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- This file documents changes to AppBar from version to version. Please
- check the home page for the latest details. If you have a question/bug
- report, please READ THE FAQ.TXT FIRST and MAKE SURE YOU ARE USING THE
- LATEST VERSION!!!
-
- I hope v1.00 will be the last version. I hope to port AppBar to the
- BeBox (http://www.be.com) since that is my new platform of choice but
- the Win32 version is done.
-
- New in:
-
- 1.00 - Release!
- - Complete rewrite in MFC 4.2 (C++) with source included. As a result,
- the code is a bit easier to understand now. This version is
- approximately 40k but requires the MFC42.DLL and MSVCRT42.DLL
- run-time libraries (1MB). A standalone MFC EXE is about 160k. Note
- that the distributed version is still the C version, since it is
- smaller and faster at 60k.
- - All strings moved into strings.h for easy translation into other
- languages. I will not edit and compile new versions though, so this
- is for other people to translate if they want.
- - Changed filenaming scheme to long filenames.
- - Added hotkey to call AppBar. It is Ctrl-Alt-z (or C-A-a if the
- first is taken) and I will NOT make it user configurable!
- - Added option to turn off time display.
- - Added display user option.
- - Standard bug fixes and so on...
-
- 0.99
- - Working NT v3.x version.
- - Can now run Win95-style shortcuts (ONLY if they link to an EXE though).
- - Apps can now be started max/min/normal.
- - Several bug fixes.
-
- 0.98
- - Created manual makefile and included source in distribution archive.
- - Remade the AppBar project in VC 4.0. This shrunk the size of AppBar
- from 100k to 60k!
- - Bug fixes for Drag and Drop.
- - More complete AutoHide implementation (sliding, etc...)
- - Added command line switches for date, memory, bottom, and autohide
-
- 0.97
- - Removed hard-coded AppBar menu and switched to a right-button popup
- menu.
- - AppBar can now be repositioned to the bottom of the screen.
- - AppBar now auto-hides!!! It's now VERY usable in my mind.
-
- 0.96
- - Huge bug in File I/O - I was saving pointers so if one of them
- happened to look like an EOF, AppBar would fail to read in the file.
- This is fixed and now AppBar *should* be stable...I hope.
- - Drag and Drop - Just drag an EXE (or several) to a menu item in the Edit
- Menus dialog and AppBar will create an app slot for it and fill in a name.
- - Added internationalization code for our friends in other parts of the
- world. Now the date and time display in the Win95 Control Panel format.
-
- 0.95
- - AppBar runs on Win95 and WinNT 4.0 ONLY! (And I'm not sure about 4.0)
- - AppBar is much fatter! (Beats me why... I think it may have to do with
- the fact that the EXE size is now greater than 64k so local jumps must be
- 32-bit values.) 50k ---> 90k. Yuk.
- - Added options to display date and free memory (at user request).
- - Rewrote time display code to do all this. As a side effect, the time
- is no longer selectable (it was previously a menu!)
- - If running on a battery, AppBar will display the battery % left (in
- color!)
- - Redesigned the Options dialog
- - Command line parameters (see README.TXT for documentation)
- - Multi-user settings (ditto)
- - Many small changes to make AppBar more conformant to dynamic changes
- in the system (screen resolution change, system time change, etc).
- - Menu bug fix(es)
-
-
- Mike Perham (mperham@cs.cornell.edu)
- http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/mperham/appbar/
-