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- ST-Guide Changes and version history
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- Known limitations:
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- - ST-GUIDE: No sound support
- - ST-GUIDE: No colour image support (can currently be viewed in mono)
-
- Should a problem arise that is not listed here, please check the
- STG-FAQ.HYP and if this doesn't resolve your question get in touch.
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- Version history (Since first pre-release English language version)
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- 19.04.95:
- -
- ST-Guide : After a HypFind search any text generated is automatically
- displayed
- ST-Guide : The font selector is no longer blocked by wind_update (Hello
- Dirk ;-)
- ST-Guide : Selecting a new fonts in an empty ST-Guide window no longer
- leads to a crash
- ST-Guide : New variable BCKCOLOR allows the window background colour to be
- configured
- ST-Guide : Font protocol supported, the font selector FONT_SEL can be
- used
- ST-Guide : Autolocator built in: Input field: [Backspace]=delete last
- character, [Shift]+[Backspace]=delete all characters,
- [Insert]=next marker
- ST-Guide : Empty nodes no longer causes display errors
- ST-Guide : ASCII files are now split at the last possible space character,
- which minimises the risk of losing characters
- ST-Guide : ASCII files without terminating newline characters should no
- longer cause the last line to be truncated
- ST-Guide : New variable RIGHTBACK interpreted as click on 'Return' button
- if the ST-Guide window is active
- ST-Guide : Colour pictures only displayed if the number of bit planes at
- the current screen resolution matches the number of bit planes
- in the image. If an image is not displayed a frame is displayed
- instead
- ST-Guide : The file extender are now handled in upper case before
- searching for a match in the INF file
- ST-Guide : The external viewer under MagiC is now started in parallel if
- no AV server is available
- ST-Guide : The calculation for the maximum window width is calculated from
- the real width of any images used, instead of using the (often
- false) values entered by hypertext authors!
- ST-Guide : Popup nodes add a half line spacing above and below the text
- for aesthetic reasons
- ST-Guide : New shortcut, [Alternate]+D, loads the hypertext defined by
- DEFHYP in ST-GUIDE.INF
- ST-Guide : Overlapping of images and text when viewing using a different
- point size compared to the font used to create the hypertext
- now a thing of the past using the new @limage command
- ST-Guide : Co-operation with the new Remarker tool implemented
- (Currently in beta testing)
- -New ST-GUIDE.INF variable REMARKER=[!]<path>
- -> If the '!' is omitted Remarker started on opening
- ST-Guide.
- -> With [Alternate]+R Remarker started
- Remarker : Small box at top left of window displays the status:
- Nothing: Remarker isn't running
- Visible: Remarker is running but there are no notices for the
- current page.
- Visible and black: A notice for the current page exists.
- [Alternate]+R, or 'Remarker' entry in the 'Extras' menu,
- started if correctly defined in ST-GUIDE.INF
- ST-Guide : New variable REFONLY. If this variable is active, clicking on
- 'normal' text does not cause ST-Guide to search for references
- ST-Guide : Under MagiC ST-Guide only recognises the Server if the
- environment variable AVSERVER is set
- HCP : New command @limage (line image) as an extension of the @image
- command tells ST-Guide to automatically insert blank lines to
- skip over images, taking into account, the active font
- HCP : Spaces immediately after variable names now received
- HCP : @symbol in the first line of a pnode is now allowed
- HCP : On updating ALL.REF HCP should no longer report errors due to
- problems with 'realloc'
- HCP : All error messages now wait for a key press
- HCP : 'HypTree-data' no longer output if -l set
- HCP : Undefined variables via @if handled as 0
- HCP : Missing @endnode now correctly handled on Pass 2
- HCP : @include <name>.h is now read as 1:1 if the command is inside
- a node
- RefLink : Problems deleting entries with extender should now be rectified
- RefLink : Bug with -m fixed
-
- 09.11.94:
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- ST-Guide : Bug on scrolling by page removed
- ST-Guide : HypTree support implemented
- 'VA_START -s1' reports all pages, 'VA_START -s0' switches
- reporting off.
