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- Before reading hystory, I must ask you:
-
- Do you want a MUI version of ProgED ?
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-
- At 2.0 distribution time I'm thinking about a MUI release of ProgED.
- Some user asks for it. Anyway I should listen all ProgED users, before
- deciding. So let me know your opinion using e-mail, fidonet message or
- a simple letter. You can, also, tell me your opinion about MUI when
- you'll register your copy of ProgED (:-) !
-
- Please answer this question because from your answers I'll decide if
- next ProgED release should be MUI or not. When you'll send me your
- opinion, please specify what type of usage you do of ProgED
- (programming, generic text editor, etc.).
-
- Thanks
- Giovanni Lambiase
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- V1.0 - Released on 26-sep-95
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- V1.1 - Released on 20-oct-95
-
- Changes from V1.0
-
- 28-sep-95: (BUG!)
-
- When ProgED opens a new file, it reads its creation date and assign
- it to file in PRJ:. Previously ProgED simply used actual date.
- This avoid the necessity of compile files not changed but closed and
- reopened.
-
- 09-oct-95: (Bug reported from Daniel Stenberg)
-
- ProgED refused to write 8-bits chars (à,ò,ecc.). This was due to a
- mistake using wrong type (char instead of UBYTE). FIXED.
-
- 09-oct-95: (Suggest from Celestino Amoroso)
-
- Now you can choose the screen mode "Same as Workbench" to clone WB
- screen. This can be done only using ASL screen mode req. ReqTools
- can't add custom screen mode to list :-(
-
- 09-oct-95: (Suggest from Celestino Amoroso)
-
- Now you can scroll around clicking in a window and moving the mouse
- off it. Before you have to continue moving the mouse to scroll.
-
- 09-oct-95: (Suggest from Daniel Stenberg)
-
- If ProgED can't read its config file, ProgED opened its screen
- and windows without menu (if you haven't config you can't get
- menus :-) ). Now you can anyway quit. I added a simple menu "Quit".
-
- 10-oct-95: (Suggest from Celestino Amoroso)
-
- Now you can open ProgED on any public screen. To do so open the
- prefs window "Change screen mode", then write in the string
- gadget the name of your favourite screen. Click on "Modify" button.
- Choose "Open on public screen" mode. That's all!
- You can see this particulary screen mode ONLY if you are using
- ASL screen mode req. Why? Look at some lines above.
-
- 11-oct-95: (Suggest from Celestino Amoroso)
-
- If you want, now, you can *SPLIT* windows. So you can have multiply
- views to same file. This was done adding internal command SPLIT.
-
- 12-oct-95: (Suggest from Daniel Stenberg)
-
- When you click on OK button of Miscellaneous prefs windows, ProgED
- closed and reopened its screen. Now it does it ONLY if it's really
- needed. Generally it closes and reopens only windows.
-
- 12-oct-95: (BUG!)
-
- If you load a file saved with XPK libs, then you'll find an
- extraneous char in file each 32000 chars. Silly bug!
-
- 12,13,14,15-oct-95
-
- I translated Italian manual to English language. I hope you'll
- can read it, as you see my English isn't so good...
-
- 15-oct-95: (BUG!)
-
- If you activated "Erase right" mode and you press return on line
- with some spaces at end, and you aren't at line end, you could
- delete useful chars! I forgotten to move cursor to end of line
- before delete spaces...
-
- 16-oct-95: (Suggest from Celestino Amoroso)
-
- Now you can choose any brackets couple using "Brackets" preference
- menu. So you can jump (using ramiga+h) from BEGIN to END; (pascal)
- or from { to } (C). You can, also, specify, two or more couples!
-
- 17-oct-95: (BUG!)
-
- If you cut a text block containing more than one fold, you'll
- get wrong line numbers. Simply I wrote == instead of !=.
-
- 18-oct-95: (Bug reported from Timo Westen)
-
- Fold/Unfold routines didn't update scroller gadget. FIXED.
-
- 18-oct-95: (Suggest from Timo Westen)
-
- Now, like CygnusED, you can also use left amiga to select menu.
-
- 18-oct-95: (Bug reported from Timo Westen)
-
- If you use the on-line help feature, selecting a menu using the
- HELP key, cursor jumps to mousepointer position. FIXED.
-
- 19-oct-95: (BUG!)
-
- Mouse blanker don't works. If you press a key ProgED blanks mouse
- pointer but just after it shows arrow again. FIXED.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- V2.0 - Released on 7-4-96
-
- Changes from V1.1
-
- 20-oct-95: (Suggest from Timo Westen)
-
- Now you can change cursor color using special pens in drawinfo
- prefs window. In V1.1 these pens was unused.
-
- 21-oct-95: (BUG!)
-
- If you split a window and read its text using the PED: handler,
- only one of the splitted windows was locked. Simply, referencing
- the Locked field of struct PEDWindow I must use p->SplitMaster->Locked,
- so only the Locked field of the split master will be used.
