April 2006 Topic Links
	From the CEO: Another INFO packed Newsletter...   Dev Updates From the VP: ME2006 Beta Release & a new Support Queue   Today's Highlight Polystyle: Check it out	From the Support Desk Using Polystyle by Matt Jones a Multi-Edit Add-On   Multi-Edit Partners: - Programmer's Paradise - Axonware   Don't Wait or Hesitate Make sure you take advantage of our new Upgrade Policy
	Purchase your copy of the Multi-Edit v9.10 User Manual! **********************************************   For a very limited time we are offering the Multi-Edit User Manual to be purchased at the incredible price of $10.00 US dollars. An additional $7.00 will be acrued for shipping. This month ONLY (official end date is April 30th, 2006) you can purchase a printed copy of the Multi-Edit 9.10 printed manual for only $10.00 + $7.00 UPS Ground shipping. International users will need to contact one of our distributors for shipping outside North America. Visit our secure Online Ordering Form: https://www.multieditsoftware.com/meorder Or send an email to: The MESI Sales Desk: sales@multieditsoftware.com Or call us toll free: 1-877-910-2700 extension 1!   **********************************************
	Welcome to the Multi Edit Software Newsletter... Another INFO packed Newsletter... - Chad W. Williams Welcome to Issue 02 Volume 3! Welcome once again to another information packed release of The Developer News. As Spring approaches, so does the heavily anticipated release of ME2006! Dan Hughes is providing us with a sneak peak of what to expect in the upcoming release, and how to get your hands on the soon to be released Beta. In this issue you’ll also find an informative support article on Polystyle, what it does, how to use it and where to post your comments, questions and feature requests. As always, we at Multi Edit Software, Inc. strive to provide the best product for your development needs. We do this by listening to your feedback and working to create the features, fixes and enhancements you request. So be sure to take a moment to not only read our March support article, but also to visit our Polystyle, Multi-Edit, Multi-Edit Lite, and Multi-Edit Lite for SAS® Forum Topics. And as always, do not hesitate to add posts under our 'Suggestions' topic. Your communication is the cornerstone of our development. And we promise to continue our pursuit of providing the development community with the best development tool around!   Main Forum Page: http://www.multieditsoftware.com/forums/index.php Polystyle: http://www.multieditsoftware.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=19 Multi-Edit: http://www.multieditsoftware.com/forums/index.php?c=3 Multi-Edit Lite: http://www.multieditsoftware.com/forums/index.php?c=5 Multi-Edit Lite for SAS®: http://www.multieditsoftware.com/forums/index.php?c=6 As we near ever closer to the release of ME2006, time is running out to purchase your upgrades for versions older than Multi-Edit 9.0. Don’t delay, purchase your upgrade today and be sure to take full advantage of our final inventory liquidation on the Multi-Edit 9.10 printed manual for only $10.00 plus shipping! Chad Williams, CEO Multi Edit Software, Inc. Chad Williams: chadw@multieditsoftware.com
	Development Updates from the VP Beta Release & a New Support Queue - L. Dan Hughes Beta Release update... The development group at Multi Edit Software has been hard at work putting the final coding into ME2006, so that we can begin Beta testing. We are all very excited about this release and as a teaser I thought I'd announce a few of the new features you can expect. Features such as: "Search Filters, Ruby Support, New graphics, Improved file compare, ImageMagick integration, Delphi 2006, C++Builder 2006 integration and Visual Studio 2005 integration, new command maps, and...well soon we'll have the full list and a Beta copy available. Until then you'll just have to wait. Also in preparation for the Beta release, we have been putting into place a new issue tracking program. the New Support Queue... The software has been implemented and we've begun to use it in our daily work schedule. Some of the new features entail a more comprehensive database structure for customer submitted bugs, feature requests and support inquires. It will allow us to better track & maintain a database for all the correspondence between our support people, development staff and users. Our goal is to make Multi-Edit a better product and to make the user experience with Multi Edit Software a pleasurable one in all respects. As we adapt to the new tracking software you'll notice an increase in speed and service with all your feature requests, general questions or bug issues. Happy coding and until next time... Dan Hughes, VP Multi Edit Software, Inc. Dan Hughes: danh@multieditsoftware.com
