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New stuff's at the bottom. This list isn't necessarily comprehensive.
2.00:
o A whole new look for FM/2 -- the same thing, only more so. Some
things were enhanced, some dropped, some replaced or superceded.
Still, if you used 1.x you should feel at home.
[lazy bum skipped a few...]
2.06:
o In the Collector's Seek-and-scan dialog, the All HDs button now skips
removable drives (like CD-ROMs) for convenience.
o Quick tree works around the OS/2 DosFindFirst bug that prevents FAT
root drives from being found.
o Added "separator" attribute for tool buttons -- causes a small amount
of space to be added after the button with the attribute, for
appearance (grouping of buttons).
o Added ability to turn on titles below bitmap buttons in toolbar (it'll
have to be short and sweet) and grouped all toolbar toggles under a
Toolbar conditional cascade submenu.
2.07:
o Added "View Bookshelf" and "View Helpfiles" utilities.
o Fixed bug in Quick Tree added while fixing the last one...
o VTree now saves its size and position on desktop (Ron Gawer wanted
that). VDir doesn't, as you can have several of them open at once
and it would be somewhat irritating to have them all on top of each
other.
2.08:
o Added "must have" attributes to Filter.
o Fixed Undelete dialog so selecting a new drive from the combobox
causes the listbox to be refreshed for that drive, and so a missing
DELETE environment variable for the selected drive doesn't cause the
dialog to abort unless you select Cancel in the information box (so
you can pick a different drive).
o Added limited optional logging for some simple but critical
operations (copy, move, rename, delete).
o Documented "start minimized" command line argument.
o Added "don't save/restore state of dir windows this time" command
line argument.
2.09:
o Changed things so the little notification box doesn't steal the
focus when it comes up. Duh.
o Added "Backup Profile", "Change System Profiles" and "Replace System
Profiles" to the INI viewer.
o Fixed some glitches in new mask "must have" attribute processing.
o Found and fixed bug in Collector's Seek & Scan that could cause FM/2
to trap.
o Added a Settings notebook containing global toggles and such.
Slower than the menus, but Ron Hester asked for it, and I allus do
what Ron says...
o Return of the weirding ... but that'd be telling.
o Added optional split status line.
2.10:
o Added Undo buttons to Settings notebook pages.
o Fixed bug wherein Save state of dir windows toggle was ignored.
o Put in some comma formatting to prevent an untimely death.
o Fixed bug wherein Doubleclick Opens toggle was ignored.
o Added a couple more Settings pages.
o Made appropriate Settings pages available to standalone modules.
o Tweaked a few menus for a more consistent appearance.
2.11:
o Fixed odd bug in second status line in Directory Containers.
o Fixed rename buglet that caused rename from menu/button to
give funny default drive.
o Added drag and drop to INI Viewer to allow moving and copying
data between different INI files.
o Added FM2PLAY.EXE to allow playing multimedia files (via MMPM/2)
from FM/2 easily. Usage: FM2PLAY.EXE <file> [<file> <file...>].
There's a menu item for it.
o Added "associat.txt" containing recommended associations for use
with FM/2. Please send your ideas for this list.
o Enhanced the Bookshelf Viewer.
2.12:
o AV/2 will now ignore an association if it contains the string
"AV2.EXE" in the command line (meaning it might call itself).
o Fixed "Lowercase name" bug.
o Worked over the context menus again, added a couple more
accelerator keys.
o Hooked Help button in Child Window dialog to some help.
2.13:
o Added ability to set type of selection used in some containers (in
the Settings Notebook on the "Windows" page).
o Selecting "Settings Notebook" in the FM3.EXE monolithic app, even
from container context menus, will always bring up a full settings
notebook.
o Slightly reduced memory usage for HPFS drives (ah, another reason
to use HPFS...).
o Fixed bug in SetIcon.
o Did some more work on FM2PLAY.EXE to make it more eye-appealing and
maybe a bit more functional.
o Shortened tasklist title for registered users.
2.14:
o FM/2 will now detect that a CD-ROM drive which didn't have a disk in
it or had a music disk in it when FM/2 was started is a CD-ROM drive
when accessed later with a data disk in it, and change the icon
accordingly. This also applies to hard drives that were locked when
FM/2 started, by happy coincidence, and should work on other
removable media drives.
o Hints given in error popup for some access errors (for example, when
clicking on an empty diskette drive).
o Install.cmd will not change the parameters field of objects that it
creates if the File Manager/2 folder already existed. It will still
update the paths.
o VTree honors drive exclusions like it should have in the first place.
o VTree will delete a directory if the Shredder refuses for some reason.
o Added VTree->WPS folder toggle.
o Shortened VTree tasklist title for registered users.
o FM/2 will attempt to fit smaller files onto diskettes when a larger
file in the list to be moved/copied won't fit before prompting you to
change diskettes due to a disk full condition.
o Help for toolbar buttons shows up when mouse passes over them --
figured out how to implement without excessive message passing (IOW,
to my satisfaction).
