ST-Guide changes and version history ======================================================================= 05.02.95: --------- ST-Guide : Error calling HypFind via an AV Server removed. ST-Guide : New variable REFCOLOR sets the colour used for references (ignored in monochrome). ST-Guide : New variable TXTCOLOR sets the text colour (ignored in monochrome). ST-Guide : The accidental output of characters on opening empty nodes should now be cured. ST-Guide : Pressing [Tab] on an empty page no longer leads to a crash. HCP : Variables can now generate @define and set using @:. HypFind : Error if HYPFOLD could not be found removed. STool : All MAIN are now written as Main. 17.01.95: --------- ST-Guide : Faulty redraw of the search box when no REF file found now removed. ST-Guide : WINX error messages on aborting a REF search should no longer appear. ST-Guide : AV_DRAG_ON_WINDOW again removed because no message can be passed to the server. ST-Guide : -s2 like -s1, is only marked as invalid to the server ID on AC_CLOSE and requires an explicit off switch. ST-Guide : Loading ASCII files with line endings other than newline caused the last character to be overwritten, now fixed. ST-Guide : Strategy handling the virtual work station changed. ST-Guide : Strategy to determine the screen size changed. ST-Guide : Strategy for handling external viewers changed: It's now possible to assign file extenders to individual viewers in the INF file. If the specified viewer isn't currently running then, under MultiTOS and MagiC, the viewer will be started if possible. The tedious alert box no longer appears if a viewer for the selected file extender isn't available and an external file viewer is specified using EXTVIEW. If no external viewer for the specified file extender is available then ST-Guide will display the file in ASCII format, irrespective of the filetype. ST-Guide : Parameters for HypTree are now always quoted. ST-Guide : Error handling hypertexts without indexes removed. ST-Guide : Now sends AV_EXIT. ST-Guide : New variable HYPFIND added to support HypFind. ST-Guide : New buttons in the search dialog: [In all pages] [...all hypertexts] calls MagiC or an AV-Server provided HypFind is active. ST-Guide : The HOME environmental variable can now be specified with or without a closing backslash (Naturally this also applies to HCP, STool, RefLink and HypFind). HypFind : New tool to search globally search all pages in all hypertexts using a search mask, first version. HCP : Enlarged header for HypTree built-in. HCP : Error with MagiC removed. HCP : @toc outside of nodes now works also on @include. HCP : If an image cannot be found an error alert is displayed. HCP : Using HCP as a viewer (-v Hypertext page) no longer displays an error alert if a page cannot be found. Instead an exit code 1 is returned which is easier for batch files to handle. STool : Error with MagiC removed. RefLink : Error with MagiC removed. Documents: HCP docs revised. Documents: ST-Guide docs updated and revised also incorperating HypTree. 11.11.94: --------- ST-Guide : Error with MagiC hopefully removed. 09.11.94: --------- ST-Guide : Bug on scrolling by page removed ST-Guide : HypTree support implemented 'VA_START -s1' reports all pages, 'VA_START -s0' switches reporting off. ST-Guide : 'VA_START -wX,Y,W,H' sets the size of the ST-Guide window, unless it's already open; using this option it's easy for the calling application to freely position the window on screen. ST-Guide : Search display visually improved. ST-Guide : AV_PROTOKOLL Parameter corrected. ST-Guide : AV_PROTOKOLL is always sent out. ST-Guide : AV_DRAG_ON_WINDOW support implemented. ST-Guide : Problems with [x]UFSL and the 'Info' button (hopefully) fixed. ST-Guide : References in background windows can be selected. ST-Guide : Problems with tabs in ASCII text removed. ST-Guide : The entry 'Erase stack' is again the same length as the other entries. ST-Guide : The 'Version:' field in the 'Info' box is now the same length as the entries above it. ST-Guide : When single tasking using TOS the currently running application is always declared as the AV Server. In a multi-tasking environment the server is determined using the environmental variable AVSERVER. ACCWINDOPEN/ACCWINDCLOSED/PROTOKOLL/SENDKEY still only go to the defined server. ST-Guide : Pop-ups no longer open over the Menu line. ST-Guide : Problems with lengthy system/rx/rxs etc removed. ST-Guide : On opening ST-Guide the last displayed page is redisplayed. The previous slider positions are also restored. ST-Guide : When single tasking using TOS every AC_CLOSE send a AV_PROTOCOL. ST-Guide : Holding down the [Alternate] key when calling ST-Guide, without parameters, the file selector is displayed irrespective of the stack contents. ST-Guide : More problems with the cursor removed. ST-Guide : The 'Reitter' error should now be fixed ;-) ST-Guide : Menu protocol implemented. ST-Guide : New variable HYPTREE_OPT added to