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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.........
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