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** Revision History for The RaLin Reader **
The following gives you a little insight to the development of
The RaLin Reader. Listed in reverse order, from most current to
the oldest.
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04/26/93
Added the Note Pad program.
The ALT-N keypress now calls the Note Pad, an external program called
RNP.EXE. Allows you to keep a running file of notes. Can be printed
while editing. This is a limited version of The RaLin Editor, which is
currently undergoing further development. Its window size cannot be
adjusted, and a few other features have been left out. It will only handle
a file of 1024 lines MAX. See NOTEPAD.DOC
Loading a new file is now done with the ESC key.
Exiting the reader is accomplished by pressing the ALT-Q combination.
Added a DeskTop background to the Pick List windows.
04/21/93
Added Alt-S to toggle Sound On/Off. This affects the louder sounds such as
Error tones and file loaded. You can specify No Sound on startup by
supplying the NS upper or lower case on the command line. No preceeding
switch char like (/-) is required. The NS(NO SOUND) can be given alone,
before the filename, or after the filename. Examples:
RR : Loads the reader with Sound On - Calls Picklist.
RR ns : Loads the reader with Sound Off - Calls the Picklist.
RR filename ns : Loads filename into the Reader, with Sound Off.
RR ns filename : Same as previous, placement of NS not critical.
If you're working late and your wife is sleeping a few feet away, this
little feature will keep you out of the deep poo-poo.
This will be added to RRCONFIG soon, to allow a startup default setting.
Added a command line Help screen to RRCONFIG, can be displayed by typing
RRCONFIG ? Just a quick refresher if needed.
04/19/93
Added code to extract colors from configuration settings to apply to
the Dialog Boxes and the Picklists. Thus, they "inherit" their colors from
the rest of the reader, and are not individualy configurable.
Modified RRCONFIG to display Dialog and PickList Examples on the sample
display screen called with F5.
04/17/93
Added CTL-C : Call RRCONFIG. If settings are changed, the reader will
re-read the configuration file and change as required.
Also updated RRCONFIG to allow configuration of new items.
04/15/93
Sending my annual donation to the Gov't today.
Boy...did they NAIL us this year, and they didn't even use any
vasaline!! Arrrrggghhhh!!!
Send in your Registrations....I need HELP! <grin>
Added CTL-V : Toggle Video mode - 25 to 43/50 and back.
Added ALT-B : Toggle Border Color. Available in CGA/VGA 25 line
mode only. Doesn't work on EGA and will not work in
43 or 50 line mode. (at least on my system)
Modified PgUp and PgDn so they will overlap one line in the display.
Converted more prompts to Dialog Boxes. Have decided to leave the
Jump to Line and Find prompts in the Status line. For now anyway.
04/14/93
Continuing the conversion of many prompts from the Status line to Dialog
Boxes, also the Error messages.
Added code to pull colors out of defined screen colors to use in pick
lists and dialog boxes.
Considering that there is a small delay when a pick list is called, while
the program Reads the directory, added a small message so the user will
know whats going on.
04/12/93
If in New File picklist, Esc was pressed, program would just Exit. The
user now has the option to Exit, or reload the original file.
Added dialog boxes for some functions, instead of the message being
printed on the status line. Also implemented a progress bar when printing
the complete file to printer. Other functions will be converted to dialog
box use soon. Eventually we'll leave the status line alone.
***********************************************************************
Have decided that this version, and the next few will be released under
the status of 'Open Beta' as the changes are happening rapidly, and I
need the users to test for me.
04/09/93
Fixed the bug in version 2.0 that caused premature Exit. While I was at
it, I enhanced the PickList, set code to return to the start up directory
upon exit, added the "Mark Text" function. Next release will be version
2.01 - A bug fix, plus enhancements.
04/08/93
Oh No!!
Discovered a bug in version 2.0 that would cause the program to EXIT when
various functions were called. Managed to remove most copies from the
systems that had them. Don't know how the hell I missed that!
Some copies did get out though, guess it's my turn to be embarassed about
a serious bug in a release version. Had to happen sooner or later!
04/07/93
Released version 2.0 to the distribution sites.
04/05/93
Basically, version 2.0 is now ready for release, a little more testing and
will distribute to the Shareware system.
04/03/93
* Added 3 configurable Printer Command Strings. These are accessed by
pressing the ALT key and the number 1,2 or 3. These allow you to set up
special commands to send to your printer prior to printing any text you
are viewing. If no command strings are entered in RRCONFIG, they default
to the code to Home the printhead on your printer. When any of the ALT
keys for this function are pressed, the reader will sound a short tone,
just to let you know that something did indeed happen with that keypress,
there is no visual reminder that the code has been sent.
04/02/93
* Finished the re-write of RRCONFIG.EXE to accept new values for new
functions in the reader. Added a help screen, and also a help line at the
bottom of the screen, pertaining to each field.
* Fields may now also be put into Edit Mode by pressing ENTER instead of F9,
though F9 will still work.
* F1 now displays a simple help screen.
* F5 now pops up a sample display window, showing all current color
settings.
03/29/93
* Added a "comment" function to printing text to printer or file.
Allows the addition of blank lines, or your comment to the printout, or
the capture file. Pressing 'C' will prompt for comment, to send a blank
line enter one space char.
* Added a Dos Command function accessed via ALT-X. Allows running a Dos
command, a batch file, or another program. Had not planned on swapping
for this function, but I did it anyway, this allows running a larger
program with this command.
* Modified the Help Screen to show new commands, and those that are to be
implimented soon. Removed the movement commands, as they are shown on the
status line.
* With the additional features the code needed to be optimized a bit, it was
back up to 15K in memory when shelled out. A little re-arranging got it
back down to about 12K. Getting it down to under 10K will require a major
rewrite I think, mabey next version.
03/27/93
* Adapted and added some menu code for a scrollable pick window for
selecting a file to view, both on startup and for New File.
* Added code to swap the majority of the program out to disk or EMS.
Dropped from 50+K to 13K during swap.
Need to re-arrange code to allow more of it to be swapped.
* Fixed the Print Top Line function to write to file if in the Print
to file mode 'F'.
03/20/93 Version 1.05
* First release of program to the general public.
* Included a demo version of the configuration program.
03/10/93
* Implemented configuration file, created configuration program.
* Added all the extra movement keys, Dos Shell, Editor call etc.
* Fixed a couple of buggy procedures.
* Added more scan code checking for extended keys, arrows, PgUp/Dn
etc for other systems/keyboards.
03/01/93
* Started modifications to original code, implementing additional features
for a standalone product.
02/25/93 Version 1.0 (PV.EXE)
* Distributed with the CD PowerBox Shareware CD
* Not bad, five days to come up with a product worthy of release,
simple but good enough for the use required.
(Five days of l-o-n-g hours though)
02/20/93
How it all started.
* Phone call from friend, asking me to write a simple file viewer to
work with his CD ROM interface, view a file of any size.
* Gathered code from other programs, wrote some new and put together
a "simple" viewer. Page movements only, no line scrolling, pretty
basic.
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