+ Export with Template - The whole new Template engine lets users define
their own template for exporting items (bookmarks or folders). You can
easily generate the HTML pages or formatted text with the style you want.
Comes with the package are several sample templates for generating HTML
tables, lists, and regular plain reports.
+ Dynamic Bookmarks menu. Users can enable or remove it any time they want.
+ Logic NOT (!) search. For example, to search for all items containg
"software" but not "demo", just type "software & !demo" in the search bar.
+ Supports IE5 Favorite format and IE5 Drag & Drop.
+ Extremely fast duplicates searching.
+ Better Description handling for Favorite and Opera.
+ Drag & drop image links from web pages.
+ Check duplicates when adding. (new option)
+ Allows to "Add" links if the "generic browser" supports it.
+ Changed allowed minimum MRU to 0 (was 1).
+ Illegal characters are changed to '$' only on disk in Favorite format.
+ FlyTip won't show up for empty strings.
Bug fixes
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+ Fixed: Check Links found wrong dead links.
+ Fixed: Locale sorting did not pick up correct language.
+ Fixed: URLs in Opera HotList format were chopped after the '=' sign, if any.
+ Fixed: "Compass Style" always marked the file has been changed.
+ Fixed: Preferences - The check mark of "Minimize to Tray Icon" didn't stay.
+ Fixed: Preferences missed some Help.
Version 2.52: (02/01/1999)
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New features & Improvements
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+ In Explorer style, drag & drop (or Move) will stay in the original folder.
In previous versions, Compass would jump to the new folder.
+ New browser option û Generic browser. When using this setting, Compass
will use the WindowsÆs default browser, and you do not need to tell
Compass the full file path name for that browser.
+ Supports font character sets.
+ Accelerators (hotkeys) for dialogs.
+ Warning message before deleting Favorites folders.
+ Changed "Sync on exit" to "Sync on save" (to sync with browserÆs bookmarks).
+ "Sort" will take into account locale. For example, e and Θ will be sorted
together.
+ If new items were merged into current bookmarks via "Sync on open," Compass
will mark your bookmark file as "changed" such that you can optionally save
and keep those items.
Bug fixes
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+ In some situations, selecting a menu would caused GPF.
+ Potential crash when exiting.
+ "Track both panes" did not function properly in Explorer Style.
Version 2.51: (12/01/1998)
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New features & Improvements
===========================
+ Print Preview.
+ Logic AND (&) search. Now you can type something like
"weather & usa & satellite" in the search bar to search for items
containing all the three words (weather, usa, and satellite).
+ Improved Merge speed.
+ "Sync on exit" now takes effect only when users choose to save changes.
Bug fixes
=========
+ Tree pane printing caused GPF.
+ "Sync Favorites on startup" loaded wrong files.
Version 2.5: (11/01/1998)
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+ Explorer style - The tree pane shows folders only and the List pane
shows the contents of the selected folder. Use Ctrl+E or the 8th
toolbar icon to toggle.
+ Check links - Check and see if links are still valid, can check about
200 links per minute over a 33.6K modem. Also supports proxy server.
+ Tray icon - Provides easy access to your bookmarks while Compass is
minimized.
+ Opera support - Opera is an emerging browser, featuring smaller file
size and faster performance. Now, you can open, save, import, export,
or merge Opera's Hotlist file and launch Opera as your browser.
+ The editing for IExplorer's Favorites now is more integrated into the
file system. When you add an item, it will be added the your hard
drive immediately. Same as deleting items.
+ Right click "Move To" menu item.
+ Auto sort tree. (Preference option)
+ Auto sync. (Preference option)
+ Lots of new options.
Bug fixes
=========
+ In some situations, Crashes when loading Favorites on startup.
Version 2.17: (08/02/1998)
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Bug fix
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+ When save favorites, Compass incorrectly converted non-English characters.
Version 2.16: (05/26/1998)
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New features & Improvements
===========================
+ Opera Hotlist (*.adr) support.
+ Reopen (in the File menu).
+ Accelerator F10 for Info | Find in Other Pane.
+ Ctrl+A to select all text if in edit window.
+ File filter *.html.
+ When dealing with Favorites file I/O, Compass will create a log file (log.txt), which will log any failures during the I/O operation. The log file is located in the same directory as the executable file (compass.exe).
+ Customizable MRU (Most Recently Used) number. The default value is 4. You need to manually edit compass.ini (in the Windows directory) to take advantage of it. For example, by adding MRU=6 to the [Preferences] section in compass.ini, you will have up to six (6) MRU files listed in the File menu.
Version 2.15: (04/01/1998)
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New features & Improvements
===========================
+ When saving Favorites, Compass will not create a backup directory if the directory is a system directory.
+ Warning message if a system directory is selected as the destination of Favorites directory.
+ Print date on page footer.
Bug fix
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+ Conversion to Favorites would fail if the last visit date was "out of range."
Version 2.14: (03/28/1998)
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Bug fix
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+ Dragging or copying a single bookmark with long title caused GPF.
Version 2.13: (02/28/1998)
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Bug fixes
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+ URL was converted to lower case when being dragged from browsers.
+ "Add URL" caused problems if the page title was extremely long.
Version 2.12: (02/11/1998)
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New features & Improvements
===========================
+ Option to disable "Auto sort List Pane".
Bug fixes
=========
+ The folder state for "New Item Folder" didn't get saved correctly.
+ Option to disable "Auto sort List Pane".
Version 2.11 (01/30/1998)
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Bug fix
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+ Fixed: Incorrect positioning when drag & drop from outside sources.
