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Last change on this file since 571 was 571, checked in by Herwig Bauernfeind, 14 years ago

GUI-Tools: EVFSGUI 2.1: Display hints in statusbar during browsing

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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- Enable WPS integration code (partly done)
7
8Known problems:
9- Fix endless loop if neither EVFS nor Netdrive is installed
10 under all conditions
11- Passive connections/double connection detection does not seem
12 to work properly
13
14Version 2.1.2 2011-05-29
15- Added: Display some hints about what is going on in the statusbar
16- Fixed: Do not crash if manually added machines do not allow browsing
17
18Version 2.1.1 2011-03-08
19- Fixed: Finally servers always end up in the proper domain/workgroup
20
21Version 2.1.0 2011-01-18
22- Added: Support for new CTO and CLD parameters introduced with 2.0.0 beta3
23- Fixed: Behaviour of login box did not work as designed
24- Fixed: No mount attempt if entering credentials was aborted
25- Fixed: Do not crash during "Detach all"
26- Refactoring: Streamline parameter parsing code
27- Refactoring: Remove double variables for parameters
28- Refactoring: Create Icon. stem in order to ease maintenance of icons
29- Refactoring: Common wrapper around all dynamic functions
30- Refactoring: Remove double variables for settings and options
31- Refactoring: Debug on/off option is properly done now
32
33Version 2.1 beta2 2010-12-26
34- Added: New "About" box displays detailed version notices of all
35 client components
36- Added: -DELAY [n] switch (as requested in Ticket #148)
37- Added: Integrated delay into progress window upon startup
38- Added: Throbber on progress window
39- Fixed: Do not crash on bad return value from *RxGetMount() in GetChildren
40- Fixed: "Abort" in progress window presented an uninitialized main window
41- Fixed: Logfile names were wrong in the online help
42- Fixed: Several typos (thanks to Rainer Stroebel)
43
44Version 2.1 beta1 2010-08-13
45- Added: On-the-fly browsing on remote servers
46- Added: Files can be "opened" during on-the-fly browsing (a mountpoint
47 is created first) - does not work properly yet!
48- Added: Set icons of browsed files according to extender types (only most
49 often used types (EXE, OOO, PDF, generic multimedia icons - no WPS
50 mechanism for that from REXX)
51- Added: Refresh display every 60 seconds in order to reflect changes
52 done on the command line while EVFSGUI is open
53- Added: "Detach all" menuitem in context menu
54- Added: "Refresh" menuitem in context menu
55- Fixed: Do not flash during refresh
56- Fixed: Workaround for uninitialized advance.!alwaysmp
57- Fixed: Do not run more than 32 smbclient.exe concurrently (EVFSGUI
58 needs Paul Ratcliffe's pr1util.dll now)
59
60Version 2.0.6 2010-08-13
61- This is 2.1.beta1 without On-the-fly-browsing on remote servers
62
63Version 2.0.5 2010-04-23
64- Fixed: Passive connections were not removed when the same connection was
65 loaded using a profile
66- Fixed: Missing NLV message if wrong file was dropped onto the left pane
67
68Version 2.0.4 2010-04-09
69- Fixed: Connection details doubled since MEMLEN etc removal.
70- Changed: Some parts of the code were refactored
71
72Version 2.0.3 2010-02-23
73- Added: Open mountpoint as WPS object moved to a separate thread in order
74 not to block the EVFSGUI main window while waiting for a folder
75 on a slow connection to open.
76- Added: Double-click also opens a mountpoint as WPS folder
77- Added: Debug ON also makes hidden columns in connections details visible
78- Fixed: "Abort" button on progress window was not NLV enabled
79- Fixed: The NLV subroutine now properly falls back to the builtin
80 (bracketed) message files in case NO (not even an english
81 message file) can be found.
82- Fixed: Do not crash in Autostart dialog when no NLV file was found.
