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3.0 96/02/02
• Scrolling speeds improved when selection active
• Fixed update problem when display pixel depth changed via Control Strip
• Option for making custom map file icons when saving added
• ToolBox terrain and tool selections now saved in preferences file
• Amount of free memory available now displayed in the about box
• New utility to center all terrain in Bolo map rectangle implemented
• Bolo graphics for 5x magnification implemented
• Mines can now be placed under bases and PBs with pencil
• Direction of existing start squares can now be changed by clicking and dragging with pencil
• Custom popup CDEF replaced with Sys. 7 popup CDEF
• BMAPEdit now PowerPC native
• Option-click with paint bucket now selects region where “paint” would flow to
• Shift-option-click w/ paint bucket now extends existing region selection
• Extended keyboard shortcuts added for page up, down, left (help), right (home)
• Extended keyboard shortcuts added for undo, cut, copy, paste
• B&W PB ranges no longer toggle on and off while pencil is moving through map
• Fixed crash that occured when new map item selected
• 68k code now compiled with CodeWarrior 8 C
• Bolo graphics drawing performance enhanced
• Drag and drop of selections between windows and to/from the Finder implemented
• Can now set all bases or pillboxes from base & PB dialogs
• Terrain under bases and pillboxes can now be set in base & PB dialogs
• System 7 now required
• Tiled random map implemented
• Random fills of boats now only effect existing water terrain
• Cursors no longer change from arrow when top window is "Window Shaded"
• Random island no longer erases selected area to background before generating new island
• Escape key now deselects (along with tab), rather than deletes
• If memory partition for BMAPEdit increased, offscreen graphics memory size increased
• Show base, pillbox, and start square numbering option added
• Low memory warnings added
• Fixed autoscrolling bug when dragging a selection with a grid size greater than 1
• Undo of random map now correctly restores previous selection
• Pressing control key now shortcut for magnifier
• Changing base or pillbox numbers now just swaps with other special square
• File creation errors no longer cause BMAPEdit to quit when saving as PICT or text
• Option key pressed with save or close now saves or closes all map windows
• Transform again item added to Edit menu that repeats last move, rotate, or reflection
• Windows menu now operates correctly if two maps with the same name are open
• Reliable random number generator added
• Warning now given when saving map without start squares
• Shuffle logical base/PB ordering utility added
• Random map generators no longer place pillboxes on buildings or shot buildings
• X-Y position display now snaps to current grid setting
• 32 bases and PBs can now be placed in windows (only first 16 saved, however)
• Long horizontal and vertical random walks now converge properly
• Performance of lasso tool improved
• Area of current selection (in # of map squares) is now displayed in ToolBox
• Drawing bug fixed that was evident when grabbing newly-opened window
• Options menu replaced with single preferences dialog (in Edit menu)
• Opening untitled map when opening BMAPEdit application added
• New balloon help for larger dialogs added
• Dialog value scroll bars replaced with real sliding controls
• 3D controls added to dialogs
• Text flavors included in drags is optional
• All dragging now uses offsets from start position that are multiples of the grid size
• BMAPEdit now yields more time to other applications when not busy
• Bases, PBs, and start squares can now be specified in terrain replacement
• PB damage levels now displayed 8x8 and 5x5 magnifications (color only)
• Color animated spinning tank cursor removed to eliminate random crashes
• PB range circles changed from 7 to 8 map squares (max distance PB shots travel)
• Documentation completely revised in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format
2.0.1 94/10/15
• ‘M’ keyboard shortcut changed from Mines to swaMp
• ‘L’ keyboard shortcut added for buiLding (or waLL)
• Fixed update bug when setting base ownership
• Fixed bus error problem in ToolBox windoid WDEF
2.0 94/08/19
• Updated ToolBox WDEF to use Sys. 7 color schemes
• Save as Text now closes file properly when done
• City and maze generators now work on all selection types
• Fixed update bug with ToolBox special square counts
