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33.04 pre10:
4 o Allow non-null terminated archive signatures
5 o Preserve archiver.bbs comments
6
73.04 pre9:
8 o Add archiver defintion add/delete/move support
9
103.04 pre8:
11 o Avoid toolbar window list trap (action 9010)
12 o Avoid internal editor file corruption when wrap on
13
143.04 pre7:
15 o More archiver.bb2 template rework
16 o Correct archiver window date/time suppress logic
17 o Clean up archiver.bb2 loader
18 o Minor makefile corrections
19
203.04 pre6:
21 o Correct typo in MakeValidDir() - avoid drive button RMB trap
22
233.04 pre5:
24 o Support archivers with no list headers (tar)
25 o Support archivers that onl extract with directories (tar)
26 o Disable menus for not ready volumes
27 o Correct missing collector view button window updates
28 o Correct fallback logic in MakeValidDir()
29
303.04 pre4:
31 o Correct longnames display enable
32 o archiver.tmp (archiver.bb2) updated and optimized
33 o Support archiver.tmp install
34
353.04 pre3:
36 o Support jfsopt.cmd install
37 o Support tarlist.cmd install
38 o Ensure install.cmd updates fm/2 Desktop folder icons
39 o Support empty signatures in archiver.bb2
40
413.04 pre2:
42 o More icon updates (David's v18)
43 o Avoid user directory edit crash
44 o Avoid crashing if archiver.bb2 entry has no signature
45
463.04 pre1:
47 o Avoid commands menu do it yourself trap
48 o Correct filesystem type details view column selections
49 o Rework resource kit into standard makefiles
50 o Replace bitmaps and icons (thanks to David Graser and others)
51 o Add JFS optimize support (thanks to Gregg Young)
52 o Avoid Directory Sizes hangs
53
543.03:
55 o Rework resource kit and reskit readme
56 o Correct directory sizes sort
57 o Correct archive sort again
58
593.02i:
60 o Rework Databar to avoid delays for inaccessible volumes
61 o Lots of work on large file support
62 o Switch to VAC 3.65
63 o Correct name parsing in collector and archive containers
64 o Output popup error messages to stderr and to screen
65 o Correct archive container initial sort setup
66 o Avoid startup trap in FindSwapperDat (VAC3.65 compat)
67 o Correct reversed wrap menu in new viewer
68 o Misc VAC3.65 compat rework
69 o Avoid referencing garbage in collector
70 o Resolve some icon selection inconsistencies
71
723.02h:
73 o Show full target path in Drag/Drop dialogs
74 o Add debug support to troubleshoot invisible FAT32 drive
75 o Correct archiver.bb2 editing
76
773.02g:
78 o Update removable drive support to work for USB MSD
79
803.02f:
81 o Add large drive support to the dirsize applet startup screen
82 o Avoid spurious filldir errors for large drives
83 Will still get get math errors for >4GB directories
84
853.02e:
86 o More see all files fixes
87 o Correct internal viewer WM_VSCROLL logic (amouse)
88
893.02d:
90 o Clean up icon usage
91 o Add missing refresh after compare subdir toggle
92 o Try to avoid playing non-MM files when use MMOS2 enabled
93 o Rework directory sizes for large drives
94 o Correct Show All Files requests from Tree View context menu
95 o Correct resource strings
96
973.02c:
98 o Correct broken assignments
99 o Force Compare Directories window refresh on subdir toggle
100
1013.02b:
102 o Add JFS and FAT32 support
103
1043.02a:
105 o Replace corrupted remote.ico.
106 o Correct archive name display
107
1083.02:
109 o First open source release.
110
1113.01:
112 o Added another archiver date type for user Jans-Peter Otto.
113
1143.00d:
115 o FM/2 Lite remembers if a directory pane was maximized when it
116 closed now (duh -- should have all along, I just forgot).
117
1183.00c:
119 o More minor bug fixes.
120
1213.00b:
122 o Fix two minor bugs reported by users.
123
1243.00:
125 o Most of the text in FM/2 is now accessible from outside the source
126 code files, meaning translations to other languages should now be
127 possible without much problem. A resource translation kit is offered
128 free-of-charge to registered users. This required some additional
129 files (FM3RES.DLL and FM3RES.STR), but FM3DLL.DLL becomes (at least)
130 correspondingly smaller.
131 o Jazzed up Autoview a bit.
132 o Removed a bug that sneaked in during code optimization detected by
133 a user where archive members couldn't be dragged. Then optimized
134 some more, thus tempting fate.
135 o Improved FM/2's internal window selection from menus.
136 o The status button in Directory Containers that shows the selected
137 number of files and bytes now displays a select menu when clicked.
138 o Drive buttons will now show free space on drives as bubble help
139 except for CD-ROM drives, diskette drives A: and B:, and drives
140 marked as "slow" in the drive flags dialog. I also made the buttons
141 a little bigger, and they'll "stack" if required due to insufficient
142 width.
143 o Removed System Information applet from FM/2 -- OS/2 seems to have
144 this stuff built-in now.
145 o Moved MakeArc into the FM/2 Utilities package.
146 o You can now add selected environment variables that list directories
147 (like PATH, LIBPATH and DPATH) to the Drive Tree with a toggle in
148 the internal Settings notebook on the Tree page. Cool.
149 o You can now set a default Target directory for menu and accelerator
150 key copy and move operations, and choose to confirm (and perhaps
151 change) that directory on each operation, or accept it without
152 confirmation.
153 o FM/2 will now make program object Parameters suggestions the first
154 time it's run (no FM3.INI exists) if you should exclude any drives,
155 and will even set the Parameters for you if you like.
156 o Yet more tweaking that no one will ever notice...
157
1582.67:
159 o Jazzed up the mini-command line a bit.
160 o Command lines for the Execute dialog and mini-command line are now
161 saved separately (the former in CMDLINES.DAT, the latter in
162 CMDMINI.DAT, same format). You can save, or not, either type for
163 recall.
164
1652.66:
166 o Increased duration of error window to 5 seconds from 3 (click it to
167 make it vanish early), changed background color to white and text
168 color to dark red, surrounded with red rectangle to make it stand out
169 more. Also gave it a distinctive sound. (This is the error window
170 you get if you do something like try to open the diskette drive when
171 there's no diskette inserted.)
172 o Killed bug reported by Paulo Mario where FM/2 could crash (suddenly
173 exit) after moving a file and overwriting an existing file.
174 o Reworked Databar a bit.
175 o For the adventurous among you, try holding Shift or Ctrl while
176 clicking that second status window in a Directory Container...
177
1782.65:
179 o You can drag an object onto the Drive tree's Open button now, and
180 a Directory Container for that object will be opened.
181 o Long-overdue code cleanup begins...
182 o Fixed bug in FM/2 Lite where it was sorta paying attention to the
183 "bottom buttons" setting in FM/2 when it should ignore it.
184 o Played with FM/2's default settings for new users -- some of the
185 best stuff was turned off by default!