- ST-Guide : 'VA_START -wX,Y,W,H' sets the size of the ST-Guide window,
- unless it's already open; using this option it's easy for the
- calling application to freely position the window on screen.
- ST-Guide : Search display visually improved
- ST-Guide : AV_PROTOKOLL Parameter corrected
- ST-Guide : AV_PROTOKOLL is always sent out
- ST-Guide : AV_DRAG_ON_WINDOW support implemented
- ST-Guide : Problems with [x]UFSL and the 'Info' button (hopefully) fixed.
- ST-Guide : References in background windows can be selected
- ST-Guide : Problems with tabs in ASCII text removed
- ST-Guide : The entry 'Erase stack' is again the same length as the other
- entries.
- ST-Guide : The 'Version:' field in the 'Info' box is now the same length
- as the entries above it.
- ST-Guide : When single tasking using TOS the currently running application
- is always declared as the AV Server. In a multi-tasking
- environment the server is determined using the environmental
- variable AVSERVER.
- ACCWINDOPEN/ACCWINDCLOSED/PROTOKOLL/SENDKEY still only go to
- the defined server.
- ST-Guide : Pop-ups no longer open over the Menu line
- ST-Guide : Problems with lengthy system/rx/rxs etc removed
- ST-Guide : On opening ST-Guide the last displayed page is redisplayed. The
- previous slider positions are also restored.
- ST-Guide : When single tasking using TOS every AC_CLOSE send a
- AV_PROTOKOLL
- ST-Guide : Holding down the [Alternate] key when calling ST-Guide, without
- parameters, the file selector is displayed irrespective of the
- stack contents.
- ST-Guide : More problems with the cursor removed
- ST-Guide : The 'Reitter' error should now be fixed ;-)
- ST-Guide : Menu protocol implemented
- ST-Guide : New variable HYPTREE_OPT added to communicate with HypTree
- ST-Guide : After searching in the boot directory ST-Guide looks for its
- INF file in the path specified in the $HOME environmental
- variable. The same also applies to HCP, RefLink and STool
- HCP : -v command no longer using the escape sequences when outputting
- to a file
- HCP : -v command functions with or without the enviromental variable:
- LINES
- HCP : -v command waits independent of the line number for the end of
- every node.
- HCP : -o~ also applies to -v and -r
- HCP : -o aslo applies for -l
- STool : Subject strings can now automatically be translated to another
- language.
- STool : If the line immediately after the header in catalog.txt begins
- with a '!' a REF entry is created using the following text on
- the line.
- STool : All lines in the description beginning with '@' no longer need
- to be entered because HCP commands can be directly entered in
- the description.
- RefLink : Before the creation of a REF file a check is now made to make
- sure the file doesn't already exist before creating a new one.
- 1stConv : *.AVR files are no longer written in the STG file
- Documents: (HCP) misunderstanding concerning @image corrected
- Documents: (RefLink) Tree method explained
- Documents: (STool) Translation table documented
-
- 24.09.94:
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- ST-Guide : Problem not releasing memory after rx-events fixed
- ST-Guide : All VA_START events are now, where necessary, send out with a
- mxalloc requested buffer.
- ST-Guide : During horizontal scrolling by page the button bar now scrolls
- correctly.
- ST-Guide : New variable ARROWPATCH added to the INF file; When active
- this removes a bug in the AES which prevents the scroll arrows
- in Windowed ACCs working correctly with some TOS versions
- ST-Guide : If in der ersten Seite ein toc gesetzt war, wurde der
- Inhalt-Button trotzdem disabled dargestellt
- ST-Guide : When moving to a preset mark the page containing the mark is
- added onto the stack
- ST-Guide : Stack may also be deleted using [Alternate]+E
- ST-Guide : Scrolling by page takes advantage of blitting where possible
- ST-Guide : Problems with events from various applications removed
- ST-Guide : Problem with window shading using WINX removed
- ST-Guide : [Shift]+[Control]+O calls the file selector with '*.*'pattern
- ST-Guide : Because nobody ever seems to read this file the progress alert
- displayed using 'Find' explicitly states [Shift]+[Shift]
- aborts the search.
