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- /*
- * MasterBrowse 4.5 (w\ Installation Program V.4.5)
- * Copyright 1993, 1994, Michel Forget
- * Electric Storm Software
- *
- * R E L E A S E H I S T O R Y
- * -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
- *
- * Version Release Date
- * ------- ------------
- *
- * Version 1.0 March 25, 1993
- * Version 2.0 April 28, 1993
- * Version 2.4 May 19, 1993
- * Version 2.5 June 02, 1993
- * Version 2.5a June 03, 1993
- * Version 2.5b June 04, 1993
- * Version 2.6 June 20, 1993
- * Version 2.6a July 08, 1993
- * Version 2.6b August 14, 1993
- * Version 2.8 August 30, 1993
- * Version 2.8a September 08, 1993
- * Version 3.0 September 22, 1993
- * Version 3.1 September 26, 1993
- * Version 3.2 October 05, 1993
- * Version 3.3 December 05, 1993
- * Version 3.3b December 10, 1993
- * Version 3.3c December 11, 1993
- * Version 3.5 January 30, 1994
- * Version 3.5a March 10, 1994
- * Version 3.6 March 25, 1994 (w\ Installation Program V.3.6)
- * Version 4.0 April 18, 1994 (w\ Installation Program V.4.0)
- * Version 4.1 April 29, 1994 (w\ Installation Program V.4.1)
- * Version 4.2 April 30, 1994 (w\ Installation Program V.4.1)
- * Version 4.4 May 04, 1994 (w\ Installation Program V.4.4)
- * Version 4.5 June 29, 1994 (w\ Installation Program V.4.5)
- *
- * If you would like to contact Electric Storm Software with bug reports,
- * suggestions, or comments, you can do so by using the following addresses:
- *
- * Internet: mforget@elfhaven.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
- * ess@tibalt.supernet.ab.ca
- *
- * Mail: Michel Forget
- * 12209 Dovercourt Avenue
- * Edmonton, Alberta
- * CANADA
- * T5L 4E1
- *
- */
-
- The list of bug fixes and new features that was included with previous
- versions of MasterBrowse has been removed to save space. Only recent
- changes are shown in this file. The documentation has, of course, been
- updated to reflect all changes made to MasterBrowse since the first
- version. The list is in chronological order, so the new information is
- at the end of the file.
-
- MasterBrowse 4.0:
-
- The new version of MasterBrowse was compiled with Sozobon C 2.00 (extended
- by Jerry G. Geiger). This results in a smaller executable, which operates
- faster and uses far less memory than previous versions of MasterBrowse.
-
- BUG FIX: MasterBrowse now handles TAB expansion correctly.
-
- NEW FEATURE: MasterBrowse now allows wildcards in search strings. The
- following UNIX wildcard characters are accepted:
-
- [] - Entering "b[ai]rd" would cause MasterBrowse to stop
- searching on the strings "bard" and "bird".
-
- Entering "[a-h]og" would cause MasterBrowse to stop
- searching on the strings "bog", "dog", "fog", and
- "hog". MasterBrowse would not stop searching on
- "log", though, because the first letter of that
- word is not within the accepted range.
-
- * - Entering "work*" would cause MasterBrowse to stop
- searching on the strings "work", "worker", "working",
- "worked", and others.
-
- ? - Entering "wor?" would cause MasterBrowse to stop
- searching on the strings "word", "work", "worm", and
- others.
-
- ! - This is the refusal operator! Entering "[!a-k]og" would
- cause MasterBrowse to stop searching on the word "log",
- but ignore the words "bog", "dog", "fog", and "hog".
-
- NEW FEATURE: MasterBrowse now uses round radio buttons and checkboxes with
- crosses.
-
- BUG FIX: MasterBrowse will no longer crash while printing. (This only
- happened in certain situations.)
-
- REMOVAL: In an effort to reduce the size of MasterBrowse, the use of
- compressed text files is no longer supported; this reduces
- the overall size of MasterBrowse 17K and reduces memory
- consumption by 92K (most of which is due to the new
- compiler).
-
- NEW FEATURE: The "Save Options", "Save Options As...", and "Load Options..."
- options are no longer found in the varous "options" dialog
- boxes. They are now menu entries found under the "Window"
- menu.
-
- BUG FIX: MasterBrowse will no longer cause problems if your colour
- index settings are higher than the maximum number of colours
- available in the current resolution. If this happens,
- MasterBrowse will simply use default colours.
-
- NEW FEATURE: MasterBrowse now allows you to control dialog boxes with the
- keyboard; hold down the Alternate key and press the key
- corresponding to the underlined letter in the button you want
- to select.
-
- BUG FIX: MasterBrowse will no longer crash if you select "Save Document
- Batch..." while progress displays are enabled.
-
- BUG FIX: MasterBrowse will no longer skip files when saving a document
- batch. (This only happened if the document batch contained
- two files.)
-
- BUG FIX: MasterBrowse now handles iconification in medium resolution
- correctly.
