Scratching my digital itches

NoteCase Pro video review

2013-05-17T08:57:00.001+02:00

The new NoteCase Pro review with a short video was posted here: http://notecase.findmysoft.com/

Here is the video from that page, but the entire post was done nicely too:

NoteCase Quick Look Video by FindMySoft.com

Program got a nice grades, thanks guys!

Notecase Pro v3.8.0. desktop edition has just been released.

2013-05-02T14:23:00.004+02:00

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- when attaching files to note using drag and drop to Attachment Pane enable adding files having UNC path like "//SERVER/share/.../file" from shared server disk (Windows)
- support to notify user when new or updated plugins are detected in the online plugin repository
- warn user when loading document from the read-only file, automatically switch to read-only mode
- option for sorting notes by title numerically instead of lexically (for example note "30" comes before "223" numerically, but after it if sorted lexically), see "Notes" > "Sort" menu
- new setting "Exclude .ncdb/.ncde formats from backup" makes your backups faster at the expense of skipping the backup of Sqlite-based file formats
- added a large number of Lua methods related to note text formatting (Nc_Note_Format_Bold_Apply, Nc_Note_Format_Italic_Apply, Nc_Note_Format_Underline_Apply, Nc_Note_Format_Strike_Apply, Nc_Note_Format_Subscript_Apply, Nc_Note_Format_Superscript_Apply, Nc_Note_Format_Text_Color_Apply, Nc_Note_Format_Bkg_Color_Apply, Nc_Note_Format_Font_Apply, Nc_Note_Format_Line_Spacing_Apply, Nc_Note_Format_IsFormatted)
- "Document file is fragmented ..." message box warning got a "Compact Document" button to do the action directly from within the message box
- fix: OS X installer now brings back gtksourceview support (syntax highlighting and autocomplete)
- fix: crash when pressing Enter after pasted image
- fix: note move actions done with Lua script while the document was in the List Pane mode were not refreshed to GUI after switching back to Tree Pane mode
- fix: improve handling colors when inserting from RTF format (correctly reset text color in some cases)
- fix: when printing document on Linux, text lines are spaced too much (worked fine on Windows)
- fix: issue when inserting some text in a complex note can cause text formatting to move one letter to the left
- fix: copying text with some background color can turn up having white background when pasted in some cases
- fix: backup for .ncdb and .ncde did not work (now use sqlite "backup" API to generate database copy "on the fly")
- fix: changing password to the .ncde document could corrupt the document file
- fix: Lua method Nc_Note_Content_Set now raises an error if you try to modify content at the offset past the end of the note
- fix: when setting GUI language, make sure to also set "LANGUAGE" environment variable (along with "LANG")
- fix: when registering scripts or plugins with drag and drop, filter dropped files by allowed file extensions
- fix: bad formatting generated when parsing two links placed next to each other with no spacing in between
- fix: feature to check for new program version update fails on OS X
- fix: problem when copy/pasting formatted text from Notecase to Microsoft Word (Windows specific)
- fix: zooming with mouse wheel was inverted when compared to Firefox, e.g. ctrl+wheel up decreases display size, but it shoulkd increase (change to use the same settings)
- fix: rebuild GTK for OS X using newer SDK 10.6 to prevent a reported crash on OS X v10.6.8; unfortunately this means that OS X v10.5.x is not supported anymore
- fix: "Help" > "Set Lite/Trial mode" switching does not correctly display chosen mode on restart until the title is refreshed by other operation like the file open/save
- fix: when creating child note of a "Template" note, tag frequency count was not refreshed after the operation (child note gets tags copied from its "template" parent)
- fix: removed document "Associated URL" feature (this mechanism seems to have never been used by anyone)
- help file updates (work by Daniel Hertrich and Paul Merrell)
- Croatian translation updated
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- Finnish translation updated (work by Ville Pilviö)
- Polish translation updated (work by Kamil Dembkowski)
- French translation updated (work by Jeff Malka)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Dutch translation updated (work by PhpFox Holland)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Italian translation updated (work by Fabio Iannone)
- other bugs fixed

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php.
Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

Note that as announced in previous cycle, a number of old build were removed: Sharp Zaurus, PCLinux 2007, CentOS 5.6, Slackware 12.2, Fedora 14, Fedora 16, Mageia 1, Mint 12, Ubuntu 11.04 and Open Suse 12.1.
Some new builds were added (Ubuntu 13.04), and I expect to add new Debian 7 builds once this distro is released.

I am now working on preparing the new Adnroid release that has been somewhat delayed due to the amount of work needed here.
In the meantime, Android Pro users can download the latest build that fixes some bugs:
http://notecase.sourceforge.net/temp/Notecase_Pro_1.0.2.apk

PS. Few remaining builds should be done by tomorrow.

Notecase Pro v3.7.8. has just been released

2013-02-16T00:41:00.003+01:00

Notecase Pro v3.7.8. desktop edition has just been released.
Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- initial implementation of document syncronization feature, currently only for desktop (marked "experimental", read more below)
- to help with debugging, there is new menu item "Help" > "Send Debug Info" allowing you to send current internal program log to the program author (thus making the script "28_WriteActionLog.lua" obsolete)
- options to change text/text background color now also work when there is no text selected in the Text Pane (before they were applicable only to text selection)
- "Remove Formatting" option now also works when there is no text selected in the Text Pane (before it was applicable only to text selection)
- improve Freemind format import to add support for newer "richcontent" tag (note contents)
- Lua method Nc_Env_Clipboard_Get got new parameter to choose between text and HTML clipboard format
- reintroduce the feature to show full document path in the main window title (optional, true by default)
- formatting of the clone title should be independent of original note
- support installing license key files by just double-clicking to it (this reqires renaming to .nckey extension, because .key is reserved for Keynote program on Mac)
- add parser support for line breaks in XHTML style

- updated GTK for OS X to the latest stable version 2.24.13
- store SHA1 hash value for each note attachment in the document
- store SHA1 hash value for each note content (plain text part) in the document
- new Lua method to query hash value of the note attachment (Nc_Note_Attach_Hash_Get)
- new Lua method to query hash value of the plain text note content (Nc_Note_ContentText_Hash_Get)
- new Lua method to query hash value of the html note content (Nc_Note_ContentHtml_Hash_Get)
- new Lua method to calculate SHA1 hash for the custom input string (Nc_Util_SHA1_Hash)
- fix: improve typing speed when typing fast within the big notes (20% faster code)
- fix: restoring from tray item had issues on Linux Mint 14
- fix: Auto-save progress window should not appear if the NoteCase window is not active one
- fix: prevent possible crash when adding huge attachments (1GB file or more)
- fix: program crash when trying to open a file from 'recent used' option in the open dialog file
- fix: Nc_Note_Content_Get method started to return full HTML (with "" tags) since last release (reverted)
- fix: Nc_Script_DocID_Get method can return -1 if two scripts are running at the same time (one script triggering event handler with another script attached to it)
- fix: few toolbar buttons cause program crash when put to custom toolbar (fix requires recreating those toolbars)
- fix: crash when dragging the note from the Tree Pane and trying to drop it onto the tab belonging to some other document (that action is not supported)
- Croatian translation updated
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Polish translation updated (work by Kamil Dembkowski)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- help file redesign and update (work by Daniel Hertrich and Paul Merrell)
- other bugs fixed

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php.
Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

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                                    DOCUMENT SYNCHRONIZATION

**********************************************************************

As you could read the major new feature in this cycle is document synchronization.
It works by introducing two new separate programs: NcSyncServer and NcSyncAdmin.

