Arachie says "Hi"   Arachnophilia Revision History

(Reverse chronological order)

Version Build Date Notes
5.2 1931 10/15/2003 Adjusted the browser launch code to accommodade an MSIE anomaly.
5.2 1927 10/14/2003 Fixed a small bug in the preview browser launch code that sometimes prevented correct URL interpretation.
5.2 1925 10/13/2003 Fixed a small reported bug in the spell checker.
5.2 1923 10/13/2003 Fixed a number of small reported bugs. Added more items to the HTML menus.
5.2 1902 06/29/2003 Corrected an additional bug in the command processor that inserted a bogus bracket on execution of a macro with nested system commands.
5.2 1900 05/06/2003 Fixed a bug in the command processor that prevented parsing of some combinations of delimiters.
5.2 1895 03/16/2003 Fixed another code beautifier bug.
5.2 1894 03/15/2003 Fixed a code beautifier bug that prevented some combinations of quoted and unquoted strings from being processed correctly.
5.2 1893 03/13/2003 Revised the documentation to reflect the many recent changes, upgraded the documentation's images.
5.2 1892 03/13/2003 5.2 introduces server-side previewing and better overall support for PHP and ASP page development. The HTML Beautify feature, the code beautifier and the browser launcher have been rewritten to accommodate these special page types.

Because these pages are processed on a server before being presented to the client browser, they need to have a defined server name and virtual path. Arachnophilia now provides this in the browser setup dialog. The HTML beautify feature also now handles these pages properly, even when faced with <?php ... ?> and <% ... %> tag pairs on different lines.

