source: trunk/HISTORY@ 907

Last change on this file since 907 was 907, checked in by Steven Levine, 18 years ago

Avoid out of memory traps in Compare Directories
Rework Compare Directories progress display for 2 second update rate
Start refactoring to reduce dependence on fm3dll.h
Add timer services (IsITimerExpired etc.)

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1New stuff's at the top. This list is not necessarily complete.
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33.09(pre)
4 o Add TestFDate and TestCDate for date compare and sort functions (Gregg)
5 o Use commaFMTULL for formating additional file, EA etc size information(Gregg)
6 o Give LIBPATHSTRICT option for mailto & run FTP/HTTP (Gregg)
7 o Add "mailto" option in new viewer (Gregg)
8 o Make WPURLDEFAULTSETTINGS the fall back for ftp/httprun (Gregg)
9 o Update CopyPresParams to copy all types of pres parameters (Gregg)
10 o Add "Save as" menu item to internal viewer (Gregg)
11 o Eliminate deletion of ext path if it was not valid on startup
12 o Allow saving of a currently not valid ext path with warning (Gregg)
13 o Internal editor now handles readonly files (Gregg)
14 o Correct hex edit buffer sizing to avoid data loss (Steven)
15 o Use CopyPresParams to fix presparam inconsistencies in menus (Gregg)
16 o Correct variable cast to fix hex code display problem (Gregg)
17 o Correct variable cast to fix hex code display problem (Gregg)
18 o Update includes to allow standalone usage (Steven)
19 o Switch to wrc.exe default; support USE_RC from environment (Steven)
20 o Avoid out of memory traps in Compare Directories (Steven)
21
223.08
23 o Cancel in walk directories dialog now directly closes dialog even if
24 directory path text has changed (Gregg)
25 o Fixed seek and scan crash caused by file names that exceed maxpath(Gregg)
26 o Fixed INVALID_NAME error caused by FILEFIND buffer crossing a 64k boundry (Steven)
27 o Added 32 bit DosQuerySysState API (Gregg)
28 o Warpin build will not attempt to use wrong wic.exe (John)
29 o Make directory now always lists current directory (not subdirectories)
30 on status line (Gregg)
31 o Use thousands separator from default COUNTRYINFO (Gregg, Steven)
32 o Add support for files over 4GiB (Gregg, Steven)
33 o Rework filemask logic to match last extension and allow for better
34 string matching (Gregg)
35 o Use 4096 byte buffers to protect against NFTS driver small read defect (Steven)
36
373.07
38 o Tweak build process (Steven)
39 o Rework internals to increase file and directory limits (Steven, Gregg)
40 o Rework internal sleep durations to increase performance (Gregg)
41 o Rework file scanning buffer handling to increase performance (Gregg)
42 o Speed up Config->Tree->Collapse before switching speed (Steven)
43 o Speed up Dup find code. (Gregg)
44 o Update configuration notebook scanning page (Steven)
45 o Rework states logic to allow longer state names, tickets #109, #31 (Steven)
46 o Report delta time in debug messages (Steven)
47 o Added BldFullPathName cleaned up comp dirs code fix right left misalignment(Steven)
48 o Added BldQuotedFileName and BldQuotedFullPathName to streamline code. (Steven, Gregg)
49 o Increased limit on Subject EA to 1024 from 40. (Gregg)
50 o Corrected dir sizes accel key to ctrl + z. (Gregg)
51 o Fixed addition of ff in Hex notation by archiver editor. (John)
52 o Updated build instructions on FM/2 Wiki. (David)
53 o Dir sizes correct some sizing and positioning issues. (Steve)
54 o Removed error message in eas.c which caused seek and scan for text including eas to fail on
55 read only files. (Gregg)
56 o Fixed unnecessary menu item removal when FM/2 is run as the WPS.(Gregg)
57 o Fixed the restore of the settings under "Include in details view" on the "DirView"
58 tab of the configuration notebook, Ticket 118/71 (John)
59 o Subject column can be moved to left side of split bar in directory container
60 and/or sized which will truncate long subjects (Gregg)
61 o Avoid can not set fm3.ini read-only failure - DosSetPathInfo (Steven)
62 o Avoid exception when exiting File/Directory Object Information dialog (Steven)
63 o Fix a fast viewer text file load failure. (Gregg)
64 o Reversed behavior of horizontal scroll bar in fast viewer bar present with unwrapped text
65 absent with wrapped tex and hex
66 o Add accelerator support to quicklist windows (Steven)
67
683.06
69 o First release built with OpenWatcom associated documentation updates (Steven,Gregg,John)
70 o Fixed ramdisk not shown in quicklist drives dropdown and drive bar drive lists (Gregg)
71 o Fixed WORKPLACE_PROCESS environment variable check (Gregg)
72 o Add CheckPmDrgLimit including IsFm2Window as part of work around PM drag limit (Steven,Gregg)
73 o Change mouse button 3 white space click to fail silently (Gregg)
74 o Document behavior of global.exe when attempt is made to run it from 4os2 (Gregg)
75
763.05.09
77 o Update readme to reflect warpin install and other code changes (David, John, Gregg)
78 o Avoid spurious add_udir error reports (Steven)
79 o Harden drag/drop error recovery (Steven, Gregg)
80 o Add DbgMsg (Steven)
81 o Rework selective error logging logic
82 o Rework state save/restore user interface to report problems better (Steven)
83 o Correct FileInfoProc binary file detect (Steven)
84 o Correct FileInfoProc/IconProc race crash - ticket#77 (Steven)
85 o Convert to WarpIN installer - ticket #10 (David, John)
86 o Work around for drag/drop limit in PM ticket 50 (Gregg, Steven)
87 o Add RunFM2Utils function find utils in path or \utils (Gregg)
88 o Fix MMPM file scan to not try to play nonmedia files (Gregg)
89 o "Replace" in commands dialog now leave list order intact (Gregg)
90 o Code cleanup (ROT13 compiler warning, removed win class pstrings QWL_USER) (Gregg)
91 o Removed original Readme from distribution package
92
933.05 beta08
94 o Add SelectDriveIcon function (Gregg)
95 o New drive flags - ramdisk, virtual drive & no drive stats (Gregg)
96 o New icons for ramdisk, virtual drives & directories (David)
97 o Avoid saving directory settings for no prescan drives on close (Steven)
98 o Restore Make directory menu item to drive container context menu (Gregg)
99 o Add read only NTFS file support (requires NTFS.ifs) (Gregg)
100 o Removed most hard coded fonts from dialogs updated Helv font to Helvetica (Gregg)
101 o Moved fonts to string file (Gregg)
102 o Expanded FM2's recognition of image & archive file types (Gregg)
103 o Help file updates (Gregg)
104 o Source code cleanup (Gregg)
105 o Icons update appropriately with drive flag changes (Steven)
106 o Avoid restoring directory windows for no prescan drives (Steven)
107 o Avoid hangs when viewing zip content and running viewer as child
108 o Honor NOPRESCAN flags for drives left open on exit
109 o Refresh tree container drive icon after prescan enable
110
1113.05beta07
112 o Support additional file systems types (Gregg)
113 o Reorganize menus (Gregg)
114 o Enhance unzip option controls (Gregg)
115 o Remember search options in Seek and Scan (Gregg)
116 o Allow drive flag editing for not ready drives (Gregg)
117 o Correct bitmap loading defects (Steven)
118 o Update documentation (Gregg)
119 o Add newer, better bitmaps (David)
120 o Update Readme to discuss move to Netlabs (Steve)
121
1223.05beta06
123 o Put .. back in walk list - oops
124 o Correct walk directory list build regression - oops
125
1263.05beta05
127 o Rework session termination logic - avoids hanging zip windows and others
128 o NDFS support by Gregg
129 o Default seek and scan to show files
130 o Rework menus
131 o Correct . and .. compare logic to not skip .dir and ..dir
132 o Correct compare directories . and .. skip logic to not skip .dir
133 o Association editor fixes by Gregg
134
1353.05beta04
136 o Change to standard F1 Help hotkey by Gregg
137 o Association editor enhancements by Gregg
138 o Commands editor enhancements by Gregg
139 o Avoid spurious error popups
140
1413.05beta03
142 o Help file updated by David
143 o Avoid toolbar bitmap edit exception
144 o Toolbars reworked by David
145 o Add more missing fm3.hlp dependents to makefile
