Change Summary:

28 March 2008 - VietPad.NET v2.0

• Upgraded to .NET 2.0
• Redesign using .NET 2.0's new controls
• Added NetSpell spell checker (http://sourceforge.net/projects/netspell/) with Vietnamese phonetic code rules (http://aspell.net/man-html/Phonetic-Code.html#Phonetic%20Code)
• Improved sorting algorithm (the result is still slightly off due to errors with Vietnamese collation in Windows (http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/archive/2005/08/27/457224.aspx))

26 June 2007 - VietPad.NET v1.2.1

• More refactoring and various minor improvements

21 June 2007 - VietPad v1.4

• Applied the Jazzy patch which enables the spell checker to start operation from current caret position rather than from beginning of document every time
• Added spellcheck support for foreign languages (dictionary files (.dic) need be copied into .vietpad directory)
• More refactoring
• Added a font configuration file for Java 1.5 on Fedora 7

22 November 2005 - VietPad.NET v1.2

• Refactored using Design Patterns to improve code reuse, program extensibility and maintainability
• Changed the letter case of namespaces and methods to following the naming convention as described in .NET Framework Naming Guidelines (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/cpgenref/html/cpconnamingguidelines.asp)

20 November 2005 - VietPad v1.3

• Refactored using Design Patterns to improve code reuse, program extensibility and maintainability

22 July 2005 - VietPad.NET v1.1.1

• Fixed a bug with Add Diacritics function, which skipped the first word if the text began with non-alphanumeric characters
• Minor improvements

12 July 2005 - VietPad.NET v1.1

• Added Normalize Diacritics function, which shifts tone marks to proper positions according to rules described in http://www.vietlex.com/vietnamese/quytacbodau.html. Both modern and classic styles are supported
• Fixed a NCR conversion bug
• Fixed bugs with text replace operations
• Enhanced Find/Replace dialog with memory for search words
• Use UTF-8 without byte-order-mark (BOM)

30 May 2005 - VietPad v1.2.1

• Corrected a discrepancy in Regular Expression in Java 1.4.2 for Normalize Diacritics operation
• Enhanced Find/Replace dialog with memory for search words

14 April 2005 - VietPad v1.2

• Added Jazzy spell checker (http://jazzy.sourceforge.net/) with Vietnamese phonetic code rules (http://aspell.net/man-html/Phonetic-Code.html#Phonetic%20Code)
• Added Normalize Diacritics function, which shifts tone marks to proper positions according to rules described in http://www.vietlex.com/vietnamese/quytacbodau.html. Both modern and classic styles are supported
• Optimized Unicode conversion operations
• Fixed a NCR conversion bug
• Worked around a problem with Ctrl-H shortcut, which has erroneously deleted text and failed to call up the Replace dialog (Bug ID: 6249912 & 4782077)

11 November 2004 - VietPad v1.1.3

• Fixed a collation bug introduced in version 1.1.2
• Added Unicode conversion support for ISC encoding
• Toolbar on Mac OS X now has a lower edge

8 October 2004 - VietPad v1.1.2

• Incorporated Java 1.5.0's Locale vi features (collation, date/time format, etc.)
• Allowed shorthand to be enabled while Viet Mode is off
• Improved VISCII, VPS, UTF-8, and VIQR conversion
• Worked around a bug with file DnD on Linux
• Lined up scroll bars and grow box on Mac OS X
• Made the Keyboard Mode label clickable
• Worked around an obscure bug which incorrectly alters Đ and đ letters to D and d during Unicode Compound conversion. The bug only appears on certain Windows systems and is related to the Unicode-to-VIQR conversion bug reported in VietPad v1.1.1

8 October 2004 - VietPad.NET v1.0.4

• Improved VISCII, VPS, UTF-8, and VIQR conversion
• Added support for conversion of Decomposed Unicode (Compound)
• Made the Keyboard Mode label clickable

18 June 2004 - VietPad.NET v1.0.3

• Added the ability to add diacritical marks to unmarked Vietnamese text. This feature uses a user-modifiable list (originally from http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~duc/software/) containing common Vietnamese words and phrases
• Enhanced Find/Replace dialog, adding a Match Diacritics option
• Improved UTF-8-to-Unicode conversion
• Added Vietnamese date/time format

1 May 2004 - VietPad.NET v1.0.2

• Localized VietPad.NET
• Fixed a minor keyboard engine bug related to entry of  and Ô letters in Telex mode
• Added support for left-to-right sorting
• Fixed focus problems when closing dialogs

26 April 2004 - VietPad v1.1.1

• Added font.properties support for Linux
• Replaced Vietnamese collation rules with a more concise form
• Fixed a minor keyboard engine bug related to entry of  and Ô letters in Telex mode
• Worked around an obscure bug which erroneously converts Đ and đ letters to D and d (instead of to DD and dd), respectively, during Unicode conversion to VIQR. The bug only appears on certain Windows systems
• Changed Vietnamese translations from title case to sentence case
• Enhanced Help panel
• Replaced Java 1.5 deprecated methods
• Improved Font dialog to accept TCVN/ABC fontnames on OS X
• Worked around a Java bug on OS X

