Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.9

Jackslade — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 19:55:58 -0000

Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.9

Bugs
-126: Directory exclusions not being applied to sub directories

Featured Requests:
-146: Add Dark Theme

Patches:
N/A

Support Requests:
-014: Error HRESULT E_FAIL on any simple search (Issue with iFilter Plugin)

Other:
- Updated external dlls to latest versions
- Add enabled counts and tooltips for search option plugins and exclusions
- Check for divide by zero condition when reading encoding sample buffer
- Add safety check for file list height so it can't hide the results view (From forum)

Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.8

Jackslade — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 02:13:19 -0000

Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.8

Bugs
-094: AstroGrep cant seem to search for japanese characters properly (tied with #115)
-111: Open File from search results fails for some menu selections (more logging)
-114: Disabled exclusions become enabled over time
-115: Improve small file and non-BOM encoding detection
-116: IFilterPlugin file full path
-117: IFilterPlugin txt file in zip archive
-119: v4.4.7 RegEx not working. .NET 4.8 installed. (New Word Plugin for .docx can do RegEx now)
-120: [CRITICAL] Astrogrep executes AutoOpen macros regardless of security settings
-122: Typo in size units (French, StrFormatByteSize issue with buffer length)
-123: Exclusions apply to search path (don't apply exclusions to initial search paths)

Featured Requests:
-055: Create plugin for Microsoft Excel files
-105: Show the context of a file only if left click
-117: Print Results... Emphasize search text
-130: Filetypes grouping
-131: GUI's Tab Stops
-135: AstroGrep missing feature: no navigation between search results (part of new results viewer toolbar)
-138: Add Close All menu item (File->Exit All menu item)
-141: Custom key combination to toggle between files and results (properly handle tab/shift-tab in results view)
-142: Make context lines switch dynamically instead of requiring a new search
-143: Show context before the matched line (x lines before / y lines after)
-144: Add ability to exclude more than one extension at once

Patches:
-008: Translation polish for German language file
-010: Post-build event fix (support spaces in path names)
-011: Precompilation of regex before search (moved all common regex logic to one place and build it outside any loops)

Support Requests:
N/A

Other:
- Now requires .Net framework v4.5 (which removes Windows XP support)
- Microsoft Word Plugin will now only be used for older .doc files, where Microsoft Word Open XML plugin will be used for .docx files going forward
- Created a new PDF plugin to better support text based pdf files (does not handle ocr of pdf images)
- Created a new Media Tags plugin to allow searching within media file tags
- Moved search plugins from options screen to main search options area (above Exclusions)
- Added a results viewer toolbar to give direct access to viewing options for the results viewer (line numbers, context lines, show all characters, etc.)
- Cleaned up regular expression creation
- Switched some code to use newer .Net 4.5 features
- Rework unhandled exception handler
- Correct spelling error in en-us language

Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.7

Jackslade — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 21:04:51 -0000

Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.7

Bugs
-85: Possible issue with word plugin and leaving winword.exe process open.
-98: Error "the string was not recognized as a valid DateTime"
-100: Performance issues
-101: Searching Multiple MS Word Documents
-102: Context Lines Display Discrepancy
-103: Astrogrep 4.4.6 hangs clicking on found file
-104: commandline spath not accepting multiple searchPath
-108: Used ListSeparator on right mouse "Copy all"
-109: Command Line issues - Check logic and docs
-113: Feature 108 is not working (Add additional text editor parameter for search text)

Featured Requests:
-101: Stopped painting status bar as often
-110: Exclude directories that do not match pattern (added not equals option for path based options)
-119: Added line hit count to count column values (format: total / line in current Count column)
-122: Add option to only show x chars before/after matched text
-125: Support to add many search target directories from UI (Hold down shift and click the folder icon to append a path)
-129: Added total files search to File search bar text (format: found / searched)
-136: Scanning all files as UTF-8 encoded (Tools -> Options -> File Encoding, Choose a Force Encoding from the list. Selecting the blank (first) will disable)

Patches:
-5: Caching translation strings for most common texts in IDE
-7: Remove white space not working when displaying entire file

Support Requests:
-8: Silent Install (supported by /S command line to the installer. Note: this defaults to English)
-10: Files without extensions implicitly excluded (bug fix)

Other:
- Fixed issue with Spanish language where it wouldn't load
- Use extension method to check for InvokeRequired instead of defining delegates

Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.6

Jackslade — Tue, 30 May 2017 20:05:01 -0000

Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.6

Bugs
-97: Encoding detection cache fails if file encoding changes
-95: Duplicate shortcut keys in some languages
-92: Exclusion viewing causes crash
-90: "Print Results..." + All option outputs a blank page
-89: "Save Results..." functionality is broken
-88: Difficulties to open the exclusions form

Featured Requests:
-120: Add option to change/default to black the search panel labels.
-113: Create menu item for donation
-109: Allow showing more context lines (maximum of 25 now)
-108: Add additional text editor parameter for search text. (use %4 in command line for text editors)
-107: Date range search option (added time selection)

