Configurability

- Most strings configurable from HYPSHELL.CFG file -  'number string'
  for foreign language support and customisation
- Function to access configuration strings
- Tabstop setting now variable - default 8
- Library available with developers licence to permit configuration
  and extension
- Configurable control keys - Escape, Home, End, PgUp, PgDn, Backspace
- Configurable menu headings and help key mappings
- Control over ESCape key action from menus, notes etc.
- Character code filter to allow varying character sets as input
- Control over search to allow search refinement and collection
- Comment facility for notepad
- Can suppress function key selection on menus - use first character
- Default 'HOME' hyperfile

Controllability

- Named variables may have values containing variable tokens
- Can give list of matched items from last search, refine search etc.
- Notes, Menus and Scripts pass to global if local item not found.
- Restart script file to allow re-entry when used as menu system
- Set variable using command line switch
- Suppress Ctrl-C and Ctrl-Break abort
- Immediate references in notes
- Hidden lines, hidden regions and conditional hidden areas
- Immediate flag setting to control footer display per frame
- Conditional and alternative footers
- Can display ~~ in frame and note text
- Key mapping execution through action
- Script files external to hyperfile
- Application specified autoreference
- Application flags for general control
- Autoreference control for typed files or files and frame text
- Frame local flags for holding control settings on a frame basis
- Preload hyperfile for hyperfile sets
- Global item sharing for hyperfiles
- Extended and generalised condition code capability
- Action to recall starting screen
- Environment variable setting
- Mouse cursor positioning
- Negative conditional actions
- Menu option lines can be conditional
- Notes and scripts can have parameter string supplied
- Can step through matching frames, and unmatched frames
- Can refine contents list in a number of ways
- Can select from backtrack without unwinding
- Guard function to allow special characters in actions
- Access to option settings
- Access to display adaptor type
- Access to comment string from noted references
- Error status trapping and control
- Timing and timeout functions
- Header/footer suppression on selected frames

Usability

- Note popups now centred on mouse cursor rather than dangled to right.
- Note body display area cleared to body background colour initially.
- Popup menus now 'wrap around'
- Popup menus cleared on any non-active key
- Shadow edges on popups
- Function keys can now be used from menu when in direct mouse (-m) mode.
- First letter match when function key display suppressed on menu
- Matched items from latest search flagged in contents.
- Support for American format dates.
- Frame refresh returns to current page of frame, rather than start.
- Option to blink references when tabbed through
- Copy cursor for selecting text with mouse for input strings
- Automatically selected (hot) menus on top line
- END key now works as expected in 'Type file' display
- Search action better in 'Type file' display
- Can pick words with INS key or 3 button mouse

Functionality

- Support for compressed files - covers ALL input files.
- Special version of browser for handling large hyperfiles (>500 frames)
- Graphic screen display with selection zones and graphic chaining