------------------------------------------------------------------------ WatzNew(tm) 1.8 VERSION HISTORY ------------------------------------------------------------------------ <> Your Smart Internet Monitoring Agent(tm) <> Copyright (C) 1999-2002 A.I.Studio. All Rights Reserved. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BUG REPORTS AND SUGGESTIONS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please send your bug reports and suggestions regarding ONLY THE LATEST VERSION of WatzNew to support@watznew.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.8 28-Jan-2002 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW FEATURES ------------ * New translations are available: - Dutch, - French, - German, - Polish, - Swedish. ******************************************************************* If you wish to translate WatzNew into your language, please contact us: mailto:translation@watznew.com. All translators will receive a **free life-time registration** for WatzNew! ******************************************************************* * Instant formatted message preview added to Channel Properties window -> 'Message Template' tab. Editing the message template will affect the preview immediately. * WatzNew will remember channel list scroll position and currently selected channel on next start. * Windows XP theming support added. * Icons to main menu and pop-up menus added. * WatzNew can snap itself to desktop edges now. * In Alert Window, you can use [Esc] keyboard button now to close the window, [Enter] to launch the default action or [Down] button to show the list of additional actions. * Almost any unicode punctuation symbols (&#XXXX; codes) are converted to corresponding symbols now. Other unicode symbols will now appear as middle dots. CHANGES ------------ * WatzNew should now determine the default font charset properly depending on current system language settings. * Main window resizing is much more faster and smoother now. * WatzNew Documentation has main web site design now. * FAQ section to WatzNew Documentation has been added. * tags from the source HTML are converted to space now, not line breaks. ******************************************************************* Please note that due to changes in HTML handling, WatzNew 1.8 can give false alerts the first time it updates some of your old version 1.7 channels. Once it updates them, it will work as usual. ******************************************************************* BUGS FIXED ------------ * Problems with occasional freezing of the main window client area fixed. * WatzNew would freeze at uninstall -- fixed. * WatzNew would stop checking channels after some socket errors -- fixed. * WatzNew would render cell heights improperly when using non-default font sizes in scheme -- fixed. * WatzNew would display some dialogs improperly with 'Large Fonts' system display setting turned on -- fixed. * WatzNew Channel Wizard would allow creating folders with duplicate names -- fixed. * Newly created channels won't have the default text message assigned until refreshed -- fixed. * Under some circumstances, WatzNew won't validate action fields, allowing to create actions with wrong parameters -- fixed. * WatzNew would ignore 'Invisible' property of actions -- fixed. * '

