= WRITER'S TOOLS EXTENSION FOR OPENOFFICE.ORG =

Copyright 2010 Dmitri Popov Anyone may run the code associated with this document. If you wish to modify or distribute this document and or its code, then you are granted a license to do so under the terms of the GNU General Public License. See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

Thanks to JohnV, Mark Bain, Konstantin Lavrov, and many OOoForum users for their help.

Official page: http://code.google.com/p/writertools/

The latest development release is available in the following SVN repository: http://writertools.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

==CHANGELOG==

VERSION 1.9.3

• Save Seleted Text Snippet hidden tool tweaked.
• Shorten Selected URL tool tweaked.
• Google Traslate tool now remembers the target language selection.

VERSION 1.9.1 2010-09-09

• Post to Microbog tool moved to _Hidden.
• Shorten Selected URL tool added.
• Save Seleted Text Snippet hidden tool added.

VERSION 1.7.7 2010-08-07

• Unused and hidden macros cleanup.
• Dummy Text hidden tool added.

VERSION 1.7.5 2010-08-05

• New icon and logo.

VERSION 1.7.3 2010-04-05

• Online help added.
• Text Markup now supports simple lists.
• Complete Addons.xcu rewrite.
• Icons removed.

VERSION 1.5.9 2010-03-11

• Incorrect browser error message triggers a browser path reset.

VERSION 1.5.7 2009-12-01

• Text Markup tool added.
• Post to Microblog tool now uses a selected text fragment in the current document as update text.
• Quick Converter and Word of the Day tools removed.

VERSION 1.5.5 2009-11-27

• Post to Microblog tool saves data in a CSV file.
• New Post To Microblog and Word Count icons.
• Bookmark Document command now bookmarks the currently opened document.

VERSION 1.5.3 [2009-08-02]

• WordNet link in Lookup Tool fixed.
• Incorrect browser path error message added.
• Preferences directory name fixed.
• Fix single quotes escaping in the Add to Notebook tool.
• Minor cosmetic changes in WriterDB.

VERSION 1.5.1 2009-05-15

• Email Backup tool now uses the default email client.

VERSION 1.3.9 2009-04-19

• Post to Microblog tool saves status messages in the microblog table of the WriterDB database.
• Few issues in the Post to Microblog tool fixed.

VERSION 1.3.7 2009-04-15

• Post to Microblog tool added (supports Identi.ca and Twitter).
• Quotations Book reference added to the Lookup Tool.
• Minor tweaks and fixes.

VERSION 1.3.5 2009-04-07

• Dutch added to the Google Translate tool.
• Published status added to the Writer's Submission Tracker.
• Email Backup error message fixed.
• Tasks tool now marks overdue tasks.

VERSION 1.3.3 2009-03-21

• All dialogs and forms now use the Droid font family.
• Convert To tool removed.
• Writer's Submission Tracker can store documents.
• Add to Submission Tracker tool added (not in the menu).
• Amazon S3 Backup tool is now based on aws: http://timkay.com/aws/

VERSION 1.1.9 2009-01-25

• Encyclopedia Britannica added to the Lookup Tool.
• WriterTemplates.oxt removed

VERSION 1.1.7 2008-11-15

• Writer's Submission tracker added to WriterDB.
• Amazon S3 Backup tool added.
• Wikify Word tool removed from the main menu.
• Minor fixes.

VERSION 1.1.5 2008-09-02

• Minor fixes.
• Quick Converter tool improved.

VERSION 1.1.3 2008-08-27

• Email Backup tool fixes and improvements.

VERSION 1.1.1 2008-08-24

• Code and comments cleaned up.
• Minor fixes and improvements in the Email Backup tool.

VERSION 1.1.0 2008-08-19

• Python-based email backup feature added.

VERSION 1.0.0 2008-08-03

• New icons.
• Basket tool renamed to Notebook.
• Path to the default browser is not saved in the .ini file (yay!).

