New features in earlier versions (TreePad PLUS, SAFE and Business Edition)

New features in earlier versions
(pre-October 2003)

New features in:

TreePad™ Business Edition 6.6.4
TreePad™ SAFE 6.6.4
TreePad™ PLUS 6.6.4

Export to Website

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)
Bugfix: hyperlinks to anchors in exported Website do not open in new Window anymore

Export

Added: subtree export to single RTF file can now include a page break after each article (optional)

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, http:⁄⁄www.treepad.com⁄language_packs⁄ where you can download TreePad language packs.
Currently available: Dutch. We are working on: German, Portuguese, French, Spanish.
More information: Multi-lingual user-interface

Print

Added: subtree print (through the default RTF program) can include a page break after each article (optional)

Tree

Added: menu⁄tree⁄expand⁄custom (shift+ctrl+G), which allows to expand the selected subtree up to a certain user-specified level. (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added to subtree statistics dialog (menu⁄tree⁄statistics): the full path of the current node

Icons

Added: menu⁄icons⁄Search-replace. Replaces all occurences of one icon (of all nodes in a subtree) with another icon (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

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

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').

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).

Options

Added: 'show full node path in status bar' (options screen, category 'TreePad').

Keyboard shortcuts

Added: quick formatting keyboard-shortcuts can be disabled - using the 'Configure Quick Formatting' screen (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added, shortcut for inserting the title of the current node into the article: Shift+Ctrl+W

New features in:

TreePad™ Business Edition 6.5.3
TreePad™ SAFE 6.5.3
TreePad™ PLUS 6.5.3

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)

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

New features in:

TreePad™ Business Edition 6.5.2
TreePad™ SAFE 6.5.2
TreePad™ PLUS 6.5.2

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: menu⁄format⁄quick format⁄add current format to add the format of the article text (in which the cursor resides) to the list of quick formattings. (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: new line-spacing tab to the quick formatting dialog (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: new paragraph-indentation tab to the quick formatting dialog (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: when created using a template node, a new article will take over the background color of template article
Fix: sticky scrollbar problem fixed

Hyperlinks

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).

Tree

Added: menu⁄tree⁄insert⁄duplicate which inserts an exact copy of the current node as sibling into the tree (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

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:

TreePad™ Business Edition 6.4.1
TreePad™ SAFE 6.4.1
TreePad™ PLUS 6.4.1

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: export checked and unchecked items (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: website navigation panel (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
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)
Added: select custom file extensions for import multiple documents recursively into tree (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
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: boolean search (equivalent to and, not, or) (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: regular expression search (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: online regular expression reference and tutorial page (accessible through the search screen) (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
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: one can dial a phone number which is not part of a hyperlink (select, then ctrl-H) (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
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
Added: menu⁄insert⁄link(s) to⁄new node, which creates a new node plus a hyperlink to the new node (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: menu⁄insert⁄link(s) to⁄previous node, which creates a hyperlink to the node you previously visited (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

Article and DraftPad

Added: menu⁄format⁄Quick Format, a list of user-definable quick formattings which can be applied to a selected block of text in the article or draftpad (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: menu⁄format⁄QuickFormat⁄Configure, to manage your own quick formatting styles (change, add, remove, order, sort) (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: shortcut keys Ctrl+Alt+1, 2...9 to apply a Quick Formatting Style to the selected text (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: menu⁄format⁄article properties
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: menu⁄edit⁄transfer to transfer the selected article-text to a new child node or a new sibling node (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
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
Added menu⁄edit⁄statistics for draftpad when draftpad has focus (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
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
Added: format painter and marker buttons (on format toolbar) now blink when activated (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

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' button or menu⁄view⁄icons
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: button which opens the TreePad.com eBooks promotion page
Added: menu⁄help⁄promote⁄your TreePad eBook, which also opens the TreePad.com eBooks promotion page

New features in

TreePad™ Business Edition 6.3,
TreePad™ SAFE 6.3,
TreePad™ PLUS 6.3

Icons

Added: menu⁄icons⁄apply icon to node
Added: menu⁄icons⁄apply icon to subtree
Added: icons tab in node properties screen with
- button apply icon of current node to subtree
- check box to make icon default for subtree
Added: menu⁄tree⁄copy⁄icon
Added: menu⁄tree⁄paste⁄icon
Added: menu⁄tree⁄paste⁄icon into subtree
Now also available in TreePad PLUS and TreePad SAFE:
- menu⁄icons⁄open icon library
- menu⁄icons⁄create new icon library
- menu⁄icons⁄open default icon library

For more information on icons, please see Node icons

User-interface

Added: support for Windows XP themes⁄skinning
Added: a large number of menu items now have icons
Added: buttons for spell check and thesaurus (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

Import⁄export

Added: import files into tree (menu⁄file⁄import⁄into tree) can now be recursive
Improved: in exported Websites, links to external sites are opened in a new frame
Improved: export to Web site of (relative) hyperlinks to files are exported to relative http hyperlinks
Added: export checked nodes only to Website (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: export to Web site can be canceled
Added: import files into tree (recursively) can be canceled
Added: export search results to TreePad file (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

Format

Improved: the function menu⁄format⁄remove leading spaces has been improved
Improved: the function menu⁄format⁄remove spaces and returns has been improved
Added: Format painter button (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

Copy⁄paste

Bugfix: pasting from Web pages which have images does not cause an error anymore

Fields

Added: field node path (menu⁄insert⁄field) (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

Convert

Added: convert selected block to plain text (menu⁄format⁄convert⁄to plain text)
Added: convert soft returns to hard returns (menu⁄format⁄convert⁄soft returns to hard returns) (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

Tree

Improved: tree numbering: now only descendant nodes are numbered (menu⁄tree⁄number subtree)

View

Added: layout (menu⁄view⁄layout): the article can be shown as one big sheet (normal layout), as one sheet with lines as page-separators, or as a collection of page-sheets
Added: viewer mode (menu⁄view⁄mode)
Improved: article and draftpad now have 'greyed' selection when not in focus.
Improved: the tab-array below the article has been replaced by a nicer looking array of buttons

Options

Added: show⁄hide menu icons (menu⁄view⁄options, category TreePad)
Improved: show⁄hide tree icons is now instant

New features in

TreePad™ Business Edition 6.2,
TreePad™ SAFE 6.2,
TreePad™ PLUS 6.2

Accessory pane

Added: drag⁄drop of text from the draftpad directly into the tree (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Improved: the height of each accessory pane (bookmarks, search results, draftpad, etc.) is remembered between sessions
Added: a draftpad pop up menu similar to the article context menu (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

Backups

Added: one can now specify the maximum count of numbered backups in the options screen (menu⁄view⁄options).
Improved: in the options screen, the '.bak' files option has been renamed to 'safety copy'.

General, miscellaneous

Added: an option to show the full file path+name in the title bar of the main window (menu⁄view⁄options)
Added: the system-wide shortcut (TreePad activation key) is now remembered when you restart TreePad.
Added: all web access menu items (like menu⁄help⁄download the latest TreePad version) now ask whether or not to access the Internet before opening the Web browser.

Import⁄export

Added: new tree import screen, menu⁄file⁄import⁄into tree
Added: direct import of Internet Explorer Favorites⁄folders and Windows links⁄folders into the tree (menu⁄file⁄import into tree)
Added: menu⁄insert⁄links to files now also supports the direct insertion of Windows and Internet Explorer shortcuts into the article

Copy⁄paste

Added: during auto paste the article ruler will blink
Improved: auto save is now disabled during auto paste, as indicated in the status bar
Added: copy image as clone shift+ctrl+Q
Added: paste image as clone shift+ctrl+P
Bug fix: when menu⁄format⁄paste formatting is applied to a hyperlink, it does not expose the URL anymore

Navigate

Added: menu⁄navigate⁄clear history (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

Run from floppy

Added: it is now possible to run TreePad directly from floppy, while entering the registration number only once for each computer.

Icons

Added: menu⁄icons⁄Open icon library, to open another icon library than the default one (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: menu⁄icons⁄Open default icon library, to open the default icon library (treepadlib.tpz) (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: menu⁄icons⁄Create new icon library to create a new icon library from scratch (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Improved: the speed of menu⁄add new icons and menu⁄remove selected icons has improved

Multi language support

DBCS mode (Asian fonts, experimental) for the article

Documentation

Updated Treepad PLUS⁄SAFE⁄Business Edition manual
Updated 'Basic manual'
Updated fileformat.txt document

New features in

TreePad™ Business Edition 6.1

TreePad™ SAFE 6.1

TreePad™ PLUS 6.1

HTML export

Added: export to dynamic HTML⁄Javascript tree pane with nodes which can be expanded⁄collapsed inside your Web browser. (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition). An example of a Web site with dynamic tree pane, generated using TreePad Business Edition, can be found here: www.treepad.com⁄docs⁄manual
Added: the dynamic HTML tree export feature exports the 'state' (whether it is expanded or collapsed) to dynamic tree pane (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: optional export to Web site of checked tree-nodes only (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: optional inclusion of HTML source-code anywhere within the article, by using $ (...)$
Added: optional modification of HTML body tag to be exported, by using $ (<body....>)$
Added: optional modification of HTML head section to be exported, by using $ ( <head>.....<⁄head>)$
Added: optional inclusion of Javascript code anywhere within the article, by using $(<script language=javascript>...<⁄script>)$
Added: HTML toolbar and HTML menu with the following functions (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
       quick export article
       quick export tree
       quick preview article as HTML source code
       quick preview article as HTML (in your default browser)
       quick preview (sub-)tree and respective article(s) as HTML
       insert html section: standard, body, head, Javascript

Automatic fields (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

Added: automatic fields. Using menu⁄insert⁄field you can insert fields into the article which update themselves automatically on print or article reload. Currently TreePad Business Edition supports the following field types:

date

time

date+time

the number of pages

the current page number

the previous page number

the next page number

the current paragraph number

the title of the current node

the title of the parent of the current node

the title of the previous or next sibling node

the current file name

the current file path

the current file name + path

Example for the field 'title of current node': when you change the name of the current node, that field is automatically updated with the new node name every time you print the article, or reload the article.