' tags won't be removed from plain-text messages (when copying to clipboard or displaying them as tray popup hints -- fixed. * Fixed a bug in installer when it would try to execute WatzNew on exit on some cases, even if WatzNew installation was aborted. * WatzNew would not allow to change text case in the channel's title, telling "The channel with such a name already exists" -- fixed. * When testing search pattern in Channel Properties window, source HTML wouldn't be converted properly, thus resulting in false alert next time the channel was updated. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.7 16-Dec-2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW FEATURES ------------ * WatzNew has multilingual interface now! Available translations: - Lithuanian, - Russian, - Ukrainian. * '[x] Clear "updated" channel flags on start' option has been added. See 'WatzNew Settings' -> 'General' tab. * Ability to add more than one offline IP mask added. * Ability to sort channels without [Shift] key added. See 'WatzNew Settings' -> 'Keyboard' tab -> '[x] Require to hold [Shift] to start sorting channels' option. * 'List of Updated Channels [F6]' window added. This window is available from 'View menu', and will also popup when you click on a blinking tray icon. This feature is handy to locate channels that has been updated. * 'Copy HTML Message to Clipboard' option added. See 'Edit' submenu. This option allows you to copy the text of the selected channel with all HTML tags. * 'Remove "new" flag [Ctrl+R]' option added to channel's popup menu. * 'More (Add, Delete, ...)' -> 'Preview' -> 'Tray hint (Win2k) [Shift+Ctrl+H]' and More (Add, Delete, ...)' -> 'Preview' -> 'Alert window [Shift+Ctrl+A]' options added to channel's popup menu. * WatzNew channels and configuration is auto-saved every 10 minutes now. CHANGES ------------ * Appearance of Setup window has been changed. Some options has been rearranged. * Color selection dialog has been completely changed. * After you add or import channel, WatzNew will jump to it in the list now. BUGS FIXED ------------ * WatzNew would not display some dialogs with certain versions of nVidia Detonator drivers -- fixed. * WatzNew would not display the proper information after POP mailbox has been emptied -- fixed. * Problems with proper displaying in taskbar fixed. * Fixed a bug when URLs of links would be "shifted" if there was an empty tag pair. Empty pairs would be deleted now. * Leading
tags would not be deleted -- fixed. * Problems with channel dragging behaviour fixed. You can cancel dragging with [Cancel] button now or just by moving mouse cursor outside of the window (cursor will change it's shape to reflect the situation). * When importing channels, WatzNew will properly assign folders for channels that are already in the list. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.6 14-Sep-2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Perl environment problems fixed. We decided to stop using Perl for ISAPI due to numerous bugs and limitations in it's realization, and switched back to using command-line Perl interpreter. Please recheck your 'Settings' window -> 'Perl' tab -> 'Perl Location' section to see if path to 'perl.exe' file is specified correctly. * Compatibility with newer builds of Perl (611 and later) added. (We do NOT recommend using latest versions of Perl because they have problems with sockets, DBI support, etc.) * You can now hold [Shift] anywhere in WatzNew while clicking on links to open them in new browser window. * Global menu added to main window. It gathered all options from channel's and tray icon's popup menus, making the work with WatzNew much easier. * Passwords are encrypted now when saving channels to files. * 'Stay On Top' feature bugs fixed. * 'Page Source' and 'Edit Perl Parameter' windows would open beneath the 'Channel Properties' Window -- fixed. * After the first WatzNew installation, main window would go off-screen on some machines -- fixed. * Fixed a bug when WatzNew won't find embedded channels on html pages in some cases. * Channel Wizard interface improved. Integration with Online Channels Library added. * Long lines would render incorrectly in list -- fixed. * WatzNew documentation improved. * Several minor bugs fixed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.5 02-Jul-2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * This release solves numerous problems addressing Perl script handling. Since now, WatzNew uses Perl for ISAPI interface and will execute scripts up to 10 times faster! Check your 'Settings' window -> 'Perl' tab -> 'Perl Location' section to see if path to 'perlis.dll' file is specified correctly. * WatzNew now uses new Perl-script channel configuration scheme, passing parameters to script via the %ENV hash. No more random Perl scripts will be generated in WatzNew directory. * WatzNew now comes with several updated and new Perl scripts: - 'Environment Variables.pl' (shows the dump of your environment variables); - 'HTTP GET' (script that automatically handles browser redirection (HTTP Error 301, 302, 303), can be effectively used to retrieve documents via HTTP, uses regular expressions to perform searches. This is an extremely powerful addition!) - 'ICQ Status.pl' (checks the specified ICQ user's online/offline status); - 'IPCONFIG.pl' (executes system 'ipconfig' command); - 'NetAddress Account.pl' (checks your @usa.net mailboxes); - 'PING.pl' (executes system 'ping' command); - 'Yahoo Account.pl' (checks your @yahoo.com mailboxes); * Ability to set Perl script tracing options right from the channel properties window added. This works with scripts that use the 'http.lib' library that comes with WatzNew. * You can now specify 'User-agent' indentification string for each HTTP channel. Handy for those servers, that give content depending on User Agent type. * 'Search Channel' [F3] option added. Now you can locate your channels in list easily. * 'Channel Properties' -> 'Search Pattern' tab -> '[x] Preserve , , tags' option added. * All Open/Save dialogs can be resizable now. * Channel properties window is redesigned. * Problem with gmx.net POP mailserver fixed. Now WatzNew will work correctly with all servers that do not support 'LAST' command. * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements. * Several minor bugs fixed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ VERSION 1.4 02-Jun-2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * ...,

