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- Updates and changes to Design SHELL (tm)
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Version 6.0b
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- 1>- A problem was discovered with the dialer that was preventing
- it from reading the configuration file. As a result it would
- not dial a number on some systems.
-
- Version 6.0a
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- 1>- A complete phonebook dialer module has been added. This new
- module provides a complete phonebook/address database with
- an un-limited number of databases and un-limited number of
- entries per database. Also provides complete printing of
- address labels and a very handy auto phone dialer. Also
- allows copy and paste to a clipboard file for moving and
- combining databases and entries.
-
- 2>- You may now store your wallpaper icon files in sepperate
- sub directories. Also when selecting wallpaper files, they will
- be displayed visually from a pick list screen instead of just
- selecting them from filenames.
-
- 3>- Re-wrote the key file generater (DESIGN.IFO is now DESIGN.KEY).
-
- 4>- A new option from the setup menu (Setup DOS Commands on Exit)
- allows setting up DOS commands that will be executed on exit of
- Design SHELL.
-
- 5>- A new option has been added to the disk utility module (right
- arrow button) that will toggle the 15 tool icons to a second
- page of user definable tools. To assign these tools to execute
- dos commands, simply click your right mouse button on the right
- arrow button while it is in it's RED color.
-
- 6>- Re-done all user input fields to a windows style editor.
-
- 7>- From the icon editor or the disk utility module, you may now press
- the Tab key or click your mouse on the Title bar to return to
- the main menu of Design SHELL.
-
- 8>- In the disk utility module, you may now assign up to 10 different
- outside utilities for the Edit and View options. For each editor
- and viewer you may also assign the file extensions that you want
- each utility to work with. To assign these utilities, simply click
- your right mouse button on the right arrow button while it is in
- it's CYAN or light blue color.
-
- 9>- In the disk utility module while using any of the external
- utilities or executing applications, all of Design SHELL drops
- out of system memory, leaving all avalable memory for your
- commands or applications.
-
- 10>- A new phonebook module has been created that can be ran as a
- stand alone application from DOS or if this new phonebook is
- placed in the same directory as Design SHELL, it will auto setup
- as the fifth icon on the upper toolbar from the main menu of
- Design SHELL. This new phonebook is titled "compuPHONE (tm)"
- and can be found on most BBS's (CPHONE10.ZIP) or obtained
- directly from jwh: SoftWare.
-
- Version 5.0d
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- 1>- A problem was found when returning from sub menu's. Menu titles
- were not being listed in there correct order. This has been fixed.
-
- Version 5.0c
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- 1>- In previouse versions of the disk utility module, if you
- attempted to copy or move files to the same drive and directory,
- all files on the source disk would be erased or stripped to
- 0 bytes. This problem has been corrected.
-
- 2>- A new option has been added to the main menu (*) that provides
- a way of toggling the menu title fonts to black & white or 3D.
-
- 3>- The disk Utility module will now access and copy files from
- a CD ROM drive.
-
- Version 5.0b
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- 1>- You may now return to the main menu from any sub menu level
- by pressing the Tab key or clicking your left mouse button
- on the menu title bar.
-
- 2>- The password files are now scrambled.
-
- 3>- The disk utility module will now read a write protected disk.
-
- Version 5.0a
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- 1>- A new option has been added to the Setup menu that provides an
- option for toggling a screen grid on or off. This screen grid
- feature provides a very handy way for aligning menu items.
-
- 2>- A new option has been added to the Setup menu that provides an
- option for displaying background screen images (wallpaper).
- These screen images can be edited or created with the included
- Icon editor.
-
- 3>- A full featured text file editor has been added to Design SHELL
- that can be accessed from the main menu or from the directory/
- file utility module.
-
- 4>- Many of the system Icons have been changed.
-
- 5>- Added copy and paste features to the menu editor. These options
- provide a way of copying and pasting menu titles.
-
- 6>- In the Icon Editor, pull down menus have been added for selecting
- font types, font colors, and screen background colors.
-
- 7>- In the Icon Editor, an option has been added to toggle the
- drawing board grid on or off.
-
- 8>- Several more font types have been added to the fonts menu.
-
- 9>- In the Icon Editor, The Tool bar has been totally changed and
- several new tools have been added. New tools: Rotate, Flip,
- UnDo, Box, Filled Box, Circle, Filled Circle.
-
- 10>- Prompts have been added for each tool and is displayed at the
- bottom of the screen while scanning the tools with the mouse.
-
- 11>- In the Directory/File utility module, a new option has been added
- for editing text files.
-
- 12>- In the Directory/File utility module, a new option has been added
- that provides a way of editing the disk volume label.
-
- 13>- In the Directory/File utility module, a new option has been added
- that provides a front end for the McAfee virus scan utility.
-
- 14>- Due to numerous requests, the drop down directory selecting
- menu's in all modules have been changed from a graphic tree
- display to text display and are sorted in alphabetical order.
-
- 15>- A new option has been added to the Setup menu that provides an
- option to setup the default path for the text editor.
