Macintosh Easy Open version 1.1 is the follow-up product for Macintosh Easy Open and previous versions. This new version provides the following features:
• Support for PowerPC native applications and native PowerPC translation extensions
• Optimized patch requirements
• Universal interfaces
• New software packaging
• New control panel user interface (let us know if you like it)
• New API’s
• Bug fixes
Please let us know if you find any problems or have any comments! We’re a final candidate - but it’s not too late to fix a critical bug or two!
There are some important changes in Macintosh Easy Open starting with 1.1b4.
• Macintosh Easy Open is now just a control panel. There is no longer a System Extension. This means that’s its EXTREMELY important that you remove “Macintosh Easy Open” from your Extensions folder and “Macintosh Easy Open Setup” from your Control Panels folder prior to installing this new software.
• New API’s are available starting with Macintosh Easy Open 1.1b4. These new API’s are documented in the draft version of a Translation Manager Tech Note which can be found in the Developer Documentation folder. The interface files have been updated to reflect the new API’s.
• There is a new user interface for the Macintosh Easy Open control panel. Take a look. If you have questions about what the new features are, please try Balloon Hell (I mean Help). The documentation is in the process of being updated to reflect the new features.
• Macintosh Easy Open no longer displays an icon during boot - so don’t expect to see one.
At this point we believe the Macintosh Easy Open 1.1 software is almost ready for shipping - if you find any problems let us know ASAP.
There are a few things left to do with the developer kit though. They are the following:
• New PowerPC native translation extension sample needs to be written
• Update documentation to reflect removal of System Extension
• Complete Tech Note (suggestions are welcome).
This new version of Macintosh Easy Open can operate on ALL macintosh models, with the minimum configuration being a Macintosh Plus with at least 2MB of RAM and a Hard Disk.
If you are running this software on a Quadra 660AV or 840AV it’s important to make sure you have System Enabler 088 version 1.0.1 or later OR Finder 7.1.1 or later installed on your Macintosh if you want translation support in the Finder. A copy of the System Enabler is contained in the documentation folder on this diskette.
It is NOT recommended to use Macintosh Easy Open with a Macintosh IIcx, IIx, SE/30, or a Macintosh II with a PMMU if you are running System 7.0 without the tune up and VM is turned on. If you are, add System 7 Tune Up to your System Folder or upgrade to System 7.1 or later prior to using this software.
If you are a user of Super Boomerang, make sure you are using version 4.0.1p or later in order to have no conflicts with Macintosh Easy Open.
• Macintosh Easy Open 1.1f1
- Control panel now better informs you when MEO is not installed
- Clicking clipboard play sound button after copying a movie no longer crashes
- MEO no longer gets in the way of your cursor when using the Drag Manager
- Find File no longer appears in the Translation dialogs
- Implemented a mechanism so translation extensions can name output files
• Macintosh Easy Open 1.1b4
- Fixed typo with Delete button balloon help
- Translation dialog list boxes are now wider
- ‘kind’ resource installation has been made more robust
- Intermittent problem where kind strings were truncated has been fixed
- GX’s personal digital document is now a standard document type
- Drag and drop translation has been improved
- Copying an pasting a QuickTime movie to AppleMail and MacWrite Pro has been fixed
- Highlight 16x16 icons in Standard File correctly
- Fixed stationery icon display in Standard File
- Fixed Standard File for applications with no ‘BNDL’ resource
- Double-clicking of AOCE Personal Catalog now displays the correct message
• Macintosh Easy Open 1.1b3
- Compatibility problems with extension managers has been resolved
- MEO no longer crashes during a desktop rebuild if a kind string > 31 characters
- MEO no longer creates bogus bad resource map warnings in Macsbug during heap dump
- Loading multiple localizations of the same kind string no longer intermittently crash
• Macintosh Easy Open 1.1b2
- Fixed allocation problems in application heaps
- Fixed Font Manager dangling handle sub heap problems
- Upgraded INIT code to handle icon being drawn on 2nd line
- Upgraded MEO to work with universal interfaces
- Upgraded MEO to use latest Component Manager
- Fixed problem where MEO INIT completed leaving ResLoad set to FALSE
- Append ‘fold’ and ‘TEXT’ to beginning of list on document converter
- Fix some problems in balloon help text
• Macintosh Easy Open 1.1b1
- Updated Gestalt() for recognition of PowerPC stuff
- Changed GetDocumentKindString() to be able to handle TeachText / SimpleText creator conflict and generate correct name depending on which product is located on the CPU
- Made TranslateScrap() and GetDocumentKindString() public
- Made TranslateScrap() and GetDocumentKindString() API’s public
- Added native interface glue so native PowerPC applications can call MEO. Generated preliminary universal interfaces.
- Updated patching strategy. Removed GetResource() patch for PACK3. Removed patch on PACK11. Replaced those patches with resource overrides for both. Changed FMSwapFont() and ReallocHandle() patches to only load fixes are not already in (Native FMSwapFont() or Figment - respectively) use. The patch reduction means that on a PowerPC Macintosh, MEO only has one patch - GetScrap() (yea).