83- Fixed: Open mountpoint as WPS object fully workable
84- Fixed: Open mountpint now has a consistent behaviour with other actions
85- Changed: Open context menu item enabled for testing (experimental)
86- Changed: Show wait pointer while opening WPS folder
87- Changed: CltInit: Now scans wellknown locations for Samba binaries
88 (faster at least in theory)
89- Changed: In the 1.5.0 GA version of the plugin the MEMLEN, LOGFILE and
90 LOGLEVEL tokens are removed in order to address the problem with
91 EVFSRxGetMount() return strings - several changes in EVFSGUI were
92 required to address this change in the plugin.
93NOTE: This changes makes older profile files, both .ndc and .evp incompatible.
94 EVFSGUI can read old profiles, but only saves new profiles. The Netdrive
95 GUI does not have such a feature. Older profiles may easily be migrated
96 by editing with a text editor and removing the MEMLEN, LOGLEVEL and
97 LOGFILE tokens from the resource strings manually.
98
99Version 2.0.2 2010-01-25
100- Changed: Remove Win95/98/IBM Peer length limits from smbtree.vrs.
101- Added: EVFSRxGetMount() returns a maximum string length of 255 for
102 resdata, if workgroup+server+share+username+password > 52 the
103 resulting resdata string will be truncated. Several workarounds
104 in ParseResourceData() added in order not completely fall over.
105
106Version 2.0.1 2010-01-12
107- Added: Alex T.: Use 'Combined' font on DBCS systems
108- Fixed: Alex T.: Default fonts are set correctly
109- Fixed: Alex T.: Section title colours now correctly default to system settings
110- Fixed: Alex T.: Various fixes and enhancements to window resize logic
111- Fixed: Alex T.: FWidth/margin got lost on the expose list
112- Fixed: Herwig B.: Another speed up in resize logic (use marginx2 instead of
113 42 times margin * 2)
114
115Version 2.0.0 (Refresh) 2009-12-29
116- Changed: Rewrite routines to find .msg and .hlp files
117- Fixed: Set size of throbber object according to screen dimensions
118
119Version 2.0 GA 2009-12-24
120- Added: Provide unexpected.tdb in the installer
121- Fixed: Detect trailing tabs and blanks in the temporary directory
122- Fixed: A manually added server's workgroup might be unknown in the moment
123 the dialog is populated
124
125Version 2.0 beta6 2009-12-12
126+ Added: WPI installer for Plugin, EVFSGUI and Samba Client Utilities
127 (plus variant that includes EVFS for eCS distribution).
128+ Added: New global option: Use broadcasts instead of local master browser
129+ Added: New menu entry: Save default workgroup to smb.conf
130- Fixed: Also go through double (and passive) connection check
131 if profile is loaded as a commandline parameter
132- Fixed: Migrate to enhanced NLV setup subroutines
133- Fixed: Autodetection of filesystem variant did not work properly
134- Fixed: Turn off debug console upon startup
135- Fixed: Don't crash when attempting to create the Autostart script
136- Fixed: Also create %ETC%\samba\lock directory for client
137- Fixed: Properly redraw network neighbourhood after refresh
138
139Version 2.0 beta5 2009-11-15
140+ Added: Manually entered servers are automatically integrated into the
141 network neighbourhood
142- Fixed: IP address servers (without a name) can be browsed properly now.
143- Fixed: Detect missing upcase tables (and don't fall over)
144- Fixed: If nothing is found, network neighbourhood should be empty (and
145 not display an unnamed workgroup icon).
146- Fixed: When immediate authentification for browsing was enabled, the
147 main window was not redrawn properly.
148- Fixed: Changed statusbar size (should look better)
149
150Version 2.0 beta4 2009-11-03:
151- Fixed: Do not crash on outdated temporary files
152- Fixed: Do not crash on unavailable machines
153
154Version 2.0 beta3 2009-10-29:
155- Fixed: The GUI was blocked every few seconds during network neighbourhood
156 scan. Bonus: The new code is even faster than the previous one.
