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PREVIOUS VERSION: V-EDIT 1.2
THIS VERSION: V-EDIT 1.3
Copyright (c) 1993 by Full Motion Net Software.
All Rights Reserved.
1. MINOR MODIFICATIONS TO THE "SQZ" FORMAT CONVERSION ENGINE, BUT
TOTALLY RE-WROTE THE REST OF THE PROGRAM.
2. ADDED A COMMAND LINE FILE OPEN OPTION.
3. MODIFIED PATH RESTORE WHEN VIEWING FILES IN FCON.
4. "SQZ-ANSI" IS NOW "SQZ" AND IS AVAILABLE. "SQZ" IS A STAND ALONE
CONVERSION UTILITY. "SQZ-ANSI" IS NO LONGER NEEDED, YOU MIGHT SAY
IT'S BUILT IN TO THIS VERSION. BECAUSE OF THIS FEATURE WE NOW PRO-
DUCE THE SMALLEST ANSI FILES OF ANY OTHER EDITOR.
5. V-EDIT IS NO LONGER MEMORY DEPENDANT, IE: USES 82K MAX OF RAM PLUS
AVG. 285K PROGRAM OVERHEAD. ALL READS AND WRITES ARE TO AND FROM
DISK ON A PER PAGE BASIS. PAGE = 24 LINES.
6. ADDED 8 LARGE CHARACTER AND SYMBOL FONTS. ALL FONTS ARE EXTERNAL
AND CAN BE MODIFIED. ADDITIONAL FONTS CAN BE ADDED IN MINUTES,
INCLUDING, OBJECTS, MINI SCREENS, BOTH IN COLOR AND NOT!
7. ADDED A SUB ROUTINE THAT RECOGNIZES MULTI-TASKING ENVIROMENTS SUCH
AS OS-2, WINDOWS, AND DESQVIEW. NOW WORKS FROM WITHIN PC BOARD.
8. ADDED ASCII FORMAT CONVERSION AND IDENTIFIER.
9. ADDED REVERSE BLOCK FUNCTION. REVERSES ORDER AND COLOR SEQUENCE OF
BLOCKED OBJECT. "ALT + F" FROM WITHIN BLOCK MOVE COMMAND.
10. ADDED GLOBAL SCREEN CHARACTER REPLACE FUNCTION. "F8"
11. ADDED PAGE APPEND TO PAGE COMMANDS. ADDS A BLANK PAGE TO END OF FILE
CONTROL + A.
12. ADDED MORE HELP AND COMMAND PROMPTS.
13. CUT INTERMISSION CONVERSION TIME BY 71%
14. MODIFIED PASTE, SO THAT IT WORKS FLAWLESSLY FROM PAGE TO PAGE, FILE
TO FILE, EVEN AFTER YOU QUIT AND RESTART.
15. ADDED "NEW" DRAW FEATURE. DUMPS ALL RESTARTS FRESH.
16. ADDED "OLD" DRAW FEATURE. BRINGS BACK THE ORIGINAL FILE OPENED
FROM ANY GIVEN DRAWING SESSION.
17. ADDED MORE UNDO COVERAGE.
18. GREATLY IMPROVED TEST EXECUTION.
19. ADDED SHELL FEATURE TO FILE MANAGER.
20. ADDED MORE COMPATABILITY TO OTHER EDITOR'S FORMATS.
INCLUDING A METHOD TO DISPLAY ANIMATION FILES, THAT USE REDUNDANT
CODE.
21. INSTANT MANIPULATION OF OPENED ANSI/ASCII FILES FROM FCON, WITHOUT
HAVING TO GO TO EDITOR AND BACK.
22. NO MORE *.BAK FILES ALL OUTPUT FILES ARE EVEN SMALLER AND DON'T
REQUIRE ANY SUPPLEMENTATION. WE RE-WROTE THE EDITOR TO FIT THE
FILE!
23. CHANGED PAGE COMMAND FUNCTION KEY FROM ^P TO ALT P. IN SOME MACHINES
^P CAUSED A DEVICE FAULT PRINT ERROR.
