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Infodex For Windows Revision File 10-19-97 ˛ Version 2.00 . Too many changes to list! :-) See Whatsnew.Doc for a list of the highlights! 09-06-97 ˛ Version 1.04 . Build 10 - Fixed a problem during an import operation where a blank line in the import file would trigger a "List Index Out of Bounds" error message. The scenario was possible if there were extra carriage returns located at the end of the import file. . Build 9 - Fixed a problem during an import operation where a line with one or more trailing spaces would trigger a "List Index Out of Bounds" error message, causing the import operation to stop. Trimmed trailing spaces from the line before parsing the fields. . Build 8 - Fixed a problem where selecting a Search Results record from the browser following a search operation would not show the user the record selected on the editing screen. Instead, the database screen would display the last record that the user had viewed. (The screen was not being refreshed following the search operation.) . Build 7 - Added two options to the Help menu. The first option launches the user's web browser and goes to STSI's home page. The second option launches the user's mail client to allow them to send email to STSI. . Build 6 - Added an option to the Registration Information screen to launch the user's web browser (if its installed on his/her system), in order to place an online order for Infodex. . Build 5 - Manually disabled a couple of registration codes belonging to non-paying customers. . Build 4 - Fixed a problem where the font and point size used on the print preview and actual printouts was not the same as the font being used on the database screen. This caused slight positioning and sizing problems on the printout. Most notably, some check boxes would not display their caption. The check box caption was "wrapping" to a new line, because not enough display space had been allocated to it. A similar problem was noted with memos, that were not displaying all of the text in an area where it should have easily fit. . Build 3 - Fixed a hotkey conflict on the Field Properties screen for the combination Alt-H. . Build 2 - Fixed a problem where the Exit button on the Layout screen was too low on screens running at 640x480 resolution. . Build 1 - Fixed a problem where the Caption left & top were not being saved correctly on a drag & drop operation (in layout mode). This could wreak havoc with the screen display if the user then edited the properties with the Field Properties dialog box before the Done button was selected. 07-16-97 ˛ Version 1.03 . Build 5 - Fixed a problem in the registration codes where network license registration numbers were not working properly. This was broken in a previous release. The changes made will fix the problem with network license registration numbers, and still allow single user license registration numbers from previous versions to work accurately. . Build 4 - Fixed a problem where the registration nag screen was appearing when the user exited Infodex, even if his registration information was valid. (This problem was introduced in Build 2 of version 1.03.) . Build 3 - Users were occasionally reporting a GPF in GDI.EXE when running at a resolution of 640x480x256 under Windows 3.11 during a sort operation. At 800x600x256, I also noticed a GPF in INFODEXW.EXE at 0031:1166 (the SysUtils unit). These problems could not be reproduced under Windows 95. Added commands to give up ticks in between each of the calls that occurred during a sort operation. . Build 2 - Fixed a minor problem where the registration information was not always being initialized correctly. (Allowed the potential for a security breach to occur.) . Build 1 - Fixed a problem where a beep would occur every time the first field on the screen was created if the field was a numeric, date, or time field. (The name of the control needed to be assigned first, before assigning other data for these types of controls.) Users would have noticed a beep every time a database was opened or when the layout was changed. 05-20-97 ˛ Version 1.02 . Build 6 - Fixed a problem where the Maximum Length of a memo field was not being assigned when a memo field was added to an existing database. This could result in a user being able to enter more text in a memo field than they should have been allowed to enter. As a result, the Maximum Length value saved to the layout database was 0. Added an on-the-fly correcting feature to Infodex. If Infodex detects a Maximum Length of 0 for a memo field, it will reset this value to the correct number. When the user clicks on the Layout button, and then selects Done, the correct value will be updated into the layout database. . Build 5 - Removed the View Layout Database option from the Utilities menu. This option had been added in version 1.01 strictly for programmer debugging purposes and was mistakenly left in for the full release. . Build 4 - Added the ability to export text contained in a memo field during an export operation. Previous versions ignored the text in memo fields during an export. Any hard-coded carriage returns are automatically removed and replaced with a space. This will allow the exported records to stay in a one-record-per-line format. . Build 3 - Added support to the database editing screen to make the Enter key work the same as the tab key, allowing the user