186 o Changed the behavior of the Rename dialog somewhat per user
187 suggestion. "Overwrite if target older or same," "Overwrite if
188 target newer" and "Don't ask again" checkboxes now allow you to
189 selectively skip being asked about naming conflicts for the rest of
190 an operation. Note that clicking the "Okay" button honors these
191 choices, but the "Overwrite" button overrides them for that one file
192 (an overwrite _will_ be performed).
193
1942.64:
195 o Made Window->Tile a cascade menu with Tile as the default, but you
196 can also set Autotile and Tile backwards toggles (renamed Tile
197 horizontal) there.
198 o More help file work.
199 o Tweaking of a few things no one will ever notice, except perhaps
200 as a feeling of more smoothness in a few places.
201 o Added "Leave all attrs" button to Attributes dialog to make
202 "touching" files easier.
203
2042.63:
205 o Fixed bug in UNDEL.EXE pointed out by a user.
206 o Added "Double-click" topic to Tutorial section of help. Did you know
207 that you can make FM/2 do something different when you double-click
208 an object? Other miscellaneous work on the help file.
209 o Moved "Create shadows" command under "Copy" cascade in menus where no
210 separate "Create objects" cascade is available and a "Copy" cascade
211 is available.
212 o Made the way menus appear on new View and Sort buttons more
213 attractive (IMHO).
214 o Bubble help won't appear if the window isn't active now (oversight).
215 o To make it easier to parse the saved output from a Directory sizes
216 window, directory names containing spaces are now surrounded by quote
217 marks.
218 o Related: Put SEEHELP.EXE into FM2UTILS.ZIP for those who have
219 versions of OS/2 with VIEW.EXEs that won't read .HLP files directly.
220 You can read the FM/2 help file directly using this program on such
221 systems: "SEEHELP FM3.HLP".
222
2232.62:
224 o Added /SAVE and /NOSAVE to mini-command line options for a user.
225
2262.61:
227 o Added new buttons to Directory Container, Archive Containers and the
228 Collector that allow you to set sort, filter and view. Removed
229 filter button from bottom of screen (no longer needed). Revised
230 window layouts help to show modified layouts.
231 o More newuser-friendly junk (more bubble help, etc.).
232 o Added Find first/next to INI viewer. Listbox command will work in
233 is bordered in red.
234 o Just a BTW -- there's a new IMAGE.EXE (the FM/2 image viewer utility)
235 in FM2UTILS.ZIP, available free-of-charge at
236 http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/fm2
237 I put some stuff in it that I needed for making pictures for the help
238 files.
239
2402.60:
241 o Fast internal viewer can start configured editor from menu (Ctrl + e
242 accelerator) per user request. Remember, to edit files in an
243 archive, you must still use Files->Refresh to cause selected files to
244 be refreshed in the archive.
245 o Added a bit more bubble help (remember, you can turn bubble help on
246 and off (somewhat selectively) in the internal Settings notebook).
247
2482.59:
249 o Rename dialog will now specifically tell you if the source file is
250 newer, older or same date as target and smaller, larger or same size
251 if there's a conflict with an existing target file, per user request.
252
2532.58:
254 o Added ability to create a new directory and switch to it in the
255 common directories user list (select <New directory>). Revised
256 help to reflect this.
257 o Holding down Shift while selecting a state name will prevent FM/2
258 from closing windows already open now (per user request). An
259 automatic retile of all windows is then performed.
260
2612.57:
262 o Added ability to sort by subject per user request (wouldn't it be
263 nice if Netscape put where we got downloaded files from in an EA? Or
264 let you drag a file over it without locking up the system?).
265
2662.56:
267 o Added ability to use exclusion masks in the Seek and Scan dialog
268 per Harry Travis' request. Also added Append checkbox.
269
2702.55:
271 o Fixed bug reported by Ralph Alvy -- "Append" checkbox being ignored
272 in Save to listfile dialog, FM/2 always appended to listfile.
273
2742.54:
275 o Small tweaks.
276 o I don't do Compuserve anymore. Reach me via the net, or just go to
277 FM/2's web page at http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/fm2
278
2792.53:
280 o Added Commands user dropdown list for picking commands to run on
281 selected files more quickly and easily.
282 o Removed "#" character from AV/2 temporary directory -- WebEx and
283 Netscape were choking on it (a).
284 o Allow disabling FM/2's custom file dialog so you can use MSE's
285 instead, if you like (the toggle's on the General page). (What's
286 MSE? Look at http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/mse) (a).
287 o Added support for PKZIP 2.50 (b).
288
2892.52:
290 o When the FM/2 main window is resized and a Directory Container is
291 maximized within it, it will remain maximized.
292 o Modified AV/2 and ARCHIVER.BB2 so that RAR v2's woefully NIH
293 listings can be read. Would it just _kill_ you archiver authors to
294 get together and come up with some sort of easily parsed listing
295 standard, then stick to it? Please?
296 o FM/2 will now show the current decryption keyword for extra programs
297 like DBFVIEW and FMT from the About box.
298
2992.51:
300 o Tweaked image viewer initial sizing algorithm to better handle very
301 small bitmaps at more nearly correct perspectives.
302 o Added "No folder menu" toggle to internal Settings notebook by
303 user request.
304 o Put floppy letters back into drives userlist dropdown due to
305 user request.
306 o Made image viewer a separate executable due to a memory leak in
307 OS/2's MMPM/2 (mmio) under Merlin beta and some Warp 3 fixpack
308 configurations -- closing the application frees the memory, but
309 nothing else will, so a small, fast, separate application "fixes" the
310 problem (or, if you prefer, "OS/2 bug"). Like FM2PLAY.EXE, this
311 IMAGE.EXE file will now be in the FM/2 Utilities package (FM2UTL.ZIP
312 on CI$ or FM2UTILS.ZIP on the internet). You'll probably want to
313 remove any old IMAGE.CMD file built by previous FM/2 installs.
314 o Added ability to view and manipulate files in archives containing
315 spaces in the filename for archivers that provide information in a
316 particular way (see ARCHIVER.BB2 -- ZIP and LZH archives are set up
317 this way). Other folks who use ARCHIVER.BB2 should take a look at
318 the updated documentation to see how to take advantage of this, but
319 it's backward-compatible, so old versions of those programs will
320 still work correctly with this change.
321 o Removed SEEHELP.EXE -- Warp has the ability to view help files using
322 VIEW.EXE which comes with the OS.
323 o Added "WPS Move" and "WPS Copy" commands.
324 o I no longer accept registrations via direct mail. Registrations are
325 available through BMT Micro or CIS' SWREG only (BMT recommended --
326 see REGISTER.TXT). I just got too much snail mail and couldn't keep
327 up with all of it.
328
3292.50b:
330 o Added ability to convert an image file to another format from the
331 image viewer window.
332 o All supported multimedia types are now "played" automatically on
333 double-click unless you have an FM/2 Association set for them.
334
3352.50a:
336 o Added "Run Viewer as child session" toggle -- if used, any open
337 viewers will close when FM/2 closes.
