source: trunk/guitools/evfsgui/changes@ 661

Last change on this file since 661 was 661, checked in by Herwig Bauernfeind, 14 years ago

GUI-Tools: EVFSGUI 2.5.x: Several fixes, smaller additions

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1ToDo for 2.5:
2- Major code refactoring (done, except for old "lowlevel" routines)
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- provide Icon fr ADMIN$
7- fully implement icons. stem
8- _AddSharesDisplay does not use file2stem
9- "Guess" proper WINS server - is the LMB = WINS server approach good enough?
10
11Known problems:
12- Fix endless loop if neither EVFS nor Netdrive is installed
13 under all conditions
14- Passive connections/double connection detection does not seem
15 to work properly
16
17Version 2.5.x 2011-??-??
18+ Added: Icon on login window depends upon connection type
19+ Added: Allow removing stored credentials from memory
20+ Added: Optionally store credentials in memory until next reboot
21+ Added: Properly verify all manually entered IP addresses
22+ Added: Connection speedup: Allow configuration of name resolve order
23+ Added: Connection speedup: Allow configuration of WINS server
24+ Added: Connection speedup: Optionally create/maintain LMHosts automagically
25+ Added: Enhanced, faster browsing code (major code refactoring)
26+ Added: Allow refreshing a single machine in the network neighbourhood
27+ Added: Allow start/stop of the EVFSCTL.EXE daemon
28+ Added: Allow to erase old logfiles before starting EVFSCTL.EXE
29+ Added: Find primary domain controller (and give it a special icon)
30+ Added: Find domain master browser
31+ Added: Find local master browser
32+ Added: Enhanced info box (MAC, IP-Address, server role)
33+ Added: Optionally add TRAC Wiki markup to "About"-data for clipboard
34* Changed: Use Rich Walsh's look4dll.exe to find the used ndpsmb.dll
35* Changed: Increase timer delay (n*2) for non responding machines
36* Changed: Use Alex Taylor's Warp4-Style notebook for the right pane,
37 convert global settings and advanced connection options
38 from windows into notebook pages
39! Fixed: Extended Help menu item was broken
40! Fixed: Refreshing a single machine added shares 2x for automatically
41 added machines
42! Fixed: Loginbox was not NLS aware
43! Fixed: Numerous small bugs/omissions
44! Fixed: "Creating lame upcase tables" filtered
45! Fixed: Do not run nmblookup.exe twice in the foreground
46- Removed: Bottom button row
47- Removed: View Menu
48
49Version 2.1.3 2011-??-??
50+ Added: Help button on network neighbourhood view
51+ Added: Help button on connection details view
52! Fixed: Fetch credentials in case "Authenticate for browsing" is enabled
53 and no credentials were entered before
54
55Version 2.1.2 2011-06-13
56+ Added: Display some hints about what is going on in the statusbar
57+ Added: Display information about installed/connected SMB printer ports.
58! Fixed: Do not crash if manually added machines do not allow browsing
59! Fixed: Connect in network neighbourhood used selected object instead of
60 source object (eventually resulted in a connection to the wrong
61 share)
62
63Version 2.1.1 2011-03-08
64! Fixed: Finally servers always end up in the proper domain/workgroup
65
66Version 2.1.0 2011-01-18
67+ Added: Support for new CTO and CLD parameters introduced with 2.0.0 beta3
68! Fixed: Behaviour of login box did not work as designed
69! Fixed: No mount attempt if entering credentials was aborted
70! Fixed: Do not crash during "Detach all"
71- Refactoring: Streamline parameter parsing code
72- Refactoring: Remove double variables for parameters
73- Refactoring: Create Icon. stem in order to ease maintenance of icons
74- Refactoring: Common wrapper around all dynamic functions
75- Refactoring: Remove double variables for settings and options
76- Refactoring: Debug on/off option is properly done now
77
78Version 2.1 beta2 2010-12-26
79+ Added: New "About" box displays detailed version notices of all
80 client components
81+ Added: -DELAY [n] switch (as requested in Ticket #148)
82+ Added: Integrated delay into progress window upon startup
83+ Added: Throbber on progress window
84! Fixed: Do not crash on bad return value from *RxGetMount() in GetChildren
85! Fixed: "Abort" in progress window presented an uninitialized main window
86! Fixed: Logfile names were wrong in the online help
87! Fixed: Several typos (thanks to Rainer Stroebel)
88
89Version 2.1 beta1 2010-08-13
90+ Added: On-the-fly browsing on remote servers
91+ Added: Files can be "opened" during on-the-fly browsing (a mountpoint
92 is created first) - does not work properly yet!
