an empty line starts a
  new paragraph. See WikiDocumentAttributes
• Original Gadfly DB type: Faster algorithm to find opened word
  in tree (thanks to Geoff)
  
• Bug fixed: Bad handling of empty input in "Open Wiki Word" dialog.
  
  
  

• Support for internationalization of screen messages and dialogs
  (GUI). Not supported are: attributes (e.g. "[alias: WikiWord]"),
  shortcuts ("Ctrl-A"), external plugins, some internal messages
  (e.g. regular expression errors)
  
• Bug fixed for Windows: An always visible taskbar could partly
  hide popup and tooltip windows
  
• Internal bug fixed: Deleting plugin modules from a plugin API
  didn't work
  
  
  

• Support for customizing favorite wikis. See FavoriteWikis
• Command line option to rebuild wiki (patch by mstute).
  See CommandLineSupport
• Lock file for wiki to avoid to inadvertently open same wiki
  twice. See WikiLockFile
• No more page history for whole window, instead history for
  each tab
• Option to use single process is now on by default
• Better handling of changes in global text blocks and
  recent file list if multiple WikidPad windows are open
  in same process.
• When hiding a focused tool window, focus is transferred
  to main area panel.
  
• Bug fixed: An added icon/color property always used
  default brackets [], even if changed in WikiSyntax.py
• Bug fixed: Linux/GTK: Opening context menu of quick
  search result list crashed WikidPad.
  
  
  

• Optional shortcut to focus fast search field
• Options for timeline to suppress "empty" days and to sort
  dates descending. See OptionsDialog
• Options for timeline to switch off wiki page list
  on hovering over date, instead showing it after clicking
  on it is possible. See OptionsDialog
• Option to set number of separator lines between wiki pages
  in single HTML page output.
  See Options HTML preview_export
• Larger default delays for autosave
• Possibility to set image size in percent.
  See UrlLinking
• Shortcuts "ActivateLink", "ActivateLinkNewTab" and
  "ActivateLink2" now also work in incremental search mode
  
• Bug fixed: Updating wikis from WikidPad 1.1 failed
• Bug fixed: Source code did not work correctly with
  wxPython 2.8 (OS not recognized properly)
• Bug fixed: Exception possible when running WikidPad from
  commandline while doc structure window is open
• Bug fixed: Starting URLs with characters not in system
  codepage failed
• Bug fixed: Wrong shortcuts shown in tooltips of toolbar
  buttons
  
  
  

• Bug fixed: OS not recognized if using source version on
  Windows with wxPython 2.8
• Bug fixed: Linux/GTK: Mouse no longer responsive after
  clicking (and a bit dragging) on tabs
• Bug fixed: Modification date was changed when saving
  an open page even if page wasn't modified (forced saving
  was used too often)
• Bug fixed: Template pages did not work
  
  
  

• Very basic support for a time view/timeline. Much work to do
  yet. See TimeViewWindow
• Option to set default directory where to start when
  opening/creating a wiki.
• Attribute "template_head" to automatically change heading of
  pages created from a template.
  See Templates
  
• Bug fixed: Plugin "Create new page" did not work with
  "Original Sqlite" databases
• Bug fixed: Linux/GTK: Dialog not focused properly
• Bug fixed: When cloning window only first wiki word tab was
  shown in the new window
  
  
  

• New document structure window. See PageStructureWindow
• Search dialogs (except incremental search) now show an error
  box with meaningful message when searching for a bad regular
  expression.
  
• Bug fixed: Font face choice dialog from options dialog did
  not work
• Bug fixed: Linux/GTK: Changes of frame layout crashed WikidPad
• Bug fixed: Linux/GTK: Tree has wrong mouse pointer
  
• Internal: DocPage.getLiveText is cached now
• Internal: DocPagePresenter now has stdDialog(), displayMessage()
  and displayErrorMessage() functions to make plugins more
  compatible to prev. versions.
• Internal: Generation of live PageAst centralized in DocPages and
  made (nearly) thread-safe.
  
