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1New stuff's at the top. This list is not necessarily complete.
2
33.07 (pending)
4 o Tweak build process (Steven)
5 o Rework internals to increase file and directory limits (Steven, Gregg)
6 o Rework internal sleep durations to increase performance (Gregg)
7 o Rework file scanning buffer handling to increase performance (Gregg)
8 o Speed up Config->Tree->Collapse before switching speed (Steven)
9 o Speed up Dup find code. (Gregg)
10 o Update configuration notebook scanning page (Steven)
11 o Rework states logic to allow longer state names, tickets #109, #31 (Steven)
12 o Report delta time in debug messages (Steven)
13 o Added BldFullPathName cleaned up comp dirs code fix right left misalignment(Steven)
14 o Added BldQuotedFileName and BldQuotedFullPathName to streamline code. (Steven, Gregg)
15 o Increased limit on Subject EA to 1024 from 40. (Gregg)
16 o Corrected dir sizes accel key to ctrl + z. (Gregg)
17 o Fixed addition of ff in Hex notation by archiver editor. (John)
18 o Updated build instructions on FM/2 Wiki. (David)
19 o Dir sizes correct some sizing and positioning issues. (Steve)
20 o Removed error message in eas.c which caused seek and scan for text including eas to fail on
21 read only files. (Gregg)
22 o Fixed unnecessary menu item removal when FM/2 is run as the WPS.(Gregg)
23 o Fixed the restore of the settings under "Include in details view" on the "DirView"
24 tab of the configuration notebook, Ticket 118/71 (John)
25 o Subject column can be moved to left side of split bar in directory container
26 and/or sized which will truncate long subjects (Gregg)
27 o Avoid can not set fm3.ini read-only failure - DosSetPathInfo (Steven)
28 o Avoid exception when exiting File/Directory Object Information dialog (Steven)
29 o Fix a fast viewer text file load failure. (Gregg)
30
313.06
32 o First release built with OpenWatcom associated documentation updates (Steven,Gregg,John)
33 o Fixed ramdisk not shown in quicklist drives dropdown and drive bar drive lists (Gregg)
34 o Fixed WORKPLACE_PROCESS environment variable check (Gregg)
35 o Add CheckPmDrgLimit including IsFm2Window as part of work around PM drag limit (Steven,Gregg)
36 o Change mouse button 3 white space click to fail silently (Gregg)
37 o Document behavior of global.exe when attempt is made to run it from 4os2 (Gregg)
38
393.05.09
40 o Update readme to reflect warpin install and other code changes (David, John, Gregg)
41 o Avoid spurious add_udir error reports (Steven)
42 o Harden drag/drop error recovery (Steven, Gregg)
43 o Add DbgMsg (Steven)
44 o Rework selective error logging logic
45 o Rework state save/restore user interface to report problems better (Steven)
46 o Correct FileInfoProc binary file detect (Steven)
47 o Correct FileInfoProc/IconProc race crash - ticket#77 (Steven)
48 o Convert to WarpIN installer - ticket #10 (David, John)
49 o Work around for drag/drop limit in PM ticket 50 (Gregg, Steven)
50 o Add RunFM2Utils function find utils in path or \utils (Gregg)
51 o Fix MMPM file scan to not try to play nonmedia files (Gregg)
52 o "Replace" in commands dialog now leave list order intact (Gregg)
53 o Code cleanup (ROT13 compiler warning, removed win class pstrings QWL_USER) (Gregg)
54 o Removed original Readme from distribution package
55
563.05 beta08
57 o Add SelectDriveIcon function (Gregg)
58 o New drive flags - ramdisk, virtual drive & no drive stats (Gregg)
59 o New icons for ramdisk, virtual drives & directories (David)
60 o Avoid saving directory settings for no prescan drives on close (Steven)
61 o Restore Make directory menu item to drive container context menu (Gregg)
62 o Add read only NTFS file support (requires NTFS.ifs) (Gregg)
63 o Removed most hard coded fonts from dialogs updated Helv font to Helvetica (Gregg)
64 o Moved fonts to string file (Gregg)
65 o Expanded FM2's recognition of image & archive file types (Gregg)
66 o Help file updates (Gregg)
67 o Source code cleanup (Gregg)
68 o Icons update appropriately with drive flag changes (Steven)
69 o Avoid restoring directory windows for no prescan drives (Steven)
70 o Avoid hangs when viewing zip content and running viewer as child
71 o Honor NOPRESCAN flags for drives left open on exit
72 o Refresh tree container drive icon after prescan enable
73
743.05beta07
75 o Support additional file systems types (Gregg)
76 o Reorganize menus (Gregg)
77 o Enhance unzip option controls (Gregg)
78 o Remember search options in Seek and Scan (Gregg)
79 o Allow drive flag editing for not ready drives (Gregg)
80 o Correct bitmap loading defects (Steven)
81 o Update documentation (Gregg)
82 o Add newer, better bitmaps (David)
83 o Update Readme to discuss move to Netlabs (Steve)
84
853.05beta06
86 o Put .. back in walk list - oops
87 o Correct walk directory list build regression - oops
88
893.05beta05
90 o Rework session termination logic - avoids hanging zip windows and others
91 o NDFS support by Gregg
92 o Default seek and scan to show files
93 o Rework menus
94 o Correct . and .. compare logic to not skip .dir and ..dir
95 o Correct compare directories . and .. skip logic to not skip .dir
96 o Association editor fixes by Gregg
97
983.05beta04
99 o Change to standard F1 Help hotkey by Gregg
100 o Association editor enhancements by Gregg
101 o Commands editor enhancements by Gregg
102 o Avoid spurious error popups
103
1043.05beta03
105 o Help file updated by David
106 o Avoid toolbar bitmap edit exception
107 o Toolbars reworked by David
108 o Add more missing fm3.hlp dependents to makefile
109 o More great bitmaps from David
110
1113.05beta02
112 o Disable conflicting menu options while collector busy
113 o Integrate Gregg Young's partition format enhancements
114 o Integrate John Small's switch list title logic
115
1163.05beta01
117 o More great bitmaps from David
118 o Avoid cascading messages when collector file list is a binary file
119 o Rework some error messages
120 o Add unlock.exe to commands template
121
1223.04
123 o Recover corrupted finger pointer
124 o Allow quick abort of large archive open
125 o Open large archive containers at idle priority
126 o Update archiver usage help (thanks Gregg)
127 o Expose internal errors to user rather than just beeping
128 o Check and report more "should not occur" errors
129 o More new icons (thanks David)
130 o Allow vcollect applet to die on window close
131
1323.04 pre11:
133 o Add hide not selected to Compare Directories
134 o Add compare content to Compare Directories
135
1363.04 pre10:
137 o Allow non-null terminated archive signatures
138 o Preserve archiver.bbs comments
139
1403.04 pre9:
141 o Add archiver defintion add/delete/move support
142
1433.04 pre8:
144 o Avoid toolbar window list trap (action 9010)
145 o Avoid internal editor file corruption when wrap on
146
1473.04 pre7:
148 o More archiver.bb2 template rework
149 o Correct archiver window date/time suppress logic
150 o Clean up archiver.bb2 loader
151 o Minor makefile corrections
152
1533.04 pre6:
154 o Correct typo in MakeValidDir() - avoid drive button RMB trap
155
1563.04 pre5:
157 o Support archivers with no list headers (tar)
158 o Support archivers that onl extract with directories (tar)
159 o Disable menus for not ready volumes
160 o Correct missing collector view button window updates
161 o Correct fallback logic in MakeValidDir()
162
1633.04 pre4:
164 o Correct longnames display enable
165 o archiver.tmp (archiver.bb2) updated and optimized
166 o Support archiver.tmp install
167
1683.04 pre3:
169 o Support jfsopt.cmd install
170 o Support tarlist.cmd install
171 o Ensure install.cmd updates fm/2 Desktop folder icons
172 o Support empty signatures in archiver.bb2
173
1743.04 pre2:
175 o More icon updates (David's v18)
176 o Avoid user directory edit crash
177 o Avoid crashing if archiver.bb2 entry has no signature
178
1793.04 pre1:
180 o Avoid commands menu do it yourself trap
181 o Correct filesystem type details view column selections
182 o Rework resource kit into standard makefiles
183 o Replace bitmaps and icons (thanks to David Graser and others)
184 o Add JFS optimize support (thanks to Gregg Young)
185 o Avoid Directory Sizes hangs
186
1873.03:
188 o Rework resource kit and reskit readme
189 o Correct directory sizes sort
190 o Correct archive sort again
191
1923.02i:
193 o Rework Databar to avoid delays for inaccessible volumes
194 o Lots of work on large file support
195 o Switch to VAC 3.65
196 o Correct name parsing in collector and archive containers
197 o Output popup error messages to stderr and to screen
198 o Correct archive container initial sort setup
199 o Avoid startup trap in FindSwapperDat (VAC3.65 compat)
200 o Correct reversed wrap menu in new viewer
201 o Misc VAC3.65 compat rework
202 o Avoid referencing garbage in collector
203 o Resolve some icon selection inconsistencies
204
2053.02h:
206 o Show full target path in Drag/Drop dialogs
207 o Add debug support to troubleshoot invisible FAT32 drive
208 o Correct archiver.bb2 editing
209
2103.02g:
211 o Update removable drive support to work for USB MSD
212
2133.02f:
214 o Add large drive support to the dirsize applet startup screen
215 o Avoid spurious filldir errors for large drives
216 Will still get get math errors for >4GB directories
217
2183.02e:
219 o More see all files fixes
220 o Correct internal viewer WM_VSCROLL logic (amouse)
221
2223.02d:
223 o Clean up icon usage
224 o Add missing refresh after compare subdir toggle
225 o Try to avoid playing non-MM files when use MMOS2 enabled
226 o Rework directory sizes for large drives
227 o Correct Show All Files requests from Tree View context menu
228 o Correct resource strings
229
2303.02c:
231 o Correct broken assignments
232 o Force Compare Directories window refresh on subdir toggle
233
2343.02b:
235 o Add JFS and FAT32 support
236
2373.02a:
238 o Replace corrupted remote.ico.
