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Directory Opus 5 history 2-Feb-95 - Beta 1 release. 3-Feb-95 - Added PARENT/ROOT back as internal commands. - Fixed WBSTARTUP option to not run DOpus itself from WBStartup. - Path history in lister popup is now specific to that lister. - Removed DEVICELIST/BUFFERLIST commands (and associated requesters). - Added "Cache list" option to lister popup. - . on keypad now brings up cache list in listers - 0 on keypad in listers returns from device/cache list to previous buffer - Added "Disk Information" option to Icon menu. Moved DiskInfo code to external module (diskinfo.module). - "Icon/Information" menu option now works in listers. Removed IconInfo as an internal command. - Added lister Iconify function. - Kludged around a problem caused when MagicMenu is running. (MagicMenu's fault, as always!) - Some problems with SCANDIR fixed. Command template is now PATH/M,NEW/S. The NEW switch means always open a new lister. Other commands have argument templates, these will be revealed in due course :) 4-Feb-95 - Now works with CD0: and other such filesystems (oops :) - Modified lister format editing, now uses drag & drop. - Added RESET button to palette editor.. Can now drop ILBM files onto palette editor to load palettes. - Fixed to make sysihack compatible. 5-Feb-95 - Now stores icon position (when you Snapshot icons) separately from Workbench, so you can have different icon positions under Opus and Workbench. - Fixed a problem with copy not respecting read-only status. - Fixed problem with CheckFit with no destination selected. - Requesters now have their text displayed in a RECESSED area (grumble style guide mumble compliant grumble). - Fixed problem setting new User/Lister menu filenames. - Dragging and dropping directories from one lister to another now COPIES them, unless either shift key is held down (in which case they will be read into the lister like before). You can also drag more than one directory at once to copy. - Added case-insensitive Match command to filetypes. - Fixed commodities problem under 37 (default hotkey wasn't specified correctly, and pressing any key would cause DOpus to activate). - Fixed problem with "Select icons automatically" (file/byte count was not being updated properly). - "Set source archive bit" wasn't updating the display to reflect the new protection bit. - Clock is now drawn directly to the screen's title bar (blech). YES, I KNOW THE CLOCK FLASHES ON AND OFF OCCASIONALLY!!! :) - Fixed problem converting old Opus4 functions with more than one line. - Fixed up palette management a bit (might still be a bit wacko). 6-Feb-95 - Changed ambiguous "Ok" gadget to "Next" in IconInfo, only appears now if necessary. Also fixed locale problem with thousands separator. - Fixed small problem in menu editor with adding a new item while an old one was selected. - Icon leaving out is now more Workbench-like in that if you drag and drop a file from a lister to the main window the icon is only temporarily left-out - you need to actually select Leave Out from the Icon menu to make it permanent. - Text viewer now recognises space as page down and backspace as page up. 7-Feb-95 - Added arrow button to scroll toolbar if window is too small (image from "dopus5:images/ToolbarArrow.image"). - Fixed bug where last icon in the lister toolbar would not work if it fitted "exactly" (ie lister size==toolbar size). - Copy now deletes file copies that were unsuccessful (aborted, out of space, etc). - Fixed problem with "Display mode" list showing public screens that weren't actually in public mode. Also now shows proper "maximum depth" for public screens. - Fixed problem with lister key selection indicator disappearing when you resized the window. - Fixed ambiguous ghosting and checking in text viewer menus. - Fixed maximum comment length (was 80, should be 79). - Pressing a letter now scrolls to first FILE starting with that character. Pressing a letter with shift scrolls to first DIR. - Added requester warning if DOpus can't close its screen. - Changed Copy routines to use a variable buffer size, which should make aborting a copy more responsive. (3:30am) - Fixed problem with the listview boopsi class under 37 (Enforcer hits, drag and drop didn't work). 