Nightly Build 2.4.0.10

[josip]

Nightly Build 2.4.0.10

dl: http://writemonkey.com/__files/NB/wm24010NB.zip

NB 2.4.0.10, October 11th 2012 

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- added: Sentence segment focus: use ALT+F6 to focus on a sentence under the caret. Note that the concept of sentence is not easily defined. Please test this feature for exceptions so it can be improved.

- changed: New application icon.

NB 2.4.0.9, September 28th 2012 

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- added: Toggle blinds on / off with CTRL+9. Or use Preferences / Screen elements where you can choose whether to use solid or striped blinds.

- fixed: Visual progress bar now plays along nicely with "blinded" screen.

- removed: Text area markers are no longer available in this version.

- changed: Toggle syntax highlighting shortcut changed from CTRL+H to ALT+H.

NB 2.4.0.8, September 25th 2012 

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- added: Use CTRL+H to toggle syntax highlighting on / off.

- added: Left and right blinds in full screen mode. Blinds mimic writing on a sheet of paper and will also lessen the screen glare when using bright backgrounds. The feature is still experimental and under development in this version — there is no turn off control & and no customization. Other glitches are possible. Feedback is appreciated. 

NB 2.4.0.7, September 5th 2012 

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- added: You can now set caret position for each replacement item in Preferences / Replacements / Add, Edit. For example: Set qq as a trigger and »«~1 as a replacement. "~1" (must be at the end of the string) will tell wm that it should put the caret between the smart quotes --> »|«. That way you can start writing without moving the caret between the quotes by hand. Another example: Set a replacement for markdown link syntax - [](http://)~10 and you'll be able to write the url on the spot. Use the "Set caret position after replace" button to apend ~Number automatically.

- added: New help menu item with descriptions of hidden features for donors & direct PayPal link.

NB 2.4.0.6, August 29th 2012 

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- fixed: Ordinary Open dialog works again.

- added: Wm zip bundle now includes chm help file.

- Other fixes.

NB 2.4.0.5, July 13th 2012 

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- changed / added: Jumps filter now works differently and has more functionality: "red green blue" will match items that contain red and green and blue. Use "green -blue" to match all items that are green and not blue. You can also use "red or green or blue" to match all items that contain at least one of those tags.

NB 2.4.0.4, July 7th 2012 

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- changed: More minimal and compact representation of items in Jumps window. 

 

- added: Open recent Files or recent Folders in Jumps window by pressing ALT+UP or ALT+DOWN.

NB 2.4.0.2, June 12th 2012 

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- added: Jumps window will now show structurally indented markup headings (for Markdown, Textile and WikiCreole).

NB 2.4.0.1, June 5th 2012 

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- added: Use ALT+Up/Down to move paragraph under caret up or down.

- added: Use CTRL+0 to reset font zoom factor to 0 and text column width to 1/2 of the screen's real estate (default view).

[StefanG]

If it's possible to focus on a sentence, I have hopes for a feature that allows to jump from sentence to sentence.
Ctrl+. (period or British "full stop") would be a nice shortcut for that.

[josip]

Good idea. Will think about that.

i.

[josip]

I implemented something like that -- alt+F7 will step through sentences. It will select / highlight the sentence under the caret, then next, next till the end of the file. It works but I don't know if this is actually useful??

i.

[StefanG]

Hmm, if the whole sentence stays highlighted, there is a danger of accidentally overwriting the whole enchilada with a careless key stroke.
Not so much of a problem if Undo is working flawless now?

Actually, I have the same problem with Alt up/down. If the caret were positioned outside the selection AFTER I release the ALT key, it would allow to type ahead without worries. Maybe I just got used to it from an ahk-script that works this way. A quick check in Word revealed - it stays highlighted there, too. Must definitely be my ahk-script that spoiled me.

[Kensai]

Is there a function for skipping paragraph to paragraph?  That could have saved me a few minutes this afternoon, though its not an everyday occurrence. 

[StefanG]

What do you mean by "skipping"? You're not talking about Ctrl Up/Down, are you?

[Jan]

Hello,

I love the new look of the writing zone. I would like to know if you plan to chnage the way the Alt+J panel is displayed: IMHO, a left or right pane would be better than an amodal box. An incorporated panel always fills the whole screen height, while a floating box has to be sized manually.

