[CoolTerm-Betas] CoolTerm v2.0.0 Alpha 5

[Roger Meier]

Hello Testers,

Alpha 5 is uploaded and ready for testing. Here is what’s new:

2.0.0a5
-------
- Updated listboxes used for macro list and tool button list with ability to select multiple items.
- Updated Hex viewer with the ability to vary the number of characters per row when the window width changes.
- Added the ability to select multiple bytes in the hex viewer.
- Added the ability to copy selected bytes in the hex viewer to clipboard as hex data.
- Added feature to avoid plain text flicker for Linux platforms (such as e.g. Raspberry Pi) where the way the text display is updated with the receive buffer contents causes the display to be redrawn multiple times when new data is added. The caveat is that enabling this feature will cause certain special character handling features to not work properly, though.

Cheers,

Roger


> On Feb 22, 2022, at 3:55 PM, Roger Meier <roger.meier at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello everybody,
> 
> Alpha 4 is uploaded and ready for testing. Here is what’s changed since Alpha 3:
> 
> 2.0.0a4
> -------
> - Added option to automatically start a macro when the terminal opens.
> - Added options to toggle marker and line visibility in chart display.
> - fixed bug in chart display that would affect trace coloring in dark mode when the display is paused.
> - Added support for select transmit and receive ANSI Escape sequences.
> - Added "Wait for remote echo" option for throttling data transmission.
> - fixed bug in chart display that would affect the rendering of trace segments with infinite slope (i.e. segment endpoints with identical x-coordinates) when one of the endpoints is outside the chart area.
> - Moved contents of "Scripting ReadMe.txt" to built-in help.
> - Added "Help..." buttons to various dialogs. Pressing these buttons will navigate directly to the relevant section of the built-in help (when internal help viewer is used).
> - Various small updates to built-in help.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Roger
> 
> 
>> On Feb 4, 2022, at 7:45 PM, Roger Meier <roger.meier at pobox.com <mailto:roger.meier at pobox.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Happy Friday again!
>> 
>> Alpha 3 is uploaded and ready for testing. Here is what’s new:
>> 
>> 2.0.0a3
>> -------
>> - [Experimental] Added support for raw TCP connections.
>> - Added smart pause and autoscroll capability to Chart display.
>> - Updated chart display code to be able to treat commas as data point separators in addition to space and TAB.
>> - Changed "Capture Local Echo" option to "Capture transmit data" and made capturing of outgoing data independent of whether local echo is turned on in the terminal options.
>> - Added option to include "Received" and "Sent" labels in capture files.
>> - Improved responsiveness of RX and TX status indicator LEDs.
>> - Added additional menus to quick access menu: Connect, Disconnect, Abort current Macro.
>> - Updated status bar label with information on the currently running macro. When a macro is running the status label will change the text color to blue.
>> - Updated built-in help with information on the Chart display mode.
>> - HTML stylization of built-in help (courtesy of Greg Willits).
>> - [Mac/Linux] Made built-in help searchable.
>> 
>> Also, as a reminder, here is the download location:
>> 
>> http://freeware.the-meiers.org/betas/ <http://freeware.the-meiers.org/betas/>
>> username: beta
>> password: tester
>> 
>> Cheers!
>> 
>> Roger
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 28, 2022, at 5:08 PM, Roger Meier <roger.meier at pobox.com <mailto:roger.meier at pobox.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Happy Friday, everyone!
>>> 
>>> I just uploaded Alpha 2. Here is what’s new:
>>> 
>>> 2.0.0a2
>>> -------
>>> - Added capability to manually toggle break signal by clicking the TX LED or via the Connection/Toggle Break menu item.
>>> - Enhanced transmit macros with ability to set and clear the break signal separately.
>>> - Improved automatic x-axis scaling algorithm used in Chart mode.
>>> - Made stability improvements to the data parsing code used in Chart mode.
>>> - Added rudimentary zoom and scroll functionality (via Trackpad / Mouse wheel or View Menu) to Chart display.
>>> - Replaced status label context menus with dedicated quick menu located in the bottom left of the status bar.
>>> - New LED icons (courtesy of Greg Willits).
>>> - Various GUI tweaks.
>>> - Made updates to the help text formatting.
>>> 
>>> Happy testing! Let me know if you come across any issues.
>>> 
>>> Roger
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jan 24, 2022, at 6:30 PM, Roger Meier <roger.meier at pobox.com <mailto:roger.meier at pobox.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Alpha 1 is on the server and ready for testing. Here is what’s new:
>>>> 
>>>> 2.0.0a1
>>>> -------
>>>> - New UI for transmit macro management.
>>>> - Added possibility to add serial BREAK signals to transmit macros.
>>>> - Added possibility to add delays to transmit macros.
>>>> - Added capability to repeat transmit macros.
>>>> - Updated the default toolbar configurations with specific configurations that are best suited for the platform.
>>>> - Updated method used to store command line history. The command line history is not only updated if the current command is not equal to the previous one. Empty lines (enter key only) are not recorded.
>>>> - Updated built-in help with more details on toolbar options.
>>>> - Expanded table of contents of built-in help with links to connection options sections.
>>>> 
>>>> Happy Testing!
>>>> 
>>>> Roger
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jan 16, 2022, at 12:59 PM, Roger Meier <roger.meier at pobox.com <mailto:roger.meier at pobox.com>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Testers,
>>>>> 
>>>>> The 2.0.0 Alpha 0 build is now ready for testing. Here are the highlights in a nutshell:
>>>>> 
>>>>> - New “Chart" display mode (similar to Arduino serial plotter)
>>>>> - Configurable toolbar
>>>>> - New application and document icons (courtesy of Greg Willits)
>>>>> - New toolbar icons (courtesy of Greg Willits)
>>>>> - Moved option to show/hide toolbar from preferences to connection settings
>>>>> 
>>>>> Refer to the "Data Plotting - Read Me.txt” for more Info on the new “Chart” display mode.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The toolbar is now customizable on a "per window” basis. The default is the same configuration CoolTerm has had pre v2.0.0, but it can now be customized via the connections settings. I hope the UI is intuitive enough so that not much instruction will be needed in order to understand how to use it. Use the “File/Save as default” to make your preferred toolbar configuration (as well as all your other preferred settings) the default for all new CoolTerm windows.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The purpose of this Alpha release is to give you guys an opportunity to test drive these new features and to give feedback while I’m still developing some other new features I have planned for 2.0.0.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Roger
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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