[Eclass-users] EClass.Builder 2.5 Beta 3 release

[Kevin O. <ke...@tu...>]

Hi all,

Early next week I want to release EClass.Builder 2.5 b3 but I wanted to 
get some feedback to make sure it was running OK on other peoples' 
machines first. You can download it here:

http://www.eclass.net/Downloads/eclass-builder2.5b3.exe

I've added a few new features because they didn't take much work to put 
in and people were asking for them. =) These include:

- Theme Manager (Tools->Theme Manager): visually preview themes and set 
the theme for the current EClass
- Link Checker (Tools->Link Checker): Check your web hyperlinks for 
broken links (EClass checks internal links whenever you save or edit 
pages)
- Theme Refresh (File->Refresh Theme): If you make changes to your 
Theme, you can use this command to apply those changes to your EClass
- Cut/Copy/Paste: You can now cut, copy and paste the pages in your 
course to move them around. Drag and drop will likely make it into a 
future release, but it's a bit more complicated than I anticipated!
- Import File (Page->Import File...): This command lets you add a PDF 
file, PowerPoint file, Flash movie, or whatever as a page.

 From here, my focus will be on documenting this version, updating the 
program to use the new icon and splash screen (and possibly a couple 
other cosmetic changes), and developing an updated web site to announce 
the new version and to highlight some of the changes that have happened 
in the program over the last year.

Once all this has taken place, I will release a new version with a new 
tutorial and everything working as it should be, in English. I will 
also 'unveil' the web site on www.eclass.net. At this point, only bug 
fix changes will be made. Also at this point, if we have some folks who 
can do the translation work, I will submit all the new text introduced 
for French and Spanish translation. Once those changes have been made, 
and any remaining bugs resolved, I will release the new version as a 
final version.

BTW, for those Mac users out there, I needed to add some fixes to the 
Mac version of wxPython for Mozilla to work with it, and those changes 
will make it into the next version of wxPython, due out probably within 
a month. Shortly thereafter, with any luck, you will get a Mac version 
of EClass.Builder 2.5 that matches the entire featureset of the windows 
version. =)

Thanks,

Kevin