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!TCPIP Version 2.00f
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Fixes
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Broken link in terminal list
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A very minor bug, only noticed it when finder menu added (see below)
Inconsistant command echo attribute
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Text entered into the command box with local echo enabled is now allway
echoed in the Line Mode entry colour, regardless of whether line mode is
active.
Inconstancy between title flags and terminal switches
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Use of "W" in terminal options and title flags was inconsistant. This
has been changed as follows:
Terminal command switch "W" now controls cursor wrap on/off
Terminal command switch "B" now controls command box on/off
Terminal window flag "W" was allways a cursor wrap indicator anyway.
Changes
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Popup, user defined command menus
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At last these are in, if only in a simplified form. The current
implementation allows only for single level menus, (not hierachial) and
only allows whole commands rather than partials.
The menu file format is decribed in "notes.menus" along with examples.
A new command @<name> has been added to the terminal options to allow
for specifying the macro set attached to the popup menu button in the
command header.
Macro sets are kept in directory !TCPIP.menus. Currently the list of
macros is only read when !TCPIP is initially run.
Windows open in same place
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Terminal window creation has been changed so that windows now open
on a staggered y,x matrix. The position a size of the matrix is based
upon fitting standard 80 x 24 terminal window with command header into
the current wimp mode size.
The effect should be that until the matrix wraps around to its starting point,
all window title bars are accessable, even if not fully visible. In mode 39
this wrap around is after 24 windows.
Finding windows
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One of the problems of internet sessions in windows is that you can
easily become swamped with lots of windows on a small screen. This was
particularly a problem when windows opened in the same place.
My original thought was to provide a hot key (eg CTRL+TAB) to cycle
through the windows, bringing each to the front in turn. This has a
small drawback in that either a general hot key grabber has to be
created (which might interfere with other apps using the same the
key-press combination themselves) or that when a non-input window was
pulled, the keypress would cease to work due to !TCPIP no longer having
the input focus.
This could be alleviated by allowing non-input windows to gain focus
only for control functions rather than user input (for eg, F11 [HOLD]
would be appropriate to pause/continue a replay)
Until this problem is resolved, I have decided to add a new "Finder"
sub-menu to the terminal menus which leads to a menu of created window
titles. Choosing one of these will bring the chosen window to the front.
While some window titles are somewhat useless (eg Telnet from
[xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]), this should at least be helpful in extracting a
required window quickly.
Note: As this is a menu of raw window titles (makes quite a saving a
memory useage) you get the window flag indicators as well.