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History of !AntUtils (latest revision first)
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©1997 P.Vigay
v1.24 (29th Sep 1999) a) Added confirmation options to potentially dangerous
operations (such as flushing Fresco's cache etc)
b) Fixed HotList management HTML segment to remove a
spurious </center> tag and to add smaller font sizes
to the date.
c) Added internal hotlist manager in addition to the
HTML format one.
d) Extensively rewrote AntUtils to use Plugins.
(This should make future development easier)
e) Tidied up Fresco sub-menu and added a 'Delete' option
to give better control over the purging of various
Fresco files.
v1.23 (17th Sep 1999) a) Added additional script files to execute on starting
and Quitting of AntUtils so that commands can be run
immediately on loading AntUtils and also executed on
Quitting AntUtils. See !Help for more info.
b) AntUtils now delays mail and news fetching if it's
already in the middle of the previous one.
c) Bug fix: Stopped icon bar icon flickering if you held
the mouse button down over it.
d) Added 'Cookies' control to Fresco menu.
e) Added check on Quit for mail/news still waiting to be
sent, if still online.
f) Added code to kill filer modules on 'SHUTDOWN' cron
command so as to force a shutdown even if data
remains in a RAM disc or to prevent the 'please insert
disc xxx' error.
g) Amended URL interception code to only intercept
internet protocols (definable in the Messages file)
h) Added control option (in Messages file) to disable the
URL interception entirely (ie. behave the same as
versions prior to v1.21)
i) Added 'Fetch' and 'Debatch' commands to cron commands.
v1.22 (22nd Aug 1999) a) Added interruption of Shutdown sequence if mail or
news is still waiting to be sent and you're still
online (or connected to a LAN).
b) Improved documentation to Cron_coms to give details
on quitting named tasks.
c) Added 'tab key' recognition to writable icons.
d) Bugfix: Added key handler routine to 'paths' window.
e) Added hotlist manager if you click on a URL without
being online. (Thanks to Anthony Hilton for the
suggestion)
f) WimpSlot increased to 156K (unfortunately).
g) Bugfix: Sig change ignored if no sigfile exists
within AntUtils.
h) Added time/freemem display to icon bar.
(press CTRL while clicking on icon bar to toggle)
i) Bugfix: Multi-User setting now being saved correctly.
j) Amended some icons for better visibility on pre-
RISC OS 3.5 machines.
k) Bugfix: 'Shutdown' command tidied up a bit.
l) Added warning message for when memory is getting
seriously low (ie. too low to top up RMA space)
v1.21a (19th Aug 1999) a) Fixed minor bug where entering a search engine
string and then selecting another search engine
before starting the search blanked the search
string.
v1.21 (18th Aug 1999) a) Included new AntUtils sprite (thanks to Richard
Foster)
b) Changed the SELECT/ADJUST action in the aux.apps
window. (can be set via 'Messages' file).
c) Added interactive help message for the pause button.
d) Fixed bug which caused a crash if the random sig
was turned on and Marcel hadn't been seen.
e) Added search engine launcher.
f) Added some more interactive help messages for the
'Open' and 'Repair' submenus.
g) Removed debugging feature left in previous versions
that made AntUtils quit if SHIFT was held down whilst
negotiating the menus.
h) Added option to fetch mail/news immediately on loading
AntUtils.
i) Amended URL launcher routine to load Fresco if not
already loaded.
j) Added a couple of extra configuration options into
the Messages file.
v1.20 (7th Aug 1999) a) Added better filename validation for Marcel inbox
repair.
b) Extended auxillary applications so that ordinary
files can be loaded from the aux.apps window.
c) Added pause function to countdown timer.
d) Made Pluto window opening on debatch optional.
e) Added some missing interactive help messages.
v1.19 (2nd Aug 1999) a) Added small icon for !AntUtils
b) Extended buffer for thumbnail indexing to allow
for long filenames.
c) Added additional path to be set so that Fresco
can be set independently of the main InetSuite.
v1.18 (27th Jul 1999) a) Added Fresco Javascript and Faking methods to save
manually editing Fresco's config file.
b) Added 'Open' option to open InetSuite's mail/news
incoming and outgoing mail queues.
c) Added simple, automated recovery routine to help
repair broken Marcel inboxes.
v1.17 (22nd Jun 1999) a) Optimised wimp polling so that AntUtils requires
vastly lower processor time.
v1.16 (24th May 1999) a) Fixed bug in signature routine where no signature
file caused a crash.
b) Fixed minor redraw bug when dropping new aux.apps
into aux.app window.
c) Added semi-automatic 'downloads' save facility.
Drag a file from a save dialogue box onto !AntUtils
icon to save the file into a preset directory. This
is handy if a save dialogue opens before you've had
a chance to open a filer window.
d) Included new, extended 'quotes' file.
v1.15 (15th Apr 1999) a) Fixed bug where clicking on the aux.apps window
background caused an array subscript error.
b) Added rudimentary control over Fresco's cache and
history.
c) Added support for interactive help.
d) Added a couple of example scripts to perform timed
mail/news downloads.
v1.14 (15th Sep 1998) a) Added autoreset option to attempt to automatically
reset and reboot the machine in the event of a fatal
error. Useful for leaving unattended!
v1.13a (11th Sep 1998) a) Made iconbar icon the correct width.
