HISTORY    (Was started again on Tuesday, February 22, 1994)

upto 1.97 was lost...  a quick summary follows:

Eliminated preference window
Rearranged menus
Redrew tool gadgets
Added pubscreen and depth tooltypes and cli arguments
Traps right mouse button, so no more crosshairs in menus
Preference file split
Added .keyfile for easy upgrades and registrations

...more...

14.3.94 1.93ß (140000) released to a select few
  fixed enforcer hits on cycle gadget when using ctm, needed textattr
  added test window toggle gadget
  added grid toggle gadget
  rearranged tool gadgets
  shift selecting a palette color changes dithered colors (bpen)
13.3.94 (138000)
  test window is now integrated, and can be toggled on/off
  added shiftkey to lock horizontal and vertical movements
  menu strips are cleared/reset when modified according to rkms
11.3.94
  undos are not killed when iconified
  undo levels above 32 work, oops
10.3.94
  pen color and pattern shown in magnification window
  more iconify stuff fixed
7.3.94
  palette window changed to smart_refresh to hopefully fix os3.1 problems
  no longer crashes if preview was visible when iconified
  updates visual imagery when woken up from iconify
  iconian wakes up when icon is dropped on it, and loads icon as project
4.3.94
  iconize changed to iconify.  thanks redwine
  cli arguments no longer require a filename to work
  hopefully fixed negative memory stats in about window
  added option to increase bottom borders, not default now
  allowed setting of undolevel from cli, as 1.90 did not work correctly
  tried to fix palette window problems under kickstart 3.1 ?
2.3.94
  fixed jumpy magnification slider, no more ghosts
  no longer messes up when 'edit selected...load new icon'.  thanks Osma
28.2.94
  added idcmp_followmouse to gzz windows for faster updates

26.2.94 VERSION 1.90ß released to Aminet
  released version 1.90ß to Aminet as shareware
  locale support completed.  pseudo .cd file created to reflect this
  error message handling modified to support locale
  dithering disabled, as current form is slow, unreliable, and crappy
  fixed yet more coordinate handling problems
  rewrite flip routines to be more than 5x faster
24.2.94
  "B" (capital) brings back previous graphics brush
  return key brings back previous text brush
  brushes are grabbed within borders
  show preview draw is not visible when program is inactive (frozen dots)
  brush directory string now works when program is started from workbench
  started commenting some of the source code
  tracked down an Enforcer hit relating to enable/disable the "redo" menu item
23.2.94
  fixed some font width calculations
  completely removed all tool window code
  added bevel box around coordinates (thanks Luke)
  fixed a guru related to new tool gadget locations
  finished relative coordinates
  more coordinate/crosshair problems fixed
22.2.94
  "mag draw only" now works properly
  fixed the coordinates/crosshair activation fields
  changed propnewlook to propnewlook|propborderless to get 3d scrollers
  fixed "grap color" (',' key)
  fixed "center on mouse" ('n' key)
  rewrote magnification window layout algorythm
  made "home" gadget into a "virtual" gadget
  moved tool gadgets to magnification window
  moved undo/redo gadget to magnication window
  menu item "recolor magicwb" swaps colors.  (useful for 3rd party icons)
  unlinked nodes were removed in .guide file.

20.2.94 VERSION 1.85ß released to 43 betatesters
  beta version of 1.85 was sent to approx 43 users.