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33.18
4 o Rework compare directories for speed; allow AND'ed selections;
5 allow fast cancel from long running operations; more content menu items Ticket 276 (Steven)
6 o Use Ctrl-click to select state or commonly used directory quicklist entry without activating.
7 Handy for deleting entries without changing window state. Ticket 433 (Steven)
8 o Use Ctrl-click to select walk dialog user list entry without activating.
9 Handy for deleting entries without changing entry field content. Ticket 433 (Steven)
10 o Avoid drivebar MB2 exception (Steven)
11 o Avoid traps when changing tree container display style Ticket 408 (Steven, Gregg)
12 o Restore missing drives to drive list dropdown (Steven)
13 o Correct docopyf regression which caused move to same volume to fail with access denied (Steven)
14 o Eliminate intermittent hang on drive rescan (Gregg)
15 o Move clipboard buffer to low memory to correct paste failure in VIO windows. (Gregg)
16 o Corrected the file open logic to avoid attempting to open zero byte files as multimedia
17 among other oddities. (zero-byte now open a warning that gives the option of opening them
18 in the default text editor). Ticket 70, 409 (Gregg)
19 o Moved data from COMMADS.DAT to FM3.INI. This allows you to reorder your "commands" without
20 breaking any tool buttons you have created or changing the command's hotkey assignment.
21 Hotkeys are now user selectable. Tickets 65, 186 412 (Gregg)
22 o MPGs are now recognized as media files. Ticket 405 (Gregg)
23 o Another attempt to fix the rare situation where directory names are double listed in the
24 Tree container. Ticket 363 (Gregg)
25 o Remove high memory version which was broken by changes in open watcom 1.9 which use DosOpenL
26 (can open files larger than 2 gigs). DosOpenL doesn't thunk the high addresses correctly.
27 (Gregg)
28 o "Separate Parameters" now works. Ticket 414 (Gregg)
29 o Updated the quick settings page to include my standard settings as a choice and make
30 Default match the currently shipped defaults. Ticket 415 (Gregg)
31 o Changes to use wipfc as the default help file compiler. Tickets 420, 421 431 (Robert, Gregg)
32 o Fix a dialog box hang when an open archive is deleted or moved. Ticket 422 (John)
33 o Fix run failure of DOS and Win16 programs called from within an archive. Ticket 423 (John)
34 o Change "Cancel" button to "Close" in the Select Archiver dialog to better reflect its
35 function. Ticket 427 (John)
36 o Warpin installer will delete FM3RES.STR from your install directory. The file is obsolete.
37 Ticket 430 (John)
38 o Add support for unzip 6.0 in ARCHIVER.TMP file. Ticket 428 (John)
39 o Documented in the help files the error message returned by the trashcan when a disk
40 is full and explained its meaning. Ticket 251 (Gregg)
41 o Improved error message when the executable for an archiver isn't found in the PATH.
42 Ticket 403 (Gregg)
43 o .wpi files are now passed to PM for opening if no association is provided. Ticket 432 (Gregg)
44 o Append checkbox in save list dialog now works as expected. Ticket 436 (Gregg)
45 o Suppressed ERROR_FILENAME_EXCED_RANGE error on NTFS volumes; it appears to be an issue with
46 NTFS.IFS or the kernel. Ticket 435 (Gregg)
47 o Improve startup parameter suggestion wording and make behavior work as described. Ticket 434
48 (John)
49
503.17
51
52 o Added progress indicators when copying or moving files and/or directories - flashing
53 led also shows list including # of total in thread notes window Ticket 302 (Steven)
54 o Place drive letters over bitmaps replace, enlarge bitmaps in drive bar and add a refresh
55 removable media and rescan button to the drive bar. Tickets 13, 91, 378, 385 (Gregg, David)
56 o Added Option to list drive label or file system name along side of the drive letter
57 in the drive tree. Tickets 47 339 (Gregg)
58 o Modified the directory container "Scanning" message to "Please wait ...scanning...
59 Ticket 291 (Steven)
60 o Toggling between split and full status bars no longer opens a databar window. Ticket 364
61 (Gregg)
62 o Shortened the status line 1 message for split status lines; Conditionally added
63 file system type to message. Ticket 365 (Gregg)
64 o Added option to open user INI, System INI or fm/2's INI files to a submenu on
65 the Utilities menu Ticket 366 (Gregg)
66 o FM/2 can now load in high memory. We have shipped both high (3.17.1) and low (3.17.0)
67 versions. Ticket 368, 388. 389, 401 (Gregg)
68 o Streamlined container scanning/loading Ticket 369, 370, 380, 381, 382 (Gregg, Steven)
69 o Fixed crashes caused by collecting files from list file and by pressing Ctrl-g
70 in the collector. Ticket 376, 395 (Gregg, Steven)
71 o Allow .LONGNAME to be displayed for FAT & LAN drives and delete .LONGNAME EA
72 if it becomes the filename on a copy or move. Ticket 377. 379, 386 (Gregg)
73 o Setting to turn off state save now work Ticket 383 (Gregg)
74 o Fixed container update failure in FM2 lite Ticket 390 (Gregg)
75 o Changed check for protectonly systems to avoid starting command.com which can hang a system
76 with a bad MDOS install Ticket 392 (Gregg)
77 o Update window layout help & fix labeling issues in fm2 main window help bmp Ticket 393
78 (Steven, David)
79 o Fixed a hang that occurred on SMP systems. Ticket 394 (Steven, Gregg)
80 o Fixed odd behavior when double clicking on the directory container directory icon.
81 Ticket 398 (Gregg)
82 o Provided the option to turn off the "drive exclude" suggestion dialog on start up.
83 Ticket 399 (Gregg)
84 o Suppressed error messages when scanning a directory containing a locked text file
85 or when Drag&Dropping more then one file from PMMail Ticket 391 400 (Gregg)
86
873.16
88 o Correct walk, compare and dirsizes dialog setups to ignore saved dialog size
89 Ticket 342 (Steven)
90 o Move translatable strings to fm3dll.rc STRINGTABLE to support NLS translations
91 Tickets 6, 81, 340 (Steven, Gregg)
92 o Support backspace in directory container type to search allow longer time between
93 key strokes in type to search Ticket 348 (Steven)
94 o Filtering and select/deselect mask now work in archive containers that have
95 pathnames Tickets 358, 359 (Gregg)
96 o Date formatting and "thousand separator" should now reflect the system locale settings
97 Tickets 28, 82 (Gregg)
98 o Resolved a rare hang during startup drive scanning Ticket 361 (Gregg)
99 o Fixed failure of some system based toolbar buttons in FM/2 lite Ticket 352 (Gregg)
100 o Compare directories now remembers changes to details settings Ticket 346 (Gregg)
101 o EA checkbox on directory container notebook page now works Ticket 344 (Gregg)
102 o Error/Alert beeps can now be turned off in the settings notebook Ticket 341 (Gregg)
103 o Improve identification of text verses binary files when opening viewers Tickets 326, 338
104 (Gregg)
105 o Removed VAC 3.65 specific code Ticket 350 (Gregg)
106 o Reworked detail switches handling for saved states Tickets 343, 345, 347 (Gregg, John)
107
1083.15
109 o Added the option to turn write verify off on a per drive basis; it is turned off on nonfloppy
110 removables by default to address reports of hangs with FAT32 usb drives and of FAT USB
111 drives behaving as read only devices. Ticket 318/323 (Gregg)
112 o Seek and scan can now be started from the drives or directories context menus. Doing so
113 will use the drive/directory as the root for the search. Ticket 167 (Gregg)
114 o Added "DataBar" menu item to utilities menu. Ticket 280 (Gregg)
115 o Eliminated the need for archiver list to have start and end list strings; this allows it to
116 work with tar for example. Ticket 284 (John)
117 o Add setup for using latest tar including for .tar.gz and .tar.bz files (gzip and/or bzip must
118 also be in your path) to archiver.tmp (John)
119 o Added check for protectonly systems will gray out dos/win command line menu items and causes
120 Dos/Win executables to be opened in a viewer since they will fail anyway. Ticket 325 (Gregg)
121 o Added the option to rescan the drive tree on media eject (see scanning page of config notebook)
122 Ticket 48 (Gregg)
123 o Added Refresh removable media item to tree container menus Ticket 54 (Gregg)
124 o Grayed out partition tool menu item where the tool is not available in the path; removed partition
125 submenu default selection. Ticket 36 (Gregg)
126 o Added option to recursively scan selected drives at startup Ticket 322 (Gregg)
127 o Moved toggle word wrap in the MLE editor to "View" menu from a "Config" submenu Ticket 160
128 (Gregg)
129 o Added option to create extract directory from archive name Ticket 22 (Gregg)
130 o Added drop help to the tree container; fixed drop help to show the correct action on DO_DEFAULT
131 Ticket 320, 324
132 o Fixed seek and scan drive selection code so nonexistent drives aren't selected Ticket 301, 303
133 (Gregg)
134 o Several interface appearance/behavior issues were addressed Ticket 283, 305, 306, 311, 312
135 313, 316, 321, 328, 329, 330, 332 (Gregg)
136 o Fixed traps associated with deleting directories; closing a container after its
137 associated drive had been ejected and trying to execute a dll. Ticket 304, 317, 331 (Gregg)
138 o Added exceptq and process dump functionality to simplify defect reporting
139 Ticket 26, 307 (Steven)
140
1413.14
142 o New toolbar and drive icons (David)
143 o Updated toolbars they all include buttons to switch to any other provided toolbar (David)
144 o Right click on unformatted drive now provides the drives context menu Ticket 279 (Gregg)
145 o Corrected the menu items available for remote, virtual and removable drives
146 Eliminated instances of multiple menu defaults. Ticket 290 (Gregg)
147 o Added new icons for some objects in the FM/2 folder. Ticket 292, 294 (David, John)
148 o Enhanced scan speed for initial and complete rescan of drive tree. Ticket 25 (Gregg)
149 o Fixed typo that had changed the the filters data file from filters.dat to filter.dat;
150 It is now filters.dat which it was originally. (Gregg)
151 o Help file clean up, minor corrections updates and new icons. (David, John)
152 o Some additional bug fixes. Tickets 163, 187, 286, 289, 2, 58, 282, 285, 287, 293
153 (Gregg, John, Steven)
154
1553.13
156 o Trash can only used for drives that support it; it is not used as default Ticket 250 (Gregg)
157 o Check disk space remaining for temp and user files; Fix several issues related to full drives.
