Freebyte update: March 16th, 2002

Dear Freebyte newsletter subscriber,


(1) TreePad PLUS has been updated to version 4.8. A very large list of new 
features, added to the program since mid february 2002 (versions 4.7 and 
4.8) is included below. Version 4.8 includes an highly improved manual, 
created by Barry Andrews. TreePad PLUS is an award-winning shareware 
PIM/personal database for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, and can be 
downloaded from http://www.treepad.com


(2) All the pages in the Freebyte CAD section have been updated. A new CAD 
page, 'assorted software' has been added as well.
The CAD section is created and maintained by Karl of Free Mechanical 
Engineering Software. http://www.freebyte.com/cad


(3) TreePad2HTML now supports a dynamic (Javascript) HTML tree pane, 
meaning that the subtrees can be expanded and collapsed when viewed in your 
Web browser. The program also includes a large number of templates and 
lay-outs. TreePad2HTML is a versatile freeware tool to generate HTML pages 
from TreePad (.hjt) files, created by Kurt Kosnar. It can be found on 
http://www.treepad.com/utils


(4) HJ-Install is updated to version 3.5.3
Added: the script identifier %programfilesdir%. It enables you to copy 
files into the 'program files' directory, no matter what the location or 
the name of that directory is on a client computer. HJ-Install is a 
freeware installer for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP, created by Henk 
Hagedoorn, and can be downloaded from http://www.freebyte.com/hjinstall


New features in TreePad PLUS 4.8


Tree node icons
Added: custom tree node icons. You can now tag individual tree nodes with 
different icons.
Added: 'icons' tab, next to the article tab, containing the optional tree 
icons. To assign an icon to the currently selected node, simply 
double-click on an icon inside the icon area. To assign the default icon to 
the current node again, just click on the first icon. Many thanks to Philip 
Sutton for providing many of the icons inside the icons tab.
Added: a new menu to show/hide the icons area: menu/view/icons.
Added: a new icons menu (menu/icons) to manage (import/remove) icons. This 
menu will only show when the icons area is visible. It contains these sub 
menus:
* menu/icons/add new icons; this enables one to import one or more icons at 
the same time into the icons area (or the 'insert' key on the keyboard when 
the icons area has focus).
* menu/icons/remove selected icons; with this menu one can remove the 
selected icons from the icons area (or the 'delete' key on the keyboard 
when the icons area has focus).


New manual
The TreePad PLUS manual has been greatly improved. Many thanks to Barry 
Andrews for creating this new high-quality manual.


Tree navigation
Added: pressing the explode tool-button while holding the keyboard shift 
key will expand only one level of the selected subtree (pressing explode 
button without the shift key will expand all levels).
Added: pressing the implode tool-button while holding the shift key will 
only collapse one level the selected subtree (doing this without the shift 
key will collapse all levels).


Tree editing
Changed: name of menu/tree/insert/child node to menu/tree/insert/child node 
at bottom.
Added: menu/tree/insert/chid node at top (only visible in advanced mode). 
This also has been added to the tree context menu.


File import and export
Added: when exporting a subtree to TreePad PLUS file, all article images 
contained in this subtree are also exported to that file.
Added: when importing a TreePad PLUS file, all article images are imported
Added: when exporting a subtree to a TreePad PLUS file, all user-defined 
node-icons are exported to that file.
Added: when importing a TreePad PLUS file, all user-defined node-icons are 
imported.


Printing
Improved: the printing quality of vector/metafile images has improved.


Hyperlinks
Improved: support for https hyperlinks. Previously, https hyperlinks could 
only be inserted when selecting the type 'user defined' in the 'Insert 
Hyperlink' dialog. Now you can also use the link type 'WWW'.



New features in TreePad PLUS 4.7


Tree node formatting and properties
·       Added: the format toolbar and format menu now can change the 
formatting of the selected tree node. Note that for applying the format 
toolbar or menu to the tree the tree needs to have focus. When the article 
has focus, the formatting toolbar applies to the selected block text inside 
the article.
This means that you can now use the format toolbar to set individual node 
properties directly, like 'bold', 'italic', 'underline', 'strikethrough', 
'font name', 'font size', 'color', 'background color'.
·       Added: one can now also set the background color of each individual 
node, using the formatting toolbar.
·       Added: a shortcut for node properties, ctrl+F2.
·       Improved: the node properties dialog has been improved to include 
the new options. It now also displays the article data type and ID.
·       Added: a new 'Tools' tab to the properties dialog, currently 
containing one new function which allows you to remove the formatting of 
all subtree node titles in one go. Useful when you want to remove all 
formatting (color, style, size, font name, etc.) from a group of node 
captions. This makes the nodes in the selected subtree take over with the 
default tree font setting.

