Announcing the pre-release of RIDE 2.2 (v2.2rc1)

[Hélio Guilherme]

Below are the new features added to RIDE since v2.1:

• Added Project Settings concept. The Project Settings is a file named ride_settings.cfg inside a directory named .robot located in the Test Suite directory. The search for this directory, is done upwards from the Test Suite directory. You can create an empty directory, .robot located in the Test Suite directory or any parent directory, and RIDE will create and use the ride_settings.cfg. This way you can have different settings, like: colors, UI language, and Plugins settings. The most relevant example is the creation of different Run Profiles or Arguments, in Test Runner. When you open a Test Suite outside one with Project Settings, you will see a dialog to restart RIDE, to use the Global Settings.
• Added parsing of option --name or -N and Name setting, to allow running test suites with them set.
• Added indication of private keywords in Grid Editor, keywords will show in Italic, and with error background, when they are used outside of Keywords section, or from different files.
• Added indication of private keywords in Details pop-up for keywords with tag robot:private or name starting with underscore, '_' in Grid Editor.
• Added Tools→Library Finder… to install libraries and Help→Open Library Documentation… . They share the same dialog, and definitions are recorded in settings.cfg.
• Added context menu to install libraries and to open documentation in Grid Editor Import section. Same as above description.
• Added keyboard shortcuts Ctrl-Shift-Up and Ctrl-Shift-Down as alternatives to Alt-Up and Alt-Down to move rows in Grid and Text Editors.
• Added Settings Editor button to Preferences dialog, to edit settings.cfg.
• Created backup of settings.cfg to allow recovering some settings when broken upgrades.
• Added current executing keyword and other statuses to TestRunner status bar.
• Added Config Panel button to supported installed Plugins next to their name in Plugin Manager dialog.
• Added Config Panel button to Plugins, working examples in Text Editor and Test Runner.
• Added divided Status Bar. Left side for main window, right side for Plugins. Working example in Text Editor, when selecting in Tree shows the filename in StatusBar.
• Added syntax colorization for the GROUP marker.
• Added on Text Editor, tab indentation markers and tab markers boolean setting with default True.
• Added on Text Editor, folding margin with markers style configurable with fold symbols in settings.cfg.

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