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- NEWZAP Modification History
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-
- REV 2.85:
- Lock problem (hopefully) cleared up.
-
- REV 2.9:
- The search string gadget self-activates (1.2 & later).
- Busy pointer displayed during searches.
- Recompiled under Aztec 3.4a.
-
- REV 3.0: (as distributed on Fish Disk #58)
-
- Filespec gadget now scrolls for long filenames.
-
- By public demand, NewZAP is now customizable regarding all text colors
- and highlighting. There are six pens used by NewZAP :
-
- NAME DEFAULT COLOR PURPOSE
-
- BgPen 0 Reserved
- StdPen 3 Border Information
- HexPen 2 Edit Window text
- ModPen 1 Edit Window modifications
- SearchPen 3 Search highlighting
-
- Use NewZAP on a backup copy of itself and Search for the following string :
-
- "Default="
-
- The entire string should be visible in the ASCII window :
- "PENCOLORS->03213 [Default=03213]"
-
- Modify the numbers after the "-> to your choice of WorkBench preferences;
- on a standard WorkBench screen, those colors are : Blue (0), White (1),
- Black (2) and gold (3). The pen numbers are in the order mentioned above.
- Save your changes to disk, and they will be reflected the next time you
- run your modified copy of NewZAP.
-
- REV 3.1:
- "GOTO" gadget now has a menu shortcut; now EVERYTHING has a keyboard and
- menu equivalent! This feature requires 1.2 or later KickStart.
-
- REV 3.15:
- Corrected an obscure error where user could force NewZAP to attempt more
- than one help requester at the same time. Distributed to recent subscribers.
- Recompiled using short int's.
-
- REV 3.17:
- By popular demand : "NewZAP ?" now prints a CLI-style help note.
- All resource allocations now properly checked and cleaned up.
-
- REV 3.18:
- "NewCLI" Project menuitem added.
-
- REV 3.19:
- NewZAP now prints diagnostics when it exits due to resource allocation
- failures. Checks for 60-character wide Preferences upon powerup and
- aborts if so. Cleared up an old signed-int comparison problem that
- for some reason actually WORKED under Aztec 3.4 and earlier.
- Recompiled under Aztec 3.60a, 16-bit mode. Redrew the NewZAP lightning
- bolt icon to reflect the colors originally intended.
-
- REV 3.20:
- Redrew (and polished) the Help requester to reflect my current address:
- 3665 Benton St, #23/Santa Clara, Ca. 95051
-
- REV 3.21 :
- Fixed an old bug that converted the " char to ' in ASCII mode.
-
- REV 3.24 :
- Finally got around to supporting user requests for "search wrap"; i.e.,
- if a entire body of a Search String spans from the current sector to the
- beginning of the next, NewZAP will now be able to find it highlighting
- those bytes displayable in the sector where the string begins. Searches
- do not wrap around to the beginning of the file, however.
-
- Switching case dependency from ON to OFF now forces NewZAP to include the
- current sector when searching to check for any previously-hidden matches.
-
- Increased the maximum Search String length from 30 to a full 64 characters.
-
- New Item added to the Project Menu : "Print Current Sector". This
- dumps a copy of the current sector to PRT:. As not all printers are
- wide-carriage, the dump format (16 x 32) is suitable for 80-column
- printers. Non-printable characters (<20H) are printed as periods.
- The corresponding hot key for this is left-Amiga-P (for Print).
-
- NewZAP now automatically selects the Filename gadget if it was invoked
- without a filename.
-
- NewZAP now handles the display of empty files & unopenable files more
- gracefully. If the first file NewZAP attempts to open fails, the
- edit windows are blank. If the file was empty, the emptiness of
- the file is reflected by a full sector of EOF chars. As before, an
- attempt at loading an unsuccessful file will not disturb the current
- file - only a 'beep' will occur, and the original filename restored.
-
- NewZAP has a new look. The standard colors have been redone for greater
- clarity, and the pen colors are now more user-modifiable then ever!
- They are :
-
- NAME DEFAULT COLOR PURPOSE
-
- StdPen 3 Border Information, Foreground
- BgPen 0 Border Information, Background
- HexPen 1 Edit Window, Foreground
- HexBgPen 2 Edit Window, Background
- ModPen 3 Edit Window mods, Foreground
- ModBgPen 2 Edit Window mods, Background
- SearchPen 1 Edit Window Searches, Fore
- SearchBgPen 0 Edit Window Searches, Back
-
- On a standard WB pallette, 0=blue, 1=white, 2=black, 3=gold. The method
- of modifying these is the same as that outlined above under "REV 3.0". This
- should have been done a long time ago, but only recently did necessity
- force me to do so. The convenience of this feature allowed me to experiment
- more freely with the screen colors, and I think the default ones supplied
- now are the clearest and best-looking ever.
-
- REV 3.25:
- Got rid of an extra 1-pixel blue border to the right of the Help requester.
- Simplified LockRequest().
- REV 3.26:
- Fully-ANSI'ized source, recompiled under Aztec 5.0b after hand-editing
- a minor compiler signed-shift bug in hexconv().
- REV 3.26a:
- Trimmed unnecessary Intuition gadget flags from gadgets.c. Cleaned up
- several manifest constants for portability. Minor safety mods to
- FakeRequest().
- REV 3.26b:
- compute_curpos & GADGIMMEDIATE fixed for 3.26 series. Minor
- low-memory cleanup problem corrected in ReadILBM.c
- REV 3.26c:
- Changed my address in the About menu.
- REV 3.27:
- Added stencil and brush support to ReadILBM.c. Standardized all clients
- on this version. Changed all "setmem" references to the documented Manx
- library routine "memset". Added ">>" characters to the Case Dependency and
- Set Direction menus. The filename string requester no longer activates
- itself when files open OK. New, standardized iff.h with 16-bit int support.
-
- REV 3.30:
- Major revision for AmigaDOS 2. Completely rebuilt under new includes,
- with new dynamic gadtools menu support when running under AmigaDOS 2.04
- and later. Amazingly, still succesful at keeping the executable size
- under 40K.
-
- Quit hotkey added for convenience.
-
- Minor nits: 1.3 users won't be seeing the nice 2.0 submenu ">>" characters
- anymore. 2.0 has OS support for this, but 1.3 doesn't - and I'd just as
- soon minimize OS-dependent hacks where possible. Also: the NewZAP screen
- is a few pixels narrower than previous versions to make up for the
- slightly thicker 2.0 window borders.
-
- Graphics tidied up a bit. Compiled using Aztec 5.2a.
-
- -DJH
-