158 Tickets 154, 214, 268, 271 (Gregg)
159 o Added current toolbar and target directory to states. Ticket 259 (John)
160 o Add BMP resources for the 7 FM2 provided toolbars & make it clear how to turn them off.
161 Tickets 273, 274 (Gregg, David)
162 o Fix problems with default toolbars and develop a seamless install saving user modifications.
163 Ticket 267 (John)
164 o Fix issues with the toolbar button edit/add etc code. Tickets 260, 264, 266, 272, 275 (Gregg)
165 o Fix Dirsizes issues including a trap. Tickets 224, 255, 269 (Gregg)
166 o Performance optimizations. Tickets 252, 253 (Gregg)
167 o Interface cleanup; Tickets 257, 258, 261, 262, 270 (Gregg)
168 o Some additional bugs fixed; Tickets 254, 256, 278 & several without tickets (Gregg, Steven)
169 o Developed a release validation assistant. Ticket 107 (John)
170
1713.12
172 o When viewing archives, users can now select "Open default" or "Open Settings".
173 These options are available through the context menu and via the F6 and F7 keys.
174 Also available is open in FM2Play.exe for multimedia accel key only Ctrl + l
175 Ticket 126, 249. (John Gregg)
176 o The Settings notebook now responds to certain accelerator keys: F1 for help; F3
177 and both Enter keys for "Close and save" and ESC for "Close and discard changes".
178 Ticket 197. (John)
179 o For those who select "Show environment variables" in the Drive Tree, the list of
180 environment variables is now user-selectable on the "Tree" page of the Settings notebook.
181 Ticket 114. (John)
182 o FM/2 now uses the system TMP/TEMP directory for its Temp files. It should cleanup after
183 itself but it does it when it reopens following a crash. Let us know if it doesn't
184 Ticket 20 (Gregg)
185 o We have reworked the menus and accel keys in file containers (ie dircnr) to allow
186 for either the full path name (always available) or the filename to be saved/appended
187 to the clipboard. The menus were reworked to make access to these functions more obvious.
188 Ticket 137 (Gregg)
189 o Bug fixes, code cleanup and fortify enhancements (Steve, John, Gregg)
190
1913.11
192 o Fixed 2 traps in Dirsize, ticket 243 (Gregg Steven)
193 o Added the option of having delete move the files to the Xworkplace trash can, ticket 43
194 (Gregg)
195 o Added fortify support fix several memory management issues, ticket 213 240 (Steven Gregg)
196 o Fixed multi dot file association/filtering logic, ticket 235 (KO Myung-Hun)
197 o The Newviewer (not the old MLE) is used to view files when view is selected from menus
198 ticket 241 (Gregg)
199 o Fixed issues with details view not following user selected settings, ticket 237 239
200 (Gregg John)
201 o Eliminated the "bare" ini key details setting names. They are now prefaced by the container
202 name (ie DIRCNRS_) ticket 234 (John)
203 o Made all command line lengths obey user selected command line length, ticket 233 (Gregg)
204 o Added a state "FM2ShutDown" to the states dropdown box to allow easy return to the startup
205 state, ticket 227 (John)
206 o Fixed crash in compare directories if a file's name exceeded the OS/2 maximum, ticket 213
207 (Gregg)
208 o FM/2 reopens directory containers in the position they were closed in, ticket 103 (John)
209 o Add warnall support (Steven)
210
2113.10
212 o Removed the close button and menu item from the tree container which closed FM/2 (Gregg)
213 o Implement bubble help for bitmap menu items in collector and arc container (Gregg)
214 o Correct/enhance settings notebook navigation, ticket #188 (Steven)
215 o Reopen settings notebook to last selected page unless overridden, ticket #188 (Steven)
216 o Correct Compare Directories select count regression (Steven)
217 o Correct Compare Directories file sizes regression (Steven)
218 o Speed up Compare Directories filter redraw (Steven)
219 o Rework Config menu. Move some to submenu. Add drag&drop dialog toggle. (Steven)
220 o Rework Walk dialog. Put entry field at the top. (Steven)
221 o Subjectwidth/left now works in the collector. (Gregg)
222 o Change Config->Edit and Config->Palette menus to have no default (Steven)
223 o Avoid spurious error reports for R/O directories on FAT volumes. Ticket #116. (Steven)
224 o Add immediate updates toggle to config menu. Ticket #132. (Steven)
225 o Fix toolbar to change background colors with color drag drop ticket #161 (Gregg)
226 o More Compare Directories rework. Filters now honored by actions. Tickets #191, #198 (Steven)
227 o Fix failure of direct edit of Subjects and LongNames (Gregg)
228 o Walk directories and walk directories2 now remember size and position. (Gregg)
229 o Compare directories dialog remembers size and position. (Gregg)
230 o Individual directory containers can have different fonts & colors which are saved
231 and restored (Gregg)
232 o Moved command line, system and bookshelf to submenus on the utilities menu (Gregg)
233 o Restore no-prescan drives if restoring named state
234 This reverts to original behavior for named states
235 o Rework collector progress reporting and improve performance (ticket #79)
236 o Compile OpenWatcom version into binary (Steven)
237 o Add conditional cascade to main menu settings menu item (Steven)
238 o Rework ResizeChildren to resize drive tree correctly (Steven)
239 o Avoid trap in TreeCnrWndProc WM_SAVEAPPLICATION (Steven)
240 o Fix _fsopen failure when creating a new list file (Gregg)
241 o Stop collector from trying to remove container items that were never inserted (Gregg)
242 o Recollect of hidden items now updates the items and unhides them (Gregg)
243 o Put hide/remove etc menu options on collector "view" menu (Gregg)
244 o Fix trap in seeall cause by pathname(s) that exceed maxpath (Gregg)
245 o Restore SaveDirCnrState internal state save logic - accidentally removed
246 o Move save shutdown state name to strings (IDS_SHUTDOWNSTATE, ShutdownState)
247 o Add unhide menu option (Gregg)
248 o Enable user settable command line length (Gregg)
249 o Add presparams & update appearance of "Sizes" dialog (Gregg)
250 o Fix save and restore of non-default details view settings (John)
251 o The state at shutdown is now available (read-only) in the States combo box (John)
252 o The list of excluded drives in the parameters of the FM/2 object
253 are no longer overwritten during the FM/2 install (John)
254 o The FM/2 Utilities package will no longer be selected automatically
255 during the install if it has already been installed. (John)
256 o Add a "debugging support" package to the Warpin WPI file (John)
257 o The build process has been changed so that script is updated with the new
258 version number the first time the WPI file for that version is built (John)
259 o Changed the build process to skip LXLITE processing on debug builds (John)
260
261
2623.09
263 o Check program strings entered in assoc, commands & settings for quoting,
264 file extension, space before args and existence on entry. (Gregg)
265 o Add TestFDate and TestCDate for date compare and sort functions (Gregg)
266 o Use commaFMTULL for formatting additional file, EA etc size information(Gregg)
267 o Give LIBPATHSTRICT option for mailto & run FTP/HTTP (Gregg)
268 o Add "mailto" option in new viewer (Gregg)
269 o Make WPURLDEFAULTSETTINGS the fall back for ftp/httprun (Gregg)
270 o Update CopyPresParams to copy all types of pres parameters (Gregg)
271 o Add "Save as" menu item to internal viewer (Gregg)
272 o Eliminate deletion of ext path if it was not valid on startup
273 o Allow saving of a currently not valid ext path with warning (Gregg)
274 o Internal editor now handles readonly files (Gregg)
275 o Correct hex edit buffer sizing to avoid data loss (Steven)
276 o Use CopyPresParams to fix presparam inconsistencies in menus (Gregg)
277 o Correct variable cast to fix hex code display problem (Gregg)
278 o Correct variable cast to fix hex code display problem (Gregg)
279 o Update includes to allow standalone usage (Steven)
280 o Switch to wrc.exe default; support USE_RC from environment (Steven)
281 o Avoid out of memory traps in Compare Directories (Steven)
282 o Correct INI editor copy failures (Steven)
283 o Use CloseProfile to avoid spurious system INI closes (Steven)
284
2853.08
286 o Cancel in walk directories dialog now directly closes dialog even if
287 directory path text has changed (Gregg)
288 o Fixed seek and scan crash caused by file names that exceed maxpath(Gregg)
289 o Fixed INVALID_NAME error caused by FILEFIND buffer crossing a 64k boundary (Steven)
290 o Added 32 bit DosQuerySysState API (Gregg)
291 o Warpin build will not attempt to use wrong wic.exe (John)
292 o Make directory now always lists current directory (not subdirectories)
293 on status line (Gregg)
294 o Use thousands separator from default COUNTRYINFO (Gregg, Steven)
295 o Add support for files over 4GiB (Gregg, Steven)
296 o Rework filemask logic to match last extension and allow for better
297 string matching (Gregg)
298 o Use 4096 byte buffers to protect against NFTS driver small read defect (Steven)
299
3003.07
301 o Tweak build process (Steven)
302 o Rework internals to increase file and directory limits (Steven, Gregg)
303 o Rework internal sleep durations to increase performance (Gregg)
304 o Rework file scanning buffer handling to increase performance (Gregg)
305 o Speed up Config->Tree->Collapse before switching speed (Steven)
306 o Speed up Dup find code. (Gregg)
307 o Update configuration notebook scanning page (Steven)
308 o Rework states logic to allow longer state names, tickets #109, #31 (Steven)
309 o Report delta time in debug messages (Steven)
310 o Added BldFullPathName cleaned up comp dirs code fix right left misalignment(Steven)
311 o Added BldQuotedFileName and BldQuotedFullPathName to streamline code. (Steven, Gregg)
312 o Increased limit on Subject EA to 1024 from 40. (Gregg)
313 o Corrected dir sizes accel key to ctrl + z. (Gregg)
314 o Fixed addition of ff in Hex notation by archiver editor. (John)
315 o Updated build instructions on FM/2 Wiki. (David)
316 o Dir sizes correct some sizing and positioning issues. (Steve)
317 o Removed error message in eas.c which caused seek and scan for text including eas to fail on
318 read only files. (Gregg)
319 o Fixed unnecessary menu item removal when FM/2 is run as the WPS.(Gregg)
320 o Fixed the restore of the settings under "Include in details view" on the "DirView"
