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- REVISION HISTORY OF CLIMAX -- DO NOT READ THIS FILE:
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- First version thrown together 11/27/88. It has I option. It works, but it
- sucks. Like, "please insert" requesters appear back on the workbench screen,
- starting from workbench leaves it with no command path and a null current
- directory, and you have to RunBack it.
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- Next day: made the new screen a WBENCHSCREEN. This makes NewCLI and request-
- ers etc. appear on the screen they were provoked from. I have no idea if
- this is kosher or not, so I'll just try it for a while and see if anything
- breaks.
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- 1/16/89: Made it a custom screen again; made error requesters appear on new
- screen with pr_WindowPtr. Much less trouble with programs that use
- CloseWorkBench() to have only one wbenchscreen. Now I want a way to NewCLI
- onto this screen. (Hey, ConMan 1.3 solves this; use CON:S*/n/n/...) And
- some programs still put up requesters specifically on the workbench screen.
- Also, file system process requesters (read/write error, volume full, etc)
- appear there. Made it use different default colors for interlace (no choice).
-
- 2/13/89: Workaround for ConMan 1.3 (or was it 1.2) change, which I thought at
- the time was a bug, (no CloseWindow before CloseScreen) and support for
- Eurousers by checking IntuitionBase->MaxDisplayHeight. New code for using
- NewShell and letting the CLI clean up the screen itself somehow is partly
- written but #if'd out. ******* Woops, the workaround is not good with the
- old ConMan.
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- 2/24/89: I found out how the CLI (aka Shell) program manages to set current
- dir etc. from workbench. It appends a phony struct CommandLineInterface
- onto its own struct Process! Then it just goes
- Execute("execute s:CLI-Startup", con, 0); (or Shell-Startup)
- same as I've been doing. It does not set pr_TaskNum. I was amazed to find
- how it sets the path; the Workbench has a struct CommandLineInterface too!
- (The path is in cli_CommandDir.) It tests whether the startup script exists
- before trying to execute it (I hadn't), and if not, goes Execute("", con, 0).
- New version incorporates the features mentioned above, which considerably
- increases the complexity of the program.
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- Next day: Handled CloseWindow in a way compatible with either kind of
- ConMan; scan screen's window list first. (Bill Hawes says you're supposed to
- let ConMan close the window, and if anything the older ConMan was the one
- with the bug.) Insufficient testing for other windows/filehandles.
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- 3/12/89: Added V option and usage summary. Wrote doc file not long ago.
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- 3/16/89: Added G option. Changing spew() from a macro to a function saved
- 650 bytes! Preparing for imminent public release...
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- 3/26/89: Still not released. Added OPTION=V/I/G tooltype.
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- ~ 5/20/89: Released to Fred Fish (release one). !?Why did I take this long
- to get it out the door?
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- 9/14/89: Finally got NewShell version to work. It creates a subtask which
- hangs around and waits for CLImax screens to lose their windows, and then
- closes the screens. It disappears when the last screen is gone.
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- 10/7/89: Added BENCHED option (small version that needs FixCLI when BENCHED
- not #defined) - the NewShell version needs FixCLI anyway because NewShell
- sets the WindowPtr to zero (OOPS). This is why I added the WindowPtr feature
- to FixCLI. Added CD= tooltype.
-
- 3/3/90: Decided that I might as well CreateProc something that does Execute
- as CreateTask a waiting daemon. Consume a couple K more memory, but use less
- CPU. Decided never to try to replicate NewShell guts --the only reason that
- seemed necessary was because Execute() was inefficient due to not using the
- resident Run, and this is fixed by SetPatch in the AmigaDOS 1.3.2 upgrade.
- This version would go back to using the Execute program instead of NewShell.
- Stopped using INTUITIONPRIVATE, used GetPrefs like a good boy. Now use
- GfxBase->NormalDisplayRows instead of IntuitionBase->MaxDisplayHeight.
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- Next day: Attempted to add option for compatibility with old ConMan. Failed
- (guru, save window being closed twice I guess). So no such option.
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- 3/??/90: Added FROM <file> option and FROM= tooltype to set startup script.
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- 5/5/90: Made CD no longer default to SYS:, must be explicit. Fixed bugs in
- how data gets passed to child process. Next day, tossed out the small
- FixCLI-using version as no longer workable, and swatted more bugs. Added E
- option to make it use Topaz 11; no other font choices yet.
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- 5/13/90: Made interlaced screen show whole title bar with ten line overscan.
- Released to local bbses same day (release two).
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- 10/31/90: Made it use the width of the Workbench screen instead of always
- 640. Made it use the Workbench height if more than enough overscanned.
- Fixed bug with the E option.
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- 11/13/90: Adapted for Aztec 5.0 (still compileable by 3.6). New compiler
- reduced size by five percent.
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- 12/31/90: Oops! When run without ConMan it never closes the screen! Fixed.
- Made it open a little CON: on Workbench screen for reporting errors when no
- standard output. Plugged some memory leaks under error conditions, but I
- can't do anything about the way OpenScreen leaks when it fails. Sent to Fred
- Fish (release three).
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