Topic: Preliminary new VEDIT 6.21.1 (1 of 3), Read 20 times
Conf: VEDIT Beta Test
From: Ted Green
Date: Monday, July 11, 2011 04:51 PM

A preliminary VEDIT version 6.21 is available at:

www.vedit.com/download/beta/vpa-prod.exe

Here are the changes since 6.20.1:

07/11/11 6.21.1
Much, much faster (30x) Scribe spelling checker
{MISC, Box drawing mode} now works for all fonts (ANSI and OEM)
Easier integration with Windows, Explorer and IE
New {HELP, Dashboard info} helps to debug install/config problems
New {FILE, Projects, Quit project}
New {FILE, Projects, Set project directory} sets CURRENT_PROJ_DIR
Improved USB installation support, including saving Projects on USB
Minor improvements to compiler support
Minor improvements to flat-csv.vdm and csv-flat.vdm macros
Minor improvements to many other supplied macros
Minor - Rename {CONFIG, Associate file types} to "Windows integration"
Syntax directory moved from HOME to USER_HOME
Technical - New Buf_Switch(r,VALUE,size) option
Technical - New Reg_Prep() command to optimize macros for speed
Technical - New Is_Font_OEM internal value
Technical - New Command_Check("command")
Technical - New string value CURRENT_PROJ_DIR for project support
Technical - New string values VEDIT_DRIVE, HOME_DRIVE, USER_DRIVE
Fix - Scribe didn't work under Vista/Win7
Fix - Startup.vdm had wrong default location for ustartup.vdm
Fix - VEDIT PDF manuals had minor problem under Vista/Win7
Fix - Uninstall would break out if vedit/old directory found
Fix - USB installation didn't work on different drive letter
Fix - {GOTO, Matching ()} could get confused or possibly hang

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I haven't sent a mailing to the VEDIT customer list yet, but will when 6.21 is ready. I am still waiting for a few things:

* We (mostly Pauli Lingren and I) are still tweaking a few macros to use new features and the new directory structure.

* I am still trying to determine why VEDIT crashes on a few customers' Win7 machines. I cannot replicate that on the eight Win7 machines we have in this office and at my home. (A local customer/programmer can replicate the problem and I am meeting with him this week to debug it.)

Please let me know of anything else you find.

Thanks.

Ted.

 


Topic: Preliminary new VEDIT 6.21.1 (2 of 3), Read 21 times
Conf: VEDIT Beta Test
From: Christian Ziemski
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 03:05 AM

On 7/11/2011 4:51:09 PM, Ted Green wrote:
>A preliminary VEDIT version 6.21 is available at:
>
>Here are the changes since 6.20.1:
>
>07/11/11 6.21.1
> [...]
>Please let me know of anything else you find.

It reports itself as:

08/11/11 6.21.1

Back from the future... ;-)

Christian

 


Topic: Preliminary new VEDIT 6.21.1 (3 of 3), Read 21 times
Conf: VEDIT Beta Test
From: Ian Binnie
Date: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 07:49 AM

On 7/12/2011 3:05:04 AM, Christian Ziemski wrote:

>It reports itself as:
>
>08/11/11 6.21.1
>
>Back from the future... ;-)

Also ambiguous.
It is about time that programs which have an international userbase adopt ISO 8601 (which is also the US standard)