321 tab of the configuration notebook, Ticket 118/71 (John)
322 o Subject column can be moved to left side of split bar in directory container
323 and/or sized which will truncate long subjects (Gregg)
324 o Avoid can not set fm3.ini read-only failure - DosSetPathInfo (Steven)
325 o Avoid exception when exiting File/Directory Object Information dialog (Steven)
326 o Fix a fast viewer text file load failure. (Gregg)
327 o Reversed behavior of horizontal scroll bar in fast viewer bar present with unwrapped text
328 absent with wrapped text and hex
329 o Add accelerator support to quicklist windows (Steven)
330
3313.06
332 o First release built with OpenWatcom associated documentation updates (Steven,Gregg,John)
333 o Fixed ramdisk not shown in quicklist drives dropdown and drive bar drive lists (Gregg)
334 o Fixed WORKPLACE_PROCESS environment variable check (Gregg)
335 o Add CheckPmDrgLimit including IsFm2Window as part of work around PM drag limit (Steven,Gregg)
336 o Change mouse button 3 white space click to fail silently (Gregg)
337 o Document behavior of global.exe when attempt is made to run it from 4os2 (Gregg)
338
3393.05.09
340 o Update readme to reflect warpin install and other code changes (David, John, Gregg)
341 o Avoid spurious add_udir error reports (Steven)
342 o Harden drag/drop error recovery (Steven, Gregg)
343 o Add DbgMsg (Steven)
344 o Rework selective error logging logic
345 o Rework state save/restore user interface to report problems better (Steven)
346 o Correct FileInfoProc binary file detect (Steven)
347 o Correct FileInfoProc/IconProc race crash - ticket#77 (Steven)
348 o Convert to WarpIN installer - ticket #10 (David, John)
349 o Work around for drag/drop limit in PM ticket 50 (Gregg, Steven)
350 o Add RunFM2Utils function find utils in path or \utils (Gregg)
351 o Fix MMPM file scan to not try to play nonmedia files (Gregg)
352 o "Replace" in commands dialog now leave list order intact (Gregg)
353 o Code cleanup (ROT13 compiler warning, removed win class pstrings QWL_USER) (Gregg)
354 o Removed original Readme from distribution package
355
3563.05 beta08
357 o Add SelectDriveIcon function (Gregg)
358 o New drive flags - ramdisk, virtual drive & no drive stats (Gregg)
359 o New icons for ramdisk, virtual drives & directories (David)
360 o Avoid saving directory settings for no prescan drives on close (Steven)
361 o Restore Make directory menu item to drive container context menu (Gregg)
362 o Add read only NTFS file support (requires NTFS.ifs) (Gregg)
363 o Removed most hard coded fonts from dialogs updated Helv font to Helvetica (Gregg)
364 o Moved fonts to string file (Gregg)
365 o Expanded FM2's recognition of image & archive file types (Gregg)
366 o Help file updates (Gregg)
367 o Source code cleanup (Gregg)
368 o Icons update appropriately with drive flag changes (Steven)
369 o Avoid restoring directory windows for no prescan drives (Steven)
370 o Avoid hangs when viewing zip content and running viewer as child
371 o Honor NOPRESCAN flags for drives left open on exit
372 o Refresh tree container drive icon after prescan enable
373
3743.05beta07
375 o Support additional file systems types (Gregg)
376 o Reorganize menus (Gregg)
377 o Enhance unzip option controls (Gregg)
378 o Remember search options in Seek and Scan (Gregg)
379 o Allow drive flag editing for not ready drives (Gregg)
380 o Correct bitmap loading defects (Steven)
381 o Update documentation (Gregg)
382 o Add newer, better bitmaps (David)
383 o Update Readme to discuss move to Netlabs (Steve)
384
3853.05beta06
386 o Put .. back in walk list - oops
387 o Correct walk directory list build regression - oops
388
3893.05beta05
390 o Rework session termination logic - avoids hanging zip windows and others
391 o NDFS support by Gregg
392 o Default seek and scan to show files
393 o Rework menus
394 o Correct . and .. compare logic to not skip .dir and ..dir
395 o Correct compare directories . and .. skip logic to not skip .dir
396 o Association editor fixes by Gregg
397
3983.05beta04
399 o Change to standard F1 Help hotkey by Gregg
400 o Association editor enhancements by Gregg
401 o Commands editor enhancements by Gregg
402 o Avoid spurious error popups
403
4043.05beta03
405 o Help file updated by David
406 o Avoid toolbar bitmap edit exception
407 o Toolbars reworked by David
408 o Add more missing fm3.hlp dependents to makefile
409 o More great bitmaps from David
410
4113.05beta02
412 o Disable conflicting menu options while collector busy
413 o Integrate Gregg Young's partition format enhancements
414 o Integrate John Small's switch list title logic
415
4163.05beta01
417 o More great bitmaps from David
418 o Avoid cascading messages when collector file list is a binary file
419 o Rework some error messages
420 o Add unlock.exe to commands template
421
4223.04
423 o Recover corrupted finger pointer
424 o Allow quick abort of large archive open
425 o Open large archive containers at idle priority
426 o Update archiver usage help (thanks Gregg)
427 o Expose internal errors to user rather than just beeping
428 o Check and report more "should not occur" errors
429 o More new icons (thanks David)
430 o Allow vcollect applet to die on window close
431
4323.04 pre11:
433 o Add hide not selected to Compare Directories
434 o Add compare content to Compare Directories
435
4363.04 pre10:
437 o Allow non-null terminated archive signatures
438 o Preserve archiver.bbs comments
439
4403.04 pre9:
441 o Add archiver definition add/delete/move support
442
4433.04 pre8:
444 o Avoid toolbar window list trap (action 9010)
445 o Avoid internal editor file corruption when wrap on
446
4473.04 pre7:
448 o More archiver.bb2 template rework
449 o Correct archiver window date/time suppress logic
450 o Clean up archiver.bb2 loader
451 o Minor makefile corrections
452
4533.04 pre6:
454 o Correct typo in MakeValidDir() - avoid drive button RMB trap
455
4563.04 pre5:
457 o Support archivers with no list headers (tar)
458 o Support archivers that only extract with directories (tar)
459 o Disable menus for not ready volumes
460 o Correct missing collector view button window updates
461 o Correct fallback logic in MakeValidDir()
462
4633.04 pre4:
464 o Correct longnames display enable
465 o archiver.tmp (archiver.bb2) updated and optimized
466 o Support archiver.tmp install
467
4683.04 pre3:
469 o Support jfsopt.cmd install
470 o Support tarlist.cmd install
471 o Ensure install.cmd updates fm/2 Desktop folder icons
472 o Support empty signatures in archiver.bb2
473
4743.04 pre2:
475 o More icon updates (David's v18)
476 o Avoid user directory edit crash
477 o Avoid crashing if archiver.bb2 entry has no signature
478
4793.04 pre1:
480 o Avoid commands menu do it yourself trap
481 o Correct filesystem type details view column selections
482 o Rework resource kit into standard makefiles
483 o Replace bitmaps and icons (thanks to David Graser and others)
484 o Add JFS optimize support (thanks to Gregg Young)
485 o Avoid Directory Sizes hangs
486
4873.03:
488 o Rework resource kit and reskit readme
489 o Correct directory sizes sort
490 o Correct archive sort again
491
4923.02i:
493 o Rework Databar to avoid delays for inaccessible volumes
494 o Lots of work on large file support
495 o Switch to VAC 3.65
496 o Correct name parsing in collector and archive containers
497 o Output popup error messages to stderr and to screen
498 o Correct archive container initial sort setup
499 o Avoid startup trap in FindSwapperDat (VAC3.65 compat)
500 o Correct reversed wrap menu in new viewer
501 o Misc VAC3.65 compat rework
502 o Avoid referencing garbage in collector
503 o Resolve some icon selection inconsistencies
504
5053.02h:
506 o Show full target path in Drag/Drop dialogs
507 o Add debug support to troubleshoot invisible FAT32 drive
508 o Correct archiver.bb2 editing
509
5103.02g:
511 o Update removable drive support to work for USB MSD
512
5133.02f:
514 o Add large drive support to the dirsize applet startup screen
515 o Avoid spurious filldir errors for large drives
516 Will still get get math errors for >4GB directories
517
5183.02e:
519 o More see all files fixes
520 o Correct internal viewer WM_VSCROLL logic (amouse)
521
5223.02d:
523 o Clean up icon usage
524 o Add missing refresh after compare subdir toggle
525 o Try to avoid playing non-MM files when use MMOS2 enabled
526 o Rework directory sizes for large drives
527 o Correct Show All Files requests from Tree View context menu
528 o Correct resource strings
529
5303.02c:
531 o Correct broken assignments
532 o Force Compare Directories window refresh on subdir toggle
533
5343.02b:
535 o Add JFS and FAT32 support
536
5373.02a:
538 o Replace corrupted remote.ico.
539 o Correct archive name display
540
5413.02:
542 o First open source release.
543
5443.01:
545 o Added another archiver date type for user Jans-Peter Otto.
546
5473.00d:
548 o FM/2 Lite remembers if a directory pane was maximized when it
549 closed now (duh -- should have all along, I just forgot).
550
5513.00c:
552 o More minor bug fixes.
553
5543.00b:
555 o Fix two minor bugs reported by users.
556
5573.00:
558 o Most of the text in FM/2 is now accessible from outside the source
559 code files, meaning translations to other languages should now be
560 possible without much problem. A resource translation kit is offered
561 free-of-charge to registered users. This required some additional
562 files (FM3RES.DLL and FM3RES.STR), but FM3DLL.DLL becomes (at least)
563 correspondingly smaller.
564 o Jazzed up Autoview a bit.
565 o Removed a bug that sneaked in during code optimization detected by
566 a user where archive members couldn't be dragged. Then optimized
567 some more, thus tempting fate.
568 o Improved FM/2's internal window selection from menus.
569 o The status button in Directory Containers that shows the selected
570 number of files and bytes now displays a select menu when clicked.
571 o Drive buttons will now show free space on drives as bubble help
572 except for CD-ROM drives, diskette drives A: and B:, and drives
573 marked as "slow" in the drive flags dialog. I also made the buttons
574 a little bigger, and they'll "stack" if required due to insufficient
575 width.
576 o Removed System Information applet from FM/2 -- OS/2 seems to have
577 this stuff built-in now.
