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- 04/22/96: (Revision Level: 00.50) (Middle αlpha)
-
- Made file jumping alot faster with the new system.
- Reorganized the list prompt to include the new [J]ump command.
- Fixed the [N]ostop bug
- Cut Nonstop mode off when displaying the history file. Looked as if
- it was causing some problems. <shrug>
- Sped up loading a BUNCH for large systems! It's still kinda pokey,
- but it should be acceptable till I find a faster way. It's
- just all these undocumented APIs that keep slowing me down...
- Fixed listing message areas when writing a message to a file's
- uploader on the info screen.
- [S] from the info window now always displays "Not Yet Implimented"
- instead of just some of the time.
- CTRL-X will abort most loads and scans. Sometimes it will dump you
- back to the board, though, due to the nature of the scan/load.
-
- 04/15/96: (Revision Level: 00.41) (Early αlpha)
-
- The version screen (* at list prompt) will now give the user the option
- of viewing the history file if found.
- File Tagging has been cut back on! Thanks to AdeptSoft for fixing the
- problem in Adept!
- Started marking changes in the readme so that people could follow it
- much easier.
-
- 04/08/96: (Revision Level: 00.40) (Early αlpha)
-
- APRIL FOOLS! (we hope not :))
-
- HAPPY EASTER!!
-
- The [I]nfo screen now tells the proper NAME of the are in which the
- file is located instead of just its number.
- When writing to the uploader of a particular file, AdeptFile will now
- allow the user to get a list of available message areas by
- entering '?' at the prompt.
- X,Q, and a blank entry will now abort when writing a message to
- the uploader of a file.
- Added a line between the file's data and its description on the [I]nfo
- screen.
- Changed the '?' on "Cost" to a "0" to look a bit more professional.
- Swapped "File Date" and "Download Time" to a more sensible location
- (Download time beside the file's size and the upload date beside
- the uploader.)
- When a user [W]rites to the uploader of a file now, the subject line
- shows the area in which the file resides instead of just its name.
- Completely re-engineered the [I]nfo prompt. It is now alot more clear
- as to what things do, and special functions are placed in brackets
- at the end of the prompt.
- [D]elete a file has now become [K]ill a file. The [D] is now used for
- downloading.
- Fixed some bugs in the tagging and downloading routines. Sometimes
- AdeptFile would tag and/or download the wrong file(s).
- Tagging files now tells you which files AdeptFile has tagged and which
- ones it has not. Tell me if you think the display should be faster
- or slower. :)
- The tag files prompt will now tell you how many files you tagged as well
- as how many bytes. This is NOT cumulative! It's only for how
- much was tagged this time around. I'll be implimenting a similar
- mechanism with downloads. :)
- Completely re-engineered the file tagging and downloading systems.
- Unavailable entries are now shaded a bit more than the normal files
- in the filebase.
- Changed "Scanning" to a numerical value showing how many files we have
- scanned.
- File tagging will have to wait till Adept 1.07e comes out. The code
- that tags the files is still inactive in AdeptFile since, in Adept's
- current incarnation, AdeptAddToXferList() kills Adept.
- Getting a list of available message areas when [W]riting to uploader
- doesn't seem tow work in Adept 1.07c when it worked previously.
- The function we call was updated in this release, so I think it's
- a problem with Adept. I'll check into it. :)
- Fixed the dark bottom desc line on deleted files.
- Files without a description or an uploader will now correctly say
- "No description left by Unknown"
- MAJOR internal structural changes. I've rewritten many, many things
- internally to support a host of new features in the future! Some
- things may have been broken by the wide, sweeping changes that I
- made to the internal code. PLEASE tell me if anything is out of
- the ordinary in this release.
- The first of those features: from any list, you can use the "[]" keys
- to move back and forth between directories. Koen Koster gave me
- the idea for this so hats off to him for it!
- Redesigned the list prompt. It now shows the above options.
- On the info screen, you can now also use the "[]" keys to move back
- and forth between files.
