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CHANGES MADE TO ANGIE SINCE VERSION 1.0 - HISTORY
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v1.0 20.10.93 [fSchwarz]
v1.1 22.10.93 [fSchwarz] improved setDefPubScreen action
fixed ActivateXXXXScreen; fixed Menu Attrs selection
v1.2 23.10.93 [fSchwarz] doesn't send any closeWindow
event on Close action when window is blocked by
requesters.
v1.3 24.10.93 [fSchwarz] added Edithook for hotkey
definition gadget
v1.4a 29.10.93 [fSchwarz] major code cleanup; now
supports dos command and inputevent insertion type
v1.5 4.11.93 [fSchwarz] now really uses the frontmost
window of screens instead of just screen.firstWindow;
improved Key Screen Activation handling for screens
without windows
v1.6 4.11.93 [fSchwarz] removed last Intuition stuff from
cxcustom inputhandler - now all accesses to Intuition
structures are safeguarded by official CBM protocols;
enhanced Intuition/GadTools V37 GUI
v1.7 7.11.93 [fSchwarz] now accounts the fact that
ViewPortExtra.displayClip is volatile and dependent on
the displayids of both, the affected screen & the front
screen; improved timing in msghandler (results in faster
Auto-Hunts when receiving many CxMsgs consecutively
and in better hotkey recursion capabilities); now
needs BlackMagic 1.14; fixed nasty Enforcer hit in
DefinitionProc() that turned out very rarely and was
due to use of post-freed memory (which was usually
immediately reallocated, so Enforcer/Mungwall hardly
ever noticed it); improved Intuition left mouse button
effective detection
v2.0 11.11.93 [fSchwarz] Angie is now completely localized;
fixed rare timing problems that were due to rearranging
Intuition related KeyScreenActivation stuff from the
the cxcustom handler to the main task; changed again
KeyScreenActivation handling; complete code heavily
revised & updated to ensure optimal ergonomics when
there's no current active window, yet an active screen;
now right mouse button blocks all Auto-Hunt (it doesn't
block hotkey-(attribute)-based hunts, though!);
former WinToFront attribute changed to 'ToFront': *If
and only if* the hotkey action doesn't involve a window,
but a screen, the attribute causes a ScreenToFront()
instead of a simple WindowToFront(). HuntWindow action
now hunts the active screen if no active window exists;
the KeyScreenActivation considers that case, too.
Most window-related hotkey-actions (except Hunt) now
simply activate the BestWindow() if there exists no
active window (ToFront/Hunt according to the hotkey
attrs); optimized LastActive-Action (now activates the
frontmost window of the last window's screen if the
last window doesn't exist any more, but the screen it
was opened on, and that screen differs from the active
one). Added Capslock-AutoHunt-mode (default!): capslock
is alienated as an inverse Auto-Hunt toggle switch, all
capslock events & capslock qualifier in inputevents
are eliminated.; Now cxcustom handler code runs at
three different priorities. Moved some IntuitionBase
related window code to own module. Angie's minimum
taskpri is now 5; wintask priority increment only
happens if resulting priority isn't greater than
Angie's taskpri. Added 'New', 'Read Settings' &
'Restore settings' to the project menu; remembers also
the second last window/screen for LastActive/
LastActiveScr actions; general changes in the code to
obtain better ergonomics in many places; added
'DEFAULTPREFS' argument (especially for CLI): loads
the configuration stored in PROGDIR:Angie.info.
Angie now requires CxLib V1.1 with ArgArrayDiskObj().
All tooltypes longer than 128 chars (the official
length limit as of the RKMs) are now split by Angie
for the icon writing (fixes problems with Workbench's
Icon->Information menu item that prunes all longer
tooltypes). Main module is now split into three modules.
Plus several changes I forgot to mention here.
v3.0 19.11.93 [fSchwarz] COMPLETELY NEW CONCEPT: Angie-
Sequences, consisting of multiple Angie actions, ascii
text, commodities input descriptions, & async / sync
dos command sequences are now assigned to the hotkeys.