Search

Added article wildcard search: you can now search the article using ' * '
Improved: article search and article replace dialogs are now conveniently merged into a single dialog displaying two tabs (one for search, the other for replace)
Added: a number of convenient options to the article search and replace dialog box, as follows:
    search article:
          * option for case sensitive
          * search result: counts number of occurences found
          * start from cursor position
          * previous search texts available in combo box
          * search only only whole words
          * checkbox: "close dialogue when done"
    search-replace:
          * option for case sensitive
          * option for counting the number of replacements made
          * search-replace confirm window remembers position in search
          * search-replace confirm window has 'replace all' button
          * start from cursor position
          * previous search and replace texts available in combo box
          * count number of replacements made
          * replace⁄search only whole words
          * checkbox: "close dialogue when done"
Added: search-replace button for article in advanced mode

Hyperlinks

Added: shortcut for "copy node as hyperlink" (shift+ctrl+k)
Added: shortcut for "paste node as hyperlink" (shift+ctrl+p)

Tree

Improved: move node using keyboard shortcuts (shift-down and shift-up) now keeps the moved node in view, while scrolling
Improved: most node icons are now displayed transparent
Added: menu⁄tree⁄sort⁄subtree reverse (one level) (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: menu⁄tree⁄sort⁄subtree reverse (all levels) (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: menu⁄tree⁄delete⁄child nodes only
Added: menu⁄tree⁄insert⁄new node from selection, ctrl+shift+alt+J (this creates a new node and copies a selected block of text from the article into the newly created node) (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: menu⁄tree⁄insert⁄new node from selection and cut, ctrl+shift+alt+k (this creates a new node and moves a selected block of text from the article into the newly created node -- that is, the original selected block is deleted) (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

Article formatting and editing

Added: paragraph formatting dialogue can now display centimeters as well as inches, depending on the global settings
Improved: the color marker now also marks text that is already selected at the moment the marker is activated (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: left-click on the very left part of the article will now select a line. This option can be turned on⁄off on the Options screen (default is on)
Added: automatic word selection. This option can be turned on⁄off on the Options screen (default is on) (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: sort selected block -- lists or paragraphs (menu⁄edit⁄sort ascending, menu⁄edit⁄sort descending) (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

Added: recursive bullet nesting via indent function, as follows:
normal bullet lists can now include indented normal bullet sublists,
and these can in turn include further indented normal bullet sub-sublists,
and so forth;

likewise, number⁄letter bullet lists can now include

indented number⁄letter bullet lists, which can

be further indented,

and so forth.

These can be fine-tuned by changing the margin settings on the article ruler or on the paragraph format screen displayed via menu⁄format⁄paragraph

Added: it is now possible to select text without it becoming color-marked if the text-marker is active. Just press the control key while selecting the block of text, and it will not be marked (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

Images

Added: It is now possible to paste from other Word Processors a block of text that contains images
Note 1: when exporting a TreePad™ subtree or article to Web site, pasting text and images separately into the article will still achieve the best results.
Note 2: this addition does not cover pasting images+text in one go from a Web browser -- text and images should be pasted separately, as usual.

General, miscellaneous

Added, for easy access: system-wide TreePad shortcut toolbar in the navigate toolbar. With this feature you can define which keyboard key will activate TreePad, when it is not the active program or it is minimized to system tray.

Added: shortcut shift+alt+O to activate the options screen in one go

Replaced: old installer with a brand-new installer - though TreePad installation procedure is simple and swift, we are concerned with rendering TreePad a worthwhile companion from the very moment of its instalation

Changed: the article tab now displays the word 'Article', whereas the title of the selected node⁄article is shown on the statusbar

Tables

Added: menu⁄table⁄borders and shading, to define borders and colors of individual table cells

Added: menu⁄table⁄select table, to select an entire table

Printing

Added to options screen: printmode (default print mode and print mode 2) . Should your printer seem incompatible with the default print mode, please try print mode 2.

Added to options screen: an option to print or disable printing the page number

Added to tree-related functions: optional, print can apply to checked nodes only (feature unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

Files

Added: favorites toolbutton and corresponding menu item (menu⁄file⁄favorites)

Added: function to manage favorites list of TreePad files + respective settings screen

Added: read-only message when a readonly TreePad file is opened

Improved: a readonly file cannot be saved directly. To save a readonly file, you need to 'save as' another file name

Accessory pane

Improved: height of pane separator is now remembered for search pane, history pane, bookmarks pane, icons pane, charmap pane, individually, within a session

Improved: if a selected item (in any accessoriy pane) is out of view, it is scrolled in view

Added: shortcut ctrl+F9 'toggles' the accessory pane. When the pane is not visible, ctrl+F9 shows the last accessed accessory pane. When the pane is visible, ctrl+F9 closes the currently opened accessory pane.

Added: DraftPad pane -- this is an article-independent editor, carrying just about all the editing functions used in the article pane, with the exclusion of image display

Fixed: icons transparency issue

Improved: character map -- please see below

Character map (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

Improved: the character map is now accessible from a convenient drop-down panel that can be directly accessed from the edit toolbar

Added: option to keep the character map always available or to have it close automatically after every character insert

Added: button to close the character map without inserting a character into the article

Improved: character map now also supports symbol fonts, such as WingDings

Toolbars

Improved view-toolbar buttons for 'show tree', 'show article' and 'show tree and article'.

Improved history back⁄forward buttons

Improved navigate up⁄down⁄left⁄right buttons

Improved follow hyperlink buttons

Improved hyperlink buttons -- please note that the hyperlink create icon now stands beside the hyperlink follow icon

Improved icons for expand⁄collapse tree

Added: options⁄settings button on the file toolbar

Improved marker button

Other improvements and additions to the Toolbars are mentioned in the sections dealing with the functions that these buttons activate

Date and time

Added: new date⁄time toolbutton to the edit menu, including drop-down menu with various functions

Added: calendar dialog to insert a user-selected date - menu⁄insert⁄date, or the date⁄time toolbutton on the edit toolbar

Added: keyboard shortcut shift-alt-d. This shortcut brings the calendar dialog on screen for insertion of a user-selected date. Please note that this function applies both to the tree and to the article.

Expanded: the insert current date functions are now accessed via menu⁄insert⁄current⁄date (or time, or date and time)

Added: when the tree has focus, the menu⁄insert⁄date and menu⁄insert⁄current functions insert a date⁄time into the title of the selected node

Added: self-updating date⁄time fields which function as follows: once inserted into the article, these fields automatically change according to the current date or time (upon article load, preview and print). This function is activated by clicking Menu⁄insert⁄field (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

Export⁄import

Fixed: export of a large subtree to a single RTF file no longer generates 'garbage' sections

Added: new CSV options to the settings screen: the field separator and text qualifier for the imported CSV file can now be custom-specified.

New features in TreePad™ Business Edition 6.0, TreePad™ SAFE 6.0, TreePad™ PLUS 6.0

Tree

Added: menu⁄tree⁄sort⁄subtree (all levels)

Added: the option to remember the node that is selected, as well as the node⁄s that is⁄are expanded, at the moment that TreePad™ is exited. If this option is selected, when you restart TreePad™, the tree state will be the very same as when you last exited. Menu⁄view⁄options⁄tree

Tree checkboxes

Added: tree node checkboxes, which can be shown or hidden for each individual node and subtree

Added: new tab to the node properties screen 'checkboxes' -- menu⁄tree⁄node properties

Added, to the node properties screen: an option to show and hide the checkbox for the current node -- menu⁄tree⁄node properties⁄checkboxes⁄show(hide) node checkbox

Added, to the node properties screen: a function to show⁄hide all the checkboxes in the current subtree -- menu⁄tree⁄node properties⁄checkboxes⁄show(hide) all checkboxes

Added. to the node properties screen: a function to check⁄uncheck at once all the checkboxes in the current subtree -- menu⁄tree⁄node properties⁄checkboxes⁄check subtree ...⁄uncheck subtree

Added: any new child node of a node exhibiting a checkbox will also display a checkbox by default

Import⁄export

Added: view straightaway the output of tree export to single file and to Web site:

by checking 'view results when finished,' you can now view straightaway the output of tree export to single file and to Web site (menu⁄file⁄export⁄selected subtree). When enabled, this option will launch the associated program after export.
by checking 'view results when finished,' you can now examine at once the output of tree export to multiple files (menu⁄file⁄export⁄selected subtree). When enabled, this option will launch an explorer window displaying the directory into which the files have been exported.

Added: limit export to checked nodes⁄articles:

when the new feature 'checkboxes' has been enabled, export subtree to single .rtf, .html, .txt file can optionally be restricted to checked (ticked) nodes only. The intended restraint will take effect independently of the show⁄hide status of the respective 'checkboxes'. (feature unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
when the new feature 'checkboxes' has been enabled, export subtree to multiple files can optionally be limited to checked (ticked) nodes only. The intended restraint will take effect independently of the show⁄hide status of the respective 'checkboxes'. (feature unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

Auto-dial

Added: auto-dial prefix -- useful when a fixed digit is required, for dialing an outside line. Menu⁄view⁄options⁄autodial (feature unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

Auto-save

Added: auto-save (menu⁄view⁄options⁄autosave) -- this feature causes TreePad™ to save the file automatically every x minutes.
Added: auto-save indicator -- numerical display of the remaining time span before autosaving is reactivated. It is shown on the status bar, right below the tree pane.

Article, editing

Improved: TreePad's™ editor has been largely improved
Added: choice between all levels⁄one level, for the feature insert table of contents. Menu⁄insert⁄table of contents⁄all levels (option unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: insert search results -- makes it possible to paste the search output anywhere in the article pane (ordinary text editing area). Menu⁄insert⁄search results (feature unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: new options for the table of contents (include⁄exclude title, customize title to suit your need⁄taste), menu⁄view⁄options⁄table of contents
Added: option to copy the plain text of a hyperlink (not the URL or link address) menu⁄edit⁄copy special⁄copy link text,
Added: function enabling the insertion of a character, by means of its ascii code (up to ascii code 255). Menu⁄insert⁄character The same function can also be activated using alt-0.
Note: TreePad's™ 6.x generation offers you a broadly enhanced text-editing environment.

Screen, article⁄display options

Added to the options screen, article⁄display options: the option to select between two distinct display modes, as follows:
* screen mode 'standard'
* screen mode '1440 dpi'

'Standard' mode is default. Should you experience any text editing related anomaly in 'standard' mode, try switching to '1440 dpi' mode, which might better suit your current display resolution.