Server is a key component of the new sync feature, it is used as a central point that merges differences between multiple versions of the same document file.
Each NoteCase Pro program instance acts as a client and connects to sync server to have the currently opened file synchronized to the latest version.
There should be only one server started for your own personal "private cloud".

So to use this feature, you need to start the NcSyncServer program and keep it running in the background all the time.
Then you can use NcSyncAdmin to login to sync server as administrator and create additional users (user name and password) that can use sync feature.
Default sync "admin" password is "notecase", you are advised to change it after the first NcSyncAdmin login to improve the security of your system.

After creating users, you can close the admin and start using the feature. Within NoteCase Pro you need to insert your server connection details (last page of "General Settings" window):
- server name (equals to "localhost" if running the server on the same machine, else use correct server name or IP address)
- server port (equals to 57201)
- sync user name and password (as defined by sync admin)
Then you can test if the system works correctly by pressing the button named "Test Connection".

Once you've setup your sync settings, you can start using synchronization through the "File" > "Synchronization" submenu.
For example to synchronize currently active document, just activate "Sync Document" menu item.
To synchronize all currently open documents, just activate "Sync All Documents" menu item.

The first time you synchronize some document, its full contents are being uploaded to the sync server.
The next time you sync the same document, only subsequent changes are being exchanged between the server and the client (Notecase Pro).
Synchronization is a two-way process, your changes will be sent to server, but also you may receive some changes done by others from the server.

In order to make sure what changes are being applied to the document, Sync Summary window will be presented before each synchronization action.
In it, every change is listed and marked with check mark. If you choose to remove the check mark in front of some change, that change will not be applied.
You can also cancel entire operation from within this window.

You can find detailed instructions in the help file.

Warning: Document Synchronization is NOT ready for production use in this release of NoteCase Pro. This was a major undertaking and there may be bugs. You are encouraged to use it for testing though, I hope to get valuable input on how to improve the feature.

Additionally, in the current release not all note property changes are synchronized. The following changes are synchronized:
    - Note or branch insertions
    - Note or branch deletions
    - Moved notes
    - Note title changes
    - Note content changes
    - Attachments added
    - Attachments deleted

The following changes are not yet synchronized but should be in the next release:

    - Changes in global document settings and custom properties
    - Changes in custom properties, both global and note custom properties
    - Changes in note properties such as: done, read-only, is_template, icon, note title formatting, syntax highlighting language setting
    - Changes in note custom properties
    - Changes in note tasks
    - Changed note tags

In the next development cycle, I also plan to add support for syncing to Android platform as well.

************** IMPORTANT NOTE **************
My plans are to deprecate Sharp Zaurus, PCLinux 2007, Slackware 12.2, Fedora 14, Fedora 16, Mageia 1, Mint 12, Ubuntu 11.04 and Open Suse 12.1 builds.
So let me know if you use any of those and you want to keep them alive.

Regards,
Miroslav

PS. Will create several remaining builds by the end of the weekend.

Notecase Pro v3.7.5. has just been released

2012-11-26T13:52:00.001+01:00

As always, downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- merged "Scripts" and "Plugins" menus under a new name "Add-ons"
- removed "Custom Formatting" window because its functionality is now handled by "Format" menu options and Text Pane context menu item
- when the Tree Pane item has focus, you can format tree item to Bold, Italic, Color, Bkg. color, Font, Style, "Remove formatting" using "Format" menu items
- if linked file is an executable, ask if the user wants to execute it directly (Linux). Currently, the system may always open it in the text editor
- Clipboard Manager can now extract URL information if the data was copied in Opera browser (Windows only)
- merge "Script Events" and "Register Script" windows into the single "Script Manager" window
- new sample script to export current document as a hirearachical folders with RTF files used for note contents (47_ExportRtfFileFolder.lua)
- "Word count" now also shows data for current branch (hidden on Maemo because it doesn't fit the screen)
- two new methods to support tweaking note titles on HTML export (Nc_Doc_ExportHtml_CurNoteTitle_Get, Nc_Doc_ExportHtml_CurNoteTitle_Set)
- option to set node's background color was moved to the Text Pane context menu
- new Lua method to execute any program action defined by its short name (Nc_App_Action_Execute)
- fix: do not create crash log on SIGTERM term signal, just exit nicely
- fix: copying Devanagari language letters from Firefox into NcPro can fail on Windows, "text/html" clipboard format was borked, prefer "HTML Format" instead
- fix: drag and drop issues on Mac OS X platform (can cause notes to disappear)
- fix: remove slot based mechanism when adding Style formatting as the toolbar buttons
- fix: append "Pasted from" info (if available) even when pasting content as a plain text (Windows only)
- fix: when pasting some forms of HTML, some adjacent words can be glued together (space between would get lost)
- fix: improve font handling for RTF export, use default Text Pane font as text font
- fix: support copying Devanagari language letters from RTF format (support for unicode encoded letters in RTF)
- fix: importing the .ncdb/.ncde file might skip importing note attachment
- fix: possibly incompatible OPML import/export change aimed to finally solve the OPML standard puzzle:
    by default NcPro now uses "title" field in OPML for note title, and "text" for note contents; if your OPML variant uses differnet fields, please edit NcPro ini files to customize that, ypi can also customize OPML version (default is "1.1"). Example:
    [OPML Format]
    Title_Field=text
    Content_Field=note
    Version=1.0
- fix: improve icons size on Linux (use multiple icon sizes)
- fix: OS X build possible crash on startup
- fix: convert word "node" to "note" in all GUI phrases
- fix: when searching the text and a match if found in the title, do not popup the title editor window (window should popup only in replace mode), just select the note title
- fix: changed OS X installation folder from "notecase.app" to "NoteCase Pro.app"
- Croatian translation updated
- Finnish translation updated (work by Ville Pilviö)
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- Polish translation updated (work by Kamil Dembkowski)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- French translation updated (work by Jeff Malka)
- Italian translation updated (work by Fabio Iannone)
- Dutch translation updated (work by PhpFox Holland)
- help file update (work by Daniel Hertrich)
- other bugs fixed
- removed following deprecated builds: eeepc, Puppy (new puppy is compatible with Ubuntu 12.04) and Ubuntu 10.10 (reached "end of life") build
- added new Raspberry Pi build target
- Arch build was refreshed, now using Cinnarch 2012.10.01 for building

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

BitsDuJour 50% price off deal on October 29th

2012-10-28T19:45:00.004+01:00

NoteCase Pro will have promotion on Monday 29 October, 2012.

During that single day, the most expensive license, if bought through BitsDuJour website (www.bitsdujour.com), will have 50% price reduction.

