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- E! for Windows - Complementary documentation
- ********************************************
-
- You'll find here the documentation for last minute changes and for
- features that have been added since your manual was printed. Reading this
- file and CHANGES.TXT will also give you a good overwiew of what's new in
- E! for Windows.
-
- Version 1.10
-
- 02/06/93 - Added Control Area in the Edit Windows
- *************************************************
-
- Lines of text are no more displayed close to the left Edit Window border.
- Moreover, the small area between the first column of the displayed text
- and the left internal window border is now called the Control Area.
-
- Some interesting new functions can be triggered with the mouse from this
- Control Area:
-
- Clicking with the left mouse button in the Control Area will select the
- corresponding line in the text area.
-
- Clicking with the same button and dragging with the mouse will select
- multiple lines of text exactly as this would happen with the Alt +
- up/down arrow keystroke or by dragging the mouse with the Alt and Shift
- keys depressed.
-
- Double-clicking with the left mouse button in the Control Area will
- duplicate the corresponding line of text.
-
- If you have selected one or more lines of text in LINE or BLOCK mode, you
- can shift the whole block of lines to the right by clicking with the
- right mouse button anywhere in the Control Area. Maintain the mouse
- button depressed to accelerate shifting. If you have made a BLOCK mode
- selection, right shifting will begin at the block left margin. In that
- case, left shifting will destroy data existing on the left of the shifted
- block. The marked block will be destroyed if you shift left past the
- first column. If necessary, use the Undo function to retrieve the lost
- data.
-
- Shifting text to the left is the same process as right shifting, except
- that you have to depress the Ctrl button before clicking on the right
- mouse button.
-
- All these functions move the cursor to the beginning of the
- processed line. Of course, the Undo function will restore any change
- made using these functions.
-
- 02/14/93 - Added Jump on Home/End option
- ****************************************
-
- The default behavior of E! is to jump to the next line when the user hits
- the END key while the cursor is already located at the end of the line.
- Likewise, the cursor is moved to the beginning of the previous line when
- the HOME key is pressed while the cursor is already located at the
- beginning of the line. This behavior can now be disabled by unchecking
- the "Jump on Home/End" option in the Edit Options dialog box of the
- Control Center.
-
-
- 02/14/93 - Font Selection dialog boxes changed
- **********************************************
-
- Internal processing of fonts has been enhanced. Consequently, there's a
- small change in the Font Selection dialog boxes. You may now specify a
- font size for all fonts (not only the True Type fonts).
-
- Also, instead of displaying all fonts in the listbox and using one line
- per available font size, each font appears only once in the listbox.
- Predefined sizes now appear in the "Font Size" combo box.
-
-
- 02/19/93 - Caret thickness control
- **********************************
-
- On some hardware configurations, the caret (keyboard cursor) may appear
- too thin and difficult to see. To increase the thickness of the caret,
- just add a thickness=n entry to the [showopt] section of ew.ini, n being
- the new thickness in pixels.
-
-
- 02/23/93 - Set Default Size command (Windows Menu)
- **************************************************
-
- The default size computed by E! for the Edit Windows may not be well
- suited for your system configuration. You can now change this default
- size by either editing EW.INI (see the EW.INI section in EW.WRI) or by
- merely selecting the Set Default Size command from the Windows menu while
- the window has the appropriate size. This default size will apply to any
- new editor created by E! unless the file has been recently edited. In
- that case, the recorded size for that file will prevail.
-
- 02/27/93 - Added CompKeywords entry in EW.INI
- *********************************************
-
- compkeywords=
-
- When compiling, depending on the length of the project file list and on
- the position of the files in error in that list, scanning the compiler
- output may last more time than you may want to accept. The reason for
- that is explained in the Compiler Support section. To shorten the time
- needed to scan the compiler output file, you may specify that an output
- line must contain a certain keyword to be considered as an error message
- (typical keywords would be 'error' or 'warning'). Specify these keywords
- here. Please read more detailed explanations in the Compiler Support
- section.
-
- ************************************************************************
-
- Version 1.20
-
- There are numerous changes in this version but they are all
- self-explanatory. The only function requiring some explanations is the
- new Drag and Drop server capability of the Control Center.
