Winamp 5.0beta2 10/23/03:
* modern skin updates :
  - new skin drop
  - woo francis owns, and fixed keyboard bugs
  - fixed alt+f4 from video wnd & pledit
  - fixed resizing cursor in popups
  - fixed add to library parenting window to main window rather than to library
  - fixed switching to vis while video is playing
  - added checkmarks to scale/opacity menu
  - fixed avs fullscreen complaint when video is there hanging
  - fixed resizerect docking to viewport for snapAdjusted wnds
  - fixed slowdowns loading big playlists in mmd3
  - added redock after drawer open/close
  - gave modern skin default positions for main wnd/pledit/library
  - added popup menu on song title text
  - fixed how menus would overlap menubar buttons when skin was at the bottom of the screen
  - added "animate config drawer" in skin option menus
  - fixed saving/restoring of classic main window and eq status, and classic pledit windowshade and size
  - fixed showing classic skins at startup when loading modern skin
  - even newer skin drop
  - added "temporary" to scale menu so that this locked scale thing is a bit more obvious
  - added "pe_info" xml text display string for pledit selected/total length (not yet in skin)
  - added dsound ipc for crossfader buttons/sliders support
  - added vis menu action ("vis_menu"), made modern skin's button configurable (menu/config)
  - added localization support in gen_ff
  - added bitmap font override to ttf, added pref page with font list & scale overide
  - added altfont, altsize, altcolor, altprettymucheverything for text objects, so that
    skinners can make their skins ttf friendly, added "use alternate fonts" in fonts pref tab
  - added checkbox for using operating system font rendering
  - gave a few fontsizes to bitmapfont text objects so overrides aren't all the same size
  - fixed crashbugs when not finding ttf fonts
  - fixed empty playlist when starting with previously windowshaded playlist in classic mode but no xnf data
  - fixed crash when trying to update stuff while switching skin
  - fixed crossfader time going back to 0
  - added right to left ttf rendering
  - fixed layouts jumping on the screen when changing truetype font override
  - updated to freetype 2.1.5, fixes crash, #ifdefed out some unused stuff from it
  - fixed ctrl+w + alt+g guru
  - fixed alt+tab while resizing player
  - fixed player leaving a resize trail when aborting resize above autorefresh-on-alt+tab windows
  - removed small kerning hack due to freetype 2.1.5 having much better native kerning
  - fixed equalizer xnf entry getting duplicated over and over
  - fixed small leak in font loader
  - fixed font engine not reloading a ttf font after switching to win32 font renderer and back (and thus, using the override font, which also serves as fallback)
  - adjusted some ttf rendering paddings
  - added ability to not override bitmap font with ttf or use altfont on 7-bits character strings
  - fixed disabled widgets states
  - fixed typo in about box :)
  - added ctrl+tab / ctrl+shift+tab to cycle thru windows
* made playlist showing deferred so startups looked cleaner with modern skins
* fixed crash on skindir change in prefs
* added "adding to burner" status window when using sendto/drag&drop to burner, for reassuring
  status
* added rescan in background menu item to library menu
* added "add folder in background" checkbox to "add folder" in library
* added scan on startup library option
* christophe's now playing updates
* fixed manual playlist advance w/ repeat
* fixed CD burning view and skin switching bug
* fixed burning when WAV writer is configured to not write WAV headers
* switched to new Gracenote ID
* fixed "return" key in ml's info editor
* added left mouse click on disabled edit boxes in ml's info editor
* better burning error handling (shows the burning status window to easily view the error)
* better mini-info-viewer when no internet handling
* made winamp's open directory recurse checkbox nicer looking
* avs doubleclick (fullscreen vs config) option in fullscreen options
* avs alt+f4 closes winamp instead of loading preset
* milkdrop config while running now shows help
* added new avs default presets
* fixed installer dual-winamp-launch bug
* fixed gen_ml bg scanning error problem
* optional screensaver disabling for video, fullscreen or not. now with optional mode that works
  even if winamp is not active.
* slight avs window reorganization
* made modern skin extracted by default, for speed
* improved config dialogs for aac/mp3
* made info viewer activated by button instead of slider 
* made internet radio/tv page handle resize better (search doesnt get screwed on small windows)
* cleaned up some labeling places
* cleaned up ripping and burning UIs more
* fixed library prefs radio buttons
* added Gracenote TUID retrieval in "Now Playing" tab in ML
* cleaned up ML playlist editor buttons, added burn button
* added wait for blank media dialogs for burning
* made bookmarks support drag&drop more and sendto.
* made it so you can't remove/rename modern skin
* added option to add burned CDs to local CD DB

