1. Forum: Textastic for iOS
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convert tabs to spaces / spaces to tabs

Robert Crooks 10 years ago in General • updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 10 years ago • 1
I'd like to have an option to convert all tabs to spaces (or vice-versa) for a selection or the whole document.
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Coldfusion

O. S Idowu 13 years ago • 0
To be honest this is by far the best dev app available on AppStore. So well done guy.
Just a future request, please could you include CFMs & CFCs code completion?

Thanks very much.
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Under review

Capture special keys by filetype

Dohn 14 years ago • updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 14 years ago • 0
As you use special characters, they are captured and displayed on the extra key bar. The unique keys and their weighted importance are saved by filetype. There may be one set of special keys when writing SQL queries, and others for other file types
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Allow "view in" browsers other than Safari

fjpoblam 11 years ago in iPad • updated by Albo P. Fossa 3 years ago • 3

Thanks for a great app. It's worth noting, I'm no longer maintaining my websites via laptop, but rather *just* on my iPad, thanks to this app! (I just get out my laptop to download updates and keep copies in sync.)

I've read all the suggestions here, and think I'm not posting duplicates. I'll post three. This is one.


I have Chrome, Opera Mini, Onion, and Dolphin browsers on my iPad. It'd be very handy to be able to "preview" a source file in any of these browsers, for testing purposes.

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Fixed

Localization error: "Möchten Sie diesen Link in Safari öffnen"

Alexander Blach (Developer) 14 years ago • updated 14 years ago • 0
When you click an external link in the online manual, you get the message "Möchten Sie diesen Link in Safari öffnen".
Version 1.1
Answer
Alexander Blach (Developer) 14 years ago
It now correctly says "Do you want to open this link in Safari?"
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Issues compiling .less file locally on iPad

Jeff Szpak 12 years ago in iPad • updated 12 years ago • 9
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No files are listed when using FTP.

pascalforum 14 years ago • updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 14 years ago • 1
Browsing starts normally and when I arrive in a folder containing 29 files and 22 subfolders nothing is displayed. Some folders/files have long names.
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Transfer error login denied

carlos beukes 11 years ago in iPad • updated by jmbenedetto 4 years ago • 6

Hi -

I keep getting this error: 'Transfer error login denied'

Login details work fine in cyber duck, transmit etc on my mac so I do not believe problem is with login details.

Have tried different settings: active/passive...

I am worried that this app might not be for me. Would a refund be in order?

I'm willing to try a little more but at some point soon need to try another FTP app in the hopes it might work for me.

I heard good things about this app so I thought I'd just go straight ahead with purchasing it. I am not really knowledgable enough to use this app perhaps. I develop websites and never have problems with FTP related matters. This app has got me confused and a little disappointed.

Would be great to hear back from someone soon.

Thank you kindly,


Carl

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Double-Tap to zoom in and out

Alexander Blach (Developer) 14 years ago • 0
"When I zoomed in I find myself instinctively double tapping to snap back out."
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Fixed

Text entry sluggish

Matthijs van Polen 14 years ago • updated by Alexander Blach (Developer) 14 years ago • 11
Not sure if it's a bug, but text editing is quite laggy. I type the characters (Bluetooth keyboard or on screen, doesn't matter) and then I slowly see them appear. This is especially annoying when deleting text.
Answer
Alexander Blach (Developer) 14 years ago
Textastic uses the CATiledLayer class to draw the text in background threads. This is the same class that is used in the Maps app which fades in Google Maps layers as soon as they are loaded from the internet.

So, the text isn't displayed immediately, but drawn in the background and then faded in. This makes it look slightly sluggish, especially because the screen is drawn in tiles and several tiles have to be drawn and faded in. This is especially noticable with external keyboards, because then there's a bigger screen areay that has to be drawn.

But, this makes scrolling and zooming very fast even with big text files and CATiledLayer makes good use of the limited memory available on the iPad.

I see what you mean, but I think it's acceptable. I'll see if I can improve drawing in a future version, but right now it's not a priority.


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