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- AlphaVOODOO - integrates Alpha with VOODOO
-
- created: 6/30/97 {11:13:46 PM}
- last update: 5/6/98 {8:49:00 PM}
- version: 1.0.0b7
- Author: Jonathan Guyer
- E-mail: <jguyer@his.com>
- WWW: <http://www.his.com/~jguyer/>
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- Copyright (C) 1998 Jonathan Guyer
-
- This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
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- IMPORTANT: This version of AlphaVOODOO only functions with Alpha v7,
- including those versions available from:
-
- <http://www.santafe.edu/~vince/pub/Alpha/>
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- This package integrates the Alpha text editor
-
- <http://www.cs.umd.edu/~keleher/alpha.html>
-
- with the VOODOO (Versions Of Outdated Documents Organized
- Orthogonally) version management package:
-
- <http://www.unisoft.co.at/products/voodoo.html>
-
-
-
- Usage
-
- Projects
-
- Select the “VOODOO:Connect:Choose…” menu item to assign a VOODOO
- project. Once selected, a settings dialog will be provided for the
- project before connecting to it. The project name, for Alpha's
- purposes, is a near approximation of its actual name, with curly
- brackets removed and a number appended in the event of name
- conflicts. The name can be changed by selecting
- “VOODOO:Connect:Rename…”. Each new project is added to the
- “VOODOO:Connect” submenu for easy reconnection.
-
- Currently, selection of a new project automatically disconnects
- the old one. This is done, in part, because that's what the
- BBEdit extension does. If you would like more than one project
- to remain connected for some reason, let me know. The active
- project is also disconnected when you quit Alpha. Let me know
- if this is a problem.
-
- NOTE: Because of limitations in Alpha's AppleEvent interface,
- VOODOO will not be brought forward if there is anything wrong
- with your user name or password. You'll get an alert (e.g.,
- blinking icon in the menu bar) and you can manually shift to
- VOODOO, but it won't happen automatically.
-
- There currently is no mechanism for creating VOODOO projects
- through AppleEvents, so you will need to create your project in
- VOODOO, but you can then use Alpha to define what files should be
- in the project (such as adding all open windows or all files of
- an Alpha fileset). There is not currently a straight-forward way
- to determine what files are already in a project, such that an
- Alpha fileset could be created from an existing VOODOO project.
- I know of a cumbersome way to do it, so if it's important to you,
- let me know and I'll see what I can do.
-
- Settings
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- Variants
-
- You may restrict the VOODOO variants which are visible by either
- typing the variant names in explicitly or by clicking the
- “Variants…” button in the “VOODOO:Settings…” dialog. As long as
- the project is logged on, a list of available variants will be
- provided, allowing you to select or <shift>-select the variant(s)
- you are interested in. If the project is not logged on, the most
- recently available list will be provided, along with a warning
- that it is not current.
-
- You may, if you get your jollies that way, type in the variant
- names. Enclose each variant name in squirrely brackets, e.g.,
-
- {Variant 1} {Variant 2} {Variant 3}
-
- Customizing actions
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- Hold down the <option> key in the VOODOO menu to use VOODOO's
- dialog to make adjustments to Fetch, Store, and Add requests
- before completing them.
-
- File comparison
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- In order to compare files with archived files, you need VOODOO
- version 1.8.1b6 or greater; AlphaVOODOO knows this and will not
- request comparisons from earlier versions.
-
- Key bindings
-
- To the curious: <command><shift><control> was selected as having
- no (known) conflicts with other modes, thereby allowing all
- VOODOO commands to have the same bindings.
-
- Acknowlegements
-
- My thanks to Christoph Reichenberger for writing VOODOO in the
- first place, and for providing extensive help on this package in
- the second.
-
- I'm indebted to Pete Keleher for having provided an editor worth
- connecting to and to Vince Darley for making it much easier to
- write packages.
-
- I've borrowed liberally and shamelessly from Vince Darley's
- “Vince's Additions”. Thanks Vince!
-
- To do
-
- • AlphaVOODOO doesn't activate automatically after installation.
- Manual activation works properly.
- • Converter for old-style project data is needed.
-
- Recent Changes
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- 1.0.0b7 May 6, 1998
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-
- • Code reorganization.
- • Vince's updated menu tools used.
- • Updated aebuild/aeparse/aecoerce suite used for more automated
- handling of AppleEvents.
- • cmd argument removed from voodoo::eligibleFiles. upvar used
- now.
- • voodoo::try more flexible and makes use of updated try command.
- • voodoo::*userName moved to aebuild.tcl
- • Overly clever upvar mechanism for changing projects eliminated.