2.15:
o Added "Collect list in file(s)" command.
o Added "Collect from a list file" command.
o Added "Select List" command.
o System VIO fonts have been renamed, jumping between "System" and
"System VIO", a couple of times now. To top it off, when the name
changes, the sizes do, too (i.e. 7.System == 5.System VIO, more or
less). Warp is now GA and uses "System VIO" again, so I've changed
it back to that. If some fonts don't look right on your 2.11 system,
I'm sorry, but I'm trying to hit a moving target. Don't shoot me,
I'm just the piano player.
o Did some other stuff, but forgot to write it down and have now
forgotten what it was. Old age is hell.
2.16:
o Added "Update objects" command.
o Added "Optimize" command. Be sure to read the online help on this
one (under "Context Menus").
o Added toolbar changing buttons (buttons that automatically load a
new toolbox into the toolbar). See comments in online help under
"Toolbar->Add Tool."
o Hmmm...Warp has broken the DM_DROPHELP message within an application
-- the passed DRAGINFO structure is inaccessible (apparently already
deallocated). An appropriate error message will be displayed, and
the code's still there so that when IBM fixes it it'll automagically
start working again.
2.17:
o Optimized for speed: Quick trees, tree sizes.
o Dug the names of the new color palettes out of Warp's INI files.
Under 2.x both color palette commands (one new) load the same object.
Under Warp they load the two different palette objects available.
o Added swapfile/memory watch when Drive Tree is active window in FM/2.
o Added HPFSOPT.EXE program to optimize HPFS drives.
2.18:
o Added ability to use the undocumented DosQProcStat API in the Process
Killer. While this will enable the Process Killer to work without an
English version of PSTAT.EXE being present, DosQProcStat is an API
subject to change by IBM, so beware.
o Added FATOPT.EXE program to optimize FAT drives. THIS IS A BETA
PROGRAM AND USES LOW-LEVEL DRIVE ACCESS -- BACK UP BEFORE USING!
o Tweaked the online help, adding more hypertext links and detail.
2.19:
o Added "Ideal size" System Menu command and titlebar button -- an
alternative to maximizing.
o More work on help file hypertext links using suggestions from a
registered user. Added a labelled bitmap showing the layout of FM/2
windows.
o Worked around weird bugs in Sizes and deleting toolbar buttons that
shouldn't be bugs but nonetheless cause problems on some machines.
o Added some one-line help fields to some dialogs to guide the user
along.
o Added the "Close" checkbox to the Edit Associations dialog, to allow
executing an association to shut down FM/2 (or a VDir window, mainly
for use by folks using FM/2 to replace the Drives objects).
o Added "Start Minimized" and "Start Maximized" buttons to the Windows
page of the Settings notebook. FM/2 starts normal size then adjusts
(that lets it size all its windows right first, and gives you something
to return to from the maximized state).
2.20:
o Fixed stupid bug that made FM/2 freak out on restart if you turned the
toolbar off and left it off (duh).
o Move-drag onto archives allowed now (if you have the archiver for that
archive type configured to allow moving files, of course).
o Fixed bug in longname<->shortname conversion (FAT<->HPFS).
o Found a nasty way to get Warp's printer objects to recognize FM/2's
D&D.
o Extract dialog can be told to remember its settings (extract directory,
masks, "with directories") distinctly from those set in Archive
Containers.
o Added a few pictures to the online help for extreme novices.
o Added new "Compare Select" submenu with commands that can make
selections based on comparing unfiltered files in all open Directory
Containers. Powerful stuff.
o Added "Hide objects" command (selective individual object filtering).
o Fixed bug -- drag to toolbar quit working when toolbar code rewritten.
o Slight modification to ARCHIVER.BB2 -- -1 for filename position means
to use the last "field" of an archive listing for the filename.
o FM/2 is compiled with optimization turned off now -- caught it
generating bad code in the new Compare Select module and don't trust
it (again).
2.21:
o Shift and CTRL modifiers for double-clicking objects in Drive Tree,
Directory Containers and Collector implemented. Shift causes new
FM/2 window to open (directories; direct to View for files), CTRL
causes default WPS open.
o More stuff in the help file (sheesh -- this has gotta stop). The
online help should now make a rather complete manual when printed
together with the READ.ME file (see READ.ME for suggestions).
o INSTALL now makes an object for the online help so that it can be
viewed without starting FM/2 (using SEEHELP.EXE, included).
o Added Filter "Always show directories" toggle.
o Ideal size button supports a psuedo-restore operation, allowing
toggling between two sizes (mine and yours).
o Other stuff I forget.
2.22:
o Additional detail and options are presented when FM/2 can't figure
out how to list the contents of an archive (ARCHIVER.BB2
misconfigured or archive bad) via new dialog. This should make
determining what the archive problem is much easier when the
inevitable problem arises.
o Added duplicate file finder to Seek-and-Scan dialog. Finds files
with same name and/or size and filedate.
2.23:
o Enhancements to potential dupe finder per user requests and other
stuff I thunk up all by my lonesome.
o Placed "Seek and scan" on the Utility pulldown. All it does is
start the Collector and post it a WM_COMMAND message as though you'd
clicked Seek and scan on its context menu. Maybe even folks who
don't read the help can find it now (who knows?).