146 o More great bitmaps from David
147
1483.05beta02
149 o Disable conflicting menu options while collector busy
150 o Integrate Gregg Young's partition format enhancements
151 o Integrate John Small's switch list title logic
152
1533.05beta01
154 o More great bitmaps from David
155 o Avoid cascading messages when collector file list is a binary file
156 o Rework some error messages
157 o Add unlock.exe to commands template
158
1593.04
160 o Recover corrupted finger pointer
161 o Allow quick abort of large archive open
162 o Open large archive containers at idle priority
163 o Update archiver usage help (thanks Gregg)
164 o Expose internal errors to user rather than just beeping
165 o Check and report more "should not occur" errors
166 o More new icons (thanks David)
167 o Allow vcollect applet to die on window close
168
1693.04 pre11:
170 o Add hide not selected to Compare Directories
171 o Add compare content to Compare Directories
172
1733.04 pre10:
174 o Allow non-null terminated archive signatures
175 o Preserve archiver.bbs comments
176
1773.04 pre9:
178 o Add archiver defintion add/delete/move support
179
1803.04 pre8:
181 o Avoid toolbar window list trap (action 9010)
182 o Avoid internal editor file corruption when wrap on
183
1843.04 pre7:
185 o More archiver.bb2 template rework
186 o Correct archiver window date/time suppress logic
187 o Clean up archiver.bb2 loader
188 o Minor makefile corrections
189
1903.04 pre6:
191 o Correct typo in MakeValidDir() - avoid drive button RMB trap
192
1933.04 pre5:
194 o Support archivers with no list headers (tar)
195 o Support archivers that onl extract with directories (tar)
196 o Disable menus for not ready volumes
197 o Correct missing collector view button window updates
198 o Correct fallback logic in MakeValidDir()
199
2003.04 pre4:
201 o Correct longnames display enable
202 o archiver.tmp (archiver.bb2) updated and optimized
203 o Support archiver.tmp install
204
2053.04 pre3:
206 o Support jfsopt.cmd install
207 o Support tarlist.cmd install
208 o Ensure install.cmd updates fm/2 Desktop folder icons
209 o Support empty signatures in archiver.bb2
210
2113.04 pre2:
212 o More icon updates (David's v18)
213 o Avoid user directory edit crash
214 o Avoid crashing if archiver.bb2 entry has no signature
215
2163.04 pre1:
217 o Avoid commands menu do it yourself trap
218 o Correct filesystem type details view column selections
219 o Rework resource kit into standard makefiles
220 o Replace bitmaps and icons (thanks to David Graser and others)
221 o Add JFS optimize support (thanks to Gregg Young)
222 o Avoid Directory Sizes hangs
223
2243.03:
225 o Rework resource kit and reskit readme
226 o Correct directory sizes sort
227 o Correct archive sort again
228
2293.02i:
230 o Rework Databar to avoid delays for inaccessible volumes
231 o Lots of work on large file support
232 o Switch to VAC 3.65
233 o Correct name parsing in collector and archive containers
234 o Output popup error messages to stderr and to screen
235 o Correct archive container initial sort setup
236 o Avoid startup trap in FindSwapperDat (VAC3.65 compat)
237 o Correct reversed wrap menu in new viewer
238 o Misc VAC3.65 compat rework
239 o Avoid referencing garbage in collector
240 o Resolve some icon selection inconsistencies
241
2423.02h:
243 o Show full target path in Drag/Drop dialogs
244 o Add debug support to troubleshoot invisible FAT32 drive
245 o Correct archiver.bb2 editing
246
2473.02g:
248 o Update removable drive support to work for USB MSD
249
2503.02f:
251 o Add large drive support to the dirsize applet startup screen
252 o Avoid spurious filldir errors for large drives
253 Will still get get math errors for >4GB directories
254
2553.02e:
256 o More see all files fixes
257 o Correct internal viewer WM_VSCROLL logic (amouse)
258
2593.02d:
260 o Clean up icon usage
261 o Add missing refresh after compare subdir toggle
262 o Try to avoid playing non-MM files when use MMOS2 enabled
263 o Rework directory sizes for large drives
264 o Correct Show All Files requests from Tree View context menu
265 o Correct resource strings
266
2673.02c:
268 o Correct broken assignments
269 o Force Compare Directories window refresh on subdir toggle
270
2713.02b:
272 o Add JFS and FAT32 support
273
2743.02a:
275 o Replace corrupted remote.ico.
276 o Correct archive name display
277
2783.02:
279 o First open source release.
280
2813.01:
282 o Added another archiver date type for user Jans-Peter Otto.
283
2843.00d:
285 o FM/2 Lite remembers if a directory pane was maximized when it
286 closed now (duh -- should have all along, I just forgot).
287
2883.00c:
289 o More minor bug fixes.
290
2913.00b:
292 o Fix two minor bugs reported by users.
293
2943.00:
295 o Most of the text in FM/2 is now accessible from outside the source
296 code files, meaning translations to other languages should now be
297 possible without much problem. A resource translation kit is offered
298 free-of-charge to registered users. This required some additional
299 files (FM3RES.DLL and FM3RES.STR), but FM3DLL.DLL becomes (at least)
300 correspondingly smaller.
301 o Jazzed up Autoview a bit.
302 o Removed a bug that sneaked in during code optimization detected by
303 a user where archive members couldn't be dragged. Then optimized
304 some more, thus tempting fate.
305 o Improved FM/2's internal window selection from menus.
306 o The status button in Directory Containers that shows the selected
307 number of files and bytes now displays a select menu when clicked.
308 o Drive buttons will now show free space on drives as bubble help
309 except for CD-ROM drives, diskette drives A: and B:, and drives
310 marked as "slow" in the drive flags dialog. I also made the buttons
311 a little bigger, and they'll "stack" if required due to insufficient
312 width.
313 o Removed System Information applet from FM/2 -- OS/2 seems to have
314 this stuff built-in now.
315 o Moved MakeArc into the FM/2 Utilities package.
316 o You can now add selected environment variables that list directories
317 (like PATH, LIBPATH and DPATH) to the Drive Tree with a toggle in
318 the internal Settings notebook on the Tree page. Cool.
319 o You can now set a default Target directory for menu and accelerator
320 key copy and move operations, and choose to confirm (and perhaps
321 change) that directory on each operation, or accept it without
322 confirmation.
323 o FM/2 will now make program object Parameters suggestions the first
324 time it's run (no FM3.INI exists) if you should exclude any drives,
325 and will even set the Parameters for you if you like.
326 o Yet more tweaking that no one will ever notice...
327
3282.67:
329 o Jazzed up the mini-command line a bit.
330 o Command lines for the Execute dialog and mini-command line are now
331 saved separately (the former in CMDLINES.DAT, the latter in
332 CMDMINI.DAT, same format). You can save, or not, either type for
333 recall.
334
3352.66:
336 o Increased duration of error window to 5 seconds from 3 (click it to
337 make it vanish early), changed background color to white and text
338 color to dark red, surrounded with red rectangle to make it stand out
339 more. Also gave it a distinctive sound. (This is the error window
340 you get if you do something like try to open the diskette drive when
341 there's no diskette inserted.)
342 o Killed bug reported by Paulo Mario where FM/2 could crash (suddenly
343 exit) after moving a file and overwriting an existing file.
344 o Reworked Databar a bit.
345 o For the adventurous among you, try holding Shift or Ctrl while
346 clicking that second status window in a Directory Container...
347
3482.65:
349 o You can drag an object onto the Drive tree's Open button now, and
350 a Directory Container for that object will be opened.
351 o Long-overdue code cleanup begins...
352 o Fixed bug in FM/2 Lite where it was sorta paying attention to the
353 "bottom buttons" setting in FM/2 when it should ignore it.
354 o Played with FM/2's default settings for new users -- some of the
355 best stuff was turned off by default!