,

message template macros added. WatzNew is able to dispaly links in message body now! This greatly improves it's functionality. * WatzNew now renders channels on screen several times faster. * WatzNew now processes found parameters more gently: it does not remove links,
  • ,
    • ,

    ,

    and
    tags from the text, distinguishes a set of table tags and other special tags (
    ,
       
    , etc.) and replaces them with 
     macro. It also removes
       duplicate, empty or unnecessary chains of tags.
     * New 'Popup Hint' alert mode added (Avaliable on Windows 2000 only).
       You should like it's fancy balloon style!
     * Channel filtering modes added. Now you can set one of the following:
       '(o) Show All Channels' / '(.) Show All But Disabled' / '(.) Show
       Updated Only'. You can easily switch between these modes using the
       channel's context menu.
     * '[x] Always Visible' option added to channel properties. See 'Channel
       Properties' ->'General' tab. Use this to make channel permanently
       visible in list no matter what the current filtering mode is.
     * 'Channel Properties' -> 'Search Pattern & Message Template' tab 
       splitted to two separate tabs. Now you can edit search pattern and
       message templates in multiline mode.
     * WatzNew now correctly recognizes all the html meta characters (more
       than 100!) like 'ø', 'Ø', '®', '©', and
       others. You can use all of these tags in your Message Templates too.
     * WatzNew Channel Wizard now remembers your preferences.
     * '[x] Open Channel Properties' option added to WatzNew Channel Wizard.
       Wizard is slightly redesigned.
     * Now you can choose where to place any of your actions -- to the root
       of the context popup menu, or to 'Other actions...' sub-menu. See
       'Channel Properties' -> 'Actions' tab -> '[x] Place to "Other
       actions" sub-menu' option.
     * '[x] Hide from context menu' option added to Action properties. This
       is useful for actions that are set to be exectuted automatically.
     * [Ctrl+I] will open 'Import Channel From File' dialog now.
     * The ability to define destination folders when importing channels
       added.
     * You can launch WatzNew now by simply typing "watznew" in Windows'
       'Run...' menu.
     * 'Stay On Top' mode works fine now.
     * Mouse wheel works now in Page Source Window.
     * In Page Source Window you will now see the 'Cursor position: XXX' or
       'Selected range: XXX..YYY' status bar hints to easily track the
       position of any desired text block. Very useful when tuning the
       channel's 'Load Range' field.
     * Page Source Window's position and size are remembered now.
     * After editing channel properties, the channel's context menu won't
       refresh until manually re-selected -- fixed.
     * Fixed a bug when WatzNew would freeze on some HTTP channels.
       WatzNew should work fine with all HTTP-servers now.
     * Fixed a bug when right-click on a channel would cause the previously
       opened folder to close.
     * Fixed a bug (introduced in 1.3 version) when Perl-script channels
       would freeze when checked.
     * Minor interface improvements.
     * Minor bugs fixed.

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    VERSION 1.3                                                  23-Jan-2000
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     * The ability to select folder icons from a predefined set of images
       and to define custom folder images added.
     * The ability to set complex ranges for HTTP channels added (this
       enhances the old 'Load first [nn] Kb' option).
     * You can define the Offline IP mask to specify what address or
       group of addresses should be treated as offline. This should help
       WatzNew to correctly detect online/offline state in some unusual
       configurations (modem + LAN etc.). See 'WatzNew Settings' ->
       'Behaviour' tab -> 'Online Mode Detection' group.
     * Clicking 'Check' button / pressing [F5] key on any folder will
       check all channels in that folder.
     * 'Copy Text To Clipboard' [Ctrl+C] option added.
     * Action names preview added (when inserting %1..%N macros into action
       title.
     * Channel Appearance Window completely redesigned. It is now called
       'WatzNew Scheme Editor'.
     * 'Fonts And Colors... [Ctrl+F9]' options added to tray and channel
       popup menus. These two open the WatzNew Scheme Editor Window.
     * 'Always docked' mode works fine now.
     * Channel list can be scrolled absolutely smoothly now.
     * Channel list scrollbar was changed to convetional one.
     * When user clicks a channel, it's 'updated' flag is cleared now,
       and channel's icon becomes gray.
     * Single mouse click works now as double click on folder if it was
       previously selected.
     * Popup window would flicker when channel list redraw -- fixed.
     * WatzNew won't release [Alt+F7] hot key after exit -- fixed.
     * WatzNew Settings -> 'Connection' tab renamed to 'Behaviour'.
     * Instant Web Search hot key selection added. The option to make it
       'global' added. See 'WatzNew Settings' -> 'Behaviour' tab -> 'Instant
       Web Search' group.
     * The channel which contained quote characters `` " '' won't save --
       fixed.
     * When testing search pattern in Channel Properties Window,
       the parameter won't be highlighted if it started from the first
       character of the document -- fixed.
     * Second occurences of lowercase parameters in message template (such
       as , , , , ...) won't be understood -- fixed.
     * In some cases WatzNew won't show itself in the task bar even if
       the appropriate option was set until triggering this option to
       'Never' and then back again -- fixed.