Tables

Improved: table editing functions have been widely improved
Added: newly created tables can now be aligned left, right or center
Added: table width control -- the width for newly created tables can now be determined (i.e., x% of the width set for the page, up to 100%, when building the table, or else the width can later be adjusted via the ruler)
Added: new table creation dialog -- this dialog offers various new formatting possibilities, such as table width (relative to page width), table alignment, table border. Menu⁄table⁄create new table
Added: menu option for deleting an entire table at once. Menu⁄table⁄delete
Added: table⁄cell shading options, along with enhanced border control. Menu⁄format⁄borders and shading

Text Boxes

Added: the possibility to place text into a box, the shading, margin, and border type of which can be optionally selected. This is a handy function for highlighting titles and blocks of text. Menu⁄format⁄borders and shading

Spell-check

Added: restrict the scope of spell-check -- allows spell-checking a selected string (block of text or word) exclusively. Once spell-checking is concluded, but before the function is deactivated altogether, a dialogue box offers the alternative to spell-check the remaining text. (feature unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)

Formatting
Added: marker⁄highlighter function -- When activated, this function enables the automatic color-marking (highlighting) of any string of text, just by ordinarily selecting that text with the cursor. The marking-pen color may be fully customized, anytime this function is activated. It is available on the formatting toolbar, as long as advanced mode is on. (feature unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: extended paragraph formatting, such as indentation, line-spacing, vertical spacing before and⁄or after a paragraph. Menu⁄format⁄paragraph

Accessory pane

Added: character map -- the function that the 'CharMap' tab activates allows the insertion of special characters (French, Scandinavian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, etc.). The character map is displayed in the CharMap Accessory Pane, below the article, and it is accessed by clicking on the tab 'CharMap'. (feature unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: the 'escape' key hides the Accessory pane, whichever feature in this pane is currently active (a mere mouse-click in the area within its boundaries selects this pane).
Added: search tab and pane -- replacing the conventional search results list screen.
Added: history pane -- a 'dynamic bookmark listing' of the fifty nodes that have last been accessed.

Shortcuts

Added: F11 places focus on the Tree Pane (i.e., selects it).
Added: F12 places focus on the Article Pane (i.e., selects it).
- Note: If the article⁄tree is not visible, it will be automatically displayed, once one of these keys is pressed (F11 for the Tree Pane, or F12 for the Article Pane).
Changed: ctrl+F10 will now display both the Article and Tree Panes.
Changed: ctrl+F11 will now display the Tree Pane only.
Changed: ctrl+F12 will now display the Article Pane only.
Added: ctrl+shift+O as a shortcut to insert a Table of Contents
Added: ctrl+alt+C will copy the subtree to clipboard, provided that the Tree Pane is active.
Added: ctrl+alt+P will paste the subtree from clipboard, provided that the Tree Pane is active.
Added: shortcut ctrl+alt+B, for selecting the Bookmarks Accessory Pane
Added: shortcut ctrl+alt+I, for selecting the Icons Accessory Pane
Added: shortcut shift+alt+T, equivalent to the following mouse activity: menu⁄format⁄convert⁄to plain text
Changed: ctrl+alt+R will now reopen the latest opened file

Command-line parameters

Added: command-line switch ⁄noregistry which disables ALL writing⁄reading to⁄from the Windows™ registry.
Note: Using the above command-line switch results in that none of the settings and preferences configured while using TreePad™ will be remembered the next time that the program is opened.

Menus

Added: right-clicking within the article area automatically activates (places focus on) the Article Pane, even before the article popup menu appears.
Added: right-clicking within the tree area automatically activates (places focus on) the Tree Pane, even before the tree popup menu appears .

Added: context-sensitive menu bar.
Regardless of whether the Tree or the Article Pane is active, a mere mouse-click on the menu bar now automatically places focus on either the Tree or the Article Pane, respectively to the menu item clicked upon.

Thus, a click on menu⁄tree, conveniently activates (places focus on) the Tree Pane, automatically enabling all respective tree menu items and tool buttons, as well. Which Pane is currently active before you click on the menu bar is now irrelevant.
Analogously, a click on menu⁄edit, menu⁄insert, menu⁄table, conveniently activates (places focus on) the Article Pane, automatically enabling all respective menu items and tool buttons, as well. Again, the operation is straightforward, whichever Pane is currently active (Tree, Article, or Accessories Pane) before you click on the menu bar.

Search

Moved: the search results are now exhibited in the Search Accessory Pane, easily accessible and readily at hand -- a mere click on the 'SearchR' Tab (one of the Accessory pane Tabs, located right below the article area) opens the Search Pane, displaying the results of the last search.
Added: an option in the search screen to limit search to checked nodes. (feature unique to TreePad™ Business Edition)
Added: the option 'automatically hide search window after search'
Added: the possibility to paste the search results into any article. Menu⁄insert⁄search results (alternatively, right-click menu: insert⁄search results)

Article Search and Article Replace

Added: the wild card character '*' can now be used in the search for text and text to find fields.
- Note 1: If you are not an experienced user, please use this feature with prudence in replace operations, lest you inadvertently replace far beyond what you may have intended to; At any rate, we suggest that 'prompt on replace' be on, since hyperlinks and other hidden text attributes are included in Search and in Replace operations..
- Note 2: '*' stands for any number of characters, in the position where this wild card character has been entered.

New: forms !

Here is an exciting addition that greatly enhances the functionality and power that you enjoy with TreePad™.

Introduction

TreePad™ now supports the concept of forms. A form is a screen containing fields (special areas), which you can fill in with your own data.

For example, below is an illustration of the TreePad™ password manager form, which was designed for storing a password entry.

Forms such as the one above reside in the Article Pane, each associated with an individual node, just like any other article on TreePad™. Thus, a number of these forms, grouped under a common parent node, yields a password database that is easy to build and to manage, as further illustrated below.

How to use forms

You can use TreePad™ forms to create simple databases, address books, card indexes ... and all else that your needs or creativity may call for. Forms come in handy whenever structured data is preferable to normal text.

In other words, forms are a very convenient asset for getting down and storing data that share recurring patterns or structures, such as addresses, collections (books, CDs, stamps, etc.), shopping lists, appointments, special rosters (school-related records⁄notes, memberships, sports teams, championships, etc.), recipes, patient information, product orders, clientele, employees, and so forth.

Forms currently available -- allowing you to create a forms-based database. Each form type below is followed by its related menu item(s).

Addressbooks: * menu⁄file⁄new⁄personal addressbook
* menu⁄file⁄new⁄simple addressbook
* menu⁄file⁄new⁄business addressbook
Music Collection: * menu⁄file⁄new⁄music collection
Password Manager: * menu⁄file⁄new⁄password manager (feature unique to TreePad™ SAFE and TreePad™ Business Edition, both of which offer data encryption and password protection.)

Other form alternatives will be added in future TreePad™ updates.

The menus spelled out above enable you to create a structured database from scratch. Within this database, you can optionally group all your entries, according to whatever distinctive feature(s) or characteristic(s) that you see fit for organizing sets of entries in classes or categories. You can also alternatively add ordinary TreePad™ nodes⁄articles anywhere within a forms-based database.

Illustration

Thus, menu⁄file⁄new⁄password manager allows you to convert TreePad™ into a password manager program, menu⁄file⁄new⁄music collection allows you to convert TreePad™ into a music database, and so forth.

TreePad™ password manager form, already illustrated with the image above, is further elaborated below.

The menu item menu⁄file⁄new⁄password manager creates a new file, containing the following default nodes:

a root node -- as in all TreePad™ files
a number of child nodes -- these indicate different classes or categories, so you can group together data of the same type. For example, you may wish to assemble all e-mail passwords under a common parent node, all web site passwords under another, all passwords for encrypted documents under another, and so forth.
Each of these main nodes (marking different classes or categories) appears as a direct child node of the root node. Though this is the default, you are of course able to organize, add to, rename, move, delete, etc., any of these 'category' or 'class' nodes. You can handle them according to your needs and preference, just the way you are used to handling your data, regardless of the TreePad™ version(s) you have used so far.
data nodes containing the forms, themselves, in which you will store your password entries. By default, these data nodes are subjacent to one of the 'category' nodes just mentioned in 2., above. But, once again, you are free to organize and customize your database in the way it suits you best, just as you do regarding the standard TreePad™ nodes that you are used to handling. You are likewise free to add⁄delete 'form' entries, much the same way as you handle article (with their respective nodes)s within a tree structure.

TreePad™ Business Edition additionally allows you to insert any of these forms and structures within an already existing database (a TreePad™ file). That is to say, in addition to individual data eBooks, as illustrated thus far, you can create TreeBooks (eBooks embeded in the tree structure of an existing database).

To start creating a TreeBook, use menu⁄tree⁄insert special, instead of the menu items appearing under menu⁄file⁄new⁄..., as detailed above.

TreePad™ Business Edition offers, moreover, special template functions, which can interact with and splendidly complement the forms function just dealt with. The variety of eBook and TreeBook.possibilities thus spawned, can amply provide for individual needs and creativity.

These special 'template' functions are dealt with at the end of the current section.

TreePad™ new forms feature greatly increases the program's generous functionality as a data organizer. And, in association with TreePad's™ high performance search engine, all information stored is always accessible in a blink.

Forms: Active fields

Some of the fields contained in the forms are 'active fields'. That is, they perform a specific action when you double click on them.

Thus, a web address field will launch your browser, whereas an email address field will activate your email program. A phone number field will likewise activate the auto-dial feature (TreePad™ Business Edition only) when double clicked.

Forms: export
A form can be exported to an XML file, in addition to .txt, .rtf, and .html files, as follows:

- to XML files, as XML-structures (i.e., a similar format to the one appearing in the treepad article) -- Article-export only

- to HTML files, as HTML-forms -- Tree-export and Article-export

- to RTF files, as tables -- Tree-export and Article-export

- to txt files, as lines of plain text -- Tree-export and Article-export

Forms: print
A form will ordinarily be printed as a table.