2.24:
o Added "Remote bug" toggle since network FSD developers can't seem to
consistently produce working DosFindFirst/Next code to save their
lives.
o Undelete enhancements.
2.25:
o Added "Edit" and "Refresh" to Archive Containers per user request.
o Added Drag and drop dialog and corresponding toggle per user request.
2.26:
o Fixed stupid new bug in moving files from HPFS->FAT with long
filenames.
o Fixed bug in RemoteBug fix that conflicted with another fix for
remote FSD bugs. I'm getting sick of working around remote FSD
bugs -- think I'll just let the LAN folks fix _their_ stuff from
now on...
o Made titlebar of Drive Tree containers respond to request for context
menu as if it were container whitespace per user request.
o Added "Min on dir open" toggle -- a more elegant solution to a taste
thing (IMHO) than a user requested feature.
o Chord on status windows brings up window dialog like it does on
client window whitespace.
o Added "Append to clipboard" command to internal viewer/editor's
Edit menu.
o Moved "Write block" command out of Edit->Blocks submenu of internal
viewer/editor to the main Edit submenu as "Copy to file" so it's
accessible in readonly (viewing) mode while I was at it.
o Added informational tweaking to viewer/editor's Edit->Undo menu
command.
o Added "Walk" button to Seek and scan dialog.
o Added special FM/2 Association command line "<>" to indicate that the
default WPS view should be opened for matching files.
2.27:
o Added "Move & rename" and "Copy & rename" commands per user request.
This extends into the drag and drop dialog (said dialog is now on by
default, BTW).
o Many tiny tweaks that no one will ever notice (for instance,
filenames containing "&" are now quoted on command lines where they
weren't before).
o Added EXAMPLE.CMD to archive as an example of how REXX scripts can
manipulate files listed in listfiles created by FM/2. This allows
Commands to circumvent the apx. 1000 character limit of OS/2 command
lines.
o Made notification window look more homogenous.
2.28:
o Added optional user directory list dropdown box on main window
(maintenance of the list is still performed in the Walk Directories
dialog).
o Added Drives submenu on Drive Tree's views context menu -- select a
drive from it and the tree scrolls to show it and makes it the
current object.
o Restricted filename quoting in command lines to absolute essentials
-- some programs are broken and choke on quoted filenames. We
absolutely cannot have LIST choking if it can be avoided.
o Double-clicking a directory in the Drive Tree container will cause an
existing Directory Container looking into that directory, if one
exists, to come to the foreground rather than opening a new one; if
the existing window is minimized, it'll be restored. Ditto for new
userlist dropdown.
o FM/2 can now launch Windows apps seamless -- maybe. Sheesh, I'd
use a DOS app first...
2.29:
o Added "Topic" entry field in Bookshelf Viewer dialog.
o Added "Quick arc find" toggle in Settings notebook; can speed up
drag and drop operations on floppy/network drives.
o Worked around PM bug in custom frame controls.
o Added "Directory Container state" saving and restoring in a dropdown
list (turned on with "Toggle quicklists" under Config menu).
o Fixed drag and drop bug (couldn't move, duh). Smartened up drag and
drop while I was at it; no sense offering options not really
available due to media type (i.e. can't copy to a CD-ROM).
o Added "Launch" button to drag and drop dialog.
o Added quick-help for dropdown lists (in status box 2).
o Added ability to drop onto userlist dropdown to add a directory.
Also added popup maintenance menu (add and delete directories to/from
list).
2.30:
o I forget.
2.31:
o Added "Minimize to databar" toggle, also accessible as a standalone
miniapp.
o Tree remembers directories, once expanded.
o An individual drive may now be rescanned in the Drive Tree (related
to the above).
o More keyboard shortcuts for the rodently challenged.
o Drag from recessed text fields in Directory and Archive Containers
now possible (drags the directory or archive, respectively).
o Default Commands command (Do it yourself) added.
o Extract path can now be assigned "*" meaning "use directory in which
the archive resides."
o More menu compaction (well, you think of a term for it).
o New "See all files" window (still under construction, but already
much faster and very functional, without the standard listbox
limitation of 32767 maximum items). Loads, sorts and displays
15,792 files from two local fixed drives in 18 seconds on my
486/66DX2 with normal (for me, of course) background load.
o Fixed buglet in Archive Container status display.
o More user suggestions implemented.
2.32:
o See all files window fleshed out.
o Added "Viewer outside," "Arcboxes outside," "INI viewer outside" and
"Collector outside" toggles to Toggles2 page of internal Settings
notebook.
o Added "Save" button to Directory Sizes dialog
o Sort type can now be changed in Details view by holding ALT and
clicking the title of the field to sort on (assuming titles are
turned on and the field is one for which sorting is available,
of course).
o Added toggle to allow user to select default delete type.
o Added "toolbox" dropdown to user lists.
o Added sample toolboxes to archive.
o Info and EA dialogs now include listbox, lets you scroll through all
objects instead of popping up for each selected object. EAS.EXE
mini-app inherits this; now accepts multiple filenames.
o Check list dialogs now allow calling up the Info dialog for files in
the list.
