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Fantasy but in a non euro-medieval setting. Really got me, and I am picky and jaded when it comes to fantasy or magical realism.There are some good fantasy series set in pseudo-mediaeval, pseudo-North European milieus, but it's been done to death. It's a refreshing change to find something different, so thanks for that one.-iphigenie (September 10, 2012, 02:16 AM)
I stopped using TheBat! for the same reasons you mentioned, even though I am a licensed user.Lately it's been infuriatingly slow at picking up my e-mail, though I updated at the same time as installing a new router (don't think that should affect things). I need to face up to checking my ISP's Web site in case it's their fault, but a brief trial of Opera's built-in e-mail client seemed to give much faster mail retrieval.-dvally (September 09, 2012, 02:48 PM)
I purchased Softmaker Office Pro and part of the suite is the "eM Client" which I have switched to using exclusively for email.Er, does that mean that some things about eM Client are already irritating? And it's just a case of which program irritates less? I have Softmaker Office Home, without eM Client, and I've heard Thunderbird development may have ceased, so I'm interested in alternatives.
No email client is perfect-dvally (September 09, 2012, 02:48 PM)
The Bat! 5.2
08/23/2012 New features
New filter action – "Clear all tags"
Added profiles for re-filtering a folder
Filter action to add/delete addresses to/from address book can now extract target addresses from message body with template
It is now possible to quick-search folders in the folder selection dialogue
Nickname/Handle from Address Book can be used in TO parameter of /MAIL switch in command line
Nickname/Handle from Address Book is automatically expanded when used in address macros (TO, CC, ...) in templates
Added folder set tabs in the folder selection dialogue
Option to wrap text in "Plain text (Windows)" editor
Improvements
"Paste as plain text" option added to popup in the Edit Mail Message Form
System folders (Inbox, Outbox, Trash, etc.) can have their own settings for templates, deletion etc.
Now if files are dropped onto an Address History item, the editor uses the corresponding e-mail address as the destination
Some visual fixes in "View Mode Setup"
Empty lines are now correctly displayed in POP.log and SMTP.log
Double clicking on a list column separator expands column to fit its contents
When an account is created by selecting folder in MAIL folder, the account name and home directory are automatically filled
Image content is used to determine real image type (for example, name has PNG extension but there is GIF image inside)
Fixes
View Mode option "Expand All Threads" cannot be ignored during changing threading or switching between View Modes anymore
Temporary files are now deleted after auto-save in the message editor
Deletion of common folders could sometimes give an Access Violation error
Large folders are not opened slowly on Windows XP anymore
Message create/receive time is correctly displayed without degrading folder loading performance
Fixed a bug when only the first message was used for checking against filter condition when a filter was applied to several selected messages using Hotkey
Text settings like Date/Time separator are now retrieved correctly from the system's registry if the text is one character long
Message list cannot lose changes made by incoming filters anymore (setting color group in IMAP folder for incoming messages wasn't visible before refreshing folder)
Fixed stack overflow when trying to parse malicious or malformed HTML with too many nesting tags
(#0000014) Fixed problem with wrong timezone offset in new message header if "(GMT) Greenwich Mean Time: Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London" timezone is used in daylight saving time
"Resend" message action now uses "Delivery type" option in "Account Properties" to send message immediately or put it in Outbox
Fixed "-ERR Invalid command" response from POP3 server when opening message in Dispatcher
Fixed an AV when trying to save attachment by drag-and-dropping it from message stored on HDD (anti-virus check enabled)
Application does not freeze when doing mass mailing of big messages anymore
Solved the problem that appeared when copying/moving several messages between folders of the same Gmail account
File selection dialog does not hide current window – message editor or address book – anymore
Fixed memory corruption if Message Finder was closed when searching was in progress
Solved the problem when System Hotkey "Open MailTicker messages" did not bring opened message to front on Windows XP
Fixed possible deadlock when updating counters for IMAP folder
(#0000059) Fixed the problem with certain graphics that could not be accessed in tabs
Solved possible access violations related to logging subsystem
Fixed reported errors on some received S/MIME messages that were encrypted by weak keys
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Its a tad foggy...-Stephen66515 (August 27, 2012, 12:21 PM)
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I think people generally don't like having to download a specially licensed version of an installer (particularly if you can only do so for a few days) because you can't stick that installer in the spreadsheet/notepad document/whatever it is you keep your list of software license keys in.Agreed, though some of the outliners/notekeepers, e.g. RightNote, allow you to embed files inside their databases. From RightNote Help:-mwb1100 (July 13, 2012, 12:08 AM)
Attachment note typeI presume "any type of file" would include .EXEs, or .ZIPs, and even if not, one could MIME/uu-encode them. That would generally make for an awfully large note, though.