Patches:
-6: Unable to compile source code fix (linknet)
-4: Fixing exception due to missing key in registry (Anonymous)
-3: add %4 parameter to open editor which contains the searched text (maitob)
-2: French translation (Stéphane Aulery)

Other:
- Made common assembly information and shared between projects (makes all projects have same version)
- Added Windows 10 start icon background color and larger image support
- Updated Spanish translations file from user Miguel

Special thanks to user linknet for the following as well:
- Fix: frmMain unable to be opened in Visual Studio designer
- Fix: frmMain randomly resizing elements when opened in Visual Studio designer
- Fix: added the new keyword where required to prevent compiler warnings
- Fix: added missing xml declarations where required to prevent compiler warnings
- Fix: application not centered on screen on initial startup
- Fix: application initial startup width increased to include all screen elements
- Fix: application not scaling correctly with high DPI% settings - now scales correctly
- Fix: results window text not scaling correctly with high DPI% settings - now scales correctly
- Fix: list view columns not scaling correctly with high DPI% settings - now scale correctly
- Fix: reset all window and column positions and fonts to default values with a change of DPI% setting.
- CHG: increased interface font size from 8 to 9 points
- Add: exclusions window now resizeable with window and column position settings saved

Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.5

Jackslade — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 06:04:59 -0000

Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.5

Bugs
-78: searching-in-results NOT working (moved search in results to be a selectable option, able to select results to search within)
-86: Search Whole word with tab

Featured Requests:
-100: Context Menu - Add option to search current folder

Other
- Updated Italian translation thanks to user hexaae

Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.4

Jackslade — Thu, 20 Aug 2015 20:21:36 -0000

Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.4

Bugs
-81: Open with associated app if no editors
-80: SerializationException in the log file
-79: Path in the title bar is multiplied every time I search

Featured Requests:
-80: Open With Associated App (keep the text editor location blank and it will use the default app instead), also bug #80 will also make it so any no defined editors will launch default app

Other
- Updated Polish language, thanks to Maciej Gryniuk

Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.3

Jackslade — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 21:07:44 -0000

Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.3

Bugs
-77: Double-click in Results window No Longer Opens File (added back per requests)
-39: Lines repeating in output (now results preview area will combine context lines when they overlap in different match sections. thanks to theblackbunny)

Featured Requests:
-57: Allow external language files. Language files can be now read from %appdata%\AstroGrep\Language\ or local directory\Language when using portable version.
The current US English language file can be found at http://astrogrep.sourceforge.net/download/en-us.xml

Other
- Added Polish language, thanks to Maciej Gryniuk

Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.2

Jackslade — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 21:47:34 -0000

Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.2

Bugs
-75: Issues with accented characters (use Tools->Options->File Encoding->Performance to set level of file encoding performance, or specify a specific encoding for a file)
-74: Line numbers truncated on v4.4
-73: Files fail to open in system editor when Search Text field is empty
-69: Drastic search speed change over versions (allow ability to select performance level of file encoding via Tools->Options->File Encoding->Performance)

Feature Requests
-97: Create a portable version

Other
- Moved some common code to AstroGrep.Common to allow better usage of shared code and logging
- Added file encoding cache for each performance level and the ability to clear it (Tools->Options->File Encoding->Clear Cache)
- Removed zip file in favor of portable version (so regular version is only available as installer)
- Updated application icon
- Updated About dialog for a UI refresh

Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.1

Jackslade — Tue, 19 May 2015 15:50:07 -0000

Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.1

Bugs
-72: Detect file encoding option still gets a sample from the file even if unchecked.
-71: Missing translation for large/binary file message in entire file display mode.
-69: Drastic search speed change over versions (partial fix by using same stream for sample and grep)

Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.0

Jackslade — Fri, 15 May 2015 21:15:26 -0000

Changelog for AstroGrep v4.4.0

Bugs
-68: Selecting a file in the search results causes an exception
-61: Application freezes during preview pane population with a large amount of matched lines.

Feature Requests
-94: Add ability to download .net 4 framework if not installed from installer
-81: Word Wrap (View -> Word Wrap)
-54: Display all search results from in all found files after each search (Search Options -> Show all results after search, View -> All Results)
-21: Integrate syntax highlighters (only available when viewing entire file)
-20: full-document display (View -> Entire File)

Other
- To support newer features, updating the preview area from a RichTextBox to AvalonEdit control
- Added Context Fore Color for the context line/line number color displayed in preview area
- Move Line Numbers and Remove Leading White Space options to View menu
- Removed double click action in preview area to open file at current line/match, made it a right-click menu option instead at current mouse position
(making it better to discover than double clicking)
- Zoom support for preview area (View -> Zoom)
- Add NLog logging to application (Help -> View Log, log saved in %appdata%\AstroGrep or current directory if /local used + \Log\AstroGrep.log)
- Rearrange internal processing of export settings to get ready for export option selections
- libAstroGrep updated to use MatchResults collection instead of Greps, rework HitObject into MatchResult, MatchResultLine, and MatchResultLineMatch classes
- Line numbers are always saved for each MatchResult in libAstoGrep in order for display to toggle instead of performing a new search
- Update look of search and search options headers, removing toggle to show/hide options
- Use F1 key to open Help -> View Help menu item

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