338 o Added "Env" button to Seek and scan dialog (for searching through
339 directories listed in environment variables).
340 o Added "No sort" option to Collector sorting.
341 o FM/2 will now offer to remove old registration when started after
342 registration has expired, making it easy to enter updated
343 registration information.
344 o Directory Containers can now be switched into Tree View. See also
345 new "Stay in Tree View" toggle.
346 o B2 on Directory Container Folder buttons pulls up an abbreviated
347 popup menu.
348 o Bugfix: The Autoview window wouldn't let you enter Comments on an
349 object that didn't already have them (duh).
350 o FM/2 now taps into MMPM/2 to display image files, instead of GBM. To
351 activate FM/2's "internal" image file viewing, be sure to remove any
352 Associations for MMPM/2-supported image file types (JPG, TIF, BMP,
353 PCX, GIF, etc.) using FM/2's Config->Edit Associations command.
354
3552.50:
356 o Added a horizontal scrollbar to Global files viewer.
357 o Added line wrap (and thus horizontal scrollbar) to fast internal
358 viewer.
359 o Added WWW and FTP component launching to internal viewers per
360 user request. BTW, testpm.exe from the FM/2 Utilities is handy for
361 deciphering the arguments to FTPPM.EXE, which are a bit bizaare and
362 undocumented. Just rename FTPPM.EXE to FTPPM.BAK, copy TESTPM.EXE
363 to FTPPM.EXE in the same directory, open the FTP object's Settings
364 notebook, then open the FTP object's program and compare the
365 results.
366 o Added optional blue/yellow LEDs which can be used in place of the
367 default red/green thread LED bitmaps.
368 o Added a toggle to make the databar boring for those who can't stand
369 too much excitement (I have users who are easily worn out :-). Also
370 added file system type to end of string on user request.
371 o Execute dialog will try to remind you why you called it up in case
372 you fall asleep after double-clicking the mouse and awake confused.
373 It could happen.
374 o Couple of more small workarounds for Merlin beta bugs.
375 o Changed the way the toolbar displays help to eliminate capturing
376 the mouse (kludge, OS/2 should have a WM_MOUSELEAVING message).
377 o Added mini-toolbar to fast internal viewer.
378 o Note new internet address.
379 o Price reduction for commercial registrations.
380 o SET environment variable DOS_SHELL in CONFIG.SYS if you want to use
381 an alternate command processor in DOS sessions (for example,
382 SET DOS_SHELL=C:\4DOS\4DOS.EXE).
383 o Remap command now uses NET USE, enhancements (like it works, for
384 one :-).
385 o Added Miscellaneous->Detach (Ctrl + H) command to Drive Tree drive
386 popup to detach local drives from remote resources.
387 o Updated FM2PLAY.EXE (in FM2UTL.ZIP on CIS, FM2UTILS.ZIP elsewhere),
388 including more controls and ability to load list of files from a
389 listfile. FM/2 will use this listfile method when playing more
390 multimedia files than will fit on a command line using the
391 View->Multimedia (Ctrl + l) command. OS/2 command lines are
392 limited to about 1000 characters, if you're interested.
393 o Lots of other little tweaks and improvements -- some you might
394 even notice.
395
3962.49:
397 o More cosmetic tweaking -- for example, changing status line or bottom
398 button text font will now result in resizing of control to match new
399 font. BTW, if you set ugly fonts or colors and want the defaults
400 back, one way to do it completely is to delete the window position
401 entry in OS2.INI and start from scratch...
402 o Work around for nasty bug in Merlin beta Voice Manager.
403 o Remap drives command added -- untested at this time, as I have no
404 LAN. If you try it and it doesn't work, please report the error
405 code displayed. If it works, let me know that, too.
406 o Fixed bug in Merge code.
407 o Added mini-toolbars to Archive Containers and the Collector (visible
408 only if you have the toolbar in FM/2 turned on, of course).
409 o A couple of other little things folks asked for -- I forget.
410
4112.48a:
412 o Lots of cosmetic stuff (for example, check out the Databar).
413 o Additional help, partitioned Context menu help into smaller "chunks."
414 o Added Find button to Archive dialog.
415 o More Merlin preparations.
416 o Added UserDirs dropdown to standard OS/2 file dialogs used by FM/2.
417 o Added Duplicates command to Global file viewer.
418 o More (subtle) tweaking of Seek and Scan dialog.
419 o Anybody else notice how the competition is trying (in vain) to
420 copy FM/2, but having a great deal of trouble keeping up with
421 the Joneses? :-)
422
4232.48:
424 o Ideal size button logic adjusted so it will work as might be expected
425 with Merlin's new Warpcenter.
426 o Logic for sizing of titlebar buttons adjusted so they look better
427 under Merlin.
428 o Fixed bug in EA editor's MLE control -- an apparent change in the way
429 Warp handles the MLM_QUERYFORMATTEXTLENGTH with an overlong length
430 parameter has changed, resulting in the MLE not being cleared properly.
431 o Autoviewing file comments (.COMMENTS EA) now displays the comments in
432 an MLE rather than static text control, allowing editing. Moving the
433 focus from the MLE after making a change saves the new EA. Note: if
434 a .COMMENTS EA is damaged, FM/2 won't let you edit it in this window
435 for safety (maybe some strange program wanted it that way). You can
436 fix it in the EA viewer (Ctrl + Shift + E) if you know it's an anomoly.
437 Use the Ctrl + Tab accelerator key to switch focus to the Autoview
438 MLE if you're keyboarding. FM/2 supports .COMMENTS EAs up to 32767
439 characters in length. Each line of the MLE (newline, not wrap)
440 creates a separate EAT_ASCII value, in case you care and know what
441 the heck I'm talking about... BTW, GCP downloads automatically fill
442 in the .COMMENTS and .SUBJECT EAs for you if so configured, though
443 it seems to save the .COMMENTS EA in a weird (different from the
444 WPS) format -- but it's readable.
445 o You can use command line switch -<ininame> to start FM/2 with a
446 different INI file (i.e. "FM3.EXE -C:\MYINI.INI"). This means
447 that different users can set up FM/2 to taste and use separate
448 FM/2 objects to start their "version" of the program on the same
449 machine.
450 o FM/2 will try to remind you why the Walk directories dialog was
451 invoked, per forgetful, worn-out user request. :-)
452 o Keys help added per user request.
453
4542.47:
455 o Added "View->As archive" context menu option per user request.
456 o Added maximize/restore button to "FM/2 Lite" Directory Containers.
457 o Added Autoview window to "FM/2 Lite."
458 o Added "View archive" button to Archive List Error window.
459 o Fixed bug -- Ctrl + F7 not bringing up context menu with Sort
460 submenu selected.
461 o Jazzed up direct renaming of files and directories.
462 o Jazzed up Seek and Scan dialog per user request.
463 o AV/2 will now accept wildcarded filenames and view the first matching
464 file in whatever manner seems most appropriate.
