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This file contains the history of changes made to E! for Windows since
version 1.00. released 11/30/92
(I) = Internal change
(F) = Functional change or new feature
(B) = Bug fix
Upgrade packages will be uploaded as follows:
1. A full original package will always be uploaded as EW???.LZH, ?.?? being
the version number.
2.1 An upgrade package to the new version from the previous version will
be uploaded as EWU???.LZH, ?.?? being the new version number.
OR / AND
2.2 An archived patch file will be uploaded allowing to convert the
previous version to the new one. It will be called EWP???.LZH.
3. The file EWH???.TXT (this file) will be uploaded. Please first look at
this file to see if you're interested in the new version and to get a list
of the files that have been changed.
4. Technical notes about specific aspects of using E! with other products
will be uploaded as EWTECH.???, ??? being the technical note number.
***********************************************************************
version 1.00a
(upgrade path : download EW10FX.LZH)
(B) 12/07/92 - Fixed problem with NEW command
***********************************************************************
version 1.01
(upgrade path from versions 1.00 and 1.00a: download EWU101.LZH)
Changed files:
CHANGES.TXT
EW.EXE
EW.WRI
EWSTR.DLL
MOREDOC.TXT
ORDER.FRM
READ.ME
****************************************************************
WARNING: Some command ids have changed in the Windows menu. This
may lead to changes in your keyboards if you have assigned some
items of this menu to keystrokes.
****************************************************************
(I) 12/09/92 - Changed Fonts object behavior.
(B) 12/10/92 - Fixed bug with font management. Switching between Ansi and
Oem fonts not handled properly.
(I) 12/11/92 - Changed work directory initialization routine behavior.
(B) 12/11/92 - Fixed bug in the Grep utility. Ansi sensitive strings not found.
(B) 12/13/92 - Fixed bug in the Draw Mode dialog box. Cancel activates drawing.
(F) 12/13/92 - Changed 3D display routines.
(B) 12/13/92 - Added missing help for the Register dialog.
(I) 12/13/92 - Changed CRC checking routine. Adapted to Netware networks.
(B) 12/14/92 - Fixed bug in Edit Window closing routine. Sometimes caused a GPF.
(I) 12/14/92 - Changed default user directory determination to make it safer.
(B) 12/14/92 - Fixed bug in the routine looking for files in the EW search path
when the user doesn't specify a full path including a drive.
(B) 12/14/92 - Fixed bug in the TextFile object. Sometimes caused an error 204.
(I) 12/15/92 - Changed Control Center display error routine.
(B) 12/15/92 - Fixed bug in space compression routine. Strings within quotes were
compressed and spaces converted to TABs.
(F) 12/15/92 - Added filename placeholders in the User Menu. See MOREDOC.TXT.
(I) 12/17/92 - Changed the Fonts object to make fixed-pitch fonts existence not
mandatory when initialized for the printer.
(B) 12/17/92 - Fixed bug with the NextError function.
(B) 12/19/92 - Fixed bug in Compile menu. Some commands didn't execute.
***********************************************************************
version 1.02
(upgrade path from versions 1.00, 1.00a and 1.01: download EWU102.LZH)
Changed files:
CHANGES.TXT
READ.ME
ORDER.FRM
EW.EXE
EW.WRI
EW.HLP
EWSTR.DLL
(F) 12/22/93 - Edit Windows are now repainted immediately when created.
(I) 12/28/93 - Enhanced Edit Window focus recovery process (better behavior
when clicking for the first time in an Edit Window).
(B) 30/12/93 - Fixed bug with Edit Window caret when returning from the
font selection dialog box. Caret was no more in the active
window.
(B) 01/01/93 - Fixed bug when closing a Windows session while EW is running.
Current files were not logged and temporary files not deleted.
(F) 01/02/93 - Added directory browser in User Menu dialog.
(F) 01/02/93 - Enhanced window cascading and tiling routine.
(F) 01/04/93 - Added support for middle mouse button (= Shift+F1).
(F) 01/04/93 - Enhanced behavior of User Menu dialog.
(B) 01/04/93 - Fixed minor bug in the Grep dialog box. Leading spaces in the
filespec field were causing the search to fail.
(F) 01/05/93 - Enhanced 3D display routines. Code has been made smaller.
(F) 01/07/93 - Changed Save As... routine behavior. Now, the current file is
immediately renamed.
(B) 01/08/93 - Fixed bug in the routine marking a file as changed.
(B) 01/08/93 - Fixed bug in Global Change and Replace across files.
(B) 01/09/93 - Fixed bug in Control Center dialog. The Selection listbox
was no more updated if the load process failed due to resource
shortage.
(B) 01/09/93 - Fixed bug in Control Center dialog. Entering a wildcard
selection in the Filename field caused files to be immediately
loaded.
(F) 01/09/93 - Draw modes 6, 7, 8 and 9 are now accepted with an ANSI font.
(F) 01/09/93 - EW now automatically handles conversions between ANSI and OEM
when Display font and Printer font are of different types. Header
and footer are also automatically translated when printing with
an OEM font.
(I) 01/10/93 - Added code to circumvent a Windows problem. WM_SETFOCUS message not
always received by the Control Center.
(B) 01/15/93 - Fixed bug in the Pasting routine. Pasting a stream mode selection
in an empty file caused a GP fault and also sometimes "ghost"
characters to be added at the end of the last line.
(F) 01/16/93 - Changed EWSTR.DLL. Better formatting of date strings (non US setup).
(F) 01/16/93 - The non-text area in the Edit Window's text window is now a
grayed area.
(F) 01/17/93 - Fixed bug with autosave feature. The autosave delay showed in the
File Options dialog box was not indicating seconds but minutes.
"File Changed" indicator was also incorrectly reset.
(F) 01/17/93 - Fixed bug in DeleteEndOfLine function. File not marked as modified.
(B) 01/17/93 - Fixed bug in compiler support routines. Some Message Descriptors
were incorrectly interpreted.
(B) 01/18/93 - Fixed bug in filename verification routine. Directory names
including a dot (.) were not accepted.
(I) 01/19/93 - Modified EWX.EXE. Remapped handles of standard devices are now
recognized. This makes possible to run MSC 7.00 from E!.
***********************************************************************
version 1.10
(upgrade path from version 1.02: none - patch file would be too big)
File available as EW110.LZH in IBMAPP EDITORS on CIS.
Changed files:
Nearly all files have changed and a new sample DLL has been added.
(F) 01/21/93 - In the Compile Menu, the DEBUG and RUN commands were previously
designed to run a DOS command. This was not a good choice.They
now merely do a WinExec of the specified command.
(F) 01/21/93 - When sorting lines, E! now makes 5 (default value) automatic
retries in case of a stack overflow. To change this default value
insert a "sortretry=" entry in the [system] section of EW.INI.
Valid entries range between 1 and 50.
(B) 01/22/93 - Fixed bug in descending sort routine.
(I) 01/27/93 - Changed some routines to prevent debug messages from being displayed
when the debug version of Windows is installed.
(B) 02/01/93 - Fixed bug in Local Options dialog box. Tab positions could not be
set properly.
(F) 02/05/93 - Text is no more written close to the left window border. Moreover,
a Control Area has been set up on the left side of the text area
to allow implementation of selection functions.
(B) 02/05/93 - Fixed bug in Control Center management. Position and state were