• Changed default maze barrier width to 1 (was 2)
• Changed max grid size to 25 (was 50)
• Destination square now highlighted when pencil & bulldozer cursors in use
• Paint bucket does not cross selection boundaries regardless of click location
• Added “power thumbing” scroll bars
• Added active numeric feedback while adjusting settings scroll bars in dialogs
• Fixed minor problem with menu handling
• Improved opening large window when ToolBox zoomed to small bar
• Ability to launch Bolo with a specific map file added
• Utilities menu items reorganized with least-used-last priority
• Fixed window color (palette) problem when drawing to screen set to 16 colors
• Open file bug which reopened file previously opened fixed (introduced in version 1.4)
• Open file dialog now displays a preview of the selected map before it is opened
• Top map window now checked in windows menu
• Rewrote error checking when converting clipboard to PICT format for export
• Improved random map start square placement
• File EOF now set to proper length after writing map file
• Fixed nasty Sys. 6 bug where Save As... was failing
• Fixed window update problem after random base & PB placement
• Undo no longer crashes when memory is low
• Fixed Revert File bug
• Menus are now properly disabled when last map window is closed
• Undo now restores previous area selection
• Pave craters utility removed and replaced with general terrain substitution utility
• Fixed bug in popup menu handling
• Fixed obscure bug in grabber hand
• Special squares now verfied and corrected when map file is saved
• Zooming window now zooms from center of window, instead of top-left
• Reflection & rotation tools no longer trash special squares routinely
• Start square directions now transformed by reflection & rotation tools
• Reverting map to last saved now kills any existing selection automatically
• Random blob, grabber, and bulldozer tools added to ToolBox (keyboard shortcuts still as before)
• Scrolling speed improved by no longer erasing old terrain
• Lasso tool added to ToolBox for selecting existing regions
• Ability to frame outside borders of selections implemented
• Polygon framing is now inside selection borders; changed from left and below border lines
• Random base-PB placement utilities can now place bases and PBs in adjacent pairs
• Customization of reduced display colors removed
• Fixed flashing cursor bug in magnifier tool
• Default PB speed changed to 50 from 100 (Everard Island resource BMAP is 50)
• PB settings dialog speed control min/max changed to 0->255 from 0->254
• Files opened from finder (drag & drop) now direct subsequent open/save dialogs to that folder
• Water text char changed to ‘.’ (was ‘:’)
• Bases and PBs now drawn in green if owner is #1; bases now drawn in red if owner > #1
• Changed title of ‘Set Default’ buttons to ‘Set To Defaults’ (clarification)
• Lightened blue and green shades used for color printing
1.4 94/01/03
• Fixed update problem w/ Random Bases & PBs and Show PB Ranges
• Fixed update problem when autoscrolling and ToolBox covering part of window
• Start squares can now be dragged outside of the terrain limit rectangle
• Display colors in magnifications below 8x8 can now be customized
• 1x1 and 3x3 B&W display modes implemented
• Opening new map window no longer kills undo on already open map windows
• Fixed bug that made invisible PBs when correcting a map w/ multiple PBs on one square
• Fixed 32-bit mode incompatibility with custom popup menu CDEF
• Zoom window now zooms to screen with largest area of window
• Rotation/reflection tools no longer produce “holes” at non-right angles
• Rotated or reflected selections can now be dragged while paint still “wet”
• Map files are now only open when reading or writing
• Copy/paste of rectangular map terrain sections as text implemented
• Import/export of text representations of map terrain implemented
• Fixed PB range update bug when cutting and/or pasting
• Craters can now be “paved” (replaced) with either road or grass
• Checking for modifier keys is now internationally-friendly
• Fixed bug that left old selections on screen after autoscrolling a new selection
• Improved initialization of dialogs
• Snap-to-grid implemented
• ToolBox can now be zoomed to a small-sized bar without closing
• Fixed bug that deleted PBs, bases, or starts that were dragged zero squares
• Random base-PB placement is now restricted to land terrain only
• Bases and PBs in outer minefield are now displayed properly