239 o Correct archive name display
240
2413.02:
242 o First open source release.
243
2443.01:
245 o Added another archiver date type for user Jans-Peter Otto.
246
2473.00d:
248 o FM/2 Lite remembers if a directory pane was maximized when it
249 closed now (duh -- should have all along, I just forgot).
250
2513.00c:
252 o More minor bug fixes.
253
2543.00b:
255 o Fix two minor bugs reported by users.
256
2573.00:
258 o Most of the text in FM/2 is now accessible from outside the source
259 code files, meaning translations to other languages should now be
260 possible without much problem. A resource translation kit is offered
261 free-of-charge to registered users. This required some additional
262 files (FM3RES.DLL and FM3RES.STR), but FM3DLL.DLL becomes (at least)
263 correspondingly smaller.
264 o Jazzed up Autoview a bit.
265 o Removed a bug that sneaked in during code optimization detected by
266 a user where archive members couldn't be dragged. Then optimized
267 some more, thus tempting fate.
268 o Improved FM/2's internal window selection from menus.
269 o The status button in Directory Containers that shows the selected
270 number of files and bytes now displays a select menu when clicked.
271 o Drive buttons will now show free space on drives as bubble help
272 except for CD-ROM drives, diskette drives A: and B:, and drives
273 marked as "slow" in the drive flags dialog. I also made the buttons
274 a little bigger, and they'll "stack" if required due to insufficient
275 width.
276 o Removed System Information applet from FM/2 -- OS/2 seems to have
277 this stuff built-in now.
278 o Moved MakeArc into the FM/2 Utilities package.
279 o You can now add selected environment variables that list directories
280 (like PATH, LIBPATH and DPATH) to the Drive Tree with a toggle in
281 the internal Settings notebook on the Tree page. Cool.
282 o You can now set a default Target directory for menu and accelerator
283 key copy and move operations, and choose to confirm (and perhaps
284 change) that directory on each operation, or accept it without
285 confirmation.
286 o FM/2 will now make program object Parameters suggestions the first
287 time it's run (no FM3.INI exists) if you should exclude any drives,
288 and will even set the Parameters for you if you like.
289 o Yet more tweaking that no one will ever notice...
290
2912.67:
292 o Jazzed up the mini-command line a bit.
293 o Command lines for the Execute dialog and mini-command line are now
294 saved separately (the former in CMDLINES.DAT, the latter in
295 CMDMINI.DAT, same format). You can save, or not, either type for
296 recall.
297
2982.66:
299 o Increased duration of error window to 5 seconds from 3 (click it to
300 make it vanish early), changed background color to white and text
301 color to dark red, surrounded with red rectangle to make it stand out
302 more. Also gave it a distinctive sound. (This is the error window
303 you get if you do something like try to open the diskette drive when
304 there's no diskette inserted.)
305 o Killed bug reported by Paulo Mario where FM/2 could crash (suddenly
306 exit) after moving a file and overwriting an existing file.
307 o Reworked Databar a bit.
308 o For the adventurous among you, try holding Shift or Ctrl while
309 clicking that second status window in a Directory Container...
310
3112.65:
312 o You can drag an object onto the Drive tree's Open button now, and
313 a Directory Container for that object will be opened.
314 o Long-overdue code cleanup begins...
315 o Fixed bug in FM/2 Lite where it was sorta paying attention to the
316 "bottom buttons" setting in FM/2 when it should ignore it.
317 o Played with FM/2's default settings for new users -- some of the
318 best stuff was turned off by default!
319 o Changed the behavior of the Rename dialog somewhat per user
320 suggestion. "Overwrite if target older or same," "Overwrite if
321 target newer" and "Don't ask again" checkboxes now allow you to
322 selectively skip being asked about naming conflicts for the rest of
323 an operation. Note that clicking the "Okay" button honors these
324 choices, but the "Overwrite" button overrides them for that one file
325 (an overwrite _will_ be performed).
326
3272.64:
328 o Made Window->Tile a cascade menu with Tile as the default, but you
329 can also set Autotile and Tile backwards toggles (renamed Tile
330 horizontal) there.
331 o More help file work.
332 o Tweaking of a few things no one will ever notice, except perhaps
333 as a feeling of more smoothness in a few places.
334 o Added "Leave all attrs" button to Attributes dialog to make
335 "touching" files easier.
336
3372.63:
338 o Fixed bug in UNDEL.EXE pointed out by a user.
339 o Added "Double-click" topic to Tutorial section of help. Did you know
340 that you can make FM/2 do something different when you double-click
341 an object? Other miscellaneous work on the help file.
342 o Moved "Create shadows" command under "Copy" cascade in menus where no
343 separate "Create objects" cascade is available and a "Copy" cascade
344 is available.
345 o Made the way menus appear on new View and Sort buttons more
346 attractive (IMHO).
347 o Bubble help won't appear if the window isn't active now (oversight).
348 o To make it easier to parse the saved output from a Directory sizes
349 window, directory names containing spaces are now surrounded by quote
350 marks.
351 o Related: Put SEEHELP.EXE into FM2UTILS.ZIP for those who have
352 versions of OS/2 with VIEW.EXEs that won't read .HLP files directly.
353 You can read the FM/2 help file directly using this program on such
354 systems: "SEEHELP FM3.HLP".
355
3562.62:
357 o Added /SAVE and /NOSAVE to mini-command line options for a user.
358
3592.61:
360 o Added new buttons to Directory Container, Archive Containers and the
361 Collector that allow you to set sort, filter and view. Removed
362 filter button from bottom of screen (no longer needed). Revised
363 window layouts help to show modified layouts.