465 o Delete key deletes files, Ctrl + Delete is permanent delete, Shift +
466 Delete is save to clipboard, Ctrl + Insert is make directory, Ctrl +
467 Pageup is parent directory, Ctrl + Pagedown is previous directory,
468 Ctrl + Home is root directory. Obviously, not all these keystrokes
469 are meaningful in all windows (for instance, parent directory doesn't
470 do anything in the Collector). These new shortcut keys are in
471 addition to existing accelerators. Applicable windows (see previous
472 caveat): Directory Containers, Drive Tree, Archive Containers,
473 Collector, Global files windows. Per user request. These are not
474 "real" accelerator keys as they tend to bleed through and mess with
475 normal interactions (even these bleed through here and there, but
476 it's benign), but hopefully you'll never notice the difference.
477 o In "FM/2 Lite," you can direct-edit the title of a Directory
478 Container to change directories.
479 o Install now accepts /UNATTENDED argument to run without asking any
480 questions.
481
4822.46:
483 o Fixed drive button bug.
484 o Added "FM/2 Lite" (or whatever you want to call it), a new
485 "personality" for FM/2 intended for those who can't deal with
486 the real thing.
487
4882.45:
489 o When selecting or deselecting by mask, you can specify a text string
490 to be used. First the file is tested against the mask(s), then
491 tested to see if it contains the text (if any is specified).
492 o Fixed bug -- context menus quit working after a Directory Container
493 was closed.
494 o Added Makearc module, mainly for access from NTree.
495 o Fixed bug -- "case sensitive" flag was being reversed for Seek and
496 Scan.
497
4982.44:
499 o "Thread busy" LED added per user request.
500 o Toolbar buttons now allow you to use different bitmaps of your own
501 design. Notes: using user-defined bitmaps in the toolbar can slow
502 loading of FM/2 slightly, but probably not noticably unless you
503 replace all of them. Request a context menu on a toolbar button and
504 pick "Edit button" to get the dialog where you tell FM/2 to use a
505 user-defined bitmap.
506 o External Archive Containers, Collector, VTree and VDirs now have
507 their own pulldown menu for Files and Views (the shadow menus) and
508 Help for easy keyboard access and/or novice users.
509 o Command lines executed through the command line dialog are remembered
510 for possible later retrieval.
511 o Directory sizes dialog reworked (prettier, sizeable). DIRSIZE.EXE
512 program provided for accessing this function directly (object placed
513 in FM/2 Tools subfolder by INSTALL.CMD).
514
5152.43:
516 o Added optional drivebar per user request.
517 o Added Lock and Unlock commands for removable drives.
518 o Added UUDecode command and Merge command (yep, got another internet
519 connection, finally).
520 o When presented with a list of objects in a dialog (as in the Edit EAs
521 or Attributes dialogs), double-clicking a file object will bring up
522 the configured viewer with the file loaded. This is just a quick
523 view purely for convenience; no attempt is made to view the file as
524 an archive or check Associations. You can double-click it in the
525 Directory Container if you need to go that far.
526 o Added "Thread notes" window -- if you don't like it, minimize it and
527 it should stay that way. When a thread does something that takes
528 awhile, like copying a file, it tells you when it starts and when
529 it finishes.
530 o Under Warp, FM/2 will now query the active desktop in a documented
531 manner when asked to create objects. There is no reliable method
532 under older OS/2 versions.
533 o Improved FM/2's built-in printing somewhat. Still not as good as
534 printing from the appropriate application, of course.
535 o Confirmation lists will now display a bitmap representing the command
536 to be executed on the dialog, where applicable, as a quick visual
537 reminder.
538 o When switching a Directory Container to the parent, FM/2 will
539 make the vacated directory's object the current object.
540
5412.42:
542 o More threading in strategic spots to make response when moving around
543 really slow drives (like ZIP and EZ drives) snappier. The drivers
544 for these drives need a bit more work, developers -- think "cache,"
545 especially for things like providing the label and usage info. When
546 it's slower than the floppy drives, some work needs to be done, eh?
547 o Edit->Drive flags dialog now available from a drive (root dir) object
548 in the Drive Tree -- lets you set flags you used to _have_ to set
549 from the command line (and a couple of new ones). You can still set
550 flags from the command line as an override.
551 o Files can be included in the Drive Tree display on a per-drive basis
552 if you can actually think of a reason to do it (I can't, but someone
553 asked). If you do find a use for it, tell me what the heck it is.
554 o See all files can be invoked on directory (folder) objects
555 (Miscellaneous->Show all files) or the directory into which a
556 Directory Container looks.
557 o See all files window and Collector now have new "Move and preserve"
558 and "Copy and preserve" commands to move or copy objects while
559 preserving their directory relationship (see online help for
560 examples).
561 o Double-clicking on an empty part of the Drive Tree now invokes the
562 Make Directory command. Double-clicking on an empty part of a
563 Directory Container opens its WPS folder.
564 o Target of a drag and drop operation can be changed from the FM/2
565 drag and drop dialog (if you're using the dialog, of course).
566 o Improved directory comparison dialog (no, it's still no PMDirMatch
567 and never will be, and yes, you can still tell FM/2 to use PMDirMatch
568 instead of the internal).
569 o Added Utilities->Compare directories command.
570 o Sorting an Archive Container by date is now possible, at least for
571 some archive types. See ARCHIVER.BB2 for details. You can also
572 Alt-B1 click the titles of sortable fields in Archive Containers now
573 to change the sort type (just like you can in a Directory Container).
574
5752.41:
576 o VTree now runs Directory Containers (VDirs) as part of its process,
577 which should save on a little memory for those of you using FM/2 as
578 as "super drives objects." To take full advantage of this, the
579 "Separate parameters" toggle should be checked.
580 o External FM/2 windows can be closed from the PM Window List without
581 closing the entire program (excepting the main window, of course).
582 o Fixed bug: last line of a hex view wasn't formatted very
583 attractively.
584 o Fixed bug: quick config page didn't work right anymore.
585 o Fixed bug: VDir and AV/2 windows would show external FM/2 windows
586 but not switch to them.
587 o Window dialog now shows and acts on external FM/2 windows.
588 o Checking "Separate parameters" toggle now saves all parameters
589 under the new appname immediately when the Settings notebook
590 is closed. You'll want to be careful here -- think before choosing.
591 BTW, a backup of your FM3.INI file, once you get it set up to your
592 liking, is always a good idea. Don't use FM3INI.BAK as the filename,
593 since FM/2 automatically does a one-generation backup to that name.
594 o Warp no longer allows a container item to be hidden by a thread other
595 than the thread that controls the container if the item is selected
596 (Why? Who knows? Why don't DrgQueryDraginfoPtrFromDragitem() and
597 CN_DROPHELP work?). Since this forces single threaded hiding of
598 objects, I must conclude this is a bug in OS/2. However, since it's
599 in "GA" OS/2 code, I reluctantly worked around it by making Hide
600 objects single-threaded -- you'll have to wait for it to get done.
601 Shouldn't be a major problem.
602 o Added codepage 1004 to codepage dialog. Someone asked, I didn't even
603 know the blamed thing was there.
