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## Plugins engine
This will allow 3rd party extensions/plugins to add to and interact with existin
g core wm functionality. Since no technical documentation exists at the moment,
I will just summarize some basics.
Plugins are stored in wm/plugins folder. Each sub folder represents a plugin and
it needs to contain at least one *plugin_name.js* file. Wm supports javascript
as it's scripting language. It utilizes Jint javascript interpreter for .NET (*h
ttp://jint.codeplex.com*) which currently implements all concepts defined in ECM
AScript version 3.0. Version 5.0 is not supported at the moment.
Javascript is commonly used for handling web browser's DOM objects but in our ca
se it can interact with:
* .NET 4.0 core functionality Your scripts can instantiate and use all generic c
lasses and methods. The usage is the same as in C# (.NET flagship language) with
some minor differences.
* External .net libraries (dll-s) supplied with a plugin.
* Special "monkey" object that allows you to interact with different aspects of
current writemonkey instance. For example:
monkey.selectedText = "this will be inserted at current caret position";
Note that you don't need to use .NET stuff at all. You can just put together sim
ple javascript "macros".
### Included plugins
* Corkboards for wm [initialized at startup]
See instructions in hello.board. Right click blinds area.
* Big huge thesaurus for wm [initialized at startup]
Deploy: Ctrl + right click the word, or Ctrl+E,T
Ctrl+click the word inide menu = query that word
* Namely - generate random names using huge database of real names
* Smarty pants - replace straight quotes with curly ones, -- to en dash, --- to
em dash etc.
* Wordwrap at 75 - hard break the text at certain position
* Quick search - find text quickly, [initialized at startup]
Deploy: CTRL+E,S
Find: start writing
Next down: Down arrow, Enter
Next up: Up arrow
First: Home
Last: End
Clear search field: Delete
Exit: Escape
Back to original location: Insert
* Block comment - add or remove "//" from the paragraphs of selected text [initi
alized at startup]
Deploy: CTRL+E,C (comment) / CTRL+E,U (uncomment)
If nothing is selected, paragraph under the caret will be acted upon
- added: Jumps window will now show structurally indented markup headings (for M
arkdown, Textile and WikiCreole).
- 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.
- added: New help menu item with descriptions of hidden features for donors & di
rect PayPal link.
- added: Use ALT+H to toggle syntax highlighting on / off.
- added: Sentence segment focus: use ALT+F6 to focus on a sentence under the car
et. Note that the concept of sentence is not easily defined. Please test this fe
ature for exceptions so it can be improved.
- added (experimental): Step through sentences with ALT+F7. The sentence under t
he caret will be selected / highlighted, then next, next, till the end of the fi
le. You can focus on selected sentence any time by pressing F6. CTRL+F7 will ste
p through paraghraphs.
- improved: Jumps window, bookmarks or custom view activation: jump item nearest
to the current caret position is now automatically selected / highlighted.
- changed / added: Jumps filter now works differently and has more
: "red green blue" will match items that contain red and green and
een -blue" to match all items that are green and not blue. You can
or green or blue" to match all items that contain at least one of
functionality
blue. Use "gr
also use "red
those tags.
- fixed: Wm has been unable to read files marked as Read-only. New behavior: Rea
d-only file will open in Read-only mode, but because file is write protected, up
on save, wm will show Save As dialog to give you the option to save changes if f
ile has been locked by some other process after you opened it in wm.
- added: You can now set opened file to be Read-only so it can't be modified by
Writemonkey or any other application until the flag is removed. This is a good w
ay to additionally protect your valuable files. Toggle Read-only mode with CTRL+
F9. In Jumps window, read-only file will have its name marked with an asterisks
(*).
- added: Jumps / Folders button in addition to existing project folders list, th
ere is now also a list of child folders (plus link to the parent folder) of curr
ently opened project. It helps you navigate the folder structure without the nee
d to use "Open ..." command.
