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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. New in this version ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. The major feature added in this version is the ability to edit multiple files. The program uses a "ring" scheme like the OS/2 Enhanced Editor (EPM). The arrows to the left and right of "Ring" in the main menu will cycle through the files that are currently loaded. (F11 and F12 are the keyboard shortcuts for these functions.) Selecting "Ring" from the menu will list all of the files currently loaded. As of now, there is a limit of 10 files that can be opened at one time. 2. In order to make the program a little more efficient, I have placed some functions on separate threads, such as running Weblint locally, and some processing during program startup. The latter should make the program seem to load faster and allow you to get started quicker. 3. The drag and drop previewing feature was eliminated for performance reasons. Use F10 to preview your document with Web Explorer. 4. Added some more Drag and Drop features Dropping a Web Explorer URL object on the editing window will insert an anchor for that URL. Dropping an image (GIF or JPEG) on the editing window will bring up the Image Dialog. (Use Ctrl if you want the entire path to the image file inserted in the anchor entry field.) 5. Added some configurability features: The selectable colors on the Background Dialog can now be changed by creating a color for the selected box and then right-clicking on it. The program stores the color information if you drop colors from a Palette Object onto the editing window. Added a menu item under "Edit" that will change all back slashes (\) to forward slashes (/). If your web server is on a Unix machine, you know why I did this. Note that this is an all-or-nothing replacement. If you wish to be more selective, use the Search/Replace Dialog. 6. Fixed several bugs. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. Introduction ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ HTML Wizard is an editor designed to make writing HTML documents for WWW pages a lot easier. The original version was written purely for my own use and was not distributed. The arrival of Web Explorer lead a lot of OS/2 users to ask about a native HTML editor, so I released an early version of HTML Wizard that showed signs of being a program written for one person's use (no way to resize the window, almost no configurability, etc.). Since then, a lot has changed and the program is now much more powerful and configurable. I thank the many users of the program for their suggestions for improvements. Many people have asked about a preview function and support for rules. Both of these functions will require an enormous amount of coding. The preview function is not hard to do when HTML Wizard is used in conjunction with Web Explorer as explained in the "How Do I..." section. If you are online, you can have the syntax of your document checked by the WebLint server. This is also explained in the "How Do I..." section. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. Installation ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Installation of HTML Wizard is simple and straightforward. Unzip the HTML Wizard archive in its own directory. Then run install.cmd by typing "install". The install program will create an HTML Wizard object on your desktop. To run the program successfully, VROBJ.DLL has to either be in your HTML Wizard directory or be in a directory specified in the LIBPATH statement in your CONFIG.SYS file. What I do is make a directory called \USR\DLL and put all my application dll's in there. Then all you have to do is add \USR\DLL to the LIBPATH and reboot. If you don't like the idea of messing with CONFIG.SYS, just copy VROBJ.DLL to the \OS2\DLL directory or leave it in your HTML Wizard directory if you have no other applications built with VX-REXX. You can then run HTML Wizard by double-clicking it or dropping an HTML document onto it. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. Command line options ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ The following command line options are supported: -grabfocus Causes the program to grab the input focus when it has loaded. -noconsole Prevents the program from opening a console window. If this option is active, you may not see all error/diagnostic messages should problems arise. -nologo Skips the opening logo on program startup. -nosocket Skips the loading of the sockets library used for running Weblint over the network. If you are getting errors about RXSOCK not working correctly, try this option. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5. Workplace Shell Features ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ HTML Wizard supports the following Drag and Drop features with Workplace Shell objects: Dropping an HTML file on the HTML Wizard object will open HTML Wizard and load the dropped file. Dropping an HTML file on the HTML Wizard edit window loads the HTML file for editing. Dropping a Web Explorer URL object on the editing window will insert an anchor for that URL. Dropping an image (GIF or JPEG) on the editing window will bring up the Image Dialog. Holding down Ctrl while dragging and dropping a file onto the HTML Wizard edit window does the following: - If the dropped file is a text or HTML file, it is inserted at the current cursor location. - If the dropped file is a GIF or JPEG image, the images window is opened. