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BREEZE Copyright (c) Kevin Solway, 1989-93
- UPDATES -
(Since 1992)
Version 4.0
With version 4.0 BREEZE has undergone a significant
overhaul.
- Now enables multiple files in different windows. That is,
a number of files can be held in memory simultaneously and
you can switch rapidly between them.
- Added a clipboard, so you can copy text to the clipboard
and then paste it into another file. (This is simpler
than copying a block of text to a temporary file, then
loading another file, and then reading the temporary file
into the new file as a block). The clipboard is
especially useful when used in conjuction with multiple
windows.
- Improved mouse handling and support.
- faster and more direct cursor movement.
- from within the edit window the mouse buttons now have
the following functions:
- left button : block begin
right button : block end
double click left button : main menu
double click right button : window list
both buttons at same time : main help menu;
- at other times pressing the left button is the same as
pressing the return key, and pressing the right button
is the same as pressing the escape key.
- Further improved support for Wordstar keyboard commands,
including Ctrl-K-1 and Ctrl-Q-1 (set and seek place
marker), Ctrl-Q-L (restore line), Ctrl-K-T (toggle
tab), and Ctrl-K-Q (quit, same as Alt-X).
- Bug fixes - when the dictionary was loaded and you pressed
F10 or Esc to bring up the main menu,
sometimes unwanted characters would be written
to the screen temporarily.
- fixed a few problems which appeared when
available memory was very low, including the
problem with adding lines when insert mode
off.
- fixed the problem when reading in a block too
large for memory - the truncated block was
wrongly marked.
- screensaver sometimes left a dot on.
- An asterix on the status line now indicates whether the
document has remained unchanged since it was loaded or
last saved.
- With the text find and replace feature, case sensitivity
is now set from the main menu, along with the option to
find whole words only or include partial words.
- When loading a file, if the file does not exist on disk,
you are now prompted whether you want to begin a new
document with that name (rather than automatically
beginning a new document).
- The main menu now remembers all the previous highlight bar
positions, and restores them when you bring up the menu.
Version 4.1
- Corrected some spellings in the dictionary
- When moving the cursor upwards the screen now starts to
scroll before the cursor reaches the top of the screen,
similar to downward scrolling. This enables you to see
where you are going.
- If no block is marked and you select to perform a
readability analysis you will be prompted if you want to
analyze the entire document.
- Blocks can now be marked using whole line mode. That is,
entire lines will automatically be selected regardless of
the current cursor position in the line. This speeds up
block marking considerably, which is especially useful for
programmers. This feature is available from the
configuration menu. The default block marking mode is for
individual characters, or "streaming" mode.
- Fixed problem when loading a file via the pick list and
the current file was not saved. If the save option was
chosen then the new file was loaded as an empty file.
- Find and replace missed some replacements when searching
for single characters.
- The screen saver is now active in any window, and not just
from the edit window.
Version 4.2
- Programs created with the text to .EXE converter now give
you the option not to send standard Epson printer control
codes when printing the contents. This gives better
compatibility with laser printers. Also, tabs are now
correctly expanded into spaces when printing.
- With some screen saving programs, when returning to BREEZE
the characters on the screen would blink. This has now
been fixed.
Version 4.3
- Added support for a wider range of printers.
- Fixed bug when a filename of all empty spaces was entered.
- Fixed an obscure bug which occured when saving file names
to the pick file after analyzing text.
- Fixed the problem of an "a" being added to the beginning
of a macro sequence when the recording was initiated from
the main menu.
- Fixed a minor bug when entering a file name as a command
parameter and the file was not found. You would be asked
rename the next loaded file when you wanted to save it.
- Increased registration price to $45 to cover increased
costs, but decreased cost of upgrades from $20 to $10.
Version 4.4
- Fixed bug with screen saver and autosaver. Didn't work
correctly when adjusted to times greater than five minutes.
- Fixed problem with line not wrapping when a style character
was entered exactly on the right margin. If auto-
reformatting was on at the same time this could jam the
computer!
- Fixed bug when floppy disk not in drive and when Breeze
tries to read the disk directory, or when no matching
files found.
- The following improvements have been made to the text to
.EXE converter:
- Added option to remove special style codes when
printing text to a file from the executable.
- The executable programs created with Breeze will
now automatically detect whether the user has a
colour system. If not, then the default mono
pallette will be used, unless changed by the user
from the command line. This is a safety mechanism,
to prevent you from selecting colours when creating
the executable on a colour system which do not
show-up clearly when the program is run on a mono
system.
