dcsTools - Ini Editor Release Notes

dcsTools Ini Editor Release Notes

Release notes include changes, enhancements and corrections by date and version number of the application.

IMPORTANT COMING CHANGE. This the last version of dcsTools Ini Editor that will support Windows 2000. Future revisions will no longer support Windows 2000.
Enhancement. Support for Windows 11 has been added.

Change. Support for operating systems released prior to Windows 2000 has been dropped. In order to use dcsTools Ini Editor, the host operating system must be Windows 2000 or later.

Enhancement. dcsTools Ini Editor now detects Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012R2 operating systems and adjusts its display accordingly.

Enhancement. dcsTools Ini Editor now detects Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 operating systems and adjusts its display accordingly.
Fix. Very occasionally, when dcsTools Ini Editor was creating a temporary file to store information for display, the temporary file was not correctly created and the information would not be displayed. The problem has been corrected.

Change. Data sorting is now case-insensitive for a more intuitive order of items when sorted.
Change. The View | Visual Appearance menu item "XP" has been changed to "Native" to reflect newer operating systems that support this appearance type.
Fix. On certain operating systems with multiple monitors, the dialog that appears when opening a file is placed on the wrong monitor. This problem has been corrected.

Enhancement. Search functionality has been added. Menu items and shortcut keys are available for finding text and repeating the search.
Enhancement. Parameters (item/value pairs) can now be sorted independently in each section. Sorting can be cleared for an individual section or all sections at once.

Enhancement. Application icons for dcsTools Ini Editor have been updated.
Enhancement. dcsTools Ini Editor now includes a custom icon used in displaying associated files in Windows Explorer when ini files are registered during installation.

Enhancement. dcsTools Ini Editor is now aware of multiple monitor host systems and properly saves and restores its position on the correct monitor.
Enhancement. dcsTools Ini Editor now reports the host operating system in more detail and has been updated to reflect the release of Windows 7.
Enhancement. dcsTools Ini Editor can now be associated with ini files, enabling the opening of a file from Windows file explorer.
Enhancement. When an item is too long to fit within the display, the text is now displayed as a hint when the mouse is positioned over the item.
Enhancement. XStudio hot button files (*.btn) can now be filtered in the Open File dialog.
Change. When tool bars are docked on the left or right sides of the main dialog, the button captions are no longer rotated.
Change. If a recently-used file is selected from the drop-down list and no longer exists, you are prompted to optionally remove the entry.

Change. Toolbar settings are now stored in a separate file instead of the dcsTools Ini Editor preferences file for ease in maintenance.
Enhancement. The display of data navigators can now be toggled from the main menu, using the menu item View | Data Navigator.
Enhancement. Most INI file comments are now retained after editing. See the help topic on Known Issues & Limitations for more details.

Enhancement. Changes have been made to make editing more intuitive, including adding the ability to display custom data navigators on-demand. Use the pop-up menu to show or hide the data navigators.