-
- 16>- When adding or editing a menu selection, if you have selected
- to make a selection a sub menu (Menu (Y/N) = Y). If you set
- the Pause to Yes (Pause (Y/N), then all text entered at the
- Command and Prompt fields will be displayed in a window with
- word wrap, to the user at selection time. This option allows
- displaying a user prompt for a sub menu selection.
-
- Version 4.0a
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- 1>- Extended the Sub Menu levels to four levels deep, with this
- you may have up to 810,000 menu or file selections.
-
- 2>- Added the Hotkey character to the menu option display.
-
- 3>- Added the ability to read Icon files from any drive or directory.
-
- 4>- When selecting Icons, Up to five DOS paths are saved and displayed
- in a scrolling pick menu for accessing Icon files.
-
- 5>- In the Icon editor, clicking your right mouse button will pick
- up the color at the current cursor location anywhere on screen
- and make it the paint color.
-
- 6>- In the Icon editor, the erase option now clears the Icon drawing
- board to the current paint color.
-
- 7>- When listing Icons from the pick Icon screens, you may now scroll
- up or down the Icon list one page at a time.
-
- 8>- One more font color has been added, making a total of four.
-
- 9>- When adding Menu or File options to the menu, the PgDn option
- has been made a little more visible. Pressing the PgDn while
- at the Drive, Directory, Command, and Icon fields will bring
- up a scrolling pick menu with a list of the appropriate items
- for these fields that you can pick from.
-
- 10>-At the Icon field, you may enter a complete path and filename of
- the Icon file you want to be displayed with each menu selection.
-
- 11>-The Icon Editor has been removed as part of the main EXE file
- and is now a standalone EXE file (ICONEDIT.EXE). This was done
- to improve execution speed of the main module (DESIGN.EXE).
-
- 12>-An Icon conversion utility (ICO2ICN.EXE) has been added that
- will convert Windows Icon files (*.ICO) to the Design SHELL
- format (*.ICN). Note! The Windows (*.ICN) files may also
- be converted with this utility by simply renaming them to
- the (*.ICO) file extension.
-
- 13>-When adding applications to Design SHELL, you may now press the
- PgDn key at the Hotkey field to list all active Hotkeys.
-
- Version 3.0c
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- 1>- Tested running under MS-DOS 6.0
-
- 2>- Tested using the new PK-ZIP version 204g Archive Utility.
-
- 3>- A problem returning from the utility module (on error), running
- under MS-DOS v6 has been corrected.
-
- 4>- A new option has been added to the ZIP Menu that allows unzipping
- a single ZIP file while bypassing the Zipped file list.
-
- 5>- A manual has been included with this version (MANUAL.DOC).
-
- Version 3.0b
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- 1>- A new password option has been added to the Setup module
- that allows setting up a password for the entry to Design SHELL.
-
- 2>- A problem in the Utility module that was causing out of string
- errors has been fixed. The utility module will now read up to
- 320 directories on any one drive.
-
- 3>- Some of the Design SHELL program Icons have been changed.
-
- 4>- A problem of the mouse not moving to the bottom of the screen
- with some mouse drivers has been fixed.
-
- 5>- A user warning prompt is now displayed when deleting Icons in
- the Icon editor. You now have to answer Yes or No to
- continue the delete of a Icon.
-
- 6>- Page Up and Page Down options have been added to all scrolling
- menus.
-
- Version 3.0a
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- 1>- A complete Directory and File utility module has been added
- that provides options for Creating, Renaming, or Erasing
- directories. Provides options for Copy, Rename, Erase,
- Move, View text files, and setting file attributes. This
- module also provides a complete SHELL menu for the populer
- PKWARE's archiving program (PKZIP).
-
- Version 2.1a
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- 1>- In the Icon editor, a new option has been added that allows
- moving an Icon file from one Drive/Directory to another
- Drive/Directory.
-
- 2>- In the Icon Editor, a new option has been added that allows
- changing the Drive/Directory (Path) that Icons can be loaded
- or saved to while in the Icon Editor.
-
- 3>- While in the password setup routines, you may now escape
- out at any time by pressing the ESC key.
-
- Version 2.0a
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- 1>- A problem found in the password routines was causing the loss
- of the mouse cursor at verious times. This has been fixed.
-
- 2>- The Icon Editor was not saving the changes made to the last
- pixle line in the Icon file. This has been fixed.
-
- 3>- A new option that provides a way to re-set the mouse cursor
- speed has been added to the setup routines.
-
- 4>- A new option that provides a way to re-set the keyboard speed
- and delay rate has been added to the setup routines.
-
- 5>- A new option has been added in the Icon Editor that provides
- a way to scroll the Icon Up/Down/Left/Right on the editor.
-
- 6>- In the earlier version, it was very easy to out run the editor
- with the mouse cursor. The editor is much faster now and it is
- virtually impossable to out run it with the mouse cursor.
-
- 7>- When selecting a menu or file option, if you have selections
- stacked on the screen, the top most selection will be selected
- when clicked on with the mouse.
-
- 8>- In the setup routines, you now have a new option that allows
- turning Icon shading On or Off.
-
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