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- EXECUTIVE V1.30
- ===============
-
- This is the third public release of Executive. The most notable
- changes in this release are:
-
- * Preliminary MUI V3 support
-
- * A couple of very important bug fixes
-
- * The Meter-client can now draw graphs
-
-
- A Polish catalog for Executive will soon be available. Download file
- misc/misc/LocalePL20.lha from Aminet.
-
-
- Here's a full list of changes made after Executive V1.20:
-
- * Removed some 68020+ optimizations from the server that were actually
- SLOWER than equivalent 68000 code.
-
- * Meter can now display number context switches during the last second.
-
- * Added Polish Install and UnInstall translations.
-
- * Registration price in Deutsche marks is now only 20 DM. It seems that
- 5DM notes are quite rare.
-
- * Discount in registration price is now availabe if three or more
- people register at the same time. See documentation.
-
- * The SPEED-option in ALoad3D is now used to set the rotation speed in
- degress. Default is 5°.
-
- * The SPEED tooltype in ALoad3D now accepts value 0.
-
- * A new option BATCH in Top disables reading keyboard when information
- is displayed in a terminal. Another new option UIDS displays UIDs
- instead of user names.
-
- * A new option ALL in Kill sends all signals, C, D, E and F to a task.
-
- * GUI based clients now have a new menu item, "Project->Save config".
- This will save current settings to the client's icon, including window
- position.
-
- * Mutually exclusive menu items now work correctly.
-
- * Modified the installation script so that it now works even if you're
- using a program that patches the dos.library so that you get UNIX-
- like path handling. For example, Yak with the UNIX Dirs-option turned
- on did this and caused the installation not to work correctly.
-
- * A new option MAX in Top displays as many tasks as possible.
-
- * When Top is running in a terminal, "n" can be used to change the number
- of tasks that are displayed.
-
- * ALoad3D now displays load averages more like ALoad. For load average
- 1.0 the bar is as high as possible. When the load average grows, the
- bar is divided in two parts. When the load average is for example 3.5,
- the bar is divided in four parts. Use the GROW-option to get the old
- style bars.
-
- * Fixed a nasty bug in the AddTask() patch. A Commodore debugging tool
- TNT didn't work if it was run before Executive. This bug might have
- caused crashes with other programs too.
-
- * Executive now has a nice logo, you'll see it in the server and
- ExecutivePrefs icons. The logo is available in different formats,
- in the Executive WWW-page.
-
- * A sanity check is now done to the task names. If a non-printable
- character is found, it's converted to '?'.
-
- * Meter can now display a graph of a value, for example CPU usage.
- The new options GRAPHHEIGHT, GRAPHS, GRAPHCOLOR and GRIDCOLOR
- are used to control the graphs.
-
- * Added some preliminary MUI V3 support:
- - A menu item "MUI Preferences..." which opens the MUI preferences
- editor.
- - Increased the size of some string gadgets, MUI V3 seems to make
- them a bit too small.
- - ALoad_MUI can use the Levelmeter-class in MUI V3 to display a nice
- car speedometer like meter of current CPU usage. This looks really
- neat, and is very usable too. The meter is currently updated four
- times a second.
-
- * Miscellaneous internal changes and some polishing here and there.
-
- * The new Extra-drawer contains the full-size Executive logo and
- a screenshot of the Meter-client.
-
- * Fixed the Register Arexx-script.
-
- * A new option NOTITLEBAR in ALoad, ALoad3D, Meter and Top disables the
- window titlebar.
-
- * Updated the Portugues and Nederlands catalogs.
-
- * Added German catalog and Install/UnInstall translation.
-
- * Added French catalog and Install/UnInstall translation.
-
- * Some SysInfo.library modifications:
- (Thanks to Bernhard Möllemann <zza@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>)
- - Better names for some structs:
- sysinfo -> SysInfo
- loadaverage -> SI_LoadAverage
- loadaverage_fixed -> SI_LoadAverageFixed
- SysInfo_notify -> SI_Notify
- cpu_usage -> SI_CpuUsage
- task_cpu_usage -> SI_TaskCpuUsage
- - SysInfo was sometimes spelled as sysinfo or Sysinfo. It's now
- always SysInfo.
- - sysinfo.fd is now SysInfo_lib.fd
- - Changed the compiler dependant types:
- int -> LONG
- short -> WORD
- long -> LONG
- - Removed LOADAVG_FLOAT.
- - Replaced the `use_messages' parameter in AddNotify() call with `flags'.
- - Some internal changes to support Executive V1.30
-