QEdit is a simple monostyled text editor that runs on the System 7 or later versions of Mac OS. It was supposed to provide quick manipurations, so named QEdit.
• Significant changes in version 0.2.7
1. Almost every task other than drag-and-drop can be recorded by Script Editor.
2. Fast caret mode (Edit / Caret Mode) is a new feature. Try it if you are not satisfied with the top speed of the Keyboard control panel. But if you feel it’s too fast to edit, go back to the normal speed.
3. The previous versions of QEdit saved preferences of each document in resource of type 'PREF'. Now, the format is same but the resource type is modified to 'QEdt' to distinguish it from other applications’ preferences. In either case, document preferences of QEdit are currently saved in only files made by QEdit.
Usually, you don’t need to be conscious of that as long as you use QEdit 0.2.6 or later versions (reading 'QEdt' type is supported by 0.2.6).
4. Class of selection property of AppleScript is changed from class reference to class selection object (because I found “Winter 1992 Apple Event Registry Errata” describes class ID of pSelection is cSelection). This means you can use “property of selection” expression like this:
offset of selection of document 1
* QEdit defined the class name of cSelection as “selection object” instead of “selection-object” though it’s no effect as long as you use selection property.
• Bug fixed (in 0.2.6)
As a serious problem, I detected that QEdit 0.2.5(a) could not even launch on some environment. The problem was fixed in QEdit 0.2.6.
• Data size
Document data size you can edit by QEdit depends on the application memory that can be modified in the Finder.
• Undo and Redo
QEdit supports up to three degrees of undo and redo for each document. But when QEdit failed to get memory, undo data can be purged.
• Drag and Drop
If Drag Manager is installed on your computer, you can do drag-and-drop on the document windows or the Find dialog box. Receiving text files is also available.
• AppleScript
If AppleScript is installed on your computer, QEdit is scriptable and Execute Script command is enabled in Options menu. By this command you can execute scripts in Scripts folder. Why don’t you try write your own scripts and put them in the folder? (When QEdit can not open the Scripts folder at once, try rebuilding the desktop file.)
To refer for events and classes, do Open Dictionary command of the Script Editor and choose QEdit.
• Speech
If Speech Manager is installed on your computer, Speak command is enabled in Options menu and QEdit can make your computer speak. But only languages Speech Manager supports.
Since QEdit passes a copy of text to the Speech Manager just once, you can freely edit the text while computer is speaking.
(If neither AppleScript nor Speech Manager is enabled, Options menu will not appear.)
• Shortcuts Guide
If Apple Guide is installed on your computer and QEdit Shortcuts file is in the folder of QEdit application, you can see about shortcuts from the guide menu.
• View
Items of View dialog box just effect view on the display. For example, though document windows can be inverted or meshed, results of printing documents are always normal. And showing return characters does not effect whether or not to print them.
• Properties of each document
Items of Page Setup dialog box and every dialog box which has the Set Default button are properties of each document. For example, whether or not to print return characters of the Print Option dialog box is a property of each document. (I think printing special characters is useful just for the text to be proofed.)
• Right-to-left direction language
If the scripting system containing WorldScript I is installed on your computer, you can edit text of right-to-left direction language like Arabic or Hebrew with QEdit on condition that the contents are not bidirectional, for example, Hebrew context contains no English words.
• A problem of AppleScript
When you select a large text and make AppleScript do following statement, a system error can happen.
if selection as text is not "" then
To avoid that, replace it with the following statement.
if 0 < length of selection then
• Wow!
Take it easy, please, if you found that the color of status bar changes day by day. It’s just a feature of QEdit.
• Environment
This version of QEdit was developed and tested mainly or only on the following environment. Not tested on Mac OS 8 yet.
Computer: Macintosh LC475
(tuned to 33MHz with FPU; tuning not recommended)
OS: Mac OS 7.6.1, System 7.5.1, 7.1 and several Language Kits
Development tools:
Symantec C++ version 7.0 (C language)
Guide Maker 1.4b3
Keyboard: Apple Keyboard II
Printer: PC-PR1000E/4, NEC
Printer driver: MacPrint Pages ver.1.0.1, Kansai Electric
• Distribution
QEdit 0.2.7 is a freeware. You can distribute it to your friends.
QEdit is copyrighted and all rights to it are reserved by the author Lyomei Sakai.
Scripts in Scripts folder are also copyrighted but I will not insist on them. You may, I think, use those scripts on your responsibility.
I will not take responsibility for results of using QEdit. But I will appreciate your bug reports or advices.
• Thanks
Thanks to the users who gave me reports for improvement of QEdit.
