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- CLI Guardian version 1.10
- © Sam Kington 27th December 1994
-
- Changes since version 1.00
- **************************
-
- Please note: the Choices file has changed format, so some mouse actions may
- not be correctly loaded. Sorry about that.
-
- Module list window:
- • You can now see the size of the module (*NB*: code only, not workspace).
- • Sort by date and sort by size added.
- • You can also save the contents of the module list window, as a text file
- padded with spaces. Use Zap’s “tabify” option or similar things to make
- it word processor-friendly.
-
- Help:
- • Help is now available on BASIC keywords.
- • You can get help on modules from the Help window, i.e. enter “SCSI” and
- select “Module” and it will give you formatted help on all modules
- beginning with “SCSI”. This help is also available to external tasks
- with the command CLIGuardHelp (e.g. CLIGuardHelp SCSI will do the same
- thing).
- • You can get “Raw help” on a module, i.e. what *Help would have given you
- rather than the formatted version CLI Guardian gives you.
-
- Viewer windows:
- • When you get help on a heading, it instead gets help on everything
- between this and the next heading (or the next line). This means that
- e.g. clicking on “Commands” in a module’s list of commands etc. gets
- help on all the commands, and clicking on the heading “Help on module
- <whatever>” gets help on all the help options.
- • As well as displaying a list of Commands, Configuration options etc., a
- module viewer window will now also display the SWIs provided by the
- module. You can’t get help on these, probably, but it does often explain
- why a massive big module doesn’t seem to do much (i.e. no Help, no
- commands).
-
- *Command window:
- • Better editing: deleting, inserting and removing spaces now works more
- like you would expect it to.
- • CLI Guard passes “illegal” commands either to a Task window or starts
- them up as separate tasks.
- • Other tasks like Director can now ask CLI Guardian to run a command and
- display the result in a window by using the command CLIGuardCommand.
- e.g. CLIGuardCommand Show File$Type_* will display all the known file
- types in a CLI Guardian window.
- • CLI Guardian now knows about Line Editor (no-one should be without it):
- it inserts its own commands into the command history, and will display
- it when you press F2. F1 also retrieves the last command run (including
- external commands run by RunCommand).
- • Dragging a file to the window inserts the full pathname in the last
- argument field.
-
- Miscellaneous:
- • You can now save a module from the module area (or ROM) to disc, to
- dissassemble it or whatever.
- • A file “FileDrags” contains a list of *commands to run when files of a
- certain type are dragged to the CLI Guardian window.
- • Help cross-referencing now works better (explicit links like “see *List
- and *Print.” will now be followed).
- • Various bug fixes: the window and menus don’t behave as erratically, font
- handling has been improved, CLI Guardian can cope better with
- badly-written modules and hopefully doesn't crash as much. “Rescan” will
- now also jettison any windows and give back any claimed memory, so
- choose “Rescan” if CLI Guardian grabs all available memory and refuses
- to give it back.