<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>All,</div><div><br></div><div>Beta 9 is now ready for testing, here is what's new:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="Courier New">v2.1.0b9</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Fixed an issue with scripting command SetfrontmostWindow that would the display of windows being brought forward to be paused.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added a "Days" option to the timestamp "Scale" setting in the Chart Properties.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added support for saving and loading sessions.</font></div><div><br></div><div>Happy testing!</div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 16, 2023, at 6:32 PM, Roger Meier <roger.meier@pobox.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>All,</div><div><br></div><div>Beta 8 is now ready for testing:</div><div><br></div><div><font face="monospace">v2.1.0b8<br>--------<br>- Added option to restrict the number of datapoint per line to be plotted in chart mode. Enabling this option will only plot lines with the exact number of data points to be plotted. All others will be ignored.<br>- Improved handling of HTTPSocket connection exceptions.<br>- Added options to include CoolTerm connection error messages in the received data and capture files.<br>- [macOS] Serial ports are now displayed with the manufacturer name (where available).<br>- Added "SetFrontmostWindow(ID as integer, BringToFront as boolean)" scripting command.<br>- Fixed bug that would cause mismatch between selections in hex view when bytes above 0x7F are being displayed.</font><br></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Aug 5, 2023 at 1:23 PM Roger Meier <<a href="mailto:roger.meier@pobox.com">roger.meier@pobox.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="line-break:after-white-space">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>Beta is 7 now ready for testing:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="Courier New">v2.1.0b7</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Improved data handling in Chart mode. CoolTerm now attempts to extract numerical values even if data items have leading (such as e.g. prefixes) or trailing (such a e.g. units) non-numeric characters.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added support for custom timestamp separators in Chart mode. </font></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 9, 2023, at 1:19 PM, Roger Meier <<a href="mailto:roger.meier@pobox.com" target="_blank">roger.meier@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="line-break:after-white-space">All,<div><br></div><div>Beta 6 is now ready for testing:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="Courier New">v2.1.0b6</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added option to Preferences to automatically save connection settings when closing terminal windows or quitting. Settings must have been previously saved to a file in order for CoolTerm to be able to automatically save them.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Improved hex data entry in the "Send String" text area. Spaces are now automatically inserted and typed characters are converted to upper case.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- [Win] COM ports are now displayed with their "friendly" names in addition to their COMx designations.</font></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 16, 2023, at 6:59 PM, Roger Meier <<a href="mailto:roger.meier@pobox.com" target="_blank">roger.meier@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="line-break:after-white-space">All,<div><br></div><div>Beta 5 is now ready for testing:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="Courier New">v2.1.0b5</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Fixed bug that can result in an unhandled exception when "Find Next" is used when there is no data in the plain text window.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- It is now possible to use the HOME and END keys in line mode to scroll the received data.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- [Win] Typing CTRL+H and CTRL+M now correctly generates the proper control characters (0x08 and 0x0D).</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- [Win] Stack traces are properly generated for unhandled exceptions.</font></div><div><br></div><div>Have a great weekend!</div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 11, 2023, at 6:13 PM, Roger Meier <<a href="mailto:roger.meier@pobox.com" target="_blank">roger.meier@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="line-break:after-white-space">All,<div><br></div><div>Beta 4 is now ready for testing:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="Courier New">v2.1.0b4</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added option to prevent terminal window closure in the connection settings. Enabling this option will prevent the CoolTerm window from being closed by the close button or the File > Close Window menu item. The only way to close the window is to quit CoolTerm</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Made code to restore previous sessions more robust.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- TCP client connections will now attempt to reconnect after the connection was lost and the option to "reconnect after port loss" is enabled.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added option to play a sound when new incoming data is detected.</font></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 2, 2023, at 1:13 PM, Roger Meier <<a href="mailto:roger.meier@pobox.com" target="_blank">roger.meier@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div>Happy Friday!</div><div><br></div><div>Beta 3 is now ready for testing:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="Courier New">v2.1.0b3</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added support for the emulation of number pad Enter key presses.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added "None" as an available option for enter key emulation.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Pressing Enter/Return together with CTRL and/or SHIFT now provides for an easy selection of line ending, in addition to the enter key emulation setting.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- [macOS] Typing CTRL+H now produces character 0x08 (BS) as expected rather than 0x7F (DEL).