The Template directory and files

TreePad's™ \templates subdirectory, now default in the program directory, comprises two types of 'template' files, as follows:

- .tpt files (TreePad™ template files), which are responsible for generating single node forms and managing the overall functioning of the templates-established databases.

- .hjt files, which create forms-based databases, and in which the data that you fill in is stored.

TreePad™ Business Edition only:

menu⁄tree⁄insert special: this dialog allows you to insert the following into an existing database (TreePad™ file):

a single node containing a form,
a single node containing a 'TreeBook' template, or
entire 'TreeBook' subtree structures.
Keyboard shortcut: alt+ins. Advanced mode

menu⁄tree⁄insert⁄repeat last insert special: this dialog replicates the last 'insert special' action. Keyboard shortcut: ctrl+alt+ins. Advanced mode
Future versions of TreePad™ Business Edition will enable you to create your own forms and form-templates.

Further reading

To learn more about forms, templates or structures, please see the Manual section on Forms and templates
If you use or consider using TreePad™ in a more heavy duty fashion, in a business environment (whatever its size), or in a multi-user setting, the TreePad™ Enterprise page is worth a visit.

New features in TreePad SAFE 5.4, TreePad Business Edition 5.4, TreePad PLUS 4.11

Article formatting⁄editing

Added: keyboard shortcut ctrl+dot for 'add bullet'
Added: keyboard shortcut ctrl+shift+dot for 'remove bullet'
Added: menu⁄insert⁄node path
Added: move paragraph up: menu⁄edit⁄move⁄paragraph up, shift+alt+up
Added: move paragraph down: menu⁄edit⁄move⁄paragraph down, shift+alt+down

Import⁄export

Added: sub tree export to a Rich Text file (menu⁄file⁄export⁄sub tree)
Added: sub tree export to a single HTML file now includes images
Added: sub tree export to a single Rich Text file now includes images
Added: sub tree export to a single file now can start the associated program directly after finishing export to view the results
Added: a warning before importing an .hjt file into the sub tree, that the import does not preserve the node hyperlinks
Added: an option to the node properties screen, to include⁄exclude that node⁄sub tree from export.
Added: an option to include⁄exclude articles⁄nodes when exporting a sub tree to a single file

Print

Added: print sub tree using the default Rich Text program (Word⁄WordPad). Menu⁄file⁄print⁄sub tree
Added: print sub tree dialog (menu⁄file⁄print⁄sub tree)
Changed: the toolbar printer icon now prints the tree when the tree has focus, otherwise it prints the article as usual.
Added: print sub tree using the default browser now includes images
Added: print sub tree using default Rich text program now includes images
Added: option to the node properties screen (menu⁄tree⁄node properties), to include⁄exclude that node⁄sub tree from printing
Added: an option to include⁄exclude articles⁄nodes when printing a sub tree

File

Added: shortcut ctrl+alt+p opens the previous (last-opened) file.

Hyperlinks

Bug fix: several problems related to relative hyperlinks to TreePad files have been solved
Changed: the default caption of hyperlinks to files now is the file name (instead of the file path)

Help

Added: menu⁄help⁄TreePad support: which leads to the TreePad support page http:⁄⁄www.treepad.com⁄support

New features in TreePad SAFE 5.3.3, TreePad Business Edition 5.3.3, TreePad PLUS 4.10.3

Images

Added: menu⁄insert⁄image(s) from file now can insert multiple images into the article in one go (just hold the ctrl or shift key when selecting files).

Formatting

Added: keyboard shortcut ctrl+alt+shift+1 for menu⁄format⁄remove⁄leading spaces
Added: keyboard shortcut ctrl+alt+shift+2 for menu⁄format⁄remove⁄spaces and returns

New features in TreePad SAFE 5.3.1, TreePad Business Edition 5.3.1, TreePad PLUS 4.10.1

Zoom

Added: menu⁄view⁄zoom⁄increase
Added: menu⁄view⁄zoom⁄decrease
Added: menu⁄view zoom to 100%
Added: new zoom-in and zoom-out buttons to the view toolbar
Added: zoom keyboard shortcuts: alt [ for zooming out, alt ] for zooming in, and alt . for setting the zoom level to 100%

Tree

Added: menu⁄tree⁄convert⁄all subtree articles to plain text. this powerful function removes all formatting and images from any article contained in the selected subtree. It is also accessible through the tree popup menu.

Table

Added: pressing 'tab' in the last cell of a table will insert a new table row, and move the focus to the first cell of the new row.

Help

Added: menu⁄help⁄treepad home page, which opens the TreePad homepage in your default Web browser (when connected to the Internet)
Added: menu⁄help⁄download the latest TreePad version, which opens the TreePad download page in your default Web browser (when connected to the Internet)

New features in TreePad SAFE 5.3, TreePad Business Edition 5.3, TreePad PLUS 4.10

Templates

Added: support for node templates. Using the node properties dialog (menu⁄tree⁄node properties, or tree popup menu tree⁄node properties), one can enable the new check box 'Is template'. When a node is designated to be a template, all newly created descendant nodes will contain the template article text and template images by default. This is very useful when setting up e.g. a database containing addresses and phone numbers. If you add lines containing 'name:', 'address:' to the template node, these fields will automatically copied to any newly created child node.

Export to Web site and HTML

Added: after export to Web site the default Web browser will be started automatically to display the generated Web site (optional)
Added: nodes when exported to HTML pages, now include an HTML title tag corresponding to the original node title

Tree editing

Improved: menu⁄tree⁄insert date⁄time⁄date-time into a tree node title does not replace the tree node title anymore, but is prefixed to the old node text.

Article editing⁄formatting

Added: menu⁄format⁄bullet⁄none to remove any bullet formatting

Miscellaneous

Bugfix: problems related to saving data to hidden TreePad files have been fixed.

Icons

Added: menu⁄icons⁄download additional icons, which, when connected to the Internet, opens the treepad.com icons page.

New features in TreePad Business Edition 5.2.3

These new features are only found in TreePad Business Edition.

The difference between TreePad BIZ and TreePad PLUS is that TreePad BIZ supports password protection, advanced encryption, spell check in 20 languages, thesaurus, full-screen presentation mode, auto-dial. More to come!

New: spell check !!

Added: menu⁄tools⁄spell check, or F7
Added: menu⁄tools⁄thesaurus, or shift F7.
Added: menu⁄tools configure spell check
Added: menu⁄tools⁄download additional dictionaries, which opens an Internet page with additional spell-check dictionaries in 20 languages.
More information: Spelling checker

New: presentation mode

Added: menu⁄view⁄Full Screen, or ctrl F5, available in Advanced Mode. Presentation mode converts TreePad BIZ to a presentation program. Pressing ctrl F5 in presentation mode will return to normal mode. More information on this subject can be found in this article: Presentation (full screen) mode

New: auto-dial

Added: a new type of hyperlink, 'phone'. Double clicking on a phone hyperlink will start the auto-dialer. Creating an auto-dial hyperlink is similar to creating other types of hyperlinks. Use menu⁄insert⁄hyperlink, then chose link-type 'phone'. More information: Autodial

New features in
TreePad SAFE 5.2 and TreePad PLUS 4.9

Export to Web site

Added: when exporting to Web site, the tree icons are now also exported
Improved: images are exported to the subdirectory 'images'
Improved: tree icons are exported to the subdirectory 'icons'

Bookmarks

Added: bookmarks tab (next to the article and icon tabs). When clicking on the bookmarks tab, the Bookmarks pane is shown.
Added: bookmarks menu, which is only visible when the bookmarks pane is visible. The bookmarks menu enables you to add, delete and sort bookmarks.
Added: bookmarks shortcuts. The first nine bookmarks have been assigned the keyboard shortcuts ctrl 1 to ctrl 9.
Added: shortcut ctrl 0 to go to the root node
Added: a bookmark will display the associated tree node icon

Toolbar icons

Improved: new history toolbar icons
Improved: new subtree implode⁄explode toolbar icons
Improved: new tree-edit toolbar icons,
All these icons are created by Barry Andrews

Article formatting⁄editing

Added: auto-indent, menu⁄format⁄auto indent or F6 using the keyboard. For more information, please see the article on Auto Indent
Added: Menu⁄format⁄indent⁄increase, or ctrl-M
Added: Menu⁄format⁄indent⁄decrease, or ctrl-shift-M
Bugfix: resizing images is now detected (so no 'empty' edits are needed anymore to make TreePad store resized images)
Added: keyboard shortcut for superscript: press ctrl and +
Added: keyboard shortcut for subscript: press ctrl, shift and + (or ctrl and =)
Added: keyboard shortcut ctrl ] increases font size in article by one point
Added: keyboard shortcut ctrl [ decreases font size in article by one point
Added: keyboard shortcut ctrl ] increases tree font size by two points
Added: keyboard shortcut ctrl [ decreases tree font size by two points

Statusbar

The extension of .htmhjt files are displayed
Added: auto-indent indicator in statusbar (AuIn)

Search

Added: copy⁄paste⁄clear buttons in article-replace window

Tree: node numbering

Improved: automatic tree node numbering will not replace the node texts anymnore (menu⁄tree⁄number subtree) and is inserted at the start of the node texts.
Added: node numbering will automatically replace any existing node numbering
Added: when the selected tree node already contains a number, that number is used as a starting point for the subsequent node numbering. If it does not contain a number, '1' is used as a starting point.
Added: a function to remove node numbering (menu⁄tree⁄remove subtree numbering)

Tree navigation

Added: keyboard shortcuts alt-down and alt-up to navigate tree siblings (skipping child nodes)

Tree icons

Added: one can now order the icons in the Icons pane using drag-drop (with the mouse)

Command-line parameters

Added: new command-line parameter to startup TreePad with a predefined file and node selected:
Syntax: TreePadPLUS.exe <filename> <node id>
Example: TreePadPLUS.exe "c:\my data\notes.hjt" 46
Note: you can find the ID of a node using "menu⁄tree⁄subtree statistics" or the node properties screen.
Added: TreePad will now display an error message when loading a file using command-line parameters, but when that file is in use.

Miscellaneous

Improved: the .tpz file containing the images is now only created when necessary.
Improved: just clicking on the 'mode' toolbar button will toggle between advanced and basic mode

New features in TreePad SAFE 5.1

These new features are only found in TreePad SAFE.