24. ADDED A "MAKE FONT FILE" BUTTON TO FCON. NOW IF YOU DESIGN A NEW FONT
IN EITHER AN ASCII FORMAT OR COLOR PCB FORMAT ON SCREEN, YOUR FILE
CODES ARE CONVERTED TO "V-EDIT FONT FORMAT CODES". FUNCTION FINDS
THE FILE, CONVERTS IT, ADDS IT TO IT'S FONT LIST.
25. FIXED MINOR ERROR IN ASCII FORMAT, WHEN ADDING TO A FILE THAT WAS
PREVIOUSLY UNDER 24 LINES.
26. MOVED DIAGONAL DRAW COMMANDS TO MAIN DRAW SCREEN, NO MORE F12.
27. MADE FONT FILES WITH FULL 94 KEY ASSIGNMENTS, IN OTHER WORDS
ALL FONT SETS INCLUDE 94 DIFFERENT CHARACTERS.
FONT SETS 7 & 8 MAY NOT BE COMPLETE AT TIME OF RELEASE OF V-EDIT 1.3
28. FIXED "ALT + NUMBER PAD" TO PRINT ALL ASCII CHARACTERS INSTEAD OF
JUST UP TO # 136.
29. ADDED A SET FORMAT/OPTIONS DEFAULT BUTTON. THIS WILL STORE & RESTORE
YOUR SELECTED 1 - 9 OPTION BUTTONS. IF YOU ONLY SAVE & APPEND IN PCB
FORMAT BUT VIEW ALL YOUR FILES IN ANSI, SET THE RADIO BUTTONS THEN
PRESS THE "DEF FORMAT" BUTTON, AND EACH TIME FCON LOADS YOUR SETTINGS
WILL REMAIN THE SAME.
30. CHANGED THE "IS ANSI.SYS LOADED?" PRE-TEST TO A WARNING MESSAGE IN-
STEAD OF ABORTING TO THE SYSTEM. THIS WAY V-EDIT WILL WORK WITH OTHER
"ANSI" DRIVERS, BUT STILL REMIND YOU IN CASE YOUR DRIVER IS UNKNOWN.
MODIFIED THE "VSETUP.EXE" FILE AS WELL.
31. WHEN OPENING A COMMAND LINE FILE; WHEN FCON IS DISPLAYED YOUR FILE
NAME WILL ALREADY BE IN THE FILE TEXT BOX. THIS MODIFICATION WAS
REQUESTED AS A SPEED ENHANCEMENT, FOR QUICK SAVING.
32. FILES OR DIRECTORIES CONTAINING THE SYMBOL "-", WILL NO LONGER PRODUCE
AN "INVALID FORMAT" MESSAGE.
33. IF YOUR FILE WAS NOT FOUND WHEN OPENING FROM THE COMMAND LINE, NOW
YOU ARE GIVEN A CHOICE OF "CREATING IT" OR "STARTING V-EDIT" WITHOUT
IT OR "QUITING TO DOS". THIS WAS A POST BETA ADDENDUM.
34. ADDED 3 NEW REPLACE FUNCTIONS TO BLOCK COMMAND.
F11 REPLACES THE CHARACTER AT THE CURSOR POSITION IN THE BLOCK
WITH A NEW CHARACTER SPECIFIED BY THE CURRENT SAMPLE.
NOTE: MAKE SURE THE CURSOR IS WITHIN THE BLOCK, AND ON THE
CHARACTER YOU WANT TO CHANGE.
35. SHIFT F11 REPLACES ALL OF THE SAME COLOR ATTRIBUTE AT THE CURSOR
POSITION, WITH THE CURRENT FG & BG ATTRIBUTES.
SEE # 34 NOTE.
36. ALT F11 REPLACES THE COLOR OF THE SPECIFIED CHARACTER TYPE, WITHIN
THE BLOCK, AT THE CURSOR POSITION, WITH THE CURRENT FG &
BG ATTRIBUTES.
SEE # 34 NOTE.
