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GUI-Tools: EVFSGUI: Code refactoring

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1ToDo for 2.5:
2- Major code refactoring (partly done)
3- Enable and complete printer support code
4- Support server based logon scripts (requires REXX rpc library,
5 partly done) (works in a separate utility right now)
6
7ToDo for 2.1:
8- Fix endless loop if neither EVFS nor Netdrive is installed
9 under all conditions
10- Enable WPS integration code (partly done)
11- Passive connections/double connection detection does not seem
12 to work properly
13
14Version 2.1 beta3
15- Refactoring: Create Icon. stem in order to ease maintenance of icons
16- Refactoring: Common wrapper around all dynamic functions
17- Refactoring: Remove double variables for settings and options
18- Refactoring: Debug on/off option is properly done now
19
20Version 2.1 beta2 2010-12-26
21- Added: New "About" box displays detailed version notices of all
22 client components
23- Added: -DELAY [n] switch (as requested in Ticket #148)
24- Added: Integrated delay into progress window upon startup
25- Added: Throbber on progress window
26- Fixed: Do not crash on bad return value from *RxGetMount() in GetChildren
27- Fixed: "Abort" in progress window presented an uninitialized main window
28- Fixed: Logfile names were wrong in the online help
29- Fixed: Several typos (thanks to Rainer Stroebel)
30
31Version 2.1 beta1 2010-08-13
32- Added: On-the-fly browsing on remote servers
33- Added: Files can be "opened" during on-the-fly browsing (a mountpoint
34 is created first) - does not work properly yet!
35- Added: Set icons of browsed files according to extender types (only most
36 often used types (EXE, OOO, PDF, generic multimedia icons - no WPS
37 mechanism for that from REXX)
38- Added: Refresh display every 60 seconds in order to reflect changes
39 done on the command line while EVFSGUI is open
40- Added: "Detach all" menuitem in context menu
41- Added: "Refresh" menuitem in context menu
42- Fixed: Do not flash during refresh
43- Fixed: Workaround for uninitialized advance.!alwaysmp
44- Fixed: Do not run more than 32 smbclient.exe concurrently (EVFSGUI
45 needs Paul Ratcliffe's pr1util.dll now)
46
47Version 2.0.6 2010-08-13
48- This is 2.1.beta1 without On-the-fly-browsing on remote servers
49
50Version 2.0.5 2010-04-23
51- Fixed: Passive connections were not removed when the same connection was
52 loaded using a profile
53- Fixed: Missing NLV message if wrong file was dropped onto the left pane
54
55Version 2.0.4 2010-04-09
56- Fixed: Connection details doubled since MEMLEN etc removal.
57- Changed: Some parts of the code were refactored
58
59Version 2.0.3 2010-02-23
60- Added: Open mountpoint as WPS object moved to a separate thread in order
61 not to block the EVFSGUI main window while waiting for a folder
62 on a slow connection to open.
63- Added: Double-click also opens a mountpoint as WPS folder
64- Added: Debug ON also makes hidden columns in connections details visible
65- Fixed: "Abort" button on progress window was not NLV enabled
66- Fixed: The NLV subroutine now properly falls back to the builtin
67 (bracketed) message files in case NO (not even an english
68 message file) can be found.
69- Fixed: Do not crash in Autostart dialog when no NLV file was found.
70- Fixed: Open mountpoint as WPS object fully workable
71- Fixed: Open mountpint now has a consistent behaviour with other actions
72- Changed: Open context menu item enabled for testing (experimental)
73- Changed: Show wait pointer while opening WPS folder
74- Changed: CltInit: Now scans wellknown locations for Samba binaries
75 (faster at least in theory)
76- Changed: In the 1.5.0 GA version of the plugin the MEMLEN, LOGFILE and
77 LOGLEVEL tokens are removed in order to address the problem with
78 EVFSRxGetMount() return strings - several changes in EVFSGUI were
79 required to address this change in the plugin.
80NOTE: This changes makes older profile files, both .ndc and .evp incompatible.