8-Feb-95 - Fixed problem with Print not closing the file. - Fixed problem where listers saved in the environment would not read their paths if the program was started iconified. - Added "Re-read Directory" option to lister path popup thingy. - Added "Paint Mode" to main button editor window. - The boundaries for horizontal "right mouse button" scrolling in listers were a bit small, so, now they're bigger. - Implemented keyboard equivalents for buttons and menus, etc. The order keys are matched in depends on which window is active when you press the key. If the main window is active, the order is : User menu, button banks, lister toolbar and lister menu. If a lister is active, then the toolbar and lister menu are searched first, followed by the user menu and button banks. If a button bank is active, then it is searched first, then the same order as for the main window is used. - "Execute Command" now remembers the last command you entered. - The "Create Icons" option now works. Appropriate icons should be placed in the DOpus5:Icons/ directory. - Holding SHIFT when clicking the parent button (window border) or choosing parent or root in the lister path popup thingy will open a new lister to read into (same as holding shift when double-clicking on a directory). 9-Feb-95 - Holding down shift when the Opus LoadWB command is run will cause it to load the old Workbench. That is, if you elect to install Opus as a Workbench replacement, you can hold down the shift key when you boot to get the original Workbench loaded (the original LoadWB command must have been renamed as LoadWB_Old). - Changed the "Proceed" button to "Discard" when you cancel the toolbar/menu editor.. this was bugging some people. - Removed the "Replace" options in Settings configuration. This has always been rather useless, in my opinion. You are now always asked if you want to overwrite an existing file. - If you tell Opus to replace an existing file, and that file is delete-protected, you are now given an additional warning (before it would just delete the file). - Removed the "Ignore delete protection bit" option from the "Delete" settings configuration. This was a bit dangerous, and I doubt anyone ever used it (you have the option of Unprotect All anyway). - In the "Path formats" settings configuration, the format editor is now automatically displayed when you press return on a newly-entered path. Also, double-clicking on a path also brings up the editor. - Page up/down via the keyboard in the text viewer now actually moves one line less than a page (for consistency). Also the 'u' and 'd' keys are now supported for page up/down. - Abbreviation for kilobytes fixed in IconInfo ('K'). Also fixed some strings in IconInfo to be "style-guide compliant." - Starting drag & drop from a lister by pressing the right mouse button was broken in beta 1 - this works again. - MakeDir now defaults to no icon if the "Create Icons" option is turned off. - Toolbar buttons now size dynamically (why didn't they before?), so you can now have buttons up to 64x64 in size (should keep Picollo-64 users happy :) - Copying some files by drag&drop into a lister that didn't have a path would copy the files to FKW (actually to the "current directory"). This is fixed. - The correct decimal point for the current locale is now used in DiskInfo, etc. - Text viewer refreshing on home/end optimised (ie won't refresh if already at the top/bottom). Also, the vertical scroller now works properly if the file is more than 65535 lines long (before you couldn't get past line 65535 with the scroller). Note that while file listers will also have this problem, I am yet to encounter a directory with more than 64k files in it :) - If you MOVEd a file/directory, with the "Perform all actions on icons" option on, to somewhere on the same device (so that it could just be renamed instead of copied/deleted), the icon would not get moved. Fixed. - If you drag and drop to copy (or other action), you now get a progress indicator in the DESTINATION lister (for normal operations the indicator appears in the source). The source window is not locked for the operation. 10-Feb-95 - Beta 2 release 11-Feb-95 - If a file was Read protected and Opus examined it to find out its filetype (eg, if you were displaying filetypes in the lister), then Nasty Things would happen. - Protection bits are now shown in lowercase. - Device list format improved, more information now shown. 12-Feb-95 - Implemented BOOPSI replacement for gadtools palette gadget. Rewrote palette management routines. Under the new system, you can set up to eight user-defined colours. Lister display and button colours can be set to either these user-defined colours, or the standard system colours (4 under v37, 8 under v39). When running on a custom screen, Opus inherits the standard system colours, and these can not be modified. The only colours you can change are the user-defined colours. This system still needs to be looked at further. - Under v39, 8 colour icons are mapped correctly to use the upper and lower 4 colours in the palette (ie they will look correct no matter what screen depth you are using). - Added "Key" field to Settings/Path formats. - If the icon of a disk was on top of another icon, and the disk was removed, the icon would be erased but the icon underneath would not get redrawn correctly. - Rescan directory would sometimes not re-read the correct directory. - Apparently ExamineFH() isn't reliable. Opus was using it to get information about files you copied, and the size was showing up wrong in some cases. Now re-Lock()s and Examine()s the destination file. - DEVICELIST and CACHELIST added back in as commands.. sigh... - User1 through User4 commands implemented. 