2.33:
o Added new internal viewer -- loads files at least five times faster
than the old viewer (which is still available via a toggle in the
internal Settings notebook).
o See all files window retains settings, is a bit slicker.
o Fixed bug -- rename box came up for each file moved/copied.
o Fixed bug -- FM/2 didn't start right with toolbar turned off. Weird.
o Worked around Warp bug -- PM locks up if you select a codepage that
hasn't been prepared. This should be ignored as in previous versions
of OS/2, but crashes the system instead (sheesh).
o Warp apparently still has a 64k limit to what the clipboard can hold.
While I could limit what you send to the clipboard, this is (hopefully)
one of those limits which will vanish with further updates to OS/2
itself, so I'll just caution you about it.
o Colors are adjustable in See all files windows.
o Several fonts are available in See all files windows (all fixed width).
o See all files window allows entering multiple keys to find a file if
the keys are entered within one second of each other.
o System info command made somewhat more human-readable.
2.34:
o Added "Tile backwards" toggle, but don't use it (it's a DOS-think
knee-jerk thing to do).
o Viewer won't "restore" the container that called it when it closes if
the container is maximized.
o Filtering speeded up when Autoview window is open.
o Show a little patch of color beside color names in Colors dialogs.
o Added "Folder after extract" toggle.
o Added ^F3 close monolithic app toggle (command id 1111 if anyone's
interested).
o More commands in INI viewer (rename, copy appname/keyname) and
enhanced existing Add/Edit INI record commands.
o Changed method of storing a few things so that they're both easily
human editable (for power users) and so they allow me to
"preconfigure" some things (for new users). If you're upgrading from
previous versions, there's a CONVERT.EXE that'll copy your old
settings to the appropriate format and get rid of old baggage.
o Added "Userlist switches" toggle to internal Settings notebook.
o Added "%r/%R" to metastrings.
o Added "Extract" to drag and drop dialog.
o Height of autoview window can be changed.
o More info displayed in drive info dialog.
o INSTALL is a bit smarter.
o Added two new buttons on status line -- different behaviors depending on
whether you click with B1 or B2 and the shift state.
2.35:
o Performance tuning.
o Implemented "minor" user suggestions.
o Added "Recent Dirs" toggle -- automatically adds temporary
directories to UserList as you change directories. You can make them
permanent by Adding them as usual.
o FM/2 may handle DOS archivers now (actually, it does -- I tested with
ARJ); however, you'll have to set them up for yourself and I won't
support them. Don't forget that DOS archivers don't support EAs.
AVOID WHENEVER POSSIBLE OR YOU'LL GET BURNED.
o If you have GBM.DLL on your LIBPATH or in the FM/2 directory, FM/2
will use it to display GBM-supported raster file types when they're
double-clicked. GBM currently supports most OS/2 and Windows
bitmaps, .GIF, .PCX, .TIF, .TGA, .IFF, .VID, .PGM, .KPS, .IAX, .XBM,
.SPR, and .PSE files. And it's free.
o Changed some icons around for a fresher look, added some for display
when you aren't loading icons from disk (for scanning speed).
o Added "Settings" button to Info dialog.
2.36:
o Added "Rename existing" button to Rename dialog -- allows you to
rename (move) an existing target file system object out of the way
before moving or copying another file system object to that name.
o Fixed "obscure" bug (reporting user's words :-) causing FM/2 to
enter a loop when "Views" cascade was selected from the action
bar menu when an internal Archive Container was the current window.
o Tutorial section added to online help.
o When a bitmapped graphic file is viewed, the window is sized to fit
on the screen even when the image is larger than the screen.
Proportion is maintained for the initial window positioning. You can
stretch the size of the window. The bitmap is scaled to fit. GBM is,
of course, still required to directly view images in FM/2.
o Changed toolbar button help to "bubble" style, added toggle to disable.
o Added Directory Compare (DirCmp:) field to Files/Dirs page of internal
Settings notebook.
o Added %d and %D metastrings for Commands.
o Percentages in Directory Sizes dialog more accurate (to nearest
thousandth).
o "Include subdirectories" toggle in Directory Compare dialog.
o Fixed bug in 2.35a's INSTALL.CMD. Can you say "duh?" Apparently I can.
o As usual, many little things no one will notice.
2.37:
o Added "Autoview comments" notebook toggle (page 2) and Config menu
items for same. You can have FM/2 autoview file contents _or_
.COMMENTS EAs -- handy for looking at files that were downloaded by
a package that puts the file description in that EA. You can also
get to that EA on the third page of a WPS object's File page or via
FM/2's Edit EAs dialog, BTW.
o CTRL + Shift + B1 doubleclick opens an object's WPS Settings notebook.
o You can now link-drag a root directory (drive) from the Drive Tree.