81 EVFSGUI can read old profiles, but only saves new profiles. The Netdrive
82 GUI does not have such a feature. Older profiles may easily be migrated
83 by editing with a text editor and removing the MEMLEN, LOGLEVEL and
84 LOGFILE tokens from the resource strings manually.
85
86Version 2.0.2 2010-01-25
87- Changed: Remove Win95/98/IBM Peer length limits from smbtree.vrs.
88- Added: EVFSRxGetMount() returns a maximum string length of 255 for
89 resdata, if workgroup+server+share+username+password > 52 the
90 resulting resdata string will be truncated. Several workarounds
91 in ParseResourceData() added in order not completely fall over.
92
93Version 2.0.1 2010-01-12
94- Added: Alex T.: Use 'Combined' font on DBCS systems
95- Fixed: Alex T.: Default fonts are set correctly
96- Fixed: Alex T.: Section title colours now correctly default to system settings
97- Fixed: Alex T.: Various fixes and enhancements to window resize logic
98- Fixed: Alex T.: FWidth/margin got lost on the expose list
99- Fixed: Herwig B.: Another speed up in resize logic (use marginx2 instead of
100 42 times margin * 2)
101
102Version 2.0.0 (Refresh) 2009-12-29
103- Changed: Rewrite routines to find .msg and .hlp files
104- Fixed: Set size of throbber object according to screen dimensions
105
106Version 2.0 GA 2009-12-24
107- Added: Provide unexpected.tdb in the installer
108- Fixed: Detect trailing tabs and blanks in the temporary directory
109- Fixed: A manually added server's workgroup might be unknown in the moment
110 the dialog is populated
111
112Version 2.0 beta6 2009-12-12
113+ Added: WPI installer for Plugin, EVFSGUI and Samba Client Utilities
114 (plus variant that includes EVFS for eCS distribution).
115+ Added: New global option: Use broadcasts instead of local master browser
116+ Added: New menu entry: Save default workgroup to smb.conf
117- Fixed: Also go through double (and passive) connection check
118 if profile is loaded as a commandline parameter
119- Fixed: Migrate to enhanced NLV setup subroutines
120- Fixed: Autodetection of filesystem variant did not work properly
121- Fixed: Turn off debug console upon startup
122- Fixed: Don't crash when attempting to create the Autostart script
123- Fixed: Also create %ETC%\samba\lock directory for client
124- Fixed: Properly redraw network neighbourhood after refresh
125
126Version 2.0 beta5 2009-11-15
127+ Added: Manually entered servers are automatically integrated into the
128 network neighbourhood
129- Fixed: IP address servers (without a name) can be browsed properly now.
130- Fixed: Detect missing upcase tables (and don't fall over)
131- Fixed: If nothing is found, network neighbourhood should be empty (and
132 not display an unnamed workgroup icon).
133- Fixed: When immediate authentification for browsing was enabled, the
134 main window was not redrawn properly.
135- Fixed: Changed statusbar size (should look better)
136
137Version 2.0 beta4 2009-11-03:
138- Fixed: Do not crash on outdated temporary files
139- Fixed: Do not crash on unavailable machines
140
141Version 2.0 beta3 2009-10-29:
142- Fixed: The GUI was blocked every few seconds during network neighbourhood
143 scan. Bonus: The new code is even faster than the previous one.