communicate with HypTree. ST-Guide : After searching in the boot directory ST-Guide looks for its INF file in the path specified in the $HOME environmental variable. The same also applies to HCP, RefLink and STool. HCP : -v command no longer using the escape sequences when outputting to a file. HCP : -v command functions with or without the enviromental variable: LINES. HCP : -v command waits independent of the line number for the end of every node. HCP : -o~ also applies to -v and -r. HCP : -o aslo applies for -l. STool : Subject strings can now automatically be translated to another language. STool : If the line immediately after the header in catalog.txt begins with a '!' a REF entry is created using the following text on the line. STool : All lines in the description beginning with '@' no longer need to be entered because HCP commands can be directly entered in the description. RefLink : Before the creation of a REF file a check is now made to make sure the file doesn't already exist before creating a new one. 1stConv : *.AVR files are no longer written in the STG file. Documents: (HCP) misunderstanding concerning @image corrected. Documents: (RefLink) Tree method explained. Documents: (STool) Translation table documented. 24.09.94: --------- ST-Guide : Problem not releasing memory after rx-events fixed. ST-Guide : All VA_START events are now, where necessary, send out with a mxalloc requested buffer. ST-Guide : During horizontal scrolling by page the button bar now scrolls correctly. ST-Guide : New variable ARROWPATCH added to the INF file; When active this removes a bug in the AES which prevents the scroll arrows in Windowed ACCs working correctly with some TOS versions. ST-Guide : Even when a toc is set in the first page, the 'Contents' button was greyed out, now fixed. ST-Guide : When moving to a preset mark the page containing the mark is added onto the stack. ST-Guide : Stack may also be deleted using [Alternate]+E. ST-Guide : Scrolling by page takes advantage of blitting where possible. ST-Guide : Problems with events from various applications removed. ST-Guide : Problem with window shading using WINX removed. ST-Guide : [Shift]+[Control]+O calls the file selector with '*.*'pattern ST-Guide : Because nobody ever seems to read this file the progress alert displayed using 'Find' explicitly states [Shift]+[Shift] aborts the search. HCP : Loading of IMGs functions again! HCP : Include files related output error, which led to a crash removed. HCP : Option -o replaced with parameter '~'. HCP : @toc can now be used outside nodes; in this case all following nodes without a toc will automatically adopt the previous setting. HCP : Problem with faulty @endnode's now fixed (hopefully)! 30.08.94: --------- ST-Guide : Images can be displayed in colour again hopefully! 24.08.94: --------- ST-Guide : The number block keys +/- keys now function as alternative shortcuts for Page Down and Page Up. [Control]+[CursorDown] and [Control]+[CursorUp] still function. ST-Guide : Searching in REF files can now be aborted by holding down both [Shift] keys. ST-Guide : Colour images are now displayed correctly, although they're still only displayed in monochrome. (Thanks to Michael Ziegler!) HCP : Colours images are now loaded correctly. (Thanks to Ulrich Rožgoderer!) 31.07.94: --------- ST-Guide : Movement using the sliders in the 'Reference list' with less than ten entries no longer leads to errors. ST-Guide : The keyboard shortcuts [Alt]+T and [Alt]+X were transmitted to the active application, now fixed. ST-Guide : Block marking now functions on pages containing boxes. ST-Guide : The 'Find' dialog now works properly with Let 'em Fly. ST-Guide : Images are now correctly redrawn after opening a pop-up node over them. ST-Guide : Built-in TOS 2.06 patch removed again because it caused problems with MultiTOS gab (MultiTOS is evidently not, in this position, correctly executing an evnt_multi (...MU_TIMER...). Button-Events suffer a large delay. ST-Guide : Click handling changed as follows: 1. No delay any more 2. Double clicks ALWAYS lead to a reference 3. Faster single click selects the reference 4. Click and drag to mark a block ST-Guide : If a search mask wasn't found, which contained the characters '|', ']' or '[' this caused problems with the Alert box displayed, now fixed. ST-Guide : In the hit list the 'Cancel' button and entries are no longer TOUCHEXIT, therefore the dialog is removed after the mouse button is clicked and ST-Guide is displayed again. ST-Guide : Problems with small Y values for WINSIZE now fixed. ST-Guide : Following many requests the Block pop-up now has a left edge. ST-Guide : Over length masks no longer spill out of the right hand side of the 'Find' dialog. ST-Guide : When flicking through a hypertext a page at a time the buttons are no longer redrawn each page. ST-Guide : When flicking through a hypertext a page at a time the last line on a page is now the last line in the window. ST-Guide : Blocks can no longer be marked in background windows because this was causing errors! ST-Guide : [Tab] and [Shift]+[Tab] should now (finally) work correctly. ST-Guide : During transfer of messages via 'rx' the memory for the command line is now requested via Mxalloc where possible. (Warning: This is untested!) ST-Guide : Starting external viewers as programs from ST-Guide with non-hypertext parameters now works again. ST-Guide : No longer crashes if a block past the text end is marked and an action is triggered. ST-Guide : The correct title now appears in the Window title line, even if the main page has no title. HCP : No longer crashes if a page name 'Index' is defined in a hypertext. 