364 o More newuser-friendly junk (more bubble help, etc.).
365 o Added Find first/next to INI viewer. Listbox command will work in
366 is bordered in red.
367 o Just a BTW -- there's a new IMAGE.EXE (the FM/2 image viewer utility)
368 in FM2UTILS.ZIP, available free-of-charge at
369 http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/fm2
370 I put some stuff in it that I needed for making pictures for the help
371 files.
372
3732.60:
374 o Fast internal viewer can start configured editor from menu (Ctrl + e
375 accelerator) per user request. Remember, to edit files in an
376 archive, you must still use Files->Refresh to cause selected files to
377 be refreshed in the archive.
378 o Added a bit more bubble help (remember, you can turn bubble help on
379 and off (somewhat selectively) in the internal Settings notebook).
380
3812.59:
382 o Rename dialog will now specifically tell you if the source file is
383 newer, older or same date as target and smaller, larger or same size
384 if there's a conflict with an existing target file, per user request.
385
3862.58:
387 o Added ability to create a new directory and switch to it in the
388 common directories user list (select <New directory>). Revised
389 help to reflect this.
390 o Holding down Shift while selecting a state name will prevent FM/2
391 from closing windows already open now (per user request). An
392 automatic retile of all windows is then performed.
393
3942.57:
395 o Added ability to sort by subject per user request (wouldn't it be
396 nice if Netscape put where we got downloaded files from in an EA? Or
397 let you drag a file over it without locking up the system?).
398
3992.56:
400 o Added ability to use exclusion masks in the Seek and Scan dialog
401 per Harry Travis' request. Also added Append checkbox.
402
4032.55:
404 o Fixed bug reported by Ralph Alvy -- "Append" checkbox being ignored
405 in Save to listfile dialog, FM/2 always appended to listfile.
406
4072.54:
408 o Small tweaks.
409 o I don't do Compuserve anymore. Reach me via the net, or just go to
410 FM/2's web page at http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/fm2
411
4122.53:
413 o Added Commands user dropdown list for picking commands to run on
414 selected files more quickly and easily.
415 o Removed "#" character from AV/2 temporary directory -- WebEx and
416 Netscape were choking on it (a).
417 o Allow disabling FM/2's custom file dialog so you can use MSE's
418 instead, if you like (the toggle's on the General page). (What's
419 MSE? Look at http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/mse) (a).
420 o Added support for PKZIP 2.50 (b).
421
4222.52:
423 o When the FM/2 main window is resized and a Directory Container is
424 maximized within it, it will remain maximized.
425 o Modified AV/2 and ARCHIVER.BB2 so that RAR v2's woefully NIH
426 listings can be read. Would it just _kill_ you archiver authors to
427 get together and come up with some sort of easily parsed listing
428 standard, then stick to it? Please?
429 o FM/2 will now show the current decryption keyword for extra programs
430 like DBFVIEW and FMT from the About box.
431
4322.51:
433 o Tweaked image viewer initial sizing algorithm to better handle very
434 small bitmaps at more nearly correct perspectives.
435 o Added "No folder menu" toggle to internal Settings notebook by
436 user request.
437 o Put floppy letters back into drives userlist dropdown due to
438 user request.
439 o Made image viewer a separate executable due to a memory leak in
440 OS/2's MMPM/2 (mmio) under Merlin beta and some Warp 3 fixpack
441 configurations -- closing the application frees the memory, but
442 nothing else will, so a small, fast, separate application "fixes" the
443 problem (or, if you prefer, "OS/2 bug"). Like FM2PLAY.EXE, this
444 IMAGE.EXE file will now be in the FM/2 Utilities package (FM2UTL.ZIP
445 on CI$ or FM2UTILS.ZIP on the internet). You'll probably want to
446 remove any old IMAGE.CMD file built by previous FM/2 installs.
447 o Added ability to view and manipulate files in archives containing
448 spaces in the filename for archivers that provide information in a
449 particular way (see ARCHIVER.BB2 -- ZIP and LZH archives are set up
450 this way). Other folks who use ARCHIVER.BB2 should take a look at
451 the updated documentation to see how to take advantage of this, but
452 it's backward-compatible, so old versions of those programs will
453 still work correctly with this change.
454 o Removed SEEHELP.EXE -- Warp has the ability to view help files using
455 VIEW.EXE which comes with the OS.
456 o Added "WPS Move" and "WPS Copy" commands.
457 o I no longer accept registrations via direct mail. Registrations are
458 available through BMT Micro or CIS' SWREG only (BMT recommended --
459 see REGISTER.TXT). I just got too much snail mail and couldn't keep
460 up with all of it.
461
4622.50b:
463 o Added ability to convert an image file to another format from the
464 image viewer window.
465 o All supported multimedia types are now "played" automatically on
466 double-click unless you have an FM/2 Association set for them.
467
4682.50a:
469 o Added "Run Viewer as child session" toggle -- if used, any open
470 viewers will close when FM/2 closes.
471 o Added "Env" button to Seek and scan dialog (for searching through
472 directories listed in environment variables).
473 o Added "No sort" option to Collector sorting.
474 o FM/2 will now offer to remove old registration when started after
475 registration has expired, making it easy to enter updated
476 registration information.
477 o Directory Containers can now be switched into Tree View. See also
478 new "Stay in Tree View" toggle.
479 o B2 on Directory Container Folder buttons pulls up an abbreviated
480 popup menu.
481 o Bugfix: The Autoview window wouldn't let you enter Comments on an
482 object that didn't already have them (duh).
483 o FM/2 now taps into MMPM/2 to display image files, instead of GBM. To
484 activate FM/2's "internal" image file viewing, be sure to remove any
485 Associations for MMPM/2-supported image file types (JPG, TIF, BMP,
486 PCX, GIF, etc.) using FM/2's Config->Edit Associations command.
487
4882.50:
489 o Added a horizontal scrollbar to Global files viewer.
490 o Added line wrap (and thus horizontal scrollbar) to fast internal
491 viewer.
492 o Added WWW and FTP component launching to internal viewers per
493 user request. BTW, testpm.exe from the FM/2 Utilities is handy for
494 deciphering the arguments to FTPPM.EXE, which are a bit bizaare and
495 undocumented. Just rename FTPPM.EXE to FTPPM.BAK, copy TESTPM.EXE
496 to FTPPM.EXE in the same directory, open the FTP object's Settings
497 notebook, then open the FTP object's program and compare the
498 results.
499 o Added optional blue/yellow LEDs which can be used in place of the
500 default red/green thread LED bitmaps.
501 o Added a toggle to make the databar boring for those who can't stand
502 too much excitement (I have users who are easily worn out :-). Also
503 added file system type to end of string on user request.
504 o Execute dialog will try to remind you why you called it up in case
505 you fall asleep after double-clicking the mouse and awake confused.
506 It could happen.
507 o Couple of more small workarounds for Merlin beta bugs.
508 o Changed the way the toolbar displays help to eliminate capturing
509 the mouse (kludge, OS/2 should have a WM_MOUSELEAVING message).
510 o Added mini-toolbar to fast internal viewer.
511 o Note new internet address.
512 o Price reduction for commercial registrations.
513 o SET environment variable DOS_SHELL in CONFIG.SYS if you want to use
514 an alternate command processor in DOS sessions (for example,
515 SET DOS_SHELL=C:\4DOS\4DOS.EXE).
516 o Remap command now uses NET USE, enhancements (like it works, for
517 one :-).
518 o Added Miscellaneous->Detach (Ctrl + H) command to Drive Tree drive
519 popup to detach local drives from remote resources.
520 o Updated FM2PLAY.EXE (in FM2UTL.ZIP on CIS, FM2UTILS.ZIP elsewhere),
521 including more controls and ability to load list of files from a
522 listfile. FM/2 will use this listfile method when playing more
523 multimedia files than will fit on a command line using the
524 View->Multimedia (Ctrl + l) command. OS/2 command lines are
525 limited to about 1000 characters, if you're interested.
