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Updates to the Displayer as of Monday 18th May 1992
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* Changed my IFF decrunch routine around a bit. It now runs approximately
twice as fast.
* Changed the Sound/Music memory allocation routines. If the Displayer is
running on an Amiga with only chip ram, then all data must have been loaded
into chip ram. This means it's not necessary to copy sound/music data
from fast ram before playing it. Before this was done regardless of what
machine it was running on, which meant there would be two copies of the
data in chip ram on a 512k machine. If possible, two copies are still made
on an all chip machines because when you move to another article you want
any background sound/music to continue playing, and the original article
containing the sound/music will be erased by the new article. If however
there isn't enough ram for two copies of the data, the sound/music is
played using the data contained in the article but when the reader loads
in a new article, the sound/music will be stopped and the article erased.
* Changed the requester and gadget graphics. These are now the same as the
Editor graphics.
* Added an extra print option so you can choose between 1 or 2 text pages
per single sheet of paper. Most printers should be able to print 2 text
pages on a single sheet but some laser printers don't like the extra long
page length. This should be no problem for NTSC magazines.
* Bumped the version to 1.05
* Fixed a bug that caused the Displayer not to recognise NTSC machines.
* Changed the page turning routine slightly.
* Made the Busy pointer the same as Workbench 2.0's.
* Conformed all Menus and requesters to Commodore's style guidelines.
* Extensively overhauled the error handling routines. Fixed a bug that
caused the Displayer to crash whenever it tried to exit after an
unrecoverable error. Error messages are now displayed. Many of these
should never be seen by the reader and are intended for the person who's
putting the magazine together.
* Added a Text Search command, and a Sleep (Iconify) command.
* Added commands to take you to the first and last pages of an article.
* Expanded the Help function.
* Improved both the Text and Graphic Dump print routines. The Text Only
print method now handles really weird page layouts a lot better.
Improvements to the Graphic Dump routine are minor and don't improve the
print quality.
* The Displayer now detaches itself from the CLI and hence doesn't need to
be run.
* Bumped the version to 1.29. This version number is significant and will
be explained in time - As if you really care!
* The Displayer now centres overscan pictures correctly.
* Made the Help text an external file, so the user can customise it. Also
reduced its width, so it is accessable from a low res screen.
* Fixed a bug which caused the Displayer to crash when the user clicks on a
PUSH button, which had a Shadow Width & Height of zero but Shadow X
and Y offsets greater than zero. You should always make the Shadow X
Offset the same as the Shadow Width and the Shadow Y Offset the same as
the Shadow Height.
* The Displayer now uses the Topaz font no matter what you have specified
as your default system font, instead defaulting to the system font. This
was a problem for WB 2.0 users (myself included!) who use a different
sized system font.
* It's now possible to customise all the Menu, Gadget, and Requester text
in the Displayer. This allows you to translate all the Displayer text
to your own language.
* Bumped the version to 1.291. Next public release is scheduled for v1.3.
* Fixed the annoying bug that meant I couldn't run the Displayer from the
Workbench as a default tool. You can now give the control file a project
icon and make the displayer the default tool. This means you can now have
several different magazines on a disk which use the same Displayer.
* The page size has been reduced in height by one pixel. It was eating into
the title bar. This was only really noticable using Workbench 2. The new
text page height is 245 pixels (PAL) or 189 pixels (NTSC).
* Changed the name of the ports used when playing sounds. These were the
same as the Editor port names, which meant sometimes sound wouldn't play
if you were running the Displayer and Editor at the same time.
* The Displayer now plays MED modules. The MED player is far superior to
the previous soundtracker play routine.
* Proper file requesters added. For Workbench 2.0 users, you get
the standard ASL file requester. For 1.3 users with the ARP library
you get the arp requester. For anyone else, you get my single line text
gadget.
* Bumped the version to 1.30.