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MultiTool II
V2.0
28.02.1994
LIST OF CHANGES
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This file is a "quick and dirty" translation of the German history file.
It contains a list of all changes performed to MTool since V1.4.
The names of the people that suggested a feature or found a bug are
noticed in brackets.
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Future enhancements/suggestions:
- other archivers (Harald Schneider)
- automatic installation of disks
- find a pattern in a directory tree (Jochen Schiller)
- sort by file size or date (Marc Duponcheel)
- palette requester (C. J. Ellerbeck)
- directory history, including selections.
- Compare files (Gregor Wenkelewski)
- Intelligent screen shuffling (Gregor Wenkelewski)
- Show only version number instead of complete version string in
copy requester (Gregor Wenkelewski)
- use middle mouse button (Mikael Silfver)
- POPKEY brings MTool Screen/Window to front even if it's already
open (Mikael Silfver)
- MakeDir: Selection, if a icon should be created or not (A. Baum)
- Timer for updating screen title (avoid flicker) (M. Silfver)
- Show protection bits of MUFS and Envoy (Jan Holler)
Other suggestions and bug reports are welcome...
------------------------------------------------------------------------
V2.0a - 28.02.1994 first bugfix
MTOOL MAIN PROGRAM:
NEW:
- Norwegian Catalog
- If MTool is told to run on a non-existant pubscreen, it opens an
own screen.
- POPKEY brings MTool to front, even if its window was already open
(M. Silfver)
- No about requester at startup in registered version
- ASCII filter isn't case sensitive any more (R. Debusmann)
- Notify on dir lists removed. Now MTool checks permanently, if the
datestamps of the two dirs change.
- Refresh of the screen title only if it has changed. Avoids
flickering (M. Silfver)
BUGFIXES:
- No alert, if pubscreen could not be locked.
- No guru, if you hide MTool via CX (M. Mutschler)
- No guru, if you hide MTool after having removed a disk that had been
displayed (R. Debusmann)
- Second try to fix the "no custom screen checkmark"-bug (A. Kutterer,
A. Baum, M. Hank, C. Ellerbeck)
- If no LHA is installed, there are no strange effects any more if
you try to read the contents of an archive (M. Silfver)
- If MTool can't close its screen, it will continue to try to close
it twice a second until it succeeds. (A. Sjøgren)
- If you cancel the parameter string requester while executing a
command, the command will be cancelled (J. Billing)
- No lost locks any more, if you remove a disk that had been displayed.
MTOOL PREFS EDITOR:
BUGFIXES:
- If a file requester is cancelled, its action is cancelled, too.
So you won't loose all settings if you cancel the "load prefs"
requester. (M. Hank)
KNOWN BUGS:
- Keyboard shortcuts not yet implemented
------------------------------------------------------------------------
V2.0 - 06.02.1994 released
MTOOL MAIN PROGRAM:
NEW:
- Notify on prefs file. MTool adapts immediately to changes.
- Close=Hide => ESC=Hide
- Protection bits stay unchanged in copied files (M.Silfver)
- Notify changed. Only working, while MTool waits for user
interaction. -> Dirs are no longer scanned twice in some cases.
- Dirs are only scanned if they actually changed (datestamp)
- String requester accepts 80 chars now. (J. Billing)
- Cancel small copy window by closing it or pressing any key
(C. Krenner)
BUGFIXES:
- Screen title and pubscreen title are correct now (A. Baum,
M. Silfver, J. Bönisch)
- Version string changed (date is now DD.MM.YY) (A. Baum)
- Checkmark "Custom Screen" works now. (all ;-))
- No delete requester while scanning dirs for "Info" (A. Baum,
M. Silfver)
- Destination display in copy requester reenabled (A. Baum)
- Small bugs in display fixed (A. Baum)
- Wrong background color in status display after keyboard
control of device list (M. Silfver)
- Changes of protection bits are updated immediately (M.
Silfver)
- Pattern matching isn't case sensitive any more. Sometimes,
it didn't work at all (M. Silfver)
- Error message, if you try to delete a file that's protected
from deletion
- Improved display of version strings in copy and analyze
requesters (A. Baum)
- AutoDir checkmark works now. (A. Baum)
- No system crash if an error occurs during startup.
- No alert if public screen can't be locked
- device list optically responds to mouse clicks (J. Bönisch)
- No enforcer hit if you move files within a device (J. Bönisch)
- Copy requester works now if you move files within a davice
- Device list is sorted case-independent (J. Bönisch)
- End of status line could be trashed in some localized
versions (J. Billing)
- Flags weren't set in copy requester sometimes (M. Silfver)
MTOOL PREFS EDITOR:
NEW:
- Window opens on same screen as MTool and makes this screen the
frontmost
- Included menus
- Lists can be sorted
BUGFIXES:
- String gadgets don't have to be "returned" any more
- File requester in "Icons" now shows icon files and not everything
except icon files ;-)
- topaz 8 in listview
- Number of colors in screenmode requester initialized correctly
- During path selections via file requester, only drawers are
displayed
- default path "SYS:" in file requesters
- removed enforcer hits during startup
------------------------------------------------------------------------
V2.0ß - 12.09.1993 internal version
MTOOL MAIN PROGRAM:
NEW:
- Preferences editor. New prefs file format.
