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Allaire HomeSite 4.5

Beta 1 Release Notes

August 10, 1999

Since the 4.0.1 release, Allaire’s Visual Tools Development Group has been responding to known issues, customer feedback, and enhancement requests. The work they’ve done so far focused on the development of new features but has also included bug fixes to a number of known problems.

We welcome you to Allaire’s testing program and hope you enjoy trying the new features and enhancements. Please report any problems you encounter to the Beta Forum.

Contents

Upgrade Options

New Features

Bugs Fixed

Known Issues

Upgrade Options

Running 4.5 and 4.0

Version 4.5 installs separately from 4.0, so you can switch between them as needed. To run the two versions simultaneously you must enable multiple instances in one or both product installations. To do this, create a Registry string value in the HomeSite4 and/or HomeSite45 branch in the Allaire Registry branch (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Allaire):

AllowMultipleInstances = -1

Note that while this enables you to run multiple instances in the HomeSite4 branch and to run the two version at the same time, you will still be limited to only a single instance of HomeSite 4.5.

Upgrading 4.0 to 4.5

Allaire is working on an Upgrade Wizard which will enable users to upgrade their existing settings/customizations from one version to another. This feature will become available in a future test release. For now, you can upgrade most of your settings/customizations either via the Registry, the \UserData\ directory or manually. Please exercise caution upgrading settings via the Registry.

See Remote Servers in 4.5 in the New Features section for details on how to migrate existing 4.0 server configurations.

New Features

Remote Servers in 4.5

Allaire is redesigning the remote access via FTP and RDS servers in HomeSite and ColdFusion Studio. The servers are no longer managed by either of the products but are stored in the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software \Allaire\RemoteServers branch of the Registry. As a result, you will not see your existing servers when you install 4.5. You can redefine the servers or move them manually from the old location in the Registry (HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software \Allaire\HomeSite4\RemoteServers). The Upgrade Wizard will automate this task in an upcoming test release.

[BETA1]

To simplify access to remote and local files, a Shell Namespace Extension with the label "Allaire FTP & RDS" is installed with HomeSite and ColdFusion Studio. The installation does the following:

• Adds an Allaire FTP & RDS icon to the Windows95/98/NT Desktop.
• Adds an Allaire FTP & RDS item in the Windows95/98/NT Explorer.
• Enables Allaire FTP & RDS in the drop down selection box in the Local Files tab.

Note:This new remote server feature is available in Beta 1, but it is at a very early point in its development. We've added it now to give you an opportunity to preview it and give us feedback. Please read the Known Issues with this feature section below before testing this feature and submitting bugs. We have retained the 4.0 Remote tab functionality so that testers can maintain productivity while trying this new featue.

Managing Files

You can now work with remote files transparently while in the Local Files tab.

After selecting Allaire FTP & RDS, you can double-click on a file in the file list to open it in the editor and drag and drop a file into the editor to embed it as a hyperlink. This is the same behavior as 4.0. Right-clicking on a server entry will show a popup menu for adding/deleting/modifying remote servers.

In addition, in the Windows95/98/NT Explorer, you can drag and drop files to/from the local disk and to/from your remote FTP and RDS servers.

Known Issues with this feature:

This feature will be more fully implemented in subsequent beta releases.

