Text Formatting Toolbar version 0.1.4

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The 0.1.4 is the next major release of the Text Formatting Toolbar. It has some great new features. One is the Composer that allows you to create and save a post in an easy to use interface. The post can then be pasted into a text box on a web page by right-clicking and using the Composed Posts sub menu. There is also a new feature that allows for the creation of custom buttons so you can use formatting tags that maybe the unique to the forums you use.

Other recent updates

Version 0.1.4.7

  • Error blocking AMO approval (regression from previous release) hopefully this will be the first 0.1.4 version to get on AMO

Version 0.1.4.6

  • Font size button now has two modes for bbcode, normal and pixel, for compatibility with as many forums as possible.
  • New icons included for compatibility with dark themes, and new option to switch usage.
  • Font list in the options window now works again.

Version 0.1.4.2-5

  • Changed Max version to 3.0.*
  • Fixed minor bug when creating a new custom button if there was white space in the code boxes.
  • GUI problems in Firefox 3 fixed.
  • A few minor display glitches and some (important) internal changes
  • Custom tag window was not auto filling in the tag code based on its name.

Version 0.1.4.1

  • Fixed 2 errors that appeared in the Error Console (blocking addons.mozilla.org approval)

Version 0.1.4

  • Added a new feature that allowed the user to create there own formatting buttons.
  • Added a new feature for creating posts/canned replies offline.
  • Added hot keys for all the formatting commands (any requests on changes/improving the combinations are welcome).
  • Changed all the icons to those created by me for the Pastel SVG Icon set.
  • Fixed the italics button in wiki code to now use ''italics'' not the HTML code.
  • Fixed the list formatting in the wiki code format. It always gave the wrong code.
  • New Toolbar Button to toggle the toolbar, plus the key short cut Ctrl+F
  • New option to control where the cursor goes after text has been inserted.
  • New option use use wiki heading tags instead of font size tags.
  • New option to use systematic HTML ( <em>, <del>, <strong> tags)
  • Automatically disables itself when pressing a button would no nothing useful

There are several things that I am looking for feed back on, such as the hot keys/key short cuts. There is a post on the forum about this.

Features that missed out

In future released the features that I want to add are.

  • Rich-text editing for any textarea on any web page (this all so effects sites that use an editable HTML frame instead of a text box).
  • An editable preview pane in the Composer window.
  • Converting between formats
  • Auto hiding the toolbar when disabled or based on user defined URL matching.
  • Easy way of importing/exporting the composed posts.