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- *** 1.2 and 1.2.1 Changes
-
- Gif digit sizes are now automatically figured out on the fly. There is no
- longer a size setting in the preferences dialog box. The way it does this is
- by looking at the size of digit "zero" ... in other words, all digits in a
- given set (i.e., odometer, doghouse, bembo, etc), must be the same size.
- They can be different sizes from other sets... but digits 1-9 must be the
- same size as digit 0.
-
- I've created an Apple Guide to help you set up the CGI for you Web Server.
- To access it, run the CGI application and look underneath the Balloon Help
- menu, then select "Count WWWebula Guide". Note: In order to view this Apple
- Guide on pre-7.5 systems, you need to get Apple Guide 2.0 (for those with
- 7.5 or later, get 2.0 anyway as it adds speed increases and bug fixes).
- Apple Guide 2.0 is available from Apple at:
- <ftp://ftp.info.apple.com/Apple.Support.Area/Developer_Services/System_Software_Extensions/Apple_Guide_Authoring_Kit/Apple_Guide_2.0.sit.hqx>.
-
- Moved some global variables to local. This may not seem like much, but I
- discovered that during Threading, the global variables were sometimes being
- changed by one thread, which affected all the other threads. So, moving them
- to local variables, each thread has it's own information as it should. It
- should also speed up the counter slightly on PowerPCs (though probably not
- noticable to the human eye).
-
- There was a problem with WebStar occasionally returning a "Descriptor Not
- Found (-1701)" error. This is caused when Count WWWebula does not get enough
- memory allocated to it. I increased the minimum memory and preferred memory
- requirements by 50K each.
-
- Fixed a few memory leaks. These appeared after repeatedly opening and
- closing the preferences dialog box without quitting the CGI.
-
- Changed the preferences dialog box to be a modeless. Now other events can
- occur in the background while you are setting preferences. In doing this I
- fixed several other memory leaks on accident.
-
- Slimmed down the code a lot. Removed some redundancies.
-
- Fixed a problem with broken gif images when the arguments to the CGI were too
- long.
-
- Rewrote all of the data file code (counter.dat). It was using ANSI C file
- commands to create/open/write to the data file. This was causing various
- problems with indexing items in the text of the document. You probably
- noticed this in the form of only a partial line, instead of "main 6" it would
- show up as "ain 6". I rewrote it all to now use the File Manager toolbox
- routines. The counter should be much smarter in this area now. Another
- benefit is the data file now have a groovy icon. (A bat taking a byte of of
- a text document, notice the teeth marks?).
-
- While I was at it, I went ahead and rewrote the error logging code to use the
- File Manager toolbox calls as well (it also sports the new icon as above).
-
- *** 1.1 Changes
-
- Now you can set the number of digits you wish to be in the counter. (i.e.,
- for those of you who liked the preceding zeros in the odometer type digits,
- they're back).
-
- Changed the format for specifying fonts, (NOTE: IT IS STILL BACKWARDS
- COMPATIBLE WITH THE OLDER SYNTAX, YOU DON'T HAVE TO CHANGE YOUR WEB PAGES
- FROM OLDER VERSIONS).
-
- Transparent counter digits are now supported.
-
- It should be somewhat faster, I recompiled it under Codewarrior 7.
-
- The CGI no longer has to quit when you save your preferences.
-
- You can now specify from what domains (ip addresses, domain names, etc), you
- don't want the counter to increment when viewing your pages. This is helpful
- if you want to keep a fairly accurate account of visitors, and you don't want
- your "html debugging" visits to fool the counter into thinking that you are
- someone important who needs to be counted. Also this works if you only want
- people outside of your company or school to be counted as viewing a page...
- just specify a partial domain and ip address, instead of a full one.
-
- If you use Internet Config 1.1 or later, you can open the About Count
- WWWebula dialog and click on almost all the names and items, and the
- application will send the appropriate URL for more information to the proper
- client, as specified by your Internet Config preferences.
-
- The application/cgi, now has Simple Internet Version Control (SIVC)
- capabilities. You may be familiar with this from working with Anarchie 1.6.0
- and FTPd 3.0. ... More information available in the documentation.