13-Feb-95 - Added "Duplicate" button in menu editor. - The "Match" command in filetypes now supports \xxx where xxx is a decimal value, as it did in Opus 4. - Rearranged the filetypes requester, added Edit button. - If you dropped an image into the button editor and clicked "Use" without editing the actual function, the new image could get lost. - Button banks, especially newly created ones, now have more logical sizes when they first open. - The text viewer would not allow more than one viewer to be open on its own screen (public screen name clash). - You can select your own backdrop pattern prefs file via the "Display Options" settings, and also choose to turn off the backdrop pattern. Note that the file you specify must be a valid workbench "wbpattern.prefs" type file (as saved with the 3.0 WBPattern editor) or a valid "wb.pat" type file as saved with the 2.0 WBPattern editor. 14-Feb-95 - Directory sorting (and reading) is slightly faster, especially on large directories (eg CDROMs). - Added "DoubleClick" and "DragNDrop" commands. These are like User1-4, but call the double-click and drag'n'drop filetypes for selected files. - Now uses ObtainPen() rather than ObtainBestPen(), so that it will allocate distinct, exclusive pens for the user colours (no more linking of pens together). - FindFile command now remembers the last search pattern. - Titles of some loading/saving requesters changed. - Assorted strings changed for consistent capitalisation. - The hide/show filters would also filter out directories; this was incorrect. Now, only files are tested against the filters (except for the Hidden bit filter). - Added "Un-Snapshot" option to Icon menu. - Hopefully fixed a bug that would cause icons to "jump" around the screen when you repositioned one.. needs further testing. 15-Feb-95 - A very nasty bug, that would let you enter values <-128 or >127 for the filetype priority, has been fixed. Phew! :) - Disk icons could occasionally appear over the top of other icons; this has been fixed. - "Output results" option in Search works again (dunno what happened there - it used to work :) - The positioning of icons is now more logical; also, icons should never get "lost" off-screen if you switch to a backdrop window. - Now no longer re-reads the backdrop picture when switching from backdrop to non-backdrop window. - Programs launched from within Opus now inherit the path list correctly. - Toolbar buttons now show their right mouse button imagery correctly. - Fixed a problem where you sometimes couldn't access the right mouse button function of a button if the button had no left mouse button function defined. - The pop-up menus now display the name correctly under v37 with a proportional font (the last character was being dropped before - this is a graphics.library bug!) - Wonderful new about requester (about.module) - pity about the hedgehog. - More requesters now have a recessed look, and thin borders in some parts (would like to make this consistent throughout but it would need a whole lot more boopsi classes since gadtools doesn't support thin borders). 16-Feb-95 - ClearBuffers command now called FreeCaches. - The button to open a filerequester in the function editor now works. - The button to display a list of {} arguments in the function editor now works. - Replaced some "s with some 's in the catalog files. - If a directory had been changed (and you had the Re-read modified caches flag on), and you reactivated the lister by clicking on a slider, the lister would "freeze" until you released the slider. - You can now no longer enter invalid dates for the Datestamp function. - Diskcopy now selects a destination automatically for you (of course you can still pick a different one). - If you try to copy a directory into itself, Opus now displays an error requester instead of just silently failing. - Opus will now allow you to use the CopyAs and MoveAs functions with the source and destination the same (make sure you specify a different filename though! :) - You can now define button functions for the middle mouse button. These can be accessed even if you don't have a three button mouse by holding shift down and using the left button. - Button borders (except in the lister toolbar) now have "turned-over tabs" to indicate the presence of a right and/or middle mouse button function (as in Opus4). - The toolbar editor window would "double-up" (open a new window without closing the old one) if you changed the main window from backdrop to non-backdrop. The menu editors would also do the same thing. - If you hold down ALT and click with the left button in a lister, any files that were selected will immediately start dragging (no new selections will occur). - Implemented the Opus4 Verify command, though it's now called "Confirm". 