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- Changes to VoiceMan5 since v1.42
- ================================
- * I discovered that it was possible to 'jam' VoiceMan5 in the
- background at switch-on if you pressed a SilkScreen key after
- VoiceMan5's 'alert' sound had played but before the notification
- screen had appeared. Doing this would make the program still
- think it was in the foreground (even though it wasn't) and therefore
- not respond to either the hot-key or further switch-ons. I've
- adjusted the code so that this no longer happens.
- * Optimised the code to reduce the program's size slightly.
-
- Changes to VoiceMan5 since v1.41
- ================================
- * I realised that the logic change I made for v1.41 only worked
- when you first ran the program - instead of every time it detected
- a power-on. In other words, it would only send the Record app.
- to the background (outside of an alert period) when VoiceMan5
- was first run. It now correctly sends it to the background (outside
- the alert period) both when first run or when it detects a power on.
-
- Changes to VoiceMan5 since v1.4
- ================================
- * Danish and Czech language versions added.
-
- * Whilst VoiceMan5 has always moved the Voice Notes file to
- the background for an 'alert' notification, it didn't do this if you'd
- just recorded a Voice Note (i.e. the Record app. was in the
- foreground when you switched the machine on) but you were
- outside the alert period. I found this irritating and so now the
- program does this in both situations.
-
- Changes to VoiceMan5 since v1.32
- ================================
- * New day & time options. I realised that one of the things that
- used to stop me using the program sometimes was the fact that I
- tended to use it for work only - and I didn't want to be reminded about
- work stuff out of work hours. The program can now be configured to
- remind you about your Voice notes: Any time / Workdays only /
- Weekends only and between specified times if desired also. Read the
- Help file for details.
-
- * There's a new 'Sound Alert' option which plays a nice alert sound if
- desired at a user-defined volume. NB: This is designed to only play
- during an actual alert. It won't play if the new Hot-key feature
- (Ctrl+Fn+V) is used to pull the Alert dialog to the foreground (see below).
-
- *There's now Hot-key access to the program. Ctrl+Fn+V triggers the
- program to look for your Voice notes. If found, it brings up the
- VoiceMan5 alert screen. If not found, it brings up the Settings screen
- so you can change those instead.
-
- * The program now auto-closes the Help file if it's left open when
- VoiceMan5 is quit.
-
- * VoiceMan5 now works on Spanish machines - as well as English,
- Dutch, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, and Swedish language
- machines!
-
- * Fixed a bug that would crash the program if the Voice notes drive
- was switched from c: to d: and back again without the appropriate
- 'Standard folder' directory existing on d: drive...
-
- Changes to VoiceMan5 since v1.31
- ================================
- * Fixed a bug that'd been irritating me since v1.31 was published.
- If the machine was switched of (by closing it) with the VoiceMan5
- option dialog in the foreground, it'd usually fail to detect the Owner
- info./password screen (if set) and not wait for it to be cleared before
- trying to detect either the Esc or Enter keys being pressed. Hence it
- would then (say) detect the Enter button being pressed once the
- password had been entered and assume that you wanted the Voice
- note(s) played immediately. This is now fixed and working as it
- should.
-
- Changes to VoiceMan5 since v1.3
- ================================
- * VoiceMan5 can now detect and wait for the Owner Info./password
- screen at switch on (if enabled). Previously if this screen was displayed
- and/or the password was enabled, pressing Esc to quit the Owner Info.
- or Enter to enter your password got carried straight through to VoiceMan5
- - causing it in turn to either immediately 'Ignore' or 'Play' the Voice notes
- file.
- * Now available in Swedish (as well as Dutch, English, French, German
- and Italian).
-
- Changes to VoiceMan5 since v1.22
- ================================
- * If you choose to change drives for recording your voice notes on,
- VoiceMan5 will now close the Voice notes file if it is open. Previously,
- if the Voice notes file was already open and you changed drives without
- closing it; then the machine would automatically default to the already-
- open file without looking for a file on the new drive.
