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NextSTART 2.1 History
(c) Copyright 1999-2000 by Jorge M.R. Coelho and John T. Folden
E-mail: support@winstep.net
WWW: http://www.winstep.net
--------------------------
Build 2.12 (build 20) - 29 Apr 2000 - Maintenance Release
Added: When applying a theme through the Preferences Screen,
NextSTART now checks to see if any specific themes are
'hard coded' to menus or hotspots and prompts the user if
he wishes to discard these 'hard coded' themes. If the user
selects 'Yes', all menus/hotspots from then on will show the
currently loaded theme.
Added: 'Load Wallpaper' option for 'Show Themes' and 'Apply
Theme' type of hotspots.
Added: 'Load Wallpaper' option for 'Show Themes' menus. If this
option is left unselected none of the themes will change
wallpapers.
Fixed: 'Show Themes' menus would not auto drop down.
Fixed: Apply Theme items in a menu would not show a hot key.
Fixed: The 'Load Wallpaper' checkbox in the Menu Editor remained
selected when adding new 'Apply Theme' items, but the actual
function would be disabled.
Fixed: Wallpaper was not being applied when changing themes via
a menu ( broken in 2.11 build 18 ).
--------------------------
Build 2.11 (build 18)
Added: New command type 'Show Themes'. Shows a menu with all
installed themes, which can then be applyed directly from the
menu.
Added: 'Show Themes' and 'Apply Theme' command types can now
be run directly from a hotspot.
Fixed: The theme list displayed by 'Apply Theme' is now sorted.
Fixed: Increased screen corner bump sensitivity, which was
very much a hit or miss affair.
Fixed: Applying a theme through the menu with the Preferences
Window open no longer closes Preferences automatically.
Fixed: When left clicking on a task button for the first time,
if the window to bring forward was maximized it would be
restored.
Fixed: Clicking on the first pixel line of an endcap would
crash NextSTART with error '9 Subscript out of range'.
Fixed (for W2k only): Menus loosing focus problems when the
Windows taskbar was vertical and NS Task Management was enabled.
Fixed: On menus with vertical titlebars, the titlebar text
could sometimes be too much offset to the right, overlaping
the menu button area.
Fixed: Titlebar text could be unappropriately cropped on menus
with vertical titlebars.
Fixed: Choosing Transp.Bitmap on menu buttons would disable the
Tile options, etc...
Fixed: 'Sticky' menus that would sometimes appear can now
be closed.
--------------------------
Build 2.1 (build 14) - 4 Apr 2000 - Official Release
Added: New command type 'Apply Theme'. Installed themes can
now be added to a menu like if they were internal commands.
Clicking on an 'Apply Theme' item will automatically apply
the associated theme to all menus.
Added: New Internal Command 'Show Recycle Bin'
Added: New Internal Command 'Empty Recycle Bin'
Changed: Default Menu used when installing NextSTART.
Fixed: Closing an Explorer window with middle click on a
task icon did not work and only resulted in a beep.
Fixed: Titlebar background gradient or solid colors were
extending 1 pixel line further down than they should, something
that could only be noticed if menu buttons had no frames.
Fixed: Opening a sub-menu that largely overlapped the parent
menu, with the sel.bar follow mouse option enabled, would
move the sel.bar on the parent menu instead of on the newly
opened sub-menu while the mouse was inside the parent menu's
overlapped area.
Fixed: Shadow problem with newstyle titlebar buttons on menus
with sideways titlebars.
Fixed: Double-clicking on a folder item now opens it as a folder
in Explorer even if the menu has animations enabled.
--------------------------
Build 2.1 b10 - 22 Mar 2000 - Released to Registered Users
Added: Middle-clicking on a task icon can now terminate the
associated application even if it is not responding.
Added: The tasklist icons are now refreshed every 3 seconds
even if no applications have been started or terminated. This
solves the problem of applications that change their taskbar
icon to show a process progress and also corrects a problem
where sometimes busy applications would show the wrong icon.
Added: Fade-In animation effect ( Windows 2000 only!!! )
Added: Dragging a file over a Tasklist button now not only
brings the associated window forward as it also identifies
the window associated to that tile with a tooltip.
Fixed: Under NT and W2k systems, the items in the Applications
sub-menu that pointed to programs or folders stored in the All
Users section would sometimes not display an icon or display
the wrong icon. This was due to a problem when installing NS
for the first time which would add a superfluous "\" character
to the end of the 'All Users' path. This has been fixed for
future installations, but if you are running NT or W2k you should
go to the Menu Editor tab, select the Applications item and click on the
'Properties' button in the 'Folder Path' section. Now in 'Folder Path 2'
remove the superfluous "\" character. NS should now properly display icons
for All Users items.
Fixed: Systray.ico was not being saved with themes.
Fixed: When creating an hotspot, dragging the cursor any
other way than top left corner to bottom right corner would
confuse NS.
Fixed: *Should* have fixed bug where orphan sub-menus were
being left on screen and could not be closed. This only
happened on themes with animation effects, automatic drop
down enabled and a very fast drop down rate.
Fixed: Providing a bad filename in the Import from Zip
textbox in the Themes tab would crash NextSTART.
Fixed: Right button text justification was off on selection
bars.
Fixed: The Export Theme to Zip combo box would not clear the
previous contents when refreshing the themes list, leading to
duplicate items.
Fixed: On horizontal menus with a titlebar size of 0 and a
sideways titlebar, the mouse cursor would change to a sizing
icon when the mouse pointer hoovered over the menu.
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Build 2.1 b8a - 1 Mar 2000 - Released to Registered Users
Fixed: When using bitmaps in menus, ScrollA.bmp and ScrollI.bmp
would not be displayed.
--------------------------
Build 2.1 b8 - 1 Mar 2000 - Released to Registered Users
Added: Bitmap transparency to Systray button.
Added: When 'Overlap Menus' is selected, the overlap size can
now be specified as well.
Added: When loading a theme NextSTART now also checks to see if
the separator and endcap fonts exist on the system.
Added: All numeric text boxes in the the Preference tabs now
only accept numeric input.
Changed: The 'Menu Scroll Speed' setting is no longer a theme
dependent setting but rather a Global preference.
Changed: Moved 'Menu Scroll Speed' to the Global Preferences tab.
Changed: If 'show only titlebar buttons' is selected, the
horizontal menu height is now determined by button metrics
only instead of by the largest value for titlebar metrics and
button metrics as previously ( thanks MQ ).
Changed: Method use to check if a font used in a theme is valid
or not. Should now be much faster on systems with a very large
number of fonts.
Fixed: The Systray button was not applying the Tasks bitmap to
itself if the user had selected 'Transparent Bitmap' for the
tasklist background.
Fixed: Incorrect painting of horizontal scroll button bitmaps.
Fixed: If the selection bar was set to blink when selecting an
item, at the end of the blinking period the bar would no longer
be visible.
--------------------------
Build 2.1 b7 - 29 Feb 2000
Added: Separator transparent bitmap functionality.
Added: Bitmap transparency to tasklist buttons.
Added: Separator bitmap functionality:
'SpacerA.bmp/jpg' - Separator buttons.
'SpacerI.bmp/jpg' - Inactive Menu Separator buttons.
Fixed: The Systray in button form now automatically repositions
itself if it is moved from its original position by an external
source ( such as a Virtual Workspace Manager ).
--------------------------
Build 2.1 b6 - 28 Feb 2000
Added: Full functionality to Separator settings *except* for separator
bitmaps.
Added: New bitmap options:
'ScrollA.bmp/jpg' - Scroll buttons.
'ScrollI.bmp/jpg' - Inactive Menu Scroll buttons.
