BlueGriffon^TM

Remi Collet had made available a Fedora >= 13 RPM for BlueGriffon 0.9RC1 !

OS	Version		Languages	Links
	10.5	32bits	English French Simplified Chinese	download dmg
	10.6	64bits	English French Simplified Chinese	download dmg
	XP, 7	32bits	English French Simplified Chinese	download installer download ZIP
	Ubuntu 10.04	32bits	English French Simplified Chinese	download installer download tar.bz2 download deb
	Ubuntu 10.10	64bits	English French Simplified Chinese	download installer download tar.bz2
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• context menu's appearance was horked on windows classic theme
• goto link in context menu
• reflect DOM Explorer's selected element into wysiwyg vie
• don't allow Undo in source view to remove initial source
• default 300x600 size for dom explorer and css properties panels
• rulers were adding to the style attribute instead of using a txn
• fix for the editor factory error in Bespin
• editable DOM Explorer
• context menu in DOM Explorer
• build architecture for L10N
• zh-CN locale
• html5 element insertion menu
• support for img's longdesc attribute
• make Textarea Insertion and Button Insertion dialogs play nicely with selection
• accelerators for bold/italic/underline/code
• unescape filenames in SaveAs dialog
• copying links was not copying href !
• don't open table properties dialog when selection is not collapsed on double-click
• 'rem' and 'ch' units in CSS Properties panel
• hide structurebar in sourceview
• Copy HTML markup for the selection or a selected element in structurebar
• tabs position was not working on win/lin
• findbar in both wysiwyg and source views
• better theme for wysiwyg/source buttons on win and lin
• spell checking (support for dictionnaries, etc.) in context menu
• editor was horked if parser error in XHTML source view
• about:config in prefs and buildconfig in about
• parsing gradients chokes when vert position appears before horiz position
• Page Properties dialog
• allow user to position tabs in tabeditor through a new pref
• reflect natural ratio changes for images in css properties panel
• Repeating gradients, webkit- and gecko-style
• Help menu
• Table options in main contextual menu

If everything goes well, Simplified Chinese (zh-CN) locale will be added to daily builds of BlueGriffon tomorrow ! Stay tuned.

• DOM Explorer (now editable) context menu finalized
• fix for the source-view-not-initialized bug
• build system for multi-locales
• general information about BlueGriffon now available at http://bluegriffon.org
• new builds all platforms available as usual at http://bluegriffon.org/freshmeat/nightlies/latest/

As promised, it's now time to start localizing BlueGriffon. I've just set up everything we need to include selected locales into BlueGriffon bundles. If you want to translate BlueGriffon into your own language, here are the steps to follow:

1. get yourself an account at http://bugzilla.bluegriffon.org
2. File a bug titled "XX-XX locale" where XX-XX is the requested locale (for instance pt-BR) in product BlueGriffon, component Localization
3. Assign the bug to yourself and Cc me (daniel AT glazman ORG)
4. get a copy of the BlueGriffon L10N repository
   

   svn checkout http://sources.disruptive-innovations.com/bluegriffon-l10n/trunk bluegriffon-locales

5. then type the following commands:

   cd bluegriffon-locales
   cp -R en-US XX-XX
   for i in en-US/*.mn; do sed -e "s/en-US/XX-XX/g" $i > XX-XX/`basename $i`; done
   cd XX-XX
   find . -name \*.svn -exec rm -fr {} \;

6. translate all the strings in all *.dtd and *.properties files in your XX-XX directory; MANDATORY: please use UTF-8 encoding for the files !
7. add your new directory to svn: svn add XX-XX
8. do NOT add your new locale to Makefile.in, I'll do that myself if your locale is stable enough to be enabled by default.
9. make a patch, for instance typing svn diff XX-XX > /tmp/XX-XX.patch
10. attach that patch to the bug and ask me to review it (daniel AT glazman ORG) in the bug
11. you'll get write access to the repository after a positive review.
12. please subscribe to http://groups.google.com/group/bluegriffon/ , changes in L10N will be announced there starting today

• Insert > HTML 5 Element
• Copy HTML for Selection
• support for the longdesc attribute on img element
• context menu in DOM Explorer (not finalized)
• accelerators for strong/em/underline/code
• unescape filenames in SaveAs dialog
• major copying links did not copy href
• don't open table properties dialog when selection is not collapsed on double-click
• 'rem' and 'ch' units in CSS Properties panel
• hide structurebar in sourceview
• tabs position were not working on win/lin
• L10N for Preferences menu item

I am glad to report BlueGriffon was selected in the Netexplorateur 2011 Top 100 innovations of 2010 !

• findbar modified to allow Search and Replace in both source and wysiwyg views
• better localized menu items in the Edit menu
• better theme for wysiwyg/source buttons on win and lin
• spell checking on the whole document
• editor was horked in case of parser error in XHTML source view
• about:config in Prefs and about:buildconfig in About
• parsing gradients was choking if vert position appearing before horiz position
• Page Properties dialog
• allow user to position tabs in tabeditor through a pref
• reflect natural ratio changes for images
• Repeating gradients, webkit- and gecko-style
• Help menu
• table options in main contextual menu
• Table menu in main menubar
• output new webkit gradients
• better command line handler allowing 'open with'
• get rid of WebKit-based styles in Bespin
• disable the Source button until Skywriter/Bespin is fully init'd
• Unicode Char Insertion dialog for windows and linux
• real-time spell checking

New builds of BlueGriffon all platforms are now available here.

I have too many stability issues with the universal 32/64bits builds of BlueGriffon despite of using the "official" way of building them. They're too often crashing on Mac OS 10.5 32bits and I have no idea why. I'll investigate but in the meantime, I'm releasing again two builds, one for Mac OS 10.5 32bits and another one Mac OS 10.6 64bits. You'll find them here. Let me know in a comment below if you have problems with them.

We have a lot of dictionaries available on addons.mozilla.org and BlueGriffon can use them. So if you could just add the following to your dictionary's install.rdf, that would help BlueGriffon users a lot:

<em:targetApplication>
  <Description>
    <!-- BlueGriffon -->
    <em:id>bluegriffon@disruptive-innovations.com</em:id>
    <em:minVersion>0.8</em:minVersion>
    <em:maxVersion>1.0</em:maxVersion>
  </Description>
</em:targetApplication>

Please let us know adding a comment to this blog entry! Thanks a lot !

The "Open with..." system menus now work correctly with BlueGriffon on Mac OS X, Windows XP and Ubuntu (as of revision 475). I'll test Windows7 tomorrow.

If you create a new document in BlueGriffon, it creates a new nsHTMLEditor and a new iframe with a Bespin/Skywriter instance. If the latter is not  fully instantiated yet when you click on the "Source" button, it triggers a JS error and the source view becomes unreachable. I'm working on it, stay tuned.

If Mac OS X has a quite cool builtin dialog to insert unicode chars in any window, that's not the case for Windows and Linux. The Char Insertion dialog in Nvu/KompoZer being an oooooold thing, I revamped it entirely and checked the new code in a few minutes ago (rev. 468). See the result below (click to enlarge).

BTW, it works with both the wysiwyg and the source view.