356 o Changed the behavior of the Rename dialog somewhat per user
357 suggestion. "Overwrite if target older or same," "Overwrite if
358 target newer" and "Don't ask again" checkboxes now allow you to
359 selectively skip being asked about naming conflicts for the rest of
360 an operation. Note that clicking the "Okay" button honors these
361 choices, but the "Overwrite" button overrides them for that one file
362 (an overwrite _will_ be performed).
363
3642.64:
365 o Made Window->Tile a cascade menu with Tile as the default, but you
366 can also set Autotile and Tile backwards toggles (renamed Tile
367 horizontal) there.
368 o More help file work.
369 o Tweaking of a few things no one will ever notice, except perhaps
370 as a feeling of more smoothness in a few places.
371 o Added "Leave all attrs" button to Attributes dialog to make
372 "touching" files easier.
373
3742.63:
375 o Fixed bug in UNDEL.EXE pointed out by a user.
376 o Added "Double-click" topic to Tutorial section of help. Did you know
377 that you can make FM/2 do something different when you double-click
378 an object? Other miscellaneous work on the help file.
379 o Moved "Create shadows" command under "Copy" cascade in menus where no
380 separate "Create objects" cascade is available and a "Copy" cascade
381 is available.
382 o Made the way menus appear on new View and Sort buttons more
383 attractive (IMHO).
384 o Bubble help won't appear if the window isn't active now (oversight).
385 o To make it easier to parse the saved output from a Directory sizes
386 window, directory names containing spaces are now surrounded by quote
387 marks.
388 o Related: Put SEEHELP.EXE into FM2UTILS.ZIP for those who have
389 versions of OS/2 with VIEW.EXEs that won't read .HLP files directly.
390 You can read the FM/2 help file directly using this program on such
391 systems: "SEEHELP FM3.HLP".
392
3932.62:
394 o Added /SAVE and /NOSAVE to mini-command line options for a user.
395
3962.61:
397 o Added new buttons to Directory Container, Archive Containers and the
398 Collector that allow you to set sort, filter and view. Removed
399 filter button from bottom of screen (no longer needed). Revised
400 window layouts help to show modified layouts.
401 o More newuser-friendly junk (more bubble help, etc.).
402 o Added Find first/next to INI viewer. Listbox command will work in
403 is bordered in red.
404 o Just a BTW -- there's a new IMAGE.EXE (the FM/2 image viewer utility)
405 in FM2UTILS.ZIP, available free-of-charge at
406 http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/fm2
407 I put some stuff in it that I needed for making pictures for the help
408 files.
409
4102.60:
411 o Fast internal viewer can start configured editor from menu (Ctrl + e
412 accelerator) per user request. Remember, to edit files in an
413 archive, you must still use Files->Refresh to cause selected files to
414 be refreshed in the archive.
415 o Added a bit more bubble help (remember, you can turn bubble help on
416 and off (somewhat selectively) in the internal Settings notebook).
417
4182.59:
419 o Rename dialog will now specifically tell you if the source file is
420 newer, older or same date as target and smaller, larger or same size
421 if there's a conflict with an existing target file, per user request.
422
4232.58:
424 o Added ability to create a new directory and switch to it in the
425 common directories user list (select <New directory>). Revised
426 help to reflect this.
427 o Holding down Shift while selecting a state name will prevent FM/2
428 from closing windows already open now (per user request). An
429 automatic retile of all windows is then performed.
430
4312.57:
432 o Added ability to sort by subject per user request (wouldn't it be
433 nice if Netscape put where we got downloaded files from in an EA? Or
434 let you drag a file over it without locking up the system?).
435
4362.56:
437 o Added ability to use exclusion masks in the Seek and Scan dialog
438 per Harry Travis' request. Also added Append checkbox.
439
4402.55:
441 o Fixed bug reported by Ralph Alvy -- "Append" checkbox being ignored
442 in Save to listfile dialog, FM/2 always appended to listfile.
443
4442.54:
445 o Small tweaks.
446 o I don't do Compuserve anymore. Reach me via the net, or just go to
447 FM/2's web page at http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/fm2
448
4492.53:
450 o Added Commands user dropdown list for picking commands to run on
451 selected files more quickly and easily.
452 o Removed "#" character from AV/2 temporary directory -- WebEx and
453 Netscape were choking on it (a).
454 o Allow disabling FM/2's custom file dialog so you can use MSE's
455 instead, if you like (the toggle's on the General page). (What's
456 MSE? Look at http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/mse) (a).
457 o Added support for PKZIP 2.50 (b).
458
4592.52:
460 o When the FM/2 main window is resized and a Directory Container is
461 maximized within it, it will remain maximized.
462 o Modified AV/2 and ARCHIVER.BB2 so that RAR v2's woefully NIH
463 listings can be read. Would it just _kill_ you archiver authors to
464 get together and come up with some sort of easily parsed listing
465 standard, then stick to it? Please?
466 o FM/2 will now show the current decryption keyword for extra programs
467 like DBFVIEW and FMT from the About box.
468
4692.51:
470 o Tweaked image viewer initial sizing algorithm to better handle very
471 small bitmaps at more nearly correct perspectives.
472 o Added "No folder menu" toggle to internal Settings notebook by
473 user request.
474 o Put floppy letters back into drives userlist dropdown due to
475 user request.
476 o Made image viewer a separate executable due to a memory leak in
477 OS/2's MMPM/2 (mmio) under Merlin beta and some Warp 3 fixpack
478 configurations -- closing the application frees the memory, but
479 nothing else will, so a small, fast, separate application "fixes" the
480 problem (or, if you prefer, "OS/2 bug"). Like FM2PLAY.EXE, this
481 IMAGE.EXE file will now be in the FM/2 Utilities package (FM2UTL.ZIP
482 on CI$ or FM2UTILS.ZIP on the internet). You'll probably want to
483 remove any old IMAGE.CMD file built by previous FM/2 installs.
484 o Added ability to view and manipulate files in archives containing
485 spaces in the filename for archivers that provide information in a
486 particular way (see ARCHIVER.BB2 -- ZIP and LZH archives are set up
487 this way). Other folks who use ARCHIVER.BB2 should take a look at
488 the updated documentation to see how to take advantage of this, but
489 it's backward-compatible, so old versions of those programs will
490 still work correctly with this change.
491 o Removed SEEHELP.EXE -- Warp has the ability to view help files using
492 VIEW.EXE which comes with the OS.
493 o Added "WPS Move" and "WPS Copy" commands.
494 o I no longer accept registrations via direct mail. Registrations are
495 available through BMT Micro or CIS' SWREG only (BMT recommended --
496 see REGISTER.TXT). I just got too much snail mail and couldn't keep
497 up with all of it.
498
4992.50b:
500 o Added ability to convert an image file to another format from the
501 image viewer window.
502 o All supported multimedia types are now "played" automatically on
503 double-click unless you have an FM/2 Association set for them.
504
5052.50a:
506 o Added "Run Viewer as child session" toggle -- if used, any open
507 viewers will close when FM/2 closes.
508 o Added "Env" button to Seek and scan dialog (for searching through
509 directories listed in environment variables).
510 o Added "No sort" option to Collector sorting.
511 o FM/2 will now offer to remove old registration when started after
512 registration has expired, making it easy to enter updated
513 registration information.
514 o Directory Containers can now be switched into Tree View. See also
515 new "Stay in Tree View" toggle.
516 o B2 on Directory Container Folder buttons pulls up an abbreviated
517 popup menu.
518 o Bugfix: The Autoview window wouldn't let you enter Comments on an
519 object that didn't already have them (duh).
520 o FM/2 now taps into MMPM/2 to display image files, instead of GBM. To
521 activate FM/2's "internal" image file viewing, be sure to remove any
522 Associations for MMPM/2-supported image file types (JPG, TIF, BMP,
523 PCX, GIF, etc.) using FM/2's Config->Edit Associations command.
524
5252.50:
526 o Added a horizontal scrollbar to Global files viewer.
527 o Added line wrap (and thus horizontal scrollbar) to fast internal
528 viewer.
529 o Added WWW and FTP component launching to internal viewers per
530 user request. BTW, testpm.exe from the FM/2 Utilities is handy for
531 deciphering the arguments to FTPPM.EXE, which are a bit bizaare and
532 undocumented. Just rename FTPPM.EXE to FTPPM.BAK, copy TESTPM.EXE
533 to FTPPM.EXE in the same directory, open the FTP object's Settings
534 notebook, then open the FTP object's program and compare the
535 results.
