News
09 June 2013
eric5 5.3.4 has been released.
09 June 2013
eric4 4.5.12 has been released.
05 May 2013
eric5 5.3.3 has been released.
05 May 2013
eric4 4.5.11 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and includes these emhancements.
- introduced a configurable delay timer to get smoother sidebars behavior
- changed the line numbers margin to adjust themselves to the size needed (Editor, Mini Editor, Shell)
06 April 2013
eric5 5.3.2 has been released.
06 April 2013
eric4 4.5.10 has been released. It fixes a few bugs and includes these emhancements.
- added support for the --fork-child and --fork-parent switches
- added support for more widgets in the code creation dialog
- changed the way multi line strings are shown in the value column of the variables viewer
03 March 2013
eric5 5.3.1 has been released.
03 March 2013
eric4 4.5.9 has been released.
03 February 2013
eric5 5.3.0 has been released. The most prominent new features are these.
- General
- introduced a "workspace" directory that is used as the default for opening or saving new files or projects (configurable on Multiproject config page)
- added support for Qt5 (experimental)
- Configuration Dialog
- added a filter edit to filter the configuration tree
- Debugger
- added the capability to trace function calls and returns to the Python 2 and Python 3 debuggers
- Debug Viewer
- added the configurable capability to automatically show the source, when the call frame is changed in the callstack viewer of the local variables viewer
- added a viewer for call trace logs
- Editor
- added capability to change the colours of the edit area independant from the colours of the system style
- added capability to mark changed lines and to navigate between them
- added actions to search for the next/previous occurence of the current word (default shortcuts Ctrl+. and Ctrl+,)
- Graphics Dialogs
- added capability to store and load diagrams to/from disk
- improved the package diagram to include subpackages and their module names
- added the capability to rebuild a diagram without losing the current item positions
- IRC
- added a simple IRC client
- Log Viewer
- added the capability to search in the recorded log
- Project
- added capability to save project tasks automatically (configurable on project configuration page of configuration dialog)
- made the selectable project types of the project properties dialog dependent upon the selected programming language
- Shell
- added the capability to search in the output of the shell window
- Snapshot
- added a tool to take screenshots (fullscreen, selected screen, rectangular selection, elliptical selection or freehand selection)
- Spell Checker
- added a dialog to edit the various spell checking dictionaries
- Syntax Checker
- added capability to the syntax checker dialog to show all errors/warnings in an editor when the file entry is double activated
- Tasks
- changed the tasks handling to allow for more fine grained task designations
- Terminal
- added the capability to search in the output of the terminal window
- User Interface
- changed the layout of the right side widgets and added a sub menu for the switching between the 'inner' windows.
- added a notification system
- Version Control System Interfaces
- All
- added code to ensure, that some eric specific files and directories get ignored
- improved the copy/move operation a bit
- Mercurial
- added support for the graft command as of Mercurial 2.0
- added support for Phases as of Mercurial 2.1
- added support for amending commits as of Mercurial 2.2
- added support for sub-repositories
- added support for --log and --dry-run to the hg graft operation as of Mercurial 2.3.0
- added code to disable the (deprecated) transplant menu for Mercurial 2.3.0
- Subversion
- changed code to make the subversion plug-ins compatible with the new generation working copy meta-data format
- added capability to select from existing change lists and added a dialog to browse the change lists
- All
- View Manager
- added actions to open the find in files and replace in files dialogs in a mode that searches open files only
- change the status labels for programming language and end-of-line type to show an icon
- Web Browser
- too many extensions to list here (see changelog for details)
06 January 2013
snapshot-5.3-20130106 of eric5 released. It fixes some bugs and includes these changes and enhancements.
- General
- added support for Qt5 (experimental)
- Debugger
- added the capability to trace function calls and returns to the Python 2 and Python 3 debuggers
- Debug Viewer
- added a viewer for call trace logs
- Editor
- added actions to search for the next/previous occurence of the current word (default shortcuts Ctrl+. and Ctrl+,)
- added some icons to the "Languages" and "End-of-Line Type" context menus
- IRC
- added a simple IRC client
- Spell Checker
- added a dialog to edit the various spell checking dictionaries
- Syntax Checker
- added capability to the syntax checker dialog to show all errors/warnings in an editor when the file entry is double activated
- User Interface
- changed the layout of the right side widgets and added a sub menu for the switching between the 'inner' windows.
- added a notification system
- View Manager
- added actions to open the find in files and replace in files dialogs in a mode that searches open files only
- change the status labels for programming language and end-of-line type to show an icon
