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ED
for Windows Version 4.30 Build 0.0 has been released.
28
Feb 2007
If you use Version Control or even more importantly if you don't,
you should read our new Blog post Get
up and running with TortoiseSVN and Subversion in 15 minutes
This guides you through installing, setting up and using TortoiseSVN
and also using it with ED for Windows.
22
Feb 2007
Read our
new Blog post Write
Ruby code faster with ED for Windows to get a good overview
of ED's core features and capabilities.
21
Feb 2007
ED V4.30, B0.0 has been released. This release adds support for
Microsoft Vista, comprehensive language support for Ruby, updates
to work with the TortoiseSVN SCCS client, plus various other new
features and bug fixes. See the Release
Notes for full details.
5
May 2006
ED V4.20, B0.0 has been released. Bracket matching has been enhanced,
code templates can be much larger, new template expansion codes
have been added, stray swap files are cleaned up and various problems
have been resolved. See the Release
Notes for full details.
22
December 2005
As another year draws to an end I would like to thank all of our
long standing customers for their continued support and thank our
many new customers for hoping on board. Best wishes to you all for
Xmas and may the New Year bring good health, wealth and happiness.
We look forward to bringing you more, interesting new ED releases,
in the year ahead.
5
August 2005
ED V4.12, B0.0 has been released. New Style Sheet Setup options
have been added to control automatic bracket highlighting and some
issues have been addressed. See the Release
Notes for full details.
21
July 2005
ED V4.11, B0.11 has been released. This release offers a few enhancements
and fixes some bugs. See the Release
Notes for full details.
11
July 2005
ED V4.11, B0.10 has been released. This is a minor update to address
some issues in the last release. See the Release
Notes for full details.
1
July 2005
ED V4.11, B0.0 has been released. It includes some nice new features
such as automatic bracket highlighting, save and restore of line
based bookmarks, more items displayed in toolbar lists, enhancements
to the File Open dialog and more. See the Release
Notes for full details.
17
June 2005
Development of the next ED release is progressing nicely and we
expect it to be available around the end of this month. More details
will be available soon.
9
February 2005
Our first new version for 2005, ED V4.05, Build 0.0 has been released
today. This release includes enhancements to the Find in Files and
Replace in Files UI, Code Templates, Comment Alignment etc. along
with a number of bug fixes. See the Release
Notes for full details.
21
December 2004
We'd like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and prosperous 2005
and thank you all for your support during this past year and the many
before it.
The
past few months have been quiet on the ED front while we put resources
into finishing our new product Surfulater
and getting the first version released. This has now happened and we
are getting a very positive response. If you haven't tried Surfulater
yet please do. We expect the next ED release late Jan 2005.
23
August 2004
ED V4.02, Build 2.0 has been released with much anticipated Matlab
language support, including full code navigation and browsing
capabilities via. ED's Source Database. ED will be more useful than
ever before to the many Matlab programmer's out there, bringing them a
whole new level of editing power. See the Release
Notes for full details.
Other
updates include PL/SQL Smart Indenting, Include file lookup
enhancements, Project and Difference Analysis startup improvements,
Tab order changes in Replace, Shortcut key updates in all Find
dialogs, new param= options for K_InsertFilename, K_BookmarkGotoN,
K_GotoLastEdit, K_BookmarkList, K_SelectWord, K_FindRange, K_WordDeleteToEnd
along with various bug fixes. See the complete release notes in the new ED
Customer Forums. This is another big ED release which we're sure
you'll be pleased to get hold of.
19
May 2004
ED V4.03, Build 1.10 has been released. Enhancements include C/C++
Source Code Browser support for typedef's and unnamed enum's, Progress
'ON .." blocks are now ignored inside procedures and functions,
Function selection for Progress now tracks the function end more accurately,
code template updated to work with smart indenting, the ability to
change Style Sheets dynamically, PL/SQL Error Tracking etc. plus a variety
of bug fixes. You can and
read the complete release notes in the new ED
Customer Forums. We've
been pretty busy as you'll see.
17
March 2004
ED V4.03, Build 1.0 has been released and includes various enhancements
and bug fixes. Progress developers will welcome smart indenting and
Source Browser updates.
Once
you've registered on the new
forums you will be able to download V4.03, B1.0 and
read the complete release notes in the new ED
Customer Forums.
