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- Release Notes 28 February 1993
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-
- Version 1.7
-
- HyperWais Stack
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-
- - You can now click on an application summary line to
- automatically populate the various fields in the
- "edit applications" screen.
-
- - You can now click on a document headline to view it, and
- option-click to save it.
-
- - The stack now cleans up the headline before presenting it
- as a file name, it tries to do this in as clean a way as possible,
- either taking the first word of the headline or truncating it to
- 25 characters if it still is too long.
-
- - A couple of nifty little icons on the title screen which animate
- themselves when you move the mouse over either of them.
-
- - Cleaned up the stack script and created some initializeCard
- scripts for each card which are called when the stack is
- opened. These scripts do various things to the cards to which
- they are attached. This has helped in reducing the size of the
- stack script.
-
- - Added feature which allows the user to save and open questions.
- This feature saves the query and the chosen sources to a files. The
- format is wais compatible, but I have not tried to open any
- WAIStation questions files. Headlines and relevance feedback are
- not saved as part of a question. Also created a wais-questions folder.
-
- XFCNs
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-
- - Changed the docTypeLen from 16 to 30 characters. This changes
- was made to accomodate long type lists returned by multi-type
- databases.
-
- - Fixed a bug which filtered out all the applications when the
- application chooser was invoked when the Wais Listener was
- not found on the local machine. The filter is also case-insentitive.
-
- - Added two new XFCNs which will allow the user to download a
- document to the local machine if the Wais Listener is running on
- another machine. The two XFCNs are called HCGetDocToLocalFile
- and HCGetDocToLocalFileByID and are drop-in replacements for
- HCGetDocToFile and HCGetDocToFileByID respectively. To use them
- all you need to do is to change the two XFCN names in the stack
- script.
-
-
- Wais Caller routines
- ------------------
-
- - Changed the docTypeLen from 16 to 30 characters. This changes
- was made to accomodate long type lists returned by multi-type
- databases.
-
- - Added two functions which will allow the user to download a
- document to the local machine if the Wais Listener is running on
- another machine. The two functions are called GetDocToLocalFile
- and GetDocToLocalFileByID and are drop-in replacements for
- GetDocToFile and GetDocToFileByID respectively. The difference
- is that they fetch the document and save it locally rather than
- asking the Wais Listener to do it.
-
-
- Wais Listener and C Libraries
- --------------------------
-
- - Fixed a bug in the Wais Listener.debug which prevented the
- user from saving the log file that was listed in the debug
- window.
-
- - There is a bug which prevents the Wais Listener.debug
- application from communicating with the clipboard when
- cutting and pasting, cant figure that one out at this time.
-
- - Fixed a bug which did not reliably send back the document
- type with the relevance feedback entries, this did not bother
- the regular server, but caused problems with the multi-type
- server I put together.
-
- - Fixed a bug which did not update the site IP number in the
- document structures.
-
- - Changed the docTypeLen from 16 to 30 characters. This changes
- was made to accomodate long type lists returned by multi-type
- databases.
-
- - Fixed a small memory leak in the relevance feedback code, a
- document id was not being released when it was supposed to
- be.
-
- - Streamlined the code which builds the search and the get
- document APDUs.
-
- - Fixed a couple of little bugs which made some assumptions about
- the document types which where downloaded. These bugs were
- identified when the functions for downloading documents to a
- local machine were implemented.
-
- - Streamlined the allocation of document chuck handles, now the handle
- it set to the size of the chunk rather than an arbitrary size, this
- make for better memory usage.
-