From: Bernard D. <bde...@or...> - 2008-10-14 11:18:29
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I have just uploaded a new development release of AlphaX. This is version 8.2b3. Here is the URL to download the disk image: <http://pagesperso-orange.fr/bdesgraupes/Downloads/AlphaX-8.2b3.dmg> (20.1M) Thank you for trying it and sending feedback. Please report any bug you encounter, cheers, Bernard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ReleaseNotes_8.2b3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are the release notes for the 8.2b3 version of AlphaX. Features The main new features are: * the [setFontsTabs] command can be used with arguments setFontsTabs ?-w win? ?-font name? ?-fontsize size? ?-tabsize tab? This had been accidentally disabled in recent versions of AlphaX * a new version of DIffBOA is provided in the Tools folder: this is version 1.2b1. It fixes issues reported in Bug 2284 related to binary files. This new version of DiffBOA is built as a Universal application (both for PPC and Intel machines). In order to make sure it is used by the diff commands provided by AlphaX, you should remove any previous versions from your installation. Bug fixes Some of these bug fixes are ancient but they had not been marked as FIXED in Bugzilla. * Bug 1826: "RFE: [balance] failure should preserve original selection" * Bug 2042: "file::absolutePath in fileManipulation makes a bad question" * Bug 2157: "RFE: TeX format reform" * Bug 2258: "RFE: Typeset commands/shortcuts rearrangements" * Bug 2263: "'can't read keys::specialProcs(nth Stop)' after SVN Developer Update" * Bug 2264: "Can't read '.sty' files that sit alongside documents" * Bug 2284: "crash on diff folders containing non-identical pdf files" * Bug 2285: "Fontsize confusion with TeX Console" * Bug 2286: "The [setFontsTabs] command with arguments does not work" |
From: Joachim K. <ko...@ma...> - 2008-10-15 06:14:35
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>I have just uploaded a new development release of AlphaX. This is >version 8.2b3. Thanks! > * a new version of DIffBOA is provided in the Tools folder: this is >version 1.2b1. It fixes issues reported in Bug 2284 related to binary >files. This new version of DiffBOA is built as a Universal >application (both for PPC and Intel machines). In order to make sure >it is used by the diff commands provided by AlphaX, you should remove >any previous versions from your installation. I am really happy that DiffBOA is bundled with Alpha again. Especially since Diff mode is still not compatible with unix diff, for some reason. However, I think we cannot have it in Tools, because Tools is a part of AlphaTcl, whereas DiffBOA is not. For example, when you update from svn, the Tools folder is replaced by the canonical one from svn, in which there is no DiffBOA. One solution would be to move it up one or two steps in the bundle... In fact, looking in the Tools folder, it seems it also contains a few other items that do not really belong to AlphaTcl. Perhaps we really ought to have two folder: one sibling to AlphaTcl which could contain DiffBOA and tkdiff and such. And another folder which would be a slimmer version of the current Tools folder, inside AlphaTcl. Here is a related issue: it happens frequently when you pick a helper application in the Helpers prefs pane, that Alpha asks "please locate ...". I don't understand why this is necessary since the xserv drivers for those helpers do not refer t o paths. I thought the communication in these cases were only via apple events sent to a SIG. It can also be confusing, because before the standard getFile dialogue will let you pick anything you have to navigate all the way inside the relevant bundle and into MacOS folder. Quite a journey for anyone not acquainted with the structure of a bundle. Now it would be great if DiffBOA could be preselected as default diff xserv, since it is really objectively the best choice, at least in OSX. And that the user should not have to locate it by navigating inside Alpha's bundle. How could this be accomplished? I don't think it would be good to specify an absolute path, because soon you will have eleven different AlphaX betas, each with a DiffBOA inside, and typically the most recent one will have its DiffBOA pointing to the one in the b3, the oldest one. In short, it would be good if we could figure out a way to reference DiffBOA in the DiffBOA driver by some relative path, so that it would always launch the correct version without having to asks the user about anything. Cheers, Joachim. |
From: Andreas F. <and...@en...> - 2008-10-16 12:07:19
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Cher Bernard, So far no trouble. Excellent work and thanks once again a lot! :-) Regards, Andreas Bernard Desgraupes wrote: > I have just uploaded a new development release of AlphaX. This is > version 8.2b3. > > > Here is the URL to download the disk image: > <http://pagesperso-orange.fr/bdesgraupes/Downloads/AlphaX-8.2b3.dmg> > (20.1M) > > Thank you for trying it and sending feedback. > Please report any bug you encounter, > > cheers, > > Bernard > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ReleaseNotes_8.2b3 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Here are the release notes for the 8.2b3 version of AlphaX. > > Features > > The main new features are: > * the [setFontsTabs] command can be used with arguments > setFontsTabs ?-w win? ?-font name? ?-fontsize size? ?-tabsize tab? > This had been accidentally disabled in recent versions of AlphaX > > * a new version of DIffBOA is provided in the Tools folder: this is > version 1.2b1. It fixes issues reported in Bug 2284 related to binary > files. This new version of DiffBOA is built as a Universal > application (both for PPC and Intel machines). In order to make sure > it is used by the diff commands provided by AlphaX, you should remove > any previous versions from your installation. > > > Bug fixes > > Some of these bug fixes are ancient but they had not been marked as > FIXED in Bugzilla. > > * Bug 1826: "RFE: [balance] failure should preserve original > selection" > * Bug 2042: "file::absolutePath in fileManipulation makes a bad > question" > * Bug 2157: "RFE: TeX format reform" > * Bug 2258: "RFE: Typeset commands/shortcuts rearrangements" > * Bug 2263: "'can't read keys::specialProcs(nth Stop)' after SVN > Developer Update" > * Bug 2264: "Can't read '.sty' files that sit alongside documents" > * Bug 2284: "crash on diff folders containing non-identical pdf > files" > * Bug 2285: "Fontsize confusion with TeX Console" > * Bug 2286: "The [setFontsTabs] command with arguments does not > work" > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > AlphaTcl-developers mailing list > Alp...@li... > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alphatcl-developers > -- ________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Andreas Fischlin, Ph.D., Group Director Terrestrial Systems Ecology Institute of Integrative Biology: Ecology, Evolution, Infectious Disease Department of Environmental Sciences, ETH Zurich Address: ETH Zurich, CHN E21.1 8092 Zurich, Switzerland Phone: +41 44 633-6090 / Fax: +41 44 633-1136 http://www.sysecol.ethz.ch/Staff/af/ http://www.sysecol.ethz.ch/ _/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich _/_/_/ _/ _/_/_/ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich _/ _/ _/ _/ Ecole polytechnique federale de Zurich _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ Politecnico federale de Zurigo Make it as simple as possible, but distrust it! ________________________________________________________________________ * * |