'HScrollA.bmp/jpg' - Horizontal Menu Scroll buttons.
'HScrollI.bmp/jpg' - Inactive Horizontal Menu Scroll buttons.
Added: Alpha Blending settings ( Windows 2000 ONLY! ), for active and
inactive menus, to the Global Preferences tab.
Added: 'Don't show titlebar text' option to titlebar preferences tab.
Added: Option to specify Encap width on horizontal menus.
Fixed: Incorrect sub-menu positioning when opening menus with endcaps.
Fixed: When saving a theme, the new bitmap file options were not being
saved into the proper filenames either.
Fixed: NextSTART was not saving the new bitmap options into a theme.
--------------------------
Build 2.1 b5 - 23 Feb 2000
Added: New bitmap options:
'HTitleA.bmp/jpg' - Menu Horizontal Titlebar.
'HTitleI.bmp/jpg' - Inactive Menu Horizontal Titlebar.
'HEndcapA.bmp/jpg' - Horizontal Menu Endcap.
'HEndcapI.bmp/jpg' - Inactive Horizontal Menu Endcap.
'HButtonA.bmp/.jpg' - Horizontal Menu Buttons.
'HButtonI.bmp/.jpg' - Inactive Horizontal Menu Buttons.
'HButtonAS.bmp/.jpg' - Horizontal Menu button highlighted by selection bar.
'HButtonIS.bmp/.jpg' - Horizontal Inactive Menu button highlighted by selection bar.
Fixed: Endcap backgrounds would not be applied properly for horizontal
menus where the size of the endcap was different from the Titlebar size.
Fixed: If using a bitmap for both the titlebar and for the Encap, the
later would display the titlebar bitmap instead.
--------------------------
Build 2.1 b4 - 22 Feb 2000
Added: Full functionality to Endcap settings and new bitmap options:
'EndcapA.bmp/jpg' - Menu Endcap.
'EndcapI.bmp/jpg' - Inactive Menu Endcap.
'VEndcapA.bmp/jpg' - Menu Vertical Endcap.
'VEndcapI.bmp/jpg' - Inactive Menu Vertical Endcap.
Fixed: Painting issues on menus with scroll buttons at top and bottom.
Fixed: Positioning issues with scroll buttons on horizontal menus.
Fixed: Sizing issues on Horizontal menus with menu wide titlebars.
Fixed: Setting just the titlebar to 'Transparent Bitmap' would make it
display as if it was set to 'Solid'.
--------------------------
Build 2.1 b3 - 16 Feb 2000
Fixed: Problem painting transparent bitmap scroll buttons that did not
show up in the VB IDE.
--------------------------
Build 2.1 b2 - 16 Feb 2000
Added: Bitmap transparency to menus. NS can now turn the pink sections
(RGB 255,0,255) of a bitmap fully transparent if you select 'Transp
Bitmap' as a background color for any of the menu components.
Added: 'Transparent' option to titlebar backgrounds in the titlebar
preferences tab. Menu Titlebars can now have a Transparent background too.
Added: Endcap & Separator tabs to NS Preferences. Functionality not yet
implemented.
Fixed: When the titlebar alignment was set to align the clicked on button
with the first button of the new menu and sub-menus of horizontal menus
set to have no titlebar, then the first sub-menu of an horizontal child
menu would be mis-aligned.
Changed: Improved much of the core menu painting code.
Changed: Menus with complex bitmaps should now paint faster.
Fixed: When applying a bitmap or a gradient to the whole menu, scroll
buttons now integrate seamlessly with the rest of the menu buttons.
Fixed: Right-aligning text on a menu with no icons, would make the
text overlap any sub-menu indicators.
Fixed: Right-Alignment of text in buttons wasn't aligning the text
properly.
Fixed: Clicking exactly on any of the screen edges would fail to bring
a menu set to pop up with a single click.
Fixed: Clicking exactly on an of the screen edges would make a menu
set to pop up with middle-click anywhere appear and immediately
disappear.
--------------------------
Build 2.1 b1 - 3 Feb 2000 - Released to Registered Users
Added: NextSTART now automatically makes an hotspot point to the
right menu if a user changes the name of a menu associated to an
hotspot in the Menu Editor but forgets to change it in the hotspots
tab.
Changed: Version numbering to enter the 2.1 beta phase.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.100 - 2 Feb 2000
Changed: Method used to 'Reserve Screen Space'. The old method would
not 'stick'. The new method unfortunately also 'pushes out' windows
totally within a protected region.
Changed: Colors used to represent 'reserved screen space' in the
Global Preferences tab.
Changed: Updated the help file.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.99 - 1 Feb 2000
Added: 'Reserve Screen Space' section. This enables users to
select how much and which parts of the screen borders are reserved
for taskbars, etc... Maximized window sizes are automatically
adjusted and normal windows are also automatically moved out of the
reserved screen areas. If a bar (or any window) lies entirelly within
one of the reserved screen areas, then it is not moved at all - and
becomes in fact 'protected' by this NS feature.
Added: 'AutoRun' option in the Hotspots Preferences tab. If this
option is checked, it will automatically launch that hotspot at
NS startup - this option replaces the 'Launch Hotspots' section
in the Global Preferences tab - it does the same thing in a much
more elegant way. WARNING: If you were using the old method to
automatically launch hotspots, you will have to re-mark them
using the new method.
Added: 'Disabled' option in the Hotspot Preferences tab.
This way an hotspot can be temporarily disabled without having
to be removed from the hotspots list.
Added: 'Show Launch Errors' option in Global Preferences tab
(enabled by default). When running under some Windows shells
other than Explorer (LiteStep, for instance), launching a folder
would work but would also cause NextSTART to return a 'File Not
Found' error. If this option is disabled, no errors are reported
even if NextSTART cannot (or thinks it cannot) run a program or
open a folder.
Changed: Updated Help File.
Fixed: Auto-CD Insert notification now works even if desktop icons
are set to hidden.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.98 - 23 Jan 2000
Fixed: Better handling of the Systray. It should expand
properly now when new icons are added to or removed from it.
Added: 'Exact Match' checkbox in Hotspots tab that allows the
user to control wether the application name associated to an
hotspot should be matched exactly with a window's caption OR
if a partial match with the window's caption is enough to fire
the hotspot.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.97 - 19 Jan 2000
Added: When the user specifically disables hotspots through the
Systray icon, the icon now changes appearance to reflect this.
Changed: Increased number of hotspots from 10 to 36.
Fixed: Different sub-themes for different hotspots might, when
activated, change the 'Show only titlebar buttons' and 'To Body'
settings on children of on-screen menus.
Fixed: With 'Menu Auto Drop Down' enabled, it was possible for
NextSTART under certain circunstances, to not auto drop down a
sub-menu associated to the very first item in the menu.
Fixed: NextSTART now preserves single or double-quotes typed in
program pathnames or program arguments from session to session.
This makes sure that arguments like
"C:\Program Files\Nextstart\Help\Ns2\Nextstart.htm"
are not cropped to "C:\Program" for non-long filename compliant
applications.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.96 - 27 Dec 1999
Changed: NextSTART now looks for the Hotspot's 'Application Name' text
*within* a window caption, instead of expecting the two strings to be
exactly equal. This allows the user to specify, for instance,
'Microsoft Excel' in the application name, which will work with Excel
windows that have both 'Microsoft Excel - Book1' and
'Microsoft Excel - Document1' in their titlebars.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.95 - Maintenance Release 2b - 23 Dec 1999
Fixed: Should have fixed ( or at least improved ) some tasks showing
the wrong icon until the tasklist is refreshed due to the hang/freeze
problem.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.94 - Maintenance Release 2
Added: The Drop down portion of the Save, Load and Export themes combo
boxes is now as wide as it takes to display the full name of all themes.