For cryin' out loud, BE CAREFUL!
o Credit card registrations via BMT Micro are now available.
o Directory Containers can now have independent sorts if you DON'T use
the "Immediate Updates" toggle. When you set a sort (or filter) in
the internal Settings notebook, you're setting a default for
subsequently created Directory Containers. When you set a sort (or
filter) using the popup menu of a Directory Container, you're
changing only that container. States will now also save the type of
view (Icon, Details, etc.), sort and filter settings for each open
Directory Container.
2.38:
o Walk Directories dialog will now display non-writeable drives unless
the directory selection is for an action that requires writing to the
selected directory (for example, copy or move, set extract directory,
etc.).
o Filtering in Drive Tree now available, per user request. NOTE:
filtering is performed _after_ expansion; therefore, it is possible
for the Tree to "lie" to you until you expand a branch (i.e. indicate
that other directories are available, but remove the "+/-" when you
attempt to expand the branch. If it's important for you to know what
the entire tree of a drive looks like with filtering applied, use the
Expand/Collapse->Expand command from the Files menu or a popup. You
can thereafter collapse and expand the tree as desired. Tricks can
be played with the filter mask; for instance, "/C:\OS2*;/C:\MMOS2*;
/C:\TCPIP*;*" will exclude some system directories on drive C: and
show everything else.
o Got rid of the annoying (to me, anyway) extra refresh when the
"Immediate Updates" toggle is not used (more cheating).
o Windows will now be created with the WS_ANIMATE style if "Animate"
toggle on internal Settings notebook's Windows page is checked. Of
course, system animation must still be turned on to see any effect.
o Keyboard input of "standard" characters now performs a text search
to find the closest matching file system object in the container.
You can get the old (OS/2 default) behavior (move to nearest object
starting with the pressed letter) by holding down the shift key.
o When a background task that FM/2 is waiting on takes more than about
two seconds to complete its job, FM/2 will switch it to the
foreground. This means that if an archive is encrypted (passworded),
you'll get the oportunity to enter a password without having to
resort to the Window List to manually bring the window to the
foreground.
2.39:
o Fixed weird bug -- apparently IBM changed the behavior of
MLM_QUERYFORMATTEXTLENGTH in Warp. This change may only take effect
at FP10+ levels.
o Added Open Directory Container button to Drive Tree titlebar -- only
shows up when FM/2 is run as a monolithic app.
o Added "Directory" attributes to Filter dialog per user request --
lets you exclude directories from Directory Containers, or show only
directories. NOTE: if you are upgrading, you may need to go into
the Filter and turn on the Directory attribute -- it's on by default
for new installations. Use the internal Settings notebook to
activate the Filter dialog (DirView and ColView pages) by setting the
focus to the Filter: entryfield, so that the "general" filter is
changed.
o Help file improvements (a neverending saga).
2.40:
o Added "All" button to Filter dialog.
o Added more optional buttons to main window.
o Added %u/%U metastrings.
o Added hex/ASCII + drag-me window to bottom of new internal text
viewer.
o Added %! metastring.
o Added default archiver setting.
o PM uses several ALT + F? accelerators to control frame windows.
However, this applies to the current frame window, which can be
within the main FM/2 window when run monolithically. Add Ctrl to
these accelerators to affect the main window in that case. I don't
change the system menu text to reflect this as it may be in a foreign
language, and I'm an ignorant, ugly one-language American.
o Added "Separate parameters" toggle.
o Added "Treetop on expand" toggle.
o Windows pulldown now lists external FM/2 windows, as does a submenu
on the container popup in VTree, VDir and AV/2 windows.
o Fixed some minor bugs in Commands menu generation.
o Fixed bug in Collector -- unshifted double-click didn't work on
directories.
o VDirs, external Archive Containers and Viewers now retain their last
set window size -- position is still determined by the Shell (PM).
o Lots of little tweaks no one but me will ever notice.
2.41:
o VTree now runs Directory Containers (VDirs) as part of its process,
which should save on a little memory for those of you using FM/2 as
as "super drives objects." To take full advantage of this, the
"Separate parameters" toggle should be checked.
o External FM/2 windows can be closed from the PM Window List without
closing the entire program (excepting the main window, of course).
o Fixed bug: last line of a hex view wasn't formatted very
attractively.
o Fixed bug: quick config page didn't work right anymore.
o Fixed bug: VDir and AV/2 windows would show external FM/2 windows
but not switch to them.
o Window dialog now shows and acts on external FM/2 windows.
o Checking "Separate parameters" toggle now saves all parameters
under the new appname immediately when the Settings notebook
is closed. You'll want to be careful here -- think before choosing.
BTW, a backup of your FM3.INI file, once you get it set up to your
liking, is always a good idea. Don't use FM3INI.BAK as the filename,
since FM/2 automatically does a one-generation backup to that name.
o Warp no longer allows a container item to be hidden by a thread other
than the thread that controls the container if the item is selected
(Why? Who knows? Why don't DrgQueryDraginfoPtrFromDragitem() and
CN_DROPHELP work?). Since this forces single threaded hiding of
objects, I must conclude this is a bug in OS/2. However, since it's
in "GA" OS/2 code, I reluctantly worked around it by making Hide
objects single-threaded -- you'll have to wait for it to get done.