- [* Released to a few people for testing purposes ************************]
- CTRL-X will abort loading during a scan
- Up, Down, Left, Right, <, and > will now work the same as the "[]" keys
- to move back and forth between files and areas.
- AdeptFile now supports more than 99 files in a filebase without
- mucking up the display.
- Rewrote the file area jumping routines so that they will remember
- where you were in the list while jumping back and forth. The code
- is still a bit shakey. Please tell me if it does anything out
- of the ordinary so that I can fix it. The only odd thing I've
- seen it do in this build is mess up the "## of ##" text when jumping
- to a new area. I'll try and fix that by .50.
- Using the jump keys in the info screen will let you jump to files you
- supposedly can't access. I'll fix this in .50, too.
-
- 03/30/96: (Revision Level: 00.30) (Early αlpha)
-
- HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME...... :)
-
- Revised small parts of the information screen.
- I have started adding the time to download calculation code. It's
- still rough and probably contains errors, but it will get better
- as I tweak the routine.
- Many of the prompts now accept '-' to go back to the previous screen.
- Started work on the rest of the [I]nfo screen. Notice the new options:
- [C]alibrate Info - Updates the filebase with the file's true
- filesize, date, etc.
- [S]ysop - Only available to sysops. Allows for file
- mgmt.
- [D]elete - Allows for the file uploader or sysop to delete
- the file.
- [ENTER] - Exits, along with Q,X,Esc,-.
- Please note that none of this works yet and the sysop option is
- shown to everyone. Eventually I hope to read Adept's "Sysop" flags,
- etc. to determine who has access to sysop functions and who doesn't
- on an area-by-area basis.
- All non-working functions on the Info window now say "Not Yet
- Implimented."
- "Cost" became "DLable?" on the Info screen.
- I've reworked alot of the description management code to make use of
- my own internal routines. The code is alot easier to maintain
- because of it. :)
- "[W]rite Author" on the Information screen now works!
- AdeptFile will now allow special access to a file if the user is either
- (1) the sysop or (2) the uploader. Special access is needed to
- delete a file.
- [D]eleting a file does not work yet. I can't seem to get Adept to
- delete anything from the filebase. :(
- The date on the info screen now reads correctly.
- GREATLY enhanced how we handle deleted/orphaned files. AdeptFile will
- give all deleted files a date of "00/00/00," a file size of "0,"
- and a description of "<< Deleted File >>." We do not write these
- values into Adept's actual database, of course; we simply show
- them to the user. Deleted files can neither have information pulled
- on them nor can they be downloaded or tagged.
- Downloading now works! (hurrah!)
- The pointer is no longer miscalculated when returning from the info
- screen.
- AdeptFile now leaves temp files in its home directory that look like
- "AdeptFile.1.Tmp" These are used to download files so please
- ignore them. They're small anyway. :)
-
- 03/25/96: (Revision Level: 00.20) (Early αlpha)
-
- Made some of the displays a bit prettier.
- Moved the "(25/90)" text up to the top of the screen. We make better
- use of space by doing it this way.
- AdeptFile now flashes a "(Scanning)" line when it's searching the
- filebase. This will let the user know that it's actually doing
- something. Hopefully Ill find a faster way to scan the filebase in
- the future. Currently the AdeptfSys() functions aren't documented
- well at all so I cannot use many of the calls I'd like to.
- Rewrote most of the file listing code. It works alot better than it
- used to now. :)
- Added a [P]revious button.
- Fixed some problems with showing incorrect file sizes (commas were in
- the wrong places and other misc. glitches)
- Vastly improved the [N]onstop feature.
- I have rewritten the display system because it seems that Adept
- EXPLODES if AdeptPrint() gets overloaded (the whole board goes up in
- smoke.) The system works flawlessly now!
- The [I]nfo screen works now. It will be enhanced alot in the future.
- Got the dates working, albeit not via the standard machanism <g>
-
- 03/20/96: (Revision Level: 00.10) (Early αlpha)
-
- Sent a copy out to a few people for input and whatnot...
-
- 03/19/96: (Revision Level: 00.00)
-
- Work began on AdeptFile on a cold and windy March evening.....
-