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6. Options Menu ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ This section explains the various program settings in the "Options" menu. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.1. Insert Tags as Uppercase ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ This setting determines whether the tags that are inserted are done as upper or lowercase text. Note that this does not apply to tags for special characters, which are case sensitive. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.2. Word Wrap ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Select this setting if you want long lines to be wrapped around the screen to the next line. Deselect it if you want long lines to continue off the screen to the right and be visible by using the horizontal scrollbar. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.3. Auto-insert Paragraph Tags ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ If this item is selected, text imported using the "Insert File" command will have paragraph tags inserted automatically if: A line is blank A line begins with either a space or a tab ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.4. Insert <LI> Tags in Selected Lists ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ This item controls whether <LI> tags will be automatically inserted in text that is selected when using the OL or UL tag buttons (ordered or unordered lists). If this option is selected, each line in the selected text will have the <LI> inserted at the beginning. Note that "line" here means a true line defined by a CR/LF pair. It is best to turn Word Wrap off to see true lines. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.5. Vertical Tagbar ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Toggles the Tagbar between horizontal and vertical orientation. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.6. Hide Tagbar ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Toggles the Tagbar between visible and hidden. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.7. Translate Non-English Characters ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ This feature enables users of non-English code pages to type HTML documents with special characters directly from the keyboard, rather than having to use the "Characters" menu or multiple keystrokes. With this feature enabled, all files are passed through a translator program when opened or saved. On input, HTML entities for special characters (e.g., ò) are converted into the character appropriate for the user's code page and displayed as that character in the editing window. On output, the characters are converted into the corresponding HTML entity. The key file for this is "trans.def" in the HTML Wizard directory. This file tells the program which characters in the user's character set go with a particular HTML entity. I have supplied two files, cp850.def (code page 850) and latin1.def (ISO Latin-1) which will cover the people who have requested this feature. (The trans.def file that is in the ZIP archive is for code page 850.) If you are using code page 850, copy cp850.def to trans.def, or copy latin1.def to trans.def if you are using ISO Latin-1. If you are using another code page, you will have to build a .def file for that page. Look at the supplied files to see how it is done. Basically, the file has two columns: the first is the character number on that code page, and the second is the corresponding HTML entity. The included utility DefEdit is designed for editing these files. It is a PM program that allows you to create/modify .def files very easily. Start it up, and load a .def file, and it will be pretty obvious how to use it. If you do create a .def file for another code page, I would appreciate it if you would send me a copy, so that I can include it in future releases of HTML Wizard. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7. How Do I... ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ This section explains how to do various things with HTML Wizard. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.1. Use HTML Wizard? ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Start the program by double-clicking the HTML Wizard icon or by dropping an HTML document onto it. If you double-click the icon, the program will start up and load an HTML skeleton template in the file DEFAULT.HTM and you can modify that file to suit your needs. You can then write your HTML document by typing in the edit window and using the Tagbar or Tags menu items to insert tags. If you have some text that you would like to put inside a tag, select that text with the mouse and click on the tag button or menu item. HTML Wizard will then put the tag around the text. If you insert a tag with no text selected, HTML Wizard will simply place the tag at the insertion point and place the cursor in the appropriate place to enter text for the tag. Once you are done, you can save the HTML file with the "Save" or "Save As" items under the "File" menu. If you want to start a new HTML document choose "Close" under the "File" menu, and a fresh template will be loaded. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.2. Insert HTML tags? ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ To insert tags, there are three options. First, you can insert tags by clicking on the appropriate buttons in the Tagbar. Or, you can choose the tag you want from the "Tags" menu. A final way is to right-click in the edit window, bringing up the tags menu. In all cases if text is selected before the tag is inserted, the tag will be placed around the selected text (where appropriate, of course). Inserting a tag with no text selected places the tag at the insertion point and puts the cursor at the place where text can be typed in the tag. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.3. Program the user-definable tags? ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ To program a user button, right-click on it and a window will pop up. In the top entry field enter the "Hint" text for that button. (This is the message displayed in the status area at the bottom of the Tagbar when the mouse passes over a button. Use this to remind yourself what the tag is for.) The bottom entry field is the tag itself. If your tag should enclose text that has been selected, move the cursor to the point in the tag where the selected text should be placed. For example, let's say you have a tag like <tag></tag>. If the user selects text in the editing window, and this text should go within the tag, you would position the cursor like this: <tag>|</tag> before hitting the OK button. You can also set the label to appear on the Tagbar button (3 characters or less). You can then immediately begin to use your new tag by left clicking on the button you just progammed. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.4. Preview with Web Explorer? ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Previewing with Web Explorer is as simple as selecting "Preview Document" from the "File" menu, or by pressing F10. If Web Explorer is not running, HTML Wizard will start it and load the HTML document you are editing. If Web Explorer is already running, HTML Wizard simply forces it to load the present version of your HTML document (rather than starting another session of Web Explorer). For this feature to work properly, the Web Explorer executable (explore.exe) must be in your PATH. If you use the default Web Explorer installation, it will be in \TCPIP\BIN. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.5. Check the HTML syntax of my document with WebLint? ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ If you are online, selecting "Check Document with Weblint" (or pressing F7) will send your HTML document to the WebLint web site (www.unipress.com) for syntax checking. If all goes well, the results of the syntax check will be sent back and automatically loaded into Web Explorer. This function runs on a separate thread, so you can continue to edit your document, but be aware that the line numbers reported back by WebLint refer to the line numbers as they were when you sent the file (Weblint will send back the HTML code you sent to be checked with the line numbers labelled.). REMEMBER, THIS FUNCTION ONLY WORKS IF YOU ARE CONNECTED TO THE NET! In version 1.55, Weblint and Perl have been included with HTML Wizard so that you can now check your document by running Weblint locally instead of over the network. This has some advantages over the obvious one. You can customize Weblint yourself if you are proficient in Perl, and you can also update Weblint when the author (Neil Bowers - neilb@khoral.com; see http://www.khoral.com/staff/neilb/weblint.html) releases new versions. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.6. Insert accented/special character tags? ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ There are three ways of inserting tags for accented/special characters if you are not using the "Translate Non-English Characters" option (see the "Options" section for more details). Choose the character you want from the "Characters" menu. Type the character you want to accent, say "a", then select the accent you want from the "Accents" menu. Type the character you want to accent, then press: - Alt-a for acute - Alt-g for grave - Alt-u for umlaut - Alt-c for circumflex - Alt-s for slash - Alt-t for tilde The general pattern for the hot keys is Alt for accents and Ctrl for inserting certain characters. (Like Ctrl-Shift-& for the ampersand). ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.7. Pay for this great program? ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ HTML Wizard is distributed as shareware which means you have 25 free uses to try it out and see how it works. If you want to continue to use it after that, you must register the program. The registration fee is $20 US. I can accept checks drawn on US banks, or International Money orders. Please include an email address when you send in your registration so that I can put you on the registered users' mailing list. The registration fee should be sent to: Dirk Terrell 510 SW 34th St. Apt. #6 Gainesville, FL 32607 (USA) If you receive HTML Wizard after August 1997, there is a distinct possibility that I may have moved. The best thing to do is send e-mail to terrell@astro.ufl.edu and find out where I am. For those of you who would like to use a credit card for faster service, you may order HTML Wizard from the fine folks at BMT Micro: Mail Orders To: BMT Micro 452 Horn Road Wilmington, NC 28412-2411 U.S.A. Voice Orders: 9:00am - 7:00pm EST (-5 GMT) (800 414-4268 (orders only) (910) 791-7052 Fax Orders: (910) 350-2937 24 hours / 7 Days Online Orders via modem: (910) 350-8061 10 lines, all 14.4K (910) 799-0923 Direct 28.8K line Ordering and general ordering questions: Via AOL: bmtmicro via Compuserve: Thomas Bradford, 74031,307 via Internet: tbrad@wilmington.net We accept Visa, Mastercard, Discover, American Express, Money Order, Cashiers Check, Personal Check. Please do not send cash in the mail. Personal checks are subject to clearance. