Subject: [Update] Allah Sulu’s Massive Tool version 3.8.0
There is a new version of
Allah_Sulu’s Massive Tool available, which can be downloaded in a
ZIP archive of files. These files can be extracted into a new folder (for first-time installers) or into your existing Massive Tool directory over the current files (make sure that you are not running the Massive Tool while you’re trying to install/extract the update).
New changes to the Massive Tool include:
- There is a new option for applying quotation marks to a block of text. After selecting the text, either hit CTRL-Q or press the “Quotation Marks” toolbar button. Quotation marks will be added to the beginning and end of the selected text. There are several styles of quotation marks to choose from; you can find them on the “Document” tab of the “Edit → Preferences” screen. Also, the checkbox labelled “Use High ASCII special characters (where applicable)” will determine (for smart and foreign quotation marks) whether the characters themselves are posted into your document, or if the HTML ampersand code will be used. (The high ASCII characters can cause problems and display incorrectly on some sites.) Right-clicking the Quotation Marks toolbar button provides single quotes rather than double, or vice-versa, depending on the default selection.
- Two buttons have been removed from the “Search” toolbar: “Find Next” and “Swap Strings” (both commands are still on the “Search” menu). Right-clicking on the “Find” button will now execute a “Find Next”, and right-clicking on the “Replace” button will execute a “Swap Strings” operation. (By reducing the number of toolbar buttons - without a loss of functionality! - I can get them all to fit on my netbook’s tiny screen.)
- The “No Break” button has been removed from the “Insert” toolbar; that code can now be inserted via the nobr.rim macro file.
- I’ve updated the “HTML → Anchor / Links…” option to add Twitter functionality. If the text you enter into the “Text” box begins with either an “@” or a “#” mark, and the “URL/Mail” box is left empty, the Massive Tool will turn that into a Twitter link. The same can be accomplished by highlighting a block of text in the document beginning with “@” or “#”, and then right-clicking the Hyperlinks button on the toolbar. Examples: @alyankovic, #vodka.
- I’ve also changed the “Underline” function on the “HTML → Anchor / Links…” screen; instead of being a checkbox, it’s now a pulldown menu. Leave it blank for the default option, or select “none” to remove the underline from the link (which was what the old checkbox did) or make the line under the link dotted or dashed (new choices). Note that the “dotted” and “dashed” options are not compatible with the “Button” option, and that none of them (because of CSS) can be used in LJ comments (leave the pulldown blank).
- The “Repost” new option has been added to the “LJ → LJ Like…” command.
- The “Reference Page” button has been removed from the “Other” toolbar, and the command from the “Help” menu. A reference page may still be generated with the refpage.rim macro file.
- The built-in FORTH-based language has been greatly modified as documented here, so many of the included .RIM files have had to be modified to operate under the new constraints of the language. Make sure to replace all of the old RIM files with the new ones (also included in the ZIP archive, along with some new ones).