1stConv : Now usuable again! The last version was broken! Documents: Error in description of @index corrected. Documents: Desciption of '-i' and '-j' corrected. 29.06.94: --------- ST-Guide : Scrolling from keyboard no longer overruns ST-Guide : Scrolling from keyboard now faster ST-Guide : Scrolling by slider no longer flickers (much) ST-Guide : Support for WINX scrollboxes ST-Guide : When a non-hypertext file is called and EXTVIEW exists the ST-Guide window is no longer opened unnecessarily. ST-Guide : Small error in finding the hypertext file referred to in the REF-file fixed. ST-Guide : REF-search changed again: Following many requests the search is first made for exact (case sensitive) correspondences; if there are several matches then a 'Continue' button appears in the list of matches so that a search for similarities can be made later. ST-Guide : If an argument not marked as a cross-reference was chosen and its explanation was present in the same file, then the current page was not stored in the stack. ST-Guide : From now an an English language version of ST-Guide is also available. ST-Guide : Problems during loading of ASCII files with veeery long lines that also contain Tab characters fixed. ST-Guide : Under multi-tasking systems messages are no longer dispatched to Application #0. HCP : Option '+x' doesn't write the page titles only in the index but consequently also into the REF-file. HCP : Less ambiguous error messages incorporated. HCP : Stack enlarged, so that even very long files should no longer cause crashes. HCP : Now uses up to 4 MB main memory, in place of 1MB previously. HCP : Problems with umlauts in the auto-referencer fixed. HCP : Should be faster for texts with lots of nodes. RefLink : With '-d' one can now also use HYP as an extension; previously the names had to be input without an extension or with a REF extension. STool : Internal changes; now one can also read where which hypertext has been found. STool : No endless loop with defective hypertexts any more. 1stConv : Problems with variable spaces in cross-references fixed. 1stConv : '+z' now set as a default. 1stConv : The name of the main file is now adopted as '@symbol' in the first page, so that after conversion of CATGUIDE, for instance, this reference ("CATGUIDE") will also be found. Documents: In the description of the listings the high and low values of the pointers were reversed everywhere... 02.05.94: --------- ST-Guide : The 'Help' key works again... ST-Guide : Under certain conditions the entire text could appear inverted, now fixed. ST-Guide : Keyboard shortcuts are now handled as follows: - If MUSTCTRL is set, then ONLY WITH [Control] - If MUSTCTRL not set, then ONLY WITHOUT [Control] -> As many shortcuts as possible can now be passed on to the main application. ST-Guide : The list of matches will now be shown if only a similar reference has been found. ST-Guide : The list of matches, besides the node names, now also shows the appropriate label (if 'X' is being searched for and a label X exists on a page Y then both Y as well as X will be displayed). ST-Guide : List of matches can now be operated completely from the keyboard: - Cursor keys set selection - Return == Click on match line - UNDO == Cancel - W == Continue ST-Guide : First changes to the code for displaying pictures; hopefully picture display in colour now works. HCP : Multiple endnodes are now signalled and no longer cause problems. HCP : Under certain circumstances cross-references were set automatically to the current node, now fixed. RefLink : Screen display error with '-d' fixed. 1st-Conv : Stupid error that could lead to garbled file names fixed. 1st-Conv : Now reads the last line of a file even when this is not terminated with a 'newline'. 1st-Conv : Protected against over-long lines, which could lead to problems under Mag!C. 1st-Conv : Error in connection with links to nodes that contain quotation marks, now fixed. PC-Conv : Protected against over-long lines, which could lead to problems under MagiC! MAN2STG : Texts to the remaining CAT-folders supplemented. General : STG_CONV.LZH renamed to STG-UTIL.LZH. New tool CALL-ACC included. QAA now as hypertext. QAA extended. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 7th March 1995 To be continued...