604 o Added Ctrl + F10 and Ctrl + F11 accelerators to start/end a direct
605 edit of a filename for the rodently challenged.
606 o Added Next/Prev blank line menu items and buttons to new internal
607 viewer (accelerators were there before). In text where paragraphs
608 are separated by blank lines, these go down or up to the next
609 paragraph. Something I use.
610 o Added Recent Directories dropdown list to Walk Directories dialog,
611 which separates the recently used directories from the user-defined
612 directories in that dialog. Just wanted to.
613 o Added "DOS-think" and "Windoze-think" quick-config options to
614 internal Settings notebook. If you use 'em they'll stunt your growth.
615 o Fixed an obscure tile bug no one else seems to have noticed.
616 o Changed Shift + F? accelerators to Ctrl + F? to avoid conflicting
617 with a couple of OS/2-used keys.
618 o Further tightened integration between VTree and its Directory
619 Containers.
620 o Made Tree (optionally) smart.
621 o Reorganized internal Settings notebook for more "logical" grouping
622 (some things grow with a life of their own).
623 o Changed Install so that it puts many objects in a separate Toolbox
624 folder (someone who's not even registered suggested it, and I decided
625 to give it a try -- tell me what you think. If upgrading, delete the
626 old FM/2 folder before running Install again.).
627
6282.40:
629 o Added "All" button to Filter dialog.
630 o Added more optional buttons to main window.
631 o Added %u/%U metastrings.
632 o Added hex/ASCII + drag-me window to bottom of new internal text
633 viewer.
634 o Added %! metastring.
635 o Added default archiver setting.
636 o PM uses several ALT + F? accelerators to control frame windows.
637 However, this applies to the current frame window, which can be
638 within the main FM/2 window when run monolithically. Add Ctrl to
639 these accelerators to affect the main window in that case. I don't
640 change the system menu text to reflect this as it may be in a foreign
641 language, and I'm an ignorant, ugly one-language American.
642 o Added "Separate parameters" toggle.
643 o Added "Treetop on expand" toggle.
644 o Windows pulldown now lists external FM/2 windows, as does a submenu
645 on the container popup in VTree, VDir and AV/2 windows.
646 o Fixed some minor bugs in Commands menu generation.
647 o Fixed bug in Collector -- unshifted double-click didn't work on
648 directories.
649 o VDirs, external Archive Containers and Viewers now retain their last
650 set window size -- position is still determined by the Shell (PM).
651 o Lots of little tweaks no one but me will ever notice.
652
6532.39:
654 o Fixed weird bug -- apparently IBM changed the behavior of
655 MLM_QUERYFORMATTEXTLENGTH in Warp. This change may only take effect
656 at FP10+ levels.
657 o Added Open Directory Container button to Drive Tree titlebar -- only
658 shows up when FM/2 is run as a monolithic app.
659 o Added "Directory" attributes to Filter dialog per user request --
660 lets you exclude directories from Directory Containers, or show only
661 directories. NOTE: if you are upgrading, you may need to go into
662 the Filter and turn on the Directory attribute -- it's on by default
663 for new installations. Use the internal Settings notebook to
664 activate the Filter dialog (DirView and ColView pages) by setting the
665 focus to the Filter: entryfield, so that the "general" filter is
666 changed.
667 o Help file improvements (a neverending saga).
668
6692.38:
670 o Walk Directories dialog will now display non-writeable drives unless
671 the directory selection is for an action that requires writing to the
672 selected directory (for example, copy or move, set extract directory,
673 etc.).
674 o Filtering in Drive Tree now available, per user request. NOTE:
675 filtering is performed _after_ expansion; therefore, it is possible
676 for the Tree to "lie" to you until you expand a branch (i.e. indicate
677 that other directories are available, but remove the "+/-" when you
678 attempt to expand the branch. If it's important for you to know what
679 the entire tree of a drive looks like with filtering applied, use the
680 Expand/Collapse->Expand command from the Files menu or a popup. You
681 can thereafter collapse and expand the tree as desired. Tricks can
682 be played with the filter mask; for instance, "/C:\OS2*;/C:\MMOS2*;
683 /C:\TCPIP*;*" will exclude some system directories on drive C: and
684 show everything else.
685 o Got rid of the annoying (to me, anyway) extra refresh when the
686 "Immediate Updates" toggle is not used (more cheating).
687 o Windows will now be created with the WS_ANIMATE style if "Animate"
688 toggle on internal Settings notebook's Windows page is checked. Of
689 course, system animation must still be turned on to see any effect.
690 o Keyboard input of "standard" characters now performs a text search
691 to find the closest matching file system object in the container.
692 You can get the old (OS/2 default) behavior (move to nearest object
693 starting with the pressed letter) by holding down the shift key.
694 o When a background task that FM/2 is waiting on takes more than about
695 two seconds to complete its job, FM/2 will switch it to the
696 foreground. This means that if an archive is encrypted (passworded),
697 you'll get the oportunity to enter a password without having to
698 resort to the Window List to manually bring the window to the
699 foreground.
700
7012.37:
702 o Added "Autoview comments" notebook toggle (page 2) and Config menu
703 items for same. You can have FM/2 autoview file contents _or_
704 .COMMENTS EAs -- handy for looking at files that were downloaded by
705 a package that puts the file description in that EA. You can also
706 get to that EA on the third page of a WPS object's File page or via
707 FM/2's Edit EAs dialog, BTW.
708 o CTRL + Shift + B1 doubleclick opens an object's WPS Settings notebook.
709 o You can now link-drag a root directory (drive) from the Drive Tree.
710 For cryin' out loud, BE CAREFUL!
711 o Credit card registrations via BMT Micro are now available.
712 o Directory Containers can now have independent sorts if you DON'T use
713 the "Immediate Updates" toggle. When you set a sort (or filter) in
714 the internal Settings notebook, you're setting a default for
715 subsequently created Directory Containers. When you set a sort (or
716 filter) using the popup menu of a Directory Container, you're
717 changing only that container. States will now also save the type of
718 view (Icon, Details, etc.), sort and filter settings for each open
719 Directory Container.
720
7212.36:
722 o Added "Rename existing" button to Rename dialog -- allows you to
723 rename (move) an existing target file system object out of the way
724 before moving or copying another file system object to that name.
725 o Fixed "obscure" bug (reporting user's words :-) causing FM/2 to
726 enter a loop when "Views" cascade was selected from the action
727 bar menu when an internal Archive Container was the current window.
728 o Tutorial section added to online help.
729 o When a bitmapped graphic file is viewed, the window is sized to fit
730 on the screen even when the image is larger than the screen.
731 Proportion is maintained for the initial window positioning. You can
732 stretch the size of the window. The bitmap is scaled to fit. GBM is,
733 of course, still required to directly view images in FM/2.
734 o Changed toolbar button help to "bubble" style, added toggle to disable.
735 o Added Directory Compare (DirCmp:) field to Files/Dirs page of internal
736 Settings notebook.
737 o Added %d and %D metastrings for Commands.
