What's new in BlogAssist 2.4.1
Jan 3, 2015
- Fixed some issues with the Substitutions preference page.
- Updated for OS X 10.10 (Yosemite).
New in BlogAssist 2.4 (Sep 22, 2012)
- Added a Substitutions preference page, that optionally replaces symbols and accented characters with the HTML entity equivalents. It can also be used to replace URLs, e.g. to strip off a base URL for your own domain, or change it to localhost (or anything else).
- Updated all three BlogAssist modes to support the new substitution preferences.
- Reimplemented the auto-launch preference to work with Mountain Lion and sandboxing.
- Removed the quit confirmation preference.
- Added a license button to the Preferences window, when unlicensed, to make it easier to buy the app. (Standard edition only)
- Removed the in-app purchase options, since not compatible with 64-bit, and rarely used. (Standard edition only)
- Fixed display of license entry date in the Licenses editor. (Standard edition only)
- Updated German and French localizations.
- Updated the User Guide.
- The standard edition of the app is now signed with a Developer ID to support Gatekeeper on Mountain Lion. (Standard edition only)
- The app is now fully sandboxed, providing increased security.
- BlogAssist now requires a 64-bit Mac and a minimum of OS X 10.7 (Lion).
- Many other behind-the-scenes improvements made possible by dropping older OS versions, PowerPC and 32-bit support.
New in BlogAssist 2.4 Beta 2 (Aug 16, 2012)
- Made the substitutions feature smarter, so it doesn't replace text that already has substitutions applied.
- Added four new default substitutions (off by default), showing how this feature can be used to replace URLs, e.g. to strip off a base URL for your own domain, or change it to localhost (or anything else).
- Updated German and French localizations.
- Updated the User Guide.
New in BlogAssist 2.4 Beta 1 (Jul 16, 2012)
- Added a Substitutions preference page, that optionally replaces symbols and accented characters with the HTML entity equivalents.
- Updated all three BlogAssist modes to support the new substitution preferences.
- Reimplemented the auto-launch preference to work with Mountain Lion and sandboxing.
- Removed the quit confirmation preference.
- Added a license button to the Preferences window, when unlicensed, to make it easier to buy the app. (Standard edition only)
- Removed the in-app purchase options, since not compatibile with 64-bit, and rarely used. (Standard edition only)
- Fixed display of license entry date in the Licenses editor. (Standard edition only)
- The standard edition of the app is now signed with a Developer ID to support Gatekeeper on Mountain Lion. (Standard edition only)
- The app is now fully sandboxed, providing increased security.
- BlogAssist now requires a 64-bit Mac and a minimum of OS X 10.7 (Lion).
- Many other behind-the-scenes improvements made possible by dropping older OS versions, PowerPC and 32-bit support.
New in BlogAssist 2.3.1 (Mar 2, 2012)
New in BlogAssist 2.2.6 (Mar 24, 2011)
- Changes to be compatible with the Mac App Store.
- BlogAssist Express for the App Store requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later, and omits the built-in update mechanism, since updates are done via the App Store.
New in BlogAssist 2.2.5 (May 14, 2010)
- Performance improvements for Snow Leopard.
- Please note: the next non-bug-fix release will likely require Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) as a minimum OS. So this may be the last version that supports Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
New in BlogAssist 2.2.4 (Feb 8, 2010)
- Fixed an issue with looking up licenses in certain situations.
- Now includes a 512x512 application icon.
New in BlogAssist 2.2.3 (Sep 10, 2009)
- Enhanced Snow Leopard compatibility.
New in BlogAssist 2.2.2 (Jun 1, 2009)
- Pressing Enter in the Services window will now always work as an equivalent for the OK button, instead of inserting a new line in the active field (pressing Return will still do so, though).
- No longer always adds itself to the Login Items on launch. Still does so on the first launch (when running from the Applications folder), as a convenience, but not after that. You can toggle the preference off or on as desired.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent finding licenses in very rare circumstances.
- Removed the old crash reporter, since it doesn't support Leopard crash logs.