I know the box position keeps the same after restart, but as I use Writemonkey on an USB drive, I use the software on different computers with different screens...

Jan

[Jan]

BTW, another problem brought by a floating box: when it has the focus, some shortcuts are not active anymore (ex: Ctrl+Q). A unique fullscreen window made of 2 parts, one for the chapter/files navigation, and one for the writing zone, would be very useful to me. With a shortcut to show/hide it (Alt+J, already here) and another shortcut to change the side where it the dock is located (left or right of the screen).

Regards,

Jan

[Jan]

I got a bug, and after test, it is not specific to this version : it seems that WM crashes time to time if you add a replacement string to remove duplicate spaces : I added a replacement string in the preferences dialog box, and ask to replace 2 spaces with a single space.

Then, sometimes, it crashes:

"System.ArgumentException: String cannot be of zero length.

Parameter name: oldValue

   at System.String.Replace(String oldValue, String newValue)

   at Sheet.RichTextBoxExt.DoAutoReplace()

   at Sheet.RichTextBoxExt.keyUp(Object sender, KeyEventArgs e)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnKeyUp(KeyEventArgs e)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyEventArgs(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ProcessKeyMessage(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmKeyChar(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.TextBoxBase.WndProc(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.RichTextBox.WndProc(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)

   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)"

[samokhov]

I don't think I'd use that second shortcut, for I don't move the Jumps window's position that often. Or ever. But yeah, a two-panel fullscreen thing would be nice.

And getting back to discussion on multiple instances that is going on and off for a while in this google group. Maybe instead of multiple files in window mode we'd be better off with a slit mode in fullscreen? Does anyone really needs more than two files open at once, given that WM is at its core an anti-multitasking app?

четверг, 18 октября 2012 г., 15:30:41 UTC+4 пользователь Jan написал:

[Jan]

Le jeudi 18 octobre 2012 23:38:36 UTC+2, samokhov a écrit :

I don't think I'd use that second shortcut, for I don't move the Jumps window's position that often. Or ever. But yeah, a two-panel fullscreen thing would be nice.

And getting back to discussion on multiple instances that is going on and off for a while in this google group. Maybe instead of multiple files in window mode we'd be better off with a slit mode in fullscreen? Does anyone really needs more than two files open at once, given that WM is at its core an anti-multitasking app?

 

A full-screen mode with two panes for text would be great, yes. I have already thought about it, and saw several ways to use it:

- 2 different files, side by side

- the same file, but 2 views (in order to keep an eye on a given part of the text in one pane, and going on typing in the other pane)

- the same file but a single view on two continuous pages : you can see more text around you

- the same file: one pane on text, one pane on repository

And I agree with you, samokhov : I don't need to look at nor work on more than 2 files at the same time.

Jan

[josip]

Thanks, will look into that.

i.

[josip]

No plans for now.

i.

[josip]

Hehe. Create a shortcut to wm.exe, right click, properties, then change the icon. I am attaching some icon files. That won't change small program bar icon though ...

i.

On Friday, October 19, 2012 8:17:41 PM UTC+2, etor...@gmail.com wrote:

On Thursday, October 11, 2012 1:21:59 PM UTC+4, josip wrote:

- changed: New application icon.

Week passed since I use Writemonkey extensively with a new icon. And here is my report.

I HATE THIS ICON. That's right, a cry from the depths in capital letters.

There are numerous distraction-free solutions that try to be as silent as possible and that's why one even cannot recognize favourite editor against other applications running in dock/taskbar/alt+tab or among icons on the desktop. Why would Writemonkey go along with that trend? Until very recently Writemonkey was a fun and flexible thing to manage, and now it's still flexible but gloomy? Have you seen midnight-blue monkeys? It's against the nature. Give us back that jungle-green warm spot, where happy monkeys live. As an option, as external icon to be placed within WM folder, anyhow, please.

[samokhov]

Have no problems with the new icon whatsoever. Didn't even notice it for quite a while :P When I did, I rather liked it. But then I have a bit of a thing for the dark colour schemes ever since the era of monochrome CRTs. Maybe that Throne-like neon would be tiresome as a colour scheme, but I don't mind it in an icon. Personally, I couldn't care less if the icon looked like a hairball or Justin Bieber or whatever. I have a keyboard shortcut for calling WM, and I virtually never switch to other apps when it's running.