93+ Added: Set icons of browsed files according to extender types (only most
94 often used types (EXE, OOO, PDF, generic multimedia icons - no WPS
95 mechanism for that from REXX)
96+ Added: Refresh display every 60 seconds in order to reflect changes
97 done on the command line while EVFSGUI is open
98+ Added: "Detach all" menuitem in context menu
99+ Added: "Refresh" menuitem in context menu
100! Fixed: Do not flash during refresh
101! Fixed: Workaround for uninitialized advance.!alwaysmp
102! Fixed: Do not run more than 32 smbclient.exe concurrently (EVFSGUI
103 needs Paul Ratcliffe's pr1util.dll now)
104
105Version 2.0.6 2010-08-13
106- This is 2.1.beta1 without On-the-fly-browsing on remote servers
107
108Version 2.0.5 2010-04-23
109! Fixed: Passive connections were not removed when the same connection was
110 loaded using a profile
111! Fixed: Missing NLV message if wrong file was dropped onto the left pane
112
113Version 2.0.4 2010-04-09
114! Fixed: Connection details doubled since MEMLEN etc removal.
115* Changed: Some parts of the code were refactored
116
117Version 2.0.3 2010-02-23
118+ Added: Open mountpoint as WPS object moved to a separate thread in order
119 not to block the EVFSGUI main window while waiting for a folder
120 on a slow connection to open.
121+ Added: Double-click also opens a mountpoint as WPS folder
122+ Added: Debug ON also makes hidden columns in connections details visible
123! Fixed: "Abort" button on progress window was not NLV enabled
124! Fixed: The NLV subroutine now properly falls back to the builtin
125 (bracketed) message files in case NO (not even an english
126 message file) can be found.
127! Fixed: Do not crash in Autostart dialog when no NLV file was found.
128! Fixed: Open mountpoint as WPS object fully workable
129! Fixed: Open mountpint now has a consistent behaviour with other actions
130* Changed: Open context menu item enabled for testing (experimental)
131* Changed: Show wait pointer while opening WPS folder
132* Changed: CltInit: Now scans wellknown locations for Samba binaries
133 (faster at least in theory)
134* Changed: In the 1.5.0 GA version of the plugin the MEMLEN, LOGFILE and
135 LOGLEVEL tokens are removed in order to address the problem with
136 EVFSRxGetMount() return strings - several changes in EVFSGUI were
137 required to address this change in the plugin.
138NOTE: This changes makes older profile files, both .ndc and .evp incompatible.
139 EVFSGUI can read old profiles, but only saves new profiles. The Netdrive
140 GUI does not have such a feature. Older profiles may easily be migrated
141 by editing with a text editor and removing the MEMLEN, LOGLEVEL and
142 LOGFILE tokens from the resource strings manually.
143
144Version 2.0.2 2010-01-25
145* Changed: Remove Win95/98/IBM Peer length limits from smbtree.vrs.
146+ Added: EVFSRxGetMount() returns a maximum string length of 255 for
147 resdata, if workgroup+server+share+username+password > 52 the
148 resulting resdata string will be truncated. Several workarounds
149 in ParseResourceData() added in order not completely fall over.
150
151Version 2.0.1 2010-01-12
152+ Added: Alex T.: Use 'Combined' font on DBCS systems
153! Fixed: Alex T.: Default fonts are set correctly
154! Fixed: Alex T.: Section title colours now correctly default to system settings
155! Fixed: Alex T.: Various fixes and enhancements to window resize logic
156! Fixed: Alex T.: FWidth/margin got lost on the expose list
157! Fixed: Herwig B.: Another speed up in resize logic (use marginx2 instead of
158 42 times margin * 2)
159
160Version 2.0.0 (Refresh) 2009-12-29
161* Changed: Rewrite routines to find .msg and .hlp files
162! Fixed: Set size of throbber object according to screen dimensions
163
164Version 2.0 GA 2009-12-24
165+ Added: Provide unexpected.tdb in the installer
166! Fixed: Detect trailing tabs and blanks in the temporary directory
167! Fixed: A manually added server's workgroup might be unknown in the moment
168 the dialog is populated
169
170Version 2.0 beta6 2009-12-12
171+ Added: WPI installer for Plugin, EVFSGUI and Samba Client Utilities
172 (plus variant that includes EVFS for eCS distribution).
173+ Added: New global option: Use broadcasts instead of local master browser
174+ Added: New menu entry: Save default workgroup to smb.conf
175! Fixed: Also go through double (and passive) connection check
176 if profile is loaded as a commandline parameter
177! Fixed: Migrate to enhanced NLV setup subroutines
178! Fixed: Autodetection of filesystem variant did not work properly
179! Fixed: Turn off debug console upon startup
180! Fixed: Don't crash when attempting to create the Autostart script
181! Fixed: Also create %ETC%\samba\lock directory for client
182! Fixed: Properly redraw network neighbourhood after refresh
183
184Version 2.0 beta5 2009-11-15
185+ Added: Manually entered servers are automatically integrated into the
186 network neighbourhood
187! Fixed: IP address servers (without a name) can be browsed properly now.