  
  

• Limited (no error messages) support for gnuplot.
  See ExternalGraphicalApplications
• Option to have no title on newly generated pages.
  See OptionsDialog
• Possibility to save images on the clipboard as files
  in the "files" directory of a wiki.
  See OptionsDialog
• Option to set title of HTML table of contents.
  See Options HTML preview_export
• New attribute "short_hint" to provide tooltip text
  when hovering with the mouse over a wikiword having this
  attribute. Also option to set tooltip appearance delay for
  editor. See WikiDocumentAttributes
  
• Small enhancements in spell checker dialog.
• Using the shortcut to display wiki-wide search or replace
  dialog while the dialog is open switches focus to it.
• Ctrl-F4 closes current tab (not customizable)
  
• Bug fixed: Setting Scintilla codepage fails on non-Unicode
  wxPython (does not affect Windows binary)
  
  
  

• New entry in "KeyBindings.py" for "ToggleCurrentFolding"
  which allows to toggle the folding in the current line.
• Headings extended up to level 15.
• New version of export/import format "multipage text" which
  can now store creation and modification date of a page as
  well as saved searches and wiki-bound functional pages
  (to allow a simple and complete transfer of a whole wiki
  from one database type to another).
• When opening a wiki page in a new tab in background the open
  dialog or the search results popup window stay open.
• Better behavior of recent files menu.
• Tree shows tooltips if current entry is too long to fit
  in the window.
• Function to repair folding visibility to avoid folded (hidden)
  lines which can't be unfolded anymore when header line
  vanishes.
• Slightly more reasonable sorting of auto-complete suggestions.
• New format for main window title.
• "wiki:" URLs can contain now "page=" and "anchor=" parameters
  to jump to particular pages and anchors in the pages.
  See UrlLinking
• Possibility to use tabulator instead of | to delimit cells.
  See TextFormatting
  
• Option to control if links to wikiwords should be renamed
  when wikiword is renamed, can be either be "no", "yes" or
  "ask for each renaming operation" (which is default and was
  also the previous behavior).
  See OptionsDialog
• Option to automatically hide the tree(s) after selecting
  an entry in it. See OptionsDialog
• Wiki-specific option to set the systray icon (does not work
  for main window icon). See OptionsDialog
  
• Internal: customtreectrl.py updated to be based now on
  rev. 1.14 in wxWidgets repository.
• Internal: Changes to allow usage of something else than
  single brackets to tag wikiwords, attributes and insertions.
• Bug fixed: When renaming wikiword with non-ascii or
  non-alphanumeric characters and modifying links, non-ascii
  characters were preceded with backslashes
• Bug fixed: Sometimes the parent list of a page is not updated
  after changes.
• Internal bug fixed: When calling PersonalWikiFrame.openWiki
  with a relative path by a script or plugin, errors may occur.
  
  
  

• Bug fixed: Preview didn't work with titled wikiwords
• Bug fixed: When renaming wikiword with non-ascii characters
  and modifying links, non-ascii characters were preceded with
  backslashes
  
  
  

• Clicking on footnotes moves to the last footnote on page
  (footnote anchor). See Footnotes
• Support for "auto_link" attribute: find (groups of) words
  that match a wiki word and make them links. Precise behavior
  may change in the future.
  See WikiDocumentAttributes
• Attribute "view_pane" to control if a page should show editor
  or preview by default when opening it.
  See WikiDocumentAttributes
• Support for "win" modifier (=Windows key) for hotkeys.
  See OptionsDialog
• Added wiki-bound options to control titles of newly created
  pages.
• Option to write tabulators in editor
  (Menu: "Editor"->"Settings"->"Tabs to spaces")
• List of all open wiki words is stored between sessions
  (does not work if "First word at startup" is set in options).
• Right clicking on fold margin in editor shows fold menu.
  
• Rebuild is now slower, but more reliable.
• Better update of a page if some important attributes were
  changed.
• Directory "user_extensions" can now additionally be placed
  inside ".WikidPadGlobals" directory in configuration dir.
  (TODO: documentation).
• Some changes to produce more standard-conforming HTML.
  
• Internal: Added function PersonalWikiFrame.reloadMenuPlugins
  to reload plugins while WikidPad is active (for developers).
• Internal: New subpackage rtlibRepl (runtime library
  replacement) to replace things from Python runtime which
  might need change, currently used for re module.
• Internal: Some speedup and convenience changes in
  customtreectrl.py
  
• Bug fixed: editor context menu showed "Cut" and "Delete"
  greyed out if pasting is not possible.
• Bug fixed: Links were sometimes not recognized when having
  the same page in two tabs.
• Bug fixed: Some clipboard and drag&drop problems on Linux
  (other problems exist yet).
• Bug fixed: Removed inefficiency when exporting large sets
  of wiki pages with many links (very large trees).
• Bug fixed: "page" insertion did not work.
• Bug fixed: Visited pages where always marked modified if
  folding was active.
• Bug fixed: Script blocks were executed even if made invalid
  with preceding backslash.
  
