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************************************************************************
MUI - MagicUserInterface
(c) Copyright 1992-94 by Stefan Stuntz
This file describes all changes since version 1.0 of MUI
************************************************************************
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 2.3 (24-Dec-94) (muimaster.library V10.33)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
* MINOR SASG UPDATE *
Sorry, this update is a little smaller than usual. The reason is
simple, I was on a long holiday trip during the last months. :-)
Changes for users:
- Online help works again (but only synchronous) for 2.x systems.
- Improved smooth scrolling for listviews with many entries.
- Prefs program fits on an NTSC 640x200 screen with topaz/8.
- Popup hotkey is filtered in string gadget input.
Changes for programmers:
- MUIA_String_MaxLen is gettable.
- MUIA_ControlChar works for listview class.
- Dirlist object returns correct file dates.
- MUIA_Dirlist_Directory is get()able.
- Implemented MUIA_Window_MouseObject & MUIA_Window_NeedsMouseObject
attributes for immediate online help. See autodocs & Settings demo
for details.
- Added some support for the GCC compiler (include/inline/muimaster.h).
- Implemented MUIA_Listview_ScrollerPos tag to specify the position of
the scrollbar in a listview.
- Fixed some problems with string gadgets and attached lists.
- Implemented MUIA_Application_UseRexx/UseCommodities attributes.
Set to FALSE to disable the builtin ARexx/Commodities handling.
Don't do this unless you have a very good reason!
- Boopsi objects in virtual groups are handled like string gadgets,
they only appear when they're completely visible.
- Implemented MUIV_Notify_Self, MUIV_Notify_Window and
MUIV_Notify_Application special values to simplify notification
mechanism. See autodocs of notify class (MUIM_Notify) for details.
- Note: If you have questions or suggestions about MUI, please do
*not* ask me directly. Write to the MUI mailing list instead:
To subscribe, send mail to <listserv@taloa.unice.fr> with
an empty subject and a line containing the magic words
SUB mui Your Name
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 2.2 (08-Aug-94) (muimaster.library V9.80)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
* MINOR SASG UPDATE *
Changes for users:
- There were some misunderstandings about SASG update rules. Unless
otherwise stated, all MUI updates are MINOR SASG UPDATES, i.e.
you are not required to update your keyfile. Major updates (maybe
one at the end of this year) will be specifically announced and
the MUI prefs program will tell you about it.
- When starting two or more MUI applications at the same time, there
was a chance that the keyfile was not recognized correctly.
- Fixed some installation script problems.
- Fixed a possible crash in the registration program.
- MUI 2.1 was accidently documented to require OS 2.1, that's of
course a documentation bug. MUI continues to run with 2.0.
- The serial number of a registered user is displayed in the prefs
programs about window.
- Because the MUI 2.1 default settings for HalfShine and HalfShadow
pen caused some confusion, they are back to standard MagicWB
rules (color n-4 and n-3) again.
- Fixed a bug in coloradjust class which caused wrong public screen
colors with V37.
- AmigaGuide online help works asynchronous for all MUI applications.
- Fixed some problems of listviews in virtual groups. Unfortunately,
some other problems are still there.
- Fixed cycle gadget lockup problem.
- Made window handling a bit more sensitive, MUI windows will now
look correctly even with non standard system gadget sizes.
- Prefs program terminates when receving a CTRL-C signal.
- Popup objects are controllable with a configurable hotkey.
See MUI-Prefs keyboard adjustment listview.
Changes for programmers:
- Autodocs for MUI_Redraw() didn't mention the important
fact that calling DoSuperMethod() is always the first
step in a custom classes MUIM_Draw method. Otherwise,
msg->flags is not set properly.
- Result of MUI_Redraw() changed from APTR to VOID.
- AppIcon notification works again.
- Implemented one-dimension virtual groups, useful e.g. for
button rows. See autodocs of MUIA_Scrollgroup_FreeHoriz and
MUIA_Scrollgroup_FreeVert for details.
- Getting MUIA_Disabled didn't work in previous releases.
- MUIA_Slider_Min und MUIA_Slider_Max are settable.
- Building subclasses of MUIC_Window is possible.
- Notify on MUIA_List_Entries works.
- Implemented MUIM_List_Move method to simplify moving entries
in a list. See autodocs for details.
- Implemented MUIA_Boopsi_Smart tag for better handling of "smart"
Boopsi classes, i.e. the freely distributable "editor.gadget".
- Implemented MUIM_NoNotifySet method for better handling of
bidirectional notifications (i.e. scrollbar <-> editorgadget).
- Implemented MUIA_List_InsertPosition to query position of
last inserted entry.
- Implemented MUIV_List_Remove_Selected for list class remove
method.
- Menuitem objects export & import their CHECKED state with
MUIM_Application_Save and MUIM_Application_Load.