Notecase Pro v3.7.1. has just been released

2012-09-21T14:11:00.000+02:00

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- new program icon (work by Rudolf Kahl)
- new Lua method to save the note attachment to file (Nc_Note_Attach_Save)
- new Lua method to find the attachment index within the document note from the given name (Nc_Note_Attach_FindByName)
- new Lua method to lock the loaded (plugin) document (Nc_Plugin_Lock)
- new Lua method to get the range of the offsets of the text line defined with a single offset within the line (Nc_Note_Content_LineRange_Get)
- new Lua methods to list available formatting styles (Nc_Config_FormatStyles_GetCount, Nc_Config_FormatStyles_GetTitle)
- Lua method Nc_GUI_Note_Select got a new optional parameter to allow no note selection when pressing "OK" in the window (to allow choosing a document with no note selected)
- Note Tag Properties window adds text completion when typing the tag in the entry field (show matching tags already existing in the document)
- improve "Help" > "License info" to include info on OS that the license supports (includes new Android license type)
- experimental option to automatically detect proxy settings (on Windows only)
- fix: major speedup when deleting large document branches (on the test PC large help file branch delete time went from 27 to 1.5 seconds)
- fix: doing "replace all" after "search to flat list" may fail to find occurences of the search string
- fix: Lua method Nc_Note_ID_GetByIdx can be now used within the plugin to access it's own notes
- fix: Lua method Nc_Note_Tags_Set did not refresh the Tags Pane window after the tag changes
- fix: skip stacking new message boxes that the document file has changed if the request for the same document already exists
- fix: spell checker state was not correctly saved on exit in some cases
- fix: implement undo operation for applying text style
- fix: Shift+Ctrl+K shortcut to restore minimized Notecase did not work on Windows 64-bit
- fix: height of empty text lines was not calculated correctly when printing
- fix: issues with newlines being lost when pasting text on Macintosh
- fix: tree view columns may lose defined widths after closing the document tab
- fix: add some missing declarations and install script in the Arch Linux package (with the help by Douglas McFadzean)
- fix: improve debugging info in the crash log for Linux (better crash back trace)
- Croatian translation updated
- Italian translation updated (work by Fabio Iannone)
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Finnish translation updated (work by Ville Pilviö)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Dutch translation updated (work by PhpFox Holland)
- French translation updated (work by Jeff Malka)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- Polish translation updated (work by Kamil Dembkowski)
- help file update (work by Daniel Hertrich)
- other bugs fixed
- removed following deprecated builds: Ubuntu 10.04, Open Suse 11.4 and PCLinux2007-gnomevfs build
- added new Suse 12.2 build target

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

Important note is that I plan to deprecate eeepc and Ubuntu 10.10 (reached "end of life") builds in the next cycle. Additionally I plan to update these builds to the latest versions of their distributions: Sabayon, PcLinuxOS, Slackware, Mandriva, Arch.
If anyone needs to use those older versions, let me know before doing the change.

PS. Few remaining builds (Open Suse) will be online by the end of the day.

NoteCase Pro for Android v1.0.1 has been released

2012-08-16T10:34:00.002+02:00

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

NoteCase Pro for Android is the companion app to Notecase desktop, and supports the .ncdb and .ncde (encrypted) file format so the same files can be shared between desktop and Android editions.

The major news is that starting from now you can by Pro version through PayPal (use "Buy Now" at the http://notecasepro.com/buy.php page). When shopping, please leave your email, so that after the payment, I can send you the key file in the email.

Installation instructions for your Android device:
    - prerequisites: program requires Android 1.6 or newer
    - download the .apk file and transfer it from your to your phone's SD card
    - enable installing applications from unknown source ("Settings" > "Applications" > "Unknown Sources" check box)
    - use some file manager application installed on your phone/tabled to click on the Notecase.apk file to start the installation.
    "ES File Explorer" is a good and free file manager app choice.
    - if you get problem installing the app, try uninstalling the previous version first
    - copy your "all OSes, valid forever" license key to your SD card root folder
    - start the app

Features:
    - uses .ncdb and .ncde file format compatible as used in the desktop version
    - you can create a new document or open an existing document file
    - Tree Pane is displayed featuring the hierarchical tree of your document notes
    - basic note operations supported in the Tree Pane are: insert, delete, rename
    - short click on the note title in the Tree Pane open Text Pane featuring rich text formatting editor
    - there are two different GUIs, one for phones and one for tablets (landscape mode) embedded in the same app
    - in the file open dialog, there is an additional way to navigate to the parent folder by using the swipe from right to left gesture action
    - you can create a shortcut to selected document on your phone's desktop

Changes compared to NoteCase Pro for Android 1.0.0 are few:
    - new program icon
    - added extra high density icon size
    - support for custom Android license key file (sold though PayPal's "Buy Now" button)

Feedback is appreciated. I am interested in your design and general ideas, bug reports, ...
If you would like to donate the program translation for your language, feel free to contact me.

NoteCase Lite for Android v1.0.2 has been released

2012-08-13T08:07:00.001+02:00

I've just released new version of NoteCase Lite for Android.

Change log:
    - fix: add program name and version to the crash log file
    - crash log dialog now has a edit widget to type the optional description
    - many bug fixes backported from the Pro edition
    - context menu in File Dialog to delete file from disk
    - Croatian translation updated
    - Dutch translation created (work by Martijn Steur)
    - Polish translation updated (work by Kamil Dembkowski)
    - French translation updated (work by Jeff Malka)
    - Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
    - Italian translation updated (work by Fabio Iannone)
    - Finnish translation updated (work by Ville Pilviö)
    - Chinese Simplified translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
    - Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
    - German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)

A big thanks to anyone who helped with this release.

Notecase Pro v3.6.8. has just been released

2012-07-20T12:34:00.001+02:00

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- "Register Plugins" window has evolved into "Plugin Manager" with option to list and install plugins from the online repostory
To disable automatic online check if the "Plugin Manager" list of plugins has changed, you can use key "FeedAutoPoll=0" placed in the "[DocPlugins]" section of the notecase_pro.ini file
- improve exporting font information when doing HTML export (use em for size, break font info into separate sections for size, bold, italic, font family)
- improve sorting to group the titles having the same case (currently all instances of "Test1" are not grouped together when sorting the set containing "test1", "Test1", "TesT1", ...)
- new Lua method to present a selection dialog with Lua table as an input (Nc_GUI_SelectionDlgTbl)
- new Lua method to get the main window layout type (Nc_Config_MainLayout_Get)
- new Lua method to get the screen size in pixels (Nc_Env_DisplaySize_Get)
- new Lua methods to get/set the width of List/Tree Pane columns (Nc_App_List_Col_GetWidth/Nc_App_List_Col_SetWidth)
- new Lua methods to help querying list of registered plugins (Nc_App_RegisteredPlugin_GetCount, Nc_App_RegisteredPlugin_Path_GetByIdx, Nc_App_RegisteredPlugin_Name_GetByIdx)
- new Lua method Nc_Event_Current_GetShortName for script to know if it was called within some program event
- new Lua method Nc_Script_Path_Get for script to get it's own file path name (.lua file or NoteCase document where the script is stored)
- new Lua method Nc_Tag_LastActivated_Get to get the activated tag when processing the "After Tag Activated" event
- new Lua method Nc_App_List_Note_FindByID to get position in the List Pane (if exists) of the note specified by its ID string
- new program event "Before header Tex exported" with new related methods Nc_Doc_ExportTex_Header_Get, Nc_Doc_ExportTex_Header_Set allows you to customize document header when exporting to LaTeX
- new program event "Before note Tex exported" with related methods to allow you to customize note contents exported to LaTeX (Nc_Doc_ExportTex_CurNoteID_Get, Nc_Doc_ExportTex_CurNote_Get, Nc_Doc_ExportTex_CurNote_Set, Nc_Doc_ExportTex_Type_Get, Nc_Doc_ExportTex_RootNoteID_Get)
- new program event "After Tag Activated" triggered after (Ctrl+)Enter key press or double click on the tag in the Tags Pane
- Lua method Nc_GUI_InputDlg got two new optional parameters to define dialog width and height in pixels
- Lua method Nc_GUI_Note_Select got another parameter (and return value) to optionally add an extra button to Note Select window
- fix: possibly wrong document can be closed when clicking on a tab's "x" button
- fix: when doing "Save As" operation, the resulting document must get new Unique ID value
- fix: improve Keepnote import to add support for new, modified XML format
- fix: special French characters were incorrectly exported to RTF on Ubuntu when system GUI language was not set English
- Croatian translation updated
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Finnish translation updated (work by Ville Pilviö)
- Dutch translation updated (work by PhpFox Holland)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- Polish translation updated (work by Kamil Dembkowski)
- help file update (work by Daniel Hertrich)
- other bugs fixed
- removed following deprecated builds: Fedora 8, Fedora 15, Open Suse 11.4

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

Note that the site http://www.NotecaseproPlugins.com has been redesigned.
That site is now a central place to search for (free and commercial) Notecase Pro plugins and scripts.

