S.T.E. - Sintegrial Text Editor v0.4.0 rel 2   README 22.05.2023



0. CONTENTS OF THIS FILE
========================

1. INTRODUCTION

2. REQUIREMENTS

3. INSTALLATION

4. LICENSE, COPYRIGHT, DISCLAIMER

5. CONTACT

6. CREDITS

7. SUPPORT AND DONATIONS

8. HISTORY

9. RESTRICTIONS


1. INTRODUCTION
===============

Welcome to S.T.E. v0.4.0 port for OS/2 and ArcaOS.
S.T.E. is easy-to-use and feature-rich plain text editor, which is available for 
different platforms.

S.T.E. is based on Qt framework from Nokian and Qscintilla component from
Riverbank Computing. Also it uses free resources from OpenDesktop.org project.


2. REQUIREMENTS
===============

* klibc 0.6.3 or later

    ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/gcc/libc-0_6_3-csd3.wpi

* Qt4 dll

    ftp://ftp.netlabs.org/pub/qt4/4.6.2/qt-lib-4_6_2.wpi

* Gcc 4.4.4 dll  
   
    http://download.smedley.info/gcc444.zip


3. INSTALLATION
===============
          
To install S.T.E. do the following:

klibc
-----

  1. Download klibc 0.6.3 csd3 or later.
  2. Install the package by double-clicking on the WPI file.


Qt4 dll
-------

  1. Download the package.
  2. Install the package by double-clicking on the WPI file.


Gcc dll
-------
  1. Download the package.
  2. Install the package by double-clicking on the WPI file. 


S.T.E.
--------

  1. Create a directory for S.T.E.
  2. Extract the S.T.E. package to the new directory.
  3. Create a WPS object for STE.exe.
  4. Start S.T.E.
  5. Enjoy the app
  6. Make sure that the /files are in same directorie as the ste.exe
  
*** As tools you can use this:
    http://www.os2site.com/sw/dev/util/astyle.zip
    http://www.os2site.com/sw/internet/misc/tidy-os2-bin-20051026.zip

4. LICENSE, COPYRIGHT, DISCLAIMER
=================================

(C) 2007-2010  http://ste.sintegrial.com
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.



5. CONTACT
==========

Please send bugreports to:

  elbert.pol@gmail.com

Only bug reports with a reproducable bug are accepted. :-)



6. CREDITS
==========

The port was done by:

Elbert Pol

Thanks go to:
  * Paul Smedley
  * Dmitry A. Kuminov
  * Silvan Scherrer
  * Herwig Bauernfeind

They either helped me when I had some nasty questions or did some testing for me.


7. SUPPORT AND DONATIONS
========================

STE is based on volunteer work. If you would like to support further
development, you can do so in one of the following ways:


  * Donate to the Qt4 project: see qt.netlabs.org for more information

  * Contribute to the project: Besides actual development, this also includes
    maintaining the documentation and the project web site as well as help
    for users.


8. HISTORY
==========

Compiled now with Qt4.6.2 GA and based on QScintilla-gpl-2.4.3


CHANGELOG

0.4.0

* added Number Conversion feature (by Ctrl+Shift+N)
* added quick commenting feature (by Ctrl+/)
* added tag completion feature for XML and DSL style tags (by Ctrl+Enter)
* added selection wrap feature (also by Ctrl+Enter)
* added symbols table (unicode, hex, html)
* added joining lines with any separator (by Ctrl+J)
* added trimming of spaces between words
* added syntax highlighting for Ada, Lisp, Haskell
* added APIs for Ada and Lisp
* added content preview for XDXF dictionary format

* improved File Explorer (speed, navigation, usability)
* faster startup
* some GUI optimizations (more compact toolbars etc.)

* fixed issue with extra symbols in search results window
* fixed key code propagation issue
* fixed issue with showing images for HTML preview
* fixed issue with wrong restoring of the Search Bar's height
* fixed issue with Paste after closing several tabs
* fixed issue with moving current line up and down 
