Bila Vrana/BILA_VRANA.iso/004A/MCB22.ZIP/REVISION.MCB

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MCBase revision history list:

Nov. 23rd, '95    Updated version 2.1 to 2.2: a new release.
                  The "Browse for ..." picklists in the Protected Mode
                  version (MCB_X86P.EXE on your MCBase Master Disk) are now
                  controlled and loaded by index, instead of filtering the
                  entire database set for the matching data. On larger
                  databases, this results in a tremendous improvement on
                  data access time.
                  Due to memory shortage, this approach cannot be imple-
                  mented in the MCB_XT and MCB_AT executables.

                  Note: MCB_XT is a version for (fast) XT-systems, MCB_AT
                        is a version for AT-systems with less than 2Mb RAM
                        memory on board).

                  Also solved a problem with the picklists eventhandler,
                  that appeared to be unable to handle some special keys
                  while focusing on the picklist contents.

Nov. 6t, '95      Updated version 2.0a to 2.1: a new release.
                  Due to modifications in the default behaviour of the
                  dBase access routine library (HALCYON, by Griffin Soluti-
                  ons), the FIND dialog would no longer position itself at
                  the nearest match, when an exact match could not be
                  found, but positioned itself at the end of file instead.
                  The FIND dialog is now restored to it's documented beha-
                  viour: to position itself at the NEAREST MATCH, when an
                  exact match in not found.

                  Apart from the above, the default file search mask for
                  the editor object has been changed from "*.*" to "*.TXT".

                  Also an additional button has been added to the Browse
                  dialog, called "Song edit mode", that enables a direct
                  connection between the "Browse a song" dialog and the
                  "Edit/add a song" dialog. This allows you to switch
                  freely between browse and editing functions on song
                  record level, while carrying the currently browsed song
                  with you to it's edit dialog. This is very helpful, while
                  editing songs that are related to each other in some way:
                  once they are collected in a browse option's picklist,
                  editing is just a mouseclick away.

                  Unfortunately, the layout of the configuration file
                  MCBASE.CFG needed to be changed, in order to further
                  accomodate the ability to store desktop objects in the
                  configuration file. The user will therefor need to create
                  a new configuration file.

                  Then there also were some minor modifications.


Oct. 10th, '95    Updated version 2.0 to 2.0a: a maintenance release.
                  Minor modifications to the PACK routines, the picklist -
                  dialogs and the documentation.

                  Added hotkeys to the memo selection dialogs, used by the
                  various "Browse..." options.

                  Added a routine to check (the first appearance of an)
                  "FILES=xx" setting in CONFIG.SYS. If the setting is found
                  to be to low, you will be notified about this, after
                  which MCBase terminates operation. (If MCBase is UNABLE
                  to locate your CONFIG.SYS file, you will receive a war-
                  ning message about this, after which MCBase will continue
                  operation).


Aug. 17th, '95    MAJOR NEW RELEASE.
                  Release of the new MCBase V2.0: a fully event driven,
                  mouse controlled, object oriented, dBaseIII+ compatible,
                  relational-to-the-max, windowing database management
                  system, with handy dialogs, to set your personal configu-
                  ration preferences. The only REAL database system for the
                  music collector.


July 10th, '95    Updated version 1.1f to 1.1g: a maintenance release.
                  Modifications to registration key recognition routine.
                  Registration was recognized, but the databases evaluation
                  limits weren't correctly unlocked.


Mar. 22nd, '95    Updated version 1.1e to 1.1f: Documentation updates (and
                  program changes, see below). Added a new VendInfo record,
                  according to the latest standard, in order to comply with
                  the new set-up for the ASP CD-rom distribution.

                  Added a (file based) registration key system to MCBase.
                  This will enable a registered user, with a valid regist-
                  ration key, to turn any V1.x shareware copy into a per-
                  sonally registered version: MBase will look for the
                  excistence of the registration key file and will present
                  itself as a registered version *if* the registration key
                  is found to be valid. (If not, it will continue to behave
                  as a shareware copy).

                  Also added a small (set of) sample database(s), so that
                  the user will be able to "play around" with the system,
                  without having to enter data first.


May 25th, '94:    Updated version 1.1d to 1.1e: Documentation updates (and
                  program changes, see below). Added a VendInfo record to
                  the documentation and modified the distribution-policy to
                  be more "friendly".

                  Also added a possibility to accept credit card orders,
                  using PsL's order processing services.

                  Finally, I removed the encryption on MCBase's executable
                  code. As it seems, some computers COULD have had trouble
                  running MCBase because of this encryption.


Mar. 22nd, '94:   Updated version 1.1c to 1.1d: Documentation updates (and
                  small program changes) in order to comply with ASP requi-
                  rements.


Mar. 14th, '94:   Updated version 1.1b to 1.1c: Corrected a SERIOUS error
                  in the documentation, discribing the locationcode.

                  For tapes, the first 5 (!) digits of the (12 digit)
                  locationcode are reserved for the actual tape number,
                  instead of the discribed 2 digits. (The screen report for
                  tapes is scanning for the first 5 digits, to find the
                  first and last entry belonging to a certain tape). See
                  the updated section 8 in the documentation for further
                  information.

                  Also elimitated a possible GP-error in the protected mode
                  version.


Mar. 5th, '94:    Updated version 1.1a to 1.1b: Modified all "Add" functi-
                  ons, to stay active until the user decides that he/she is
                  done. (Artist and Album "Add" fuctions were left after
                  adding 1 entry. This was based on the idea that one would
                  process the data one album at a time).

                  Eliminated the possible occurance of an "error 100:
                  Record out of range" while printing the reports. (It
                  could occur under certain circumstances).

                  Eliminated a possible counting error in the "Artist
                  overview"-report.

                  Also made some minor modifications.


Jan. 7th, '94:    Updated version 1.1 to 1.1a: As mentioned in the documen-
                  tation of the previous versions (in section "Future
                  plans"), the processing speed of printer option "Songs by
                  artist" needed to be increased.
                  In this u