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    VERSION 1.2                                                  26-Nov-1999
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     * Ability to create channel groups (folders).
     * Ability to sort channels manually within or between folders (hold
       [Shift] key and click on any channel or folder, then drag-n-drop it
       to the desired location).
     * Atomic Time Synchronization feature added. See 'WatzNew Settings' ->
       'Time' tab.
     * Instant Web Search feature added. You will now have an interface to
       ten most famous internet search engines. Click [Alt+F7] to open
       the search dialog.
     * WinProxy 3.x limited support added (HTTP channels only). See
       'WatzNew Settings' -> 'Proxy' tab -> 'Type' combo box.
     * Now you are able to view HTTP document header in Page Source Window.
     * Find [Ctrl+F] / Find Next [F3] options added to Page Source Window.
     * Now you are able to specify if a document has KOI-8 (Russian)
       encoding. These documents will be autotamatically converted to
       Win-1251 codepage after loading. See 'Channel Properties' ->
       'General' tab -> 'KOI8 Encoding' checkbox.
     * New {%,N} search pattern macro added. Now you are able to extract
       text of the fixed length.
     * Pattern searching works faster now.
     * The size of channels data file can be unlimited now (was 64K max).
     * Almost all WatzNew icons and buttons redesigned.
     * Miscellaneous minor interface improvements.
     * Fixed bug when proxy settings were ignored when loading document
       in Page Source Window.

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    VERSION 1.1 Final Release                                    13-Jul-1999
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     * Now you are able to view any amount of new message headers (for
       POP3 Mailboxes), not the single one as it was before.
     * New Perl-Script channel type is added. You need to have Perl
       installed on your machine to use script channels.
     * 'HotMail Account' and 'NetAddress Account' perl-script channel
       templates added. Now you are able to setup your HotMail and
       Net@ddress accounts easily.
     * 'Temp Directory Info' template added. Now you will be able to track
       the amount and the total size of the files in your temporary
       directory.
     * Now when the channel "hangs", the timeout occurs after a minute and
       the checking process continues.
     * Help file added. Press F1 in Main Window to open it.
     * Mouse-wheel support added.
     * Channel icons are changed.
     * WatzNew Settings Window now has the 'Cancel' button.
     * 'Start maximized' option for Browser added ('WatzNew Settings' ->
       'Browser' tab).
     * Minor bugs fixed.

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    VERSION 1.1 Pre-Release 2                                    16-Jun-1999
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     * Many bugs introduced in PR 1 fixed.
     * E-mail retrieving is more stable now.
     * Now the LAST e-mail message info is retrieved, not the first.