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.8. Contact the author of this program? ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ If you have problems or suggestions for improvements, send them to terrell@gnv.fdt.net (preferred address before August, 1997) or terrell@astro.ufl.edu. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8. Help on HTML Tags ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ This section contains help on the HTML tags supported by HTML Wizard ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.1. Heading Tags ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ The heading tags <H1></H1> ... <H6></H6> are used to separate an HTML document into sections and subsections. <H1> is the topmost heading, with the next level being <H2>, and so on. Text placed between the tags will be displayed as the title text for that section. For example <H1>HTML Wizard for OS/2 Home Page</H1> might be displayed as: HTML Wizard for OS/2 Home Page ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.2. Typeface tags ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ These tags control the appearance of text in an HTML document by changing fonts. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.2.1. Bold ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Use this tag to cause the text to be displayed in a bold font. <B>This text is bold.</B> might be displayed as: This text is bold. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.2.2. Emphasis ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Use this tag to cause the text to be emphasized. This is usually preferable to using the bold or italic tag. <EM>This text is emphasized.</EM> might be displayed as: This text is emphasized. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.2.3. Italic ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Use this tag to cause the text to be displayed in an italic font. <I>This text is in italics.</I> might be displayed as: This text is in italics. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.2.4. Underline ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Use this tag to cause the text to be underlined when rendered by the browser. <U>This text is underlined.</U> might be displayed as: This text is underlined. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.2.5. Typewriter ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Use this tag to cause the text to be displayed in a typewriter (fixed-width) font. <TT>This text is rendered with a fixed-width font.</TT> might be displayed as: This text is rendered with a fixed-width font. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.3. List tags ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ The HTML list tags are used to create, amazingly enough, lists of items. There are three list types in HTML: Ordered (numbered) lists Unordered (bulleted) lists Descriptive lists ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.3.1. Ordered Lists ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ The ordered list tags <OL></OL> are used to create lists that are numbered, rather than bulleted as in the unordered list tags. These tags are used in conjunction with the list item tag <LI>. The <OL></OL> tags surround a series of <LI> tags to produce the ordered list. For example: <OL> <LI>Item 1 <LI>Item 2 <LI>Item 3 </OL> might be displayed as 1. Item 1 2. Item 2 3. Item 3 You can also nest lists to make outlines as in: <OL> <LI>Item 1 <OL> <LI>Sub-item 1 <LI>Sub-item 2 </OL> <LI>Item 2 <LI>Item 3 </OL> which might be rendered as: 1. Item 1 a. Sub-item 1 b. Sub-item 2 2. Item 2 3. Item 3 Finally, if you would like to make the list more compact by eliminating the spaces between each item, as the COMPACT modifier to the <OL> tag like this: <OL COMPACT> <OL> <LI>Item 1 <OL COMPACT> <LI>Sub-item 1 <LI>Sub-item 2 </OL> <LI>Item 2 <LI>Item 3 </OL> which might be rendered like this: 1. Item 1 a. Sub-item 1 b. Sub-item 2 2. Item 2 3. Item 3 HTML Wizard Time Saver: If you already have the text for the items loaded into HTML Wizard (say, from a file import), you can create lists quickly by selecting the text (making sure that there is one list item per line), then choosing the <OL> Tagbar button or corresponding Tags menu option. If you have "Auto-insert <LI> tags in Lists" checked in the "Options" menu, HTML Wizard will place the outer <OL> and </OL> tags around the text and place the <LI> tag in front of each list item. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.3.2. Unordered Lists ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ The unordered list tags <UL></UL> are used to create lists that are bulleted, rather than numbered as in the ordered list tags. These tags are used in conjunction with the list item tag <LI>. The <UL></UL> tags surround a series of <LI> tags to produce the ordered list. For example: <UL> <LI>Item 1 <LI>Item 2 <LI>Item 3 </UL> might be displayed as Item 1 Item 2 Item 3 You can also nest lists to make outlines as in: <UL> <LI>Item 1 <UL> <LI>Sub-item 1 <LI>Sub-item 2 </UL> <LI>Item 2 <LI>Item 3 </UL> which might be rendered as: Item 1 - Sub-item 1 - Sub-item 2 Item 2 Item 3 Finally, if you would like to make the list more compact by eliminating the spaces between each item, as the COMPACT modifier to the <UL> tag like this: <UL COMPACT> <UL> <LI>Item 1 <UL COMPACT> <LI>Sub-item 1 <LI>Sub-item 2 </UL> <LI>Item 2 <LI>Item 3 </UL> which might be rendered like this: Item 1 - Sub-item 1 - Sub-item 2 Item 2 Item 3 HTML Wizard Time Saver: If you already have the text for the items loaded into HTML Wizard (say, from a file import), you can create lists quickly by selecting the text (making sure that there is one list item per line), then choosing the <UL> Tagbar button or corresponding Tags menu option. If you have "Auto-insert <LI> tags in Lists" checked in the "Options" menu, HTML Wizard will place the outer <UL> and </UL> tags around the text and place the <LI> tag in front of each list item. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.3.3. Descriptive Lists ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ Descriptive (or definition) lists are useful when you want to make a list that has item names and a description of each item, as in the following: Item 1 This would be some text that describes item number 1. Item 2 This would be some text that describes item number 2. Descriptive lists are created with the <DL></DL> tags surrounding a series of <DT> and <DD> tags with appropriate text. The <DT> tag marks the text that is to be shown as a list item (Think of it as descriptive title.), and the <DD> tag marks the descriptive text that goes with the preceding list item. The above example would be coded as: <dl> <dt>Item 1 <dd>This would be some text that describes item number 1. <dt>Item 2 <dd>This would be some text that describes item number 2. </dl> ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.3.4. Directory Lists ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ The directory tag <DIR></DIR> is used to create a directory list. Items within the list are marked with the list item tag. The COMPACT modifier may be used with this tag. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.3.5. List Items ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ The list item tag <LI> is used to mark the text in each item of an ordered, unordered, or directory list. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.4. Formatting tags ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ These tags control the formatting of text in an HTML document. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.4.1. Address ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ The address tag <ADDRESS></ADDRESS> is used to mark text as being an email address. It is frequently used to indicate the author of a Web page like this: This Web page produced by <ADDRESS>Dirk Terrell</ADDRESS> using HTML Wizard. which might be rendered as: This Web page produced by Dirk Terrell using HTML Wizard. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.4.2. Block Quote ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ The block quote tag <BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE> is used to set off text that is being quoted. Most browsers do this by indenting the text between the tags. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.4.3. Line Break ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ The line break tag <BR> is used to force the HTML browser to continue text on the following line. This tag is very useful in Tables. HTML Wizard Time Saver: If you select text before pressing the line break Tagbar button, HTML Wizard will insert line break tags in the selected text when: A line is blank A line begins with a tab or a space ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.4.4. Paragraph ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ The paragraph tag <P> is used to mark the beginning of a new paragraph. <P>Notice that this sentence is separated from the following one even though we typed all of the text together.<P>This is caused by the use of the paragraph tag. might be rendered as: Notice that this sentence is separated from the following one even though we typed all of the text together. This is caused by the use of the paragraph tag. HTML Wizard Time Saver: If you select text before pressing the paragraph Tagbar button, HTML Wizard will insert paragraph tags in the selected text when: A line is blank A line begins with a tab or a space ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.4.5. Pre-formatted ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ The pre-formatted tag <PRE></PRE> is used when you do not want the HTML browser to change the formatting of the enclosed text. All spacing and line breaks will be preserved, and most browsers will display the text in a fixed-width font. This text is not surrounded by pre-formatted tags, so line breaks and spaces are not preserved. <PRE> On the other hand, this text is enclosed in pre-formatted tags, so line breaks and spaces are preserved.</PRE> might be rendered as: This text is not surrounded by pre-formatted tags, so line breaks and spaces are not preserved. On the other hand, this text is enclosed in pre-formatted tags, so line breaks and spaces are preserved. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.5. Forms Tags ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ These tags are used in creating HTML documents for Web pages with forms. Forms enable you to create a Web page that allows users to fill out entry fields and submit a document to your Web server for processing. You might use this if you wanted to be able to allow searching of a database on your Web server. The user would fill out the form and submit it. Your server would process the request and send the results back to the user. The following tags are used to implement forms: <FORM></FORM> <INPUT> <SELECT></SELECT> <OPTION> <TEXTAREA></TEXTAREA> ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 8.5.1. The <FORM> Tag ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ The <FORM></FORM> tag is used to delineate a form within an HTML document. You can have several forms within an HTML document, but forms cannot be nested (i.e., a <FORM></FORM> tag sequence cannot be used with another <FORM></FORM> pair. The <FORM> tag must have an ACTION modifier which is a URL that points a Web server that will process the form. It must also have the METHOD modifier which is either GET or POST, with the latter usually the preferred method for most applications. HTML Wizard makes form creation much easier by providing a window that allows you to enter the ACTION modifier value in an entry field. The METHOD modifier is selected by choosing the desired radio button. Example: <FORM ACTION="http://www.unipress.com/cgi-bin/web-lint" METHOD=POST> ... </FORM> ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9. Program modification history ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ This section lists the changes and bug fixes applied to the program over time. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9.1. Version 1.55 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Weblint can now be run locally, so that you don't have to be connected to the network to check the syntax of your HTML document. Choose "Local Weblint" in the "File" menu (or F6) to run Weblint. For this function to work properly, the file EMX.DLL (included in the HTML Wizard distribution) must be somewhere in the LIBPATH. Weblint is a Perl script written by Neil Bowers (neilb@khoral.com) and is included free of charge with HTML Wizard (For more information on Weblint see http://www.khoral.com/staff/neilb/weblint.html). To make it easier for you, I have included the OS/2 port of Perl with the HTML Wizard distribution. This also included free of charge, and the full Perl package can be found on hobbes.nmsu.edu ( I have included only those files necessary to run Weblint from HTML Wizard.). 2. The Background dialog has been greatly expanded to make it easier to set up background image/color, text color, and link colors. 3. Added some additional WPS features. 4. The program now saves the font information if you drop a font on the editor from the Font Palette. 5. Some trailing tags have been added to match expected HTML 3.0 specifications. 6. GIF and JPEG image objects can now be dropped on the "Link" edit field when "External Image" is selected in the Images window. 7. Added a -nologo command line option for people who are experiencing problems with the opening splash screen. 8. The Alt-z hotkey now brings up the Images window if the last tag inserted was an image tag. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9.2. Version 1.54 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Added the ability to specify a button label for the user-defined tags. 2. Cleaned up the Tags menu quite a bit, and added ... to menu items that lead to dialogs. 3. Added HTML, HEAD, BODY, DFN, CITE, CODE, and STRONG tags. 4. Corrected a bug in which the default document template was not being passed through the translator when "Translate Non-English Characters" was active. 5. Added/changed some hotkeys: Ctrl+G is now > and Ctrl+L is < (This was done because the previous hotkeys were not available on some keyboard setups.) Ctrl+P now inserts <P> Ctrl+B now inserts <BR> Alt+Backspace is Undo. 6. Added a "Replace/Find" button in the Search dialog. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9.3. Version 1.53 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Added the ability to recall the last five HTML documents edited with menu items in the File menu. 2. Added a new utility DefEdit that makes editing the translation files (.def) much simpler. 3. WPS objects that are images can now be dropped on the entry field for the image name in the Anchors and Images dialogs. If the image is in GIF or JPEG format, the program will automatically determine and set the WIDTH and HEIGHT parameters in the HTML tag. 4. Dropping an HTML file on the editing window will open that file. 5. Added command line options -grabfocus and -nosocket. Specifying -grabfocus in the parameters field of the HTML Wizard object will cause the program to grab the focus once it is set up and running. Some people were having problems running the program on OS/2 2.1 without TCP/IP installed. The command line option -nosocket disables the Preview with WebLint feature and allows the program run normally. 6. Modified the non-English character translation routines to ignore & when embedded in double quotes in a URL. 7. Stripping of HTML tags from files now supports the translation of &xxx; entities like &. Previously only <xxx> tags were removed. The file tstrip.def contains the entity definitions and should be modified to suit your needs. (See the section on translation of non-English characters for details.) 8. Numerous bug fixes involving problems with previewing and non-English character translation. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9.4. Version 1.52 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Alt-z repeats the last tag insertion. 2. Status information is displayed when importing a file so that you can tell that something is going on if the file is large. 3. The program now properly reports an error when saving a file is unsuccessful. 