New features in version 7.6.1

February 16, 2010
Free upgrade for registered users

Tree
* Added: the menu items 'Format/Convert/To Uppercase', 'Format/Convert/To Lowercase', 'Format/Convert/To Sentence case', 'Format/Convert/To Title case' and 'Format/Convert/Invert case' can now be applied to the title of the current tree node as well (when the tree has focus but not while you are editing a node title).

Templates
* Added: a new template called 'Book collection'. You can use it through "Menu: File/New/Other...".

Hyperlinks
* Bugfix: hyperlinks to .htmhjt TreePad files would always open a new TreePad instance, regardless of what was specified in the settings screen. This is now fixed. Hyperlinks to .htmhjt files now behave in exactly the same way as links to .hjt and .tpd TreePad files.

Format
* Improved: the case-conversion options in 'Menu: Format/Convert' now also work on characters inside the upper half of the extended ascii character table (the Windows ISO-1252 character table). This includes letters such as 'a' with grave, 'a' with acute, 'c' with cedilla, the letter 'ae', etc.

Settings
* The settings file 'tpsettings.ini' has been renamed to 'tpplus.ini' to avoid interference with the manual.
* Note for upgrading users: if you have enabled the option 'store settings in an ini file', you need to rename the file 'tpsettings.ini' inside the program directory to 'tpplus.ini' if you want to keep your original settings.

Website export
* Bugfix: the title (text inside the title frame) of the exported Website (inside the Website export dialog) is no longer converted to lowercase when loading it from a Website template file, or when 'store settings in an ini file' is enabled (inside the TreePad settings screen).
* Improved: nodes containing xml-forms are now also exported to Website (you now see the actual contents of the form in your Webbrowser without any xml codes).

Toolbar
* The icons for history-forward and history-back have been updated.
* The icons for tree navigation have been updated.

New features in version 7.5.3

January 30, 2009
Free upgrade for registered users

Multi-monitor support
* Added: a button to the 'View' toolbar which enables one to send TreePad to a different monitor. Up to eight monitors are supported. This feature only works when you have two or more monitors connected to your computer, and Windows needs to have the option 'Extend my Windows destkop onto this monitor' enabled for the additional monitors in the control panel.

Install/uninstall
* Added: automatic uninstaller icon to the TreePad program group (only visible after using install.exe)
* Added: an entry inside the Windows control panel (category 'add remove programs') which can activate the automatic TreePad uninstaller. Please note that this control panel entry is only visible after previously having used install.exe to install TreePad PLUS.

Skins
* Changed: skin 'Purple' has been renamed to 'Purple 1'.
* Added: a new skin called 'Purple 2'.
* Improved: the looks of the skins 'Purple 1', 'Blue Sky', 'Blue metallic' and 'Green'.

Keyboard shortcuts
* Added: Ctrl+Alt+L shows the font color dialog.
* Added: Ctrl+F7, when the article has focus, the article statistics screen is shown.

Compatibility
* Improved: both the installer and the program itself should now be compatible with all available DEP settings in Windows Vista and Windows XP (DEP = Data Execution Prevention and can be found in the Windows control panel).

License
* Added: the first time you start TreePad PLUS it asks you to read and officially accept the EULA or 'end user license'.

Bugfixes
* Fixed: access violation when TreePad closes on Windows shutdown.
* Several bugfixes related to the 'Insert hyperlink' screen.
* Various other smaller bugfixes and improvements.

Obsolete features
* Removed: advanced mode, basic mode, viewer mode. TreePad PLUS now exclusively runs in advanced mode.

New features in version 7.4

November 23, 2007
Free upgrade for registered users

Format menu
* Added: Menu: Format/Convert/Invert case

Website export
* Added: new options for the title frame. On can set the title to: (1) the caption of the most fundamental node (in the exported Website), (2) the title in the metatags section, (3) a custom text See: the category 'title' in the Website export screen.
* Added: an option to set the meta-title to (1) the title of the first exported node (root node of exported Website) or (2) a custom text.
* Bugfix: node hyperlinks inserted into .hjt files using older Treepad edition are now exported correctly to website as well.
* Bugfix: file hyperlinks are now exported including forward slashes (instead of backslashes).