• You cannot add RDS servers in HomeSite 4.5. The Add RDS Server dialog displays, but the new server is not actually configured. After attempting to add an RDS servers via Allaire FTP & RDS, you may get an access violation when trying to access existing ftp servers. Therefore, when you create RDS servers in ColdFusion Studio, they will appear in HomeSite. However, FTP servers created in either product will show up in the other.
• RDS Servers don't show up in the Local Files pane, nor in Explorer.
• Drag and Drop transfers of files in Windows95/98/NT Explorer from Remote Server to Local file system appears to work visually but actually doesn't; no files are transferred.
• Drag and Drop transfers of files in Windows95/98/NT Explorer from Local file system to Remote Server shows a progress message box in the upper left hand corner of the screen, regardless of where Windows95/98/NT Explorer is on the screen.
• When right-clicking on a directory in HomeSite and ColdFusion Studio, a message box appears with the message: "Not Implemented"
• When right-clicking on a directory in Windows95/98/NT Explorer, nothing happens.
• Selecting Open from the Allaire FTP & RDS Desktop icon popup menu before selecting Explore from the same menu will cause an Access Violation.
• An access Violation occurs in Windows95/98/NT Explorer if you hit the F5/Refresh key when Allaire FTP & RDS entries are exploded.
• The Modified column in Windows95/98/NT Explorer detail view shows incorrect times for files.
• The Detail view in Windows95/98/NT Explorer doesn't sort on column clicks.
• The View menu item in Detail view in Windows95/98/NT Explorer doesn't show bullet next to menu entry indicating which view is active.
• Cut/Copy/Paste doesn't work in Detail View, nor are the corresponding entries in the Edit menu active.
• The Title and Modified columns in HomeSite and ColdFusion Studio file list are empty.
• The File list doesn't refresh after changing the active columns in file list.
• Directory-level Drag and Drop and Cut/Copy/Paste actions don't work in Windows95/98/NT Explorer.
• No popup menu displays for the Allaire FTP & RDS icon. If you don't have any servers configured, there is no way to add the first server. You can get around this by adding first server in HomeSite and ColdFusion Studio in the Remote Files pane.
• The initial path shows up as part of server name description.
• Added servers don't show up. In HomeSite and ColdFusion Studio you have to select a local drive from the combo box, then re-select Allaire FTP & RDS. If servers are added in Windows95/98/NT Explorer, you have to close and re-start Explorer.
• File actions in the file list don't take effect.
• Occasionally, file names are corrupted in the file list and in the detail view in Windows95/98/NT Explorer.

Auto Completion

[BETA1]

• Auto Completion has been added to the product. The feature provides automatic completion of user defined strings (triggers) while editing a file. The feature is activated as you type and the system recognizes a trigger that you've created. Once the trigger is activated the associated completion string is automatically entered into the editor.
• Auto Completion comes with the following 4 items built-in:
  • Automatically close double quotes
  • Automatically close comments
  • Automatically close pounds
  • Automatically close ASP tags.

  The checkboxes in the Tag Completion dialog for these items have been removed.

• Auto Completion enables you to add your own trigger/completion strings and to customize post-completion cursor-position/selection. This is done through the Settings Dialog, under the Auto Completion section of the Editor branch.
• Auto Completion enables you to use more sophisticated completion strings including ones that are multi-line.

Function Insight

[ALPHA2]

• A Function Insight has been added to the product. The feature provides automatic function argument "insight" the same way Tag Insight offers assistance with tag attributes. The feature is currently tied to the Tag Insight settings (enable/disable, delay time) but will soon have its own page on the Settings dialog. You therefore have to have Tag Insight enabled to test the feature. The feature is activated as you type ‘SomeFunction(‘ or type a comma ‘,’ or a space after a comma in the function argument list (e.g. ‘SomeFunction( arg1, ‘ ). You can test this feature using Cold Fusion’s Replace function.
• Function insight draws its information about function arguments from the Expression Builder. Since the Expression Builder is a customizable multi-language tool you can easily add function libraries for use with Function Insight by modifying/replacing the Expression Builder definition File (\Extensions\ExpressionElements.vtm). For now, only Cold Fusion functions ship with the Expression Builder and so your testing is limited to these functions. You can add a function by adding TYPE="function" to the E tag representing an expression element which is a function. The Function Insight parses the function syntax to extract arguments of a function. (See the book 'Customizing the Development Environment' on the Help tab for more information on customizing the Expression Builder.
• If you are a PHP developer you may want to download the PHP Expression Builder library package from Marjolein Katsma’s site http://hshelp.com/downloads.html This is a first-class Expression Builder package enabling access to PHP functions, operators, constants, format strings and other general language constructs. Once installed, all of its PHP functions become available via Function Insight.