The attachment note type allows you to store any type of file in a RightNote database. For example you can store MS Word documents, Excel files and PDF Documents. If supported, the contents of the file will be indexed and made searchable.
Sounds like he mainly just tweaked a lot of little things, unless I'm missing something. Doesn’t sound much different than Version 6.There is an element of that; it certainly doesn't look a revolutionary change. But there are nice details, e.g.-J-Mac (July 11, 2012, 11:42 PM)
Use CTRL+ALT+V to paste Clipboard data in HTML format (if available).As an example, I copied a bit of Barney's post to the clipboard in the usual way, and pasted it into NoteTab Pro 7 with Ctrl+V as usual, getting:
<tr class="catbg"><td colspan="2" class="smalltext" align="left">Posted by: barney
</td>
</tr><tr class="windowbg2">
<td colspan="2" class="smalltext" id="msg293413" width="100%">
<div class="smalltext" align="right"><a href="https://www.donation...7c9c47cbcd65dc09#top" onclick="return insertQuoteFast(293413);">Insert Quote</a></div>
<div class="post">It likes CSS3, HTML5 <img src="https://www.donation...leys/fun/Thmbsup.gif" alt="Thmbsup" border="0">.<br>Added CSS highlighting, maybe better HTML highlighting <img src="https://www.donation...leys/fun/Thmbsup.gif" alt="Thmbsup" border="0">.<br>Search has improved, somewhat <img src="https://www.donation...ileys/fun/sleepy.gif" alt="undecided" border="0">.<br>Word count is a bit different <img src="https://www.donation...ileys/fun/sleepy.gif" alt="undecided" border="0">.</div></td></tr>
It likes CSS3, HTML5 <https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/Smileys/fun/Thmbsup.gif>.
Added CSS highlighting, maybe better HTML highlighting <https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/Smileys/fun/Thmbsup.gif>.
Search has improved, somewhat <https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/Smileys/fun/sleepy.gif>.
Word count is a bit different <https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/Smileys/fun/sleepy.gif>.
They have never had downloads generally available - you always got a link to the full version that was active all the time.I don't like that either, and there's a steady if sluggish stream of worried queries in the Yahoo! Group, what do I do if I lose my original full version.-J-Mac (July 11, 2012, 11:42 PM)
I took a look at the forum. I see what you mean. You've been busy!I felt like the only beta tester. Almost nobody else is posting in the forum.-IainB (July 07, 2012, 04:32 PM)
I have posted a request to have them provide an RSS feed for that forum. Would make life much simpler.I hardly ever use RSS! I have the NoteFrog forum set as a hotsite in WebSite-Watcher, so I see which sections have new postings.-IainB (July 07, 2012, 04:32 PM)
Upgrade to NoteTab 7
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Just go to Help > Check for Updates (available since v4.95) and click on the upgrade link. If you don’t see the link, click on the “Get headlines” button to refresh the list.
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Version 7.0
* Under Windows 32-bit with the /3GB option and Windows x64, NoteTab can now allocate resources past the 2GB address limit when needed (up to 4 GB).
* NoteTab Pro: Added syntax highlighting for CSS files and improved HTML syntax highlighting with documents that contain PHP, ASP, and Javascript code.
* Improved the Strip HTML Tags feature with better handling of documents that contain PHP, ASP, and Javascript code.
