Text Trix Changelog

What's new in Text Trix 1.0.0

Jan 15, 2016
  • Improved syntax highlighting, including support for more languages, faster performance, line numbering, width marker, and brace highlighting/completion (based on JSyntaxPane)
  • Bookmarking tool (Line Dance) keeps better track of positions
  • Change display font size in preferences
  • Preserves end-of-line (EOL) styles
  • Bug fixes

New in Text Trix 0.9.5 Beta 2 (Jan 15, 2016)

  • Change display font size in preferences
  • Bookmark dynamic updates (Line Dance)
  • Fixed undo/redo when using the Ostermiller highlighter

New in Text Trix 0.9.5 Beta 1 (Nov 7, 2012)

  • Re-added Ostermiller-based syntax highlighter for html/xml files to restore indented word-wrap
  • Bookmark improvements (Line Dance)
  • run.bat file to launch as a default editor in Windows

New in Text Trix 0.9.2 (Feb 27, 2009)

  • New features/bug fixes:
  • Mac shortcuts added and scrolling bug fixed
  • Performance improvements while syntax highlighting
  • Word Find starts searching from current position
  • Backward compatibility with Java 1.4+.jar again.

New in Text Trix 0.9.1 (Aug 18, 2008)

  • The editor now offers formatted text options, including an automatic view switcher for html viewing and saving. Font style, size, color, and alignment can be changed through a new format menu. Files can also be viewed side-by-side through multiple instances of the Text Trix main window. Other changes include a syntax highlighter preference option and fixes for contextual scrolling and remembering auto-indent file extensions.
  • New features:
  • Text formatting, including font style, size, color, and alignment (by John Kozalan)
  • Automatic HTML view switcher for formatted text
  • Syntax highlighting preference option
  • Multiple instances for viewing files side-by-side (note that only tabs in the exiting window will be remembered for reopening)
  • Bugs fixed:
  • Contextual scrolling with less than one screen of text
  • Remembering auto-indent file extensions

New in Text Trix 0.9.0 (Jul 14, 2008)

  • Syntax highlighting, using the Ostermiller Syntax Highlighter package
  • Reverse Word Find (Shift F3), the counterpart to Find Next (F3)
  • Contextual Scrolling during searches
  • Line Dance automatically names line if text is highlighted
  • Automatically highlights Word Find and Line Find boxes for quicker searching
  • Drag-n-drop text
  • New open-file/close-tab icons
  • Code migrated from CVS to Subversion repository
  • Build improvements, including testing on MacOS X platform
  • New command-line options, including "--refresh" and "--nohigh" (see run.sh)
  • Better MacOS X Java and Linux OpenJDK compatibility
  • Line Dance table doesn't update when shift between groups; FIXED
  • setCaretPositionTop should set to beginning of selected regions; FIXED
  • Fix compiler errors when building in Cygwin platforms; FIXED (#1636301)
  • Fix group unindent on Linux; FIXED (#1797197)
  • Build scripts should be set explicitly to /bin/bash; FIXED
  • Packaged in Jar Ajar 0.5.0 for single-file, double-click launch capability
  • Fixed undo and document listeners
  • File saving performance improvement
  • Documentation updates