188! Fixed: Detect missing upcase tables (and don't fall over)
189! Fixed: If nothing is found, network neighbourhood should be empty (and
190 not display an unnamed workgroup icon).
191! Fixed: When immediate authentification for browsing was enabled, the
192 main window was not redrawn properly.
193! Fixed: Changed statusbar size (should look better)
194
195Version 2.0 beta4 2009-11-03:
196! Fixed: Do not crash on outdated temporary files
197! Fixed: Do not crash on unavailable machines
198
199Version 2.0 beta3 2009-10-29:
200! Fixed: The GUI was blocked every few seconds during network neighbourhood
201 scan. Bonus: The new code is even faster than the previous one.
202
203Version 2.0 beta2 2009-10-25:
204+ Added: English helpfile
205+ Added: German helpfile
206+ Added: French helpfile (partly done, requires completion by Guillaume)
207+ Added: Information about server dialog
208+ Added: Dialog also uses information from network neighbourhood
209+ Added: Detection of "dead" (non accessible) servers (which are still in the
210 browse list)
211* Changed: Dialog entry fields now use WarpSans Bold font (matches style of
212 other dialogs)
213! Fixed: Network neighbourhood is filled much faster than before
214! Fixed: No more share type guessing
215! Fixed: Ticket #105: Temporary files not removed
216! Fixed: Ticket #106: Icon in global settings dialog not properly aligned
217
218Version 2.0 beta1 2009-09-15:
219+ Added: Browsing code from smbmon
220+ Added: D'n'd support for file shares
221+ Added: Connection wizard dialogs
222+ Added: main menu bar
223+ Added: New advanced settings
224+ Added: "Old" 1.x look and feel
225+ Added: Main window is resizable
226+ Added: Splitbar between panels
227+ Added: Create rudimentary %ETC%\samba\smb.conf
228+ Added: Connection details view (preliminary)
229+ Added: Double connection detection using md5 hashes
230+ Added: New profile saving code
231+ Added: Remove menu option (preliminary for passive connections only)
232+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Optionally do not show hidden shares
233+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Enhanced guessicon()
234+ Added: Preliminary context menus for Browse View and Connection details view
235+ Added: "Retry" for passive connections (only manually for now)
236+ Added: Drag and drop for passive connections
237+ Added: Hide columns not useful for endusers
238+ Added: NLV enable (parts of) connection details
239+ Added: Disabled old profile saving code
240+ Added: Sort smbtree view ascending
241+ Added: Optionally turn on/off special ($) shares
242+ Added: Optionally use big icons
243+ Added: Profile files may be dropped onto the current connections container
244+ Added: Login dialog behaviour matches the one from smbusers now
245+ Added: Preliminary handling of smbtree error messages
246+ Added: Optionally save passive connections across sessions
247+ Added: French message file (thanks to Guillaume Gay)
248* Changed: Several changes in GUI style (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
249* Changed: Left align buttons in current connections panel (as suggested by
250 MrFawlty and Alex Taylor)
251* Changed: Replaced status bar by a text control (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
252 (only used for version display for now)
253* Changed: Main icon is now the one done by Alex Taylor
254* Changed: Use PM_Default_Colors for title sections (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
255* Changed: German translation of "Retry"
256* Changed: Profile behaviour: In 1.3 a new profile replaced older connections
257 on the same volume only, in 2.x a new profile is merged with the
258 old connections one.
259* Changed: Split advanced dialog should be split into connection options and
260 global options
261* Changed: Redesigned mount dialog
262* Changed: Redesigned login dialog
263* Changed: Clarified message about multiple connections
264* Changed: Rebuild required Samba Client utilities 3.0.36 with libc063
265 (instead of libc064x) (Changeset 331 level)
266! Fixed: Loading a profile presented the user a half drawn window
267! Fixed: Startup code was broken if no evfsgui.ini is present
268! Fixed: CltInit uses smbclient.exe instead of smbd.exe to find Samba binaries
269! Fixed: Message queue during resize isn't cleared (no flashing during resize)
270! Fixed: Missing NLV aware strings
271! Fixed: Don't let user edit network neighbourhood results
272! Fixed: Claiming a passive connection already exists is nonsense
273! Fixed: Disallow connecting to printers via context menu
274! Fixed: Edit and Selected menu easily got out of sync
275! Fixed: Edit and Selected menu still got out of sync, really fixed now
276! Fixed: Another missing record validation
277! Fixed: Password display broken on double connection warning
278! Fixed: Detect more printers
279! Fixed: Confirmation of removal of a single connection was missing
280! Fixed: Dropdown combobox in mount dialog was readonly
281! Fixed: Autostart mode was broken
282
283Version 1.3.7 - changes not relevant for 2.0
284
285Version 1.3.6
286! Fixed: When connecting to a complete server, the workgroup got lost during the
287 connecting process.