The only difference between TreePad SAFE and TreePad PLUS is that TreePad SAFE supports password protection⁄encryption of the text data (not the images) and TreePad PLUS does not.

TreePad SAFE requires a new serial number⁄registration number. Your TreePad PLUS serial number will not function with TreePad SAFE.

Password protection⁄encryption

Added: password protection⁄encryption. TreePad's new encryption feature is just as powerful as that used by banks and government agencies.
Using Menu ⁄file⁄set password you can assign a password to the currently opened TreePad file, change or erase the password. If the password is set, the file will be encrypted during a file-save action.
Please be aware that due to the power of the encryption method used, it is not possible to retrieve your data if you have forgotten the password!
Added: the option to password protect backup files.
Added: statusbar display of password protection status.

New features in TreePad PLUS 4.8.1

Added: menu⁄view⁄stay on top, which enables you to have TreePad PLUS always on top of other programs.
Bugfix: changing the style (bold⁄italic⁄underline⁄strikeout) of underlined hyperlinks will not destroy the hyperlink anymore (expose the underlying URL).

New features in TreePad PLUS 4.8

Tree node icons

Added: custom tree node icons. You can now tag individual tree nodes with different icons.

Added: 'icons' tab, next to the article tab, containing the optional tree icons. To assign an icon to the currently selected node, simply double-click on an icon inside the icon area. To assign the default icon to the current node again, just click on the first icon.

Added: a new menu to show⁄hide the icons area: menu⁄view⁄icons.

Added: a new icons menu (menu⁄icons) to manage (import⁄remove) icons. This menu will only show when the icons area is visible. It contains these sub menus:

* menu⁄icons⁄add new icons; this enables one to import one or more icons at the same time into the icons area.
* menu⁄icons⁄remove selected icons; with this menu one can remove the selected icons from the icons area.

Added: icons library update file treepadlib.tpzu. This file is part of the installation package and contains the icons you can see in the icons area. At startup, TreePad imports new icons from this file into the actual icons library, treepadlib.tpz

Tree navigation

Added: pressing the explode tool-button while holding the keyboard shift key will expand only one level of the selected subtree (pressing explode button without the shift key will expand all levels).

Added: pressing the implode tool-button while holding the shift key will only collapse one level the selected subtree (doing this without the shift key will collapse all levels).

Tree editing

Changed: name of menu⁄tree⁄insert⁄child node to menu⁄tree⁄insert⁄child node at bottom.

Added: menu⁄tree⁄insert⁄chid node at top (only visible in advanced mode). This also has been added to the tree context menu.

File import and export

Added: when exporting a subtree to TreePad PLUS file, all article images contained in this subtree are also exported to that file.

Added: when importing a TreePad PLUS file, all article images are imported

Added: when exporting a subtree to a TreePad PLUS file, all user-defined node-icons are exported to that file.

Added: when importing a TreePad PLUS file, all user-defined node-icons are imported.

Printing

Improved: the printing quality of vector⁄metafile images has improved.

Hyperlinks

Improved: support for https hyperlinks. Previously, https hyperlinks could only be inserted when selecting the type 'user defined' in the 'Insert Hyperlink' dialog. Now you can also use the link type 'WWW'.

New features in TreePad PLUS 4.7

Tree node formatting and properties

Added: the format toolbar and format menu now can change the formatting of the selected tree node. Note that for applying the format toolbar or menu to the tree the tree needs to have focus. When the article has focus, the formatting toolbar applies to the selected block text inside the article.
This means that you can now use the format toolbar to set individual node properties directly, like 'bold', 'italic', 'underline', 'strikethrough', 'font name', 'font size', 'color', 'background color'.
Added: one can now also set the background color of each individual node, using the formatting toolbar.
Added: a shortcut for node properties, ctrl+F2.
Improved: the node properties dialog has been improved to include the new options. It now also displays the article data type and ID.
Added: a new 'Tools' tab to the properties dialog, currently containing one new function which allows you to remove the formatting of all subtree node titles in one go. Useful when you want to remove all formatting (color, style, size, font name, etc.) from a group of node captions. This makes the nodes in the selected subtree take over with the default tree font setting.

Search

Improved: the article search and replace function is now much faster. Also: article scrolling during search-replace (with confirm) has been improved.
Added: separate tree search and article search buttons in the view toolbar.
Added: copy, paste and clear buttons to the tree and article search screens.

TreePad Shutdown options

Added: the option to (1) automatically clear the TreePad Clipboard (for nodes⁄subtrees) when the program closes, (2) or to ask whether or not to clear the TP clipboard, (3) or not to ask anything about the TP clipboard while not clearing the TP clipboard when the program closes. In the options screen (menu⁄view⁄options) choose the category 'TreePad⁄Shutdown'. More information on the TreePad Clipboard for nodes⁄subtrees can be found here: Copying, cutting and pasting nodes and subtrees

Auto backup

Added: the option to automatically create backup files of the TreePad data files. In the options screen (menu⁄view⁄options) choose the category 'backup'. The TreePad data file (.hjt) is backed up to a .hjt.bak file in the same directory as the TreePad data file, TreePad image files (.tpz) files are backed up to .tpz.bak in the same directory. Auto-backup is recommended when your data file is located on a hard disk. When you have your TreePad data file on a floppy, you might not have enough space for the auto-backup. In that case you rely on the periodical usage of the built-in manual backup function using menu⁄file⁄backup.

Images

Added: support for PNG images. PNG images can now be imported (menu⁄insert⁄image from file) into TreePad and exported from TreePad (menu⁄file⁄export⁄selected image).
Added: support for Windows metafiles. WMF and EMF files can now be copied,pasted, imported and exported.
Improved: when importing an image of type JPEG, GIF, PNG, EMF, WMF, ICO, BMP, it is stored in its native format inside the TreePad database. Previous versions of TreePad converted pixel images internally to bitmaps.
Added: conversions between all the supported image formats. This means that you can export an image stored into TreePad to any other supported image type, except to an icon. For instance, a PNG image can be exported to a JPEG image, a WMF image to a GIF or BMP. Icons can be exported to the other formats, but the other formats can not be exported to icon (.ico) files.
Added: when clicking an image, the statusbar will display the internal image name and image type.
Improved: smaller images will now be inserted into the article (menu⁄insert⁄image from file) and pasted (menu⁄edit⁄paste) in the correct size.

Export and images

Added: the export subtree to Web site option now includes images! Please note that: bmp files are exported to Web site as JPEG files, ico, wmf and emf files are exported as GIF files. You can access this feature using Menu⁄file⁄export
Added: export of an article to a HTML file now includes exporting the images. Images are exported to the same directory as the HTML file.
Added: export of an article to an RTF file now includes exporting the images. The images are not stored inside the RTF file, but exported separately into the same directory as the RTF file and linked from the RTF file. Programs like MS Word are able to load the RTF file and display the external images. Using MS Word, when you save the RTF file as Word file, the images will become embedded inside the Word document.

Format

Added: menu⁄format⁄convert⁄to title case, which will convert the selected block of article text to lowercase, except for the first letter of each word (which is converted to a capital).
Added: menu⁄format⁄convert⁄to sentence case, which will convert the selected block of article text to lowercase, except for the first letter of each sentence (which is converted to a capital).
Added: menu⁄format⁄remove⁄spaces, which will remove any leading spaces from the selected block of text. As an extra, this function also removes '>' characters when found at the beginning of the line. This is useful when processing emails.
Added: menu⁄format⁄remove⁄spaces and returns, which does the same as the above function (remove⁄spaces), additionally it removes the returns from the selected block of text. Please note that these 'Format' commands are also available through the article popup menu.

File

· Added: shortcut ctrl-F4 to close the current file.

New features in TreePad PLUS 4.6.1

Tree node text formatting

Added: tree, ctrl-k toggles font-strikeout for the selected node.

Hyperlinks

Added: an option to open hyperlnks to TreePad files in a new TreePad program, instead of the current TreePad program.

Search

Added: a 'paste' button to the article and tree search dialogs, to paste text from the Windows clipboard into the search text fields.

New features in TreePad PLUS 4.6

Drag-and-drop of a block of article text into the tree

Added: drag-and-drop of a selected block of article text onto a tree node, will create a child node of that tree node. The new node will contain a copy of the selected block.
Added: pressing down the ctrl key before (and holding down while) dragging creates a sibling node just above the target node. The new node will contain a copy of the block of text.
Added: pressing down the shift key before (and holding down while) dragging will create a sibling node below the target node. The new node will contain a copy of the block of text.
Added: pressing down the alt key before (and holding down while) dragging (in combination with any of the above three drag-and-drop actions), the dragged text block is moved from the article into the newly created node. This means that the copied text block will be deleted from the article after the operation is completed.

Drag-and-drop of files into the article

Added: drag-and-drop of one or more files (from e.g. the Windows Explorer) into the TreePad article will create relative or absolute (default) hyperlinks to those files from inside the article.
Added: the option for file hyperlinks which are created using drag-and-drop of files from the Windows Explorer into the article to be absolute hyperlinks, or to be relative to the current TreePad file. To set this option, you can go to the options screen, choose the category article⁄hyperlinks.

Drag-and-drop of files into the tree

Added: drag-and-drop of one or more files (from e.g. the Windows Explorer) onto a tree node will import those files into the tree node as one or more child nodes. The action is the same as Menu ⁄file⁄import files⁄into sub tree⁄one or more files.
Added: pressing down the ctrl key just before dropping the file(s) onto the tree creates a (set of) sibling node(s) just above the target node.
Added: pressing down the shift key just before dropping the file(s) onto the tree creates a (set of) sibling node(s) just below the target node.

Drag-and-drop of a block of text from another program into the article

Added: drag-and-drop of a selected text block from another program (like a Word Processor, an email program, a Web browser) into the TreePad article will insert that text into the article.

Drag-and-drop of a block of text from another program into the tree

Added: drag-and-drop of a selected text block from another program (like a Word Processor) onto a node will create a child node of the target node containing the text.
Added: holding down the ctrl key while dragging the text block into the tree creates a sibling node just above the target node.
Added: holding down the shift key while dragging the text block into the tree will create a sibling node below the target node.

Drag-and-drop of a hyperlink from another program into the article

Added: drag-and-drop of an Internet hyperlink from an HTML page into the TreePad article will insert that hyperlink into the article. This feature functions with Netscape and MS Internet Explorer, and also with a lot of other programs which can display hyperlinks.

