Today I have the pleasure to announce version 2010 of WeBuilder, Rapid PHP, HTMLPad and Rapid CSS code editors.
Whats New?
Major news are available on our website:
WeBuilder - http://www.blumentals.net/webuilder/whatsnew.php
Rapid PHP - http://www.blumentals.net/rapidphp/whatsnew.php
HTMLPad - http://www.blumentals.net/htmlpad/whatsnew.php
Rapid CSS - http://www.blumentals.net/rapidcss/whatsnew.php
Detailed list from development log:
+ Improved: Find in files result list works even if file has been changed (inaccuracy warning is shown)
+ Improved: Wrap at end setting is remembered in Find dialog
+ Improved: Replace All in selection now keeps selection
+ Added: PHP autocomplete now supports Class A extends Class B
+ Added: You can now hide preview tabs
+ Added: Find in files results are now counted
+ Added: Code Explorer now displays IDs and Classes
+ Added: Code Explorer now displays form elements
+ Added: Color coding for status bar messages
+ Fixed: PHP code explorer no longer misbehaves if string contains more than 2 \\s
+ Added: Filter in code explorer
+ Fixed: Find bug: When a project is changed, look in should change automatically
+ Added: If no text selected in Find box, use the last (not empty)
+ Added: Now you can copy search and validation results
+ Fixed: Some bugs on Vista
+ Added: Preferences window remembers last opened page
+ Fixed: When using "Find All" with "Wrap at end" and "Entire Scope" checked and cursor is in the middle of the document, entries are found twice
+ Added: [BIG] CSS definitions for CSS3, iPhone2, IE8, FF3, Saf3, new icons
+ Bug: HTML code explorer wrongly displays categorize by type and list local variables
+ Bug: Duplicate line Ctrl+D does not work for the last line if after it no empty lines
+ Improve: Auto replace now inserts space
+ Added: Document/Project colors
+ Added: Flexible localization system - users can add languages
+ Added: Support for IE8 preview
+ Fixed: FTP browser does not accept Enter for folders
+ Fixed: Snippet auto indent does not respect tabs
+ Fixed: CSS auto indent does not respect tabs
+ Added: PHP static members are now marked in code exporer
+ Added: FTP upload overwrite prompt now shows file dates
+ Added: [BIG] Project publishing - easily upload only changed files
+ Improved: Restore window if it is activated and currently minimized
+ Added: [BIG] Docummentation for customizing syntax highlighters
+ Added: Several cusrom syntax highlighters included (highlight php variables in strings, highlight special tags)
+ Improved: MDI document window behavior (to some extent)
+ Improved: Some improved, more understandable icons
How to upgrade and who is eligible for a free upgrade?
You can upgrade from our website.
Upgrade to WeBuilder 2010
Upgrade to Rapid PHP 2010
Upgrade to HTMLPad 2010
Upgrade to Rapid CSS 2010
Customers who ordered previous version within May 2009 - Sept 2009 are eligible for a free upgrade. Use our online Lost Key Recovery form to retrieve your key.
Keeping your old settings.
To keep your old settings, there are two ways:
1) Simply do not uninstall version 2008. Leave it installed and almost all of your settings (except the default layout) will be kept automatically. Both version 2008 and 2010 use same settings storage.
2) If you want to uninstall version 2008. First backup version 2008 settings, then uninstall it, then install version 2010 and after that import the backed up settings.
To keep your layouts, it is recommended to save your layout as "My Layout" or something other than default, you will have to manually locate the appropriate My Layout.lay/.dok files, back them up and after installation of the new version, put them with the newly installed layout files.
Your comments are welcome
Your feature suggestions and support requests are very welcome (please post them in appropriate forums, this one is for announcements).
Roadmap for the future
We shall keep updating the product, fixing bugs and adding new features. Some of the major features we plan to add in the future:
* Improve FTP/SFTP and publishing further
* Explore innovative usability improvements
* Improve text searching furthermore
* Improve multi-monitor support
* Add support for new languages and libraries (e.g. Smarty etc.) OR include possibility for users to add support for their own languages
* Plugin system
We still have a huge list of suggestions and feature requests to be done.