Added: New 'Desktop Themes' internal command, which gives access to the
associated control panel applet on systems that have it.
Changed: The User can no longer close the Preferences window through the
X at the top. This would by-pass the command buttons at the bottom and
possibly confuse the user.
Changed: The Maximize button in the Preferences window had its function
disabled.
Fixed: The Font Name text boxes used in the Titlebar and Button
Preference tabs now allow you to see the full font name, style and size
by clicking on them and moving the text cursor to the right. Previously,
if the font names were too long, only the first characters could be seen.
Fixed: The 'Network Properties' menu item in the default NS menus was
improperly configured for Win9x systems ( it worked under NT though ).
--------------------------
Build 2.0.93
Added: 'Hotspots Enabled' yes/no option to pop-up menu of NS icon on
the systray. If 'Hotspots Enabled' is unchecked NS will stop responding
to mouse clicks and screen-bumps until the option is re-enabled. Usefull
when playing DirectX Games where a bump on a screen edge might fire a NS
menu.
Fixed: NextSTART no longer freezes when another application hangs or
hogs the system.
Fixed: The 'Windows Caption/Executable' option in the user defined
icons section of the Tasklist & Systray preferences would sometimes
not 'stick' when adding new items.
Fixed: Overflow error on horizontal menus in multi-monitor systems
under NT. (?)
--------------------------
Build 2.0.91
Fixed: Overflow error on multi-monitor systems. (?)
Fixed: "Show Only Titlebar Buttons" had no effect in sub-themes.
Fixed: A Systray Auto-Hide delay of more than 32 seconds would crash
NextSTART with an overflow error.
Changed: Revised the Help File for spelling errors and such.
Removed: 'Dial-up Networking' internal command, which was never actualy
implemented.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.90 - 6 Sep 1999 - Maintenance Release 1
Added: Always On Top option for menus invoked through an hotspot.
Added: Dragging a file over a NextSTART tasklist button will now bring
the associated window to the foreground.
Fixed: If 'No' was answered to confirmation dialog when exiting
NextSTART, hotspots and menus would stop working.
Fixed: Sub-menus now inherit the Always On Top setting of the parent
menu.
Fixed: NextSTART would crash with Run-time error '5' if the 'Show only
Titlebar buttons' option in the Menu Preferences tab was enabled, the
menu had a titlebar bitmap and the resulting horizontal menu had no
titlebar buttons.
Fixed: NextSTART now properly deletes the 'Run NextSTART' key from
the registry when the 'Run NS on Startup' option is disabled. Leaving
the key blank instead of deleting it was causing problems under NT.
Fixed: Leaving one of the hotspot coordinates text box blank would
crash NextSTART with 'run-time error (13): Type Mismatch'.
Fixed: Selecting 'Exit NextSTART' internal command and then clicking
on an hotspot while the dialog box 'Are you sure?' is on-screen would
crash NextSTART.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.88 - 21 Aug 1999 - Final Release
Added: NextSTART, when run for the first time, now asks the user
if he/she would like to enable NS Task Management by default.
Changed: 'About' icon. Reverted it back to the old one when selected.
Changed: NextSTART's Tasklist and Systray now ignore the auto-hide
setting of the taskbar. This means that, when 'show at bottom' is
choosen, the tasklist and systray will be displayed at the very
bottom of the screen regardless of the auto-hide state of the Windows
taskbar. WARNING: If you do not have the taskbar set to auto-hide and
you are displaying the NS Tasklist and/or Systray at the very bottom
of the screen by using a negative vertical offset, the Tasklist &
Systray will be displayed outside the visible screen area. In this case
you MUST set the negative vertical offset to 0.
Changed: Removed the word 'Beta' from the About tab.
Updated: NextSTART's 2.0 User Guide.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.86 - 21 Aug 1999
Added: 'Run NS on Startup' option to Global Preferences tab.
This way NextSTART can automatically be run after a reboot without
having to drag an icon to the startup folder.
Added: Error checking to menu fonts. NextSTART will never again
crash if there is a font problem. Arial will be used instead.
Added: Force Shutdown option to Global Preferences tab, disabled
by default. This should also help to fix the problems some people
were still having with the shutdown internal command.
Added: You can now drag & drop zip files into the Import from
Zip filename box in the Themes Tab.
Added: NextSTART now displays a warning if it cannot find none
of it's INI files, since at least the DefMenu.ini file *must* be
present. The warning advises the user to check the working path
and shortcut used to run NextSTART.
Added: When a theme is loaded, NextSTART now also automatically
updates the 'Export To Zip' default filenames to reflect the new
theme name.
Added: NextSTART now automatically adds <themename>.zip to the
'Export To Zip' filename in the Themes Tab if the user only selects
a path instead of a valid zip filename when using the file browser.
Changed: Icons in the top icon ribbon of the preferences screen.
Changed: When using different themes for different menu types
( i.e.; individual menu themes or sub-themes ) NextSTART no longer
checks to see if a particular font exists whenever switching
sub-themes. This can greatly speed up menu display on systems that
have a large collection of fonts. If a particular sub-theme font
does not exist, then Arial is automatically used instead. Loading
a theme normally will still result in the 'Font does not Exist'
warning if a menu font does not exist on that particular system.
Fixed: Some 3D display problems with Popups and Frame controls in
systems with large fonts.
Fixed: Bug where changing an hotspot would result in an empty menu
appearing with the title 'Hotspot x'.
Fixed: Themes using Active/Inactive settings, when applied to
individual menus or hotspots (i.e. not being the currently loaded
theme), might NOT have the 'bitmap applied to menu' and 'menu transparent'
active menu properties applied properly after closing a sub-menu.
Fixed: If the menu was horizontal, had a lateral titlebar AND the
titlebar size was different from the button size, the vertical size
of any scroll buttons would be mis-calculated.
Fixed: Problem with Diagonal gradient which was being applied one
pixel line before it should.
Fixed: In some cases ( where the font filename was different from
the actual font name ) NextSTART would not install theme fonts
properly. This could cause NextSTART to crash and the system to
become confused.
Fixed: NextSTART could crash with error 5 if menu animation was on
and the user pressed ENTER two times in quick succession to open a
sub-menu.
Fixed: If the Windows Taskbar is vertical, the NS Systray size and
position is now automatically updated every 5 seconds.
Fixed: Clicking or bumping on an hotspot while a Shutdown/Restart/
Logout prompt was on screen would crash NextSTART.
Fixed: Systray Clock was not being updated when the preferences
screen was open.
Removed: Taskbar & Systray 'Reserve Screen Space' option.
Removed: 'Find People' and 'Find On the Internet' internal commands.
Removed: Beta expiracy code.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.85 - 27 Jul 1999 - Public Release Beta 6
Added: ATX Shutdown option to Global Preferences tab, disabled
by default. This should fix most problems people have been
having with the shutdown internal command. Enable it only if
your system supports the Power Off feature.
Fixed: If an item in a menu was intentionaly left blank, then
NextSTART might crash with error 5 when executing an item through
a keyboard shortcut.
Fixed: Re-selecting an Internal Command item in the Menu Editor
would restore the original internal command label, overwritting
any changes previously made to this label.
Fixed: Once the middle or right mouse buttons where
used to click on a menu titlebar, left clicks would
always act like a middle click.
Fixed: Under certain circunstances, if a menu exceeded the
(MORE) settings and displayed the contents of two folders,
not all items would be displayed and weird display artifacts
might show on screen ( big gray boxes ).