738 o Percentages in Directory Sizes dialog more accurate (to nearest
739 thousandth).
740 o "Include subdirectories" toggle in Directory Compare dialog.
741 o Fixed bug in 2.35a's INSTALL.CMD. Can you say "duh?" Apparently I can.
742 o As usual, many little things no one will notice.
743
7442.35:
745 o Performance tuning.
746 o Implemented "minor" user suggestions.
747 o Added "Recent Dirs" toggle -- automatically adds temporary
748 directories to UserList as you change directories. You can make them
749 permanent by Adding them as usual.
750 o FM/2 may handle DOS archivers now (actually, it does -- I tested with
751 ARJ); however, you'll have to set them up for yourself and I won't
752 support them. Don't forget that DOS archivers don't support EAs.
753 AVOID WHENEVER POSSIBLE OR YOU'LL GET BURNED.
754 o If you have GBM.DLL on your LIBPATH or in the FM/2 directory, FM/2
755 will use it to display GBM-supported raster file types when they're
756 double-clicked. GBM currently supports most OS/2 and Windows
757 bitmaps, .GIF, .PCX, .TIF, .TGA, .IFF, .VID, .PGM, .KPS, .IAX, .XBM,
758 .SPR, and .PSE files. And it's free.
759 o Changed some icons around for a fresher look, added some for display
760 when you aren't loading icons from disk (for scanning speed).
761 o Added "Settings" button to Info dialog.
762
7632.34:
764 o Added "Tile backwards" toggle, but don't use it (it's a DOS-think
765 knee-jerk thing to do).
766 o Viewer won't "restore" the container that called it when it closes if
767 the container is maximized.
768 o Filtering speeded up when Autoview window is open.
769 o Show a little patch of color beside color names in Colors dialogs.
770 o Added "Folder after extract" toggle.
771 o Added ^F3 close monolithic app toggle (command id 1111 if anyone's
772 interested).
773 o More commands in INI viewer (rename, copy appname/keyname) and
774 enhanced existing Add/Edit INI record commands.
775 o Changed method of storing a few things so that they're both easily
776 human editable (for power users) and so they allow me to
777 "preconfigure" some things (for new users). If you're upgrading from
778 previous versions, there's a CONVERT.EXE that'll copy your old
779 settings to the appropriate format and get rid of old baggage.
780 o Added "Userlist switches" toggle to internal Settings notebook.
781 o Added "%r/%R" to metastrings.
782 o Added "Extract" to drag and drop dialog.
783 o Height of autoview window can be changed.
784 o More info displayed in drive info dialog.
785 o INSTALL is a bit smarter.
786 o Added two new buttons on status line -- different behaviors depending on
787 whether you click with B1 or B2 and the shift state.
788
7892.33:
790 o Added new internal viewer -- loads files at least five times faster
791 than the old viewer (which is still available via a toggle in the
792 internal Settings notebook).
793 o See all files window retains settings, is a bit slicker.
794 o Fixed bug -- rename box came up for each file moved/copied.
795 o Fixed bug -- FM/2 didn't start right with toolbar turned off. Weird.
796 o Worked around Warp bug -- PM locks up if you select a codepage that
797 hasn't been prepared. This should be ignored as in previous versions
798 of OS/2, but crashes the system instead (sheesh).
799 o Warp apparently still has a 64k limit to what the clipboard can hold.
800 While I could limit what you send to the clipboard, this is (hopefully)
801 one of those limits which will vanish with further updates to OS/2
802 itself, so I'll just caution you about it.
803 o Colors are adjustable in See all files windows.
804 o Several fonts are available in See all files windows (all fixed width).
805 o See all files window allows entering multiple keys to find a file if
806 the keys are entered within one second of each other.
807 o System info command made somewhat more human-readable.
808
8092.32:
810 o See all files window fleshed out.
811 o Added "Viewer outside," "Arcboxes outside," "INI viewer outside" and
812 "Collector outside" toggles to Toggles2 page of internal Settings
813 notebook.
814 o Added "Save" button to Directory Sizes dialog
815 o Sort type can now be changed in Details view by holding ALT and
816 clicking the title of the field to sort on (assuming titles are
817 turned on and the field is one for which sorting is available,
818 of course).
819 o Added toggle to allow user to select default delete type.
820 o Added "toolbox" dropdown to user lists.
821 o Added sample toolboxes to archive.
822 o Info and EA dialogs now include listbox, lets you scroll through all
823 objects instead of popping up for each selected object. EAS.EXE
824 mini-app inherits this; now accepts multiple filenames.
825 o Check list dialogs now allow calling up the Info dialog for files in
826 the list.
827
8282.31:
829 o Added "Minimize to databar" toggle, also accessible as a standalone
830 miniapp.
831 o Tree remembers directories, once expanded.
832 o An individual drive may now be rescanned in the Drive Tree (related
833 to the above).
834 o More keyboard shortcuts for the rodently challenged.
835 o Drag from recessed text fields in Directory and Archive Containers
836 now possible (drags the directory or archive, respectively).
837 o Default Commands command (Do it yourself) added.
838 o Extract path can now be assigned "*" meaning "use directory in which
839 the archive resides."
840 o More menu compaction (well, you think of a term for it).
841 o New "See all files" window (still under construction, but already
842 much faster and very functional, without the standard listbox
843 limitation of 32767 maximum items). Loads, sorts and displays
844 15,792 files from two local fixed drives in 18 seconds on my
845 486/66DX2 with normal (for me, of course) background load.
846 o Fixed buglet in Archive Container status display.
847 o More user suggestions implemented.
848
8492.30:
850 o I forget.
851
8522.29:
853 o Added "Topic" entry field in Bookshelf Viewer dialog.
854 o Added "Quick arc find" toggle in Settings notebook; can speed up
855 drag and drop operations on floppy/network drives.
856 o Worked around PM bug in custom frame controls.
857 o Added "Directory Container state" saving and restoring in a dropdown
858 list (turned on with "Toggle quicklists" under Config menu).
859 o Fixed drag and drop bug (couldn't move, duh). Smartened up drag and
860 drop while I was at it; no sense offering options not really
861 available due to media type (i.e. can't copy to a CD-ROM).
862 o Added "Launch" button to drag and drop dialog.
863 o Added quick-help for dropdown lists (in status box 2).
864 o Added ability to drop onto userlist dropdown to add a directory.
865 Also added popup maintenance menu (add and delete directories to/from
866 list).
867
8682.28:
869 o Added optional user directory list dropdown box on main window
870 (maintenance of the list is still performed in the Walk Directories
871 dialog).
872 o Added Drives submenu on Drive Tree's views context menu -- select a
873 drive from it and the tree scrolls to show it and makes it the
874 current object.
875 o Restricted filename quoting in command lines to absolute essentials
876 -- some programs are broken and choke on quoted filenames. We
877 absolutely cannot have LIST choking if it can be avoided.
878 o Double-clicking a directory in the Drive Tree container will cause an
879 existing Directory Container looking into that directory, if one
880 exists, to come to the foreground rather than opening a new one; if
881 the existing window is minimized, it'll be restored. Ditto for new
882 userlist dropdown.