Winamp 5.0beta 10/13/03
* modern skin updates :
  - fixed win98 crash with desktopalpha skins
  - fixed pledit jumping on top of main window when docked and interacting with config drawer
  - fixed avs hiding main window when docking to editor
  - fixed vis gammagroup filtering
  - fixed bgr color for pledit scrollbar background in v1.0 skins
  - fixed rare crash on skinswitch
  - added timers resolution autodetection
  - added configuration of text scrolling speed
  - added vis_cfg action to toggle vis cfg window via button
  - fixed config drawer tabs moving the app when not selected
  - added enable docking checkbox and docking distance editobox in prefs
  - added tooltip checkbox in prefs
  - fixed tooltip stealing focus from popup menus
  - added support for noresize flag in embedwnd so that it spawns the right container
  - added notransparency flag for embedwnd, made milkdrop use it
  - fixed potential aot reset by embedwnd (ie, milkdrop)
  - fixed slow text ticker, made it use timerclient_getSkipped to have consistent speed regardless of timer resolution
  - added timer resolution in prefs page
  - added link ratio & alpha in prefs page
  - fixed empty popups in pledit menubar, commandbuttons and ml menubar when no playlist or devices are available
  - fixed "mono" display when nothing playing, made songinfo update faster after clicking play
  - separated link position & link width for main winshade window, changed default to link all
  - removed move="1" for song title display on main window normal and shade modes
  - fixed click on beatvis that would sometime fail to toggle active status
  - added gammagroup xml param to vis objects
  - made switching to windowshade open undocked video & vis when video is playing or vis is visible, docks back when coming back to normal mode
* made library able to update info on files that dont support tag writing when tag writing is checked
* fixed burning bug when using certain .WAV output settings
* enabled burning on multiple devices simultaneously
* made Winamp check to see if AVS or milkdrop is running fullscreen before starting video playback, and remove
  fullscreen if necessary
* made AVS and Milkdrop check for video playback before going fullscreen (milkdrop uses fake mode, AVS complains)
  (to avoid DirectDraw crash)

Winamp 5.a10 10/10/03:
* fixed library's playlist buttons
* cleaned up prefs for steve some
* fixed crash bugs in AVS, added new AVS effects from Unconed and Tom Holden
* made doubleclick in AVS go fullscreen
* made AVS autodetect video modes for fullscreen if necessary
* updated to latest veritas SDK (should prompt for reboot if necessary now)
* new milkdrop that integrates better, and fixes bugs, and is smaller
* fixed tagz '?' lameness
* modern skin updates :
  - fixed aot changes not being detected
  - fixed elapsed/remaining toggle not being forwarded
  - fixed right key in menubar when menu item selected is a submenu, fixed left when in a submenu, fixed right after hovering on an submenu item, phew!
  - fixed left/right keys seeking while in a menubar
  - fixed guru due to custom checkbox accessing nonexisting layouts because they are now dynamic, made them use configattributes
  - made vis & video open undocked when in windowshade mode

Winamp 5.0a9 10/08/03:
* modern skin updates :
  - fixed starting modern skin when winamp is minimized (or reloading winamp with modern skin when it was minimized on exit)
  - added Vis_FS action
  - added menubar keyboard shortcuts
  - made winamp ask the skin about *any* key it receives so that script can trap (and prevent) them
  - added left/right keys for menubar navigation
  - fixed avs flicker when spawning & closing via menu or keyboard shortcuts
  - added guid for colorthemes pref page ({53DE6284-7E88-4c62-9F93-22ED68E6A024})
  - fixed keyboard script hooks
  - added "equalizer" to popups, automatically opens the drawer and switches to the tab
  - added modern skin submenu to main popup menu/options
  - added attrib page for adding items to View menu via script (also show up in main popup)
  - fixed auto move of docked layouts when switching to windowshade when original layout has snapadjust values
  - added action PE_ListOfLists for winshade playlist editors
  - added about box guid for lightning bolt click ({8DDA9D48-B915-4320-A888-831A1D837516})
  - added unlink="1" for layouts to remember their own position/size regardless of linkwidth/linkheight
  - added windowshade for main & pledit, whoohoo Sven!
  - fixed checkmark for container entries in menu
  - added automatic discarding of unused bitmaps in memory, drops usage by 2 to 7mb (depending on skin) when not interacting with the ui
  - fixed huge leak in ttf rendering, that one was leaking 300k/s when the song title was scrolling ! uh oh...
  - fixed small leak in xmlparser
  - fixed parsing of groupdefs in the middle of dynamic containers
  - fixed small leak on skinswitch
  - fixed small leak in gammamgr
  - reduced memory usage by ~3mb when using winamp modern skin.
  - fixed shutdown sequence
  - fixed drawer locking up in closed position after detaching both windows via the menus
  - fixed vis or video poping up when clicking detach menu option while wnd is hidden
  - added option to bypass user defined drawer direction when window is going to get partially hidden after opening the drawer
  - added ability to set cfgattribute value "-" to make a separator in the custom skin option menus 
  - added user option for drawer direction
  - added reversed drawer, heehee
  - added guiobject.reverseTarget() to move x/y values according to w/h values so that a drawer moves the opposite direction (ie, increase w/h in a targettimer, call reverseTarget and instead of growing to the right/bottom, the object will grow to the left/top - works on layouts!)
  - fixed weakness in assessing visible states 
  - fixed drawer not remembering size after user resize
  - added open from library in pledit lists submenu
  - added "manage playlists" in pledit lists submenu
  - fixed seek on doubleclick in openfile box
  - fixed pledit disapearing on winamp startup
  - fixed minivis stopping on desktopalpha toggle
  - fixed some drawer issues
* cd burning view:
  - added item moving stuff
  - burners default to burning view when no cd present
  - added burning view auto refresh
  - added 44khz resampling
* made good generic title formatting system, that'll use library data, id3 tags, vorbis tags, cd info, etc.
* in_dshow: added buffering status when playing streams
* added skin rename/remove support
* made ripping to WAV file when using a ACM conversion to generate proper files
* in_nsv: added PCM support
* fixed random skin support
* fixed user info dialog multiinstance issue
* added gracenote tuid retrieval in library's mini infobrowser