	---------------------------Today's Highlight-------------------------    by Matt Jones Smart Source Formatting: Easy As 1, 2, 3   Click here for a Polystyle walkthrough... Step 1.) Unformatted code Step 2.) Example source Step 3.) Formatted code Polystyle automatically reformats the code to refelect your personal style. Setting up is quite easy since Polystyle learns your formatting style by examining samples of your code.   First activate Polystyle from within Multi-Edit's menu: Tools | Config Code Formatter. Second, use ME to format your examples and to define your style. For the last step, invoke Polystyle: Tools | Format Code within the Multi-Edit menu. A comprehensive walkthrough lies within our support article. Click here to access it quickly. You can also use the Graphical Styler to define your settings using mouse clicks alone! Polystyle elegantly eliminates the need to wade through a stack of conf files and documentation to get readable code. Polystyle is completely intuitive and natural.   For those developers who use our Multi-Edit Lite** & Multi-Edit Lite for SAS®** editors a FREE trial download is available as a stand alone version of Polystyle. The links below will direct you to the Polystyle website where you can purchase or download a trial copy today! [ ...Buy... ] [ ...Download... ] Polystyle is competitively priced at just $69, that's less than $8 per supported language. Buy a copy today! ---------------------------Today's Highlight-------------------------   ********************************************** **********Polystyle and Multi-Edit************* **Multi-Edit partners with Polystyle **Polystyle, a code formatter developed by Matt Jones, is included FREE with every Multi-Edit purchase Visit this url (http://www.multieditsoftware.com/polystyle-info.htm) for instructions on how to activate this feature within your copy of Multi-Edit Need a quick quide on activating your Polystyle??? Read the article from the Support Desk below to get a small walkthrough. **********Polystyle and Multi-Edit************* **********************************************
	From the Support Desk Getting the most out of Polystyle - The Multi-Edit Developers Polystyle, The Elegant, Intelligent Source Code Beautifier Why struggle through messy code when you can beautify it quickly, easily and on the fly? With Polystyle you can beautify your files within moments and easily view and edit your code without struggling through someone else's unorthodox coding style. Polystyle is a source code beautifier provided with Multi-Edit v9.10 which learns your personal formatting style by examining examples of your code. Since Polystyle learns your style by looking at samples of code you've formatted, it's not only intuitive to use, but easily flexes it muscles with the styles it can format. Polystyle provides several predefined styles as well as a GUI Configuration Tool making setup quick and easy. Languages which are currently supported include C/C++, C#, CMAC, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP, PHP, Pascal/Delphi, Perl, Python. Worried about using Polystyle from within ME? Don't! It's a snap. Simply click on Tools | Format Code and Polystyle will do the rest. Once you've run through the setup, your code formatter configurations are easily accessed by selecting Tools | Config Code Formatter.     ********************************************** **********Polystyle Walkthrough*****************   Polystyle Is Simple To Use In this walkthough you'll be taken through the short steps it takes to define your style and format your source code.   Unformatted Source Let's start with a simple use case. Imagine you have the following java code you want to format: //new item = new JMenuItem("New"); item.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_N); item.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { System.out.println("New window"); framework.makeNewWindow(); } }); menu.add(item); ... Reformatted Result Polystyle uses examples of code to find out how you like your code styled. You may either use the Graphical Styler to style your example file using mouse clicks alone, or you may edit your example file directly for more control over your style. Let's use Polystyle's predefined 2-space indent GNU style to format our file. (Note that you can also edit your example file directly and customize your style.) Here's the result: //new item = new JMenuItem ("New"); item.setMnemonic (KeyEvent.VK_N); item.addActionListener (new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent e) { System.out.println ("New window"); framework.makeNewWindow (); } }); menu.add (item); ... Configuring Polystyle - Step 1: Define Your Examples When you install Polystyle, the Configuration Tool is invoked to allow you to define your personal style. You have several options to do this. Option 1 allows you to define your style easily using the Graphical Styler and