Settings
* Bugfix: the article background color was not always stored correctly

Manual:
* The manual is no longer included in the download package, it can be downloaded from:
http://www.treepad.com/docs/tpp/
To install the manual, just download the file tpp_manual.exe and copy it into the program's directory. After this it can be opened (from inside TreePad) by clicking Menu: Help/Manual. The manual runs by itself, it has its own built-in viewer. You can also start it by double clicking on the file tpp_manual.exe.
* Added: Menu: Help/Online manual. This opens the online edition of the manual, which resides on www.treepad.com/docs/tpp/manual inside your default Webbrowser.

Portability and Registration
* Added: one can now load/save registration number to/from a text file (just right-click on the textarea in the registration screen).
* Added: when running the program from a USB drive on a non-registered computer, the program still shows the registration screen, but now the registration screen is pre-loaded with your registration number (from the text file "tpreg.txt" which is created after entering your registration number once).
In other words, when running the program from USB drive on an unregistered computer you will no longer have to (1) open a file containing the registration number in a separate program, (2) select it, and (3) copy/paste it into the registration screen. All that is now done automatically.
* Improved: new registration reminder screen.

Language packs
* Improved: various screens, texts and buttons have been widened to accomodate for the - often - larger size of translated words and phrases.

New features in version 7.3.5

October 27, 2006
Free upgrade for registered users

Icons
* Added: context menu for icons pane

Bookmarks pane
* Added: Menu: Bookmarks/Activate bookmark
* Added: context menu for bookmarks pane

Tree
* Added: One can now copy the text-formatting of a tree node. (Menu: Tree/Copy/Formatting node or Tree context menu: Copy/Node formatting)
* Added: To apply the text-formatting (just copied) to another node, click Menu: Tree/Paste/Formatting/Into node (or Tree context menu: Paste/Formatting/Into node)
* Added: a new function to copy the node path to the Windows clipboard. Menu: Tree/Copy/Node path (or Tree context menu: Copy/Node path)

Icons
* Bugfix: error message when adding icon to icon library: 'Internal error: TreePad Library 01"

Settings
* Bugfix: the article background color was not always stored correctly

Compatibility
* Improved: TreePad PLUS is now compatible with Windows Vista.

New features in version 7.3.1

September 13, 2006
Free upgrade for registered users

Export
* Improved export of subtree to single HTML file

Settings
* Several minor bugfixes

New features in version 7.3

August 31, 2006
Free upgrade for registered users

Settings screen
* Added: a new category TreePad/Settings in which one can choose to store settings in the Windows registry (default) or in an .ini file.
* Added: if the 'ini file' option is enabled, an option to remove information from the registry is shown. If this last option is enabled, then each time TreePad stores its settings in the ini file, it also looks at the registry and if neccessary settings will be removed from the registry.
* Added: when TreePad detects that an ini file is present it will ignore the registry and load/store settings exclusively from/to the ini file.

Website export
* Improved: totally renewed Website export with much nicer looking static tree pane.

Database
* Improved: after opening a .tpd file, the file date of the .tpd file is no longer affected. Only after saving the file (or inserting images/icons) will the file date of the .tpd file be updated accordingly.

New features in version 7.2

August 14, 2005
Free upgrade for registered users

Website export
* Added: one can now include meta tags (description, keywords and title) inside the generated Website. Please see the category 'metatags' in the Website export dialog.
* Added: the state of the Website export screen can be saved to an external template (.ini) file. Category: 'template'.
* Added: one can also load settings from an external template (.ini) file into the Website export screen. Category: 'template'.
* Added: the category 'miscellaneous' contains a field showing the current Website export directory.
* Added: an option to create (or not create) a numbered file for each exported article. Enable this option when you want your Website to be compatible with TreePad 6.x generated Websites regarding links (from outside the generated Website) directly pointing to articles (inside the generated Website). See the Website export screen, category 'Miscellaneous'.
* Added: Website export now includes image hyperlinks

Export and import
* Added: menu/file/export/TreePad conversion utilities
* Added: subtree export to single html file now includes image hyperlinks

Hyperlinks
* Added: image hyperlinks are now supported. This means that images can contain hyperlinks (to nodes, www, ftp, file, etc.). To create or edit a hyperlink associated with an image, just click on the image, then click menu/edit/hyperlink or menu/insert/hyperlink

Tree node icons
* Bugfix: some tree node icons did not retain their colors correctly. This is fixed in the current release, for icons which are newly applied to a tree node.