Note that I plan to deprecate Ubuntu 10.04 and Open Suse 11.4 builds in the next cycle. If anyone needs to use those, let me know.

NoteCase Pro for Android v1.0.0. has just been released

2012-07-13T20:16:00.003+02:00

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

NoteCase for Android is the companion app to Notecase desktop, and supports the .ncdb file format
so the same files can be shared between desktop and Android editions.

Compared to the Lite edition, the major feature that the paid Pro version brings is an access to encrypted file format (.ncde).

Note that initially I did not plan for Android version to use license system as used on desktop, but to sell it through some
app store. The reasons are following:
- Android apps have lower price (planned initial price for this version is 2USD) and thus higher volume of licenses sold
Generating license keys "by hand" for such volume would take a lot of my time
- payment processing site that I use for desktop licenses does not practically support 2USD licenses (transaction fees are high for this price)

Unfortunately, I seem to have issues with app stores when trying to do business from Croatia
(Google Play does not support sending payments to Croatia, AndroidPit does, but it requires that the app is on Google Play too, that makes a "dead-lock" situation).
While trying to resolve that, I decided to release the program now, rather than making you wait.
For now, you need to own one of "all OSes, valid forever" license keys to use the program.
When I resolve the app store issues you'll be able to buy the app from the app store too.

Instalation instructions for your Android device:
    - prerequisites: program requires Android 1.6 or newer
    - download the .apk file and transfer it from your to your phone's SD card
    - enable installing applications from unknown source ("Settings" > "Applications" > "Unknown Sources" check box)
    - use some file manager application installed on your phone/tabled to click on the Notecase.apk file to start the installation.
    "ES File Explorer" is a good and free file manager app choice.
    - if you get problem installing the app, try uninstalling the previous version first
    - copy your "all OSes, valid forever" license key to your SD card root folder
    - start the app

Features:
    - uses .ncdb and .ncde file format compatible as used in the desktop version
    - you can create a new document or open an existing document file
    - Tree Pane is displayed featuring the hierarchical tree of your document notes
    - basic note operations supported in the Tree Pane are: insert, delete, rename
    - short click on the note title in the Tree Pane open Text Pane featuring rich text formatting editor
    - there are two different GUIs, one for phones and one for tablets (landscape mode) embedded in the same app
    - in the file open dialog, there is an additional way to navigate to the parent folder by using the swipe from right to left gesture action
    - you can create a shortcut to selected document on your phone's desktop

Major changes compared to NoteCase for Android Lite 1.0.1:
    - support for encrypted file format (.ncde)
    - fix selecting note after being created
    - fix button to cancel revert note editing to show warning prompt
    - fix: add program name and version to the crash log file
    - "Save As" (Tree Pane options menu) saves a copy of the document under new name or format
    - fix: document shortcuts created on the desktop area have old icon
    - crash log dialog now has a edit widget to type the optional description
    - context menu in File Dialog to delete file from disk
    - Croatian translation updated
    - Italian translation updated (work by Fabio Iannone)
    - Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
    - French translation updated (work by Jeff Malka)
    - Polish translation updated (work by Kamil Dembkowski)
    - Dutch translation created (work by Martijn Steur)
    - German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
    - Chinese Simplified translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
    - Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
    - program can be licensed by installing your "all OS, valid forever" license key on your SD card root folder

Feedback is appreciated. I am interested in your design and general ideas, bug reports, ...
If you would like to donate the program translation for your language, feel free to contact me.

NoteCase Lite for Android v1.0.1 released

2012-06-14T14:37:00.003+02:00

NoteCase Lite for Android v1.0.1 has just been published to Google Play

Changes in this release:
- tree view name refresh issue when renaming the note
- French translation created (work by Jeff Malka)
- removed CAMERA requirement because we are not using camera directly
- option to ask for smaller picture to be created from the camera (makes for much faster operation)
- "What's new" dialog
- fix: issue with note move operations (possible crash)

2012-05-01T08:54:00.005+02:00

NoteCase Lite for Android v1.0.0. has just been released.

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

NoteCase for Android is the companion app to Notecase desktop, and supports the .ncdb file format
so the same files can be shared between desktop and Android editions.
Android version does not use the license system and it must be purchased separately.

Lite edition is a free program, currently available on the website, but it will also be uploaded to Google Play soon.
Addtionally, I plan to create a non-free version with more advanced features.

Instalation instructions for your Android device:
   - prerequisites: program requires Android 1.6 or newer
   - download the .apk file and transfer it from your to your phone's SD card
   - enable installing applications from unknown source ("Settings" > "Applications" > "Unknown Sources" check box)
   - use some file manager application installed on your phone/tabled to click on the Notecase.apk file to start the installation.
      "ES File Explorer" is a good and free file manager app choice.
   - if you get problem installing the app, try uninstalling the previous version first

Features:
   - uses .ncdb file format compatible as used in the desktop version
   - you can create a new document or open an existing document file
   - Tree Pane is displayed featuring the hierarchical tree of your document notes
   - basic note operations supported in the Tree Pane are: insert, delete, rename
   - short click on the note title in the Tree Pane open Text Pane featuring rich text formatting editor
   - there are two different GUIs, one for phones and one for tablets (landscape mode) embedded in the same app
   - in the file open dialog, there is an additional way to navigate to the parent folder by using the swipe from right to left gesture action

Major changes since the beta version:
   - many bug fixes
   - remove icons from the "Open"/"New" buttons in the starting screen
   - when creating a new node, pre-select the default title text for easier changing
   - when a new file is being created, pre-select the default file name for easier changing
   - file save dialog redesigned to directly include entry field for file name selection
   - file save dialog needs to ask user permission to overwrite existing file
   - option to insert picture taken with the camera
   - write document name in tree view title
   - write note name in text view title
   - write document - note name in the combined view on tablets
   - add file dialog title "Open Document"/"Create Document"
   - created Preferences window with Program Version item (opened from initial window's options menu)
   - pressing BACK button in File dialog navigates to the parent directory
   - do not use "Untitled" for the new item name
   - offerto upload crash log when detected on disk
   - new app icon

Feedback is appreciated. I am interested in your design and general ideas, bug reports, ...
If you would like to donate a program translation for your language, feel free to contact me.

2012-04-13T13:54:00.003+02:00

NotecasePro licensing news

Starting with the new version 3.6.3, Notecase Pro got a new license type locked to a single OS platform and to the exact version number of the program (the one available at the time of purchase).

This license is much cheaper than others, so it makes sense to buy it if your budget does not allow you to buy other licenses or if you are not yet 100% sure about the program.

The good news is that the prices of other license types have just gone down for 30%.

