What's New
This document displays the new features contained in the releases of Spider Writer,
starting with version 5.00.
Version 5.2 (Build 610)
Released 10/01/01
New Features
- MoneyMaker Wizard for helping you generate money on your web pages
- Improved CFML support
- CFML-specific syntax highlighting parser
- Syntax Editor support for CFML tags and attributes
- CFML tags in Script Outline
- Statusbar shows CFML tag info
- Attributes window supports editing CFML tags
- IntelliPrompt for CFML tags
- Quick queries added for JScript ASP and CFML languages
- ASP toolbar supports JScript ASP
- PHP keywords updated to version 4
- Edit documents from the Internet Explorer toolbar
- Option for disabling source code preservation in Design view
- New TopStyle Lite version 2.5
Bugs Fixed
- Photo Album wizard relative path fixed
- No double quotes around SQL statement in Query Builder output
- Enforces starting / on remote paths in server setups
- Synchronization Wizard no longer pulls in swtemp.html
- ASP and PHP syntax highlighting tweaked to allow in scripts
- Selecting and searching in read-only files now allowed
- Fixed beautify bug that didn't leave space after some server side scripts
- Now allow full screen to stay full screen when app loses focus
- Fixed position in design view to set position in source view when switching
- Fixed how reloading of modified documents sometimes overwrote document text
- Corrected problems with recognizing installations of IE6
Version 5.01 (Build 599)
Released 4/6/01
Bugs Fixed
- Fixed password from not being saved correctly in Remote Sites dialogs
- Relative paths code tweaked
- Fixed insertion of constant prototypes from Typelib References from inserting parenthesis
Version 5.01 (Build 598)
Released 4/4/01
New Features
- Check for modified documents when returning focus to main window
- Type library references in Script Outline sidebar
- Result set quick query added to Environment sidebar
- Common font faces made configurable using fontspec.dat file
- IMG tag editing in Design view
- Strip Tags features can operate only on current text selection
- Create new folder and remove folder commands on Files sidebar
- Print Setup - Selection option allowed
- New global.asa document template
- ASP Toolbar Response.Write improved to account for quotes and line breaks
- ASP Toolbar Request.Form and Request.QueryString added to drop-down menu from Request command
- Multi-monitor support
Bugs Fixed
- Stopped AutoBackup from changing view to Document Source
- Fixed problem with projects created on folders using UNC paths
- Prevent Design view document blanking on documents it couldn't load successfully
- Fixed find/replace all looping under certain conditions
- Updated XML parser code that is used to load data files (some users didn't have the old parser on their system)
- Print Setup printer selection fixed
- Fixed registration problems for Windows systems using wide characters
Version 5.00 (Build 584)
Released 1/9/01
New Features
- Windows 2000 look and feel
- Drag-and-drop dockable sidebars
- Drag-and-drop dockable customizable toolbars
- Tabbed toolbar dropzone
- Customizable icon menus
- Customizable hotkeys
- Full screen mode
- Color dialog completely redesigned, allowing for custom palettes
- Instant syntax highlighting of HTML, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript, CSS, XML, Perl, SQL, PHP
- Fully configurable syntax highlighting schemes
- Multiple undo/redo
- Editor toolbar, line numbers, bookmarks, and control character display
- IntelliPrompt displays popups for HTML tags, attributes, CSS properties, ASP objects, JavaScript objects, and the DHTML object model
- IntelliPrompt tooltips
- IntelliBrowse (browser auto-refresh for real time viewing)
- AutoBackup
- LiveSpell - automatic spell checking as you type
- AutoReplace - automatically replaces keywords with other specified text as you type
- Beautify
- Compress tags
- New document templates for HTML, ASP, XML, and CSS
- Option to automatically convert extended characters into entities as you type
- Syntax checking now uses the HTMLTidy engine, which focuses on W3C recommendations
- Convert HTML documents to XHTML
- New find/replace and extended find/replace windows, both with regular expression searching
- Find in Files application to search for text in files in a directory tree
- Multiple new goto options such as goto line number and goto BODY tag
- New enhanced Settings dialog
- 100's of new button templates
- Rulers and resolutions for Design view
- Convert tags to upper and lowercase
- RTF to HTML converter
- XML validator
- Thesaurus (if Microsoft Word installed)
- Find matching symbol
- Return from Design view to Document Source view attempts to locate the selection from Design
- Can apply startup document settings to the New Document command
- Editor background color selection in settings
- Hooks for TopStyle Style Editor
- New Edit Image Map command when you right click on an image map tag - opens Image Mapper for editing
- New Edit Style Sheet command when you right click on a style sheet - opens TopStyle for editing
- Click on tag description in statusbar to get tag help
- Window menu displays open documents
- Tidy settings dialog and ability to quickly run HTMLTidy based on user-defined configurations
- Paste from past clipboard text
- List of common font faces
- Connect to ODBC, Jet, SQL Server, and Oracle databases
- List stored procedures, procedure parameters, tables, table columns, views, and view columns of databases
- FTP client updated
- New folders tree interface
- Keep connection alive with NOOPs
- Change remote file permissions
- Tag dialogs for window-based editing of tags
- Project Properties dialog
- Specify a root URL
- Force Spider Writer to route browses through the root URL
- SQL Query Builder
- Open Rows command on Environment sidebar to instantly view table or view rows
- XML document tags show attributes in Attributes sidebar
- Visual SourceSafe integration on Environment sidebar
- Syntax Editor application