11
March 2004
We are back hard at work on ED following the Web Server exercise and
Beta release of Surfulater as outlined
below and expect to have ED V4.03, B1.0 available later this
month.
Free
Upgrades from EDV3.80 to EDV4 March 2002 version will end shortly. We
have been offering these free upgrades for almost 3 years now which we
feel is more than generous.
Our
New
Web Server
25-26
February 2004
Things appear to have been a little quiet of late, at least as far as
ED updates go, however, behind the scenes we have been as busy as
ever, if not busier, apart from a short break over Christmas.
For
quite some time now we have been concerned about various issues
related to our Web site hosting, Email, On line ordering etc. To
address these issues we decided to move to our own dedicated Web
server at the end of 2003. Considerable time and resources had to be
allocated and the start of the new year seemed to be a good a time as
any, especially with ED humming along nicely and many of you being
away on Christmas holidays.
All
of the ground work is now complete and the move to the new server is
about to start. As long as there are no hiccups it will be finished in
the next few days.
Some
of the benefits from this move include:
-
A
new secure on line purchasing site with our own SSL Certificate.
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A
complete new Forum package. Our previous forums (w-agora) served
us well but we have outgrown them. After a lot of research
we've settled on vBulletin V3 which is the leading commercial
forum software. vBulletin is a very impressive package which will
help us to deliver the best possible support to you.
-
Our
new server will deliver better performance and gives us total
control over areas like email spam handling. It also won't suffer
from problems caused by a multitude of other Web sites being on
the same server, or Web hosting companies breaking our sites.
Information
on using the new and old Forums is available on the Forums
page as well as details of our new Private
Messaging system and Forum
Features.
Over
the past year we have also been quietly working in our spare time :)
on a new product named Surfulater. This has been built from various
reusable code components from ED along with a lot of new code. Much
like ED started some 20 years ago it grew out of a need we had. See www.surfulater.com
for a product preview.
The
new Forums and Online Ordering have been moved from www.getsoft.com
to a new site www.softasitgets.com
which we will now use as a central Soft As It Gets Web site.
If
you experience any Web site problems try pressing the Browser Refresh
button or Ctrl+Refresh to get the latest Web site pages. If the
problem persists beyond 27 Feb 2004
please contact us with full details.
ED
for Windows Version 4.02 Build 2.22 has been released.
11
November 2003
ED V4.02, Build 2.22 has been released and includes several
enhancements and various bug fixes. You can download it now and
read the complete release notes in the Download
Forum. Please see this FAQ item if
you have a problem.
11
November 2003
To further try and reduce Spam we have changed our Sales email
address, as well as Karen Colbert's email address. See our Contact
Us page for the updated addresses, and please update your address
books asap.
26
September 2003
ED V4.02, Build 2.21 addresses various issues with the new Find
selection highlighting added in the last release, as well as other
items outlined in the release notes in the Download
Forum. If you are using V4.02, B2.20 you should install this
release asap.
10
September 2003
ED V4.02, Build 2.20 has been released with enhancements to enable
selected code to commented out, and uncommented for languages like
Progress, the ability to see the original text selection when
searching within a selection, and go to a relative line number.
Various bugs have been fixed in find, replace, replace in files,
macros etc. Full release notes are included with the
download and also in the Download Forum. It is available right now in the Download
Forum.
1
September 2003
The SoBigF virus is currently creating a serious problem for us with
several of our email accounts being heavily hit. Because of this we
have had to change out support email account name to edsupport. The
Support page has been updated accordingly. If matters don't improve we
may need to move to providing support via. our Web forums only. This
is a sad state of affairs we all find ourselves in.
31
July 2003
ED V4.02, Build 2.10 has been released with greatly improved
performance when working with files on slow, possibly remote or
foreign file systems. Plus new options to automatically toggle files
from view to edit mode, and update projects when filename case
changes. Along with resolution of spelling checker and other problems.
Full release notes are included with the
download and also in the Download Forum. It is available right now in the Download
Forum.
20
June 2003
ED V4.02, Build 1.90 has been released with the ability to add
complete directory trees to Projects, Source Database updates to cater
for C/C++ enum attributes, Document Tab Bar and Splitter window enhancements
and more... Full release notes are included with the
download and also in the Download Forum. It is available right now in the Download
Forum.