288Version 1.3.5
289! Fixed: Error in profile file parsing logic could lead to double entries
290 for LOGFILE and LOGLEVEL (possibly having side effects on EASUPPORT)
291Version 1.3.4
292! Fixed: Readonly connection option did not work (was not implemented)
293Version 1.3.3
294* Changed: Provide better message box for profile saving (to explain rather
295 odd behavior
296Version 1.3.2
297! Fixed: No more double drive letters in the drive letters list after mounting
298* Changed: "Workgroup/ Domain:" back to "Workgroup:"
299Version 1.3.1
300+ Added: Explanation for errors in case mount operation fails
301* Changed: "Workgroup:" to "Workgroup/ Domain:"
302Version 1.3
303+ Added: Support for the (new) ndpsmb logging feature
304+ Added: Support for the (old) ndpsmb logging feature (deactivated)
305+ Added: Save "titlebar" color across sessions
306* Changed: Merge Alex Taylor's and Herwig B.'s latest changes
307* Changed: Also display status data in hintarea when mouse cursor is over
308 the "current resources" pane
309! Fixed: Tab order in "new resource" pane
310! Fixed: Help did not work for advanced window in NLV versions
311
312Version 1.2.1 (2009-04, Herwig B.)
313+ Added: Try to restart EVFSCTL.EXE once in case it is not running.
314+ Added: Implemented support for error messages depending on return codes
315 in case of failed operations as provided from ndpsmb.dll version
316 1.5alpha2 or better.
317* Changed: Move status data of current connection into container caption
318 (Makes more sense there).
319* Changed: Show version notice in status area (at the bottom now)
320! Fixed: In case the connect operation fails on a newly created mount point,
321 the mountpoint is removed again, instead of leaving it in a zombie
322 status. That makes sense as EVFSGUI does not support the creation
323 and maintenance of empty mountpoints (the underlying EVFS (including
324 the REXX interface) supports this, but the GUI does not).
325
326Version 1.2.1 (2009-05, Alex Taylor)
327! Fixed: Main window wasn't set visible if INI file was missing.
328! Fixed: Corrected English, formatting h in helpfile.
329+ Added: Better program icon.
330
331Version 1.2 (2008-10)
332*Updated: Finally all the help files are updated to reflect all changes
333 (en, de and fr)
334!Workaround: It appears that for unknown reasons the SysDriveMap() function
335 hangs if it is used with the "FREE" and "REMOTE" flags, after it is
336 called for several times. I noticed that after I received Yuri's
337 latest Samba plugin. The problem disappears if EVFS is not installed.
338 This should be tested (and fixed) by Vitali in EVFS (probably).
339
340+ Added: In debug mode the output in the console window has time stamps now
341+ Added: Display name and version of the used IFS on "empty" mountpoints
342+ Added: Button on the autoload window (the -nogui GUI) to abort reconnection
343+ Added: Server entry field is now a drop down combo box holding all servers
344 to which connections were made with)
345+ Added: Alternatively support NetDrive for SMB shares instead of EVFS (using
346 undocumented -ndfs switch)
347* Updated: All message files
348! Fixed: Bug in my autoload code
349! Fixed: Bug in my -ndfs code (spotted by Guillaume)
350
351+ Added: Autostart EVFS connections feature via Startup folder object
352+ Added: -nogui switch (only show a small message window)
353+ Added: -autoclose switch (close eVFSGUI after 3 seconds)
354+ Added: Load profile specified on the commandline
355+ Added: Edit via context menu for mountpoints with exactly one resource
356+ Added: Context menu equivalents to the Detach and Unmount pushbuttons
357+ Added: The content of the EF_NETWORK field (aka workgroup) is saved to the
358 EVFSGUI.INI as this changes only on rare occasions (saved me a lot of
359 typing during testing)
360+ Added: Do not attach drive if has already been attached (from TODO list A.T.)
361! Fixed: Profiles supported plain passwords whereas EVFS provided encrypted
362 passwords in profile files
363! Fixed: eVFSGUI initializes itself properly now
364! Fixed: eVFSGUI would hang after displaying the message "no control program
365 found"
366! Fixed: Cleanup signal stuff ("return" after a signal is a bad thing to do!)
367! Fixed: INI file was not closed after leaving eVFSGUI
368! Fixed: When several mount points exist and the first one is removed the click
369 event routine was executed after the corresponded record was already
370 removed -> eVFSGUI crashed. As a fix the record is validated before an
371 attempt to access its data is done. If it does not exist anymore the
372 event routine is terminated without further action.
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