- changed: Default bookmark string from @@ to ///. This way bookmarks, if at the
beginning of the paragraph, work also as comments, will be highlighted & exclud
ed from word count and exported documents. You can still use them in the middle
of paragraphs, though.
- added: Jumps window The maximize and minimize buttons are now both enabled and
have different functions. Maximize button (quasi) docks jumps window left or ri
ght and keeps it there. Minimize button undocks - jumps window stays where it is
even after full screen / window toggle (old behavior).
- added: Right click on the file name in info bar brings up recent files menu. C
lick opens Jumps window (as before).
- changed: New application icon and new default color scheme.
You can toggle projects from the recent folders list by hitting Ctrl + left/righ
t or by clicking Folders button at the bottom. Ctrl+click will remove the item f
rom the list. The same goes for recent files list.
By default Jumps will only show .txt, .md, and .markdown files. You can change t
hat in Options (lower left corner).
File order
==========
By default files are ordered by file name. You can reorder them by drag&drop (dr
op file *on* another file to move it in front of it). Alternatively, you can use
keyboard - Ctrl+X to cut source and Ctrl+V to paste it in front of target. You
can't move files from repository to project section and vice versa. You must add
or remove "draft" tag first. Custom file order is stored in _PROJECT.DAT file (
project folder). (Sorry for that additional file, but there is no other viable w
ay to store order data.)
Tags
====
You can mark each file with one or more tags. Tags are words (separated by space
or by comma) that are marked as comment (//) and positioned at the top of the f
ile. You can add all tags in a single line:
//
or
//
//
//
- added: New marker in Bookmarks and Custom mask view - gray vertical stripe sho
ws you item's relative position inside full text. You will also get the idea how
far apart are individual items.
- changed / fixed: Backup directories for individual files are now named "projec
tName_fileName" instead of only "fileName". That way backup will properly handle
files with the same name but in different project folders. Also browsing backup
files in file manager is easier that way - sorting by name will nicely put toge
ther all project files.
- improved: Large markup documents will open up to 50 percent faster.
- improved: Better responsiveness when working on very large documents.
- fixed: Updated Markdowndeep (www.toptensoftware.com/markdowndeep/) library tha
t fixes footnote issue.
- fixed: Some inconsistencies with exported lists and comment (//) lines.
- fixed, changed (version 2.3.5 preview #6): The _PROJECT.DAT file no longer hol
ds complete file paths but only file names. The order is now preserved even if y
ou move the project folder to some other location or use it inside DropBox folde
r on different machines.
- changed: Jumps "Paragraphs" item is no longer available as a stand alone optio
n. You can reproduce this functionality by creating new Jump mask (Preferences /
Jumps). Use custom mask ".+" (without brackets) to achieve that.
- fixed / improved: Lower memory consumption - improved stability and speed. Fix
es: syntax highlighter memory leak -> potential stability issues; spell checker
memory leak -> very high memory consumption when using multiple times; lower mem
ory imprint for dialogs like Preferences and Jumps.
- added / improved: Better Find&Replace tool - no more nagging message boxes, Un
do for Replace All command and placeholders for paragraph and tabulator ([n] and
[t]). You can now for example easily convert texts with double space after para
graphs to single and vice versa ... The tool will always search trough whole tex
t. If you want to perform Find and Replace on a block of text, use Focus command
first.
- added: You can now set number of lines the text scrolls when you roll the mous
e wheel (also when you use blind scrolling or keyboard scrolling). Default is 2,
maximum is 5. Preferences / Misc / Scrolling.
- added: Standard Open and Save As dialogs now include Markdown filter (for file
s with extensions .md and .markdown). For those who prefer naming markdown files
that way. When saving new "scratch" file as Markdown file, WM will always use .
md extension (most commonly used).