create a consistent style without having to edit an example file. Option 2 allows you maximum flexibility, by editing the example files, you can define nearly any style imaginable. Option 3 allows you to quickly select a predefined industry-standard style without having to edit any configuration files. Option 4 allows you browse all the Polystyle's prepackaged styles. Option 1: Define Styles using the Graphical Styler The Graphical Styler has several categories of options for each style. When you click a style option, the preview is instantly recreated. Configuring Polystyle - Step 2: Set Global Preferences Here you may quickly set up various preferences, as shown below: Configuring Polystyle - Step 3: Run Polystyle There are a number of ways to invoke Polystyle, as shown below: Take Polystyle For A Spin! Polystyle has a demo version if you haven't had a chance to check it out yet. Use the link below. [ ...Download... ] **********END Polystyle Walkthrough************* ********************************************** Special Note Multi-Edit users will find a new Support Forum Topic, "Polystyle" at the following link: http://www.multiedit.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=19 Multi Edit Software, Inc. and Polystyle would like to request that our Polystyle users take a moment to view this newly created forum topic and provide us with your comments, feature requests, bug reports and questions. Your participation in the forum discussions on Polystyle will help us to mold the product to better fit your needs and to address problems or questions which may arise with using Polystyle. Until next time, The Support Team As always, any suggestions for a future tech article are always welcome at the following email address: Team Email: support@multieditsoftware.com
	------------------------------Multi-Edit Partners----------------------------   Programmer’s Paradise is a reseller of select, quality computing products and services to software developers and other IT professionals. The company operates in the United States and Canada, marketing technical software for microcomputers, servers and networks. Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Lifeboat Distribution Inc., it distributes products to dealers and resellers in the United States and Canada. The company's catalogs are full color magalogs, combining product announcements and advertisements with informative articles, interviews and event schedules. Programmer's Paradise specializes in offering a particularly wide selection of programming languages, tools, utilities, libraries, development systems, interfaces and communication products. Bill O'boyle Programmer's Paradise, Inc. 1157 Shrewsbury Ave. Shrewsbury, New Jersey 07702-4321 Telephone: (732) 389-8950 extension 7281 Fax: (732) 460-9317 website: www.programmersparadise.com e-mail: bill.oboyle@programmers.com ------------------------------Multi-Edit Partners---------------------------- AxonWare is a privately held corporation located in Dublin, Ireland. It provides business and developer tools across Europe. The promoters of AxonWare have been supplying Multi-Edit since 1995 and are committed to world class service to the Multi-Edit community. Visit them at Axonware.com or call them to discuss network licensing options.     Website: Axonware Tel: +353-1-4958914 Fax: +353-1-6335746 Email: Julie Nyhan: JulieN@axonware.com ------------------------------Multi-Edit Partners----------------------------
	MESI implements New Upgrade Policy with the Launch of ME2006 Those of you who currently own a Multi-Edit license which is older than Multi-Edit v9.0 will no longer have an upgrade option upon the release of the next major build of Multi-Edit, ME2006 due May 2006. You will however continue to receive support from our staff via our support forums, and update files will remain on the server for older releases. To help ease the transition in implementing this new policy we are offering a Free Download Upgrade to ME2006. When you purchase your copy Multi-Edit version 9.10 (either shipped or download copies), you'll not only be able to download and use it right away, but you'll receive a Free Download Upgrade to the next major Multi-Edit release in Spring 2006. Please note that access to theMulti-Edit Beta releases will also be made available to all registered users who purchase prior to May 2006.   To purchase your copy of Multi-Edit 'click' or 'paste' the text below and take advantage of this great offer! https://www.multieditsoftware.com/meorder Help us to assist you quicker by ensuring you've registered with your latest contact information. If you've moved since your purchase, changed your email or phone numbers, please take a moment to fill out our online registration form at http://www.multieditsoftware.com/register.php.
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