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- WHATS NEW in AF - The Archive Folder
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- (New = +, Bugfix = *, Changed = #)
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- New in version 0.32:
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- + Archiver Registry is a PM frontend for editing the ARCHIVER.BB2 file.
- See BETA.TXT and INSTALL.TXT for more information.
-
- + Better thread management. AF now keeps track of running threads and
- indicates when a background thread is running by a red light on the
- status bar. If the user closes AF while there are still background jobs
- he/she is prompted to wait or continue shutting down.
-
- # Changed the layout of the status bar.
-
- * The tabbed dialog notebook style was only used under Warp 4 beta not GA.
-
- * Under Warp 4 GA the temporary directory wasn't get deleted properly.
- Please let me know if it still happens.
-
- * The "Delete" context menuoption had disappeared in the danish version.
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- New in version 0.31:
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- + Language specific DLLs! Currently two different language DLL's: dansk.dll
- and english.dll. They are copied to af.dll by the installation script.
- The procedure for changing language will propably change in the near future.
- All messages hasn't been changed yet and the help file is still available
- only in english.
-
- # The archive will now be unpacked to the temporary directory with directo-
- ries included. This way files with similar names in different directories
- won't be overwritten.
-
- * Files in temporary directory weren't always deleted.
-
- * Container view wasn't saved between sessions.
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- * AF crashed if TMP or TEMP wasn't defined in config.sys.
-
- * Notebook didn't display correctly when running under Warp 3.
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- New in version 0.30:
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- + New version number ;-) Due to a major cleanup of the code and a recompile
- with emx 0.9c I thought it was appropiate to change to version 0.30.
-
- + Added a Select/Deselect all option to the Actions menu (Thanks Justin).
-
- + Added a debugging routine. In your program objects parameter field you can
- enter: "%* DEBUG'. Debug information will then be written to a file called
- af.dbg in the current directory.
-
- + When the system is shut down while there is an open archive AF will query
- the user to save it (if it has changed).
-
- + Added two pages of file info in the properties notebook. They show the archives
- path and file name, creation date, last modification date, last access date
- (always almost the current time), old size of files archive (uncompressed),
- new size of archive and number of files in the archive.
-
- * Removed memory leak in D'n'D function.
-
- * Fixed the drag function (I think). Files shouldn't be dumped in any other
- folders than the one they're dragged to. Dragging is also much faster now
- and when dragging multiple files the pointer shows max 3 icons. (Justin again).
-
- * Archiver output window sometimes disappeared.
-
- # Removed the font dialog as it is a bit redundant when you have the font palette.
- The font can still be changed (in the main window) and now it should be
- saved correctly :-)
-
- # Changed the properties dialog to the new Merlin tabbed dialog style. The pages
- is now sized according to the dialog. The notebook is not application modal
- anymore. This means that you can perform operations in the archive container
- while the notebook is still open. The changes you make in the notebook (currently
- only the viewer is will reflect instantly without the need to close the notebook
- first.
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- New in version 0.24:
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- * Fixed installation and deinstallation program. Due to a last minute change
- they jumped out before doing anything. (Thanks Joe M.)
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- New in version 0.23:
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- + Added a menu option to open the ARCHIVER.BB2 to edit the archivers.
-
- + Improved EA support. When opened by AF (or rearchived) an archive will now
- have an "Archive" file type. This means that - depending on the archiver -
- there is no need for file extensions. Some LHArc versions doesn't support
- archive names without the "LZH" extension.
-
- + Added a window menu. AF has still context sensitive popup menus.
-
- # Changed the icon to a more "Merlin like" one.
-
- # Changed the layout of the settings notebook.
-
- * Any readonly attribute is now cleared from the temporary archive so that
- it will be removed from the TMP or TEMP directory.
-
- * When updating files allready in archive they showed up twice in the container.
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- New in version 0.22:
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- + Added a "Rearchive" menu option.
-
- + All archiver actions are now performed on a temporary archive. The user
- is asked to save the archive before ending the program. This also cures
- the 0-byte archive bug (see below).
-
- * Most archivers choked on 0-byte archives (from templates).
-
- * The installation script created a directory named "TEMPLATES" with a .LONGNAME
- of "Archive templates". Due to the the fact that I cannot count it could
- create some problems on a FAT drive. Now the script will name the directory
- "TEMPLATE".
-
- # Archiver output window is now sizeable and keeps the size and position
- between sessions.
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- New in version 0.21:
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- + Window for archiver output. Good way to debug archiver.bb2 settings.
-
- + "Test archive" menu option.
-
- + Added a deinstallation script allthough I prefer that it isn't used ;-)
-
- + User definable external viewer.
-
- + Added some more help albeit still rather short.
-
- + Added a file dialog for adding files to an archive.
-
- * Installation script didn't add file type to the templates.
-
- * Distribution archive was missing an ARCHIVER.BB2 file.
-
- # Improved multithreading when adding files to archives.
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- Version 0.20
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- - First public beta