Shouldn't be a major problem.
o Added codepage 1004 to codepage dialog. Someone asked, I didn't even
know the blamed thing was there.
o Added Ctrl + F10 and Ctrl + F11 accelerators to start/end a direct
edit of a filename for the rodently challenged.
o Added Next/Prev blank line menu items and buttons to new internal
viewer (accelerators were there before). In text where paragraphs
are separated by blank lines, these go down or up to the next
paragraph. Something I use.
o Added Recent Directories dropdown list to Walk Directories dialog,
which separates the recently used directories from the user-defined
directories in that dialog. Just wanted to.
o Added "DOS-think" and "Windoze-think" quick-config options to
internal Settings notebook. If you use 'em they'll stunt your growth.
o Fixed an obscure tile bug no one else seems to have noticed.
o Changed Shift + F? accelerators to Ctrl + F? to avoid conflicting
with a couple of OS/2-used keys.
o Further tightened integration between VTree and its Directory
Containers.
o Made Tree (optionally) smart.
o Reorganized internal Settings notebook for more "logical" grouping
(some things grow with a life of their own).
o Changed Install so that it puts many objects in a separate Toolbox
folder (someone who's not even registered suggested it, and I decided
to give it a try -- tell me what you think. If upgrading, delete the
old FM/2 folder before running Install again.).
2.42:
o More threading in strategic spots to make response when moving around
really slow drives (like ZIP and EZ drives) snappier. The drivers
for these drives need a bit more work, developers -- think "cache,"
especially for things like providing the label and usage info. When
it's slower than the floppy drives, some work needs to be done, eh?
o Edit->Drive flags dialog now available from a drive (root dir) object
in the Drive Tree -- lets you set flags you used to _have_ to set
from the command line (and a couple of new ones). You can still set
flags from the command line as an override.
o Files can be included in the Drive Tree display on a per-drive basis
if you can actually think of a reason to do it (I can't, but someone
asked). If you do find a use for it, tell me what the heck it is.
o See all files can be invoked on directory (folder) objects
(Miscellaneous->Show all files) or the directory into which a
Directory Container looks.
o See all files window and Collector now have new "Move and preserve"
and "Copy and preserve" commands to move or copy objects while
preserving their directory relationship (see online help for
examples).
o Double-clicking on an empty part of the Drive Tree now invokes the
Make Directory command. Double-clicking on an empty part of a
Directory Container opens its WPS folder.
o Target of a drag and drop operation can be changed from the FM/2
drag and drop dialog (if you're using the dialog, of course).
o Improved directory comparison dialog (no, it's still no PMDirMatch
and never will be, and yes, you can still tell FM/2 to use PMDirMatch
instead of the internal).
o Added Utilities->Compare directories command.
o Sorting an Archive Container by date is now possible, at least for
some archive types. See ARCHIVER.BB2 for details. You can also
Alt-B1 click the titles of sortable fields in Archive Containers now
to change the sort type (just like you can in a Directory Container).
2.43:
o Added optional drivebar per user request.
o Added Lock and Unlock commands for removable drives.
o Added UUDecode command and Merge command (yep, got another internet
connection, finally).
o When presented with a list of objects in a dialog (as in the Edit EAs
or Attributes dialogs), double-clicking a file object will bring up
the configured viewer with the file loaded. This is just a quick
view purely for convenience; no attempt is made to view the file as
an archive or check Associations. You can double-click it in the
Directory Container if you need to go that far.
o Added "Thread notes" window -- if you don't like it, minimize it and
it should stay that way. When a thread does something that takes
awhile, like copying a file, it tells you when it starts and when
it finishes.
o Under Warp, FM/2 will now query the active desktop in a documented
manner when asked to create objects. There is no reliable method
under older OS/2 versions.
o Improved FM/2's built-in printing somewhat. Still not as good as
printing from the appropriate application, of course.
o Confirmation lists will now display a bitmap representing the command
to be executed on the dialog, where applicable, as a quick visual
reminder.
o When switching a Directory Container to the parent, FM/2 will
make the vacated directory's object the current object.
2.44:
o "Thread busy" LED added per user request.
o Toolbar buttons now allow you to use different bitmaps of your own
design. Notes: using user-defined bitmaps in the toolbar can slow
loading of FM/2 slightly, but probably not noticably unless you
replace all of them. Request a context menu on a toolbar button and
pick "Edit button" to get the dialog where you tell FM/2 to use a
user-defined bitmap.
o External Archive Containers, Collector, VTree and VDirs now have
their own pulldown menu for Files and Views (the shadow menus) and
Help for easy keyboard access and/or novice users.
o Command lines executed through the command line dialog are remembered
for possible later retrieval.
o Directory sizes dialog reworked (prettier, sizeable). DIRSIZE.EXE
program provided for accessing this function directly (object placed
in FM/2 Tools subfolder by INSTALL.CMD).
