2.1 beta

[elasticthreads]

This is a report page for beta testers of the upcoming 2.1 release. This beta testing phase is private, if you have not been contacted about testing and would like to do so you can email elasticthreads att gmail.

Please report bugs and issues for the 2.1 beta here. And include the following information with any report: nvAlt version. Get this by hitting up "About nvAlt" in the application menu. Should be like this: "Version 2.1b (65)" OS X version Mac hardware details (i.e. MacBook Pro 4,1) Notes database storage format (i.e. "database",".txt",".html") Whether your Notes database is stored in its default location (~/Library/Application Support/Notation Data/) or not Localization.

the following is an abbreviated release notes for 2.1

New features in 2.1b1

Short list of new features:

• MMD3 support
• Simplenote Tag sync*
• additional appearance preferences (remove note list grid lines, alternating rows, etc.)
• Initial RTL support
• "Lock" preview window on a note
  • also keeps preview window in place when switching apps
• Print the Preview window (to printer or PDF)
• Updated default preview style
  • to use this, delete or rename (if you have custom changes) the files template.html and custom.css in the folder ~/Library/Application Support/Notational Velocity. They will be regenerated when the preview runs.
  • Want to check your links in the Preview? With the new styles active (and an Internet connection to load jQuery), focus the preview window and hold down option-command. Links hovered over will display title (if applicable) and destination URL at the bottom of the preview area
• New external editor detection (ODBEditor)
• TaskPaper-friendly preview, triggered by strings "Archive:" or "@taskpaper" and tag "taskpaper" (tag detection not fully functional yet).

*Darryl Thomas has done the development for the sync. It's in preliminary stages, but is working. It does not handle incremental/progressive sync yet, so very large note collections with many tags can see unusually long sync times.

Known issues

There are several known issues that have not been resolved:

• Spaces behavior @done
• white resize handle when scrollbar shows in edit panel
• Preferences crashes in some circumstances @done
• Print preview always names file "Preview" or "Locked" @done

  Resetting preferences

If you have any trouble with crash on startup or when opening preferences (and you store your notes as files on disk):

1. Quit nvALT
2. Rename your notes folder
3. Create a new folder with the original name
4. Run nvALT
5. Create a single test note and re-adjust your note storage preferences
6. Copy everything from your renamed notes folder except for any files named "Interim Note Changes" or "Notes & Settings[.*]" back into the new folder
7. let nvALT catch up with the changes, answering any dialogs which pop up.

Tags will be preserved in this process, thanks to OpenMeta.

[m6k]

NValt v2.1b (65) Mac OS X 10.6.7 MacBook Pro 5,1 Storage: single database, encrypted. Location: ~/Dropbox/Notational Data/

I can confirm that the problem with Spaces is fixed – what a relief! :-) I'm not particulary happy with the "control key" solution – I don't use Previews at all, I'd love to see an option for "preview key" (including "none"). The issue with tabs, as described in https://github.com/ttscoff/nv/issues/4, remains.

[elasticthreads]

Have you accidentally accidentally triggered the preview pane or word count?

There might be a preference setting by 2.2. But for now, I'd like to get the behavior right. If you can accidentally trigger it, whether you want the preview pop up or not, I need to improve it. What are you trying to do when you accidentally trigger it? I guess I should say misfire. The preview/word count should pop up when the user presses and holds ONLY the control/option key respectively for longer than 1.5 seconds. Pressing any other key should stop that from happening.

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:35 AM, m6m8 < reply@reply.github.com>wrote:

NValt v2.1b (65) Mac OS X 10.6.7 MacBook Pro 5,1 Storage: single database, encrypted. Location: ~/Dropbox/Notational Data/

I can confirm that the problem with Spaces is fixed what a relief! :-) I'm not particulary happy with the "control key" solution I don't use Previews at all, I'd love to see an option for "preview key" (including "none"). The issue with tabs, as described in https://github.com/ttscoff/nv/issues/4, remains.

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/ttscoff/nv/issues/8#issuecomment-1387836

[ttscoff]

Hiding Preview in Note title doesn't update immediately. You have to switch views (horizontal/vertical) to make it take effect.

[darrylhthomas]

I'd be happy to discuss implementing "incremental/progressive sync," (for 2.2 from the sounds of it) though I'm not exactly sure we'd be talking about the same thing. Had your syncing mechanism diverged from scrods to make it incremental/progressive prior to the changes I made?

Thanks, D