New Features

The current version is 1.1.0. See the product features for more information about the key features of this product.

Find & Replace It! 1.1.0 (2010-06-24)

Application

  • Speed up preview's rendering
  • Improve the startup time dramatically, especially when a large document is loaded in the preview
  • Speed up FRI files loading especially when they contain a lot of file filters or a large document for previewing
  • Enhance the responsiveness when editing the text to search for
  • Heurisitic for detection of Windows code pages (windows-1250 to 1257)
  • Add syntax highlighting for PHP and Java
  • Improved tool for searching text in text zones
  • Add actions to Tools menu for the 'Find & replace Preview' window
  • Add possibility to close all opened document in the preview window
  • Enhance the notion of current document: asks for saving document on quit, displays the name of the current document in the window title.
  • Fix potential desynchronization of the regexp validation
  • Fixed potential invalidation of the activation key
  • Keep the state of undo/redo synchronized between regexp's editor and the text field containing the text to search for

 

Find & Replace It! 1.0.0 (2010-06-14)

Documentation

  • Update of the User Manual: more details about charset detection, documentation on new activation system, addition to text display formatting, miscellanous updates.
  • Add new examples of replacement capabilities
  • Add many examples of file encoding

Installation

  • Introduction of zero install for Mac (no more installer)
  • Update installation instructions for Mac OS X
  • Change the name of the bundle on Mac OS X
  • The Windows distribution now depends on the MSVC runtime and not anymore on MinGW (faster and smaller binaries)
  • Add documention for customizing the installation

Application

  • New charset detection: much more faster, more reliable (especially for distinguishing latin languages),  detects arabic's and cyrilic encodings, scans attributes of XML and HTML documents for charset's information.
  • The view of the list of files has been totally rewriten in order to encrease its speed. It now supports many thousands of files without noticeable performances regression.
  • Add a new syntax support for strings to search for. This syntax is called Wildcard Unix. It is similar to wildcard syntax but allows to escape special chars within a string to search for.
  • Add a limited support for syntax highlighting in the 'Find & Replace Preview'. Currently, supported languages are C/C++, C#, XML, HTML, JavaScript
  • Add a preferences panel
  • The state of many buttons is now updated depending on their availability.
  • Improve some english translations
  • Display a splashscreen while loading
  • Fix miscellanous bugs making impossible to change the zoom or the font in a given text editor
  • Use a fixed width font by default in all plain text editors
  • Enhancement of some icons
  • Enhancement of the About dialog
  • Fix empty vertical headers in some tabular views
  • Save and restore font formatting for text editors
  • Add possibility to restore default font in text editors
  • Significant enhancement of the licence management system
  • New activation window / introduction of temporary activation for trial
  • Fix a desynchronization of the regular expressions editor when using undo/redo in the 'Find' text field
  • Remove the text encoding named System from the list of available codecs
  • Possibillity to interrupt the file detection with the Escape key (or with the menu or button)
  • Automaticaly open the output window when a search operation is done
  • Support for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Support for Kubuntu 10.04 LTS (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Support for fedora 13 (32-bit)
  • Dropped support for openSuse (temporarily)
  • Dropped support for Ubuntu <10.04
  • Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and enhancements

 

Find & Replace It! 0.7.3 (2010-02-21)

Installation

  • Add missing library (libQtXmlPatterns.so.4.6.1) in Linux installer.

Application

  • Fix a bug when selecting a codec for a multi-selection if the list of files is ordered by "Encoding"
  • Fix a bug in the list of acceptable codecs. The blue lights were not drawn as expected.
  • Fix a bug that prevents a proper initialization of the preview window when loading a FRI file.
  • Fixed linking problem with libstdc++6 under Ubuntu 8.04 32-bit

 

Find & Replace It! 0.7.2 (2010-02-11)

Documentation

  • Update of the User Manual: fixed broken links, minor updates.

Installation

  • Update product description in Linux installer.
  • Fixed strings encoding in Windows installer for French language

Application

  • Fix a bug that prevents from loading the FRI files at startup (i.e. launch the application from a double-clic on file)
  • Add credits to icon authors
  • Change ambigious message in the activation window
  • List of found files more responsive when handling many thousands of files
  • Update product description in about box
  • Update french translation

 

Find & Replace It! 0.7.1 (2010-02-01)

Documentation

  • Update of the User Manual:
    • Add documentation for manipulating the UI
    • Update some screenshots
    • Better documentation for using the 'Find & Replace Preview' panel
    • Add a chapter about installation instructions
    • Add a chapter about licensing information
    • Other minor additions
  • New examples of FRI files have been added. All examples have been updated, scripts have been documented, all examples of replacements are acompanied with test file for preview purpose.
  • Update of the End User License Agreement
  • Update of the readme file

Installation

  • Add a copy of the LGPL license for Qt (never embedded in any installer due to a spelling mistake)
  • Remove some useless dll from installer on Windows

Application

  • Fixed issues when opening FRI files when the running language is set to French
    The type of line-endings was not saved in FRI files
  • It is now possible to reload the file in the preview with a given encoding
  • Open/save 'Find & Replace Preview' FRI file now works properly on active preview
  • Add a mention to the Qt license in the about dialog
  • Fix unexpected behaviour of the preview after closing the default tab
  • Add 'simple text' syntax to filters syntax (as default)
  • Fixed crash with Flash on Windows
  • Fix a limitation that prevents from loading some FRI files properly when the running language is not English
  • Progress bars were not updated when the the windows were resized
  • New version of FRI format with miscellaneous additions
  • Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and enhancements

 

Find & Replace It! 0.7.0 (2010-01-06)

Documentation

  • Update of the User Manual: new features, new screenshots, minor additions.