Miscellaneous improvements
* Bugfix: table-cell shading is now correctly displayed.

Language
* Added: menu/view/language/language pack version. This shows the version number of the currently installed active language pack. If a newer version of the language pack is available, you can download it from http://www.treepad.com/language_packs/

New features in version 7.1.3

December 06, 2004
Free upgrade for registered users

Export and import
* Added: menu/file/export/TreePad conversion utilities

Improvements and bugfixes
* Bugfix: the shortcut keys ctrl-alt-F, ctrl-alt-K, ctrl-alt-S are now also freed for multi-lingual use when ctrl-alt shortcuts are disabled (corresponding to altgr on many keyboards) in the options screen (menu/view/options, category 'shortcut keys').
* Bugfix: menu/icons/save current icon library as...

New features in version 7.1.2

October 22, 2004
Free upgrade for registered users

Improvements and bugfixes
* Bugfix: shortcut CTRL-d now functions again to collapse the subtree (all levels)
* Improved: CTRL-ALT-v (paste node name from article selection) now also functions when the tree does not have focus
* Bugfix: on a small number of systems the error message 'Protection error number 89' occured on program startup. This now is fixed
* Function temporarily removed: the database repair/optmize function is no longer available for .tpz files (.hjt databases) due to a problem related to the third-party libarary routines for repairing zip files. Note: nothing changes for .tpd files, this function remains available for .tpd databases.

New features in version 7.1
compared to version 6.5.3:

October 19, 2004
Free upgrade for registered users

New database format
* TreePad PLUS/SAFE/BIZ/Viewer versions 7.x support a new and improved type of database format.
* The corresponding file-name extension for the new database format is '.tpd' which stands for 'TreePad Database'.
* The new database format can store all images, tree-nodes, articles and icons inside a file single file.
* The .tpd database format offers improved speed during image storage and retrieval, especially with larger databases containing many images, or large images.
* The new .tpd database format offers improved reliability when storing images and icons.

Recycle bin
* Added: recycle bin (menu/tools/recycler, and the recycler button on the file toolbar)
* Unused images and icons are shown in the recycle bin. To permanently delete one or more images/icons, select them, and click the button 'wipe selected'.
* Images and icons which are unused, can be salvaged through the export function ('export selected').
* The recycle bin is available for .tpd as well as .hjt databases
* The recycle bin provides one additional step in the deletion of images and icons from the database, adding an additional measure of security.

Skins
* Added: one can now switch between ten skins to adjust the appearance of TreePad's toolbars. Menu/view/skin or toolbar popup-menu/skin.
The following skins are available: classic, silver 1, silver 2, blue sky, blue metallic, chrome, aluminium, vanilla, purple and green. The 'classic' skin corresponds to how the program looked during the last few years.

Multi-language support
* Added: menu/view/language enabling you to run TreePad in your own language. After installing a 'TreePad Language Pack', TreePad's menus, buttons, texts, messages will appear in that language. You can switch to another language (or back to English) while TreePad runs through menu/view/language.
* Added: a new page to TreePad.com, www.treepad.com/language_packs/ where you can download TreePad language packs.
* Currently available: Dutch. We are working on: German, Portuguese, French, Spanish.

Database
* For databases for which the total size of all texts (node titles and articles) is larger than 20 Mb, a warning message is shown that the database exceeds the maximum recommended size. The message is shown only after the first file-save action (during a file-session). In other words, consecutive file-save actions will not show this message anymore, until the file is loaded again, or a new file is loaded which also is larger than 20 Mb.
* Added: menu/tools/optimize database, which can reduce the size of a database by removing unused space. This function can also repair a database in case it is damaged.
* Added: auto-repair for encrypted .hjt files. If your encrypted/password-protected .hjt file gets damaged by whatever factor (bad disk sectors, corrupt zip files, computer crashes), in most cases, version 7.x will still read and display the non-damaged parts of your data file.
* Added: improved filtering of non-text characters (such as EOF or h00) when reading a .hjt database or articles/nodes from a .tpd database. Should a non-valid text character occur in one of your articles or nodes, it will now be removed from the data stream before the database is loaded into memory.
* The speed and reliability of .hjt/.tpz databases has improved.
* .htmhjt databases now also can contain images and icons.

