News
2008-05-08 - Version 3.2 Released
This release fixes a crash in the file manager (menu File / Files...)
with recent GTK+ versions.
2008-04-29 - Unicode Version Released
The editor now works internally in unicode with the following limitations:
- It can load UTF-8 and UTF-16 files only if they have a signature (BOM).
- Under Linux, most distributions use UTF-8 as the default locale, so a file
without signature will be loaded as an UTF-8 file, if it isn't one, the load will fail.
- Currently, there is no auto-detection of the encoding and no way to
specify it.
- Bidirectional text is not handled
The main drawbacks is that the editor now consumes almost twice as much
memory than the non-unicode version. Load and save operations are also a bit slower
because of conversions, but it is noticeable only with huge files (over 20 MB).
2008-02-24 - Unicode Version in Progress
Hello there,
Anyone interested in a Unicode version of Code Browser ?
The development of the Unicode version is currently in progress, I've added the source code to the SVN repository. The editor now works internally with UTF16 encoding, it can load and save files using the default locale, UTF-8 or UTF-16 encodings.
Right-to-left scripts are not handled yet.
There is no auto-detection of the encoding when opening a file, so a file without signature (BOM) will be loaded using the current locale.
People interested in the unicode version who want to help its development can test it and report bugs. You can download the sources from the subversion repository or download a nightly build here:
http://mkerbiquet.free.fr/download/code-browser/
2008-02-17 - Version 3.0 Released
This release includes only a small change but this change makes a
big difference in the look and feel: the last line is no longer a comment
line, and the border uses the regular text background instead of the
comment color background.
This change was done in order to make Code Browser more similar to
traditional text editors and to avoid confusing new users.
The initial design was made to get a kind of literate programming style:
a function source code becomes a page which is mainly documentation with
one or more frames containing the actual code.
Now people who don't want to use the comment line feature can totally
ignore it. I hope that existing users won't be too much disapointed.
The preferences won't conflict with version 2.xx since it is stored in a
different folder (code-browser-3). So if you want to reuse your previous
settings, just rename or copy the config folder:
- Unix: ~/.code-browser to ~/.code-browser-3
- Windows:\Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\code-browser
to \Documents and Settings\<user>\Application Data\code-browser-3
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