526 o Lots of other little tweaks and improvements -- some you might
527 even notice.
528
5292.49:
530 o More cosmetic tweaking -- for example, changing status line or bottom
531 button text font will now result in resizing of control to match new
532 font. BTW, if you set ugly fonts or colors and want the defaults
533 back, one way to do it completely is to delete the window position
534 entry in OS2.INI and start from scratch...
535 o Work around for nasty bug in Merlin beta Voice Manager.
536 o Remap drives command added -- untested at this time, as I have no
537 LAN. If you try it and it doesn't work, please report the error
538 code displayed. If it works, let me know that, too.
539 o Fixed bug in Merge code.
540 o Added mini-toolbars to Archive Containers and the Collector (visible
541 only if you have the toolbar in FM/2 turned on, of course).
542 o A couple of other little things folks asked for -- I forget.
543
5442.48a:
545 o Lots of cosmetic stuff (for example, check out the Databar).
546 o Additional help, partitioned Context menu help into smaller "chunks."
547 o Added Find button to Archive dialog.
548 o More Merlin preparations.
549 o Added UserDirs dropdown to standard OS/2 file dialogs used by FM/2.
550 o Added Duplicates command to Global file viewer.
551 o More (subtle) tweaking of Seek and Scan dialog.
552 o Anybody else notice how the competition is trying (in vain) to
553 copy FM/2, but having a great deal of trouble keeping up with
554 the Joneses? :-)
555
5562.48:
557 o Ideal size button logic adjusted so it will work as might be expected
558 with Merlin's new Warpcenter.
559 o Logic for sizing of titlebar buttons adjusted so they look better
560 under Merlin.
561 o Fixed bug in EA editor's MLE control -- an apparent change in the way
562 Warp handles the MLM_QUERYFORMATTEXTLENGTH with an overlong length
563 parameter has changed, resulting in the MLE not being cleared properly.
564 o Autoviewing file comments (.COMMENTS EA) now displays the comments in
565 an MLE rather than static text control, allowing editing. Moving the
566 focus from the MLE after making a change saves the new EA. Note: if
567 a .COMMENTS EA is damaged, FM/2 won't let you edit it in this window
568 for safety (maybe some strange program wanted it that way). You can
569 fix it in the EA viewer (Ctrl + Shift + E) if you know it's an anomoly.
570 Use the Ctrl + Tab accelerator key to switch focus to the Autoview
571 MLE if you're keyboarding. FM/2 supports .COMMENTS EAs up to 32767
572 characters in length. Each line of the MLE (newline, not wrap)
573 creates a separate EAT_ASCII value, in case you care and know what
574 the heck I'm talking about... BTW, GCP downloads automatically fill
575 in the .COMMENTS and .SUBJECT EAs for you if so configured, though
576 it seems to save the .COMMENTS EA in a weird (different from the
577 WPS) format -- but it's readable.
578 o You can use command line switch -<ininame> to start FM/2 with a
579 different INI file (i.e. "FM3.EXE -C:\MYINI.INI"). This means
580 that different users can set up FM/2 to taste and use separate
581 FM/2 objects to start their "version" of the program on the same
582 machine.
583 o FM/2 will try to remind you why the Walk directories dialog was
584 invoked, per forgetful, worn-out user request. :-)
585 o Keys help added per user request.
586
5872.47:
588 o Added "View->As archive" context menu option per user request.
589 o Added maximize/restore button to "FM/2 Lite" Directory Containers.
590 o Added Autoview window to "FM/2 Lite."
591 o Added "View archive" button to Archive List Error window.
592 o Fixed bug -- Ctrl + F7 not bringing up context menu with Sort
593 submenu selected.
594 o Jazzed up direct renaming of files and directories.
595 o Jazzed up Seek and Scan dialog per user request.
596 o AV/2 will now accept wildcarded filenames and view the first matching
597 file in whatever manner seems most appropriate.
598 o Delete key deletes files, Ctrl + Delete is permanent delete, Shift +
599 Delete is save to clipboard, Ctrl + Insert is make directory, Ctrl +
600 Pageup is parent directory, Ctrl + Pagedown is previous directory,
601 Ctrl + Home is root directory. Obviously, not all these keystrokes
602 are meaningful in all windows (for instance, parent directory doesn't
603 do anything in the Collector). These new shortcut keys are in
604 addition to existing accelerators. Applicable windows (see previous
605 caveat): Directory Containers, Drive Tree, Archive Containers,
606 Collector, Global files windows. Per user request. These are not
607 "real" accelerator keys as they tend to bleed through and mess with
608 normal interactions (even these bleed through here and there, but
609 it's benign), but hopefully you'll never notice the difference.
610 o In "FM/2 Lite," you can direct-edit the title of a Directory
611 Container to change directories.
612 o Install now accepts /UNATTENDED argument to run without asking any
613 questions.
614
6152.46:
616 o Fixed drive button bug.
617 o Added "FM/2 Lite" (or whatever you want to call it), a new
618 "personality" for FM/2 intended for those who can't deal with
619 the real thing.
620
6212.45:
622 o When selecting or deselecting by mask, you can specify a text string
623 to be used. First the file is tested against the mask(s), then
624 tested to see if it contains the text (if any is specified).
625 o Fixed bug -- context menus quit working after a Directory Container
626 was closed.
627 o Added Makearc module, mainly for access from NTree.
628 o Fixed bug -- "case sensitive" flag was being reversed for Seek and
629 Scan.
630
6312.44:
632 o "Thread busy" LED added per user request.
633 o Toolbar buttons now allow you to use different bitmaps of your own
634 design. Notes: using user-defined bitmaps in the toolbar can slow
635 loading of FM/2 slightly, but probably not noticably unless you
636 replace all of them. Request a context menu on a toolbar button and
637 pick "Edit button" to get the dialog where you tell FM/2 to use a
638 user-defined bitmap.
639 o External Archive Containers, Collector, VTree and VDirs now have
640 their own pulldown menu for Files and Views (the shadow menus) and
641 Help for easy keyboard access and/or novice users.
642 o Command lines executed through the command line dialog are remembered
643 for possible later retrieval.
644 o Directory sizes dialog reworked (prettier, sizeable). DIRSIZE.EXE
645 program provided for accessing this function directly (object placed
646 in FM/2 Tools subfolder by INSTALL.CMD).
647
6482.43:
649 o Added optional drivebar per user request.
650 o Added Lock and Unlock commands for removable drives.
651 o Added UUDecode command and Merge command (yep, got another internet
652 connection, finally).
653 o When presented with a list of objects in a dialog (as in the Edit EAs
654 or Attributes dialogs), double-clicking a file object will bring up
655 the configured viewer with the file loaded. This is just a quick
656 view purely for convenience; no attempt is made to view the file as
657 an archive or check Associations. You can double-click it in the
658 Directory Container if you need to go that far.
659 o Added "Thread notes" window -- if you don't like it, minimize it and
660 it should stay that way. When a thread does something that takes
661 awhile, like copying a file, it tells you when it starts and when
662 it finishes.
663 o Under Warp, FM/2 will now query the active desktop in a documented
664 manner when asked to create objects. There is no reliable method
665 under older OS/2 versions.
666 o Improved FM/2's built-in printing somewhat. Still not as good as
667 printing from the appropriate application, of course.
668 o Confirmation lists will now display a bitmap representing the command
669 to be executed on the dialog, where applicable, as a quick visual
670 reminder.
671 o When switching a Directory Container to the parent, FM/2 will
672 make the vacated directory's object the current object.
673
6742.42:
675 o More threading in strategic spots to make response when moving around
676 really slow drives (like ZIP and EZ drives) snappier. The drivers
677 for these drives need a bit more work, developers -- think "cache,"
678 especially for things like providing the label and usage info. When
679 it's slower than the floppy drives, some work needs to be done, eh?