536 o Added optional blue/yellow LEDs which can be used in place of the
537 default red/green thread LED bitmaps.
538 o Added a toggle to make the databar boring for those who can't stand
539 too much excitement (I have users who are easily worn out :-). Also
540 added file system type to end of string on user request.
541 o Execute dialog will try to remind you why you called it up in case
542 you fall asleep after double-clicking the mouse and awake confused.
543 It could happen.
544 o Couple of more small workarounds for Merlin beta bugs.
545 o Changed the way the toolbar displays help to eliminate capturing
546 the mouse (kludge, OS/2 should have a WM_MOUSELEAVING message).
547 o Added mini-toolbar to fast internal viewer.
548 o Note new internet address.
549 o Price reduction for commercial registrations.
550 o SET environment variable DOS_SHELL in CONFIG.SYS if you want to use
551 an alternate command processor in DOS sessions (for example,
552 SET DOS_SHELL=C:\4DOS\4DOS.EXE).
553 o Remap command now uses NET USE, enhancements (like it works, for
554 one :-).
555 o Added Miscellaneous->Detach (Ctrl + H) command to Drive Tree drive
556 popup to detach local drives from remote resources.
557 o Updated FM2PLAY.EXE (in FM2UTL.ZIP on CIS, FM2UTILS.ZIP elsewhere),
558 including more controls and ability to load list of files from a
559 listfile. FM/2 will use this listfile method when playing more
560 multimedia files than will fit on a command line using the
561 View->Multimedia (Ctrl + l) command. OS/2 command lines are
562 limited to about 1000 characters, if you're interested.
563 o Lots of other little tweaks and improvements -- some you might
564 even notice.
565
5662.49:
567 o More cosmetic tweaking -- for example, changing status line or bottom
568 button text font will now result in resizing of control to match new
569 font. BTW, if you set ugly fonts or colors and want the defaults
570 back, one way to do it completely is to delete the window position
571 entry in OS2.INI and start from scratch...
572 o Work around for nasty bug in Merlin beta Voice Manager.
573 o Remap drives command added -- untested at this time, as I have no
574 LAN. If you try it and it doesn't work, please report the error
575 code displayed. If it works, let me know that, too.
576 o Fixed bug in Merge code.
577 o Added mini-toolbars to Archive Containers and the Collector (visible
578 only if you have the toolbar in FM/2 turned on, of course).
579 o A couple of other little things folks asked for -- I forget.
580
5812.48a:
582 o Lots of cosmetic stuff (for example, check out the Databar).
583 o Additional help, partitioned Context menu help into smaller "chunks."
584 o Added Find button to Archive dialog.
585 o More Merlin preparations.
586 o Added UserDirs dropdown to standard OS/2 file dialogs used by FM/2.
587 o Added Duplicates command to Global file viewer.
588 o More (subtle) tweaking of Seek and Scan dialog.
589 o Anybody else notice how the competition is trying (in vain) to
590 copy FM/2, but having a great deal of trouble keeping up with
591 the Joneses? :-)
592
5932.48:
594 o Ideal size button logic adjusted so it will work as might be expected
595 with Merlin's new Warpcenter.
596 o Logic for sizing of titlebar buttons adjusted so they look better
597 under Merlin.
598 o Fixed bug in EA editor's MLE control -- an apparent change in the way
599 Warp handles the MLM_QUERYFORMATTEXTLENGTH with an overlong length
600 parameter has changed, resulting in the MLE not being cleared properly.
601 o Autoviewing file comments (.COMMENTS EA) now displays the comments in
602 an MLE rather than static text control, allowing editing. Moving the
603 focus from the MLE after making a change saves the new EA. Note: if
604 a .COMMENTS EA is damaged, FM/2 won't let you edit it in this window
605 for safety (maybe some strange program wanted it that way). You can
606 fix it in the EA viewer (Ctrl + Shift + E) if you know it's an anomoly.
607 Use the Ctrl + Tab accelerator key to switch focus to the Autoview
608 MLE if you're keyboarding. FM/2 supports .COMMENTS EAs up to 32767
609 characters in length. Each line of the MLE (newline, not wrap)
610 creates a separate EAT_ASCII value, in case you care and know what
611 the heck I'm talking about... BTW, GCP downloads automatically fill
612 in the .COMMENTS and .SUBJECT EAs for you if so configured, though
613 it seems to save the .COMMENTS EA in a weird (different from the
614 WPS) format -- but it's readable.
615 o You can use command line switch -<ininame> to start FM/2 with a
616 different INI file (i.e. "FM3.EXE -C:\MYINI.INI"). This means
617 that different users can set up FM/2 to taste and use separate
618 FM/2 objects to start their "version" of the program on the same
619 machine.
620 o FM/2 will try to remind you why the Walk directories dialog was
621 invoked, per forgetful, worn-out user request. :-)
622 o Keys help added per user request.
623
6242.47:
625 o Added "View->As archive" context menu option per user request.
626 o Added maximize/restore button to "FM/2 Lite" Directory Containers.
627 o Added Autoview window to "FM/2 Lite."
628 o Added "View archive" button to Archive List Error window.
629 o Fixed bug -- Ctrl + F7 not bringing up context menu with Sort
630 submenu selected.
631 o Jazzed up direct renaming of files and directories.
632 o Jazzed up Seek and Scan dialog per user request.
633 o AV/2 will now accept wildcarded filenames and view the first matching
634 file in whatever manner seems most appropriate.
635 o Delete key deletes files, Ctrl + Delete is permanent delete, Shift +
636 Delete is save to clipboard, Ctrl + Insert is make directory, Ctrl +
637 Pageup is parent directory, Ctrl + Pagedown is previous directory,
638 Ctrl + Home is root directory. Obviously, not all these keystrokes
639 are meaningful in all windows (for instance, parent directory doesn't
640 do anything in the Collector). These new shortcut keys are in
641 addition to existing accelerators. Applicable windows (see previous
642 caveat): Directory Containers, Drive Tree, Archive Containers,
643 Collector, Global files windows. Per user request. These are not
644 "real" accelerator keys as they tend to bleed through and mess with
645 normal interactions (even these bleed through here and there, but
646 it's benign), but hopefully you'll never notice the difference.
647 o In "FM/2 Lite," you can direct-edit the title of a Directory
648 Container to change directories.
649 o Install now accepts /UNATTENDED argument to run without asking any
650 questions.
651
6522.46:
653 o Fixed drive button bug.
654 o Added "FM/2 Lite" (or whatever you want to call it), a new
655 "personality" for FM/2 intended for those who can't deal with
656 the real thing.
657
6582.45:
659 o When selecting or deselecting by mask, you can specify a text string
660 to be used. First the file is tested against the mask(s), then
661 tested to see if it contains the text (if any is specified).
662 o Fixed bug -- context menus quit working after a Directory Container
663 was closed.
664 o Added Makearc module, mainly for access from NTree.
665 o Fixed bug -- "case sensitive" flag was being reversed for Seek and
666 Scan.
667
6682.44:
669 o "Thread busy" LED added per user request.
670 o Toolbar buttons now allow you to use different bitmaps of your own
671 design. Notes: using user-defined bitmaps in the toolbar can slow
672 loading of FM/2 slightly, but probably not noticably unless you
673 replace all of them. Request a context menu on a toolbar button and
674 pick "Edit button" to get the dialog where you tell FM/2 to use a
675 user-defined bitmap.
676 o External Archive Containers, Collector, VTree and VDirs now have
677 their own pulldown menu for Files and Views (the shadow menus) and
678 Help for easy keyboard access and/or novice users.
679 o Command lines executed through the command line dialog are remembered
680 for possible later retrieval.
681 o Directory sizes dialog reworked (prettier, sizeable). DIRSIZE.EXE
682 program provided for accessing this function directly (object placed
683 in FM/2 Tools subfolder by INSTALL.CMD).
684
6852.43:
686 o Added optional drivebar per user request.
687 o Added Lock and Unlock commands for removable drives.
688 o Added UUDecode command and Merge command (yep, got another internet
689 connection, finally).
