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ST-Guide Changes and version history
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The following features have been requested and may be implemented:
- Subscript/superscript
- XACC-support
- Drag & drop for MultiTOS
- When changing window size reformat text to suit
- Solve problems with @image coordinates & various fonts
- Interface for display modules
- Direct return to a page by 'Stack pop-up'
- Extra/Copy should first delete all files from the Clipboard
- Direct setting of tab size
- 1stConv: Direct support for IFF, in addition to IMG.
Known limitations:
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- ST-GUIDE: No sound support
- ST-GUIDE: No colour image support (can currently be viewed in mono)
- ST-GUIDE: ST Medium resolution bombs unless NVDI is installed, this is
currently under investigation.
Should a problem arise that is not listed here, please check the
STG-FAQ.HYP and if this doesn't resolve your question get in touch.
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Version history (Since first pre-release English language version)
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24.09.94:
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ST-Guide : Problem not releasing memory after rx-events fixed
ST-Guide : All VA_START events are now, where necessary, send out with a
mxalloc requested buffer.
ST-Guide : During horizontal scrolling by page the button bar now scrolls
correctly.
ST-Guide : New variable ARROWPATCH added to the INF file; When active
this removes a bug in the AES which prevents the scroll arrows
in Windowed ACCs working correctly with some TOS versions
ST-Guide : If in der ersten Seite ein toc gesetzt war, wurde der
Inhalt-Button trotzdem disabled dargestellt
ST-Guide : When moving to a preset mark the page containing the mark is
added onto the stack
ST-Guide : Stack may also be deleted using [Alternate]+E
ST-Guide : Scrolling by page takes advantage of blitting where possible
ST-Guide : Problems with events from various applications removed
ST-Guide : Problem with window shading using WINX removed
ST-Guide : [Shift]+[Control]+O calls the file selector with '*.*'pattern
ST-Guide : Because nobody ever seems to read this file the progress alert
displayed using 'Find' explicitly states [Shift]+[Shift]
aborts the search.
HCP : Loading of IMGs functions again!
HCP : Include files related output error, which led to a crash
removed
HCP : Option -o replaced with parameter '~'
HCP : @toc can now be used outside nodes; in this case all following
nodes without a toc will automatically adopt the previous
setting
HCP : Problem with faulty @endnode's now fixed (hopefully)
30.08.94:
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ST-Guide : Images can be displayed in colour again hopefully!
24.08.94:
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ST-Guide : The number block keys +/- keys now function as alternative
shortcuts for Page Down and Page Up. [Control]+[CursorDown] and
[Control]+[CursorUp] still function.
ST-Guide : Searching in REF files can now be aborted by holding down
both [Shift] keys.
ST-Guide : Colour images are now displayed correctly, although they're
still only displayed in monochrome.
(Thanks to Michael Ziegler!)
HCP : Colours images are now loaded correctly.
(Thanks to Ulrich Ro₧goderer!)
31.07.94:
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ST-Guide : Movement using the sliders in the 'Reference list' with less
than ten entries no longer leads to errors.
ST-Guide : The keyboard shortcuts [Alt]+T and [Alt]+X were transmitted
to the active application, now fixed.
ST-Guide : Block marking now functions on pages containing boxes.
ST-Guide : The 'Find' dialog now works properly with Let 'em Fly.
ST-Guide : Images are now correctly redrawn after opening a pop-up node
over them.
ST-Guide : Built-in TOS 2.06 patch removed again because it caused
problems with MultiTOS gab (MultiTOS is evidently not, in
this position, correctly executing an evnt_multi
(...MU_TIMER...). Button-Events suffer a large delay.
ST-Guide : Click handling changed as follows:
1. No delay any more
2. Double clicks ALWAYS lead to a reference
3. Faster single click selects the reference
4. Click and drag to mark a block
ST-Guide : If a search mask wasn't found, which contained the
characters '|', ']' or '[' this caused problems with the
Alert box displayed, now fixed.
ST-Guide : In the hit list the 'Cancel' button and entries are no
longer TOUCHEXIT, therefore the dialog is removed after the
mouse button is clicked and ST-Guide is displayed again.
ST-Guide : Problems with small Y values for WINSIZE now fixed.
ST-Guide : Following many requests the Block pop-up now has a left
edge.
ST-Guide : Over length masks no longer spill out of the right hand side
of the 'Find' dialog.
ST-Guide : When flicking through a hypertext a page at a time the
buttons are no longer redrawn each page.
ST-Guide : When flicking through a hypertext a page at a time the last
line on a page is now the last line in the window.
