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- VB AHA!!! History
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- Version Description
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- 1.31 ***REGISTERED VERSION ONLY***
- Added: Full macro support. It's still crude (you must type them
- in) and you will need a reference that covers the winhelp
- macros. I will GREATLY improve on this after I finish the RTF
- importing.
- NOTE: among other things you can use macros to play MIDI and
- AVI files from your help file (and others I'm sure).
- Added: Your "Build Options" are now also saved in each .AHA file
- so you wont have to worry about what options you had selected
- for that project, they will be automatically reset.
- Added: More predrawn "bullets" for use in combo fields.
- Added: New field menu item "Load Text". It will allow you to
- read a text file into a field with the option of reformatting
- it for a help file (no returns in the middle of a paragraph
- etc...).
- Added: Improved keyboard support while editing a topic (using
- the arrow keys to move between fields, Page Up and Page Down
- and others).
- Added: Shift + Right click on a field brings up Setup window.
- Added: Build option to use the default Windows Popup/Jump colors
- for all links (Popup/JumpTo fields and Global Text Links).
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- 1.23 Changed: some new info in README.TXT and the online help,
- including among others, how to register with a credit card.
- Changed: I'm not giving any special pricing deals other than
- site licensing anymore. They're not worth the hassle to me and
- they're not fair to credit card customers as they can't get
- them.
- Fixed: File|Save As... now places the filename into the file
- history list like File|Open... does.
- Fixed: problem loading some .TPC files that were saved with a
- version prior to 1.20.
- Fixed: a couple of minor code optimizations/fixes.
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- ***LAST SHAREWARE VERSION FEATURE UPGRADE***
- All shareware versions released after 1.22 will only have bug
- fixes.
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- 1.22 Added: Export Pascal header (constants) files.
- Added: You may now select a filename for your exported header
- files (Visual Basic, C/C++, Pascal).
- Added: A border is now drawn around the currently selected field.
- Added: .AHA files may now be assoctiated with VB AHA!!! from the
- File Manager.
- Added: Field Type display in the Topic window, that says what
- type the currently selected field is.
- Added: A "Most Recent Files" section to the File menu. VB AHA!!!
- now keeps a list of the last four projects for easy loading.
- Added: A "Most Recent Files" section to the Build menu.
- VB AHA!!! now keeps a list of the last four help files you've
- compiled so you can easily test them.
- Added: Option to disable the 3D effects used in all the windows
- throughout VB AHA!!!.
- Changed: Will now stay minimized during the entire Build process
- if you have selected the "Min. During Build" option (used to
- only stay minimized while the support files were being
- generated).
- Changed: Decreased size of .AHA files. Estimated savings of 12%.
- Fixed: "Graphics Directory" in the "Help Project Setup" window
- now works correctly.
- Fixed: Layout window doesn't reflect changes made in open topic
- windows. Now all topics will be closed before the layout is
- constructed.
- Fixed: Build support files didn't relect changes made in open
- topic windows. Now all topics are closed before the support
- files are written.
- Fixed: Problem with certain windows switching focus to other
- windows/applications has been ELIMINATED (I hope ;-).
- Fixed: Fields will now resize when the Topic window is maximized.
- Fixed: Only one reference to a bitmap will be placed in the .hpj
- file (used to put one reference per occurence in your project).
- Fixed: No browse sequences will be generated when the Build
- option "Default Layout" is unselected (used to still write a
- browse sequence to a topic that didn't have one).
- Fixed: Large projects now load MUCH faster.
- Fixed: Special characters (ASCII > 127) would generate a space
- after them in the RTF file.
- Fixed: Special characters can now be used in global text links.
- Fixed: VB AHA!!! only generates a "dummy" secondary window when
- you don't define any secondary windows since there is a limit
- of 6 secondary windows in a .hlp file.
- Fixed: All non-Topic windows (except the main window) would
- disappear when the main window was resized.
- Fixed: Pictures may now be placed in the non-scrolling region
- of a topic.
