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- Surfer Central Changes Notes
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- VERSION: 1.21 (95/12/20)
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- Date Change
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- 95/12/02 - Added: DDE communication with Netscape so URLs are
- automatically loaded when a user drags & drops a site on
- the WWW button or double-clicks on a site (even if
- Netscape is already running!). Will add this capability
- to Mosaic in the future
- 95/12/02 - Fixed: Mouse is in drag & drop state after double-clicking
- on a site in the sites listbox
- 95/12/02 - Added: Grab URL which will take the window title and
- URL from Netscape and populate the appropriate fields in
- Surfer Central to automatically create a new entry
- 95/12/09 - Changed: handling of loading TCP/IP Manager. Hopefully no
- more random GPFs when loading TCP/IP Manager.
- 95/12/09 - Added: Drag and drop sites between categories using the
- category tabs
- 95/12/09 - Changed: Made quite a few coding optimizations
- 95/12/11 - Changed: Evaluation version now allows 50 addresses in
- database. Also updated evaluation messages.
- 95/12/18 - Changed: Improved the robustness of the Netscape import
- routines
- 95/12/18 - Fixed: Minor bug whereby sites listbox is not cleared after
- attempting to load a database with more than 50 sites in
- evaluation version
- 95/12/18 - Updated help file to reflect the above changes
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- VERSION: 1.20 (95/11/28)
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- Date Change
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- 95/10/18 - Fixed: Address categories were all mixed up when order of
- category tabs were changed
- 95/10/18 - Database marked for save when category order is changed
- 95/10/23 - Fixed: working directory is changed before a winsock tool is
- executed so that the spawned app is started in required dir
- 95/10/23 - Added a sort button to the site summary dialog box
- 95/10/29 - Added tabs for site types to the site summary dialog box
- 95/10/29 - Added an exception handler for Winsock tools that point to
- invalid filenames
- 95/10/29 - Shrunk the size of the title panel above the sites listbox
- 95/10/29 - Fixed: When a site is clicked upon in the site summary box
- multiple sites are often selected in the sites listbox
- 95/10/29 - Changed: Tab key now changes focus from Description box
- instead of inserting a tab character
- 95/10/29 - Added: modem status dialog box
- 95/10/29 - Changed: Configure winsock tools dialog to add options for
- setting up modem status modeless dialog
- 95/10/29 - Added: multi-line hints
- 95/10/29 - Added: Window position of site summary box and modem
- status box are saved on exit and restored on launch
- 95/10/29 - Fixed: Misc. bugs with the site summary dialog box
- 95/11/01 - Fixed: IP Address field is too short
- 95/11/01 - Fixed: Field labels not redrawn when site type is changed
- via site summary dialog box
- 95/11/01 - Added: Radio buttons to select URL prefix for WWW site type
- 95/11/01 - Fixed: State of update button now set correctly
- 95/11/05 - Added: Checkbox allowing site summary to remain on top
- 95/11/08 - Fixed: Save toolbar button now permanently enabled and
- will intelligently determine whether save of save as is
- needed
- 95/11/11 * Added: User-definable site types. Names and graphics of site
- types can be changed
- 95/11/12 - Misc. cosmetic changes
- 95/11/12 * Added: A GREAT new interface for importing Netscape bookmarks
- and Mosaic hotlists
- 95/11/15 - Added: Site Name edit box now gets focus after clear or insert
- button is pressed
- 95/11/15 - Fixed: Multiple, non-contiguous sites can now be selected in
- the sites listbox by holding down the Ctrl-key and pressing
- the left mouse button on the site to be selected
- 95/11/15 - Changed: Width of site entry area (and consequently site entry
- edit boxes) is now slightly larger
- 95/11/15 - Changed: Extra space in front and behind tabs under site
- listbox has been removed to fit more tabs on the screen
- 95/11/18 - Fixed: GPF when a password protected file is loaded from the
- command-line when launching Surfer Central
- 95/11/18 * Changed: Surfer Central now uses fewer resources
- 95/11/25 - Fixed: List index out of bounds error when importing sites
- after doing a cut and paste
- 95/11/25 - Changed: Edit boxes are now the default active control on
- most dialogs and windows
- 95/11/26 * Added: A category summary box to complement the category
- tabs (allows easier, one click changing of categories)
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- VERSION: 1.10 (95/09/12)
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- Date Change
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- 95/08/10 - Incorporated change from 8 to 16 categories
- Added statement for reading old database files (pre
- v1.10; for backwards compatibility)
- 95/08/10 - Increased Hostname field from 40 to 255 chars
- 95/08/10 - Fixed: GPF when several edit fields are filled to
- maximum capacity
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- 95/08/12 - Added capability for loading a file automatically
- from the command line (e.g.
- C:\SURFRCEN\SURFRCEN.EXE SAMPLE1.SDB)
- 95/08/12 - Added option to minimize Surfer Central when a
- Winsock application is loaded
- 95/08/12 - New checkbox in generate site dialog box to allow for
- only addresses in a list of addresses (for mailing lists)
- 95/08/12 - Fixed: no error message displayed when a filename
- is not provided for site list generation
- 95/08/12 - Desktop state (current site type, current category,
- state of site summary dialog) when program is exited.
- Thus, the next time you run Surfer Central, the last site
- type and current category will be restored.
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- 95/08/14 - Added capability to generate a site list based on only
- those sites containing a specified keyword
- 95/08/14 - Added a button in the generate site dialog to toggle all
- check boxes in the include group
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- 95/08/22 - Added option of closing TCP/IP Manager when Surfer
- Central exits
- 95/08/22 - Added option of executing TCP/IP Manager in a
- minimized state
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- 95/08/23 - Updated help file to reflect above changes. Specifically:
- o Contacting the Author
- o Generating a Site List
- o Using the Winsock Tools
- o List of New Features
- o Common Problems
- o Importing Netscape & Mosaic files
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- 95/08/30 - Added an import facility to allow reading of Netscape bookmarks
- 95/08/30 - Added an import facility to allow reading of Mosaic hotlists
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- 95/09/04 - Fixed: category name in site entry area not updated when a
- new file is opened
- 95/09/07 - Fixed: GPF when the site summary dialog box is invoked and
- two sites in the database (with different site types) have
- the same site name
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- 95/09/12 - Removed Copy Site menu item from listbox pop-up menu
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- VERSION: 1.00 (95/07/25)
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- - initial release
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