********************************************************** *** *** *** History for MusicManIII ©1991-1998 by Andreas Mair *** *** *** ********************************************************** Changes from Beta1 to Beta3 =========================== not documented, sorry. Changes from Beta3 to Beta4 =========================== - Removed some bugs in "Record/Create" (MC-Mode) [Reported by Thorsten Bergmann, thanks Thorsten] - Strings-Gadgets in "File/Find" and "File/Selection/Create" for artist and title now convert lower case characters to upper ones. String-gadgets songs and type now use the correct input-mode. [Reported by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - Removed bug in LineEd that GURUed if you pressed a F-Key. [Reported by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - Implemented better keyboard support in the main window [Requested by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - Implemented keyboard support in the list window [Requested by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - Implemented Info-Requester if MusicMan can't open the screen because of a too large font. [Requested by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - Improved detection of when to use upper case characters in LineEd if using mode "abc=Abc". - Changed all windows OK-Button to disabled if function not yet implemented. - Implemented window for "Project/Create MC". - Removed "Song/Undo" and "Undo"-Button in the song control window. - Added "Song/Record" and "Record"-Button in the song control window. - Implemented: Empty song lines at the end of a song list are now deleted. [Requested by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - Removed bug that discarded your unsaved edits if you changed the size of the main-window. - Improved handling of changing the main windows's size. - Fixed bug in "File/Find" that didn't compare the last record. - Fixed bug in "File/Selection/Create" that didn't compare the last record. - Fixed bug that didn't free a selection if you load a new file. Changes from Beta4 to Beta5 =========================== - FIXED: (depending note-, song-control-, record-control- and main-window) If you closed one of the windows with the menu-item of that window you got an enforcer-hit. Now these menu-items are disabled if the window is open. Use the close-gadget to close them. - Removed bug, that caused enforcer-hits while editing songs - Implemented "File/Save/Index" - FIXED: in the record-control-window the "Note"-Gadget didn't open/close the note-window. [Reported by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - IMPROVED: CD-Player Should now work in most cases, problems may occur if using ATAPI-CD-ROMs. My CD-drive works if I'm using "cd.device". NOTE: Only CD-ROM drives supported by the cdplayer.library will work. - IMPLEMENTED: searching in the special-field - IMPLEMENTED: keyrepeat with cursor keys in main-window and list-window - IMPLEMENTED: if looking for a song, a song's length or the special field, the first matching song is highlighted. [Requested by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - FIXED: song/insert no longer inserts after the current song but before. [Reported by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - FIXED: activating a string-gadget or activating another window while editing songs, song's length etc. now quits LineEd. [Reported by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - IMPLEMENTED: "Check" in the File-Manager. It'll check for missing or out-of-date index-files and update them. - IMPROVED: "Add" in the File-Manager. Now checks for up-to-date index-files. - IMPROVED: "Settings" in the File-Manager - IMPLEMENTED: "Backup" in the File-Manager - IMPROVED: MusicManIII now uses much less stack space - FIXED: Enforcer-hits when quitting MusicManIII with the iconify's closegadget. - FIXED: Enforcer-hits in "File/Selection/Save as" - IMPLEMENTED: "Record/Undo" - FIXED: bug in saving/loading CDs "Recording Methode" now loads/saves right. - IMPLEMENTED: ARexx-Port, currently: * QUIT [FORCE] * SONG INSERT * SONG APPEND * SONG DELETE * SONG MARK [NUMBER] * SONG UP [NUMBER] * SONG DOWN [NUMBER] * RECORD GET [NUMBER] * RECORD