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PowerGREP 5.0.2 is now available for download.
This version fixes a bug introduced in PowerGREP 5.0.0 that causes data loss. Even though it only happens in a specific situation that most people will never encounter, upgrading to 5.0.2 is strongly recommended. The bug affects PowerGREP's new ability to rename folders with the "rename files or folders" action type. It only occurs when the original name of the folder and the name that the folder should have after renaming differ only in case, such as "folder" and "Folder". In that case, PowerGREP 5.0.0 and 5.0.1 deleted the folder instead of renaming it. PowerGREP 5.0.2 now correctly renames the folder. The bug did not affect folders where the target name is identical to the original name. Those folders are simply not renamed at all. It also did not affect folders where the original name and the target name had differences other than differences in case. Those were renamed correctly.
New in PowerGREP 5 is the ability to search through email stored in separate files in Outlook (*.msg) or MIME (*.eml) format or in mailbox files in Outlook (*.pst), Outlook Express (*.dbx), or MBOX format. With the "file formats to convert to plain text" setting on the File Selector panel, you can choose whether to search through a plain text conversion of the email's basic headers and body text (ignoring attachments), or whether to search through email attachments (treating the body text as an attachment). PowerGREP 5.0.2 now includes basic headers with the plain text conversion of emails in PST files, as it already did with the other email formats. It now also includes a plain text conversion of the basic headers as a separate attachment called headers.txt (Outlook or single part MIME) or 0.txt (multipart MIME) when searching through attachments. Previously, email headers could not be searched through at all when searching through attachments. Several bugs that caused PowerGREP to crash on certain Outlook MSG files and to skip certain PST files have been fixed.
Also new in PowerGREP 5 is the ability to make replacements in files in certain proprietary formats, such as DOCX (MS Word) and ODT (OpenOffice) files. This worked correctly when using the Replace or Quick Replace buttons on the Action panel to make replacements while executing the action. But it failed with an access violation (leaving the files untouched) when using the Make/Revert Replacements buttons on the Results panel to make or revert the replacements after reviewing them. This bug has been fixed.
PowerGREP 5.0.0 and 5.0.1 sometimes extracted the wrong file from an archive. This could happen when an archive contained two files where the path of one file in the archive appears entirely at the start of the path of another file in the archive. An example is an archive containing the files "file.doc" and "file.docx" in the same folder. These files then have the same path with the second file having an extra "x" at the end. In that case, PowerGREP 5 sometimes extracted the file with the longer name when it needed to extract the file with the shorter name. Whether this happened depended on the order in which the files are physically stored in the archive. The file with the longer name was always extracted correctly. PowerGREP 5.0.2 will now extract the files correctly. This bug did not occur in PowerGREP 4.7.2 or any preceding release.
The %LINEN%, %LINENZ%, %LINENA%, %SECTIONN%, %SECTIONNZ%, and %SECTIONNA% match placeholders now work correctly. The "source file footer" is now collected correctly by "collect data" actions. File masks that include a compound document now correctly include the files inside the compound document. The /masks command line parameter now correctly handles the five values that it needs in PowerGREP 5. In PowerGREP 4 it needed only three values.
See also: PowerGREP 5.0.2 version history
EditPad Lite 7.5.0 is now available for download.
EditPad now scales itself better on systems using 200% or more display scaling. On such systems, toolbar icons are doubled in size. This makes the small icons suitable for 200% display scaling and the large ones for 300% scaling. You can switch between small and large icons by right-clicking any toolbar and selecting Large Icons. Doing so no longer makes the menus and toolbars unresponsive. The about box and demo messages now double or triple their size on systems using 200% or 300% display scaling. The combo boxes for the search term and replacement text (when using the Search toolbar without the full Search panel) now scale their width on high DPI systems. These changes mean that EditPad is now perfectly usable on all displays available on the market today, including laptops with 4K screens.
EditPad Lite is free for personal use. Business and government users can purchase a license.
EditPad Pro 7.5.0 is now available for download.
EditPad now scales itself better on systems using 200% or more display scaling. On such systems, toolbar icons are doubled in size. This makes the small icons suitable for 200% display scaling and the large ones for 300% scaling. You can switch between small and large icons by right-clicking any toolbar and selecting Large Icons. Doing so no longer makes the menus and toolbars unresponsive. The about box and demo messages now double or triple their size on systems using 200% or 300% display scaling. The combo boxes for the search term and replacement text (when using the Search toolbar without the full Search panel) now scale their width on high DPI systems. The Extra|Compare Files dialog now scales correctly on high DPI systems. These changes mean that EditPad is now perfectly usable on all displays available on the market today, including laptops with 4K screens.
The spell checker now saves its list of learned words much faster. This removes any delay when changing the spell check language or when switching to another application after learning a new word. Previously, this delay could be quite long if thousands of words had already been learned. In addition, learned words with characters that are not supported by the system code page are now saved correctly.
EditPad Pro can capture the source of a web page if you add an URL as a tool and set the tool to capture standard output. This now works correctly with HTTPS URLs on servers using SNI, and with HTTP URLs that redirect to HTTPS.
AceText 3.3.0 is now available for download.
AceText now scales itself better on systems using 200% or more display scaling. On such systems, toolbar icons are doubled in size. This makes the small icons suitable for 200% display scaling and the large ones for 300% scaling. You can switch between small and large icons on the Appearance page in the Preferences. The about box and demo messages now double or triple their size on systems using 200% or 300% display scaling. These changes mean that AceText is now perfectly usable on all displays available on the market today, including laptops with 4K screens.
The clip tree font and colors that you can specify on the Appearance page in the Preferences are now also used for the list of collections in the AceText Tower and for the list of clips in the ClipHistory.
The spell checker now saves its list of learned words much faster. This removes any delay when changing the spell check language or when switching to another application after learning a new word. Previously, this delay could be quite long if thousands of words had already been learned. In addition, learned words with characters that are not supported by the system code page are now saved correctly.
AceText now waits for all modifier keys on the keyboard to be released before sending clips to other applications. This avoids the possibility of releasing those keys while AceText is simulating its keystrokes. It makes sending clips to other applications more reliable.
HelpScribble 7.9.3 is now available for download.
HelpScribble's HelpContext property editor now supports Delphi 10.1 Berlin and C++Builder 10.1 Berlin. HelpScribble's installer will automatically install it if it detects that you have Delphi 10.1 Berlin or C++Builder 10.1 Berlin installed. HelpScribble's HelpContext property editor can assign HelpContext properties to controls in VCL applications and Multi-Device applications.
Words learned by the spell checker are now saved much faster. This removes any delay when changing the spell check language or when switching to another application after learning a new word. Previously, this delay could be quite long if thousands of words had already been learned
Meanwhile, Microsoft has added a notice to the page in their knowledge base that talks about WinHelp saying that WinHelp is not supported in Windows 10. This confirms our earlier assumption. Back in 2007, we explained how you can use HelpScribble to convert your WinHelp HLP files to HTML Help CHM files to make them compatible with out-of-the-box installations of Windows Vista. If you still have any HLP files left, you can now use that same advice to make them work on Windows 10.
That's it for this month. Thank you for using our software, and see you next month!
Kind regards,
Jan Goyvaerts.
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