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4.2b3 Change Notes
Sun, Dec 15, 1996 at 10:14:39 AM by DW
MISCELLANEOUS CHANGES
1. New directives #define, #defineScript
A powerful new feature. See Narrative page.
2. toys.outlineToList, toys.listToOutline
Convert from a hierarchic outline to a hierarchic list, and vice versa.toys.outlineToList copies all the siblings of the cursor headline, including the cursor headline.toys.listToOutline inserts as siblings of the cursor headline.
3. frontier.version
Set to 4.2b3.
4. extensions.pbs
Included newest version of Brent's Commands UCMD.
5. toys.commentDelete
Fixed it. It would break page-building if a directive contained an exclamation point!Lesson learned: always review code after testing it.
6. outlineSite macro
New directive, #siteDefaultName, defaults to user.html.prefs.defaultFileName.Allows you to outline sites that have index.html as their default file.
7. user.html.prefs.defaultFileName
A new prefs setting, if you're running WebSTAR or a Microsoft server set it to default.If you're running a Unix server, try "index". Or whatever...
8. html.buildOnePage
Sometimes you need to build a page from a script. html.buildOnePage makes it easy.
9. system.misc.cmd2click
Looks in user.html.renderers too.
10. html.data.standardMacros.renderObject
Allow outline renderers to run from the tools table.Allow renderers to run from anywhere -- you can include a full address in #renderOutlineWith directive.See user.websites.midas.odb.ideas. Cmd2click on ideaListRenderer.
11. html.data.standardMacros.cSourceFile
Tweaked it up so user.websites.midas.odb.sampleapp would look nice.
12. user.websites.midas.["#template"]
Converted it to an outline.
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