Windoware/WINDOWARE_1_6.iso/winutil/acc30b/changes.txt

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I REALLY THANK ALL OF THE USERS WHO CALL WHEN THEY FIND A PROBLEM
OR WANT A CHANGE.

If ANYONE has problems:

Call Ted Wall:
    510-484-4129       non-emergencies: 8am - 6pm (Pacific Time) Mon-Sun
            emergencies: call anytime.

ALL previous users of ACCESSES should read this file to at least
the description of the current version of ACCESSES they are using.

Lately, all of my changes are user requested. I love feedback!

I had a user report a divide by zero error when he changed Fonts. If
anyone else sees this, would you please report what you were doing
to me. I could not reproduce the error or find an error in the
code.

Very Advanced Windows 3.1 Program Manager's Startup Group TIP:

To start up windows 3.1 the way you want, do something like the
following (if this is not clear, call me):

Delete    Accesses.exe from your WIN.INI Load= line.
Add    "Accesses.exe !FolderNo10" to Program Manager's Startup Group.

in Accesses !FolderNo10 you can have the following:

    !FolderName=Startup Folder

    !program1=PauseSecs 4        <- varies with computer speed
    !program2=PlaceDefault clock.exe
    !program3=StayOnTop clock.exe
    !program4=MinimizeWindow clock.exe
    !program5=PlaceDefault winfile.exe
    !program6=PlaceDefault progman.exe
    !program8=hidewindow drwatson.exe
    !program9=PlaceDefault dayalarm.exe
    !program10=PlaceDefault winoa386.mod    <- A DOS Window
    !program11=StayOnTop winoa386.mod

This assumes that the Program Manager's Startup Group launches: clock,
winfile, drwatson, dayalarm, and a PIF file. MAKE SURE ACCESSES IS CALLED
ONLY ONCE DURING THE STARTUP PROCESS because Accesses has to ignore multiple
calls during the startup process.  eg Do not start File Manager from the
Program Manager's Startup Group via "ACCESSES.EXE FILEMGR.EXE" and also
start "Accesses.exe !folderno10" from the Program Manager's Startup Group.
(Because while Accesses is waiting for File Manager to startup, Windows may
send the !FolderNo10 command to Accesses.)

Changes thru 8/18/92        (Version 3.0b)

1.    Alarms now display on the Window Caption Bar of the Active Window.

2.    Can now display the largest free block of Global Memory on the popup.
    Accesses has too many options and too few dialog boxes, but to
    turn this on, select Ctrl+Esc, and click the
    "Include %, am/pm on popup && largest free block" checkbox until the
    box turns gray (this is a three state button, unchecked, checked, and
    gray).  Watch the popup as you check this box. Note: Total Free memory
    must also be displaying before this shows.

    Added Alt+G to global compact memory then display system info. Click
    once on the popup with the right mouse button and press Alt+G.

3.    Ctrl+Esc, Alt+F,Shift+E (or Right Mouse click) the "End Tasks" menu
    item will repeat the Task List (saves having to click the
    "Repeat Task List" button): the Shift key (or Right Mouse click)
    also work for the Restore, Minimize, Maximize, ... , Bottom Right
    "Show" Task List menu items now.

4.    ADDED SOUND to Accesses. See ACCESSES.WRI.

5.    Added AccDrop.exe.  Each AccDrop represents a program name and will
    launch a document dragged dropped from the Windows File Manager
    using that program. AccDrop requires Accesses to be running.
    See ACCESSES.WRI

4.    Improved the performance of Accesses in the Windows 3.1 version
    when used with Windows 3.0/3.1 Screen Savers. See ACCESSES.WRI.

Changes thru 8/4/92        (Version 3.0a)

1.    Added a "multiple" detail dialog box to the Run Dialog Box. From
    this box you can launch multiple apps or can copy multiple file
    names and optionally file statistics to the clipboard. You can
    reach this option via Ctrl+Shft+Esc, Alt+L,[tab],[enter].

2.    Increased the "Run History" saved by Accesses to 26 apps and the
    "Run Programs" dialog box displays a sorted list of the "Run History"
    under the "Run" combo box.

2.    DO NOT add Accesses to the WIN.INI Load= or Run= line.  Windows 3.1
    sometimes has a problem when 2 programs that use Fonts are loaded
    here! I am recommending that users manually add Accesses to the
    Program Manager's or Norton Desktop's "Startup Group" instead to
    launch Accesses when Windows 1st Starts.

