D I A L O G E N H A N C E R ' 9 9 D A T F I L E - D O C U M E N T A T I O N
Readme Version : 1.60
UPDATE.DAT Version : 6.00g English
Release Date : 5th June 1999
Dialog Enhancer Home Page : http://www-student.lboro.ac.uk/~mcrsc/ostrans.html
Dialog Enhancer support : dialogenhancer@bmtmicro.com
(Please label all mail clearly with "Dialog Enhancer [...]" in the message title)
*** CONTENTS ***
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1.0 Introduction
1.1 History Of Changes
1.2 Known Problems
1.3 Bug Report Methods
1.4 Updated System Areas
1.5 3rd Party Support
1.7 Credits
1.7 Work In Progress
1.8 Disclaimer
*** 1.0 Introduction ***
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Welcome to the latest version of the Warp 4.0 Dialog Enhancer DAT file. Please ensure you read all the documentation before proceeding
with the installation. For the latest changes and updates made to the pack file, please read the file history below.
Significant changes have been made to the format of the pack file, and in so doing so, the size of the pack file has decreased significantly -
without loss of features. This build does however require the latest version of the installer - Dialog Enhancer '99.
Regards
Richard Castle.
Dialog Enhancer Development.
*** 1.1 History of changes ***
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6.00g Gamma Release - 5/6/1999
*** 1.2 Known Problems ***
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1. Open dialog for FileGraph PM is broken.
2. TCPIP Configuration notebook displays TEMP for sub pages. (Ideas anyone?)
Notes :
1. Programs that DE can update using the current level of UPDATE.DAT are written out to the file 'UPDATE.LST' during install.
2. The new version of IBM TCPIP will not be updated.
3. Some applications within OS/2 have hard coded dialogs. This is most obvious in the FDISK PM application where the system
proportional font is still used in the main window. There is no possible way of changing this without hacking the application executable.
*** 1.3 Bug Report Methods ***
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1. Forms are provided on the Dialog Enhancer home page to ease bug reporting. Please ensure you are clear about the bug
and let us know your system details. When we mention bug, we mean any form of Dialog irregularity. Please enclose any
.ERR files created in the install folder, and paste in the INSTALL.LOG file into the space provided.
2. Personal E-mails are welcome with comments and suggestions. We would be interested to hear from those who would like
some 3rd Party application supported in the next release of Dialog Enhancer. Just let us know what apps you would like to see
overhauled, and we will begin to update the most popular requests.
*** 1.4 Updated System Areas ***
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Clipboard Viewer
TCPIP Properties notebook pages
Device Driver Installer
Display Driver Installer
System Editor
PM FDisk
Help Viewer
Icon Editor
System Spooler Viewer
PM Checkdisk
PM Format
System dialogs
PM Seek and Scan Files
System VDM properties dialogs
System VDM window dialogs
System icons
Hardware Manager
WarpCenter
TCPIP Terminal setup
SLIP Message utility
Dial Other Internet Providers
TCPIP Properties notebook dialog surround
Telnet PM Application
TCPIP Uninstaller
IBM LAN components
Warp 4.0 Registry Editor
OS/2 Uninstaller
Migrate applications
WIN-OS/2 Open dialog
WIN-OS/2 About boxes
PM View 1.02
Priority Master 2.5
Smalled 2.0
OS/2 Multimedia components
Netscape Communicator 4.04
ZOC 3.12
PMMail 1.96 / 2.01
Printer Subsystem and OMNI+PLOTTER+POSTCRIPT drivers
AWE 32 Control Panel and Mixer
ScreenSaver 2.6
File Phoenix Undelete
Netscape 2.02
*** 1.5 3rd Party support ***
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Dialog Enhancer will check the file chosen on the 3rd party selection screen for size against what it expects. If the application has been modified, updated with a fix etc, you will need to select the option to stop Dialog Enhancer from checking the size. This is done so at the users own risk. If the program has simply had fixes made to it then it is quite safe to use this option.
*** 1.6 Credits ***
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Below is a list of the hard-working people who have helped me test Dialog Enhancer '99 and improve it before it was released
for public testing.
George Boles, Konstantin Zhilenko, Mark Mellin, Ronald Brill, Johan Sjostrom, Stephen D. Holden, Neville Cobb, Michael Rowe,
Per Johansson, Ben Borden, Richard J. Martin, Gerrit Schoenmaker, Patrick G. Gaerlan, Frank Berke, Adam P. Roycraft, John Moore,
Peter Lindeman, Alex Newman, Eugene Tucker.
Special thanks go out to...
Thomas Bradford, Eirik Overby, Andrea Resmini, Ingo Guenther, Eric Slaats, the guys at OS/2 e-Zine and BMT Micro.
And anyone else who we have omitted. (Sorry!)
*** 1.7 Work In Progress ***
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The broad coverage of Dialog Enhancer '99 in terms of the dialogs updated. Expect to see some more 3rd party applications
supported in the near future!
The Dialog Enhancer '99 pack file is being extended to support Win-OS/2 applications, and give them an OS/2 look. This will
be an optional extra selectable on install for registered users. Keep an eye out later in the year for further updates.
*** 1.8 Disclaimer ***
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This package is provided 'as is', without any guarantees whatsoever. We are not liable or responsible for any loss or damage of any kind whatsoever, including, but not limited to, losses of a financial, physical, psychic, emotional, marital, social, or mental nature that may result from the use or the purported use of anything in this package, for any purpose whatsoever.
