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Updates to the Editor as of Monday 18th May 1992
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* When loading an IFF picture, the file would not be closed properly
if the file trying to be loaded was not an IFF ILBM file. Fixed this.
* Changed my IFF decrunch routine around a bit. It now runs approximately
twice as fast.
* Fixed the ShowPic command so that after displaying a custom screen, the
correct menu-bar is re-displayed on the Editor screen.
* Made the main Editor window a BACKDROP window. This means you can't lose
a utility that you've moved to the Editor screen by clicking on its
'window to back' gadget.
* New Commands!! Remove Text, Join 2 Lines, Delete lines,
Centre Box horizontally, Centre Box Vertically, Centre Box,
Move Box in front of, Move Box Behind.
* When you tried to Re-format, Centre, Justify or Join 2 Lines of text, the
Editor would crash if no text was present. Fixed this.
* Designed a new-look intuition interface for the Editor. Wrote support
routines to handle the rendering,etc. Any new functions will use this
interface and the old interface will be converted gradually.
* New Commands!! Copy Box to another Page, Copy Page Palette/Title to All,
Auto-Number Pages, Edit Line, Add Line.
* Added a proper list manager. ie Any lists (of pictures, sounds, etc) are
now displayed in a standard scrollable window. The window includes the
standard up/down arrow gadgets and proportional gadget.
* Discovered and fixed a major bug in the screen allocation routine. If
there wasn't enough memory for the screen, the Editor would crash. This
could happen when first loading the Editor or when displaying a screen
sized picture. Should have picked this up earlier than I did. Oh well,
I guess that's what new versions are for.
* Converted the Play Sound and Play Music requesters over to the new-look
user-interface.
* At last. 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.
* Decided to distribute two versions of the Editor. The one called 'Editor'
has been well tested and hopefully doesn't contain any major bugs. The one
called 'Editor.New' is the version I'm currently working on.
* Changed the Text and Graphic Box requesters over to the new look interface.
* Changed the Palette requester to the new look. Implemented the HSV sliders,
thanks to Robert J. Mical's excellent example.
* 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 Displayer port names, which meant sometimes sound wouldn't play
if you were running the Displayer and Editor at the same time.
* Converted the New/Edit Page requester over to the new-look user-interface.
* Changed the menus around. They are now much more logical and conform more
closely to the user interface style guide.
* Added a 'Turn to page number' function.
* Improved the Page Copy and Delete functions. Copy now lets you specify how
many copies to make and Delete allows you to delete a range of pages.
* The Editor now notifies the user if the next command will cause them to lose
an article that hasn't been saved.
* The Editor now uses MED to play music. Note that the MED player does not play
soundtracker modules. They must first be converted with MED and resaved as
MED modules. You can still load an old article containing a Soundtracker
module. You must then remove the module. If you try and play it the Editor
will crash.
* The mouse pointer graphics have been improved.
* The Editor now detaches itself from the CLI and hence doesn't need to
be run.
* Added several checks to make it impossible to add boxes to a Graphics Page.
* Bumped the version number to 1.30.