- fixed / changed: Problems with decimal point when using math parser (ctrl+shif
t+R). You can now use a dot or a comma - depending on your local settings. The d
efault is dot (en-US standard). WM is now using different math library - Parser
.NET - which is also a bit faster (used to calculate page count and reading time
info bar values). You can't use thousands separator (dot or comma) when doing m
ath in WM. Parser will regard it as a decimal point and fail miserably!
-------------------------------- added / changed: Support for Markdown Extra standard (default). Visit http://m
ichelf.com/projects/php-markdown/extra/ for new extra features. Core Markdown sy
ntax is a subset of Markdown Extra - all old documents should work just fine. Wi
th one exception - rules for bold, italic and underline are slightly different t
han those in older versions of wm. WM now completely complies with Markdown stan
dard! Old Markdown parser is still available as an option but deprecated. Rememb
er also that wm supports additional markup rule - "// comments" - which is valid
for all supported standards.
- fixed: A crash on some systems when using ALT-TAB to navigate away from wm and
back.
- fixed: Problems on machines without working sound card.
- fixed: Stability issues with syntax highlighting.
- Fixed: "Hide mouse pointer while writing" did not work properly on some system
s.
- Fixed: Crashing Progress dialog under certain circumstances
- Fixed: Crashing Print preview dialog when lock on top is enabled.
- Added: new experimental&hidden feature for donors - white noise player for lou
d environments and focused writing. Hit Ctrl+W to start playing white noise in a
loop, hit Ctrl+Shift+W to toggle next sound, Hit Ctrl+W again to stop. Writemon
key will play any ogg or mp3 file found in [wmdir]/sounds directory. You must us
e OS sound controls to set the volume. Some additional white noise sounds are av
ailable on wm's web site.
What is white noise: Like white light, the conglomerate of all light frequencies
, white noise is something we hear when there is a lot of background noise of va
rious sources. Sound of the river, wind in the trees, sound of heavy rain ... Th
e positive effects of those sounds on writing process can be two fold: a) they a
re very comforting and even have kind of hypnotic effect, b) they mask out all o
ther sounds, especially spoken words, even when played in a very low volume. Ima
gine: you are writing in a caf with your laptop and you don't want to be disturbe
d by conversations around you. Pop up the ear pieces, enable white sound feature
and you are in the zone again :)
of code with an option to easily enable them again later. Writing text is not t
hat different process so I dare to argue that a writer should benefit too (from
a and b). You can comment out meta data at the beginning of the document, mark p
arts that need further attention or some other kind of "note-to-myself" comments
. Or you can just comment out some parts of text if you are over your word count
limit, but still want to keep deleted parts in your original text document, for
example. Or you can comment out alternative sections of your story. You may wan
t to use them later.
- added: Reading time progress unit It measures approximate reading time for you
r texts. The default value is set to 150 words per minute, but you can easily ch
ange that in Preferences / Misc tab. You can achieve very accurate results if yo
u measure your actual reading speed and adjust the formula. Best when preparing
texts for spoken media, speeches, lectures You can show live count value in info
bar or just check it in progress dialog (F12) along with other statistics.
- added: Additional text statistics. There are some new values in Progress dialo
g (F12) Unique words, Average words per sentence, Reading time, Hard words (word
s with 3 or more syllables), Lexical density (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Lexical_density) and Gunning fog index (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnin
g_fog_index). You can also inspect the list of word frequencies with marked hard
words. Words with less than 3 characters are not shown.
- added / improved: New info bar look&feel options. You can now optionally show
inverse info bar with dimmed (background or text) color. Experiment with Inverse
colors setting in Preferences / Colors&fonts.
- added / improved: New Colors&Fonts tab in Preferences dialog. Some new setting
s (or moved from other dialogs) and completely new permanent slots interface. Yo
u can now save and manage as many schemes as you wish. The individual slot holds
values of all items in Colors&Fonts tab. This Preview version won't import your
existing 4 saved schemes.
