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Copyright 1996, Hyperion Softword
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* Orpheus 2, version 2.11 *
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Comments and queries to: Hyperion Softword,
535 Irene-Couture, Sherbrooke, QC J1L 1Y8, Canada
tel/fax - 819-566-6296 (Rod Willmot)
email - willmot@interlinx.qc.ca
This file lists changes, fixes, and new features in successive versions
of Orpheus 2. As in archeology, the most recent stuff is at the top.
Version 2.11:
=============
- Added "List orphan cards" to the Project menu, a function that finds and
lists any cards that are not going into your finished product, and that
may therefore be just cluttering your disk. After loading the ORPHAN.LOG
file you can examine these cards and optionally unlink->delete them.
Along with this addition I rearranged the Project menu and provided an
extra way to load the HOTSPOT.LOG.
- Fresh compile now deletes a directory's existing CMP, if any, instead of
carrying over old compiled cards that no longer have uncompiled versions.
The assembler now double-checks compiled Event cards. Fixed an error in
OH.EXE involving compilation of Graphic cards.
- Version 1.7 of the Indexer (OHINDEX.EXE) has a bug-fix that prevents it
from falling into an infinite loop in certain circumstances.
- Fixed a recent error introduced into the Reader's and the Simulator's code
for displaying the contents of a field. Fixed an error in OH.EXE by which
the ruler wasn't redisplayed on return from the Simulator.
Version 2.10 (first non-beta release):
======================================
- Minor changes: when OH.EXE loads an external text file that is not a
hypertext card, it switches to ascii mode in the current window. Related
to this: when you use File Import, the characters "\", "<", and ">"
are automatically "escaped" with an additional "\" character to render
them visible in hyper mode.
- Added an OUTPUT.LOG file to list the files generated as your finished
product. You can access this immediately after a successful Build Project
session in which assembly took place, or any time afterwards through the
Project menu.
- Fixes in OH.EXE:
- Corrected the initial cursor position in the Color Dialog (also in
the Reader's version of it).
- When used on a built-in link such as a Report or Init, the Unlink dialog
left conflicting card-header data in memory.
- Corrected a couple of errors that could occur with wordwrap.
- There were several circumstances in which compilation of a Text card
would fail to catch a line that was too long for the intended display
width as determined by the use of a frame or scrollbar.
- If the storage directories skipped a number, an error would occur in
the Verify Links stage of project building that would prevent assembly
of the finished product.
- Correct the compiler's response to an empty Text card.
- Major fix: the script compiler wasn't storing link references; this
would eventually interfere with link verification, assembly, and
performance in the Reader.
- Fixes in the Reader:
- The Reader (and Simulator) would obey a retrace jump to the Homecard
even when it was forbidden. Also, they would ignore a label jump within
the same card if the author mistakenly included target-card data in
the linking codes.
- The Reader would lose layout or other data if a work was assembled
with the Executable HTX option, depending on other circumstances.
Version 2.00.30: (this and all earlier versions were beta releases)
================
- The Search Menu in OH.EXE has finally been completed, with Search,
Search/Replace, Set Bookmark, Get Bookmark, and Go to Line.
When Search is invoked and the found text is hilited, you can continue
the search or cancel: <Grey+> searches down, <Grey-> searches up, all
other keys cancel. When Replace is invoked and the found text is hilited,
you can perform the replacement, skip it and continue, or cancel: <Enter>
performs the replacement, <Spacebar> skips, and all other keys cancel.
- Added Define Keyboard to the Setup Orpheus dialog -- we now have fully
definable keyboard in OH.EXE! This is a huge improvement (I used it
already while writing up this feature in Help), and one that allows some
simplification of the default menus. To wit: I've removed certain
default keypresses that duplicated others, such as Ctl-M for marking
and Ctl-Q for unmarking. You'll notice that the menus now display
keyboard accelerators in hilite, and that any changes you make in the
Define Keyboard dialog are reflected on the menus. A further change
following from this feature is that I've removed the "Accent Key" as
a built-in keypress; instead, the Edit Menu now has a command to
"Make accented letter", which does the same thing; the default keypress
for it is <F12>, but of course you can define it to be anything you
like (including the old "accent key").