690 o When presented with a list of objects in a dialog (as in the Edit EAs
691 or Attributes dialogs), double-clicking a file object will bring up
692 the configured viewer with the file loaded. This is just a quick
693 view purely for convenience; no attempt is made to view the file as
694 an archive or check Associations. You can double-click it in the
695 Directory Container if you need to go that far.
696 o Added "Thread notes" window -- if you don't like it, minimize it and
697 it should stay that way. When a thread does something that takes
698 awhile, like copying a file, it tells you when it starts and when
699 it finishes.
700 o Under Warp, FM/2 will now query the active desktop in a documented
701 manner when asked to create objects. There is no reliable method
702 under older OS/2 versions.
703 o Improved FM/2's built-in printing somewhat. Still not as good as
704 printing from the appropriate application, of course.
705 o Confirmation lists will now display a bitmap representing the command
706 to be executed on the dialog, where applicable, as a quick visual
707 reminder.
708 o When switching a Directory Container to the parent, FM/2 will
709 make the vacated directory's object the current object.
710
7112.42:
712 o More threading in strategic spots to make response when moving around
713 really slow drives (like ZIP and EZ drives) snappier. The drivers
714 for these drives need a bit more work, developers -- think "cache,"
715 especially for things like providing the label and usage info. When
716 it's slower than the floppy drives, some work needs to be done, eh?
717 o Edit->Drive flags dialog now available from a drive (root dir) object
718 in the Drive Tree -- lets you set flags you used to _have_ to set
719 from the command line (and a couple of new ones). You can still set
720 flags from the command line as an override.
721 o Files can be included in the Drive Tree display on a per-drive basis
722 if you can actually think of a reason to do it (I can't, but someone
723 asked). If you do find a use for it, tell me what the heck it is.
724 o See all files can be invoked on directory (folder) objects
725 (Miscellaneous->Show all files) or the directory into which a
726 Directory Container looks.
727 o See all files window and Collector now have new "Move and preserve"
728 and "Copy and preserve" commands to move or copy objects while
729 preserving their directory relationship (see online help for
730 examples).
731 o Double-clicking on an empty part of the Drive Tree now invokes the
732 Make Directory command. Double-clicking on an empty part of a
733 Directory Container opens its WPS folder.
734 o Target of a drag and drop operation can be changed from the FM/2
735 drag and drop dialog (if you're using the dialog, of course).
736 o Improved directory comparison dialog (no, it's still no PMDirMatch
737 and never will be, and yes, you can still tell FM/2 to use PMDirMatch
738 instead of the internal).
739 o Added Utilities->Compare directories command.
740 o Sorting an Archive Container by date is now possible, at least for
741 some archive types. See ARCHIVER.BB2 for details. You can also
742 Alt-B1 click the titles of sortable fields in Archive Containers now
743 to change the sort type (just like you can in a Directory Container).
744
7452.41:
746 o VTree now runs Directory Containers (VDirs) as part of its process,
747 which should save on a little memory for those of you using FM/2 as
748 as "super drives objects." To take full advantage of this, the
749 "Separate parameters" toggle should be checked.
750 o External FM/2 windows can be closed from the PM Window List without
751 closing the entire program (excepting the main window, of course).
752 o Fixed bug: last line of a hex view wasn't formatted very
753 attractively.
754 o Fixed bug: quick config page didn't work right anymore.
755 o Fixed bug: VDir and AV/2 windows would show external FM/2 windows
756 but not switch to them.
757 o Window dialog now shows and acts on external FM/2 windows.
758 o Checking "Separate parameters" toggle now saves all parameters
759 under the new appname immediately when the Settings notebook
760 is closed. You'll want to be careful here -- think before choosing.
761 BTW, a backup of your FM3.INI file, once you get it set up to your
762 liking, is always a good idea. Don't use FM3INI.BAK as the filename,
763 since FM/2 automatically does a one-generation backup to that name.
764 o Warp no longer allows a container item to be hidden by a thread other
765 than the thread that controls the container if the item is selected
766 (Why? Who knows? Why don't DrgQueryDraginfoPtrFromDragitem() and
767 CN_DROPHELP work?). Since this forces single threaded hiding of
768 objects, I must conclude this is a bug in OS/2. However, since it's
769 in "GA" OS/2 code, I reluctantly worked around it by making Hide
770 objects single-threaded -- you'll have to wait for it to get done.
771 Shouldn't be a major problem.
772 o Added codepage 1004 to codepage dialog. Someone asked, I didn't even
773 know the blamed thing was there.
774 o Added Ctrl + F10 and Ctrl + F11 accelerators to start/end a direct
775 edit of a filename for the rodently challenged.
776 o Added Next/Prev blank line menu items and buttons to new internal
777 viewer (accelerators were there before). In text where paragraphs
778 are separated by blank lines, these go down or up to the next
779 paragraph. Something I use.
780 o Added Recent Directories dropdown list to Walk Directories dialog,
781 which separates the recently used directories from the user-defined
782 directories in that dialog. Just wanted to.
783 o Added "DOS-think" and "Windoze-think" quick-config options to
784 internal Settings notebook. If you use 'em they'll stunt your growth.
785 o Fixed an obscure tile bug no one else seems to have noticed.
786 o Changed Shift + F? accelerators to Ctrl + F? to avoid conflicting
787 with a couple of OS/2-used keys.
788 o Further tightened integration between VTree and its Directory
789 Containers.
790 o Made Tree (optionally) smart.
791 o Reorganized internal Settings notebook for more "logical" grouping
792 (some things grow with a life of their own).
793 o Changed Install so that it puts many objects in a separate Toolbox
794 folder (someone who's not even registered suggested it, and I decided
795 to give it a try -- tell me what you think. If upgrading, delete the
796 old FM/2 folder before running Install again.).
797
7982.40:
799 o Added "All" button to Filter dialog.
800 o Added more optional buttons to main window.
801 o Added %u/%U metastrings.
802 o Added hex/ASCII + drag-me window to bottom of new internal text
803 viewer.
804 o Added %! metastring.
805 o Added default archiver setting.
806 o PM uses several ALT + F? accelerators to control frame windows.
807 However, this applies to the current frame window, which can be
808 within the main FM/2 window when run monolithically. Add Ctrl to
809 these accelerators to affect the main window in that case. I don't
810 change the system menu text to reflect this as it may be in a foreign
811 language, and I'm an ignorant, ugly one-language American.
812 o Added "Separate parameters" toggle.
813 o Added "Treetop on expand" toggle.
814 o Windows pulldown now lists external FM/2 windows, as does a submenu
815 on the container popup in VTree, VDir and AV/2 windows.
816 o Fixed some minor bugs in Commands menu generation.
817 o Fixed bug in Collector -- unshifted double-click didn't work on
818 directories.
819 o VDirs, external Archive Containers and Viewers now retain their last
820 set window size -- position is still determined by the Shell (PM).
821 o Lots of little tweaks no one but me will ever notice.
822
8232.39:
824 o Fixed weird bug -- apparently IBM changed the behavior of
825 MLM_QUERYFORMATTEXTLENGTH in Warp. This change may only take effect
826 at FP10+ levels.
827 o Added Open Directory Container button to Drive Tree titlebar -- only
828 shows up when FM/2 is run as a monolithic app.
829 o Added "Directory" attributes to Filter dialog per user request --
830 lets you exclude directories from Directory Containers, or show only
831 directories. NOTE: if you are upgrading, you may need to go into
832 the Filter and turn on the Directory attribute -- it's on by default
833 for new installations. Use the internal Settings notebook to
834 activate the Filter dialog (DirView and ColView pages) by setting the
835 focus to the Filter: entryfield, so that the "general" filter is
836 changed.
837 o Help file improvements (a neverending saga).
838
8392.38:
840 o Walk Directories dialog will now display non-writeable drives unless
841 the directory selection is for an action that requires writing to the
842 selected directory (for example, copy or move, set extract directory,
843 etc.).
