source: trunk/guitools/evfsgui/changes@ 894

Last change on this file since 894 was 894, checked in by Alex Taylor, 9 years ago

Various UI tweaks, see changes for details. Enabled detection of Blue Lion system. Added some missing icons.

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1ToDo for 3.0:
2- Code refactoring 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
15Version 2.5.0 2016-??-??
16+ Added: [ALT] Now detects whether running under Blue Lion OS
17+ Added: [ALT] "Trac wiki markup" setting on About window now saved in INI
18! Fixed: [ALT] "Trac wiki markup" setting on About window is now honoured correctly
19+ Added: [ALT] Implemented better fallback logic for locating plugin when look4dll
20 is not present
21* Changed: [ALT] Copying About string to clipboard now adds tabs for readability
22* Changed: [ALT] Removed enforcement of minimum frame size and replaced with logic
23 to switch from resizing to clipping below a certain size; this
24 fixes nasty jittering and inconsistent sizing behaviour when
25 resizing, especially on low resolution screens.
26* Changed: [ALT] Language file stem is now limited to the first 6 characters of
27 the executable name.
28+ Added: Detect when master browser suffers from broken databases
29+ Added: If browsing is not allowed for user, retry as guest (useful for print
30 servers)
31+ Added: Detect eComStation OS Version
32+ Added: Show for who we are waiting
33+ Added: -timesync switch, allows time sync using commandline
34+ Added: Support time synchronisation (requires new net.exe)
35+ Added: Error handler for missing REXX DLLs
36+ Added: Identify user using RPC library
37+ Added: Indicate by "LED" whether credentials are stored or not
38+ Added: Click on "LED" to remove credentials from memory
39+ Added: Icon on login window depends upon connection type
40+ Added: Allow removing stored credentials from memory
41+ Added: Optionally store credentials in memory until next reboot
42+ Added: Properly verify all manually entered IP addresses
43+ Added: Connection speedup: Allow configuration of name resolve order
44+ Added: Connection speedup: Allow configuration of WINS server
45+ Added: Connection speedup: Optionally create/maintain LMHosts automagically
46+ Added: Enhanced, faster browsing code (major code refactoring)
47+ Added: Allow refreshing a single machine in the network neighbourhood
48+ Added: Allow start/stop of the EVFSCTL.EXE daemon
49+ Added: Allow to erase old logfiles before starting EVFSCTL.EXE
50+ Added: Find primary domain controller (and give it a special icon)
51+ Added: Find domain master browser
52+ Added: Find local master browser
53+ Added: Enhanced info box (MAC, IP-Address, server role, capabilities)
54+ Added: Optionally add TRAC Wiki markup to "About"-data for clipboard
55* Changed: Use Rich Walsh's look4dll.exe to find the used ndpsmb.dll
56* Changed: Increase timer delay (n*2) for non responding machines
57* Changed: Use Alex Taylor's Warp4-Style notebook for the right pane,
58 convert global settings and advanced connection options
59 from windows into notebook pages
60! Fixed: Proper size on 800x600 systems (I hope)
61! Fixed: Proper message boxes for "Reset LMHosts" and "
62! Fixed: Do not crash on "Set default workgroup" anymore
63! Fixed: Context menu in connection details view could show wrong menu items
64! Fixed: Do not add a *-"server" to the networkneighbourhood if a workgroup
65 was mounted.
66! Fixed: Extended Help menu item was broken
67! Fixed: Refreshing a single machine added shares 2x for automatically
68 added machines
69! Fixed: Loginbox was not NLS aware
70! Fixed: Do not crash upon authenticitation if we are unable to determine the
71 connection type (yet)
72! Fixed: Numerous small bugs/omissions
73! Fixed: "Creating lame upcase tables" filtered
74! Fixed: "TDB(" filtered
75! Fixed: Do not run nmblookup.exe twice in the foreground
76! Fixed: Errorhandler for parsing errors in RPC library (still not perfect)
77! Fixed: Passive connections/double connection detection does not seem
78 to work properly
79! Fixed: Server/share of connections without workgroup were stuffed into the
80 workgroup field errornously (and created a bogus entry in the network
81 neighbourhood)
82! Fixed: Minimum size was too small (reported by Alex Taylor)
83! Fixed: Empty credential string test did not work properly on 4OS2
84! Fixed: Add workaround for % vs. %% issue on smbclient.exe
85! Fixed: Populate TabbedDialog pages earlier during startup
86! Fixed: Ticket #185 (create %ETC%/samba/pid and fix EA of %ETC%/samba/lock)
87! Fixed: Ticket #200 (Never add local link addresses and localhost to
88 LMHosts file)
89! Fixed: Ticket #202 (Blanks in sharenames messed up everything)
90! Fixed: Ticket #222 (Fatal error on startup in case a DLL is missing)
91! Fixed: Ticket #230 (Crash in edit menu due to non existent object)
92! Fixed: Ticket #231 (p_* variables were not initialized)
93! Fixed: Ticket #233 (NLV Startup error)
94- Removed: Bottom button row
95- Removed: View Menu
96
97Version 2.1.3 2011-??-??