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    VERSION 1.1 Pre-Release 1                                    13-Jun-1999
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     * The ability to set up custom multiple actions (up to 10) for each
       channel!
     * GREAT interface improvements in Channel Properties Window.
     * ..., ..., ..., 
  • ...
    • , message template
       macros added. Now you can make your messages more attractive!
     * "Alert on changes" option added to Channel Preferences Window.
     * New online/offline mode detection scheme added -- it should work
       fine under NT now.
     * Automatic program install/uninstall.
     * Program is much more stable now.
     * Fixed bug in message templates when %10 would be treated as %1,
       %2x as %2 and so on. The number of parameters is truly unlimited
       now!
     * Tray icon hint is more informative now.
     * Alert windows are auto-adjusted now to show the entire message and
       slighly redesigned to support multiple actions.
     * Text in alert windows is rendered exactly in the same way as
       in the main channels list.
     * If the channel title contained '[' or ']' characters, the channel
       would be saved incorrectly -- fixed.
     * Pressing 'Check All' button would place disabled channels in queue
       also -- fixed.
     * The ability to set up custom pop server port number added.
     * The ability to specify additional parameters for mailer added.
     * Now you can define the exact path to your browser and specify
       additional parameters for it.
     * "Stay on Top" feature added ('WatzNew Settings' -> 'Appearance'
       tab).
     * 
     message template macro (same as '\n') added.
     * Negative value for Date/Time 'Left' field aligns the date/time
       string to the right edge of the channel cell.
     * The nifty scrollbar added to the main window.
     * "Show Scroll" option is removed; the scrollbar is always visible
       now.
     * "Forced online mode" option added ('WatzNew Settings' ->
       'Connection' tab).
     * "Use old detection scheme" option added ('WatzNew Settings' ->
       'Connection' tab) to switch between new/old detection schemes.
     * All '&#nn;' and '&#nnn;' html codes are converted to
       corresponding characters. '©', '®', some german
       language specific characters are translated too.
     * "Launch at startup" option added. ('WatzNew Settings').
     * When importing channels to the list they are compared with the
       existing ones now. If the similar channel exists the
       'update/skip/rename' dialog appears.
     * Fixed bug when zero value of 'Load first [nn] Kb' wouldn't save.
     * Miscellaneous minor improvements and fixes.
    
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    VERSION 1.0.3                                                07-May-1999
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     * Multiple alert windows.
     * Application eats much less memory and starts faster.
     * "New Line" '\n' macro added to Message template.
     * Channels are checked in the order they appear in the list.
     * Misc. minor interface improvements.
     * Channel list won't refresh when adding channel via tray icon popup
       menu -- fixed.
     * Scheme would reset to 'Default' when 'Edit Current Scheme' button
       was pressed -- fixed.

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    VERSION 1.0.2                                                29-Apr-1999
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     * Fully customizable interface with several predefined schemes (Tiny,
       Normal, Full etc.).
     * The ability to display multiline messages added. You can
       enable/disable multiline messages for each scheme individually.
     * You can show / hide ScrollBar via 'WatzNew Settings' ->
       'Appearance' -> 'Show ScrollBar'.
     * Minor bugs fixed.

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    VERSION 1.0.1                                                11-Apr-1999
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     * 'Check All' feature added.
     * A bug in E-mail notification has been fixed. Now WatzNew will notify
       you only when the amount of messages or the first message header is
       changed. No more annoying alerts each time the non-empty mailbox is
       checked.
     * Channel saving is stable now (fixed bugs appeared in 1.0.0.153).
     * WatzNew now automatically detects an url in clipboard and shows it
       in Add Channel Wizard.
     * Adding channels is much more simple now. Simply copy the desired url
       to clipboard, right-click on the tray icon and choose 'Add Url From
       Clipboard' to add the site to channel list.
     * Miscellaneous interface improvements.

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    VERSION 1.0.0 (build 153)                                    01-Apr-1999
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     * Proxy support added ('WatzNew Settings' -> 'Proxy' tab).
     * Integration with Online Documentation added.
     * Pattern searching bug fixed. Searching works fine now.
     * Channel saving is safer now (this should eliminate the possibility
       of occasional channel data loss).
     * Adding Mail account is more simple now.
     * Changing mail server in 'Settings' window would cause adding an
       'http://' prefix to it as for urls. Fixed.

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    VERSION 1.0.0 (build 149)                                    25-Mar-1999
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     * The first public beta release of WatzNew.

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