STraTOS 1997 April & May/STraTOS 1 - 1997 April & May.iso/CD01/UTILS/RCS/READ.ME

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Changes/Undesirable feature modification and enhancement (PC for bugfix)

A number of changes have been made for this version.

1.    Program redraws have been improved and speed up in some cases.

2.    Symbol swapping bug appears to have been fixed.

3.    Button events bringing other windows to the top when using the tool
    popup menus under MultiTOS has been fixed.

4.    Quick edit dialog operation has been improved.

5.    Under current AES versions, more memory has been set aside for saving
    of screen memory, such as under menus.  Therefore, larger menus may
    now be created by setting the appropriate Menu compatibility option
    in the preferences dialog.

6.    Loading and saving of icons has been changed considerably.  Icons will
    no longer be loaded from the main menu.  To load or save a .CIC file
    (color icon), double click on the color icon and bring up the edit
    icon dialog.  New buttons have been added to load and save the color
    icon files.  To load icon planes (i.e. load .ICN or .ICO files), edit
    an icon plane (go into the icon editor) and two menu items will then
    enable to load and save image data.  Loading of icon planes can be
    from a file with any number of planes and any size.  The icon plane
    data will be converted to the number of planes that are currently
    being edited.  When loading .ICO files, both the data and mask will
    be modified.  Loading of .ICN files is the same as before, data and/or
    the mask will be loaded separately.

7.    The .ICN file format has been modified slightly.  Color icon planes
    now include a new symbol that ends in _PL to indicate the number of
    planes in the image.  If the xxxx_PL symbol is not found, it is assumed
    to be a single plane image, although xxxx_PL = 1 will work.  The color
    plane data is output as a multiple indexed array
    (i.e. xxxx[xxxx_PL][xxxxSIZE]).

8.    A bug in slider settings following a Find Symbol operation has been
    fixed.

9.    The menus are properly enabled following a 'Get Next Object' or 'Find
    Symbol' operation.

Changes since beta 23

10.    The icon editor did not handle colors proprly when copying color plane
    data to another plane in color modes.

11.    When operating in 256 color mode, colors were not properly handled.
    Illegal colors often were the result.  This has been fixed.

12.    Fuller button did not always operate predictably for the parts box.
    Now it operates as desired.

13.    I changed the name of the AES Compatibility preference to Menu
    Compatibility to reflect the real meaning of the preference.

14.    The te_pvalid and te_ptmplt values were reversed in the .RSH file.

15.    A (void *) was added to the ob_spec value in the .RSH file.

16.    Popup menus are now shadowed, the blit redraw has been restored, and
    a previous popup selection bug has been fixed in a much improved way.

17.    Added one 'buffer space' to the quick menu edit routine when trying
    to identify if a character is a keyboard equivalent entry.  This means
    that you can have the key equivalent with two white spaces on the right
    side, initially, and the quick menu editor will properly pick up the
    key equivalent.

18.    Comment:  When copying from the clipboard, the RCS will clear the
    clipboard when the object is simply dragged from the clipboard.  If
    you wish to make multiple copies, hold down the shift when dragging
    from the clipboard and the clipboard will not be emptied.
    *** OK Scott, I fixed the clipboard so that it does not empty for any
    reason any more.

19.    Flags/state can now be edited by clicking on the right button while
    over an object.  The flag/state popup menu will be displaced for
    selection.

20.    An RSH compatibility flag has been added to add pointer casting to
    the RSH file.  This will add the ability to exploit the parameter
    type checking available in ANSI type C's.

21.    Several dialogs were not initialized correctly in regards to editable
    lines and these have been corrected.

Bugs fixed on 29 December 1993 -- Still version 27 (save download time)

22.    Fixed problems with the paste operation.  The menu, keyboard command
    and tool window icon paste operations now work as they should.

23.    The problem with shifting the icon up, in the icon editor, has been
    fixed and now works properly.

24.    The paste menu option now properly enables after an object has been
    dropped on the clipboard.

Changes on 31 December 1993 -- Version 28

25.    Added markers to indicate the current board thickness that an object
    currently has since this is often difficult to identify.  OK Bruce,
    I finally did it.

26.    Changed menu submenu for the border thickness to use the outline mode
    instead of the normal menu selection.  This makes the menu operate
    the same as the toolbox popup.

27.    Fixed a bug (recently created) that would result in a crash when trying
    to change a tree type.

Changes on 23 January 1994 -- Version 29

28.    Fixed a problem in the size function that would often result in
    unpredictable occurances.  Scott -- I hope this is finally resolved.


Bill Penner
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