157
158Version 2.0 beta2 2009-10-25:
159+ Added: English helpfile
160+ Added: German helpfile
161+ Added: French helpfile (partly done, requires completion by Guillaume)
162+ Added: Information about server dialog
163+ Added: Dialog also uses information from network neighbourhood
164+ Added: Detection of "dead" (non accessible) servers (which are still in the
165 browse list)
166- Changed: Dialog entry fields now use WarpSans Bold font (matches style of
167 other dialogs)
168- Fixed: Network neighbourhood is filled much faster than before
169- Fixed: No more share type guessing
170- Fixed: Ticket #105: Temporary files not removed
171- Fixed: Ticket #106: Icon in global settings dialog not properly aligned
172
173Version 2.0 beta1 2009-09-15:
174+ Added: Browsing code from smbmon
175+ Added: D'n'd support for file shares
176+ Added: Connection wizard dialogs
177+ Added: main menu bar
178+ Added: New advanced settings
179+ Added: "Old" 1.x look and feel
180+ Added: Main window is resizable
181+ Added: Splitbar between panels
182+ Added: Create rudimentary %ETC%\samba\smb.conf
183+ Added: Connection details view (preliminary)
184+ Added: Double connection detection using md5 hashes
185+ Added: New profile saving code
186+ Added: Remove menu option (preliminary for passive connections only)
187+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Optionally do not show hidden shares
188+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Enhanced guessicon()
189+ Added: Preliminary context menus for Browse View and Connection details view
190+ Added: "Retry" for passive connections (only manually for now)
191+ Added: Drag and drop for passive connections
192+ Added: Hide columns not useful for endusers
193+ Added: NLV enable (parts of) connection details
194+ Added: Disabled old profile saving code
195+ Added: Sort smbtree view ascending
196+ Added: Optionally turn on/off special ($) shares
197+ Added: Optionally use big icons
198+ Added: Profile files may be dropped onto the current connections container
199+ Added: Login dialog behaviour matches the one from smbusers now
200+ Added: Preliminary handling of smbtree error messages
201+ Added: Optionally save passive connections across sessions
202+ Added: French message file (thanks to Guillaume Gay)
203- Changed: Several changes in GUI style (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
204- Changed: Left align buttons in current connections panel (as suggested by
205 MrFawlty and Alex Taylor)
206- Changed: Replaced status bar by a text control (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
207 (only used for version display for now)
208- Changed: Main icon is now the one done by Alex Taylor
209- Changed: Use PM_Default_Colors for title sections (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
210- Changed: German translation of "Retry"
211- Changed: Profile behaviour: In 1.3 a new profile replaced older connections
212 on the same volume only, in 2.x a new profile is merged with the
213 old connections one.
214- Changed: Split advanced dialog should be split into connection options and
215 global options
216- Changed: Redesigned mount dialog
217- Changed: Redesigned login dialog
218- Changed: Clarified message about multiple connections
219- Changed: Rebuild required Samba Client utilities 3.0.36 with libc063
220 (instead of libc064x) (Changeset 331 level)
221- Fixed: Loading a profile presented the user a half drawn window
222- Fixed: Startup code was broken if no evfsgui.ini is present
223- Fixed: CltInit uses smbclient.exe instead of smbd.exe to find Samba binaries
224- Fixed: Message queue during resize isn't cleared (no flashing during resize)
225- Fixed: Missing NLV aware strings
226- Fixed: Don't let user edit network neighbourhood results
227- Fixed: Claiming a passive connection already exists is nonsense
228- Fixed: Disallow connecting to printers via context menu
229- Fixed: Edit and Selected menu easily got out of sync
230- Fixed: Edit and Selected menu still got out of sync, really fixed now
231- Fixed: Another missing record validation
232- Fixed: Password display broken on double connection warning
233- Fixed: Detect more printers
234- Fixed: Confirmation of removal of a single connection was missing
235- Fixed: Dropdown combobox in mount dialog was readonly
236- Fixed: Autostart mode was broken
237
238Version 1.3.7 - changes not relevant for 2.0
239
240Version 1.3.6
241!Fixed: When connecting to a complete server, the workgroup got lost during the
242 connecting process.
