ANNOUNCE: Scipad version 8.76
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A new version of the Scipad text editor for Scilab and Scicoslab is
available.


CHANGES SINCE PREVIOUS VERSION
==============================

NEW OR IMPROVED FEATURES:

* Dealt with deprecation warnings spat by Scilab-6.0.2 when installing
Scipad (tbx_build_loader, tbx_build_cleaner, with_tk, eval), and tuned
configuration flags to support Scilab-6

* Reformat lines now features reformatting "paragraph by paragraph"

* Improved friendliness of incremental find: when the controls need to
open (e.g. on F3), no search is launched anymore and search term is
cleared, except if there is a selection in which case a search is
launched using this selection as a search term

* The results window for "Find in files" raises even if it was in iconic
state

* Suppressed foreground switching of files detected as having changed on
disk

* Added <Control-Alt-r> accelerator binding for Reformat lines

* Added <Control-F> binding for searching in files

* Added menu entry saving the current layout to the last opened or saved
layout filename

* Added display of the number of selected characters in the bottom bar of
Scipad

FIXED BUGS:

* Fixed bugs in Scipad window geometry restoration (restored size could be
wrong; Tcl error could be triggered in some cases)

* Fixed bug in window centering procedure happening when the secondary
screen is on the left (negative coordinates) of the main screen (Thanks
to Harald Oehlmann)

* Stopped silent failing of the loading of the Scipad preferences file, in
such a case provide information to the user about the error encountered

* Fixed preferences file loading error due to Tcl special characters

* Fixed bug in Reformat lines: the last \n of the selection shall not
vanish

* Fixed missing recording of the search string in incremental find when
launching the incremental find feature manually

* Fixed latent bugs detected by Nagelfar static code checker

* Fixed bug with incremental find feature when reverting the file to its
saved version between highlighting of two matches

* Fixed bug with automatic move of the Find/Replace dialog so that it does
not obscure the currently found match

* Fixed bug with Tcl/Tk 8.6: the up and down arrow keys did no longer
move the insertion cursor

* Fixed blinking of matching braces when typing, which may have not been
working depending on the specific keyboard layout used

* Fixed Reformat Lines for Linux

* Fixed usability bindings on Linux

* Fixed bug with the width of the dropdown listbox of the incremental find
combobox, that did not work correctly when the combobox was wider than
the largest entry of the listbox

* Fixed bug triggering "nothing to undo" error upon undo action (happened
because it was possible to paste the empty string in Scipad)

BUGS THAT WERE FIXED BUT BROKE AGAIN:

* Restored working checks for Scipad updates since SourceForge broke them
sometime in the 1st half of 2016 --> I just discovered SF broke it
again!

MISCELLANEOUS:

* Factorized source code for file name selection with the open or save
dialog

* Made use of Tcl/Tk TIP #446 - [.text edit canundo/canredo] - for Tk
versions featuring it

* Made use of Tcl/Tk TIP #449 - Ranges impacted by [.text edit
undo/redo] -
for Tk versions featuring it (this improves performance of undo/redo
on large texts)

* [revised_text] Removed event loop run when entering a tagged area
showing
a tooltip. This could cause processing of "enter" event during the
processing of the same "enter" event, leading to Tcl error "window name
"bubble" already exists in parent". Happens with Tk's "revised_text" branch,
but not with the legacy code


WHAT IS SCIPAD ?
================

Scipad is a powerful editor and graphical debugger for programs written
in Scilab language. It is a mature and highly configurable programmer's
editor, including features like syntax colorization, regexp
search/replace, parentheses matching, logical/physical line numbering,
peer windows, line and block text editing, and much more. Scipad can be
used along with Scicoslab or Scilab, but even as a standalone text
editor. Used as internal Sci(cos)lab editor, it interacts tightly with
the interpreter, allowing:

- Scilab code execution control
- conditional breakpointing
- variable retrieval and tooltip display
- Scilab help lookup
- access to source code of Scilab library function
- control of Scilab facilities for Matlab code and creation of
help documents
- and much more

Scipad also includes basic Modelica and XML syntax colorization; it is currently localized in 13 languages and further localizations can easily
be added. Scipad is entirely written in Tcl/Tk and Scilab language. It
has been tested and developed under various versions of Windows and Linux.


WHERE CAN SCIPAD BE FOUND?
==========================

Project page @ SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/p/scipad/

Direct download:
- for Scilab: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipad/files/scipad-8.76/scipad-8.76-Scilab5.zip/download
- for Scicoslab: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipad/files/scipad-8.76/scipad-8.76-Scicoslab.zip/download

Installation instructions:
http://sourceforge.net/p/scipad/wiki/Installation/

Details regarding the tested platforms: http://sourceforge.net/p/scipad/wiki/Tested%20on/


LICENSE
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Scipad is a free software distributed under the terms of the GPL (V2)
license.

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