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- CHANGES MADE TO ANGIE SINCE VERSION 1.0 - HISTORY
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- v1.0 20.10.93 [fSchwarz]
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- v1.1 22.10.93 [fSchwarz] improved setDefPubScreen action
- fixed ActivateXXXXScreen; fixed Menu Attrs selection
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- v1.2 23.10.93 [fSchwarz] doesn't send any closeWindow
- event on Close action when window is blocked by
- requesters.
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- v1.3 24.10.93 [fSchwarz] added Edithook for hotkey
- definition gadget
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- v1.4a 29.10.93 [fSchwarz] major code cleanup; now
- supports dos command and inputevent insertion type
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- v1.5 4.11.93 [fSchwarz] now really uses the frontmost
- window of screens instead of just screen.firstWindow;
- improved Key Screen Activation handling for screens
- without windows
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- v1.6 4.11.93 [fSchwarz] removed last Intuition stuff from
- cxcustom inputhandler - now all accesses to Intuition
- structures are safeguarded by official CBM protocols;
- enhanced Intuition/GadTools V37 GUI
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- v1.7 7.11.93 [fSchwarz] now accounts the fact that
- ViewPortExtra.displayClip is volatile and dependent on
- the displayids of both, the affected screen & the front
- screen; improved timing in msghandler (results in faster
- Auto-Hunts when receiving many CxMsgs consecutively
- and in better hotkey recursion capabilities); now
- needs BlackMagic 1.14; fixed nasty Enforcer hit in
- DefinitionProc() that turned out very rarely and was
- due to use of post-freed memory (which was usually
- immediately reallocated, so Enforcer/Mungwall hardly
- ever noticed it); improved Intuition left mouse button
- effective detection
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- v2.0 11.11.93 [fSchwarz] Angie is now completely localized;
- fixed rare timing problems that were due to rearranging
- Intuition related KeyScreenActivation stuff from the
- the cxcustom handler to the main task; changed again
- KeyScreenActivation handling; complete code heavily
- revised & updated to ensure optimal ergonomics when
- there's no current active window, yet an active screen;
- now right mouse button blocks all Auto-Hunt (it doesn't
- block hotkey-(attribute)-based hunts, though!);
- former WinToFront attribute changed to 'ToFront': *If
- and only if* the hotkey action doesn't involve a window,
- but a screen, the attribute causes a ScreenToFront()
- instead of a simple WindowToFront(). HuntWindow action
- now hunts the active screen if no active window exists;
- the KeyScreenActivation considers that case, too.
- Most window-related hotkey-actions (except Hunt) now
- simply activate the BestWindow() if there exists no
- active window (ToFront/Hunt according to the hotkey
- attrs); optimized LastActive-Action (now activates the
- frontmost window of the last window's screen if the
- last window doesn't exist any more, but the screen it
- was opened on, and that screen differs from the active
- one). Added Capslock-AutoHunt-mode (default!): capslock
- is alienated as an inverse Auto-Hunt toggle switch, all
- capslock events & capslock qualifier in inputevents
- are eliminated.; Now cxcustom handler code runs at
- three different priorities. Moved some IntuitionBase
- related window code to own module. Angie's minimum
- taskpri is now 5; wintask priority increment only
- happens if resulting priority isn't greater than
- Angie's taskpri. Added 'New', 'Read Settings' &
- 'Restore settings' to the project menu; remembers also
- the second last window/screen for LastActive/
- LastActiveScr actions; general changes in the code to
- obtain better ergonomics in many places; added
- 'DEFAULTPREFS' argument (especially for CLI): loads
- the configuration stored in PROGDIR:Angie.info.
- Angie now requires CxLib V1.1 with ArgArrayDiskObj().
- All tooltypes longer than 128 chars (the official
- length limit as of the RKMs) are now split by Angie
- for the icon writing (fixes problems with Workbench's
- Icon->Information menu item that prunes all longer
- tooltypes). Main module is now split into three modules.
- Plus several changes I forgot to mention here.
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- v3.0 19.11.93 [fSchwarz] COMPLETELY NEW CONCEPT: Angie-
- Sequences, consisting of multiple Angie actions, ascii
- text, commodities input descriptions, & async / sync
- dos command sequences are now assigned to the hotkeys.
