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Komodo 5, coming soon ( Alpha builds, that is )

Posted by jeffg on 2008-08-20 12:07
OS: All / Any

Here's a quick screenshot of the build that will likely become Komodo 5 Alpha 1 ( on OS X ). Some things to note:

  • The nice unified / native 'Leopard' look on OS X
  • The previous point implies correctly that we are now running on the Firefox 3 codebase.
  • Those are two windows; Komodo now can do multiple top-level windows.
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Looking swish :) Any idea of
spl1nter | Thu, 2008-08-21 12:36

Looking swish :)

Any idea of a potential release date (or window)?

Probably this fall sometime,
jeffg | Thu, 2008-08-21 13:17

Probably this fall sometime, still a little too early to tell. All we've done so fasr is the multi-window work and the port to Gecko 1.9.0 / Firefox 3.0. We still have to add some features. =)

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Multiple windows
Tom_H | Thu, 2008-08-21 14:54

How does the multiple windows work? Can you drag and drop tabs between them? Could one window show a live preview that's updated when I save a file in the other window?

Lots of possibilities here. :-)

Currently multi-window
jeffg | Thu, 2008-08-21 15:36

Currently multi-window support is quite primitive; we spent a lot of time patching code to get it working at all, but have yet to add any multi-window-specific features. That means that currently:

  • dragging tabs from one window to another does not work ( but it's a cool
    idea! )
  • editing the same file in multiple windows *does* update the code in all
    windows, just the same as if you were editing the file split into tab
    groups.

I've attached a couple of screenshots of the current multi-window specific features so far:

K5 new window

tab context menu

We have some pretty decent builds right now, so you should see an alpha release maybe tomorrow or early next week.

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JeffG
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Update!
jeffg | Thu, 2008-08-21 17:02

We just approved the current builds for release, look for emails and blog posts pointing to the appropriate places tomorrow.

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JeffG
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...and the Alpha 1 builds
jeffg | Fri, 2008-08-22 15:02

...and the Alpha 1 builds are up:

http://downloads.activestate.com/Komodo/releases/5.0.0a1/

Enjoy! Report bugs! The release details are here:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/komodo-discuss/3658029

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JeffG
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Sanity check
cheesegrits | Tue, 2008-08-26 15:12

Just a quick sanity check ... can I install this alongside my existing (and wonderfully stable) 4.4.1?

Windows XP Pro / W2k3.

I'm very keen to try out the multi-window support. I'm currently working on 3 largish projects, and often end up with 80+ files open. Makes for much thrashing around and confusion, especially as there are a lot of files called the same thing in more than one project. So I'm more than happy to put in some testing effort to help it along ...

-- hugh

Komodo 5 will install and
jeffg | Tue, 2008-08-26 15:31

Komodo 5 will install and run beside Komodo 4, and not interfere with it. please try it out, but please don't expect it to be worthy of full-time use yet, it's still rough around the edges!

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JeffG
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