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- Updates to the Editor as of Monday 18th May 1992
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- * When loading an IFF picture, the file would not be closed properly
- if the file trying to be loaded was not an IFF ILBM file. Fixed this.
-
- * Changed my IFF decrunch routine around a bit. It now runs approximately
- twice as fast.
-
- * Fixed the ShowPic command so that after displaying a custom screen, the
- correct menu-bar is re-displayed on the Editor screen.
-
- * Made the main Editor window a BACKDROP window. This means you can't lose
- a utility that you've moved to the Editor screen by clicking on its
- 'window to back' gadget.
-
- * New Commands!! Remove Text, Join 2 Lines, Delete lines,
- Centre Box horizontally, Centre Box Vertically, Centre Box,
- Move Box in front of, Move Box Behind.
-
- * When you tried to Re-format, Centre, Justify or Join 2 Lines of text, the
- Editor would crash if no text was present. Fixed this.
-
- * Designed a new-look intuition interface for the Editor. Wrote support
- routines to handle the rendering,etc. Any new functions will use this
- interface and the old interface will be converted gradually.
-
- * New Commands!! Copy Box to another Page, Copy Page Palette/Title to All,
- Auto-Number Pages, Edit Line, Add Line.
-
- * Added a proper list manager. ie Any lists (of pictures, sounds, etc) are
- now displayed in a standard scrollable window. The window includes the
- standard up/down arrow gadgets and proportional gadget.
-
- * Discovered and fixed a major bug in the screen allocation routine. If
- there wasn't enough memory for the screen, the Editor would crash. This
- could happen when first loading the Editor or when displaying a screen
- sized picture. Should have picked this up earlier than I did. Oh well,
- I guess that's what new versions are for.
-
- * Converted the Play Sound and Play Music requesters over to the new-look
- user-interface.
-
- * At last. 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.
-
- * Decided to distribute two versions of the Editor. The one called 'Editor'
- has been well tested and hopefully doesn't contain any major bugs. The one
- called 'Editor.New' is the version I'm currently working on.
-
- * Changed the Text and Graphic Box requesters over to the new look interface.
-
- * Changed the Palette requester to the new look. Implemented the HSV sliders,
- thanks to Robert J. Mical's excellent example.
-
- * 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 Displayer port names, which meant sometimes sound wouldn't play
- if you were running the Displayer and Editor at the same time.
-
- * Converted the New/Edit Page requester over to the new-look user-interface.
-
- * Changed the menus around. They are now much more logical and conform more
- closely to the user interface style guide.
-
- * Added a 'Turn to page number' function.
-
- * Improved the Page Copy and Delete functions. Copy now lets you specify how
- many copies to make and Delete allows you to delete a range of pages.
-
- * The Editor now notifies the user if the next command will cause them to lose
- an article that hasn't been saved.
-
- * The Editor now uses MED to play music. Note that the MED player does not play
- soundtracker modules. They must first be converted with MED and resaved as
- MED modules. You can still load an old article containing a Soundtracker
- module. You must then remove the module. If you try and play it the Editor
- will crash.
-
- * The mouse pointer graphics have been improved.
-
- * The Editor now detaches itself from the CLI and hence doesn't need to
- be run.
-
- * Added several checks to make it impossible to add boxes to a Graphics Page.
-
- * Bumped the version number to 1.30.
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