This file documents changes to AppBar from version to version. Please check the home page for the latest details. If you have a question/bug report, please READ THE FAQ.TXT FIRST and MAKE SURE YOU ARE USING THE LATEST VERSION!!! I hope v1.00 will be the last version. I hope to port AppBar to the BeBox (http://www.be.com) since that is my new platform of choice but the Win32 version is done. New in: 1.00 - Release! - Complete rewrite in MFC 4.2 (C++) with source included. As a result, the code is a bit easier to understand now. This version is approximately 40k but requires the MFC42.DLL and MSVCRT42.DLL run-time libraries (1MB). A standalone MFC EXE is about 160k. Note that the distributed version is still the C version, since it is smaller and faster at 60k. - All strings moved into strings.h for easy translation into other languages. I will not edit and compile new versions though, so this is for other people to translate if they want. - Changed filenaming scheme to long filenames. - Added hotkey to call AppBar. It is Ctrl-Alt-z (or C-A-a if the first is taken) and I will NOT make it user configurable! - Added option to turn off time display. - Added display user option. - Standard bug fixes and so on... 0.99 - Working NT v3.x version. - Can now run Win95-style shortcuts (ONLY if they link to an EXE though). - Apps can now be started max/min/normal. - Several bug fixes. 0.98 - Created manual makefile and included source in distribution archive. - Remade the AppBar project in VC 4.0. This shrunk the size of AppBar from 100k to 60k! - Bug fixes for Drag and Drop. - More complete AutoHide implementation (sliding, etc...) - Added command line switches for date, memory, bottom, and autohide 0.97 - Removed hard-coded AppBar menu and switched to a right-button popup menu. - AppBar can now be repositioned to the bottom of the screen. - AppBar now auto-hides!!! It's now VERY usable in my mind. 0.96 - Huge bug in File I/O - I was saving pointers so if one of them happened to look like an EOF, AppBar would fail to read in the file. This is fixed and now AppBar *should* be stable...I hope. - Drag and Drop - Just drag an EXE (or several) to a menu item in the Edit Menus dialog and AppBar will create an app slot for it and fill in a name. - Added internationalization code for our friends in other parts of the world. Now the date and time display in the Win95 Control Panel format. 0.95 - AppBar runs on Win95 and WinNT 4.0 ONLY! (And I'm not sure about 4.0) - AppBar is much fatter! (Beats me why... I think it may have to do with the fact that the EXE size is now greater than 64k so local jumps must be 32-bit values.) 50k ---> 90k. Yuk. - Added options to display date and free memory (at user request). - Rewrote time display code to do all this. As a side effect, the time is no longer selectable (it was previously a menu!) - If running on a battery, AppBar will display the battery % left (in color!) - Redesigned the Options dialog - Command line parameters (see README.TXT for documentation) - Multi-user settings (ditto) - Many small changes to make AppBar more conformant to dynamic changes in the system (screen resolution change, system time change, etc). - Menu bug fix(es) Mike Perham (mperham@cs.cornell.edu) http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/mperham/appbar/