* Added real-time word count feature, with a choice between two counting methods. The feature is controlled through the View | Word Count submenu and the word count is displayed in the status bar next to the Ins/Ovr info panel. Word-count is based either on selected text or the whole document (or topic with Outlines). This feature is not available in NoteTab Light (unless you enable trial mode).
The MS Word method returns a count that should be a close match to the word-count result in Microsoft Word. The NoteTab method is more sophisticated and counts words using a more extensive set of word delimiters. MS Word mostly counts words delimited by space characters. In the following examples, MS Word counts one word per line whereas NoteTab counts three words in each:
* [email protected]
* http://fookes.com/
* help-me-please
* 2x10x250
* When the real-time word-count feature is enabled, you can click on the corresponding panel in the status bar to see more detailed text statistics. This information is also displayed after you select a certain amount of text. You will see the word count based on the NoteTab method, the average number of characters per word, the number of sentences, and the average number of words per sentence. This information is particularly valuable to copywriters, bloggers and journalists.
* In NoteTab Pro and Std, the Tools | Text Statistics feature is now based on the new NoteTab word-count method.
* When the Text Statistics feature is used on an HTML file, NoteTab only counts visible page text (tags, CSS, scripts and commented blocks are ignored). Hold down the Shift key when selecting this menu command if you want to also count words in HTML tags and comments.
* Simply select one character in the current document to see its decimal and hexadecimal value in the status bar.
* New keyboard shortcuts to easily insert typographic characters:
* Ctrl+. inserts the ellipsis character …
* Ctrl+- inserts the n-dash character –
* Ctrl+, inserts “smart quotes” around selected text or a proper apostrophe ’
* You can now remove history items from drop-down lists in the Find and Replace dialog boxes. To remove an undesired item from the history list, first select it, close the drop-down list and then press the Shift + Delete keys. Or right-click in the field to open the popup menu and choose Delete from List; you can also delete the whole history by choosing Clear History.
* The Find and Replace dialog boxes now show search results in a balloon (unless you are using Blind-User mode) instead of a message box. This speeds up you work as you no longer need to click on the message box OK button to close it.
* Added support for wildcard searching in find/replace tools. This feature is not available in NoteTab Light (unless you enable trial mode).
The following tokens are provided:
* = matches 0 or more word characters. Example: “jo*” matches “JO”, “John”, “Jody”, “joint”, “join_leave”.
# = matches 0 or more word characters, including HTML entity characters. Example: “na#” matches “naïve”, “naïve”, and “naïve”.
** = matches 0 or more characters and can span across words within a line. Example: “click**link” matches “click link”, “click on link”, “clicking on link”, “Click on this link”, but not “click on links”.
? = matches exactly one word character. Example: “jo?” matches “Job” and “jot”, but not “JO”, “John”, “Jody”, and “joint”.
~ = matches 0 or one word characters. Example: “jo~” matches “JO”, “Job”, and “jot”, but not “John”, “Jody”, and “joint”.
& = matches exactly one word character or one HTML entity. Example: “caf&” matches “café”, “café”, and “café”.
Word characters include alphanumeric characters, all extended ANSI characters, as well as “_”.
To search with wildcard tokens, select the Wildcards option in the Search drop-down list. Choose Standard for literal searching and Regular Exp. for searching with regular expressions.
* Find and Replace dialog boxes: you can use keyboard shortcuts to change option in the Search drop-down lists. Simply press CTRL+ALT+{first letter of option name}. Example: CTRL+ALT+A sets the All option and CTRL+ALT+W sets the Wildcards option.
* Added new Bootstrap library, Clipbar and templates. Bootstrap, from Twitter, is a fantastic collection of CSS and HTML for rapidly developing professional-looking web sites. For more information, visit the official Bootstrap website through this link: http://www.notetab.com/redir/Bootstrap
* Added new HTML-CSS and HTML-AutoReplace libraries and Clipbar, which include support for HTML5 and CSS3. They replace the following outdated files (note that these are not uninstalled by NoteTab):
HTML.clb
HTML-ar.clb
CSS1.clb
HTML-1.ctb
HTML-2.ctb
CSS1.ctb
* Added two new web page templates (Web page.tpl and Web page HTML5.tpl) to replace the following outdated files (note that these are not uninstalled by NoteTab):
HTML.tpl
CSS1.tpl
* Updated the regular expressions engine to the latest release, which is based on PCRE 8.31.