- Added Unlink to OH.EXE's Link Menu, especially convenient when you want to
delete the card at the other end.
- Enabled Undelete on OH.EXE's Block Menu. The dimmed "Frame Block" command
has been removed, since Draw Mode is so easy to use.
- Improved functionality of the Menu system in both OH.EXE and the Reader
for those times when you open it with <Esc> or by clicking on Esc:Menu.
At first only the top line appears, letting you select a specific menu
by typing its hilited letter or by clicking on the menu title.
- Fixes in OH.EXE:
- Corrected all known errors in reformat operations.
- Corrected all known errors in block operations.
- Corrected an error in cursor-to-next-word (Ctrl-F).
- Fixes in the Reader:
- In Text cards with multiple link anchors on the same line, in some
circumstances the Reader made an error in link storage. Fixed this
also in Help and the Simulator.
- Long Graphic cards are now correctly loaded.
- The mouse is now reset after any call to run() or runbat().
- If menus are not disabled, the Reader checks for the presence of an IDX
(index) file for the document currently loaded, and if not found, greys
out the Search commands on the Read menu.
- Unavailable options in dialogs are now correctly ignored.
- Several improvements to the Reader's Search dialog.
- Improved response to jump(back) in a Graphic card. This lets you
create a temporary effect in a graphic by linking a hotspot to a Graphic
card ending with a jump(back) command, generally after a waitfor()
command if the effect is not self-timing. Formerly jump(back) did not
work at all in Graphic cards.
- Giving a print command when the current card has a Report link (which
is what the author wanted printed) now works as it should.
Version 2.00.29:
================
- New feature: Executable HTX turns your finished work into a self-reading
program, simplifying distibution. (Licensed use is limited to Orpheus
Professional users, but everyone is welcome to evaluate it.)
- Moved Restrict Access out of the Project Options dialog and into the
new Professional Options dialog. Here's how to get there: select "Build
Project" from the Project Menu, then tab to the Options box and select
"Pro Options". This dialog also gives access to Updateable HTX and
Executable HTX.
- Added another info screen to the Reader's internal Help system, and made
it possible for the user to page back and forth through all the screens.
- Fixes in the Reader:
- After Event performance the Reader should now update the selection bar
in all circumstances.
- For authors testing their work, if your project's PRJ file is in the same
directory as the HTX the Reader now loads your Resource Path setting
so you can leave graphics and other resources where most convenient.
- The Notepad didn't save files correctly, nor did it respond to <Del>
when used at the beginning of an empty line (to delete the line). The
info screen for the Notepad wrongly gave <Alt-Z> as the accelerator to
Minimize the Notepad; it was changed to <Alt-M> some time ago.
Version 2.00.28:
================
- Online Help now includes full-text search. The index (held in OH.IDX)
would be over 200K if all words were indexed, so I've used the Indexer's
exclusion-list feature to eliminate words you're unlikely to search for.
With this release the index is about 80K (still bigger than it has to be).
- Changes and additions to the Project Options dialog: (1) You can specify
your own Help card and tell the Reader to use it exclusively instead of the
little info-screens available in dialogs. (2) You can specify your own
filename to use as the default for print-to-file in the Reader's Print
dialog. (3) Some obsolete options have been removed. For full
documentation see online Help.
- The Restrict Access dialog has been changed and re-enabled, but now has
the restriction that you can only use it if you have purchased a customized
version of the Reader. For full documentation see online Help.
- Made the lookfor() command more robust: if you have an updateable htx
installed in dual locations (e.g. CD-ROM and hard disk), the Reader checks
the current directory first, then the other location.
- Added XMS capability to the Indexer, and a switch to set the maximum
number of hits to record. Also, fixed the Indexer's handling of inclusion-
list entries.
- Fixes in OH.EXE:
- Memory corruption could occur when assembling a large project.
- If Help or the Simulator was missing, the error message was wrong.
- Fixes in the Reader:
- If a project with more than 16 directories was assembled into more than
one file, the Reader would eventually look for data in the wrong file.
- On loading an HTX the Reader would go for the Homecard even if Hide
Homecard was turned on. Now if that is the case it goes for the Designated
Home card.
