Just upgraded to 2.0 and am definitely underwhelmed. First, I was quite surprised that bugs in the 1.x version reported over a year ago haven't been addressed.
Here are two of 'em: 1) Paste in any header field (e.g., To: or Subject:). Ctrl-V or right-click paste works OK, Edit|Paste pastes the text into the message! 2) Ctrl-shift-right arrow and Ctrl-shift-left arrow are standard key combos to highlight words to copy or cut text. In The Bat, this works properly when in the message area: Ctrl-shift-right arrow will select text word by word, Ctrl-shift-left arrow will the undo the selection word by word. This is how ALL Windows editors and dialog boxes behave, almost without exception. However, this does not work properly in any The Bat message header field (To, Subject, etc); the Ctrl-shift-left arrow keeps everything highlighted and puts the cursor at the beginning of the field. Were there ANY improvements in the editor? 1) You still can't reformat lots of text at time. Alt-L, for example places the cursor at the beginning of the paragraph just formatted and one has to cursor down to the next paragraph to do that one. If you highlight more than one paragraph at a time, it will join them together and reformat so that doesn't work. Paste Formatted doesn't work at all if the original text has indentations. 2) There is undo but no redo. Something that is pretty much standard in any decent editor these days. Window dressing on the message search and it's now more user-UNfriendly. 1) It's a real pain in the butt to search over all accounts because you have to scroll down, checking each account, rather than clicking a single checkbox. 2) It still doesn't save the state of the last search (like Reg Ex). The Help file is still CRAP! They obviously didn't spend ANY time improving it. I'm amazed that they left "The Bat Network Course" garbage in the help file and didn't address the mass confusion regarding administering accounts and passwords. Pages have mis-aligned columns (e.g., key command pages) and otherwise are formatted so that they are hard to read (e.g., macro lists). Very unprofessional. A Scheduler? TB is a GREAT email program, and that's where the focus should be. There are much better schedulers out there and I haven't a clue why the authors thought to include such functionality (apart from scheduling email related tasks.) Grumble grumble, at least you can now print selected text but I'm not sure what else I got for my 14 bucks. -- Jonathan Wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.02.3 CE | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
