i*write™ 3.2 Release Notes

New Features and Changes to Setup

1. The major improvement in release 3.2 is the addition of a spell checker. Pressing F11 will open a dialog to spell check the active item. In future releases the spell checker will be further improved to offer a background (as you type) spell checking option and other features.

2. The i*write setup packages now use Microsoft's web bootstrapper technology. In many cases, this reduces the size of the download because the Windows Installer files have only to be downloaded if not already present on your system.

3. The i*write setup packages are now digitally signed using Authenticode technology and a certificate provided by Thawte. If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, files to be downloaded will automatically be checked for digital signatures. Internet Explorer issues a warning if a file is not digitally signed. If a file is signed, you are guaranteed that the identity of the provider has been verified and that the file has not been tampered with.

For bug fixes and known issues please see the known issues page.

i*write™ 3.1 Release Notes

Changes in User Interface

Bug Fixes

Known Issues

Changes in User Interface

1. Undo/Redo buttons

2. Date and time stamp buttons

3. Navigation options button

4. Most-recently-used files (MRU) list on Journal menu

5. Added Object menu item to Edit menu

6. F9 key now toggles the Search Results Window

7. Improved the user interface of Full Page Display (for example, the mouse and text cursors now change when over an item header to indicate that it cannot be edited)

Bug Fixes

1. Removed several bugs in connection with Full Page Display

2. Removed several bugs in connection with synchronization of Category and Date Views

Known Issues

1. Clicking the Edit Properties menu item of the Edit menu for an embedded OLE object crashes the program

2. The Replace menu item of the Edit menu does not work

Both issues are due to bugs in Microsoft products. We have reported the problems to Microsoft. Unfortunately, no work-around is presently known and we have to wait until this is resolved.

i*write™ 3.0 Release Notes

General

Major New Features

Bug Fixes

Changes in User Interface

Known Issues

General

1. We no longer support Windows 95.

2. There are now separate downloads available for:

   Windows 98, Me	Self-extracting archive
   	Zip archive
   NT 4.0	Self-extracting archive
   	Zip archive
   Windows 2000	Self-extracting archive
   	Zip archive
   XP	Self-extracting archive
   	Zip archive

    

   These downloads are functionally identical and they all include the Standard (SE) and Plus Editions. However, the Windows 98 version will not run under Windows 2000 or XP and vice versa.

3. The trial period is now 30 days instead of 50 uses. If you'd like to extend the trial period contact sales@rightmindlogic.com. The trial version will let you test the features of both Editions. When you buy one of the Editions, the key code you will receive will determine which features (SE or Plus) will be available from then on.

Major New Features

1. Web links: If you embed a link to a web site (an URL) into an item you can now navigate to this web address by clicking on the link. The program will open your default browser and take you to the web address.

2. Numbered lists.

3. Text highlighting.

4. Multiple Undo / Redo.

5. Improved full-text search hit highlighting: Search hits are now highlighted with a "yellow marker" instead of changing the text color to red (hard to distinguish from black text for some users).

6. Password recovery. Version 3.0 has now a way to reset passwords should you have forgotten them. If you need to reset your passwords please contact support@rightmindlogic.com. Note that there is not one single password for the program but you rather set passwords (Read, Write, Master) per journal.

7. Message Log: The contents of previous sessions will no longer be overwritten. Instead new messages will be appended to the log. When the program starts, the user will no longer be reminded every time something had been written to the log. Instead there will only be a warning if the log grows bigger than 32k. The user can then email the log, empty it (new function) or continue writing to the same log. These functions are also accessible from the Help menu.

Bug Fixes

1. Slow typing effect: Several users had reported that typing is very slow (you type ahead and characters appear only with a delay). We had found a cause for this and fixed it in version 2.2.0.25 but it turned out there was still another bug contributing to this behavior. This has now also been fixed.

2. If a full-text search was active (i.e., search results are displayed in the Search Window) and text was edited or entered on a tab, the program would crash when the user attempted to switch to another tab (This only happened if the Option Save on Switching Tabs was selected).

3. When creating the first new item for a day the standard font and font size was not set correctly (Arial 10-point).

4. Fixed some inconsistencies when a tab is locked (e.g., it was possible to create an item for a locked tab using the Create New Item command).

5. The Export... function on the Journal menu did not work. Nothing was exported although there was no error message.

6. The Restore... function on the Journal menu did not work if the Option Backup on Exit (Automatic) was selected.

7. Fixed the flickering effect when the program starts (flickering of desktop icons and windows of other open programs). Also most other sources of flickering were removed (exception see below: Known issues).

8. Insertion of additional blank lines (and other problems) when switching back and forth between Multiple Tabs Display and Full Page Display.

9. When saving items under Windows 2000, sometimes tabs and periods would be added to the end of paragraphs.

Changes in User Interface

1. New design of command buttons.

2. Under XP two different button styles are available (However, see Known Issues #4 below)

3. Moved the paragraph indentation buttons from the status bar to the Paragraph Format toolbar.

4. Moved the Tab Create Mode / Tab Replace Mode switch from the status bar to the Views toolbar.

5. Moved the Lock Tab / Unlock Tab (Read-only / Write-enable) switch from the status bar to the Tab Operations toolbar.

6. Commands that work on an open tab are now disabled if no tab is open.

7. Added Close All Tabs command to the Tab menu.

Known Issues

1. Incompatibility of passwords with previous i*write versions (This is by design). Version 3.0 will detect if a journal was created with an earlier version of the program and will reset all passwords to the empty string. You will be reminded to reenter your passwords. If for some reason, you need to open the journal with the old version 2.2, you will be able to read and write the journal as long as you have not entered new passwords in version 3.0 but you can no longer access the Security options with version 2.2. If you need to manually reset your version 3.0 passwords, contact support@rightmindlogic.com.

2. Before you can install version 3.0, you have to remove any previous version of i*write . Removing i*write will not remove the option settings you have made which means you don't have to reenter them. However, the disadvantage is that when i*write 3.0 starts it will read in your old toolbar configuration which does of course not contain any new command buttons. Select Customize... from the Options menu, make sure that all toolbars are selected on the Toolbars tab, then click the Command tab and move all new buttons to the appropriate toolbar in the program (For details see the help files please).

3. Unlock/Upgrade... on the Help menu will tell you that you successfully unlocked the program no matter what you entered as Name and Key. You can tell that this is not correct by looking at the program's title bar: It will still contain "Evaluation Version - Unregistered". Only if you enter the correct user name and product code which you received from us will you be able to unlock the program.

4. There is a conflict between the third-party solution we use to protect our program and the new Visual Styles under Windows XP which prevents some dialogs from displaying (e.g., the Create New Item dialog). As a consequence, we have disabled the new XP Visual Styles for the time being. This causes no loss of functionality but nevertheless we will work with our partner to fix this as soon as possible.

5. Depending on the locale settings of your operating systems you may experience problems with full-text search if the search index was built under a different locale setting. The simple workaround is to select first Delete Index from the Search menu and then Build Index.

6. Context-sensitive help is not complete (There are command buttons and dialog controls that have no link to the help files). This will be fixed in one of the next point releases.

7. Although much flickering has been removed in version 3.0, there still is flicker when the window is resized.

8. In some cases a full-text search highlight might not be removed.

9. If you use certain special characters in your text, the highlighting of full-text search hits may not be correct.

10. The synchronization of a tab's modified state between Date and Category Views does not always work correctly.