578 o Moved MakeArc into the FM/2 Utilities package.
579 o You can now add selected environment variables that list directories
580 (like PATH, LIBPATH and DPATH) to the Drive Tree with a toggle in
581 the internal Settings notebook on the Tree page. Cool.
582 o You can now set a default Target directory for menu and accelerator
583 key copy and move operations, and choose to confirm (and perhaps
584 change) that directory on each operation, or accept it without
585 confirmation.
586 o FM/2 will now make program object Parameters suggestions the first
587 time it's run (no FM3.INI exists) if you should exclude any drives,
588 and will even set the Parameters for you if you like.
589 o Yet more tweaking that no one will ever notice...
590
5912.67:
592 o Jazzed up the mini-command line a bit.
593 o Command lines for the Execute dialog and mini-command line are now
594 saved separately (the former in CMDLINES.DAT, the latter in
595 CMDMINI.DAT, same format). You can save, or not, either type for
596 recall.
597
5982.66:
599 o Increased duration of error window to 5 seconds from 3 (click it to
600 make it vanish early), changed background color to white and text
601 color to dark red, surrounded with red rectangle to make it stand out
602 more. Also gave it a distinctive sound. (This is the error window
603 you get if you do something like try to open the diskette drive when
604 there's no diskette inserted.)
605 o Killed bug reported by Paulo Mario where FM/2 could crash (suddenly
606 exit) after moving a file and overwriting an existing file.
607 o Reworked Databar a bit.
608 o For the adventurous among you, try holding Shift or Ctrl while
609 clicking that second status window in a Directory Container...
610
6112.65:
612 o You can drag an object onto the Drive tree's Open button now, and
613 a Directory Container for that object will be opened.
614 o Long-overdue code cleanup begins...
615 o Fixed bug in FM/2 Lite where it was sorta paying attention to the
616 "bottom buttons" setting in FM/2 when it should ignore it.
617 o Played with FM/2's default settings for new users -- some of the
618 best stuff was turned off by default!
619 o Changed the behavior of the Rename dialog somewhat per user
620 suggestion. "Overwrite if target older or same," "Overwrite if
621 target newer" and "Don't ask again" checkboxes now allow you to
622 selectively skip being asked about naming conflicts for the rest of
623 an operation. Note that clicking the "Okay" button honors these
624 choices, but the "Overwrite" button overrides them for that one file
625 (an overwrite _will_ be performed).
626
6272.64:
628 o Made Window->Tile a cascade menu with Tile as the default, but you
629 can also set Autotile and Tile backwards toggles (renamed Tile
630 horizontal) there.
631 o More help file work.
632 o Tweaking of a few things no one will ever notice, except perhaps
633 as a feeling of more smoothness in a few places.
634 o Added "Leave all attrs" button to Attributes dialog to make
635 "touching" files easier.
636
6372.63:
638 o Fixed bug in UNDEL.EXE pointed out by a user.
639 o Added "Double-click" topic to Tutorial section of help. Did you know
640 that you can make FM/2 do something different when you double-click
641 an object? Other miscellaneous work on the help file.
642 o Moved "Create shadows" command under "Copy" cascade in menus where no
643 separate "Create objects" cascade is available and a "Copy" cascade
644 is available.
645 o Made the way menus appear on new View and Sort buttons more
646 attractive (IMHO).
647 o Bubble help won't appear if the window isn't active now (oversight).
648 o To make it easier to parse the saved output from a Directory sizes
649 window, directory names containing spaces are now surrounded by quote
650 marks.
651 o Related: Put SEEHELP.EXE into FM2UTILS.ZIP for those who have
652 versions of OS/2 with VIEW.EXEs that won't read .HLP files directly.
653 You can read the FM/2 help file directly using this program on such
654 systems: "SEEHELP FM3.HLP".
655
6562.62:
657 o Added /SAVE and /NOSAVE to mini-command line options for a user.
658
6592.61:
660 o Added new buttons to Directory Container, Archive Containers and the
661 Collector that allow you to set sort, filter and view. Removed
662 filter button from bottom of screen (no longer needed). Revised
663 window layouts help to show modified layouts.
664 o More newuser-friendly junk (more bubble help, etc.).
665 o Added Find first/next to INI viewer. Listbox command will work in
666 is bordered in red.
667 o Just a BTW -- there's a new IMAGE.EXE (the FM/2 image viewer utility)
668 in FM2UTILS.ZIP, available free-of-charge at
669 http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/fm2
670 I put some stuff in it that I needed for making pictures for the help
671 files.
672
6732.60:
674 o Fast internal viewer can start configured editor from menu (Ctrl + e
675 accelerator) per user request. Remember, to edit files in an
676 archive, you must still use Files->Refresh to cause selected files to
677 be refreshed in the archive.
678 o Added a bit more bubble help (remember, you can turn bubble help on
679 and off (somewhat selectively) in the internal Settings notebook).
680
6812.59:
682 o Rename dialog will now specifically tell you if the source file is
683 newer, older or same date as target and smaller, larger or same size
684 if there's a conflict with an existing target file, per user request.
685
6862.58:
687 o Added ability to create a new directory and switch to it in the
688 common directories user list (select <New directory>). Revised
689 help to reflect this.
690 o Holding down Shift while selecting a state name will prevent FM/2
691 from closing windows already open now (per user request). An
692 automatic retile of all windows is then performed.
693
6942.57:
695 o Added ability to sort by subject per user request (wouldn't it be
696 nice if Netscape put where we got downloaded files from in an EA? Or
697 let you drag a file over it without locking up the system?).
698
6992.56:
700 o Added ability to use exclusion masks in the Seek and Scan dialog
701 per Harry Travis' request. Also added Append checkbox.
702
7032.55:
704 o Fixed bug reported by Ralph Alvy -- "Append" checkbox being ignored
705 in Save to listfile dialog, FM/2 always appended to listfile.
706
7072.54:
708 o Small tweaks.
709 o I don't do Compuserve anymore. Reach me via the net, or just go to
710 FM/2's web page at http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/fm2
711
7122.53:
713 o Added Commands user dropdown list for picking commands to run on
714 selected files more quickly and easily.
715 o Removed "#" character from AV/2 temporary directory -- WebEx and
716 Netscape were choking on it (a).
717 o Allow disabling FM/2's custom file dialog so you can use MSE's
718 instead, if you like (the toggle's on the General page). (What's
719 MSE? Look at http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/mse) (a).
720 o Added support for PKZIP 2.50 (b).
721
7222.52:
723 o When the FM/2 main window is resized and a Directory Container is
724 maximized within it, it will remain maximized.
725 o Modified AV/2 and ARCHIVER.BB2 so that RAR v2's woefully NIH
726 listings can be read. Would it just _kill_ you archiver authors to
727 get together and come up with some sort of easily parsed listing
728 standard, then stick to it? Please?
729 o FM/2 will now show the current decryption keyword for extra programs
730 like DBFVIEW and FMT from the About box.
731
7322.51:
733 o Tweaked image viewer initial sizing algorithm to better handle very
734 small bitmaps at more nearly correct perspectives.
735 o Added "No folder menu" toggle to internal Settings notebook by
736 user request.
737 o Put floppy letters back into drives userlist dropdown due to
738 user request.
739 o Made image viewer a separate executable due to a memory leak in
740 OS/2's MMPM/2 (mmio) under Merlin beta and some Warp 3 fixpack
741 configurations -- closing the application frees the memory, but
742 nothing else will, so a small, fast, separate application "fixes" the
743 problem (or, if you prefer, "OS/2 bug"). Like FM2PLAY.EXE, this
744 IMAGE.EXE file will now be in the FM/2 Utilities package (FM2UTL.ZIP
745 on CI$ or FM2UTILS.ZIP on the internet). You'll probably want to
746 remove any old IMAGE.CMD file built by previous FM/2 installs.
747 o Added ability to view and manipulate files in archives containing
748 spaces in the filename for archivers that provide information in a
749 particular way (see ARCHIVER.BB2 -- ZIP and LZH archives are set up
750 this way). Other folks who use ARCHIVER.BB2 should take a look at
751 the updated documentation to see how to take advantage of this, but
752 it's backward-compatible, so old versions of those programs will
753 still work correctly with this change.
754 o Removed SEEHELP.EXE -- Warp has the ability to view help files using
755 VIEW.EXE which comes with the OS.
756 o Added "WPS Move" and "WPS Copy" commands.
757 o I no longer accept registrations via direct mail. Registrations are
758 available through BMT Micro or CIS' SWREG only (BMT recommended --
759 see REGISTER.TXT). I just got too much snail mail and couldn't keep
760 up with all of it.
761
7622.50b:
763 o Added ability to convert an image file to another format from the
764 image viewer window.
765 o All supported multimedia types are now "played" automatically on
766 double-click unless you have an FM/2 Association set for them.
767
7682.50a:
769 o Added "Run Viewer as child session" toggle -- if used, any open
770 viewers will close when FM/2 closes.
771 o Added "Env" button to Seek and scan dialog (for searching through
772 directories listed in environment variables).
773 o Added "No sort" option to Collector sorting.
774 o FM/2 will now offer to remove old registration when started after
775 registration has expired, making it easy to enter updated
776 registration information.
777 o Directory Containers can now be switched into Tree View. See also
778 new "Stay in Tree View" toggle.
779 o B2 on Directory Container Folder buttons pulls up an abbreviated
780 popup menu.
781 o Bugfix: The Autoview window wouldn't let you enter Comments on an
782 object that didn't already have them (duh).
783 o FM/2 now taps into MMPM/2 to display image files, instead of GBM. To
784 activate FM/2's "internal" image file viewing, be sure to remove any
785 Associations for MMPM/2-supported image file types (JPG, TIF, BMP,
786 PCX, GIF, etc.) using FM/2's Config->Edit Associations command.
787
7882.50:
789 o Added a horizontal scrollbar to Global files viewer.
790 o Added line wrap (and thus horizontal scrollbar) to fast internal
791 viewer.
792 o Added WWW and FTP component launching to internal viewers per
793 user request. BTW, testpm.exe from the FM/2 Utilities is handy for
794 deciphering the arguments to FTPPM.EXE, which are a bit bizarre and
795 undocumented. Just rename FTPPM.EXE to FTPPM.BAK, copy TESTPM.EXE
796 to FTPPM.EXE in the same directory, open the FTP object's Settings
797 notebook, then open the FTP object's program and compare the
798 results.