- Added ability to move to main menu selections in the
executable with a single keystroke. The main menu
is taken to be the first one to appear in the text.
Alt-0 : moves to main menu (the first one)
Alt-1..Alt9 : move directly to main menu picks.
- Added a help screen in the resulting executables.
Press F1. This should make the program easier to
use for beginners.
- Added option to print (or send to file) the screen
only, or the entire text from executable.
- Fixed paper feed control for laser printers. Would send
unnecessary blank pages.
- Fixed periodic screen flicker on VGA screens.
- Added support for the pound sterling symbol.
Version 4.5
- Added graphical print previewer for registered users.
- Improved time-sharing abilities for use on concurrent
systems.
- Added "Read manual" option in the files menu. This saves
you the trouble of exiting to DOS to run the manual
program.
- Made the "format paragraph" function available from the
options menu to reduce confusion for beginners.
- Fixed bug where sometimes when loading a file from the
pick list you were not returned to the correct line.
- Added extra words to the dictionary.
Version 4.6
- Can now save the page numbering mode in the configuration
file.
- When making an .EXE file out of the text, sometimes the
closing brace ">" was not removed. This is fixed.
- Added option to have centred page numbers when printing.
Press return on the page no.s option in the print menu
to cycle between page numbering modes.
- The printer configuration file BREEZE.PRN (created with
BRZPRINT.EXE) is now a text file that can be edited from
within Breeze. You can change or modify the printer
control commands as you like.
- Fixed a couple of minor problems with laser printer
support.
- Added a ruler (options menu) showing columns and inches
based on the cpi for the font selected in the printing
options menu.
- Pressing the Alt key and the Ctrl key simultaneously will
immediately activate the screen saver.
Version 4.7
- Added support for international keyboards and character
sets. For example, Denmark, Italy, France, and Germany.
- If support files not found Breeze now searches the path.
- If expanded memory is available the dictionary is now
loaded into expanded memory to make more memory available
for text.
- Can now save print indent left setting in the configuration
file.
- When using the "save as" feature you are now prompted with
the path of the last loaded file.
- Fixed bug in spelling checker. On rare occassions a
misspelled word would be allowed to pass.
- Improved speed of spelling checker.
Version 4.8
- Corrected startup error in some copies of v4.7
- Improved installation program.
- Using a command line parameter of ~ will force Breeze to
automatically load the last loaded file on startup.
For example, Breeze ~
- Line spacing is now set automatically according to the
number of lines set for the page length (this assumes that
you are using either 11 inch or A4 paper).
Page length Line spacing automaticaly set to
(lines per inch)
40..49 4
50..59 5
60..70 6
71..89 8
90..119 10
If you want a different line spacing to that which is
automatically selected you can alter the line spacing
manually from the printing options menu available from
within the print menu.
Version 4.9
- You can now BLOCK COLUMNS of text (as you would normally
have in tables) for all normal block operations, including
copying, moving, or copying to the clipboard for later
pasting. Press F9 to mark columns as a block.
- Option to print in Near letter quality can now be saved in
the configuration file (from the configuration menu).
- Added a "Strip returns" function to the Files menu. This
function will strip return characters from the end of
lines (except end of paragraphs) making the file suitable
for importing into programs like "Windows Write". In this
way you can type and edit your text within Breeze (which
is fast) then load the text into another application
(after stripping return characters if necessary) to make
use of more advanced (and slower) formatting, fonts, and
graphics.
- Will now autodetect starting video mode. Will stay in
condensed line mode if already set.
- Faster keyboard rate for quick cursor movements.
- Text viewers created with Breeze will now autodect the
screen mode and will use compressed lines on EGA/VGA
if already set.
- Added extra start-up parameters to help you customize
Breeze to your liking:
-$ Exclude "End of file" marker
-. Reformat puts just 1 space after
sentence enders.
-m Force monochrome output for any adapter
(useful for laptops)
-k Will avoid any keyboard rate adjustments.
- Reduced registration cost from US$45 to US$35 for orders
outside Australia (and from AU$45 down to AU$40 within
Australia) Also reduced cost of upgrades from $10 to $8.
- Added a file search feature which will search through all
the directories of your hard disk for the required file.
- Added code to disable Ctrl-Break if Break is set to on
from DOS, preventing possible loss of data.
- You can now a choose from seven different line styles
when drawing boxes or lines.
- When justify mode is on, lines are now automatically
unjustified before re-justifying them.
Version 5.0
- Breeze would sometimes lock-up the system when quitting
the program when running without expanded memory. This
has now been fixed.