680 o Edit->Drive flags dialog now available from a drive (root dir) object
681 in the Drive Tree -- lets you set flags you used to _have_ to set
682 from the command line (and a couple of new ones). You can still set
683 flags from the command line as an override.
684 o Files can be included in the Drive Tree display on a per-drive basis
685 if you can actually think of a reason to do it (I can't, but someone
686 asked). If you do find a use for it, tell me what the heck it is.
687 o See all files can be invoked on directory (folder) objects
688 (Miscellaneous->Show all files) or the directory into which a
689 Directory Container looks.
690 o See all files window and Collector now have new "Move and preserve"
691 and "Copy and preserve" commands to move or copy objects while
692 preserving their directory relationship (see online help for
693 examples).
694 o Double-clicking on an empty part of the Drive Tree now invokes the
695 Make Directory command. Double-clicking on an empty part of a
696 Directory Container opens its WPS folder.
697 o Target of a drag and drop operation can be changed from the FM/2
698 drag and drop dialog (if you're using the dialog, of course).
699 o Improved directory comparison dialog (no, it's still no PMDirMatch
700 and never will be, and yes, you can still tell FM/2 to use PMDirMatch
701 instead of the internal).
702 o Added Utilities->Compare directories command.
703 o Sorting an Archive Container by date is now possible, at least for
704 some archive types. See ARCHIVER.BB2 for details. You can also
705 Alt-B1 click the titles of sortable fields in Archive Containers now
706 to change the sort type (just like you can in a Directory Container).
707
7082.41:
709 o VTree now runs Directory Containers (VDirs) as part of its process,
710 which should save on a little memory for those of you using FM/2 as
711 as "super drives objects." To take full advantage of this, the
712 "Separate parameters" toggle should be checked.
713 o External FM/2 windows can be closed from the PM Window List without
714 closing the entire program (excepting the main window, of course).
715 o Fixed bug: last line of a hex view wasn't formatted very
716 attractively.
717 o Fixed bug: quick config page didn't work right anymore.
718 o Fixed bug: VDir and AV/2 windows would show external FM/2 windows
719 but not switch to them.
720 o Window dialog now shows and acts on external FM/2 windows.
721 o Checking "Separate parameters" toggle now saves all parameters
722 under the new appname immediately when the Settings notebook
723 is closed. You'll want to be careful here -- think before choosing.
724 BTW, a backup of your FM3.INI file, once you get it set up to your
725 liking, is always a good idea. Don't use FM3INI.BAK as the filename,
726 since FM/2 automatically does a one-generation backup to that name.
727 o Warp no longer allows a container item to be hidden by a thread other
728 than the thread that controls the container if the item is selected
729 (Why? Who knows? Why don't DrgQueryDraginfoPtrFromDragitem() and
730 CN_DROPHELP work?). Since this forces single threaded hiding of
731 objects, I must conclude this is a bug in OS/2. However, since it's
732 in "GA" OS/2 code, I reluctantly worked around it by making Hide
733 objects single-threaded -- you'll have to wait for it to get done.
734 Shouldn't be a major problem.
735 o Added codepage 1004 to codepage dialog. Someone asked, I didn't even
736 know the blamed thing was there.
737 o Added Ctrl + F10 and Ctrl + F11 accelerators to start/end a direct
738 edit of a filename for the rodently challenged.
739 o Added Next/Prev blank line menu items and buttons to new internal
740 viewer (accelerators were there before). In text where paragraphs
741 are separated by blank lines, these go down or up to the next
742 paragraph. Something I use.
743 o Added Recent Directories dropdown list to Walk Directories dialog,
744 which separates the recently used directories from the user-defined
745 directories in that dialog. Just wanted to.
746 o Added "DOS-think" and "Windoze-think" quick-config options to
747 internal Settings notebook. If you use 'em they'll stunt your growth.
748 o Fixed an obscure tile bug no one else seems to have noticed.
749 o Changed Shift + F? accelerators to Ctrl + F? to avoid conflicting
750 with a couple of OS/2-used keys.
751 o Further tightened integration between VTree and its Directory
752 Containers.
753 o Made Tree (optionally) smart.
754 o Reorganized internal Settings notebook for more "logical" grouping
755 (some things grow with a life of their own).
756 o Changed Install so that it puts many objects in a separate Toolbox
757 folder (someone who's not even registered suggested it, and I decided
758 to give it a try -- tell me what you think. If upgrading, delete the
759 old FM/2 folder before running Install again.).
760
7612.40:
762 o Added "All" button to Filter dialog.
763 o Added more optional buttons to main window.
764 o Added %u/%U metastrings.
765 o Added hex/ASCII + drag-me window to bottom of new internal text
766 viewer.
767 o Added %! metastring.
768 o Added default archiver setting.
769 o PM uses several ALT + F? accelerators to control frame windows.
770 However, this applies to the current frame window, which can be
771 within the main FM/2 window when run monolithically. Add Ctrl to
772 these accelerators to affect the main window in that case. I don't
773 change the system menu text to reflect this as it may be in a foreign
774 language, and I'm an ignorant, ugly one-language American.
775 o Added "Separate parameters" toggle.
776 o Added "Treetop on expand" toggle.
777 o Windows pulldown now lists external FM/2 windows, as does a submenu
778 on the container popup in VTree, VDir and AV/2 windows.
779 o Fixed some minor bugs in Commands menu generation.
780 o Fixed bug in Collector -- unshifted double-click didn't work on
781 directories.
782 o VDirs, external Archive Containers and Viewers now retain their last
783 set window size -- position is still determined by the Shell (PM).
784 o Lots of little tweaks no one but me will ever notice.
785
7862.39:
787 o Fixed weird bug -- apparently IBM changed the behavior of
788 MLM_QUERYFORMATTEXTLENGTH in Warp. This change may only take effect
789 at FP10+ levels.
790 o Added Open Directory Container button to Drive Tree titlebar -- only
791 shows up when FM/2 is run as a monolithic app.
792 o Added "Directory" attributes to Filter dialog per user request --
793 lets you exclude directories from Directory Containers, or show only
794 directories. NOTE: if you are upgrading, you may need to go into
795 the Filter and turn on the Directory attribute -- it's on by default
796 for new installations. Use the internal Settings notebook to
797 activate the Filter dialog (DirView and ColView pages) by setting the
798 focus to the Filter: entryfield, so that the "general" filter is
799 changed.
800 o Help file improvements (a neverending saga).
801
8022.38:
803 o Walk Directories dialog will now display non-writeable drives unless
804 the directory selection is for an action that requires writing to the
805 selected directory (for example, copy or move, set extract directory,
806 etc.).
807 o Filtering in Drive Tree now available, per user request. NOTE:
808 filtering is performed _after_ expansion; therefore, it is possible
809 for the Tree to "lie" to you until you expand a branch (i.e. indicate
810 that other directories are available, but remove the "+/-" when you
811 attempt to expand the branch. If it's important for you to know what
812 the entire tree of a drive looks like with filtering applied, use the
813 Expand/Collapse->Expand command from the Files menu or a popup. You
814 can thereafter collapse and expand the tree as desired. Tricks can
815 be played with the filter mask; for instance, "/C:\OS2*;/C:\MMOS2*;
816 /C:\TCPIP*;*" will exclude some system directories on drive C: and
817 show everything else.
818 o Got rid of the annoying (to me, anyway) extra refresh when the
819 "Immediate Updates" toggle is not used (more cheating).
820 o Windows will now be created with the WS_ANIMATE style if "Animate"
821 toggle on internal Settings notebook's Windows page is checked. Of
822 course, system animation must still be turned on to see any effect.
823 o Keyboard input of "standard" characters now performs a text search
824 to find the closest matching file system object in the container.
825 You can get the old (OS/2 default) behavior (move to nearest object
826 starting with the pressed letter) by holding down the shift key.
