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- Updates to the Displayer as of Monday 18th May 1992
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- * Changed my IFF decrunch routine around a bit. It now runs approximately
- twice as fast.
-
- * Changed the Sound/Music memory allocation routines. If the Displayer is
- running on an Amiga with only chip ram, then all data must have been loaded
- into chip ram. This means it's not necessary to copy sound/music data
- from fast ram before playing it. Before this was done regardless of what
- machine it was running on, which meant there would be two copies of the
- data in chip ram on a 512k machine. If possible, two copies are still made
- on an all chip machines because when you move to another article you want
- any background sound/music to continue playing, and the original article
- containing the sound/music will be erased by the new article. If however
- there isn't enough ram for two copies of the data, the sound/music is
- played using the data contained in the article but when the reader loads
- in a new article, the sound/music will be stopped and the article erased.
-
- * Changed the requester and gadget graphics. These are now the same as the
- Editor graphics.
-
- * Added an extra print option so you can choose between 1 or 2 text pages
- per single sheet of paper. Most printers should be able to print 2 text
- pages on a single sheet but some laser printers don't like the extra long
- page length. This should be no problem for NTSC magazines.
-
- * Bumped the version to 1.05
-
- * Fixed a bug that caused the Displayer not to recognise NTSC machines.
-
- * Changed the page turning routine slightly.
-
- * Made the Busy pointer the same as Workbench 2.0's.
-
- * Conformed all Menus and requesters to Commodore's style guidelines.
-
- * Extensively overhauled the error handling routines. Fixed a bug that
- caused the Displayer to crash whenever it tried to exit after an
- unrecoverable error. Error messages are now displayed. Many of these
- should never be seen by the reader and are intended for the person who's
- putting the magazine together.
-
- * Added a Text Search command, and a Sleep (Iconify) command.
-
- * Added commands to take you to the first and last pages of an article.
-
- * Expanded the Help function.
-
- * Improved both the Text and Graphic Dump print routines. The Text Only
- print method now handles really weird page layouts a lot better.
- Improvements to the Graphic Dump routine are minor and don't improve the
- print quality.
-
- * The Displayer now detaches itself from the CLI and hence doesn't need to
- be run.
-
- * Bumped the version to 1.29. This version number is significant and will
- be explained in time - As if you really care!
-
- * The Displayer now centres overscan pictures correctly.
-
- * Made the Help text an external file, so the user can customise it. Also
- reduced its width, so it is accessable from a low res screen.
-
- * Fixed a bug which caused the Displayer to crash when the user clicks on a
- PUSH button, which had a Shadow Width & Height of zero but Shadow X
- and Y offsets greater than zero. You should always make the Shadow X
- Offset the same as the Shadow Width and the Shadow Y Offset the same as
- the Shadow Height.
-
- * The Displayer now uses the Topaz font no matter what you have specified
- as your default system font, instead defaulting to the system font. This
- was a problem for WB 2.0 users (myself included!) who use a different
- sized system font.
-
- * It's now possible to customise all the Menu, Gadget, and Requester text
- in the Displayer. This allows you to translate all the Displayer text
- to your own language.
-
- * Bumped the version to 1.291. Next public release is scheduled for v1.3.
-
- * Fixed the annoying bug that meant I couldn't run the Displayer from the
- Workbench as a default tool. You can now give the control file a project
- icon and make the displayer the default tool. This means you can now have
- several different magazines on a disk which use the same Displayer.
-
- * The page size has been reduced in height by one pixel. It was eating into
- the title bar. This was only really noticable using Workbench 2. The new
- text page height is 245 pixels (PAL) or 189 pixels (NTSC).
-
- * Changed the name of the ports used when playing sounds. These were the
- same as the Editor port names, which meant sometimes sound wouldn't play
- if you were running the Displayer and Editor at the same time.
-
- * The Displayer now plays MED modules. The MED player is far superior to
- the previous soundtracker play routine.
-
- * Proper file requesters added. For Workbench 2.0 users, you get
- the standard ASL file requester. For 1.3 users with the ARP library
- you get the arp requester. For anyone else, you get my single line text
- gadget.
-
- * Bumped the version to 1.30.
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