1 February 2004 - VietPad v1.1

• Full localization
• Used ListResourceBundle for resource bundles
• Fine tuned algorithm for string comparison to be consistent with specifications listed in http://vietunicode.sourceforge.net/charset/quytacABC_en.html
• Added support for left-to-right sorting

25 November 2003 - VietPad v1.0.9

• Localized VietPad

14 October 2003 - VietPad v1.0.8

• Added the ability to add diacritical marks to unmarked Vietnamese text. This feature uses a user-modifiable list (originally from http://www.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/~duc/software/) containing common Vietnamese words and phrases
• Enhanced Find/Replace operations to accept un-accented search words for accented words
• Fixed a bug with Match Whole Word option in Find/Replace dialog. The bug resulted in an endless loop, hanging the application
• Added anti-aliasing for rendering fonts with point size greater than 18

13 September 2003 - VietPad v1.0.7 Re-release

• Worked around a bug in Mac OS X's Java 1.4.1 Update 1 that crashes VietPad, which works in earlier versions of 1.4.1

22 August 2003 - VietPad.NET v1.0.1

• Incorporated functionalities similar to the Java counterpart

10 August 2003 - VietPad v1.0.7

• Renamed VietPad's package name to work around a bug with JRE 1.4.2 interpreter which sometimes fails to properly recognize net.sourceforge.vietpad package name on certain systems
• Fixed a printing bug that clipped small-font text at right margin

14 July 2003 - VietPad v1.0.6

• Optimized input engine performance
• Added change case
• Added join parapraphs (removing line breaks)
• Added shorthand
• Added preferences
• Fixed a Undo/Redo bug
• Enhanced Find/Replace operations to accept newline (\n) and tab (\t) characters

11 May 2003 - VietPad v1.0.5

• Improved input engine performance:
  • added diacritical mark removal mechanism
  • more efficient key input processing
• Improved cross-platform Look & Feel
• Improved conversion performance
• Added Vietnamese word sorting
• Added stripping diacritics

24 January 2003 - VietPad.NET v1.0

• Incorporated Vietnamese input engine with IntelliMark capability which enables entering diacritical marks at word ends or within word boundaries, besides the tradition method
• Added Unicode conversion support for Vietnamese legacy, Numeric Character References (NCR), and UTF-8 formats
• Added support for ANSI, UTF-8, UTF-16 file encoding
• Adapted and extended NotepadClone © 2001 by Charles Petzold, author of Programming Microsoft Windows with C#

16 January 2003 - VietPad v1.0.4

• Added auto-detect file encoding algorithm, specifically tailored for detecting Vietnamese characters in various UTF encodings
• Added Unicode conversion support for legacy, Numeric Character References (NCR), and UTF-8 formats
• Added Preferences to store persistent data
• Utilized Ant build tool (http://jakarta.apache.org/ant)

2 October 2002 - VietPad v1.0.3

• Incorporated new, improved input engine with SmartMark feature which enables entering diacritical marks at word ends, besides the tradition method. The engine was ported to Java from Xuong D. Au's VietJie Javascript input algorithm (http://www.vovisoft.com/unicode/utilities/vietjie/default.asp) according to VietKey's API as specified in http://vietpad.sourceforge.net/VietKey_API.html

• Worked around a font-related problem that collapsed the scrollable Font Name list in Solaris (Bug ID: 4682565)
• Fixed a thread-related bug in Font Dialog that sometimes prevented proper Preview update after font selection with arrow keys
• Limited length of Font Style and Size textfields in Font Dialog
• Added UTF-16 encoding. This makes it easier for Microsoft Word to open files created by VietPad
• Improved VIQR conversion
• Improved default browser launching

27 February 2002 - VietPad v1.0.1

• Added support for file and text Drag-and-Drop from native applications such as Windows Explorer or Microsoft Word
• Disabled internal text DnD because it caused loss of caret after a few operations (hopefully it would be corrected in future releases of JDK)
• Minor enhancements

• Public release
• Fixed freeze problem with pasting large amount of text (from clipboard)
• Added support for printing
• Added text Drag-and-Drop support (may cause loss of caret after a few DnD; minimize and then maximize the frame to regain caret)
• Added Look and Feel support
• Added support for conversion between Unicode UTF-8 and VIQR/Vietnet
• Ported Nguyen Doan Vuong's Javascript (http://www.vnet.org/vanlangsj/convert.js) to Java and expanded to include support for VNI, VIQR and Telex input methods
• Code for basic text editor extracted and expanded from the book Swing 2nd Edition by Matthew Robinson and Pavel Vorobiev (http://www.spindoczine.com/sbe)