Fixed: NextSTART would crash when displaying the hotspots tab
if the user deleted all hotspots including the current one,
went to another tab and then came back.
Fixed: When saving a theme with font files, if the titlebar
font was not found on the registry, the warning message would
reference the button font instead.
Fixed: Menu Rotate sound was not working.
Fixed: Underline Command Keys would not show up on horizontal
menus.
Fixed: NS Systray now checks the current available desktop area
before displaying.
Fixed: Minimized occurence of NextSTART related troubles
when shutting down Windows via an internal command. (?)
Fixed: Problem with tooltip on tasklist where it sometimes
would not go away.
Fixed: Reversal of menu animations is now properly implemented.
Fixed: Bug where titlebar buttons on an horizontal menu set
to display titlebar buttons only would have a 2 pixel gap
between left and right side buttons.
Fixed: If the Preferences screen is called via an internal
command, NextSTART no longer closes all menus automatically,
thus enabling users to preview menu changes.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.84 - 17 Jul 1999 - Public Release Beta 5
Added: Warning when Exporting a theme and there are two wallpaper
bitmaps in the theme folder ( JPG *and* BMP versions ).
Added: New bitmap option added for vertical titlebars: 'VtitleA',
'VTitleI'. If the vertical titlebar bitmap does not exist, NS
uses the regular horizontal bitmap.
Fixed: Scroll buttons bitmaps were not being properly painted.
Fixed: Vertical titlebar bitmaps were being improperly streched.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.83 - 16 Jul 1999
Added: Added option for Title Frame to overlap the inner Menu Frame,
enabled by default to maintain backwards compatibility with themes.
Added: Option for Menu Frame to apply to menu body or whole menu.
Fixed: Menu 3D and item positioning errors.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.82 - 15 Jul 1999
Added: TrueType fonts that come with a theme can now be optionally
installed when loading that theme.
Added: TrueType font files used in a theme can now optionally be
saved as well when saving a theme.
Added: 'Middle-click anywhere' option to launch hotspot ( there
you go, Ric Fischer! ;-)
Fixed: Warning of fonts and text files in zip themes being imported
had broken the autoinstall themes feature.
Fixed: Bug in the 3D effect used at the very top line of the menus.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.81 - 13 Jul 1999
Added: If a theme being imported comes with TrueType font files
or Txt files, NextSTART now alerts the user to this fact in the
unzip report window.
Added: NextSTART now detects if the Font being used in a
sideways titlebar is NOT TrueType and uses Arial instead if
so (non TrueType fonts cannot be rotated).
Added: Tooltip to the sideways titlebar button.
Fixed: Scroll arrows would be incorrectly centered in menus
with sideways titlebars.
Fixed: Titlebar text overlapped buttons in sideways titlebars
if the menu wasn't high enough.
Fixed: Titlebar buttons where backwards in sideways titlebars.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.80 - 12 Jul 1999
Added: Titlebar of a menu can now appear sideways, as in the
Windows Start Menu. In horizontal menus this option makes the
titlebar appear at the top of the menu and be as wide as the
menu itself.
Added: Option to show nothing but the titlebar buttons when the
menu is horizontal.
Added: Option to always overwrite files when importing from zip.
Changed: In the Titlebar Preferences Tab, the color wells now get
disabled instead of hidden when the 3D button is unchecked.
Changed: Turned Horizontal Menu style pull up menu into a checkbox.
Fixed: Horizontal menus with line style of buttons would have
no button 3D separator.
Fixed: Screen wide horizontal menus now really are screen wide
( as long as they have a titlebar ).
Fixed: NextSTART was still trying to paint buttons which were not
visible ( leftover from the old menu paint method ). Menus with
lots of files should paint even faster now.
Dropped: 'Show Selection Bar' on scroll buttons option.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.79 - 8 Jul 1999 - PC Answers build.
Added: Individual animation option for sub-menus dropping from
horizontal menus.
Fixed: Actual Desktop size is now re-computed when applying
settings in the Preferences window.
Fixed: Error 9 that could crash NextSTART when working with
horizontal menus extended to full screen width.
Fixed: Some horizontal menus 3D fx problems.
Fixed: Deleting a theme from the Themes tab was not working.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.78 - 2 Jul 1999
Added: Clicking on one of the preferences window buttons
automatically re-sets the window to normal size.
Added: Resizing of the preferences window is now limited.
Added: JPG Wallpaper support for all versions of Windows.
Fixed: NT users with not enough access rights to the registry
would be dropped onto the registration screen the second time
NextSTART was run.
Fixed: You can now use multiple icon files for the user defined
icons of the tasklist.
Fixed: Shutdown Windows Internal command now also turns the power
off.
Fixed: In Tasklist & Systray prefs, clicking on the Add button
would change the default selection from 'Windows Caption' to
'Executable'.
Fixed: On an horizontal menu where the scroll buttons where not
together, the child menu would drop down one button to the right.
Fixed: Tasklist *MENU* was still leaking User handles under NT.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.77 - 22 Jun 1999 - Public Release Beta 4
Fixed: Corrupted icon of Preferences Window that might be shown when
in True Color mode and with some video drivers.
Fixed: Ns Task Management was leaking User handles under NT.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.76 - 22 Jun 1999
Changed: Beta expiracy date.
Changed: Moved 'Enable Ns Task Management' and 'Hide Desktop Icons'
on startup back to the Tasklist tab.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.75 - 21 Jun 1999
Changed: Increased the Bump screen edges and corner delay constants.
Fixed: If the Lock Menu Width option was on, the text on a vertical
sub-menu would sometimes extend to the actual edge of the menu.
Fixed: The NS Systray clock now displays in the same format and
font as the real Systray clock.
Fixed: When a menu was horizontal and Auto Drop Down was on, the
incorrect sub-menu would drop.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.74 - 18 Jun 1999
Fixed: Bug that would put the old Systray Clock back on the Systray
after exiting the preferences window when using NS Task Management.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.73 - 18 Jun 1999
Added: Overlap Menus option to Menu Preferences tab. Open a sub-menu
and it overlaps slightly the parent menu.
Added: Middle clicking on a task icon of the Tasklist now kills
the task.
Added: On menus with no titlebar the mouse pointer changes to
'Size All' when the mouse pointer is moved over the upper menu frame.
Clicking and dragging at this point will drag the menu to a new
location.
Added: Option for sub-menus of horizontal menus to always be as wide
as the item button that opens them.
Added: Option for sub-menus of horizontal menus to automatically
rotate when dragged away from the parent menu.
Added: Option for sub-menus of horizontal menus not to have a titlebar.
Added: Internal Commands can now be renamed.
Added: User Defined File Type Mask. Folder menus can now display
only whatever file types the user chooses.
Added: NextSTART now shows how many days have ellapsed since it was
installed in the Register tab.
Added: Icon Browser to the Taskbar & Systray preferences tab and to
the Menu Editor tab.
Changed: Command key options have been moved to the bitmaps tab and
both this tab and the Menu Preferences tab have been re-organized.
Changed: Method used to detect when the Systray size on the desktop
needs to be updated. NextSTART now only does this when necessary,
instead of every 5 seconds, UNLESS the Systray clock has been
disabled or replaced, in which case it will resort to the 5 second
refresh method.
Fixed: Clicking on the Systray clock when NS Task Management is on
no longer hangs NextSTART.
Fixed: if a parent menu was horizontal and the sub-menu did not fit
in the display, it would show up at the left edge of the screen
instead of moving slightly to the left until it fitted.
Fixed: Problem that might make NextSTART crash with runtime error 6
under NT.