- If an index included a character conversion list (meaning the IDX was
created with the /s switch to strip accents), trying to open the Search
dialog would at best do nothing and at worst hang the computer.
- Corrected the Search dialog's response to entering characters not used
in the index, such as numbers if there are no number-words.
- Added a basic info-screen to the Reader for navigating text cards. All
aspects of the Reader now have built-in help, which you can use or not
depending on your project options and command buttons.
- Help's Print dialog didn't acknowledge that OH.CFG had been read.
Version 2.00.27:
================
- For Orpheus Professional users -- we now have full-text search. (Other
users, both shareware and those with the standard licence, are welcome
to evaluate this feature but may not include it with distributed works.)
The index data for full-text search is generated with the new utility
OHINDEX.EXE, which is documented in OHINDEX.TXT. The resulting IDX files
are detected by the Reader and accessed through its new Search dialog,
which has been added to the built-in Read menu. Search can also be called
by using the new "search" keyword (replacing "index") either as a command
button or in a menu() command. Two additional keywords, "snext" (search
next) and "sprev" (search previous), make it possible to duplicate the
built-in keystrokes for these functions, e.g. with command buttons.
For full documentation see online Help on the Indexer and Reader (from
"Orpheus Programs" in Help Contents) as well as Help on making command
buttons.
- Fixes in OH.EXE:
- The dialog to get a new link number didn't update the display correctly
if you entered a number manually.
- The Browse Topics dialog now reports errors immediately instead of after
the dialog.
- If an old copy of ERROR.LOG or HOTSPOT.LOG is already in a window, and a
new LOG is generated, the dialog functions to load those files now
replace the old copy with the new one.
- If you use the directory picklist with Open Project or New Project, the
file list now shows only PRJ files.
- If the Verifier finds a link to an uncompiled card, the error message no
longer contains two copies of the crosslink.
- In the Define Card dialog, if you tabbed out of the topic field after
editing the card topic, the new topic would of course be saved in the
card file but the TOP file (topic database) wouldn't be updated.
- Corrected several errors that could occur when the same card was loaded
in two or more windows.
- In the Reader and Simulator, performing an Action link would disable
subsequent attempts to retrace your steps. Fixed.
- Added the Search code to Help and prepared an index for it, OH.IDX.
Version 2.00.26:
================
- In the Reader's Notepad, pressing Esc while entering a topic for a new
note left the dialog onscreen.
- If you ran the Simulator from the DOS prompt it wouldn't load a project
with an 8-character name.
- The Converter (OH1TO2.EXE) made an error with directory numbers after
translating the first 256 cards. Fixed.
Version 2.00.25:
================
- Added Field verification to the compiler, and corrected errors in the
compiler and verifier that affected cards with many hundreds of links
(code that hadn't been tested).
- In the Reader, added Help for the Notepad, Print, and Color dialogs.
- Improved mouse and cursor behavior when text is marked in the Reader,
plus ability to reach the Print dialog through various means. If printing
is completely disabled (as a project option) text can't be marked.
- Corrected errors in the Reader's Notepad.
Version 2.00.24:
================
- In the Reader, added a built-in menu system, with access to printing,
quitting, the Notepad (also added with this version), and the Color dialog.
The Notepad can be accessed either through the menus or through a command
button or popup menu.
- Simplified behavior of the PgUp key in the Reader, the Simulator, and
Help: now it serves only to perform page-up in scrollable text cards,
and does NOT jump to the Origin link (not even in non-scrollable cards).
- In OH.EXE, if the Verify stage of building encountered a problem the
report in ERROR.LOG didn't include a mention of the card where the error
was found. Now it does.
- Fixed a bug in OH.EXE's editor code affecting wordwrap; it was most
noticeable with a temporary left margin.
- For those rare occasions when the Simulator needs to clear the screen
to your original DOS colors, it will now do it right. Also, I discovered
that the Simulator's Exit and Print hotkeys had been unintentionally
disabled. Print of course does nothing in the Simulator, but now Alt-X
exits unless you've disabled it yourself as a project option.
- Enabled Help in the Edit Buttonbar dialog.
