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- WWW Index Wizard Release Notes and History File
- ===============================================
- (newest on top)
- V 2.10 November 1999 Huge Functional Update (mainly based on customer feedback)
-
- - Added: bMAD target in addition to <Hn>
- - Added: control statement to enable/disable collecting of words
- - Added: Index ALT Image text
- - Added: Index quoted entities
- - Added: Index hyphenated entities
- - Added: Index META tags task specific with given setup file
- - Added: Index abstract (first n words) n can be changed
- - Added: Tabbed task setup window
- - Added: Task overview (double click a task name)
- - Added: Soundex include filter
- - Added: Allow number of occurence in generated pages
- - Added: Allow order by occurence in genereated index pages
- - Added: Allow stacked windows in genereated index pages
- - Added: Allow to preserve case of indexed words in generated pages
- - Added: Support indexing of multisession CD-RW
- - Added: Allow usage of synonym lists
- - Added: Text corpus inspection window
- - Added: Wordlist file generation (registered version only)
- - Added: Estimated time indication for indexing and page production
- - Added: Preconfiguration of fast index modes (one click setup)
- - Added: HTML V 4.0 update (character formatting)
- - Added: Setup of file pattern to be recognised as HTML files
- - Added: Setup of characters to be ignored and replaced with a blank
- - Added: Nice Splash screen (can be disabled in registered version)
- - Added: Logfile in app dir 'W3IWmsg.log' contains some helpful hints
- in case of troubles
- - Improved: Speed-up of all file scan, index and build routines
- - Improved: End of scan if only TITLE, META or ABSTRACT is required
- - Improved: Datastructure of database (results in smaller databases)
- - Improved: Config-File and setup concept allows full file backup and
- transfer of all user configuration data (not longer in registry)
- - Improved: language file in installation directory 'langres.rcx'
- plain textfile open for translations (please backup the original)
- - Improved: Using Install Shield instead of VB Setupkit
- - Updated: Lots of updates to avoid troubles with Win98, IE5 and its system files
- - Updated: Help file with context sensitive help
- - Updated: Some possibly lengthy operations will show progress reports to avoid
- anticipated inactivity
- - Fixed: Incorrect Sz (▀) handling
- - Fixed: Some possible error causes with broken HTML files
- - Fixed: Limitations due to windows controls (number of files to scan)
- - Fixed: A problem with very long filenames
- - Fixed: Silent dead with character 0xA0 as first char (pseudo blank used by some
- HTML editors)
-
- - Tests: Processing of 16'800 files in total with one directory having 7'294 HTML files
- Processing of broken HTML files
- Processing of reference files to prove integrity with chapter link insertion
-
- - W3IW V 2.1 is built with VB 6.0 SP3 using DAO 3.51 object library and a third
- party ASM library (Stamina STAMIN32.DLL) for faster processing.
-
-
- >> If you had already have an installed version 1.2:
- The original master database is now in the installation directory rather
- than in the Resource subdir. The V 1.2 master db however is left there.
- Please do not copy it to the new location as the structure is not longer
- compatible. All projects have to be run without using an existing DB in
- order to reflect the updates for V 2.1.
-
- Thanks to all who contributed to the new and improved WWW Index Wizard V 2.1
-
-
- V 2.00 was never released due to required updates for Win98/IE5 and development
- environment.
-
-
- V 1.20 February 8, 1998 Functional Update
- - Added: 'Tasks' to save build steps of different projects
- - Added: Finish button (unattended run of a task)
- - Added: Skip scan of HTML files button (if a database exists)
- - Added: multiple template support
- - Added: scan options for TITLE and META tags
- - Added: language support for tasks
- (choose from a list of available languages)
- This will affect the collating (sort) of the indexed words
- using the localization feature of the Access database engine.
- - Added: additional template examples to be used to build own index pages
- - Improved: user interface - streamlined according to
- usability survey.
- - Changed: path name resolution relative vs. absolute
- (forced only if source and destination is on different
- drives - otherwise optional)
- - Changed: path name not longer forced lowercase in
- hyperlinks, follows Win directory names now
- (UNIX Web Server issue)
- - Fixed: treatment of accented characters
- - Fixed: minor issue with template files
- (did not generate correct HTML code - but browsers
- did not complained about it)
-
- >> If you had already have an installed version 1.0(a) you will see
- a directory Standard.100 in the Resource path of W3IW. This is
- the backup of your potentially modified templates and skeleton
- files- you may want to update these files according to the
- original templates of V 1.2 in Standard.
-
-
- V 1.0a September 5, 1997 Maintenance Release (a)
- - Fixed a serious defect which may cause to remove character
- formatting tags (e.g. <font ..>) when option 'Index chapter
- level' is set.
- *Connie thank you for reporting it*
- - Added more documentation
- - New packaging (Main wrapper SFX w3iw10a.exe contains now
- docs and the zipfile w3iw.zip)
-
-
- V 1.0 July 30, 1997 Initial Release
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