to move between fields by pressing Enter. The only exception to this feature is when the user is editing a record and the cursor is located in a memo field. Obviously, pressing the enter key in this instance will move the cursor down one line in the memo. . Build 2 - Added a Page Orientation option to the print dialog box to support portrait or landscape mode and set up printing routines to support landscape mode. . Build 1 - Fixed a major problem in the printing logic that could cause a GPF to occur (usually at location 0003:1059) when attemping to either print or preview a report. The GPF could easily occur in any of the three formats (Match Screen, Match Browser, or Custom), but would be more likely to occur if a date and/or time field was included on the printout. (An attempt was made to retrieve and convert invalid data from the record.) 05-07-97 ˛ Version 1.01 . Build 31 - Added Copy Record and Paste Record speed buttons to the bottom toolbar on the database screen. This will allow a user to copy an entire record to memory (prior to adding or editing a record), and paste the entire contents into a new or existing record once the Add or Edit buttons are selected. . Build 30 - Added Cut Text, Copy Text, & Paste Text speed buttons to the bottom toolbar on the database screen. . Build 29 - Added a Calendar speed button to the bottom toolbar on the database screen. Added a resizeable calendar that can be accessed through this button. . Build 28 - Fixed a problem where the tab order and browser column order values were not being properly decremented when the user deleted a field on the initial field layout screen. The results of this problem in version 1.00 would be that a user was unable to modify the tab order. This problem was fixed in an earlier build, so that even if the tab order has become corrupt, it can now be automatically detected and repaired by Infodex. . Build 27 - Fixed a problem where the caption on printed check boxes was wrong. It matched the Report caption instead of the actual check box caption. . Build 26 - Added a right-click popup menu that will be available for string, date, and time fields when a user is adding or editing a database record. Added options to insert the current date into a date or string field and insert the current time into a time or string field. If the date or time is inserted into a string field, the date and time formats specified on the Preferences screen will be used to format the date and time accordingly. . Build 25 - Added a tab set with all of the letters of the alphabet and the numbers 0 through 9 to the bottom of the database editing screen. Users can click on a tab and Infodex will move to the first record that matches that letter. If the user moves between records in the database that start with a new letter or number, the tab set it automatically updated to reflect the new section. This feature will only work when a string or memo field is the current sort field. It will not work at all if current sort field is a number, date, time, or check box field. . Build 24 - Fixed a problem where a General Protection Fault (GPF) would occur when attempting to change the properties on a Number, Date, or Time field. (This was a problem in a vendor's library. Contacted the vendor and created a coding work-around until a permanent solution is available. Users should not see any more GPFs related to this problem.) . Build 23 - Fixed a problem where the error message "Record length less than 22 or more than 2137383637 bytes" would occur if a user attempted to create a database name with a space in it. Added a check to truncate filenames longer than 8 characters and replace all spaces with an underscore. . Build 22 - Expanded on an error that occurs if the user attempts to open more than 1 copy of a database at a time. Previously, the error message "Access not possible. Undefined error." would occur. Changed this message to be more concise, pointing out that the database is already open either on the current workstation or another network workstation. If another network workstation has the database open when this error occurs, the Network Type is not set up properly. . Build 21 - Changed the behavior when the user tries to create a New database. Previously, the text in the Database Name field was highlighted, and if the user typed a filename, the path would disappear. Now, the cursor is simply placed at the end of the Database Name field. . Build 20 - Beefed up the security in Infodex to make sure that the registration name entered by the user can legally be used in combination with the registration number entered. . Build 19 - Changed the default Browser Refresh Delay from 5 to 0. Since most users are using a non-network copy of Infodex, the refresh delay is unnecessary. Network users will want to adjust this value accordingly. . Build 18 - Removed the browser coordinate values from the Sample1.Ini file that is distributed with Infodex. The defaults were set at 500 pixels high and 700 pixels wide, which is too large for users running at 640x480 resolution. Removing these values will allow Infodex to automatically calculate the correct browser size based on the user's resolution. . Build 17 - Fixed a problem where the Field Length and Decimal Places values on the Field Properties screen were not being remembered for numeric fields. Even though the new values assigned by the user were