Dear Francois, I have installed Scipad 8.72 on Scilab 5.4.1 Win 7. I have followed the instructions and there were no error messages to report. However, I would like to share some issues faced when running Scipad:
(1) Scilab menu: Applications > SciNotes, launches Scipad instead of SciNotes. Is this normal? (2) Scipad creates system instability that there was not present with SciNotes: when leaving my interactive Scilab programs and returning to the Scilab Console, the prompt is not accessible (something seems to be flashing at bottom). Scilab Console > Control > Abort or Interrupt does not return the prompt (neither does CTRL+C). I can exit Scipad but the Scilab Console prompt is still not available. I have to kill Scilab (WScilex.exe) on Win 7 Task Manager. I would like to know if other users have faced similar problems? Finally: (3) Could you please highlight some of the key advantages of using Scipad instead of SciNotes? PS: It would be useful to have in Scipad a navigation panel allowing a quicker switch between each of the Scilab "project" scripts opened. In SciNotes we have a multitude of TABs but they are cumbersome when too many files are opened, with risk of closing the file instead of selecting it. Thanks and regards Rafael Guerra -----Original Message----- From: users [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Francois Vogel Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 9:34 PM To: Scilab users list Subject: [Scilab-users] [ANN]: Scipad-8.72 ANNOUNCE: Scipad version 8.72 ============================= A new version of the Scipad text editor for Scilab and Scicoslab is available. CHANGES SINCE PREVIOUS VERSION ============================== NEW: * Added sort command (for strings or real numbers, ascending or descending) in the edit menu * The selection is now saved and restored across Scipad sessions * Clickable links are better seen through colorization of the link text FIXED BUGS: * URLs containing the ampersand (&) character were truncated in the external internet browser on Windows * Fixed an issue with replace: the text could be replaced at a wrong position when searching in regexp mode for a search pattern matching one or more \n (testcase: search for \n, replace with a comma) * Fixed bug when reopening Scipad after closure with only modified files visible and the user did not save any of them * Fixed bug when closing a temporary file created during a drag and drop operation * Fixed crash when dragging an email from MS Outlook over Scipad * Worked around slowdown with File/Open under Scilab-4.1.2 * Made error message more explicit when Scipad cannot be installed in Scilab-5.4.1 due to missing "modules_manager" module * Fixed shrinking of Scipad window under Win7 when opening a match from Find in files results window * Capitalize words did not work for first word of each line in a multiline selection * Updated autoproxy package to version 1.5.3, which includes the fix for tcllib bug 3313923: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3313923&group_id=12883&atid= 112883 WHAT IS SCIPAD ? ================ Scipad is a powerful editor and graphical debugger for programs written in Scilab language. It is a mature and highly configurable programmer's editor, including features like syntax colorization, regexp search/replace, parentheses matching, logical/physical line numbering, peer windows, line and block text editing, and much more. Scipad can be used along with Scicoslab or Scilab, but even as a standalone text editor. Used as internal Sci(cos)lab editor, it interacts tightly with the interpreter, allowing: - Scilab code execution control - conditional breakpointing - variable retrieval and tooltip display - Scilab help lookup - access to source code of Scilab library function - control of Scilab facilities for Matlab code and creation of help documents - and much more Scipad also includes basic Modelica and XML syntax colorization; it is currently localized in 13 languages and further localizations can easily be added. Scipad is entirely written in Tcl/Tk and Scilab language. It has been tested and developed under various versions of Windows and Linux. WHERE CAN SCIPAD BE FOUND? ========================== Project page @ SourceForge.net: http://sourceforge.net/p/scipad/ Direct download: - for Scilab: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipad/files/scipad-8.72/scipad-8.72-Scilab5 .zip/download - for Scicoslab: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scipad/files/scipad-8.72/scipad-8.72-Scicosl ab.zip/download Installation instructions: http://sourceforge.net/p/scipad/wiki/Installation/ Details regarding the tested platforms: http://sourceforge.net/p/scipad/wiki/Tested%20on/ LICENSE ======= Scipad is a free software distributed under the terms of the GPL (V2) license. _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scilab.org/mailman/listinfo/users
