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- PolyEd History
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- This text describes the history of PolyEd. The most recent things are at the
- beginning, the oldest at the end of the text. Please read it if you have
- updated from an older version to learn quickly about new features and
- bug-fixes.
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- * MagicWB is not supported any longer, instead NewIcons® are used.
- NewIcons® allow any number of colors for the icons. The colors are
- automagically adopted to the the colors of your workbench.
- To see the NewIcons®, you have to install the NewIcons® Package, which
- is FreeWare(!) and available from the AmiNet. You should really use it!!!
- If you want to read something funny, read the foreword of the NewIcons
- guide :-)
-
- * Requester dimensions are now saved with the settings.
-
- * Macro description is now also updated when saving the settings, not only
- when saving the macro. Reported by Johan Billing
-
- * Fixed a bug which has drawn the cursor within the window-border when
- erasing large blocks.
-
- * format.ped macro rewritten
-
- * PolyEd now recognizes and uses the following environment variables
- for position and size of the textwindows. The variables must be set
- before PolyEd is started:
- PED_LEFT - desired left edge (in Pixels)
- PED_TOP - desired top edge (in Pixels)
- PED_WIDTH - desired width (in Pixels)
- PED_HEIGHT - desired height (in Pixels)
- These variables are optional, and you may set none, all or any of
- them as you like. Use SetEnv PED_XXX <value> to set them, and
- copy them from ENV: to ENVARC: to make them persistent.
- This was requested by owners of graphic-cards or autoscroll-wbs,
- so here it is ;^)
-
- * Removed ARexx ports of projects. Now there is only one ARexx Port.
- Commands go to the 'current project', which is the one which belongs
- to the active window. The current project can be changed with the
- SETATTRS command (see 'arexx.doc').
-
- * Added a requester for 'Print...'.
-
- * It's now possible to delete words with <shift backspace> or <shift delete>
- and to delete to the start or end of the current line
- with <control backspace> and <control delete>.
- This was also requested by Johan.
-
- * Added facility to insert a text at cursor position (Project/Insert...).
- Requested by several people, especially Johan Billing :-)
-
- * Changed Cursor-movement to word-begin and word-end a little bit.
-
- * AutoSave doesn't overwrite the original file anymore, but saves to a
- temporary file (with an @ as suffix). This is much better.
- A requester is brought up, if an AutoSave file is found when opening
- a project.
-
- * Libraries for OS2.0 are directly placed within the PolyEd drawer,
- so that PolyEd can be started directly from there.
-
- * Backup completed. Keeps any number of revisions now.
-
- * PolyEd runs now (again) with OS2 (V37). I'm very sorry that it did not before.
-
- * Fixed a small problem with block-cursors.
-
- * Changed options and misc-options requester. Added new options for
- nonflashing cursor and cursorshape (bar or block).
-
- * Autosaving depends now from the number of modifications made to a project
- rather than to a time intervall.
-
- * Removed saving as FTXT, but PolyEd can still read FTXT files,
- which it recognizes automagically.
-
- * Icons are no longer global in ENV: and ENVARC: but locale in a drawer
- within the PolyEd drawer. This saves quite much memory (because ENV: is
- in the Ram Disk and all those icons [most of them never used by most of
- the users] really need a lot of memory).
-
- * New format for settings. Old format can NOT be read!
- Macro-bindings, window-arrange mode and find&replace options are now
- also saved with the settings.
-
- * BUG! There is a bug in the ARexxBox program I use for the creation
- of PolyEd's ARexx Port: ARexx-Scripts and Macros are not executed
- if they have blanks in their filenames (e.g. 'Ram Disk:xxx' or 'ped:a macro').
-
- * BUG! ARexx-Commands are not executed, if something is typed into the shell
- from which PolyEd was started.
-
- * Macros may be assigned to all keys with different qualifiers (new requester).
-
- * Completely new GUI with Shortcuts for the requesters. Much better and shorter
- than the old one.
-
- * Removed all enforcer hits (reported by Johan Billing and some other people).
-
- * Fixed some mistakes in the english.guide (Johan Billing).
-
- * Wordwrap is now a menu-item instead of a gadget.
-
- * Fixed shareware-restriction bug ('anonymous' hint ;^)
-
- * added swedish catalog and guide (translation by Johan Billing).
-
- 28. Nov. 1994 v1.251 Bugfixes released on Aminet
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-
- * Added *.cd and *.ct to the package.
-
- * Install script did not work properly in Pretend mode. Fixed.
- Reported by Don.
-
- * Online-Help did not fall back to english.guide. Fixed.
- Reported by Johan Billing
-
- * Online-Help window did not always open on PolyEd-Screen. Fixed.
-
- * Fixed a bug which caused strange characters in statusline.
- Reported by Don.
-
- * Swapped shortcuts of Undo and Redo.
- Requested by Don.
-
- * Fixed an awful bug in GETCHAR command.
-
- * Changed makefile to get both a version with debug info and one without.
-
- * Windows are now clipped to the visual portion of screen on opening them.
- Requested by Chris Kerr.
-
- 7. Nov. 1994 v1.242 First Public Release (Aminet & Fish)
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