VERSION 0.9.47 2008-07-27

• Visual Word Count tool added.
• Message boxes minor tweaks.
• Games removed.
• Confusing Words dictionary added to the Lookup tool.

VERSION 0.9.45 2008-07-11

• Minor fixes in the Quick converter tool.
• New Bookmarks tool added.
• Export tasks to Calc macro has been reworked. It now creates a pie chart of the finished and unfinished tasks.
• Default browser fall back fix. If default browser is not found, the user can enter the path to the desired browser manually.

VERSION 0.9.43 2008-06-27

• New languages added to the Google Translate tool: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Finnish, Hindi, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, and Swedish.
• Minor tweaks to the Post to Twitter tool.
• Quick Converter tool added.
• Games removed from the Writer's Tools menu.

VERSION 0.9.41 2008-05-09

• Added a cancel action to the Convert To tool.
• Functions moved to a separate module.
• Verb Conjugator tool added (not in the main menu).
• Writer's Tasks report added (Required the Sun Report Builder extension).
• Export to Calc feature added to the Task Viewer.
• Detect language option added to the Google Translate tool.

VERSION 0.9.39 2008-04-07

• Error handling added to the OpenDatabase routine.

VERSION 0.9.37 2008-04-07

• The OpenForm function has been replaced with the OpenDatabase routine, which opens the WriterDB database instead of individual forms.
• Minor tweaks in the WriterDB database.

VERSION 0.9.35 2008-04-07

• Completely rewritten the OpenForm function.
• Minor tweaks and improvements.

VERSION 0.9.33 2008-04-07

• Important fix in the OpenForm function.
• Minor tweaks and improvements.

VERSION 0.9.31 2008-04-07

• "cmd /c start" is used to launch the default browser on Windows.
• "/etc/alternatives/x-www-browser" is used to launch the default browser on Linux.
• Minor tweaks and improvements.

VERSION 0.9.29 2008-04-07

• Reworked and simplified Tasks tool.
• Minor tweaks and improvements.

VERSION 0.9.27 2008-03-29

• Minor bug fixes and tweaks.
• All messages and error warnings moved to the Tools module for easier localization.

VERSION 0.9.25 2008-03-19

• Minor improvements.
• Error handling improved.

VERSION 0.9.23 2008-03-19

• The Letter Hunt game improved. It now uses words without any separators.

VERSION 0.9.21 2008-03-19

• Improvements based on cenacchi's code.
• BrowseURL function is now used to detect and open the default browser.
• Lookup Tool can handle multiple words searches (e.g. you can lookup "World War II").
• Lookup Took can handle special characters (e.g. you can lookup "Procter&Gamble", quoted text, etc.).

VERSION 0.9.19 2008-03-19

• Minor improvement: OpenForm function added.
• Notes field added to the tasks table.
• Writer's Tasks form added. It can be opened from the Tasks Manager window.

VERSION 0.9.17 2008-03-18

• Writer's Notes database table added.
• Notes tool added.

VERSION 0.9.15 2008-03-17

• The Tasks tool has been rewritten. The Task Manager allows the user to create, view, and delete tasks from a single interface. Tasks can be deleted individually or in bulk.
• Code cleaned up. Database connection is now established using a function.

VERSION 0.9.13 2008-03-15

• List boxes in the Lookup and Convert To tools are populated dynamically via arrays.
• App Launcher tool added.

VERSION 0.9.11 2008-03-11

• Minor regrouping of macros.
• Post to Twitter tool added (hidden).
• Multi-format backup now uses the built-in zip feature.

VERSION 0.9.10 2007-03-09

• Rewritten Convert To tool replaced the Convert to HTML and Covert to DOC tools.

