Re: EdSharp 2.3 released
- From: james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 15:04:32 -0400
Hi Jaffar,
I think you ran into some slang there.
Jim
James D Homme, , Usability Engineering, Highmark Inc.,
james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx, 412-544-1810
"It's more important for me to start to do the right thing than it is to
wait until I think I
can do it just right."
"jaffar"
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Re: EdSharp 2.3 released
10/08/2007 02:56
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Please respond to
programmingblind@
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to matt2007. No he's much more than a freaking group of whatever. He is
great, and if you can't understand this, you'll not be able to understand
anything at all. being polite is something, being sane is something else.
Cheers! and i don't even care if i'm banned from this list from now on.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Trouble" <trouble1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 2:32 AM
Subject: Re: EdSharp 2.3 released
> Go to his web site and read his bio, its quite a reed.
>
> At 09:57 AM 10/8/2007, you wrote:
>>Jamal,
>>
>>In reality you're actually a group of freakin quadruplets, right?
>>
>>How the heck do you get so much accomplished--You're an immensely
>>productive individual.
>>
>>Matthew
>>
>>---- Original Message ----- From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
>>To: <blindmath@xxxxxxxxxx>; <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
>><program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <guispeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
>><uaccess-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 6:44 AM
>>Subject: EdSharp 2.3 released
>>
>>
>>>http://www.EmpowermentZone.com/edsetup.exe
>>>
>>>Version 2.3
>>>Released October 8, 2007
>>>
>>>This version introduces a powerful scripting capability, strengthens
HTML
>>>snippets, and adds support for mathematical work with the LaTeX
language.
>>>Fixes and enhancements are documented below.
>>>
>>>Jamal
>>>
>>>Fixed Indent, Outdent, Quote, Unquote, and Trim Blanks commands (Tab,
>>>Shift+Tab, Control+Q, Control+Shift+Q, and Control+Shift+Enter) applying
>>>to the next line, not just current line, when there is no selection.
>>>Fixed the Reselect command (Control+Shift+F8) not remembering the last
>>>result of the Complete Selection command (Shift+F8). Fixed hot keys
>>>causing errors in checked listboxes that should only apply in single
>>>selection listboxes (e.g., Spacebar and Control+A). Fixed the cursor
not
>>>being positioned according to the double caret (^^) when snippets are
>>>processed.
>>>
>>>Enhanced Alt+F7 to look up information about a word or phrase from three
>>>web sites: dictionary.com, thesaurus.com, and wikipedia.org. EdSharp
>>>prompts for a term, defaulting to the current chunk or selected text.
>>>The
>>>information retrieved is presented as structured text in a new editing
>>>window.
>>>
>>>Enhanced the Explorer Folder (Alt+Backslash) and Command Prompt
>>>(Control+Backslash) commands to prompt for four possible folders to
open:
>>>the EdSharp program folder, data folder, snippet folder, or folder
>>>containing the current file. Alt+Shift+V now opens a snippet file
rather
>>>than the snippet folder.
>>>
>>>Added a configuration option that sets a maximum limit on the number of
>>>files shown in the list of recent files (Alt+R). The default is 30. As
>>>before, a file opened from this list is automatically converted to text
>>>if
>>>an import conversion exists for its extension. The List Favorites
>>>command
>>>(Alt+L), however, now opens a file verbatim, assuming that you had set
it
>>>as a favorite to edit it literally, e.g., a .htm file.
>>>
>>>Enhanced the bookmark capability to support multiple bookmarks (like
>>>TextPal). As before, press Control+K to set a bookmark. If there is a
>>>single bookmark, Alt+K goes to it. If more than one, a list of
>>>bookmarked
>>>lines is presented, with focus on the next one ahead of the cursor
>>>position. Thus you can sequentially visit bookmarks by pressing Alt+K
>>>and
>>>Enter. Control+Shift+K clears a bookmark at the cursor position. To
>>>clear all bookmarks at once, press Control+Shift+L to remove the file
>>>from
>>>the list of favorites -- since a bookmarked file is automatically
>>>considered a favorite. If you want to keep the favorite status without
>>>any bookmarks, then press Control+L to set the file as a favorite again.