- It's possible to include register groups in cycle chains.
- Implemented MUIA_Popobject_WindowHook to allow adjusting
cycle chains, default objects, etc. for popup objects.
- Programmers, please update "MUI.readme" in your distributions!
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 2.1 (03-Jul-94) (muimaster.library V8.697)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
* MINOR SASG UPDATE *
I planned to have a lot more new things for V2.1. Unfortunately, time
was missing. Next versions of MUI will probably be split into a basic
muimaster.library and a muifancy.library. The fancy library will hold
all the additional features, users with low memory or slow machines may
decide to leave out this stuff. For more infos, see the "Future" file
in the developer archive.
Changes for users:
- From version 2.1 on, MUI is distributed under the rules of the SASG,
the Standardized Amiga Shareware Group. See the accompanying program
"Registration" for details.
- Screen preferences were not saved correctly sometimes.
- When changing the application with the preferences program,
MUI offers the possibility to use/save changed settings.
- Sliders can be configured to have their info text at the left side.
- Listview multiselect mode was sometimes triggered accidently.
- Enhanced popup menu configuration possibilities, including
custom background and frame settings and animated appearance.
- Removed the startup and shutdown command config options.
Changes for programmers:
- Implemented MUIV_NotTriggerValue. See autodocs of MUIM_Notify for
details.
- Fixed some autodoc syntax bugs, added version information for every
class and attribute.
- Implemented MUIA_Application_ForceQuit. See autodocs for details.
- Invisible or disabled objects don't trigger MUIA_AppMessage
notification anymore.
- Fixed Dirlist class problems with short directory names.
- When MUI fails to open a window, notifications on MUIA_Window_Open
are not triggered anymore.
- Fixed a little memory eating bug.
- Added a "often used object" collection to muimaster.library. You
should use this collection as frequently as possible instead of
building your own objects or using the supplied macros. See
autodocs of MUI_MakeObject() for details.
- Simplified the creation of labels with underscore. This makes
localization much easier. See autodocs of MUI_MakeObject()
for details.
- Added object oriented menus. See new demo program and autodocs of
menustrip, menu and menu item class for details.
- Controlling a slider object with keyboard accidently triggered
notification twice.
- Fixed problems when language specific special characters were
used as shortcut.
- Included documentation on how to write external public
custom classes. See developer docs and new examples in
"MUI/Developer/C/Examples/Classes" for details.
- Fixed a crash when the colorwheel.gadget was not available under V39.
- Implemented new builtin classes MUIC_Poplist, MUIC_Bitmap and
MUIC_Bodychunk. Just a few bytes of code but very useful.
- Rewrote some critical parts of MUI in assembler.
- Fixed a problem when MUIA_ShowMe was used on groups.
- Implemented MUIA_Window_FancyDrawing for highspeed programs.
- Fixed some notification bugs for register objects.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 2.0 (11-Feb-94) (muimaster.library V7.973)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Changes for users:
- Rearranged libraries. Classes which are needed by all applications or
which are very small are integrated in muimaster.library. Fancy and
rarely used classes come as external files. This speeds up starting
the first MUI application and simplifies installation procedure for
commercial applications.
- Integration of classes increases performance significantly.
- Rearranged the prefs program completely. Major changes include
"single application" mode, image multiselect, presets and localization.
I cannot list all the other news here in detail, but together they should
make adjusting preferences a lot easier.
- Included beautiful new 8 color images, patterns and button designs from
Martin "MagicWB" Huttenloher. Give them a try!
- Fixed several screenmode requester bugs.
- Fixed problems with crazy going prop gadgets.
- Changed "active object" display. No more ugly active background but
instead a nice extra frame will be displayed.
- Getting the name of the used public screen is possible with
new ARexx command "info screen".
- Documented ARexx command error result codes.
Changes for programmers:
- More detailed developer documentation including information about
writing custom classes and a MUI style guide. Read it!
- Included new demos "Class<n>" to show how to implement custom
classes.
- Added the ability to specify a listview multiselect type directly.
See MUIA_Listview_MultiSelect attribute for details.
- The MUIA_ShowMe attribute can be used to hide objects. Using this
attribute is even possible in open windows, hiding object will
then cause a new layout to take place. When necessary, the parent
window will be resized automatically. Included new demo program
"ShowHide".
- Implemented popstring, popasl, popobject classes for asynchronous
popups. popasl class is the recommended way to include file/font/etc.
requesters. Included new demo program "Popup" to demonstrate the new
popup classes.
- Added a register class. No, this is not for registrating your MUI,
its used to create flexible titled page groups. See the prefs
program and the pages demo for details.
- Added the ability to specify a listview multiselect type directly.
See MUIA_Listview_MultiSelect attribute for details.