- added: Progress limit value, corresponding unit setting and partial count valu
e are now file dependent writemonkey will save those values as file's meta data
(NTFS file system only) and restore them when the file is reopened. Note that th
ose values are lost when you copy the file to non NTFS drive (or the file is sen
t via e-mail ).
- added: (new in 2.0 final) You can now lock the wm window on top of window stac
k. The "^" sign in status string reminds you that lock is active. Use F8 to togg
le on / off. Wm will always start with "lock on top" off.
- added: (new in 2.0 final) You can now bring the typewriter metaphor to the ext
reme. Already present horizontal typewriter scrolling is now accompanied with op
tional vertical lock, so that caret will always stay fixed in the center of the
screen and the text will move left and right. Like the sheet of paper in the typ
ewriter does ;) Use CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+L to toggle on / off. It only works in full s
creen mode.
- Fixed / improved: Hide mouse pointer when writing. Users my occasionally exper
ience annoying mouse cursor flickering. This is because mouse visibility is very
system dependent and some background (or even internal) processes can trigger t
he flickering. The "hide mouse pointer when writing" workaround has been part of
wm for a long time the mouse pointer was moved to the right bottom corner of th
e screen, but original mouse position was not kept. It is now. Also, the pointer
is now sent to middle right edge of the screen to prevent conflicts with Win7 "
Hide windows" feature. This setting is now on by default for new installs; exist
ing users should enable it in Preferences / Misc tab.
- Fixed / improved: More robust sound engine. There were quite a few reports of
problems (even crashes) with typewriter sounds. This version has more robust sou
nd engine and some dependent system files were included into installation pack i
n case your system installation lacks them. There are also some noticeable react
ion time improvements clicks and clacks should sound even more in sync and reali
stic.
s.jpg. When program bar is hidden you can use the following mouse "tricks": grab
right edge of the window to move the window, grab bottom right corner to resize
(if info bar is visible and docked to the bottom, grab just above the info bar)
... or CTRL + right edge click to toggle border visibility.
- added: Copy and Cut commands are now paragraph aware. If nothing is selected,
wm will copy/cut current paragraph (under the caret). The same goes for "move to
repository" command - you can use that to write simple one line paragraph as a
note and then hit CTRL+M to send it to repository for latter consideration witho
ut losing flow.
- added / changed: Context menu (right click) now shows keyboard shortcuts for a
ll items. This is primarily due to new default windowed look which lacks standar
d menu bar. It is easier that way to memorize common shortcuts.
- fixed: Problems with scroll indicator when CTRL+TABing between documents. The
indicator initially showed wrong value when "restore caret after open" was enabl
ed.
- changed: Different default positions for info bar items. It is more logical to
have current time and file name on the right side and notices on the left. The
result is that notices are more noticeable ;-) this way.
- changed: Info about particular preview version is now included in both splash
and about boxes. No more version info in program bar for final releases. Also: a
bout box can be called with CTRL+F1.
- added / changed: New info bar status item. When in main text "+" sign indicate
s that repository part of the document has some contents and that you should not
forget about it. = sign indicates that typewriter scrolling is on. Plus no more
square brackets for other status string items.
- added: Optionally decrease info bar font size when in windowed mode. Handy for
large screens. Preferences / Screen elements / More settings.
- added: Ability to "force save" opened text using selected encoding standard. I
f "Preferences / Open&Save, File format / Always save with selected encoding" is
checked, the text will be converted to selected encoding format. Otherwise wm w
ill keep existing encoding (see: http://groups.google.com/group/writemonkey/msg/
01526faf156eb7dc for details).
- added: New "hidden feature" available to donors: Calculate math expressions (C
TRL+SHIFT+R). Transform strings like 1+1 or ((126/3,5)^2)+3*pi with a single key
stroke into: 1+1 = 2 and ((126/3,5)^2)+3*pi = 1305,42
- changed: Default auto save interval is changed from 30 to 120 seconds. It shou
ld be more than enough for normal use.