844 o Filtering in Drive Tree now available, per user request. NOTE:
845 filtering is performed _after_ expansion; therefore, it is possible
846 for the Tree to "lie" to you until you expand a branch (i.e. indicate
847 that other directories are available, but remove the "+/-" when you
848 attempt to expand the branch. If it's important for you to know what
849 the entire tree of a drive looks like with filtering applied, use the
850 Expand/Collapse->Expand command from the Files menu or a popup. You
851 can thereafter collapse and expand the tree as desired. Tricks can
852 be played with the filter mask; for instance, "/C:\OS2*;/C:\MMOS2*;
853 /C:\TCPIP*;*" will exclude some system directories on drive C: and
854 show everything else.
855 o Got rid of the annoying (to me, anyway) extra refresh when the
856 "Immediate Updates" toggle is not used (more cheating).
857 o Windows will now be created with the WS_ANIMATE style if "Animate"
858 toggle on internal Settings notebook's Windows page is checked. Of
859 course, system animation must still be turned on to see any effect.
860 o Keyboard input of "standard" characters now performs a text search
861 to find the closest matching file system object in the container.
862 You can get the old (OS/2 default) behavior (move to nearest object
863 starting with the pressed letter) by holding down the shift key.
864 o When a background task that FM/2 is waiting on takes more than about
865 two seconds to complete its job, FM/2 will switch it to the
866 foreground. This means that if an archive is encrypted (passworded),
867 you'll get the oportunity to enter a password without having to
868 resort to the Window List to manually bring the window to the
869 foreground.
870
8712.37:
872 o Added "Autoview comments" notebook toggle (page 2) and Config menu
873 items for same. You can have FM/2 autoview file contents _or_
874 .COMMENTS EAs -- handy for looking at files that were downloaded by
875 a package that puts the file description in that EA. You can also
876 get to that EA on the third page of a WPS object's File page or via
877 FM/2's Edit EAs dialog, BTW.
878 o CTRL + Shift + B1 doubleclick opens an object's WPS Settings notebook.
879 o You can now link-drag a root directory (drive) from the Drive Tree.
880 For cryin' out loud, BE CAREFUL!
881 o Credit card registrations via BMT Micro are now available.
882 o Directory Containers can now have independent sorts if you DON'T use
883 the "Immediate Updates" toggle. When you set a sort (or filter) in
884 the internal Settings notebook, you're setting a default for
885 subsequently created Directory Containers. When you set a sort (or
886 filter) using the popup menu of a Directory Container, you're
887 changing only that container. States will now also save the type of
888 view (Icon, Details, etc.), sort and filter settings for each open
889 Directory Container.
890
8912.36:
892 o Added "Rename existing" button to Rename dialog -- allows you to
893 rename (move) an existing target file system object out of the way
894 before moving or copying another file system object to that name.
895 o Fixed "obscure" bug (reporting user's words :-) causing FM/2 to
896 enter a loop when "Views" cascade was selected from the action
897 bar menu when an internal Archive Container was the current window.
898 o Tutorial section added to online help.
899 o When a bitmapped graphic file is viewed, the window is sized to fit
900 on the screen even when the image is larger than the screen.
901 Proportion is maintained for the initial window positioning. You can
902 stretch the size of the window. The bitmap is scaled to fit. GBM is,
903 of course, still required to directly view images in FM/2.
904 o Changed toolbar button help to "bubble" style, added toggle to disable.
905 o Added Directory Compare (DirCmp:) field to Files/Dirs page of internal
906 Settings notebook.
907 o Added %d and %D metastrings for Commands.
908 o Percentages in Directory Sizes dialog more accurate (to nearest
909 thousandth).
910 o "Include subdirectories" toggle in Directory Compare dialog.
911 o Fixed bug in 2.35a's INSTALL.CMD. Can you say "duh?" Apparently I can.
912 o As usual, many little things no one will notice.
913
9142.35:
915 o Performance tuning.
916 o Implemented "minor" user suggestions.
917 o Added "Recent Dirs" toggle -- automatically adds temporary
918 directories to UserList as you change directories. You can make them
919 permanent by Adding them as usual.
920 o FM/2 may handle DOS archivers now (actually, it does -- I tested with
921 ARJ); however, you'll have to set them up for yourself and I won't
922 support them. Don't forget that DOS archivers don't support EAs.
923 AVOID WHENEVER POSSIBLE OR YOU'LL GET BURNED.
924 o If you have GBM.DLL on your LIBPATH or in the FM/2 directory, FM/2
925 will use it to display GBM-supported raster file types when they're
926 double-clicked. GBM currently supports most OS/2 and Windows
927 bitmaps, .GIF, .PCX, .TIF, .TGA, .IFF, .VID, .PGM, .KPS, .IAX, .XBM,
928 .SPR, and .PSE files. And it's free.
929 o Changed some icons around for a fresher look, added some for display
930 when you aren't loading icons from disk (for scanning speed).
931 o Added "Settings" button to Info dialog.
932
9332.34:
934 o Added "Tile backwards" toggle, but don't use it (it's a DOS-think
935 knee-jerk thing to do).
936 o Viewer won't "restore" the container that called it when it closes if
937 the container is maximized.
938 o Filtering speeded up when Autoview window is open.
939 o Show a little patch of color beside color names in Colors dialogs.
940 o Added "Folder after extract" toggle.
941 o Added ^F3 close monolithic app toggle (command id 1111 if anyone's
942 interested).
943 o More commands in INI viewer (rename, copy appname/keyname) and
944 enhanced existing Add/Edit INI record commands.
945 o Changed method of storing a few things so that they're both easily
946 human editable (for power users) and so they allow me to
947 "preconfigure" some things (for new users). If you're upgrading from
948 previous versions, there's a CONVERT.EXE that'll copy your old
949 settings to the appropriate format and get rid of old baggage.
950 o Added "Userlist switches" toggle to internal Settings notebook.
951 o Added "%r/%R" to metastrings.
952 o Added "Extract" to drag and drop dialog.
953 o Height of autoview window can be changed.
954 o More info displayed in drive info dialog.
955 o INSTALL is a bit smarter.
956 o Added two new buttons on status line -- different behaviors depending on
957 whether you click with B1 or B2 and the shift state.
958
9592.33:
960 o Added new internal viewer -- loads files at least five times faster
961 than the old viewer (which is still available via a toggle in the
962 internal Settings notebook).
963 o See all files window retains settings, is a bit slicker.
964 o Fixed bug -- rename box came up for each file moved/copied.
965 o Fixed bug -- FM/2 didn't start right with toolbar turned off. Weird.
966 o Worked around Warp bug -- PM locks up if you select a codepage that
967 hasn't been prepared. This should be ignored as in previous versions
968 of OS/2, but crashes the system instead (sheesh).
969 o Warp apparently still has a 64k limit to what the clipboard can hold.
970 While I could limit what you send to the clipboard, this is (hopefully)
971 one of those limits which will vanish with further updates to OS/2
972 itself, so I'll just caution you about it.
973 o Colors are adjustable in See all files windows.
974 o Several fonts are available in See all files windows (all fixed width).
975 o See all files window allows entering multiple keys to find a file if
976 the keys are entered within one second of each other.
977 o System info command made somewhat more human-readable.
978
9792.32:
980 o See all files window fleshed out.
981 o Added "Viewer outside," "Arcboxes outside," "INI viewer outside" and
982 "Collector outside" toggles to Toggles2 page of internal Settings
983 notebook.
984 o Added "Save" button to Directory Sizes dialog
985 o Sort type can now be changed in Details view by holding ALT and
986 clicking the title of the field to sort on (assuming titles are
987 turned on and the field is one for which sorting is available,
988 of course).
989 o Added toggle to allow user to select default delete type.
990 o Added "toolbox" dropdown to user lists.
991 o Added sample toolboxes to archive.
992 o Info and EA dialogs now include listbox, lets you scroll through all
993 objects instead of popping up for each selected object. EAS.EXE
994 mini-app inherits this; now accepts multiple filenames.
995 o Check list dialogs now allow calling up the Info dialog for files in
996 the list.
997
9982.31:
999 o Added "Minimize to databar" toggle, also accessible as a standalone
1000 miniapp.
1001 o Tree remembers directories, once expanded.
1002 o An individual drive may now be rescanned in the Drive Tree (related
1003 to the above).
1004 o More keyboard shortcuts for the rodently challenged.
1005 o Drag from recessed text fields in Directory and Archive Containers
1006 now possible (drags the directory or archive, respectively).