243Version 1.3.5
244!Fixed: Error in profile file parsing logic could lead to double entries
245 for LOGFILE and LOGLEVEL (possibly having side effects on EASUPPORT)
246Version 1.3.4
247!Fixed: Readonly connection option did not work (was not implemented)
248Version 1.3.3
249*Changed: Provide better message box for profile saving (to explain rather
250 odd behavior
251Version 1.3.2
252!Fixed: No more double drive letters in the drive letters list after mounting
253*Changed: "Workgroup/ Domain:" back to "Workgroup:"
254Version 1.3.1
255+Added: Explanation for errors in case mount operation fails
256*Changed: "Workgroup:" to "Workgroup/ Domain:"
257Version 1.3
258+Added: Support for the (new) ndpsmb logging feature
259+Added: Support for the (old) ndpsmb logging feature (deactivated)
260+Added: Save "titlebar" color across sessions
261*Changed: Merge Alex Taylor's and Herwig B.'s latest changes
262*Changed: Also display status data in hintarea when mouse cursor is over
263 the "current resources" pane
264!Fixed: Tab order in "new resource" pane
265!Fixed: Help did not work for advanced window in NLV versions
266
267Version 1.2.1 (2009-04, Herwig B.)
268+Added: Try to restart EVFSCTL.EXE once in case it is not running.
269+Added: Implemented support for error messages depending on return codes
270 in case of failed operations as provided from ndpsmb.dll version
271 1.5alpha2 or better.
272*Changed: Move status data of current connection into container caption
273 (Makes more sense there).
274*Changed: Show version notice in status area (at the bottom now)
275!Fixed: In case the connect operation fails on a newly created mount point,
276 the mountpoint is removed again, instead of leaving it in a zombie
277 status. That makes sense as EVFSGUI does not support the creation
278 and maintenance of empty mountpoints (the underlying EVFS (including
279 the REXX interface) supports this, but the GUI does not).
280
281Version 1.2.1 (2009-05, Alex Taylor)
282!Fixed: Main window wasn't set visible if INI file was missing.
283!Fixed: Corrected English, formatting h in helpfile.
284*Added: Better program icon.
285
286Version 1.2 (2008-10)
287*Updated: Finally all the help files are updated to reflect all changes
288 (en, de and fr)
289!Workaround: It appears that for unknown reasons the SysDriveMap() function
290 hangs if it is used with the "FREE" and "REMOTE" flags, after it is
291 called for several times. I noticed that after I received Yuri's
292 latest Samba plugin. The problem disappears if EVFS is not installed.
293 This should be tested (and fixed) by Vitali in EVFS (probably).
294
295+Added: In debug mode the output in the console window has time stamps now
296+Added: Display name and version of the used IFS on "empty" mountpoints
297+Added: Button on the autoload window (the -nogui GUI) to abort reconnection
298+Added: Server entry field is now a drop down combo box holding all servers
299 to which connections were made with)
300+Added: Alternatively support NetDrive for SMB shares instead of EVFS (using
301 undocumented -ndfs switch)
302*Updated: All message files
303!Fixed: Bug in my autoload code
304!Fixed: Bug in my -ndfs code (spotted by Guillaume)
305
306+Added: Autostart EVFS connections feature via Startup folder object
307+Added: -nogui switch (only show a small message window)
308+Added: -autoclose switch (close eVFSGUI after 3 seconds)
309+Added: Load profile specified on the commandline
310+Added: Edit via context menu for mountpoints with exactly one resource
311+Added: Context menu equivalents to the Detach and Unmount pushbuttons
312+Added: The content of the EF_NETWORK field (aka workgroup) is saved to the
313 eVFSGUI.INI as this changes only on rare occasions (saved me a lot of
314 typing during testing)
315+Added: Do not attach drive if has already been attached (from TODO list A.T.)
316!Fixed: Profiles supported plain passwords whereas EVFS provided encrypted
317 passwords in profile files
318!Fixed: eVFSGUI initializes itself properly now
319!Fixed: eVFSGUI would hang after displaying the message "no control program
320 found"
321!Fixed: Cleanup signal stuff ("return" after a signal is a bad thing to do!)
322!Fixed: INI file was not closed after leaving eVFSGUI
323!Fixed: When several mount points exist and the first one is removed the click
324 event routine was executed after the corresponded record was already
325 removed -> eVFSGUI crashed. As a fix the record is validated before an
326 attempt to access its data is done. If it does not exist anymore the
327 event routine is terminated without further action.
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