- fixed / changed: Keyboard shortcut for "Copy as HTML" is changed from CTRL+ALT
+C to CTRL+SHIFT+H due to keyboard conflict when trying to type character "" on P
olish keyboards.
- fixed / changed: Support for the new twitter OAuth authentication. Old basic a
uth. from wm 0980 won't work after August 2010.
- fixed: Problems with help card layout when using custom system fonts size (gre
ater than 100%).
- added: Use mouse wheel to move through tabs in preferences dialog.
- added: Writemonkey web site has it's own RSS feed with information about new r
eleases and other important notices. Click RSS icon in the browser's address bar
.
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- fixed: If you quit WM with unsaved "SCRATCH" document, it asks you to save the
file. If you select "Yes", the "Save As" dialog is presented. In all older vers
ions, including 0971, wm will quit if you choose Cancel at that point. 0980 will
just close the Save As dialog and keep the itself alive. This is expected behav
ior for all Windows applications.
- fixed: You can now use space as a thousands separator in info bar progress str
ing (thanks to Jan).
- added: New notice that will tell you if repository has contents when you open
an existing file.
- added / changed: New optional tag next to the scroll marker that shows you the
scroll position in percent. It only shows when scroll marker is visible i.e. wh
en scrolling, jumping, moving with cursor ... Percent tag is off by default. Ena
ble it in Preferences / Screen elements / More settings.
- changed: Different directory structure in installation zip file. You can now "
install" wm with single mouse move.
- changed / added: Markup export feature is now selection aware. You can export
only a selected portion of the document. If nothing is selected the whole docume
nt will be exported.
- changed: There are few hidden / not documented features (easter eggs if you wa
nt) in WM. One has just been added for this release. Hidden features are not imp
ortant features and they are certainly not part of core wm feature array. They a
re more like nice hidden cherries. From now on all hidden features are available
only to donors i.e. owners of wm.donated files with writer's name tags. And wha
t are those secret features? You will know if you read writemonkey Google group
or Twitter posts ;-)
If you want to change the encoding of an existing file to the default wm encodin
g, do the following: Open existing file (ANSI for example), copy all, close that
file and start new from scratch, paste the contents in to the new doc and save.
You now have the file with wm's default encoding.
- changed: Single letter status marks
- added: Improved sprint timer. You can toggle sprint timer (paused/running) wit
h ALT+F11. No need to open Progress dialog. Also: when time is up, wm will infor
m you about the fact with a notice and 3 short beeps.
- added: You can include "percent done" in the progress string for the info bar.
Progress dialog / Progress count / Show percent. For example, the count string
will look like: "Words: 100 / 10%" if your goal is 1000 words. Show percent, if
enabled, will also show in partial count.
- added: You can choose weather to show count unit label (Words:, Characters: ..
.) in progress string. Progress dialog / Progress count / Show unit.
- added: Thousands separator can be customized (dot, comma or even space). Prefe
rences / screen elements / More settings.
- fixed: Lookup url string is stripped of unwanted punctuations (.,;:?!).
- fixed: Some dialog colors has been changed from "absolute" to "relative" syste
m colors. WM now looks good even with more exotic windows themes (color schemes)
.
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- changed: The
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intend to use
smaller memory
- changed: New shape and new position for scroll marker. The new position (near
to the text) is optional - the old one is still the default one (Preferences / M
isc / Scrolling / Next to the text).
- added: Progress bar now supports pages. You can set your own page count formul
a in Preferences / Progress / Page count. Then hit F12 and select "pages" from "
Use unit" drop down. Your live count will now give you the estimate of pages wri
tten in 0.0 format.
- added: You can optionally show live numeric count with thousands separator. Of
f by default. (Preferences / Progress / Use thousands separator)
-changed: Shortcut keys (ALT+B, ALT+N) for next and previous bookmarks are rever
ted. It is more logical this way.