Resource Tabs

• [ALPHA2] The resource tabs are now much more conservative in creating/refreshing their controls, so that they are only created the first time the tab is made visible. This reduces application startup time.
• [ALPHA2] The F9 / View->Resource Tab function now works to toggle the visibility of resource tabs on/off.
• [ALPHA2] When multiple resource windows are docked to create a tabbed window, the order of the tabs can be interactively changed by using the right mouse button to drag a tab to a different position.
• Resource tabs can now be floated as individual windows. An individual page can be repositioned by dragging the appropriate page tab (with the small vertical grab bar) with the left mouse button. Resource tabs docked together to the main HomeSite window can be moved as a group by dragging the horizontal grab bar at the top of the pages.
• The tabs can be docked to each other in any combination, hidden individually, or docked to any of the four sides of the main HomeSite window.
• Floating resource windows (or groups of windows) can be made to float on top of the main HomeSite window. This is done by right clicking on the window's title bar and selecting "Always on top".
• When resource tabs are docked to each other, the tabs can be positioned at the top or bottom, and they can display either icons, title captions, or both. These options are set in the Settings window, under the General section.
• The position, size, and floating style of the tabs is maintained between sessions.

Collapsed Text Support

Text in the editor tab can now be collapsed to condense portions of text. This can be done in any of the following ways:

• Select a section of text and click on the "collapse" icon ( [-] ) which appears in the gutter.
• Select a section of text, click the right mouse button over the selection and choose "Collapse selection" from the popup menu.
• Right click the mouse over a language tag and select "Collapse Tag". This will collapse the entire tag, including starting and ending tags if applicable.
• Right click the mouse over a language tag and select "Collapse All Identical Tags". This will collapse all tags in the current document which are the same as the current tag (including nested tags).
• In the Tag Inspector resource tab, click on the blue '<+>' icon at the top. This will collapse the text based on the current Tag Inspector outline.

You have a number of options for working with collapsed text:

• Double clicking on a collapsed text graphic will expand that text.
• All collapsed regions can be expanded at once by right clicking in the editor and selecting "Expand All" from the popup menu.
• Collapsed regions (and the text they contain) can be moved by dragging and dropping in the same manner as regular text.
• Collapsed regions can be nested within each other.
• The color and font of the collapsed text graphic can be customized in the Settings window (the expanded option just underneath the Editor setting in the Settings tree).
• When the mouse is over a collapsed text graphic, a popup hint window will be displayed showing the full uncollapsed text. This feature can also be toggled on and off in the Settings window.

Collapsed regions can be preserved on file open and save operations. The collapsed text section in the Settings dialog allows this option to be toggled on and off.

CodeSweeper

[BETA1]

A new version of HTML Tidy (July 26, 1999) was incorporated which surfaced a number of new features.

Note: The 7/26 version of HTML Tidy has broken the New-inline-tags and new-Blocklevel-tags feature. For this version people will not be able to enter custom tag lists. Tidy will not recognize them. A fix for this is expected around 8/15 when the HTML-Tidy author returns from vacation.