2.45:
o When selecting or deselecting by mask, you can specify a text string
to be used. First the file is tested against the mask(s), then
tested to see if it contains the text (if any is specified).
o Fixed bug -- context menus quit working after a Directory Container
was closed.
o Added Makearc module, mainly for access from NTree.
o Fixed bug -- "case sensitive" flag was being reversed for Seek and
Scan.
2.46:
o Fixed drive button bug.
o Added "FM/2 Lite" (or whatever you want to call it), a new
"personality" for FM/2 intended for those who can't deal with
the real thing.
2.47:
o Added "View->As archive" context menu option per user request.
o Added maximize/restore button to "FM/2 Lite" Directory Containers.
o Added Autoview window to "FM/2 Lite."
o Added "View archive" button to Archive List Error window.
o Fixed bug -- Ctrl + F7 not bringing up context menu with Sort
submenu selected.
o Jazzed up direct renaming of files and directories.
o Jazzed up Seek and Scan dialog per user request.
o AV/2 will now accept wildcarded filenames and view the first matching
file in whatever manner seems most appropriate.
o Delete key deletes files, Ctrl + Delete is permanent delete, Shift +
Delete is save to clipboard, Ctrl + Insert is make directory, Ctrl +
Pageup is parent directory, Ctrl + Pagedown is previous directory,
Ctrl + Home is root directory. Obviously, not all these keystrokes
are meaningful in all windows (for instance, parent directory doesn't
do anything in the Collector). These new shortcut keys are in
addition to existing accelerators. Applicable windows (see previous
caveat): Directory Containers, Drive Tree, Archive Containers,
Collector, Global files windows. Per user request. These are not
"real" accelerator keys as they tend to bleed through and mess with
normal interactions (even these bleed through here and there, but
it's benign), but hopefully you'll never notice the difference.
o In "FM/2 Lite," you can direct-edit the title of a Directory
Container to change directories.
o Install now accepts /UNATTENDED argument to run without asking any
questions.
2.48:
o Ideal size button logic adjusted so it will work as might be expected
with Merlin's new Warpcenter.
o Logic for sizing of titlebar buttons adjusted so they look better
under Merlin.
o Fixed bug in EA editor's MLE control -- an apparent change in the way
Warp handles the MLM_QUERYFORMATTEXTLENGTH with an overlong length
parameter has changed, resulting in the MLE not being cleared properly.
o Autoviewing file comments (.COMMENTS EA) now displays the comments in
an MLE rather than static text control, allowing editing. Moving the
focus from the MLE after making a change saves the new EA. Note: if
a .COMMENTS EA is damaged, FM/2 won't let you edit it in this window
for safety (maybe some strange program wanted it that way). You can
fix it in the EA viewer (Ctrl + Shift + E) if you know it's an anomoly.
Use the Ctrl + Tab accelerator key to switch focus to the Autoview
MLE if you're keyboarding. FM/2 supports .COMMENTS EAs up to 32767
characters in length. Each line of the MLE (newline, not wrap)
creates a separate EAT_ASCII value, in case you care and know what
the heck I'm talking about... BTW, GCP downloads automatically fill
in the .COMMENTS and .SUBJECT EAs for you if so configured, though
it seems to save the .COMMENTS EA in a weird (different from the
WPS) format -- but it's readable.
o You can use command line switch -<ininame> to start FM/2 with a
different INI file (i.e. "FM3.EXE -C:\MYINI.INI"). This means
that different users can set up FM/2 to taste and use separate
FM/2 objects to start their "version" of the program on the same
machine.
o FM/2 will try to remind you why the Walk directories dialog was
invoked, per forgetful, worn-out user request. :-)
o Keys help added per user request.
2.48a:
o Lots of cosmetic stuff (for example, check out the Databar).
o Additional help, partitioned Context menu help into smaller "chunks."
o Added Find button to Archive dialog.
o More Merlin preparations.
o Added UserDirs dropdown to standard OS/2 file dialogs used by FM/2.
o Added Duplicates command to Global file viewer.
o More (subtle) tweaking of Seek and Scan dialog.
o Anybody else notice how the competition is trying (in vain) to
copy FM/2, but having a great deal of trouble keeping up with
the Joneses? :-)
2.49:
o More cosmetic tweaking -- for example, changing status line or bottom
button text font will now result in resizing of control to match new
font. BTW, if you set ugly fonts or colors and want the defaults
back, one way to do it completely is to delete the window position
entry in OS2.INI and start from scratch...
o Work around for nasty bug in Merlin beta Voice Manager.
o Remap drives command added -- untested at this time, as I have no
LAN. If you try it and it doesn't work, please report the error
code displayed. If it works, let me know that, too.
o Fixed bug in Merge code.
o Added mini-toolbars to Archive Containers and the Collector (visible
only if you have the toolbar in FM/2 turned on, of course).
o A couple of other little things folks asked for -- I forget.