- added: Some more monkey wisdom for the splash screen.
o the system tray (soft close). In this case wm is actually not closed but hidde
n. Access it again by left clicking the system tray icon. Right click system tra
y icon and select "Quit Writemonkey" to close the program permanently (hard clos
e) or select item from the recently opened files list. This feature is disabled
by default - see: Preferences / Open&Save / Quit to system tray.
- added: A personalized tag "WRITER: WRITERS NAME" in splash screen for those wh
o have donated to Writemonkey's PayPal account. The default tag for those who ha
ven't is "WRITER: ANONYMOUS". Just a little push ;-) WM is still *completely fre
e*. There is no time limitation and all features are fully functional. All donat
ors will receive personalized file "wm.donated" which must be copied in to the w
m application directory.
- fixed: correct tab order and default accept key (enter) for some controls like
Find&Replace ... You can now use these tools without the mouse.
- fixed: Nasty crash on start up if system has no valid sound device (even if so
unds were disabled). From now on wm runs fine without installed sound device. Th
e sound controls in properties dialog are disabled.
- fixed: Couple of minor bugs and inconveniences.
- added: New batch of monkey wisdoms.
y all paragraphs using wild card (* and ? characters) enabled filtering. The Hea
dlines option was removed due to lack of consistency.
Tricks:
Right click on item -> jump and close
CTRL + BACKSPACE -> close and return to start caret position
Hold CTRL -> jump on mouse hover
- added: Ability to set date-time format which can be used with replacements too
l. For example use trigger "/dt" to insert current time stamp.
- added: Insert symbol dialog with collection of recently used items.
- added: Paragraph count in Stats dialog.
- added: Ability to set standard page parameters in Stats dialog.
- added: New delete/backspace sound for both bundled typing sound schemes.
- added: Insert bookmark menu item. Many users didn't know how to use bookmark s
tring ;-)
- fixed: Current selection was lost when scrolling.
- changed, fixed: Some other minor changes and fixes.
version 0.8.6.0 [beta], August 17th 2008
---------------------------------------- added: Scroll position indicator - a little dot at the right edge of the scree
n is visible only when needed i.e. when scrolling, or navigating by pressing PgD
n/PgUp or Up/Down arrow keys.
- added: When blind scrolling with right mouse click, hit Control key to jump pa
ge up or page down. Release to scroll one line again.
- added: Stats (F12) now include sentence count and average characters per sente
nce. The algorithm is not perfect - the sentence is any block of text, that is e
nded by . ! ? or ;.
- added: You can set progress bar to be visible only when idle for certain numbe
r of seconds. Check Preferences / Misc / Progress bar.
- changed: PageUp and PageDown keys are scrolling text and not moving the caret.
You can return to starting point by hitting ALT+C.
- added: Some additional monkey wisdoms.
version 0.8.5.5 [beta], August 8th 2008
--------------------------------------- added: Finally decent Find and Replace tool. You can search using wild charact
ers or even regular expressions.
- added: The ability to set number of spaces to use instead of tabs. Check Prefe
rences/misc.
- added/changed: CTRL + Mouse wheel: text area width and text zoom factor are ch
anged proportionally; ALT + Mouse wheel: change text area width; SHIFT + Mouse w
- changed: Typing sounds were completely redone and are now much more realistic.
There are three different sounds - key sound, space sound and enter/new paragra
ph sound. You can use different sound schemes - some are available on Writemonke
y web site, but you can create your own. Just add appropriate wave files in "sou
nds" directory. If you are happy with your scheme, please send the files to me,
so I can make them available for other users to download. Thanks.
- added: Text area markers for better onscreen orientation. They are optional. T
urn them on / off (or customize them) in Preferences / Layout tab.
version 0.8.3.5 [beta], June 15th 2008
-------------------------------------- added: Drag and drop file into text area opens that file.
- added: CTRL + TAB: toggle recent files (Windows ALT + TAB style).