• On the checklist-box of options, the following new HTML Tidy settings have been added:
  • "Add XML Processing Instruction" - XML feature, adds XML specific processing instructuions
  • "Fix Backslashes" - fixes incorrect \ characters in relative HTML links, changes them to /
  • "Wrap long ASP lines" - Wraps long <% %> ASP script lines using the default word wrap setting
• A new dropdown list has been added to support a new feature: DocType. DocType has the following options:
  • AUTO - Select and insert an HTML/XHTML doctype based on a "best guess" from the HTML coding style
  • OMIT - Omit any doctype directive
  • STRICT - Insert a strict Doctype directive
  • LOOSE - Insert a loose Doctype directive
  • CUSTOM - Insert a custom directive (Choosing this one activates the edit control near the DocType dropdown so they can put in their own DTD reference like -//W3C//Darren's HTML 7.0//EN which will insert the following into the document:
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//Darren's HTML 7.0//EN">
• "Drop Font Tags" - Unconditionally drops deprecated Font tags from the HTML
• [ALPHA2] A new version of HTML Tidy (July 7, 1999) was incorporated. This version fixes several memory leaks in the Tidy.exe and cleans up some erroneous behaviors in the Tidy configuration file settings (which we generate in the background from the Tidy Profile settings). Note that there are several new directives in the Tidy configuration file layout that were surfaced in the 07/07/99 Tidy release but have not yet been incorporated into our Tidy Profile Settings. These include the following:
  add-xml-pi
  doctype
  wrap-asp
  fix-backslash
  drop-font-tags
  These will be implemented in our user interface a future release. In the meantime if you wish to use these, you can create your own custom config file manually using any text editor and save it to your <homesitedir>\extensions\Codesweepers folder with a .TDY extension.
• [ALPHA2] A URL was added to the Tidy configuration panel to the author's site: http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
• Free text indenting has been added to the CodeSweeper. Inter-tag text is now indented along with sub-tags when the "Indent other sub-tag from this tag" is set on a specific tag.
• Fixed a bug with CodeSweeper tag-specific settings not getting saved properly.
• The CodeSweeper Settings dialog have been improved and integrated into the main Settings dialog
• Integrated HTML Tidy as an option in CodeSweeper. HTMLTidy is an independent open source code HTML verifier and formatter. It also enables the conversion of HTML to an XML compliant XHTML. HTML Tidy was developed by Dave Ragged. You can use HTML Tidy as an alternative to the native CodeSweeper engine. HTML Tidy has strengths as well as weaknesses when compared to the native CodeSweeper engine. The settings for this formatting engine are also different. The CodeSweeper settings now enable you to define Native as well as HTML Tidy CodeSweepers.
• The confusing presence of two Update buttons on the CodeSweeper Settings dialog has been cleaned up. Now the CodeSweeper settings are saved "as you go" for CodeSweeper-wide settings. Individual tag-specific settings still provide an "Update" button. The general settings and tag specific settings are now also split on a tab page control on separate pages for further clarity.
• Allaire CodeSweeper Parser fixes (Parser error state detection, aborting instead of munching HTML)
• Added error logging to CodeSweeper (both interactive and "Silent" background mode)
• HTML Tidy is based on an executable (Tidy.EXE) which can also be run as a standalone utility using the command line.
• Allaire discovered memory leaks in Tidy.exe. This is not an issue under NT but it may be under Win95. Allaire is working with the author to resolve the leaks.
• An experimental HTML-Tidy XHTML 1.0 conversion feature has been enabled.
• The CodeSweeper Settings dialog have been improved and integrated into the main Settings dialog.
• The CodeSweeper toolbar button has been improved. A drop-down arrow can now be used to specify a specific CodeSweeper for the formatting action. Both Allaire and HTML Tidy CodeSweepers are listed in the drop-down menu. When the toolbar button is hit the default CodeSweeper is used. Use CodeSweeper settings to set the default CodeSweeper.

Help and Documentation

• A number of corrections were made to the online HTML Reference, particularly updates to URLs. (10632, 10650, 10651, 10652, 10657, 10649, 10653, 10658, 10666, 10668, 10643, 10647, 10648, 10641)
• The RMB Selection > Convert Lines to List feature now respects the case preference. (10535)
• The VTOM documentation was updated to describe the (Width, ExecCommand, GetApplicationSetting, SetApplicationSetting, LastSavedDate) propeties/functions together with corresponding Settings and Command constant tables.
• The most recently selected help references in the search dialog will remain selected across sessions.
• Bookmark titles can now be modified. From the Organize Bookmarks Dialog click on the Title to modify and then click again like you would when renaming a file through Windows Explorer. (8910)
• Can now browse for bookmark files rather than typing the path in. From the Organize Bookmarks Dialog select the Add button and then select the Browse button in the Add Bookmark dialog to browse for the file to bookmark

Expression Builder

• The Expression Builder is now resizable. The splitter bar above the help pane can also be used to modify the size of the help display.
• When inserting functions in Expression Builder the first argument of the function is now automatically pre-selected for further editing.

Quickbar

• Enabled the docking of the Quickbar to the right or left of the other toolbars when they are docked.
• Made Quickbar floatable. Select the double vertical lines to the left of the Quickbar to either dock it somewhere else or make it a floating window.

Link Validator

The ability to cancel out of a single link verification through the validator. Once a link verification is in progress (after right clicking the link and selecting "Verify this Link" you may now select the Stop button to cancel the validation.