Version 2.00.23:
================
- Made it easier to do revisions when you find something you want to change
while in the Simulator: if you exit with <Alt-F4>, Orpheus loads that
card in the current window. If you do so while on a different line in
the same card, it goes to that line.
- Fixed a bug in the code for handling marked blocks in OH.EXE.
- Fixed an error in the new Reader code for handling large projects.
- Fixed a long-standing bug in low-level text-handling code in OH.EXE.
- In OH.EXE, if you cancelled the Hotspot dialog it remained onscreen
even though you were no longer in the dialog. Also, if you were on
the first line the hotspot data would be added below that line instead
of being inserted above it; changed this to be consistent.
Version 2.00.22:
================
- Added the ability to select text for printing in the Reader (only).
Output can go either to the printer or to a disk file. See OHREAD.TXT
or online Help: Orpheus Utilities->OHREAD.EXE->Documentation.
- If you ran "Compile, Simulate" in a long card, on return from the Simulator
you would see the wrong part of the card you were in. I'd forgotten to
remind the build procedure to recover from memory swapping. Remembered.
- In the Reader and Simulator, after displaying a graphic from an Init or
Exit link the layout of a Text card was not refreshed. Fixed.
- When you jump to a label within the same card, and then retrace your steps,
now you go back to where you were in that card rather than to the previous
card. (This refers to the Reader, Help, and the Simulator; currently the
retrace routine in OH.EXE just goes to the top of the previous card.)
- Numbered output files now use padded numbers in the file extension, i.e.
".001" instead of ".1". The Reader will look for the old style if it
can't find the new.
- In the Setup Orpheus dialog, one sequence of actions could cause screen
garbage on return to the main dialog. You could also lose the cursor
afterwards. Both fixed.
- Non-English versions of the Reader now use the correct "More" flag.
- Dropped the "text being marked" color from the Reader, since we'll use
only one color (marked text) when text is selected.
- In OH.EXE's Help Menu, the Registration field now accepts your number.
- The flic() command was supposed to accept coordinates; now it does.
- Added optional recognition of comment lines in Text cards. If you
select this option in the Setup Orpheus dialog, lines beginning with ";"
are ignored by the compiler. Note that in scripts (Graphic and Event
cards), lines beginning with "/" are comments -- and I've re-enabled
recognition of ";" for script comments too.
Version 2.00.21:
================
- Finally found out why the Screen Layout dialog was disabled for everyone
but me. Actually it was Restrict Access that was supposed to be disabled,
but it wasn't for me because I have the Ultimate Registration Level.
- In assembled output, if the complete work didn't fit into the HTX file,
numbered subfiles were named incorrectly.
- In documentation on the Converter, added a section on Concatenating "More"
links. There's a gotcha concerning Origin links that you have to look
after, described clearly in the added docs. You can find this either in
OH1TO2.DOC or in online Help, under Orpheus Utilities->The Converter->
Documentation->Concatenating More Links.
- Changes in the Build Project dialog, "Options" group: we no longer talk
about including Reader HLP in the finished product, because help screens
will be incorporated into the Reader code. The Largest File setting should
have maxed out at 1024K, which was the real maximum until this version.
The new maximum for a single assembled file is 4194000 bytes, nominally
4 megabytes; therefore the highest number you can enter for Largest File
is 4194K.
- Added the capability to create an Updateable HTX (see the Options group
in the Build Project dialog). A typical application for this feature
would be a CD-ROM for which you wish to provide monthly updates on
diskette, but you can use it in any context where you wish to distribute
updates containing only those parts that have changed or been added since
the first release. In the case of a CD-ROM application, the update
files are installed on the user's hard disk, and the Reader automatically
reads the correct data from either the update or the CD-ROM. PLEASE NOTE
that Updateable HTX is part of the Orpheus Professional feature set.
You are welcome to evaluate it whether you are registered or not, but
it is not included in the standard registration.
