Release Notes
This patch release fixes a potential file encoding issue when running setup on Windows, and a minor issue with the project word count not being updated immediately when a file is deleted. In addition, the keyboard shortcuts to change focus between the project tree, the editor, the viewer, and the outline panel, have been changed for Windows users. They keyboard shortcuts were interfering with the Alt codes used for special characters. The shortcuts are unchanged for Linux and macOS.
Detailed Changelog
Bugfixes
- Fix an issue with file encoding when extracting version information from the source code during setup on Windows. This seems to be a limited issue, but the changes make the relevant function more fault tolerant. Issue #805. PR #807.
- The project word count on the status bar was not always updated when a file was permanently deleted from the project. This has now been resolved. Issue #799. PR #810.
- The keyboard shortcuts to change focus will on Windows interfere with the alt key codes as the focus shortcuts used
Alt+toAlt+4. On Windows, these are now insteadCtrl+Alt+1toCtrl+Alt+4. Part of issue #740. PR #808.
Source Code
- Remove a redundant line in the source code. PR #802.
- Make the XML parse for project items a little less panicky when encountering unexpected XML tags. Generally, this shouldn't be a problem, but the XML parser should silently ignore unexpected tags when parsing the project file. This may occur if a project is opened in an earlier version of novelWriter. If so, a warning is issued anyway, so it is safe to disregard unrecognised tags as the user has already actively selected to proceed and been sufficiently warned. PR #809.