-
- 04/24/93 - "Files" listbox in the Control Center is a Drag and Drop server
- **************************************************************************
-
- Until now EW was only able to accept filenames dropped from other
- applications (mainly the File Manager or a replacement program).
-
- Now, EW itself acts as a Drag and Drop server. That is, you can select a
- filename from the "Files" listbox of the Control Center and drop it onto
- another application's window or icon. Of course, the result of this
- operation depends on the target application but it will be the same as if
- you had dropped the files from the File Manager.
-
- Since the "Files" listbox already accepts drag movements of the mouse to
- select a file, you have to indicate to EW that you are beginning a Drag
- and Drop process by depressing the Control key before beginning to drag
- with the mouse.
-
-
- ************************************************************************
- Version 1.20a
-
- 05/23/93 - Time stamp checking
- ******************************
-
- While running an EW session, the user can switch to any other Windows
- application at any time and modify text files currently edited by EW.
- Obviously, this may lead to problems if the user forgets to refresh the
- files when returning to EW. Now, EW will automatically warn you if the
- time stamp of any file that is currently edited has been changed since
- the file has been loaded or saved. You'll be prompted whether you want:
-
- 1. to retain the file version currently in memory (which is older than the
- version now present on your disk).
-
- 2. to replace the version in memory with the disk version.
-
- This will prevent from having consistency problems when regularly
- switching to and from an integrated development environment having its
- own text editor.
-
-
- ************************************************************************
- Version 1.20b
-
- 06/08/93 - Added EWGetEditorLocalFlag and EWSetEditorLocalFlag functions to the API
- ***********************************************************************************
-
- The existing functions (EWGetLocalFlag and EWSetLocalFlag) were acting on
- the local options stored in the Control Center. These new functions have
- exactly the same syntax. The only difference is that they modify or read
- the current Editor's Local Options only. They leave the Control Center
- Local Defaults settings unchanged.
-
- More on the EWEditFile function
- *******************************
-
- The documentation fails to mention that trying to load a file that is
- already edited will cause this function to return a null value. The
- Editor containing this file will be put in the foreground.
-
- 06/19/93 - Passing Column and Row information on the EW command line
- ********************************************************************
-
- Some integrated environments have a "Tools" menu for external programs
- and special macros allowing to pass customized parameters to the called
- program.
-
- To make the integration of EW in those environments easier, you can now
- specify the initial cursor position for any file loaded from the command
- line. Here is the syntax to use:
-
- ew myfile.txt (col,row)
-
- The "(col, row)" sequence should not contain any space and must
- immediately follow the filename to which it applies. There must be at
- least one space between the filename and the first brace. Here is a
- sample command line:
-
- ew myprog.c (12,40) myprog.h (15,23)
-
- will load both files at the requested position. Any position stored in
- EW.INI for that file by the "Log Session" mechanism will be ignored.
-
- Please see Technical Note #007 to see how to implement this feature when
- using the Microsoft (tm) Visual C++ Workbench.
-
-
- 06/25/93 - Added EWSaveAll function to the API.
- ***********************************************
-
- function EWSaveAll : integer;
- int FAR PASCAL EWSaveAll();
-
- Save all modified files.
-
-
- Return Value:
-
- This function always returns 0.
-
- ************************************************************************
- Version 1.20c
-
- Some users have requested a placeholder for the project name in the
- the "Commands" dialog box (Compile|Commands...).
-
- ## anywhere in a command will be replaced with the project name as entered
- in the "Project File:" field of this dialog box.
-
- ************************************************************************
- Version 1.20d
-
- Until now you may have had problems when trying to compile single file
- projects from E! with compilers issuing non-standard error messages.
- Particularly if those compilers don't insert the source filename into the
- error message string.
-
- E! now supports these compilers, assuming the following requirements:
-
- 1. You *must* have declared a Message Descriptor for this compiler. See the
- main documentation about Message Descriptors.
-
- 2. The should be *no* project file declared in the "Project File" field of
- the "Commands" dialog box opened from the "Compile" menu.
-
- Provided these conditions are met, E! will now be able to point to compiling
- errors in the source file.
-
-