------------------------- Version 5.1
Brings improvements in the field of user experience and comfort.
- If you open or save a file, and that file is then modified by another process,
EmojiGear will ask whether to reload it. Open two instances of EmojiGear on
the same file: if the first modifies the file, the second will be updated.
- Added a "Save" action with no requester if the text is already attached to a disk file.
Also "Save All", which saves all modified files. It keeps each file's encoding.
- An asterisk '*' appears on file names in the tab bar when the text has been modified.
- Workbench text file icons can be drag-and-dropped onto the main window;
multiple text files can be loaded in a single drag-and-drop. Isn't it great?
- If a modified file is closed, EmojiGear asks whether to save it first.
- You can choose background color and text color with both the palette and the
almighty "GetColor" gadget.
- EmojiBox now has a "Diacritics" section for European-specific characters,
including the French "median point" for inclusive writing.
Then, some corrections:
- Behaviour bug fixed: block indent used to create an undo/redo action per line.
Now, as expected, there is a single undo/redo action per block indent/unindent.
And perhaps the most important thing in this release:
- On native AGA screens, the active part of the editor, UniTextEditor.gadget,
and utf8rastport.library (the glyph renderer), were consuming way too much
Chip RAM in v4. This has now been reduced to very little Chip RAM usage,
so native-screen users may find this app more reliable.
The improvements in utf8rastport.library and unitexteditor.gadget are also
key for the forthcoming Mastodon client "FriendSh3ep", coming next.
------------------------- Version 4.3
Just a small update, because r4.2 had
problems with the OS3.9 Installer, and some binaries were
not 100% Amiga compliant. Now they are.
From now on, the installer will no longer check previous
binary versions; everything will be updated
to the version of the current package.
+ Fear face and dancer added to the "Popular Emojis" set.
+ Font selector now checks the format before loading a font,
preventing crashes from bad font files.
------------------------- Version 4
Again, mostly a bugfix release!
Thanks to the testers, three critical bugs were fixed this week.
Hopefully, a few new features too:
- EmojiGear (OS3.2)
- NEW FEATURE: tabs now have closing buttons!
- Fewer problems when iconifying, changing screen mode, and uniconifying.
- unitexteditor.gadget (all OSes)
- Four memory bugs fixed, mostly around offscreen bitmap management.
- "Scroll dancing" when editing a bottom-cropped line: fixed.
- NEW FEATURE: Right Alt + Left/Right arrows jump from word to word.
- EmojiGear & MUImojiGear
- No more crash when pipe-fed ANSI text, e.g.: echo "รข" | EmojiGear.
(You can pipe in UTF-8 or ANSI text; it is disambiguated automatically.)
- NEW FEATURE: optionally displays the Unicode "code point" of the
character under the cursor, and its "Unicode block name".
This is a great help in finding out which character set is missing
from your font configuration. Fun to try with the example texts
test_utf8_3_multilingual.txt and test_utf8_2_symbols.txt.
- MUImojiGear (the one that works on OS3.9 and possibly lower OS versions)
- Ctrl key behaviour fixed when the editor is focused.
You can "page up" and "page down" with Ctrl+Arrows.
- Double-click selects a whole word, triple-click selects a whole line,
so keyboard handling in the MUI version is now closer to EmojiGear's.
This also corrects the behaviour for any future MUI application using
unitexteditor.gadget.
- The font NotoColorEmoji32.ttf, which contains 32x32-pixel colour emojis,
is derived from the official 128x128-pixel NotoColorEmoji.ttf.
It had incorrect metrics that made them appear slightly shifted;
this has been corrected in this version.
------------------------- Version 3
Fixes three causes of memory corruption present in version 2.x.
Applications, gadgets and the library are all significantly more stable as a result.
Native 2-colour screen mode has also been fixed.
The text-rendering library should even be OS3.0 compatible, but
a bug in the old layers.library, and missing BOOPSI components,
prevent EmojiGear from running under OS3.9. This is almost worked around by
another version called MUImojiGear, which works
with MUI 3.8 or MUI 5.0 on older OS versions.
Yet the layers.library bug on OS3.9 is still present, so watch out.
Contribute to the project if you think you can help with this.
(Or upgrade from OS3.9 to OS3.2, which is supported and brings many fixes.)
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EmojiGear is a UTF-8 Unicode text editor for AmigaOS 3.2.x (68020+).
It renders TrueType/OpenType fonts and displays full-colour Emoji
on any Amiga video mode, native or RTG, indexed or true colour.
Font settings allow you to manage a list of cascading fonts, so you
can have one font for text and another for Emoji,
and display and convert any modern text correctly.
- Antialiasing, with a choice of background and pen colours
- Multiple documents open in a tab bar
- Load and save UTF-8, ISO Latin-1, ISO Latin-2; auto-detect UTF-16
- Find & Replace, Undo/Redo
- Optional word wrap
- Optional ANSI escape rendering for Unix-shell-compatible display
- Configurable font size with Ctrl+- keys
- Emoji Box, letting you choose from 8 sets of 40 emojis mapped to the F keys
- You can "pipe" the output of another command into the editor
- Settings saved in icon tooltypes
- Many corrections and improvements since the first release
Beyond the editor, the package installs three reusable Amiga components
that any developer can open from their own application:
utf8rastport.library -- FreeType 2 Unicode rendering on any RastPort,
with font fallback chains and colour Emoji.
unitexteditor.gadget -- the full editor as a BOOPSI gadget class,
embeddable in any application window.
unibutton.gadget -- a push-button gadget with Unicode/Emoji labels.
SDK, developer docs and examples are optionally installed,
with examples for MUI integration, and for library and gadget use.
License is GPL for the library and LGPL for the gadgets.
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SOURCE CODE AND BUG REPORTS
Source code:
https://github.com/krabobmkd/EmojiGear
Bug reports and feature requests:
https://github.com/krabobmkd/EmojiGear/issues
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