Multi-Edit's March Edition of "The Developer News" version 6 issue 1

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March 2009 "The Developer News"
CEOs Welcome: March Madness, and what it means to you... Multi-Edit's March Madness! Development News from Dan Hughes: Questions and Input Support Notes by Geoff Fritz: What's New with the Multi-Edit Wiki	Beyond Compare 3 Get Ready for some Comparative Power with the BC3 new release! David Deley's Tips & Notes: Easily Change your Code Commenting... Customer Center Old Stock Blowout Click here for Product Pricing Multi-Edit Partners: Axonware Programmer's Paradise
UPGRADE any ME from over the Past 20 years to Multi-Edit 2008! Multi-Edit's Mad Mad March - 2009 - For the remainder of March ONLY, users of Multi-Edit 9.10 & older can now upgrade to our latest release, Multi-Edit 2008! This is a one-time only offer & allows you a final upgrade path prior to our 9.10 being taken out of eligiblity... So be sure to take advantage today & update your Multi-Edit to the current release! ******************************************** Purchase Your Upgrade Here: https://www.multieditsoftware.com/meorder ********************************************
Introduction from the CEO Multi-Edit's Mad March - Chad W. Williams Hello and welcome to the March Madness edition of The Developer News! For the remainder of March, I've approved a limited time open upgrade option for all Multi-Edit Users. Don't miss your chance to upgrade from anything to Multi-Edit 2008 during this limited time! Upgrade your outdated Multi-Edit release to ME 2008 and lock in your upgrade pricing. Be sure to read Michele's Article for all the details including the announcement of the availability of the all new Beyond Compare 3. As we at MESi work to improve Multi-Edit to meet today's programming needs, we would like to take a moment to hear what you, our users have to say for the next Multi-Edit build plans. Dan Hughes would like to hear what you have to say, take a moment to review Dan's Article and voice your opinion on our latest poll and have your say in the next big leap for Multi-Edit Users! We're currently working on improving the Multi-Edit website to allow for easier navigation as well as ease of locating needed information. Geoff Fritz has updated our Wiki to provide users with tutorials on CMac and more knowledge base items. See Geoff's Article for complete information and links. Finally, David Deley would like to share with you a recent support case. Read David's Article on how to easily change your code commenting. Until next month, Chad Williams, CEO Multi Edit Software, Inc. Chad Williams: chadw@multieditsoftware.com

Development News from Dan Hughes Questions and Input - Dan Hughes Development News ================ We in the MESi development labs have been busy researching and experimenting with ideas and code for the next major release of Multi-Edit and thus haven't had much to discuss outside the lab. We recently received an e-mail from a user that stated that he knew we were busy but to users it appeared that we were doing nothing. That got me to thinking... Here we are working on the next version of "The Programmer's Editor designed by its users" and we haven't actually been asking our users their opinion on anything. Not good! So with this article we hope to generate a new wave of more input from you. History ================ The original version of Multi-Edit was written in Pascal to run under DOS. Custom code was written so that lines longer than 256 characters could be used. Quite a bit of assembler was used to make the editor operate as fast as it could and a macro language was built in so that the editor core could be easily manipulated. Later this base code was modified to first allow it to run under 16-bit Windows and later updated again to work under 32-bit Windows. The current version of Multi-Edit is the result of many years of making changes to that original code base. Over time user requirements have changed and we have implemented features that users want to the best of our abilities, using the current code. We have now found ourselves unable to add some capability on top of the current code base. For instance, Unicode is required to edit XML files and seems to be the standard for the future. Multi-Edit has had limited support added to allow some Unicode files to be viewed but editing and saving these files without data loss isn't possible without major changes to the base code. We have been reviewing and modifying the current code to try to rewrite it to allow editing Unicode files. The changes needed will affect the editor in many ways and we are at the point that we are needing to know from you our users how we should continue. There are a number of ways to proceed and we are creating some polls on our forum, where your input will help us determine the necessary changes needed to best serve you. Questions ================ 1. How should the next version of Multi-Edit be implemented? http://www.multiedit.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2285 2. How should we implement the Unicode editing core? http://www.multiedit.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2286 3. How should the editing core support external extensions? http://www.multiedit.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2287 4. What extension languages should be available? http://www.multiedit.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2288 5. What GUI libraries should be used? http://www.multiedit.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2289 There are many more questions we would like answers to but they kind of depend upon the results of the above questions so they can wait unti a future time. Until the next Newsletter... Happy Coding! L. Dan Hughes, VP/CTO Multi Edit Software, Inc. danh@multieditsoftware.com Input Your Suggestions in the Forum: http://www.multiedit.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=7 **Please note that you can review/search through all forum topics, but to submit a post you must register on the forums.