98+ Added: Help button on network neighbourhood view
99+ Added: Help button on connection details view
100! Fixed: Fetch credentials in case "Authenticate for browsing" is enabled
101 and no credentials were entered before
102
103Version 2.1.2 2011-06-13
104+ Added: Display some hints about what is going on in the statusbar
105+ Added: Display information about installed/connected SMB printer ports.
106! Fixed: Do not crash if manually added machines do not allow browsing
107! Fixed: Connect in network neighbourhood used selected object instead of
108 source object (eventually resulted in a connection to the wrong
109 share)
110
111Version 2.1.1 2011-03-08
112! Fixed: Finally servers always end up in the proper domain/workgroup
113
114Version 2.1.0 2011-01-18
115+ Added: Support for new CTO and CLD parameters introduced with 2.0.0 beta3
116! Fixed: Behaviour of login box did not work as designed
117! Fixed: No mount attempt if entering credentials was aborted
118! Fixed: Do not crash during "Detach all"
119- Refactoring: Streamline parameter parsing code
120- Refactoring: Remove double variables for parameters
121- Refactoring: Create Icon. stem in order to ease maintenance of icons
122- Refactoring: Common wrapper around all dynamic functions
123- Refactoring: Remove double variables for settings and options
124- Refactoring: Debug on/off option is properly done now
125
126Version 2.1 beta2 2010-12-26
127+ Added: New "About" box displays detailed version notices of all
128 client components
129+ Added: -DELAY [n] switch (as requested in Ticket #148)
130+ Added: Integrated delay into progress window upon startup
131+ Added: Throbber on progress window
132! Fixed: Do not crash on bad return value from *RxGetMount() in GetChildren
133! Fixed: "Abort" in progress window presented an uninitialized main window
134! Fixed: Logfile names were wrong in the online help
135! Fixed: Several typos (thanks to Rainer Stroebel)
136
137Version 2.1 beta1 2010-08-13
138+ Added: On-the-fly browsing on remote servers
139+ Added: Files can be "opened" during on-the-fly browsing (a mountpoint
140 is created first) - does not work properly yet!
141+ Added: Set icons of browsed files according to extender types (only most
142 often used types (EXE, OOO, PDF, generic multimedia icons - no WPS
143 mechanism for that from REXX)
144+ Added: Refresh display every 60 seconds in order to reflect changes
145 done on the command line while EVFSGUI is open
146+ Added: "Detach all" menuitem in context menu
147+ Added: "Refresh" menuitem in context menu
148! Fixed: Do not flash during refresh
149! Fixed: Workaround for uninitialized advance.!alwaysmp
150! Fixed: Do not run more than 32 smbclient.exe concurrently (EVFSGUI
151 needs Paul Ratcliffe's pr1util.dll now)
152
153Version 2.0.6 2010-08-13
154- This is 2.1.beta1 without On-the-fly-browsing on remote servers
155
156Version 2.0.5 2010-04-23
157! Fixed: Passive connections were not removed when the same connection was
158 loaded using a profile
159! Fixed: Missing NLV message if wrong file was dropped onto the left pane
160
161Version 2.0.4 2010-04-09
162! Fixed: Connection details doubled since MEMLEN etc removal.
163* Changed: Some parts of the code were refactored
164
165Version 2.0.3 2010-02-23
166+ Added: Open mountpoint as WPS object moved to a separate thread in order
167 not to block the EVFSGUI main window while waiting for a folder
168 on a slow connection to open.
