Tincta Changelog

What's new in Tincta 4.2.2

Sep 18, 2022
  • Minor changes only

New in Tincta 4.2.1 (Nov 21, 2021)

  • Under-the-hood changes and slightly reduced app size.
  • Added support for R-Markdown files

New in Tincta 4.2 (Jul 12, 2021)

  • We're celebrating Tincta's 10th birthday!
  • What could be better to celebrate this event than to fix a little bug that has been there ever since version 1.0:
  • Finally fixed: Autocompletion of brackets and quotes could only be turned off, by turning off both.

New in Tincta 4.1.1 (Jun 11, 2021)

  • Fixes Apple Silicon CPU support

New in Tincta 4.1 (Nov 25, 2020)

  • Now natively supports Macs with Apple Silicon CPUs
  • Fixes broken toolbar icons on macOS Big Sur
  • Improvements to crash reporting

New in Tincta 4.0.1 (Feb 25, 2020)

  • Fixed: Tincta would crash when back-tabbing at the end of a file
  • Fixed: Links to support website in Help menu were broken

New in Tincta 4.0 (Jan 29, 2020)

  • We modernized the user interface for Tincta 4:
  • Full support for Dark Mode
  • Redesigned toolbar icons
  • Improved sidebar
  • We expanded support for sytax coloring:
  • Swift
  • JSON
  • ReactNative
  • And we also fixed some bugs:
  • Line numbers would often overlap content
  • Horizontal scroll position would be off

New in Tincta 3.2 (Dec 23, 2019)

  • New toolbar icons
  • Activated Hardened Runtime for higher security
  • Under the hood cleanup

New in Tincta 3.1.2 (Mar 20, 2017)

  • Fixed some warnings because of layout issues
  • Fixed a crash related to scrolling

New in Tincta 3.1.1 (Sep 29, 2016)

  • fixed opacity of sidebar
  • added .fsi and .fsx to OCaml/F# file endings
  • changed support website address

New in Tincta 3.1 (Apr 17, 2015)

  • adds keyboard shortcut and menu item for full screen mode
  • fixed: sometimes creates unnecessary copies of color schemes
  • fixed: crash/spinning wheel of death when editing multi line comments

New in Tincta 3.0 (Feb 28, 2015)

  • new default color scheme
  • RegEx search (Pro Add On required)
  • Management of multiple color schemes (Pro Add On required)
  • minor bug fixes

New in Tincta 2.5 (Oct 20, 2014)

  • block commenting of selection via cmd + /
  • UI bug fixes
  • overall bug fixes

New in Tincta 2.4 (Oct 20, 2014)

  • auto update!!
  • improved search
  • bug fixes

New in Tincta 2.3 (Jul 3, 2014)

  • Enabled full screen mode

New in Tincta 2.2.3 (Jan 13, 2014)

  • fixed bug that produces long waiting times for network files
  • better Coloring for CSS, JavaScript, Ruby and Promela
  • recognizes LateX Documents
  • fixed crash when changing tab length in preferences
  • fixed crash on changing file
  • fixed crash for freshly saved files
  • fixed the syntax coloring menu

New in Tincta 2.2.2 (Jan 11, 2014)

  • fixed bug that produces long waiting times for network files
  • better Coloring for CSS, JavaScript, Ruby and Promela
  • recognizes LateX Documents
  • fixed crash when changing tab length in preferences
  • fixed crash on changing file
  • fixed crash for freshly saved files

New in Tincta 2.2.1 (Jan 10, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • better coloring for CSS, JavaScript, Ruby and Promela
  • recognizes Latex documents
  • Bug Fixes:
  • fixes crashes on changing files
  • fixed crash on changing tab length
  • fixed waiting time for network files

New in Tincta 2.1.1 (Mar 22, 2013)

  • Better coloring of Objective-C
  • Printing in color
  • Insert special chars by keeping the letter key pressed
  • Improved recent items

