Release notes for 61odmar.zip - updated 3/29/96

There have now been two ODMA patch releases.  This file contains the
second release.  The files here are sufficient to update an original
shipping verson of WP 6.1 to the newest ODMA version of WP.  It should
also contain all of the bug fixes that are in the shipping version
of Corel Office and contains the new Corel splash screen.

This zip file (61odmar2.zip) contains the five files that compromise a bug
fix release of WordPerfect 6.1.  It also contains a new pair of ODMA
integration DLL's for SoftSolutions.  All of the bugs fixed in this
release except one are specific to fixing bugs related to ODMA.

Installing the current patch files.

The WordPerfect 6.1 ODMA patch consists of five files:
SHWIN20.DLL
SHWINB20.DLL
WPWIN.EXE
WPWIN61.EXE
WPWP61US.DLL

These files contain the entire contents of all versions of WP 6.1 up to
and including the first release of Corel WordPerfect.  These five
files should be copied over the files of the same name in WordPerfect.
Normally WPWIN.EXE, WPWIN61.EXE and WPWIN61US.DLL are
located in \OFFICE\WPWIN, and SHWIN20.DLL and SHWINB20.DLL are in
\OFFICE\SHARED\WPC20.  The files wpwin61us.dll and wpwin.exe contain
no specific fixes for ODMA and are included here because other fixes
in WP needed them.  If you are placing this patch over the release
version of Corel WordPerfect you do not have to replace them.

The SoftSolutions ODMA integration DLL's are SSWODMA.DLL and SSAPPINT.DLL. 
They are located in the windows system directory.

The TECH.TXT file contains more technical information about what was fixed
in this release.

Some problems fixed in the WordPerfect 6.1 ODMA patch

1. The password protection check box should be enabled at the correct times
now.

2. There was some reordering of ODMA calls in WP.  The visible effects on
SoftSolution's is that the dialog to specify the document format and
password protection will not come up when initially creating a document.
The visible effect on DocsOpen is that after creating the initial
profile on a new document the format and password dialog will come up. 
Selecting either the OK or Cancel button is a correct action to do if the
default options in the dialog are correct.

3. Macros will not stop executing after opening a file in DocsOpen.

4. It is no longer possible to select a menu entry while a current file
operation is taking place. This was a particular problem in DocsOpen.

5. Added support for saving selected text as an ODMA document.

6. Retrieving graphics works correctly now.

7. WP will now open a Read-Only file that is specified by Shell Execute or
on the command line.

ODMA Problems that were fixed in the first patch that was used as the base
code for this patch

1.  Fixed GPF when exiting WP with the "Create Summary on Exit" preference
active.

2.  Fixed problem where WP could violate the security in SoftSlution's when
a local file store was used.

3.  Fixed problem where WP would GPF if you selected Exit with multiple
documents active.


New fixes made in the second ODMA patch that are not in the first ODMA
patch.

1. Bug #4 has been expanded to all ODMA operations.  Now the button
bar, keystrokes and mouse clicks are disabled while the calls are taking
place.  This means that there are visible changes between the buttons
being grey and valid while the operations take place, but it does not change
any functionality since you were never able to do anything while a file
operation was taking place anyway.

2.  ODMA support has been added to "Insert Object from File".

3.  WP can now accept ODMA DocId's on the command line up to 255 characters.
This is up from the current 64 characters.

4.  Merge will no longer convert the ODMA document ID to lower case.

5.  Trying to save a file to DOS using the normal WP dialogs now works on
files that have never been saved.

6.  Timed backup has been updated to work better with ODMA.


Problems I would have liked to fix, but were bigger than I could do in the
patch.  These problems should all be fixed in the 32 bit release of WPWIN7.

1.  There are a lot of places where the DocID shows up instead of the
ODM_TITLETEXT in dialogs.

2.  There are still some file I/O areas where ODMA makes sense, but I did
not have time to add it or there were technical reasons not to.

There is one highly visible change between the old and new ODMA integrations
between WP and SoftSolutions.  In the shipping integration when a new
document is created, after the profile is filled out, the WP options dialog
is always displayed.  In the new integration an options button is available
on the initial dialog for profile creation choices.  The WP options dialog
is no longer brought up unless the options button on initial new document
creation is selected.

The options button on the new document dialog is controlled by an entry
in the SOFTSOLW.INI file.  The entry to allow the options button to be
visible is:

[Integration]
ODMNewOptionButton=YES