17-Feb-95 - Format now uses a bar graph instead of a textual status indication; this is much faster and probably just as informative. - Opus no longer keeps a lock on all devices it shows an icon for.. this means that "fake handlers" like EDGE: will be able to be removed while Opus is running. Opus still keeps locks on all left-out objects (drawers, programs, etc). - Alt now works on toolbar buttons (to jump straight to the editor). - Recursive file filter implemented (Settings menu). This is the same as the old "F" tiny button in Opus4. - If you tried to copy a file and there was not enough space in the destination, the half-copied file would get left behind. It is now deleted. Also fixed problem with move, so now it won't delete the original unless the file was copied successfully. (Sorry Edmund :) 18-Feb-95 - File class definition editor tidied up; cycle button changed to pop-up list. - Changed "Date Format" section in Settings to "Locale" (still mis-named I think), added "Thousands separator" option. - Cleaned up the datestamp checking logic; should no longer occasionally re-read directories unnecessarily. - Implemented "Program Groups", accessed via the Icon menu. You will need to create a "Groups" subdirectory in your DOPUS5: directory. To add programs to a group just drag them into it. Note that some programs (DPaint4, for example), don't work properly when run from a group.. if this is the case, set the DOPUS_RUN_REAL tooltype in the program icon IN THE GROUP (local copies are made of the icons when they are added to the group). Setting this tooltype means that the program will refer to its original icon when reading tooltypes (so you will not be able to set specific tooltypes for the program group). This tooltype is set by default when you add a program to a group. If the OPEN tooltype is set in the icon for a group, that group will be opened automatically when DOpus starts up. - Changed position of Edit options in Settings menu - If you have a script file left out (or in a Program Group), and you double-click on it, DOpus will now execute it correctly if the S bit is set (if the S bit is not set it will be submitted to filetype testing as before). - If you have a program left out that is a CLI command (ie didn't have an icon), and you double-click on it, DOpus will now run it like Workbench does (as a CLI command, letting you enter arguments). Note that it is not possible to add programs without icons to Program Groups. 20-Feb-95 - Icon viewing in listers implemented (sort of). 21-Feb-95 - Fixed some quoting problems in conjunction with {O} or {F}. - Implemented the "Reload each file" flag.. no doubt this will break all sorts of things :( PLEASE test this and all of your custom functions (anything using {} sequences) to see if it's caused any problems. - Fixed DOpusRT to search the pathlist correctly for a given program. - Diskcopy now has a bit more room to show the device names. - Listers are now activated when you open them, and new listers automatically display the device list. - The current directory for "Execute Command" is now RAM:, like Workbench. - Delete confirmation requester now displays the number of files and dirs to be deleted (like Workbench). - Changed "Settings" to "Options" to keep Greg happy :) - Close gadget on the iconify window (clock) now displays "Do you want to quit" requester like Opus4 did. - Before, when you double-clicked on an icon to open a lister, if that icon had previous been opened (even if the lister now no longer showed the original path), the original lister would be re-used. Now, a new lister is opened, unless that actual path is currently visible. - You can now drop files onto buttons to execute the function on those files immediately. Note that there is no provision (as there was in Opus4) for running functions that require a destination directory this way (eg Copy), and I don't think there ever will be. You cannot drop onto toolbars. - Added "Output Window" settings to Environment configuration. 22-Feb-95 - If you try to run a function that works only on a single destination (like Move), with multiple destinations locked, you are now given a list of current destinations from which you can pick the one you want to use. - Removed some old and now unused flags and {} sequences from the function editor lists. - If you try to rename a disk (via the Icon menu) and it fails you now get an error requester. 