- Fixed: Other bugs that I lost track of.
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- 1.21 Added: Ability to Jump To a topic in another help file.
- Added: New link type - Sound. You may now play .WAV files from
- your help file.
- Added: Secondary window support. Your help file may have two
- windows open at a time.
- Added: Many window formatting options (background color for
- normal and non-scrolling regions, window dimensions and
- whether the window will float above all others.
- Fixed: Correctly Open/Save Visual Basic forms HelpContextId's.
- It would skip the controls after the first one that didn't
- have a HelpContextID (as defined in Visual Basic Options).
- Fixed: Would switch link types for graphics when you viewed a
- topic.
- Fixed: Global Text Links that link with text with a return or
- tab after the it will now link correctly.
- Fixed: Topic window will now follow your typing and when you
- first create a field it's text will be selected.
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- 1.20 Added: New field type - Combo. You may have graphics and text
- on the same line. Many formatting options.
- Added: New field type - Non-Scrolling region. All fields above
- this one in a topic won't scroll in your help file.
- Added: You may now set the default bitmap to be used in a
- graphic field.
- Changed: .BMP links may now be either JumpTo or Popup instead
- of just JumpTo.
- Changed: There is no longer a different setup menu item for the
- different types of fields. The new menu item is just called
- Setup.
- Changed: Topic limit - you can now have at least 3000 topics.
- I don't know the exact limit because I got tired of adding
- new topics. The only real limitation on the number on topics
- you may have is that of a listbox (64k for topic names and
- 5440 items or less) and the amount of memory your computer
- has.
- Fixed: Global Topic Rename didn't quite work right. It would
- lose your topic.
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- 1.14 Fixed: Mistakenly thought all VB .FRM's were in binary format
- when you tried to save to them.
- Fixed: When you cut and then paste a field the link will be
- retained if it has one.
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- 1.13 Added: Cut, Copy and Paste to the Field menu. These work on the
- whole field (text or graphics) not just the text in the
- field. All of the formatting, text, graphic info is retained.
- Added: Delete menu item to the Field menu (shown when you right
- click on a field).
- Fixed: Should always be able to tell if a Visual Basic .FRM is
- saved in binary or text format and refuse to load/save it if
- it's not in text format.
- Fixed: Field formatting numbers with a decimal place are now
- handled correctly in all countries.
- Changed: Moved the stats in the info window to the About
- VB AHA!!!... window.
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- 1.12 Added: Option to backup your VB .FRM's before saving the
- HelpContextID info to them.
- Added: Option to not show a new topic when you create it.
- Added: Information window - displays # of topics, free mem and
- % of resources remaining.
- Fixed: VB AHA!!! would crash when you created the 75th topic.
- Now it will handle 992 topics.
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- 1.11 Added: Global Topic Rename - all links to the old topic name
- will automatically be relinked to the new topic name.
- Fixed: Something will alway be shown in a graphic field. Before
- if it couldn't find the picture it might not show anything.
- Fixed: You may now use "\", "{" and "}" in your topics without
- wreaking havoc on your help file. Topic Titles and Keywords
- may now contain any characters.
- Fixed: You can't create 2 topics with the same name anymore, a
- number will be appended to the end of the second topic name.
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- 1.1 Added: Generic Topics and Template support.
- Save a topic to a seperate .tpc file and load that topic
- into any .AHA help project.
- Added: Global Text Links may now be case sensitive.
- Fixed: Failed to save some projects correctly, caused an
- error when saving and loading.
- Fixed: Text links(Jump To and Popup) may now be any color
- that you choose, you can even have each one a different
- color if you want to, instead of just the default color.
- Fixed: If you don't enter a filename extension in the file
- dialogs the correct default extension will always be used.
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- 1.02 Added cmdialog.vbx, it was left out in the first 2 releases,
- really swift.
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- 1.01 Fixed some documentation errors/omissions.
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- 1.0 Initial release
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