Toolbars

• [BETA1] Added new toolbar called "CFML Flow" that contains toolbuttons for: CFTRY, CFCATCH, CFTHROW, CFLOCK, CFCASE, CFDEFAULTCASE, CFSWITCH, CFSCRIPT, CFBREAK, CFEXIT, CFIF, CFELSE, CFELSEIF and CFLOOP. (8893)
• [ALPHA2] Removed toolbar-related screen flicker at startup
• [ALPHA2] Changed the way toolbutton images are stored and loaded to decrease startup times
• [ALPHA2] Modified the way the toolbars are retrieved from the 'tbr' files to decrease startup times
• Added floating help that shows the toolbar name, when you float the mouse over the dock/undock bar on the left-hand side of the toolbar. Hold the mouse pointer over the double vertical lines to the left of the toolbar to see the floating help
• Added a menu command to the Toolbar menu that moves all open toolbars to the Quickbar. Right click any of the Toolbars and Select "Move All to Quickbar".
• Added toolbuttons for tags CFCASE, CFDEFAULTCASE, CFSWITCH, CFBREAK, and CFABORT to the CFML toolbar

Settings

• The Settings dialog has been redesigned. The tab-centric interface has been transformed to a tree-based navigational system. The location and logical organization of the various settings remained to a great extent unchanged.
• The CodeSweeper settings which used to be in a separate dialog are now integrated in the main Settings dialog. The settings try can now be used to navigate directly between the different CodeSweeper profiles. CodeSweeper settings now support two types of CodeSweepers: Native and HTML Tidy. See the CodeSweeper section for more details.
• Set the "allow undo after save" option to true as the default

New Project Architecture

• [ALPHA2] A problem with using projects with a source control system was resolved.
• [ALPHA2] UI in some of the project-related dialogs was improved.
• [ALPHA2] Deployment settings can now we seen on the Project Folder Properties dialog. This feature is part of the new Deployment architecture which will become available in subsequent betas.
• The 4.5 release adds a great deal of functionality to its project architecture. While retaining features from 4.0, the 4.5 release enables users to create, remove and modify physical as well as virtual folders. The project window has much of the functionality of a complete file system. In prior releases of HomeSite, the project structure has rigidly tied the hands of the user. This release retains project functionality from 4.0 while allowing the user more flexibility in utilizing these features.
• The new project architecture is based on three folder: Virtual, Physical-Auto-Inclusive and Physical-Explicit-Inclusive.
• A virtual folder may contain files from any remote or local location. A virtual folder is a collection of files that may have no logical relationship to one another. A virtual folder is a file list. A Virtual folder is a useful way of grouping files that may be scattered through various locations on the disk into one location.
• Physical holders map to a physical directory. The two types of Physical folders (Auto vs. Explicit Inclusive) differ in the way they recognize the inclusion of its files in the project. Explicit Inclusive Folders were introduced in 4.0. Explicit Inclusive Folders are physically linked to a specific sub-directory. An Explicit Inclusive Folder represents a directory path. On its own, an Explicit Inclusive folder does not contain any files. The user must explicitly specify these files for inclusion within a project. The files within an Explicit Inclusive file may only be a sub-set of the actual files that exist within a subdirectory. Therefore, a file that exists within the Explicit Inclusive directory must exist in the linked subdirectory. An Explicit Inclusive sub directory will not allow the user to add a file that does not exist in the underlying sub-directory.
• Auto-Inclusive Folders are new in the 4.5 release. Auto-Inclusive Folders are similar to Explicit Inclusive Folders in the way that they also map to a specific directory. However, the files contained within the directory are automatically included in the project folder. Therefore, all of the underlying files within a subdirectory are automatically included within the project. The internal data structure of a project does not contain a file list. Instead the project data structure contains a subdirectory which it reads when building a file list. This type of project folders are suitable for situations where files are added to a directory by users not controlling the project organization (e.g. a designer depositing most up to date images) as they enable the developers to automatically recognize that content has been added. Such folders can also be very useful when deploying projects files to the server.
• All three of these file types is identified by a different icon in the file tree. The following list shows the folder icon and folder types:
  

    Virtual Folder

    Physical - Explicit Inclusive

    Physical - Auto Inclusive

• The 4.5 version of HomeSite contains an option for the user to create a new project. This dialog will create a project with Explicit Inclusive Folders. The ‘New’ dialog will create Explicit Inclusive Folders that contain all the files within these sub-directories. The creating dialog preserves the functionality of HomeSite 4.0 which created project files that mirrored a file structure.
• In addition to creating folders through the ‘New’ dialog, it is possible to Add Folders to the project by selected ‘Add Folder’ from the project pop-up menu. The Add File dialog allows the user to specify the type of folder, as well as the folder name and underlying sub-directory. Similarly the project pop-up menus can be used to remove project folders. Double-clicking on a file name will allow the user to edit folder properties.
• Project Files are stored in the XML defined WDDX format. By storing project details in this format, it is possible to integrate project related data in a wider range of future enhancements.