• Improved display of B&W PB ranges
• Bases and PBs can now be placed outside of the terrain limit rectangle
• Added caution alert when placing bases or PBs in the outer minefield
• Make random island now erases selection (w/ background terrain) before creating island
• Paint bucket and random blob utilities now paint under bases and PBs properly
• Cursor changes to indicate random blob utility when shift key is pressed and pencil selected
• Random walk now ignores line size setting -- always uses line size equal to 1
• Canceling special square dialogs no longer disables undo
• Improved error handling when printing
• Paint bucket now applies pattern selected in Patterns menu when painting
1.3 93/08/18
• Fixed bug with scroll bar arrows after mag change
• Fixed scrolling bug caused by drawing partial squares at left & bottom
• Fixed bug with random number generator (showed up generating large mazes)
• Speed performance of maze generator improved (≈3.4 min for max size maze on SE/30)
• Spinning cursor now spins either CW or CCW randomly
• Fixed crash when opening base & PB settings dialogs
• Fixed problem with floating ToolBox activation
• Autoscrolling implemented
• Selection marqee now transformed after rotate or reflect
• Improved performance of rotate & reflect tools
• Greatly improved speed performance of random fills on large areas
• Fixed bug with random number generator integer ranges
• “Pinholes” now optional in island generator
• Reduced memory requirements (66k per open BMAP)
• Improved centered (option-click) selection dragging
• Improved drawing & scrolling speeds
• Fixed problem with window titles and printing
• Command key conflict between Clone & Increase Mag resolved (Clone is now cmd-';')
• Fixed bug with Clone selection and special squares
• Added random path walk -- option-drag with line tool
• Improved appearance of B&W printing
• Added random frame utility
• Added display of outer deep water mine field
• Improved appearance of 10x10 mag. map display
• Color printing added
• Random map generator implemented
• 12x12 view mode added
• Drag selection now pinned to limit rectangle
• Selection tools now clipped to limit rectangle
• Minimum memory partition reduced to 750K
• Tab key now deselects
• Selected pattern is now ignored when making random city, island, or map
1.2 93/06/21
• Implemented Bolo preview graphics (special thanks to Tom Barrett & Stuart Cheshire)
• Implemented 10x10 & 8x8 reduced Bolo graphics
• Fixed bug with default magnification and B&W windows
• Fixed bug that showed itself when double-clicking with the magnifier
• Added grabber hand (activated with space bar)
• Added Utilities menu item to set bases & PBs to default values
• Added Utilities menu item to remove special squares
• Blocked spinning cursor when in background
• Added preferences file
• Keyboard shortcut for pointer -- command key
• Random city generator added
• Fixed bug that left selection highlight on after scrolling or grabbing window
• Changing options settings now redraws all visible windows
• Fixed bug in verify & correct special sqrs routine (executed when opening files)
• Click-drag w/ feedback when penciling start squares sets start square direction
• Line tool makes continuous paths for road, water, deep water at line size = 1
• Moved Center Window item from Utilities to Windows menu
• Added Clone selection item
• Fixed drawing bug with multiple windows in System 6
• Fixed mag tool reducing magnification below B&W minimum
• Increased maximum number of polygon points to 128
• Added background terrain popup menu to ToolBox
• Mag menu items now center changes in window, or on an active selection
• Added +/- items to mag menu
• Save as PICT file implemented
• Undo of undo added
• Added random island generator
• Fixed bug with Select All and Random Fills
• Added random base & PB placement
• Added grow random shape -- shift-pencil
• Improved interface when option-clicking a new polygon point
• Bulldozer cursor now appears when removing special squares
• Removed erasing entire window when redrawing
• Fixed update area problem when dragging bases
• Fixed problem with checking window bit depth
• Fixed contrained dragging bug
• Partial squares are now drawn along bottom and right of map window
• Large windows are now tiled with ToolBox when opened
• Different cursor for rotate-reflect
• Select All now selects rectangle bounding non-deep water terrain
• Open file centers display at center of map area
1.1 93/04/22 -- Initial release