LedIt! History


LedIt! 3.0

Was released June 3, 2002.

The major additions in this release were:

  • Linux (really X-Windows) support

  • Support X-Windows as a target platform (based on Gtk). LedIt! is not as fully functional on X-Windows as on the MacOS and Windows, but its usable.
  • Full Unicode support

  • (Windows version only)
  • Faster editing in large documents

  • Microsoft Global IME support

  • Bullet Lists

  • Easy to implement, frequently requested addition.
  • Soft-Returns

  • Support soft-returns - aka line breaks with a paragraph (SHIFT RETURN).
  • Line spacing

  • Support single space, double space, etc, as well as space-before and space-after, and the full range of fancy spacing options MSWord 2000 supports.
  • (Optionally) Show Hidden characters

  • Separately controllable show hidden paragraph markers, tabs, and spaces.
  • Store persistent sizes internally in TWIPS

  • Provides better handing of zooming and scaling. And eliminates small (rare) loss of precision loading/saving Led documents.
  • Hidden text

  • Ability to mark some regions as 'hidable', and then set global (or per-item) flag saying if that hidable text should really be hidden, or be shown in some (configurable) alternate display (so the user can see its hidden). Integrated this functionality into LedIt! Windows demo app, and ActiveLedIt! OCX.
  • Improved drag and drop

  • New 'properties' menu item to get detailed information about embeded objects

  • Improved picture saving (in RTF)

  • Windows Installer support

  • New installer based on Microsoft's new Windows Installer technology

LedIt! 2.3

Was released August 30, 1999.

The major additions in this release were:

  • Ruler UI support (Windows only)
  • Per paragraph, user settable margins, tabstops, and justification support
  • Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF) is now the standard file format for LedIt!

  • The proprietery ".led" format used in earlier versions of LedIt! is still supported, but the default is now to use RTF.
  • LedIt! reads RTF files is roughly twice as fast as in LedIt! 2.2, and slightly faster that MSWord 97
  • Horizontal scrolling
  • Numerous improvements to RTF and HTML reading/writing code (though HTML code is still only marginally usable).
That, in addition to numerous small bugfixes, speedups, and enhancements made to the Led class library itself.

LedIt! 2.2

Was released July 28, 1997.

The major additions in this release were:

  • Support for context menus (Windows only)
  • Fast file IO - especially RTF
  • Colored text
  • Subscripts and superscripts
  • Smart cut and paste (and drag and drop)
That, in addition to numerous small bugfixes, speedups, and enhancements made to the Led class library itself.

LedIt! 2.1

Was released December, 1996.

The major additions in Led 2.1 were:

  • Reading/Writing Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF)
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer/ActiveX support
  • Limited HTML support
That, in addition to numerous small bugfixes, speedups, and enhancements made to the Led class library itself.

LedIt! 2.0

Was released August, 1996.

The major additions in Led 2.0 were:

  • Full Native OLE2 support including OLE server and OLE container support (Win32, Win95, Windows NT)
  • Style runs
  • MacOS version supports 68K (Fat Binary)
  • Embedded objects (pictures, OLE2 objects, URLs, etc)
  • Full undo (including MultiLevel undo) support on all platforms
  • Support for reading any writing some common rich text formats (MIME text/enriched RFC 1563, STYL)
  • Find dialog
That, in addition to numerous small bugfixes, speedups, and enhancements made to the Led class library itself.

LedIt! 1.0

Was released February 1995.

The major features in LedIt! 1.0 were:

  • ASCII, Extended ASCII, or ShiftJIS characters.
  • Word Wrapping
  • Undo support (Macintosh only)
  • No limit on text/line lengths (other than total amount of virtual memory)
  • Fast (on pc, empiricly feels faster than word, notepad, or wordpad editing large documents)
  • Runs native on 68K and PowerMacintosh

Last Updated: 2003-08-29