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Major Improvements in the HTML Editor 2008

Changelog for the HTML Editor 2008 Pre-Release

1. ADDED: Added mdash to the special characters list.
2. ADDED: Preferences Dialog: Added "Use Code Completion" option to General Tab.
3. ADDED: Preferences Dialog: Added "Auto Close Code Completion Tags" option.
4. ADDED: Code Completion feature for Auto Close Tags.
5. ADDED: CSS Code completion.
6. ADDED: Document Properties dialog now has charset option during coder mode.
7. ADDED: Quick Start Dialog now has a charset Tab. Charsets are in CharSets.dat. If that file is missing from the root of the app install, a default list will be added via code. By Default both the file and code charsets are the same.
8. ADDED: Added Menu item View > CSS Tags Tab.
9. ADDED: Tags Tab, added CSS Tags Button.
10. ADDED: Code completion for HTML is now enabled.
11. ADDED: Preferences Dialog: Browsing for an Additional Browser (Testing & Uploading Tab) or a custom application (Applications Tab) now fills in the application description (if blank) with the description in the exe file version info if present, otherwise it fills it with the exe filename.
12. ADDED: Tools menu and Test Dropdown toolbar item in Code Editor and Visual Editor now display the Favorite Browsers Icon.
13. ADDED: Tools > Applications Popup menu and Main toolbar Applications dropdown menu now display the applications icon.
14. ADDED: Preferences Dialog: Added "Show Rulers in Visual Editor" option to General tab.
15. ADDED: Added QuickLaunch and Desktop Icon options to Finish Step of Install.
16. ADDED: Added Copy, Cut, Paste, Delete, Rename, New Folder, to the Files Tab Files Listview context menu.
17. ADDED: Tag help in status bar for selected HTML Tag in Tag List Tab.
18. ADDED: Tags Tab buttons now stay in a down state to indicate which items are loaded.
19. ADDED: Adding or copying Files to a project now has a progress dialog if a folder is being recursed.
20. ADDED: Underline button to code editor and Visual Editor toolbars.
21. ADDED: Upload to server now outputs a log file to the editor folder called "ftp.log".
22. ADDED: Key combination (CTRL+TAB) to switch between open files Also CTRL+SHIFT+TAB.
23. ADDED: Added @ to special characters list.
24. ADDED: Preferences Dialog: Added Projects Tab and New Project start option.
25. ADDED: New Project now prompts based on the Preference setting for quick project or detailed project. Quick Project shows an abbreviated version of the New Project Dialog.
26. ADDED: Added "title=" to image mapper html output.
27. ADDED: Files Tab Content menu, added menu item "Copy File(s) to Current Project >" with cascading menus of the current project folders.
28. ADDED: Files Tab Content menu, added menu item "Add File(s) to Current Project".
29. ADDED: Quick Start Dialog - Added "meta http-equiv" tag.
30. ADDED: Create Project Dialog - add a check box on the main 'Add Project' dialog for 'Add Files/Folders from this location to my project'.
31. ADDED: Add Upload button to projects toolbar.
32. ADDED: Project Menu Item: Upload Entire Project.
33. ADDED: Visual Editor now displays the partial DOM in the status bar. "html > body > p > b"
34. ADDED: Unsaved Files now have a "*" on the document tab if they are unsaved.
35. ADDED: Visual Editor now has a toolbar button (Second from the left) for "Edit Element Source...". This invokes the Edit Element Source dialog for editing the InnerHTML of the current Element/Selected HTML.
36. ADDED: "Edit Element Source..." to context menu for Visual Editor.
37. ADDED: Added a Statusbar image for indicating saved/unsaved state of current document.
38. ADDED: The status bar now displays the tag info (from the *.cct files / Tags Tab) for the current tag.
39. ADDED: Added Projects Menu to main menu.
40. ADDED: Added Upload Dependency option to project settings (Yes, No, Ask).
41. ADDED: Projects Tab, Added "Upload" to the context menu for uploading the currently selected files.
42. ADDED: Project Settings Dialog, now has "Check Dependencies before uploading" and "If dependencies are missing, cancel upload" check boxes.