- * When you change drives, VoiceMan5 will now give you the option to
- copy or move your existing Voice notes file to the new drive. This means
- that you can now more easily run 2 Voice notes files - one on each drive -
- and swap between the two as required. I'm indebted to Michael Maehriein
- for his help in suggesting the above fixes/ammendments.
- * Improved the responsiveness of the program at start-up and added more
- dialog to give better user feedback.
- * When you quit VoiceMan5 from the 'You have Voice note(s) pending'
- dialog, it will now quit to the application shown underneath it instead of
- returning you to the System screen.
-
- Changes to VoiceMan5 since v1.21
- ================================
- * Arjen Hiemstra was kind enough to point out to me that the program wasn't
- displaying any of the 'About' info. properly (and actually crashing if the
- 'About' info. was requested after a switch-on/Voice Note alert. I realised
- that I'd forgotten to package the VoiceMan5.mbm file in the .sis file that
- I'd published. I hadn't noticed this before because - when testing it - I
- was installing the program onto the already-existing VoiceMan5 folder on my
- machine (which already had the missing .mbm file in it!). My apologies to
- all concerned for my stupidity! :¼o
-
- Changes to VoiceMan5 since v1.2
- ===============================
- * A few days after releasing v1.2, I discovered that it was still possible
- to Send VoiceMan5 to the background (when it alerted you to a new Voice
- Note) by tapping on the screen around about the alert. In fact, this brings
- the app. (or system screen if appropriate) immediately behind it to the
- foreground - but VoiceMan5 couldn't detect this properly and would 'get
- jammed' as it used to in previous versions. This has now been fixed.
-
- Changes to VoiceMan5 since v1.13
- ================================
- * Previously when VoiceMan5 alerted you at switch-on to new Voice
- Note(s), it was possible to bypass the program's 'Ignore Voice Note' function
- by pressing a System bar key or by using a task switching program. This
- would send VoiceMan5 to the background while still waiting for your
- instructions - and effectively disable it from coming to the foreground
- again at the next switch-on. v1.2 is now 'more aware' of what's going
- on around it and can detect this move to background, reset itself, and be
- ready for the next switch-on it detects. This effectively makes VoiceMan5
- more intuitive to use and 'user friendly'! ;-)
-
- Changes to VoiceMan5 since v1.12
- ================================
- * Mario Collado has finished the German Help file and so this has been added
- into the German version of the program.
-
- Changes to VoiceMan5 since v1.11
- ================================
- * Added the FreEPOC information screens.
- * Added the French resource and help files - with greatful thanks to Brunel
- Merleau-Ponty and Christophe Goetzmann for doing the translation.
-
- Changes to VoiceMan5 since v1.1
- ===============================
- * Minor bug fix. Whilst the program usually closed and re-started okay
- (i.e. automatically) when backed up with PsiWin 2.3, it didn't work properly
- with John Boyce's excellent JB5StopGo program (which I use a lot!). This
- has now been tweaked so that it'll both work with John's program and always
- work with PsiWin 2.3.
-
- Changes to VoiceMan5 since v1.0
- ===============================
- * Multiple language capability. Within a couple of days of the release of
- v1.0, I was asked if a German version could be generated (the program is
- as much language-specific to the machine as the user!).╖ This has been done
- by creating a resource file for the program using Guillaume Sabouraud's
- excellent freeware apps. that will generate this resource file automatically
- from an ordinary S5 Data file and then adapting VoiceMan5 to use it.╖ See the
- DIY Tanslations page on my web site for details of how it's done for Clock5.
- My thanks to Mario Collado for doing the German translations.╖ (NB: Mario is
- working on the program's Help file and hopefully this will be added to the
- German version in a couple of weeks or so.). This also means that it will now
- be very easy for anyone to generate their own language versions of VoiceMan5.
- If anyone would care to download and translate the two S5 Data files on my
- web site and then send them to me, I'll generate their own language version
- and send it back to them (and publish it) by return.╖ Any takers for French,
- Italian, Spanish, etc.?