- Master projects are now ordinally numbered,
- voodoo::projects::[0-9]+, and are swapped in and out of
- voodooProjects.
- • Incremental numbers on projects changed from "<nn>" to "[nn]"
- for better menu compatibility.
- • Minimum version of VOODOO for compares is 1.8.1. Earlier betas
- worked too, but they have expired now.
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- 1.0.0b6 March 1, 1998
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- • AlphaVOODOO is a better citizen now, providing an uninstall
- script and cleaning up messes left by earlier installers.
- • Error catching and handling mechanism now much more general.
- • In the event that none of the selected files are eligible for
- VOODOO, e.g., shells, Diff reports, etc, an alert is now
- posted. Before, nothing happened at all.
- • Instead of setting the default project owner's name to
- InternetConfig's user name, which virtually never gave the
- correct result, AlphaVOODOO now obtains the Mac's owner
- name under MacOS 8.x and makes a pretty good guess under MacOS
- 7.x (by using the owner of the Preference folder; almost
- certain to be the Mac's owner).
- • Old "appleEvents.tcl" calls replaced with new "aebuild.tcl" calls.
- • Various minor bug fixes.
- • VOODOO's new «event CompComp» is _not_ supported, due to lack
- of capability in Alpha's AppleEvent interface.
- 'compareExternalFiles' renamed to 'voodoo::compareFiles'.
- • Better integration with diffMode.tcl (requiring changes to
- both Diff mode and AlphaVOODOO).
- • NOTE: Due to a crashing bug in Alpha, if an error is
- returned from a call to VOODOO while Alpha is in the
- background (switched either manually or from using the
- “With Dialog” menu option), an alert dialog will not be
- displayed. As much of the message as possible will be
- displayed in the status bar, instead.
-
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- 1.0.0b5 December 22, 1997
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-
- • Further modernizations for Vince Darley's Alpha 7. NOTE:
- As of this version, AlphaVOODOO is incompatible with Alpha
- 6.5.x. Please contact me, supplying a note from your
- mother, if you are unable/unwilling to migrate to Alpha 7.
- • Support for the new «event compcomp» compare AE from
- VOODOO. As of VOODOO 1.8.1b6, the old “DoScript” interface
- is still used, unless Alpha's creator is changed from
- 'ALFA'. Either way, the new "diffMode.tcl" is exploited.
- • Interim patch file "coreFixes+.tcl" that fixes the broken
- Alpha proc specToPathName. If you have the December 20,
- 1997 release of Alpha 7 or later (how 'bout some real
- version numbers, Vince?), this file is not needed, as both
- it and "aevt.tcl" are in the System code.
- • The code in "diff+.tcl" and "appleEvents+.tcl" has been
- incorporated in Alpha's core code. These files may be (and
- should be) safely removed from Alpha's PREFS folder.
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- 1.0.0b4 September 5, 1997
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- • Installer now compliant with Vince Darley's new Tcl structure.
- Still works on old systems, too.
- • Project naming and selection now more flexible.
- • All files in fileset now stored and fetched with VOODOO, rather
- than just TEXT files.
- • Nice display of “Add” and “Locking Status” operations. When
- VOODOO's AppleEvent model supports it, “Store” and “Fetch” will
- generate reports too.
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- 1.0.0b3 August 10, 1997
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- • Multiple VOODOO projects now supported, with easy menu
- selection.
- • Redesigned settings dialog.
- • Menu redesign; renamed some items and properly disable items
- when appropriate.
- • Changed key bindings to (the somewhat more cumbersome)
- <command><shift><control>. The new bindings don't conflict
- with any other modes, so far as I know.
- • Improved display of locking-status and add results
- • More robust AppleEvent parsing and handling.
- • More comprehensive and robust error catching.
- • “Log On” and “Log Off” renamed to “Connect” and
- “Disconnect” at Christoph's suggestion.
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- 1.0.0b2 July 15, 1997
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- • Many error conditions eliminated or handled more gracefully.
- • No longer logs on automatically to select filters.
- • “Project Settings…” dialog sizes itself to the main screen.
- • Filters applied prior to each pertinant action, rather than
- only when changed (the old way meant that the variant filters
- assiged in Alpha might be ignored).
- • Much code commenting.
- • Improved log-in status check.
- • Most dialogs eliminated. User requested dialogs are now handled
- entirely by VOODOO.
- • VOODOO's reply from 'compare' events is now handled properly.
- • Only currently open windows are refreshed after a fileset fetch.
- Remaining files in fileset are fetched, but not opened.
- • Big VOODOO menu icon eliminated.
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- 1.0.0b1 July 1, 1997
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