Tonight we are releasing WeBuilder 2007, HTMLPad 2007 Pro, Rapid CSS 2007 and Rapid PHP 2007.
What's new?
Here is a partial list of changes.
Please note that not all items apply to all products of the product line. for example, PHP Debugger applies to Rapid PHP 2007 and WeBuilder 2007 only.
A partial, unsorted list of what has been done:
% Added: Simple PHP debugger (planned to improve)
+ Added: PHP class attributes (var, public, protected, private) are now supported in Code Explorer
+ Added: PHP user functions in auto complete (listed upper in the same file)
+ PHP object auto-complete
% Added: CSE Validator support (planned to improve)
+ Improved: New Taskbar/Tabs with drag and drop support
+ Added: Built-in automatic webserver for easy PHP preview
+ Added: Replace now supports regular expressions (matches identified by $1, $2 ...)
+ Added: Roaming is now possible - run the software from an USB stick (see the help for info)
+ Added: New CSS definitions
+ Added: Related styles can be accessed within single click
+ Added: Improved HTML Auto Complete (displays Class/ID values from linked CSS files)
+ Added: CSS Inspector ID auto complete
+ Added: Create a new file in File Explorer
+ Added: Create a new file in FTP Browser
+ Added: Preview CSS on the actual file or URL (special preview files still supported)
+ Added: Remember cursor position and bookmarks
+ Added: Support for MySQL 5.0, Firebird 2.0
% Added: Clickable CSS preview with RXay (planned to improve)
+ Added: Text encoding displayed in status bar
+ Added: Easily switch encoding between ANSI, UTF-8 and UTF-8 without BOM by clicking
+ Added: Ruby and eRuby syntax highlighting
+ Added: Easy eRuby preview with built-in webserver
+ Added: ASP.Net syntax highlighting for C#.Net and VB.Net
+ Added: Syntax highlighter user defined schemes
+ Added: Extended color syntax, IMG, TABLE, FORM tag coloring (using custom parser script)
+ Added: Easily set background color for all syntax elements (no more one by one)
+ Added: Easy apply syntax color and style for the same element in all languages
+ Added: Wrap search
+ Improved: Open From list now displays 7 folders instead of 5
+ Improved: Whenever a project is open/switched, Open File dialog selects current project folder
+ Improved: Updated version of HTML Tidy
+ Improved: Select Tag Block now works from ending tag
+ Improved: Faster opening of files
+ Improved: Dragging images from File Explorer to CSS code creates url()
+ Improved: Alt is added when creating image tag using drag-and-drop
+ Improved: Easier resolving of shortcut conflicts for menu commands
+ Improved: When arrow keys are pressed while there is a selection, it is removed and caret placed on the left or right side
+ Improved: When indenting, caret no more goes to the end
+ Improved: When no preview pressed, there should be no preview file created for css
+ Fixed: Bracket highlighting now works with JS + HTML
+ Fixed: Publish project window "Remember selection" can now be unchecked.
+ Fixed: If no units given for some border-width, margin, padding property values (e.g. 4 20px 0 40px), inspector orders them incorrectly
+ Fixed: FTP mappings now work with subdirectories
+ Fixed: The bug with keyboard shortcuts for switching the preview tabs
+ Fixed: Preview area now resizes correctly when rulers turned off
+ Fixed: "Open Recent" list is displayed now correctly if "&" char in the path
+ Fixed: JavaScript Code Explorer bug with spaces after function name
+ Fixed: Shift + Click now increases the selection like in other editors
+ Fixed: Ctrl+G focuses File Explorer if it was previously used
+ Fixed: Conflicting shortcuts under File menu (m)
+ Fixed: "Cannot open clipboard" error message no more popping-up
+ Fixed: Save As filename no more uses previous filename on new documents
+ Fixed: Select tag now works when caret right after <
+ Fixed: When adding mapping and web path left blank A/V error no more happens
+ Fixed: Find All now returns results only all documents if "all open docs" selected
+ Fixed: Select All from menu no more diesables copy
+ Fixed: Replace All problem with lost characters if search regex "\t+"
+ Fixed: When using "alt" to select a column, delete and backspace keys now work
+ Fixed: The "<style>" tag now does auto complete
+ Fixed: Clicking the IE button sometimes causes A/V error (no actual effect on preview).
Features planned later this year:
* Secure FTP support
* Improved XRay for CSS
* CSS beautifier/formatter
* Extended Ruby coding features
* CSS Layout wizard
* Color manager
* Many more... we have tons of unprocessed suggestions
Although we really tried (we are 2 people working on this project), there was not enough time to implement all of your suggestions, so many are still in the list and we will try to add new features gradually during this year.
If we have missed something that is *extremely* important to you and many other users, please let me know, probably we can give it a priority and add that in one of updates.
Upgrading
Upgrade options for previous version owners are available on the website.
Customers who ordered previous version within Feb 2007 - May 2007 are eligible for a free upgrade. Details will be sent via e-mail by the end of May. Or if you do not want to wait, you can use our online Lost Key Recovery form.
To keep your old settings, please read this:
http://www.blumentals.net/webuilder/faq ... pd_upgrade
Your comments are welcome
Your feature suggestions and support requests are very welcome (please post them in appropriate forums, this one is for announcements).
Plan for the future
We shall keep updating the product and adding new features.