TOPIC: v2.7 for HIP

I typically love being a Beta tester, but a recent snafu on my part,
and after a successful troubleshooting session with Dom, produced a new image on my
new Windows 7 machine called "2.7" in the "About" info when running the
program.
cool,
Am I the only one running this, and are there any type of notes as to
whats new with this new release?
or am I in an unofficial holding pattern, until the "public" release is cut?
I don't mind either way, HIP runs just fine at this point.

I released 2.7 about 2 months ago to a few conferences I went to and people testing out the ISN + HIP integration. I hadn't posted it online because I've been planning a bigger release that keeps getting dragged out for various reasons. There was actually a 2.6.9 too that a few peple with specific issues got. Anyone can download 2.7 as it's very stable at www.homeinspectorpro.com/dmdocuments/Hom...orPro-2_7-Update.exe . I'll post the version notes when I get home later.

Okay here's the updates in 2.7

2.7.0.0

New Feature: Added integration with the Inspection Support Network (ISN). For more information on the ISN, visit www.InspectionSupport.net . You can go to File->Import Data From ISN Client and select from an inspection you haven't started on the ISN. All client information will be imported into Home Inspector Pro. If the agent involved in the transaction is not in the Home Inspector Pro address book, a new agent will be created and their information added. If they already exist, their information will be updated with Home Inspector Pro assuming the ISN data is up to date. This will save all ISN members quite a bit of time retyping information and also allow you to view all inspections you need to write reports for from within Home Inspector Pro.

New Feature: Added text font style for photo captions under Report Settings->Formatting.

New Features: Added text font style for the description text (i.e. Observations, Materials) for Selection & Damage Panels.

New Feature: Added in the $InspectionFee variable to be used in documents and in the contract section.

New Feature: Added page numbers to contract.

Design Change: File->Save Contract has been removed. The contract now automatically saves as soon as you leave the contract editor.

Design Change: If you close out of the program by clicking on the X, and then type in an invalid file name or click cancel, you'll remain in the program rathern than exiting the program.

Design Change: If you close out of the program by clicking on the X, and then click on the X of the dialog box that appears, you'll be returned to the program rather than exit the program.

Design Change: On the contract page, the words Inspection Contract now match the font of the report title.

Design Change: # and ' are no longer allowed in file names as they cause conflicts when uploaded to the website (some browsers don't understand the characters).

Bug Fix: Memory leak if a you started drawing an arrow, rectangle, etc and then exited the photo editor before finishing drawing the object.

Bug Fix: Report Settings->Formatting->Header Font which affects the Summary, End of the report Photo Page and contract pages was not applying the correct color.

Bug Fix: When loading a company logo the program was only allowing images with lowercase letters as the file extension (i.e. .jpg). Uppercase is now accepted as well.

Dom - here's a preliminary wish list.  First time use but that's what beta testing is for

• any way to add focus to the text box when creating a new document?
• the ability to use a png logo would be nice as it supports transparencies
• formatting text in the documents area is causing some weird things to happen.  Sometimes I do not see the formatted changes take place.
• having the ability to type in a size for a font would be nice.
• making color changes in documents using RGB values does not work.
• view source and UL/OL when editing documents

Hi Darin,

1. Ok, easy change.
2. You can already use gif, jpg or png files.
3. HTML doesn't support tabs, we have it on our to-do to add a work around to make something up and convert to PDF. Other than that, make sure you're not pasting from Word or other programs and everything should come out identical.
4. Since our reports are written directly in PDF langauge we limited this to valid values for now as we have to convert the HTML documents into the PDF language (future versions might be able to handle a few other sizes).
5. I just tested this out. Click on any tab after entering the RGB value and it will take. I'll look into why it's not taking when you go straight to Ok.
6. Hidden button to the right of the font size.

Good stuff Dom.  I got my first HIP report complete and I got to say I'm impressed.  Very clean presentation.  For the PNG logo, yea I didn't try to load in a png version, but the instructions in HIP mention that the format needs to be jpg or gif.

I was pasting from Word, so I think that is causing the inconsistencies.  Not a big deal anyways.

Is it possible to implement an open source wysiwyg DHTML/JavaScript-based GUI editor like CK?