</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- If "Notify after sending" is enabled, CoolTerm will now only notify when sending files. If notifications are enabled in the preferences, a notification will be displayed. Otherwise, a short sound will be played.</font></div></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div><div><br></div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On May 5, 2023, at 3:43 PM, Roger Meier <<a href="mailto:roger.meier@pobox.com" target="_blank">roger.meier@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="line-break:after-white-space">Happy Friday,<div><br></div><div>Beta 2 is now ready for testing. Here are the recent updates:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="Courier New">v2.1.0b2</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added limited support for ANSI text formatting sequences to plain text view.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added option to use a different color for local echo. ANSI text formatting needs to be be enabled to use this option.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Expanded the range of ANSI escape sequences CoolTerm can filter our to include Fp, Fe, and Fs sequences.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added support for extra details to "Disconnected" status label when connection errors occur.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added support for notifications. Events like the addition or removal of serial ports can now generate notifications, if enabled via the preferences.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added option to replace connection error message boxes with notifications.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Fixed a bug that can result in a TCP connection being closed when a serial port is lost.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- [macOS] Fixed a bug that would incorrectly restore the vertical position of terminal windows with the toolbar enabled.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Fixed a bug that would prevent windows from being placed on screens other than the main screen when restored from connection settings.</font></div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mar 26, 2023, at 1:15 PM, Roger Meier <<a href="mailto:roger.meier@pobox.com" target="_blank">roger.meier@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="line-break:after-white-space"><div>All,</div><div><br></div><div>Beta 1 is now ready for testing. Here is the change log:</div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="Courier New">v2.1.0b1</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added option to ask the user for a filename when auto capture is enabled. If disabled, CoolTerm will use the default filename.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added option to display the capture filename in the status bar.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added option to attempt to open the ports on terminals to which to forward received data, should they be closed at the time.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added "Macro" tab to the connections settings from where macros can be managed.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added option to prefix and suffix sent data with selected transmit macros.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added option to automatically unpause the display when new date is being transmitted.</font></div></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 29, 2023, at 4:16 PM, Roger Meier <<a href="mailto:roger.meier@pobox.com" target="_blank">roger.meier@pobox.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div style="line-break:after-white-space">All,<div><br></div><div>CoolTerm v2.1.0 brings exciting new features as well as enhancements. Here is what’s new:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><font face="Courier New">v2.1.0b0</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">--------</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added feature to copy chart data to clip board.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added function to send received data to the ports of other currently connected CoolTerm windows.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added "Custom..." serial port menu item to allow entering a custom port name.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added option to configure a TCP connection as a server.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Updated code in connection options dialog to only update the port when any of the port settings have been touched instead of always updating the port when the OK button is pressed to close the options window.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- CoolTerm now adds the title of the current CoolTerm window to the default filename for capture files when manually starting a capture (the same as it does when a capture is started automatically).</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Added "Append..." menu item to File Capture menu. This allows appending to an existing capture file. This is also supported via scripting.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- If "Append to auto capture file is turned on" without an auto capture file name having been specified, CoolTerm will now give the user the option to abort the capture and specify a file name in the options, or to proceed with the capture using the default file name.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- CoolTerm now honors the auto capture file, appended with a unique time stamp name when starting an auto capture and "Append to auto capture file" is disabled. If no file name is specfied, CoolTerm will continue to use the default file name.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- [Linux] Fixed bug that prevents the terminal window width from being made less than 800 pixels.</font></div><div><font face="Courier New">- Fixed bug that would result in an invalid baudrate selection in the baudrates popup menu in the connection options after opening the quick access menu and selecting the "Ports" or "Baudrates" menu titles, which could lead to an OutOfBounds exception after clicking OK to close the connection settings menu item.</font></div></div><div><br></div><div>Happy testing!</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div>
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