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- REVISION HISTORY IN REVERSE CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
-
- Version 2.0a Released 12/7/95
- - Fixed three bugs in file management features:
- 1. deleting a file closed windows not containing a view of the file
- 2. browsing an archive when an archive was currently open would not
- close all the appropriate windows, leaving garbage characters
- in view in some windows
- 3. moving a file only copied it
- - Updated the documentation
- - Updated the business phone number to:
- (215) 322-8205 (FAX / Voice)
- - added a requested refinement:
- a new shortcut key, F3, to trigger the Find dialog
-
- Version 2.0 Released 11/20/95
-
- **** Feature added after documentation went to press ****
- create a workspace consisting of commonly browsed or
- searched files by adding up to 20 file names on the
- command line. These files will be auto-loaded on
- startup.
-
- - added context menu triggered by right mouse click
-
- - added Edit menu item, Deselect Marked, to replace old use of
- right click
-
- - added File menu items offering basic file management functions:
- copy
- move
- delete
- rename
-
- - added Window menu items
- maximize all windows
- restore all windows
-
- - added Search menu items
- beginning of Document
- end of document
-
- - implemented checking of the date / time stamp of the file on
- reactivating a file window: if out of date, the file is reloaded
- after a prompt
-
- - added View menu with options to:
- word wrap to fit current window
- format text without word wrap
- format for hex display of non-text files
- toggle 7-8 bit ASCII (to ease viewing some old word processor formats)
- execute the associated program, e.g., the one which created the file
- or a compatible viewer
-
- - raised the maximum number of bookmarks per window to 100
-
- - bookmarks are maintained for each view separately
- (bookmarks are cleared whenever word wrap is chosen from the View menu
- and marked lines are unmarked on switching views)
-
- - reformatted menus and reworded menu items for clarity
-
- - added menu tips on the status line for additional description
-
- - added buttons in the "Find Next / Cancel" search dialog to allow:
- restarting search from top of current file
- switching to next file and start searching it
-
- - added settings and a dialog for changing them:
- maximize window if only one:
- open first document maximized (cascade subsequent windows)
- maximize/restore windows in unison:
- maximize one, maximize all -- restore one, restore all
- auto-detect archive extension (ZIP, ARJ, LZH) on opening a single
- file, via drag'n'drop or the file open dialog, and extract contents
- initial format on opening a file (word wrapped, unformatted, hex view)
- substitute character for filtering out control / graphic characters
-
- - added Options menu, replacing the Fonts menu, providing for:
- setting current window's screen font / color
- setting current window's printer font / color
- changing default settings:
- apply changes to current session only or future session also
- reloading default settings from .ini file
-
- - added utility called MVLAUNCH.EXE which, if associated with file
- extensions in File Manager or equivalent shell (FM), enables
- multiple files to be loaded into MultiVu by double-clicking them
- (one at a time) in FM -- this works around a problem some Windows
- programs have because Windows intercepts attempts to invoke them
- once they're already loaded in memory
-
- - fixed bug which caused the program to fail when selecting
- multiple files from the root directory of a drive in the File
- Open dialog
-
- - added test for presence of MULTIVU.INI file in the WINDOWS
- directory -- if not found, read default settings from the
- one in the directory from which MultiVu is executed and create
- one in the WINDOWS directory for subsequent maintenance there.
-
- - fixed bug which caused the program to fail when the enter key was
- pressed in the scan dialog and a file name (with no wild cards)
- was present in the file name edit window
-
- - rewrote function which compacts path/file name for display
- when too large to fit .. bug caused lockup opening file in
- rare instances
-
- Version 1.1 Released 3/17/95
-
- - ability to set foreground text color in the Fonts menu.
-
- - save / restore of Font information:
- Typeface, eg., Arial, etc. ..... initial default: Courier
- Style, e.g., Bold, Italic, etc.. initial default: Regular
- Point Size ..................... initial default: 10
- Foreground Text Color .......... initial default: black.
-
- - multi-select capability added to File Open dialog and Scan
- List Box. Works just like File Manager. In List Box, after
- marking selected files, press Enter key to initiate opening
- files.
-
- - ability to browse the contents of ZIP, ARJ, or LZH archives.
- The decompression program, e.g., PKUNZIP.EXE, must be in user's
- DOS path.
-
- On opening an archive file, its contents are displayed in an
- Archive Contents List Box. You can then select any file name(s)
- shown in the list box and browse the corresponding files.
-
- - /Q "Quiet" command line switch to suppress opening message box in
- registered version.
-
- - "How to Register" Help Menu item in trial version.
-
- - refined scrolling behavior in response to pressing the Home key.
- If the document is scrolled horizontally, it will scroll back to
- the left margin on pressing the Home key. Pressing it again
- will scroll it back to the top of the document. Version 1.0
- scrolled immediately to the top of the document.
-
- - proper initialization of the file type list box in the "Save As"
- dialog presented when exporting selected text to a file, i.e.,
- Copy to File.
-
- - retention of the file location and name used for exporting
- selected text (Copy to File) as the default for the next export
- request.
-
- - retention of a non-default printer selection as the default
- for the next print request.
-
- - proper display in the presence of a non-white window background
- color, as set in Control Panel.
-
- - disabling of Edit Menu items when no document windows are open.
-
- - no longer searching System and Hidden files in scanning a disk
- for text or files of a specified pattern.
-
- - correction of bug which caused the system to become ill-behaved
- when the "Run Minimized" property is set for the MultiVu program
- item in Program Manager.
-
- - correction of bug which occasionally caused the first character
- on a line to be dropped. This occurred when a new-line
- character occurred without a carriage return.
-
- - correction of bug which caused lines separated by a page break
- to be displayed on adjacent lines, with no space between them.
-
- - correction of bug which caused the system to become ill-behaved
- on closing MultiVu while opening a file from a list box
- resulting from scanning for text.
-
- - correction of bug which caused the system to become ill-behaved
- when scanning a deep directory structure for files or text.
-
- - an insufficiently sized buffer used in the Scan dialog for the
- file name pattern to search, so as to accommodate a search on a
- long list of file types, e.g. "*.c;*.h;*.cpp;*.hpp," resulting
- in memory corruption and strange behavior.
-
- - failure to detect inability to open a file during scan for text,
- in case of files opened with DENY_READ by another application,
- causing MultiVu to hang.
-
- Version 1.0 Released 8/24/94
-