27
May 2003
ED V4.02, Build 1.80 has been released with the new Spelling Checker, enhancements
to Difference Analysis to enable merging and deletion of differences,
multiple monitor support and various bug fixes. Full release notes are included with the
download and also in the Download Forum. You can download it now from the Download
Forum.
11
April 2003
ED V4.02, Build 1.7 has been released with UI enhancements like "Do
not ask again" messages which make it even easier to
customize ED, configurable mouse buttons, new middle button scrolling
and panning, along with other enhancements and bug fixes. Full release notes are included with the
download and also in the Download Forum. You can download it now from the Download
Forum.
11
April 2003
Visit our updated Site Links page
for pointers to new and interesting programming oriented Web sites.
9
April 2003
Progress developers can win a copies of ED and Proparse Light in the
Prolint Anniversary Competition. Visit the Prolint
web site for details.
12
February 2003
ED V4.02, Build 1.6 has been released. The Ruler has been enhanced
with the ability to set multiple marks at once, hide or remove all
marks, and move the ruler to the top left. Ruler settings are now
retained. Clipper/xBase code can be reformatted again, Header/Source Swap
has been enhanced to look for a match within projects, a lightning fast and highly efficient XML parser has been added,
some problems with Find and Replace have been fixed, along with other
updates. Full release notes are included with the
download and also in the Download Forum. You can download it now from the Download
Forum.
18
December 2002
ED V4.02, Build 1.5 has been released just in time for Christmas. New
features include the ability to change the current files type between
Unix and DOS formats, full language support for .BAK files,
enhancements to ED's source database lookup capabilities for Progress,
and various bug fixes. Full release notes are included with the
download and also in the Download Forum. You can download it now from the Download
Forum.
2
December 2002
If you have a Web site you can join our new Affiliate
program and make money for each sale that originates from your
site. It is really easy to set up and completely free, so sign up
today.
29
November 2002
We are in marketing and sales mode at present trying to spread the
word about ED V4. We know you, our valued customers, know how great ED
is, but far too many people don't. To help just a little we've
recently added the Recommend ED to a friend link on our home
page and we are hard at work on our brand new Affiliate program where
you can share in ED's success and make money simply by promoting ED
on your Web site. We are also gearing up for our first big email out
since V4 was released and we've settled on Group
Mail to manage this for us. So there is an awful lot happening
here at SAIG as always. And of course we are working V4.02, Build 1.5
which will be out shortly.
18
October 2002
ED V4.02, Build 1.4 has been released with our handy new Ruler which
lets you set Markers to position vertical lines to see where text
lines up. The Ruler can be locked in place or follow the text cursor
as it moves. Other enhancements include double click on a Document Tab
to closes its Window, plus various bug fixes as described in the
release notes. Download it now from the Download
Forum.
3
October 2002
ED V4.02, Build 1.3 has been released and includes Source Database
code navigation for Visual Basic, enhanced Assembler code browsing,
the ability to remove items from the File History, Favourites and
Include File History lists, lock the current folder in File|Open,
performance improvements and some bug fixes. It is available
now from the Download
Forum.
25
September 2002
ED V4.02, Build 1.2 has been released. V4.02 delivers a range of
important new features. Our new Parameter Assistant displays a tooltip
showing the parameters required for the function call you are typing,
the Source Database now works with PL/SQL making it easier than ever
to navigate around your PL/SQL source code, and statement matching now
works with PL/SQL, so you can jump between BEGIN - END, IF - END IF etc.
Statement completion has been added for Progress and PL/SQL, further
enhancing ED's code completion capabilities for these languages.
Difference Analysis is easier to use with the ability to specify a
Folder for the second file, plus quick selection of files from the
File History list. For a complete list of new features, enhancements
and bug fixes please see the V4.01, B1.0, B1.1 and B1.2 Releases notes
included with the ED download. V4.02, B1.2 is available
now from the Download
Forum.
19
July 2002
V4.01, Build 1.35 has been released and is available from the Download
Forum. Replace in Files...|Do All Files has been implemented,
custom date and time formats can be used in templates, the Last Change
Stamp and regular expression replacement strings, and mouse scroll
wheel support has been implemented for the ClassView Tree, Find in SDB
Tree, and the Skeletons and Ascii Windows. Various problems have been
fixed in Search|Replace|Rest of range and other problems have been
addressed. See the release notes for
more information.