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Support Notes What's New with the Multi-Edit Wiki When a web site has been around as long as Multi-Edit's, sometimes content gets lost. Useful tidbits of information, such as a once-prominent leading thread in the forum or a how-to article from the newsletter, get swept aside for the latest question or most recent product announcement. While still available, sometimes this information is tough to find. Sure, search engines help in this regard, but sometimes it's nice to have related documentation all organized and tidied up, ready for easy perusal. That's where the Multi-Edit wiki comes into play. Announced with the release of Multi-Edit 2008 (as the primary source of the Multi-Edit 2008 Manual), the wiki is currently a little-used resource. Hopefully this will soon change. In recent weeks, content from various sources has been migrated over to the new wiki. For example, the Tutorial page has been filled with a collection of useful CMac articles, as well as a few other useful topics. As with all housecleaning, however, sometimes things get broken in the move. Code examples, for instance, are easily munged up from translation of one markup scheme to another. Sometimes older articles are incorrect for recent versions of the product. If you come across any obviously broken pieces of documentation, please send your observations to support@multiedit.com so we can get things fixed. Of course we will continue to vet the existing pages, in addition to adding more content as we find stuff suitable for relocation. Geoff Fritz Multi Edit Software, Inc. support@multieditsoftware.com Send any support questions or Bug Reports to support@multieditsoftware.com or by using Help \| Create Bug Report from within Multi-Edit. You may also post your questions on our support forums at: http://www.multiedit.com/forums

Customer Service Save with these Offers - Michele Hegwood Stock Blowout and Beyond Compare New Release! MESi is proud to announce the availability of Scooter Software's, Beyond Compare 3 Now available through MESi! To purchase your copy of Beyond Compare 3, please visit our secure online ordering page @ https://www.multieditsoftware.com/meorder/ .If you encounter any problems ordering, need to submit a purchase order, or have additional questions regarding purchasing, please email me directly @ sales@multieditsoftware.com. For those who currently own Beyond Compare v.2.5.2 or older, & your copy was purchased after Jan 1st 2007, please visit the link below for information & learn how to obtain your FREE upgrade to the latest & greatest Beyond Compare 3! If you need information regarding your purchase history, please send an email to me @ sales@multieditsoftware.com containing your registration information. BC upgrade page: http://www.scootersoftware.com/shop.php?zz=req_upgrade Do you have support questions or would like to speak with the creators of Beyond Compare? The easiest & quickest method to receiving answers to your Beyond Compare support questions is thru Scooter Software's support page directly @ http://www.scootersoftware.com/forums. There you will find a direct link to their support department for help. General questions, problems, bug reports & suggestions concerning BC3 Not currently a Beyond Compare user? Purchase your copy today @ https://www.multieditsoftware.com/meorder/ Available for ONE FINAL TIME during our MARCH MADNESS sales event, all PRIOR versions of Multi-Edit will be valid for UGRADE to the latest 2008 release! For the remainder of March, Multi Edit will now accept any previous 'valid' Multi-Edit serial number for upgrade to the current release of Multi-Edit 2008. Also, upgrading to the mobileME 2008 or one of the bundles, moME+ME+BC or moME+ME+EZRTools, will be allowed. Please note that you will need your current version serial number (ME2k6 or older) on hand when ordering the upgrade. To check the version you are currently running & to view your license information, please run your current copy of Multi-Edit and select Help \| About, this should display your serial number. If you are not running Multi-Edit, or just can't seem to locate your serial number, please email me directly with your registration & original billing information, and I will try to locate it for you. To purchase please visit our secure online ordering page @ https://www.multieditsoftware.com/meorder/. And If you encounter any problems ordering, need to submit a purchase order, or have additional questions regarding purchasing, please email me directly @ sales@multieditsoftware.com. Multi-User/Network license upgrades must be handled thru our sales dept directly @ sales@multieditsoftware.com. This promotion with NOT be extended so upgrade NOW if you own Multi-Edit 9.0 or older before time runs out! Product Pricing: http://www.multieditsoftware.com/prodcho.php Multi-Edit 2008 Upgrade - Shipped $99.00 US dollars PLUS shipping price includes ME2008 download Multi-Edit 2008 Upgrade - Electronic Download $79.00 US dollars mobileME Upgrade - Shipped $99.00 US dollars PLUS shipping price includes ME2008 download mobileME Suite Upgrade (Multi-Edit 2k8 + Beyond compare + mobileME 2008) - Shipped $156.80 US dollars PLUS shipping price includes ME2008 download mobileME Suite Upgrade (Multi-Edit 2k8 + Beyond compare + EZRTools) - Shipped $145.10 US dollars PLUS shipping price includes ME2008 download Support seekers please visit our support page directly @ http://www.multieditsoftware.com/support.php. It provides useful links & information to our Support Articles, Product Registration, Updates (Macros & more), Email Support, & also contains our Online Forum http://www.multieditsoftware.com/forums/index.php - where we have an in-depth record of support-related solutions. Always at your service, Michele Hegwood Multi Edit Software, Inc. Michele Hegwood: sales@multieditsoftware.com

David Deley's Tips & Notes How to Change Your Code Commenting Easily! - David Deley How To Switch Off Italics For Comments If you don't care for your code comments to be displayed in italics, you can easily turn that off by going to TOOLS \| CUSTOMIZE \| GENERAL(left side) \| COLORS scroll down to "EOL Comment 1", then on the far right, under "Font style", uncheck the box for "Italics". Repeat for EOL Comment 2,3,4, and Open/Close Comment 1 & 2. Click 'Save' (upper left) before clicking 'OK' or the change will just be temporary. David Deley, Programming/Support Consultant Multi Edit Software, Inc. support@multieditsoftware.com Input Your Suggestions in the Forum:

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