"New file" menu
* Changed: menu/file/new has been restructured. Now with menu/file/new/TreePad database one creates a new .tpd database. The file template menus have been moved to the new 'Create new TreePad database' dialog.
* Added: menu/file/new/other will show the dialog 'Create new TreePad database', which facilitates the creation of a new .tpd, .hjt or .htmhjt database, as well as the creation of template-based databases.

Backups
* Added: TreePad now can automatically create multiple (numbered) safety copies (.bak files) after each file/save (optional). A safety copy is a copy of the current file, which is placed before each file save in the same directory as the current file. The first safety-copy has extension .bak, as usual. The next safety copies have extensions .bak002, .bak003, etc. You can now specify how many safety copies are created before the oldest copy is overwritten.

Tree
* Added to subtree statistics dialog (menu/tree/statistics): the full path of the current node
* Improved: subtree statistics now also shows a list displaying the number of nodes for each level of the subtree.
* added to node properties screen, when the tab 'stamp' is active: a "copy node GUID" button, which copies the GUID of the node to the clipboard.
* Improved: during copy/paste of subtrees, hyperlinks to nodes inside the copy/pasted subtrees are now preserved .

Article
* Added to article statistics dialog (menu/edit/article statistics): the full path of the current article (node)
* Added: a new topic in the manual on entering the Euro symbol

Search
* The speed of the tree-search has been improved for databases containing many images or large images.

Conversion to/from .hjt files
* To convert an existing .hjt/.tpz TreePad database to the new .tpd file format, use menu/file/saveas, and select 'TreePad 7.x database'.
* To convert a .tpd TreePad database to the old .hjt file format, use menu/file/save as, and select 'TreePad 6.x file'.

Icons
* Improved: the process of inserting and deleting icons in the icons pane can now be cancelled.
* Improved: ordering the icons in the icons pane through drag-drop has been improved, made faster and more reliable.
* Added: you can now also save the current icon library under a different file name, through menu/icons/save current library as.

Compatibility
* You can open your existing .hjt/.tpz files as usual through menu/file/open
* You can save your existing .hjt/tpz files as usual through menu/file/save and menu/file/save as.

Options
* Added: an option to disable ctrl-alt shortcuts (corresponding to altgr on many keyboards). This will free up all altgr keys for inserting special characters into the article and tree. Please see menu/view/options, category 'shortcut keys'. * Added: 'show full node path in status bar' (options screen, category 'TreePad').
* Added, shortcut for inserting the title of the current node into the article: Shift+Ctrl+W

Import and export
* Added: subtree export to single RTF file can now include a page break after each article (optional)
* Improved: export of subtrees to single RTF file (when containing images) has been speeded up considerably
* Added: progress-bar display for export to single HTML, RTF, HJT and text file of subtree
* Added: export to single RTF, HTML, HJT and TXT file can now be cancelled by user
* Export of subtree to single HTML file now preserves hyperlinks to nodes/articles.
* Hyperlinks to nodes inside the imported TreePad files (imported as subtrees) are now preserved .

Manual
* New in version 7.1 The manual has been restructured, and updated to include the features from the 7.1 release.

