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- Version history:
-
- 6/21/95 V1.00 Initial release and introduction
- 7/16/95 V1.05 Fixes for a few bugs (mainly FB10501)
- 9/25/95 V1.10 WIN95 compatibility & bug fixes (mainly FB11001-FB11003)
- 10/25/95 V1.20 Added diagram linking feature (fixed FB12001 )
- 3/23/96 V2.00b Added MDI, OLE, bitmaps, scale, drag&drop, dot grid,
- property bar, orthogonal connector, full MFC, zoom combo box
- load last option, fixed
- Fixed KB10003, it is now FB20001
- Other assorted fixes
- FB10501 no longer applicable, V2 doesn't use THREED.VBX
- 6/23/96 V2.01 Maintenance release to fix a few bugs
- 9/16/96 V2.02 Maintenance release to fix a few bugs
- 11/09/96 V2.03 Maintenance release to rare print bug
- 12/28/96 V2.03b Maintenance release to fix wrap bug
- 03/23/97 V2.04 Maintenance release to fix font save/load bug
- 04/07/97 V2.05 Maintenance release to improve font save/load
- Added underline font attribute
- Added better 30-day trial enforcement
- Fixed bug causing unintended connector copy
- Fixed bug label position when scaling
- Other assorted fixes
-
- Note: Future 32-bit versions will be > 2.10. Future 16-bit versions will
- be bug fixes only and will be numbered V2.06, 2.07, etc.
-
- 10/30/97 V2.10 beta 32-bit Windows 95/NT version
- Largely similar to 2.05
- Long file names supported
- Paste graphics (Windows bitmaps and pictures) from
- other Windows programs.
- Paste As feature to choose paste format
- Import graphics (Windows bitmaps and pictures) from
- files.
- Improved Export (selected objects, plus EMF format)
- Drag and drop graphics files into diagram.
- Front One/Back One features
- Maximum text length in a figure increased to 4095 chars
- Arrow keys used to scroll (shift to nudge figures)
- Other assorted fixes
- Preview on New and Open diagrams
- Transparent bitmaps
- Junction dots
- Added boolean logic symbols and new template
- Added callout symbols
- Improved error handling in case of bad EDG file data
- Fixed flicker in text edit
- Fixed several cases where aligning connectors was hard
- Fixed bug that caused bad value in EDG file, unloadable
- Fixed another rare case with the same result
- Improved text entry speed
- Ability to paste text even when not in text entry mode
- Improved snap grid alignment
- Added link to any document feature
- 12/09/97 V2.10 RELEASE
- 12/24/97 V2.10b Fix for bug that clipped text when printing
- 1/31/98 V2.10c Bug fix version, minor or rarely occuring bugs.
-
- 5/14/98 V2.20a User interface improvements throughout
- 6/16/98 V2.20b Improved some minor user interface things
- 8/28/98 V2.20d JPG import/export
- 1/05/99 V2.30a Rotatable text, improved text tools
-
- +------------------------+
- | KNOWN BUGS (unfixed) |
- +------------------------+
-
- KB10001 Multiple text areas highlighted simultaneously.
-
- DESCRIPTION: While editing text in a figure that has multiple text
- areas, pressing the tab key twice in rapid succession causes both
- text areas to be highlighted improperly.
-
- WORKAROUND: Don't type so quickly.
-
- KB10005 Figure text edit overlapping other figures.
-
- DESCRIPTION: If you edit text for a figure that is "behind"
- other nearby figures but is not overlapping those figures so that
- it doesn't appear to be behind them, and then you add text such
- that the figure automatically expands to such extent that it now
- overlaps the other figures. In this unusual case, the other figures
- will appear between the figure and the text until you cause a
- repaint.
-
- KB10006 Connectors, text, and border don't draw in the color I want.
-
- DESCRIPTION: As explained several times in the User Guide and
- on-line help, connectors, text, and figure borders (anything
- drawn with lines), has to be drawn in a color that can be drawn
- solid on the output device. In the case of a black and white
- printer, the only solid colors are black and white. On a 16 color
- video display, there are 16 different solid colors. Windows can
- create other colors on the screen for fills by dithering (adding
- patterns of multiple colors) but it cannot do so for lines or text.
- Therefore, it you choose a dithered color like blue-green and try
- use that color as a connector color, the connector will actually
- be drawn in the nearest solid color (blue or green on the display,
- black on a black and white printer.)
-
- WORKAROUND: For text and lines, use only colors that can be drawn
- solid on the output device that it will be drawn on. If possible
- use a 256-color display mode, and if you want to get fancy with
- colors, consider a color printer.
-
- KB10007 Dashed or dotted connectors must be 1/4 pt.
-
- DESCRIPTION: When you try to create a dashed or dotted connector
- that is thicker than 1/4 pt, the point size reverts back to 1/4 pt.
- This is simply a restriction of styled lines. Only thin lines may
- be dashed or dotted. Our only practical alternative was to
- disallow dashed and dotted lines altogether. A future release
- will correct this.
-
- KB10008 Some point sizes are not allowed.
-
- DESCRIPTION: Although point sizes (for connector thicknesses, figure
- border thicknesses, and connector end sizes) are displayed as
- decimal numbers and are entered as decimal numbers, they are in fact
- rounded to the nearest 256th of an inch (or 100th of a cm.) for
- internal storage. Therefore, the numbers you enter get rounded to
- a number than can be used internally, then rounded back to decimal
- for display. For example, point measures can be made no finer than
- 0.25 points (0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0, 1.25, and so on.) In fact, some
- whole numbers are best represented by a slightly different value.
- For example 10pts is not possible to display because 35/256ths is
- closer 9.75 than to 10.0 and 36/356ths is closer to 10.25 than to
- 10.0. Therefore, EDGE Diagrammer stores 10pts as 10.25pts, its
- closest match.
-
- KB20301 A figure with the "wrap" text property set can be manually
- resized such that the lines of text get scrunched together.
- To prevent this, don't resize it too small vertically.
-
- KB21001 When importing an EMF which contains an embedded bitmap, the
- position of the bitmap may be incorrect. We believe this to be
- an error in Windows format conversion - we cannot fix it. Try
- Importing it into another program like MS Word, then cut and paste.
-
- KB21003 When copying objects from one diagram to another, if the objects
- you are copying from the source diagram use styles that exist in the
- source diagram but have the same name as some different styles in the
- destination diagram, the copied objects will use the destination
- diagram's style definitions. This is most obvious when the source
- object is a figure with a graphic that is lost while copying.
- The work-around is to rename or delete the style in either diagram.
-
- KB23001 When copying objects to metafiles or cutting and pasting into other
- programs, underlined words will occasionally display breaks or gaps
- in the underline between some characters. This is a natural
- consequence of the way the program positions and formats text to
- keep it aligned properly with the figures. you can minimize the
- effect by avoiding scaling the image after the paste.
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- Please report any bugs you discover, E-mail is the best method. Our
- address is pacestar@compuserve.com. Thanks.
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