43. ADDED: Projects Tab, Uploading now does a dependency check before uploading based on setting.
44. ADDED: Projects Tab now has a button to launch SiteSpider (Compiled in, not exe).
45. ADDED: Projects Tab, button and menu for Project Properties (edit settings)
46. ADDED: Projects Tab, button and menu for Checking file dependencies.
47. ADDED: Main Window, Project Dependencies opens a tab with results, right click for options.
48. ADDED: Document Dependencies Dialog - <link> stylesheets/files are now added to dependencies.
49. ADDED: Document Weight Dialog - <link> stylesheets/files are now added to dependencies.
50. ADDED: Upload Dialog now has a "File 1 of 4" type of status display.
51. ADDED: Upload Dialog now has a prompt when the file exists on the server. Includes: Overwrite? Yes, No, YesToAll, NoToAll.
52. ADDED: Edit > Edit XHTML Tags... menu.
53. ADDED: Edit XHTML Tags Dialog.
54. ADDED: Vertical Ruler to Visual Editor Area.
55. ADDED: FTP Server Configuration Dialog: Added a "Test Settings" button in the edit/add dialog.
56. ADDED: Created a Test Server Settings Dialog for the FTP Server Configuration Dialog.
57. ADDED: Files Tab now has a "Goto Working Folder" button.

1. CHANGED: New Help file.
2. CHANGED: Code Completion for CSS now shows URL property as "url('')" vs "url('http://')"
3. CHANGED: Changed main icon to the one with the big builder guy.
4. CHANGED: Removed old Graphics files, replaced with provided set.
5. CHANGED: LiveSpell Checking should now ignore spelling errors in HTML.
6. CHANGED: Code Completion for CSS now does NOT start when pressing space or tab in a <style> tag. Ctrl+Shift+Space still invokes the list manually.
7. CHANGED: CSS Code completion now lists non-insertable list items in parens, "(length)". and in gray.
8. CHANGED: CSS Code completion no longer inserts "(length)" values.
9. CHANGED: CSS Code Completion - Code Completion now does NOT invoke immediately after typing {.
10. CHANGED: Choosing View Tag Tab (PHP, CSS) from the file menu no longer loads the default tags (xhtml) before loading PHP or CSS).
11. CHANGED: Layouts Dialog is now a custom dialog with layout preview images.
12. CHANGED: "CoffeeCup Link Button" snippet had an 'x' in the closing comment tag so the comment doesn't close.
13. CHANGED: Replaced Snippets with those provided. (Snippets with XHTML 1.0 strict lowercase markup)
14. CHANGED: Goto Line Dialog: Now starts with the current line entered, and min and max for the numeric edit is set to the valid range of the current document.
15. CHANGED: Goto Line Dialog: No longer toggles word wrap back and forth to perform goto line.
16. CHANGED: Goto Line Dialog: Centers the "destination line" in the editor vertically.
17. CHANGED: Reduced SpecChars.dat to 255 (w3c).
18. CHANGED: Replaced Layouts with those provided.
19. CHANGED: Replaced DHTML Scripts with those provided.
20. CHANGED: Replaced Javascripts with those provided.
21. CHANGED: Files Tab, Copy/Add File/Folder to project context menus now show/hide based on whether they apply to the selected files and/or folders.
22. CHANGED: Project Settings now remembers the Sub Directories and file types settings as settings used for adding files after a project has been created.
23. CHANGED: "Check for Updates" now links to http://www.coffeecup.com/html-editor/
24. CHANGED: Code Snippet "CoffeeCup Link Button" now links to http://www.coffeecup.com/promote/buttons/88x31a.gif - NOTE: Existing files not changed, only new installs.
