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January 2012

1. Updated: AceText 3.0.1
2. Updated: DeployMaster 4.0.5
3. Updated: EditPad Lite and Pro 7.1.1

Updated: AceText 3.0.1

AceText 3.0.1 is now available for download. This release fixes a few issues we missed in AceText 3.0.0, last month's major upgrade.

When you click the X button to close AceText, it doesn't shut down completely. It keeps running in the background so that text you copy to the clipboard can be captured into the ClipHistory, and the AcePaste and AceType hotkeys continue to work. Version 3.0.0 failed to hide the AceText taskbar button in certain situations when you clicked the X button.

The Find First, Find Next, and Find Previous buttons on the Clipboard tab now scroll the text as necessary when finding a search match. Previously the Clipboard tab would find all search matches, but failed to scroll the text, making it look as if nothing was found if the part of the text that the match was found in was scrolled out of view.

If you select a conversation or message in AceText's built-in user forum and press Ctrl+C, an URL pointing to that conversation or message is copied to the clipboard. If you paste that link into a message on the forum, it will now be highlighted as a link. Double-clicking the link will activate the message. The discussion links at the bottom of each help file topic now also open AceText's forum.

AceText uses a .chm file to provide context-sensitive help. This is the standard help system for modern Windows applications. Due to a bug in Internet Explorer 9, if a 64-bit application requests context-sensitive help using a .chm file, and you click on a link in that help file, the calling application will crash. To work around this, we've disabled context-sensitive help in the 64-bit version of AceText if you have Internet Explorer 9 installed on your PC. Pressing F1 will still open the help file, but it will show the first page in the help file, rather than the page that describes the part of AceText you're using.

• If you have already purchased AceText, you can download this update for free.
• Buy AceText now.
• Complete Version History.

Updated: DeployMaster 4.0.5

DeployMaster 4.0.5 is now available for download. This release fixes a few more issues we missed in DeployMaster 4.0.x.

On the Media page you can specify a code signing certificate that DeployMaster should use to sign your installer, along with an option to also sign all .exe files that you added to your installer. If any of those .exe files cannot be signed, DeployMaster now adds them to the installer unsigned. The Build tab will still display an error message, but the error is no longer treated as fatal Not signing .exe files to be installed by the setup does not affect the security warnings that occur during installation at all.

If you select a conversation or message in DeployMaster's built-in user forum and press Ctrl+C, an URL pointing to that conversation or message is copied to the clipboard. If you paste that link into a message on the forum, it will now be highlighted as a link. Double-clicking the link will activate the message. The discussion links at the bottom of each help file topic now also open DeployMaster's forum.

DeployMaster uses a .chm file to provide context-sensitive help. This is the standard help system for modern Windows applications. Due to a bug in Internet Explorer 9, if a 64-bit application requests context-sensitive help using a .chm file, and you click on a link in that help file, the calling application will crash. To work around this, we've disabled context-sensitive help in the 64-bit version of DeployMaster if you have Internet Explorer 9 installed on your PC. Pressing F1 will still open the help file, but it will show the first page in the help file, rather than the page that describes the part of DeployMaster you're using.

On the Update page you can configure your installer to require a previous version of your application to be installed. This is useful for building "patch" installers that do not include the entire application, but only files that have changed since a given previous version. If you used this option in previous DeployMaster 4.0.x releases, the generated installer would crash upon startup. Version 4.0.5 restores this feature.

If you turn on the option to allow portable installations and the user clicks the Create Portable Installation button in the installer, then your installer will show a list of removable drives and a field to type in the name of the installation folder. Installers built with previous versions of DeployMaster ignored any drive letters the user added to the installation folder, always using the drive selected in the list. Installers built with DeployMaster 4.0.5 will select the drive in the list when the user types in an installation folder with a drive letter.

• If you have already purchased DeployMaster, you can download this update for free.
• Buy DeployMaster now.
• Complete Version History.

Updated: EditPad Lite and Pro 7.1.1

EditPad Lite 7.1.1 and EditPad Pro 7.1.1 are now available for download. Both versions 7.1.0 and 7.1.1 were released this month. This newsletter describes what's new in version 7.1.1 compared with version 7.0.9.

EditPad's installer now includes both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of EditPad Pro. It will automatically install the correct version depending on whether you're running a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows. Because this is a free minor update, the installer will automatically use the same installation folder. If you previously installed a previous version of EditPad Pro under c:\Program Files (x86)\ on 64-bit Windows, then the EditPad Pro 7.1.0 installer will install the 64-bit version into the same folder under c:\Program Files (x86)\. Though this folder is normally used for 32-bit applications, there is absolutely no problem with installing 64-bit software into it. You can change the installation folder via Advanced Options Installation, but that will break any shortcuts and file associations you created with EditPad Pro. For new installations on 64-bit Windows, the installer will default to c:\Program Files\.

The main benefit of having a native 64-bit version of EditPad Pro is that it can now use all of the available RAM in your PC, rather than being limited to 3 GB. This allows you to keep more large files open at the same time. Depending on the amount of RAM your PC has, you will be able to set larger limits for the "huge files threshold" setting in Options|Preferences|Open Files. By reading files partially into memory, EditPad Pro can edit files that do not fit into your PC's RAM.

The mechanism for docking side panels has changed. Previously panels were docked by dragging their caption bar or tab and then dragging them to the edge of another panel or EditPad itself. This was cumbersome because the edge area that the mouse needed to be dragged to was invisible. Starting with version 7.1.0, when you drag a panel by its caption bar or tab, squares will appear next to the 4 edges of EditPad's window. Moving the mouse to one of those squares while dragging a panel docks it to the edge of EditPad's window. While dragging over another panel, 5 squares appear in the middle of the panel. Moving the mouse to the center square docks the dragged panel into a tab container with the panel you're dropping it onto. Moving the mouse to one of the 4 outer squares docks the panel side by side with the other panel.

EditPad's main editor (where you edit your files) also acts as a location where you can dock panels. The center square is disabled because you put the main editor into a tab container (it already has tabs for files). The outer squares dock panels side by side with the main editor. If there are no panels docked at a particular edge, then there may appear no difference between docking a panel side by side with the main editor or docking it to the edge of EditPad itself. But there is a difference. You will notice it when you resize EditPad's window. If a panel is docked to the edge of EditPad's window, then resizing EditPad's window does not change the size of that panel. But when you dock it side by side with the main editor, resizing EditPad's window will also resize the docked panel in proportion to the space it shares with the main editor.

This release also brings a bunch of minor fixes and improvements. The version history has all the details.

• If you already purchased EditPad Pro 7.x.x, you can download this minor upgrade for free.
• If you have EditPad Pro 4, 5, or 6, you can upgrade to version 7 at a special price.
• Buy EditPad Pro now.
• EditPad Pro version history.
• EditPad Lite is free for personal use. Business and government users can purchase a license.
• Download EditPad Lite.

That's it for this month. Thank you for using our software, and see you next month!

Kind regards,
Jan Goyvaerts

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