* A confirmation dialog box is now displayed when the Close All menu command is used.
* You can now use CTRL+ALT+V to paste Clipboard data in HTML format (if available).
* The Search Disk.fvr Favorites file created after a Search Disk operation now removes the maximum limit of 65 files.
* Added new program icon and splash screen. Note that you can still revert back to the old icon through the Options dialog box.
* Program file is now code signed to reduce the risk of anti-virus false positives.
* Fixed printing issue whereby last page or pages failed to print.
* Fixed issue with Save Directory setting being ignored under the Use Default Directories option.
* Fixed issue with Disk Files option in Quick List when Show Full Names option is turned off.
* Fixed issue when pasting text with non-Windows line breaks into NoteTab Pro.
* Partially fixed issue with disappearing Clip wizard labels under Windows 7 (though the problem does reappear if you hit the Alt key).
* Fixed issue when comparing negative integer values in Clips.
* Fixed issue in ^$GetDate(Date Mask;+/-days)$ function when using the +/-days parameter.
* Fixed issue in ^$GetDateToInt[(Date;DateFilter)]$ function that failed when date filter did not exactly match date pattern. Example: ^$GetDateToInt(2012-3-27;yyyy-m-d)$
* Fixed issue with ^$GetDocumentPath$ and the %NtbDocuments% token failing to use the user-defined default directories.
* Fixed errors in the CRC32 algorithm used in the ^$GetCrcFile("Filename")$ and ^$GetCrcText("Text")$ Clip functions.
* Fixed errors in the Clip Assistant.
* Fixed issue in the Modify | Block | Cut feature that failed to work if only the last character column was selected.
* Many other minor improvements and issues fixed.
* Updated documentation.
Clip-code Additions
* NoteTab Pro and Std: Added two new Clip functions.
^$StrWordCount("Str"[;Method])$
Method = MsWord or NoteTab
To count the number of words in a string.
^$StrWordList("Str")$
To extract a word list (with duplicates removed).
* Updated Clip functions to support regular expressions and wildcards:
^$StrCount("SubStr";"Str";Options)$
^$StrPos("SubStr";"Str";Options)$
^$StrReplace("SubStr";"ReplaceStr";"Str";Options)$
Options:
C: Searches for whole words only.
I: Ignores character case.
R: Specifies that the search criteria represents a regular expression.
*: Specifies that the search criteria uses wildcards. In NoteTab Light, this option is only recognized during trial mode.
A: Use to replace all matched occurrences with ^$StrReplace. When this option is not used, only the first match is replaced.
Note that the old format for these Clip functions is still valid.
* The ^!Find and ^!Replace Clip commands also support wildcard searching. Use “*” as an option parameter. The following example searches for words that end in “tab”:
^!FIND “*tab” C*
* Added Clip command to delete the current selection:
^!DeleteSelection
* Added two Clip functions to calculate a hash signature of specified data using the SHA-1 algorithm. SHA-1 was designed by the United States National Security Agency.
^$GetSHA1File("Filename")$
Returns the SHA-1 signature of the specified file. The result is produced in hexadecimal format. Example: ^$GetSHA1File("^$GetAppFileName$")$
^$GetSHA1Text("Text")$
Returns the SHA-1 signature of the specified text. The result is produced in hexadecimal format. Example: ^$GetSHA1Text("^$GetText$")$
* Added Clips to control which type of data is pasted in a document (plain text or HTML if available):
^!SetPasteHtml [TRUE|FALSE]
When set to True and the Clipboard has data in HTML format, pasting its contents into a document inserts HTML code instead of plain text.
^$GetPasteHtml$
Returns 1 if the Paste Html option is set and 0 if it is not.