>>>
>>>Extended the import and export capability to support multiple target
>>>formats. If EdSharp finds more than one converter available for a file
>>>extension, you are prompted which one to use. This is illustrated by
>>>explaining the pdf2ocr entry added to the Import section of EdSharp.ini.
>>>It supports optical character recognition on image-based PDFs if the
free
>>>pdf2ocr.zip package is installed from
>>>http://www.EmpowermentZone.com/pdf2ocr.zip
>>>
>>>The configuration file assumes that it has been unzipped into a
directory
>>>called
>>>C:\PDF2OCR
>>>Since this large archive is not distributed with EdSharp, the
>>>configuration entry is inactive by default due to a semicolon (;)
comment
>>>character at the start of the line. Use the Manual Options command
>>>(Alt+Shift+M) to delete the character and then save the revised
>>>EdSharp.ini file (Control+S). After doing so, EdSharp would offer two
>>>choices when you specified a PDF with the Open Other Format command
>>>(Control+Shift+O): pdf and pdf2ocr. If a converter entry does not
>>>contain the digit 2 and another extension, it is assumed to be .txt.
>>>Thus, you would then choose between the distributed converter for
>>>text-based PDFs, and the manually installed one for image-based PDFs via
>>>OCR.
>>>
>>>Added support for the LaTeX language (pronounced La Tech). This is a
>>>common language used for typesetting, especially for scientific
>>>publications. Sample LaTeX snippets, ending in a .tex extension, are
>>>distributed with EdSharp. You can convert from LaTeX to RTF and vice
>>>versa. To fully work with LaTeX, install the open source package for
>>>Windows from
>>>http://www.miktex.org
>>>
>>>With that installation, EdSharp's LaTeX compiler option lets you check
>>>and
>>>correct syntax. You can then export to PDF or XML -- in this case,
XHTML
>>>containing embedded MathML (math markup language for the web). If the
>>>resulting .xml file is opened in Internet Explorer with a screen reader,
>>>sophisticated mathematical statements will be intelligible when the free
>>>MathPlayer add-in has been installed from
>>>http://www.dessci.com/en/products/mathplayer/download.htm
>>>
>>>Certain configuration options are now associated with the current
>>>compiler
>>>rather than being global . Specifically, favorites, bookmarks, and
>>>user-defined tokens apply to the current compiler (picked via
>>>Control+Shift+F5), so you can work with items more relevant to each
>>>coding
>>>project. The new Reset Configuration command (Alt+Shift+0) lets you
>>>easily remove custom settings and restore defaults of EdSharp. This
>>>command lets you choose whether to reset the main configuration, current
>>>compiler configuration, or create a new compiler configuration. The New
>>>choice prompts for the compiler name, command line, AbbreviateOutput,
>>>NavigatePart, and QuotePrefix settings. A compiler configuration file
is
>>>stored in the EdSharp data folder in a file having the compiler name and
>>>a
>>>.ini extension. For example, if you created settings for the "Delphi"
>>>compiler, EdSharp would create a Delphi entry in the Compilers section
of
>>>EdSharp.ini, and then store related favorites, bookmarks, and
>>>user-defined
>>>tokens in Delphi.ini. The EdSharp data folder is typically named
>>>something like
>>>C:\Documents and Settings\UserName\Application Data\EdSharp
>>>If upgrading to EdSharp 2.3 from a previous version, pressing
Alt+Shift+0
>>>is recommended after installation, in order to start with a fresh set of
>>>configuration values.
>>>
>>>Enhanced snippet capabilities in several ways. The Paste Snippet
command
>>>(Alt+V) now lists snippets in the Default snippet folder, as well as
>>>those
>>>in the folder associated with a Compiler being used. This lets you have
>>>a
>>>set of snippets that are available regardless of the programming
language
>>>in use.