Drag-and-drop of a hyperlink from another program into the tree

Added: drag-and-drop of an Internet hyperlink from an HTML page into the tree will create a child node of the target node. The new node will contain the hyperlink.
Added: holding down the ctrl key while dragging the URL into the tree creates a sibling node just above the target node.
Added: holding down the shift key while dragging the URL into the tree will create a sibling node below the target node.

Tree drag-and-drop

Added: an option to disable and enable tree drag-and-drop (dragging tree nodes to another location). In the options screen, category: tree.

Insert hyperlink to file(s) dialog

Added: the option for file hyperlinks which are created using the Menu ⁄insert⁄links to files dialog to be absolute (default) hyperlinks, or relative to the current TreePad file. In the options screen, you can choose the category article⁄hyperlinks.

Automatic paste

Changed: the automatic paste menus have been moved to the 'tools' menu. Please note that the automatic paste menus are only available in advanced mode.
Added: automatic paste for the tree area. This new feature can be very useful for pasting emails and other texts which deserve a separate tree node. When the tree has focus, automatic paste will insert a new node into the tree, and the article of that new node will contain the pasted text. When the article is active (has focus), text is pasted into the existing article - as usual - and no new node will be created. Images can not (yet) be pasted directly into the tree, but they can be auto pasted when the article has focus.
Changed: article copy⁄cut are disabled as long as automatic paste is active.
Changed: the automatic paste function will be switched off after you open a new file, when you create a new file, or when you close the current file.

More information on Automatic paste can be found here.

Copy⁄paste

Added: pop up menu article⁄copy special⁄copy shortcut, which copies a hyperlink address onto the Windows Clipboard.

New methods of creating hyperlinks to nodes

Method 1: using the mouse:
(1) press the keyboard ctrl and shift keys and click with the mouse on a node. The cursor will change into a hand point cursor. (2) Then click inside the article with your mouse at the position you want the hyperlink to be inserted. A hyperlink to the node will be inserted into the article.
Pressing 'escape' or clicking inside the tree will abort the operation.
Method 2, using copy⁄paste:
a) with Menu ⁄tree⁄copy⁄node hyperlink address, one can copy the address of the currently selected node onto TreePad Clipboard as a hyperlink. Alternatively one can use tree pop up Menu ⁄copy⁄node hyperlink address for this.
b) then, with Menu ⁄edit⁄paste node hyperlink, one pastes the hyperlink from the TreePad Clipboard into the article. Alternatively one can use: article pop up Menu ⁄paste special⁄paste node hyperlink.

The article on Creating underlined hyperlinks contains more information on this subject.

Status bar

Added: status bar display of the current text cursor position inside the article. The cursor column number and line number are shown.

Wrap

Added: Menu ⁄view⁄wrap text to page: the text is wrapped to the page (as defined in the page setup)
Added: Menu ⁄view⁄wrap text to screen: the text is wrapped according to the current size of the article.

Catalog of files

Added: several options for the disk catalog function. Menu ⁄view⁄options, inside the options screen, choose the category tree⁄file catalog. One can specify whether or not to include:
* directories
* file⁄directory sizes
* free disk space and cluster size
* file⁄directory dates
* directory totals
Added,optionally: the display of the total size of files, and total used space of files, and the cluster size. The space a file uses is usually different from the file size, and depends on the disk cluster size.
Added: by default file and directory entries contain absolute hyperlinks. Using Menu ⁄view⁄options, category: tree⁄filecatalog one can choose wether the hyperlinks are relative to the current TreePad file, or absolute.

Article statistics

Added: using Menu ⁄edit⁄article statistics or Ctrl+F7 you can get:
* the number of words inside the article
* the number of lines inside the article
* the number of characters inside the article
* the number of pages inside the article

Manual

Added: a menu item for quickly opening the manual. Menu ⁄help⁄manual. Shortcut: the keyboard F1 key.

New features in TreePad PLUS 4.5

Hyperlinks

Added: a function to create catalogs of directories and disks. A TreePad disk (or directory) catalog is a subtree representing all the files and directories on a removable disk or inside a directory. An example of a disk catalog of a CD can be found here. This option does not import any files, just the name, size, date and location of the files.
Using Menu ⁄tree⁄insert⁄catalog of files in Advanced mode one can swiftly insert a catalog into the tree.
A disk catalog can be useful e.g. in creating a searchable database of all your removable disks (CD's, floppies, ZIP disks, etc.). Having such a database will simplify finding the right disk when you need a certain program or data file. With this function you can also create and manage shortcuts to files and directories on your harddisk. More information can be found in the article File, disk and directory catalogs.
Improved: when in the hyperlink insert⁄modify dialog the item 'custom link text' is not checked during modifying of a node hyperlink, the link caption is now also changed.
The 'accept' button in the hyperlink 'select tree node' dialog now also follows this logic.

New features in TreePad PLUS 4.4

Images

Added: export a selected image to a .bmp, .jpg or.gif file. You can use Menu ⁄file⁄export⁄selected image, or popup menu article⁄export image.
Added: copy a selected image to clipboard: Menu ⁄edit⁄copy or article popup Menu ⁄copy
Added: cut the selected image to clipboard: Menu ⁄edit⁄cut, or article popup Menu ⁄cut

Clipboard

Added: automatic paste. One can let TreePad PLUS automatically paste all text which has been placed on the clipboard. Just run TreePad PLUS on the background, with automatic paste enabled, and copy texts on the Windows Clipboard using other programs. TreePad PLUS will automatically paste anything copied into the currently selected article.
If one chooses Menu ⁄edit⁄automatic paste⁄plain text, all text is pasted as plain text (text formatting is removed, and no images are pasted).
If one chooses Menu ⁄edit⁄automatic paste⁄text, formatting and images, text is pasted including formatting, images are pasted if they are separately copied onto the Windows Clipboard.

Evaluation period

For registered users of TreePad PLUS nothing changes. For non-registered users, some changes have been made to the way TreePad PLUS enables one to evaluate the program without a serial number. For more information, please see Evaluation Period

New features in TreePad PLUS 4.3

File operations

Added: progressbar display during file load, save and backup.

Hyperlinks

Added: Menu ⁄insert⁄links to files. This new option allows you to insert any number of hyperlinks to any combination of files in one go. Just use the ctrl or shift keys when selecting files in the file dialog with the mouse. Note that the hyperlinks are relative to the TreePad data file.

Tree

Added: tree shortcut keys to change the font of the selected tree node.
Ctrl+b = bold;
Ctrl+i = italic;
Ctrl+u = underlined.

New features in TreePad PLUS 4.2.1

Tree

Added: Menu ⁄tree⁄paste node name⁄from article selection, which pastes the text which is selected in the article into the node name. See also: popup menu tree⁄paste node name⁄from article selection.

New features in TreePad PLUS 4.2

Date and time

Added: in the options screen one can now specify the format in which strings containing dates and times will be inserted into the tree and the article. First click Menu ⁄view⁄options, then in the options screen choose the category 'TreePad⁄Date and time'.
See also Menu ⁄tree⁄paste⁄node name and Menu ⁄insert.

Tree

Added: in the options screen, one can specify the name⁄title of a node when the node is inserted. It is possible to assign the current date to the title of the newly inserted node, or the time, or date + time, or a number according to the position in the list of sibling nodes or a custom definable text. Of course one can also change the node name manually at any time.
Please see Menu ⁄view⁄options, then in the options screen, choose category 'Tree⁄node options'.
Added: semi-automatic node numbering. You can number the selected subtree using Menu ⁄tree⁄number subtree or popup menu tree⁄number subtree. You can number just the direct children (one level) or all descendants (all levels of the subtree).

Export

Bugfix: removed the error message 'file not found' when the previous export directory does not exist anymore.

New features in TreePad PLUS 4.1.2

Article

Added: tree popup Menu ⁄copy⁄article which copies the entire article content to clipboard.

New features in TreePad PLUS 4.1.1

HTML TreePad files

Added: a new file type, HTML TreePad files (with extension '.htmhjt'). This type of file is similar to the standard TreePad .hjt file type, but the difference is that all Rich Text articles are stored as HTML articles. HTML TreePad files can be read by programs like TreePad PLUS and iTreePad.
Please note that the HTML articles inside HTML TreePad files will not retain some Rich Text formatting elements, tabs and indents will not be preserved. Another limitation, but a temporary one, is that images are not preserved when saving as HTML TreePad file.
In TreePad PLUS, one can use Menu ⁄file⁄save as, or Menu ⁄file⁄export files⁄from subtree to create files of this new type.

New features in TreePad PLUS 4.1

Tree

Added: the option to select different fonts⁄sizes⁄colors⁄styles for the texts of the individual tree nodes. You can access this function using Menu ⁄tree⁄node properties, or tree popup Menu ⁄node properties. This new function is very useful for visually marking individual nodes and subtrees. An option to mark individual nodes by changing the node icon will be introduced soon.
Bugfix: the occasional access violation when selecting another node should not occur anymore.

Article

Bugfix: the cursor now does not jump to the start of the article after saving to file.

Hyperlinks

Improved: the hyperlink node-select screen will now use the default tree font as specified in the options screen.

New features in TreePad PLUS 4.0.1

Images

Added: Menu ⁄insert⁄image from file. You can insert images into the article directly from .bmp, jpg, .gif and .ico files.
Added: Menu ⁄paste image. In the previous version images were pasted using the regular Menu ⁄edit⁄paste menu; this created some confusion ('how do I add images?')..
Added: images can now be selected, resized and moved around using the mouse. Please note that when you resize an image, you need to make another change in the article (like adding and deleting a space) before the new size will be remembered when you select another node.

Manual

Improved: the manual has been improved and rewritten by Barry Andrews.