Website export
* Added: improved lay-out of exported Website. Articles can be displayed as page-sheets inside the article frame.
* Added: option 'show page' to the Website export dialog (category article/page). If enabled, a page sheet is shown. If disabled, the article text is shown directly in the article frame without a page sheet.
* Added: one can specify page-width in px or percentages, outer margins, inner margins (padding), page color, page border color, page border width, page background color, page background image (separately from the article-frame settings).
* Added: a page can be centered in the article frame (as an alternative to specifying left and right outer margins).
* Added: one can adjust the border color of the navigate panel (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
* Added: inclusion HTML page headers and footers (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
* New online example illustrating TreePad's new Web-generation capabilities: http://www.freebyte.com/disktective/manual)
* Added: links to article-anchors inside other articles are now preserved during export to Website
* Changed: when exporting from .tpd file to Website, the file names of the articles now are not numbered anymore (such as "21.html"). Each exported article now has a file name of 45 characters long (for example "10B24DD90C24475EE91B947631BC4EC0CA552251.html").
* Added: Website export from .tpd files now also includes numbered HTML files which are very small. These files correspond with the numbered article HTML article files created by version 6.x. Each numbered HTML file redirects to the real article document with the 45-character file name. This prevents links from outside to numbered article documents (originally created by version 6.x) to become broken when updating the Website with version 7.x.
* Added: a file 'index2.html' is created, which contains a static version of the tree (index.html contains the dynamic version), but only when the dynamic tree export enabled.
* The default export directory for tree icons no longer is 'icons', but now is 'tpicons' to avoid potential conflicts with Apache Webservers when a TreePad-generated Website is placed in the root of the domain/Website which is hosted by the Apache Webserver.
* The export directory for tree icons can be altered in the Website export screen, category 'tree'.

Print
* Added: subtree print (through the default RTF program) can include a page break after each article (optional)
* Improved: the printing speed of subtrees when containing images has been improved considerably (when printing through an external RTF program) .
* Added: progress-bar display when printing a subtree through the Webbrowser
* Added: printing of subtree through Webbrowser or external RTF program can now be cancelled by user

Hyperlinks
* Added: auto-URL detection for pasting hyperlinks, and for typing http hyperlinks (disabled by default, can be turned on in the options screen)
* Added: 'confirm execution of command hyperlinks' (options screen, category 'Hyperlinks').
* Added: it is now also possible to link to anchors inside external TreePad files (see Inserting a hyperlink to an external anchor)

Startup
* Improved: all the files in the favorites-list are now also included in the startup file-selection box (in addition to the list of most recent files).

New features in version 6.5.3
compared to version 6.4.1:

December 05, 2003.
Free upgrade for registered users

Tree
* Added: menu/tree/checked, shortcut ctrl+alt+K, and popup tree/checked to quickly change the 'checked' state a node checkmark. Note: the 'checked' menu options are only visible if the checkmark of the selected node is set to be visible in the tree pane (this can be done through the node properties dialog).

Hyperlinks
* Added: it is now also possible to link to anchors inside external TreePad files (see Inserting a hyperlink to an external anchor)
* Added: one can now insert anchors (markers) into the article, menu/insert/anchor (advanced mode).
* Added: anchors can be shown or hidden (article display options, menu/view/options)
* Added: links to anchors within the same article. Menu/insert/hyperlink, choose 'link type' anchor.
* Added: links to anchors in another article. Menu/insert/hyperlink, choose 'link type' node, then select the anchor in the anchor combo (only visible if target article contains anchors).
* Added: menu/navigate/goto anchor to move the cursor to the anchor and scroll the article if necessary
* Added: new powerful hyperlink type 'command' for executing Windows commands with command-line parameters (you can even start and stop Windows NT/2000/XP services with it).

Printing
* Improved: the printing speed of subtrees when containing images has been improved considerably (when printing through an external RTF program) .
* Added: progress-bar display when printing a subtree through the Webbrowser
* Added: printing of subtree through Webbrowser or external RTF program can now be cancelled by user

Export
* Added: links to article-anchors inside other articles are now preserved during export to Website
* Improved: export of subtrees to single RTF file (when containing images) has been speeded up considerably
* Added: progress-bar display for export to single HTML, RTF, HJT and text file of subtree
* Added: export to single RTF, HTML, HJT and TXT file can now be cancelled by user

Article and draftpad
* New table properties dialog. When the cursor is inside a table, menu/table/table properties will show the table properties dialog. It allows changing the color, borders, alignment, etc. of existing tables.
* Improved: the Table create dialog remembers table width, number of columns and number of rows.
* Added: when created using a template node, a new article will take over the background color of template article
* Fix: sticky scrollbar problem fixed

User-interface
* Improved: progress bar now also displays progress-percentage

Options
* Added: new screen mode option use double buffer. When enabled, this option reduces screen flicker if necessary.