CLEAR * RECORD SAVE * RECORD NEW /* has to be improved */ * RECORD EDIT /* has to be improced */ * RECORD DELETE [FORCE] * RECORD CONTROL [CLOSE] [LEFTEDGE] [TOPEDGE] * RECORD LEND [NAME] * QUERY ARTIST TITLE TYPE TAPE RELEASED RECORDED SIDELENGTH WHOLELENGTH SONG LENGTH BPM SPECIAL SUBRECORDSCOUNT SONGSCOUNT RECORDSCOUNT DOLBY SOURCE RECM CASSTYPE - IMPROVED: No flickering in the "type"-gadget anymore - FIXED: some bugs in "find" [Reported by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - FIXED: Iconify now should work all right. - FIXED: some bugs all around to program - IMPLEMENTED: new shortcut in main-window: DEL -> delete current song - IMPLEMENTED: Online-Help - ADDED: AmigaGuide-Documentation - FIXED: String-Gadgets now have the right input-mode. [Reported by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - IMPROVED: IDCMP-Handling - all windows now use one SharedIDCMP - IMPROVED: LineEd - moving up/down with CrsUp/Down now stay in the same column - IMPROVED: ReqTools-Requester now use SharedIDCMP - IMPLEMENTED: SHIFT+HELP & CTRL+HELP in LineEd - IMPLEMENTED: CreateIcons - IMPLEMENTED: "Catalognumber"-String-Gadget (replaces "Tape"-Gadget if in CD-Mode) - FIXED: All entries except songs are saved right, even if they had been changed while showing an sub-record. Changes from Beta5 to V3.00 (final) =================================== - ADDED: Installer-Script (english/german) Script supports installing, updating and removing - FIXED: CrsUp/Down in LineEd now works if Cursor position was >30 - IMPLEMENTED: Edit Notes - IMPLEMENTED: New ARexx-Commands: * SONG NEXT [NUMBER] * SONG PREVIOUS [NUMBER] * SONG CONTROL [CLOSE] [LEFTEDGE] [TOPEDGE] * RECORD NEXT [NUMBER] * RECORD PREVIOUS [NUMBER] * RECORD OGET [NUMBER] * RECORD ONEXT [NUMBER] * RECORD OPREVIOUS [NUMBER] * RECORD NEXTSUB * RECORD PREVIOUSSUB * NOTE [CLOSE] [LEFTEDGE] [TOPEDGE] [WIDTH] [HEIGHT] /* has to be improved */ * FILE LIST * FILE OPEN /* has to be improved */ * FILE MANAGER * SELECT PROMPT /* has to be improved */ * SELECT SAVE /* has to be improved */ * SELECT FREE * FIND PROMPT /* has to be improved */ * PREFS SAVE * PREFS SAVEAS [NAME] * PREFS LOAD [NAME] * PREFS DEFAULT * PREFS LAST * PREFS PROGRAM * PREFS PRINTER * PREFS FKEYS * PREFS MIXED * PRINT PROMPT * QUERY MODE * QUERY FILE * QUERY PATH * QUERY FILESCOUNT * REQUESTNOTIFY PROMPT * REQUESTRESPONSE PROMPT TITLE * REQUESTNUMBER PROMPT * REQUESTSRING PROMPT [DEFAULT] * REQUESTFILE TITLE [PATH] [FILE] [PATTERN] * SIDE A * SIDE B * SIDE OTHER - CHANGED: if you said "Go on" in "find" after finding a record the sub-records of that record weren't searched. [Reported by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - CHANGED: "search"-strings changed to "find" - CHANGED: "find" window closes before searching [Requested by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - ADDED: possible auto-macros, that are executed if named action happens: * Startup.mmx * CloseDown.mmx * OpenMainScreen.mmx * CloseMainScreen.mmx * OpenListScreen.mmx * CloseListScreen.mmx * OpenPrefsScreen.mmx * ClosePrefsScreen.mmx - FIXED: Bugs in "UNDO" of songs - FIXED: "Iconify" now always opens on WB (even if you are working with utilities that make the frontmost public screen the default one) - FIXED: Prefs are now loaded/saved correctly Changes from V3.00 (final) to V3.01 =================================== - IMPROVED: allocating and freeing memory now use memory pools. - FIXED: "Read in" in the CDPlayer didn't work if there was no record loaded. - FIXED: "Read in" in the CDPlayer set LastSong+1 as the current one - IMPROVED: "Undo" didn't work in some conditions. - FIXED: If "Auto-load records" was turned off, the record number was not increased or decreased. Changes from V3.01 to V3.02 =========================== - CHANGED: Main window can now be sized in width - CHANGED: preferences file (to store current main window's width) (Note: V3.02 can load older preferences files and saves new preferences files. Older releases of MMIII can't read new preferences files!) - CHANGED: lines between no, song etc. in songs ListView are now displayed even if no songs are shown. - FIXED: hilighting of song sometimes was wrong - FIXED: "go on" while searching only worked if you searched for a song - CHANGED: set default-tool in the installer script's icon to "Installer" [Requested by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - FIXED: installer script sometimes didn't show the correct path where MusicManIII had been installed. [Reported by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - FIXED: "Notes" was still buggy. [Reported by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - CHANGED: german catalog now offers more shortcuts - ADDED: "Note" and "CDPlayer" window now have the same keys for selecting a song, loading a record etc. as the main window. - CHANGED: moving with CrsUp/Down in editable songs now updates gadgets in record- and song-control no longer. Updates only happen if you leave edit-mode. Changes from V3.02 to V3.03 =========================== - CHANGED: the songs ListView-gadget now displays disabled columns (Length,BPM,Special) in color #3 - FIXED: bug in saving records: BPM and length were saved wrong in some conditions. Loading them again sometimes led to wrong (undefined) strings. Unfortunately this never happend on my system! This bug has been removed but nevertheless, if you had those problems you will have to fix them by hand :( [Reported by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom!] - FIXED: If "CloneWB" is active MusicManIII now sets the WB's palette and depth [Reported by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - FIXED: If a record that contained notes was deleted the record was not removed properly from the file. This could have led to some ugly effects. Sorry :( - ADDED: You can now change whether length, bpm or special fields should be entered directly in the main window: just press the left mousebutton above the column's identifier. - FIXED: Shift+CrsUp/Down (to jump to last/first song) now works if first/last song aren't visible. - CHANGED: Moved File-Manager from File-Menu to Project-Menu [Suggested by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] Changes from V3.03 to V3.04 =========================== - FIXED: many bugs in "Find" - FIXED: CrsUp didn't hilight song if scrolling up was neccessary. - IMPROVED: "Find"-window now restores last entered patterns. - IMPROVED: "Select"-window now restores last entered patterns. - IMPLEMENTED: Song-control-, record-control-, note- and CDplayer-window now have shortcuts CTRL+L, CTRL+F and CTRL+G too. - IMPLEMENTED: Searching for notes. - IMPLEMENTED: new menu-item "Song/Mark/Don't mark" -> removes marking of the current song [Suggested by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - ADDED: new menu-item "File/Selection/Delete" -> delete all selected records in the file (Not yet implemented) - IMPLEMENTED: "Song/Record/This" & "Song/Record/Delete list" - IMPLEMENTED: "Project/Create MC" ("Calculate"-Button has still to be done) - FIXED: Notes in the note-window are now cleared if you add a record etc. [Reported by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] Changes from V3.04 to V3.05 =========================== - CHANGED: "Check" in the file-manager a little bit - CHANGED: saving of records a little bit - CHANGED: re-compiled with SAS/C V6.57 (smaller executables) - ADDED: MC68060 executeable - ADDED: Context-menu (Popup-menu) in the songs ListView-gadget. - CHANGED: Removed "Save-Mode" settings. MusicManIII now always saves automatically. - REWORKED: "Check" in the file-manager now recognizes empty spaces in files. - REWORKED: Handling of Mousebuttons and Menus. - STARTED: changing GUI to use bgui.library * "File/Change file" done shortcuts: CursorUp, CursorDown to select file * "Record/Note window" done shortcuts: CTRL+L, CTRL+G, CTRL+F, [SHIFT|ALT|CONTROL|None]+[CursorLeft|CursorRight] as in main window CursorUp, CursorDown to select a note line RETURN to activate the string-gadget - CHANGED: Context-menu (Popup-menu): removed my own function and now using "popupmenu.library" (© Henrik Isaksson) - CHANGED: Hilighting of selected songs, so that it is independent of the last four colors - IMPROVED: Pull-Down-Menus now work correctly with MagicMenu2 - IMPLEMENTED: "Re-Organize" in the "File-Manager" Changes from V3.05 to V3.06 =========================== - FIXED: MenuHelp now works for BGUI-Windows - CHANGED: again changed IDCMP handling in LineEd. Should now work correctly in all cases. - CHANGED: HELP is now opened with the BGUI-function (no longer with my own function) - NEW: from now on all windows with exactly one listview gadget have the following shortcuts: CursorUp, CursorDown - move up/down one line Shift + CursorUp, CursorDown - move up/down one page Ctrl + CursorUp, CursorDown - move to the first/last line - ADDED: changing GUI to bgui.library * "Record/Control window" done * "Song/Control window" done * "Settings/Set" done (changed all prefs windows to one window with pages) shortcuts: TAB, Shift TAB - next/previous page * "Project/File-Manager" done * "Project/File-Manager" -> "Settings" done * "Project/Create MC" done shortcuts: DEL - delete current song left Alt + CursorUp - show side A left Alt + CursorDown - show side B * "File/Find" done * "File/Select/Create" done * "Show F-Keys"-window done * "Show artist" and "Show type" windows done shortcuts TAB - activate the string gadget * "Record/CD-Player" done * "Project/About/File" done * "Project/Print" done * Main-window started * "File/Show list" done shortcuts: TAB - activate the string-gadget - FIXED: leaving the "show list" window with the "Project/Quit" menuitem caused the loading of the record under the menuitem [Reported by several people; Thanks!] - NEW: from now on all windows can be moved and resized. The position/size will be saved. - IMPROVED: optimized code - IMPROVED: main-window now has a "Catalogno."-gadget for all modes. - CHANGED: GUI in some places - CHANGED: loading/saving preferences (new prefs MUST NOT be loaded with previous MM3 releases!) - CHANGED: data-files now only can be saved in the path set in the preferences. This directory will now get scanned while starting MM3 and all files are added to MM3's files-list. So there is no more need to re-"Create" "lost" files with the file-manager. [Requested by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - CHANGED: setting the file that is opened at startup no longer possible. MM3 now loads the last opened file. - REMOVED: edit-mode no longer setable. [Suggested by Tom Bienmueller, thanks Tom] - IMPROVED: renaming a file is now possible in the file-manager: select the file to rename, then enter the new name in the filename-string-gadget (NOTE: don't enter a path or an extension!) - CHANGED: re-compiled with xpk-v4+ libraries - CHANGED: since BGUI doesn't allow to change a menu item's text on-the-fly, the "Song/Mark" item does not show the current color. Now the "Mark"-gadget-text in the song-control-window is drawn with the mark-color (guess what happens if you set the mark-color to "0") - CHANGED: removed "Close WB"-option from settings-window. "Close WB"-option from the "Project"-menu will get saved. - IMPLEMENTED: New ARexx-Commands: * PREFS MIXED2 * PREFS SCREEN - IMPROVED: ARexx-Commands * RECORD NEW ARTIST TITLE * SONG APPEND [NAME] [LENGTH] [BPM] [SPECIAL] [NUMBER] (where NUMBER is the color for marking) * SONG INSERT [NAME] [LENGTH] [BPM] [SPECIAL] [NUMBER] (where NUMBER is the color for marking) - CHANGED: handling of MENUHELP - CHANGED: calculation of the playing time now there are added some seconds between every song you (currently only) can adjust this value in the "Create MC"-window ("Project/Create MC", change to MC mode first and use "Song/Record/This" before opening that window!) - IMPROVED: you can now stop printing (if you print a list) - IMPROVED: list-printing in MC mode there will be only printed a second line (for side b) if artist or title aren't empty and if one is different from side a's - IMPROVED: finding a record now can be stopped - IMPROVED: selecting records now can be stopped - ADDED: new items in the song's popup-menu * CD/Read in (see "Read in"-gadget in CD-Player window) * CD/Play CD (plays CD from song one on) * CD/Play Song (plays CD from current song on) * CD/Pause (Pause playing) * CD/Stop (Stop playing) * Record/This (see "Song/Record/#?") * Record/All * Record/Delete list * Mark/Mark (see "Song/Mark/#?") * Mark/Change color * Mark/Reset - IMPROVED: CD-Player window, "Read in"-gadget notification that the song length' will be overwritten only happens if there are any length entered in the record - IMPROVED: "Change file" window double-clicking on a filename in the listview loads that file - IMPROVED: string-gadgets all string-gadget now have the functionality of the LineEd - ADDED: show all artist and types (reachable via CTRL+HELP in a string-gadget where you have to enter an artist or a type) pressing DEL will delete the current entry from the list - ADDED: new ARexx-Script "ImportIDs.mmx" this script will import "ID#?"