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- List of Modifications to the Simply Help! package
-
- 04/07/92 - Added support for PDS 7.1 - Libraries for both near and far
- strings are included. Load the SHELP.SRC file into the editor
- and run it for more info on the BASIC libraries.
-
- 04/06/92 - Fixed a rare bug in the compiler which would cause it to lock
- when a screen contained too many lines.
-
- 01/01/92 - Released Version 1.05 to FoxNet BBS
-
- 12/28/91 - Had a great Christmas! Created a second library called SHELPB.LIB
- which includes only the BASIC modules. This library is for
- people who own Crescent's QuickPak Pro and PDQ only.
-
- 12/18/91 - Rewrote the Basic library to include network support and
- text highlighting. You must tell the routines to use network
- support by setting the "Error Flag" variable to -99 before
- calling the routine. File are then opened as read only with
- full sharing. NOTE: The number of parameters in the SHelpOvr(M)
- routines has been changed to allow a highlight color.
-
- 12/15/91 - The compiler had a bug that caused the system to hang when
- compiling very large files. Added extra error checking so the
- compiler will hopefully exit gracefully when things get too tight.
-
- 12/14/91 - The "Use Color" option in the program options dialog box is now
- extended to work when testing your source file. This will let
- you see what your EXE or TSR file will look like when running
- on a monochrome system.
-
- 12/12/91 - A bug in one of the assembler routines caused the editor and
- all viewers to crash with a Divide Overflow error when running
- on a hercules system (Mode 7) with a mouse. This is now fixed.
- Thanks to Ward Yelverton for pointing out this problem.
-
- 12/10/91 - Simply Help files now support highlighted text within your
- screens. Each screen can use any highlight color and it is
- set in the "Edit Screen Attributes" dialog box. To highlight
- text you use the "Color Switch" character within your text.
- Each time this character is used the color is switched between
- the normal text color and the highlight color.
-
- 12/08/91 - You can now run SHED from anywhere on your system and it will
- know how to find the compiler and the other files it needs. This
- works with DOS 3 or higher. You can also specify an environment
- variable "SH" to provide the proper path to the files as follows.
-
- SET SH=C:\SHLP
-
- 12/06/91 - When setting the size or position of a screen you can now move to
- the bottom and right edges of the screen. This allows you to use
- 80 x 25 screens. The shadow is not displayed if the screen goes
- past column 78 or line 24.
-
- 11/24/91 - Added network support to viewers. The compile dialog box in SHED
- now contains a check box to include network support. This will
- allow multiple users to access the same EXE or TSR file at the
- same time. You must have DOS 3 or higher and run the DOS program
- SHARE.EXE or have network software installed for this to work.
- The compiler was modified to support the new viewers.
-
- All viewers now include the code for mouse support. This was
- done to keep the number of different viewers down. If you do not
- select mouse support in the compile dialog box the mouse support
- will be disabled even if one is detected.
-
- Updated manual and related files. Please note the new mailing
- address.
-
- -------- Working on another program....
-
- 06/17/91 - Added the SHELP.BI include file.
-
- 06/16/91 - The run time Simply Help! library (SHELP.LIB) is now included as
- part of the shareware package. The quick library is no longer
- included but a batch file (QUICKLIB.BAT) is provided which
- allows you to create the proper quick library for your version
- of QuickBasic.
-
- 06/13/91 - Rewrote text expansion routine in assembler. The assembler
- routine saved 400 bytes and is 58 times faster than the same
- routine in basic! This routine was used 7 times in the package
- so it was well worth the effort.
-
- - Reduced the size of all viewers by about 1k each by fine tunning.
-
- 05/30/91 - First shareware release of program to Foxnet BBS. (Ver 1.00)
-