-
- MasterBrowse 4.1:
-
- BUG FIX: MasterBrowse will no longer refresh the screen if you try to
- move beyond the top or bottom of a document.
-
- NEW FEATURE: If you try to load a document that is already in memory,
- MasterBrowse will now warn you and ask you if the document
- should be loaded anyway.
-
- BUG FIX: MasterBrowse will no longer allow you to enter wildcards in
- the file selector (an upcoming version of MasterBrowse will
- have full wilcard handling).
-
- BUG FIX: If you try to load an empty file, MasterBrowse will warn
- you that the file is empty and abort the operation.
-
- BUG FIX: MasterBrowse will no longer allow you to scroll beyond
- the left boundary of a document. (This was the result of
- a compiler bug.)
-
- BUG FIX: MasterBrowse will now always show the correct name for the
- clipboard, even if you load multiple clipboards.
-
- NEW FEATURE: MasterBrowse will no longer attempt to write to a window that
- has been hidden (shadowed) by Winx.
-
- BUG FIX: The installation program will no longer overwrite existing
- ROOT.ENV files; if there is a ROOT.ENV file on the disk
- already, MasterBrowse will simply append its own
- environment variables to the end of the file.
-
- BUG FIX: The installation program will now look in the \geneva
- folder for the GEM.CNF file if it does not find it in
- the root directory when installing MasterBrowse for
- Geneva.
-
- BUG FIX: The installation program will now correctly report the
- version of MasterBrowse that it is installing.
-
- MasterBrowse 4.2:
-
- [a failed attempt was made to solve the file selector problem]
-
- MasterBrowse 4.4:
-
- BUG FIX: MasterBrowse will no longer request a disk swap when it is
- executed. This problem was solved (for ESS-Code, actually,
- but the solution still applies) by the users of the
- MausNet.
-
- NEW FEATURE: MasterBrowse will now emulate the TOS 1.4 file selector for
- systems that have an earlier version of TOS.
-
- MasterBrowse 4.5:
-
- NEW FEATURE: MasterBrowse now has even more powerful windowed dialog box
- editing capabilities. The following keys can be used inside
- a windowed dialog box:
-
- UNDO = Exit (Cancel)
- Return = Exit (Done)
- TAB = Next Editable Field
- Control + TAB = Previous Editable Field
- Shift + Left Arrow = Start Of Editable Field
- Shift + Right Arrow = End Of Editable Field
- Shift + Up Arrow = First Editable Field
- Shift + Down Arrow = Last Editable Field
- Control + Left Arrow = Start Of Previous Word
- Control + Right Arrow = Start Of Next Word
- Shift + Backspace = Delete From Start Of Field
- Shift + Delete = Delete To End Of Field
-
- Alternate + [UNDERLINED LETTER] = This will exit the dialog
- box as if you had clicked on
- the button containing the
- underlined letter.
-
- NEW FEATURE: MasterBrowse now has context sensitive online help, if you
- use the ST-Guide accessory. If the accessory is installed
- on your system, pressing the Shift + HELP key will cause
- MasterBrowse to instruct ST-Guide to open a window with
- information relavent to your current position. Since all
- of the information is external, this option does not affect
- the size of MasterBrowse at all, or how much memory it
- uses. The entire MasterBrowse manual is available (accessed
- by entering the help system while you are NOT in a dialog
- box).
-
- NEW FEATURE: When marking a block, the SHIFT key can be used to "continue"
- a previously marked block. This means that the start of the
- block will remain the same, and you are only adjusting where
- it ends.
-
- NEW FEATURE: MasterBrowse now has an "Edit" menu; "Clip Block" is now
- "Copy" and "Open Clipboard" is now "Paste". This change
- was implemented so that MasterBrowse would be more compliant
- with existing (and future) standards.
-
- NEW FEATURE: MasterBrowse now has a "Delete" option under the "Edit"
- menu; it will delete the SCRAP.TXT file inside the
- clipboard folder.
-
- NEW FEATURE: The keyboard shortcut manager has been completely rewritten;
- you can now add and remove keypresses at will, and change the
- keyboard shortcut for ANY action (not just menu entries).
- MasterBrowse no longer makes any distinction between the
- left shift key and the right shift key. The interface to
- the keyboard shortcut manager has also been rewritten; it is
- now much more user-friendly!
-
- BUG FIX: Selecting "Skip" in the colour configuration dialog box will
- no longer cause MasterBrowse to set that colour to white.
-
- BUG FIX: If the text or background colour is chnged, the window affected
- is now completely redrawn.
-
- NEW FEATURE: MasterBrowse now has a push/pop position feature; this can be
- thought of as a temporary bookmark. You "push" (set) the
- position, then "pop" (unset and move to) the position. This
- is much faster than setting a bookmark because it does not
- cause a dialog box to appear on the screen.
-
- -Michel Forget
- Electric Storm Software
- June 29, 1994
-
-