Eric v4.2.0 Released

9 August 2008

Detlev Offenbach has released v4.2.0, a major new release of Eric the IDE for Python and Ruby written using PyQt.

• APIs
  • added API file for Ruby
  • added Ruby API file for eric4 Ruby files
  • enhanced the API file generation tool and dialog
• Configuration
  • reorganized the configuration dialog
  • changed settings from native format to ini format
• Editor
  • added functionality to mark all occurrences of a searched text
  • enhanced unicode support (added utf-16 and utf-32)
  • added an action to insert a new line below the current one (Shift+Return)
  • added capability to save the folding state of a file in the session file
  • added capability to save the open multi project and the open project in the global session file
• General VCS support
  • added an LED to signal the project's VCS status to the project viewer
• Graphics
  • added capability to save UML like graphics as SVG
  • added capability to display SVG files
• Help Viewer
  • added a QWebKit based help viewer (available if Qt 4.4 is installed)
• Plugins
  • added HTTPS support to plugin repository dialog (for Qt 4.3 and newer)
• Project
  • added multi-project support
  • added storage key PROJECTTYPESPECIFICDATA for project type specific data (may be used by project type plugins)
  • moved all supporting project management files (e.g. tasks file) to a management subdirectory
• Shell
  • made Shell history more comfortable by
    • selecting from history via a dialog
    • list the history in a dialog with capabilities to
      • delete entries
      • copy entries to the current editor
      • execute entries in the shell
• Templates
  • extended the templates system to support a few predefined variables (thanks to Dan Bullok)
• Toolbars
  • added a toolbar manager and a toolbar configuration dialog
  • cleaned up the default toolbars
• Translations
  • added Spanish translations from Jaime Seuma
  • added Turkish translations from Serdar Koçdaş
• Various
  • enhancements to the class browsers
  • added print preview capability (available if Qt 4.4 is installed)
  • added new default icon set based on the Oxygen icons
• Viewmanager
  • added a viewmanager plugin using the new QMdiArea
  • added double click action to the tabview viewmanager. Double clicking the space right of the last tab opens a new editor