Version 2.1 (01/28/1998)
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New features & Improvements
===========================
+ Undo.
+ New drag & drop interface. (replace "drop into folders")
+ Sorting now handles groups (separators).
+ Printing support
+ Auto sort list pane.
+ Save sort order setting (list pane).
+ Drag & drop, copy & paste among different instances of Compass.
+ Drag & drop TO Netscape or IExplorer.
+ Copy & paste shortcuts onto the desktop.
+ "Blue" selected tree items (was gray).
+ TAB-key runs through all child windows.
+ Handles international date format.
+ Search field enhancement:
a. If only one item found, pressing enter will open that link.
b. Otherwise, pressing enter will open whatever in the input field.
For example, if the input field is "www.geocities.com" Compass will
tell the browser to open "www.geocities.com."
c. You can always press "up & down" key to move back and froth between
search field and list pane.
d. Now you can press Esc to reset the search field.
+ New commands:
+ Print
+ Add Item (always pops up a dialog)
+ Find
+ Set New Item Folder (new bookmark folder)
+ Netscape (Open URL with Netscape)
+ IExplorer (Open URL with IExplorer)
+ Find Similar
+ Collapse All
+ New Options: (Preferences)
+ Allow multiple instances
+ Auto Save
+ Always show fly tip
+ Confirmation when deleting items
+ Confirmation when moving items
+ Keep time stamps for exported items
Bug fixes
=========
+ Fixed: No accelerators (shortcut keys) when fly tips shown.
+ Fixed: Ctrl+C, V, X, Z for all edit windows.
+ Fixed: Conversion from HTML to Favorites didnÆt handle invalid characters.
+ Fixed: Occasional crashes when opening another file or a new file.
+ Fixed: Description text length limit.
+ Fixed: Several UI (user interface) bugs.
Version 2.01 (06/08/1997)
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Bug fix
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+ Fixed the problem that v.2.0 requires new version (v.4.7) of
comctl32.dll. This release (v.2.01) runs on both standard version
(v.4.0) and new version (v.4.7) of comctl32.dll.
Version 2.0 (06/05/1997)
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New features & Improvements
===========================
+ New search interface in the List pane, which displays the results
while you are still typing the string you want to search.
+ "FlyTip": pointing the mouse cursor to the text which are not fully
displayed, Compass will pop up a "FlyTip" showing the whole text.
+ Full support for three file formats: Netscape bookmark file, MSIE
favorites, and Compass HotList.
+ All file I/O, including Open, Save, Import, Merge, Export, Drag-Drop
Open, Most Recent Files, support all the three file formats. All
file I/O share a single unified user interface (dialog).
+ Automatically remember the last visited web site. Open that site
automatically (with an option) next time when you run Compass.
+ Merge from other source files into your file.
+ Find duplicate URLs and high-light them.
+ Customizable List pane columns.
+ Support MSIE: open URL, grab page information, drag & drop links.
+ Sort sub-folders.
+ Put folders in front when sorting trees.
+ Remember/Restore folder states (collapsed or expanded).
+ More options.
Bug fixes
=========
+ Fixed the GPF due to saving files containing extra long items.
+ Fixed the GPF due to moving empty folders around.
+ Fixed the very rare problem caused by deleting items.
Version 1.1 (02/24/1997)
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New features & Improvements
===========================
+ Drag & drop any links from Netscape (3.x and 4.x).
+ New command: "New Browser.ö
+ Full support for standard keyboard interface.
+ New option: ôOpen last file on startup.ö
+ New option: ôRun Netscape on startup.ö
+ New option: ôCreate backup when saving.ö
+ Command line open file.
+ Accept drop file to open.
+ "Import Hotlist" can handle files contain both hotlist data and normal
text.
+ All found items are made visible when doing "Select All" in "Find."
+ In Edit pane, normal cut, copy and paste can be accessed from shortcut
keys, toolbar icons, or right-click menu (context menu.)
+ "Collapse other folders" reacts immediately.
+ Context sensitive help.
+ Automatically find the location of Netscape.
+ Drag-drop doesn't affect the internal memory of Compass for copy-paste.
Bug fixes
=========
+ Fixed the problem not able to open or save files which contain very long
lines.
+ Fixed the possible memory leak after reading unexpected format.
+ Fixed the problem not able to handle more than 10 levels.
+ Fixed that "Find" didn't work properly if focus was in Edit pane.
+ Fixed: When "Collapse other folders" was checked, users couldn't see all
selected items if the items were in different folders.
+ Fixed: Tree pane and List pane didn't handle keyboard input properly.
+ Fixed: "In-label edit" failed to set modified flag.
Version 1.0 (01/31/1997)
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Features
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+ Color coded bookmarks.
+ All kinds of sorting.
+ Various statistics.
+ Import / Export hotlist.
+ Call Netscape directly to open a URL.
+ Grab information from Netscape when adding new bookmarks.
+ Flexible dropping mode: "Into" or "Onto" folders.
+ Alt-drag-drop to switch between "Into" and "Onto" modes.
+ Three panes (Tree, List, and Edit) to display information.
+ Keypad '*' to expand all folders.
+ Support standard multiple selection: Shift-click and Ctrl-click.
+ Extended clickable area for mouse operation.
+ Auto-scrolling when drag & drop.
+ Easy description editing.
+ In-label editing.
+ Sort bookmarks by clicking column labels in List pane.
+ Double click on column dividers to automatically fit the width.
+ Copy URL(s) to clipboard for pasting to other applications.