3.    Fixed AccDrives (Ver 1.7) "Stay on Top" in the Windows 3.0 mode and
    worked on both Accesses and AccDrives hiding with screen blankers.

4.    Added an option to turn the Alarm Beep ON/OFF in Dayalarm (Ver 1.9).
    Look under the "Setup" dialog box.

    Also added a Fonts option to Dayalarm. Look under the "Setup" dialog
    box.

5.    Fixed a fatal error launching programs in the Win 3.0 mode. I'm
    running Accesses in Windows 3.1 and am not Testing the Win 3.0
    version as well as one should.

6.    Modified the DayAlarm Caption so that Saving the Defaultsizes of ALL
    apps will not save a new DayAlarm DEFAULTSIZE data for a different day.
    All DayAlarm Captions now show a hypen.

7.    Changed the dialog boxes so that the Tab key makes more sense;
    although, tab doesn't go to all of the buttons using this philosophy.

8.    Eliminated several confusing options.

9.    The dialog boxes move to the bottom left corner now instead of the
    top left when their Help button activates Accesses.hlp. Suggest saving
    Accesses.hlp's DEFAULTSIZE to the top 1/2 of the screen.

10.    Accesses's Alarms will now launch programs at a specific time.

11.    Fixed the error where Accesses would sometimes show when the user
    had hidden Accesses.

12.    Click once on Accesses popup and Alt+C will give you a count of the
    characters on the clipboard.

13.    Increased the size of the launch history list to the last 26
    programs launched.

14.    Added a "RunIfNotExist" Programming Command to launch a program
    if not already running from a !Folder. See ACCESSES.WRI.
    below for other Programming Commands. The RunIfNotExist command is
    sililar to the "RESTOREWINDOW progman.exe" command, a document name
    or a drive:\directory name is not used by Accesses.

15.    Added a "SendingKey" Programming Command that can be used to a
    LIMITED EXTENT to Send Keys from a !Folder. See ACCESSES.WRI.
    The command can be nested. The 1st space after the word
    "SendingKey" is required, any other spaces will end the
    SendingKey command.

eg.    SendingKey {ALT}FOc:\windows\accesses.ini{RETURN}

    can be used to open a file

    The total list of Programming Commands are now:

        HideWindow drwatson.exe   (drive:\directory info not required)
        MaximizeWindow clock.exe  (drive:\directory info not required)
        MinimizeWindow clock.exe  (drive:\directory info not required)
        PauseSecs 4          (0 seconds will provide a brief pause)
        PlaceDefault clock.exe    (drive:\directory info not required)
        RestoreWindow clock.exe   (drive:\directory info not required)
        RunIfNotExist drwatson.exe (drive:\directory info not required)
        SendingKey {ALT}
        SendingKey {BEEP}
        SendingKey {ESC}
        SendingKey {RETURN}
        SendingKey {SPACE}
        SendingKey {TAB}
        SendingKey 1         (any number from 0 to 9)
        SendingKey A         (any Capital Letter from A to Z)
        StayOnTop clock.exe     (drive:\directory info not required)
        NotOnTop filemgrs.exe     (drive:\directory info not required)
16.    Fixed the Phone dialog where it would not open with the user's Startup
    settings.

17.    Added a Sorting function for data listed on the Clipboard.  All Rows
    of data on the Clipboard is sorted alphabetically assuming that each
    "row" ends with a Carriage Return/Line Feed combination (normally true).
    See Ctrl+Esc, Alt+F, C, O.  (The list in 15b above beginning with
    "HideWindow drwatson.exe" was sorted with this function.)

18.    Accesses has always avoided going to a Popup Window.  Now this option
    is Turned On and Off from the Miscellaneous Setup options box and
    the default setting is to NOT AVOID Popups.

19.    Added more jumps between dialog boxes for !Folders.

20.    Allowing semicolon as a REMark to a Folder's Command Line. Accesses
    will bypass the lines that begin with a semicolon.

    eg. the semicolon in ->   ;PauseSecs 5
    of a Folder Command Line will cause that Command Line to be bypassed.

Changes thru 7/20/92        (Version 3.0)

1.    Limited edition release.

Changes thru 7/10/92        (Version 2.9k)

1.    Changed the Alt+U to a virtual key.

2.    "New and Improved" alarms dialog box.

