Ñ This is a Beta of NetFinder, it is ongoing work and should not be used for everyday work unless you feel it is stable enough for your needs.
Ñ The release version of NetFinder is currently v2.1.2 and can be found at <http://www.ozemail.com.au/~pli/netfinder/>
Ñ This package is NOT to be distributed, only the release version above should be distributed on CD-ROM's etc.
This feature bumped version of NetFinder, like all previous versions, focuses on adding useful features that we think are useful in our own day to day lives. We hope it proves to be useful to you too.
Please feel free to email us your requests. For if its a feature you find useful, it is likely that others including ourselves will find it useful too.
This is a beta, so please help us squash any problems in the program that may have appeared since the last release, by emailing us a bug report. We need your help... who know you may even get free registration. ;)
Beta History
v2.2b5 [27th November 2000]
Note: This is a non-carbon build, download "NetFinder_X_v2.2b5" for a Carbonized version of NetFinder. The carbonized version is optimized for OSX, so it may run slower than the non-carbon build under pre-OSX.
- updated to latest compiler. New versions of OpenSSLLib, ICILib etc are required for this build.
- rewrote portions of low level networking code.
- fixed a stupid bug in establishing a data connection code (in PORT mode) that would cause "cant establish data connection" to appear when operations performed too quickly.
- fixed a server parser plugin bug that would cause it not to ID the server properly. It also caused the crash under OSX as soon as you connect to a "unknown" server.
- various other fixes while testing the carbonized build under OSX.
v2.2b3 [8th November 2000]
- added ability to close the ICI Console window. Use Command-w.
- added clrscr() routine to ICI script to clear the contents of the ICI Console window.
- added PageSpinner to the list of Editors supported in the Editor integration. PageSpinner is a _very_ cool HTML editor.
- fixed the "no icons in menus" pref, which broke in 2.2b2.
- fixed a few bugs in the MacBinary streamer causing it to not restore Finder flags properly.
- fixed a bug in the MacBinary identification routine.
- fixed a long standing memory "corruption" bug which could causes crashes at the end of getting an FTP listing.
- fixed a small memory leak in the ICI scripting engine that could become a problem if lots of scripts are executed.
- fixed a AppleEvent error bug.
- fixed a Bookmark/password bug.
- fixed a owner/group bug in the listing window and Get Info window. Introduced in v2.1.x when optimizing GUI.
- fixed a number of other bugs when Carbonizing and porting NetFinder to OS X.
v2.2b2 [4nd September 2000]
- added refresh ability to the Shortcuts and Scripts menu.
- added ability to drag folders/disks onto NF app icon to open the dropped folder/disk in FILE protocol window. Useful because we can use filtering on finder items. Saved my butt a few times. May need to rebuild Desktop.
- added ability for users to define custom command key shortcuts for Scripts and Shortcuts items by simply renaming the items on disk.
Only available for MacOS 8.0 or higher.
eg if "My HTML Pages URL\aocsP" is the filename of a Shortcut on disk.
Then the menu item will be shown as "My HTML Pages URL" with the command
key being APPLE + OPTION + CONTROL + SHIFT and the letter "P"
where \ = command/modifier key sequence begin tag
a = Apple Key Modifier
o = Option Key Modifier
c = Control Key Modifier
s = Shift Key Modifier
P = command key to use, in this case the letter 'P'.
NOTE: the order of modifiers is important.
- added NFSetModifiersForCommand() routine to script engine to allow scripts to be written to alter or add command key shortcuts to the various menus in NetFinder. Sample script attached.
- added a few network debugging commands to the script engine for tech support purposes.
- fixed a bug when suppressing .bin or .hqx extensions, the file transfer would always upload as Binary.
- fixed a crashing bug in NFAddressToString() call via ICI.
- worked around an issue with Internet Config that would cause certain files to not be identified correctly, and thus be uploaded as MacBinary instead of Binary.
- worked around keyboard events being processed by the ICI Console Window. ie You can now use command keys, and command-. does not kill the entire app.
v2.2b1 [22nd August 2000]
- added Mirroring by Modified Date!
- added 'New Empty File' command to create a file on an FTP site... for even easier BBEdit integration.
- added a Shortcut menu (the bookmark like icon after the scripts icon), along with CM to add shortcuts easily from a listing window.
- added 'Organize Shortcuts' menu item to open a folder containing your shortcuts. You can add aliases to your bookmark lists too! You no longer have to put up with the bombardment of bookmark list windows at startup.
- fixed up balloon help resources since the ID's were not updated when menu resources were last updated.
- fixed a progress dialog update bug. The progress bar was not updated when traversing folders.
- fixed a cause of numerous -50 paramErr problems. This was very noticable when using the FILE protocol.
- fixed a memory corruption/crash bug when closing the last window to a site more than once.
- improved "logical name" handling for VMS servers. You can now use "logicalname:" or "/logicalname:" via Goto Directory.
- synced code from the debug build of NetFinder (ie missed it in release) to reduce the frequency of the "shutdown badly" dialogs.