2.50:
o Added a horizontal scrollbar to Global files viewer.
o Added line wrap (and thus horizontal scrollbar) to fast internal
viewer.
o Added WWW and FTP component launching to internal viewers per
user request. BTW, testpm.exe from the FM/2 Utilities is handy for
deciphering the arguments to FTPPM.EXE, which are a bit bizaare and
undocumented. Just rename FTPPM.EXE to FTPPM.BAK, copy TESTPM.EXE
to FTPPM.EXE in the same directory, open the FTP object's Settings
notebook, then open the FTP object's program and compare the
results.
o Added optional blue/yellow LEDs which can be used in place of the
default red/green thread LED bitmaps.
o Added a toggle to make the databar boring for those who can't stand
too much excitement (I have users who are easily worn out :-). Also
added file system type to end of string on user request.
o Execute dialog will try to remind you why you called it up in case
you fall asleep after double-clicking the mouse and awake confused.
It could happen.
o Couple of more small workarounds for Merlin beta bugs.
o Changed the way the toolbar displays help to eliminate capturing
the mouse (kludge, OS/2 should have a WM_MOUSELEAVING message).
o Added mini-toolbar to fast internal viewer.
o Note new internet address.
o Price reduction for commercial registrations.
o SET environment variable DOS_SHELL in CONFIG.SYS if you want to use
an alternate command processor in DOS sessions (for example,
SET DOS_SHELL=C:\4DOS\4DOS.EXE).
o Remap command now uses NET USE, enhancements (like it works, for
one :-).
o Added Miscellaneous->Detach (Ctrl + H) command to Drive Tree drive
popup to detach local drives from remote resources.
o Updated FM2PLAY.EXE (in FM2UTL.ZIP on CIS, FM2UTILS.ZIP elsewhere),
including more controls and ability to load list of files from a
listfile. FM/2 will use this listfile method when playing more
multimedia files than will fit on a command line using the
View->Multimedia (Ctrl + l) command. OS/2 command lines are
limited to about 1000 characters, if you're interested.
o Lots of other little tweaks and improvements -- some you might
even notice.
2.50a:
o Added "Run Viewer as child session" toggle -- if used, any open
viewers will close when FM/2 closes.
o Added "Env" button to Seek and scan dialog (for searching through
directories listed in environment variables).
o Added "No sort" option to Collector sorting.
o FM/2 will now offer to remove old registration when started after
registration has expired, making it easy to enter updated
registration information.
o Directory Containers can now be switched into Tree View. See also
new "Stay in Tree View" toggle.
o B2 on Directory Container Folder buttons pulls up an abbreviated
popup menu.
o Bugfix: The Autoview window wouldn't let you enter Comments on an
object that didn't already have them (duh).
o FM/2 now taps into MMPM/2 to display image files, instead of GBM. To
activate FM/2's "internal" image file viewing, be sure to remove any
Associations for MMPM/2-supported image file types (JPG, TIF, BMP,
PCX, GIF, etc.) using FM/2's Config->Edit Associations command.
2.50b:
o Added ability to convert an image file to another format from the
image viewer window.
o All supported multimedia types are now "played" automatically on
double-click unless you have an FM/2 Association set for them.
2.51:
o Tweaked image viewer initial sizing algorithm to better handle very
small bitmaps at more nearly correct perspectives.
o Added "No folder menu" toggle to internal Settings notebook by
user request.
o Put floppy letters back into drives userlist dropdown due to
user request.
o Made image viewer a separate executable due to a memory leak in
OS/2's MMPM/2 (mmio) under Merlin beta and some Warp 3 fixpack
configurations -- closing the application frees the memory, but
nothing else will, so a small, fast, separate application "fixes" the
problem (or, if you prefer, "OS/2 bug"). Like FM2PLAY.EXE, this
IMAGE.EXE file will now be in the FM/2 Utilities package (FM2UTL.ZIP
on CI$ or FM2UTILS.ZIP on the internet). You'll probably want to
remove any old IMAGE.CMD file built by previous FM/2 installs.
o Added ability to view and manipulate files in archives containing
spaces in the filename for archivers that provide information in a
particular way (see ARCHIVER.BB2 -- ZIP and LZH archives are set up
this way). Other folks who use ARCHIVER.BB2 should take a look at
the updated documentation to see how to take advantage of this, but
it's backward-compatible, so old versions of those programs will
still work correctly with this change.
o Removed SEEHELP.EXE -- Warp has the ability to view help files using
VIEW.EXE which comes with the OS.
o Added "WPS Move" and "WPS Copy" commands.
o I no longer accept registrations via direct mail. Registrations are
available through BMT Micro or CIS' SWREG only (BMT recommended --
see REGISTER.TXT). I just got too much snail mail and couldn't keep
up with all of it.
2.52:
o When the FM/2 main window is resized and a Directory Container is
maximized within it, it will remain maximized.
o Modified AV/2 and ARCHIVER.BB2 so that RAR v2's woefully NIH
listings can be read. Would it just _kill_ you archiver authors to
get together and come up with some sort of easily parsed listing
standard, then stick to it? Please?
o FM/2 will now show the current decryption keyword for extra programs
like DBFVIEW and FMT from the About box.