Winamp 5.0a8 10/02/03:
* big modern skin updates (as usual)
  - docking/undocking support and drawer fixes
* library has leet audio view searching now
* mucho bugfixes, yo

Winamp 5.0a7 9/29/03:
* big modern skin updates (woo!)
  - fixed opacity related repaint flicker when hiding video
  - added modernskin custom options preliminary submenu 
  - added smooth scroll of the video/avs drawer
  - fixed modernskin videoavs.m bugs
  - fixed focus problems with avs in the main window
  - changed "Media Library" to "Library"
  - changed "Freeform" to "Modern"
  - fixed wndregion problems when heigth/width of a group is zero
  - fixed wndregion problems when showing/hiding objects
  - fixed repaint problems
  - fixed bug with playlist editor background color
  - added font size correction
  - added lite bold (bold="2") which looks similar to old antialias="1" on non bold, so for skins backward compatibility, bold + old antialias = lite bold
  - more color interpolation fixes
  - made skin menus use win32 menus
  - fixed autowidth/height from text with bold/italic attributes
  - added system.getidealvideowidth/height();
  - added colorthemes_next and previous actions
  - added actions for pl/video/avs command buttons
  - made video follow its rect without 250ms delays
  - fixed checkmark for elapsed/remaining in options menu
  - added lock in scaling menu
  - added nohscroll="1" to themeslist object to hide the scrollbar
  - fixed gammagroups for text widgets
* more prefs overhaul to make steve happy
* cd burning fixes
* cd ripping crash fix
* other fixes/etc
* gen_ff :


Winamp 5.0a6 9/25/03:
* followup to 5.0a5:
* modern skin fixes (yay francis rules):
  - fixed HUGE doublesize by always resizing back the huge width or height to the screen max
  - fixed safe transparency autoswitching
  - fixed render ratio problems when opening embedded window in already scaled window
  - added control menu to app context menu
  - implemented ff control menu
  - added layout snap adjustment
  - added System.switchSkin script call
  - fixed initial focus to main window
  - added eq commands from menubar
  - added radio/tv in menubar
  - fixed pe menu / open from library only showing the playlist rather than playing it in the pe
  - made PE_File context menu load playlists even if ml was never shown
  - added context menus for the player controls
  - added elapsed/remaining hook for time displays
  - fixed ml/pl button not lightning up when ml/pl is showing
  - added checkmark for "Main Window" when the main container is visible
  - improved color interpolation for wa3 skins
* fix to ripping speed selection crash bug
* updated mp3 codec selection on unreg stuff (to revert back to old codec)
* burning ui fixes
* installer fixes [workarounds for now too]

Winamp 5.0a5 9/23/03:
* very alpha version of new modern skin, lots of gen_ff updates
* new install process (Thanks kichik for the help)
* cd burning
* better AAC time updating support
* mp3 ripping (with winamp pro regkey)
* sendto menu in library
* big AVS updates (2.7pre3 or so? forgot to update the ver#, but this one is newer than
  anything other as of 9/23)
* directory autoscanning for library (woo)
* more! I forget it all...

Winamp 5.0a4:
a4: mostly cosmetic update:
a4: fixed library/pe in wa3 mode in 16bpp mode
a4: new splash screen
a4: updated credits/about box stuff
a4: added good in_nsv about box
* .wal support in winamp.exe
* changed ripping filename specifier to <artist> etc
* minibrowser moved to gen_ml
* made empty media view have some crappy text + add directory button
* down arrow in library search now go to results
* veritas SDK integration for CD ripping/playback
* huge preferences makeover
* mini-context-info stuff in gen_ml (complete with internet checking)
* made bitmapped font in winamp off by default for better int shit
* uninstall plug-in support
* changed allow multiple instances behavior to be better (always off
  when playing/enqueuing files)
* made bookmarks viewer editor in library
* made library support drag&drop for adding directories
* made library have more options for adding files metadata
* made library metadata updating faster
* tons of wa3 skin love
* about box for AAC stuff
* made wa3 pledit use colors and better scrollbars
* bugfixes in gen_ff
* fixed little gfx bug in fullscreen video playback on multimon
* more!