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Unstable Releases Available

Martin Cohen — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:40:06 +0000

We started publishing unstable releases for all users. There’s new category and topic at the forums with all instructions on how to download the releases and how to report bugs. See UNSTABLE Releases category for more info.

Intype web accessibility problems

Ivan Čentéš — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:02:21 +0000

All Intype web sites were not accessible the most time during the last two days. This situation was not caused by Intype team, neither by our hosting provider Websupport (which we thought of first).

According to some unofficial articles, and now also to an official mail letter from Websupport, the problem was caused by a router hardware failure in the slovak peering centre. The router belongs to a company which acts as an ISP for many big slovak portals and other ISPs, such as Websupport. As written in the letter, the problem should now be solved and all websites running normaly.

Anyway, we are considering a move to another hosting provider to minimize such problems like this in the future. We are also searching for some mirroring possibilities to avoid Intype releases unavailability.

We apologize for this inconvenience, and hope nothing like this happens again.

But now for some good news. We count more than 1000 downloads of the new Intype 0.3.1.547 release from the release time until now, and the number is still growing.

Intype 0.3.1

Thomas Bell — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:38:32 +0000

The wait is over. For all of you that can’t wait any longer and aren’t going to read much (after finding out Intype 0.3.1 has been released) I’ll keep this post short.

The big features included in this release are:

Tabs
Multi-Selections
Rectangular Selections
Multi-Snippets
Multi-Insert
Find and Replace (Regular Expressions Support)
Word-Wrap
Clipboard History
Advanced Undo/Redo supporting editing modes

Download and learn more: Intype 0.3.1 Download and Release Notes. Have fun.

Feature Update

Thomas Bell — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 19:51:58 +0000

The Intype Team has been working very hard lately. Here are some feature videos, screenshots, and a screencast covering some recently added features. The Multi-Snippet feature is especially slick.

Screencast:

Find & Replace Dialog

Feature Videos:

Multi-Snippet: Combining Snippets and Multi Selection.

Rectangle & Multi Selections: Combing Rectangle and Multi Selection.

Rectangle Selections

Multi Selections

Screenshots:

Find & Replace Dialog

Word Wrap

Martin and Centi have also created a ToDo List. Don’t be scared of the length. Most of the current tasks are Plugging 0.2.x features back in to the new refactored code base. This usually only takes a few minutes to do. Martin will be updating this list as features are tuned and added.

Track Intype’s Progress Here: Intype 0.3.1 Release ToDo.

Juraj is back, Intype release is coming

Martin Cohen — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:09:34 +0000

The Intype Team is again at full strength (even stronger really) for the first time in 3 months. During that time, I’ve practically rewritten everything within the Intype core. I’ve made everything faster, clearer, and cleaner. I opened up the core making it possible for new functionality to be added quickly. The core is now ready to accommodate all the features that were planned for 1.0. Meaning many new features are on the way.

Juraj is back and happy to be working full-time on Intype! Let’s celebrate! Right away he started working with the refactored core making some slick new additions. Welcome Back Juraj!

With Juraj back and because of my refactoring work development will be much smoother. We updated the road-map and are steadily moving towards the next major version: Intype 0.3.1 which we will release at the end of this month. Intype 0.4.0 (Project Management, JavaScript API) is planned for sometime in September 2007.

Lots of Progress

Thomas Bell — Thu, 24 May 2007 17:03:06 +0000

First off Intype and all of it’s components are fully refactored. The Windows implementation of the classes are 75% complete. The multi-document backend started working a few days ago and Martin is currently working on implementing the multi-document UI.

Word-wrapping is working nicely and awaits the implemention of a few features for nicer drawing. Screenshots from Martin are coming.

Multi-selection is next on the roadmap. After this is done, the Intype team will have a better estimation for the unstable.0.3 release date.

The Meaning of Multi-Doc

Thomas Bell — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:46:33 +0000

Over the course of Intype’s development the most requested feature has to
be Multi-Doc support. As far as I know this has been on the top of the to-do list
for a while. The good news is that Martin is progressing towards it with success.

So what will Multi-Doc be like in Intype? I’ve had quite a few discussions with Martin on this topic. Here it is: What Multi-Doc means to Martin.

Martin’s Multi-Doc Key Features:

Tabs Support
Split-screen Support
Project Management

And of course Intype would not be Intype if it didn’t have some very unique Multi-Doc features. Martin told me that the UI will include some very promising and original features.
Multi-Doc has become the norm for many applications: Firefox, IDEs, and tons of text editors. You don’t have to worry Intype won’t be left behind. But if you think that we are missing something let us know on the forums.

Refactoring

Thomas Bell — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:54:57 +0000

As Martin noted in the forums they have currently frozen the 0.2.1 branch. Juraj and Martin have moved into their planned refactoring phase of development. This refactoring phase is necessary and enables reaching milestones faster. The current refactoring task at hand is revitalizing the editing component from top to bottom. This will make in easier to build in all the great features everyone has suggested.

After the editing component is updated and fully refactored they will release unstable.0.3.0 which will include some awesome features:

Free caret mode (this is already done)
Word-Wrapping (Martin’s currently working on this)
Multi and Rectangular selections
Performance Upgrade

Along with features planned for 0.2.3 multi-docs and 0.2.4 search capabilities.

Also, because of the refactoring the editing component will be ready to be ported to other platforms.

The development of Intype will move much quicker after the refactoring phase. This is why they have taken this time and planned it into Intype’s development life cycle.

Success: Intype on Linux

Martin Cohen — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:50:56 +0000

First successful run under Wine on Linux. Today, Juraj solved the problem that prevented Intype from running with Wine. The trouble is in Wine’s implementation of usp10.dll (uniscribe lib). After replacing Wine’s usp10.dll with current Windows XP version of the library, Intype works. The screenshot is from Ubuntu-6.10 distribution. However, further testing and debugging is needed to declare Intype fully compatible with Wine. Feel free to post any bugs or questions to our forums.

Que’s Intype Project Manager

Martin Cohen — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:23:04 +0000

It’s awesome how many people started using Intype this early. Intype’s community is growing! There a big support and they motivate us as developers. The Intype Community is now maintaining bundles, suggesting features, and discussing those things that matter most to Intype. Que got much further than just suggesting. He created a Project Manager with a Multi-tab layout. It is very useful to those who want to work with Intype, but happen to miss these features.

The Intype PM is a small application, aimed to ease the life of Intype fans. The native support for the “Project Manager” and “Tabs” are still in Development. Don’t worry thought Intype will support these features in a few months. If you really miss these features Que’s PM emulates tabs support by intercepting opened intype instances and docking them into a tabbed control. It also adds directory tree/project manager support.

Features:

Ability to act as placeholder for Intype windows.
Tabs support with automatic title updates.
When opening new files the PM checks if the file is already opened if it is the corresponding tab will be activated.
Ability to reuse already opened Instances instead of opening a new one (Ctrl+DblClick)
Support for drag & drop to external applications (including docked Intype windows)
Explorer’s right click popup menu for files and folders inside tree view
Safe tab closing/exit (PM sends WM_CLOSE message to all docked Intype instances when exiting,
so Intype can still prompt the user to save before exiting.)
Recent projects list
Tabs style customization and tree font selection
Option to register ‘Open as IntypePM project’ to explorer’s folder menu

Here is the download link, the screenshot and the topic at the forums for all of you that are interrested in this tool.

For those of you that are eager for the tabs and project manager this is the answer from our growing community. I’m glad to see this happening, and I want to thank Que and all the other great people that love Intype as much as we do.

Please forward all your feature requests and questions regarding to this tool to the topic at forums.