Changes thru 7/2/92        (Version 2.9j)

1.    Fixed Accesses so it would stay on top of other Stay On Top
    programs.

2.    More on a bizarre function: Accesses will convert text in the
    Windows clipboard to upper, lower, and proper case, see
    ACCESSES.WRI. For people without a middle mouse button that works
    in Windows I added Hold the Shift key down and click the right mouse
    button on the left 1/3 of the Accesses popup window to convert the
    clipboard text contents to lower case. Shift key down and click the
    right mouse button on the middle 1/3 of the popup will strip
    formatting from word processor text saved to the clipboard. Shift
    key down and click the right mouse button on the right 1/3 of the
    popup will convert the clipboard text contents to upper case.
    (See Version 2.7 notes for proper case conversion.)

Changes thru 6/26/92        (Version 2.9i)

1.    Fixed a problem where Norton Desktop would not stay minimized.

2.    Fixed DayAlarm if it was suppose to popup when left mouse clicking
    the left 1/3 of Accesses and DayAlarm was started before Accesses
    during this Windows session.

3.    Examining the Launch History for directory information when
    collecting filenames for a !folder.

4.    Added an option to convert your Launch History and for Win 3.1 users
    convert the last Drag Drop operation to a folder, then you
    can delete from the !Folder the programs you don't want included.

5.    Fixed the problem where the alarm wouldn't work when the AM PM in
    the WIN.INI were in capital letters. A user told me about this
    embarrasing and alarm disabling error that Accesses had for 6
    months, thanks John.

Changes thru 6/22/92        (Version 2.9h)

1.    Fixed where Friday and Saturday  (Fr Sa) would both display on
    the popup on a Friday. Whoops...

2.    Fixed a problem launching WinWord version 2.0 from Accesses Run
    Program Dialog Box when WinWord was already running. Sometimes
    another window would be activated when WinWord was already running.

3.    Allowing the user to enter a file mask of "*.extension" or
    "filename.*" in the Run Program dialog box "Run:" edittext box.

4.    Improved the mouse click to stop a !Folder.

5.    Version 1.6 of Dayalarm allows the user to include or not include
    the Day of the week in the Window Title. Double click on the
    calendar and look under setup.

6.    Increased the size of the "Run User List" from 32 programs to 64.
    Slower computers should limit the total number of "Run User List"
    programs since this reads the ACCESSES.INI file everytime the
    Run Dialog box is opened. (Avoids wasting your computer's memory).

Changes thru 6/15/92        (Version 2.9g)

1.    AccDrive optionally blinks and beeps when the a minimum actual
    drive size is reached. Saving independent data for all AccDrives.

2.    Saving the Arrange Dialog process save above icons switch, again.

Changes thru 6/12/92        (Version 2.9f)

1.    Saving a launch history in a Combo Box of the Run Dialog box.

Changes thru 6/11/92        (Version 2.9e)

1.    Fixed a problem Accesses had activating Full screen DOS Windows
    that I did not know that I had! I was doing some special processing
    for DOS windows so if the window was operating full screen but the
    procedure fouled full screen windows.  I always run DOS windowed or
    using the Alt+key I've defined and the problem never shows in that
    mode.

    Extended the Honor System registration period.

    Because I cannot tell whether an iconic DOS window will be full
    screen when it is activated, I have disabled some multiple window
    functions for the DOS window. This will cause very little
    inconvience for most users, but call me if something crops up that
    you wish would be fixed.

Changes thru 6/10/92        (Version 2.9d)

1.    Saving the Arrange Dialog box settings and the Task List's
    "Split ON" setting.

Changes thru 6/9/92        (Version 2.9c)

0.    One version of Accesses is now compatible with Windows
    version 3.0 and 3.1 << PS, THIS DID NOT WORK!!!

1.    Allowing the user to CANCEL all prior pending Alarms.

*** IMPORTANT IF YOU ARE UPGRADING FROM AN EARLIER VERSION OF ACCESSES ****

2.    A Much more intelligent PauseSecs, MILLISEC_DELAY_WIN, and
    MILLISEC_DELAY_PIF has been written.  (definitions in ACCESSES.HLP.)
    This will allow the user to lower the values and causes less
    timing conflicts. New values are respectively, 100 and 2000.

Therefore:

    *****   USERS OF OLDER VERSIONS OF ACCESSES   *******

    should edit the "MILLISEC_DELAY" and "PIF mSec Delay" variables
    to the 100 and 2000 values or lower. I'm using 50 and 100.

    You can change these variables via Ctrl+Esc, Alt+U, C, N, [enter].

