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Version history
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1.24 Bugs fixed:
. Font usage counting revised again. Version 1.23 might lose a font
while still in use for an icon, resulting in "Illegal font handle"
error
. Incorrect PROC call within PROCsetworkarea. No one complained, so
apparently the line is rarely executed
. Gave an error if an icon resize-drag ended outside the template
Additions:
. Pressing the cursor keys moves the currently selected icons
(without needing to drag with Shift+Select)
. When editing multiple icons, you can now set just 1 aspect: click
with Menu on 'Update' or 'Update & Exit'; then choose which flags
you want to change. The other settings of the icons remain the same
. Menu items to View/Re-load/Reset the custom sprites. (The "View"
item just Filer_Runs the sprite file; use "Re-load" after editing
the sprites; 't would be nice if !Paint supported the External Edit
protocol...)
. (Due to popular demand:) Pointer changes above appropriate icons in
the Icon Edit and Window Edit windows (was: only if using the 3D
templates). Not for RiscOS 2
. To minimize the 'Max size' field, click with Adjust on the
'Max size' text icon (sets number to length of text + 1)
1.23 Bugs fixed:
. PLEASE NOTE: Use of function keys in the Edit windows has changed:
F2 = Update
F3 = Update & Exit
F4 = Exit
F1 is for activating interactive help, be it !StrongHelp or RiscOS
!Help. (This also follows Acorn guidelines)
. If a drag-select ended with the pointer over another window, the
icons in that window were selected (instead of in the window where
the drag started ...)
. Input focus wasn't shown correctly for templates with 'Pane' bit set
(instead, the non-pane window that was last opened, was highlighted)
. Count of font usage not always correct; sometimes caused the
counting by the FontManager to be too high
. Extended icon info (via !Help) gave wrong ESG number
Additions:
. During icon move/resize, Icon info window shows coords of drag-box
(thanks to Paul Hobbs for showing that it can be done)
This means that for single icons you can see the new position and
size during the drag.
. Interactive help for Icon Edit and Window Edit windows: press F1
with pointer above a button, to get help on the flag that this
button represents (!StrongHelp and !TemplHlp must be loaded first)
. Double grid:
- 'Icon size' grid locks all corners of the icons
- 'Icon position' grid locks the bottomleft corner, leaving the
size unchanged
. 'Same size' for icon selections
. Cooperates in desktop save (RiscOS 3)
. TAB key can be used to move the caret in dialogue windows
1.22 Bugs fixed:
. Copying templates caused an error, due to a brilliant new bug in
version 1.21
. Better calculation of minimum icon size
. Revised renumbering of icon selection
Additions:
. Filer-like browser window
. Hotkeys for Align, Space Out and for Copy Up/Down/Left/Right
. When editing title bar, you can set its colours from the Icon
Edit window (was: from Window Edit window only)
. Pressing Esc during a drag aborts it
. Moving icons to other templates is equivalent to copying
. Prevents desktop shutdown if data is changed & not saved
. Menus over Edit windows (Button type, ESG, Font etc.) pop up
when ANY mouse button is pressed (was: only for Menu button)
1.21 Bugs fixed:
. Sprite area pointer of windows was not reset to 1 (Wimp area) when
saving
. Saving to other applications (via Wimp$Scrap) now properly supported
Now it is possible to exchange templates between 2 copies of TemplEd
. Another bug in Wimp_LoadTemplate (#$&$#%@!!!): it expects some
indirected data for an indirected non-text, non-sprite icon.
Although the indirected data is not used, it won't digest an
invalid pointer.
Additions:
. Uses DragASprite in save windows
. Hotkeys for some functions (^Z, ^X, ^C etc.)
. Windows can be centered to the screen
. Icons can be centered to the window
. Support for AEH module
. 'Minimize size' for icons
. Using cursor keys to move pointer now also works for moving/
resizing windows (when done using Ctrl+Select/Ctrl+Adjust)
. When loading a templates file called 'Templates', TemplEd
automatically loads the 'Sprites' file from same directory, if such
a file exists
. MaxFonts% limit removed: font menu can contain any number of font
families
. If browser window is closed, all template windows are closed, too
1.20 Bugs fixed:
. Templates with deleted, indirected icons were saved without any
indirected data; Wimp_LoadTemplate gave an error when reading this,
because it expects some indirected data. (Weird...)
. TemplEd's own templates may now contain outline fonts (including
the custom icons for the 'Create icon' submenu)
. Would not run together with Joris R÷lings !FontSelect utility; the
FontLister module did not like the way TemplEd (v1.11) reads the
font names.
Additions:
. Resizing of a selection of icons
. Reads 'Templates' and 'Sprites' file of an application when its icon
is dropped on the icon bar
. Renumbering of a selection of icons
. Moving the mouse pointer during icon move/resize: cursor keys move
the pointer 1 pixel, or 4 pixels when combined with the Shift key
. When creating standard icons (from the 'Create icon' submenu), you
can now create several icons with one click.
(NOTE: the way standard icons are defined has changed. If you
already have a set of custom icons, DON'T just copy them into the
Templates file. Read the section on customizing in the Manual.)
. Option 'Delete icons moved outside'
. Alternative sets of templates and sprites, with 3D look
. Possibility to resize icons when aligning
. Icon resizing now only in 1 dimension (x or y) at a time
. Double-click on icon, title bar or background opens the appropriate
Edit window
. Drag-selecting of templates in 'Templates' window
. Souped-up 'Templates' window: templates appear as sprite+name
. Direction (up/down/left/right) for copying of icons in menu
. Extended icon info, such as button type and validation string, is
sent to !Help (Acorn's interactive help application).
. Help files for !StrongHlp
. Possibility to set coordinates of topleft corner (min.X & max.Y) of
work area (were fixed to 0,0 in old version)
1.11 Removed automatic minimizing of WimpSlot at startup, since it seemed
to give problems with RiscOS 2
Grid size now adapts to mode changes
1.10 First distributed version
1.00 Test version
Known bugs
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* Double-clicking on an icon to open the Icon Edit window does not work
smoothly with all button types; the Wimp interferes with TemplEd's
reactions to clicks. For the same reason, double-clicking on the title bar
has the weird effect that the Icon Edit window is opened, and immediately
the template window is re-opened on top. I have made the double-click thingy
optional; if you don't like it, you can switch it off.
* There seems to be a bug in the Wimp, causing the machine to hang when you
quit an application by clicking on a 3D button (e.g. 'Discard'). That may
also happen if you use TemplEd with the 3D templates. I built a 'delayed
quit' into TemplEd; that avoids the bug (or so I heard). But, since I never
saw such a crash while testing TemplEd, I'm not sure if this cure works
at all...
Limitations
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* Limits on the number of templates and the number of icons per template.
This can be changed by setting the variables MaxTemplates% and MaxIcons%.
There is also a limit on the size of indirected data that is stored with a
template. Current settings:
MaxTemplates% = 100
MaxIcons% = 200
MaxIndirSize% = 8000
Note: files contain only actual contents; an empty indirected string with
max size of 1000 takes up 1 byte (the CR terminator) in the file.
* TemplEd can't handle indirected strings longer than 255 bytes. You can set
the maximum length above this limit, but TemplEd can't put more than 255
characters in a text area.
* You can't set the sprite area for each icon separately; all sprites in a
template are read from the same area.
* TemplEd is a single-file editor...
Possible future additions
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Future versions MAY have one or more of the following features:
* Show grid
* Multi-file editing
* Grouping of icons
* Support for the Glass format (an extended Template format), when its
definition is ready