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Short: ViNCEd 3.60 Beta Uploader: thor@einstein.math.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Richter) Author: thor@einstein.math.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Richter) Type: util/shell Version: 3.60ß10 Distribution: NoCD ______________________________________________________________________________ ViNCEd 60ß10 Beta release 60ß10 This is ViNCEd beta release 60ß10 - this series of beta releases will yield to a new 3.60 release. This beta release presents now the complete 3.60 library and the complete preferences editor, with all planned features already working. The only parts missing are the new locale databases and the new guide, as well as a lot of testing. ______________________________________________________________________________ WARNING! THIS IS A BETA RELEASE! IT IS NOT CONSIDERED TO BE BUG FREE, IT WILL CONTAIN BUGS, FEATURES, MIGHT CRASH OR MIGHT EVEN DAMAGE YOUR SYSTEM, USE IT WITH CARE. DON'T INSTALL IT PERMANENTLY, USE IT ONLY FOR TESTINGS AND DON'T GIVE IT AWAY. Read the beta licence at my home page http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~thor/thor/index.html IF YOU FIND BUGS, PLEASE, PLEASE REPORT THEM! As usual, this beta release contains debug information that should be readable by every standard amiga debugger. If you find bugs, it would be very helpful for me to get the name of the faulty procedure. Try to run Enforcer/SegTracker MungWall to locate bugs. Bug reports are absolutely welcome! ______________________________________________________________________________ Changes made for 3.60ß10: - Added a new CSI sequence CSI>?13h. When this bit is enabled, the CSI L and CSI M line insertion and line removal CSI sequences will ignore the lower display buffer. This bit was needed because the standard "termcap" libraries conflict with the way how ViNCEd organizes its display buffer. "vim", and probably other programs work now correctly, provided this setting is enabled. The same bit is also available by default, it's here called "No insertion into border", in the system pages. Thanks to Wez Furlong for sending me the bug descriptions. - Fixed a bug leftover from the 3.59 release. The line compressor did not work correctly with lines which consist of a single blank space. Therefore, the "vim" block operations did not work correctly. Thanks again to Wez for letting me know. - Notification of the preferences file was broken; it still added a notification request for the old preferences file, not for the new location. Fixed. - Added another two priorities for the TAB expansion functions. Script files (files with the "s" bit set) and executables (files with the "e" bit set) come now with their own priority. The "path" and "C:" priorities are now modifiers and not absolute priorities, i.e. they will be added to the overall- priority if the found files are in the command path or in the C: directories. It is still possible to disable searching these dirs by setting them to -128. - Fixed a bug in the ASCII prefs parser that crashed if it found an unknown setting. Fixed. - Enhanced the SetVNC program. Added pages for the tab expansion priority setup, and for the keyboard definition. The buttons page was moved to the third "macro" page, and a lot of flags changed their position for a more "straightforeward" layout. - The "Disable Full Screen Edit" flag was removed from the settings pages because too many people turned it on without reading the guide. I just became tired of explaining over and over again not to use it. - Added default flags for the CSI>?14h (extended colors instead of bold) and the CSI>?13h (ignore the lower buffer on line insertion and removal) CSI mode flags. Both can be found at the system pages. Some bugs I'm not yet able to reproduce. If anybody could give me some hints on how to reproduce them, I'll be glad to fix them! - ViNCEd seems to have trouble on marking blocks. Trying to drag-open a block on fast machines refuses to work correctly, the block is canceled in the middle of the operation as if the mouse button has been released. Would be interesting to check whether this happens with all commodities/patches dis- abled, too, or to check which program is responsible for this or which event makes ViNCEd think that the mouse button has been raised. (Holger Jackob) - ViNCEd seems somehow to interact with the AmiIRC program and ARexx scripts for AmiIRC. Using ViNCEd and AmiIRC together seems to break some arexx scripts, even though no ViNCEd window has been opened at that time. This problem is still a mystery for me. I can neither reproduce it, nor have any idea what the reason for this could be. Would be interesting if the ARexx patch included in the full distribution - which fixes an internal ARexx message queuing problem - can correct this bug. ____________________________________________________________________________ Changes made for 3.60ß9: - Added a new CSI sequence CSI>?14h. This will change the way how bold characters are printed. Instead of using boldface characters, the foreground color is changed to one of the extended colors, i.e. ANSI colors 0-7 will be printed in colors 8-15 instead. This emulates the way how the SGI winterm, the "rxvt" and some linux terminals interpret the "BOLD" mode. Idea by Wez Furlong, thanks Wez! Changing the character type to BOLD with CSI1m will use the extended colors for the foreground, using the BLINKING attribute CSI5m will use them for the character container. BLINKING itself is not supported, and probably never will. - Fixed a bug in the icon drop routine. It failed to accept the "file name only" qualifier. - Fixed a bug in the "Use Prefs" routine (messed one register). - Fixed a bug in the "SavePrefs" routine (messed a6 on failure). - Fixed a possible enforcer hit in the prefs loader routine. - Included a very preliminary version of SetVNC. It can save and load the prefs, the pages have been re-organized and a minor set of the new functions have been implemented, but not too much. The TAB expansion settings and the keyboard definition are still missing, even though the place for them is reserved. However, since the preferences are now ASCII encoded, you might be able to test this version by making the required changes by hand. The prefs file is now kept in "ENV:ViNCEd.prefs", no longer in "ENV:sys/VNC-Configuration". Old settings are, however, still accepted, although only partially respected. _____________________________________________________________________________ Changes made for 3.60ß8: - Changed again the way how the TAB-Expansion works. Now all six possible TAB keys come with all their own priorities, no exceptions. - The TAB expansion flags can be setup individually for each of the six keys. - Fixed a bug in the window opener. Failed to open on the default pub screen if the SHANGHAI mode wasn't used. Thanks to Walter again for telling me. - Removed some obsolete flags from the ASCII prefs file. - Added the SFONT open path argument to set the screen font. This release makes the library fairly complete, except for all the bug fixes. Next project is to update the prefs program to support the new features. ______________________________________________________________________________ Changes made for 3.60ß7: - Added another adjustment algorithm for the menu builder. - Added more TAB expansion keys for devices,directories and icons, fixed some tiny bugs in the new tab expansions priority-logic. Thanks to Walter Doerwald for the ideas. - Added another flag to disable the requester positioning to avoid compatibility problems with reqtools and reqchange. ______________________________________________________________________________ Changes made for 3.60ß6: - Removed a tiny bug in the window title generator. - Added the %D,%T,%P commands for the window title. They insert the default title, the screen title and the public screen name, respectively. - Enlarged the maximal size of macros. - Added the default title system string. - Added two new keys: ShortExpand and ShortExpandReverse. - Added two new console modes. We've now: o) The raw mode (as usual) o) The "english" mode. Works as the raw mode, but returns additional CSI sequences for special VNC keys, i.e. respects the keyboard definition. o) The "medium" mode. Works almost like the cooked mode, but returns special CSI sequences (CSI U) for the history and tab expansion functions. These functions should be really implemented by a shell and not by ViNCEd. A future "VinShell" should take care of them. o) The "well done" mode = "cooked" mode. The old standard. None of these new modes have been tested. They are invoked by the standard ACTION_SCREEN_MODE packet or the "STARTUP" field in the mount list. 0=well done 1=raw 2=medium 3=english - Added two additional strings to the locale for default screen names. - Improved the Amiga + key. The new function centers the window in the visible screen (important for autoscroll screens!) and sizes the window in a way such that the title bar remains visible. _______________________________________________________________________________ Changes made for 3.60ß5: - Removed another set of bugs of the "marked line end". Urgh. - Added all missing keyboard functions. Highly untested, though. - Rewrote the localizing functions that require now a much more orthogonal data set. "PhxAss" is no longer needed for localizing. - Added the "Send All" sequence and a kludge to make this at least somewhat useful. Only the part of the line BEHIND the position where DOS output has placed the cursor is send back. This is similar to the Atari XL OS operation. - Added individual priorities of the TAB expansion. Still untested. - Added configurable file requester positions. However, the "ReqChange" patch seems to mess up this position so this