RecordEditor 0.97

RecordEditor is an editor for editing Fixed-Width, Csv files using a schema.

This version contains minor enhancements (request by user) + a problem fix. It is supplied as replacement

Downloads

• RecordEditor_Version_097c.zip - upgrade jars

Instalation

• Follow the instructions in the downloads, but basically
• Backup your RecordEditor lib directory.
• Copy the jars in the lib directory of the zip file to your RecordEditor lib directory.

Changes 97c

• Support for updating colors used in the Highlighted Text Editor.
• Can use Background colors in the Highlighted Text Editor. Note: When a background color is used, a a white underline can appear, I do not think this can be fixed.
• When creating a new record (line) in a Text file (no binary fields), the record is initialised to spaces. Binary records are still initialized to Hex-Zero's though.
• Changes to prevent problem in filtering
• Adding an Output Tab in the script run Screen. You can now use print/println function in macros (scripts) and they are displayed on a seperate tab. This is useful for debugging.
• When running a script, any print/println will be written to the Log Window.
• Automatic schema backup has been enhanced.

Changes 0.96j/97

• Adding a -db startup option
• Several Cobol parsing fixes (e.g. Sign trailing).
• Updated Csv parser (Extended Basic is now the default Csv parser). The new standard Parser follows Csv standard more closely.
• Updated File-Chooser screen with Recent directory options
• Fix for sort issues in Java 8
• New GenerateData.js example script which generates numeric data for a file. It can serve as an example for your own generate data scripts.
• several other minor fixes

Changes 0.96g/h

• Updated Csv parser
• More Cell operations for Csv files (Right click and Edit menus)
• New JavaScript macros (Delete-Duplicates and Show Duplicates)
• New Jython / Groovy macros to save files as JSon. These require Jython / Groovy interpreter's to be downloaded separately from there Project sites
• New Delete-Duplicate / Sort Macro-Build functions
• Removed Java-7 dependencies that had crept in, Should run in Java 6 again.
• Improved major error reporting
• Recently used files are retained between sessions on a lot more screens
• Fixed several Java 8 issues (Sort and JavaScript)
• Fixed several OpeJdk issues.
• Fixed issue with spaces in filename (when used as a Startup parameter for ReordEditor)
• Fixed issue File-Location calcation (Fixed-Width files > 2gb).

Changes 0.96f

• For unsigned comp-3 fields, the unsigned nyble will be used instead of the positive sign nyble (User Request)
• New Layout to Csv Compare option on the Csv compare screen. (Note: Saving this compare will no work yet.
• Resolved a few differences between JRecord's processing of Schema-Xml and RecordEditor's processing of Schema-Xml.
• New Fixed-Width-Char option. This is specifically for Multi-Byte Character-set (UTF-8, UTF-16 etc) fixed width files.
• Minor improvements/fix to the Macro-Ediors Save-All button.
• New Example Java-Script Macros (Script directory in the zip file) to delete duplicate Records and to show duplicate records in a seperate view
• New Example Jython and Groovy Macros (Script directory in the zip file) to write a RecordEditor-view as JSON.

Changes 0.96e

• Zoned-Decimal in Ebcdic-German + several other European language versions of Ebcdic
• Several fix's for Fixed Width 16 bit charsets (e.g. UTF-16 etc)
• Fix's / enhancements for Unicode Csv files

Changes 0.96d

• New Text view where fields are highlighted
• Allow block cell selections and added block cell coping/pasteing
• Major changes to Installers - Better Windows UAC handling, can install in Windows"User" account, Better handling of multiple user's on PC.
• Can specify Charset on Csv and Fixed width export
• New Csv compare function
• Added file charset detection for Ebcdic files
• Added Edit-Layout button to tool bar
• Key assignment changes, Record-Copy Record-Cut, Record-Paste, Record-Insert and Record-Delete are now assigned to keys Alt-C, Alt-X, Alt-V, Alt-Insert and Alt-Delete. Control-C and Control-V are now for cell copying and pasting.
• Automatic backup of File Layouts (Schema's) as Xml files (to directory <RecordEditorUserDirectory>Copybook/SchemaBu).
• Fixed problem in copying to Ebcdic Files (that use a new-line character) on Windows machines.
• Fix problem new Xml export function
• Fix System and record-seperator problems in Xml export

Changes 0.96c

• New Script build function. This function will build sample Scripts (Macro's) for the current file. It will make it easier to start writing scripts.
• Improvements in loading lage gzip files
• Problem Fix (see HTML Compare Problem)
• several improvements (see Compare Change) added file checking + cleared MSG field.
• Added option to view HTML to HTML compare function.
• Added zip4j_1.3.2.jar for zip work

Changes 0.96b

• Improvements in handling big files (Filtering, copying, pasteing).

Changes 0.96a

• File name Fields are now combo box's (with most recent files with a file search button straight after the Field.
• Updated XML-Layout import / export functions
• New Load XML-Layout option (to load a single XML-Layout
• Several Big-File related changes including filter improvements.