25. CHANGED: Changed Underline button image to match Bold and Italic Image style.
26. CHANGED: Adding files to a project now prompts and copies files to the selected project folder.
27. CHANGED: "Download Help File" is now "View Help File" and launches the local Coffee-Help.chm file.
28. CHANGED: Install now installs \Help\Coffee-Help.chm
29. CHANGED: Editor now supports CDATA sections in all the javascript and dhtml script files, in ALL the sections.
30. CHANGED: New Background image for main window.
31. CHANGED: Removed the Get More Templates file from the install templates folder.
32. CHANGED: Table Wizard now inserts <br /> instead of <br>
33. CHANGED: Rule wizard and Image dialog now insert tags that end with /> (XHTML).
34. CHANGED: Removed the "Insert a Coffee Button" button.
35. CHANGED: Install. Put new layout files into the setup.
36. CHANGED: DHTML Window Designer now copies CCWinLib.js to the folder where you saved the Window designer files.
37. CHANGED: removed quick guide to html under the help menu. also deleted the chm from the install.
38. CHANGED: Code Cleaner had Document Type set to Omit by default, changed to Auto which removed the !DOCTYPE tag.
39. CHANGED: Got latest version of the tidy.exe used for Code Cleaner.
40. CHANGED: Tools > Other Software > Graphics now links to http://www.coffeecup.com/html-editor/graphics/
41. CHANGED: Code Editor, when a tag does not have any attributes, the text in the statusbar will include "No attributes for this tag"
42. CHANGED: Site Spider should launch with the current projects URL (if any) prefilled in the 'Benchmark Site' field.
43. CHANGED: Moved Unsaved files on tab "*" to end of the file name.
44. CHANGED: Creating New Project does not ever add *.cpf files to the project.
45. CHANGED: Preferences Dialog - Changed "Open Last Open Document" to "Open Last Open Documents".
46. CHANGED: Using the "Open Last Open Documents" setting now opens all documents that were open at last app close.
47. CHANGED: "Select Insert Or Open" Dialog now uses a much nicer looking dialog and includes an additional feature (and text in the dialog) for holding down Ctrl to open a document and shift to insert as link to override showing the dialog when dragging and dropping files. (There are actually 2 separate functions for this, one for dropping a single file, one for multiple files.)
48. CHANGED: Projects Tab, Document Dependencies check now checks files that open (unsaved file content).
49. CHANGED: Projects Tab, Tree now allows Multi-Select vs. Single Select.
50. CHANGED: Projects Tab, Check Dependencies now checks all the files in the project, instead of just the currently selected file.
51. CHANGED: Upload Dialog now displays the server folder path in the dialog that asks if you want to create it if it doesn't exist.
52. CHANGED: Upload Dialog is now capable of uploading files to multiple folders during one upload session.
53. CHANGED: Projects Tab: Smart Delete: Delete Selected Files now has a new confirmation dialog that includes a "Delete file(s) from disk as well." verification checkbox and information footer.
54. CHANGED: Projects Tab: Projects list is now saved in Projects.ini instead of the registry.
55. CHANGED: The Close button on the right side of the code and visual toolbar now includes the file name in the tooltip. IE. "Close untitled1.html".
56. CHANGED: Projects Tab: Loading a project now has a hourglass cursor during project load.
57. CHANGED: Projects Tab: Project Treeview and Files Listview now combined into a single treeview.
58. CHANGED: Projects Tab: Closing a project now unselects the project name in the project name combo box.
59. CHANGED: Projects Tab: Optimized the adding of multiple files. Now faster.
60. CHANGED: Projects Tab: Create Project Dialog now has Server info input, improved layout, and Dialog image.
61. CHANGED: New Project Dialog: Browsing for Project Folder now opens at the entered path instead of My Computer.
62. CHANGED: "Open dialog should take you to the last place you opened a file from".
63. CHANGED: Re-ordered Tab Browser to Files, Projects, Code Snippets, Tags, Characters.
64. CHANGED: Special Characters changed to charsets. The data file now uses a new format which includes Entity Name, Character, HexFormat, DecFormat, HTML Spec, and Description.
