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PRC QUICK-KIT QuickBASIC Toolkit: UPGRADE HISTORY
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April 1991
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QUICK-KIT 2.1 completed.
July 1991
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QUICK-KIT 2.2 released including the following changes:
1. This file HISTORY.DOC added and all documentation updated.
2. A major optimising recode of all utilities resulted in an
overall reduction in included Quick LIbrary sizes of over 10%.
3. Introductory program START.COM included to enable users to
easily review all the documentation.
4. A new assembly language procedure was added to overcome
problems encountered with QuickBASIC's INKEY$ function in stand -
alone .EXE files. This new procedure (called Keypress) can be used
as a direct replacement for INKEY$ in your programs. It can also
stand in for INPUT$(1) and it offers a unique and simple way to
handle keys which return extended codes (such as Function keys).
Full details in QUICKREF.DOC.
Example use of keypress() is included in M3TEST.BAS.
5. The included assembly language procedure clrbox() also included
a bug. This only became apparent with monochrome systems in which
clrbox() displayed underlines when it should have displayed spaces.
This bug has been exorcised in the current version of clrbox().
August 1991
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QUICK-KIT 2.3 released including the following changes:
1. Due to compatibility problems with earlier versions of
QuickBASIC Quick-Kit now only supports QuickBASIC 4.5. All
documentation revised to reflect this.
2. Introductory program START.COM upgraded to include a
more comprehensive selection of demonstration screens.
October 1991
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QUICK-KIT 2.4 released including the following changes:
1. All supporting assembly language routines now reassembled
with MASM to ensure compatibility with Microsoft languages.
Object files assembled with other assemblers (and included
with previous releases) appeared to be causing occasional
machine - specific problems, especially with early Amstrads.
These problems not apparent using MASM - assembled files.
2. In previous releases the utilities were split into two
separate libraries. This was rather confusing so all utilities are
now included in a single library.
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