New features in version 6.4.1
compared to version 6.3:

October 09, 2003
Free upgrade for registered users

Export to Website
* New: much improved Website export screen with many new powerful functions
* Added: web export is now accesible through a separate menu item, menu/file/export/subtree to Website
* Improved: exported tree icons are now transparent
* Added: tabs are exported to spaces
* Added: the file date of the exported file is the same as the 'date of last change' of the node
* Added: if article is loaded without parent frame in a Web browser, clicking on the 'first' navigation panel link will reload the site in its frame
* Added: export of background color of individual articles to HTML (optional)
* Added: button which opens the TreePad.com website promotion page
* Added: menu/help/promote/your Website which also opens the TreePad.com website promotion page
* Added: resizable HTML pane in dynamic tree (biz only)
* Added: background images are automatically copied to export directory
* Added: 'made with TreePad seal' for optional inclusion in exported Website
* Added: specify font-size for tree, article, title-frame, etc. in points
* Added: color dialogs for specifying colors

Import/export
* Added: export article and subtree to RTF now includes the highlight/background font color
* Improved: export article and subtree to RTF now includes images embedded into file (instead of externally referenced images)
* Added: export subtree to XML, including a choice of articles as plain text, html, or RTF (including images embedded into the RTF data)
* Bugfix: fonts and colors are now correctly exported to single RTF file (from subtree)

User-interface
* Improved: TreePad now starts faster
* Bugfix: global system-wide activation shortcut is now remembered after full screen

Registration and upgrading
* Added: menu/help/Upgrade - Check for new versions, (registered mode only) which enables you to check for the latest versions, downloads and updates.

Search
* Improved: brand new tree-search screen
* Added: case sensitive search
* Added: sort search results + sort reverse by clicking on search results column headers
* Added: progressbar in tree search dialog

Options
* Added: enable/disable confirmation dialogs for most actions (this excludes confirmation dialogs for tree-node delete, and import directory recursively)
* Added: specify default line width in options screen for menu/insert/horizontal line
* Added: show/hide path of favourites
* Added: the click area of a node can now be extended beyond node title to the width of the tree
* Added: shortcuts 'esc' and 'enter' as 'Cancel' and 'OK' for options screen

Hyperlinks and auto-dial
* Added: hyperlink to node in external TreePad file: in the hyperlink edit/insert screen add a question mark, then the ID of the target node
* Added: file hyperlinks context menu with the shell file-functions: open, edit, open with, properties, print, explore
* Improved: double click on a node in the hyperlink node-select screen = close with 'OK'
* Improved: the size of the node-select screen is remembered
* Added: alt-u functions to toggle 'custom link text' in hyperlink edit/insert screen

Article
* Added: one can now set the background color of individual articles through the article properties screen
* Added: menu/format/convert soft returns into hard returns now also available in TreePad PLUS and SAFE as well
* Improved: format/remove spaces and returns now also removes soft returns
* Added: article ctrl-up and ctrl-down scrolls the article up or down
* Improved: The article selection is now kept after clicking 'Apply' or 'OK' in the options screen
* Bugfix: Page settings (page size, margins) are now correctly displayed after opening a new article
* Added: menu/edit/statistics now also available for a selected block of text
* Improved: new 'create table' dialog with many new options (border color, border width, etc.)
* Improved: image deletion logic
* Added: article line numbers, optional (menu/view/options)
* Added: vertical article ruler, optional (menu/view/options)
* Improved: creating nested lists of bullets (outlines) has been improved

Images
* Improved: pasted bitmaps and pasted bitmap screenshots display much better

Icons
* Changed: the default icon library is not loaded at startup anymore, but is loaded the first time you click on the 'icons' tab
* Added: the icon of the selected node now is displayed in the article button

Accessory pane
* Added: menu/navigate/clear history
* Improved: history back/forward logic
* Added: select and delete multiple bookmarks in one go
* Added: progress bar when loading an icon library
* Added: export selected icons from icons pane to files (menu/icons/export)

Node properties
* Added: to 'node properties' screen: new node properties tab 'stamp'
* Added: fields for 'date-time changed' and 'user changed'
* Added: fields for 'date-time created' and 'user created'
* Changed: field 'node ID' moved from tab 'general' to tab 'stamp'

eBooks
* Added: menu/help/promote/your TreePad eBook, which also opens the TreePad.com eBooks promotion page

New features in earlier versions

For new features in earlier versions of TreePad PLUS,
please see here