[Scilab-users] [ANN] Scipad-8.74

[Francois Vogel]

ANNOUNCE: Scipad version 8.74
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A new version of the Scipad text editor for Scilab and Scicoslab is 
available.


CHANGES SINCE PREVIOUS VERSION
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NEW OR IMPROVED FEATURES:

  * Re-ordered the Help menu items

  * Added a "System encoding" entry in the Encoding sub-menu

  * Clamped the width of the reformat lines window to a maximum to avoid
    huge temporary widths, especially during width changes - Added an
    horizontal scrollbar to the preview area

  * Display of margin showing modified lines is a saved preference

  * Small speed up of Scipad startup

  * Better performance with typing and clicking by distinguishing buffer
    switches and running just what is needed to keep the display 
up-to-date

  * Added console show/hide toggling in the system menu (on Windows only)

  * Allowed some default bindings for the text widget to be used in the
    find in files results dialog and text box, such as up/down, page
    up/down

  * Added tooltips showing the contents of the find/replace comboboxes
    when they are truncated by the available display space

  * Incremental find saves history of what was searched previously

  * Added some known file extensions to the file dialogs

  * Added splitting handles on top and on the left of scrollbars, to
    split the display into tiles (mouse button 1) or to split a file into
    several views (mouse button 2)


FIXED BUGS:

  * Fixed Tcl error poping up after closing Scipad running in Scicoslab

  * Fixed bug: After using find/replace, clicking close to the end of a
    long line did not move the cursor to the desired place but closer to
    the beginning of this line

  * Fixed missing re-use of the find in files results window when several
    such windows were opened and one of them got closed

  * Fixed error when moving the y scrollbar in the reformat lines window

  * Fixed cursor seen inside the selection when clicking on it, moving
    the mouse, and releasing the button while still hovering above the
    selection

  * Fixed error when launching "Join selected lines" command with no
    selection

  * Fixed bug with reformat lines producing wrong result when the first
    line has leading spaces

  * Fixed incorrect behavior when cancelling a request for replace all

  * Fixed unexpected scrolling of the text area when using the mouse
    wheel in an opened combobox of the find/replace dialog

  * Fixed bug: wrong focus restore after closure of comboboxes

  * Fixed unexpected encoding switching of the current file when opening
    an xml file for which encoding detection was successful



WHAT IS SCIPAD ?
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Scipad is a powerful editor and graphical debugger for programs 
written in Scilab language. It is a mature and highly configurable 
programmer's editor, including features like syntax colorization, 
regexp search/replace, parentheses matching, logical/physical line 
numbering, peer windows, line and block text editing, and much more. 
Scipad can be used along with Scicoslab or Scilab, but even as a 
standalone text editor. Used as internal Sci(cos)lab editor, it 
interacts tightly with the interpreter, allowing:

  - Scilab code execution control
  - conditional breakpointing
  - variable retrieval and tooltip display
  - Scilab help lookup
  - access to source code of Scilab library function
  - control of Scilab facilities for Matlab code and creation of
    help documents
  - and much more

Scipad also includes basic Modelica and XML syntax colorization; it is 
currently localized in 13 languages and further localizations can 
easily be added. Scipad is entirely written in Tcl/Tk and Scilab 
language. It has been tested and developed under various versions of 
Windows and Linux.


WHERE CAN SCIPAD BE FOUND?
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Project page @ SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/p/scipad/

Direct download:
   - for Scilab: 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipad/files/scipad-8.74/scipad-8.74-Scilab5.zip/download
   - for Scicoslab: 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipad/files/scipad-8.74/scipad-8.74-Scicoslab.zip/download

Installation instructions: 
http://sourceforge.net/p/scipad/wiki/Installation/

Details regarding the tested platforms: 
http://sourceforge.net/p/scipad/wiki/Tested%20on/


LICENSE
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Scipad is a free software distributed under the terms of the GPL (V2) 
license.