[ANN] Smile 1.8.3 available.
[ANN] Smile 1.8.3 available.
- Subject: [ANN] Smile 1.8.3 available.
- From: Emmanuel <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 12:40:55 +0200
Smile 1.8.3 (Classic) is now available. All known bugs of Smile were fixed.
Among its new features, Smile 1.8.3 includes a significantly more powerful
"Find", introducing:
- Replace [once] / Replace then Find
- Count [occurrences]
- Word Only
- Regular Expressions (the "Find" dialog includes a quick help about R.E.)
- Multi-File Search now running in the background
- more than one Multi-File Search possibly running simultaneously
Also:
- More power to handle list of lists or tabulated strings as tables.
- Improved "Report Scripting Anomalies", the unique feature of Smile for
diagnosing a compiled script. It's a good idea to use it before running any
newly written script, except if you never make mistakes.
- More conversions: now Mac string <-> Window string.
Some new goodies are available. We mention here "Catalog", a tool (a
dialog) which lists the whole contents of any folder or set of folders. Why
"Catalog"? Because:
- it runs in the background
- it can be stopped
- it does not use recursion - whence virtually no size limit.
"Catalog" includes instructions to easily implement any other process [than
just listing names] to be applied to the whole contents of a folder (or
disk). "Catalog"'s technique relies on a rich new "notify ... with delay"
command.
The new "Find" actually rely on the new "find text" and "change" commands,
which belong to the "Satimage" 1.8 osax (ships with Smile 1.8.3). So they
may be used from any applet.
The current best download resource for Smile is our "satimage" iDisk,
available by iTools or at <
http://homepage.mac.com/satimage/>. Check the
whole "What's New" there. Note that the download of Smile 1.8.3 is
currently twofold: Smile 1.8.2, then a minor upgrade 1.8.2 -> 1.8.3.
Enjoy!
Best regards,
Emmanuel