News: [0.3.5] Drag & Drop, Session Features, Paired Character, Vista Support and other

Hello guys,

it’s been a while, but all that time had not ben wasted. We’ve spent it all on development. There are few tickets to be done before we release a Community Preview 1 (release only for our forum visitors). Though it won’t be any official and stable release, you will be able at least lay your hands on it and give us some hints on improvement. The current development of 0.3.5 is moving forward. Here is the list of things being done:

• New parser scheduler enabling us to parse inactive documents in low-priority threads.
• New bundle editor with embeded Intype’s editing component.
• New drag & drop support allowing you to drag files from other application to the project or tabs and vice versa.
• New session (recently opened files) workflow.
• Intype remembers the scroll position and expanded/collapsed state in the project tree.
• Intype remembers the scroll and caret positions in recent files and session.
• Paired characters implementation.
• Vista/Windows XP theming support with slight changes in the general UI.
• AFW — our new UI framework is done and is working flawlessly
• Full Documentation of the Bundles, Snippets, Grammars, and other new stuff.
• Project file operations allowing you to create, move, rename, delete or remove files or folders in project
• Allowing to set theme and font in appearance preferences, i.e. possibility to have different theme and font for different file types.

There are two pending features, before releasing the unofficial Community Preview 1:

• File watcher for watching changes made to the opened files and the project.
• Polishing works in the Bundle Editor.

We decided to break the 0.3.5 release into few community preview releases. The first one is taking it’s time, but it’s the finishing time. We are also preparing for features for next (preview) releases, to deliver them as soon as possible. In the Community Preview 2, we’d like to introduce the JavaScripting support, that we all are waiting for. Our friends from the east are also looking forward to the new Unicode text processor that will do a better job in rendering mixed LTR/RTL text for Arabian, Hebrew, and other. Also the font-fallback highly optimized for source-code rendering is already implemented and is waiting for it’s merge with the editing component.

Here I’d like to thank to our hebrew friend and Intype user Mr. Yarden Sachs who helped a lot with the initial analyse and use cases for hebrew rendering text.

Just for a taste, here’s one of our internal and uncut videos of the recently implemented features, so you are welcome to take a peek and welcome to take a laugh on it’s lame cut.

dflock: The Community Preview releases will be just to let you guys play with the new release, before the final 0.3.5 comes. We are not testing AFW for Wine just yet.

Martin, the development of intype is great! keep up the good work!

would the preview release include the new Unicode layer?

For what it’s worth, I subscribe to the ‘release early, release often’ school of thought – I would much rather have a less-complete build available to play with sooner – rather than waiting longer for more polish or features.

maybe i’m inpatient, but it’s so hard to wait. I don’t get why the progression is so slow.

Because writing software takes time. There are other factors as well, but it pretty much all breaks down to this.

(This question appears over and over. Maybe there should be a FAQ entry for it?)

I simply love intype and respect the work of the developers, but why don’t make Intype Open Source?

Intype is a commercial application. Current versions are freely available previews, but the final product will be sold to the users. For mode info refer to this FAQ entry: How much will Intype cost?

Here’s an update on planning JavaScript APIs