- HCP : Loading of IMGs functions again!
- HCP : Include files related output error, which led to a crash
- removed
- HCP : Option -o replaced with parameter '~'
- HCP : @toc can now be used outside nodes; in this case all following
- nodes without a toc will automatically adopt the previous
- setting
- HCP : Problem with faulty @endnode's now fixed (hopefully)
-
- 30.08.94:
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- ST-Guide : Images can be displayed in colour again hopefully!
-
- 24.08.94:
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- ST-Guide : The number block keys +/- keys now function as alternative
- shortcuts for Page Down and Page Up. [Control]+[CursorDown] and
- [Control]+[CursorUp] still function.
- ST-Guide : Searching in REF files can now be aborted by holding down
- both [Shift] keys.
- ST-Guide : Colour images are now displayed correctly, although they're
- still only displayed in monochrome.
- (Thanks to Michael Ziegler!)
- HCP : Colours images are now loaded correctly.
- (Thanks to Ulrich Roâ‚§goderer!)
-
- 31.07.94:
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- ST-Guide : Movement using the sliders in the 'Reference list' with less
- than ten entries no longer leads to errors.
- ST-Guide : The keyboard shortcuts [Alt]+T and [Alt]+X were transmitted
- to the active application, now fixed.
- ST-Guide : Block marking now functions on pages containing boxes.
- ST-Guide : The 'Find' dialog now works properly with Let 'em Fly.
- ST-Guide : Images are now correctly redrawn after opening a pop-up node
- over them.
- ST-Guide : Built-in TOS 2.06 patch removed again because it caused
- problems with MultiTOS gab (MultiTOS is evidently not, in
- this position, correctly executing an evnt_multi
- (...MU_TIMER...). Button-Events suffer a large delay.
- ST-Guide : Click handling changed as follows:
- 1. No delay any more
- 2. Double clicks ALWAYS lead to a reference
- 3. Faster single click selects the reference
- 4. Click and drag to mark a block
- ST-Guide : If a search mask wasn't found, which contained the
- characters '|', ']' or '[' this caused problems with the
- Alert box displayed, now fixed.
- ST-Guide : In the hit list the 'Cancel' button and entries are no
- longer TOUCHEXIT, therefore the dialog is removed after the
- mouse button is clicked and ST-Guide is displayed again.
- ST-Guide : Problems with small Y values for WINSIZE now fixed.
- ST-Guide : Following many requests the Block pop-up now has a left
- edge.
- ST-Guide : Over length masks no longer spill out of the right hand side
- of the 'Find' dialog.
- ST-Guide : When flicking through a hypertext a page at a time the
- buttons are no longer redrawn each page.
- ST-Guide : When flicking through a hypertext a page at a time the last
- line on a page is now the last line in the window.
- ST-Guide : Blocks can no longer be marked in background windows because
- this was causing errors!
- ST-Guide : [Tab] and [Shift]+[Tab] should now (finally) work correctly.
- ST-Guide : During transfer of messages via 'rx' the memory for the
- command line is now requested via Mxalloc where possible.
- (Warning: This is untested!)
- ST-Guide : Starting external viewers as programs from ST-Guide with
- non-hypertext parameters now works again.
- ST-Guide : No longer crashes if a block past the text end is marked and
- an action is triggered.
- ST-Guide : The correct title now appears in the Window title line, even
- if the main page has no title.
- HCP : No longer crashes if a page name 'Index' is defined in a
- hypertext.
- 1stConv : Now usuable again! The last version was broken!
- Documents: Error in description of @index corrected.
- Documents: Desciption of '-i' and '-j' corrected.