23-Feb-95 - Beta 3 release 24-Feb-95 - Drove 1500km 25-Feb-95 - Drove 700km 26-Feb-95 - Unpacked 27-Feb-95 - Started Uni :) 28-Feb-95 - The "View As" state of a volume or drawer (by name/by icon) is now saved when you snapshot the icon. - Icon dragging from one window to another now works properly (I think :) If the two windows are on the same physical device, the item will be moved; otherwise it will be copied. This is the same operation as Workbench. Also in icon view mode the icon of the file or directory is automatically copied (or moved), regardless of the "Perform actions..." setting. - "Remove Object" from program groups would leave a lock on the group directory, meaning you couldn't delete it. - If you had no lister toolbar selected, the lister status bar would have no bottom line. 1-Mar-95 - The state of listers is now saved when you save the environment (source/dest/locked source/locked dest). - The correct "default" screen size is now shown (and used) when you pick default width or height in the display mode settings. - Fixed some strings. - "View Icons" option in the lister pop-up menu is no longer a checkmark option. - With some fonts the palette gadget in the User Colours section would overwrite the borders (this was a boopsi class problem). - The clock would overwrite the memory display on a 640-pixel wide screen in topaz 8.. with the clock it now uses a shorter string. 3-Mar-95 - If you selected "New" from the toolbar editor menu and then "Open", the filename would be trashed. - Colours system changed (AGAIN! :). It is now essentially the same as in Opus4, in that you can set the colours for the "OS" pens (bottom four and under 39 top four). However the user colours system is still there in that you can still specify the number of pens to allocate for your own use. This hasn't been tested under 37 yet. There are multiple situations that need to be tested; please do this if possible. They are : OS Screen Screen colours User pens --------------------------------------------------- 37 Own 4 n/a 37 Own 8 max 4 37 Own 16+ max 8 37 Public 4 n/a 37 Public 8 n/a 37 Public 16+ n/a 39 Own 4 n/a 39 Own 8 n/a 39 Own 16+ max 8 39 Public 4 n/a 39 Public 8 n/a 39 Public 16+ max 8 - Added individual colour setting (in Lister display) for devices/volumes and assigns in devicelists (note that using an old environment will probably have null for the colour, so you will need to set this). 4-Mar-95 - Added a path field to the "Select Destination" list that pops up (eg if you try to Move with multiple destinations selected), so you can enter a path that isn't currently displayed in a lister. - If you try to run a function (say Copy) without having a valid destination selected, you now get the same list appearing, allowing you to select (or enter) the destination you want. - Changed Icons/Snapshot menu to allow you to also snapshot the Window (saves window position only), and All (saves window position and positions of all icons within window). Icons/Snapshot/Icons snapshots just the selected icons as before. 5-Mar-95 - The workbench.library patches have all been moved to the dopus5.library. This means that you will be able to quit DOpus irrespective of whether the patches are in use or not (there are also several other advantages to this). For the time being (at least) the WBPATCH tooltype makes no difference. - The close gadget in all configuration requesters now means cancel, rather than ok. 6-Mar-95 - You can now officially not select the background colour of lister toolbar buttons. Also, you can not select the foreground colour of graphical buttons. - The play module will now play a sound as raw if it is rejected by iffparse.library (ie if it is 8svx but corrupt it will be played in raw mode). - The state of the "View as icons" setting of open listers is now saved in the environment. - Added flags to Display Options to control the display of AppIcons and the Tools menu.. these flags replace the WBPATCH tooltype. 7-Mar-95 - U was used as a hotkey 3 times in the menu editor; this has been fixed. - Added a kludge for naughty programs that add AppIcons but don't put the image data in chip memory. - Added hotkeys for Environment and Options edit. 8-Mar-95 - The memory monitor is now more "aesthetic"; it doesn't flash like it used to, and memory is now updated every second or so. - "Duplicate" in the menu editor now copies the name as well. - Fixed some problems with button bank sizing. Re-arranged the Add/Insert/Delete/Remove buttons. Added "Clear" button to clear the clipboard contents. - The free space display in lister title bars now uses thousands separators properly. 9-Mar-95 - You can now drop files on icons in program groups. - Fixed (finally this time, I hope :) a bug that could lose files if, for instance, you tried to MOVE a file and it only just didn't fit in the destination. 