AmigActive 26/AACD 26.iso/AACD/System/VaporToolkit/VAT.ReadMe

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Vapor_Toolkit
=============

The vapor_toolkit.library is a library of support functions which
are used by most Vapor applications and thus can be shared to
reduce individual application code size.

History
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4.1
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- fixed startup crash problems when vapor_toolkit.library was the
  first opener of muimaster.library (Thou Shalt Not OpenLibrary()
  From UserLibInit())

5.0
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- added VAT_SetFmt()/VAT_SetTxtFmt() calls

6.0
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- added VAT_GetAppScreen()

7.0
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- added registration library calling stub

8.0
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- added Datatype identification functions
- added MIME.prefs parsing functions
- fixed VAT_SetLastUsedDir()

9.0
---
- fixed a serious bug in the URL detection code
- added VAT_GetAppScreenName()
- changed VAT_SetLastUsedDir() to verify whether
  the ENVARC: contents really changed, to avoid
  unnecessary writes to the HD in case of a
  crash condition

9.1
---
- modified URL scanner to not report "empty" URLs,
  i.e only "mailto:" or "http://"

9.2
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- fixed recognizing of e-mail addresses at the start of
  a line

9.3
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- fixed recognition of e-mail addresses to no longer
  grab IRC userhost notation
- fixed URL scanner to not recognite something like
  "http://" as an URL

9.4
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[internal]

9.5
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- fixed broken URL structure (which nuked URL
  scanning in MD-2 and AmIRC)

10.0
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- added VAT_FGets()

10.1
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- URL scanner now also finds https://

11.0
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- added VAT_NewShowRegUtil()

11.1
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- sending IPC messages to Voyager is now asynchronous.
  Fixes deadlock problems with TI inside V, and generally
  when a crashed V is around.

11.2
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- rewrote IPC reply handler to use two different message
  ports for processing rexx and Voyager IPC replies.
  Fixes bug introduced in 11.1, and also a possible nuke
  when MIME.prefs were modified while a rexx msg was
  outstanding

12.0
----
- added VAT_IsOnline() call to detect whether a TCP/IP
  is available and online. Deals with both Miami
  and Genesis.

12.1
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- fixed VAT_GetAppScreenName() to traverse the system
  Pub screen list and actually *find* the application screen,
  instead of relying on the MUI prefs item. Fixes «FrontMost»
  and other crap (Olli)

12.2
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- VAT_ExpandTemplate() was blatantly ignoring the maxlen
  parameter, allowing Buffer-Overflow® (Entity)

12.3
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- changed SetLastUsedDir() to check whether ENV:/ENVARC:Vapor
  exist before doing a CreateDir(), to not confuse people who
  have their SYS: drives locked (Olli)

12.4
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- ultra-lame bug in the notification handler for MIMEPrefs
  caused the filehandlers in question (mostly RAM) to do
  a Signal( NULL, ... ) (Olli)

12.5
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- VAT_OpenLibrary() now no longer tries to open Libs/<libname>
  and /Libs/<libname> if the Library name already contains
  path components (Olli)

12.6
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- now tries to flush libs if VAT_OpenLibrary() fails, to
  encourage loading of a current version from disk (Olli)
- did the same for vat.lib and loading of vapor_toolkit
  in the first place (Olli)
- updated to open vapor_registration V7 (Olli)

12.7
----
- fixed a possible race condition with
  MIME prefs notification on first init (Olli)

12.8
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- VAT_IsOnline() now checks ENV:VAPOR/VAT_ISONLINE_MIAMIDEVICE
  for the Miami device name to check. Defaults to "mi0" when
  unset. Mainly for script writers with advanced configuration
  (Olli)
- Fixed VAT_OpenLibrary() to not flush memory even if
  library opened successfully (Olli)

12.9
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- Fixed URL scanner to expect a space (or begin of line)
  before recognizing "ftp." and "www." as URL introducers
  (Olli)

13.0
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- added WB version verification (Olli)

13.1
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- added "Don't warn again" button to WB version warning (Olli)

13.2
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- bump for free :)

13.3
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- VAT_IsOnline() was broken for Genesis (Zapek)

14.0
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- made the "wrong vapor toolkit lib" requester more clear
  by stating that a reboot might be required if an old version
  is still in memory (Olli)

14.1
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- fixed URL scanner seeing blah@*.something as email (Entity)

14.2
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- fixed URL scanner to properly cut off stuff like
  ". from URLs (tends to happen in topics) (Olli)

15.0
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- fixed URL scanner to not recognize "www." or "ftp." alone
  as URLs (Olli)
- fixed URL scanner to recognize URLs in () or [] (Olli)

15.1
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- VAT_SendRXMsg() didn't work if the path part of the script invoked
  contained spaces (such as "Ram Disk:") (Entity)

15.2
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- Fixed buffer overflow caused by last changes to VAT_SendRXMsg() (Entity)

15.3
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- Fixed VAT_SendRxMsg() to handle 'escaped' commands properly (Entity/Olli)

15.4
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- Improved the random noise generator a bit (Olli)
- Fixed URL scanner to not regard stuff like "ftp.x" or "www.x" alone as
  URLs (Olli)

15.5
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- Fixed some functions returning garbage on memory allocation failure (Zapek)
- Added MorphOS version (Zapek)

15.6
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- fixed VAT_FreeVecPooled() not always working for the MorphOS version (Zapek)
- fixed VAT_VFPrintfAsync() stupidly crashing under MorphOS (Zapek)

15.7
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- recompiled with MorphOS directcalls (Zapek)
- fixed crashes with the MorphOS version and Microdot2 (Zapek)

15.8
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- fixed a problem with MPZ_Pow() not being reentrant, thus causing
  crashes when multiple applications were started quickly together
  (Olli)