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Release Notes 28 February 1993
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Version 1.7
HyperWais Stack
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- You can now click on an application summary line to
automatically populate the various fields in the
"edit applications" screen.
- You can now click on a document headline to view it, and
option-click to save it.
- The stack now cleans up the headline before presenting it
as a file name, it tries to do this in as clean a way as possible,
either taking the first word of the headline or truncating it to
25 characters if it still is too long.
- A couple of nifty little icons on the title screen which animate
themselves when you move the mouse over either of them.
- Cleaned up the stack script and created some initializeCard
scripts for each card which are called when the stack is
opened. These scripts do various things to the cards to which
they are attached. This has helped in reducing the size of the
stack script.
- Added feature which allows the user to save and open questions.
This feature saves the query and the chosen sources to a files. The
format is wais compatible, but I have not tried to open any
WAIStation questions files. Headlines and relevance feedback are
not saved as part of a question. Also created a wais-questions folder.
XFCNs
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- Changed the docTypeLen from 16 to 30 characters. This changes
was made to accomodate long type lists returned by multi-type
databases.
- Fixed a bug which filtered out all the applications when the
application chooser was invoked when the Wais Listener was
not found on the local machine. The filter is also case-insentitive.
- Added two new XFCNs which will allow the user to download a
document to the local machine if the Wais Listener is running on
another machine. The two XFCNs are called HCGetDocToLocalFile
and HCGetDocToLocalFileByID and are drop-in replacements for
HCGetDocToFile and HCGetDocToFileByID respectively. To use them
all you need to do is to change the two XFCN names in the stack
script.
Wais Caller routines
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- Changed the docTypeLen from 16 to 30 characters. This changes
was made to accomodate long type lists returned by multi-type
databases.
- Added two functions which will allow the user to download a
document to the local machine if the Wais Listener is running on
another machine. The two functions are called GetDocToLocalFile
and GetDocToLocalFileByID and are drop-in replacements for
GetDocToFile and GetDocToFileByID respectively. The difference
is that they fetch the document and save it locally rather than
asking the Wais Listener to do it.
Wais Listener and C Libraries
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- Fixed a bug in the Wais Listener.debug which prevented the
user from saving the log file that was listed in the debug
window.
- There is a bug which prevents the Wais Listener.debug
application from communicating with the clipboard when
cutting and pasting, cant figure that one out at this time.
- Fixed a bug which did not reliably send back the document
type with the relevance feedback entries, this did not bother
the regular server, but caused problems with the multi-type
server I put together.
- Fixed a bug which did not update the site IP number in the
document structures.
- Changed the docTypeLen from 16 to 30 characters. This changes
was made to accomodate long type lists returned by multi-type
databases.
- Fixed a small memory leak in the relevance feedback code, a
document id was not being released when it was supposed to
be.
- Streamlined the code which builds the search and the get
document APDUs.
- Fixed a couple of little bugs which made some assumptions about
the document types which where downloaded. These bugs were
identified when the functions for downloading documents to a
local machine were implemented.
- Streamlined the allocation of document chuck handles, now the handle
it set to the size of the chunk rather than an arbitrary size, this
make for better memory usage.