2012-04-13T09:19:00.001+02:00

Notecase Pro v3.6.3. has just been released

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- add: new "lua://" link type offers executing the linked Lua script by double-clicking the hyperlink text
- add: support to import PhatNotes (www.phatware.com/phatnotes) CSV export file (requires .phat file name extension)
- add: basic support to export document to LaTeX file format
- add: support to import and export Psion 5 data app CSV export file format (as exported by PsiWin program)
- add: support to create relative hyperlinks when dropping the files on Text Pane (while holding the Shift key)
- add: "Help" > "License Info" menu shows the detailed info on the selected license key file from the disk
- add: Lua method net.read now has additional parameter to specify wait timeout
- add: support to select more than one file at once within the import action
- add: show optional info message on each clipboard monitor start
- add: add custom title column into the "Script Events" dialog
- add: new Lua method to set the main window title (Nc_GUI_MainWindowTitle_Set)
- add: Nc_GUI_Note_Select Lua method now displays note icons in the tree widget
- sqlite database upgraded to version 3.7.11
- add: Nc_GUI_DateSelectionDlg Lua method now supports description text in HTML format
- add: Lua method to display date picker dialog (Nc_GUI_DateSelectionDlg)
- add: Lua method Nc_GUI_MessageBox got several optinal parameters to enable having custom button titles and to show a check box in the window
- fix: force linking to Gstreamer on Linux (as opposed to dynamic loading) to fix crash when recording the audio
- Croatian translation updated
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Polish translation updated (work by Kamil Dembkowski)
- help file update (work by Daniel Hertrich)
- many bugs fixed
- removed following deprecated builds: Fedora 14 (64-bit), Ubuntu 10.04, Freebsd 7 and Freebsd 8

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

Note that you can download several Notecase Pro plugins (free and commercial) at:
http://www.hermocom.com/products/notecase/plugins

Important notes:

My plans are to deprecate ubuntu 10.10, Fedora 15, Open Suse 11.4 and Maemo Diablo builds unless there is someone using one of them.
Feel free to contact me if you are using one of those.

First official Android release is planned in two weeks.

I plan to reduce Notecase Pro license prices and introduce new license type within the next several days.

2012-02-15T10:29:00.001+01:00

Notecase Pro v3.6.0. has just been released

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- support to create additional (custom) toolbars
- support to rename existing tag through the Tag Pane context menu
- upgraded Lua library to latest version 5.2.0, list of incompatibilities to previous versions can be found here: http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#8
- GTK library for Windows 32-bit was updated to 2.24.10
- "--config " command line parameter supports specifying a custom configuration file
- improved support for FreeBSD, load aspell from "/usr/local/lib" instead of "/usr/lib", install app under "/usr/local/bin"
- Windows build is now shipped with .pdb file to enable better stack trace in case of crash
- button "Set Root" in the General Settings window, Clip Manager page can be used to make the clips be pasted under root note (thus resetting the previous target note selection)
- Notecase document now have globally unique ID string property (to prepare for the sync feature)
- Lua method to read document's globally unqique ID property (Nc_Doc_GlobalID_Get)
- two new sample scripts to implement sessions (loading and saving multiple groups of documents): 45_SessionLoad.lua, 46_SessionSave.lua
- several new Lua methods to handle listing or editing document bookmarks (Nc_Doc_Bookmark_GetCount, Nc_Doc_Bookmark_GetEntry, Nc_Doc_Bookmark_Remove, Nc_Doc_Bookmark_Insert, Nc_Doc_Bookmark_Sort)
- new Lua method to change the title of the progress dialog (Nc_GUI_ProgressDlg_SetText)
- "Send via E-mail" feature now offers choosing between .ncd and .html data formats
- error message which is shown when clicking to the hyperlink whose target no longer exists, now has a "Remove Link" button
- several List Pane related Lua methods (Nc_App_List_AddNote, Nc_App_List_Clear, Nc_App_List_GetCount, Nc_App_List_Note_GetID, Nc_App_List_RemoveNote) got optional parameter to specify document ID
(because lists are now stored per-document, it is not global anymore)
- fix: improve internal HTML parser to support hyperlinks where parsing case where tags are placed within the hyperlink text content (mostly seen generated by copy/paste in Chrome)
- fix: save/restore palette when color picker is started for text/text background color formatting
- fix: Clip Manager settings change did not get refreshed until program restart
- fix: Clip Manager now allows you to use only predefined document for a target, not the current one, to avoid the possible bad surprises
- fix: if more than one monitor is used, force main window to start on the primary monitor (if detected)
- fix: do not report "This document was created by a newer version of the program ..." warning when loading plugins
- fix: complex issue that breaks formatting when new color formatting is created within an existing text color/background color span
- fix: remember spellchecker enabled/disabled state when the program is restarted
- fix: Nc_Note_Title_Text_Color_Set Lua method fails to accept color parameter
- fix: add "Close" button in About window because some distros do not show small "x" button in the window's title bar
- fix: some additional number of GTK themes were removed from Windows installer because they did not work well with new GTK
- fix: note sorting by title now respects character order as defined by the locale you currently use (GUI translation language)
- fix: when exporting to HTML with frame, all non-internal links should open outside of the frame
- skip display the Check for Update result window if we have the latest version, and action started automatically
- increased size of undo queue from 10 to 50
- sqlite database upgraded to version 3.7.10
- new build targets FreeBSD 9 (32 and 64 bit) and OpenSuse 12.1 (32 and 64 bit)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- help file update (work by Birte Wenning and Daniel Hertrich)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Polish translation updated (work by Kamil Dembkowski)
- Finnish translation updated (work by Ville Pilviö)
- Italian translation updated (work by Fabio Iannone)
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- Croatian translation updated
- many bugs fixed

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

Note that you can download several Notecase Pro plugins (free and commercial) at:
http://www.hermocom.com/products/notecase/plugins

For more details on how the upgrading Lua engine to a new major version may affect your scripts, please read Paul Merrell's post here:
http://tinyurl.com/7rffc88

Important note: my plans are to deprecate Fedora 14, Ubuntu 10.04, Fedora 12, Freebsd 7 and Freebsd 8 builds unless there is someone using one of them.
Feel free to contact me if you are using one of those.

Another news: My short term plans are to make an official release of Notecase Pro for Android in one month. You are welcome to share your thoughts on already published beta version.

2012-01-23T07:23:00.001+01:00

NoteCase Pro beta for Android is available for public testing

Thanks to a lot of feedback, an improved version of NoteCase Pro for Android has reached a beta stage and it is now ready for public testing.

The build will expire on March 1st 2012.

You can download the Android package here:
http://www.virtual-sky.com/get.php?android/Notecase.apk

Instalation instructions for your Android device:
- prerequisites: program requires Android 1.6 or newer
- download the Notecase.apk file and transfer it from your to your phone's SD card
- enable installing applications from unknown source ("Settings" > "Applications" > "Unknown Sources" check box)
- use some file manager application installed on your phone/tabled to click on the Notecase.apk file to start the installation.
"ES File Explorer" is a good and free file manager app choice.
- if you get problem installing the app, try uninstalling the previous version first