1007 o Default Commands command (Do it yourself) added.
1008 o Extract path can now be assigned "*" meaning "use directory in which
1009 the archive resides."
1010 o More menu compaction (well, you think of a term for it).
1011 o New "See all files" window (still under construction, but already
1012 much faster and very functional, without the standard listbox
1013 limitation of 32767 maximum items). Loads, sorts and displays
1014 15,792 files from two local fixed drives in 18 seconds on my
1015 486/66DX2 with normal (for me, of course) background load.
1016 o Fixed buglet in Archive Container status display.
1017 o More user suggestions implemented.
1018
10192.30:
1020 o I forget.
1021
10222.29:
1023 o Added "Topic" entry field in Bookshelf Viewer dialog.
1024 o Added "Quick arc find" toggle in Settings notebook; can speed up
1025 drag and drop operations on floppy/network drives.
1026 o Worked around PM bug in custom frame controls.
1027 o Added "Directory Container state" saving and restoring in a dropdown
1028 list (turned on with "Toggle quicklists" under Config menu).
1029 o Fixed drag and drop bug (couldn't move, duh). Smartened up drag and
1030 drop while I was at it; no sense offering options not really
1031 available due to media type (i.e. can't copy to a CD-ROM).
1032 o Added "Launch" button to drag and drop dialog.
1033 o Added quick-help for dropdown lists (in status box 2).
1034 o Added ability to drop onto userlist dropdown to add a directory.
1035 Also added popup maintenance menu (add and delete directories to/from
1036 list).
1037
10382.28:
1039 o Added optional user directory list dropdown box on main window
1040 (maintenance of the list is still performed in the Walk Directories
1041 dialog).
1042 o Added Drives submenu on Drive Tree's views context menu -- select a
1043 drive from it and the tree scrolls to show it and makes it the
1044 current object.
1045 o Restricted filename quoting in command lines to absolute essentials
1046 -- some programs are broken and choke on quoted filenames. We
1047 absolutely cannot have LIST choking if it can be avoided.
1048 o Double-clicking a directory in the Drive Tree container will cause an
1049 existing Directory Container looking into that directory, if one
1050 exists, to come to the foreground rather than opening a new one; if
1051 the existing window is minimized, it'll be restored. Ditto for new
1052 userlist dropdown.
1053 o FM/2 can now launch Windows apps seamless -- maybe. Sheesh, I'd
1054 use a DOS app first...
1055
10562.27:
1057 o Added "Move & rename" and "Copy & rename" commands per user request.
1058 This extends into the drag and drop dialog (said dialog is now on by
1059 default, BTW).
1060 o Many tiny tweaks that no one will ever notice (for instance,
1061 filenames containing "&" are now quoted on command lines where they
1062 weren't before).
1063 o Added EXAMPLE.CMD to archive as an example of how REXX scripts can
1064 manipulate files listed in listfiles created by FM/2. This allows
1065 Commands to circumvent the apx. 1000 character limit of OS/2 command
1066 lines.
1067 o Made notification window look more homogenous.
1068
10692.26:
1070 o Fixed stupid new bug in moving files from HPFS->FAT with long
1071 filenames.
1072 o Fixed bug in RemoteBug fix that conflicted with another fix for
1073 remote FSD bugs. I'm getting sick of working around remote FSD
1074 bugs -- think I'll just let the LAN folks fix _their_ stuff from
1075 now on...
1076 o Made titlebar of Drive Tree containers respond to request for context
1077 menu as if it were container whitespace per user request.
1078 o Added "Min on dir open" toggle -- a more elegant solution to a taste
1079 thing (IMHO) than a user requested feature.
1080 o Chord on status windows brings up window dialog like it does on
1081 client window whitespace.
1082 o Added "Append to clipboard" command to internal viewer/editor's
1083 Edit menu.
1084 o Moved "Write block" command out of Edit->Blocks submenu of internal
1085 viewer/editor to the main Edit submenu as "Copy to file" so it's
1086 accessible in readonly (viewing) mode while I was at it.
1087 o Added informational tweaking to viewer/editor's Edit->Undo menu
1088 command.
1089 o Added "Walk" button to Seek and scan dialog.
1090 o Added special FM/2 Association command line "<>" to indicate that the
1091 default WPS view should be opened for matching files.
1092
10932.25:
1094 o Added "Edit" and "Refresh" to Archive Containers per user request.
1095 o Added Drag and drop dialog and corresponding toggle per user request.
1096
10972.24:
1098 o Added "Remote bug" toggle since network FSD developers can't seem to
1099 consistently produce working DosFindFirst/Next code to save their
1100 lives.
1101 o Undelete enhancements.
1102
11032.23:
1104 o Enhancements to potential dupe finder per user requests and other
1105 stuff I thunk up all by my lonesome.
1106 o Placed "Seek and scan" on the Utility pulldown. All it does is
1107 start the Collector and post it a WM_COMMAND message as though you'd
1108 clicked Seek and scan on its context menu. Maybe even folks who
1109 don't read the help can find it now (who knows?).
1110
11112.22:
1112 o Additional detail and options are presented when FM/2 can't figure
1113 out how to list the contents of an archive (ARCHIVER.BB2
1114 misconfigured or archive bad) via new dialog. This should make
1115 determining what the archive problem is much easier when the
1116 inevitable problem arises.
1117 o Added duplicate file finder to Seek-and-Scan dialog. Finds files
1118 with same name and/or size and filedate.
1119
11202.21:
1121 o Shift and CTRL modifiers for double-clicking objects in Drive Tree,
1122 Directory Containers and Collector implemented. Shift causes new
1123 FM/2 window to open (directories; direct to View for files), CTRL
1124 causes default WPS open.
1125 o More stuff in the help file (sheesh -- this has gotta stop). The
1126 online help should now make a rather complete manual when printed
1127 together with the READ.ME file (see READ.ME for suggestions).
1128 o INSTALL now makes an object for the online help so that it can be
1129 viewed without starting FM/2 (using SEEHELP.EXE, included).
1130 o Added Filter "Always show directories" toggle.
1131 o Ideal size button supports a psuedo-restore operation, allowing
1132 toggling between two sizes (mine and yours).
1133 o Other stuff I forget.
1134
11352.20:
1136 o Fixed stupid bug that made FM/2 freak out on restart if you turned the
1137 toolbar off and left it off (duh).
1138 o Move-drag onto archives allowed now (if you have the archiver for that
1139 archive type configured to allow moving files, of course).
1140 o Fixed bug in longname<->shortname conversion (FAT<->HPFS).
1141 o Found a nasty way to get Warp's printer objects to recognize FM/2's
1142 D&D.
1143 o Extract dialog can be told to remember its settings (extract directory,
1144 masks, "with directories") distinctly from those set in Archive
1145 Containers.
1146 o Added a few pictures to the online help for extreme novices.
1147 o Added new "Compare Select" submenu with commands that can make
1148 selections based on comparing unfiltered files in all open Directory
1149 Containers. Powerful stuff.
1150 o Added "Hide objects" command (selective individual object filtering).
1151 o Fixed bug -- drag to toolbar quit working when toolbar code rewritten.
1152 o Slight modification to ARCHIVER.BB2 -- -1 for filename position means
1153 to use the last "field" of an archive listing for the filename.
1154 o FM/2 is compiled with optimization turned off now -- caught it
1155 generating bad code in the new Compare Select module and don't trust
1156 it (again).
1157
11582.19:
1159 o Added "Ideal size" System Menu command and titlebar button -- an
1160 alternative to maximizing.
1161 o More work on help file hypertext links using suggestions from a
1162 registered user. Added a labelled bitmap showing the layout of FM/2
1163 windows.
1164 o Worked around weird bugs in Sizes and deleting toolbar buttons that
1165 shouldn't be bugs but nonetheless cause problems on some machines.
1166 o Added some one-line help fields to some dialogs to guide the user
1167 along.
1168 o Added the "Close" checkbox to the Edit Associations dialog, to allow
1169 executing an association to shut down FM/2 (or a VDir window, mainly
1170 for use by folks using FM/2 to replace the Drives objects).