That said, as a gimmick, WM might redraw the icon in colours from the current colour scheme ::)

[StefanG]

Icons don't matter much to me, either. Like samokhov I  have keyboard shortcuts and ahk-dialogs to call up WM, I never get to see the icon anyway.

The new blinds are a different story. As much as I would like to use them, they totally spoil a great, unique WM-feature: The info bar with partial word count etc.

I like to be informend about contents in the repository. But I also need the filename, and the current time is nice to have, too. But most important of all, I need the partial word count. There is no other way to get to it, not even by pressing F12 (Progress dialog).

How does all that fit into the central text column? It does not. Not even the progress section alone fits in there. And what's worse: it clutters up the whole view, it find it disturbing to have all this info constantly right in front of me, instead of stacked away into the corners of my screen. And I have a hard time to figure out the truncated info packed together so tightly.

In other words: Blinds are no option for me, I've been trying it out for 2 weeks now, just no way. I wouldn't mind if all the info were stacked in one corner of the screen, or an option to distribute it to all 4 corners. The corners are an easy eye catcher to anchor your view quickly.

Notices and Status could be in the middle of my view, they're not distracting. But the rest is just way too much, spoils the ZEN appearance. Wish I could put them into the corners, because I need them, I cannot do without anymore. So here I am, wanting to have it all: Great features AND great looks. Which is just not possible at the moment.

[josip]

You must have very small monitor or you use big fonts for info bar; I can see all 5 slots normally even with blinds on.

i.

[StefanG]

Well, seeing the slots is exactly the problem. Without blinds they're out of my way, in the corners. But with blinds on, they're crammed together and right in front of me.

When you say, you see them, can you also decipher them? The partial word count too?
Maybe you have set your text column much wider than mine. But the wider the text, the less need for blinds, anyway.

[josip]

I have no problems with that.

i.

[josip]

I have met a devil recently, you are right about that. But I don't think new icon is under his influence. I might be wrong, though :)

i.

On Saturday, October 20, 2012 2:21:26 PM UTC+2, etor...@gmail.com wrote:

Desktop icons are hidden most of the time, on the other hand bar icon is the point that let us recognize and feel special about Writemonkey app. The transition should be smooth, not that rough: you let us choose typing sounds to use, keep that tradition and let us choose a Writemonkey icon.

Perhaps you rubbed through rocky road recently such as friends's death, own clinical death, parting, divorce, dismissal, another kind of catastrophe, but why wreak pessimism and anger upon Writemonkey's face? There's a crisis all over Europe, you know, people suffer because of instability, and you just add fuel to that fire by means of reshaping fun, friendly and familiar jungle-green spot into dark, cold and insipid spit.  The devil must have played a trick on Iztok Stržinar.

[Kensai]

I hope you don't mean me.  I've been good, recently at least ;-p

Kensai

[josip]

Haven't seen mdr fkr, just suffering the consequences of his deeds. So maybe it was you. Are you into night blue demonic icons?

i.

[Kensai]

Mostly jewel tones, you know, lightsaber colors ;-p  Oh, and black.  And then earth tones, I love those ... nevermind.  I have degree in Art, I just kinda like color, period, though I'm generally don't care for them to be demon infested.  I bet lightsabers would be good for fighting demons ... um, what were we talking about?

[samokhov]

um, what were we talking about?

I guess you were making a point that new icon colors are actually less diabolical than ever.

[Kensai]

I guess you were making a point that new icon colors are actually less diabolical than ever.

No, no ... I'm pretty sure I was talking about lightsabers.  I really need got get my back from the shop.  I've got an appointment with some drably blue demons with white outlines later this evening ;-p 

[samokhov]

No, no ... I'm pretty sure I was talking about lightsabers.  I really need got get my back from the shop.  I've got an appointment with some drably blue demons with white outlines later this evening ;-p 

Exactly. Since demons are afraid of lightsabers (even Darth Maul made his hilt extra long so as not to be too near his own flaming blades), lightsabery colors act like a scarecrow on 'em. So the new icon is for our own safety ;)

[StefanG]

Well, as long as I can switch off Blinds, I have no problem, either.

Status info is totally cut off, I don't even get to see it, see screenshots:

[josip]

You are displaying the longest possible info set, with all the path, labels, percents, partials ... I can see a problem here.

i.