799 o Added optional blue/yellow LEDs which can be used in place of the
800 default red/green thread LED bitmaps.
801 o Added a toggle to make the databar boring for those who can't stand
802 too much excitement (I have users who are easily worn out :-). Also
803 added file system type to end of string on user request.
804 o Execute dialog will try to remind you why you called it up in case
805 you fall asleep after double-clicking the mouse and awake confused.
806 It could happen.
807 o Couple of more small workarounds for Merlin beta bugs.
808 o Changed the way the toolbar displays help to eliminate capturing
809 the mouse (kludge, OS/2 should have a WM_MOUSELEAVING message).
810 o Added mini-toolbar to fast internal viewer.
811 o Note new internet address.
812 o Price reduction for commercial registrations.
813 o SET environment variable DOS_SHELL in CONFIG.SYS if you want to use
814 an alternate command processor in DOS sessions (for example,
815 SET DOS_SHELL=C:\4DOS\4DOS.EXE).
816 o Remap command now uses NET USE, enhancements (like it works, for
817 one :-).
818 o Added Miscellaneous->Detach (Ctrl + H) command to Drive Tree drive
819 popup to detach local drives from remote resources.
820 o Updated FM2PLAY.EXE (in FM2UTL.ZIP on CIS, FM2UTILS.ZIP elsewhere),
821 including more controls and ability to load list of files from a
822 listfile. FM/2 will use this listfile method when playing more
823 multimedia files than will fit on a command line using the
824 View->Multimedia (Ctrl + l) command. OS/2 command lines are
825 limited to about 1000 characters, if you're interested.
826 o Lots of other little tweaks and improvements -- some you might
827 even notice.
828
8292.49:
830 o More cosmetic tweaking -- for example, changing status line or bottom
831 button text font will now result in resizing of control to match new
832 font. BTW, if you set ugly fonts or colors and want the defaults
833 back, one way to do it completely is to delete the window position
834 entry in OS2.INI and start from scratch...
835 o Work around for nasty bug in Merlin beta Voice Manager.
836 o Remap drives command added -- untested at this time, as I have no
837 LAN. If you try it and it doesn't work, please report the error
838 code displayed. If it works, let me know that, too.
839 o Fixed bug in Merge code.
840 o Added mini-toolbars to Archive Containers and the Collector (visible
841 only if you have the toolbar in FM/2 turned on, of course).
842 o A couple of other little things folks asked for -- I forget.
843
8442.48a:
845 o Lots of cosmetic stuff (for example, check out the Databar).
846 o Additional help, partitioned Context menu help into smaller "chunks."
847 o Added Find button to Archive dialog.
848 o More Merlin preparations.
849 o Added UserDirs dropdown to standard OS/2 file dialogs used by FM/2.
850 o Added Duplicates command to Global file viewer.
851 o More (subtle) tweaking of Seek and Scan dialog.
852 o Anybody else notice how the competition is trying (in vain) to
853 copy FM/2, but having a great deal of trouble keeping up with
854 the Joneses? :-)
855
8562.48:
857 o Ideal size button logic adjusted so it will work as might be expected
858 with Merlin's new Warpcenter.
859 o Logic for sizing of titlebar buttons adjusted so they look better
860 under Merlin.
861 o Fixed bug in EA editor's MLE control -- an apparent change in the way
862 Warp handles the MLM_QUERYFORMATTEXTLENGTH with an overlong length
863 parameter has changed, resulting in the MLE not being cleared properly.
864 o Autoviewing file comments (.COMMENTS EA) now displays the comments in
865 an MLE rather than static text control, allowing editing. Moving the
866 focus from the MLE after making a change saves the new EA. Note: if
867 a .COMMENTS EA is damaged, FM/2 won't let you edit it in this window
868 for safety (maybe some strange program wanted it that way). You can
869 fix it in the EA viewer (Ctrl + Shift + E) if you know it's an anomaly.
870 Use the Ctrl + Tab accelerator key to switch focus to the Autoview
871 MLE if you're keyboarding. FM/2 supports .COMMENTS EAs up to 32767
872 characters in length. Each line of the MLE (newline, not wrap)
873 creates a separate EAT_ASCII value, in case you care and know what
874 the heck I'm talking about... BTW, GCP downloads automatically fill
875 in the .COMMENTS and .SUBJECT EAs for you if so configured, though
876 it seems to save the .COMMENTS EA in a weird (different from the
877 WPS) format -- but it's readable.
878 o You can use command line switch -<ininame> to start FM/2 with a
879 different INI file (i.e. "FM3.EXE -C:\MYINI.INI"). This means
880 that different users can set up FM/2 to taste and use separate
881 FM/2 objects to start their "version" of the program on the same
882 machine.
883 o FM/2 will try to remind you why the Walk directories dialog was
884 invoked, per forgetful, worn-out user request. :-)
885 o Keys help added per user request.
886
8872.47:
888 o Added "View->As archive" context menu option per user request.
889 o Added maximize/restore button to "FM/2 Lite" Directory Containers.
890 o Added Autoview window to "FM/2 Lite."
891 o Added "View archive" button to Archive List Error window.
892 o Fixed bug -- Ctrl + F7 not bringing up context menu with Sort
893 submenu selected.
894 o Jazzed up direct renaming of files and directories.
895 o Jazzed up Seek and Scan dialog per user request.
896 o AV/2 will now accept wildcarded filenames and view the first matching
897 file in whatever manner seems most appropriate.
898 o Delete key deletes files, Ctrl + Delete is permanent delete, Shift +
899 Delete is save to clipboard, Ctrl + Insert is make directory, Ctrl +
900 Pageup is parent directory, Ctrl + Pagedown is previous directory,
901 Ctrl + Home is root directory. Obviously, not all these keystrokes
902 are meaningful in all windows (for instance, parent directory doesn't
903 do anything in the Collector). These new shortcut keys are in
904 addition to existing accelerators. Applicable windows (see previous
905 caveat): Directory Containers, Drive Tree, Archive Containers,
906 Collector, Global files windows. Per user request. These are not
907 "real" accelerator keys as they tend to bleed through and mess with
908 normal interactions (even these bleed through here and there, but
909 it's benign), but hopefully you'll never notice the difference.
910 o In "FM/2 Lite," you can direct-edit the title of a Directory
911 Container to change directories.
912 o Install now accepts /UNATTENDED argument to run without asking any
913 questions.
914
9152.46:
916 o Fixed drive button bug.
917 o Added "FM/2 Lite" (or whatever you want to call it), a new
918 "personality" for FM/2 intended for those who can't deal with
919 the real thing.
920
9212.45:
922 o When selecting or deselecting by mask, you can specify a text string
923 to be used. First the file is tested against the mask(s), then
924 tested to see if it contains the text (if any is specified).
925 o Fixed bug -- context menus quit working after a Directory Container
926 was closed.
927 o Added Makearc module, mainly for access from NTree.
928 o Fixed bug -- "case sensitive" flag was being reversed for Seek and
929 Scan.
930
9312.44:
932 o "Thread busy" LED added per user request.
933 o Toolbar buttons now allow you to use different bitmaps of your own
934 design. Notes: using user-defined bitmaps in the toolbar can slow
935 loading of FM/2 slightly, but probably not noticeably unless you
936 replace all of them. Request a context menu on a toolbar button and
937 pick "Edit button" to get the dialog where you tell FM/2 to use a
938 user-defined bitmap.
939 o External Archive Containers, Collector, VTree and VDirs now have
940 their own pulldown menu for Files and Views (the shadow menus) and
941 Help for easy keyboard access and/or novice users.
942 o Command lines executed through the command line dialog are remembered
943 for possible later retrieval.
944 o Directory sizes dialog reworked (prettier, sizeable). DIRSIZE.EXE
945 program provided for accessing this function directly (object placed
946 in FM/2 Tools subfolder by INSTALL.CMD).
947
9482.43:
949 o Added optional drivebar per user request.
950 o Added Lock and Unlock commands for removable drives.
951 o Added UUDecode command and Merge command (yep, got another internet
952 connection, finally).
953 o When presented with a list of objects in a dialog (as in the Edit EAs
954 or Attributes dialogs), double-clicking a file object will bring up
955 the configured viewer with the file loaded. This is just a quick
956 view purely for convenience; no attempt is made to view the file as
957 an archive or check Associations. You can double-click it in the
958 Directory Container if you need to go that far.
959 o Added "Thread notes" window -- if you don't like it, minimize it and
960 it should stay that way. When a thread does something that takes
961 awhile, like copying a file, it tells you when it starts and when
962 it finishes.
963 o Under Warp, FM/2 will now query the active desktop in a documented
964 manner when asked to create objects. There is no reliable method
965 under older OS/2 versions.
966 o Improved FM/2's built-in printing somewhat. Still not as good as
967 printing from the appropriate application, of course.
968 o Confirmation lists will now display a bitmap representing the command
969 to be executed on the dialog, where applicable, as a quick visual
970 reminder.
971 o When switching a Directory Container to the parent, FM/2 will
972 make the vacated directory's object the current object.
973
9742.42:
975 o More threading in strategic spots to make response when moving around
976 really slow drives (like ZIP and EZ drives) snappier. The drivers
977 for these drives need a bit more work, developers -- think "cache,"
978 especially for things like providing the label and usage info. When
979 it's slower than the floppy drives, some work needs to be done, eh?
980 o Edit->Drive flags dialog now available from a drive (root dir) object
981 in the Drive Tree -- lets you set flags you used to _have_ to set
982 from the command line (and a couple of new ones). You can still set
983 flags from the command line as an override.
984 o Files can be included in the Drive Tree display on a per-drive basis
985 if you can actually think of a reason to do it (I can't, but someone
986 asked). If you do find a use for it, tell me what the heck it is.
987 o See all files can be invoked on directory (folder) objects
988 (Miscellaneous->Show all files) or the directory into which a
989 Directory Container looks.
990 o See all files window and Collector now have new "Move and preserve"
991 and "Copy and preserve" commands to move or copy objects while
992 preserving their directory relationship (see online help for
993 examples).
994 o Double-clicking on an empty part of the Drive Tree now invokes the
995 Make Directory command. Double-clicking on an empty part of a
996 Directory Container opens its WPS folder.
997 o Target of a drag and drop operation can be changed from the FM/2
998 drag and drop dialog (if you're using the dialog, of course).