Changes in beta version:
- add: menu option in the File Dialog to show the hidden items
- fix: change the file dialog swipe (to go to the parend directory) to left to right
- add: swiping from left to right from the text view gets you back to the tree view (saving the typed note changes)
- fix: rename recent file list context menu item from "Delete" to "Remove" to be more precise
- fix: when rotating the device in Tree View, tree content dissapears
- fix: when rotating the device in File Dialog, new list is positioned in different directory
- add: implemented Tags View and List View
- add: context menu item in the recent files list to permanently delete the selected file
- fix: report error when the document fails to load
- fix: clicking on the expander in the Tree View sometimes triggers the item editing (along with branch expanding)
- add: support for large screen devices in landscape mode (custom layout showing both tree view and text view at the same time)
- add: support to create home screen shortcut to the document listed in the recent list
- add: move note up/down/left/right operations
- add: support to open email links ("mailto:")
- add: support for Holo theme on newer Androids
- Chinese Traditional translation created (work by Richard Sun)
- Czech translation created (work by Adam Zivner)
- Croatian translation created
- Italian translation created (work by Fabio Iannone)
- Polish translation created (work by Kamil Dembkowski)
- German translation created (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Chinese Simplified translation created (work by Stephen Zhu)
- Romanian translation created (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Finnish translation created (work by Ville Pilviö)

Features:
- uses .ncdb file format compatible as used in the desktop version
- you can create or open existing document file
- Tree Pane is displayed featuring the hierarchical tree of your document notes
- basic note operations supported in the Tree Pane are: insert, delete, rename
- short click on the note title in the Tree Pane open Text Pane featuring rich text formatting editor
- in the file open dialog, there is an additional way to navigate to the parent folder by using the swipe from right to left gesture action
- swipe in Tree View to go to the Tags View
- click on a tag in Tags View to go into the List View with all matching notes listed

Feedback is appreciated. I am interested in your design and general ideas, bug reports, ...
If you experience crash, please send me the file "ncpro.log" found on your SD Card that describes the crash in some details.

If you would like to create a program translation for you language, please translate the phrases written in this file and mail me translated file (for example as "strings_it.xml" for Italian translation):
http://www.virtual-sky.com/download/translations/android/strings.xml
Currently, the file contains only 36 phrases to be translated.

Graphics (program icons) still needs polish, and the next phase will concentrate on this.
If someone is good at this department, and wants to cooperate, please contact me.
In return for you work, I can offer you free Notecase Pro license or some similar deal.

I expect a final release version within a month or so, so your feedback would be valuable here.

2011-12-20T11:57:00.003+01:00

NoteCase Pro for Android alpha version has been released for public testing.
The build will expire on February 2012.

You can download the Android package here:
http://www.virtual-sky.com/get.php?android/Notecase.apk

Installation instructions for your Android device:
- prerequisites: program requires Android 1.6 or newer
- download the Notecase.apk file and transfer it to your phone's SD card
- enable installing applications from unknown source ("Settings" > "Applications" > "Unknown Sources" check box)
- use some file manager application to click on the Notecase.apk file to start the installation

Features:
- uses .ncdb file format compatible as used in the desktop version
- you can create or open existing document file
- Tree Pane is displayed featuring the hierarchical tree of your document notes
- basic note operations supported in the Tree Pane are: insert, delete, rename
- short click on the note title in the Tree Pane open Text Pane featuring rich text formatting editor
- in the file open dialog, there is an additional way to navigate to the parent folder by using the swipe from right to left gesture action

Feedback is appreciated. I am interested in your design and general ideas, bug reports, ...

If you would like to create a program translation for you language, please translate the phrases written in this file and mail me translated file (for example as "strings_it.xml" for Italian translation):
http://www.virtual-sky.com/download/translations/android/strings.xml
Currently, the file contains on 30 phrases to be translated.

As you can see, graphics (program icons) is the area where I need a lot of polish.
If someone is good at this department, and wants to cooperate, please contact me.
In return for you work, I can offer you free Notecase Pro license or some similar deal.

2011-12-08T10:25:00.002+01:00

Windows theme problems

Paul Merrell did the test of the themes shipped with the latest Notecase Pro v3.5.7 release for Windows.

Apparently these themes might cause you stability problems and their use is not recommended (they will be removed in the next release):
- Amaranth
- Delightfully Smooth
- Lush
- Nuvola
- Smooth Funky-Monkey
- Smooth Line
- Smooth OkayIsh
- Smooth Sea Ice
- Smooth Tangerine Dream
- Smooth Winter
- Unity
- Wasp

2011-12-06T09:37:00.001+01:00

Notecase Pro v3.5.7. has just been released

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- GTK library for Windows was updated to 2.24.8; this release fixes the issues with tree reordering using the mouse, drawing artefacts when resizing the window and possibly many others; note that some GTK themes were removed because they did not work well with this version
- improved export to RTF code, added support for internal hyperlinks in the exported RTF document
- you can now assign shortcut keys to registered scripts and plugin actions using a new page of a "Shortcut Settings" window
- improved default algoritm to select word in text view by double-clicking it, allowing digits and the underscore character to be the part of the word
- add support for links to Outlook items (as created by "Linker for Windows" software), links should work on other, unknown link types too
- support to import Leo outliner files (http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html)
- support to import Toodledo XML export (http://www.toodledo.com), requires .toodledo file extension
- "Copy Link" item in the note title bar context menu allows you to quickly create a link to the current document note (or get the set of "breadcrumb" links if that mode is switched on)
- new action "Remove Link" added to the Text Pane context menu to quickly remove the link under the mouse pointer
- added "YYYY.MM.DD" format in the list of dates
- support to automatically create telnet:// and ssh:// hyperlinks while typing
- when importing a document, you can now choose to import its contents as descendants of the currently selected note (check box option is placed in the "File Open" window for the Import action)
- improved network proxy support protocol to be compatible with squid proxy program
- option to force note clones to share the same title as their original source (does not modify data in the existing documents, untill the clone/note is being renamed or created); see "Global" option page for setting
- integrated LuaFileSystem library v1.5.0 directly into the program (http://keplerproject.github.com/luafilesystem/)
- in "Shortcut Settings" window, when assigning already used shortcut key for some action, allow user to use this keys anyway ("Grab" it from the action that currently uses this shortcut)
- increased maximal count of documents opened at the same time from 10 to 20
- maximal number of registered scripts (in the "Scripts" menu) increased from 30 to 70
- size of a crash log buffer was increased to 100kB
- fix: Gstreamer and similar crashes on Linux were caused by new compile flags needed for Lua to support loading external modules; Lua module loading support is now temporary removed (will be fixed in the next cycle)
- fix: "Link Properties" when started from the Text Pane context menu no longer requires that the text cursor (caret) is placed within the target (existing) link to be edited, it now detects the link by mouse pointer position
- fix: when saving to an .ncdb or .ncde file format overwriting the already existing and loaded document file, program will wait forever until the file is released (use 5 second timeout instead)
- fix: add support relative links to a note inside a document (before, only absolute links were supported for links to note)
- fix: for speed reasons, Notecase does not copy text to clipboard as RTF by default anymore, only as text + HTML (you can enable RTF with the .ini file key "PutRtfToClipboard=1" in "[OTher]" section)
- fix: on Windows use Unicode version of program's command line to improve opening the files with non-ANSI characters in the name
- new build targets: Fedora 16 (32-bit and 64-bit), Mint 12 (32-bit and 64-bit)
- help file update (work by Birte Wenning and Daniel Hertrich)
- Croatian translation updated
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Italian translation updated (work by Fabio Iannone)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Finnish translation updated (work by Ville Pilviö)
- many bugs fixed

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

Note that you can download several Notecase Pro plugins (free and commercial) at:
http://www.hermocom.com/products/notecase/plugins

Another news: I expect to have alpha version of Notecase Pro for Android ready in approximately 10-15 days.
Since this is a completely new project, I'd appreciate testing, ideas and feedback regarding this public (test) release.
Your thoughts can help me to shape the product and make it better.
Once released it will be announced through Twitter, Blog and Google Group for Notecase Pro.