Fixed: Problem with Systray showing up cropped in NT systems if the
Taskbar was set to auto-hide.
Fixed: Systray always on top feature which was broken in the previous
build.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.72 - 15 Jun 99
Added: New bitmaps:
HzArrow for the sub-menu arrow when the menu is horizontal.
LfArrow for the scroll left arrow when the menu is horizontal.
RgArrow for the scroll right arrow when the menu is horizontal.
Added: Tasks can now be made not to display in the Tasklist by adding
a User Defined Task with a blank icon path.
Added: Individual themes per menu.
Added: Screen Wide Horizontal menus.
Added: Horizontal menu option to hotspots tab.
Added: Sub-menus originating from an horizontal parent menu are now
displayed UNDER the horizontal menu at all times UNLESS the menu does
not fit on the available space and there is more space at the top, in
which case the child vertical menu is displayed ABOVE the horizontal
parent.
Changed: In the Menu preferences tab, the Horizontal menu style now
only provides two options: Variable Width or Screen Wide.
Changed: The themes used in individual menus can now be fetched by
name rather than browsing drives for *.wst theme files.
Fixed: In File/Folder Browser empty folders can now be added one
after the other.
Fixed: Horizontal menus can now have no titlebar.
Fixed: Systray button remaining on screen after a disable NS Task
Management command.
Fixed: Systray jumping and resize problems.
Fixed: Shutdown Internal command would perform a reboot instead.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.71 - 11 Jun 99
Added: File/Folder browser now remembers the last used path
Added: 'Jump to Desktop' button to Folder/File Browser.
Added: New folders can now be created and folders/files removed
directly from the Folder/File Browser.
Added: Minimum Menu button width option to Button preferences tab.
Changed: Method used to read files from disk when displaying folder
menus. Displaying any folder, no matter how many files it has, is
now virtualy instantaneous!
Changed: File/Folder browser is now much much faster when retrieving
folders with thousands of files.
Fixed: Tasklist should now appear in all virtual desktops for users
who are using Virtual Desktops management software.
Fixed: Background image in transparent horizontal menus was ofset a
few pixels to the right.
Fixed: Bug that would make NextSTART always complain that files
might have not been completely removed when deleting a theme.
Fixed: Sub-menus originating from an horizontal parent menu are now
displayed UNDER the horizontal menu at all times.
Fixed: Buttons at the left of the titlebar would not be displayed
properly if the menu was horizontal and the titlebar inverted.
Fixed: Horizontal Menus without scroll buttons would be displayed
as a single button and a large empty space.
Fixed: Scrolling an horizontal menu and then rotating it again
terminated NextSTART with error 9.
Fixed: Horizontal Menus would not roll up properly.
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Build 2.0.70 - 07 Jun 99
Added: Horizontal Menus.
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Build 2.0.69 - 06 Jun 99 - Public Release Beta 3a
Fixed: Error code 6 that still happened to users with this problem.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.68 - 05 Jun 99 - Public Release Beta 3
Fixed: When loading a theme the path to the theme's folder was
showing up in every Sound Fx, even if no sound was used for that
action.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.67 - 05 Jun 99
Added: JPG support for NextSTART bitmaps.
Changed: Swapped location of Tasklist and Systray Position sections.
Changed: Systray Style is now a personal option, not saved with themes.
Changed: Default menu name to 'NextSTART'.
Fixed: Bug when converting the default menu to the machine specific
folders.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.66
Changed: Scrolling method used for some menus. Should be faster now.
Fixed: The caption text box of user defined Icons in the tasklist
tab was too big.
Fixed: The tasklist icon size was no longer being saved to themes,
but it was still being read from old themes.
Fixed: Problem when scrolling text in text boxes controls.
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Build 2.0.65
Added: 'Hide Desktop Icons' on startup option to Global preferences.
Added: Auto-Collapse to button Systray mode, w/ auto pre-set delay.
Added: The 3D colors of the Tasklist buttons can now be user-defined.
Added: Always on top option for Tasklist.
Added: Always on top option for Systray.
Changed: Layout of Tasklist & Systray preferences tab.
Changed: Moved 'Enable Tasklist on Startup' to Global preferences tab.
Changed: Tasklist icon size is now a personal setting and does not get
saved with themes.
Fixed: Bug that would crash NS with error 326 if using bitmaps for
titlebar buttons and not having a pressed button bitmap.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.64
Added: Selection Bar can now use bitmaps (ButtonAS.bmp & ButtonIS.bmp).
Added: Selection Bar can now use all types of Gradient.
Added: Export to Zip functionality.
Added: 'Quick Shutdown Windows' internal command.
Fixed: Menu repaint problem on some systems when scrolling up.
Fixed: Titlebar 3D frame now gets painted OVER the inner menu frame as
it should.
Fixed: Bug with shareware verification routine that might cause
NextSTART to terminate prematurely with run time error code 6.
Fixed: 'Reboot' and 'Shutdown' internal commands that weren't working
under Windows NT. You *must* remove and then add again the 'Shutdown'
internal command from any menus using it in order for this function to
work properly.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.62 - 01 Jun 99 - Public Release Beta 2
Added: AUTOINSTALL folder feature. Any zip file or group of zip files
placed on this folder are automatically imported when NextSTART starts.
Fixed: MAJOR bug that caused previous beta version of NextSTART to
expire on the 1st of June instead of the 1st of July!
Fixed: Run Time Error 380: Invalid property value that might be reported
as NextSTART loaded due to some unknown font problem.
Fixed: Bitmaps and sound files would not be correctly imported if
the zip filename of the theme was different from the theme's original
folder name.
Fixed: Output from the Unzip DLL could sometimes get garbled since
some messages used LF line terminators instead of the usual CR + LF
pair.
Fixed: Selection bar was not properly erased when scrolling a menu
with the keyboard.
Fixed: The text in the 'Properties' button of the Hotspots tab would
be unreadable in systems using Large Fonts.
Fixed: Inserted code to make sure that the user will never get an
Invalid Picture error when using the Find App tool in Hotspots tab.
Fixed: Bug that would make NextSTART crash with an Invalid Picture
error message if an active menu was set to anything but transparent
and the inactive version was set to transparent.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.60 - 26 May 99 - Public Release Beta 1
Added: When pressing cancel after previewing some themes, NextSTART
now restores the old wallpaper.
Fixed: Aparent sizing problem with menus after canceling or applying
a theme.
Fixed: A transparent menu would loose it's titlebar when un-rolled.
Fixed: When saving a theme, sound files would not be copied to the
theme's folder if the bitmaps path already pointed to it.
Fixed: Problem with transparent menu themes with wallpaper. When
loading such a theme the menu would display part of the previous
background.
Fixed: Set Tasklist control window to be positioned offscreen as
it became visible in some systems.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.59
Added: Default Menu structure.
Changed: Help File path changed to <WinSTEP folder>\Help\Ns2\
Fixed: Internal Command icons where always being replaced by their
defaults in the Menu Editor. Also, for those without any icons
defined, clicking on a IC item and pressing OK is all it takes now
to use the default icon for that IC.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.58
Added: Option in Menu preferences tab to specify the width of the
menu's frame, from none to double.
Added: Missing icons to internal commands.
Added: New default icon for NextSTART menus.
Added: New bitmap options for sub-menu arrow and command key symbols
displayed when item is highlighted by the selection bar: ArrowAS.ico,
ArrowIS.ico,ComSymbAS.ico,ComSymbIS.ico.
Added: NextSTART now saves and restores the Tile Wallpaper setting
on themes.
Added: Tooltip to Delete Theme icon.
Fixed: NextSTART was not saving up scroll arrow bitmaps.