Project Architecture - Known Issues

• Changes in the project architecture will be incorporated in a new deployment engine. This engine is currently at the design phase. As a result features such as Upload and Synchronize are not functional is this release of the product.
• At present it is not possible to link project folders to remote subdirectories. Thus, the Explicit Inclusive and Auto Inclusive Folders must be linked to local files.
• Filters on Auto-Inclusive Files have not be implemented. This feature will enable the user to limit auto-inclusion of files based on a list of file extensions (e.g. auto-include only gif; jpg ) .
• The Add file dialog – contains a list of all files within a sub-directory. The dialog should not show files that exist within the project. Similarly, the user should be allowed to switch sub-directories by clicking on the folders within the file list.

Source Control Integration

• HomeSite 4.0 introduced project integration with Source Control products. This version of HomeSite maintains source control integration by allowing the user to map a project to a source control project folder. In addition, the 4.5 version of projects allows the user to map individual folders to source control projects.
• When a project is mapped to Source Control, the user can perform source control operations on any files in that project. HomeSite will attempt to determine the Source Control project path by adding the project path to the project mapping.
• In the 4.5 release, it is possible to change the Source Control mapping of a specific folder to a different location within the source tree. Once the user has performed this mapping, future source control operations for this folder will not occur against the default project path. Instead, Source Control operations will occur against the mapping for a specific folder.
• Late testing indicates some instability may exist with this feature in the Alpha release. Please report any problems to the forum or the bug tracking system.

CSS Style Editor

• [BETA1] The RMB menu "Edit Linked StyleSheet..." now forwards the currently edited document to TopStyle for display in its Preview pane. You can therefore see the changes to the appearance of your document as you author the CSS file. This feature only works with the full version of TopStyle.
• [BETA1] The STYLE tag editor used to invoke TopStyle as an in-line style editor when editing the contents of the style. The dialog now correctly calls TopStyle so that the entire style can be edited.
• The Allaire Style Editor (STYLEED.EXE) has been replaced with a ‘Lite’ version of Nick Bradbury’s new creation, called TopStyle. The Lite version of TopStyle ships with the product. The Lite version currently only supports IN-LINE style editing (from tag editors, tag inspector, etc.). It does not support DIRECT editing of entire CSS files. This functionality will be added to the Lite version within the next month or so. For now, the Style Editor toolbar button as well as the right-mouse click menu on CSS references in the LINK tag do not work. As a workaround, you can either download the evaluation version of the full TopStyle product at www.bradsoft.com or copy the old STYLEED.EXE into the new installation directory.

Remote Servers

Allaire is currently working on a cleaner integration of remote server access into the product. As a result of this the remote servers (FTP and RDS-CFStudio only) defined on a system are shared among the different applications (HomeSite vs. CFStudio) as well as between different versions of the products (HomeSite 4.0.1 and HomeSite4.5) . Therefore when you configure a remote server it will automatically appear under the server list in all of the products/versions. Allaire is working on an import utility to automatically upgrade your existing list of servers to the new system.

VTML Enhancements

• [BETA1] The attribute INLINESTYLE was added to the syntax for the VTML control TYPE="StyleTextArea". This attribute controls whether the Style Editor button edits the contents of the textarea as an "in-line style" or edits the contents as a full style sheet with mutliple selectors. By default this attribute is set to YES. You need to use INLINESTYLE="No" to enable editing of full style sheets. This feature was necessary for propper operation of the control on the STYLE tag editor. See STYLE.VTM as an example. This attribute was only added to the StyleTextArea contro. The StyleTextBox control does not allow this attribute.
• [ALPHA2] Added $$TAGSTRING and $$WHOLETAGSTRING to the VTML ATTRIB tag syntax for populating editor controls with special values. Until now, only $$TAGBODY was enabled to populate a specific control wit the body of a tag. The new variable names can be used to populate controls with the start-tag string or the whole tag including its start-tag, body and the end-tag. This feature was requested by the developers of tag editors using custom ActiveX controls. Since the ActiveX can only be populated by a single value the architecture was limited to a single attribute value or the tag body. The ActiveX controls can now be passed the entire tag for custom processing and specialized tag editor behavior.