1
July 2002
V4.01, Build 1.34 has been released and is available from the Download
Forum. This release continues our ongoing improvements to ED's User Interface
with Windows XP Style Menus, new ED Extension programs written
by ED users, resolution of various problems, most notably Show in Search|Replace now works correctly
again, and changes made using Search|Replace|Rest of Range are now
Undone in one go. See the release notes for
more information.
6
June 2002
V4.01, Build 1.32 has been released and is available from the Download
Forum. New features in this release include Function Selection
which selects all of the text in the current function. This provides a
quick mechanism for copying functions and also for doing a search
which is constrained to the current function. Also the Windows
Explorer context menu is now available in the Project Tree and for
right click within a file. This lets you access common Explorer
commands to say Email a file to a colleague or Check In/Out files from
your Source Code Control System. See the release notes for
more information on new features and for problems which have been
addressed in this release.
9
May 2002
V4.01, Build 1.31 is now available from the Download
Forum. This release includes the much anticipated Replace in
Files, several important enhancements to the various Search functions,
plus some interesting new features. In addition various bugs have been
fixed and other updates incorporated. It is the longest gap we've had between
releases since V4 came out, largely due to a misdirected implementation of Replace in Files, resulting in having to start over.
See the release notes for complete details.
18
February 2002
V4.01, Build 1.2 is now available from the Download
Forum. This another milestone release which includes the ED C
Extension Language Compiler and Source code. It also includes PHP
language support, enhancements to API Help Lookup to work with MS HTML
Help files, improved Brief and Multiedit emulations and various other enhancements
and changes. See the release notes for complete details.
24
January 2002
V4.01, Build 1.1 is now available from the Download
Forum. It includes API Help Lookup, the ability to execute ED
Extension Language Programs, new ED Extension Language Programs, Right
click Source Database lookup inside comments and strings and a range
of bug fixes. Full
release notes are available in the download forum and when you've
downloaded. Enjoy.
22
December 2001
We'd like to wish everyone a Merry Xmas and a happy New Year, and
would like to thank you all for your support, patience and assistance
with ED for Windows Version 4. A special thanks goes to everyone who
participated in the V4 Preview Release phase, and also those of you
who are actively participating in our forums. We look forward to
bringing you lots of great new ED releases in the year ahead, and
beyond. Neville Franks, Author of ED for Windows.
20
December 2001
We've started doing some work on updating and improving our Web site.
The home page now includes the ED Top 11
along with screen shots, so new visitors can quickly get a feel for
what ED has to offer.
7
December 2001
V4.01, Build 1.0 is now available from the Download
Forum. It includes enhanced comment alignment capabilities, the
ability to comment out and uncomment selected text, plus smart indenting for Clipper/dBase/FoxPro,
DataFlex/PowerFlex and Cobol,
and auto-code completion for Clipper/dBase/FoxPro and HTML. Full
release notes are available in the download forum and when you've
downloaded. Enjoy.
30
November 2001
V4.01, Build 1.0 will be out in the first week of December and will
include smart indenting for Clipper/dBase/FoxPro, DataFlex/PowerFlex and Cobol,
and auto-code completion for Clipper/dBase/FoxPro and HTML, amongst
other things.
22
November 2001
ED for Windows Version 4.01, Build 0.9 has been released and is
available from the Download
Forum. This release delivers improved performance, resolution of a
problem with printing a selection, and a various other bug fixes. Full
release notes can be viewed by clicking on the Description in the
Download Forum or when you've downloaded.
8
November 2001
ED for Windows Version 4.01, Build 0.7 has been released and is
available from the Download
Forum. This release addresses the problems with Printing in
Version 4, and a various other bug fixes. Full
release notes can be viewed by clicking on the Description in the
Download Forum or when you've downloaded.
18
October 2001
ED for Windows Version 4.01, Build 0.6 has been released and is
available from the Download
Forum. This release fixes a Color Setup bug which started in Build
0.5, and includes several new features and bug fixes. Full
release notes can be viewed by clicking on the Description in the
Download Forum or when you've downloaded.