-files generated by some CD-Players (e.g. MultiCDPlayer) please read the header of the script to get additional information - ADDED: new ARexx-Scripts "ExportHTML.mmx" and "ExportLIST.mmx" some sample ARexx-Scripts to show you how you can create your own outputs from MusicManIII - REWORKED: documentation and installer script Changes from V3.06 to V3.06a ============================ - FIXED: while doing some source-adjustments to get MusicManIII compiled with GCC I forget to type some "==0". So gadgets like "Dolby", "Source" etc. never got active. Blame on me :-( - RECOMPILED with SAS/C V6.58, which produces slightly shorter executeable and a much faster compile time (about 15-20 times!) Changes from V3.06a to V3.07 ============================ - IMPROVED: optimized code - ADDED: select window gets locked while selecting - IMPROVED: "Project/Print" * reworked GUI * implemented printing of ranges you can specify ranges like this: "4;8;10;20-30;45-50" * implemented printing of all (or specified) records * implemented possibilities of headlines and footlines possible variable: - %d% the current date - %t% the current time - %s% the first printed recordnumber on that page - %l% the last printed recordnumber on that page - %f% the filename - %m% the current mode - %p% the current page - %v% the current MusicManIII version (e.g. "3.07") - %max% the number of records in the current file * implemented printing of selected records - IMPROVED: GUI windows like the print-, select- or find-window got another background to better see them. - IMPROVED: most requesters now remember the state of selected gadgets and entered text until you open them again (even if you restarted MusicManIII meanwhile!) - CHANGED: the ReqTools palette-requester that pops up if you select "Song/Mark/Change color" has been replaced by a simple window that only contains a palette gadget. - IMPROVED: the color that is used for marking songs is now saved even if you restart MusicManIII. - FIXED: some bugs in the find-function. - ADDED: new menu items "Record/Horizontal control window" and "Song/ horizontal control window" that allow you to arrange the gadgets in those windows horizontally. - FIXED: selecting a file could sometimes cause that not the _complete_ index gets saved and if you re-open the file only the selected records can be accessed. - IMPROVED: "File/Find" and "File/Selection/Create" GUIs - IMPROVED: spacing between gadgets can now be set by the user with the BGUI prefs editor - IMPROVED: frames around groups can now be set by the user with the BGUI prefs editor. - IMPROVED: most gadget's appearance can be set by the user with the BGUI prefs editor. - CHANGED: replaced localization code with BGUI's functions wherever possible (saves some code) - IMPROVED: installer script - IMPROVED: took a look at the localisation (german and english) to make it easier to translate into other languages and even removed some wrong spellings. - IMPROVED: keyboard shortcuts are now available for almost every gadget in a window. Also added some shortcuts for the pull-down-menu. - IMPROVED: recognition in the CD player whether a CD is in the drive and if it's playing. Changes from V3.07 to V3.08 ============================ - ADDED: support for cover pictures - IMPROVED: songs in the "Create MC" window can now be ordered with drag'n'drop - ADDED: volume and balance in the CD-player - IMPROVED: entries in the settings window can be ordered with drag'n'drop - ADDED: "Restore"-function in the file-manager - IMPROVED: multi-selection in the file-manager for "Delete", "Check", "Backup", "Restore" and "Re-Organize" - FIXED: (hopefully) all memory leaks