  
  

• Autocompletion support for todo items and anchor fragments.
  See AutoCompletion.
• HTML exporter now creates links which only contain anchor
  ("#somewhere") if linking to the same page.
• Pagewide and wikiwide searches support now a history (not
  saved between sessions)
• For "Replace All" operations the number of replacements is
  given at the end of operation.
  
• Support for folding, includes storing of fold settings
  between sessions. See Folding.
• HTML entities like e.g.   are handled now.
  See TextFormatting.
• System-wide hotkey to show/hide WikidPad (probably Windows
  only). Hotkeys are possible to be bound to the app and/or
  a particular wiki. See OptionsDialog
• Option to offer closing bracket for bracketed wiki words
  on autocompletion.
  See OptionsDialog
• Option to play a sound each time clipboard catcher caught
  text. See OptionsDialog
• New menu items in system tray menu to control clipboard
  catcher (for Windows).
• New pages found during rebuild (for Original ... db types)
  get the modification date of the .wiki file.
  
• Bug fixed (at least for Windows 2K/XP): Wiki words with
  foreign characters were not recognized or recognized with
  wrong characters after rebuild of wikis with "Original ..."
  types.
• Bug fixed: After rebuild of a database, wikiwords were no
  longer recognized as existing (restart was needed).
• Bug (probably) fixed: Attribute [child_sort_order: natural]
  didn't always work properly.
• Bugs fixed: Some Linux quirks, but enough remaining yet.
  
• Internal: Changed wxPython namespace use from the
  old-fashioned (wxFrame) to the "wx" namespace (wx.Frame).
  There may be bugs yet.
  
  
  

• Configurable shortcuts for showing of editor/preview,
  switching between them
• Menu item, shortcut and toolbar icon to switch between
  editor and preview (icon made by Zoltan)
• Support for middle mouse button and context menu to open
  a word in a new tab. Works for editor, internal preview,
  tree and wiki-wide search. Middle mouse button configurable
  to open tab in fore- or background
  (see OptionsDialog )
• Buttons in "Open Wiki Word" dialog to open word in new
  tab (fore-/background)
• Activation of

  ...

  insertion like normal links
  
• Option to set default destination directory for export
  operations (see OptionsDialog )
• Slightly better support for URLs in UTF-8 percent encoding,
  also creates such URLs now. Some URLs from older versions
  of WikidPad may not work any longer.
• Mouse cursor no longer changes to a hand if Ctrl is pressed
  in editor and cursor is over a link (but works as before).
  
• Filter to remove double clipboard pastes when using the
  clipboard catcher with certain applications (e.g. Adobe Reader)
• Bug fixed: Creation of new wiki failed if no wiki was
  currently loaded
• Bug fixed: Bad handling of wikiword links with non-ascii
  characters in IE/Mozilla preview
• Bug fixed: Bad drag and drop support for tree items
• Bug fixed: Connection lines in tree not visible when using
  anything else than Win 2K/XP
• Bug fixed: Saving of files didn't work sometimes; when
  closing WikidPad a message "This operation requires an
  open database" appeared under some circumstances.
• Bug fixed: PyDeadObjectError sometimes when closing WikidPad
• Bug "reduced": Instant wiki-wide search result window pops up
  always on primary monitor in dual monitor systems.
• Bug fixed: getWikiWordsStartingWith(..., includeAliases=False)
  failed for Original Sqlite (only needed for plugins)
  
  
  

• Userinterface change, no more tabs for edit and preview,
  but an arbitrary number of tabs for wiki pages, switching
  between edit and preview by icons in toolbar or shortcuts
• Shortcut and menu item to open a selected wikiword in a
  new tab
• New tree control which behaves and looks very similar (but
  not identically) to the native one.
• Option to set text cursor color.
  See OptionsDialog
• Option to set selection foreground color.
  See OptionsDialog
  
• More clear error message if no write access when closing wiki
• Patch to find sqlite3 library on Linux
• Bug fixed: Functional pages inside "modified-within" node
• Bug fixed: Non-existing pages found by search if page was
  in cache yet
• Bug fixed: Possible crash when searching non-existing pages
  in cache
• Bug fixed: Change of text color didn't affect some styles
  (bold, headings, todo)
• Bug fixed: Link to page with spaces in name didn't work
  with IE as preview
• Bug fixed: Masses of superfluous tree nodes when updating
  tree on Linux
• Bug fixed: Integer division (e.g. 5/3) gave integer result
  (e.g. 1) on expression evaluation
• Bug (hopefully) fixed: Temporarily generated images not shown
  in IE 7 preview