- Implemented MUIM_List_InsertSingle method.
- Multiline entries ("foo\nbar") in a cycle gadget were not handled
correctly.
- Implemented MUIA_Rectangle_HBar and MUIA_Rectangle_VBar to create
nice single border lines.
- Implemented MUIM_MultiSet method, MUIA_NoNotify attribute and
MUIM_KillNotify method for notify class.
- Implemented MUIA_Gauge_InfoText attribute.
- Implemented MUIA_Listview_ClickColumn, MUIA_Listview_DefClickColumn.
- Fixed problem with MUIA_Application_Iconified notification.
- Implemented MUIV_List_Select_All for MUIM_List_Select method.
- Fixed some problems with sleeping windows and applications.
- MUIA_List_First and MUIA_List_Visible are really get()able.
- Fixed a problem with keyboard control for MUIA_Slider_Quiet sliders,
implemented MUIA_Slider_Reverse tag.
- Tag value and documentation for MUIA_List_Title attribute was
missing.
- Specifying images with "1:<x>" never worked, use "6:<x>" instead.
See MUIA_Image_Spec for details.
- MUI_Request() gadgets may contain '_' characters to indicate keyboard
shortcuts.
- Implemented MUIA_Application_RexxHook.
- Implemented MUIA_String_EditHook.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.4 (27-Oct-93) (muimaster.library V6.435)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
From V1.4 on, MUI is distributed in two separate archives:
muiXXusr.lha - libraries, classes, demos, user documentation.
muiXXdev.lha - programmer interfaces and programmer documentation.
Changes for users:
- Important Note:
Due to some enhancements in image processing, registered users will
have to readjust their image settings. Otherwise some images might
not be visible!
- I accept every currency for registration now. Please read the
registration section of the manual for details.
- Rearranged preferences program. Instead of many different windows,
page groups are used and should make things a lot easier.
- Implemented palette gadget for public screens.
- Added the possibility to use an RGB color as image (V39 and above).
- Implemented background pattern for screens (V39 and above).
- Background pictures allocate their colors correctly (V39 and above).
- Gauge frame and radio button spacing didn't work.
- Reduced flicker when resizing a window with a fancy background.
- Added configuration switch for window redraw type. Possible settings
are fast/ugly and slow/nice. Defaults to fast/ugly, which isn't really
really ugly but maybe faster.
- Added special screen type to address the frontmost public screen.
- Speeded up first drawing of a window.
- Fixed some simple refresh problems with page groups.
- Iconify Gadget wasn't visible on a one plane display.
- Improved text rendering speed about 20% (maybe even more if you have
some data cache).
- Made cycle popups blazingly fast and more configurable (frame setting).
- One gadget requesters can always be answered with the <Press> key.
- Two gadget requesters can always be answered with 'y' for the left
and 'n' for the right gadget.
- Requester buttons sometimes were layouted with no intermediate
spacing.
- Scrolling a partially obscured listview in a simple refresh window
would create some pixel garbage.
- Reasonably speeded up listview drawing, cursor handling and multi
selecting. Together with keyboard scrolling, display is even faster
if a listview's height is exactly a multiple of its line height.
- Implemented configuration switch for full line listviews. These
listviews won't show incomplete lines are and are somewhat
faster. Default are full line listviews.
- Fixed some public screen open and close problems.
- Tab size in floattext class was handled wrong.
- Eliminated first and last line flicker when scrolling listviews.
- Rearranged and rewrote parts of the documentation.
- Please read the manuals "Discussion" section before reporting
any problems!
Changes for programmers:
- Attention... very powerful feature... :-)
Implemented virtual (scrolling) groups. Included new program
"Virtual" for demonstration.
- New color oriented classes: Colorfield, Coloradjust, Palette.
- Fixed vertical slider problem.
- Trying to create an object from a non existing class caused an
enforcer hit.
- Enabling a group containing prop/string gadgets didn't really enable
the gadgets.
- Implemented MUIM_WriteString and MUIM_WriteLong methods for easy
structure updating.
- Implemented MUIA_ControlChar for slider objects.
- MUIA_Group_ActivePage didn't trigger notification.
- Fixed some minor text engine bugs.
- During the execution of a MUIM_CallHook in a notify method,
other MUI tasks were locked.
- Implemented MUIA_Version and MUIA_Revision attributes to allow
version checking for applications.
- The number of the current entry is passed to a list display
hook as additional parameter.
- Setting a boopsi gadgets attributes didn't cause a display update.
- Setting MUIA_Background wouldn't always update the display.
- Children of MUIA_Group_SameXXXX groups could accidently be enlarged
beyond their maximum size.
- Implemented MUIA_Application_BrokerPri attribute.
- Implemented MUIA_Application_BrokerPort attribute. This port can
e.g. be used to add additional HotKeys with the HotKey() amiga.lib
function.