Fixed: Painting issues with Menu Frame colors. Color1 now applies to
top left and Color2 to right bottom edges.
Fixed: Scroll buttons were not pressing down.
Fixed: NextSTART would report a file not found error when saving
a new theme.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.57
Added: Menu buttons 3D effects have an extra option for 3D lines.
Added: Menu Frame can now have a 3D effect.
Added: Menu Scroll buttons can now also be transparent.
Added: Wallpaper support for Load/Save Themes.
Changed: The controls in the background section of the titlebar and
menu tabs now get enabled/disabled instead of visible/invisible.
Changed: Tasklist background type initial default to Solid and icon
size to 32x32.
Changed: Method used to convert menu items to Misc.case. Old method
converted 'Caeser III' to 'Caeser Iii", for instance.
Fixed: Painting problem with Pull-up menus under certain circumstances.
Fixed: Menus being scrolled through the keyboard not painting correctly
( again! ).
Fixed: Transparent menus no longer flicker on and off when switching
between active and inactive.
Fixed: The theme Author in now displayed in the author box as the user
browses themes in the Themes Tab.
Fixed: The Inactive color on solid color menus was not being applied.
Fixed: Scroll buttons were not being correctly painted on transparent
or solid color menus.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.56
Added: Option to have a transparent background to the buttons in the
tasklist.
Added: Online Credit card order HTML link is now working.
Changed: Menu Title and Scroll Buttons painting code.
Fixed: The background of NewStyle and bitmapped ico titlebar buttons
would not paint correctly if the titlebar position was set to be at
the bottom of the menu.
Fixed: When importing a theme from zip and there was an error, NextSTART
would display a dialog box showing nothing but an error code. Removed.
Fixed: Buttons not being correctly repainted when scrolling a menu up or
down using the keyboard.
Fixed: Bug where all Newstyle titlebar buttons would show up as 'X's
( close buttons ).
Fixed: Menu Themes were not being automatically applied when loaded.
Fixed: Bug with Theme Sound paths not being correctly imported.
Fixed: Possibly (?) fixed random problem with some controls not being
re-painted correctly on the following tabs: Titlebar, Buttons and Hotspots.
Fixed: Bug with sounds not playing after being set in the prefs. screen.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.55
Added: License enforcement code.
Added: Shareware Nag screen (starts showing up only at end of shareware period).
Added: License Key Registration code.
Added: Register Tab.
Added: Toggle sub-menus option in Menu preferences tab. Controls
what happens when the user clicks on a button leading to a sub-menu
that is already open. If this option is on the sub-menu closes.
Added: 'Push-in 3D Buttons' option in Tasklist & Systray tab.
Added: 'Enable NS Tasklist Management at startup' to Tasklist & Systray tab.
Added: 'Don't Show' option to Tasklist and Systray position pull up menus.
Added: Functionality to (More) on top option.
Added: Maximum number of items to display in folder menus to Menu
preferences tab.
Added: Underline type of command key.
Added: Extra padding to the right of the menu when command key symbols
are used.
Added: Preference tabs load a bit faster now.
Changed: Menu Preferences tab layout.
Changed: Tasklist & Systray tab layout.
Changed: Renamed 'General Preferences' to 'Global Preferences'.
Changed: Renamed 'Run Command' to 'Run Internal Command' in ME and
Hotspots tab.
Changed: Removed some superfluous code.
Changed: Optimized button printing code.
Changed: Pre-set constants for menu animation delays.
Changed: The color used for flat arrows and the Apple command key
symbol is now dependent on the luminosity value of the text color.
Fixed: Bug where the menu might get garbled when scrolling due to
excessive icon caching.
Fixed: Bug where a menu might not repaint correctly if it was scrolled
with the keyboard.
Fixed: Apple command key symbol was reversing the colors that it
should use.
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Build 2.0.54
Added: Command Key Symbols and Command Key Symbol bitmap support.
Added: Active/Inactive support for menu and titlebar bitmaps.
Added: Bitmap Arrow symbols (Sub-Menus, Scroll Up/Down ) support.
Added: Menu icons are now cached by NS once displayed for the first
time. Altough initial menu display speed remains the same, this
technique more than doubles scrolling speed for transparent menus
and menus with bitmaps or gradients applied to the whole menu.
Added: Menu Transparency.
Added: 'To Menu' checkbox for bitmaps. Bitmaps can now be applied to
the whole menu.
Changed: Switched 'Bitmaps' tab button with 'Titlebar'.
Changed: All 'Taskbar' references to 'Tasklist'.
Changed: The 'Tile Bitmap' checkbox in the background areas is now
only visible if 'Bitmaps' is selected.
Changed: Method used to draw the Selection Bar. No more speed problems.
Fixed: Most important sizing issues for systems running with large
fonts enabled.
Fixed: Scroll up that got broken in the previous build.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.53
Added: Active/Inactive menu function is now implemented.
Added: Individual icons associated to most of the internal commands.
Added: Ability to display icons that are part of an EXE or DLL library
on the menus by typing a comma and the icon index # after the filename.
Added: Any error codes returned when an item fails to execute are now
displayed as plain text error messages.
Added: Selection bar now disappears if the mouse is moved off the menu
and sel bar follow mouse is on.
Added: If the user clicks and holds a mouse button over a menu item,
and then moves the mouse off the menu before releasing the button, that
item is no longer executed. This allows users to change their minds
about executing an item.
Added: If the user clicks and holds a mouse button over a menu item and
then moves the pointer up or down, the buttons under the mouse path get
the pressed down look.
Changed: Method used to draw the menus. Animations are now much faster
with large menus, display of large folders is now uncomparably faster
and selection bar also responds faster when 'follow mouse' is on.
Fixed: Bug that would prevent NextSTART from successfuly converting
paths for theme sound files when importing themes from zip.
Fixed: Pressing a menu hotkey that conflicted with an hotspot hotkey
could crash NextSTART.
Fixed: NextSTART could crash with an error 9 if the user clicked on a
menu button and then moved the mouse upwards and off the menu before
releasing the mouse button.
Fixed: NextSTART would crash with a Modall error if the user clicked on
an hotspot or tried to access preferences while the introduction
window was on screen.
Fixed: Enable/Disable NS Tasklist management now works properly.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.52
Added: Titlebar buttons can now use bitmaps.
Added: Themes can now be imported from Zip.
Added: Typing a path in the File/Folder browser and then pressing
the enter key now makes the browser jump to that folder.
Added: When saving a theme any WAV/MIDI and Titlebar button bitmap files
used in the theme are now automatically copied to the theme's folder.
Changed: When changing a UDI EXE filename in the taskbar prefs screen,
the iconpath is no longer automatically changed.
Fixed: Small problem with the size of the Browse icon in the Bitmaps tab.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.51
Added: Option to draw the button 3D border or not when tasklist is
in button style.
Added: Option to Show Tooltips for Tasknames or not.
Added: User defined icons in the tasklist can now be applied to EXE
filenames besides window captions.
Added: Tooltips to all graphical buttons / checkboxes in preferences.
Added: 'Show Tooltips' option to General Preferences tab.
Added: Explode menu animation.
Changed: When editing a Menu type item in the Menu Editor, the sub-menu
name can now be obtained from a drop-down combo box.
Changed: Revamped menu animations by using a different method.
Changed: Replaced Browse button in the bitmaps tab with a graphical
style button.
Fixed: Adding a new menu in the Menu Editor would change the name of
the first existing menu.
Fixed: In some tabs NextSTART was not correctly displaying checkboxes
as being currently selected.
Fixed: The Exit option in the pop-up menu of NextSTART's icon in the
Systray wasn't working properly.