- added: Setting for maximum number of recent files items (Preferences / Open&Sa
ve tab).
- changed: Shortcut for toggling bookmarks is now ALT + B (instead of CTRL + TAB
).
version 0.8.3.1 [beta], May 27th 2008
------------------------------------- fixed: Netspell library was fixed and rebuild and now supports languages like
Slovenian, Croatian, Russian, Greek ... Some new dictionaries are available for
download. Request more!
version 0.8.3.0 [beta], May 26th 2008
------------------------------------- added: Advanced backup/history system. Writemonkey will automatically create m
ultiple, time tagged backup files of your work. Each document you are working on
has it's own folder in WriteMonkeyBackups directory (on your Desktop by default
). You can set maximum number of backups for both - manual and automatic save. T
here is also "LastSave_filename.txt" file which always contains last saved versi
on. The backup files are out of your way (no annoying .bak files in working dire
ctory!), but you can browse them easily if necessary. Cure for accidental delete
s and save based disasters. The backups are off by default - use Preferences / O
pen&Save tab to enable them.
- changed: Properties dialog was rearranged.
version 0.8.2.0 [beta], May 7th 2008
--------------------------------------- added: Small and simple icons for both - main and context menu. Hope you like
them.
version 0.8.1.0 [beta], April 30th 2008
--------------------------------------- changed: Printing was completely rewritten. You can now preview before printin
g and set page properties (i.e. paper size, orientation and margins). There is a
new tab in Preferences dialog, where you can choose to print page numbers (top
or bottom) and save preferred printing style. You can print with current screen
settings or use print specific formatings - font, line spacing, paragraph spacin
g and text alignment. For example - you can always print with basic Courier type
and double line spacing, but use more appropriate font and spacings when editin
g text on screen. Printing is "selection aware" i.e. you can print only currentl
y selected text.
- added: 100+ new monkey wisdoms for your amusement.
version 0.8.0.0 [beta], April 11th 2008
--------------------------------------- added: Integrated spell checking for many languages (using powerful Netspell e
ngine). The program file comes with English dictionary, other are available for
download in separate zip file. You can spell check whole document or just curren
t selection. Just hit F7. See also Preferences / General settings for some other
options.
- added: Writemonkey is now compatible with great Firefox extension It's All Tex
t (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125). Use it when writing tex
t for your blogs, for web based e-mail ... It works with any textarea on any web
page. To use this extension set Writemonkey default character encoding to UTF-8
and check out Always save on exit (Preferences / General settings).
- added: Two shortcuts for changing the case of selected text: ALT+up - from low
er to upper, ALT+down - vice versa.
- changed: The default character encoding is now set to UTF-8. For greater compa
tibility.
- changed: "Monkey says" will never pop up when opening existing file using Open
with Writemonkey in Windows context menu.
- changed: Preferences dialog was rearranged. Other settings is now named Genera
l settings. There is also a new tab - Spelling.
- fixed: some other performance issues and bug fixes
version 0.7.9.7 [beta], March 26th 2008
--------------------------------------- added: Quick find in Jumps dialog.
- fixed: Some inconsistencies in Jumps dialog.
- changed: In Jups dialog: CTRL + Backspace = return back to starting point and
close (instead of just Backspace)
version 0.7.9.5 [beta], March 1st 2008
-------------------------------------- added: Left click "blind scrolling" is improved: if you click at the very top
or very bottom of the screen / window, the text is scrolled to the top / bottom.
Same as "Home" and "End" buttons.
- added: Basic support for multiple monitors. You can use extended Windows deskt
op feature (in Windows display properties) and run Writemonkey in full screen on
any monitor connected to your computer. This is also a fix - there were some pr
oblems when using monitors with different resolutions. Thanks to Jeff.
- fixed: The user settings are now preserved when upgrading to new version of Wr
itemonkey.