999 o Improved directory comparison dialog (no, it's still no PMDirMatch
1000 and never will be, and yes, you can still tell FM/2 to use PMDirMatch
1001 instead of the internal).
1002 o Added Utilities->Compare directories command.
1003 o Sorting an Archive Container by date is now possible, at least for
1004 some archive types. See ARCHIVER.BB2 for details. You can also
1005 Alt-B1 click the titles of sortable fields in Archive Containers now
1006 to change the sort type (just like you can in a Directory Container).
1007
10082.41:
1009 o VTree now runs Directory Containers (VDirs) as part of its process,
1010 which should save on a little memory for those of you using FM/2 as
1011 as "super drives objects." To take full advantage of this, the
1012 "Separate parameters" toggle should be checked.
1013 o External FM/2 windows can be closed from the PM Window List without
1014 closing the entire program (excepting the main window, of course).
1015 o Fixed bug: last line of a hex view wasn't formatted very
1016 attractively.
1017 o Fixed bug: quick config page didn't work right anymore.
1018 o Fixed bug: VDir and AV/2 windows would show external FM/2 windows
1019 but not switch to them.
1020 o Window dialog now shows and acts on external FM/2 windows.
1021 o Checking "Separate parameters" toggle now saves all parameters
1022 under the new appname immediately when the Settings notebook
1023 is closed. You'll want to be careful here -- think before choosing.
1024 BTW, a backup of your FM3.INI file, once you get it set up to your
1025 liking, is always a good idea. Don't use FM3INI.BAK as the filename,
1026 since FM/2 automatically does a one-generation backup to that name.
1027 o Warp no longer allows a container item to be hidden by a thread other
1028 than the thread that controls the container if the item is selected
1029 (Why? Who knows? Why don't DrgQueryDraginfoPtrFromDragitem() and
1030 CN_DROPHELP work?). Since this forces single threaded hiding of
1031 objects, I must conclude this is a bug in OS/2. However, since it's
1032 in "GA" OS/2 code, I reluctantly worked around it by making Hide
1033 objects single-threaded -- you'll have to wait for it to get done.
1034 Shouldn't be a major problem.
1035 o Added codepage 1004 to codepage dialog. Someone asked, I didn't even
1036 know the blamed thing was there.
1037 o Added Ctrl + F10 and Ctrl + F11 accelerators to start/end a direct
1038 edit of a filename for the rodently challenged.
1039 o Added Next/Prev blank line menu items and buttons to new internal
1040 viewer (accelerators were there before). In text where paragraphs
1041 are separated by blank lines, these go down or up to the next
1042 paragraph. Something I use.
1043 o Added Recent Directories dropdown list to Walk Directories dialog,
1044 which separates the recently used directories from the user-defined
1045 directories in that dialog. Just wanted to.
1046 o Added "DOS-think" and "Windoze-think" quick-config options to
1047 internal Settings notebook. If you use 'em they'll stunt your growth.
1048 o Fixed an obscure tile bug no one else seems to have noticed.
1049 o Changed Shift + F? accelerators to Ctrl + F? to avoid conflicting
1050 with a couple of OS/2-used keys.
1051 o Further tightened integration between VTree and its Directory
1052 Containers.
1053 o Made Tree (optionally) smart.
1054 o Reorganized internal Settings notebook for more "logical" grouping
1055 (some things grow with a life of their own).
1056 o Changed Install so that it puts many objects in a separate Toolbox
1057 folder (someone who's not even registered suggested it, and I decided
1058 to give it a try -- tell me what you think. If upgrading, delete the
1059 old FM/2 folder before running Install again.).
1060
10612.40:
1062 o Added "All" button to Filter dialog.
1063 o Added more optional buttons to main window.
1064 o Added %u/%U metastrings.
1065 o Added hex/ASCII + drag-me window to bottom of new internal text
1066 viewer.
1067 o Added %! metastring.
1068 o Added default archiver setting.
1069 o PM uses several ALT + F? accelerators to control frame windows.
1070 However, this applies to the current frame window, which can be
1071 within the main FM/2 window when run monolithically. Add Ctrl to
1072 these accelerators to affect the main window in that case. I don't
1073 change the system menu text to reflect this as it may be in a foreign
1074 language, and I'm an ignorant, ugly one-language American.
1075 o Added "Separate parameters" toggle.
1076 o Added "Treetop on expand" toggle.
1077 o Windows pulldown now lists external FM/2 windows, as does a submenu
1078 on the container popup in VTree, VDir and AV/2 windows.
1079 o Fixed some minor bugs in Commands menu generation.
1080 o Fixed bug in Collector -- unshifted double-click didn't work on
1081 directories.
1082 o VDirs, external Archive Containers and Viewers now retain their last
1083 set window size -- position is still determined by the Shell (PM).
1084 o Lots of little tweaks no one but me will ever notice.
1085
10862.39:
1087 o Fixed weird bug -- apparently IBM changed the behavior of
1088 MLM_QUERYFORMATTEXTLENGTH in Warp. This change may only take effect
1089 at FP10+ levels.
1090 o Added Open Directory Container button to Drive Tree titlebar -- only
1091 shows up when FM/2 is run as a monolithic app.
1092 o Added "Directory" attributes to Filter dialog per user request --
1093 lets you exclude directories from Directory Containers, or show only
1094 directories. NOTE: if you are upgrading, you may need to go into
1095 the Filter and turn on the Directory attribute -- it's on by default
1096 for new installations. Use the internal Settings notebook to
1097 activate the Filter dialog (DirView and ColView pages) by setting the
1098 focus to the Filter: entryfield, so that the "general" filter is
1099 changed.
1100 o Help file improvements (a never ending saga).
1101
11022.38:
1103 o Walk Directories dialog will now display non-writable drives unless
1104 the directory selection is for an action that requires writing to the
1105 selected directory (for example, copy or move, set extract directory,
1106 etc.).
1107 o Filtering in Drive Tree now available, per user request. NOTE:
1108 filtering is performed _after_ expansion; therefore, it is possible
1109 for the Tree to "lie" to you until you expand a branch (i.e. indicate
1110 that other directories are available, but remove the "+/-" when you
1111 attempt to expand the branch. If it's important for you to know what
1112 the entire tree of a drive looks like with filtering applied, use the
1113 Expand/Collapse->Expand command from the Files menu or a popup. You
1114 can thereafter collapse and expand the tree as desired. Tricks can
1115 be played with the filter mask; for instance, "/C:\OS2*;/C:\MMOS2*;
1116 /C:\TCPIP*;*" will exclude some system directories on drive C: and
1117 show everything else.
1118 o Got rid of the annoying (to me, anyway) extra refresh when the
1119 "Immediate Updates" toggle is not used (more cheating).
1120 o Windows will now be created with the WS_ANIMATE style if "Animate"
1121 toggle on internal Settings notebook's Windows page is checked. Of
1122 course, system animation must still be turned on to see any effect.
1123 o Keyboard input of "standard" characters now performs a text search
1124 to find the closest matching file system object in the container.
1125 You can get the old (OS/2 default) behavior (move to nearest object
1126 starting with the pressed letter) by holding down the shift key.
1127 o When a background task that FM/2 is waiting on takes more than about
1128 two seconds to complete its job, FM/2 will switch it to the
1129 foreground. This means that if an archive is encrypted (passworded),
1130 you'll get the opportunity to enter a password without having to
1131 resort to the Window List to manually bring the window to the
1132 foreground.
1133
11342.37:
1135 o Added "Autoview comments" notebook toggle (page 2) and Config menu
1136 items for same. You can have FM/2 autoview file contents _or_
1137 .COMMENTS EAs -- handy for looking at files that were downloaded by
1138 a package that puts the file description in that EA. You can also
1139 get to that EA on the third page of a WPS object's File page or via
1140 FM/2's Edit EAs dialog, BTW.
1141 o CTRL + Shift + B1 doubleclick opens an object's WPS Settings notebook.
1142 o You can now link-drag a root directory (drive) from the Drive Tree.
1143 For cryin' out loud, BE CAREFUL!
1144 o Credit card registrations via BMT Micro are now available.
1145 o Directory Containers can now have independent sorts if you DON'T use
1146 the "Immediate Updates" toggle. When you set a sort (or filter) in
1147 the internal Settings notebook, you're setting a default for
1148 subsequently created Directory Containers. When you set a sort (or
1149 filter) using the popup menu of a Directory Container, you're
1150 changing only that container. States will now also save the type of
1151 view (Icon, Details, etc.), sort and filter settings for each open
1152 Directory Container.
1153
11542.36:
1155 o Added "Rename existing" button to Rename dialog -- allows you to
1156 rename (move) an existing target file system object out of the way
1157 before moving or copying another file system object to that name.
1158 o Fixed "obscure" bug (reporting user's words :-) causing FM/2 to
1159 enter a loop when "Views" cascade was selected from the action
1160 bar menu when an internal Archive Container was the current window.
1161 o Tutorial section added to online help.
1162 o When a bitmapped graphic file is viewed, the window is sized to fit
1163 on the screen even when the image is larger than the screen.
1164 Proportion is maintained for the initial window positioning. You can
1165 stretch the size of the window. The bitmap is scaled to fit. GBM is,
1166 of course, still required to directly view images in FM/2.
1167 o Changed toolbar button help to "bubble" style, added toggle to disable.
1168 o Added Directory Compare (DirCmp:) field to Files/Dirs page of internal
1169 Settings notebook.
1170 o Added %d and %D metastrings for Commands.
1171 o Percentages in Directory Sizes dialog more accurate (to nearest
1172 thousandth).
1173 o "Include subdirectories" toggle in Directory Compare dialog.
1174 o Fixed bug in 2.35a's INSTALL.CMD. Can you say "duh?" Apparently I can.
1175 o As usual, many little things no one will notice.
1176
11772.35:
1178 o Performance tuning.
1179 o Implemented "minor" user suggestions.
1180 o Added "Recent Dirs" toggle -- automatically adds temporary
1181 directories to UserList as you change directories. You can make them
1182 permanent by Adding them as usual.
1183 o FM/2 may handle DOS archivers now (actually, it does -- I tested with
1184 ARJ); however, you'll have to set them up for yourself and I won't
1185 support them. Don't forget that DOS archivers don't support EAs.