Fixed: Error 9 when double-clicking a folder item and the menu animation
was on.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.48
Changed: The background of the Desktop Tasklist icons is now really
transparent when in icon mode thanks to the new Tasklist OCX control.
Changed: Improved file retrieval eficiency of the file/folder browsers.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.47
Added: When saving a theme any bitmap files used in the theme are
now automatically copied to the theme's folder.
Fixed: Annoying bug with VB that prevented scrollbars from being
enabled or disabled as needed in the file / folder browsers.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.43
Added: Double-clicking on an item in the File or Folder Browsers
will now select that item and exit as if the user had pressed Ok.
Added: MIDI file playback to menu Sound Fx.
Fixed: Bug in wich sub-menu pointers in the Menu Editor would not
be correctly updated when moving items up and down in the menu.
Fixed: Minor issue with tasklist that might display MS-DOS window
icons in 16x16 mode with the icon of the application ( if any )
associated to MOD files ( that would be WinAMP usually ).
--------------------------
Build 2.0.42
Added: Three new internal commands 'Enable NS Task Management',
'Disable NS Task Management' and 'Enable/Disable NS Task Management'.
Added: Improved Slide Right and Slide Down menu animations.
Added: Tooltip for the 'WinStep2000 Web site' button on the About tab.
Added: Tooltips to the Preference tab icons at the top.
Added: The taskbar is now automatically hidden when the systray is
placed on the desktop.
Added: NextSTART now constantly monitors the Systray size and position
when this has been moved to the desktop. If Windows changes the systray
position, NextSTART moves it back to where it should be.
Added: When NextSTART exits, the Desktop icons and Taskbar are shown if
they were hidden and the Systray is placed back on the taskbar.
Added: 48x48 icons are now displayed correctly in the desktop tasklist
provided that 1) the system is running with large icons enabled OR
2) a 48x48 icon file (.ico) is provided as a user defined icon for a
tasklist item.
Added: Implemented functionality to the 'Find Computer' internal
command.
Changed: File and Folder Browser speed GREATLY improved.
Fixed: The Tasklist doesn't display superfuluous tasks anymore.
Fixed: Error when exiting NextSTART through a 'Exit NextSTART' internal
command located on a sub-menu.
Fixed: Menus now display large icons as 32x32 icons even on systems with
large icons enabled.
Fixed: Selection Bar was not disappearing after the user clicked on
a command.
Fixed: Menus would not stay open if the user clicked on a command while
holding the CTRL key.
Fixed: Tasklist would not recognize mouse clicks when placed vertically.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.40
Added: 'Show Systray on Desktop' now automatically hides the
taskbar window.
Added: Internal command 'WindowBlinds properties' to access the
WindowBlinds Control Panel applet.
Added: Bumping a screen edge or corner now only makes a menu
pop-up if no mouse button key is being pressed at the time.
Added: Bitmap backgrounds for tasklist buttons. Put a 'Tasks.bmp' in
your bitmaps folder and select bitmaps in the Tasklist&Systray prefs..
Fixed: Error 9 with animated menus (?).
Fixed: Transparent background of tasklist now displays properly
even if the tasklist is positioned on the right side of the screen.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.39
Added: The tasklist icons now correctly stay on the same position
as windows are moved into the foreground and vice-versa. Also new
tasks are also always added to the end of the tasklist.
Added: User specified icons can now be displayed instead of the
usual icon used to display a running task on the tasklist.
Added: Icons on the tasklist can now be 16x16, 32x32 or 48x48 in size.
Added: The Tasklist can now be displayed anywhere on the desktop,
in a vertical or horizontal row of icons or buttons. Tasklist
buttons can have solid, gradient or bitmap backgrounds.
Added: The Systray can now be displayed anywhere on the desktop.
Added: New Taskbar & Systray tab to preferences screen.
Fixed: NextSTART would crash with an error if the bitmaps folder path
ended with the "\" character.
Fixed: Deleting an Hotspot now correctly updates the hotspot startup
list.
Fixed: Serious bug in which if the [NEXTSTART] section in WINSTEP.INI
exceeded 4096 bytes, certain initial configuration parameters would be
ignored.
Fixed: The Systray window on the desktop no longer disappears if the
user runs the Hide Desktop Icons internal command.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.38
Added:Left clicking on an icon of the desktop tasklist brings the
associated window to the front. Right clicking it minimizes the window.
Added: Two internal commands, Show Systray on Desktop and Show Systray on
Taskbar which enable the user to place the systray on the desktop itself.
Added: Two internal commands, Show Tasklist on Desktop and Remove Tasklist
from Desktop. NextSTART can now place the list of running tasks as small
icons on the bottom left corner of the screen. Moving the mouse over one
of this icons pops up a tooltip with the name of the program.
Fixed: NextSTART now updates automatically the Tasklist menu if there is
a change on the caption bar of the windows running ( good for monitoring
download percentages etc... ).
Fixed: NextSTART would crash if no menus had been created and the user
selected Show Menu on an Hotspot action tab.
Fixed: Problem in which clicking on a pull up menu to inspect it's
contents would clear the folder path box next to it in the hotspots tab.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.36
Changed: About Screen.
Added: Button to connect to the Internet and the WinSTEP2000 page
in the About tab.
Added: Beta expiracy code.
Added: Code to run Hotspots on startup.
Added: Menu Animations.
Changed: Icons used for the delay clocks.
Added: If no icons are defined for items leading to menus or
internal commands, NextSTART uses it's own application icon
for these items.
Added: Play Sound icon to Sound & Animation tab.
Added: New File Browser in the same lines of the Folder Browser.
Added: User definable delay between bumping on a screen edge or
corner and a menu dropping down ( helps with accidental edge bumps)
Added: Animations and Sounds can now be disabled for all themes
in the general tab even if the theme supports sound and animation.
Added: User can now define certain hotspots to be run on startup.
Added: User can now define what right, middle and double-clicks on
the titlebar do.
Changed: General tab layout.
Added: The type of icons used in the Folder and File Browsers are
now remembered between sessions.
Added: Sound and Animation tab. Certain menu actions can now be
associated to sounds, and menus can be made to open in animated
ways.
Added: New Themes tab. Themes are now automatically saved in their
own folders under THEMES\, but can still be loaded from individual
*.wst files in the themes folder itself.
Added: Hotspots can now be used to run commands and programs as well.
Added: For 'Run Program' item types, the options Working folder,
Arguments and Run State are now working.
Fixed: If loading a theme with no titlebar after running a theme with
buttons, these last would show up on the new menus.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.32
Changed: Limited command keys in menu items of the Menu Editor to
one single character.
Added: Upper case command keys.
Added: Correct titlebar alignment for menus with inverted titlebars
( titlebar at the bottom of the menu ).
Added: Letter case options now work for all menus.
Added: All titlebar button options work now ( Don't Show, All Menus,
Detached and Parent ).
Changed: Optimized some of the core code.
Fixed: Problem with titlebar text which, under certain conditions, might
overlap new style buttons.
Fixed: Wrong titlebar position when a menu with scrollbuttons was rolled up.
Fixed: Menus of predefined Menu Type wouldn't be wide enough if they had no
command keys.
Fixed: NextSTART giving focus to all menus on screen when opening a
new menu.
Fixed: Bumps on the right or bottom edge of the screen not working.
Fixed: Broken 'Show NextSTART preferences' internal command.
Fixed: Flicker on titlebar when applying changes to the menu.
Fixed: Bug that would prevent items from being accessed when the menu was
scrolled down.
Fixed: Bug that would crash NextSTART if a hotkey was assigned to an
hotspot.