10-Mar-95 - Snapshot ALL now works on the main window. - Icon positioning is now smarter. - Fixed bug in Options config where if you hid the program and then reopened you would get two options windows. - Fixed bug setting colours when open on Workbench screen. - Removed {Ou} and {Fu} from list in config since these don't work any more (they never really did) - You can now drag and drop buttons onto the button editor window. 11-Mar-95 - Added context-sensitive help for the main program; no help for configuration or modules yet. - You can now drop files on Opus when it is hidden (as a clock window or as an AppIcon, that is) to perform the doubleclick action on those files (like in Opus4). 12-Mar-95 - Added "Save Layout" toggle to control whether the lister/buttons layout is saved when you save the environment or not. 13-Mar-95 - Fixed some more palette stuff; in the colour selectors the top 4 OS pens were being shown at the bottom instead of after the first 4. 14-Mar-95 - Added help to Environment and Options, more to come. 15-Mar-95 - Fixed text not being cleared properly in the format window. - Extended-selection menu links are now followed correctly. - If you hid the program while the Environment editor was open, the editor would not come back when you returned to Opus. - You now must use '---' (without quotes) in the user and lister menus to get a separator bar. - Button windows now have a drag gadget in their left borders, in case they are too narrow to get to the normal drag bar. - DOpusRT is now called DOpusRT5. - The text viewer was losing the last character of a file if the last line did not end in a linefeed. - If the device list was displayed you would be unable to switch to the cache list (and vice versa). - If you (sneakily) load a textual button bank in as the lister toolbar, the first letter of each button will be displayed in said toolbar. - Changed "Remove" to "Xform" in button editor. 1x-Mar-95 - The order of the top 4 OS colours in the palette editor were reversed. - Added hotkeys (1-7) for the main editors. - Fixed null character for text toolbars without a valid button name (note that text toolbars are NOT officially supported). 19-Mar-95 - Changed the operation of the "Xform" button in the button editor. It now works by changing between rows/columns only in integer factors of the number of buttons (eg 18 buttons, the options are 1x18, 2x9, 3x6, 6x3, 9x2 and 18x1). - Fixed a bug in the clock that was causing enforcer hits. - Help added to remaining config windows and to modules. - The Print requester now has the ability to output to a file. - Removed the PrintDir module. The general Print requester now handles the bulk of the work in printing a directory. The PrintDir module should be removed from your Modules directory. 20-Mar-95 - Print now saves its settings for next time. - Fixed some problems with the parsing of Key strings in the function editor. - A lock was being left on a directory if you showed it as icons. 22-Mar-95 - Fixed problem with menus; if a menu operation caused the window to be closed and reopened (eg Backdrop), an invalid menu item NextSelect was being followed. - Implemented more (final?) ARexx commands. - Added command templates to most internal commands. 25-Mar-95 - "Use defaults" from the toolbar and menu editors now looks for a file called xxx_default. - The pop-up menus now have help. - Implemented the display of Owners and Groups with Envoy. 28-Mar-95 - Tidied up the library, removed some old functions no longer used. Did a complete recompile of everything as a result. - Added some more callback hooks for external modules. - Implemented the remaining command templates. Added RECURSE switch to Comment/DateStamp/Protect commands. - Fixed problem with the text viewer in hex mode; would show one line too many if window bigger than file. 29-Mar-95 - Sped up the arrangement and reading of icons, especially when switching a lister into icon view mode (with lots of icons) - Dropping an icon in the filetype editor to set a filetype's icon would not be saved correctly. 30-Mar-95 - Fixed bug that crept in that would crash if you cancelled a toolbar or menu edit. 31-Mar-95 - Fixed enforcer hits with button editor. Dropping a button onto the button editor window now works properly (and doesn't crash). You can now not copy graphical buttons to textual banks and vice versa. - With a recursive filter turned on, the Delete and Move commands would complain a directory wasn't empty when it came to delete it, even though this was the desired situation. The requester no longer appears in this case. - Move would always try to rename first, which wasn't what you wanted if a recursive filter was set. Now, with a filter set, move always copies and deletes. 