169+ Added: Double-click also opens a mountpoint as WPS folder
170+ Added: Debug ON also makes hidden columns in connections details visible
171! Fixed: "Abort" button on progress window was not NLV enabled
172! Fixed: The NLV subroutine now properly falls back to the builtin
173 (bracketed) message files in case NO (not even an english
174 message file) can be found.
175! Fixed: Do not crash in Autostart dialog when no NLV file was found.
176! Fixed: Open mountpoint as WPS object fully workable
177! Fixed: Open mountpint now has a consistent behaviour with other actions
178* Changed: Open context menu item enabled for testing (experimental)
179* Changed: Show wait pointer while opening WPS folder
180* Changed: CltInit: Now scans wellknown locations for Samba binaries
181 (faster at least in theory)
182* Changed: In the 1.5.0 GA version of the plugin the MEMLEN, LOGFILE and
183 LOGLEVEL tokens are removed in order to address the problem with
184 EVFSRxGetMount() return strings - several changes in EVFSGUI were
185 required to address this change in the plugin.
186NOTE: This changes makes older profile files, both .ndc and .evp incompatible.
187 EVFSGUI can read old profiles, but only saves new profiles. The Netdrive
188 GUI does not have such a feature. Older profiles may easily be migrated
189 by editing with a text editor and removing the MEMLEN, LOGLEVEL and
190 LOGFILE tokens from the resource strings manually.
191
192Version 2.0.2 2010-01-25
193* Changed: Remove Win95/98/IBM Peer length limits from smbtree.vrs.
194+ Added: EVFSRxGetMount() returns a maximum string length of 255 for
195 resdata, if workgroup+server+share+username+password > 52 the
196 resulting resdata string will be truncated. Several workarounds
197 in ParseResourceData() added in order not completely fall over.
198
199Version 2.0.1 2010-01-12
200+ Added: Alex T.: Use 'Combined' font on DBCS systems
201! Fixed: Alex T.: Default fonts are set correctly
202! Fixed: Alex T.: Section title colours now correctly default to system settings
203! Fixed: Alex T.: Various fixes and enhancements to window resize logic
204! Fixed: Alex T.: FWidth/margin got lost on the expose list
205! Fixed: Herwig B.: Another speed up in resize logic (use marginx2 instead of
206 42 times margin * 2)
207
208Version 2.0.0 (Refresh) 2009-12-29
209* Changed: Rewrite routines to find .msg and .hlp files
210! Fixed: Set size of throbber object according to screen dimensions
211
212Version 2.0 GA 2009-12-24
213+ Added: Provide unexpected.tdb in the installer
214! Fixed: Detect trailing tabs and blanks in the temporary directory
215! Fixed: A manually added server's workgroup might be unknown in the moment
216 the dialog is populated
217
218Version 2.0 beta6 2009-12-12
219+ Added: WPI installer for Plugin, EVFSGUI and Samba Client Utilities
220 (plus variant that includes EVFS for eCS distribution).
221+ Added: New global option: Use broadcasts instead of local master browser
222+ Added: New menu entry: Save default workgroup to smb.conf
223! Fixed: Also go through double (and passive) connection check
224 if profile is loaded as a commandline parameter
225! Fixed: Migrate to enhanced NLV setup subroutines
226! Fixed: Autodetection of filesystem variant did not work properly
227! Fixed: Turn off debug console upon startup
228! Fixed: Don't crash when attempting to create the Autostart script
229! Fixed: Also create %ETC%\samba\lock directory for client
230! Fixed: Properly redraw network neighbourhood after refresh
231
232Version 2.0 beta5 2009-11-15
233+ Added: Manually entered servers are automatically integrated into the
234 network neighbourhood
235! Fixed: IP address servers (without a name) can be browsed properly now.
236! Fixed: Detect missing upcase tables (and don't fall over)
237! Fixed: If nothing is found, network neighbourhood should be empty (and
238 not display an unnamed workgroup icon).
239! Fixed: When immediate authentification for browsing was enabled, the
240 main window was not redrawn properly.
241! Fixed: Changed statusbar size (should look better)
242
243Version 2.0 beta4 2009-11-03:
244! Fixed: Do not crash on outdated temporary files
245! Fixed: Do not crash on unavailable machines
246
247Version 2.0 beta3 2009-10-29:
248! Fixed: The GUI was blocked every few seconds during network neighbourhood
249 scan. Bonus: The new code is even faster than the previous one.