883 o FM/2 can now launch Windows apps seamless -- maybe. Sheesh, I'd
884 use a DOS app first...
885
8862.27:
887 o Added "Move & rename" and "Copy & rename" commands per user request.
888 This extends into the drag and drop dialog (said dialog is now on by
889 default, BTW).
890 o Many tiny tweaks that no one will ever notice (for instance,
891 filenames containing "&" are now quoted on command lines where they
892 weren't before).
893 o Added EXAMPLE.CMD to archive as an example of how REXX scripts can
894 manipulate files listed in listfiles created by FM/2. This allows
895 Commands to circumvent the apx. 1000 character limit of OS/2 command
896 lines.
897 o Made notification window look more homogenous.
898
8992.26:
900 o Fixed stupid new bug in moving files from HPFS->FAT with long
901 filenames.
902 o Fixed bug in RemoteBug fix that conflicted with another fix for
903 remote FSD bugs. I'm getting sick of working around remote FSD
904 bugs -- think I'll just let the LAN folks fix _their_ stuff from
905 now on...
906 o Made titlebar of Drive Tree containers respond to request for context
907 menu as if it were container whitespace per user request.
908 o Added "Min on dir open" toggle -- a more elegant solution to a taste
909 thing (IMHO) than a user requested feature.
910 o Chord on status windows brings up window dialog like it does on
911 client window whitespace.
912 o Added "Append to clipboard" command to internal viewer/editor's
913 Edit menu.
914 o Moved "Write block" command out of Edit->Blocks submenu of internal
915 viewer/editor to the main Edit submenu as "Copy to file" so it's
916 accessible in readonly (viewing) mode while I was at it.
917 o Added informational tweaking to viewer/editor's Edit->Undo menu
918 command.
919 o Added "Walk" button to Seek and scan dialog.
920 o Added special FM/2 Association command line "<>" to indicate that the
921 default WPS view should be opened for matching files.
922
9232.25:
924 o Added "Edit" and "Refresh" to Archive Containers per user request.
925 o Added Drag and drop dialog and corresponding toggle per user request.
926
9272.24:
928 o Added "Remote bug" toggle since network FSD developers can't seem to
929 consistently produce working DosFindFirst/Next code to save their
930 lives.
931 o Undelete enhancements.
932
9332.23:
934 o Enhancements to potential dupe finder per user requests and other
935 stuff I thunk up all by my lonesome.
936 o Placed "Seek and scan" on the Utility pulldown. All it does is
937 start the Collector and post it a WM_COMMAND message as though you'd
938 clicked Seek and scan on its context menu. Maybe even folks who
939 don't read the help can find it now (who knows?).
940
9412.22:
942 o Additional detail and options are presented when FM/2 can't figure
943 out how to list the contents of an archive (ARCHIVER.BB2
944 misconfigured or archive bad) via new dialog. This should make
945 determining what the archive problem is much easier when the
946 inevitable problem arises.
947 o Added duplicate file finder to Seek-and-Scan dialog. Finds files
948 with same name and/or size and filedate.
949
9502.21:
951 o Shift and CTRL modifiers for double-clicking objects in Drive Tree,
952 Directory Containers and Collector implemented. Shift causes new
953 FM/2 window to open (directories; direct to View for files), CTRL
954 causes default WPS open.
955 o More stuff in the help file (sheesh -- this has gotta stop). The
956 online help should now make a rather complete manual when printed
957 together with the READ.ME file (see READ.ME for suggestions).
958 o INSTALL now makes an object for the online help so that it can be
959 viewed without starting FM/2 (using SEEHELP.EXE, included).
960 o Added Filter "Always show directories" toggle.
961 o Ideal size button supports a psuedo-restore operation, allowing
962 toggling between two sizes (mine and yours).
963 o Other stuff I forget.
964
9652.20:
966 o Fixed stupid bug that made FM/2 freak out on restart if you turned the
967 toolbar off and left it off (duh).
968 o Move-drag onto archives allowed now (if you have the archiver for that
969 archive type configured to allow moving files, of course).
970 o Fixed bug in longname<->shortname conversion (FAT<->HPFS).
971 o Found a nasty way to get Warp's printer objects to recognize FM/2's
972 D&D.
973 o Extract dialog can be told to remember its settings (extract directory,
974 masks, "with directories") distinctly from those set in Archive
975 Containers.
976 o Added a few pictures to the online help for extreme novices.
977 o Added new "Compare Select" submenu with commands that can make
978 selections based on comparing unfiltered files in all open Directory
979 Containers. Powerful stuff.
980 o Added "Hide objects" command (selective individual object filtering).
981 o Fixed bug -- drag to toolbar quit working when toolbar code rewritten.
982 o Slight modification to ARCHIVER.BB2 -- -1 for filename position means
983 to use the last "field" of an archive listing for the filename.
984 o FM/2 is compiled with optimization turned off now -- caught it
985 generating bad code in the new Compare Select module and don't trust
986 it (again).
987
9882.19:
989 o Added "Ideal size" System Menu command and titlebar button -- an
990 alternative to maximizing.
991 o More work on help file hypertext links using suggestions from a
992 registered user. Added a labelled bitmap showing the layout of FM/2
993 windows.
994 o Worked around weird bugs in Sizes and deleting toolbar buttons that
995 shouldn't be bugs but nonetheless cause problems on some machines.
996 o Added some one-line help fields to some dialogs to guide the user
997 along.
998 o Added the "Close" checkbox to the Edit Associations dialog, to allow
999 executing an association to shut down FM/2 (or a VDir window, mainly
1000 for use by folks using FM/2 to replace the Drives objects).
1001 o Added "Start Minimized" and "Start Maximized" buttons to the Windows
1002 page of the Settings notebook. FM/2 starts normal size then adjusts
1003 (that lets it size all its windows right first, and gives you something
1004 to return to from the maximized state).
1005
10062.18:
1007 o Added ability to use the undocumented DosQProcStat API in the Process
1008 Killer. While this will enable the Process Killer to work without an
1009 English version of PSTAT.EXE being present, DosQProcStat is an API
1010 subject to change by IBM, so beware.
1011 o Added FATOPT.EXE program to optimize FAT drives. THIS IS A BETA
1012 PROGRAM AND USES LOW-LEVEL DRIVE ACCESS -- BACK UP BEFORE USING!
1013 o Tweaked the online help, adding more hypertext links and detail.
1014
10152.17:
1016 o Optimized for speed: Quick trees, tree sizes.
1017 o Dug the names of the new color palettes out of Warp's INI files.
1018 Under 2.x both color palette commands (one new) load the same object.
1019 Under Warp they load the two different palette objects available.
1020 o Added swapfile/memory watch when Drive Tree is active window in FM/2.
1021 o Added HPFSOPT.EXE program to optimize HPFS drives.
1022
10232.16:
1024 o Added "Update objects" command.
1025 o Added "Optimize" command. Be sure to read the online help on this
1026 one (under "Context Menus").