General Enhancements

• [ALPHA2] The operation triggered by the right-mouse-click menu (Selection -> Convert Lines to Ordered/Unordered List ) was updated to enclose each list item with an </LI> end tag.
• Files with XML and XSL extensions are now recognized as editable documents and appear under the web documents filter.

Fixed in BETA1

Quick List dialog

• Alt-T now provides access to the Type drop down listbox.
• The Clear button has been moved to the far right to follow more consistently Windows UI standards [10466].
• Sensitivity to the Tab key from inside the list of items was disabled as this interrupted the Tab order between other controls. Arrow keys can be used to navigate between the list items instead.
• The behavior of the ENTER key was fixed in the Quick List dialog. The ENTER key now moves the cursor to the following item in the items editor. When on the final item the ENTER key adds a new item and positions the cursor on it. A new option to add the LI end tag was also implemented via a checkbox.

Other fixes

• A new version of the JS Wizard was included in this release. The new VTM contains a fix for dates not being displayed properly and it's more Y2K-ready.
• Virtual Folders will now check the registry settings to see if the user has specified a default directory for all dialogs. If the user has specified such a path, Virtual Folders will default to this path. If no default options are specified, Virtual Folders will always begin in the project subdirectory. (10292)
• If projects cannot find a file, a message box displays. (10492)
• Corrected a spelling error in custom wizard dialog. (10502)
• Corrected a spelling error on the RMB QuickBar menu. (10513)
• Corrected display of HomeSite 4.5 desktop shortcut. (10290)
• Quick List item contents still visible after reducing number of rows. (10539)
• Selecting the F4 key will now properly activate the Tag Inspector. (10782)
• The RMB menu "Edit Linked StyleSheet ..." on the LINK tag now correctly locates CSS files referenced via a relative path. (10696)
• The new Auto Completion feature closes double quotes. (6450)
• When the option to browse help in a separate panel was set and the Help resource tab was floated or docked to another window area, an access violation occurred. This has been fixed. (10489)

Fixed in ALPHA2

• Several menu items on the Local and Remote files Tab's right-mouse menu are enabled even when no file is selected. (10077)
• Single-click undocking a quickbar tool while the quickbar itself is docked causes the undocked tool to move to strange, sometimes hidden places. (10047)
• Hiding/redisplaying quickbar when it is docked left eliminates the docking space on the right, causing other toolbars to disappear. ... and other weirdness. (10320)
• Browse Tab: Previous button goes back two pages, Next button stays disabled. (10139)
• Redocking quickbar adds extra space below all toolbars. (10318)
• Docking space should shrink when toolbars fit into one line. (10324)
• Using Tag Inspector on an img in design mode causes access violations. (10181)
• Verify Links hangs after verifying 4th document. Hitting stop than start again has no affect. (10354)
• If you deleted your default Codesweeper (Allaire or Tidy) and then clicked on the Codesweeper default toolbutton, you would get a message that the default codesweeper was missing or deleted, followed by an Access Violation. The Access Violation has been fixed.
• Several of the Tidy configuration settings on the Combo Checklist configuration box were accidentally cross-wired to the wrong back-end configuration file settings.
• If you made some changes to a Codesweeper configuration, then selected a different one using the navigation tree, and then came back to the original one, your setting changes would not be saved. An implicit write of changes now occurs when you move between Codesweeper tree elements.