is only reliable with the standard "asl" requester. No idea how to fix this, yet. ______________________________________________________________________________ Changes made for 3.60ß4: - Removed two bugs from the prefs module. One new one and one old which is still in 3.59. (Won't matter, however, as long as the 3.3 prefs file format is used.) - Removed a lot of tiny bugs in the end-of-line marker for blocks, still left over from 3.59. - Removed a lot of bugs in the new keyboard parser. Should now work as the old one, with the exception that it ignores the old flags. However, not all new keyboard functions have been implemented yet. - Setup code for individual priorities for the TAB expansion. Hasn't been tested too much, however. A lot of flags became ob- solete now. - Removed all unused prefs flags from the header file. ______________________________________________________________________________ Changes for 3.60ß1: - Increased the speed of the prefs parser. - The TAB character is now recognized as blank space in the prefs file - Removed a mungwall hit in the preferences loader. - Rewrote the keybboard parser completely. It's now multithreated, like the CSI-parser of the DOS module. Yeah! As result, all keyboard functions of this release are VERY BETA! Beware! You will find that this release of ViNCEd ignores a lot of your private settings, esp. keyboard related flags. These flags will become obsolete with the final 3.60 and their function must be implemented by modifying the keyboard definition. However, the current version of SetVNC isn't prepared for the new extended prefs format and is therefore not able to do that. You may TRY to safe the current window settings with the "SavePrefs" program and modify the ASCII prefs file on your own. The SetVNC program can be used to install the modified preferences in your window - it *should* (!) read the ascii prefs file without any problem since it uses the vnc.library vectors to load the preferences. However, beware! This hasn't been tested "too much"! THE WHOLE KEYBOARD PROCESSING IS HIGHLY BETA! It's not quite clear if everything works for the RAW-mode at all, completely untested. Same goes to most keyboard functions. TO ALL FOLKS THAT DON'T READ MANUALS, AGAIN: This version of ViNCEd ignores most of your keyboard configurations, including some flags in the menu. Thus, all keyboard definitions stick to their default. That means: - The history *should* be available with "Alt+Cursor" - The TAB expansion *should* be available with "Ctrl+TAB" - Even worse, you might find that some keyboard functions aren't available at all, either because their interface to the ney keyboard parser hasn't been written yet, or their functions haven't been written at all. That goes mostly to the delete-related functions that "cut" into the yank-buffer, and probably some other. to mention the most important changes from the default to what most people prefer. Consider the 3.59 guide about the default keyboard definition. AGAIN, BE WARNED! _____________________________________________________________________________ Changes made since 3.59: - The Commodore (Left Amiga) key was available as icon-drop modifier. Using this key is very unconvenient because it is used, too, by intuition to scroll the screen. Therefore it has been replaced by the right amiga key. However, since SetVNC hasn't been updated yet, no new definition can be saved. - The ASCII-Prefs Loader/Saver routines have been implemented in this version of the vnc.library. The ASCII saver is currently unused except for the small "SavePrefs" demo program in this archive which saves the vnc-prefs to T:. SetVNC will still write the binary version. The ASCII loader is already active and used as soon as ViNCEd detects a new ASCII-style prefs file instead of a binary file. However, it hasn't been checked "too much". You might find some old settings missing in the ASCII prefs, and some new, no yet used definitions, mainly the free keyboard definitions. The new keywords are currently ignored, but read correctly, though. - It has been reported that the VNCFiler.supervisor task is un- stable at PowerUp systems, problably using the ixemul.library. I was unable to reproduce any hangs or crashes here at my system. Thus, if you know more about these problems, please let me know. A full Enforcer/SegTracker/MungWall output would be very helpful. This distribution contains a little extra program called "SavePrefs". It's only purpose is to write the current window settings to an ASCII-Prefs file in T:. DO NOT USE THIS PROGRAM WITH EARLIER VERSIONS, IT WILL CRASH YOUR SYSTEM since it uses some new vectors in the vnc.library and contains not a single check whether the version is sufficient or not. Its function will be replaced by the SetVNC program later on. thor@math.tu-berlin.de ______________________________________________________________________________ Thomas, May 9th, 1998