Text Template Plugin v1.1 for Windows Live Writer Released (and a Preview of v1.2)

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Text Template Plugin v1.1 for Windows Live Writer Released (and a Preview of v1.2)

V1.1 of my Text Template Plugin for WLW is now available on GotDotNet, WLW Text Template Download

Nothing changed between the beta and the release, so please check out my v1.1 Beta post for details on this release.

I'm now working on v1.2, which will include a number of refinements and suggested features (thank you Cynthia).

v1.2 Feature List:

Replacement of the listbox on the Select Template dialog with a grid, which allows sorting, filtering, etc of Templates.
Added Categories to Text Templates, which allow for cooler sorting and filtering
Added Icons to Text Templates, which let you associate an icon with a given template making it easier to identify and select a given template
Added a Preview feature to the Add and Select dialogs, which let you see your inserted HTML in its full HTML glory.

There's still a bit of coding yet to do on it (like actually implementing the Filtering ;) so it's not quite ready for beta, but I'm thinking the coming week'ish.

Here are some screenshots of v1.2;

Here's a preview of the new Select dialog. Much prettier isn't it?

The updated Add dialog, showing off the Category feature.

Selecting an Icon for your new Template...

A preview of your new Template

The Categories are "smart" in that if you type in a new, non-existing category you'll be asked if you want to add it to your list (so you can use it again in the future)

The newly added Template

Showing off the sorting... Like most features of this plugin, the sort column and direction is remembered between sessions, so if you like to sort by Category, the next time you Select a Template the grid will already be sorted.

The Filter will work much the sample way. The last entered Title and Category used to Filter will auto-magically filled in for you, but will not be applied...