[StefanG]

It's not any different when I leave out the file path or the time, and I cannot influence Status or Notices anyway. The only thing that really does make a difference is the progress section, but this is the most useful to me, I don't want to shorten it.

Imagine total count and partial count in two separate lines, stacked above each other in a corner of the screen. Can you picture it? Out of sight, yet always sitting there in some corner where it is easy to find, no delayed pop-ups ... always available to be checked in its corner with a quick glance sideways, instead of constantly changing numbers in front of my eyes....

Don't mean to push my point here, I am fine with the way it works with Blinds off, my monitors are 16:9, wide enough to be typing ZEN-like in the middle, undisturbed by messy messages. But you see why Blinds are just not an option for me?

[josip]

I can see. You can gain some space in progress part if you disable labels.

i.

[samokhov]

Ooh, a flamewar. Looks like fun.

Personally, I spoke because I think the issue is minor and basically negligible. I'm all for aesthetics, but I'd much rather have some real features added or polished. I'm sorry the new icon hurts you so much, but still.

понедельник, 22 октября 2012 г., 4:41:11 UTC+4 пользователь etor...@gmail.com написал:

To everybody: As usual there are a lot of lounge lizards who don't care about the point at all, but drown it in empy talk. We saw them back in 90s in Usenet and FIDO underground, we see them today even among authorities. I believe if one does not care much, he or she should find a true promising point to raise the voice about, don't you?

[StefanG]

You mean units - hey, this brought back the Status section. Great.
Didn't think of that, it's a good idea, I always count words anyway.

[samokhov]

The icon per se will not ruin my experience, even though I like the new one more. What will somewhat cripple my experience though is lack of other stuff that might get done instead of all that bringing the unsexy back.

I know that design by committee sucks and that Iztok probably knows better what he wants WM to be but still I wanted to bring the issue in perspective. Which is, however passionate you seem (or make yourself seem) to feel about the icon, you might as well be the only one who really cares. So stop calling me black, Mr. Pot, I'm just trying to keep the blanket in place.

;)) Seriously, dude, why so gloomy? Get over the icon and to the writing already.

вторник, 23 октября 2012 г., 0:37:32 UTC+4 пользователь etor...@gmail.com написал:

Minor or major issues, they are issues. Talk about yours and let others live, do not selfishly compare them thus hogging the blanket as there is the developer Iztok Stržinar to decide on how to prioritize and proceed. Writemonkey is almost a complete product today, like fork or spoon, there's not much to wish for actually, that's why nuances come into play. Making a generic icon patch, visible or hidden icon preference, or something else to help connoisseur like me—all that will not ruin your experience, right? Right.

[StefanG]

I don't see any reason why etor should not get his icon if  there is an easy way like putting a custom gif of a certain name into the WM directory that can be assigned or called or whatever.

What would it hurt you, samokhov? You wouldn't be affected by such an option.
I like it when people are passionate about details. No reason to ridicule or belittle such wishes.
Who knows, if I switch to a visual program launcher in the future, I might be glad to have the option to provide an alternate icon. I second etor's suggestion.

[josip]

Etor was just a little too passionate with his wishes :) As far as an icon goes, the wish is credible. 

i.

[samokhov]

I think that's exactly what got me so passionate about his passion :) I mean, it's just an icon, but Etor made it sound like it's an utter showstopper just by being dramatic. Nice skill for a writer, no doubt. Maybe I'm just jealous :)

Other than that, yeah, why not. Notepad++ has a choice of two icons for quite a while now, you can install it with an old icon if you like. Not the biggest feature in my book, but still.

среда, 24 октября 2012 г., 16:38:57 UTC+4 пользователь josip написал:

[samokhov]

Once again, I'm not the one to tell Iztok what he should or shouldn't work on and besides you might be right and it might be a pretty easy thing to do. Yet technically, any time given to stuff I don't need is probably time taken from the stuff I need, so technically it does hurt me.

Anyway, I didn't think the discussion would get so hot as I was writing my first comment. I know Iztok  probably doesn't need my parenting, but I just didn't want him to feel like he condemned us all to eternal night of pitch-black darkness with that evil, evil icon. The icon is quite cool and to me it actually looks more cheerful than the old one.

среда, 24 октября 2012 г., 16:04:57 UTC+4 пользователь StefanG написал: