v23.0
- DocPad now uses a Tabbed Document Interface. It can have multiple files open for editing at the same time. Each opened file appears as a tab below the toolbar.
- Most windows now calculate their width as a factor of the interface font size. Previously they were a factor of the screen size. This ensures that windows are the optimal size, even when the font is very small or very large relative to the screen.
- Calculator: added the "Convert Units" tool.
- The operating system's mouse wheel scrolling speed is now obeyed.
- Welcome: if the file cannot be opened, the error window now has a "Remove" button that will remove the file from the Recent Documents list.
- Clipboard Inspector: numerous improvements.
- The "New Document Type" setting now defaults to UTF-8.
- Welcome: if the Recent Documents list has two files with the same filename, now both of them will be listed by their full filepath.
- Welcome: Delete File: the file is now moved to the Recycle Bin.
- Holding down the Ctrl key while clicking on a scrollbar arrow will now scroll all the way.
- Added support for mouse tilt wheel.
- Spell Check: when Word Wrap is disabled, this will now horizontally scroll the whole misspelled word into view.
- Fixed: after changing the Document Type, then using the Undo tool, the status bar was not showing the undone Document Type.
- Fixed: Help: Print: some hyperlinks were not followed by the page number.
- Fixed: possible crash when right clicking on an editbox.
- Fixed: Check For Update: when installed to a portable drive, installing an update was installing to the hard drive rather than the portable drive.
v15.0 [Jun 26, 2015]
Added support for creating and restoring backups of changed documents. Added the "Create Backups" option to the Options menu. Added the "Restore Backup" command to the File menu.
Improved the appearance of icons. Changed from 8-bit GIF's to 32-bit PNG's. Many icons have been redesigned.
Numerous improvements to pasting/dropping files. The user is now asked if the file contents, filenames, or filepaths should be used, and how this will affect the editbox's existing contents (insert, append, or replace). Unicode characters in the filepath and/or file contents are now supported.
When opening a file, if access is denied, DocPad will now offer to relaunch itself with admin rights.
Added the "Tools" and "More" menus. Previously all of these options were on the "Edit" menu.
Added the /landscape command line switch, which will force a print job to use the landscape orientation.
Import HTML As Text: unicode and UTF-8 HTML files are now supported provided there is a byte order mark.
Unicode Character Map: double clicking on a filter will now take you to the first character in that filter.
The following tools can now be put on the toolbar: Delete Line, Insert Date, Integer/Increment, Integer/Decrement, Select All.
Fixed: Convert To Sentence Case: was not working with unicode letters.
Fixed: when printing, there could sometimes be one or more extra blank pages.
Fixed: when using the /pd switch, the user will no longer be informed if the document is open in another instance.
Fixed: a glitch was sometimes apparent at the bottom of a toolbar icon.
v13.0 [May 25, 2013]
Version 13.0 (May 23rd, 2013)
* Major interface improvements. Improved all skins.
* Added support for running from a USB flash drive.
* Added the "Open Nonstandard Document" tool to the File menu. This allows you to open unicode files that have no byte order mark, or 8-bit files that use a character set that does not match the system character set.
* Added the "Import HTML As Text" tool to the File menu.
* The "Search and Replace" tool now supports unicode characters.
* When opening a document, if it is already opened in another instance, the user is warned, and offered the chance to switch to the other instance.
* Improved support for non-English keyboards when editing an ASCII document.
* The case conversion tools now work on all unicode characters, not just Western European.
* Added a "Revise" button to the "No occurrences found" window of the search tool.
* Print: to the "Title Text" field, added an "Insert Variable" button that can be used to insert a variable that is replaced with the document filename or filepath, or the current date and time.
* Added the "/paste" switch, which immediately pastes the clipboard into a new document. This is useful for integrating DocPad with click.to
* DocPad's settings are no longer shared among all users on the computer.
* The "/popup" switch can now include the "/aa" switch, which makes the window appear above all other windows.
* The Cut Line tool now includes the line break.
* Added the Ctrl Shift D hotkey for the "Insert Date/Time" tool.
* The Unicode Character Map now uses narrow cells if neither the hex nor decimal code is displayed.
v11.0 [Dec 8, 2011]
- Major interface improvements, too many to list. Added support for Aero Glass (Vista/2008/7).
- The "Associate" tool will now work even if there is a user-specific association override (Vista/2008/7). This type of association is made in Control Panel > Default Programs > Associate a file type or protocol with a program.
- Added the "Whole Word" option to the "Discard Paragraphs Containing" tool. Also, this tool will now report the number of paragraphs that were discarded.
- Added the "System Default" and "Korean/Hangul" character set options. New installations will default to "System Default" instead of "European, Western".
- Added the "Speak" tool to the toolbar, although it is hidden by default.
- Added the "All/Paragraphs/Longest/Words" statistic.
- When copying text to the clipboard, the character set is now recorded in the clipboard as well. Previously, when pasting into another application, the characters were being converted to the system default character set.
- When recording a keystroke macro, instructions will now appear on the status bar.
- The status bar now labels the last two sections "Column" and "Line".
- The status bar now obeys the "Balloon Help Disabled" option.
- When pressing Home/End/Up/Down when there is a selection, the cursor will now move as normal instead of moving to the beginning or end of the selection.
- Improved the text drag & drop behavior.
- When a file is opened or saved, this is now reported on the status bar.
- The "Visit Hyperlink" tool will now work if a domain name is selected.
- When dragging and dropping text, the user may now press Escape to cancel.
- Fixed: the "Associate" tool was not always automatically relaunching with Admin rights under certain circumstances.