- Internal changes provide greater capacity for users dealing with massive
amounts of text. Maximum size of a single card (at compile time) is now
approximately 1 megabyte, up from 200K in the original design for OH2
(and 2K in Orpheus 1). Maximum size of a single output file (compiled and
assembled for distribution) is now about 4 megabytes, up from 1M in
previous betas (and 64K in Orpheus 1). Total capacity of a single project
is now approximately 4 gigabytes of compiled, assembled data, with the
possibility of over 2.5 million distinct nodes and unlimited links among
them. The increased capacity was achieved while keeping memory and disk
requirements at a minimum. *** Note *** If you use an older version
of the Reader with HTX's produced by this version, or if you use an older
version of OHHELP.EXE with OH.HLP from the present version, those programs
will misbehave. The new Reader will however read older HTX's (from
Orpheus 2) correctly.
- Rationalized some of the TXT files in the package to save disk space and
make your downloads a little easier. Documentation on OH1TO2.EXE (the
Converter) is now primarily in Help where it will be most useful. While
doing this I revised the relevant Help topics and added plenty of
crosslinks.
- Improved the Reader's (and Help's) response to <PgDn> in a scrollable
card. It no longer goes past the last line.
- Made it easier to create unnumbered labels: just enter "0" when prompted
for a label number. (See Help, Link Menu->Label.) Also, when you make
multiple labels in the same card, with each new label Orpheus automatically
suggests a label number 1 higher than the last one.
Version 2.00.20:
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- Pressing <Alt-F1> to recall the last Help topic didn't work; now it does.
- Added the ability to use an external editor called directly from OH.EXE.
To set up editor use in your permanent configuration, open the Setup
Orpheus dialog on the Other Menu, and select "External Editor". To run it,
select the same command but from the Edit Menu "External Editor".
Optionally Orpheus passes to the called program the name of the card (file)
in the current window. Any files changed by your editor are reloaded by
Orpheus on return. You can also run a spell checker or any other external
program this way.
- Improved the Other Menu and the Edit Menu, shifting the hyper/ascii mode
toggle to the latter, and rendering this and two other functions in a way
more appropriate to their nature as toggles. While doing this I refined
the menu code so that you can use <SPACE>, the hilited command letter, or
a mouse click to operate the toggle, but the menu remains open; if you
press <ENTER> while on the toggle its setting is NOT changed, but you
exit the menu.
- Added an entry for "dimmed item on Statusbar" to OH.EXE's Color Dialog.
- In the Restrict Access dialog the previous dialog's shadow stayed onscreen.
- In both the Reader and the Simulator, displaying graphics from an Action
link resulted in visual confusion on return. Fixed.
- Added support for the gbox() and gtext() script commands.
Version 2.00.19:
================
- The Reader ignored command-line switches mentioned in OHREAD.DOC and
online Help. Now it pays attention.
- Added support for graphic files in the Fastgraph SPR/PPR format. These
are generated by the SNAPSHOT utility available to registered users.
- Dropped the "Compile 1, Simulate" command from the Project Menu. While
testing another function I realized that compiling just 1 card would lead
to a situation in which any other recently-changed cards would be older
than the CMP.
- Dropped two accelerator keys for reformatting, best left as menu choices.
- The simple message-dialog in OH.EXE would not, in particular circumstances,
respond to mouse input. Fixed.
- The conversion utility OH1TO2.EXE (for updating projects developed under
Orpheus 1.nn) now comments out any suspect script commands.
- Support for Hercules mode 11 got left out; now it's in.
- In OH.EXE there was one circumstance where a valid filename for a
non-hypertext file would be considered invalid. Fixed.
- Improved the default color set.
- If a project didn't have a STATUS file, e.g. after a conversion, OH.EXE
would initially load it in ascii mode. Fixed.
Version 2.00.18:
================
- In the Reader, Simulator, and Help, printing a long card would result in
an apparent crash. Fixed.
Version 2.00.17:
================
- Compiler would ignore instruction to compile only 1 card. Fixed.
- Improved the Reader's behavior regarding built-in colors and CFG files.
- Fixed bug in the Export Topics List function (Browse Topics dialog).
- Marking a whole file using <Ctrl-F5> (or the menu command) resulted in
the card header being affected by subsequent block operations. Fixed.
- Now you can use unnumbered labels as a form of hiliting.
- The hypertext compiler should continue compiling even if errors are logged,
so you can find and correct all errors in one session. Now it does.
- All DOC files and the README now end with a ".TXT" extension.