Inform7 6G60

Inform 7 6G60 for Windows, October 2013 update. The first release of 6G60 for Windows was in December 2010.

Changes to the Windows front-end since the release of Windows Inform 7 6F95:

• Elastic tabstops are now available as an option in the Format menu. When elastic tabstops are enabled, tabstops are automatically sized so that columns in tables line up.
• The font settings are now respected in the HTML based panes (that is, the index, errors and documentation) when Internet Explorer 9 is installed.
• There is now a Headings sub-menu under the Edit menu, which matches the similarly named sub-menu on OS X.
• The front-end attempts to sensibly replace spaces with tabs in text that is pasted or dropped on the source tab: if a table is detected its elements are separated by tabs, and leading spaces are also converted to tabs.
• The Glulx interpreters in the game tab now support the additions to Glk in versions 0.7.1, 0.7.2 and 0.7.3 of the Glk specification.
• When building a project, the Inform 6 compiler is invoked with the ‘k’ argument, causing it to write out an Infix debug file.
• The preferences dialog now allows the font and font size to be changed.
• If a window is brought to the front, and its underlying source file has been changed by another program, then the source file is re-loaded. The only exception to this is if the source has been changed in Inform 7 but not saved, in which case there is no re-load.
• The settings file is only now updated if the user changes any of the project's settings, and the settings file format has been adjusted to be closer to the latest version of the OS X Inform front-end.

Inform 7 6F95

Windows Inform 7 6F95 was released in October 2010.

Changes to the Windows front-end since the release of Windows Inform 7 6E72:

• When a project is saved, in order to keep the size of the skein under control, only a limited number of unlocked skein nodes are written out (currently 100). The user is warned of this the first time they open a project with more unlocked skein nodes in it than this. The user should lock any skein threads they want to keep.
• The "Open Extensions" item in the File menu is now a sub-menu of the available extensions, matching the OS X front end. Extensions built into Inform 7 are shown in smaller text.
• The old behaviour of the Home and End keys has been restored: they move to the start and end of the line on display, rather than the start and end of the current paragraph.
• The items on the Format menu now all have keyboard shortcuts.
• To match the OS X front end, the Transcript pane now has further buttons: "Next in Skein", "Next diff" and "Prev diff". These duplicate functionality from the Replay menu.
• The Glulx interpreters for the Game pane have been updated to the latest versions: Glulxe 0.4.6 and Git 1.2.8.