827 o When a background task that FM/2 is waiting on takes more than about
828 two seconds to complete its job, FM/2 will switch it to the
829 foreground. This means that if an archive is encrypted (passworded),
830 you'll get the oportunity to enter a password without having to
831 resort to the Window List to manually bring the window to the
832 foreground.
833
8342.37:
835 o Added "Autoview comments" notebook toggle (page 2) and Config menu
836 items for same. You can have FM/2 autoview file contents _or_
837 .COMMENTS EAs -- handy for looking at files that were downloaded by
838 a package that puts the file description in that EA. You can also
839 get to that EA on the third page of a WPS object's File page or via
840 FM/2's Edit EAs dialog, BTW.
841 o CTRL + Shift + B1 doubleclick opens an object's WPS Settings notebook.
842 o You can now link-drag a root directory (drive) from the Drive Tree.
843 For cryin' out loud, BE CAREFUL!
844 o Credit card registrations via BMT Micro are now available.
845 o Directory Containers can now have independent sorts if you DON'T use
846 the "Immediate Updates" toggle. When you set a sort (or filter) in
847 the internal Settings notebook, you're setting a default for
848 subsequently created Directory Containers. When you set a sort (or
849 filter) using the popup menu of a Directory Container, you're
850 changing only that container. States will now also save the type of
851 view (Icon, Details, etc.), sort and filter settings for each open
852 Directory Container.
853
8542.36:
855 o Added "Rename existing" button to Rename dialog -- allows you to
856 rename (move) an existing target file system object out of the way
857 before moving or copying another file system object to that name.
858 o Fixed "obscure" bug (reporting user's words :-) causing FM/2 to
859 enter a loop when "Views" cascade was selected from the action
860 bar menu when an internal Archive Container was the current window.
861 o Tutorial section added to online help.
862 o When a bitmapped graphic file is viewed, the window is sized to fit
863 on the screen even when the image is larger than the screen.
864 Proportion is maintained for the initial window positioning. You can
865 stretch the size of the window. The bitmap is scaled to fit. GBM is,
866 of course, still required to directly view images in FM/2.
867 o Changed toolbar button help to "bubble" style, added toggle to disable.
868 o Added Directory Compare (DirCmp:) field to Files/Dirs page of internal
869 Settings notebook.
870 o Added %d and %D metastrings for Commands.
871 o Percentages in Directory Sizes dialog more accurate (to nearest
872 thousandth).
873 o "Include subdirectories" toggle in Directory Compare dialog.
874 o Fixed bug in 2.35a's INSTALL.CMD. Can you say "duh?" Apparently I can.
875 o As usual, many little things no one will notice.
876
8772.35:
878 o Performance tuning.
879 o Implemented "minor" user suggestions.
880 o Added "Recent Dirs" toggle -- automatically adds temporary
881 directories to UserList as you change directories. You can make them
882 permanent by Adding them as usual.
883 o FM/2 may handle DOS archivers now (actually, it does -- I tested with
884 ARJ); however, you'll have to set them up for yourself and I won't
885 support them. Don't forget that DOS archivers don't support EAs.
886 AVOID WHENEVER POSSIBLE OR YOU'LL GET BURNED.
887 o If you have GBM.DLL on your LIBPATH or in the FM/2 directory, FM/2
888 will use it to display GBM-supported raster file types when they're
889 double-clicked. GBM currently supports most OS/2 and Windows
890 bitmaps, .GIF, .PCX, .TIF, .TGA, .IFF, .VID, .PGM, .KPS, .IAX, .XBM,
891 .SPR, and .PSE files. And it's free.
892 o Changed some icons around for a fresher look, added some for display
893 when you aren't loading icons from disk (for scanning speed).
894 o Added "Settings" button to Info dialog.
895
8962.34:
897 o Added "Tile backwards" toggle, but don't use it (it's a DOS-think
898 knee-jerk thing to do).
899 o Viewer won't "restore" the container that called it when it closes if
900 the container is maximized.
901 o Filtering speeded up when Autoview window is open.
902 o Show a little patch of color beside color names in Colors dialogs.
903 o Added "Folder after extract" toggle.
904 o Added ^F3 close monolithic app toggle (command id 1111 if anyone's
905 interested).
906 o More commands in INI viewer (rename, copy appname/keyname) and
907 enhanced existing Add/Edit INI record commands.
908 o Changed method of storing a few things so that they're both easily
909 human editable (for power users) and so they allow me to
910 "preconfigure" some things (for new users). If you're upgrading from
911 previous versions, there's a CONVERT.EXE that'll copy your old
912 settings to the appropriate format and get rid of old baggage.
913 o Added "Userlist switches" toggle to internal Settings notebook.
914 o Added "%r/%R" to metastrings.
915 o Added "Extract" to drag and drop dialog.
916 o Height of autoview window can be changed.
917 o More info displayed in drive info dialog.
918 o INSTALL is a bit smarter.
919 o Added two new buttons on status line -- different behaviors depending on
920 whether you click with B1 or B2 and the shift state.
921
9222.33:
923 o Added new internal viewer -- loads files at least five times faster
924 than the old viewer (which is still available via a toggle in the
925 internal Settings notebook).
926 o See all files window retains settings, is a bit slicker.
927 o Fixed bug -- rename box came up for each file moved/copied.
928 o Fixed bug -- FM/2 didn't start right with toolbar turned off. Weird.
929 o Worked around Warp bug -- PM locks up if you select a codepage that
930 hasn't been prepared. This should be ignored as in previous versions
931 of OS/2, but crashes the system instead (sheesh).
932 o Warp apparently still has a 64k limit to what the clipboard can hold.
933 While I could limit what you send to the clipboard, this is (hopefully)
934 one of those limits which will vanish with further updates to OS/2
935 itself, so I'll just caution you about it.
936 o Colors are adjustable in See all files windows.
937 o Several fonts are available in See all files windows (all fixed width).
938 o See all files window allows entering multiple keys to find a file if
939 the keys are entered within one second of each other.
940 o System info command made somewhat more human-readable.
941
9422.32:
943 o See all files window fleshed out.
944 o Added "Viewer outside," "Arcboxes outside," "INI viewer outside" and
945 "Collector outside" toggles to Toggles2 page of internal Settings
946 notebook.
947 o Added "Save" button to Directory Sizes dialog
948 o Sort type can now be changed in Details view by holding ALT and
949 clicking the title of the field to sort on (assuming titles are
950 turned on and the field is one for which sorting is available,
951 of course).
952 o Added toggle to allow user to select default delete type.
953 o Added "toolbox" dropdown to user lists.
954 o Added sample toolboxes to archive.
955 o Info and EA dialogs now include listbox, lets you scroll through all
956 objects instead of popping up for each selected object. EAS.EXE
957 mini-app inherits this; now accepts multiple filenames.
958 o Check list dialogs now allow calling up the Info dialog for files in
959 the list.
960
9612.31:
962 o Added "Minimize to databar" toggle, also accessible as a standalone
963 miniapp.
964 o Tree remembers directories, once expanded.
965 o An individual drive may now be rescanned in the Drive Tree (related
966 to the above).
967 o More keyboard shortcuts for the rodently challenged.
968 o Drag from recessed text fields in Directory and Archive Containers
969 now possible (drags the directory or archive, respectively).
970 o Default Commands command (Do it yourself) added.
971 o Extract path can now be assigned "*" meaning "use directory in which
972 the archive resides."
973 o More menu compaction (well, you think of a term for it).
974 o New "See all files" window (still under construction, but already
975 much faster and very functional, without the standard listbox
976 limitation of 32767 maximum items). Loads, sorts and displays
977 15,792 files from two local fixed drives in 18 seconds on my
978 486/66DX2 with normal (for me, of course) background load.
979 o Fixed buglet in Archive Container status display.
980 o More user suggestions implemented.
981
9822.30:
983 o I forget.