65. CHANGED: Re-ordered View Menu to match changes in the tab browser.
66. CHANGED: Code Snippets Tab now has the Snippets, DHTML, and JavaScript items in a single tree.
67. CHANGED: FTP Upload: Context Menu for "Upload to Server" now adds "(Root)" to the sub menu if no sub folders are specified so users can upload without specifying a subfolder.
68. CHANGED: Table Designer New/Properties dialog table width combo box now drops down showing all items (no scrolling needed).

1. FIXED: Code Completion, HTML Tag Attribute values were not lowercase.
2. FIXED: Code Completion auto closes self closing tags.
3. FIXED: Install now deletes old Desktop, quick launch, start menu, and shortcuts before installing new ones so the icon is updated on existing installs.
4. FIXED: Code Completion bug when starting with "<" before text.
5. FIXED: CSS Tag for Background was incorrect.
6. FIXED: CSS property Value "color" fixed.
7. FIXED: CSS Code Completion - a ';' should now be added after a css value if needed.
8. FIXED: CSS Code Completion - Code Completion should now invoke when alpha characters are pressed when inside {} in CSS.
9. FIXED: CSS Code Completion - The closing { should be added now.
10. FIXED: FTP Server Configuration dialog did not properly clear the folders list or remote directories text box before doing an add or an edit on a server.
11. FIXED: DHTML menu builder inserts # before HTML colors.
12. FIXED: Fixed layouts problem bug when switching unsaved opened layouts.
13. FIXED: Edit Element Source in Visual mode caused exception when editing BODY source. Disabled this when the current element is the body.
14. FIXED: Editor would appear to hang on click or keypress in a file that was large and didn't have many or no "<" characters. The hang/delay would be longer the further down the file you went. (Took a long time to parse). Typing was also slow.
15. FIXED: Status Bar Tag Info in Code Editor Mode would not always get the correct tag when word wrap was turned on and the cursor was placed on a tag below lines that were wrapped.
16. FIXED: Updated SpecChars.dat.
17. FIXED: F1 did not launch help file.
18. FIXED: Help was not being launched with a fully qualified path.
19. FIXED: Norwegian/Finnish AltGr+2, AltGr+3, AltGr+4 problem for typing @, #, and $ should be fixed now. It should no longer show the "Select a browser" dialog.
20. FIXED: Project Settings Dialog: "Add Files/Folders from this location to my project" checkbox was enabled when editing an existing projects settings.
21. FIXED: Editor Taskbar button caption (Application Title) was changed when Site Spider was run.
22. FIXED: New Project Now creates the project name folder under project location.
23. FIXED: Files Tab "Copy to Project" and "Add to Project" menus did not work correctly.
24. FIXED: Inserting a DHTML/Java Snippet that inserts to head and body did not put the cursor back where it was before the insertion.
25. FIXED: Install set Free FTP Path (Preferences > Applications) to %maindir%reeftp instead of app path.
26. FIXED: Alert.xml (Browser > Site Alert) Javascript title was incorrect, updated with provided file.
27. FIXED: Fixed the FTP upload error, problems was with uploading to the root of the server "/(Root)" error.
28. FIXED: File > New From Layout did not increment untitled counter.
29. FIXED: Document Weight Dialog: on some non-us machines the system decimal is a comma, this resulted in the download sizes and times not being correctly trimmed to 2 decimal places.
30. FIXED: Install created folder EditorWebsiteFont\Temp instead of Editor\WebsiteFont\Temp
31. FIXED: Special Characters Listview didn't display UTF8 characters correctly.
32. FIXED: Code Cleaner stripped IFRAME from document.
33. FIXED: Project dependencies it gives a message for “missing references†for mailto: links
34. FIXED: Search for undocumented characters searched inside HTML.
35. FIXED: Typing or clicking after "<?" and "<*" caused a file not found error.
36. FIXED: Table wizard inserted code with BODY tags.
37. FIXED: Fixed bug where the list of projects would be erased when the editor was opened and then closed without having loaded the project list.
