WhizFolders Pro version 6.1 beta (released January 25, 2008)
Known problems in 6.1:
For known problems in this version, please see the subsequent release note for 6.1.2.
New features and fixes in 6.1:
The following list gives the history of even minor fixes in this version. Instead, you may want to see a nice description of only major new features in 6.1 available at http://whizfolders.com/whizfolders61.aspx.
- Thesaurus: WhizFolders now includes an English Thesaurus that you can use in the editor. Just put cursor on a word and click on the menu “Tools–Look up Thesaurus.”
- Portable WhizFolders: Now you can copy WhizFolders to a portable drive and use it from there on any computer. The operation “Copy WhizFolders to a Portable drive” is available on the Tools menu of the main window. This is not a simple copy but involves many other features that the Portable version detects and uses. For example, its main list can handle the documents on the portable disk even if the drive letter changes.
- Desktop shortcut to a particular note: Now you can create a shortcut to open the document at a particular note by selecting that note and using the menu “Tools–Create Shortcut for the Selected Topic.”
- Live Spelling Check and Live Correction: On the editor, you can now turn on “Live Spelling Check” option as described in “Spelling Checker Options” in the help file. This puts red underlines on the words with spelling errors. You can correct such errors by right-clicking on them. Similarly if Live Correction is on, any word you type is automatically replaced with its auto correction if it is found in the auto correction dictionaries. To put words in auto correct dictionary, you just need to right-click and select the operation “Auto correct” once and then WhizFolders remembers it. This way, you can even quickly type long phrases by assigning them to custom mnemonics in the auto correction dictionaries.
- Popup links: This is an exciting new feature for advanced users only who understand that JUMP type statements can be constructed by typing too. You can change a JUMP or JUMPSHOWTEXT statement to a REF statement by typing over to make that change in the editor. To place the editing cursor in the link you can press Ctrl key when clicking otherwise the link will activate. Once you change a JUMP link to a REF statement, the link works like a popup link so that the target topic opens in a popup window.
- Office Look & Feel: This option was removed for Windows Vista. Now it is available on the General Options–Desktop page. The option there is actually reverse. You need to switch it off to get an office like blue theme for WhizFolders.
- EWhizBook: The operation to make a self-running EXE eBook on the Tools menu is completely revamped. It is now called an EWhizBook that you create. Also, it no longer uses the public freeware WhizFolder Viewer product. Instead, WhizFolders uses its own internal module to make it and it looks quite different now. See “Distributing your documents” for more details.
- New general options:
- Startup with Windows option: You will find this new option to start WhizFolders with Windows on the Taskbar page of the General Options.
- No popup hints on Topics List: If you don’t want the popup hints on the list of topics, you can switch on this option on the “Miscellaneous 2″ page of the general options. The purpose of the hints is to show the topic name when it is wider than the list and is not fully visible.
- Always show resize picture wizard: This option is now moved to Editor page of General Options.
- Advanced options page of general options is now called “Miscellaneous options.”
- Fixed:
- The Windows shutdown processing is now improved so that the RichEdit warning does not appear on the next start up. Moreover, WhizFolders now detects if RichEdit 4.1 is not being used and allows you to switch it on at the start up.
- When selected pages were printed, the next print preview operation also showed the selected pages. This is now fixed.
- Occasional error messages when opening files from the shortcuts are fixed.
- Deluxe Edition 6.1 New Features: If you are using WhizFolders Pro, you might be interested to know what new features are there in the Deluxe 6.1 in addition to the above Pro features. Here they are:
The new View menu (Deluxe Edition): There is a new View menu on the top before the Tools menu. The View menu also appears below the Topic List. It has the following operations:- Hoist, Hide Selected Items, Unhide All: Hoisting is a great new feature. It means concentrating on only a few topic trees and hiding the rest. If you select one or more top level topics and click on View–Hoist, it will hide all other topics so that you can work on the outline of only the topics that you selected. Afterwards, you can click on View–Unhide All to restore the full list of topics. There is also a different operation available to Hide Selected Topics instead of hoisting (that hides all but selected).
- View outline: This operation opens a popup window where you can see a list along with outlined text contents in the same list. You can not do any editing or changes in this list but you can print an indented outline from there.
- Keywords improvement: You can now select more than one keywords in the Keywords Index to look up topics associated to them.
- You can get the Deluxe edition at a discount: If you are a Pro edition paid customer, you can buy an upgrade to get the Deluxe edition at a great discount. You will see that information when you login at the support area: support.whizfolders.com.