37. AS A POST BETA CHANGE, WE CHANGED F4 IN THE FONT UTILITY TO UNDO FROM
START, AND ADDED SHIFT F4 AS THE NEW CLEAR SCREEN KEY.
38. WE FOUND THAT IN SOME ANSI FILES PRODUCED BY OTHER EDITORS OR HAND
MADE, SOMETIMES THEY LACK THE FINAL "ESC[0m" WHICH CHANGES THE COLOR
BACK TO NORMAL IN DOS. WHEN THESE FILES WERE LOADED FROM FCON, THIS
FLAW SOMETIMES CAUSED UNPREDICTABLE RESULTS. SO NOW FCON REPAIRS THE
FILE IN MEMORY BEFORE COMMITTING IT TO THE TEMPORARY DISK FILE AND
PREFORMING ITS CONVERSIONS.
39. WHEN FCON DISPLAYS, NOW THE TEXT IN THE TEXT FILE BOX IS HIGHLIGHTED,
"SELECTED", YOU CAN EITHER PREFORM ANY FUNCTION, PRESS END & ADD TO
IT, OR IMMEDIATELY TYPE A NEW NAME, WITHOUT HAVE TO DELETE IT, AS IT
DELETES ALL BY ITSELF. MINOR VISUAL BASIC FEATURE "SELLENGTH."
40. ADDED ROTATE FUNCTION TO BLOCK UTILITY. F12 = ROTATES CURRENT BLOCK
90° CLOCKWISE, AND PASTES AT CURRENT CURSOR POSITION. OUT OF RANGE
PROMPT AND AUTO RE-MOVE ARE INCLUDED. ATTRIBUTES REMAIN UNCHANGED.
REBLOCK FOR ALL FOUR DIRECTIONS.
41. ADDED "SCAN" SHIFT F11 RETURNS THE ASCII CHARACTER #, AND THE FORE-
GROUND AND BACKGROUND COLORS AT THE CURRENT CURSOR POSITION.
42. ADDED THE OPTION, TO SAVE PCB CODE USING THE "@POS:NN@" MACRO. THIS
FUNCTION WILL REDUCE THE SIZE OF YOUR PCB FORMAT FILES AS MUCH AS
25%. FROM WITHIN V-EDIT AT THE MAIN LEVEL, USE "ALT + M" TO TOGGLE
THIS FUNCTION ON/OFF. NOTE: IF IT IS ON, THE MAKE FONT MACRO, IN
FCON IS DISABLED, UNLESS YOUR FILE IS IN ASCII FORMAT. YOU WILL BE
PROMPTED.
ONCE AGAIN, WE LEAD THE PACK... IN FILE REDUCTION!
43. AMOUNG ALL THE ADDITIONAL FILES THAT ARE INCLUDED IN THIS VERSION, WE
ARE ALSO THROWING IN A "FONT FILE EDITOR." " FFE.EXE " THIS UTILITY
ENABLES A USER TO QUICKLY FORMAT AN ANSI, VBBS, OR PCB FILE CONTAINING
1 OR MORE FONTS TO A FMNFONT FILE FORMAT. TYPE "FFE filename" + ENTER.
"FFE.EXE" OFFERS AUTO LEFT JUSTIFICATION, AUTO ATTRIBUTE CALCULATION,
AUTO & MANUAL BLOCK AND EDIT FEATURES, KEY ASSIGNMENT STATUS, CHANGE,
AUTO COLOR CODE CONVERSION, AUTO FILE FIND, AND OTHER FEATURES TO
HELP YOU TO GENERATE A "V-EDIT" FONT FILE PAINLESSLY AND VERY RAPIDLY.
"FFE.EXE" IS ONLY AVAILABLE IN THE REGISTERED VERSION OF "V-EDIT"
44. BY REQUEST FROM MY PARTNER, I ADDED AN "UN-REGISTERED MESSAGE" TO
THE OPENING V-EDIT SCREEN. HIT ANY KEY AND IT DISAPPEARS. ONLY DIS-
PLAYS ONCE PER DRAWING SESSION.
AND ALL THIS FOR....STILL ONLY $ 22.00
SEE YA,
WIZARD.........