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StartupFrills Version History
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v3.1 Added the ability to specify a startup movie. Note that
StartupFrills itself doesn't play this movie - it simply
copies it to the correct location for the System to
automatically play it (similar to the manner in which
startup screens are handled). Requires Quicktime to be
installed, the version number being appropriate to
the movie being played.
Restructured the preferences file.
Internal changes to the handling of preferences to improve
the object-orientation. These are fairly major, and are what
caused the preferences file structure to be altered.
Internal changes to begin moving away from constant strings
and towards STR resources. This trend will continue in
future releases
v3.0 (Limited public release)
Total rewrite. Implementation is now in C++ rather than C,
and the application has been re-designed in the object
oriented paradigm. This ought to make it easier to add any
more startup file types in the future.
Added a Configuration dialogue box.
Added the ability to speak text files. Requires Apple's
Speech Manager to be installed.
Added the ability to step through each screen or sound in
order, rather than having the selection always be random.
Added the ability to enable or disable startup file types
via the configuration dialogue.
Significant documentation changes to reflect the new
functionality. Introduced an MS-Word version of the ReadMe
file.
Made StartupFrills use a preferences file, rather than
storing all settings in its own resource fork. This means
that any configuration settings apply only to the machine on
which they're saved - a method which makes sense when the
nature of the application is considered.
Removed the need to specify source folder locations
externally (either having Startup Screens/Sounds folders
directly in the System Folder or having similarly named
aliases in the System Folder). Source folder locations are
now kept in the preferences file and specified through the
Configuration dialogue box.
Significantly reduced the executable's size. To be honest,
it's the compiler that should take the most credit for that
since there's actually more code in than ever before. However
a few loose resources have been cleaned out and the use of a
preferences file has made things more efficient.
v2.3 Taken away the responsibility for playing a sound from the
Finder and given it to StartupFrills. This results in a speed
improvement since the sound now only needs to be read
once, rather than read in once, written out again to a
different location, and the finally read again by the Finder
in order to play it. StartupFrills will also play sound in the
background, allowing other applications to continue their
startup processes (including the Finder).
v2.2 Allowed the use of aliases to folders being placed in the
System folder rather than requiring the folders themselves
to be there. This was the most requested feature missing
from v2.1, so hopefully a few people will be pleased by
its inclusion.
StartupFrills now correctly chooses only files having the
correct type ('SCRN' for screens, 'sfil' for sounds)
regardless of whether files of other types are in the
source folder.
Minor changes to the Readme file in order to include the
new functionality.
v2.1 Added support for non-English language Systems.
v2.02 (No public release)
Re-addressed the problem of a Type 1/2 error occurring.
Fixed a potential (but highly unlikely) divide by zero error.
Fixed a problem whereby folders containing only one file
would be ignored.
v2.01 Updated the ReadMe file to correctly reflect the folder
naming conventions.
Correctly implemented the help balloon.
v2.0 Changed the name from "Change Startupscreens" to
"StartupFrills"
Added random startup sounds functionality.
Added Finder icons and a help balloon.
Added a new randomising feature designed to pick the
higher numbers more often. It could be purely subjective,
but the Mac's random number generator seems rarely to
produce values near the top of its range so some files
were almost never being chosen.
v1.02 (No public release)
Fixed a bug which could cause the startupscreens folder
name to be corrupted in memory, thus preventing the
application from operating correctly.
Made the routines more generic in preparation for the
addition of random startup sounds functionality.
v1.01 Fixed a bug which would prevent the last startup screen in
the StartupScreens folder from ever being selected.
Minor documentation changes.
This version was not released to the public.
v1.0 Initial release.