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---- Documentation ----
WinCron is surprisingly easy to learn and use. (Which means a great deal of documentation is not needed.)
3. New FindWindow and SetForegroundWindow directives
4. Add new DIB write routine dibWriteBMP (tg_image)
5. Add new -start -top directive
*. Bug fixes
---- New Features and bug fixes in version (3.0) ----
1. begin ship of tg_image, tg_string, tg_wsftp (tg_ftp), tg_cscript
2. Add new parms to dibCrop and dibWriteJPG - now allows spec of clipping area
3. New string library that has many parsing functions
4. moved tg_ftp -> tg_wsftp. Create new BASIC tg_ftp (subset of tg_wsftp.)
5. Added tg_cscript (an embedded C interpreter) to the product
6. Extended tg_cscript with Environment functions so data can be passed
7. Add handler for WM_TIMECHANGE. Currently only displays message
8. Fix bug: added double quotes to the "%EMAIL_PROFILE%" env var in mail_basic_test.tg
9. New .tg files and updates for tg_image, tg_string, tg_ftp, and tg_cscript
---- New Features and bug fixes in version (2.0) ----
*) The changes are just too numerous to mention.
Here are just some of the new features:
1. WinCron can now be run as a system service in either a USER or SYSTEM account.
2. WinCron now supports PROXY mode where two or more WinCron applications can communicate. A client WinCron can communicate with a PROXY WinCron running in a USER account.
3. Exception handling
4. Native support for FTP (WS_FTP client required.)
5. Supports sending mail through MAPI (SMTP mail)
6. Subroutines
7. Access to environment variables and persistent variable store.
8. Lots of sample scripts.
9. Online bulletin boards for technical support.
---- New Features and bug fixes in version (1.12.2) ----
1. Revamp threading model to be more efficient.
2. Fix bug in 'stop-processing' (stop button) that would crash WinCron
---- New Features and bug fixes in version (1.12.1) ----
1. Add double quote processing to command parser.
This change fixes a problem when path names contain spaces.
---- New Features and bug fixes in version (1.11) ----
1. Add -kill switch to the -action to kill a -name'd job
2. fix a bug in registration id generation and display of id in aboutbox.
3. Update help document to clarify the need for -inc when you use -time
4. fix double job excution on subsequent clock ticks.
5. fix increment logic for -skip and -constrain. See #1 above
6. fix -load <wildcard> to load all scripts that match instead of one per tick
7. fix Y2K bug by not assuming 1900 century
8. Delete job now destroys outstanding Reminders.
---- New Features in version (1.10) ----
1. Add -temp switch to the -action -load directive to cause the script loaded to
be deleted. Also accept wild card specs for the file to load.
2. Add -shell switch to the -command directive. This is used for launching document types
---- New Features in version (1.9) ----
1. add many time / date macros
---- New Features in version (1.8) ----
1. add -action -logfile
2. Add -name statement to name jobs. Job names are now output in triggers.
3. also: publish -action -path and -action -debug ffffffff
---- Bugs fixed in version (1.7) ----
1. Fix 24 hour time bug by appending a space to string to signal parser
2. Don't display 'Trigger' messages when we are 'skipping' today
---- Bugs fixed in version (1.6) ----
1. Fix conversions to military time (fetch date/time 'picture spicifiers' and
delimiters dynamically from the system.)
2. Add Web based help
---- New features in version (1.5) ----
1. WinCron can now be run as an NT system service.
2. Support was added to run in the system-tray. This makes WinCron available even when hidden.
---- New features in version (1.4) ----
1. Add the -skip statement for 'day skipping'
2. Fix crashing bug when -load'ing a corrupt script
---- New features in version (1.3) ----
1. commands are no longer case sensitive
2. three new -action commands: -show, -hide and -load
3. -stop command now accepts optional argument, defaults to now.
4. two new -command modes: -wait and -detach
5. -hide processing added to commandline
6. -load procressing added to commandline (same as -f)
---- Things fixed in the version (1.2) ----
1. There was a hendle leak due to the use of the C-RUNTIME function _spawnxx() when the _P_NOWAIT was used.
We now call ::CloseHandle() on the return value from this function.
---- Things fixed in the version (1.1) ----
1. There has been some confusion when using the StartButton.
The StartButton has been changed to run any loaded scripts (Loaded via the LoadButton.)
The Start button will no longer re-run the script specified on the command line automatically.
(The script specified on the commandline now acts exactly like any other script loaded through the LoadButton on the main screen.)
