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KingFisher v1.15 fixes two bugs that could hang the program and one
that was just plain annoying, and adds several new features. With
this release, the program has reached its most stable state ever: all
known and reported bugs are fixed. From here on it's back on the road
of big features.
BUG FIXES (with respect to version 1.11):
- A bug involving characters in the upper half of the Amiga's character
set (äöüéèêçïã ... etc.) is now fixed. The presence of one of these
symbols in a description would cause KingFisher to lock up.
- A bug involving very wide fonts could also hang KingFisher if long
words would not fit on a single line of the display. This, too, is
fixed.
- A bug was fixed that would not allow proper canceling of the save
operation if the KingFisher.config file could not be written for
one reason or another.
ENHANCEMENTS
- KingFisher's word-wrapping code now can break lines in places other
than blank spaces: it honors dashes "-" and slashes "/" for this
purpose, and is now also able to force an arbitrary line break if
necessary.
- KingFisher's word-wrapping code is now fine-tuned to allow text to
fit better into the window space by dropping "trailing" spaces on a
line.
- Added gadgets to jump to the first and last entries in the database.
These gadgets are relatively small, and located next to the disk
number gadget.
- The font that KingFisher uses for the description can now be supplied
with style codes to make it bold, italic, and/or underlined.
- When operating under Kickstart 2.0 the menu option 'Description Font'
(it used to say 'Fonts') is now available and will provide the means
to select a font for the description, including font styles.
- A new menu option ('Safe Iconify') now provides the means to prevent
KingFisher from saving the KingFisher.config file when the program is
iconified.
- The width of exported text can now be set in the KingFisher.config
file to any value from 40-240. This width used to be a fixed value
of 72 columns.
- KingFisher can now operate with screens of 1, 2, or 3 bitplanes. This
can be used to save some Chip RAM, or speed up some display functions.
If you use fewer than 3 bitplanes, KingFisher will not use the bubble
pattern for the background, and the visual appeal of the GUI will
suffer.
When using only a single bitplane, most of the gadgets will fail
to provide selection feedback (i.e. when you click on them, they do
not change.) It is recommended, therefore, that you do not use the
program with only one bitplane.
This is the first result of my effort to make KingFisher able to
work with Public Screens. Further improvements will be forthcoming.
- A new menu item under FISH has been added: 'Copy from,' allowing the
duplication of another Fishtank's contents. This can be used to reset
the current string gadgets and the position in the database to some
value defined by the contents of some other Fishtank.
REFERENCES INTO THE "KINGFISHER.DOC" FILE
The following changes are made to the KingFisher.doc file since the release
of version 1.11. Read these sections for a better understanding of changes
and enhancements:
1. Section REQUIREMENTS
(description)
2. Section UPGRADING FROM V1.0
(description)
3. Section CONCEPTS
Entry 'Cut & Paste'
Entry 'Display Database'
Entry 'Fishtanks'
Entry 'Fonts'
Entry 'Iconify'
Entry 'KingFisher.config'
Entry 'Name.index'
Entry 'Printing and Exporting'
Entry 'Reindexing'
4. Section MENUS
Entry 'Description Font'
Entry 'Safe Iconify'
5. Section VOLUME REFERENCES
(description)
6. Section QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
(numerous additions)
._. Udo Schuermann
( ) walrus@wam.umd.edu