4
October 2001
ED for Windows Version 4.01, Build 0.5 has been released and is
available from the Download
Forum. This release includes new features such as Skeletons, Ascii
Chart, String measure, Selection Fill, support for Fonts with
International character sets and a broad range of bug fixes. Full
release notes can be viewed by clicking on the Description in the
Download Forum or when you've downloaded.
We
are extending the V4 Free Subscription period to include this release,
so if your V4 Free Subscription has expired please let
us know and we'll send you a new license key which will let you
install and use this release. Make sure you include your Name and ED
Serial Number.
11
September 2001
Tim Townsend has set up his new Web site Tim
Townsend Technologies which includes some great information and
support code to help you do things like check the syntax of your
Progress code from within ED. If you're a Progress developer make sure
you check out Tim's site soon. And Tim, thanks for this great
contribution.
1
September 2001
Some of our long established ED users have been asking us for a place
where they can touch base with other ED users and help each other out.
We've also been keen on this, but for various reasons we've been a
little reticent. Well now that Version 4 is out we've bitten the
bullet and added a fully fledged Forum
system to our Web site. We hope you make good use of the forums and
visit them often. If you've got any suggestions on how we can improve
the forums please let us know. Maybe we need a forum for this!!
16
August 2001
ED V4.01 Build 0.4 has been released and can be downloaded from the
Free Trial page. It fixes a number of issues, in particular a serious
performance problem which was particularly evident on Windows 98 PCs
and was exacerbated by some virus scanners. See the release notes in ED32ReleaseUpdate.txt
for further details on the changes in this release.
1
August 2001
We have just discovered that many of the links to the Free Trial page
have been wrong for the past week. This embarrassing mistake has now
been fixed. The USA & Canada Order Form has been updated for
V4.
29
July 2001
The V4.01 FAQ has been updated and new content
has been added. Some small changes have been made to others Web pages
as part of the V4 overhaul.
27
July 2001
We have had several reports of ED4W V4 running very slowly.
Investigations so far indicate that this is caused by Norton Antivirus,
and stopping NAV resolves the problem. Symantec have told us this can
happen and they will only tell us how to prevent it from happening if
we pay them, which we find totally unacceptable. Until we can resolve
this, the only remedy is to disable NAV or use another Antivirus
product. For further instructions see the FAQ
V4.01
Free Trial downloads are now
available again and we have made a small start updating the site.
22
July 2001
ED for Windows, Version 4.01 has now been released. Needless to say
this is a very big day for us, and the culmination of 3 long hard
years of development. Once again I'd like to personally thank all of
the loyal ED users who have helped us with testing over the past year
and provided the usual great feedback to keep us on our toes at all
times.
We
are in the process of updating the Web site to reflect the
availability of V4 and this will take a little time so please be
patient.
If
you have purchased either a Full V3.80 License or an Upgrade to
Version 3.80 then you can get a V4 License for free. Our
policy is that if you purchased V3.80 (either a new license or an
upgrade) then you are entitled to V4 for free. On the other hand if a)
You don't own a V3.80 license or b) You received V3.80 for free as
part of a 12 month free subscription (ie. you purchased ED prior to 16
Mar 98) then you aren't entitled to V4 for free.
Of course you can still purchase upgrades for old versions of ED.
If
you are entitled to a Free V4 Upgrade then simply email sales@getsoft.com
with your Name, Serial Number and Date of purchase and we will email
you back your license key. Where you have multiple licenses we need
these details for each licensee. Due to the high number of
license requests and differences in time zones it may take a day or
two to get back to you.
If
you have been using the V4 Preview Release you will need a
license key to use releases from now on. While you are waiting for
your new key you need to use the following temporary key otherwise the
V4.01 Release will be Expired. This key will activate ED in Free Trial
mode, which means everything operates as usual except printing, which
is disabled.
Your name: EVALUATION
Serial Number: EVALUATION
License Key: CNPQH-6WPND-3NABJ-6269W-B8YJN
Note: For the "Initials" field replace the default
'E' with your usual initials.
*** You need to restart ED after entering the license details ***
Download Version 4.01 now.
7
July 2001
ED for Windows, Version 4.00 will be shipping very soon now. For all
of the people who've heard and read about the many great new
capabilities in Version 4 you will soon be able to evaluate it for
yourself with the first V4 Free Trial release ready for download
around the middle of this month.