984
9852.29:
986 o Added "Topic" entry field in Bookshelf Viewer dialog.
987 o Added "Quick arc find" toggle in Settings notebook; can speed up
988 drag and drop operations on floppy/network drives.
989 o Worked around PM bug in custom frame controls.
990 o Added "Directory Container state" saving and restoring in a dropdown
991 list (turned on with "Toggle quicklists" under Config menu).
992 o Fixed drag and drop bug (couldn't move, duh). Smartened up drag and
993 drop while I was at it; no sense offering options not really
994 available due to media type (i.e. can't copy to a CD-ROM).
995 o Added "Launch" button to drag and drop dialog.
996 o Added quick-help for dropdown lists (in status box 2).
997 o Added ability to drop onto userlist dropdown to add a directory.
998 Also added popup maintenance menu (add and delete directories to/from
999 list).
1000
10012.28:
1002 o Added optional user directory list dropdown box on main window
1003 (maintenance of the list is still performed in the Walk Directories
1004 dialog).
1005 o Added Drives submenu on Drive Tree's views context menu -- select a
1006 drive from it and the tree scrolls to show it and makes it the
1007 current object.
1008 o Restricted filename quoting in command lines to absolute essentials
1009 -- some programs are broken and choke on quoted filenames. We
1010 absolutely cannot have LIST choking if it can be avoided.
1011 o Double-clicking a directory in the Drive Tree container will cause an
1012 existing Directory Container looking into that directory, if one
1013 exists, to come to the foreground rather than opening a new one; if
1014 the existing window is minimized, it'll be restored. Ditto for new
1015 userlist dropdown.
1016 o FM/2 can now launch Windows apps seamless -- maybe. Sheesh, I'd
1017 use a DOS app first...
1018
10192.27:
1020 o Added "Move & rename" and "Copy & rename" commands per user request.
1021 This extends into the drag and drop dialog (said dialog is now on by
1022 default, BTW).
1023 o Many tiny tweaks that no one will ever notice (for instance,
1024 filenames containing "&" are now quoted on command lines where they
1025 weren't before).
1026 o Added EXAMPLE.CMD to archive as an example of how REXX scripts can
1027 manipulate files listed in listfiles created by FM/2. This allows
1028 Commands to circumvent the apx. 1000 character limit of OS/2 command
1029 lines.
1030 o Made notification window look more homogenous.
1031
10322.26:
1033 o Fixed stupid new bug in moving files from HPFS->FAT with long
1034 filenames.
1035 o Fixed bug in RemoteBug fix that conflicted with another fix for
1036 remote FSD bugs. I'm getting sick of working around remote FSD
1037 bugs -- think I'll just let the LAN folks fix _their_ stuff from
1038 now on...
1039 o Made titlebar of Drive Tree containers respond to request for context
1040 menu as if it were container whitespace per user request.
1041 o Added "Min on dir open" toggle -- a more elegant solution to a taste
1042 thing (IMHO) than a user requested feature.
1043 o Chord on status windows brings up window dialog like it does on
1044 client window whitespace.
1045 o Added "Append to clipboard" command to internal viewer/editor's
1046 Edit menu.
1047 o Moved "Write block" command out of Edit->Blocks submenu of internal
1048 viewer/editor to the main Edit submenu as "Copy to file" so it's
1049 accessible in readonly (viewing) mode while I was at it.
1050 o Added informational tweaking to viewer/editor's Edit->Undo menu
1051 command.
1052 o Added "Walk" button to Seek and scan dialog.
1053 o Added special FM/2 Association command line "<>" to indicate that the
1054 default WPS view should be opened for matching files.
1055
10562.25:
1057 o Added "Edit" and "Refresh" to Archive Containers per user request.
1058 o Added Drag and drop dialog and corresponding toggle per user request.
1059
10602.24:
1061 o Added "Remote bug" toggle since network FSD developers can't seem to
1062 consistently produce working DosFindFirst/Next code to save their
1063 lives.
1064 o Undelete enhancements.
1065
10662.23:
1067 o Enhancements to potential dupe finder per user requests and other
1068 stuff I thunk up all by my lonesome.
1069 o Placed "Seek and scan" on the Utility pulldown. All it does is
1070 start the Collector and post it a WM_COMMAND message as though you'd
1071 clicked Seek and scan on its context menu. Maybe even folks who
1072 don't read the help can find it now (who knows?).
1073
10742.22:
1075 o Additional detail and options are presented when FM/2 can't figure
1076 out how to list the contents of an archive (ARCHIVER.BB2
1077 misconfigured or archive bad) via new dialog. This should make
1078 determining what the archive problem is much easier when the
1079 inevitable problem arises.
1080 o Added duplicate file finder to Seek-and-Scan dialog. Finds files
1081 with same name and/or size and filedate.
1082
10832.21:
1084 o Shift and CTRL modifiers for double-clicking objects in Drive Tree,
1085 Directory Containers and Collector implemented. Shift causes new
1086 FM/2 window to open (directories; direct to View for files), CTRL
1087 causes default WPS open.
1088 o More stuff in the help file (sheesh -- this has gotta stop). The
1089 online help should now make a rather complete manual when printed
1090 together with the READ.ME file (see READ.ME for suggestions).
1091 o INSTALL now makes an object for the online help so that it can be
1092 viewed without starting FM/2 (using SEEHELP.EXE, included).
1093 o Added Filter "Always show directories" toggle.
1094 o Ideal size button supports a psuedo-restore operation, allowing
1095 toggling between two sizes (mine and yours).
1096 o Other stuff I forget.
1097
10982.20:
1099 o Fixed stupid bug that made FM/2 freak out on restart if you turned the
1100 toolbar off and left it off (duh).
1101 o Move-drag onto archives allowed now (if you have the archiver for that
1102 archive type configured to allow moving files, of course).
1103 o Fixed bug in longname<->shortname conversion (FAT<->HPFS).
1104 o Found a nasty way to get Warp's printer objects to recognize FM/2's
1105 D&D.
1106 o Extract dialog can be told to remember its settings (extract directory,
1107 masks, "with directories") distinctly from those set in Archive
1108 Containers.
1109 o Added a few pictures to the online help for extreme novices.
1110 o Added new "Compare Select" submenu with commands that can make
1111 selections based on comparing unfiltered files in all open Directory
1112 Containers. Powerful stuff.
1113 o Added "Hide objects" command (selective individual object filtering).
1114 o Fixed bug -- drag to toolbar quit working when toolbar code rewritten.
1115 o Slight modification to ARCHIVER.BB2 -- -1 for filename position means
1116 to use the last "field" of an archive listing for the filename.
1117 o FM/2 is compiled with optimization turned off now -- caught it
1118 generating bad code in the new Compare Select module and don't trust
1119 it (again).
1120
11212.19:
1122 o Added "Ideal size" System Menu command and titlebar button -- an
1123 alternative to maximizing.
1124 o More work on help file hypertext links using suggestions from a
1125 registered user. Added a labelled bitmap showing the layout of FM/2
1126 windows.
1127 o Worked around weird bugs in Sizes and deleting toolbar buttons that
1128 shouldn't be bugs but nonetheless cause problems on some machines.
1129 o Added some one-line help fields to some dialogs to guide the user
1130 along.
1131 o Added the "Close" checkbox to the Edit Associations dialog, to allow
1132 executing an association to shut down FM/2 (or a VDir window, mainly
1133 for use by folks using FM/2 to replace the Drives objects).
1134 o Added "Start Minimized" and "Start Maximized" buttons to the Windows
1135 page of the Settings notebook. FM/2 starts normal size then adjusts
1136 (that lets it size all its windows right first, and gives you something
1137 to return to from the maximized state).
1138
11392.18:
1140 o Added ability to use the undocumented DosQProcStat API in the Process
1141 Killer. While this will enable the Process Killer to work without an
1142 English version of PSTAT.EXE being present, DosQProcStat is an API
1143 subject to change by IBM, so beware.