- The ToFront attribute is now replaced by a 'NoFilter'
- attribute (the ToFront attribute may now be specified
- separately for each item of an AngieSequence). Angie
- parses now qualifier keystrokes like 'LALT_PRESS' in
- input descriptions - along with mouse button keystrokes
- in input descriptions even for V37 commodities users;
- simple NoScrActivate pseudo hotkeys now work for V37,
- too (own ParseIX() extension, own V37 MatchIX()).
- fixed NewMenu array size of the edit menu. For
- proportional fonts, gimmeZeroZero windows are used in
- conjunction with other slLevelFormat - this fixes V37
- level display problems and keeps the window borders
- from messing up in those rare cases where the nominal
- proportional font's width is utterly misleading.
- Invocation of WindowToFront() is now omitted if the
- respective window is already the screen's frontmost
- window (results in much better performance for
- gimmeZeroZero windows). GetBestWin() now accounts that
- visible screens may follow after invisible screens in
- the IntuitionBase screen list. cx_pri slider step is
- now level-adaptive (like snoopdelay/stabletime sliders)
- A new tooltype format for hotkeys is now used - old
- format can still be read. Another new (default!)
- auto hunt mode is provided: CapsLock1 (functionality
- is the same as for the old CapsLock mode which is now
- called CapsLock2, except that capslock keystrokes & the
- capslock qualifier in the ievents are left untouched).
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- v3.1 22.11.93 [fSchwarz] removed all code where
- LockLayerInfo() is called directly or indirectly with
- a locked IntuitionBase due to very unlikely deadlock
- situations that may arise from LockLayerInfo() when
- IBase is locked. Other protocol to avoid illegal
- mem access & to ensure valid window pointer is used
- instead. Distribution now includes my SetActiveWin
- and MagicPubName shell utilities that can be perfectly
- used in SyncDosSequences. In order to disencourage
- you from abusing SyncDosSequences for launching
- interactive stuff, etc, and in order to improve
- performance, SyncDosSequences are now executed without
- new I/O channels & with the same priority Angie is
- running. Fixed bug that kept Angie from activating
- the BestWindow for most Intuition actions in case
- no active window exists (bug was due to the severe
- code changes that were necessary for inventing the
- AngieSequence concept)
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- v3.2 23.11.93 [fSchwarz] all CxMsgs of cxmIEvent type
- that are older than 2.5 seconds are discarded by the
- msghandler now; rearranged msghandler code - this
- fixes all backlog problems and makes the GUI accessable
- even when Angie is busy with CxMsgs & AutoHunt. Support
- for proportional fonts has now greatly improved: all
- strings in Angie's window are now accounted for
- calculating the window width - even for the most
- excentric proportional fonts, display won't mess up.
- The distribution now includes full-featured German
- docs, another utility (RawInsert) for DosSequences
- and SetActiveWin 1.1 (V1.0 could cause Intuition
- deadlocks!)
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- v3.3 24.11.93 [fSchwarz] Strangely, AddIEvents() doesn't
- set the timeStamp of the InputEvents as opposed to
- the v37 input device writeEvent command - this caused
- problems in conjunction with the anti backlog handling
- that was invented in Angie 3.2, so Angie itself now
- sets the TimeStamp. The same problem was present in the
- RawInsert utility - now fixed in RawInsert 1.1;
- improved performance & minimized gadget/menu refresh
- for hotkey list browsing.
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- v3.3a 25.11.93 [fSchwarz] fixed another small bug that
- was due to the code changes for the AngieSequence
- concept (scrActivateMagic const had to be set to a
- unique value outside the range of AngieSequence ids)
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- v3.5 1.12.93 [fSchwarz] added AREXX interface for
- executing AngieSequences from outside Angie. Fixed
- bug in the SetActiveWin utility that frustrated
- activation of windows on non-public screens (V1.2)
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- v3.6 3.12.93 [fSchwarz] adapted to Amiga-Oberon 3.10,
- fixed active/inactive state handling (now arexx works
- great even if Angie is in inactive state); fixed error
- exit code; introduced 'ΒΆ'-lineFeedMagic as a linefeed
- substitute within dos_command_sequences.
- !!! THIS IS the last revision for 1993 !!!
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