"I've been using Ed Version 4 for the last two days and
its brilliant - we are
really looking forward to the final release!" John Barratt, N J
Froment and Company Limited
30
June 2001
ED for Windows, Version 4, Build 22.0 is now available. This release
includes the bulk of the new licensing, registration and free trial
system. License keys make it easier for both our users and ourselves,
and ensure you can install the latest release as part of your free 12
month ED subscription.
And
if you're evaluating the Free Trial we can now simply send you a
license key to turn it into a full version. This means no more
separate downloads once you purchase your copy of ED.
"ED4W Version 4 is
exactly what I needed to organize my large Java Servlet projects. The
class view allows me to organize my files any way I want. I can find a
class or method quickly and intuitively. With ED, I am constantly
finding new features and ways to make my work more
productive." Jin Ng, Windows By
Design
12
June 2001
ED for Windows, Version 4, Build 21.0 is now available. The new Macro
management system is in place, which simplifies working
with macros. Lines
up to 4095 characters are now working properly. Compiler error
tracking has been updated. There are new Toolbars, a major update to
the Java keyword dictionary, and various important bug fixes.
See the release notes for further details.
4
June 2001
As part of our endless search to help us be more productive (so we can
spend more time working on ED) we've started using WinScheduler, by
Pitrinec Software. For more information see our Recommended
Tools page. We've got a few other new tools we are happily using,
which we'll let you know about in due course. The next ED V4 Build
will be out this week, which includes the new Macro management module.
25
May 2001
ED for Windows, Version 4, Build 20.5 is now available. This release sees the implementation of last big remaining piece of
ED V4, Printing. We are nearing the end of the V4 preview release phase, with a first full release now in sight. We'd like to thank everyone for their help in resolving problems, and giving us much welcome feedback on what they like and their suggestions on how to make ED even better. Once the first release is out their is still a lot more we plan to do with
ED V4, and I'm sure we'll all watch with interest as it grows and matures.
"I just downloaded the ED 4 preview and have
spent the evening configuring it to my
liking. It's like ED 3.8 on steroids, every existing function has
improved!
#1 Love is the project concept! with the file list
on the right!
#2 Love is the new toolbar combos.
I could go on forever, but I am sure you are
hearing this from everyone." R.
Hessey
3
May 2001
ED for Windows, Version 4, Build 20.1 is now available and includes
Back/Forward commands to let you back track to where you've been, a
new 'Extend Selection' option for Goto|Line, a thorough update to the
Find/Replace functions to fix various problems, plus other bug fixes.
26
April 2001
ED for Windows, Version 4, Build 20 is now available and includes
Compiler Error Tracking, with a new simple scheme to add error
tracking for compilers not supported out of the box, the ability to
specify environment variables for Build Tools and some important bug
fixes.
"I love the ease and versatility of the setup/control of the tool bars and compilation using external embedded C compilers. Two things that drove me crazy in version 3.80 have been improved, no longer a low limit to the number of files which can be opened and the new undo through the file saves."
Mike Hilton, Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.
17
April 2001
ED for Windows, Version 4, Build 19.4 is now available. This releases
delivers further enhancements to the Source Database Browser including
Regular Expression lookup, plus enhancements to Smartype, and
resolution of problems with multiline comments, opening files from
Windows Explorer and more.
30
Mar 2001
ED for Windows, Version 4, Build 19 is now available. This is another
V4 milestone release which includes the new Source Code and Class
Browser. The source browser gives you a high level view of every
class, function, procedure, struct, enum, #define etc, in your
code.
The
Browser in conjunction with the Source Database Engine (SDB) let you
navigate around large complex projects with ease and speed. You can
synchronize the class view tree to where you are in the current source
file, and you can Find all References to identifiers. You can right
click on an identifier to instantly jump to its definition, and for
C/C++ you can jump between declarations and definitions.
The
SDB is built and maintained automatically and tracks all changes to
your code as they're made. There is no SDB setup or configuration
required. As soon as files are added to a project they are parsed and
added to the SDB.
The
Source Code Browser and Source Database Engine deliver yet another leap
in programmer productivity.
