XMetaL Community Forum › XMetaL Tips and Tricks › XMetaL® Author Essential 15.0 Release Notes
nhu1 October 29, 2021 at 4:43 pm
With this version, XMetaL Author introduces a robust quick navigation feature, Markdown support, improved document management in tag groups, a Whiteboard toolbar that provides a convenient way to get to and define your favorite and frequently used actions, a new way to quickly correct or replace words, and a new version availability notification. For a complete list of new features, see New features.
The Quick XMetaL Navigation tool allows you to easily find and use any command you can run. It includes context-sensitive search, grouping, sorting and filtering as well as customization options.
In finding and opening documents, and in viewing recently used and opened documents, you can now view the document titles of recently used and favorite documents and find and open documents by title, file name or the content of specific XML document elements.
This release of XMetaL Author Enterprise includes a new XMetaL whiteboard feature that provides a convenient way to get to and define your favorite and frequently used actions, and gives you control of customizable quick access buttons in the toolbar.
Favorite actions can include calls to third-party applications where the parameter can contain a path, word under cursor, or selected text in an active document. XMetaL includes examples, some of which show how to, for example, find selected text on the web or pass text to free web translation services.
You now have more control over the opening, closing and viewing of documents in a tab group in an XMetaL pane.
The editing pane now also includes a quick access menu for active files.
A writing tool for correcting or replacing a word under the cursor, activated by hot key, has been updated.
XMetaL can now provide a notification when a new version or an update to the current version is available.
XMetaL now supports zoom in or out on XML content using View->Zoom in/out menu and keyboard shortcuts for more comfortable reading.
Some property pages within the new unified options dialog won’t respond to keyboard shortcuts until focus is moved into the embedded XFT form that is on the active property page. This limitation relates to Windows’ handling of embedded ActiveX controls.
With the introduction of High-DPI support in Windows Vista, certain settings can cause the application to not render properly. In particular, setting a text size value to something other than 100% can result in the application having drawing issues when resizing a docking panel or moving it to another docking location.
To workaround this issue, adjust the custom text size settings so that the system uses Windows XP scaling (Windows Vista and Windows 7).
A few of the Cameras In Focus and Meeting Minutes sample’s features rely upon Microsoft components that do not have an x64 equivalent (e.g. MSScript.ocx, MSCAL1.ocx). Yet other features rely upon a x64 version of Microsoft Word to be installed on the computer. In the x64 version of the software, these samples have been removed from the Help > Samples submenu to avoid issues. You can still invoke either samples template but please use caution when running these samples as they may not gracefully degrade when invoking features with a dependency on these 3rd party items.
When XMetaL Author is started for the first time, the built-in toolbars will each be docked on a separate row. Custom DTD-specific toolbars will be docked more efficiently (i.e. multiple per row) providing there is enough horizontal space to do so. Once toolbars have been reorganized (by dragging them around), their positions will be remembered. This vertically oriented auto-layout for built-in toolbars will also take effect any time the XMetaL Author workspace is reset, which is done by holding the Ctrl key down at startup.
Moving top-level menu buttons will not copy the child submenus or menu items. Similarly, moving submenu items will not duplicate those child items.
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