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0.5 My first try at a file area selector without too much hassle.
Reads the current conference to get the directories and their
descriptions.
0.6 Added a lightbar.
0.7 Added hotkeys to the lightbar to quickly page through the
directories.
0.8 I've written a direcory menu creator (in C++) on request and
kinda liked the totals (files, bytes) I put in there. Thought
it would be nice to also incorporate this. But using PPL to
figure out the directory sizes is way too slow. So I decided
to create the directory files and totals by an external program
instead. This gives a little overhead in that the initial user
has to create the directories, but on the other hand the PPE
has no delay whatsoever as it does not need to read the conferences
itself anymore. All directories and totals files are put in
the directory DIRS, I didn't want to overwrite your normal pcboard
dirs as my directory files have no headers/footers because the PPE
handles all those things.
0.9 Added a lightbar selection option.
1.0ß Saw this other area lister floating around. IMHO this PPE is
much better than that crappy program. So I think I'm gonna release
this now ;).
Added multiple selections to the select option.
Changed the paging code to keep showing selected directories when
paging.
Added an unselect option.
I could use some more beta testers for this. If you're using this
please report to me through internet se we can get all quirks
out of this quickly...
1.1ß The well known flag ppe has done it again. The blind restscrn at
the start of flag.ppe would restore a savescrn of area.ppe. (When
is someone going to change this blind restscrn and do some
extra checking to be sure flag.ppe has been called, I mean any
program that wants to use savecrn and sits between or around his
flag ppe is bound to fail because flag will restore the wrong
screen). As I use my own flag.ppe (a private version which btw I'm
not going to release;) I didn't notice this problem initially.
I've worked around this by using my own savescrn.
Stupid mistake would not use the correct Since (last directory
search date), fixed.
Changed the default menu and removed the necessity of the footer
file. Now only the 'MENU' file is used and the directory totals
replacement codes can be put anywhere in that file.
Changed the UP/DOWN arrow keys at the lightbar to automatically
move to the SELECT option.
ESC now also exits the lightbar selection.
Added the 'A' key to automatically enter command mode too.
Fixed some errors in the documentation.
Fixed a bug where the selection characters would sometimes not
be removed when paging.
Bug fixed where viewselected would sometimes not show the
selected directories.
One thing I should mention is that if a date other than NONE
is selected this is always inserted invisibly when entering a
'COMMAND' command. This can conflict with certain File commands
that do not need a date (like help, flag, view etc), selecting date
as NONE will make all file commands work. I'm aware of this
problem, but I find this automatic date insertion nice/usefull
enough to warrant this problem. If you sysops out there think
otherwise let me know and if I get enough requests to change this
I will (if you do not want this changed let me know too of course)