1-Apr-95 - Added "dropfrom" custom handler rexx operation. This is the same as "drop" except it indicates a drop _from_ a lister rather than to. - Added "Expand paths" flag to Operation/Caching. - The hex viewer would output any character >7F as FF. - Changed the minimum size of a button bank.. before it was 8 "character widths"; changes this to 1 character width + 32 pixels (for fonts that have screwy widths). - Copied the code out of Opus 4 that does the "popup" when you press the hotkey (alt/shift/ctrl etc), so it now works like Opus 4 did. 2-Apr-95 - Changed registration process. - Hopefully fixed the final problem with parnet that would cause it to show garbage volume names in the lister titles. - The 'lister remove' rexx command now works properly when you specify a file by number (with #xxx) - Fixed a problem with the command parser when you had an internal command and specified the name of a file. Too hard to explain really, just accept that I fixed something. :) - Added "GrabWB" button to palette editor to make it easy to grab the current workbench colours. 3-Apr-95 - The "expand paths" flag was not able to be turned off. - You can no longer drop a device or directory icon on a lister in icon mode to read that directory (this is how it was always meant to work). 4-Apr-95 - The paths produced by {s} and {d} in functions will now be enclosed in quotes (unless the No filename quote flag is turned on). This is smart enough to handle things like {d}{RsEnter archive name} - The string returned by "lister query selfiles" and similar commands was null-terminated.. it isn't any more. No idea why this was a bad thing, but oh well... - Fixed small problem in the text viewer; if you scrolled down a couple of lines from the top and then did a page up, the wrong line would be shown at the bottom of the display. 5-Apr-95 - If a directory is reread due to the datestamp changing (ie when you activate the lister), any filetype descriptions in the lister are cached, and therefore do not need to be rescanned when the directory has been read. - There is now a little daemon that checks every 5 minutes to see if there are any dopus temp files in t:, and deletes them if so - An "inactive" rexx message is now sent to a custom handler if the lister that handler is associated with closes (as described in the docs) - Fixed some alignment problems in the lister display with the datestamp. - Fixed (I think) alignment problems with filetypes in the lister display. - Sometimes the filetype sniffer would "stop" at a certain file and not go any further. Again, fixed (I think). 6-Apr-95 - The PopUp menus now scroll correctly if they're bigger than the screen. FIRST COMMERCIAL RELEASE 10-Apr-95 - The string returned by "lister query selfiles" is now the correct length. - Mouse position was not being checked for a double-click to edit a button. 12-Apr-95 - Fixed some problems with multiple-line functions. Too hard to explain, but as an example, a command like AmigaDOS makedir ram:temp AmigaDOS copy {f} ram:temp would fail. Now works. - Fixed problem with filename quoting in commands. For example, if you had {f}.old, this could come out as : "ram:testfile".old It now correctly comes up as : "ram:testfile.old" - Added new feature to the {f} and {o} sequences. If you specify a minus sign (-) after the letter, the filename will be stripped of any suffix. As an example, AmigaDOS rename {fu} {f-}.lzx would replace any suffix the selected file had with a .lzx suffix (eg rename "ram:test.lha" "ram:test.lzx") This and the above changes makes possible the following (extremely tricky) function to convert LHA files to LZX automatically: AmigaDOS makedir t:lzxtemp AmigaDOS lha -x -M x {fu} t:lzxtemp/ AmigaDOS cd t:lzxtemp AmigaDOS lzx -e -x -r a {fu-}.lzx #? AmigaDOS delete {f} quiet force AmigaDOS cd ram: AmigaDOS delete t:lzxtemp all quiet force - The "inactive" message when a lister is closed was sent prematurely, so that under some circumstances (high cpu load for instance), a "lister query" would indicate that the lister was still present even though it had been destroyed. Also, an "inactive" message was not being sent if the lister was empty when it was closed. 13-Apr-95 - The "lister query selfiles" and similar commands can now return information in STEM variables. For example, lister query handle selfiles stem files. Without the stem keyword, the names are returned in RESULT as before. The names are returned in slots from 0 to COUNT-1, and stem.COUNT gives the number of names. 