Freebyte update: February 04, 2002


Dear Freebyte newsletter subscriber,


Since the previous newsletter we sent you in December, the following items 
have been updated:


(1) New freeware program: Freebyte Task Scheduler.
Freebyte Task Scheduler is a small and zero-install program which enables 
you to start other programs automatically, periodically and at pre-defined 
times. This program functions very well in combination with backup software 
like Freebyte Backup, disk fragmenters, virus scanners and other regularly 
scheduled system maintanance utilities.
Freebyte Task Scheduler is freeware for commercial and non-commercial use 
and runs on Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
You can download it from: http://www.freebyte.com/fbtaskscheduler/

(2) Updated: Freebyte backup. Freebyte Backup is a freeware backup program 
for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP. FB Backup now supports command-line 
parameters. This option allows you to start FB Backup automatically, and 
schedule your backups when you use FB Backup in combination with the 
Freebyte Task Scheduler. Further Improvements like excluding extensions, 
compressing files and excluding individual directories and files will be 
added to future versions of FB Backup. http://www.freebyte.com/fbbackup

(3) Updated: TreePad PLUS, to version 4.6.1. For more details, please see 
at the bottom of this mail.
You can find TreePad PLUS at http://www.treepad.com

(4) Freebyte's Guide to free email services. This page lists free email 
services, pop-based, web-based, forwarding, etc.
Added: new categories, new free email providers and new links.
Removed: many email providers have stopped providing free services, they 
have been removed from the page or placed into the non-free section.
http://www.freebyte.com/email

(5) Freebyte's Guide to Free Programming: many new links have been added to 
the section on help-authoring tools.
http://www.freebyte.com/programming/#helptools

(6) CAD section: the following pages were updated: Finite Element Analyses, 
CAD Software, Help downloading and installing
http://www.freebyte.com/cad

(7) Updated: custom Addressbook. The freeware and shareware versions of 
Custom Addressbook now come with an installer; this means that you have the 
choice to automatically install the programs (run install.exe) or manually 
install them (just copy the files). Custom Addressbook has recently 
received awards from Listsoft and FileTransit.
http://www.freebyte.com/addressbook

(8) Freeware page: this page has been updated to include all Freebyte 
software. It now also includes the 'Freeware News database', a TreePad 
database which contains descriptions of thousands of freeware programs. 
http://www.freebyte.com/freeware

(9) Updated: Freebyte's Guide to free anti-virus software. Added to the 
'Free Firewalls' section: Tiny Firewall. Some anti-virus programs which 
stopped being freeware, have been moved to the section on non-free Virus 
Scanners.
http://www.freebyte.com/antivirus

(10) The following new features have been introduced into TreePad PLUS 4.6 
and 4.6.1:


TreePad PLUS 4.6 new features


Drag-drop of a block of article text into the tree
· Added: drag-drop of a selected block of article text onto a tree node, 
will create a child node of that tree node. The new node will contain a 
copy of the selected block.
· Added: pressing down the ctrl key before (and holding down while) 
dragging creates a sibling node just above the target node. The new node 
will contain a copy of the block of text.
· Added: pressing down the shift key before (and holding down while) 
dragging will create a sibling node below the target node. The new node 
will contain a copy of the block of text.
· Added: pressing down the alt key before (and holding down while) dragging 
(in combination with any of the above three drag-drop actions), the dragged 
text block is moved from the article into the newly created node. This 
means that the copied text block will be deleted from the article after the 
operation is completed.


Drag-drop of files into the article
· Added: drag-drop of one or more files (from e.g. the Windows Explorer) 
into the TreePad article will create relative or absolute (default) 
hyperlinks to those files from inside the article.
· Added: the option for file hyperlinks which are created using drag-drop 
of files from the Windows Explorer into the article to be absolute 
hyperlinks, or to be relative to the current TreePad file. To set this 
option, you can go to the options screen, choose the category 
article/hyperlinks.


Drag-drop of files into the tree
· Added: drag-drop of one or more files (from e.g. the Windows Explorer) 
onto a tree node will import those files into the tree node as one or more 
child nodes. The action is the same as menu/file/import files/into sub 
tree/one or more files.
· Added: pressing down the ctrl key just before dropping the file(s) onto 
the tree creates a (set of) sibling node(s) just above the target node.
· Added: pressing down the shift key just before dropping the file(s) onto 
the tree creates a (set of) sibling node(s) just below the target node.


Drag-drop of a block of text from another program into the article
· Added: drag-drop of a selected text block from another program (like a 
Word Processor, an email program, a Web browser) into the TreePad article 
will insert that text into the article.


Drag-drop of a block of text from another program into the tree
· Added: drag-drop of a selected text block from another program (like a 
Word Processor) onto a node will create a child node of the target node 
containing the text.
· Added: holding down the ctrl key while dragging the text block into the 
tree creates a sibling node just above the target node.
· Added: holding down the shift key while dragging the text block into the 
tree will create a sibling node below the target node.