-
- 29.06.94:
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- ST-Guide : Scrolling from keyboard no longer overruns
- ST-Guide : Scrolling from keyboard now faster
- ST-Guide : Scrolling by slider no longer flickers (much)
- ST-Guide : Support for WINX scrollboxes
- ST-Guide : When a non-hypertext file is called and EXTVIEW exists
- the ST-Guide window is no longer opened unnecessarily.
- ST-Guide : Small error in finding the hypertext file referred to in the
- REF-file fixed.
- ST-Guide : REF-search changed again: Following many requests the search
- is first made for exact (case sensitive) correspondences; if
- there are several matches then a 'Continue' button appears
- in the list of matches so that a search for similarities can
- be made later.
- ST-Guide : If an argument not marked as a cross-reference was chosen
- and its explanation was present in the same file, then the
- current page was not stored in the stack.
- ST-Guide : From now an an English language version of ST-Guide is also
- available.
- ST-Guide : Problems during loading of ASCII files with veeery long
- lines that also contain Tab characters fixed.
- ST-Guide : Under multi-tasking systems messages are no longer
- dispatched to Application #0.
- HCP : Option '+x' doesn't write the page titles only in the index
- but consequently also into the REF-file.
- HCP : Less ambiguous error messages incorporated.
- HCP : Stack enlarged, so that even very long files should no
- longer cause crashes.
- HCP : Now uses up to 4 MB main memory, in place of 1MB previously.
- HCP : Problems with umlauts in the auto-referencer fixed.
- HCP : Should be faster for texts with lots of nodes.
- RefLink : With '-d' one can now also use HYP as an extension;
- previously the names had to be input without an extension or
- with a REF extension.
- STool : Internal changes; now one can also read where which
- hypertext has been found.
- STool : No endless loop with defective hypertexts any more.
- 1stConv : Problems with variable spaces in cross-references fixed.
- 1stConv : '+z' now set as a default.
- 1stConv : The name of the main file is now adopted as '@symbol' in the
- first page, so that after conversion of CATGUIDE, for
- instance, this reference ("CATGUIDE") will also be found.
- Documents: In the description of the listings the high and low values
- of the pointers were reversed everywhere...
-
- 02.05.94:
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- ST-Guide : The 'Help' key works again...
- ST-Guide : Under certain conditions the entire text could appear
- inverted, now fixed.
- ST-Guide : Keyboard shortcuts are now handled as follows:
- - If MUSTCTRL is set, then ONLY WITH [Control]
- - If MUSTCTRL not set, then ONLY WITHOUT [Control]
- -> As many shortcuts as possible can now be passed on
- to the main application.
- ST-Guide : The list of matches will now be shown if only a similar
- reference has been found.
- ST-Guide : The list of matches, besides the node names, now also shows
- the appropriate label (if 'X' is being searched for and a
- label X exists on a page Y then both Y as well as X will be
- displayed).
- ST-Guide : List of matches can now be operated completely from the
- keyboard:
- - Cursor keys set selection
- - Return == Click on match line
- - UNDO == Cancel
- - W == Continue
- ST-Guide : First changes to the code for displaying pictures; hopefully
- picture display in colour now works.
- HCP : Multiple endnodes are now signalled and no longer cause
- problems.
- HCP : Under certain circumstances cross-references were set
- automatically to the current node, now fixed.
- RefLink : Screen display error with '-d' fixed.
- 1st-Conv : Stupid error that could lead to garbled file names fixed.
- 1st-Conv : Now reads the last line of a file even when this is not
- terminated with a 'newline'.
- 1st-Conv : Protected against over-long lines, which could lead to
- problems under Mag!C.
- 1st-Conv : Error in connection with links to nodes that contain
- quotation marks, now fixed.
- PC-Conv : Protected against over-long lines, which could lead to
- problems under MagiC!
- MAN2STG : Texts to the remaining CAT-folders supplemented.
-
- General : STG_CONV.LZH renamed to STG-UTIL.LZH.
- New tool CALL-ACC included.
- QAA now as hypertext.
- QAA extended.
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- 12th May 1995 To be continued...
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