A lot of work was done. And there is only one
open issue from the last ToDo list.
Now its around christmas time and maybe the
CoDeSys problem is to much to solve it during
the last days of this year. I want to include the
fix in RC1 ... I’m sorry, but you have to wait.
If you want a fixed batch convert I would please
you to download the linux file. It includes the
latest stable source, which could be compiled
easily „at home“ or ask me for an executable.

I have updated the project website. It shows
now a docs menu, which contains a changelog
and holds links for the FAQ and the Help.

The actual todo list:
- better CoDeSys support (done)
- disabled menu items greyed out (done)
(- Sucosoft checksum support (n/a))

Oh, my last entry is from june. I’m sorry but there
were some private things to to. Now I’m working
on the next enhancements and some bug fixes,
eg. the batch converter bug, which causes same
content for all converted files
I’ll try to publish the release candidate at the end
of december 2008.

At the moment I think about to use Scintilla as
the editor back-end. It could solve some basic
problems with the syntax highlighter and the
line numbers. But it would be a lot of work.
We will see... maybe in v2.1.

The actual todo list:
- new settings file handling (done)
- better CoDeSys support (v2rc1)
- timer based autosave (done)
- fix batch converter bug (done)
- syntax highlighter updates (done)
- interface enhancements (done)
- Help files (done, english)

My time for working on PLCEdit is limited, but I try my
best to ensure that development does'nt stop now.
Some points of the new ToDo list were already done.
I also plan to support another PLC-software provider.
We will see what's happen until v2b2 .

The actual todo list:
- interface enhancements (done)
- language translations (done)
- fix file-extension-save bug (done)
- save sessions as project (done)
- export as PDF (done)
- better CoDeSys support
- new POU files support (done)
- timer based autosave (v2rc1)
- Help files (v2rc1)

The last weeks were not really productive. There were some
user interface enhancements made. On Mac OS the App looks
now more mac-like. And the Toolbar icon size is now 22px.
You can see it on the Home and Features pages.

I have also found a bug. If an already open document needs
to be saved, next to the name a broken filename extension
will be shown and later used by the export routine.
As a work around please erase the extension first, before
editing the file name. The next version contains a bugfix.

And how long will it take until the next beta-release?
I'll try to release the next beta until the beginning of june.

Today it looks very well. All work for v2b1 was done.
Now I'm going to prepare the application for distributing.
The public beta will be released maybe today or tomorrow.

As you see we have some open issues and maybe some small bugs, too.
However, I've decided that the first beta version will miss some features.
So, the help files and the translation functionality are planned for v2.0b2.
Now let us tell about the development progress:
In the last days the batch converter, the POU information dialog and the
print dialog were implemented. With this the core class named PageCtrl
was revised. Now the file import/export functions have its own class,
which makes it easier to write functions like the batch converter or the
prototype function and many other features which needs acces to the
prepared POU file content.
Now some bugs in the POU info dialog needs to be fixed. The find and
replace dialogs will be the last steps on the way to the public beta.

The development of PLCEdit is still in full activity. But today it seems that
I could not hold the promise to release a 2.0b1version at the end of March.
Some issues needs more concentration, so it could take some more days.
The actual todo list:
- printing (done)
- POU info dialog (done)
- batch converter (done)
- find & replace dialogs (done)
- drag & drop (done)
- translation (v2b2)
- Help files (v2rc1)