<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">CoolTerm v1.5.0 is now released and available for download at <a href="http://freeware.the-meiers.org/#CoolTerm" class="">http://freeware.the-meiers.org/#CoolTerm</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">NEW/CHANGED FEATURES:<br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Added configuration option for software supported flow control.<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Added configuration option for blocking keystrokes while transmit data flow is halted.<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Added printing for plain text and hex views.<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Added proxy settings to preferences (for update check).<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Changed preferences window to multi-tab concept.<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Made formatting of captured hex data configurable.<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• It is now possible to use the 'Wait for termination string' option when capturing in hex format as long as formatting of hex data is disabled.<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Added "Packet Delay" option, which allows inserting a delay after the transmission of each packet, the size of which can now be specified via the connection settings GUI.<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• The "Line Delay" option now supports matching all of the specified delay characters in addition to matching any of them. This allows for entire strings to be specified as line delay characters.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>IMPROVEMENTS:<br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Changed text encoding in "Send String" window to use system default encoding.<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Improved GUI for flow control settings to prevent hardware and software flow control from being enabled at the same time.<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Enhanced the behavior of the TX LED. When flow control is enabled and transmission is halted by the remote target, the color of the TX LED is changed to red to indicate that no data is being sent (select platforms only).<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• The reception of break signals or framing errors now flashes the RX LED red when "Ignore receive errors" is enabled (select platforms only).<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Changed code to prevent the transmit progress from being displayed when "loop back receive data" is enabled and larger amounts of data are being looped back.<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• [Win/Linux] Changed behavior of modal windows such as connection options and send progress windows so that only the parent terminal window is blocked as opposed to all open windows.<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• [Mac] Added the following ApplesScript command:<br class=""></div> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>LookAheadHex(ID as integer) as String<br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• [Mac] Removed the following AppleScript commands:<br class=""></div> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Str2Hex(PlainStr as String) as String<br class=""> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Hex2Str(HexStr as String) as String<br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• [Mac] Universal Builds for Mac are no longer supported.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>BUG FIXES AND STABILITY IMRPOVEMENTS:<br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• [Mac] Disabled SmartQuotes, SmartDashes, and SmartTextReplacement in TextArea.<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• Added handling of OutOfMemoryExceptions in transmit thread.<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>• revised code to exclude text input line used in "Line Mode" from text size changes.</div></div></body></html>