ST-Guide : Blocks can no longer be marked in background windows because
this was causing errors!
ST-Guide : [Tab] and [Shift]+[Tab] should now (finally) work correctly.
ST-Guide : During transfer of messages via 'rx' the memory for the
command line is now requested via Mxalloc where possible.
(Warning: This is untested!)
ST-Guide : Starting external viewers as programs from ST-Guide with
non-hypertext parameters now works again.
ST-Guide : No longer crashes if a block past the text end is marked and
an action is triggered.
ST-Guide : The correct title now appears in the Window title line, even
if the main page has no title.
HCP : No longer crashes if a page name 'Index' is defined in a
hypertext.
1stConv : Now usuable again! The last version was broken!
Documents: Error in description of @index corrected.
Documents: Desciption of '-i' and '-j' corrected.
29.06.94:
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ST-Guide : Scrolling from keyboard no longer overruns
ST-Guide : Scrolling from keyboard now faster
ST-Guide : Scrolling by slider no longer flickers (much)
ST-Guide : Support for WINX scrollboxes
ST-Guide : When a non-hypertext file is called and EXTVIEW exists
the ST-Guide window is no longer opened unnecessarily.
ST-Guide : Small error in finding the hypertext file referred to in the
REF-file fixed.
ST-Guide : REF-search changed again: Following many requests the search
is first made for exact (case sensitive) correspondences; if
there are several matches then a 'Continue' button appears
in the list of matches so that a search for similarities can
be made later.
ST-Guide : If an argument not marked as a cross-reference was chosen
and its explanation was present in the same file, then the
current page was not stored in the stack.
ST-Guide : From now an an English language version of ST-Guide is also
available.
ST-Guide : Problems during loading of ASCII files with veeery long
lines that also contain Tab characters fixed.
ST-Guide : Under multi-tasking systems messages are no longer
dispatched to Application #0.
HCP : Option '+x' doesn't write the page titles only in the index
but consequently also into the REF-file.
HCP : Less ambiguous error messages incorporated.
HCP : Stack enlarged, so that even very long files should no
longer cause crashes.
HCP : Now uses up to 4 MB main memory, in place of 1MB previously.
HCP : Problems with umlauts in the auto-referencer fixed.
HCP : Should be faster for texts with lots of nodes.
RefLink : With '-d' one can now also use HYP as an extension;
previously the names had to be input without an extension or
with a REF extension.
STool : Internal changes; now one can also read where which
hypertext has been found.
STool : No endless loop with defective hypertexts any more.
1stConv : Problems with variable spaces in cross-references fixed.
1stConv : '+z' now set as a default.
1stConv : The name of the main file is now adopted as '@symbol' in the
first page, so that after conversion of CATGUIDE, for
instance, this reference ("CATGUIDE") will also be found.
Documents: In the description of the listings the high and low values
of the pointers were reversed everywhere...
02.05.94:
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ST-Guide : The 'Help' key works again...
ST-Guide : Under certain conditions the entire text could appear
inverted, now fixed.
ST-Guide : Keyboard shortcuts are now handled as follows:
- If MUSTCTRL is set, then ONLY WITH [Control]
- If MUSTCTRL not set, then ONLY WITHOUT [Control]
-> As many shortcuts as possible can now be passed on
to the main application.
ST-Guide : The list of matches will now be shown if only a similar
reference has been found.
ST-Guide : The list of matches, besides the node names, now also shows
the appropriate label (if 'X' is being searched for and a
label X exists on a page Y then both Y as well as X will be
displayed).
ST-Guide : List of matches can now be operated completely from the
keyboard:
- Cursor keys set selection
- Return == Click on match line
- UNDO == Cancel
- W == Continue
ST-Guide : First changes to the code for displaying pictures; hopefully
picture display in colour now works.
HCP : Multiple endnodes are now signalled and no longer cause
problems.
HCP : Under certain circumstances cross-references were set
automatically to the current node, now fixed.
RefLink : Screen display error with '-d' fixed.
1st-Conv : Stupid error that could lead to garbled file names fixed.
1st-Conv : Now reads the last line of a file even when this is not
terminated with a 'newline'.
1st-Conv : Protected against over-long lines, which could lead to
problems under Mag!C.
1st-Conv : Error in connection with links to nodes that contain
quotation marks, now fixed.
PC-Conv : Protected against over-long lines, which could lead to
problems under MagiC!
MAN2STG : Texts to the remaining CAT-folders supplemented.
General : STG_CONV.LZH renamed to STG-UTIL.LZH.
New tool CALL-ACC included.
QAA now as hypertext.
QAA extended.
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10th August 1994 To be continued...