Alpha Release 9.1 (Peacock)

[Bernard D. <bde...@or...>]

Hi all,

I'm pleased to announce the release of a new version of Alpha. This is Alpha 9.1 ("Peacock <file:///Users/bernardo/Workspace/Devel/Code/AlphaCocoa/Output/Release/9.1/AlphaStar.html>") for Mac OS X 10.11 or greater (El Capitan, Sierra, High Sierra, Mojave, Catalina). 

All versions of Alpha are named after a star. So, for this new release, meet Peacock <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/AlphaStar.html>, which is α Pavonis, the α star of the Pavo constellation. 

Beware: the Maverick (10.9) and Yosemite (10.10) versions of OS X are no longer supported. The latest version of Alpha running on these two systems is 9.0.3. 

See at the end of this message, the main changes contained in this new release. 

Please, read the release notes which will be displayed the first time you launch Alpha and can be accessed later from the Help ↣ Developer Help menu. 

Here is the URL to download the disk image: 
https://sourceforge.net/projects/alphacocoa/files/9.1/Alpha_9.1.dmg.zip/download <https://sourceforge.net/projects/alphacocoa/files/9.1/Alpha_9.1.dmg.zip/download> (30.79M) 

The MD5 checksum is: bc77e45c968d5639f3f49cab3a57ec80 
The SHA1 checksum is: 33561f89b45a36e2c0ac619627e5b1eeccdeabc6 
The RMD160 checksum is: 194be0904adf680c8923e1d22db7d055cd8eac4e 
The SHA256 checksum is: c0913e2d2b7819a94f6be06fdc7c1622ebee6e76a63963e206ecf83ec05f7244 

If you find problems with the application, don't hesitate to post bug reports. They are essential to keep track of the deficiencies. See Alpha's Bug Tracker <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/>. 

Thank you for using Alpha. 
Cheers, 
Bernard
 <>Changes from previous version

New help search facility via the Search Field located at the top of the Help menu.
New package Character Palettes <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/CharacterPalettesHelp.html> that provides palettes to insert special characters.
New package Box Drawings <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/BoxDrawingsHelp.html> that provides commands to draw a frame around a text selection or draw table borders for a tabulated block of text. It also features a Box characters palette.
New LaTeX palette in TeX mode. It is a multipage palette that displays the mathematical symbols and inserts the corresponding LaTeX macro.
The Special Characters submenus are now dynamic: characters with an uppercase form are obtained by pressing the Shift (⇧) key while the menu is opened. There is also a new submenu called User Characters to display user defined characters: the list of characters that will appear in this submenu is specified via the new User Special Characters global preference.
New package Text Alignment that provides commands to align blocks of text (center, left, right).
New internal library Country Flags that provides commands to get the special characters for country flags.
New menu item Go To Previous Position in Go To submenu. Bound to ⌃⌥P.
Package Latex Sizes has been renamed Latex Macros Cycle <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/LatexMacrosCycleHelp.html>.
The [view] <file:///Users/bernardo/Workspace/Devel/Code/AlphaCocoa/Current/Libraries/AlphaTcl/Help/Reference/view.html#cmd_view> command now allows you to create CollectionView <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/view.html#view_collectionview> objects which are ordered collections of data items displayed in a customizable layout.
New keys textContainer, textFrame, bottomBarHeight, topBarHeight, leftMarginWidth for the [getWinInfo] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/getWinInfo.html> command.
Revised windowZoom package (version 1.3). Thanks Joachim!
New options -format and -locale for [mtime] <file:///Users/bernardo/Workspace/Devel/Code/AlphaCocoa/Current/Libraries/AlphaTcl/Help/Syntax/mtime.html#cmd_mtime>.
The [mtime] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/mtime.html> and [now] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Syntax/now.html> commands now use the Unix epoch by default rather than the Mac epoch. The [now] command has a -mac option for compatibility.
New subcommand [view children] <https://alphacocoa.sourceforge.io/Reference/view.html#cmd_view_children> to list the children views of a given view or root window.
New mode Swift to support the editing of Swift programming files.
The following bugs have been fixed (but remain open until the fix is confirmed):
Ticket #217: HTML and CSS Mode Help uses yellow font towards the end. <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/217/>
Ticket #218: LASTMODIFIED <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/218/>
Ticket #219: focus shifts to end of line on indent <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/219/>
Ticket #220: saveHook error with multiple untitled documents <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/220/>The following tickets have been closed:
Ticket #215: status bar: file size <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/215/>
Ticket #216: Alpha No Longer Warns about Inconsistent Line Terminations (Line Endings) <https://sourceforge.net/p/alphacocoa/tickets/216/>