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Blocek v1.7 (Announce)

posted by Laaca , Czech republic, 27.10.2022, 00:49

After many years I finally managed to adapt my text editor Blocek to new generation of my GUI system Wokna32.
So finaly the version 1.7 is here!
First of all I have to note that the home server for Blocek is changing because the SWEB.CZ domain is closing. It is pretty sad because many interresting sites will gone away. (Like with the Geocities, Yahoo and others)
So, the new home for Blocek is here: http://www.laaca.borec.cz/blocek

Anyway, the most interresting for you is probably the changelog:
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+ many improvements in the graphical user interface (GUI)
+ most of the windows can be moved by dragging the title bar by mouse
+ slovak keyboard layout
+ blocks of text can be selected by dragging the mouse with pressed left button
+ blocks of text can be selected not only in the edited text but also in most places of the GUI like information or help windows.
+ the scope of the Search or Search and Replace functions can be limited to text block only
+ many powerful conversion routines handling the code pages and Unicode
* if the document is not in Unicode it is always in some defined DOS code page
- The RAM size detection was wrong on some systems
+ Now can work even with graphic cards with non-continuous video memory (like GeForce RTX 2060)
+ can load and save with all three line-ending standards (CRLF, CR, LF)
+ can load and save Unicode files encoded in UTF-16LE and UTF-16BE
+ recognizes the Unicode BOMs (byte order marks)
+ customizable word wrapping
+ now can fixate the word-wrapping not only for the whole document but also for selected block only.
+ function for intelligent merging the legacy DOS style lines (78 or 80 chars) to word-wrapping blocks.
- better keyboard handler
- fixed bug in the conversion routine for 3-bytes long Unicode glyphs
+ conversion from HTML entities into Unicode chars
+ QR codes creation
- Program can't be shot down by Ctrl-Break (customizable in BLOCEK.CFG)
- fixed tabulators
- corrected minor bugs in the color selection dialog
- functions for moving to next word or to previous word now scroll the window if needed
+ the single-line text boxes can use the clipboards too (like f.e. in „Search and replace“ dialog)
+ more informations in the system information window
* the number of clipboards reduced to 7 (still more than enough) leaving more space on the upper line for menu
x the language files for german, turkish, hungarian and french languages are not updated so they are moved from "public" TRANSLAT subdirectory to TRANSLAT\VER162 - they can partialy work after copying back into TRANSLAT

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DOS-u-akbar!

Complete thread:

• Blocek v1.7 - Laaca, 27.10.2022, 00:49 (Announce)
  • Blocek v1.7 - Zyzzle, 30.10.2022, 12:32
    • Blocek v1.7 - Laaca, 30.10.2022, 15:58
      • Blocek v1.7 - Laaca, 30.10.2022, 19:24
      • Blocek v1.7 - Zyzzle, 30.10.2022, 23:22
        • Blocek v1.7b - Laaca, 31.10.2022, 21:52
          • Blocek v1.7b - Zyzzle, 01.11.2022, 03:41
            • Blocek v1.7b - Laaca, 05.11.2022, 23:07
              • Blocek v1.7b - fritz.mueller, 05.11.2022, 23:35
                • Blocek v1.7b - Laaca, 06.11.2022, 00:28
                  • Blocek v1.7b - fritz.mueller, 06.11.2022, 14:01
                    • Blocek v1.7b - fritz.mueller, 06.11.2022, 14:20
  • Blocek v1.7 - KormaX, 04.11.2022, 23:23
  • Blocek v1.71 - Laaca, 16.11.2022, 00:15
  • Blocek v1.72 - Laaca, 26.12.2022, 00:18
    • Blocek v1.72 - rr, 26.12.2022, 14:26