2011-10-05T22:33:00.002+02:00

Notecase Pro v3.5.1. has just been released.

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- support for "Notecase document"-based plugin system
- "Separate Tags Pane Column" option enables showing the Tags Pane in a separate vertical column (suitable for users using large number of tags in their documents)
- new Tag Panes context menu "Show Current Note Tags Only" to allow displaying only tags that are assigned to the currently selected note
- detect if the document file was modified outside of the Notecase Pro program and offer to reload the document
- Ctrl+Click on a note now toggles its "marked" state
- when saving the program configuration to the .ini file, create a backup of the previously existing file to preserve data in case of write error; use backup if .ini file does not exist or its size iz 0
- when inserting/pasting an image, suggest last used file format for a new image or PNG as default (better quality)
- added "None" button in color picker windows to support removal of the current text/background color without defining a new one
- two new Lua methods to get/set "modified" state of the document: Nc_Doc_IsModified_Get/Nc_Doc_IsModified_Set
- new command line parameter "--disable-sound" to disable loading Gstreamer sound library (useful when debugging if the library causes problems to the program)
- new Lua methods to query/set if the spellchecker is enabled (Nc_App_Spellcheck_GetActive, Nc_App_Spellcheck_SetActive)
- set of Lua methods to do the RSA public/private key operations: Nc_Util_RSA_Sign, Nc_Util_RSA_Verify, Nc_Util_RSA_Encrypt, Nc_Util_RSA_Decrypt
(this can be used to implement licensing system for commercial plugin documents)
- new sample script to demonstrate RSA encryption APIs ("44_Rsa_Encryption.lua")
- support to load lua dynamic libraries
- when crash log files are detected on a PC, offer to upload them to the author's site for analysis
- fix: detect the GStreamer-bug related crash and automatically disable sound on restart to prevent such bug to happen again
- help file update (work by Birte Wenning and Daniel Hertrich)
- Croatian translation updated
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Italian translation updated (work by Fabio Iannone)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- many bugs fixed

The new plugin system was designed in collaboration with Daniel Hertrich.
He plans to release some NoteCase Pro Plugins in the near future:
http://www.hermocom.com/products/notecase/plugins

For Ubuntu 11.04 users, I've created experimental GTK3 builds. I am interested in your feedback here, because some smaller features might not work correctly
(tree background color for example).

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at:
http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

2011-08-08T08:49:00.001+02:00

Notecase Pro v3.4.8. has just been released

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- import for ActionOutline HTML export format (file needs to be renamed to have .htmao extension)
- you can use Ctrl+Double-Click on Tag Pane to remove matching notes from List Pane (similar menu item added to the context menu)
- support for more than one script to be assigned to a a single application event
- new application event "Before list sorted"
- new application event "After note moved"
- new Lua method to get the detailed info on the note that was moved (Nc_Event_AfterNoteMove_GetInfo)
- new Lua method to return the file size of the specified document (Nc_Doc_FileSize_Get)
- new Lua methods to get/set task repeating field (recurrence): Nc_Note_Task_Repeating_Get, Nc_Note_Task_Repeating_Set
- new Lua method to modify the target of a hyperlink (Nc_Note_Link_SetTarget)
- 4 new Lua methods to work with app event registration/unregistrations (Nc_App_EventScripts_GetCount, Nc_App_EventScripts_GetByIdx, Nc_App_EventScripts_Add, Nc_App_EventScripts_Remove)
- new Lua method to check if "Show line numbers" feature is switched on (Nc_GUI_LineNumbers_IsVisible)
- fix: program crashes on startup on the new OS X v10.7 (code name Lion)
- fix: when importing a Notecase file into the current document, the embedded icons are not being imported
- fix: in the File Save window, show file name without the extension (extension is defined by the selected file filter)
- fix: umlaut in export file name crashes NoteCase Pro
- Croatian translation updated
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Italian translation updated (work by Fabio Iannone)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- many other bug fixes
- deprecated following build targets: Debian 5 and Fedora 13 builds

Important note: the next release will probably be released in two months. I want to take the extra time to start the Android version of the program.
The requests for this version seem to be high, so I will start working on it now.
If you have ideas or you are interested in Android version please give me a note. I want to be able to measure how big is the need for this.

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

2011-07-08T08:04:00.000+02:00

Notecase Pro v3.4.5. has just been released

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:

- option to setup Clipboard Monitoring to be started when the program starts (with optional custom target document/note)
- clipboard monitor now has an option to store all clips into a single note (if defined, it stores them directly into the parent note, else it creates a new note)
- support for using Web Proxy when checking for updates, opening from web and embedding images found in the pasted content (see "Network" page in the Options window)
- added basic authentication support for Web proxy
- add: Lua method to get the name of an note attachment (Nc_Note_Attach_Name_Get)
- add: Lua method to run the "Compact Document" action on a specified document (Nc_Doc_Compact)
- add: new Lua method to get the (per-document) setting for the backup folder (Nc_Config_BackUpFolder_Get)
- add: new Lua method to define a clipboard monitor target (Nc_Config_ClipboardMonitor_SetTarget)
- add: new Lua method to start/stop clipboard monitor (Nc_Config_ClipboardMonitor_Start)
- add: new Lua method to convert normal note to the clone (Nc_Note_NoteConvertToClone)
- add: new Lua method to get the folder used to store the configuration file (Nc_Config_ConfigDir_Get)
- add: new application event "Before note deleted" allowing the user to abort the operation using the new Lua method Nc_Event_BeforeNoteDelete_Abort
- add: new menu item "Custom Formatting" placed under "Notes" > "Properties" (context menu too) for quick access to custom note color/font formatting features
- fix: do not offer to load the alread-loaded document twice, just switch to the previous instance
- fix: modified recent script menu to include embedded scripts too in the list
- fix: when exporting a document as HTML with tree view, embedded picture having an umlaut in the name will not load correctly when the HTL is opened in Internet Explorer
- fix: when using a feature to unload encrypted document on inactivity, it was possible that only first such document got unloaded (it the user aborts the password entry for reloading the first unloaded doc.)
- fix: disable Clipboard Monitor action when copying from within the Notecase itself (can lead to unwanted results)
- fix: reordering notes with mouse drag in the Tree Pane gets stuck after going to List pane and back to Tree Pane (Linux fix, GTK for Windows still has a bug in tree reordering)
- fix: a number of items were missing an entry in the Shortcuts Editor window ("Add Marked Nodes to List", "Invert Marked Nodes", "Check New Version", "Clear List", "Join Marked Nodes", "Split Node", "View Attachments Pane", "View Tags Pane", "View Toolbar Audio", "Add Node to List", "List All Notes", "Delete Document")
- add: Audio options page has a presets list with hard-coded entries "Voice recording" and "HiFi recording" for quick setup of the common recording values
- Croatian translation updated
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Italian translation updated (work by Fabio Iannone)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- many other bug fixes
- deprecated following build targets: Ubuntu 9, Centos 5.5, Slackware tar.gz version and PCLinuxOS 2007 "no GnomeVfs used" builds

Important note: my plans are to deprecate Debian 5 and Fedora 13 builds unless there is someone using one of them.
Feel free to contact me if you are using one of those.

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

2011-06-14T14:15:00.000+02:00

Notecase Pro v3.4.2. has been released.