144
145Version 2.0 beta2 2009-10-25:
146+ Added: English helpfile
147+ Added: German helpfile
148+ Added: French helpfile (partly done, requires completion by Guillaume)
149+ Added: Information about server dialog
150+ Added: Dialog also uses information from network neighbourhood
151+ Added: Detection of "dead" (non accessible) servers (which are still in the
152 browse list)
153- Changed: Dialog entry fields now use WarpSans Bold font (matches style of
154 other dialogs)
155- Fixed: Network neighbourhood is filled much faster than before
156- Fixed: No more share type guessing
157- Fixed: Ticket #105: Temporary files not removed
158- Fixed: Ticket #106: Icon in global settings dialog not properly aligned
159
160Version 2.0 beta1 2009-09-15:
161+ Added: Browsing code from smbmon
162+ Added: D'n'd support for file shares
163+ Added: Connection wizard dialogs
164+ Added: main menu bar
165+ Added: New advanced settings
166+ Added: "Old" 1.x look and feel
167+ Added: Main window is resizable
168+ Added: Splitbar between panels
169+ Added: Create rudimentary %ETC%\samba\smb.conf
170+ Added: Connection details view (preliminary)
171+ Added: Double connection detection using md5 hashes
172+ Added: New profile saving code
173+ Added: Remove menu option (preliminary for passive connections only)
174+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Optionally do not show hidden shares
175+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Enhanced guessicon()
176+ Added: Preliminary context menus for Browse View and Connection details view
177+ Added: "Retry" for passive connections (only manually for now)
178+ Added: Drag and drop for passive connections
179+ Added: Hide columns not useful for endusers
180+ Added: NLV enable (parts of) connection details
181+ Added: Disabled old profile saving code
182+ Added: Sort smbtree view ascending
183+ Added: Optionally turn on/off special ($) shares
184+ Added: Optionally use big icons
185+ Added: Profile files may be dropped onto the current connections container
186+ Added: Login dialog behaviour matches the one from smbusers now
187+ Added: Preliminary handling of smbtree error messages
188+ Added: Optionally save passive connections across sessions
189+ Added: French message file (thanks to Guillaume Gay)
190- Changed: Several changes in GUI style (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
191- Changed: Left align buttons in current connections panel (as suggested by
192 MrFawlty and Alex Taylor)
193- Changed: Replaced status bar by a text control (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
194 (only used for version display for now)
195- Changed: Main icon is now the one done by Alex Taylor
196- Changed: Use PM_Default_Colors for title sections (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
197- Changed: German translation of "Retry"
198- Changed: Profile behaviour: In 1.3 a new profile replaced older connections
199 on the same volume only, in 2.x a new profile is merged with the
200 old connections one.
201- Changed: Split advanced dialog should be split into connection options and
202 global options
203- Changed: Redesigned mount dialog
204- Changed: Redesigned login dialog
205- Changed: Clarified message about multiple connections
206- Changed: Rebuild required Samba Client utilities 3.0.36 with libc063
207 (instead of libc064x) (Changeset 331 level)
208- Fixed: Loading a profile presented the user a half drawn window
209- Fixed: Startup code was broken if no evfsgui.ini is present
210- Fixed: CltInit uses smbclient.exe instead of smbd.exe to find Samba binaries
211- Fixed: Message queue during resize isn't cleared (no flashing during resize)
212- Fixed: Missing NLV aware strings
213- Fixed: Don't let user edit network neighbourhood results
214- Fixed: Claiming a passive connection already exists is nonsense
215- Fixed: Disallow connecting to printers via context menu
216- Fixed: Edit and Selected menu easily got out of sync
217- Fixed: Edit and Selected menu still got out of sync, really fixed now
218- Fixed: Another missing record validation
219- Fixed: Password display broken on double connection warning
220- Fixed: Detect more printers
221- Fixed: Confirmation of removal of a single connection was missing
222- Fixed: Dropdown combobox in mount dialog was readonly
223- Fixed: Autostart mode was broken
224
225Version 1.3.7 - changes not relevant for 2.0
226
227Version 1.3.6
228!Fixed: When connecting to a complete server, the workgroup got lost during the
229 connecting process.
