Xway includes a detailed reference manual, which you can access by choosing “Xway User Guide” from the Help menu. This also includes an appendix with a list of new features and cross-references to documentation in the user guide — this is a good place to start if you’re upgrading from b2. If you’re new to Xway, a good place to start is the introduction to the user guide, and the Xway tutorial (see below).
There is also a step-by-step tutorial and two sample documents, which are available from our website (click on “Xway Resources” in the Help menu). We revised the tutorial for b3.
New features in Xway b3:
Components (Exhibeo galleries or other content)
Pages and folders can be copied and pasted
Boxes can be copied and pasted
Text can be copied and pasted
Folders (and their contents) can be duplicated
Favicons
Web view
HTML view
Absolute boxes can be duplicated by Option-dragging
The content of markup items can be taken from an external text file
Cookies can be disabled for YouTube videos
Flow Root checkbox for container boxes
Extended attribute/property names and meta tag names can be edited
The Site panel can be hidden or shown
The Inspector panel can be hidden or shown
The way that h1, figure, and link elements are styled within Xway matches the way that they are styled in browsers
Auto punctuation (replacing double space with “. ”) is disabled in markup fields
Hex values that are preceded by # can be pasted into hex color fields
Improvements to YouTube and Vimeo iframe previews
Iframes have a default content size of 300x150 (as in browsers)
There are a number of things we’re planning on adding, including master pages, tables, forms, Freeway import, and direct support for CSS flexbox.
I don’t think there will be a “final version”. We’re planning to continue developing Xway for many years, and the beta versions we’ve been releasing are “release quality” rather than “beta quality” — but there will be a commercial (1.0) release at some point and we will then start charging for Xway (with upgrade discounts for Freeway users).
Master pages are high on our list of things to do, and I think they will be in the next beta or the one after that (we may release an intermediate beta with native support for M1 processors).
I love the steady, thorough and methodical approach you’re taking. Are you aiming at ~ 6 month updates, or is it just the way things are panning out? (Apart from the little mini b3 a couple of weeks back)
On Dec 1, 2020, at 8:06 AM, Jeremy Hughes <email@hidden> wrote:
Hi Grant,
There are a number of things we’re planning on adding, including master pages, tables, forms, Freeway import, and direct support for CSS flexbox.
I don’t think there will be a “final version”. We’re planning to continue developing Xway for many years, and the beta versions we’ve been releasing are “release quality” rather than “beta quality” — but there will be a commercial (1.0) release at some point and we will then start charging for Xway (with upgrade discounts for Freeway users).
Master pages are high on our list of things to do, and I think they will be in the next beta or the one after that (we may release an intermediate beta with native support for M1 processors).
It’s an incomplete list. Menu creation is something we are planning to look at!
Rollover trickery: I don’t know if or when we will support old-style JavaScript rollovers — but hover styles are already supported, and we could develop that further.
Good news!
Regarding Exhibeo, I have version 2.0.3, which when I checked, is the latest available and doesn’t work with Xway. If the required 2.0.4 coming soon?
Thanks
Geoff
Thank Gordon. It would have been helpful if the version was indicated somewhere on the website. Interestingly, having installed the new version and clicked on ‘check for updates’, the dialog box says “Exhibeo 2 2.0.3 is currently the newest version available. (You are currently running version 2.0.4.)”
Geoff