1171 o Added "Start Minimized" and "Start Maximized" buttons to the Windows
1172 page of the Settings notebook. FM/2 starts normal size then adjusts
1173 (that lets it size all its windows right first, and gives you something
1174 to return to from the maximized state).
1175
11762.18:
1177 o Added ability to use the undocumented DosQProcStat API in the Process
1178 Killer. While this will enable the Process Killer to work without an
1179 English version of PSTAT.EXE being present, DosQProcStat is an API
1180 subject to change by IBM, so beware.
1181 o Added FATOPT.EXE program to optimize FAT drives. THIS IS A BETA
1182 PROGRAM AND USES LOW-LEVEL DRIVE ACCESS -- BACK UP BEFORE USING!
1183 o Tweaked the online help, adding more hypertext links and detail.
1184
11852.17:
1186 o Optimized for speed: Quick trees, tree sizes.
1187 o Dug the names of the new color palettes out of Warp's INI files.
1188 Under 2.x both color palette commands (one new) load the same object.
1189 Under Warp they load the two different palette objects available.
1190 o Added swapfile/memory watch when Drive Tree is active window in FM/2.
1191 o Added HPFSOPT.EXE program to optimize HPFS drives.
1192
11932.16:
1194 o Added "Update objects" command.
1195 o Added "Optimize" command. Be sure to read the online help on this
1196 one (under "Context Menus").
1197 o Added toolbar changing buttons (buttons that automatically load a
1198 new toolbox into the toolbar). See comments in online help under
1199 "Toolbar->Add Tool."
1200 o Hmmm...Warp has broken the DM_DROPHELP message within an application
1201 -- the passed DRAGINFO structure is inaccessible (apparently already
1202 deallocated). An appropriate error message will be displayed, and
1203 the code's still there so that when IBM fixes it it'll automagically
1204 start working again.
1205
12062.15:
1207 o Added "Collect list in file(s)" command.
1208 o Added "Collect from a list file" command.
1209 o Added "Select List" command.
1210 o System VIO fonts have been renamed, jumping between "System" and
1211 "System VIO", a couple of times now. To top it off, when the name
1212 changes, the sizes do, too (i.e. 7.System == 5.System VIO, more or
1213 less). Warp is now GA and uses "System VIO" again, so I've changed
1214 it back to that. If some fonts don't look right on your 2.11 system,
1215 I'm sorry, but I'm trying to hit a moving target. Don't shoot me,
1216 I'm just the piano player.
1217 o Did some other stuff, but forgot to write it down and have now
1218 forgotten what it was. Old age is hell.
1219
12202.14:
1221 o FM/2 will now detect that a CD-ROM drive which didn't have a disk in
1222 it or had a music disk in it when FM/2 was started is a CD-ROM drive
1223 when accessed later with a data disk in it, and change the icon
1224 accordingly. This also applies to hard drives that were locked when
1225 FM/2 started, by happy coincidence, and should work on other
1226 removable media drives.
1227 o Hints given in error popup for some access errors (for example, when
1228 clicking on an empty diskette drive).
1229 o Install.cmd will not change the parameters field of objects that it
1230 creates if the File Manager/2 folder already existed. It will still
1231 update the paths.
1232 o VTree honors drive exclusions like it should have in the first place.
1233 o VTree will delete a directory if the Shredder refuses for some reason.
1234 o Added VTree->WPS folder toggle.
1235 o Shortened VTree tasklist title for registered users.
1236 o FM/2 will attempt to fit smaller files onto diskettes when a larger
1237 file in the list to be moved/copied won't fit before prompting you to
1238 change diskettes due to a disk full condition.
1239 o Help for toolbar buttons shows up when mouse passes over them --
1240 figured out how to implement without excessive message passing (IOW,
1241 to my satisfaction).
1242
12432.13:
1244 o Added ability to set type of selection used in some containers (in
1245 the Settings Notebook on the "Windows" page).
1246 o Selecting "Settings Notebook" in the FM3.EXE monolithic app, even
1247 from container context menus, will always bring up a full settings
1248 notebook.
1249 o Slightly reduced memory usage for HPFS drives (ah, another reason
1250 to use HPFS...).
1251 o Fixed bug in SetIcon.
1252 o Did some more work on FM2PLAY.EXE to make it more eye-appealing and
1253 maybe a bit more functional.
1254 o Shortened tasklist title for registered users.
1255
12562.12:
1257 o AV/2 will now ignore an association if it contains the string
1258 "AV2.EXE" in the command line (meaning it might call itself).
1259 o Fixed "Lowercase name" bug.
1260 o Worked over the context menus again, added a couple more
1261 accelerator keys.
1262 o Hooked Help button in Child Window dialog to some help.
1263
12642.11:
1265 o Fixed odd bug in second status line in Directory Containers.
1266 o Fixed rename buglet that caused rename from menu/button to
1267 give funny default drive.
1268 o Added drag and drop to INI Viewer to allow moving and copying
1269 data between different INI files.
1270 o Added FM2PLAY.EXE to allow playing multimedia files (via MMPM/2)
1271 from FM/2 easily. Usage: FM2PLAY.EXE <file> [<file> <file...>].
1272 There's a menu item for it.
1273 o Added "associat.txt" containing recommended associations for use
1274 with FM/2. Please send your ideas for this list.
1275 o Enhanced the Bookshelf Viewer.
1276
12772.10:
1278 o Added Undo buttons to Settings notebook pages.
1279 o Fixed bug wherein Save state of dir windows toggle was ignored.
1280 o Put in some comma formatting to prevent an untimely death.
1281 o Fixed bug wherein Doubleclick Opens toggle was ignored.
1282 o Added a couple more Settings pages.
1283 o Made appropriate Settings pages available to standalone modules.
1284 o Tweaked a few menus for a more consistent appearance.
1285
12862.09:
1287 o Changed things so the little notification box doesn't steal the
1288 focus when it comes up. Duh.
1289 o Added "Backup Profile", "Change System Profiles" and "Replace System
1290 Profiles" to the INI viewer.
1291 o Fixed some glitches in new mask "must have" attribute processing.
1292 o Found and fixed bug in Collector's Seek & Scan that could cause FM/2
1293 to trap.
1294 o Added a Settings notebook containing global toggles and such.
1295 Slower than the menus, but Ron Hester asked for it, and I allus do
1296 what Ron says...
1297 o Return of the weirding ... but that'd be telling.
1298 o Added optional split status line.
1299
13002.08:
1301 o Added "must have" attributes to Filter.
1302 o Fixed Undelete dialog so selecting a new drive from the combobox
1303 causes the listbox to be refreshed for that drive, and so a missing
1304 DELETE environment variable for the selected drive doesn't cause the
1305 dialog to abort unless you select Cancel in the information box (so
1306 you can pick a different drive).
1307 o Added limited optional logging for some simple but critical
1308 operations (copy, move, rename, delete).
1309 o Documented "start minimized" command line argument.
1310 o Added "don't save/restore state of dir windows this time" command
1311 line argument.
1312
13132.07:
1314 o Added "View Bookshelf" and "View Helpfiles" utilities.
1315 o Fixed bug in Quick Tree added while fixing the last one...
1316 o VTree now saves its size and position on desktop (Ron Gawer wanted
1317 that). VDir doesn't, as you can have several of them open at once
1318 and it would be somewhat irritating to have them all on top of each
1319 other.
1320
13212.06:
1322 o In the Collector's Seek-and-scan dialog, the All HDs button now skips
1323 removable drives (like CD-ROMs) for convenience.
1324 o Quick tree works around the OS/2 DosFindFirst bug that prevents FAT
1325 root drives from being found.
1326 o Added "separator" attribute for tool buttons -- causes a small amount
1327 of space to be added after the button with the attribute, for
1328 appearance (grouping of buttons).
1329 o Added ability to turn on titles below bitmap buttons in toolbar (it'll
1330 have to be short and sweet) and grouped all toolbar toggles under a
1331 Toolbar conditional cascade submenu.
1332
1333[lazy bum skipped a few...]
1334
13352.00:
1336 o A whole new look for FM/2 -- the same thing, only more so. Some
1337 things were enhanced, some dropped, some replaced or superceded.
1338 Still, if you used 1.x you should feel at home.
1339
1340$Id: HISTORY 907 2008-01-06 07:26:17Z stevenhl $
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