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EXECUTIVE V1.30
===============
This is the third public release of Executive. The most notable
changes in this release are:
* Preliminary MUI V3 support
* A couple of very important bug fixes
* The Meter-client can now draw graphs
A Polish catalog for Executive will soon be available. Download file
misc/misc/LocalePL20.lha from Aminet.
Here's a full list of changes made after Executive V1.20:
* Removed some 68020+ optimizations from the server that were actually
SLOWER than equivalent 68000 code.
* Meter can now display number context switches during the last second.
* Added Polish Install and UnInstall translations.
* Registration price in Deutsche marks is now only 20 DM. It seems that
5DM notes are quite rare.
* Discount in registration price is now availabe if three or more
people register at the same time. See documentation.
* The SPEED-option in ALoad3D is now used to set the rotation speed in
degress. Default is 5°.
* The SPEED tooltype in ALoad3D now accepts value 0.
* A new option BATCH in Top disables reading keyboard when information
is displayed in a terminal. Another new option UIDS displays UIDs
instead of user names.
* A new option ALL in Kill sends all signals, C, D, E and F to a task.
* GUI based clients now have a new menu item, "Project->Save config".
This will save current settings to the client's icon, including window
position.
* Mutually exclusive menu items now work correctly.
* Modified the installation script so that it now works even if you're
using a program that patches the dos.library so that you get UNIX-
like path handling. For example, Yak with the UNIX Dirs-option turned
on did this and caused the installation not to work correctly.
* A new option MAX in Top displays as many tasks as possible.
* When Top is running in a terminal, "n" can be used to change the number
of tasks that are displayed.
* ALoad3D now displays load averages more like ALoad. For load average
1.0 the bar is as high as possible. When the load average grows, the
bar is divided in two parts. When the load average is for example 3.5,
the bar is divided in four parts. Use the GROW-option to get the old
style bars.
* Fixed a nasty bug in the AddTask() patch. A Commodore debugging tool
TNT didn't work if it was run before Executive. This bug might have
caused crashes with other programs too.
* Executive now has a nice logo, you'll see it in the server and
ExecutivePrefs icons. The logo is available in different formats,
in the Executive WWW-page.
* A sanity check is now done to the task names. If a non-printable
character is found, it's converted to '?'.
* Meter can now display a graph of a value, for example CPU usage.
The new options GRAPHHEIGHT, GRAPHS, GRAPHCOLOR and GRIDCOLOR
are used to control the graphs.
* Added some preliminary MUI V3 support:
- A menu item "MUI Preferences..." which opens the MUI preferences
editor.
- Increased the size of some string gadgets, MUI V3 seems to make
them a bit too small.
- ALoad_MUI can use the Levelmeter-class in MUI V3 to display a nice
car speedometer like meter of current CPU usage. This looks really
neat, and is very usable too. The meter is currently updated four
times a second.
* Miscellaneous internal changes and some polishing here and there.
* The new Extra-drawer contains the full-size Executive logo and
a screenshot of the Meter-client.
* Fixed the Register Arexx-script.
* A new option NOTITLEBAR in ALoad, ALoad3D, Meter and Top disables the
window titlebar.
* Updated the Portugues and Nederlands catalogs.
* Added German catalog and Install/UnInstall translation.
* Added French catalog and Install/UnInstall translation.
* Some SysInfo.library modifications:
(Thanks to Bernhard Möllemann <zza@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>)
- Better names for some structs:
sysinfo -> SysInfo
loadaverage -> SI_LoadAverage
loadaverage_fixed -> SI_LoadAverageFixed
SysInfo_notify -> SI_Notify
cpu_usage -> SI_CpuUsage
task_cpu_usage -> SI_TaskCpuUsage
- SysInfo was sometimes spelled as sysinfo or Sysinfo. It's now
always SysInfo.
- sysinfo.fd is now SysInfo_lib.fd
- Changed the compiler dependant types:
int -> LONG
short -> WORD
long -> LONG
- Removed LOADAVG_FLOAT.
- Replaced the `use_messages' parameter in AddNotify() call with `flags'.
- Some internal changes to support Executive V1.30