TotalEdit & TotalEdit Pro v5.4 Released

It is always the case when I release a piece of software.  As soon as it is out of the door I find things that I want to change.  I am not alone in this and I would like to thank all who gave feedback on the release.  I have tried to cater for most people's requests although I still have more to do.

Just like all previous releases anyone with an existing TotalEdit Pro license can upgrade for free.  Just download and install the update.  If you do not back up your user settings then you will need your license key to unlock the upgrade.  Video demonstrations are available on YouTube and the CoderTools.TV link found on the CoderTools web site.

I hope you all enjoy the release, which has been geared toward TotalEdit Pro and includes;

• Word wrap and long line marker now work together
• Reset search history
• Special characters are now included when selecting words. For example the $ will now be automatically highlighted when selecting a variable in Perl
• Support offline editing of Ftp files. E.g. download, edit and then upload by command rather through an automatic process
• Bug fix: XML parser was not coloring documents properly
• Bug fix: New document tabs were not appended to the right
• Bug fix: The editor context menu did not reflect any edits made to it
• Bug fix: Auto complete of HTML and XML attributes was not working properly
• Bug fix: If the same Ftp document was opened twice TotalEdit Pro would report that the file had been externally modified
• Bug fix: System defined Ftp messages would be reported to the user
• Bug fix: Opening an Ftp folder, which required a reconnect would fail
• Bug fix: Previous Ftp server details were persisted between connections
• Bug fix: A popup window would open when Ftp did not know where to download a file
• Bug fix: On connection the Ftp window was not brought to the front of all docked windows
• Bug fix: Column editor was not inserting columns properly  

Thank you all for your continued support.

TotalEdit v5.3 USB version now available

Sorry all, for some reason I goofed when uploading the USB version of TotalEdit v5.3 to my download site.  There was a typo in the zip file name, which I have now fixed.

I apologize for the inconvienence that this may have caused.

TotalEdit and TotalEdit Pro v5.3 Live

It has been over six months since the last release.  I am proud to announce though that version 5.3 of TotalEdit and TotalEdit Pro are now live and available for download.  The Brazilian version will be released during the next couple of weeks.

At $9.99 TotalEdit Pro is a bargin and now includes the one piece, which I have wanted to add for quite some time.  You can now browse remote servers and edit their files directly from within TotalEdit Pro.  For example editing an HTML document found on your web server.

Over the past six months I have received many requests for changes and updates and I have tried to add them all into the release.  I plan to deploy videos, which describe how to use the new functionality and have already uploaded a few to You Tube.  I noticed that the sound appears to be missing from my existing videos and I will resolve this as soon as possible.

I hope you enjoy the release.

Settings, what settings?

I received a troubling email the other day, which was most likely born out of something not working properly.  It turned out that for some reason TotalEdit had stopped saving any changes to its properties leaving the user extremely annoyed.  Quite understandably so too.

Whenever a change is made inside of TotalEdit the application waits until it is closed to save these edits to file.  Depending on how you installed TotalEdit settings will be saved either under your user settings folder or in the same location where the application resides.  If TotalEdit was installed under \Program Files then it will try to save all settings within your user settings folder.  Anywhere else and it will try to save to the same folder where the TotalEdit executable is found.

Whatever folder is used TotalEdit must have write permissions to it.  Specifically the user account, which TotalEdit runs under must be able to read and write to this folder.  If it can not then the application will not report an error and it will appear that all setting changes are being ignored.

Admittedly with version 5.2.8 and earlier some settings were saved to the registry, which I have now fixed in the next version.  Christmas is but a handful of weeks away and I had hoped to release TotalEdit v5.3 by now.  I have tried to fulfil so many feature requests and can only blame myself for the delay. 

My Bad

Sorry all.  I goofed with the interim version 5.3.9 release in that the HTML configuration file that shipped with the build had a typo in it.  The end result being that the HTML configuration file could not be loaded by TotalEdit and any web file formating was lost. 

Thankfully some quick typing has come to the rescue and I have uploaded an update to the download site.  You can download a new version from http://download.codertools.com/beta/TotalEditStd_5_3_9_1_install_en.msi.

Something to keep you all going

I am back to wishing that I had won the lottery.  Work in the day job is increasing and I am falling behind in my TotalEdit work.  If only I could work on it full time. 

I have made progress though and have now completed the SSH module.  It needs to integrated into the base code for the editor but otherwise everything is looking good.

As a stop gap though I have an update to version 5.3.6, which shipped with a handful of bugs.  TotalEdit v5.3.9 can be downloaded from http://download.codertools.com/beta/TotalEditStd_5_3_9_install_en.msi and includes

• SaveAll will no longer prompt to save each modified file
• When using the function list explorer, TotalEdit will no longer crash when viewing a file, which the function list does not support

Enjoy.  Feedback is always appreciated at support@codertools.com.

Almost There

This release is certainly taking longer than I had hoped.  It has been five months since I released version 5.2.8 and had planned on deploying an update around the July / August timeframe.  Just days away from November and I am still coding away on the SSH and FTP support for TotalEdit Pro.  Add a couple of requests and the oddest bug (When selecting a single line some computers allow for the highlight of the newline characters) I have seen in a long time and it looks like another couple of weeks of development are ahead of me.  If only I could win the lottery and forgo the day job to work on TotalEdit full-time :-)

For those of you who downloaded the TotalEdit Std v5.3.6 preview only a handful of additional upgrades have been made.  TotalEdit Pro is the most exciting though especially with the SSH support.  It is certainly making my life a whole lot easier.  Now if I could just find the time to upgrade the file comparison functionality to mimic WinMerge (http://winmerge.sourceforge.net/) now that would be really cool :-)