- NOTE for all developers: if you used Locked field, you must modify
- your sources so to use p->SplitMaster->Locked insteand of p->Locked.
-
- 22-oct-95: (Suggest from Celestino Amoroso)
-
- Now you can use following internal commands: "LEFT WORD" and "RIGHT WORD"
- to move cursor on words (like CTRL+left/right of CygnusED). I modified
- standard prefs to use CTRL+left/right keys.
-
- 23-oct-95: (BUG!)
-
- The "find matching bracket" doesn't work if you specified a single
- char bracket (such as ( or [) and you have two or more near brackets.
- FIXED.
-
- 12-nov-95: (Suggest from Johan Sandgren)
-
- Johan suggested me to arrange windows in visible area of screen.
- Did it!
-
- 13-nov-95: (Suggest from Johan Sandgren)
-
- Now using "Same as Workbench" screen mode, you'll inherit autoscroll
- flag, too.
-
- 13-nov-95: (BUG ?!?!??!??!?!)
-
- Many users reported me that keyword coloring is faulty while using
- 256 colors screen. It's not true. Keyword coloring routines was
- optimized to use only colors between 1 and 127. Any other value is
- illegal. DON'T SELECT PEN 0 OR PEN GREATER THAN 127 !
-
- 14-nov-95: (Suggest from Stefan Ruppert)
-
- In ProgED V1.0 and V1.1 you can even copy a file from window buffer
- to anywhere simply by a "copy PED:filename to anywhere". I don't
- placed ProgED in shareware domain to let you use it without
- registering! Now you can read a max of 8192 bytes from a window
- buffer, thus REGISTER NOW!
-
- 19-nov-95: (BUG!)
-
- If you fold a function, cut (or clear) a block below the fold itself,
- unfold the function and undo the cut (or clear), then ProgED will insert
- the block in wrong position. FIXED.
-
- 22-nov-95: (BUG!)
-
- Replace function: if replaced string is a prefix of replacing string
- ProgED loops forever. FIXED.
-
- Happy new year! 3-jan-96: (BUG!)
-
- An user reported me that choosing 256 color screen and setting up
- various colors for keywords, as soon as ProgED closes its screen
- it shows up a message like: "can't open text font. Tring topaz/8".
- It was an hard bug to find! FIXED.
-
- 7-jan-96 (BUG!)
-
- Bruno Barbera reported me that using SysIHack all arrows and
- scroller gadgets of ProgED windows were corrupted. Simply I
- wronged size calculations. FIXED.
-
- 10-jan-96 (BUG!)
-
- Moving cursor using SHIFT or ALT keys didn't store cursor position
- so to jump at same column at each line change. FIXED.
-
- 12-jan-96 (Suggest from Enrico Altavilla)
-
- Autocompletation improved. Now you can insert into dictionary
- a word which is a prefix of another word. Hitting ESC you'll
- get smallest string. Hitting again you'll next smallest string
- and so on.
-
- 14-jan-96 (Suggest from Enrico Altavilla)
-
- Now you can use spaces into keyword to color sentences as
- "PTR TO CHAR". You can also color C operators as == or !=.
- All seems to work, I hope.
-
- 17-jan-96 (BUG!)
-
- If you paste into ProgED window a text cutted using another
- program you could cause an enforcer hit! FIXED.
-
- 18-jan-96 (BUG!)
-
- ProgED didn't insert new lines when you pasted a columnar block
- near text end. FIXED.
-
- 18-jan-96 (BUG!)
-
- Now cursor doesn't cycle on first and last text line if you
- keep left or right cursor pressed. FIXED.
-
- 20-jan-96 (BUG!)
-
- SEARCH internal command didn't work as explained into manual.
- SEARCH NEXT didn't use properly case & reverse gadget of
- search window. FIXED. SEARCH sintax is changed. SEE MANUAL!
-
- 21-jan-96
-
- Now ProgED uses memory pools to allocate memory.
-
- 25-jan-96 (Suggest from Bruno Barbera)
-
- Now you can use an invoker to run ProgED. It's named "ped" and it's
- placed (generally) into ProgED:. Special STICKY option let you to edit
- a file and return to shell when you've done. If you don't use
- sticky option then ed will run ProgED and will return soon to shell.
-
- 27-jan-96 (Suggest from Bruno Barbera)
-
- Now ProgED let you to choose shanghai mode into program edit window.
-
- 28-jan-96 (Suggest from Enrico Altavilla)
-
- Now you can specify chars to disable and enable autocase.
-
- 28-jan-96 (BUG!)
-
- If you wrote something leaving some spaces on line right end, and
- you placed cursor on line body, ProgED erases blanks on right but
- don't split the line. FIXED.