4. The help file is in the process of being expanded to include entries on the supported HTML tags. This work hasn't been completed, but you can bring up help on some tags by right- clicking on the buttons in the Tagbar. And you can still bring up the help file under "Help" in the main menu. 5. Fixed many annoying bugs such as: Word wrap setting not properly saved upon exiting. Incorrect syntax on the mailto: tag. Timing problem with previewing when WE was already running. Overwriting of clipboard during insertion of some tags. Incorrect insertion point for user-programmable tags. Save Without Tags wasn't working properly. Incorrect result when inserting a list with only 1 line selected. Files dropped onto the program object weren't being closed. Minor little problems with focus when some windows were opened. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9.5. Version 1.51 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Added a nice splash screen while the program loads. 2. Fixed some bugs: File saving was not done properly, and the new file was being appended to the old one rather than overwriting it. Choosing "Close" from the "File" menu would not prompt the user to save changes if the file had been modified. I had inadvertently removed the code to load the REXXUtil library, causing all sorts of problems with previewing and using the new WebLint feature. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9.6. Version 1.50 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. You can now have your HTML document checked for syntax errors by clicking on "Check Document with WebLint" under the "File" menu. THIS ONLY WORKS IF YOUR NETWORK CONNECTION IS ACTIVE. What the program does is send your document to the WebLint web site (www.unipress.com) for syntax checking. 2. Added WIDTH, HEIGHT, and ALT entities to the IMG tag window. If you specify a GIF file, HTML Wizard will automatically fill in the WIDTH and HEIGHT entries with the correct values. 3. The Alt-z key sequence repeats the insertion of the last tag. This makes it a little easier when you have to add the same tag repeatedly (like the <P> tag). 4. Removed the dependency on RXEXTRAS.DLL. You can delete this file from your HTML Wizard directory. 5. Fixed some bugs: The preview file is now saved in the working directory rather than the HTML Wizard directory. This enables Web Explorer to find images and linked items listed in your HTML file. Alt-r now brings up the Characters menu. Previously this was set to Alt-h, conflicting with the Help menu hotkey. The correct closing tag for the underline tag is now inserted when using the horizontal Tagbar. The "Hide Tagbar" setting is now correctly stored in the .ini file, so that the proper setting is used when the program is restarted. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9.7. Version 1.40 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Support for some HTML 3 tags has been added, including tables and backgrounds. 2. Added a URL item for NAME=... links in an anchor. 3. Added the FONT tag 4. Fixed a problem that messed up previewing when Translate Non-English Characters was turned off. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9.8. Version 1.32 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Previewing with Web Explorer is now easier. To preview your HTML document, just select "Preview Document" from the "File" menu, or press F10. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9.9. Version 1.30 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. A new "Options" item, "Translate Non-English Characters" allows you to edit HTML documents using non-English characters directly. This feature mainly benefits users of code pages whose non-English characters are available on their keyboards. HTML Wizard will (if this option is checked) pass files through a filter that converts these characters to and from their corresponding HTML entities when loading and saving the files. So, instead of seeing ö, you will see a single 'o' character with the umlaute accent. If you do not have your keyboard set up for a non-English character set, it is best to leave this option off. No harm will be done in using it, but file I/O will be slower because it has to pass through the translator. See the online help for more details on this feature. 2. Forms support has finally been added. 3. "Save Without Tags" is done through a C++ program rather than REXX, so it is much faster now. As of now, only <....> tags are removed. Character entities such as & are not converted. I hope to have this implemented soon. ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 9.10. Version 1.25 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Added automatic insertion of <P> tags when text files are imported. (Can be toggled in the Options menu) 2. Added automatic insertion of <P> and <BR> tags when blocks of text are selected. 3. Added an option to control whether <LI> tags are automatically inserted when lists are created. 4. Added a "Save Without Tags" feature to save an HTML file without the HTML tags so that it can be imported into other editors, or to send text by email without all the tags, etc. Right now, this is done in REXX, so it can be painfully slow for a large file. Experiment with small files first to find out what your patience limit is. I have already coded this up in C++ to be much faster, but it will take a little time to get it merged seamlessly with HTML Wizard. It should make the next release, so this is just to whet your appetite. :-)