New in Tincta 2.0.3 (Feb 12, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • All new Syntax Coloring Engine
  • You can't see it but you will feel the difference with our entirely rewritten syntax coloring engine, which improves speed, accuracy and allows more detailed coloring (e.g. we have Latex now)
  • All new Line Numbering Engine
  • With great speed improvements and better accuracy
  • Much improved Save performance
  • Option to set tab width in preferences
  • Cursor position is now displayed in status bar
  • Column guide and line numbers will now automatically adjust to your text color
  • Bug fixes:
  • line numbering sometimes breaks wrong
  • syntax definition is sometimes not set
  • changes are not reflected in window close button
  • undo/redo has unexpected results with tabbing
  • line numbers do not scroll when window in background
  • change bracket highlighting color to contrast text
  • changing encoding does not mark file as dirty
  • save dialog does not set correct default directory
  • text menu commands don't create undo and dirty
  • sidebar is not VoiceOver complient
  • search view gets messed up if window is made too small
  • print prints background
  • lots and lots of other minor fixes

New in Tincta 1.3.1 (Nov 4, 2011)

  • fixed: text view does not scroll correctly horizontally when disabling line wrapping
  • fixed: crash when opening Tincta with a file
  • fixed: bracket-marking color is difficult to see
  • fixed: low contrast of unsaved file icons in the side bar

New in Tincta 1.3 (Nov 2, 2011)

  • improved speed
  • new icons
  • ToolbarIcon for open in Browser
  • added an option to not display binary and big file warnings
  • fixed: feedback dialog deletes message if network problems occur
  • fixed: bracket marking is not removed when current line is not colored
  • fixed: save as opens with wrong folder
  • fixed: numberOfFound does not show when file is unsaved untitled
  • attributes don't get colored (html)
  • more minor bugfixes

New in Tincta 1.2.4 (Oct 25, 2011)

  • much improved speed
  • drag folder on sidebar now opens all files
  • much improved undo capabilities
  • auto insert brackets
  • persistent bracket highlighting
  • option to set color of invisible chars
  • improved tab handling
  • fixed: open file does not switch to file
  • fixed: crash when opening file with window closed
  • fixed: statusbar does not update number of lines properly
  • fixed: when changing sidebar item with key table does not scoll along
  • fixed: switching between files does not preserve current line correctly
  • fixed: syntax coloring bug after typing keyword all comments are without color
  • fixed: revert to saved does not work
  • fixed: Tincta does not keep label and creation date when saving.
  • fixed: save as does not change window title
  • fixed: documents are reversed order after closing and opening tincta
  • even more minor bug-fixes

New in Tincta 1.2 (Oct 15, 2011)

  • Much improved speed
  • Drag folder on sidebar now opens all files
  • Much improved undo capabilities
  • Auto insert brackets
  • Persistent bracket highlighting
  • Option to set color of invisible chars
  • Improved tab handling
  • Fixed: open file does not switch to file
  • Fixed: crash when opening file with window closed
  • Fixed: statusbar does not update number of lines properly
  • Fixed: when changing sidebar item with key table does not scoll along
  • Fixed: switching between files does not preserve current line correctly
  • Fixed: syntax coloring bug after typing keyword all comments are without color
  • Fixed: revert to saved does not work
  • Fixed: Tincta does not keep label and creation date when saving.
  • Fixed: save as does not change window title
  • Fixed: documents are reversed order after closing and opening tincta even more minor bug fixes

New in Tincta 1.1 (Sep 17, 2011)

  • Adds support to open and save files that require authentication
  • Fixes a bug that text would scroll to random area after leaving search field
  • Fixes a bug that text drag 'n' drop would not work on Lion
  • .bas, .go, .php4/5 file recoginition
  • Minor bug fixes

New in Tincta 0.95 Beta (May 30, 2011)

  • Lots of bugfixes and improvements