230Version 1.3.5
231!Fixed: Error in profile file parsing logic could lead to double entries
232 for LOGFILE and LOGLEVEL (possibly having side effects on EASUPPORT)
233Version 1.3.4
234!Fixed: Readonly connection option did not work (was not implemented)
235Version 1.3.3
236*Changed: Provide better message box for profile saving (to explain rather
237 odd behavior
238Version 1.3.2
239!Fixed: No more double drive letters in the drive letters list after mounting
240*Changed: "Workgroup/ Domain:" back to "Workgroup:"
241Version 1.3.1
242+Added: Explanation for errors in case mount operation fails
243*Changed: "Workgroup:" to "Workgroup/ Domain:"
244Version 1.3
245+Added: Support for the (new) ndpsmb logging feature
246+Added: Support for the (old) ndpsmb logging feature (deactivated)
247+Added: Save "titlebar" color across sessions
248*Changed: Merge Alex Taylor's and Herwig B.'s latest changes
249*Changed: Also display status data in hintarea when mouse cursor is over
250 the "current resources" pane
251!Fixed: Tab order in "new resource" pane
252!Fixed: Help did not work for advanced window in NLV versions
253
254Version 1.2.1 (2009-04, Herwig B.)
255+Added: Try to restart EVFSCTL.EXE once in case it is not running.
256+Added: Implemented support for error messages depending on return codes
257 in case of failed operations as provided from ndpsmb.dll version
258 1.5alpha2 or better.
259*Changed: Move status data of current connection into container caption
260 (Makes more sense there).
261*Changed: Show version notice in status area (at the bottom now)
262!Fixed: In case the connect operation fails on a newly created mount point,
263 the mountpoint is removed again, instead of leaving it in a zombie
264 status. That makes sense as EVFSGUI does not support the creation
265 and maintenance of empty mountpoints (the underlying EVFS (including
266 the REXX interface) supports this, but the GUI does not).
267
268Version 1.2.1 (2009-05, Alex Taylor)
269!Fixed: Main window wasn't set visible if INI file was missing.
270!Fixed: Corrected English, formatting h in helpfile.
271*Added: Better program icon.
272
273Version 1.2 (2008-10)
274*Updated: Finally all the help files are updated to reflect all changes
275 (en, de and fr)
276!Workaround: It appears that for unknown reasons the SysDriveMap() function
277 hangs if it is used with the "FREE" and "REMOTE" flags, after it is
278 called for several times. I noticed that after I received Yuri's
279 latest Samba plugin. The problem disappears if EVFS is not installed.
280 This should be tested (and fixed) by Vitali in EVFS (probably).
281
282+Added: In debug mode the output in the console window has time stamps now
283+Added: Display name and version of the used IFS on "empty" mountpoints
284+Added: Button on the autoload window (the -nogui GUI) to abort reconnection
285+Added: Server entry field is now a drop down combo box holding all servers
286 to which connections were made with)
287+Added: Alternatively support NetDrive for SMB shares instead of EVFS (using
288 undocumented -ndfs switch)
289*Updated: All message files
290!Fixed: Bug in my autoload code
291!Fixed: Bug in my -ndfs code (spotted by Guillaume)
292
293+Added: Autostart EVFS connections feature via Startup folder object
294+Added: -nogui switch (only show a small message window)
295+Added: -autoclose switch (close eVFSGUI after 3 seconds)
296+Added: Load profile specified on the commandline
297+Added: Edit via context menu for mountpoints with exactly one resource
298+Added: Context menu equivalents to the Detach and Unmount pushbuttons
299+Added: The content of the EF_NETWORK field (aka workgroup) is saved to the
300 eVFSGUI.INI as this changes only on rare occasions (saved me a lot of
301 typing during testing)
302+Added: Do not attach drive if has already been attached (from TODO list A.T.)
303!Fixed: Profiles supported plain passwords whereas EVFS provided encrypted
304 passwords in profile files
305!Fixed: eVFSGUI initializes itself properly now
306!Fixed: eVFSGUI would hang after displaying the message "no control program
307 found"
308!Fixed: Cleanup signal stuff ("return" after a signal is a bad thing to do!)
309!Fixed: INI file was not closed after leaving eVFSGUI
310!Fixed: When several mount points exist and the first one is removed the click
311 event routine was executed after the corresponded record was already
312 removed -> eVFSGUI crashed. As a fix the record is validated before an
313 attempt to access its data is done. If it does not exist anymore the
314 event routine is terminated without further action.
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