Jun 15, 2006

Eluent Tools 1.90 was released. Changes include:

• Eluent Tools now supports Visual Studio 2005.
• Eluent Find now supports the multiple selection of files in its File List pane.
• Minor bug fixes.

Oct 6, 2003

Eluent Tools 1.8 was released. Changes include:

• Eluent Find now supports saving search results in text and HTML formats through Save As under the File menu.
• Eluent Dir now supports saving search results in HTML in addition to text format.
• Both Eluent Find and Eluent Dir now provide a Task Summary command under their respective View menus, which opens a window containing an HTML report of the Task parameters. You can open the Task Summary window to refresh your memory when you’ve forgotten the settings that produced the current results. This information can also be included in the reports you save through the Save As command.
• The Visual C++ Chooser and console programs no longer require the %MSVCDir% and %MSSDK% environment variables to be defined in order to refer to folders related to Visual C++ and the Platform SDK. Now, simply an installation of Visual C++ 5 or 6 and the Platform SDK should be sufficient. See Visual C++ Rules for new rules you can use with the @C code, such as VcIncludeDir.

Jul 7, 2003

Eluent Tools 1.65 was released. This update addresses some minor display issues.

Apr 28, 2003

Eluent Tools 1.64 was released. Changes include:

• Eluent Find's Task Dialog Box now preloads its Find text box from the selected text in Visual C++ 5/6 and Visual Studio .NET when run from those environments. This makes it an even more seamless Find in Files replacement.
• Eluent Find's File View Find feature now preloads the search text from the text view selection, if any. It also now supports initiating an immediate search from the File View selection by pressing Ctrl+F3 (forwards) and Ctrl+Shift+F3 (backwards).
• Eluent Find now provides toolbar buttons for controlling case-sensitive and whole word matching in its File View window. This helps you control the search when using the Ctrl+F3 combinations.
• The VS.NET Chooser and console programs now do a better job of determining the VC7 Related Files. If a program is launched from VS.NET 2002 or VS.NET 2003, it binds to the VC7 directory belonging to the VS.NET instance which launched it. Otherwise, it binds to VS.NET 2003 if available, falling back on VS.NET 2002 if the 2003 version isn't installed.
• Each Eluent Tools program now remembers which Path Plan page was selected in Visual C++ 5/6 and Visual Studio .NET, so that it can return to that most recently used page the next time you run it under a given development environment.

Feb 6, 2003

Eluent Tools 1.63 was released. Changes include:

• Eluent Dir now supports the native File Properties dialog box
  for multiple file selections under Windows XP, which typically
  includes "Security" and "Summary" pages.
• Minor bug fixes and other improvements.

Oct 28, 2002

Eluent Tools 1.62 was released. Changes include:

• This version works around a Windows bug affecting NT-based Windows
  configured to display console windows in full screen mode. The bug
  is that Windows would briefly switch display modes to a full screen
  console instead of respecting the programmatic request to create
  a hidden console window when launching a console program.

Oct 21, 2002

Eluent Tools 1.61 was released. Changes include:

• This is primarily a bug fix release. It also adds support for Visual Studio .NET Everett.

Apr 22, 2002

Eluent Tools 1.6 was released. Changes include:

• Added support for Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. Eluent Tools always made it easy to access Visual C++ open documents, project files, and related folders, and now it does the same for VS.NET.

Feb 21, 2002

Eluent Tools 1.5 was released. Changes include:

• Added support for editing and adding your own commands to the Explorer context menu. In particular, this allows you to add Task Files to the context menu, such that the owner program opens with its tool settings merged with the selected files and folders. You can access this editor via the Tools menu in any Eluent Tools Task Dialog Box.
• Eluent Tools now supports the native Windows XP look, and several new Windows XP Path Variables have been added.
• ElReplace.exe now prints a more informative error message when run as a true command line program, and it can't proceed because Replace Rule confirmation was requested for one or more rules. (Confirmation is supported only in GUI mode.)
• Various improvements to the program Help and Setup program.

May 14, 2001

Eluent Tools 1.4 was released. Changes include:

• Updated ElPerl to the latest and greatest version of Perl, which is 5.6.1.
• There is a new file installed to your Eluent Tools installation folder, ElAddIn.dll, which is a COM add-in for Visual C++ 5 and 6. Briefly, when you have more than one instance of the Visual C++ IDE running at the same time, it ensures that an Eluent program launched from the Visual C++ Tools menu binds to the instance of Visual C++ that launched it.  More information is available in the Visual C++ Notes Help topic, including instructions on how to load the add-in into Visual C++, which is not done by default.

Apr 10, 2001

Eluent Tools 1.31 was released. This version improves initial folder choice and memory for all Open and Save file dialog boxes, for all versions of Windows.

Mar 23, 2001

Eluent Tools 1.3 was released. New features include:

• There is now a document system, which allows you to save complete task information in a single file, called a Task File. For example, suppose you're using Eluent Replace, and you have a Replace Plan you apply to different sets of files at different times, but there's a Path Plan you apply it to on a regular basis. Before version 1.3, there was no way to encapsulate this information, except through a command line in a batch file, so in the GUI, you would have to select the right Replace Plan and Path Plan each time you wanted to run the task. Now, you can save the complete task to a Task File, which has the extension elrep. All the tools support Task Files, and all the Task Dialog Boxes now provide a menu bar from which you can open and save Task Files, among other things.
• Eluent Find has better support for binary files.
• Minor bug fixes and enhancements. For example, the folder chooser dialog box now opens to the last folder you browsed.

Jun 5, 2000

Eluent Tools 1.2 was released. New features include:

• Eluent Tools now supports the Windows 2000 Indexing Service. All tools support Indexing Service through Advanced Filters and the new Indexing Service Chooser, and Eluent Dir lets you easily conduct Indexing Service searches on Path Plans. Naturally, there are new Indexing Service Rules available at the command line.
• To accommodate new Indexing Service options, the Advanced Filters dialog box is now a tabbed dialog box.
• Eluent Attrib can now alter the Windows 2000 Not Content-Indexed attribute, which is also available in Advanced Filters.
• Eluent Dir's Window View can now save search results to a tab-delimited text file. Eluent Dir now supports context menus for multiple file selections, and you can rename single items.
• Eluent Find now supports drag and drop of single items from its File List, and you can rename single items.
• In Eluent Dir and Find, the ability to open a parent folder's context menu by Ctrl-Right-Clicking a File List item has been removed, and a new context menu item Open Containing Folder has been added.
• Eluent Dir and Find now support drag and drop rearrangement of File List column headers, and you can right-click a header to open a menu from which you can select the columns to display. Both programs now support a Creation Time column, and Eluent Dir can display the Indexing Service Rank.
• There is a new Platform SDK section in the Visual C++ Chooser.
• There is a new Path Variable, <LocalDrives>, which allows you to write a Path Rule that refers to all your local hard drives.
• When run under Windows 2000, all programs now use the Windows 2000 file selector, and dialogs now use the configured Windows 2000 dialog font, typically Tahoma 8.
• Minor bug fixes.

Jan 14, 2000

Eluent Tools 1.0 was released.