- Reworked analyzing and actions.
- Selection of a drawer by simply dropping its icon in the window
of MTool. (AppWindow) (Christian Krenner)
- Keyboard control of the device listview. Use "Del" to switch cursor
keys to devlist control.
- Configurable action list that can be displayed in the device listview.
(Christian Krenner)
- Copy requester waited for one IntuiTick for every file. fixed.
(Jens Bönisch)
- Max. block size for copying of 65KB. Fixes problems with IDE drives
on A1200.
- Display date/time in file lists. (Marc Duponcheel)
- very simple requester for copy/move/delete on request.
- Small gadget "?" or "!" besides the gadgets for copy, move, delete,
Select All, Select Nothing and Icon.
- Double click on a file in an archive is now possible (everybody asked
me to do it ;-), Mikael Silfver persuaded me)
- Activate string gadget above the active file list by pressing Return
(Mikael Silfver, Adam Sjøgren)
- Notification
- If you change the parameters in the copy requester, copying stops
and must be re"start"ed. (Mikael Silfver)
- A file can be given an icon according to its file type.
- MTool can open its window on public screens (Mikael Silfver)
- Close gadget can be used to hide MTool (Mikael Silfver)
BUGFIXES:
- small graphics bug in string requester when big fonts are used
(Jens Bönisch)
- Triple clicking in file list makes dir change twice (Jens Bönisch)
- "Amiga A" symbols are scaled wrong sometimes (OS3.0+) (Robert Peter
Poole)
KNOWN BUGS:
- AutoDir checkmark in menus gets lost during closing and reopening
MTools window (Mikael Silfver)
- Enforcer hits when no config file was loaded (Robert Peter Poole)
- If an options request is canceled during menu action, the action
should be cancelled, too. (Jens Bönisch)
- Bugs in Copy requester (Gregor Wenkelewski)
- Sometimes enforcer hits during move.
MTOOL PREFS EDITOR:
NEW:
everything :-)
NOT YET IMPLEMENTED:
- Keyboard control
- Menus
------------------------------------------------------------------------
V1.5 - 08.09.1993 released
NEW:
- MTool is a commodity now (C. J. Ellerbeck)
- You can't work with two MTools simultanously. Starting a second one
will open the window of the first one (if it was closed) and bring
to front its screen/window.
- Improved English texts (C. J. Ellerbeck)
- Barlines in menus (C. J. Ellerbeck)
- NewLookMenus with OS3.0 (C. J. Ellerbeck)
- Proportional fonts for gadgets (C. J. Ellerbeck)
- Maximum font size is 50 pixels now (was 20)
- Straight insertion instead of bubblesort (faster)
- New "about"-window (C. J. Ellerbeck)
- Abort rename of multiple files via close gadget (C. J. Ellerbeck)
- Jump to beginning of the file list if you reach the end of the list
with the cursor keys. (C. J. Ellerbeck)
- Spanish catalog file (José Garcia)
- new key words to control analyzing: TYPE, FILT and HFIL. (C. J.
Ellerbeck)
- Configuable device list with new key word CDEV (Markus Mönig,
Reinhard Kunter)
- Thicker frame on gadgets, that can be activated by pressing Return.
- Parent of assigns works now. (Parent of DEVS: will give you WB_2.x:)
- If MTool is displayed on the Workbench screen, Parent can be reached
by clicking on the broad right window frame. (Holger Trapp)
- Changed manual to AmigaGuide (C. J. Ellerbeck, Andreas Baum)
- Visible response of the Gadgets if you use the Keyboard shortcuts
(Brian Jacobson, thanks for your code!)
- Jump to beginning/end of a file list with Ctrl-Cursor (Matthias Hank)
- Screen mode requester enables selection of number of colours. (C. J.
Ellerbeck)
- MTool is shareware now
BUGFIXES:
- No guru if you open archives with path names with more than 80 chars
length.
- No error message if you select Info without having selected a file.
(C. J. Ellerbeck)
- No trashing of the title bar of the string requester if you are using
a big screen font. (Christian Krenner)
- Font requester always opened on the Workbench screen on OS2.0 (Marc
Necker)
- No false "Disk full" messages any more during copy.
- "Change Name" in the copy requester now works.
- If an error occured during "Move", the original file was deleted
anyway. Fixed. (Bernd Johannes)
- If an error occured on resizing the window, MTool didn't free all
resources (memory loss). Fixed. (Bernd Johannes)
KNOWN BUGS:
none.