1144 o Added FATOPT.EXE program to optimize FAT drives. THIS IS A BETA
1145 PROGRAM AND USES LOW-LEVEL DRIVE ACCESS -- BACK UP BEFORE USING!
1146 o Tweaked the online help, adding more hypertext links and detail.
1147
11482.17:
1149 o Optimized for speed: Quick trees, tree sizes.
1150 o Dug the names of the new color palettes out of Warp's INI files.
1151 Under 2.x both color palette commands (one new) load the same object.
1152 Under Warp they load the two different palette objects available.
1153 o Added swapfile/memory watch when Drive Tree is active window in FM/2.
1154 o Added HPFSOPT.EXE program to optimize HPFS drives.
1155
11562.16:
1157 o Added "Update objects" command.
1158 o Added "Optimize" command. Be sure to read the online help on this
1159 one (under "Context Menus").
1160 o Added toolbar changing buttons (buttons that automatically load a
1161 new toolbox into the toolbar). See comments in online help under
1162 "Toolbar->Add Tool."
1163 o Hmmm...Warp has broken the DM_DROPHELP message within an application
1164 -- the passed DRAGINFO structure is inaccessible (apparently already
1165 deallocated). An appropriate error message will be displayed, and
1166 the code's still there so that when IBM fixes it it'll automagically
1167 start working again.
1168
11692.15:
1170 o Added "Collect list in file(s)" command.
1171 o Added "Collect from a list file" command.
1172 o Added "Select List" command.
1173 o System VIO fonts have been renamed, jumping between "System" and
1174 "System VIO", a couple of times now. To top it off, when the name
1175 changes, the sizes do, too (i.e. 7.System == 5.System VIO, more or
1176 less). Warp is now GA and uses "System VIO" again, so I've changed
1177 it back to that. If some fonts don't look right on your 2.11 system,
1178 I'm sorry, but I'm trying to hit a moving target. Don't shoot me,
1179 I'm just the piano player.
1180 o Did some other stuff, but forgot to write it down and have now
1181 forgotten what it was. Old age is hell.
1182
11832.14:
1184 o FM/2 will now detect that a CD-ROM drive which didn't have a disk in
1185 it or had a music disk in it when FM/2 was started is a CD-ROM drive
1186 when accessed later with a data disk in it, and change the icon
1187 accordingly. This also applies to hard drives that were locked when
1188 FM/2 started, by happy coincidence, and should work on other
1189 removable media drives.
1190 o Hints given in error popup for some access errors (for example, when
1191 clicking on an empty diskette drive).
1192 o Install.cmd will not change the parameters field of objects that it
1193 creates if the File Manager/2 folder already existed. It will still
1194 update the paths.
1195 o VTree honors drive exclusions like it should have in the first place.
1196 o VTree will delete a directory if the Shredder refuses for some reason.
1197 o Added VTree->WPS folder toggle.
1198 o Shortened VTree tasklist title for registered users.
1199 o FM/2 will attempt to fit smaller files onto diskettes when a larger
1200 file in the list to be moved/copied won't fit before prompting you to
1201 change diskettes due to a disk full condition.
1202 o Help for toolbar buttons shows up when mouse passes over them --
1203 figured out how to implement without excessive message passing (IOW,
1204 to my satisfaction).
1205
12062.13:
1207 o Added ability to set type of selection used in some containers (in
1208 the Settings Notebook on the "Windows" page).
1209 o Selecting "Settings Notebook" in the FM3.EXE monolithic app, even
1210 from container context menus, will always bring up a full settings
1211 notebook.
1212 o Slightly reduced memory usage for HPFS drives (ah, another reason
1213 to use HPFS...).
1214 o Fixed bug in SetIcon.
1215 o Did some more work on FM2PLAY.EXE to make it more eye-appealing and
1216 maybe a bit more functional.
1217 o Shortened tasklist title for registered users.
1218
12192.12:
1220 o AV/2 will now ignore an association if it contains the string
1221 "AV2.EXE" in the command line (meaning it might call itself).
1222 o Fixed "Lowercase name" bug.
1223 o Worked over the context menus again, added a couple more
1224 accelerator keys.
1225 o Hooked Help button in Child Window dialog to some help.
1226
12272.11:
1228 o Fixed odd bug in second status line in Directory Containers.
1229 o Fixed rename buglet that caused rename from menu/button to
1230 give funny default drive.
1231 o Added drag and drop to INI Viewer to allow moving and copying
1232 data between different INI files.
1233 o Added FM2PLAY.EXE to allow playing multimedia files (via MMPM/2)
1234 from FM/2 easily. Usage: FM2PLAY.EXE <file> [<file> <file...>].
1235 There's a menu item for it.
1236 o Added "associat.txt" containing recommended associations for use
1237 with FM/2. Please send your ideas for this list.
1238 o Enhanced the Bookshelf Viewer.
1239
12402.10:
1241 o Added Undo buttons to Settings notebook pages.
1242 o Fixed bug wherein Save state of dir windows toggle was ignored.
1243 o Put in some comma formatting to prevent an untimely death.
1244 o Fixed bug wherein Doubleclick Opens toggle was ignored.
1245 o Added a couple more Settings pages.
1246 o Made appropriate Settings pages available to standalone modules.
1247 o Tweaked a few menus for a more consistent appearance.
1248
12492.09:
1250 o Changed things so the little notification box doesn't steal the
1251 focus when it comes up. Duh.
1252 o Added "Backup Profile", "Change System Profiles" and "Replace System
1253 Profiles" to the INI viewer.
1254 o Fixed some glitches in new mask "must have" attribute processing.
1255 o Found and fixed bug in Collector's Seek & Scan that could cause FM/2
1256 to trap.
1257 o Added a Settings notebook containing global toggles and such.
1258 Slower than the menus, but Ron Hester asked for it, and I allus do
1259 what Ron says...
1260 o Return of the weirding ... but that'd be telling.
1261 o Added optional split status line.
1262
12632.08:
1264 o Added "must have" attributes to Filter.
1265 o Fixed Undelete dialog so selecting a new drive from the combobox
1266 causes the listbox to be refreshed for that drive, and so a missing
1267 DELETE environment variable for the selected drive doesn't cause the
1268 dialog to abort unless you select Cancel in the information box (so
1269 you can pick a different drive).
1270 o Added limited optional logging for some simple but critical
1271 operations (copy, move, rename, delete).
1272 o Documented "start minimized" command line argument.
1273 o Added "don't save/restore state of dir windows this time" command
1274 line argument.
1275
12762.07:
1277 o Added "View Bookshelf" and "View Helpfiles" utilities.
1278 o Fixed bug in Quick Tree added while fixing the last one...
1279 o VTree now saves its size and position on desktop (Ron Gawer wanted
1280 that). VDir doesn't, as you can have several of them open at once
1281 and it would be somewhat irritating to have them all on top of each
1282 other.
1283
12842.06:
1285 o In the Collector's Seek-and-scan dialog, the All HDs button now skips
1286 removable drives (like CD-ROMs) for convenience.
1287 o Quick tree works around the OS/2 DosFindFirst bug that prevents FAT
1288 root drives from being found.
1289 o Added "separator" attribute for tool buttons -- causes a small amount
1290 of space to be added after the button with the attribute, for
1291 appearance (grouping of buttons).
1292 o Added ability to turn on titles below bitmap buttons in toolbar (it'll
1293 have to be short and sweet) and grouped all toolbar toggles under a
1294 Toolbar conditional cascade submenu.
1295
1296[lazy bum skipped a few...]
1297
12982.00:
1299 o A whole new look for FM/2 -- the same thing, only more so. Some
1300 things were enhanced, some dropped, some replaced or superceded.
1301 Still, if you used 1.x you should feel at home.
1302
1303$Id: HISTORY 815 2007-08-26 22:01:27Z gyoung $
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