#ULTRAEDIT DOWN UPDATE#

Update 2: IDM have sent me a new build (23.00.0.49) that works fine. If not, then everything I say below is probably not relevant to you! If you also use Classic Mode, approach UltraEdit 23 with care. Update: It seems my problems with UltraEdit 23 may be caused by my work Windows PC being locked down to Classic Mode, rather than using Aero. Wait until they sort out the rendering and the “Toolbar/Menu Mode”, then you can use something that doesn’t make you want to vomit or slash your wrists! My advice, don’t upgrade to 23.00.0.43 as it is bloody useless. This release seems to be mostly about the pretties, but the pretties make the product unusable. I can’t state how disappointed I am with this release. Making minor theme or layout changes cause it to hang for a minute, before coming back to life. Moving away from the ribbon issue, there seem to be a number of rendering issues about the product in general.

So I’m left with this bloody awful ribbon, or a non-functioning editor. Right-clicking on the ribbon allows you to switch to “Toolbar/Menu Mode”, so that’s good right? Wrong! You switch and everything looks fine, but when you resize the window you lose half of the windows and the only way back is to enable the ribbon again. The glaring hideousness you are presented with is a ribbon! For ***** sake! Hasn’t the whole world spent enough time moaning about the Office ribbons already? Fools rush in where angels fear to tread! Followers of the blog will know I’m an UltraEdit junkie, so as soon as I got the email telling me UltraEdit 23 had arrived I installed it instantly. UltraEdit 23 for Windows has been released.

Ultraedit down