accurate and saved to the layout database correctly, the values shown on the Field Properties screen were being reset to the defaults. . Build 16 - Changed the number of rows allocated in the browser from 50 to being dynamically calculated based on how many rows can be displayed on the screen in the current screen resolution. Users at very high resolutions were experiencing a GPF at 16:0F45 when trying to display more than 50 rows at a high resolution. This problem would manifest itself at resolutions of 1240x768 or higher. At 1240x768, the problem would only show up if the browser was maximized or enlarged to a size that would permit the display of more than 50 rows. . Build 15 - Fixed a problem where the incremental highlighting wasn't working on the browsing screen if the sort order and/or column order had been changed in the browser. . Build 14 - Fixed a problem where the browser column order and tab order values for some fields were becoming corrupt following the deletion of a field in the database. All fields in the database were having their tab order and browser column order values decremented, when only fields located after the delete field should have had their values decremented. (Note to users: This problem, which existed in version 1.00 should NOT have caused data loss. The only ill side effect that would have been seen was weird behavior in the browser, where column were not being displayed properly. Some after-the-fact solutions have been implemented to address the results of this problem, as seen in the previous builds.) . Build 13 - Added error checking to reset the tab order when the Tab Order dialog box is displayed, in the event that it should become corrupt. Previously, errors in this area were not being trapped and reported to the user. . Build 12 - Fixed a couple of problems when displaying the column order dialog box. An attempt was being made to retrieve column number 0 in the layout database, which does not exist. Also, if the column number could not be retrieved, the error was not being reported. Now, the error is reported and the user is prompted whether to reset the column order values in order to fix the problem. . Build 11 - Fixed a problem where negative or extremely large column width values were being saved into the layout database for some fields. If a weird column width value is detected from a previous version, the column width is reset to the default (the same as the field width). . Build 10 - Added support to delete any leftover xxx.MSG, xxx.SAV, xxx.LMG, and xxx.LSV files when a database is deleted from the File, Utilities menu. (These files would only exist in the event that an error occurred during a database reorganization.) . Build 9 - Changed the icons on each of the About buttons to match Infodex's program icon. . Build 8 - Fixed a problem that could occur when trying to change the column order on a database where the column order had become corrupt. (If a field was deleted from the database, the column order was not being updated properly, causing the corruption. In this case, an "Unable to insert line" error message would occur when the user clicked on the "Column Order" button on the browser. Because of the error, the user could not make any changes to fix the problem. Added a try..except block to handle this problem. If a problem is detected when the user selects the Column Order button, the user is prompted, and the column order is reset to the order of the fields in the database. . Build 7 - Added an option to the Utilities menu to rename a database. On the Rename Database screen, added support to rename all of the files associated with a single database. These includes files with the extensions .dat, .ix, .dia, .sav, .msg, .ldb, .lix, .ldi, .lsv, .lmg, and .ini. (Not all of the files will exist for every database. Most databases will simply have .dat, .ix, .ldb, and .lix files. Network databases will also have .dia and .ldi files.) Added a status window to the Rename Database screen so the user can tell if one or more of the necessary database files could not be renamed. . Build 6 - Fixed a problem where the "Startup Tips" option on the Preferences screen was not working at all. Although they could be accessed from the Help menu, they were not being shown when Infodex was executed. . Build 5 - Removed an unnecessary and unused "drag-over" event handler for Infodex's main parent window. . Build 4 - Fixed a minor problem where the Splash screen was not being properly destroyed (memory deallocated) after it disappeared. . Build 3 - Added a registration nag screen to the unregistered version of Infodex. This screen will be displayed when the user exits Infodex, only if his/her copy is not properly registered. . Build 2 - Reworked the buttons on the Browser screen. Changed them from normal buttons which can receive the focus, to speed-buttons, which cannot receive the focus. Added hot-keys to all radio buttons and speed buttons on this screen. Fixed a minor display problem with the bitmap on the Close button. . Build 1 - Fixed a problem where users could click on the Edit button with no records in the database. When a Save was attempted, a "Record has been deleted by another user." error message would occur. Changed the Edit button to automatically invoke the Add button's event if there were no records in the database. 03-31-97 ˛ Version 1.00 . Initial release of Infodex For Windows.