VERSION 0.9.9 2007-03-07

• Convert to HTML and Covert to DOC tools added.
• Q and A game improvements:
  • The system marks correct answers, and they are not ued in the game again.
  • User can exclude records from the game by ticking the Status check box.
  • The Counter field keeps track of the number of correct/incorrect answers.
• Letter Hunt Game added.
• All games moved into the WriterGames module.

VERSION 0.9.7 2008-02-27

• Proper error message when the default browser is not found.
• Basket form improvements.
• Tasks to Calc export tool added.
• Support for the Extension Manager Update feature.

VERSION 0.9.6 2008-01-30

• Tasks in the WriterDB database can now be marked as done, which are not displayed when running the Show Tasks command.
• Basket form and Browse Basket command added.

VERSION 0.9.5 2007-12-11

• Minor improvements to the Translit tool.
• Q and A game added.

VERSION 0.9.3 2007-10-13

• Removed StatusText from the StartTiming macro due to its erratic behavior.
• Minor fixes for the Writer Templates extension.
• Save Session dialog box added to the Timer tool. It's now possible to add notes to the saved session.
• Translit tool added. Converts latin to cyrillic (experimental and is not in the Writer's Tools menu).
• Post to Gelato tool removed.

VERSION 0.9.2 2007-10-11

• Added a link to the Writer for Writers book instead of Donate.

VERSION 0.9.1 2007-10-10

• Status messages added to the Timer tool.
• wnotes form added to the WriterDB database.
• Meaningful message when the task list in the Tasks tool is empty.
• Added a confirmation dialog when purging tasks.
• Show on the Map tool switched to Google Maps.
• Multi-format Backup tool now uses timestamps for folder names.
• Multi-format Backup can use 7-Zip (must be installed separately) to compress the resulting backup folder.

VERSION 0.9.0 2007-10-08

• Minor fixes in the Word Hunt game.
• Minor cosmetic tweak to dialog windows.
• Added package meta info (provides extension info in Extension Manager).
• Post to Gelato tool added (experimental and is not in the Writer's Tools menu).
• Tasks tool added.

VERSION 0.8.9.2 2007-10-04

• Word Source reference added to the Lookup tool.
• Fixed a few serious bugs in Google Translate.
• Improved default browser detection on Windows and Linux.

VERSION 0.8.8 2007-09-29

• Wikify Word tool added.
• Writer templates (generic article and book) added.
• User-friendly error messages for failed database connection.
• Minor fixes.

VERSION 0.8.7.1 2007-09-22

• Minor bug fixes.
• Donate menu item added.

VERSION 0.8.7 2007-09-21

• Completely reworked the Add to Basket tool.
• Convert to DokuWiki tool removed (OpenOffice.org 2.3 has a built-in MediaWiki export filter).

VERSION 0.8.6.1 2007-08-04

• The Mode option added to the Google Translate Tool.
• Word Count statistics added to the Timer tool.
• Minor fixes in the Timer tool.

VERSION 0.8.5.1 2007-06-30

• Minor improvements and bug fixes.

VERSION 0.8.5 2007-06-20

• The Open FTP Document tool has been removed in favor of the new Remote Backup tool.
• Minor improvements to the Word Hunt game.

VERSION 0.8.3 2007-06-19

• Cosmetic changes of the messages boxes.
• Minor improvements to the Word Hunt game.
• Show on the Map tool added.

VERSION 0.8.1 2007-06-17

• The Word Hunt game improved.
• Added BEOLINGUS reference to the Lookup tool.
• Word of the Day tool added.
• Add to Basket tool added.

VERSION 0.7.2 2007-06-11

• Ask Oxford reference added to the Lookup tool.
• Added Russian to the Google Translate tool (thanks to Konstantin Lavrov).
• Fixed the HTTP link for the Google Translate tool on Linux.

VERSION 0.7.1 2007-06-08

• The Timer tool (Start/Stop Timer) can now save the time data in the accompanying WriterDB database.
• Added a simple Word Hunt game, where you have to guess the word randomly picked by Writer.