1027 o Added toolbar changing buttons (buttons that automatically load a
1028 new toolbox into the toolbar). See comments in online help under
1029 "Toolbar->Add Tool."
1030 o Hmmm...Warp has broken the DM_DROPHELP message within an application
1031 -- the passed DRAGINFO structure is inaccessible (apparently already
1032 deallocated). An appropriate error message will be displayed, and
1033 the code's still there so that when IBM fixes it it'll automagically
1034 start working again.
1035
10362.15:
1037 o Added "Collect list in file(s)" command.
1038 o Added "Collect from a list file" command.
1039 o Added "Select List" command.
1040 o System VIO fonts have been renamed, jumping between "System" and
1041 "System VIO", a couple of times now. To top it off, when the name
1042 changes, the sizes do, too (i.e. 7.System == 5.System VIO, more or
1043 less). Warp is now GA and uses "System VIO" again, so I've changed
1044 it back to that. If some fonts don't look right on your 2.11 system,
1045 I'm sorry, but I'm trying to hit a moving target. Don't shoot me,
1046 I'm just the piano player.
1047 o Did some other stuff, but forgot to write it down and have now
1048 forgotten what it was. Old age is hell.
1049
10502.14:
1051 o FM/2 will now detect that a CD-ROM drive which didn't have a disk in
1052 it or had a music disk in it when FM/2 was started is a CD-ROM drive
1053 when accessed later with a data disk in it, and change the icon
1054 accordingly. This also applies to hard drives that were locked when
1055 FM/2 started, by happy coincidence, and should work on other
1056 removable media drives.
1057 o Hints given in error popup for some access errors (for example, when
1058 clicking on an empty diskette drive).
1059 o Install.cmd will not change the parameters field of objects that it
1060 creates if the File Manager/2 folder already existed. It will still
1061 update the paths.
1062 o VTree honors drive exclusions like it should have in the first place.
1063 o VTree will delete a directory if the Shredder refuses for some reason.
1064 o Added VTree->WPS folder toggle.
1065 o Shortened VTree tasklist title for registered users.
1066 o FM/2 will attempt to fit smaller files onto diskettes when a larger
1067 file in the list to be moved/copied won't fit before prompting you to
1068 change diskettes due to a disk full condition.
1069 o Help for toolbar buttons shows up when mouse passes over them --
1070 figured out how to implement without excessive message passing (IOW,
1071 to my satisfaction).
1072
10732.13:
1074 o Added ability to set type of selection used in some containers (in
1075 the Settings Notebook on the "Windows" page).
1076 o Selecting "Settings Notebook" in the FM3.EXE monolithic app, even
1077 from container context menus, will always bring up a full settings
1078 notebook.
1079 o Slightly reduced memory usage for HPFS drives (ah, another reason
1080 to use HPFS...).
1081 o Fixed bug in SetIcon.
1082 o Did some more work on FM2PLAY.EXE to make it more eye-appealing and
1083 maybe a bit more functional.
1084 o Shortened tasklist title for registered users.
1085
10862.12:
1087 o AV/2 will now ignore an association if it contains the string
1088 "AV2.EXE" in the command line (meaning it might call itself).
1089 o Fixed "Lowercase name" bug.
1090 o Worked over the context menus again, added a couple more
1091 accelerator keys.
1092 o Hooked Help button in Child Window dialog to some help.
1093
10942.11:
1095 o Fixed odd bug in second status line in Directory Containers.
1096 o Fixed rename buglet that caused rename from menu/button to
1097 give funny default drive.
1098 o Added drag and drop to INI Viewer to allow moving and copying
1099 data between different INI files.
1100 o Added FM2PLAY.EXE to allow playing multimedia files (via MMPM/2)
1101 from FM/2 easily. Usage: FM2PLAY.EXE <file> [<file> <file...>].
1102 There's a menu item for it.
1103 o Added "associat.txt" containing recommended associations for use
1104 with FM/2. Please send your ideas for this list.
1105 o Enhanced the Bookshelf Viewer.
1106
11072.10:
1108 o Added Undo buttons to Settings notebook pages.
1109 o Fixed bug wherein Save state of dir windows toggle was ignored.
1110 o Put in some comma formatting to prevent an untimely death.
1111 o Fixed bug wherein Doubleclick Opens toggle was ignored.
1112 o Added a couple more Settings pages.
1113 o Made appropriate Settings pages available to standalone modules.
1114 o Tweaked a few menus for a more consistent appearance.
1115
11162.09:
1117 o Changed things so the little notification box doesn't steal the
1118 focus when it comes up. Duh.
1119 o Added "Backup Profile", "Change System Profiles" and "Replace System
1120 Profiles" to the INI viewer.
1121 o Fixed some glitches in new mask "must have" attribute processing.
1122 o Found and fixed bug in Collector's Seek & Scan that could cause FM/2
1123 to trap.
1124 o Added a Settings notebook containing global toggles and such.
1125 Slower than the menus, but Ron Hester asked for it, and I allus do
1126 what Ron says...
1127 o Return of the weirding ... but that'd be telling.
1128 o Added optional split status line.
1129
11302.08:
1131 o Added "must have" attributes to Filter.
1132 o Fixed Undelete dialog so selecting a new drive from the combobox
1133 causes the listbox to be refreshed for that drive, and so a missing
1134 DELETE environment variable for the selected drive doesn't cause the
1135 dialog to abort unless you select Cancel in the information box (so
1136 you can pick a different drive).
1137 o Added limited optional logging for some simple but critical
1138 operations (copy, move, rename, delete).
1139 o Documented "start minimized" command line argument.
1140 o Added "don't save/restore state of dir windows this time" command
1141 line argument.
1142
11432.07:
1144 o Added "View Bookshelf" and "View Helpfiles" utilities.
1145 o Fixed bug in Quick Tree added while fixing the last one...
1146 o VTree now saves its size and position on desktop (Ron Gawer wanted
1147 that). VDir doesn't, as you can have several of them open at once
1148 and it would be somewhat irritating to have them all on top of each
1149 other.
1150
11512.06:
1152 o In the Collector's Seek-and-scan dialog, the All HDs button now skips
1153 removable drives (like CD-ROMs) for convenience.
1154 o Quick tree works around the OS/2 DosFindFirst bug that prevents FAT
1155 root drives from being found.
1156 o Added "separator" attribute for tool buttons -- causes a small amount
1157 of space to be added after the button with the attribute, for
1158 appearance (grouping of buttons).
1159 o Added ability to turn on titles below bitmap buttons in toolbar (it'll
1160 have to be short and sweet) and grouped all toolbar toggles under a
1161 Toolbar conditional cascade submenu.
1162
1163[lazy bum skipped a few...]
1164
11652.00:
1166 o A whole new look for FM/2 -- the same thing, only more so. Some
1167 things were enhanced, some dropped, some replaced or superceded.
1168 Still, if you used 1.x you should feel at home.
1169
1170$Id: HISTORY 307 2006-06-27 00:26:07Z root $
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