(silly error that I kept forgetting to fix).
v1.13 (9th Sep 1998) a) Allowed definable maximum length for People menu
block.
v1.12 (6th Aug 1998) a) Amended Image Indexing to allow the images to be in a
different directory to the index file. Drag the image
directory to the Image Indexing window before you drag
the index file out to create it.
b) Amended title of Image index slightly.
c) Made filename of image index linkable.
d) Amended Image indexing to only copy the background if
a file called "background" does NOT already exist.
e) Improved error handling somewhat when invalid image
directories are specified.
f) Made 'title' and 'created time' optional in Image
indexing.
v1.11 (3rd Aug 1998) a) Tidied up the 'Quick mail' routine a bit so that
AntUtils doesn't try sending mail whilst it's already
sending mail from the last time (added so that if Ant
take too long to send the existing mail, AntUtils won't
try resending a second later).
b) Swapped the mouse button action in the auxillary apps
window to be more style guide compliant. Adjust leaves
window open whereas select closes window after loading
app.
c) If the mail mechanism is set to Pluto, AntUtils will
do a single, last debatch of mail and news when you
disconnect after being online.
d) *MAJOR ADDITION*
Ability to create html index files of image directories.
v1.10 (12th Jul 1998) a) Bug fix: Timer reseting when 'Lan' setting turned on.
b) Added ability to include "|M" inside shortcut string
sequences, so that carriage returns can be included.
c) Added 'Quick mail send' option which checks for any
mail in the outgoing queue every 5 seconds and if so,
sends it straight away. NB. Advanced users can change
the time delay by editing the AntUtils.Resources.Messages
file.
v1.09 (22nd Apr 1998) a) Added 'Check RMA' option to choices so that AntUtils will
ensure that there is always enough free RMA space whilst
loaded. This hopefully eliminates the DLL crashing that
the Ant Suite sometimes suffers from on connecting.
The actual minimum size of RMA space is definied within
the AntUtils.Resources.Messages file. The default is 128k
This supercedes/fixes the method used in v1.08 (item f)
v1.08 (26th Feb 1998) a) Added option to run without installing an icon on the
bar. (Shift, Ctrl, A, U to toggle)
b) Added shortcuts to enable up to 5 specific lines of
text to be automatically inserted at the cursor position.
These are stored inside !AntUtils.Resouces.Shortcuts
c) Added facility to send an automatic debatch command to
Pluto, one minute after mail downloads and two minutes
after news downloads (user configurable).
d) Added additional web resources sites to AntUtils 'Info'
window. This allows you to hotlink visit either my own,
Ant Ltd or Jon Duddington's Pluto web sites in order to
check for latest updates.
e) Added 'tick' for status option on menu.
f) Allowed facility to claim RMA space on connection in an
attempt to 'fix' the DLL not found crashes on connection.
v1.07 (19th Jan 1998) a) Fixed bug whereby if you don't have an ADFS::HardDisc4
filepath, AntUtils will crash. Now if you wish to move
to a different machine, simply delete the
!AntUtils.Resources.choices file and re-run.
v1.06 (4th Dec 1997) a) Added 'auxillary files' window, so you can hotlink
any additional 'utility' apps you want to run with
InetSuite.
b) Made double-clicking on "Next Cron" icon in the status
window actually execute the next cron entry, ahead of
time - so you can step through them immediately.
c) Added support for Pluto newsreader.
d) Added cron logging so you can see if everything has
worked whilst you were away.
e) Should hopefully now manage signatures a bit better
when set to non multi-user.
f) Added filepath window so you can implicitly set the
paths to !InetSuite and !Pluto - so you can run AntUtils
even before the others have been 'seen'.
v1.05 (26th Aug 1997) a) Fixed bug in Lan connection where AntUtils failed to
check the Lan connection correctly, thus giving an
offline status.
v1.04 (23rd Jul 1997) a) Tidied up file handling so that open files are not
closed, if an error is detected during initialisaion.
This will enable AntUtils to become part of your
boot sequence without generating a 'file is closed'
error.
b) Amended cron routine so that only AntUtils commands
are converted to uppercase, thus leaving any oscli
commands as they are.
c) Added next cron command to status window.
d) Fixed bug where newstime was not updated correctly
when set to automatically fetch news messages.
e) Added arm code routine to reset machines on pre-
Risc OS 3.5 machines.
f) Added code so that if more than one copy of AntUtils
is loaded, the first one quits automatically, so that
only one copy of !AntUtils can be loaded at any one
time.
g) Added 'load time' to info window, mainly to see if
autoboot options and cron table's are working ok.
h) Added 'swap' command to cron table to allow for two
different cron tables to be active.
i) Clicking select on the next cron icons in the Status
window gives a message stating in full what the next
cron event is, as the status window is truncated.
v1.03 (27th Jun 1997) a) Added cron table to allow !AntUtils to execute
various commands at preset times, whilst loaded.
b) Added support for multi-user hotlists and call
logging files, due to popular demand on the Ant
Chat mailing list.
v1.02 (16th Apr 1997) a) Added automatic newsgroup fetching.
b) Added 'Autoquit' option, so that !AntUtils will
quit automatically as soon as you come offline and
quit !InetSuite.
c) Added 'Auto status' option to enable !AntUtils to
open and close the status window automatically if
you are on or off line respectively.
d) Added support for SLIP access as well as PPP.
e) Added LAN connection option to force permanent
connection.
v1.01 (22nd Jan 1997) a) Fixed bug whereby detrimental count resets approx
every five seconds. This was caused by a minor(?)
typo in a boolean calculation. (oops)
b) Added error message if you try to connect to my
web page without being online.
v1.00 (22nd Jan 1997) a) First release version, pretty much all working
and debugged, albeit the first version.
Again, please feel free to keep suggestions coming in.