1186 AVOID WHENEVER POSSIBLE OR YOU'LL GET BURNED.
1187 o If you have GBM.DLL on your LIBPATH or in the FM/2 directory, FM/2
1188 will use it to display GBM-supported raster file types when they're
1189 double-clicked. GBM currently supports most OS/2 and Windows
1190 bitmaps, .GIF, .PCX, .TIF, .TGA, .IFF, .VID, .PGM, .KPS, .IAX, .XBM,
1191 .SPR, and .PSE files. And it's free.
1192 o Changed some icons around for a fresher look, added some for display
1193 when you aren't loading icons from disk (for scanning speed).
1194 o Added "Settings" button to Info dialog.
1195
11962.34:
1197 o Added "Tile backwards" toggle, but don't use it (it's a DOS-think
1198 knee-jerk thing to do).
1199 o Viewer won't "restore" the container that called it when it closes if
1200 the container is maximized.
1201 o Filtering speeded up when Autoview window is open.
1202 o Show a little patch of color beside color names in Colors dialogs.
1203 o Added "Folder after extract" toggle.
1204 o Added ^F3 close monolithic app toggle (command id 1111 if anyone's
1205 interested).
1206 o More commands in INI viewer (rename, copy appname/keyname) and
1207 enhanced existing Add/Edit INI record commands.
1208 o Changed method of storing a few things so that they're both easily
1209 human editable (for power users) and so they allow me to
1210 "preconfigure" some things (for new users). If you're upgrading from
1211 previous versions, there's a CONVERT.EXE that'll copy your old
1212 settings to the appropriate format and get rid of old baggage.
1213 o Added "Userlist switches" toggle to internal Settings notebook.
1214 o Added "%r/%R" to metastrings.
1215 o Added "Extract" to drag and drop dialog.
1216 o Height of autoview window can be changed.
1217 o More info displayed in drive info dialog.
1218 o INSTALL is a bit smarter.
1219 o Added two new buttons on status line -- different behaviors depending on
1220 whether you click with B1 or B2 and the shift state.
1221
12222.33:
1223 o Added new internal viewer -- loads files at least five times faster
1224 than the old viewer (which is still available via a toggle in the
1225 internal Settings notebook).
1226 o See all files window retains settings, is a bit slicker.
1227 o Fixed bug -- rename box came up for each file moved/copied.
1228 o Fixed bug -- FM/2 didn't start right with toolbar turned off. Weird.
1229 o Worked around Warp bug -- PM locks up if you select a codepage that
1230 hasn't been prepared. This should be ignored as in previous versions
1231 of OS/2, but crashes the system instead (sheesh).
1232 o Warp apparently still has a 64k limit to what the clipboard can hold.
1233 While I could limit what you send to the clipboard, this is (hopefully)
1234 one of those limits which will vanish with further updates to OS/2
1235 itself, so I'll just caution you about it.
1236 o Colors are adjustable in See all files windows.
1237 o Several fonts are available in See all files windows (all fixed width).
1238 o See all files window allows entering multiple keys to find a file if
1239 the keys are entered within one second of each other.
1240 o System info command made somewhat more human-readable.
1241
12422.32:
1243 o See all files window fleshed out.
1244 o Added "Viewer outside," "Arcboxes outside," "INI viewer outside" and
1245 "Collector outside" toggles to Toggles2 page of internal Settings
1246 notebook.
1247 o Added "Save" button to Directory Sizes dialog
1248 o Sort type can now be changed in Details view by holding ALT and
1249 clicking the title of the field to sort on (assuming titles are
1250 turned on and the field is one for which sorting is available,
1251 of course).
1252 o Added toggle to allow user to select default delete type.
1253 o Added "toolbox" dropdown to user lists.
1254 o Added sample toolboxes to archive.
1255 o Info and EA dialogs now include listbox, lets you scroll through all
1256 objects instead of popping up for each selected object. EAS.EXE
1257 mini-app inherits this; now accepts multiple filenames.
1258 o Check list dialogs now allow calling up the Info dialog for files in
1259 the list.
1260
12612.31:
1262 o Added "Minimize to databar" toggle, also accessible as a standalone
1263 miniapp.
1264 o Tree remembers directories, once expanded.
1265 o An individual drive may now be rescanned in the Drive Tree (related
1266 to the above).
1267 o More keyboard shortcuts for the rodently challenged.
1268 o Drag from recessed text fields in Directory and Archive Containers
1269 now possible (drags the directory or archive, respectively).
1270 o Default Commands command (Do it yourself) added.
1271 o Extract path can now be assigned "*" meaning "use directory in which
1272 the archive resides."
1273 o More menu compaction (well, you think of a term for it).
1274 o New "See all files" window (still under construction, but already
1275 much faster and very functional, without the standard listbox
1276 limitation of 32767 maximum items). Loads, sorts and displays
1277 15,792 files from two local fixed drives in 18 seconds on my
1278 486/66DX2 with normal (for me, of course) background load.
1279 o Fixed buglet in Archive Container status display.
1280 o More user suggestions implemented.
1281
12822.30:
1283 o I forget.
1284
12852.29:
1286 o Added "Topic" entry field in Bookshelf Viewer dialog.
1287 o Added "Quick arc find" toggle in Settings notebook; can speed up
1288 drag and drop operations on floppy/network drives.
1289 o Worked around PM bug in custom frame controls.
1290 o Added "Directory Container state" saving and restoring in a dropdown
1291 list (turned on with "Toggle quicklists" under Config menu).
1292 o Fixed drag and drop bug (couldn't move, duh). Smartened up drag and
1293 drop while I was at it; no sense offering options not really
1294 available due to media type (i.e. can't copy to a CD-ROM).
1295 o Added "Launch" button to drag and drop dialog.
1296 o Added quick-help for dropdown lists (in status box 2).
1297 o Added ability to drop onto userlist dropdown to add a directory.
1298 Also added popup maintenance menu (add and delete directories to/from
1299 list).
1300
13012.28:
1302 o Added optional user directory list dropdown box on main window
1303 (maintenance of the list is still performed in the Walk Directories
1304 dialog).
1305 o Added Drives submenu on Drive Tree's views context menu -- select a
1306 drive from it and the tree scrolls to show it and makes it the
1307 current object.
1308 o Restricted filename quoting in command lines to absolute essentials
1309 -- some programs are broken and choke on quoted filenames. We
1310 absolutely cannot have LIST choking if it can be avoided.
1311 o Double-clicking a directory in the Drive Tree container will cause an
1312 existing Directory Container looking into that directory, if one
1313 exists, to come to the foreground rather than opening a new one; if
1314 the existing window is minimized, it'll be restored. Ditto for new
1315 userlist dropdown.
1316 o FM/2 can now launch Windows apps seamless -- maybe. Sheesh, I'd
1317 use a DOS app first...
1318
13192.27:
1320 o Added "Move & rename" and "Copy & rename" commands per user request.
1321 This extends into the drag and drop dialog (said dialog is now on by
1322 default, BTW).
1323 o Many tiny tweaks that no one will ever notice (for instance,
1324 filenames containing "&" are now quoted on command lines where they
1325 weren't before).
1326 o Added EXAMPLE.CMD to archive as an example of how REXX scripts can
1327 manipulate files listed in listfiles created by FM/2. This allows
1328 Commands to circumvent the apx. 1000 character limit of OS/2 command
1329 lines.
1330 o Made notification window look more homogenous.
1331
13322.26:
1333 o Fixed stupid new bug in moving files from HPFS->FAT with long
1334 filenames.
1335 o Fixed bug in RemoteBug fix that conflicted with another fix for
1336 remote FSD bugs. I'm getting sick of working around remote FSD
1337 bugs -- think I'll just let the LAN folks fix _their_ stuff from
1338 now on...
1339 o Made titlebar of Drive Tree containers respond to request for context
1340 menu as if it were container whitespace per user request.
1341 o Added "Min on dir open" toggle -- a more elegant solution to a taste
1342 thing (IMHO) than a user requested feature.
1343 o Chord on status windows brings up window dialog like it does on
1344 client window whitespace.
1345 o Added "Append to clipboard" command to internal viewer/editor's
1346 Edit menu.
1347 o Moved "Write block" command out of Edit->Blocks submenu of internal
1348 viewer/editor to the main Edit submenu as "Copy to file" so it's
1349 accessible in readonly (viewing) mode while I was at it.
1350 o Added informational tweaking to viewer/editor's Edit->Undo menu
1351 command.
1352 o Added "Walk" button to Seek and scan dialog.
1353 o Added special FM/2 Association command line "<>" to indicate that the
1354 default WPS view should be opened for matching files.
1355
13562.25:
1357 o Added "Edit" and "Refresh" to Archive Containers per user request.
1358 o Added Drag and drop dialog and corresponding toggle per user request.
1359
13602.24:
1361 o Added "Remote bug" toggle since network FSD developers can't seem to
1362 consistently produce working DosFindFirst/Next code to save their
1363 lives.
1364 o Undelete enhancements.
1365
13662.23:
1367 o Enhancements to potential dupe finder per user requests and other
1368 stuff I thunk up all by my lonesome.
1369 o Placed "Seek and scan" on the Utility pulldown. All it does is
1370 start the Collector and post it a WM_COMMAND message as though you'd
1371 clicked Seek and scan on its context menu. Maybe even folks who
1372 don't read the help can find it now (who knows?).
1373
13742.22:
1375 o Additional detail and options are presented when FM/2 can't figure
1376 out how to list the contents of an archive (ARCHIVER.BB2
1377 misconfigured or archive bad) via new dialog. This should make
1378 determining what the archive problem is much easier when the
1379 inevitable problem arises.
1380 o Added duplicate file finder to Seek-and-Scan dialog. Finds files
1381 with same name and/or size and filedate.
1382
13832.21:
1384 o Shift and CTRL modifiers for double-clicking objects in Drive Tree,
1385 Directory Containers and Collector implemented. Shift causes new
1386 FM/2 window to open (directories; direct to View for files), CTRL
1387 causes default WPS open.
1388 o More stuff in the help file (sheesh -- this has gotta stop). The
1389 online help should now make a rather complete manual when printed
1390 together with the READ.ME file (see READ.ME for suggestions).
1391 o INSTALL now makes an object for the online help so that it can be
1392 viewed without starting FM/2 (using SEEHELP.EXE, included).
1393 o Added Filter "Always show directories" toggle.