-
- 28-jan-96
-
- Changed ESC key function. Now it closes text windows. It's
- necessary to work similarly to triton.library which closes its
- windows using ESC key. Some little key change was necessary.
-
- 2-feb-96
-
- Porting to triton.library finished. It was an hard job.
-
- 3-feb-96
-
- Created filetype depending preferences.
-
- 5-feb-96 (Suggest from Bruno Barbera)
-
- Now all prefs windows are external modules. These external modules
- are loaded only if necessary. So ProgED executable size has been
- reduced from 290K to 220K.
-
- 6-feb-96 (Suggest from Mario Bianchi)
-
- Introduced commands "DEL WORD",to delete an entire word, and
- "BACK WORD" to backspace an entire word.
-
- 7-feb-96 (Suggest from Bruno Barbera & Enrico Altavilla)
-
- Introduced word-wrapping.
-
- 13-feb-96
-
- Added mouse preference window. Added MOUSE command to manage
- mouse pointer. Added "MARK WORD" command to mark a word.
-
- 14-feb-96 (Suggest from Bruno Barbera)
-
- Added generic folder. Now you can specify a start string and a stop
- string into folder preference window. The generic folder reads these
- strings to check for start line and stop line of the fold.
- Any folder can use these strings as it wants.
-
- 15-feb-96 (Suggest from Enrico Altavilla)
-
- Added command "LOAD" to load a file into a previously opened window.
-
- 15-feb-96 (Suggest from Enrico Altavilla)
-
- Added query "FILE" to show a file requester from arexx scripts.
-
- 16-feb-96 (Suggest from Luca Forlizzi)
-
- Now you can use static marker. They are saved in a separate ".mark"
- file. At load time all static markers are reloaded.
-
- 17-feb-96
-
- Improved MOUSE SET command. Now it unmarks all previously marked
- blocks. This allows to unmark a block simply clicking in the window.
-
- 17-feb-96
-
- Compiled first beta-version for Bruno Barbera and Enrico Altavilla.
- It's testing time!
-
- 18-feb-96
-
- Improved filetypes adding two requesters. These requesters ask user
- if he/she wants change filetype of file at load time and filename
- change.
-
- 19-feb-96 (Suggest from Enrico Altavilla)
-
- Added simple support for visible EOLs. Now you can specify a char to
- be used to render the EOL. Generally you can use char which ascii
- value is 1 to get a simple rectangle. Anyway some font allows you
- to render an arrow. I'm using XCourier/13. Using char 13 I get a
- small "CR" character.
-
- 20-feb-96 (BUG reported from Paolo Menichetti)
-
- Using amigaguide scanner you couldn't obtain real name of nodes
- containing spaces. FIXED.
-
- 21-feb-96
-
- Started documentation update!
-
- 22-feb-96
-
- Added new search engine. Now you can search simple strings (new
- engine) and AmigaDOS patterns (old engine). You can switch between
- these engines using "Wildcards" checkbox of the search window.
-
- 23-feb-96
-
- Now ProgED saves the positions of the Triton windows into config file.
- So you can resize and position all windows and save prefs to get
- all windows right positioned.
-
- 10-mar-96
-
- Released second beta-release.
-
- 11-mar-96
-
- Updated all developers infos.
-
- 12-mar-96
-
- Updated all query infos into manuals.
-
- 14-mar-96 (BUG reported from Costa Tsaousis)
-
- Template management could loop forever. FIXED.
-
- 15-mar-96 (BUG reported from Costa Tsaousis)
-
- Deleting a char near a fold or cutting a block ending near a fold
- could cause a guru. FIXED.
-
- 16-mar-96 (Suggest from Costa Tsaousis)
-
- Now "Find matching bracket" function ignores commented text.
-
- 17-mar-96 (BUG reported from Costa Tsaousis)
-
- Closing a fold which follow another fold caused a wrong cursor
- position. FIXED.
-
- 18-mar-96
-
- I'm about to distribute 2.0 release. Today I've prepared the
- installation package. Soon you'll see ProgED 2.0.
-
- 22-mar-96
-
- Sorry. You've to wait some days... Enrico reported me two new bugs
- introduced from beta 2.
-
- 3-apr-96 (Suggest from Costa Tsaousis)
-
- Costa suggested me to improve window arranging. It seems that on ECS
- systems window refreshing is too slow. Now ProgED doesn't refresh
- window which don't need refreshing.
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Thanks to all ones helped me to improve ProgED, here is a brief
- list:
-
- Bruno Barbera
- Mario Bianchi
- Enrico Altavilla
- Luca Forlizzi
- Paolo Menichetti
- Alberto Longo
- Celestino Amoroso
- Costa Tsaousis
- Daniel Stenberg
- Tim Stack
- Matthias Moeller
- Timo Westen
- Johan Sandgren
- Stefan Ruppert
- Marcel Offermans
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-