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- Statline Version 2.1 August 1991
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- Additions (since version 2.0)
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- 1. The original display bitmap was dropped for the current one.
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- 2. The percentage of "system resources" can now be displayed instead
- of the current Windows mode. The percentage is the same (give or
- take a point) as the "system resources" given by Program Manager.
-
- 3. The right mouse button now does things when clicked on the buttons:
-
- A RIGHT button click on... Does...
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- The "question mark" button Turns Statline into an icon
- that shows the "system resources"
- free.
-
- The "notepad" button Launches whatever you have
- defined as your text editor.
- (Windows Notepad is the default).
-
- The Quick Run button Launches a DOS window
-
- The Quick Menu button Brings up Program Manager
-
- The Exit button Re-starts Windows
-
-
- LEFT button clicks still work the same. The HELP display explains
- what both left and right buttons do.
-
- 4. "Day and night" (sun and moon drawings) can now be used instead of
- "a" and "p" (for AM and PM). "Day" is defined as 7 in the morning
- to 7 in the evening. "Night" is 7 pm to 7 am.
-
- 5. The "About" dialog box was dropped, the "Help" box serves as both
- now.
-
-
- Additions (since version 1.5)
-
- 1. Statline remembers where it was moved to and saves its position.
-
- 2. A new background bitmap was added, the original can still be used
- for Statline (see the "Configure" box in Statline).
-
- 3. Quick Run is improved, the drives and directories are in a seperate
- box from the files. A "delete file" button was added.
-
- 4. A "License Information" scheme now identifies registered users.
- Non-registered versions have a pop-up reminder every eight uses.
-
- 5. Statline does a "Global Compact" (to reclaim unused memory) every
- 60 seconds.
-
- 6. Thanks to some reworked routines and better compilation techniques,
- this version's EXE file is only slightly larger than the previous one.
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- 7. Statline can now install itself to load when Windows starts.
-
- 8. You can specify the initial directory for Quick Run in the
- "Configure" box.
-
- 9. You can optionally display the memory used with a bar-graph, see
- the "Configure" box.
-
- 10. An "Arrange Icons" button was added to the system box to neatly
- arrange your desktop's icons.
-
- 11. Statline can now keep itself visible even when covered by other
- windows (see the "Configure" box).
-
- 12. You can select and edit a file from Quick Run. The editor to use
- is specified in the "Configure" box ("Notepad.exe" is the default).
-
-
- Additions: (since version 1.0)
-
-
- 1. Quick Menu is also available from the Quick Run box. Up to five
- programs can be listed and ready to run with a single click.
-
- 2. The Quick Run box now has a "Delete file" option (from its system box),
- for deleting the selected file.
-
- 3. Quick Run also has a "DOS Window" button to open a DOS window.
-
- 4. Statline now has an (optional) hourly chime.
-
- 5. A Configure box now turns on/off the following:
- a. The hourly chime.
- b. The confirmation prompt before exiting Windows.
- c. Whether to close Quick Menu after running a program or not.
-
- 6. Quick Run can now change drives to run/delete files.
-
- 7. Configurable options and Quick Menu command lines are stored in the
- WIN.INI file under the heading of "[Statline]".
-
- 8. Quick Exit Windows is now a button choice.
-
- 9. MiniPad now handles text wider than its window.
-
- 10. More configurable options were added.
-
- The following may be placed in the "[Statline]" section of the WIN.INI
- file:
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- a. "ModeColor=x" Where "x" is the color of the Windows mode display.
-
- b. "DateColor=x" Where "x" is the color of the date and time.
-
- c. "MemColor=x" Where "x" is the color of the memory free display.
-
- Note that each color value "x" ranges from 0 to 15.
-
-
-
- Fixes:
-
- 1. The HELP display is considerably less taxing on the system.
-
- 2. Quick Run's "non-EXE file" warning was toned down a bit.
-
- 3. Statline's update time has been changed to every 12 seconds.
-
- 4. A minor timing bug was fixed.
-
- 5. The Minipad no longer chooses "OK" when you press <Enter>.
-
-
- Notes:
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- 1. The hourly chime was at a user's suggestion, thanks to Mr. Robert
- Johns.
-
- 2. A right button click on the "?" button turns Statline into an icon,
- perfect for when the Statline display is running over your work.
-
- 3. Quick Run's "DOS Window" attempts to run whatever is defined for
- the COMSPEC environment variable. If there is no COMSPEC defined,
- it will try to run "command.com".
-
- 4. Statline will not display a registration-reminder if you exit
- Windows via Statline's EXIT button (or if you're registered).
-
- 5. Thanks to Morrie Wilson for help with overlapping windows.
-
- 6. Thanks to Dr. Dobb's for some "undocumented" features of Windows.
-
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- James Bell August 1991
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