October 23, 1994 This is the README file distributed with WINCDP version 3.1 WINCDP stands for WIN CD Player. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ INSTALLING WINCDP ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The installation of WINCDP is very simple. All you have to do is copy all the files to your hard disk. And select WINCDP into one of your Window Groups from Windows. There are things that you have to notice ... 1.) Make sure that WINCDP.EXE WINCDDLL.DLL MSDNTB.DLL and WINCDP.HLP are in the same subdirectory. 2.) Copy CTL3D.DLL to your window\system directory. Don't override the newer one in your windows\system directory. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE 3.1 RELEASE Oct 23. 1994 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The database support is rewritten. "Print" is added Fixed some minor bugs in the 3.0 release. My email address has been changed to "u800620.Oz.nthu.edu.tw" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE 3.0 RELEASE Aug 3. 1994 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A lot of changes have been made in this release. The main dialog box has been changed from this release on. It is much smaller than it was in the previous releases. Added an option for shutting off music or not on closing WINCDP. Now, it is possible to enjoy music even wincdp has been closed. Thanks to Koster for suggestion. WINCDP will try to retain the cdrom settings as possible, such as the timer direction, play modes and volume levels. Restore the "minimize button". Removed the "gray buttons when disabled" option. Fixed several minor bugs. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE 2.4 RELEASE Jun 15. 1994 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This version of WINCDP is released for registered users only. Enhanced the ‘program’ and ‘pseudo-random’ dialog. Now both show the total track time programmed. Thanks to Koster for suggestion. Modified the sequence when autoplay on disk insertion and auto-update of the database are both turned on. Now the music is playing which makes it much easier on the ears while entering the data. Thanks to Morrow for suggestion. The WINCDP.INI has slight changes. Please edit your WINCDP.INI and eliminate the previous "program" and "psudo" entries. Sorry for the inconvenience. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE 2.3 RELEASE Mar 15. 1994 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Added the "eject in" and "eject out" functionality. Thanks to Desrosiers for suggestion. Added three vertical sliders for users to control volume levels. Users can "page-up" or "page-down" or "Thumb-Track" the volume levels. Thanks to Michels for suggestion. Added the "fast-switch" functionality. Users can begin or switch to any track of a CD. Thanks to Prince for suggestion. Added the "Always on Top" option. Users can force WINCDP to stay at the upmost position by checking this option. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE 2.2 RELEASE Feb 18. 1994 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fixed a bug which caused WINCDP to display wrong percent information while playing songs whose length are longer than 11 minute. Added a help button. The users can obtain online help by pressing the help button. Added a piece of code to paint the icon when WINCDP is minimized. In the previous versions, the minimized WINCDP is a gray icon. Append the option dialog box to the end of the main window. Thus, you can fine-tune the performance of WINCDP. That's what I did in the 1.0 release. Added 'Sleep' function. You can close WINCDP after a specified time. Added several checkboxes for users to define the behaviors of WINCDP, including 'Show Edit Dialog on New Disc', 'Gray Button when Disabled' and so on. Well, I have changed the bitmaps of some buttons because I found these bitmaps were too large and might exceed the height or width of the buttons. So I could only change their size or even design newer bitmaps. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE 2.1 RELEASE Feb 4. 1994 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fixed a major bug which caused WINCDP automatically ejects discs from CD-ROM deck. OOPS ! Thanks to Phan and Michels for bug report. Change the name of WINCDP.DLL to WINCDDLL.DLL because it might cause WINCDP to fail. Enhanced Bitmap-button technique. Now the bitmaps won't be screwed when WINCDP is running at a display mode other than 800x600. I have decided not to program the 'RECORD' option. Instead, WINCDP adds a 'EJECT' button. It allows users to eject CD from CD-ROM if their CD-ROM support 'software-eject'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE 2.0 RELEASE Jan 27. 1994 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are great enhancements in the 2.0 release. 1.) Database Support. WINCDP supports database. Now you can maintain your own compact discs database via WINCDP. 2.) Add one playing mode : PSUDO-RANDOM. You can play all the songs on a disc from the one you like best to the one you don't like. (Much like to PROGRAM) Thanks to Kress for suggestion. 3.) Add a meter bar to display how much has been finished. Thanks to Gottliep for suggestion. 4.) Fix several bugs. I am sorry for these bugs. Thanks to those who helped me find them out. 5.) Enhanced Program-Dialog box. Now, to make a program list is much easier in 2.0 than in 1.0. 6.) Changed its name from WINCD to WINCDP because there is already a commerical software named WINCD. As you can see, the "record" option is not available in this release. It will be finished in the near future. Now, it's keeped as a secret. Thanks to vostveen for suggestion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ IN THE 1.0 RELEASE Jan 10. 1994 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is the first release of WINCDP and limited features are finished. However, there are still exciting features available .... 1.) Provide Three Play Modes . WINCDP provide three play modes. They are (1) Normal Play With normal play mode, you can toggle another three modes. Don't Repeat, Repeat Disk and Repeat Single. (2) Shuffle Play You can enjoy you compact disc RANDOMLY with this feature. (3) Program Play You can rearrange the order of the songs on a Disc. 2.) Provide Volume Control WINCDP provides volume control. And also if your sound card supports Left/Right volume mixing, then WINCDP allows you to tune the L/R volume separately. 3.) Toggle Time Display You can toggle time display between COUNT DOWN and COUNT UPON... The default is COUNT UPON, which makes WINCDP display the CD position from the beginning of a song. 4.) Introduction Mode. You can listen to the first 20 seconds of all the songs on a disc. 5.) Graphical Control WINCDP is fully graphical. Most of the buttons are programmed using Owner-Draw-Button and much alike to the control buttons of a normal CD player. WILL have 1.) WINCDP will support CD database in the near future. 2.) WINCDP will allow more configurable options including the colors. WINCDP acts like a personal CD player. In fact I got all the ideas from my CD player ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ REGISTRATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WINCDP is not free software. It is released as shareware, which provides the opportunity for the program to be evaluated before it is purchased. Complete information on how to register WINCDP is included in the REGISTER.TXT file. A registered user will be added to the registered-user mailing list and will receive irregularly update version. FREE for those who have email accessibility and postage required for those who registered by snail mail. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BUG REPORT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you find any bug, please let me know. You can contact me by your favorite way. The author information can be found at the end of this file. I hope there is no bug but I still look forward to hear from you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AUTHOR INFORMATION ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tony G. Wu Mail Address: #42, Pu-Wei Road, Pitou Shiang, Chang-Hua Shien, Taiwan, R.O.C. Internet Address: u800620@Oz.nthu.edu.tw English is not my native language and I am still learning it ... Please don't blame me for my poor English but if I have made any mistakes please correct me. I also regard this as a bug -- a bug in my document file.