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:

- support to create a hyperlink out of the embedded picture
- Lua wrappers for basic network socket API functions (net.connect, net.bind, net.accept, net.read, net.write, net.close), see new test script #43
- new menu item "Set Note as Clip Parent" (under "Tools") enables setting the parent document/note for new clips created by clipboard monitor
- Clipboard Monitor now gives more meaningful titles to the generated notes, using first 30 characters of pasted text as a title (if text was on the clipboard)
- new search target "Listed Notes" in the Find window
- new Tree/List Pane column "Clone Source Path" to display the path to the clone's orignal note
- Tag Pane got a "Frequency" column to see the number of occurences of the tag in the document
- new program event "After document saved"
- new Lua methods to manipulate status and priority fields of the task notes (Nc_Note_Task_Status_Get, Nc_Note_Task_Priority_Get, Nc_Note_Task_Status_Set, Nc_Note_Task_Priority_Set)
- make Tag Pane sortable by clicking the column headers, add context menu option to show/hide "Frequency" column
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- Italian translation updated (work by Fabio Iannone)
- (partial) French translation update (work by Gérard Toulgoat)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- German "Tip of The Day" file update (work by Daniel Hertrich)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Croatian translation updated
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- fix: only 10 Lua scripts could be registered in the Scripts menu
- fix: when using two instances of the program, new instance asks to delete autosave file of the first one, even if that instance is still alive (Windows only)
- fix: clipboard monitor crashes on Linux when an image is copied to the clipboard
- fix: Windows build fails to load/save the file having non-ASCII characters in the name
- fix: when searching custom properties, notes that don't have any custom property are matched too
- many other bug fixes
- new build targets Scientific Linux 6 (RHEL 6), Ubuntu 11.04, Oracle Solaris 11, Mageia 1 and Fedora 15: 32-bit and 64-bit packages
- deprecated following build targets: Fedora 12, Open Suse 10.3, Open Suse 11.2, Ubuntu 8 and Maemo OS2008 (Chinook)

Important note: my plans are to deprecate Ubuntu 9, Centos 5.5, Slackware tar.gz version and PCLinuxOS 2007 "no GnomeVfs used" builds unless there is someone using one of them.
Feel free to contact me if you are using one of those.

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

2011-04-11T12:58:00.000+02:00

Notecase Pro v3.3.7. has been released

Downloads are now available at http://www.notecasepro.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- Trial mode implemented (user can test advanced features of the program, but it can not load/save or export the document having more than 10 notes)
- add "Store data source URL when pasting" support for Linux too (support when copying from Firefox only)
- support to link to Lua scripts embedded within Notecase documents from the toolbar buttons and in "Register Scripts" and "Script Events" windows
- new program event "Pre application close" (called afer any unsaved files being saved)
- warn user that the license file will expire soon
- "Are you sure ... " message, started when deleting the note, now has additional check box "Do not ask anymore"
- option to automatically check for updates on startup (weekly)
- initial implementation of importer for MindManager (*.mmap) document format (http://www.mindjet.com)
- initial support to import Basket file format (*.baskets)
- implemented "--viewer" command line parameter to start the program in the viewer mode (document can not be edited, many menu items and toolbars hidden)
- new menu item in the Tag Pane (when List Pane is displayed) to insert a new tag and assign it to listed notes ("Listed Notes - Add New Tag")
- finalize port to GTK3 (tested on Fedora 15 alpha)
- 3 new CSS style sheets donated by Daniel Hertrich are shipped as default sheets offered for HTML export styling (replacing old "template1.css" sheet)
- help file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- French translation updated (work by GĂ©rard Toulgoat)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- Croatian translation updated
- Chinese Traditional translation updated (work by Richard Sun)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- fix: exporting the note branch to HTML with tree view broken since the last release (tree view empty)
- fix: when exporting the file to HTML with CSS, try to link to CSS file using the relative path if possible
- fix: when exporting the file to HTML with CSS, allow the usage of http:// URLs to the remote CSS file
- fix: when applying alignment formatting and there is no text selection, the formatting should apply to the paragraph where cursor is placed
- fix: when opening hyperlink on OSX, quote file path being opened (fixes problems for files having spaces as part of the file name)
- fix: applying a style was not stored to .ncdb/.ncde formats
- fix: change of the GUI theme now requires restart (to prevent possible crashes)
- fix: when the invalid date is entered in the Task Property window, program should display the error message when closing the window
- fix: when exporting to HTML with tree view, enable resizing the width of a tree view
- many other bug fixes
- new build target Debian 6 32-bit and 64-bit packages
- new build target Open Suse v11.4 32-bit and 64-bit packages
- deprecate the following (old) targets: Fedora Core 9/10/11, Moblin, Maemo Bora and OSX 10.4.

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://www.notecasepro.com/history.php.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.

2011-03-03T13:47:00.001+01:00

Notecase Pro v3.3.4 has just been released.

Downloads are now available at http://www.virtual-sky.com/download.php

Major changes in this release:
- enable selecting multiple files at once when opening new document, adding files to AutoComplete, AutoReplace lists, to list of files to be loaded at startup and attachment list
- task priority, status and all task date property fields can now be changed by clicking directly to its Tree/List Pane cell
- new "Custom Property Value/Key" search target added in the Find window
- option for audio note recording to define the sound system (mono/stereo), sample rate and bitrate
- layout when exporting a single branch/note to HTML was redesigned, now we export the "root" note contents first, then optional TOC with the rest of the notes
- (hidden) option to activate custom syntax highlighting color scheme (use "SourceStyleScheme" key inside the "Display" section of the .ini file, for example: "SourceStyleScheme=cobalt")
- implemented "quick search mode" for Tags Pane (type few first characters to quickly jump to the matching tag name in the list)
- fix: add warning message in OSX builds that it is best to switch off the global menu integration before trying to customize program shortcuts
- fix: change shortcut defaults for OSX platform to use "Cmd" instead of "Ctrl" key modifier
- fix: speedup the process of embedding images found into the pasted HTML content
- fix: when displaying note, validate if the content is correct UTF8 string, warn of possible errors and automatically strip the offending characters
- fix: removed "unassigned" task priority value (new tasks should have "normal" priority value)
- fix: disable GTK menu mnemonics on OSX (they kill the shortcuts in some cases)
- update gtksourceview library on OS X to version 2.10.4 (this brings in the AutoComplete support)
- new "Export" option "Export note Tags as CSS class names" where tags are written as <dl class="nc_level01 tag1 tag2 ..">
- Export window now automatically lists all .css files found in the html_css folder (for HTML export format);
one template CSS file is now being shipped with the program (work by Daniel Hertrich)
- new sample Lua script to import a directory filled with RTF files (one RTF file becomes one note)
- add: new scripting events "Post AutoReplace group loaded", "Post AutoComplete group loaded", "Post note title changed"
- help file and "tip of the day" file updates (work by Paul Merrell)
- Croatian translation updated
- Russian translation updates (work by Maxim Matrosov)
- Chinese translation updated (work by Stephen Zhu)
- Romanian translation updated (work by Alexandru Bogdan Munteanu)
- French translation updated (work by Gérard Toulgoat)
- German translation updated (work by Marcus Hennig)
- Italian translation updated (work by Fabio Iannone)
- a number of different new Lua methods created
- many bug fixes

For a complete list of changes in this release, see change log at: http://virtual-sky.com/history.php.

Important news:

Unless someone is using one of the folowing builds, I plan to deprecate these (quite old or not used) platforms in one of the next cycles:
Fedora Core 8/9/10/11, Maemo Bora and Maemo Chinook, Moblin and OSX 10.4.

Smaller number of builds are missing and they will be built by tommorow.

Thanks to everyone who helped during this cycle.