"The latest version of ED is one of the best programmer's editors on
the planet. With the new Class Browser and other great features I won't have to work
with the buggy Microsoft IDE any more! Yeah!"
Russell
Robinson, Root Software
11
Jan 2001
The Free Trial version of
ED4W V3.80 has been updated and is now available for download. We have
made great progress with the new Source Database Engine in ED V4 over
the Christmas break and expect to have the next build available
shortly. Thanks to everyone on the V4 Preview Release program for the
excellent feedback you are providing. Your efforts will help ensure we
deliver the product you are expecting. And a prosperous 2001 to
everyone out there.
20
December 2000
We've always received high praise for the quality of the documentation
we deliver with ED. This considerable body of work has been produced
by our technical writer of many years David Gardner. Just as ED4W
Version 4 has started life anew so has the documentation for it. We've
combined the separate User Guide (PDF) and Reference Guide (WinHelp),
reorganized them and moved everything across to HTML Help. Everyone
using the V4 Preview has seen the fruits of Dave's labour taking shape
and they're telling us they like what they see. Not only is Dave a
good tech writer when he gets going, in order to achieve our
goals for the V4 documentation he is developing a very impressive
authoring product called ZED. You can now see weekly updates of a Web
based version of the ED V4 Documentation at www.bigsitesdoneright.com/ed
and you can find out what Dave is doing when he's not working on the
ED Docs at www.bigsitesdoneright.com
"I think the
V4 project concept is excellent. I especially like the way you can specify include file locations on a project-by-project basis.
All the template expansion functionality for Progress development that v3.8 offered seems to be there (far more intuitive than the SlickEdit OCX licensed with Progress v9.1)."
Stephen Lee, Q Technology
7
December 2000
Build 17.3 is now available. This release enhances EDs C/C++ Source Browser to include classes and nested classes, function definitions and declarations, including functions inside classes and #defines. The HDL browser has also been updated to include processes and ignore "end .." statements.
Various problems with the Source Browser update and build threads have been fixed and a new option has been added to let you disable the browser should it be necessary.
Project folder names no longer have to be unique and include file lookup now works for statements which include relative paths.
27
November 2000
Build 17.2 is now available. Function lookup and Source Database creation are now working. Source databases are built and kept synchronized with your code in real time using background threads. The source databases are now maintained as XML files, which opens up many interesting possibilities for the future.
This is another milestone ED release.
"I'm pleased to let you know that I really enjoy using ED
V4 also for Matlab ! The languages support tools are really neat and professional. I got ED originally for VHDL, but now I have all its great features in Matlab. I guess I will take ED with me to all environments and languages I will have to work with."
Danny Gal, Hardware Group Leader, Cadent Ltd.
1
November 2000
Build 15 is now available. It adds Selection|Case Change, provides some more Command Line and DDE capabilities, incorporates the ability to check for new releases, includes a start on Macro Record and Playback and fixes a number of bugs, the most important being a problem which has been around since the end of September which caused various serious errors in EDs C Extension language programs.
24
October 2000
As promised the steady stream of releases continues unabated with
today's release of Version 4, Build 14. This
release covers quite a bit of ground and has the longest set of
release notes so far. Of most
interest are the ability to use Command line options, the
ability to drive ED from other applications using DDE, the first
release of the almost complete
Reference Guide, easier selection indenting, improved file synchronization
with other applications, better performance in certain areas and a
long list of bug fixes.
I really love the new version, the look, the feel, everything about it.
Great job. Wayne Fuller.
12
October 2000
Comparing files for differences has always been a widely used
capability of ED4W. With Version 4 we've enhanced Difference Analysis
(DA) to make it easier than ever to see what's changed in files.
Inserted, changed and deleted text is now shown with lines drawn
around the text, lines are drawn to connect the changes in each file,
files can be locked together for synchronized scrolling (which has
also been improved) and character case can be ignored. Together with a
new DA Toolbar and other new features you're sure to be impressed.
13
September 2000
V4 Preview Build 11 is now available and includes new user configurable Last
Change Stamping, new code template operators and various bug fixes.
Build 12 which will be out shortly includes Goto|Header/Source Swap,
which lets you swap between a Source file and its Header file.