14-Apr-95 - The "Select Destination" requester would leave the lister list locked while it was open, meaning you wouldn't be able to open any new listers until the requester had been closed. - The "lister query all", "lister query source" and "lister query dest" commands now accept a STEM parameter. For example, lister query all stem listers. - The "lister query entry" command now accepts a STEM parameter. For example, lister query handle entry #0 stem fileinfo. The fields returned are: NAME - file name SIZE - file size TYPE - type (<0 = file, >0 = dir) SELECTED - 0 or 1 DATE - seconds since 1/1/78 PROTECT - protection bits (long value) DATESTRING - datestamp in ascii form PROTSTRING - protection bits in ascii form COMMENT - file comment (if any) FILETYPE - file type (if any) 15-Apr-95 - The device list now shows the paths of any multiple-directory assignments in the system. - The "Selection Destination" requester is now an AppWindow. 16-Apr-95 - There previously was no way to get the return value from a dopus getstring rexx command (ie which button was selected). This is due to the way rexx return values are specified (you can have either RESULT or RC, but not both, for some strange reason). The button value from this command is now returned in a variable called DOPUSRC. RC will always be 0 from this command, and RESULT will contain the string entered unless cancel was selected, or no string was entered. The new DOPUSRC variable may be used by other commands in the future. 23-Apr-95 - Projects with a default tool that included a relative path (eg "bin/installer") would not work. 29-Apr-95 - If you deleted the right or middle button functions from a button the dog-ear imagery would not be erased correctly. - The "inactive" and "active" messages now always contain the path of the lister in Arg4; Arg2 will also contain the path unless a title has been set in which case it will contain the title. 30-Apr-95 - Non-DOS disk icons are now shown (like in Workbench); a new option (Environment/Display Options/Hide bad disks) allows you to hide these icons again. - If you dropped a button or another menu item into one of the menu editors, the menu list display wasn't updated correctly (you could end up with two highlight bars). - When doing WBStartup, Opus would ignore any programs that were only icons (ie default tools). - Hotkeys using lcommand (lamiga) would not work from lister windows in file mode. - New listers opened with the scandir command or via hotkeys from the path formats configuration would always open at 0,0 instead of under the mouse pointer. - You can now drag and drop within function editors; either to swap function lines around within the one editor or to copy function lines to another editor. If you hold down shift while you drag a function line from one editor to another, the entire function will be copied. 1-May-95 - Added "Skip All" button to copy function; if a file exists #1001 you now get the option to skip all, meaning ALL files that already exist will be skipped. - You can now change item positions within the menu editors using drag and drop (instead of with the Move Up/Down buttons) 2-May-95 - When DOpus runs WBStartup programs it now respects the #1003 STARTPRI and WAIT tooltypes (but not DONOTWAIT). - The way "Workbench" processes are launched has changed. All programs are now launched by the one process which is established by the library. This means that there is not a copy of dopusrt5 sitting around for each workbench process you have run. - Path inheritance should work properly when DOpus is run as a Workbench replacement (ie via LoadDB) 3-May-95 - Fixed more path inheritance problems #1004 - You can now drop files on program group icons to add them to the group 4-May-95 - "Replace All" in copy was broken, fixed. 5-May-95 - Fixed problem with AppIcons; if their initial position was #1006 off-screen, DOpus would not update sliders properly. - DOpus now grabs a pathlist when it starts up, and uses that for all program launching. - If you had 12 hour clock turned on it was possible for the "file already exists" requester to overwrite a buffer. - Fixed sorting problems in the device list (multi-path assignments could be shown in the wrong place). The device list now shows the full path to all assigns. - Added "Lister Options" to Environment configuration. You can now turn the device list off in new listers, and can set the default size of new listers. - There was a problem using {s} in filetype functions. - Inserting {} sequences in a function string via the popup list in the function editor now inserts with spaces as necessary. - Filetype saving and refreshing method modified. 6-May-95 - Bug on 68000 machines could cause address errors on functions #1007 with odd-length parameters (eg Confirm NOTEVEN) 7-May-95 - Added "RMB double-click editing" flag to Environment/Lister Options. #1008 - Added FULL switch to DeviceList command (ie DeviceList FULL/S). If not specified, the device list will be in the old format (unexpanded assigns). If FULL is specified, assigns will be expanded and multi-directory assigns will be listed.