Ok, this new feature is quick one [-; There is now ability to rename action. This was originally designed to be in the properties page in the editor of java source files (like for html or resource objects). But during the time it was quite obvious that this is not the way. Just editing java files in eclipse editor feels much better. Anyway there is some screenshot for those of you who want to see something [-;

Rename action menu 

One of the things where Vortex had to catch up webdesigner is modification of the schedule scheduled actions. This is just fairly simple dialog, but I want to start the mini series about Vortex 1.1 with this one.

At first how to get to the dialog. This nicely illustrates the next image:

Next are some samples how the editing looks like. 

editing schedule which is supposed to be executed every year on the 1. of july at 0:00

editing schedule which executes every 20 minutes every day in the week from 4:00 to 6:00 

Release of the version 1.1 of Vortex is closer and close every day. So now it's the time to introduce what cool new things you can expect from it. Today I will cover the overall changes, and in the next few days I will talk about each of the changes in detail.

What is the main message of the version 1.1? Webdesigner application is obsolete. [-; Well, not quite right, for small, last time fixes it's still great tool. But in version 1.1 there is nothing you could do in webdesigner, and not in Vortex. What was added from missing webddesigner features are:

• database schema designer
• sql query editor
• scheduled action scheduling
• action renaming
  

We have also added lot of things to make developer's life easier, and more productive. The major improvements are namely these:

• javadoc context help for puakma.jar
• blackbook integration in help system
• new version of Eclipse IDE 3.2, which is itself huge step forward at least on Mac
• improved html editor, new css, and javascript editors
  
• enhanced uploader
• new Tornado server command console view
  
• and of course many speed improvements, consistency, and bug fixes

Today I finally added Vortex to the eclipseplugincentral.com site. Bit shame on me, because eclipseplugincentral.com is Eclipse's official site to post pugins on, and might have been done much sooner. Anyway you can find there almost all plugins ever done for Eclipse. We really hope that this brings us little bit more attention, and spreads out Puakma technology all around the world [-;

You can find site about Vortex at the address http://www.eclipseplugincentral.com/Web_Links-index-req-viewlink-cid-675.html. So check it out, and please, vote for it.

Vortex 1.1 is also about polishing things, and make them working better. One of the features we wanted to improve the most is the pages editor. The one in 1.0 was pretty much xml editor with some tweaks to be able to handle Tornado tags. But this doesn't work in real world. For the real world you need a little bit more. So thus we adopted Eclipse Web Tools Platform project's HTML editor, and now I'm just beginning to customize to support specific Tornado templates in content assistance (when you press ctrl+space). There is a screenshot of the new editor. Don't be fooled that it fully works right at the moment. We are on the beginning of the way, and as I know Eclipse it knows to be very hard to customize, and it seems  to have almost no documentation, so cross fingers!

So what will this new editor know? It will know how to syntax highlight Tornado tags, HTML, but also JavaScript code and CSS inside your pages. Another new thing is hooking outline, so you will see structure of the file. You can see the outline on the left side on the top. Also new will be snippets which will contain some very useful pieces of code. Also there will be available editor of properties of every tag. Content assistance for Tornado tags, HTML, JavaScript, and CSS.