- Recognizing a press/release of a prop gadget is possible by
listening to the MUIA_Prop_Pressed attribute.
- Adding and removing members of groups could accidently change
the groups orientation.
- Implemented some new standard images concerning tape deck and network
issues.
- MUIM_Application_Get/SetMenuCheck didn't work.
- Some Modula and Oberon interface changes.
- Implemented MUIA_Slider_Quiet tag to hide the number output.
- Implemented MUIA_Dirlist_MultiSelDirs attribute.
- Implemented MUIA_Window_PublicScreen tag to force opening windows
on certain public screens.
- Implemented MUIM_List_NextSelected to help stepping through selected
entries of a list.
- Implemented MUIA_List_Title attribute to support titles for
(multi columned) lists.
- MUIA_List_Active wasn't reported during a MUIM_List_Clear.
- MUIA_List_Active was reported twice during a MUIM_List_Remove.
- MUIA_Boopsi_Object didn't trigger notification.
- Implemented default sizes for all classes. New windows will
be opened using these default sizes instead of
MUIV_Window_Width/Height_MinMax(10).
- Menu multi select didn't work.
- Autodocs are alphabetically sorted now.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.3 (29-Aug-93) (muimaster.library V5.141)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
- MUIA_String_Secret string gadgets crashed on an 68000.
- Corrected assembler includes.
- Fixed bug with MUIA_Window_ActiveObject.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.2 (28-Aug-93) (muimaster.library V5.140)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Fixed enforcer hits in ARexx HELP command.
- Setting MUIA_Background did not refresh the display.
- Added validity check on key description strings in prefs program.
- Initializing string or prop gadgets with MUIA_Disabled didn't really
disable the gadget.
- Fixed some sync problems with MUIA_String_Integer.
- Menu checkmarks would disappear when a window was closed and reopened.
- Specifying a non existing font caused windows to disappear.
- Included Manx, Assembler, Modula, Oberon and Amiga-E interfaces.
- Implemented MUIA_Window_Screen attribute. This allows opening a
MUI window on an explicitly defined intuition screen.
- Rewrote the image caching mechanism. This should fix some bugs
and system crashes with non existing external image files.
- Fixed a bad bug that could trash the stack under certain
circumstances.
- MUIA_Selected didn't work at object creation time.
- Better MOUSEMOVE and INTUITICKS handling to improve performance.
- Using simple refresh windows would sometimes freeze the system.
- Attention... very powerful feature... :-)
Implemented two new attributes for group class:
MUIA_Group_PageMode (TRUE/FALSE) this group is a page group.
MUIA_Group_ActivePage (0...numchilds-1) this child shall be displayed.
Page groups always show exactly one of their childs. The number of
this child can be changed dynamically, even in an open window.
New demo "Pages" demonstrates the new page groups.
- Included AppWindow support. See MUIA_Window_AppWindow,
MUIA_Application_DropObject and MUIA_AppMessage for details.
New demo "AppWindow" for demonstration.
- Bumped version number of all libs to 5. You must not mix MUI
classes and libraries with different version numbers, this
will lead into problems. Revision numbers are uncritical.
Note: This does not affect applications. They will of course
work with all MUI releases, as long as all version numbers
are identical.
- Included version number checking. MUI will refuse to open
classes when the class version doesn't match the master
library. Note: when I'm sure about internal class communication
(maybe in a few months...), this check will become obsolete.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.1 (15-Aug-93) (muimaster.library V4.58)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Removed a remaining serial debug output.
- Corrected installation script for 2.x systems.
- Corrected HELP: assign of "StartMeFirst" script.
- Corrected some autodocs and header file bugs.
- Added system configuration switch to adjust window refresh
type, possibilities are simple refresh and smart refresh.
- Made some changes to the Oberon interface.
- String gadgets with an invisible font ate some bytes of memory.
- Fixed some bugs with failing boopsi images.
- Some minor changes to some of the demo programs.
- Speeded object creation about 10%.
- For boopsi image implementors: boopsi images now have the ability
to specify a desired minimum and maximum size. See "mui.h"
for details.
- Implemented MUIA_Window_DefaultObject attribute. See autodocs
for details.
- Added some new boopsi images.
- Implemented MUIA_ControlChar for radio buttons. Pressing
the control char will activate the next (shift -> previous)
radio button element.
- Implemented MUIA_ControlChar for string gadgets. Pressing
the control char will activate the gadget.
- Added some more keyboard shortcuts to the prefs program.
- Minimum width for MUIA_Window_SizeRight windows was calculated wrong.
- Last characters of some text fields were not displayed with
certain fonts.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Version 1.0 (08-Aug-93) (muimaster.library V4.4)
------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Initial Release.