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N E W F E A T U R E S
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There have been a number of versions of this program. To save space, only
the changes since the last public release are listed here. If you are
upgrading from a version other than the last public release, I suggest
you read the entire documentation file.
ESS-Code 4.6
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-ESS-Code is 34% faster! Yes, 34%!
-ESS-Code now supports the Atari GUI Standard for keyboard shortcuts.
It also now uses the ellipsis ("...") in menu entries -- once again, to
comply with the Atari GUI Standard.
-The "Select Target" option now accepts only pathnames. With previous
versions of ESS-Code, the user was expected to enter the path and the
name of the target. This is no longer the case.
-ESS-Code is now more intelligent when used with MultiTOS. PLEASE READ
THE INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS! When ESS-Code is installed correctly
under MultiTOS, the client-program (ESS_CLNT.PRG) will check for a
copy of ESS-Code in memory when it is executed. If it finds one, it
will use a pipe to tell the already loaded copy of ESS-Code to process
the file(s) you selected. If not, it will load a copy of ESS-Code and
tell it to process the file(s).
-ESS-Code now redraws its status windows. Previously, it would do
nothing if another program (or more likely an accessory) wrote over
the contents of its status windows.
-ESS-Code now has a "batch mode". It allows you to select as many as
32 files, and then go away while ESS-Code does all the work. It will
decide for itself if a file should be UUEncoded or UUDecoded.
Wildcards are NOT allowed.
-ESS-Code now uses EGEM (the EnhancedGEM library by Christian Grunenberg)
for window dialog boxes! The new window dialog boxes provide shortcuts
for all buttons, radio buttons, check boxes, and popup menus. Using the
mouse, the cursor can be positioned anywhere in the edit-field simply
by clicking on the new location. The following keypresses are also
recognized when editing (square brackets indicate an optional key):
Home First Edit Field
Shift + Home Last Edit Field
Control + Left End Of Previous Word
Control + Right Start Of Next Word
Shift + L. Arrow Start Of Edit Field
Shift + R. Arrow End Of Edit Field
Tab OR Shift + Return Next Edit Field
Escape Clear Edit Field
Shift + Insert Insert ASCII Character
Undo Undo
[Shift +] Control + U. Arrow Move One History Entry Up
[Shift +] Control + D. Arrow Move One History Entry Down
[Shift +] Control + X Cut (-> Clipboard)
[Shift +] Control + C Copy (-> Clipboard)
[Shift +] Control + V Paste (<- Clipboard)
-ESS-Code now allows you to open any dialog box at any time, or have
multiple dialog boxes open at the same time.
-ESS-Code now has extensive online help. To access the help system,
press the HELP key at any time.
-When multiple dialog windows are open, you can now cycle through them
with the Control + R keypress. To close the current dialog window,
press Control + W.
-The user can now get information about ESS-Code by pressing the
"Control + A" key combination (or by selecting "ESS-Code" under the
"ESS-Code" (formerly "Desk") menu.
-ESS-Code no longer forces the extension to "*.u??" for UUDecoding
(which was a problem for a surprising number of people). The extension
is always the same as it was the last time you used the file selector.
-The source code for this program was optimized extensively, so all of
these features only add a total of 9K to the memory usage to ESS-Code.
The size of the file on disk is somewhat larger than the size of the
previous version, though.
-Michel Forget
Electric Storm Software
October 18, 1993