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- StartupFrills Version History
- --------------------------
-
- v3.1 Added the ability to specify a startup movie. Note that
- StartupFrills itself doesn't play this movie - it simply
- copies it to the correct location for the System to
- automatically play it (similar to the manner in which
- startup screens are handled). Requires Quicktime to be
- installed, the version number being appropriate to
- the movie being played.
-
- Restructured the preferences file.
-
- Internal changes to the handling of preferences to improve
- the object-orientation. These are fairly major, and are what
- caused the preferences file structure to be altered.
-
- Internal changes to begin moving away from constant strings
- and towards STR resources. This trend will continue in
- future releases
-
-
- v3.0 (Limited public release)
-
- Total rewrite. Implementation is now in C++ rather than C,
- and the application has been re-designed in the object
- oriented paradigm. This ought to make it easier to add any
- more startup file types in the future.
-
- Added a Configuration dialogue box.
-
- Added the ability to speak text files. Requires Apple's
- Speech Manager to be installed.
-
- Added the ability to step through each screen or sound in
- order, rather than having the selection always be random.
-
- Added the ability to enable or disable startup file types
- via the configuration dialogue.
-
- Significant documentation changes to reflect the new
- functionality. Introduced an MS-Word version of the ReadMe
- file.
-
- Made StartupFrills use a preferences file, rather than
- storing all settings in its own resource fork. This means
- that any configuration settings apply only to the machine on
- which they're saved - a method which makes sense when the
- nature of the application is considered.
-
- Removed the need to specify source folder locations
- externally (either having Startup Screens/Sounds folders
- directly in the System Folder or having similarly named
- aliases in the System Folder). Source folder locations are
- now kept in the preferences file and specified through the
- Configuration dialogue box.
-
- Significantly reduced the executable's size. To be honest,
- it's the compiler that should take the most credit for that
- since there's actually more code in than ever before. However
- a few loose resources have been cleaned out and the use of a
- preferences file has made things more efficient.
-
-
- v2.3 Taken away the responsibility for playing a sound from the
- Finder and given it to StartupFrills. This results in a speed
- improvement since the sound now only needs to be read
- once, rather than read in once, written out again to a
- different location, and the finally read again by the Finder
- in order to play it. StartupFrills will also play sound in the
- background, allowing other applications to continue their
- startup processes (including the Finder).
-
-
- v2.2 Allowed the use of aliases to folders being placed in the
- System folder rather than requiring the folders themselves
- to be there. This was the most requested feature missing
- from v2.1, so hopefully a few people will be pleased by
- its inclusion.
-
- StartupFrills now correctly chooses only files having the
- correct type ('SCRN' for screens, 'sfil' for sounds)
- regardless of whether files of other types are in the
- source folder.
-
- Minor changes to the Readme file in order to include the
- new functionality.
-
-
- v2.1 Added support for non-English language Systems.
-
-
- v2.02 (No public release)
-
- Re-addressed the problem of a Type 1/2 error occurring.
-
- Fixed a potential (but highly unlikely) divide by zero error.
-
- Fixed a problem whereby folders containing only one file
- would be ignored.
-
-
- v2.01 Updated the ReadMe file to correctly reflect the folder
- naming conventions.
-
- Correctly implemented the help balloon.
-
-
- v2.0 Changed the name from "Change Startupscreens" to
- "StartupFrills"
-
- Added random startup sounds functionality.
-
- Added Finder icons and a help balloon.
-
- Added a new randomising feature designed to pick the
- higher numbers more often. It could be purely subjective,
- but the Mac's random number generator seems rarely to
- produce values near the top of its range so some files
- were almost never being chosen.
-
-
- v1.02 (No public release)
-
- Fixed a bug which could cause the startupscreens folder
- name to be corrupted in memory, thus preventing the
- application from operating correctly.
-
- Made the routines more generic in preparation for the
- addition of random startup sounds functionality.
-
-
- v1.01 Fixed a bug which would prevent the last startup screen in
- the StartupScreens folder from ever being selected.
-
- Minor documentation changes.
-
- This version was not released to the public.
-
-
- v1.0 Initial release.
-