>>>
>>>Changed the Paste Snippet command to show files with any extension, not
>>>just .txt, thus letting an extension indicate the type of content to be
>>>inserted. EdSharp processes a snippet with a .js extension as JScript
>>>.NET code to be evaluated. Such a file can do almost anything in
>>>EdSharp,
>>>as explained in the documentation below about EdSharp's new scripting
>>>capability. For example, the "ul from selected.js" file generates an
>>>HTML
>>>unordered list from selected lines of text. Made it possible to repeat
>>>the same variable reference in a snippet, whereby the user is prompted
>>>once for a value that is then used for multiple text insertions.
>>>
>>>The HTML snippet collection has been substantially improved by Jim
Homme,
>>>optimizing the available tags, attributes, and their ordering to serve
>>>common needs in developing web sites. HTML and PHP page templates are
>>>also included. New .txt and .js snippet files will be installed when
>>>upgrading EdSharp. Since the installer does not replace snippets with
>>>the
>>>same names, however, you need to manually clear the appropriate folder
to
>>>get a fresh set of these snippets. You can do this by pressing
>>>Control+Shift+F5, picking the HTML Tidy compiler, then pressing
>>>Alt+Backslash and choosing the snippet folder to open in Windows
Explorer
>>>(or FileDir). From that window, press Control+A and Delete to remove
all
>>>files in the folder.
>>>
>>>An overview of the scripting capability follows:
>>>
>>>Almost the complete object model of the EdSharp application has been
>>>exposed to add-in code in the JScript .NET language, explained at
>>>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/t895bwkh(VS.80).aspx
>>>
>>>JScript is a version of JavaScript with access to the huge library of
the
>>>.NET Framework. In EdSharp, JScript code may be used in the Evaluate
>>>Expression command (Control+Equals), Replace Tokens command
>>>(Control+Shift+Equals), and Paste Snippet command (Alt+V). Stand-alone
>>>JScript executables may also be created with the JScript .NET compiler
>>>option if the .NET Framework 2.0 Software Development Kit has been
>>>installed from
>>>http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=FE6F2099-B7B4-4F47-A244-C96D69C35DEC&displaylang=ko
>>>
>>>Using the Compile command (Control+F5) is the best way to debug JScript
>>>code even if you want to use it as an add-in rather than stand-alone
>>>executable. This is because the JScript compiler provides error
>>>information that is not available when add-in code fails to execute due
>>>to
>>>syntax errors.
>>>
>>>The EdSharp object model includes a hierarchy of classes corresponding
to
>>>the overall application, multiple document interface (MDI) frame, MDI
>>>child windows, and RichTextBox (RTB) within each window. Typically, a
>>>script will manipulate text in the current RTB control. The Frame
>>>property of the App class refers to the single MDI frame. The Child
>>>property of that frame object refers to the active MDI child. The RTB
>>>property of that child object refers to the current editing control.
>>>
>>> Thus, a JScript routine might start by creating one or more object
>>>variables as follows:
>>>
>>>var frame = App.Frame
>>>var child = frame.Child
>>>var rtb = child.RTB
>>>
>>>By convention, .NET properties are initially capitalized, whereas field
>>>and local variables are not. Methods of the frame object can invoke
menu
>>>items, e.g., a new editing window could be created with the following
>>>statement:
>>>frame.menuFileNew.PerformClick()
>>>Methods and properties of an RTB object are explained at
>>>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.richtextbox_members(vs.80).aspx
>>>
>>>EdSharp also adds some methods and properties in its inherited version
of
>>>the RichTextBox class, e.g., the ReplaceRange method for replacing text
>>>between two points in the current document. Other EdSharp classes
>>>provide
>>>convenient scripting methods, e.g., Dialog.Pick gets a user choice from
a
>>>listbox and Util.String2File saves a string of text to a file on disk.
>>>
>>>I will document these classes further based on questions I receive. At
>>>present, the best way to learn them is to examine code in sample .js
>>>snippet files and the main EdSharp.cs program file, which implement
>>>behavior you experience when running the application. Although the .cs
>>>code is in the C# language, its syntax is similar to JScript, and the
>>>names of classes, methods, and properties are the same.
>>>
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