New features in TreePad PLUS 4.0

Images

TreePad PLUS now supports images! One can paste images in the article area (using Menu ⁄edit⁄paste). All images are stored in one separate file, which has the same name as the currently active TreePad file, but has extension '.tpz' (which means 'TreePad Zipped'). A .tpz file is a zip-compressed file containing one or more full-color bitmap images.
Images inside the new .tpz file are compressed, this means that bitmaps, when pasted into TreePad can be compressed by up to 99%. Many other word processing programs store images as large strings of characters inside the text file. This is a most inefficient method of storage, and that's why TreePad PLUS takes a different approach.
There is no practical limit to the size and number of images stored in a TreePad PLUS database. A TreePad PLUS 4.x database is easily able to contain thousands of images (and hundreds of megabytes of images).
There are a few temporary limitations though: copying images from TreePad PLUS to the clipboard is not yet possible, and images are not yet exported to Web site, RTF and HTML files, but these things will be addressed in coming versions.

Web site export

(Menu ⁄view⁄options, Menu ⁄file⁄export files⁄from subtree)

Improved: the Web site export function now remembers the selected export directory, so you don't have to browse anymore to the same directory each time you perform an export.

Hyperlinks

Added: the option to create relative hyperlinks to files and directories. These hyperlinks are relative to the location of the currently loaded TreePad file.
Added: an 'accept' button to the 'Select tree node' dialog, which will directly close all hyperlink dialogs, and insert a hyperlink to the selected node into the article.

Tree

Added: Ctrl+drag-and-drop for tree nodes. Pressing the ctrl key while dragging a node, you can move a node, so that it becomes a direct sibling of the target node, positioned directly above it. This feature functions in exactly the same manner as the existing Shift+drag-and-drop function, except that this makes the dragged node become the lower positioned next sibling of the target node.
Added: cut subtree (Menu ⁄tree⁄cut), which copies the subtree to clipboard before deleting it.

Article

Added to the article context menu: insert node name and insert table of contents

Article tab

Bugfix: directly after one edits the node name the caption of the article tab will be updated.
Bugfix: when in the top position, the article tab will not unexpectedly revert to the bottom position anymore after changing other settings.

Program icon

New TreePad PLUS program icon, created by Lee Katzz

Files

Changed: Menu ⁄file⁄close will not automatically create a new tree (with one new node) anymore, but will show an empty tree and empty article. One can create a new file using Menu ⁄file⁄new or the toolbar button.
Changed: Menu ⁄file⁄new will first ask to save the file, before creating a new file. This way TreePad PLUS knows the name of the current file at all time, which enables it to store⁄cache the images into the corresponding .tpz file.

New features in TreePad PLUS 3.4.5

Options

Added: an option to show or hide the tree icons. This option will take effect only after restarting the program. Menu ⁄view⁄options.

Web site export
Menu ⁄view⁄options, Menu ⁄file⁄export files⁄from subtree.

Added: new options to specify the background colors of the exported article and tree frames
Added: new options to specify the background images for the exported article and tree frames
Added: new options to specify external stylesheet filenames for the exported article and the tree frames
Added: an option to enable⁄disable the tree frame when exporting to Web site

Article

Improved: several inconveniences related to editing text have been resolved
Added: edit⁄redo, also to be activated using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+y
Improved: pressing 'home' or 'end' when a block of text is selected will now move the cursor to the start or the end of the selected block.
Bugfix: text containing hyperlinks will now be pasted correctly.
Bugfix: adding formatting to a hyperlink text will not uncover the underlying URL anymore
Bugfix: many problems related to bullets have been solved.

Toolbars

Improved: the heavy shadow displayed on the topmost toolbars has been replaced by a milder looking ridge.

New features in TreePad PLUS 3.4.4

Tree

Added: some very nice folder icons to the Tree Pane, created by Lee Katzz

Article formatting: color

Improved: new text color and text background color selection dialogs have been added to the article formatting toolbar. With these dialogs you are now able to select any color supported by Windows . You can also define your own colors, and add them to the color dialog.
Added: menu items to set and remove the text background color, as well as to set the text color. You can find them at Menu ⁄format⁄color.

Plain text Hyperlinks

Improved: plain-text hyperlinks do not need to be enclosed in double quotes anymore, nor do they need to be totally selected anymore when you try to activate them. One exception is the case where a hyperlink contains one or more space characters. When a hyperlink contains space characters you must either: (1) enclose the hyperlink between double quotes or (2) select the whole hyperlink before activating it.

New features in TreePad PLUS 3.4.3

New Basic⁄Advanced mode options

Added: for each mode (advanced and basic) you can now specify which toolbars and infobars will be shown. You can do this using the options screen, Menu ⁄view⁄options, or by directly showing or hiding the toolbars in the main window.
Added: the article tab can now be shown below or above the article.
Bugfix: some problems related to the introduction of the quick start screen have been resolved.

HTML export

Improved: export to Website. New tree node folder icons are added, these have been created by Lee Katzz.

New features in TreePad PLUS 3.4.1

Article formatting

added: the format painter now supports more formatting options, like copy⁄paste of vertical line spacing, font name, font color, font background color, outline style. You can find the format painter at: "Menu ⁄format⁄copy formatting" and "Menu ⁄format⁄paste formatting"

Article display options

These options can be accessed in the options screen, using Menu ⁄view⁄options.
added: 'show tab markers' (when enabled, an arrow is shown at the position of a tab character in the article)
added: 'show paragraph markers' (when enabled, a paragraph sign is shown at the end of each paragraph in the article)
added: 'show space markers' (when enabled, a small dot is shown for each space character in the article)
added: 'show new-line markers' (when enabled, a small down-left arrow is shown for each new-line character)
added: 'show hard page breaks' (when enabled, a dotted line is shown for each manually added page break; a solid line is shown at the end of the article text)

Article editing

Bugfix: the default tab positions you can set in the options screen will not get lost anymore in rich text articles.

New features in TreePad PLUS 3.4.2

Search⁄replace

Added: an article search⁄replace dialog. The dialog also contains several options: (1) an option to only replace the first found occurence, (2) or replace all found occurences. Additionally the program can (3) ask for confirmation before each replacement, or (4) replace occurences without confirmation.
You can activate the search⁄replace dialog using "Menu ⁄search⁄Article Replace" or the keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+r

Startup

Added: a quick-start dialog. In this dialog, which only appears at program startup, you can specify whether you want to start in advanced or basic mode, and if you want to load one of the last opened files, create a new file or browse the harddisk for a file to open. This screen has an option to disable it showing the next time the program is started. You can also enable⁄disable this option in the options screen (category 'TreePad options', item 'startup').

HTML export

bugfix: HTML files which are exported from TreePad PLUS will now correctly display slashes when viewed with Netscape.

New features in TreePad PLUS 3.4.1

Article formatting

added: the format painter now supports more formatting options, like copy⁄paste of vertical line spacing, font name, font color, font background color, outline style. You can find the format painter at: "Menu ⁄format⁄copy formatting" and "Menu ⁄format⁄paste formatting"

Article display options

These options can be accessed in the options screen, using Menu ⁄view⁄options.
added: 'show tab markers' (when enabled, an arrow is shown at the position of a tab character in the article)
added: 'show paragraph markers' (when enabled, a paragraph sign is shown at the end of each paragraph in the article)
added: 'show space markers' (when enabled, a small dot is shown for each space character in the article)
added: 'show new-line markers' (when enabled, a small down-left arrow is shown for each new-line character)
added: 'show hard page breaks' (when enabled, a dotted line is shown for each manually added page break; a solid line is shown at the end of the article text)

Article editing

Bugfix: the default tab positions you can set in the options screen will not get lost anymore in rich text articles.

New features in TreePad PLUS 3.4

Export to Web site

Added: it is can possible to export a selected subtree easily to a complete Web site! This new feature allows very easy and fast export of any TreePad subtree to a complete linked set of HTML pages (a Web site)! The exported Web site consists of a separate file generated for each article in each subtree; also a left frame for the Tree Pane, and a right frame for the Article Pane. Underlined hyperlinks to TreePad nodes, Web sites, email addresses, etc. will be converted automatically to HTML hyperlinks. An example of the 'export to Web site' can be found at: www.treepad.com⁄treepadplus⁄onlinemanual Please note that (for now) the generated HTML tree pane is static.
Added: new options for setting the font face and font size when exporting subtrees to HTML.

Browsing history

Improved: the history back and forward buttons (and history menu items) now remember previously visited nodes which are inside previously opened TreePad files. This feature only works when a new TreePad file has been loaded using a hyperlink. It will not work when you (re)open files using the file menu or file-open button.

Article options

Added: in Menu ⁄view⁄options one can now specify the bullet-paragraph indentation. TIP: to align the first line in a bullet paragraph perfectly with the other lines (like in the bullet paragraph you are currently reading), you can insert a 'tab' between the bullet and the first character of the first line. Future TreePad versions will do this automatically for you.
Added: in Menu ⁄view⁄options one can now specify the default distance between tab-stops. This option also specifies the default indent size.

Formatting menu

Changed: the 'conversion' menu items have been moved to the sub-menu 'Menu ⁄format⁄convert'
Added: new options to automatically convert plain text hyperlinks to underlined hyperlinks (see also below)

Insert menu

Added: insert page break
Added: insert node name (which inserts the name of the node in the current article)
Added: insert table of contents (which inserts a list of hyperlinks to the direct child nodes of the selected node)

Tree editing

Bugfix: error message 'list index out of bounds' when deleting a node will not occur anymore
Bugfix: error message 'list index out of bounds' when using the history back button will not occur anymore

Hyperlinks

Added: Menu ⁄format⁄convert⁄All plain text hyperlinks to underlined hyperlinks. This option converts any plain text hyperlinks found in the current article to underlined (new-style) hyperlinks.
Added: Menu ⁄format⁄convert⁄Selected plain text hyperlink to underlined hyperlink. This option converts the selected plain text hyperlink to an underlined (new-style) hyperlink.
Improved: Menu ⁄format⁄convert to plain text now correctly converts underlined-hyperlinks to plain text hyperlinks.

New features in TreePad PLUS 3.3.5

Shortcuts

added: Ctrl+v for paste node name (when the tree has focus)
added: Ctrl+c for copy node name (when the tree has focus)
added: Ctrl+p print article

Hyperlinks

improved: when activating hyperlinks to other TreePad files, another TreePad program instance will not be started, but the TreePad file will be opened in the currently running program.
added: option to activate hyperlink by single click or double click (default).

Menus

added: insert menu
moved: several article edit menu items have been moved to the insert menu, like insert date, insert time, insert file, insert hyperlink.
moved: "convert to plain text" has been moved to the format menu
changed: the order of the main menu items has been changed, to bring it more into accordance with the usual order displayed in other Windows software.