Drag-drop of a hyperlink from another program into the article
· Added: drag-drop of an Internet hyperlink from an HTML page into the 
TreePad article will insert that hyperlink into the article. This feature 
functions with Netscape and MS Internet Explorer, and also with a lot of 
other programs which can display hyperlinks.


Drag-drop of a hyperlink from another program into the tree
· Added: drag-drop of an Internet hyperlink from an HTML page into the tree 
will create a child node of the target node. The new node will contain the 
hyperlink.
· Added: holding down the ctrl key while dragging the URL into the tree 
creates a sibling node just above the target node.
· Added: holding down the shift key while dragging the URL into the tree 
will create a sibling node below the target node.


Tree drag-drop
· Added: an option to disable and enable tree drag-drop (dragging tree 
nodes to another location). In the options screen, category: tree.


Insert hyperlink to file(s) dialog
· Added: the option for file hyperlinks which are created using the 
menu/insert/links to files dialog to be absolute (default) hyperlinks, or 
relative to the current TreePad file. In the options screen, you can choose 
the category article/hyperlinks.


Automatic paste
· Changed: the automatic paste menus have been moved to the 'tools' menu. 
Please note that the automatic paste menus are only available in advanced mode.
· Added: automatic paste for the tree area. This new feature can be very 
useful for pasting emails and other texts which deserve a separate tree 
node. When the tree has focus, automatic paste will insert a new node into 
the tree, and the article of that new node will contain the pasted text. 
When the article is active (has focus), text is pasted into the existing 
article - as usual - and no new node will be created. Images can not (yet) 
be pasted directly into the tree, but they can be auto pasted when the 
article has focus.
· Changed: article copy/cut are disabled as long as automatic paste is active.
· Changed: the automatic paste function will be switched off after you open 
a new file, when you create a new file, or when you close the current file.


Copy/paste
· Added: pop up menu article/copy special/copy shortcut, which copies a 
hyperlink address onto the Windows clipboard.


New methods of creating hyperlinks to nodes
· Method 1: using the mouse: (1) press the keyboard ctrl and shift keys and 
click with the mouse on a node. The cursor will change into a hand point 
cursor. (2) Then click inside the article with your mouse at the position 
you want the hyperlink to be inserted. A hyperlink to the node will be 
inserted into the article. Pressing 'escape' or clicking inside the tree 
will abort the operation.
· Method 2, using copy/paste: (a) with menu/tree/copy/node hyperlink 
address, one can copy the address of the currently selected node onto 
TreePad clipboard as a hyperlink. Alternatively one can use tree pop up 
menu/copy/node hyperlink address for this. (b) then, with menu/edit/paste 
node hyperlink, one pastes the hyperlink from the TreePad clipboard into 
the article. Alternatively one can use: article pop up menu/paste 
special/paste node hyperlink.


Status bar
· Added: status bar display of the current text cursor position inside the 
article. The cursor column number and line number are shown.


Wrap
· Added: menu/view/wrap text to page: the text is wrapped to the page (as 
defined in the page setup)
· Added: menu/view/wrap text to screen: the text is wrapped according to 
the current size of the article.


Catalog of files
· Added: several options for the disk catalog function. Menu/view/options, 
inside the options screen, choose the category tree/file catalog. One can 
specify whether or not to include:
* directories
* file/directory sizes
* free disk space and cluster size
* file/directory dates
* directory totals
· Added, optionally: the display of the total size of files, and total used 
space of files, and the cluster size. The space a file uses is usually 
different from the file size, and depends on the disk cluster size.
· Added: by default file and directory entries contain absolute hyperlinks. 
Using menu/view/options, category: tree/filecatalog one can choose wether 
the hyperlinks are relative to the current TreePad file, or absolute.


Article statistics
· Added: using menu/edit/article statistics or ctrl-F7 you can get:
* the number of words inside the article
* the number of lines inside the article
* the number of characters inside the article
* the number of pages inside the article


Manual
· Added: a menu item for quickly opening the manual. Menu/help/manual. 
Shortcut: the keyboard F1 key.



TreePad PLUS 4.6.1 new features


Tree node text formatting
· Added: tree, ctrl-k toggles font-strikeout for the selected node.


Hyperlinks
· Added: an option to open hyperlnks to TreePad files in a new TreePad 
program, instead of the current TreePad program. See menu/view/options, 
category: article/hyperlinks.


Search
· Added: a 'paste' button to the article and tree search dialogs, to paste 
text from the Windows clipboard into the search text fields.


TreePad PLUS is shareware, and can be downloaded from http://www.treepad.com

Sincerely,

The Freebyte! team
http://www.freebyte.com

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