Be sure to look at the Web browser setup dialog to fully understand the new scheme. Also, the new HTML Beautify feature won't push periods and commas away from the sentences they rightfully belong to (an old, annoying bug, finally fixed). The documentation has been revised to explain the improvements. To obtain these new features in their full form and update your documentation, be sure to force a full install (delete the (user home directory)/.Arachnophilia directory).
5.1 1882 03/10/2003 Improved the documentation WRT an FTP issue, included a few missing syntax-coloring classes inadvertently omitted from the prior release.
5.1 1880 03/09/2003 Repaired a few minor bugs, added some explanantory notes to the documentation, included a note about a subtle FTP problem having to do with user choices of destination path.
5.1 1877 11/19/2002 Optimized file reading/writing code. The line endings on all files are translated internally, as required, after they are read and before they are written. This change speeds up that translation.
5.1 1876 11/18/2002 Corrected an additional bug in, and improved, code beautifier. Updated documentation.
5.1 1875 11/15/2002 Cleaned up some reported bugs, fixed PHP beautify error, improved browser configuration and launch code, fixed tab character inconsistency, added more file templates.
5.1 1873 10/09/2002 Added block tab and block reverse tab, controlled by default with tab and shift-tab. To change these keyboard hooks, just go to Macros,Standard Menus,Text,Tab-related,Block Tab and Block Reverse Tab. Users must perform a full install to get this new feature (or one can program two new macros if a reinstall is not feasible).
5.1 1872 10/06/2002 Fixed a number of small bugs, including an error in which [RegExpFindReplaceAll] did not detect whether a selection had been made (always acting on the entire document), and an annoying bug in the file selector dialog that renamed files the user didn't intend to. Now the user renames files by right-clicking and choosing this option.
5.1 1869 09/07/2002 Improved command parsing algorithm and added the ablility to escape a defined macro, like this: \[DateTime], so that it is not executed but inserted unchanged.
5.1 1868 09/07/2002 Fixed another bug in the command processor that caused a lockup in some cases.
5.1 1867 09/05/2002 Fixed a bug that caused a program lockup if a single bracket '[' character was entered into the search field in "Instant Mode."
5.1 1865 09/03/2002 Fixed a bug that prevented escaped characters from being processed correctly in RegExp Find & Replace.
5.1 1864 08/28/2002 Fixed a bug that improperly carried a shortcut key definition over from an existing macro definition to a new one.
5.1 1862 08/25/2002 Added function to clear search and replace dropdown lists. This will make it easier to recover from the common mistake of entering an excessively long string into the search and replace dialog. See the documentation for the alternatives to entering long strings directly into the dialog.
5.1 1860 08/25/2002 Fixed FTP service error that defaulted to text file format instead of binary, the original intention. Updated documentation in response to common user inquiries.
5.1 1850 05/10/2002 Fixed file picker dialog error that listed folders in the right-hand panel and allowed them to be selected as though they were files. Now folders are selected in the left window, and files in the right.
5.1 1849 05/02/2002 Fixed a bug in the macro editor code that improperly transferred keyboard shortcuts.
5.1 1848 05/01/2002 Fixed a bug having to do with not using an unsaved password in the FTP service.
5.1 1847 04/29/2002 Fixed some small bugs, changed the keyboard hook code so almost any key can be used as a keyboard hook. This results from my finally realizing that there will always be some keystrokes in a gray area, neither a letter nor a control key, that might be useful as a keyboard hook. Many more key combinations are now possible. Added a system command to switch documents using Ctrl+Tab (an example of the above).
5.1 1846 04/16/2002 Dcoumentation update. Added some new FAQs and more details about the FTP Service.
5.1 1845 04/16/2002 Fixed a bug in the Right-Click Wizard that prevented detection of some color definitions in style blocks.
5.1 1844 04/15/2002 Added PHP to file types that can be beautified by Code Beautifier.
5.1 1843 04/15/2002 Corrected a bug in Code Beautify. It wasn't recognizing C files.
5.1 1842 04/15/2002 Corrected a bug in Table Wizard that prevented creation of a default empty table.
5.1 1841 04/15/2002 Fixed one additional bug in key mapping, made program remember the main divider location between uses.
5.1 1840 04/15/2002 Corrected some bugs in key mapping that sometimes allowed a null keyboard shortcut to exist.
5.1 1839 04/13/2002 Changed to allow the editing windows to share the background color of system windows, instead of the default white. I think I may regret this. :)
5.1 1838 04/13/2002 Located and corrected a bug that produced a display lock-up in some rare conditions. I recommend that everyone download this important bug fix.
5.1 1837 04/09/2002 Cleaned up some minor deficiencies in the new RTF to HTML converter.
5.1 1836 04/09/2002 Fixed a bug in shortcut key mapping and encoding. Some valid combinations were not being accepted, and the key mappings were not being listed correctly.
5.1 1835 04/09/2002 Responding to popular demand, added an RTF to HTML converter. This converter is constrained by Java's limited knowledge of RTF syntax, but it will convert RTF documents in much the same way as Arachnophilia 4.0's converter did. It won't convert images or tables, but it will handle most normal rich-text content.
5.0 1834 04/07/2002 Corrected a hitherto undetected out-of-bounds bug in string handling code.
5.0 1833 04/07/2002 Improved the friendliness and robustness of the browser configuration dialog. It is almost the first thing a new user sees, and it isn't possible to view the help file until a browser has been located. So it is now almost automatic -- it chooses a reasonable directory and will search even if the user isn't sure which button to press.
5.0 1832 04/06/2002 Fixed a bug that prevented the import of legacy toolbars/macros. Changed to a numeric code for storing keyboard codes upon discovering that each language supported by Java spells keyboard key names differently. This assures that non-English users will have the correct default keyboard shortcuts. Fixed a few other, lesser bugs.
5.0 1831 03/31/2002 Rewrote Arachnophilia's internal FilePicker class to handle network paths and improved its speed. On Windows, FilePicker can now browse your network just as Windows File Explorer does.
5.0 1830 03/30/2002 Replaced the regular expression engine. The previous (gnu-regexp) engine, used in the pre-Java 1.4 of Arachnophilia, has been replaced with that now built into Java 1.4. This means the new features described in the Java documentation for the java.util.regex package all apply to Arachnophilia's regular expression processor. The Java regex package is more robust and less likely to crash or lock up than the older version.
5.0 1828 03/27/2002 Fixed some default toolbar/menu inconsistencies, fixed a clipboard bug.
5.0 1827 03/25/2002 Fixed a reported bug in character to HTML entity conversion. The routine was converting the content of tags as well as the tag delimiters in HTML documents. Now it checks to see if the target is an HTML document and changes its behavior if so.
5.0 1826 03/25/2002 Changed the default FTP Service remote directory path to "/". This was causing some confusion -- most (but not all) configurations require this slash to be present, and it was not present by default. Updated documentation.
5.0 1825 03/23/2002 Fixed a small bug having to do with differing quirks in differing versions of the Netscape browser. Added some entries to the FAQ list.
5.0 1824 03/18/2002 Fixed a bug brought on by the Java 1.4 transition in which the tab key suddenly stopped working in the editor.
5.0 1823 03/17/2002 Fixed a bug in the FTP service, rewrote the clipboard functions to offer and accept more data types.
5.0 1822 03/16/2002 Fixed a bug in which context menus would extend off the right and bottom edges of the display. This is actually a bug in Java, but I was able to create a fix.
5.0 1821 03/14/2002 Corrected a bug in the new [FileSaveToEOL] feature. It was saving the progam's own files using the user's choice of line ending. Relatively benign, but not what I intended.
5.0 1820 03/13/2002 Added an automatic error logging system, so any program or java runtime engine errors will automatically be logged to (user home directory)/.Arachnophilia/ArachErrorLog.txt. If you submit a bug report, be sure to include any contents this file may have.
5.0 1818 03/13/2002 Added a system command [FileSaveEOL:arg] to allow users to override the default platform end-of-line character sequence.
5.0 1817 03/13/2002 Accommodated a Netscape browser launch problem with a code change.
5.0 1816 03/13/2002 Corrected some errors and inconsistencies in the documentation.
5.0 1815 03/12/2002 After a first-day flood of bug reports from people who haven't bothered to download the correct Java runtime version, I have reluctantly added a dialog that checks the Java runtime and, if necessary, tells the user to download the correct verison.
5.0 1814 03/12/2002 Fixed a few typographical errors and an incorrect reference to JRE 1.3 -- Arachnophilia 5.0 requires JRE 1.4.
5.0 1812 03/12/2002 Fixed a raft of bugs that accompanied first release. Decided to bundle documentation with application.
5.0 1810 03/11/2002 Initial public release.