Home » Products » UEStudio » Latest Changes

UEStudio latest changes

The list below contains the latest changes for UEStudio. This is a listing of new or enhanced features of the application. For a more thorough look at what has been added, take the tour of the new features.

The most up-to-date version is 12.20, released on 2012-10-03.

UEStudio v12.20 Changes (2012-10-03)

Smart Template improvements:
- Project-based templates
- Insert templates by name via macros/scripting (refer to Help documentation for syntax)
- Drag-and-drop text to template list to create new templates
- Modify template name directly in template list
- Open template file directly in editor (right-click template group in template list)
- Description field for templates (displayed in tooltip in template list)
Line Change Indicator improvements:
- Jump to next or previous change in active file
- Ability to configure LCI width
- All reported LCI issues fixed
Option to delete unencrypted backup file(s) when encrypting files
Improved configuration options for File Associations
Several improvements for running macros on large amounts of data
Addressed issues with Backup/Restore User Customizations
Addressed issues with Delete All Hidden Lines
Other minor enhancements and improvements

UEStudio v12.10 Changes (2012-07-12)

Enhancements

Code folding based on indent level:
- Automatic for Python files (.py file extension)
- Can be activated for other languages by adding "EnableCFByIndent" flag to wordfile
Smart Template improvements:
- Ability to set selectable parameters in Smart Template variables
  - Use pipe character to separate parameters (ex: )
  - When inserting template, variable will open auto-complete list with selectable parameters
- New context menu for template listing in Modify Templates dialog
  - Sort templates alphabetically
  - Move/copy selected template to group
- Modify Templates dialog is resizable
- Ability to show all language templates in template list
- Template editor in Modify Templates dialog now respects user's color settings
- File name variables ([FILE_PATH] and [FULL_FILE_NAME]) now work with FTP files
- Support for using %APPDATA% environment variable in templates directory configuration
- Drag-and-drop text to template list to create new templates
- Open template file directly in editor (right-click template group in template list)
Set Output Window font separately from other child window fonts (right-click in Output Window)
Improved C/C++ function strings to eliminate false positives

Maintenance

FTP/SFTP:
- Several fixes and improvements for OpenVMS servers
- Addressed a couple of FTP account storage issues
- Set "Right-click file open from text" feature for FTP file paths to resolve to account's initial directory
Smart Templates:
- Addressed issue updating active environment templates
- Addressed issues converting old templates to new format
- Addressed issue where [$replace$] didn't work correctly if inserting template via auto-complete dialog
- Addressed issues with non-English UTF-8 characters in templates
- Addressed caret positioning issue when inserting templates
- Restored template names in Insert -> Individual Templates sub-menu
- Added ability to access all language templates in one file (configurable)
- Added ability to change template name in template list
- Added ability to create new template by dragging and dropping text into template list
- Added ability to open template files directly in editor
Find/Replace:
- Addressed issues when replacing in selected text
- Addressed issue where edit operations like Replace and Sort in large files result in "Out of memory" errors
- Addressed minor issues with Find String List
- Addressed issues with Highlight All Items Found
Display:
- Addressed issue where child window controls are are magnified 200% in some isolated cases
- Addressed issue where lower value ASCII characters do not display
- Addressed issue where sorting files by size isn't correct in File View
Other/miscellaneous:
- Addressed issues when selecting columns in column mode
- Addressed issues with Intellitips auto-complete
- Addressed issues with relative paths in prj file when creating a project
- Addressed several Line Change Indicator issues
- Addressed double prompt to close open files when switching projects
- Backup/Restore User Customizations now includes FTP INI files and Smart Template files
- Better instance handling for opening files in UE from other applications (7zip, VSS, etc.)
- Fixed problem with string highlighting when printing syntax highlighting
- File code page data now cleared when clearing histories (or on exit)
- Version backups created during auto-save in unmodified file if dynamic variable is used in backup format

UEStudio v12.00 Changes (2012-04-05)

Smart Templates
- Ability to add multiple user-defined variables to templates
- New "Languages" template group to store templates based on syntax highlighting languages
- Template "Auto-suggestion" (provides smart suggestion of matching template based on what you type)
- Optionally disable template auto-suggestion for comments and/or strings
- Ability to insert templates via auto-complete (Ctrl + Spacebar)
- Inserted template respect:
  - Indent level
  - Line terminators
  - Spaces/tabs settings
- Drag-and-drop templates from template list into active file to insert them
- New template configuration options in Advanced -> Configuration -> Templates
- Access Global, Environment, and Language templates at the same time
- Redesigned, modeless "Modify Templates" dialog
- Default language templates provided for most major programming/scripting languages
- Ability to reorder templates in template list
- Create an unlimited number of templates
- Template files stored in XML format in centralized location
Automatic auto-completion of closing HTML and/or XML tags
- Configurable in Advanced -> Configuration -> Editor -> XML/HTML
- Configure whether to close on same line or on new line
Dockable "Lines containing find string" window
- "Find String List" can now be docked, floating, or auto-hidden
- Window options are now available in right-click context menu
- Enable/disable in View -> Views/Lists
Full support for proportional fonts
- Corrected caret positioning issues with fonts that are not fixed-width
- Improved syntax highlighting for fonts that are not fixed-width
Improved FTP performance
- Faster modification and saving accounts, especially when many accounts are configured
- Better handling of connections closed by server
- Added support for automatically connecting to FTP account when opening FTP Open or Browse dialog*
Other changes
- Removed "Open Files" splash screen on startup
- Both 32-bit and 64-bit shell integration DLLs are installed on 64-bit systems
- Increased "Recent Files" list from 16 to 32
- Addressed PHP debugging (Xdebug) issues

* To enable this, add "Auto Browse FTP=1" (without the quotes) on a new line in your uestudio.ini file under the [Settings] section. You must ensure that UEStudio is closed when you modify and save the INI file, otherwise your changes will be overwritten. You can find the location of your INI file by going to Advanced -> Configuration -> Application Layout -> Advanced. The location of the INI file is shown at the bottom of this dialog.