250
251Version 2.0 beta2 2009-10-25:
252+ Added: English helpfile
253+ Added: German helpfile
254+ Added: French helpfile (partly done, requires completion by Guillaume)
255+ Added: Information about server dialog
256+ Added: Dialog also uses information from network neighbourhood
257+ Added: Detection of "dead" (non accessible) servers (which are still in the
258 browse list)
259* Changed: Dialog entry fields now use WarpSans Bold font (matches style of
260 other dialogs)
261! Fixed: Network neighbourhood is filled much faster than before
262! Fixed: No more share type guessing
263! Fixed: Ticket #105: Temporary files not removed
264! Fixed: Ticket #106: Icon in global settings dialog not properly aligned
265
266Version 2.0 beta1 2009-09-15:
267+ Added: Browsing code from smbmon
268+ Added: D'n'd support for file shares
269+ Added: Connection wizard dialogs
270+ Added: main menu bar
271+ Added: New advanced settings
272+ Added: "Old" 1.x look and feel
273+ Added: Main window is resizable
274+ Added: Splitbar between panels
275+ Added: Create rudimentary %ETC%\samba\smb.conf
276+ Added: Connection details view (preliminary)
277+ Added: Double connection detection using md5 hashes
278+ Added: New profile saving code
279+ Added: Remove menu option (preliminary for passive connections only)
280+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Optionally do not show hidden shares
281+ Added: smbtree.vrs: Enhanced guessicon()
282+ Added: Preliminary context menus for Browse View and Connection details view
283+ Added: "Retry" for passive connections (only manually for now)
284+ Added: Drag and drop for passive connections
285+ Added: Hide columns not useful for endusers
286+ Added: NLV enable (parts of) connection details
287+ Added: Disabled old profile saving code
288+ Added: Sort smbtree view ascending
289+ Added: Optionally turn on/off special ($) shares
290+ Added: Optionally use big icons
291+ Added: Profile files may be dropped onto the current connections container
292+ Added: Login dialog behaviour matches the one from smbusers now
293+ Added: Preliminary handling of smbtree error messages
294+ Added: Optionally save passive connections across sessions
295+ Added: French message file (thanks to Guillaume Gay)
296* Changed: Several changes in GUI style (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
297* Changed: Left align buttons in current connections panel (as suggested by
298 MrFawlty and Alex Taylor)
299* Changed: Replaced status bar by a text control (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
300 (only used for version display for now)
301* Changed: Main icon is now the one done by Alex Taylor
302* Changed: Use PM_Default_Colors for title sections (as suggested by Alex Taylor)
303* Changed: German translation of "Retry"
304* Changed: Profile behaviour: In 1.3 a new profile replaced older connections
305 on the same volume only, in 2.x a new profile is merged with the
306 old connections one.
307* Changed: Split advanced dialog should be split into connection options and
308 global options
309* Changed: Redesigned mount dialog
310* Changed: Redesigned login dialog
311* Changed: Clarified message about multiple connections
312* Changed: Rebuild required Samba Client utilities 3.0.36 with libc063
313 (instead of libc064x) (Changeset 331 level)
314! Fixed: Loading a profile presented the user a half drawn window
315! Fixed: Startup code was broken if no evfsgui.ini is present
316! Fixed: CltInit uses smbclient.exe instead of smbd.exe to find Samba binaries
317! Fixed: Message queue during resize isn't cleared (no flashing during resize)
318! Fixed: Missing NLV aware strings
319! Fixed: Don't let user edit network neighbourhood results
320! Fixed: Claiming a passive connection already exists is nonsense
321! Fixed: Disallow connecting to printers via context menu
322! Fixed: Edit and Selected menu easily got out of sync
323! Fixed: Edit and Selected menu still got out of sync, really fixed now
324! Fixed: Another missing record validation
325! Fixed: Password display broken on double connection warning
326! Fixed: Detect more printers
327! Fixed: Confirmation of removal of a single connection was missing
328! Fixed: Dropdown combobox in mount dialog was readonly
329! Fixed: Autostart mode was broken
330
331Version 1.3.7 - changes not relevant for 2.0
332
333Version 1.3.6
334! Fixed: When connecting to a complete server, the workgroup got lost during the
335 connecting process.
