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F L E X C A T
========================================================================
The ultimate catalog processor and source generator
by Jochen Wiedmann and Marcin Orlowski
e-mail: carlos@amiga.com.pl WWW: http://amiga.com.pl/flexcat/
========================================================================
* v2.0 (25.02.98) - Unfortunately, 2.0 does not meanw break thru
technologies implemented here. It is just the next
version numer FlexCat should have...
Added a workaround for problems some people may
encounter while creating catalogs for languages
with corrupted converstion table (part of #?.language
file). FlexCat uses utility.library function to convert
##language name to lowercase, which leads to
wrong strings with e.g. czech environment.
Use NOLANGTOLOWER (CLI and prefs) to tell FlexCat
to not to lowercase the name (but remember to keep
it lowercased manually!).
FlexCat now uses buffered IO operations.
That may increase the overall speed of FlexCat,
however it's not the must, so you can use
NOBUFFEREDIO switch to fall back to previous
poll mode. Please test the overall performance,
and tell me the results. The IO buffer is now
2048 bytes large.
While creating new #?.ct file FlexCat puts contents
of Language system variable if possible as the
#langauge argument.
Fixed bug causing random memory writes under
some, but very rare, circumstances.
ARexx.sd source descriptor added thanks to
Kai Norhausen <kn@tribal.line.org>
Users' stuff added. Look at the contents of
the "Contribution" drawer!
Renumbered the version of catalog files. Most
recent catalog version is 2.0. Older and outdated
are 1.x.
French catalog updated. Thanks to Julien `GiZmO' Wilk
<wilkj@esiee.fr>
Finnish translation updated by Mika Lundell
<c71829@uwasa.fi>
Nederlans translation by Leon Woestenberg
<leon@stack.nl>
Norsk translation thanks to Eivind Olsen
<eivindo@bgnett.no>
Italian catalog updated by Luca Nora
<ln546991@silab.dsi.unimi.it> and Giovanni
Addabbo <gaddabbo@imar.it>
Portugese translation updated by Frederico
Borges <famb@mail.telepac.pt> and
Alexandre Gabriel <chryse@mail.telepac.pt>
The new spanish translation by Marcos Broc
<amiga187@arrakis.es> and Samuel Aguilera
<slyguy@mx2.redestb.es>
Croatian translation by Mladen Ili¹inoviæ
<milisino@jagor.srce.hr>
* V1.9 (01.08.97) - Now you can use special $TODAY attribute
in your $VER string. While creating catalog,
$TODAY will be replaced by current date (note,
only 1st occurance will be processed). If you
want your version strings to always be recent
dated type: $VER: FlexCat.catalog 3.0 ($TODAY)
NOTE: This string is CASESENSITIVE!
FlexCat preferences added. To define your own
defaults, set the environmental variable
"flexcat.prefs" with the contents matching
following template: "SDDIR/K,MSG_NEW/K,
WARNCTGAPS/S,NOOPTIM/S,FILL/S,FLUSH/S,NOBEEP/S,
QUIET/S". Note FlexCat is using ReadArgs()
to parse the preferences, thus place all the
items in one line.
If you use FlexCat for #?.ct updating, you
probably were missing any additional markers
to let you easily find the new strings. Now
you get them. By default the "***NEW***",
is used, but you may configure it using
FlexCat preferences.
QUIET switch used to suppress error messages.
Fixed.
New C source descriptor Cat2h_?.sd. Read
the manual or Lib/Cat2h.readme for more
information.
Version of updated catalogs bumped to 2.5
Portugese translation of program catalog, thanks
to Frederico Borges <famb@mail.telepac.pt> and
Alexandre Gabriel <chryse@mail.telepac.pt>
Swedish translation of FlexCat manual,
thanks to Magnus Holmgren <lear@algonet.se>
Spanish translation reworked by
Marcos Broc <amiga187@arrakis.es> and
Samuel Aguilera <slyguy92@arrakis.es>
Now FlexCat does DisplayBeep() when any error
or warning happen (but don't worry, it's smart
enough, so you won't experience any Beep() bombing ;).
By using NOBEEP switch you can shut it up.
Previous releases had problems with comment lines
ending with \'s, which made FlexCat think it's multiline
string. Now it is not as dumb to get fooled any longer.
You can now use octal, decimal and hexadecimal
(e.g 0x20) digits for all FlexCat digital arguments
(like ##version) as well as for (ID/MIN/MAX),
##codeset and others.
FLUSH switch added. By using it all unused
catalogs (but also libraries, fonts, devices etc) will
be flushed from memory, whenever new catalog is
written. So note: FLUSH works only with CATALOG switch
(it means while compiling new catalog).
New C source descriptors: catcomp_h.sd creates
source (almost) identical to CatComp's ones, but
expanded for multicatalog support. With this
descriptor you can handle more than one catalog
in your program harmless. NOTE: for compatibility
reasons, other descriptors remain unchanged (however
additional, multicatalog versions may appear
in next release).
FlexCat does not accept empty ##language argument
any longer.
FILL switch. This feature is highly useful for the
translators, and probably for them only. Normally,
when you're working on the new translation, some
of the strings remains untranslated due the work
is just in progress. Unfortunately all catalog
tools write all these empty strings into the catalog
file, which will cause empty buttons, menus or simmilar
things to appear whenever you check your unfinished
translation with the program, which isn't nice effect.
Using FILL you may force FlexCat to ignore all empty
translations (strings from #?.ct file) and in