Insert

added: Menu ⁄insert⁄horizontal line

New features in TreePad PLUS 3.3.1 - 3.3.4,

compared to the previous version

Export⁄import

added: when exporting a subtree to multiple files (of type .html, .rtf or .txt), it is now possible to enable the option 'recurse subtree', allowing you export a complete subtree (including all descendant nodes from each level) to a hierarchical structure (including directories).

Running TreePad PLUS

bugfix: when 'automatically save all data when TreePad closes' is enabled, version 3.3 could refuse to close. This problem has been solved in version 3.3.3

Options⁄settings

bugfix: the settings screen did not always display correctly in version 3.3. Solved in version 3.3.3

New features in TreePad PLUS 3.3,

compared to the previous version

Settings⁄options

added: a completely new settings⁄options screen, which you can access using "Menu ⁄view⁄options".
added: option to allow the selection of fixed sized fonts for the article area, the article default font selection dialog, and the article font formatting combo.
bugfix: new articles did not always keep their default font settings after being selected the second time; this problem has been fixed.
added⁄updated: new tray options: show in tray when active, show in taskbar when active, show in tray when minimized, show in taskbar when minimized. All these options can be applied in combination.
added: even more new tray options: activate TreePad PLUS from tray when double clicked or when single clicked.
added⁄updated: several autoload options: automatically load last opened file during startup,ask whether to load last opened file at program start, do not load the last opened file at program start.
added⁄updated: several autosave options: automatically save changes on program exit, ask whether to save changes on exit, do not save changes on exit.
added: an option so that you can choose where your registration data will be stored: in theTreePad PLUS program directory (as the file TreePadPLUS.key, or in the Windows registry).

Search

improved: tree search window now remembers all settings, also after closing and starting the program

Printing

bugfix: toolbar print button now prints all the article pages (instead of just the first page)

Article editing

added: a format painter! "Menu ⁄format⁄copy formatting", and "Menu ⁄format⁄pasteformatting", to copy and paste text formatting (bold, italic, center, etc.).
added: keyboard shortcuts for copy⁄paste as text (shift+ctrl+c, shift+ctrl+v)(, and copy⁄pasteformatting (shift+alt+c, shift+ctrl+v).

Tree editing

bugfix: 'paste time' into node name reintroduced ("popup menu tree⁄paste⁄node name⁄time", or ctrl+shift+T)
added: Menu ⁄tree⁄copy⁄node, which copies the selected node (without any child nodes) onto the TreePad Clipboard.

Export⁄import

added: the possibility to export to TreePad 3 files, with Rich Text articles converted to HTML. This feature can be useful for export to iTreePad and other similar applications.
please note: TreePad 3 files with HTML articles can be read by TreePad PLUS

New features in TreePad PLUS 3.2.1,

compared to the previous version

Article editing

bugfix: several article selection bugs have been solved
added: copy as text (Menu ⁄edit⁄copy as text) to copy article contents without any formatting
added: paste as text (Menu ⁄edit⁄paste as text) to paste text from the clipboard without any formatting

Search

added: button in the view toolbar for tree search or article search. When the article is active, the search button will activate the article search box, when the tree is active, the button will activate the tree search engine.
please note that the shortcut key: Ctrl+F performs the same actions as the new search button
added:shortcut shift+F11 to search the tree
added: shortcut shift+F12 to search the article
improved: when you double click an item in the tree-search result-list, the first occurence of the search-phrase will be automatically selected inside the article. Pressing F3 will perform an article "search next". This only works if the article actually contains the search phrase.

New features in TreePad PLUS 3.2,

compared to the previous version

Hyperlinks

added: hyperlinks to directories
added: user defined hyperlinks (supporting prefixes other than shown in the linktype combobox in the hyperlink dialog screen). User-defined hyperlinks can be used to define e.g. https:⁄⁄ links, by selecting 'user defined' in the link type combo, and typing the prefix 'https:⁄⁄' in the link address field.
improved: the logic and the lay-out of the 'hyperlink create' and 'hyperlink modify' dialogs hasbeen improved
added: to the hyperlink dialogs, new option 'Custom link text'. When disabled, the link text displayed in the article will be based on the link address. When this option is enabled, you can enter a custom link text
improved: the hyperlink dialogs will remember the selection in the link type combo and the state (selected, unselected) of the 'custom link text' option, even after restarting the program.

Article editing

bugfix: 'popup menu article⁄copy' now functions OK
bugfix: 'popup article⁄cut' and 'popup article⁄delete' now function OK

Tree editing

bugfix: occasional access violation when deleting a new node should not occur anymore
reintroduced: pressing Shift+delete on the keyboard will delete a node without TP asking for confirmation.

Running TreePad PLUS

improved: splash screen now does not show itself anymore when the program is registered.
reintroduced: Menu ⁄options⁄article⁄allow tabs: when checked, pressing 'tab' in the article will produce a tab character; pressing 'Ctrl+tab' will switch the focus to the tree. When not checked, the reverse is true. Pressing 'Ctrl+tab' will produce a 'tab' character in the article, pressing 'tab' will switch to the tree.
improved: when in the tree, pressing tab and Ctrl+tab will now always switch to the article, even when a tree node caption is being edited.

Menus and toolbars

bugfix: the toolbar popup menu now follows the state (visibility) of the toolbars correctly
added: 'popup menu toolbars⁄autoarrange' and 'Menu ⁄toolbars⁄auto arrange'.
bugfix: access violation during program shutdown, which occurred only when the paragraph toolbar is floating has been fixed.

New features in TreePad PLUS 3.1.16 ,
compared to the freeware 2.7.3 version

Running TreePad PLUS

added: advanced mode and basic mode. When the program is started initially, it runs in basic mode, advanced mode will enable all the options in the program. See also 'Menu ⁄ view advanced mode', and 'Menu ⁄ view ⁄ basic mode' and the toolbar mode button.
added: 'Menu ⁄ view ⁄ options ⁄ ask at startup to load the last opened file'. When enabled, TreePad will ask you at startup whether or not it should load the last opened file..

Article editing and formatting

added: full rich text editing and paragraph formatting
added: article formatting toolbar and menu
added: paragraph formatting toolbar and menu
added: support for tables in the article area
added: table menu
added: table toolbar
added: insert⁄overwrite option
added: insert⁄overwrite indicator in statusbar
added: 100 edit⁄undo level
rtf clipboard copy⁄paste
added: edit-undo button
added: function to explicitely convert Rich Text articles to plain text
added: article ruler, this works in a similar way to the ruler in MS Word (tabs can be added by clicking the ruler; left⁄right⁄center⁄decimal tabs can be selected by clicking the square to the left of the ruler). The units of the ruler can be set in the page setup dialog.
added: automatic conversion to RTF (if character of paragraph formatting is applied, tabs are added to the ruler, RTF is pasted from clipboard, or tables are added).
added: automatic conversion to plain text if all formatting is removed
changed: 'Menu ⁄options⁄settings⁄article⁄font' will now be only effective for plain text and new articles; this setting will be ignored for RTF articles which already contain some formatting.

Tree

updated: new tree toolbutton
added: tree background color can be set
added: explode subtree button
added: implode subtree button
improved: speed of expand and collapse all levels improved
improved: speed of 'set tree background color' improved

Browsing and history

added: browsing history functionality
history-back menu item and tool button
history-forward menu item and tool button
navigate⁄history toolbar with navigate buttons (up, down, left, right)
navigate up⁄down⁄left⁄right buttons and menu option
During a TreePad session TreePad PLUS now remembers the location of the cursor in any article. Going back to a previously visited article will show the part of the article which was visible during the last time the article was selected. Pressing Ctrl+tab or tab in the tree will switch to the article, retaining the exact last cursor location

Search

advanced search engine: (search for all words - AND, search for some words - OR, search for exact phrase)
Modeless search window

Hyperlinks

added: new-style hyperlinks. Blue and underlined, they can be activated by dbl-click, Ctrl+h,the tool button 'follow hyperlink' or the 'navigate ⁄ follow hyperlink'. Hyperlinks can point to nodes, files on harddisk, newsgroups, Web sites, email addresses FTP servers.
added: hyperlink dialog for modifying and creating hyperlinks
added: hyperlink content will be displayed in the statusbar when one clicks once on a new-style hyperlinks
when the article text-cursor is on a hyperlink, the toolbar button 'hyperlink insert⁄modify' will display the 'modify hyperlink' screen. ('Menu ⁄ edit ⁄ hyperlink insert or modify' has the same function as the toolbar button, as well as Shift+Ctrl+h).
when the article text-cursor is on normal text, the button 'hyperlink insert⁄modify' will insert a new hyperlink ('Menu ⁄ edit ⁄ hyperlink insert or modify' has the same function as the toolbar button, as well as Shift+Ctrl+h).
added: semi URL auto-detection for old-style hyperlinks (also: plain text hyperlinks, used in TreePad freeware, and hyperlink addresses from imported from text documents). To activate such a hyperlink, first one needs to select the hyperlink text completely with the mouse cursor or the text cursor; then
(1) use the button 'follow hyperlink' in the navigation toolbar, or
(2) the menu option 'Menu ⁄navigate⁄follow hyperlink', or
(3) press Ctrl+H when the article has the focus, or
(4) or do Ctrl+left_mouse_click on the selected text.

Printing

added: Menu ⁄file⁄print preview and print preview toolbar button
added: well formatted 'print subtree function' using the default Internet browser
added: Menu ⁄file⁄page setup, where you can specify the printing page size, margins and units (centimeter or inches) and page orientation

Import

added: import into article: RTF and HTML files

Export

added: export to TreePad 3 file
added: export to TreePad 2 compatible file
export to single HTML, plain text, RTF file
export to multiple HTML, plain text or RTF file
added: several advanced export option

Tray icon

when minimize to tray is enabled, the icon stays in the system tray, also when the application is active and the icon appears in the taskbar.

View

Zoom from 10% to 1000%
Article ruler can be hidden or shown

TreePad PLUS registration:

added: an option to register the program; Menu ⁄help⁄register TreePad PLUS option to register the program online
the statusbar will display 'registered' or 'not registered' depending on the registration status