Fixed Since 4.0.1

• Added a "Visible Toolbars" label to toolbar list in the Customize dialog. (5850)
• A floating resource window (or group of windows) now displays as "Always On Top" of the main window. (10015)
• The correct splash screen now displays. (10017)
• The text label now displays properly on the Projects Resource tab. (10019)
• Fixed an error when opening Expression Builder from RMB in the editor. (10025)
• Quotes that surround an attribute's value are now stripped before passing it onto the DHTMLEdit's SetCurrentElementAttr method. (7736)
• Fixed problem with left and right arrow key display in dropdown list for certain tags in Tag Inspector. (7989)
• All toolbar positions are now retrieved before updating the docking panel rather than updating for each toolbar individually. (4791, 7475)
• QuickBar can now be docked on either side of the toolbars. (5145)
• Added support for floating and docking the QuickBar. (6350)
• Fixed Shift key combination problem. (9497)
• Top Style supports insertion of custom colors. (9608)
• Book icons in the lower levels of the help tree now display properly. (9634)
• In Search menu, when selecting Replace Double Spacing with Single Spacing, the document tab now indicates the file has been modified. (9393)
• Added the ability to cancel out of single link verifications using the stop button. (8352)
• In the Quick list dialog box, the Clear button is now correctly positioned. (10466)
• Fixed a tab problem in the Quick list. Users can use arrow keys to navigate the list. (10475)
• The word-wrap icon is transparent regardless of the desktop color scheme. (6560)
• The automatic file re-open feature now opens files in their previous order. (7637)
• Changed button help label to "Style Editor" on main toolbar. (10208)
• Fixed the Access Violation error which used to occur randomly on File New.
• Fixed problems with saving files into directories on mapped Banyan network drives.
• The Snippets pane now maintains state. (9475)
• Fixed an Access Violation error when you add a new tag in the Tag Definition Library. (9404)
• Fixed an error when creating a folder in the local tab where the contents of the previously selected folder disappear. (9266)
• The SCRIPT tag that is created through the events of the Tag Inspector is now legal. (7973)
• In Design mode you are now able to change the cell BGCOLOR attribute. (7736)
• When modifying an ALT tag for an image via the Tag Inspector, HomeSite no longer inserts an extra pair of quotes around the value. (7558)
• Fixed memory leaks in Tag Inspector.
• The Profile editor screen now displays properly in 1024 x 768 resolution. (9633)
• When a folder is named starting with a # or ? sign you are now able to view any of it's contents in Browse mode. (9391)
• After opening a file via FTP (not from the local file system, but from a server) and attempting to use the Browse tab to view the contents using IE inline, this error message displays in HomeSite: "FTP Error Could not login to FTP server User anonymous unknown." The system now creates a local temp and browses it. (8991)
• Many of the wizards are failing with an "Invalid Pointer Operation’ error. (10024, 10027, 10028, 10029)
• Select from Netscape Bookmarks gives an error: "HomeSite was unable to locate your Netscape bookmark file." (9136)

Known Issues

See the Project Architecture Known Issues section for information on current problems with the new projects implementation.

• When the Resource Tabs are docked to the main form, clicking the "x" closes the tabs, however they can not be made to reappear using the View > Resource Tab (F9) command. To redisplay them, select the View > Resource windows > Dock All menu option.
• When searching for text which is contained in a collapsed region, the region will not automatically expand to show the matching text. This will be fixed in the next release.
• After deleting a remote folder, do a manual refresh from the top level of the directory tree. (9337)

• The Remote Save As command will overwrite an existing file without displaying a warning message. (9333)
• If you select a remote folder (FTP) and then try to delete it using the RMB "Delete Folder" command, you will get an error. This error will also occur if another user or application has the folder selected. The workaround is to select another directory, then right-click on the folder you want to delete and run the delete command. This limitation will be addressed in a future release. (8409)
• The source code preservation employed when switching from Design mode back to Edit mode is limited. Sometimes tag or attribute case is changed, and white space may be altered. Allaire is working with Microsoft on these issues for the next version of DHTMLEdit.
• When you first run the Validator, there is a brief delay while the validation engine caches tag data.
• IntelliMouse support requires the latest drivers Microsoft drivers. You can download them from www.microsoft.com/products/hardware/mouse/driver/.
• The Microsoft Office spell checker crashes if you select the "English (Australian)" dictionary. The only work-arounds are to use the integrated spell checker or to select another dictionary, such as "English (United Kingdom)".
• In some cases filenames are duplicated in the Local File list after changes to the following checkboxes in the "Options > Settings > General" tab:
  - 'Flag read only files in the file list'
  - 'Dynamically refresh file list when changes occur in current directory'
  The workaround is to right mouse click on any file in the list and select the Refresh command. This problem will be addressed in a future release. (9000)

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