336Version 1.3.5
337! Fixed: Error in profile file parsing logic could lead to double entries
338 for LOGFILE and LOGLEVEL (possibly having side effects on EASUPPORT)
339Version 1.3.4
340! Fixed: Readonly connection option did not work (was not implemented)
341Version 1.3.3
342* Changed: Provide better message box for profile saving (to explain rather
343 odd behavior
344Version 1.3.2
345! Fixed: No more double drive letters in the drive letters list after mounting
346* Changed: "Workgroup/ Domain:" back to "Workgroup:"
347Version 1.3.1
348+ Added: Explanation for errors in case mount operation fails
349* Changed: "Workgroup:" to "Workgroup/ Domain:"
350Version 1.3
351+ Added: Support for the (new) ndpsmb logging feature
352+ Added: Support for the (old) ndpsmb logging feature (deactivated)
353+ Added: Save "titlebar" color across sessions
354* Changed: Merge Alex Taylor's and Herwig B.'s latest changes
355* Changed: Also display status data in hintarea when mouse cursor is over
356 the "current resources" pane
357! Fixed: Tab order in "new resource" pane
358! Fixed: Help did not work for advanced window in NLV versions
359
360Version 1.2.1 (2009-04, Herwig B.)
361+ Added: Try to restart EVFSCTL.EXE once in case it is not running.
362+ Added: Implemented support for error messages depending on return codes
363 in case of failed operations as provided from ndpsmb.dll version
364 1.5alpha2 or better.
365* Changed: Move status data of current connection into container caption
366 (Makes more sense there).
367* Changed: Show version notice in status area (at the bottom now)
368! Fixed: In case the connect operation fails on a newly created mount point,
369 the mountpoint is removed again, instead of leaving it in a zombie
370 status. That makes sense as EVFSGUI does not support the creation
371 and maintenance of empty mountpoints (the underlying EVFS (including
372 the REXX interface) supports this, but the GUI does not).
373
374Version 1.2.1 (2009-05, Alex Taylor)
375! Fixed: Main window wasn't set visible if INI file was missing.
376! Fixed: Corrected English, formatting h in helpfile.
377+ Added: Better program icon.
378
379Version 1.2 (2008-10)
380*Updated: Finally all the help files are updated to reflect all changes
381 (en, de and fr)
382!Workaround: It appears that for unknown reasons the SysDriveMap() function
383 hangs if it is used with the "FREE" and "REMOTE" flags, after it is
384 called for several times. I noticed that after I received Yuri's
385 latest Samba plugin. The problem disappears if EVFS is not installed.
386 This should be tested (and fixed) by Vitali in EVFS (probably).
387
388+ Added: In debug mode the output in the console window has time stamps now
389+ Added: Display name and version of the used IFS on "empty" mountpoints
390+ Added: Button on the autoload window (the -nogui GUI) to abort reconnection
391+ Added: Server entry field is now a drop down combo box holding all servers
392 to which connections were made with)
393+ Added: Alternatively support NetDrive for SMB shares instead of EVFS (using
394 undocumented -ndfs switch)
395* Updated: All message files
396! Fixed: Bug in my autoload code
397! Fixed: Bug in my -ndfs code (spotted by Guillaume)
398
399+ Added: Autostart EVFS connections feature via Startup folder object
400+ Added: -nogui switch (only show a small message window)
401+ Added: -autoclose switch (close eVFSGUI after 3 seconds)
402+ Added: Load profile specified on the commandline
403+ Added: Edit via context menu for mountpoints with exactly one resource
404+ Added: Context menu equivalents to the Detach and Unmount pushbuttons
405+ Added: The content of the EF_NETWORK field (aka workgroup) is saved to the
406 EVFSGUI.INI as this changes only on rare occasions (saved me a lot of
407 typing during testing)
408+ Added: Do not attach drive if has already been attached (from TODO list A.T.)
409! Fixed: Profiles supported plain passwords whereas EVFS provided encrypted
410 passwords in profile files
411! Fixed: eVFSGUI initializes itself properly now
412! Fixed: eVFSGUI would hang after displaying the message "no control program
413 found"
414! Fixed: Cleanup signal stuff ("return" after a signal is a bad thing to do!)
415! Fixed: INI file was not closed after leaving eVFSGUI
416! Fixed: When several mount points exist and the first one is removed the click
417 event routine was executed after the corresponded record was already
418 removed -> eVFSGUI crashed. As a fix the record is validated before an
419 attempt to access its data is done. If it does not exist anymore the
420 event routine is terminated without further action.
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