Search
·       Improved: the article search and replace function is now much 
faster. Also: article scrolling during search-replace (with confirm) has 
been improved.
·       Added: separate tree search and article search buttons in the view 
toolbar.
·       Added: copy, paste and clear buttons to the tree and article search 
screens.

TreePad Shutdown options
·       Added: the option to (1) automatically clear the TreePad Clipboard 
(for nodes/subtrees) when the program closes, (2) or to ask whether or not 
to clear the TP clipboard, (3) or not to ask anything about the TP 
clipboard while not clearing the TP clipboard when the program closes. In 
the options screen (menu/view/options) choose the category 
'TreePad/Shutdown'. More information on the TreePad Clipboard for 
nodes/subtrees can be found here: Copying, cutting and pasting nodes and 
subtrees

Auto backup
·       Added: the option to automatically create backup files of the 
TreePad data files. In the options screen (menu/view/options) choose the 
category 'backup'. The TreePad data file (.hjt) is backed up to a .hjt.bak 
file in the same directory as the TreePad data file, TreePad image files 
(.tpz) files are backed up to .tpz.bak in the same directory. Auto-backup 
is recommended when your data file is located on a hard disk. When you have 
your TreePad data file on a floppy, you might not have enough space for the 
auto-backup. In that case you rely on the periodical usage of the built-in 
manual backup function using menu/file/backup.

Images
·       Added: support for PNG images. PNG images can now be imported 
(menu/insert/image from file) into TreePad and exported from TreePad 
(menu/file/export/selected image).
·       Added: support for Windows metafiles. WMF and EMF files can now be 
copied,pasted, imported and exported.
·       Improved: when importing an image of type JPEG, GIF, PNG, EMF, WMF, 
ICO, BMP, it is stored in its native format inside the TreePad database. 
Previous versions of TreePad converted pixel images internally to bitmaps.
·       Added: conversions between all the supported image formats. This 
means that you can export an image stored into TreePad to any other 
supported image type, except to an icon. For instance, a PNG image can be 
exported to a JPEG image, a WMF image to a GIF or BMP.  Icons can be 
exported to the other formats, but the other formats can not be exported to 
icon (.ico) files.
·       Added: when clicking on an image, the statusbar will display the 
internal image name and image type.
·       Improved: smaller images will now be inserted into the article 
(menu/insert/image from file) and pasted (menu/edit/paste) in the correct size.

Export and images
·       Added: the export subtree to Web site option now includes images! 
Please note that: bmp files are exported to Web site as JPEG files, ico, 
wmf and emf files are exported as GIF files. You can access this feature 
using Menu/file/export
·       Added: export of an article to a HTML file now includes exporting 
the images. Images are exported to the same directory as the HTML file.
·       Added: export of an article to an RTF file now includes exporting 
the images. The images are not stored inside the RTF file, but exported 
separately into the same directory as the RTF file and linked from the RTF 
file. Programs like MS Word are able to load the RTF file and display the 
external images. Using MS Word, when you save the RTF file as Word file, 
the images will become embedded inside the Word document.

Format
·       Added: menu/format/convert/to title case, which will convert the 
selected block of article text to lowercase, except for the first letter of 
each word (which is converted to a capital).
·       Added: menu/format/convert/to sentence case, which will convert the 
selected block of article text to lowercase, except for the first letter of 
each sentence (which is converted to a capital).
·       Added: menu/format/remove/spaces, which will remove any leading 
spaces from the selected block of text. As an extra, this function also 
removes '>' characters when found at the beginning of the line. This is 
useful when processing emails.
·       Added: menu/format/remove/spaces and returns, which does the same 
as the above function (remove/spaces), additionally it removes the returns 
from the selected block of text. Please note that these 'Format' commands 
are also available through the article popup menu.

File
·       Added: shortcut ctrl-F4 to close the current file.



Sincerely,

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

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