[Eric] ANN: New eric 5.3 snapshot released

[detlev]

Hi,

I'd like to inform all of you about the immediate availability of a new eric 
5.3 snapshot. It fixes a few bugs and adds these new features.

- Editor
  -- added capability to change the colours of the edit area independant from
     the colours of the system style
- Project
  -- added capability to save project tasks automatically (configurable on
     project configuration page of configuration dialog)
- Tasks
  -- changed the tasks handling to allow for more fine grained task 
     designations
- Tools
  -- added a tool to take screenshots (fullscreen, selected screen, 
     rectangular selection, elliptical selection or freehand selection)
- Version Control System Interfaces
  -- Mercurial
     --- added support for the graft command as of Mercurial 2.0
     --- added support for Phases as of Mercurial 2.1
  -- Subversion
     --- changed code to make the subversion plug-ins compatible with the new
         generation working copy meta-data format
- Web Browser
  -- extended the check for acceptable SSL certificates for indication via the
     URL entry field
  -- extended the web page context menu by several entries to send links or 
     the selected text, handling the clicked frame, translate the selected 
     text with Google Translate and search it in Wictionary
  -- extended the User Agent handling to be able to set the string on a host 
     basis (next to the global user agent string)
  -- added code to save the current page as a screen shot
  -- added capability to synchronize bookmarks, history, passwords and user 
     agent settings via an FTP server or a shared directory
  -- added the ClickToFlash plug-in to (temporarily) block Flash and related 
     content
  -- added capability to suppress Referer Headers (configurable via eric4 Web 
     Browser configuration page)
  -- added capability to select the first nine tabs by pressing Alt+1 to Alt+9 
     and to switch to the last tab by pressing Alt+0
  -- added a Speed Dial to the web browser including the capability to select 
     the first ten pages by pressing Meta+1 to Meta+0
  -- added a history sub-menu showing the most visited sites
  -- added the capability to restore closed tabs
  -- added a bookmarks importer to get them directly from other browsers files
  -- extended bookmarks to hold a description and various timestamps
  -- added capability to manage the QtHelp filter attributes
  -- added a page to the site info dialog to show web databases of the site
- Wizards
  -- QRegExp
     --- added support for the various pattern syntaxes
- Third Party packages
  -- updated to Pygments 1.5


It is available via 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/eric-ide/files/eric5/unstable/5.3-20120430

Regards
Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
detlev at die-offenbachs.de