1394 o Ideal size button supports a psuedo-restore operation, allowing
1395 toggling between two sizes (mine and yours).
1396 o Other stuff I forget.
1397
13982.20:
1399 o Fixed stupid bug that made FM/2 freak out on restart if you turned the
1400 toolbar off and left it off (duh).
1401 o Move-drag onto archives allowed now (if you have the archiver for that
1402 archive type configured to allow moving files, of course).
1403 o Fixed bug in longname<->shortname conversion (FAT<->HPFS).
1404 o Found a nasty way to get Warp's printer objects to recognize FM/2's
1405 D&D.
1406 o Extract dialog can be told to remember its settings (extract directory,
1407 masks, "with directories") distinctly from those set in Archive
1408 Containers.
1409 o Added a few pictures to the online help for extreme novices.
1410 o Added new "Compare Select" submenu with commands that can make
1411 selections based on comparing unfiltered files in all open Directory
1412 Containers. Powerful stuff.
1413 o Added "Hide objects" command (selective individual object filtering).
1414 o Fixed bug -- drag to toolbar quit working when toolbar code rewritten.
1415 o Slight modification to ARCHIVER.BB2 -- -1 for filename position means
1416 to use the last "field" of an archive listing for the filename.
1417 o FM/2 is compiled with optimization turned off now -- caught it
1418 generating bad code in the new Compare Select module and don't trust
1419 it (again).
1420
14212.19:
1422 o Added "Ideal size" System Menu command and titlebar button -- an
1423 alternative to maximizing.
1424 o More work on help file hypertext links using suggestions from a
1425 registered user. Added a labeled bitmap showing the layout of FM/2
1426 windows.
1427 o Worked around weird bugs in Sizes and deleting toolbar buttons that
1428 shouldn't be bugs but nonetheless cause problems on some machines.
1429 o Added some one-line help fields to some dialogs to guide the user
1430 along.
1431 o Added the "Close" checkbox to the Edit Associations dialog, to allow
1432 executing an association to shut down FM/2 (or a VDir window, mainly
1433 for use by folks using FM/2 to replace the Drives objects).
1434 o Added "Start Minimized" and "Start Maximized" buttons to the Windows
1435 page of the Settings notebook. FM/2 starts normal size then adjusts
1436 (that lets it size all its windows right first, and gives you something
1437 to return to from the maximized state).
1438
14392.18:
1440 o Added ability to use the undocumented DosQProcStat API in the Process
1441 Killer. While this will enable the Process Killer to work without an
1442 English version of PSTAT.EXE being present, DosQProcStat is an API
1443 subject to change by IBM, so beware.
1444 o Added FATOPT.EXE program to optimize FAT drives. THIS IS A BETA
1445 PROGRAM AND USES LOW-LEVEL DRIVE ACCESS -- BACK UP BEFORE USING!
1446 o Tweaked the online help, adding more hypertext links and detail.
1447
14482.17:
1449 o Optimized for speed: Quick trees, tree sizes.
1450 o Dug the names of the new color palettes out of Warp's INI files.
1451 Under 2.x both color palette commands (one new) load the same object.
1452 Under Warp they load the two different palette objects available.
1453 o Added swapfile/memory watch when Drive Tree is active window in FM/2.
1454 o Added HPFSOPT.EXE program to optimize HPFS drives.
1455
14562.16:
1457 o Added "Update objects" command.
1458 o Added "Optimize" command. Be sure to read the online help on this
1459 one (under "Context Menus").
1460 o Added toolbar changing buttons (buttons that automatically load a
1461 new toolbox into the toolbar). See comments in online help under
1462 "Toolbar->Add Tool."
1463 o Hmmm...Warp has broken the DM_DROPHELP message within an application
1464 -- the passed DRAGINFO structure is inaccessible (apparently already
1465 deallocated). An appropriate error message will be displayed, and
1466 the code's still there so that when IBM fixes it it'll automatically
1467 start working again.
1468
14692.15:
1470 o Added "Collect list in file(s)" command.
1471 o Added "Collect from a list file" command.
1472 o Added "Select List" command.
1473 o System VIO fonts have been renamed, jumping between "System" and
1474 "System VIO", a couple of times now. To top it off, when the name
1475 changes, the sizes do, too (i.e. 7.System == 5.System VIO, more or
1476 less). Warp is now GA and uses "System VIO" again, so I've changed
1477 it back to that. If some fonts don't look right on your 2.11 system,
1478 I'm sorry, but I'm trying to hit a moving target. Don't shoot me,
1479 I'm just the piano player.
1480 o Did some other stuff, but forgot to write it down and have now
1481 forgotten what it was. Old age is hell.
1482
14832.14:
1484 o FM/2 will now detect that a CD-ROM drive which didn't have a disk in
1485 it or had a music disk in it when FM/2 was started is a CD-ROM drive
1486 when accessed later with a data disk in it, and change the icon
1487 accordingly. This also applies to hard drives that were locked when
1488 FM/2 started, by happy coincidence, and should work on other
1489 removable media drives.
1490 o Hints given in error popup for some access errors (for example, when
1491 clicking on an empty diskette drive).
1492 o Install.cmd will not change the parameters field of objects that it
1493 creates if the File Manager/2 folder already existed. It will still
1494 update the paths.
1495 o VTree honors drive exclusions like it should have in the first place.
1496 o VTree will delete a directory if the Shredder refuses for some reason.
1497 o Added VTree->WPS folder toggle.
1498 o Shortened VTree tasklist title for registered users.
1499 o FM/2 will attempt to fit smaller files onto diskettes when a larger
1500 file in the list to be moved/copied won't fit before prompting you to
1501 change diskettes due to a disk full condition.
1502 o Help for toolbar buttons shows up when mouse passes over them --
1503 figured out how to implement without excessive message passing (IOW,
1504 to my satisfaction).
1505
15062.13:
1507 o Added ability to set type of selection used in some containers (in
1508 the Settings Notebook on the "Windows" page).
1509 o Selecting "Settings Notebook" in the FM3.EXE monolithic app, even
1510 from container context menus, will always bring up a full settings
1511 notebook.
1512 o Slightly reduced memory usage for HPFS drives (ah, another reason
1513 to use HPFS...).
1514 o Fixed bug in SetIcon.
1515 o Did some more work on FM2PLAY.EXE to make it more eye-appealing and
1516 maybe a bit more functional.
1517 o Shortened tasklist title for registered users.
1518
15192.12:
1520 o AV/2 will now ignore an association if it contains the string
1521 "AV2.EXE" in the command line (meaning it might call itself).
1522 o Fixed "Lowercase name" bug.
1523 o Worked over the context menus again, added a couple more
1524 accelerator keys.
1525 o Hooked Help button in Child Window dialog to some help.
1526
15272.11:
1528 o Fixed odd bug in second status line in Directory Containers.
1529 o Fixed rename buglet that caused rename from menu/button to
1530 give funny default drive.
1531 o Added drag and drop to INI Viewer to allow moving and copying
1532 data between different INI files.
1533 o Added FM2PLAY.EXE to allow playing multimedia files (via MMPM/2)
1534 from FM/2 easily. Usage: FM2PLAY.EXE <file> [<file> <file...>].
1535 There's a menu item for it.
1536 o Added "associat.txt" containing recommended associations for use
1537 with FM/2. Please send your ideas for this list.
1538 o Enhanced the Bookshelf Viewer.
1539
15402.10:
1541 o Added Undo buttons to Settings notebook pages.
1542 o Fixed bug wherein Save state of dir windows toggle was ignored.
1543 o Put in some comma formatting to prevent an untimely death.
1544 o Fixed bug wherein Doubleclick Opens toggle was ignored.
1545 o Added a couple more Settings pages.
1546 o Made appropriate Settings pages available to standalone modules.
1547 o Tweaked a few menus for a more consistent appearance.
1548
15492.09:
1550 o Changed things so the little notification box doesn't steal the
1551 focus when it comes up. Duh.
1552 o Added "Backup Profile", "Change System Profiles" and "Replace System
1553 Profiles" to the INI viewer.
1554 o Fixed some glitches in new mask "must have" attribute processing.
1555 o Found and fixed bug in Collector's Seek & Scan that could cause FM/2
1556 to trap.
1557 o Added a Settings notebook containing global toggles and such.
1558 Slower than the menus, but Ron Hester asked for it, and I always do
1559 what Ron says...
1560 o Return of the weirding ... but that'd be telling.
1561 o Added optional split status line.
1562
15632.08:
1564 o Added "must have" attributes to Filter.
1565 o Fixed Undelete dialog so selecting a new drive from the combobox
1566 causes the listbox to be refreshed for that drive, and so a missing
1567 DELETE environment variable for the selected drive doesn't cause the
1568 dialog to abort unless you select Cancel in the information box (so
1569 you can pick a different drive).
1570 o Added limited optional logging for some simple but critical
1571 operations (copy, move, rename, delete).
1572 o Documented "start minimized" command line argument.
1573 o Added "don't save/restore state of dir windows this time" command
1574 line argument.
1575
15762.07:
1577 o Added "View Bookshelf" and "View Helpfiles" utilities.
1578 o Fixed bug in Quick Tree added while fixing the last one...
1579 o VTree now saves its size and position on desktop (Ron Gawer wanted
1580 that). VDir doesn't, as you can have several of them open at once
1581 and it would be somewhat irritating to have them all on top of each
1582 other.
1583
15842.06:
1585 o In the Collector's Seek-and-scan dialog, the All HDs button now skips
1586 removable drives (like CD-ROMs) for convenience.
1587 o Quick tree works around the OS/2 DosFindFirst bug that prevents FAT
1588 root drives from being found.
1589 o Added "separator" attribute for tool buttons -- causes a small amount
1590 of space to be added after the button with the attribute, for
1591 appearance (grouping of buttons).
1592 o Added ability to turn on titles below bitmap buttons in toolbar (it'll
1593 have to be short and sweet) and grouped all toolbar toggles under a
1594 Toolbar conditional cascade submenu.
1595
1596[lazy bum skipped a few...]
1597
15982.00:
1599 o A whole new look for FM/2 -- the same thing, only more so. Some
1600 things were enhanced, some dropped, some replaced or superceded.
1601 Still, if you used 1.x you should feel at home.
1602
1603$Id: HISTORY 1528 2010-05-29 22:34:16Z gyoung $
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