Application

  • New GUI:
    • it's easier to show/hide dockable windows
    • it's now possible to choose the component that occupies the main content area
    • you'are allowed to define four different layouts for your windows, each of them is avaible in just a click.
  • Add a recent files menu
  • The HTML Viewer component crashed under Mac OS X when unloading flash content (when the 'Enable plugins' option was marked).
  • Possibility to access the path of the file being processed through JavaScript
  • Fix a bug  that prevent from being notified when new releases are available under some circumstances
  • It is now possible to preselect the preferred codec for the preview (the active codec of the preview is used as preferred codec)
  • Little enhancement in preferred codec selection when processing Unicode files
  • Add support for Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Add support for Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard"
  • Add support for Ubuntu 9.10
  • Add support for Linux 64-bit (tested under Ubuntu 9.10)
  • Remove support for Mac OS X 10.3
  • Remove support for Windows NT 4.0
  • Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and enhancements

 

Find & Replace It! 0.6.1 (2009-08-23)

Installation

  • Demo version was accidentally disabled for fresh installs on Mac OS X.

Application

  • The 'Regular Expression Editor' provides new entities for representing Unicode and ASCII characters.
  • The components of the 'Regular Expression Editor' have a more intuitive focus policy.
  •  Under some rare circumstances, keywords of regular expressions were not highlighted.

 

Find & Replace It! 0.6.0 (2009-08-21)

Documentation

  • Update of the User Manual: new features, new screenshots, minor additions.
  • New examples of FRI files are shipped with the software.
  • Readme file has been updated
  • Installation file has been updated

Installation

  • Add support for PowerPC architecture (Mac Universal Binary)
  • The FindReplaceIt.app bundle (Mac OS X) now has a proper Info.plist wich includes a vesrion number, correct bundle identifier, document icon  association for FRI files and so on
  • Add new tested platforms to the installation guide (install.txt)
  • Making Find & Replace It! the default application for FRI files did not work on MS Windows
  • New design for Windows and Linux installers

Application

  • The 'Regular Expression Editor' now provides syntax highlighting for regular expressions. It also highlights scopes when entering or exiting one of them with the cursor.
  • The 'Find and Replace Preview' window provides a new HTML viewer.
  • The activation window can be properly resized on Mac OS X.
  • The names of encodings are ordered in a more intuitive way (case insensitive).
  • The About window (sheet) now has a Close button to be compliant with the GUI guidelines of Mac OS X.
  • The extra rows where not removed from components of type list when loading a FRI file.
  • The list of found files is now refreshed asynchronously when editing the search path. This prevents freezing the GUI when entering in a big directory.
  • Binary files are now detected in order to heavily increase performance when detecting text encoding and end-of-line. This prevents freezing the GUI when processing DVD images, archives and others huge files.
  • The software updates are now detected at startup and can be checked on demand.
  • Openning other files than FRI in the 'Find and Replace Preview' editor was accidentally disabled in release 0.5.1.
  • The 'Regular Expression Editor' now handles properly undo/redo.
  • The 'Find and Replace Preview' window is automatically shown when necessary.
  • The 'Find and Replace Preview' window can be saved and retored through FRI files.
  • Numerous enhancements for making the GUI more responsive when doing intensive CPU tasks.
  • Miscellaneous enhancements to the GUI, including dockable 'Regular Expression Editor', new icons, etc.

 

Find & Replace It! 0.5.1 (2009-08-06)

Documentation

  • Add documentation about regular expression editor
  • Fix page numbering mistake within the user manual table of content
  • Minor documentation enhancements
  • Add an example of Find and Replace Control Panel file with a scripting  demo
  • Add a readme file with detailed license information.

Installation

  • Installer for Linux distributions (auto-extractible archive with GUI installer; no debian or rpm package)
  • Enhancements to installation guide (install.txt)
  • Associate Find & Replace It! as default application for *.fri files (under Linux and Windows only)

Application

  • Fix 'File/Save As...' command that didn't work
  • Add web links to the 'Help' menu
  • Add syntax validation to the 'Regular Expression Editor' (wildcard and regular expression syntax)
  • Add tooltips for regular expression entities to the 'Regular Expression Editor'
  • Intelligent line wrapping within the 'Regular Expression Editor' (based on expression syntax)
  • Common file extension (.fri) for all Find & Replace It! UI files.
  • Enhancement of the 'About' window layout
  • Better default windows layout (especially for laptop screens)
  • Better resizing policy for columns within some tabular areas
  • Can open a Find & Replace It! UI file (.fri) from the command line
  • Unregistered users can now open UI files (.fri)
  • Miscellaneous minor bug fixes and enhancements

 

Find & Replace It! 0.5.0 (2009-07-06)

First public release of Find & Replace It!