Overview

• Feature Demo
• Possible Changes
• New Release
• New NEPMD base

Possible New Features 1/4

• Rework of menu (slimmer, easier)
• Redesign of settings notebook
  • complete replacement of original notebook
  • discard uneccessary pages
  • redesign akward usage of GUI controls
• Redesign of Search Dialog
  • complete replacement of original dialog
  • redesign dialog (make smaller ?)
  • implement history of changes
  • add feature to
    • reset search options to default
    • make current search options default

Possible New Features 2/4

• Open/Save File Dialog
  • complete replacement of original dialog
  • always open dialog
  • implement pick list
  • implement file group handling
  • add feature to
    • reset edit/save options to default
    • make current edit/save options default
• Tag Dialog and Tag Menu Items
  • complete replacement of original dialog
  • move features of menu items to dialog
  • support tag lists per project
    (automatic activation within project directory tree)

Possible New Features 3/4

• Ring Dialog
  • sort entries according to position in ring, not to file id
• recode/codepage functionality
  • allow to change codepage per file
  • store code as extended attribute per file, if changed
  • add UTF-8 support

Possible New Features 4/4

• Sidebar Display either of
  • sections/functions
  • project files
  • files in ring
  • code snippets
• Directory selector for config dialogs
• Enable EPM clipboard size > 64 KiB
• NLS Support

New Release - Todos

• Last Implementations (to be decided...)
• Quality check and Beta Test cycle
• Release ca. 1Q 2009

New NEPMD base

• goal: overcome limitations of current buggy EPM core
• possible move to cross-platform editor, which
  • is available as open source
  • is in development
  • is extendible (with REXX ?), as EPM is
  • can be tweaked to support most NEPMD Look&Feel and features

The End