Version History

Changes in 0.62

• Scrolling in the log windows now always leaves text visible
• Absurd dates on files in filesystem view no longer cause an exception
• Work around the LGE buggy driver which has difficulty with the concept of timeouts
• Updated to pySerial 2, wxPython 2.4.2.4 on all platforms and Python 2.3.2 on Windows

Changes in 0.61

• Com port detection works correctly on Windows 2000
• Device drivers with incorrectly formatted dates are handled without generating an error

Changes in 0.6 - test 5

• Fixed reading file contents to be more stringent. This corrected an issue seen with the LG VX6000 that returned extra nonsense on the end of read file requests.
• Added *, #, P and T as the list of allowed characters in phone numbers for the VX4400
• You can now paste from the clipboard into wallpaper tab. (Not too useful since you will probably want to crop the images yourself, as well as give them a sensible name.)
• Hid the File Print/Print Preview menu items since they don't do anything either
• John Franklin figured out the ?internal field for calendar entries

Changes in 0.6 - test 4

• BCI (Brew Compressed Images) are now supported. They will be displayed in the wallpaper view, and correctly uploaded to the phone etc.
• Filesystem view now shows file sizes and last modified dates
• You can backup and restore directories/trees from the filesystem view
• All issues in open SourceForge bug reports fixed
• Updated to newest pySerial

Changes in 0.6 - test 3

• Removed the 'Version Information' setting from get phone data, as it isn't possible with the straight USB cable, and requires the phone to be in RS232 mode with the USB to serial cable. You can easily get this information from the phone itself.
• Removed the File Save/New/Open menus as they did nothing, and some users may have been lead to believe they did
• Splash screen
• Online help is hooked in
• Include a manifest file so that Windows XP users will see all the widgets in their hideous XP style glory
• Removed the seperate version history html file since it is now part of the online help
• Updated to Python 2.3 on Windows
• Tour is now shown on startup if it is the first time you have run BitPim
• Auto comm port detection and recovery on comms errors.
• Config dialog no longer pops up on first use as sensible decisions are made. You can now browse the com ports in the config dialog
• Filesystem view being on/off now rememberd
• The notebook page/pane you were last viewing is remembered and set on startup
• The files stored on disk are now versioned so if the format changes on an upgrade, old ones can be dealt with appropriately
• Huge numbers of minor usability and functionality fixes

Changes in 0.6 - test 2

• Now make two attempts to open commport with a delay as it sometimes fails on first open
• Added a half second delay when switching baud rates as the phone may not be able to switch as quickly as the host

Changes in 0.6 - test 1

• Can now read and write files bigger than 64kb
• Calendar is now shown
• Worked around Python bug that joins("f:\", "subdir") giving "f:\\subdir" which is not a valid pathname. This should only have affected users who told BitPim to use the root directory of a drive, or who mapped their My Documents folder to the root directory of a drive.

Changes in 0.53

• Also ignore ZbThumbnail.info in the BitPim wallpaper directory (some camera software litters the directory with it)

Changes in 0.52

• The ringtone tab was also refreshed if you selected to only get wallpaper
• Reading images/ringtones from the phone ONLY uses the index now. The brew/shared directory could also contain other stuff such as scores from games that BitPim should have been ignoring.
• You can now do merging as well as overwriting when sending wallpapers and ringtones to the phone.
• Increased precision of calculation for scaling since it was sometimes out by one pixel
• Added refresh to the context menu of directories in filesystem view. You can refresh anyway by closing and opening the directory, but this wouldn't work with empty directories.

Changes in 0.51

• Index generation for ringtones and wallpapers corrected

Changes in 0.5

• If you change the comm port while BitPim is running, it will actually pick up the change (in earlier versions you had to exit and restart due to a bug).
• If mode transition fails, you now get a helpful dialog explaining possible steps to resolve.
• Files in the root directory in filesystem view are now listed
• Files are displayed in the wallpaper and ringtone view in alphabetical order
• The wallpaper and ringtone index files are somewhat cleaner, although the phone still misbehaves is you delete an entry on the phone (this is a bug in the phone and happens no matter what tool you use)
• No more than 30 index entries are added for the wallpaper and ringtone indexes (the limit of the phone)
• Added a guid in the installer setup so that previous versions are uninstalled correctly. It is recommended that you uninstall versions before 0.5 before installing 0.5 to keep your add/remove programs entries clean.
• Wallpapers and ringtones are written out in alphabetical order
• BitPim now has an icon
• We now send a generic initialization command. This allows the filesystem view to work on other Brew phones (AudioVox 9500 and Motorola T720 are known to work). The wallpaper and ringtone stuff should NOT be used on these other phones.
• If you add an entry in the phonebook, the label for that row is now updated when you change the name.
• Ignore the files Windows dumps in the BitPim directories (thumbs.db, desktop.ini etc)
• Update to wxPython 2.4.0.6
• Changed field sizes in status bar so that they are less likely to truncate on smaller screens
• Group strings are now read from the phone
• Pressing enter in phonebook moves selection to the right rather than down
• Updating log text and protocol log is now down in an OnIdle handler. This means the user interface remains usable even when large amounts of logging happen. Feel free to watch as much logging as you want when you want

Changes in 0.4

• Serial numbers on phonebook entries are now preserved when writing to the phone. This means you won't lose speeddials and voicedials (as happened with 0.3).

Changes in 0.3

• Cope with ringtones directory not existing on phone
• Cope with wallpapers directory not existing on phone
• Can now write out your phonebook.
• Can now crudely edit your phonebook
• Changed wallpaper size to be 120x98 instead of 120x100 so that it comes out correctly centered vertically
• The ondisk format of the phonebook has changed. If you used 0.2, please delete any stored phonebook (defaults to My Documentsbitpimphonebookindex.idx) otherwise BitPim may refuse to start.

Changes in 0.2

• Fixed the issue of wallpapers inside a certain size range causing image load failures in the user interface.
• Wallpapers that are resized won't have a one pixel wide black line in the framing area.
• Phonebook is now saved to disk when read.
• The underlying plumbing for the phonebook has been sorted out which will make editing it possible soon

Changes in 0.1

• First alpha release

BitPim 0.62              06 November 2003