RE: EdSharp 2.3 released
- From: "Ken Perry" <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 12:33:12 -0700
Snicker instead of having an impulse to wash your hands you have an impulse
to stick 1 million dll's together while debugging one handed?
Ken
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[mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jamal Mazrui
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 10:13 AM
To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: EdSharp 2.3 released
Thanks, guys -- it may be related to obsessive compulsive disorder!
Jamal
On Mon,
8 Oct 2007, Ken Perry wrote:
> Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 08:03:36 -0700
> From: Ken Perry <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: EdSharp 2.3 released
>
>
>
> While I agree with you Matthew I would like to point out what Jamal is
> doing mainly is exactly what we all should be doing. Using stuff that
> is already written to enhance the software we build. Go Jamal.
>
> Ken
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Matthew2007
> Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 6:58 AM
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: EdSharp 2.3 released
>
> 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>
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> 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)
> > Shift+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 --
> > Control+Shift+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
> > Control+Shift+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
> > Alt+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-B7
> > B4 -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.richte
> > xt
> > box_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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