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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.
* 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