News
05 April 2014
eric5 5.4.3 has been released.
05 April 2014
eric4 4.5.21 has been released.
09 March 2014
eric5 5.4.2 has been released.
09 March 2014
eric4 4.5.20 has been released.
09 February 2014
eric5 5.4.1 has been released.
09 February 2014
eric4 4.5.19 has been released.
07 January 2014
eric5 5.4.0 has been released. The most prominent new features are these.
- General
- introduced a zoom widget in the status bar of several windows
- centralized the SSL error handling in E5SslErrorHandler
- moved the SSL widgets to the E5Network package
- changed the 'import' statements to improve startup behavior
- removed the QtHelp dependancy; support is only available, if the QtHelp module could be imported
- changed code to be compatible with latest PyQt4 Windows installers
- introduced a configurable delay timer to get smoother sidebars behavior
- added a specialized error message handler allowing to filter messages
- added commandline options '--start-file', '--start-multi' and '--start-project' to start with the most recently opened file, multi project or project
- added a dialog to show the most recent error log
- Debugger
- Debug Viewer
- added a viewer for the call stack leading to the current line
- Variables Viewer
- changed the way multi line strings are shown in the value column
- Debug Viewer
- Checkers
- Coding Style (previously PEP-8)
- extended the coding style checker and its fixer
- added a checker for naming conventions
- dded a checker for docstring conventions
- extended the fixer for docstring issues
- Coding Style (previously PEP-8)
- Editor
- added the capability to preview HTML, Mardown and ReST files
- added the capability to sort lines spanned by a rectangular selection based on the selected text
- added entires to convert the selection to upper/lower case to the edit menu
- changed the line numbers margin to adjust themselves to the size needed
- added support for virtual space
- added support to show the current class/method name in the combo boxes at the top of the editor
- File Browser
- added a JavaScript parser in order to show the structure of JavaScript files
- Mini Editor
- changed the line numbers margin to adjust themselves to the size needed
- added support for virtual space
- Multi Project
- extended the context menus of the multi project browser to be able to add projects this way
- Project
- added support for PyQt5 projects
- Project Viewer
- All
- added a context menu entry to delete the selected directory
- Forms Viewer
- added support for more widgets in the code creation dialog
- added a plug-in hook for the 'open' action
- Sources Viewer
- added support to highlight the current class/method name of the current editor
- added a JavaScript parser in order to show the structure of JavaScript files
- Translations Viewer
- added a plug-in hook for the 'open' action
- All
- Shell
- changed the line numbers margin to adjust themselves to the size needed
- Symbols Viewer
- extended the list of supported unicode code blocks
- Template Viewer
- added a context menu entry to reload the templates
- changed logic such, that the templates are only written, if they contain some changes
- User Interface
- made the search and replace widgets scrollable (customisation for smaller screens)
- Version Control System Interfaces
- All --- added a confirmation dialog to the 'revert' actions
- Mercurial --- added a 'Copy Changesets' button to the log browser dialog --- editing the config file will generate a minimal one if none exists --- added support for the 'summary' command --- added capability to compare files side-by-side
- Subversion --- added capability to compare files side-by-side --- added cabaility to upgrade the working copy format
- Web Browser
- reworked the various SSL info widgets to show more info
- added a dialog to configure hosts to be exempted from caching
- added the capability to save the visible part of the current page as a screen shot
- Wizards
- added a wizard for the Qt5 QRegularExpression class (requires PyQt5)
- added support for PyQt5 to the QFileDialog wizard
- Third Party packages
- updated to Pygments 1.6
07 January 2014
eric4 4.5.18 has been released.
01 January 2014
The eric5 team wishes everybody a 'Happy New Year'.
