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Just Great Software Newsletter -- February 2008
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1. Updated: JGFNSE 1.1.2
2. Updated: JGCSCSE 3.1.2
3. Additional file types for EditPad Pro
Updated: JGFNSE 1.1.2
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If you own EditPad Pro 6, you can now go to http://www.editpadpro.com/fns.html to download version 1.1.2 of the JGsoft File Navigation Scheme Editor. This is the tool that you can use to create your own file navigation schemes. You can select them in Options, Configure File Types, Syntax & Navigation. A file navigation scheme is needed to bring the File Navigator in the View menu to life.
The installer now shows a Create Portable Installation button in the welcome screen. If you have installed EditPad Pro on a removable drive, you can use this button to install the file navigation scheme editor along with it. There's no way to do this from the application itself, like you can in EditPad. You have to use the installer. The help file is now provided in .chm format, to make it work on Windows Vista without the separate WinHelp viewer download.
On Windows Vista , the scheme editor will now show an error when you try to save into c:\Program Files\ when you're not running as administrator. Previously, the scheme editor would appear to be able to save files into c:\Program Files, but couldn't. Vista's folder virtualization feature would show the file to the scheme editor, but actually saved it elsewhere. This made the scheme files invisible to EditPad Pro and Windows Explorer, which don't use folder virtualization. Now, the scheme editor behaves the same way, avoiding any confusion.
The proper place to save your scheme files on Vista is c:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\JGsoft\EditPad Pro 6. If you download schemes via Options, Configure File Types, Syntax & Navigation, that's where EditPad Pro will put them. If there's a scheme with the same name under AppData as under Program Files, the one in AppData will override the one in Program Files. You can easily navigate to this folder by clicking the (...) button next to the INI file option in Options, Preferences, System.
Updated: JGCSCSE 3.1.2
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If you own EditPad Pro 6, PowerGREP 3 or RegexBuddy 3, you can now go to http://www.editpadpro.com/cscs.html download version 3.1.2 of the JGsoft Custom Syntax Coloring Scheme Editor. With this tool you can adapt the syntax coloring in these applications, and even create new schemes for previously unsupported programming languages and file formats.
The new coloring scheme editor has the same Create Portable Installation button and improved Windows Vista compatibility as the file navigation scheme editor. You can find the details above.
For PowerGREP 3, the custom scheme folder is c:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\JGsoft\PowerGREP 3. For RegexBuddy 3, it is c:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\JGsoft\RegexBuddy 3.
Additional file types for EditPad Pro
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The next free minor update of EditPad Pro will add six new file types. The update won't be released until next month. But you can configure the new file types today. In fact, if you're already using EditPad Pro, you'll have to manually add the new file types. The default file types are loaded only the first time you run EditPad Pro. After that, no automatic changes will happen to your file type configuration, even when you install a new version.
New syntax coloring and file navigation schemes are provided for the new file types. These will be automatically installed when you install the next release of EditPad Pro. If you want to start using them now, you can download them via Options, Configure File Types, Syntax & Navigation.
Once you've downloaded the new schemes (details below), you can download http://download.jgsoft.com/editpad/FileTypes640.zip to get the .ini files with the new file types. These can be imported with the Import button in Options, Configure File Types.
The new C and C++ file types provide separate configurations for these two programming language, replacing the previous C/C++ file type that handled both. They share all their settings, except the file extensions (*.c;*.h vs. *.cpp;*.hpp) and the file navigation schemes. Two new file navigation schemes are available: one for C, and one for C++. The C scheme gives you a list of functions, while the C++ scheme gives you a tree of classes with their members.
The XML Schema file type handles XML Schema files that were previously handled by the XML file type. The only difference between the XML and XML Schema file types is that the former uses the XML file navigation scheme, which builds a tree of XML elements, showing the elements. The XML Schema file type uses the XML Names file navigation scheme. This scheme lists only elements that have a name attribute, displaying the value of the name attribute. Since XML Schema files are logically structured around the target elements and attributes they define, rather than around the elements used by the XML Schema language, this file navigation scheme makes the File Navigator far more useful. This is actually not a new file navigation scheme. It has been included with EditPad Pro for some time, but never used as part of a predefined file type.
The Batch File Output file type does not have any file masks defined. This means it will never be used when you open a file. The idea is that you will select this file type when you add batch files to the Tools menu in EditPad Pro. In the tool configuration screen, on the Standard I/O tab, you can select any file type when capturing output into a new tab. When capturing output into the message pane, you can only select a syntax coloring scheme. The Batch File Output syntax coloring scheme was updated. There's also a new Batch File Output file navigation scheme. This scheme will match each command line executed by the batch file. It will list the name of the executable file in the File Navigator, and make the command line a folding point that folds the messages displayed by the command. You'll find this particularly useful to browse through the results of very long batch files.
For programmers using good old Visual Basic 6, there's a new Visual Basic Form file type. You can use this to conveniently edit *.frm Visual Basic form files with EditPad Pro. There are new syntax coloring and file navigation schemes for VB forms, that handle the form definition and event handlers in *.frm files. Editing forms with a text editor can make certain development tasks much easier, such as doing a regular expression search-and-replace on all controls on all your forms.
Last but not least, the "R source code" file type is designed for the open source statistical programming language called "R". Syntax coloring and file navigation schemes for R are now available.
That's it for this month. Thank you for using our software, and see you next month!
Kind regards,
Jan Goyvaerts.
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