The ToFront attribute is now replaced by a 'NoFilter'
attribute (the ToFront attribute may now be specified
separately for each item of an AngieSequence). Angie
parses now qualifier keystrokes like 'LALT_PRESS' in
input descriptions - along with mouse button keystrokes
in input descriptions even for V37 commodities users;
simple NoScrActivate pseudo hotkeys now work for V37,
too (own ParseIX() extension, own V37 MatchIX()).
fixed NewMenu array size of the edit menu. For
proportional fonts, gimmeZeroZero windows are used in
conjunction with other slLevelFormat - this fixes V37
level display problems and keeps the window borders
from messing up in those rare cases where the nominal
proportional font's width is utterly misleading.
Invocation of WindowToFront() is now omitted if the
respective window is already the screen's frontmost
window (results in much better performance for
gimmeZeroZero windows). GetBestWin() now accounts that
visible screens may follow after invisible screens in
the IntuitionBase screen list. cx_pri slider step is
now level-adaptive (like snoopdelay/stabletime sliders)
A new tooltype format for hotkeys is now used - old
format can still be read. Another new (default!)
auto hunt mode is provided: CapsLock1 (functionality
is the same as for the old CapsLock mode which is now
called CapsLock2, except that capslock keystrokes & the
capslock qualifier in the ievents are left untouched).
v3.1 22.11.93 [fSchwarz] removed all code where
LockLayerInfo() is called directly or indirectly with
a locked IntuitionBase due to very unlikely deadlock
situations that may arise from LockLayerInfo() when
IBase is locked. Other protocol to avoid illegal
mem access & to ensure valid window pointer is used
instead. Distribution now includes my SetActiveWin
and MagicPubName shell utilities that can be perfectly
used in SyncDosSequences. In order to disencourage
you from abusing SyncDosSequences for launching
interactive stuff, etc, and in order to improve
performance, SyncDosSequences are now executed without
new I/O channels & with the same priority Angie is
running. Fixed bug that kept Angie from activating
the BestWindow for most Intuition actions in case
no active window exists (bug was due to the severe
code changes that were necessary for inventing the
AngieSequence concept)
v3.2 23.11.93 [fSchwarz] all CxMsgs of cxmIEvent type
that are older than 2.5 seconds are discarded by the
msghandler now; rearranged msghandler code - this
fixes all backlog problems and makes the GUI accessable
even when Angie is busy with CxMsgs & AutoHunt. Support
for proportional fonts has now greatly improved: all
strings in Angie's window are now accounted for
calculating the window width - even for the most
excentric proportional fonts, display won't mess up.
The distribution now includes full-featured German
docs, another utility (RawInsert) for DosSequences
and SetActiveWin 1.1 (V1.0 could cause Intuition
deadlocks!)
v3.3 24.11.93 [fSchwarz] Strangely, AddIEvents() doesn't
set the timeStamp of the InputEvents as opposed to
the v37 input device writeEvent command - this caused
problems in conjunction with the anti backlog handling
that was invented in Angie 3.2, so Angie itself now
sets the TimeStamp. The same problem was present in the
RawInsert utility - now fixed in RawInsert 1.1;
improved performance & minimized gadget/menu refresh
for hotkey list browsing.
v3.3a 25.11.93 [fSchwarz] fixed another small bug that
was due to the code changes for the AngieSequence
concept (scrActivateMagic const had to be set to a
unique value outside the range of AngieSequence ids)
v3.5 1.12.93 [fSchwarz] added AREXX interface for
executing AngieSequences from outside Angie. Fixed
bug in the SetActiveWin utility that frustrated
activation of windows on non-public screens (V1.2)
v3.6 3.12.93 [fSchwarz] adapted to Amiga-Oberon 3.10,
fixed active/inactive state handling (now arexx works
great even if Angie is in inactive state); fixed error
exit code; introduced '¶'-lineFeedMagic as a linefeed
substitute within dos_command_sequences.
!!! THIS IS the last revision for 1993 !!!