Recent Changes to HTML Suite

These notes are accurate as far as the following versions of the utilities ...

The most recent changes are ...

  • The small scroll arrows now move half a page at a time, and that annoying screen re-paint has been eliminated.

  • A number of redundant menu items have been removed.

  • PCP has been changed so that it now splits news items into separate indexes, based on the sub-category information in PointCast's .lid files.

  • I fixed a bug that was introduced when I started handling sub-categories. In some of the categories, like business, the sub-categories are in sub-directories, rather than being stored in a single directory, with the split-up being defined by various A_ID.LID, B_ID.LID etc. files.

    Therefore, those ones weren't sucked in and parsed. I didn't realise this, because I didn't have any of those kind in my PCP setup.

  • All of the index files that PCP creates are now removed before it exits, so there are no remnants of it cluttering up the PointCast directories.

  • The PCP index files were being created with names like "a_id.lid.htm", which is no good for the 16-bit version. This was due to a typo in my code. I've now fixed that and they are "a_lid.htm".

  • There was another problem in the handling of directories with embedded spaces in their names, which has now been fixed.

  • I've added a lot more "foreign" characters, in particular French, German, Russian, Spanish and Scandanavian.

  • There were a number of bugs in the foreign characters. Hopefully they've now all been fixed.