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Update.doc -- Access! (C) 1987/88 By Keith Young --
Other text files in this archive:
Access!me The origional 'doc' file describing most of Access!'s
features.
Script.doc Documentation describing Acc!'s new scripting language.
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Time: -23:-
Date: 9/21/88
Subject: Changes/Additions to Access! Ver 1.41 since 1.4
This release (1.41) of Access! is mostly a 'bug-fix' version for
1.4 and as such does not add any major new features... although there
are a few changes/additions that I concider significant. These you will
find listed in the top part of this file, with the bug/feature fixes
listed afterwards.
As I am still trying to get the regular 'doc' file organized /
re-written, I have not updated it (Acces!me) for this release, but have
included it for new users... thank you for bearing with me.
o 'rd' -- although 'rd' (the text file reader) is now a few bytes
smaller (68 bytes to be exact 8) it has a new 'Iconify' feature...
Once you are reading a file, pressing Function key #1 ( F-1 ) while
the 'rd' window is active will cause it to shrink up into a title-bar
sized window that you can drag/place in a convenient spot until you are
ready for it again.
While in this 'Iconified' state, there is a 'close' gadget (used to
open (yeah, I know 8) it back up to normal size), front/back gadgets
(act as normal window depth-arranging gadgets) and an area in-between
with 'rd' displayed that you can used to drag the window.
(NOTE: clicking the 'close' gadget when 'rd' is in it's normal, un-iconified
state QUITS the 'rd' program)
When you shrink the window, it first saves it's location and size
so that upon re-opening it, it returns to that possition/size. (it also
remembers where it was possitioned in it's 'Iconified' state).
'rd' will _now_ open on the current 'Front-Screen'. So that (unlike
it acted in version 1.4) if Access! is running, but WBench (or any other
screen) is in front when it is invoked... it will live on _that_ screen.
Other programmers are welcome to take advantage of this and
distribute (_this_ 1.41 version of) 'rd' with thier _non-commercial_
product as long as credit is given to myself somewhere in the docs.
(programs using custom screens, allowing 'leach' programs on thier screen
should have some provision of checking to make sure all windows are
closed/removed before closing the parent screen. Here's one example (and
what *I* use) of how you might do this...(pseudo code)
while( myscreen->FirstWindow )
AutoRequest( ..."Please Close all windows on this screen"...);
CloseScreen( myscreen );
o Iconify -- speaking of Iconify, Access! itself also now has a
similar feature... selecting "Iconify" (from the "Project" menu) will
cause Acc! to close up all of it's windows and custom screen and open
a small title-bar sized window on the WorkBench screen until you are
ready for it again.
While in this iconified state, Acc! will _still_ recieve in-comming
text and store it in the review buffer as normal. However, it will NOT
(currently) continue any kind of file-transfer so please do NOT try it
while you are in the middle of a transfer. (yes, this would be a handy
feature while doing a long transfer... it's _planned_ for a future
version, so please don't waste your time (and mine) suggesting it <grin>.
Actually, my guess is, 8 out of 10 people never read this stuff... so
I'll end up having to respond to a lot of 'bug' reports anyway... <sigh>)
To re-open Acc! to it's normal/un-iconified state, click on the
'close' gadget on the little window.
o Read Text File -- new menuitem added (in the "Project" menu) to give
further access <ahem> and 'menu key sequence' to the text file reader
('rd'). Also, version 1.4 of Acc! looked in the C: directory for 'rd',
it will now first look in the 'current directory' (the one you were cd'd
to when you booted Acc!) and then the C: directory.
o Online help -- well... similar to the above item, there is another
new menuitem in the Project menu labeled "Help". This selection is just
a quick way to have a text file loaded into 'rd'... it is hard-coded to
look for a file called "Acc!.hlp" in the current "System Dir:" (specified
on the DEFINE window). The idea here was/is to have an 'online help'
file for quick reference to keyboard commands etc... but I haven't had
the time to actually write that file yet <grin>. It can, of course be
any text file named "Acc!.hlp", so you might opt not to use my (future)
online-help file, and use this feature to bring up a list of user-ids
or any other information you'd like to have handy while online.
o Optimized -- Much crunching took place for this release... Acc! is
now roughly 25,000 bytes smaller on disk and should use a bit less CHIP
mem while running. (that should give you a little more room on disk for
these 'doc' files... hint, hint <grin> )
---------------- Bug/Feature Fixes Below --------------------
o Re-draw -- version 1.4 of Acc! introduced a feature that re-drew the
text of the screen if it had been cleared by some other user-invoked
feature (going in/out of CHAT mode, changing fonts, colors, Interlace,
etc.). There was one slight bug in this... the last line received was
not _always_ re-printed... this is fixed now.
o NewCli -- also introduced in 1.4 was a feature that opened a CLI or
a WShell window on Acc!'s screen if you had 'conman' running... this
window had a 'close gadget' on it (using a feature of 'conman'). Well, it
seems that _sometimes_ clicking on this clse-gadget killed the CLI, but
left the window open (with no way to close it). This version will not
use the close-gadget... until this problem can be tracked down and fixed.
o File-Requester Sort -- This was touched on in 1.4 and again for this
version... it now acts how I want/invisioned it to <grin>.
o Clear-Screen -- it seems that in adding a feature to 1.4 that would
move the cursor down one line if a 'clear-screen' code was received _and_
a gadget-bar was at the top of the screen... caused a small bugglet...
if you had _no_ gadget-bar up top, and got a clear-screen, it didn't. 8)
This is now fixed.
o Scripts -- although no new features were added in this version, there
was a small problem... when trying to select a script to execute, the
file-requester came up looking in the "System Dir:" but after you
selected one, the term then looked in the "Download Dir:" for the script...
unless they were the same place, the term never found it. <duck>
This is now fixed. (it looks i the "System Dir:", a future version may
have a seporate directory/path for scripts)
o Multi-Auto-Redial -- (well, somewhere in there 8) when multiple
numbers were selected, and a connection was made with one, then 'Redial'
was selected to continue to the next number in the list... it re-dialed
the last again... I think this has been fixed... let me know if there
are any inconsistancies (sp) left in the way that whole mess works <grin>
o WXmodem Upload -- there was a bug (since 1.3a) in the WXmodem upload
routine that may or may not have effected you... it wasn't a fatal bug,
but caused the transfer to 'pause' for a (several) short periods during
the transfer thus slowing things down a bit. This is fixed now.
o Etc... -- I'm sure there were several other minor changes, but they
escape me at the moment.
That's all for now (at least that I remember)... Keep those
suggestions, comments and (especially) registrations comming...
Enjoy,
- Keith