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Build 2.0.31
Added: Per hotspot option if menus are always open or not.
Added: Parent menus can now be left open and operational while using
the preferences screen.
Added: New ways to invoke hotspots by bumping screen edges and corners.
Added: Groups to Hotspots.
Added: Multiple individual/detachable menus.
Added: Hotspot hot key recognition.
Added: Left/Middle/Right mouse button distinction for hotspots.
Changed: Hotspot tab organization.
Fixed: Problem with NextSTART help internal command that prevented the
help window from being used properly.
Fixed: Bug that prevented icons from being displayed in a tasklist menu
under NT.
Fixed: Titlebar not getting correctly updated when the width of the
tasklist menu changed.
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Build 2.0.29
Added: Tasklist Menu item to ME. Clicking on an item of a Tasklist menu will
bring that item forward. Still not perfect but it works.
Added: Show Desktop internal command.
Added: Hide Desktop internal command.
Added: Show Taskbar internal command.
Added: Hide Taskbar internal command.
Added: Right click property pages for folder items and programs.
Changed: Acessing large folders should be a bit faster now.
Fixed: Roll-up bug introduced in the previous version.
Fixed: NT drive letter problem with Eject Drive command.
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Build 2.0.28
Added: Eject any removable drive internal command ( Windows NT only - not tested ).
Added: Basic functionality to the Title Position On Top/Bottom buttons on the
titlebar tab.
Added: Show Desktop Folder internal command.
Added: Connect to the Internet internal command.
Added: Show Network Neighbourhood internal command.
Added: Show My Computer internal command.
Added: Hide/Show Desktop icons internal command.
Added: Restore All Windows internal command.
Added: Close button to titlebar of the Browse Folder window.
Changed: Corrected spell of internal 'Disconect Modem' to 'Disconnect Modem"
Changed: Pressing the close button in the titlebar of the Font Browser window
is now the same as pressing the Cancel button.
Fix: NextSTART no longer adds "\" to the end of a 'Run Program' path in Hotspots.
Fix: NextSTART no longer lets menus display with negative top left coordinates.
Fix: NextSTART now handles deleting the current hotspot correctly.
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Build 2.0.27
Fix: NextSTART now clears the Program/Folder name text box when changing
associated item types in an Hotspot.
Fix: Bug in the Folder Browser that would crash NextSTART if an invalid
folder was given.
Fix: Fixed problem in which the title of any menu or folder associated to
Hotspot 0 would revert to 'Applications' if 'first menu name' was left blank.
Fix: Fixed bug displaying folder menus in which sub-menus would appear empty.
Changed: Reversed Ok and Cancel buttons in the Folder Browser.
Changed: 'Log Out' and 'Quick Log Out' internal commands to 'Log Off' and
'Quick Log Off'.
Added: Pressing the 'Home' button in the Folder Browser reverts to the initial
directory.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.26
Should have fixed problem with incompatible versions of SHDOCVW.DLL
when displaying the Help file ( again! ).
--------------------------
Build 2.0.23
Added 'Close CD-ROM door' internal command.
Changed 'Log Out' to 'Quick Log Off' and added 'Log Off' internal
command that asks for confirmation.
Added the NeXT style Folder Browser component.
Fixed bug with paths that would prevent icons in folder menus from
being displayed.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.22
Fixed cosmetic bug with the left 3D highlight of the titlebar
disappearing with Newstyle buttons.
Fixed problem with incompatible versions of SHDOCVW.DLL when
displaying the Help file.
Fixed crash after using an internal command in a sub-menu to display
NextSTART's preferences screen.
--------------------------
Build 2.0.21
Added support for the following internal commands:
Run
Find Files
Logoff
Quick Restart Windows
Exit NextSTART
Hide/Show Taskbar
NextSTART Preferences
NextSTART Help
Restart Windows
Eject CD-ROM
Start Screen-Saver
Minimize All Windows
Show Start Menu
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Fixed problem with some folder paths not ending in "\".
Fixed AutoDropDown not working with pre-defined menus.
Fixed problem with Preview button.
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Build 2.0.20
Fixed bug in which NextSTART exited with an error when browsing a
floppy drive with no diskette in it.
Implemented the 'Show Folders at' option in the Menu preferences tab.
Implemented the 'Show files of type' option in the Menu Editor for folder submenus.
Implemented the second folder path specified in the Menu Editor for folder submenus.
Sub-Menus and Sub-Folders now get their name from the previous menu item and not from the menu
name or pathname itself.
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Build 2.0.19
NextSTART can now associate Hotspots to Menu structures defined in
the menu editor.
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Build 2.0.18
Added time limit to beta versions.
Totaly remodeled Hotspots tab.
Changed Select App. method in the hotspots tab.
Added Folder properties window to 'Folder' items in the Menu Editor.
Added Menu properties window to the Menu Editor.
Added Full list of internal commands w/code required to run them.
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Build 2.0.17
Files can now be dragged from an Explorer window and dropped into one of
the two panels of the menu editor.
Added properties window to 'Run Program' items.
Fixed bug in the Menu Editor in which the panel on the right would not be
cleared if the user selected an item pointing to a menu not yet defined.
Added cut-down list of internal commands to the Menu Editor.
The Command Pull Down Menu of the Menu Editor now automaticaly gives focus to
the Filename text box when clicked on.
Clicking on the Icon path Browse button in the Menu Editor now uses the path
stored in the Icon Path text box, if any, by default.
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Build 2.0.13
Added: Menu structures are now saved.
Added: Menu Panels and scroll bar are now working.
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Build 2.0.12
Added: Basic functionality to the menu editor.
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Build 2.0.11
Fix: Fixed issue with some virtual desktop utilities in which NextSTART's blank
control window would become visible after exiting the utility.
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Build 2.0.10
Change: Improved the overal 3D effects of the Newstyle buttons.
Fix: Fixed missing pixel line when menu was rolled up.
Fix: Fixed selection bar on previous menu not disapearing when sub-menu was closed with the close button.
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Build 2.0.9
Fix: Double-clicking by mistake on titlebar buttons no longer brings up the preferences window.
Added functionality to Roll Up button.
Added functionality to Always On Top button
Changed Arrow and Command Symbol style bitmaps.
Changed Titlebar redraw routine: Faster now for multiple redraws.
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Build 2.0.8
Added: Menus now display all buttons ( close, roll up, rotate and always on top )
Added: Implemented titlebar buttons positioning code.
Changed: Blink speed that was too fast.
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Build 2.0.7
Changed: Various bitmaps in the Preferences screen.
Fix: Bug in the font browser which would not correctly get the font size.
Fix: Bug with NewStyle buttons that would display the wrong background when pressed on menus with scroll buttons.
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Build 2.0.4
Added: Ability to strech and tile bitmaps in buttons and titlebars.
Added: Ability for menus to display the Close button in NeXTStyle or NewStyle
Changed: Selection Bar blink is now faster.
Fix: Fixed bug in which, with Sel Bar Blink on, the selection bar would stay on the button after selecting an item.
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Build 2.0.3
Added: Implemented ability to use bitmaps for buttons and titlebars.
Totaly changed preferences display method to avoid a 20% drop in resources due to the over one hundred controls that existed in it.
Added: Text in the titlebar and buttons can now be displayed as it is originaly, in upper-case or in mixed case.
Added: Implemented wrap option in gradient.
Changed: Improved diagonal gradient algorithm.
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Build 2.0.2
Added save/load support for all new options.
Added Selection Bar blink.
Added definable menu scrolling speed.
Added Vertical and Diagonal gradients, applied to individual buttons or the whole menu.