-
- *** 1.0.2 Changes
-
- Fixes some incompatibilities with NCSA's Mosaic Browser, WebSurf, and
- NetShark, among a few others.
-
- Symptoms of this looked like "Access Denied" responses even when you had your
- restrictions set up properly. This is due to several browsers not sending
- the "Referal" data to the CGI. This also caused many lines containing only
- "Access Denied to Host: " followed by a blank line in the CountWWWebula
- Error Log.
-
- Another you might have noticed appeared as strange results in the Counter.dat
- files. Several indecies would appear for a single page, with only the first
- letter of the index removed. For instance, I noticed I had 2 indexes for my
- graphical page. One index had a near proper count, with the name
- "graphical". Another had a count of only 7, with a name of "raphical" or
- "aphical".
-
- Restrictions in the preferences dialog are no longer case sensitive.
- Counts can now go as high as 99,999,999 (almost 100 million). There is no
- longer a setting for the Maximum number of digits shown. This is because
- there is no more padding the counters with zeros on the left. If the count
- is "1" then only one digit will be in your counter. If the count is "100"
- then there will only be 3 digits in your counter.
-
- Memory requirements are down to 512K prefered, 368K minimum, slightly higher
- for PPCs. (this is *somewhat* untested. .. if you experience problems, try
- increasing the memory)
-
- *** 1.0.1 Changes
-
- Count WWWebula Error Log now displays the time/date the error occured.
- Something that should've been done a long time ago.
-
- *** 1.0 Changes (get a pen ready, lots of new stuff):
-
- The software is now Shareware. Commercial companies must pay the
- registration fee if they are going to use this software. Individuals,
- educational institutions, and non-profit organizations need not pay the
- registration fee (you'll get better technical support if you do, though).
- Had to switch over to "path arguments" .. the search args didn't allow enough
- string text to go through in one event, so now you must call the cgi with a
- "$" instead of a "?" like so: <img
- src=/cgi/counter/counter.acgi$stuff/morestuff>
-
- Memory requirements are WAY down.... 512K minimum, 1024K preferred.
-
- Groovy Preferences Dialog. You now no longer need ResEdit to change site
- specific information on the CGI.
-
- New documentation.
-
- Counter homepage complete with FAQ and added documentation located at
- http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~grgcombs/htmls/counter.html
-
- The CGI REALLY quits this time after a period of inactivity (this is set in
- the prefs dlog).
-
- You can now specify how many digits wide your counter will be (defaults to 6
- digits).
-
- You can run the CGI with absolutely NO restrictions if you REALLY want to:
- "A Bad Thing" (tm)
-
- By popular demand, you can specify a different set of GIFs to use as digits
- on the fly. So now you only need one running CGI for many pages, and for
- many different digit sets.
-
- More bug fixing.
-
- *** 1.0a9 Changes:
-
- Big bug fix. Definitely fixed the Error Type 11 error this time.
- Definitely. Well, at least I hope so ;-)
-
- *** 1.0a8 Changes:
-
- Pretty Icon now.
-
- More bug fixing. More robust.
-
- *** 1.0a7 Changes:
-
- Got a groovy new name.
-
- CGI quits after 10 minutes of inactivity. (Grant's work).
-
- Graduated to Alpha testing from Development.
-
- *** 1.0d6 Changes:
-
- One datafile and folder per user now. (just indexes a page inside the file
- and increments)
-
- Users' directories are created if they don't already exist. (only immediate
- directories in the same folder as the CGI, nothing like :counters:grgcombs
- will work unless those directories already exist)
-
- Big time memory problem fixed. Wouldn't let you use the counter for more
- than 3 times in a row. (Grant's work)
-
- New gif displayed when Counter fails, hinting to the error log. (note this
- is when the CGI fails nicely.)
-
- Problem fixed with denying access when no restriction strings existed.
- About Box icon crashing PPC machines bug fixed. (Grant's work).
-
- *** 1.0d5
-
- Updated source to be synchronized with Grant's CGI Framework ß-X ... (i.e.
- More threading, speed increases, etc)
-
- Minor code optimizations.
-
- Compiled into a FAT binary (601, 603, 604 native too)
-