- Prices increased slightly (get at the old price via the Dejal Store for a short time!).
- Now requires a minimum of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
New in BlogAssist 2.2.1 (Nov 19, 2008)
- Removed commas as a separator for repeating lists, to avoid problems with commas in paragraphs, and added bullet and vertical bar as alternatives (in addition to return, linefeed, and tab).
- Fixed a bug that required a click before the output of the Services window would appear in the destination document.
- Fixed an issue with the Preferences window, where edits might not be saved when quitting with the window still open (specifically when an edit is still active).
- Updated the built-in Kagi purchasing tool to the latest version, which fixes some issues with Leopard.
New in BlogAssist 2.2 (May 29, 2008)
- Added a much-requested feature: the ability to have repeating formatting. For example, you can now create an ordered or unordered list simply by using a list of items as your source value, and similarly with multiple HTML paragraphs via multiple paragraphs of text. The list items can be delimited by Return or LF characters, tabs, or commas. It automatically strips off any existing list markers: it recognizes a dash, asterisk or bullet, or any short first word ending in a punctuation character. What's more, you can have lists in either the Value1 or Value2 fields (in the floating and Services windows); it will repeat the block for the number of items in the longer list, using the last (or only) item in the other field for any shortfall. So text like "1. This is an item, 2. Another item, (3) A third item" becomes properly formatted HTML.
- The Paragraph, Unordered List, and Ordered List operations are automatically upgraded to use the new repeating block mechanism. You can easily add it to any other operations where it seems useful.
- Added a new List of Links operation, that outputs an unordered list containing web links, using the new repeating feature. Use a list of labels in Value1 (e.g. "Simon, Time Out, Caboodle"), and a list of corresponding URLs in Value2 (e.g. "http://www.dejal.com/simon/, http://www.dejal.com/timeout/, http://www.dejal.com/caboodle/").
- Added an Insert Variable drop-down menu to the Operations Preferences. This allows easily inserting variables and begin/end repeating block markers in the selected operation text.
- The Operations Preferences table now used dynamic row heights, so multi-line operations are fully visible.
- Improved the floating BlogAssist window to avoid using unnecessary processor time when drawing the web preview.
- Fixed a cosmetic bug with the Check for Updates feature when using a general release and wanting only general releases, and a beta release is available.
- Updated the built-in Kagi purchasing tool to the latest version, which fixes some issues with Leopard.
- Updated the French and German localizations.
New in BlogAssist 2.2 Beta 1 (May 20, 2008)
- Added a much-requested feature: the ability to have repeating formatting. For example, you can now create an ordered or unordered list simply by using a list of items as your source value, and similarly with multiple HTML paragraphs via multiple paragraphs of text. The list items can be delimited by Return or LF characters, tabs, or commas. It automatically strips off any existing list markers: it recognizes a dash, asterisk or bullet, or any short first word ending in a punctuation character. What's more, you can have lists in either the Value1 or Value2 fields (in the floating and Services windows); it will repeat the block for the number of items in the longer list, using the last (or only) item in the other field for any shortfall. So text like "1. This is an item, 2. Another item, (3) A third item" becomes properly formatted HTML.
- The Paragraph, Unordered List, and Ordered List operations are automatically upgraded to use the new repeating block mechanism. You can easily add it to any other operations where it seems useful.
- Added a new List of Links operation, that outputs an unordered list containing web links, using the new repeating feature. Use a list of labels in Value1 (e.g. "Simon, Time Out, Caboodle"), and a list of corresponding URLs in Value2 (e.g. "http://www.dejal.com/simon/, http://www.dejal.com/timeout/, http://www.dejal.com/caboodle/").
- Added an Insert Variable drop-down menu to the Operations Preferences. This allows easily inserting variables and begin/end repeating block markers in the selected operation text.
- Improved the floating BlogAssist window to avoid using unnecessary processor time when drawing the web preview.
- Fixed a cosmetic bug with the Check for Updates feature when using a general release and wanting only general releases, and a beta release is available.
- Updated the built-in Kagi purchasing tool to the latest version, which fixes some issues with Leopard.