38. FIXED: Switching between Tags & Files tabs crash.
39. FIXED: List Index error when adding a project with an empty folder.
40. FIXED: Create New Project Dialog - Adding files ignores the file types specfied in the combo box and always adds all files.
41. FIXED: If a user has a project open and saves an untitled document to the project folder, it is automatically added to the project.
42. FIXED: Main menu, Project menu did not get updated when needed (after removing/closing a project).
43. FIXED: Shift-Insert inserted 2 copies of the text from the clipboard when in Visual Mode.
44. FIXED: Documents opened with just CR's instead of CRLF pairs would cause extra lines to be inserted into document upon saving. Documents opened with bad CR's in them will be fixed and marked as UnSaved open initial opening.
45. FIXED: The OBJECT replacement code for the visual editor had a loop safety catch set for 10 iterations. If a document had more than 10 OBJECT tags, an error may have resulted when switching to the Visual Editor.
46. FIXED: Visual Editor: When selecting a Media Object and selecting the "Submit Form", "Reset Form", or "None" radio buttons the original Object tag code would be lost upon saving or switching to Code Editor.
47. FIXED: Projects Tab, The "No missing dependencies" message included a bogus filename.
48. FIXED: Invoking Site Spider changed app title.
49. FIXED: Upload Dialog. If a folder on the server did not have any files in it, error 450 was displayed.
50. FIXED: Code Cleaner runs into a "List index out of bounds (-1)" error when trying to clean some pages.
51. FIXED: Document Dependencies Dialog "Copy to Clipboard" only copied the last filename in the "Document Items" section.
52. FIXED: Document Dependencies Dialog - Multiple links to the same documents were listed under External Links multiple times.
53. FIXED: New Project Dialog: Selecting *.* as the File Types to Add resulted in no files being added.
54. FIXED: Editor Dialogs fixed for large fonts: Dhtml Window Designer Edit Text, Open From Web, Save Snippet, Server Configuration, Insert Sound.
55. FIXED: DHTML Menu Builder. Incorporated dhtml.dat fix for Opera Browser.
56. FIXED: Code Editor: Col/Row status bar indicator now updates on cursor key press and mouse click.
57. FIXED: Preferences Doctype stated "4.01" but inserted "4.0".
58. FIXED: Table Designer: Click OK to insert a default table. Place the cursor in a table cell, then click the 2nd icon from the right (Table Properties). Choose a background color and border color. When you click OK, a List Index Out of Bounds error appears.
59. FIXED: Table Designer: New blank page, Insert > Table Designer. Any number of rows or columns. Click inside a cell. Insert > Insert Image. Select any gif image. You'll get "Image Loading Error" and then an endless loop of List Index Out of Bounds.
60. FIXED: Right clicking Snippet item in Snippet tab caused an access violation.
61. FIXED: Projects Panel: Switching to another tab and back would basically unselect the project in the tree.
62. FIXED: FTP Server Configuration Dialog (Edit/Add Mode) always had Cool/No Way buttons despite preference setting.
63. FIXED: Dropping multiple files on an open document only opened/inserted the first file. Now dropping multiple files on an open document first inserts images and sounds as tags in the current document, then prompts what to do with the remaining files.

1. REMOVED: Flash Text Wizard from Application and Install.
2. REMOVED: "Display Your Hard Drive" snippet.
3. REMOVED: Website Font menu item.
4. REMOVED: Website Font files from installer.
5. REMOVED: "Join our Affiliate Program" menu item.
6. REMOVED: Removed snow.xml javascript from install.
7. REMOVED: Flash Animations Menu and Sub Items removed from insert Menu and code Editor Toolbar. Flash Wizard Exe removed from setup also.
8. REMOVED: Removed Sound Events, Removed the associated option setting in General tab of the preferences.
9. REMOVED: Removed cool/no way option in preferences.