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August 2000
The current V4 Preview is about to expire but don't panic we know you
don't want to turn the clock back to V3.80. Build 9 will be out before
the end of the month. A tool that's helped us a lot recently is
Glowcode, so much so we've added it to our Recommended
Tools page.
"I am a v3.80 customer and have installed v4.0 preview
on my C: drive - it looks brilliant, well worth the wait." Brian Mayhew
Visilynx 3 software team leader.
"Workspace
window and projects are so useful. I'm getting dependant on them
already. Great idea, well implemented." Peter Juliff, VetWare
14
August 2000
The Version 4 Preview
release program is in full swing and going extremely well. We released
on 24th July as promised and we are now at Build 6. The feedback we
are getting is very encouraging indeed, and it looks like all of our
efforts these past two plus years have built the new ED that you, our
customers wanted
"I'm already sure I can't live without the project support. I can't tell you how many times I
wished an editor would keep a named set of files available for easy open and close access.
The new project support looks way better than that with all the workspace management
features and so on.." Rod Gaither, July 2000
12
July 2000
Some good news to report at last. Packaging of a Version 4 Preview
release is finally underway. A limited distribution is scheduled for
the week of the 24th of July. We've recently completed the brand new
and much improved Find in Files. A welcome new feature is the ability
to search across files in a Project along with any include folders
which are specified. Find in Files like many parts of ED V4 is fully
multithreaded, so you can keep on working while it goes about its
business. In fact you can have a number of Find in Files all running
at once without any performance impact on whatever you are doing. The
ability to quickly find things and navigate around large complex
projects has always been one of ED's strengths, and Version 4 promises
to make this easier than ever before.
11
July 2000
An updated Version 3.80 Free Trial release is now available for
download.
3 May 2000
We are currently ploughing ahead redeveloping ED's code browsing and
lookup capabilities. The plan and desire is to simplify setup of the
various browse components and we are well on our way to achieving
that. At the same time we've added enhanced functionality. Windows
2000 testing is under way and we've resolved several tricky problems
which have surfaced. Ensuring full compatibility across Win9x and NT
platforms is of course a must. And Dave Gardner, our favourite
Technical Writer is busy ripping apart all of our documentation. He's
also promised to put it back together again, albeit heavily updated.
9
Feb 2000
Project support is now almost complete in Version 4. This includes the
ability to open Microsoft Visual Studio Workspaces, Projects and
Makefiles. ED's new Project capabilities deliver much sought after
functionality and are an important step forward. We've also built-in a
Windows Explorer Tree for quick access to files. This is all part of
ED's tight integration with the Windows Shell.
Our
US and Canadian customers can now use Amex when purchasing on-line and
through Karen in our US office.
19
Jan 2000
Another milestone reached with ED for Windows
Version 4 with the completion of the new User Configurable Toolbar
module. This provides much greater functionality than in previous
releases and utilizes the latest user interface techniques.
An
updated Free Trial version
of ED is now available for download. If you have previously installed
a free trial it must be completely deleted including all directories
and the ed4w.ini file before installing this new release. See the Help
file topic 'Free Trial' for further information.
10
Dec 1999
We've completed several more major components of ED for Windows
Version 4 including a completely new Find
and Replace system and a new File
Open dialog. The next piece of the puzzle is our new Customizable
Toolbar module which can execute multiple commands per button, utilize
pop-up history lists and combo boxes, edit bitmaps using the built-in
bitmap editor and create new toolbar buttons from scratch. Thanks for
your emails of support and understanding.
20 Oct 1999
ED for Windows Version 4 information has been updated again on the Future Plans
page. The scale of the rewrite has proved to be considerably larger
than we anticipated. As each day passes we are getting closer to our
goal of providing you with a completely new and much enhanced version
of your favourite editor. I'm sure many of our fellow software
developers have been in this situation and understand it all too well.
We greatly appreciate your patience while we work feverishly to
complete this project.
15 Jan 1999
You're seeing it for yourself - our long awaited new Web site is up and running. We've put
a lot of effort into making our new site easy to use, and ensuring it delivers the depth
and breadth of information our users expect. We're sure you'll find it a big improvment
over our original site, but of course there is always room for improvement. Please have a
good look around and let us know what you think.
15 Jan 1999
We are currently in the midst of a major 32bit rewrite of ED for Windows. See Future Plans for preliminary information.
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