- added: Ability to restore all settings to their default values. See: preferenc
es / restore defaults.
version 0.7.9.1 [beta], February 18th 2008
------------------------------------------ fixed: The text in repository is now safe even when using Windows new lines (d
efault in preferences / other settings). Thanks to Mike and his quick insight.
version 0.7.9.0 [beta], February 17th 2008
------------------------------------------ added: New Layout tab in preferences dialog. Ability to set text column width
(moved from Other settings), line spacing, paragraph spacing and text alignment
(left, right, centered or justified). Beware that these settings do not apply wh
en using built in printing. Not yet anyway.
- changed: Scroll buttons were removed, because there is no need for them. You c
an still scroll by clicking next to the text area. Upper half will scroll up, bo
ttom half will scroll down. You can disable this feature in preferences / other
settings.
- added: Jump back to caret shortcut (ALT+C). Useful when scrolling through text
and want to quickly return to the current writing position.
- added: Option to save files with Unix line breaks. \n instead of \r\n which is
Windows standard. Unix line breaks are recognized by majority of Windows progra
ms, but not by Notepad. Good for greater portability to other platforms.
- added: Now you can choose weather to use regular tabs (\t) or plain spaces ins
tead of them.
- fixed: Text modification state is now preserved when changing preferences or c
olors. Ask to save dialog is shown only when needed.
- fixed: Open with Writemonkey check box state in preferences dialog is now corr
ect even when upgrading to higher version of WM.
- changed / fixed: URL addresses are now clickable in repository and main text.
This is due to reported framework bug - you can not change the DetectUrls at run
time. See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814310
------- BUG!!!: in some circumstances the repository text looses line breaks. It has s
omething to do with Windows line breaks \r\n. It seams that this is a framework
bug, but I'm not sure if that really is the case. There is a dirty workaround: t
he bug will disappear if you use Unix line breaks. I'll fix that in the future.
PLEASE REPORT YOUR INSIGHTS.
ng stuff which needs to be exactly of certain length, and you want to intuitivel
y monitor your progress. The feature was proposed by Monitor magazine columnist
Nikolaj Peenko and welcomed by many of our journalist friends.
- added: "New from clipboard" command in File menu was added to quickly get your
text into WriteMonkey. The new document is created with text from clipboard alr
eady in place. Of course copy and paste works well too.
-added: Shortcut for toggling progress bar on and off. Use ALT + P.
- added to the web page: WriteMonkey is still free, and always will be, but from
now on you can donate through our Paypal account. It is not all about money - b
ut if you send us some, we'll see that our efforts pay off and continue to devel
op this program.
- fixed: Shortcuts keys for changing screen zoom factor and text width are alter
ed due to some conflicts with other commands. Instead of ALT + arrow keys use CT
RL + ALT + arrow keys.
This release also implements some other minor features, bug fixes and cosmetic c
hanges.
version 0.6.2.1 [beta], August 3rd 2007
--------------------------------------- fixed: Potential problems when adding "Open with WriteMonkey" command in Windo
ws context menu i.e. adding right values to the registry.
version 0.6.2.0 [beta], July 31st 2007
-------------------------------------- added: Optional integration with Windows context menu. Right click on any file
(even files with no extension) will show "Open with WriteMonkey" command.
version 0.6.1.0 [beta], July 26th 2007
-------------------------------------- added: Three additional typewriter sounds to choose from.
- added: Shortcut for toggling typewriter sound on and off (ALT + S).
- added: Shortcut for generating random color scheme. The same as Try luck butto
n in preferences dialog (ALT + L).
- added: 150 additional "Monkey says" wisdom quotes.
- added: List of all keyboard shortcuts in online help section.
version 0.6.0.2 [beta], June 16th 2007
-------------------------------------- added: Ability to set text width and text zoom factor using shortcuts (ALT + d
irection keys).
- fixed: Some problems with typewriter sound when applying Preferences dialog mo
re then once per session.