3.    Added Font changing functions (Win 3.1 mode).

4.    Accesses now follows the mouse when clicked on the background screen.

5.    Reversed the former action of the function keys under the Run Menu
    of the Task List. Now the function key will always launch the
    program and the Shift+Function key will switch to the program
    if it is already running and launch it if not already running.

Changes thru 5/22/92        (Version 2.9b)

1.    Technical, Changed Accelerator keys to Virtual Keys from ASCII.

Changes thru 5/11/92        (Version 2.9)

1.    A safer compile option.

Changes thru 5/1/92        (Version 2.8)

1.    Added a "StayOnTop" and "NotOnTop" Task List menu items and
    !folder Programming Commands. Also added a "PlaceDefault"
    !folder command for problem programs or to place programs started
    from the Program Manager's Startup folder (be sure to use
    PauseSecs for Program Manager's Startup folder).

    format:        PlaceDefault clock.exe
            StayOnTop clock.exe

Changes thru 4/24/92        (Version 2.7)

1.    Added a ReStart Windows and ReBoot DOS to the Exit Windows menu item.

WARNING    Rebooting DOS from Windows can cause some memory managers to lock up!

    The Reboot DOS function is disabled in WIN 3.0.

2.    Was tired of Accesses pasting DOCs into an existing Winword 2.0
    program if one was already running.  Accesses behaves better if you
    Ctrl+Esc, Alt+U, C, N, [enter] and then add "winword.exe,0" to the
    Run Only Run MDI program group.

3.    A bizarre function: Click once on Accesses's popup window then press
    Alt+U will convert the clipboard text contents to upper case.
    Alt+L to lower case. Alt+P to proper case.  Alt+S will strip
    formatting from WinWord text saved to the clipboard. Clicking the
    middle mouse button on the left 1/3 of the Accesses popup window is
    the same as pressing Alt+L, middle 1/3 equals Alt+S, and right 1/3
    equals Alt+U. (See version 2.9j above)

4.    Hold the Left Mouse button down and Clicking the middle mouse button
    on the left, middle, and right 1/3 of the popup is the same as
    pressing F10, F11, and F12 respectively when the popup has focus.

5.    If you select more than one file from another program and Drag Drop
    to Accesses, they are all launched (using WIN.INI extensions if they
    are not executables).

Changes thru 4/20/92        (Version 2.6)

1.    Accesses was not placing DOS windows properly for some users when
    the user launched DOS apps in WIN3.1 mode using a command line
    without the PIF file name.  For example:

        accesses.exe 123.exe

    If you do not specify the PIF filename and then launch a DOS app
    thru Accesses, then the MILLISEC_DELAY_WIN variable for the Windows
    mode becomes significant. See "Millisecond Delay" using the Search
    button of the Accesses.hlp file. If to fast, then the window is not
    placed properly for you.


Only SIGNIFICANT changes ARE LISTED for the following:

Changes thru 3/26/92        (Version 2.5)

1.    Added PauseSecs to the !Folder Programming Commands.
    (0 seconds will provide a brief pause)

Changes thru 3/10/92        (Version 2.4)

1.    Added several Programming Commands.
2.    Added a tiny calendar display - DayAlarm.exe.

Changes thru 1/27/92        (Version 2.3)

Changes thru 1/16/92        (Version 2.2)

12.    Added an "Auto Insert" check box on the Run Dialog box to give the
    user control and to indicate when Accesses will insert the filename
    selected in the Filename List box to the program name listed in
    the Run edit text box  or Windows directory. Much, much nicer now.

    Checked or grayed means that the dialog box is will be
    auto inserting or has already auto inserted.

    Not checked means that the user is over riding the default insert
    mode.  Basically, the Run Dialog box is complicated but makes much
    more sense to the user and fewer errors are made due to this
    addition.

    Also functions very well with the Drag Drop version of Accesses.

Version 2.1 released 1/8/92
Version 1.1A released 12/21/91
Version 1.0 released 12/11/91
        _______________________________________

If programmers want to use Accesses to place a window using the DEFAULTSIZE
settings in Accesses, post:
    PostMessage(hWndAccesses, 273, 201, (LONG) 5678);
You can find the handle of hWndAccesses from:
    hWndAccesses= FindWindow((LPSTR) "AccessesTASKMAN", NULL);

or from programs like CMDPOST you can default to Accesses.ini default
settings to place windows by using:

if WinExist("z Accesses")
  then IntControl (23, IntControl(21,"z Accesses",0,0,0),273,201, 5678)