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Welcome to the Multi Edit Software Newsletter...
Congratulations!
- Chad W. Williams
Welcome to Issue 01 Volume 3!
Being this is our first edition of The Developers News in 2006, I'd like to begin with a Happy New Year! to our development community.
Second I must offer my Congratulations to Andy Colson, Eric Pement, & Jonathan Ray, the winners of our Submit Your Code contest! All the submissions we received were quite nice, and we're looking forward to sharing everyone's entries in future builds of Multi-Edit for all to use! Dan Hughes will take a moment to provide everyone a glimpse of our top three winners, what they submitted, and what their submissions actually do.
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In this issue, Carl Hall in Support will discuss how to resolve that pesky Help issue usually brought on by operating system updates. Carl provides us with some excellent steps and information on how to quickly and painlessly resolve these issues and get those Help files pulling up again on command!
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Development Updates from the VP
- L. Dan Hughes
Contest Codes
I would like to personally thank each of the users that sent in code to our "Submit Your Code Contest".
The code was quite interesting to review and we will be including some of the code in future versions of Multi-Edit. Below is a overview of what the winners submitted.
DlgBuilder
The DlgBuilder code is something we have been wanting to do in one form or another. The base idea of this code, is to provide a quick way to design & create code for dialog boxes used in ME's CMac macros. The project contains a GUI form builder that allows adding controls to a form and placing them where they are wanted and setting certain properties of these controls. Once a form is laid out, the program can then be used to call some provided macros in Multi-Edit to create the CMac code to build the dialog. Thus freeing the user from having to design CMac dialog macros in code by hand.
EMACS command map
The EMACS command map contains a Multi-Edit command map which along with the associated Emacs.s macro source allows users that are familiar with EMACS to use the same key sequences within Multi-Edit.
This will most likely be included in a future patch of Multi-Edit 2006.
CLIF
CLIF in the authors words stands for Command Line Facade. This project contains a set of CMac macros and some key assignments to allow quick running of any command line program without leaving Multi-Edit.
A document with special markup text is created and it contains the commands that a user wishes to run. These commands can be links to web pages, applications to be started, CMac macros to be run and/or folders to be opened in Windows Explorer.
Although you can accomplish most of this using the built in "URL Highlighting", this new code allows the user a faster way of launching the programs, a lot quicker than using the native support. It's been a lot of fun doing the reviewing and I know many of you will be waiting for the codes to be available. Don't worry, I'll be sure to let you know when all the winners codes are implemented and usable.
Until next time, happy coding.
Dan Hughes, VP
Multi Edit Software, Inc.
Dan Hughes: danh@multieditsoftware.com
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Issue 01 Support Article
- Carl Hall
Have you ever lost your HELP file...
Have you or another Multi-Edit user you know experienced a loss of functionality in accessing the Help feature? Especially right after your OS had just updated itself?
If you find this to be the case and are unable to access by hitting F1 (or other assigned hotkey) or just going to Help | Contents from the main menu, there's something you can do.
First you should check the "Manage Help Paths and Files" under the Main Help menu, and see if the paths are correct to the Help files.
If those are correct and the filenames themselves are correct. Double check in the installation directory itself in the Help subdirectory for the Me91.chm (Me.chm for v9.0) and double-click on it to see if it opens up in this manner. If it does, you will need to modify one of the source files, Help.s.
Note: Help does not get automatically installed unless selected as a component during installation. This also goes for the program's source code you will need to modify.
Given then that everything is correct, we'll use Multi-Edit to open the Help.s file found in the Src subdirectory of your installation.
Add the following line to the top of routine Me_HtmlHelp in file Help.s
Code:
HelpFile = Shorten_Str(HelpFile);
Which can be found around line 169 in the old file and approximately line 217 in the newer file.
Hint:
Line numbers can be turned on and off from the main menu under Text | Line numbers, or setting it on for a specific file extensions under Tools | Customize | Filename extensions.
Then the line is added here in the next screenshot:
Next, go to Tools | Execute Compiler and choose Compile CMacWin Macro.
This will create the Help.mac file in your Mac subdirectory and fix the problem. But, to make sure the issue stays resolved, you must go to the entry of Multi-Edit under the main Start menu in Windows, choose the option of Rebuild Macro Library.
"Close and restart Multi-Edit and you'll find that Help is working again!
This was an issue caused by a certain MS update and because not everyone's OS is updated the same, this issue has lingered but the current build of Multi-Edit has the proper code in it.
Until next time,
Carl HallAs always, any suggestions for a future tech article are always welcome at my email address: Carl Hall: carlh@multieditsoftware.com
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