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- !TCPIP Version 2.00f
- ====================
-
- Fixes
- =====
-
- Broken link in terminal list
- -----------------------------
- A very minor bug, only noticed it when finder menu added (see below)
-
-
- Inconsistant command echo attribute
- -----------------------------------
- Text entered into the command box with local echo enabled is now allway
- echoed in the Line Mode entry colour, regardless of whether line mode is
- active.
-
-
- Inconstancy between title flags and terminal switches
- -----------------------------------------------------
- Use of "W" in terminal options and title flags was inconsistant. This
- has been changed as follows:
-
- Terminal command switch "W" now controls cursor wrap on/off
- Terminal command switch "B" now controls command box on/off
- Terminal window flag "W" was allways a cursor wrap indicator anyway.
-
-
-
- Changes
- =======
-
- Popup, user defined command menus
- ---------------------------------
- At last these are in, if only in a simplified form. The current
- implementation allows only for single level menus, (not hierachial) and
- only allows whole commands rather than partials.
-
- The menu file format is decribed in "notes.menus" along with examples.
-
- A new command @<name> has been added to the terminal options to allow
- for specifying the macro set attached to the popup menu button in the
- command header.
-
- Macro sets are kept in directory !TCPIP.menus. Currently the list of
- macros is only read when !TCPIP is initially run.
-
-
- Windows open in same place
- --------------------------
- Terminal window creation has been changed so that windows now open
- on a staggered y,x matrix. The position a size of the matrix is based
- upon fitting standard 80 x 24 terminal window with command header into
- the current wimp mode size.
-
- The effect should be that until the matrix wraps around to its starting point,
- all window title bars are accessable, even if not fully visible. In mode 39
- this wrap around is after 24 windows.
-
-
- Finding windows
- ---------------
- One of the problems of internet sessions in windows is that you can
- easily become swamped with lots of windows on a small screen. This was
- particularly a problem when windows opened in the same place.
-
- My original thought was to provide a hot key (eg CTRL+TAB) to cycle
- through the windows, bringing each to the front in turn. This has a
- small drawback in that either a general hot key grabber has to be
- created (which might interfere with other apps using the same the
- key-press combination themselves) or that when a non-input window was
- pulled, the keypress would cease to work due to !TCPIP no longer having
- the input focus.
-
- This could be alleviated by allowing non-input windows to gain focus
- only for control functions rather than user input (for eg, F11 [HOLD]
- would be appropriate to pause/continue a replay)
-
- Until this problem is resolved, I have decided to add a new "Finder"
- sub-menu to the terminal menus which leads to a menu of created window
- titles. Choosing one of these will bring the chosen window to the front.
-
- While some window titles are somewhat useless (eg Telnet from
- [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]), this should at least be helpful in extracting a
- required window quickly.
-
- Note: As this is a menu of raw window titles (makes quite a saving a
- memory useage) you get the window flag indicators as well.
-