MultiTool II V2.1 05.02.1995 LIST OF CHANGES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This file is a "quick and dirty" translation of the German history file. It contains a list of all changes performed to MTool since V1.4. The names of the people that suggested a feature or found a bug are noticed in brackets. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Future enhancements/suggestions: - other archivers (Harald Schneider) - automatic installation of disks - find a pattern in a directory tree (Jochen Schiller) - sort by file size or date (Marc Duponcheel) - palette requester (C. J. Ellerbeck) - directory history, including selections. - Compare files (Gregor Wenkelewski) - Intelligent screen shuffling (Gregor Wenkelewski) - Show only version number instead of complete version string in copy requester (Gregor Wenkelewski) - use middle mouse button (Mikael Silfver) - POPKEY brings MTool Screen/Window to front even if it's already open (Mikael Silfver) - MakeDir: Selection, if a icon should be created or not (A. Baum) - Timer for updating screen title (avoid flicker) (M. Silfver) - Show protection bits of MUFS and Envoy (Jan Holler) - ARexx port Other suggestions and bug reports are welcome... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ V2.1 - 06.02.1995 released MTOOL MAIN PROGRAM: NEW: - optional action gadgets at the bottom of MTools window - appicon to open/select the window of MTool and to display and select files - display of selected bytes in active file list - a drawer with icon can be created in one step (A. Baum) - file comments are displayed in the file lists - directory caching. 20 directories are stored and displayed immediately if they are needed again - gadgets to force a directory to be read again - "Change Name" in copy requester makes MTool ask for a new name -> Copy as / Move as - gadget to tranfer contents of one file list to the other - Finnish catalogs - Dutch manual and catalogs - Slovakian manual and catalogs BUGFIXES SINCE V2.0d: - Links are sorted correctly (J. Bönisch) - Each file list has its own selection array. This removes inconsistencies when both lists show the same drawer. (O. Ahvenlampi) - No empty Amiga symbol in custom menues when no shrtcut has been defined. (O. Ahvenlampi) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ V2.0d - 03.08.1994 third bugfix NEW: - French manual and improved French catalogs (Lionel Vintenat) BUGFIXES: - When being hidden with the ESC key, MTool sometimes crashed - Klicking below the last entry in the device list scrolled up the list and multiplied its last entry ------------------------------------------------------------------------ V2.0c - 25.04.1994 second bugfix NEW: - File size is no longer determined using ExamineFH(). This caused problems with some filesystems (parnet, XFH, CDTV...) (A. Kutterer) - Danish manual (Volker Alexander Graf) - Italian catalog and manual (Marco Mellia) BUGFIXES: - The version number of libraries shown in the analyze and copy windows was the version number of the resident library, not of the file. (M. Mellia) - If moving archive contents was cancelled, the original contents were deleted anyway. Now, nothing is deleted. (M. Mellia) NEW PROGRAM: - MFind ------------------------------------------------------------------------ V2.0b - omitted, because it could have been mixed up with 2.0ß ------------------------------------------------------------------------ V2.0a - 28.02.1994 first bugfix MTOOL MAIN PROGRAM: NEW: - Norwegian Catalog - If MTool is told to run on a non-existant pubscreen, it opens an own screen. - POPKEY brings MTool to front, even if its window was already open (M. Silfver) - No about requester at startup in registered version - ASCII filter isn't case sensitive any more (R. Debusmann) - Notify on dir lists removed. Now MTool checks permanently, if the datestamps of the two dirs change. - Refresh of the screen title only if it has changed. Avoids flickering (M. Silfver) BUGFIXES: - No alert, if pubscreen could not be locked. - No guru, if you hide MTool via CX (M. Mutschler) - No guru, if you hide MTool after having removed a disk that had been displayed (R. Debusmann) - Second try to fix the "no custom screen checkmark"-bug (A. Kutterer, A. Baum, M. Hank, C. Ellerbeck) - If no LHA is installed, there are no strange effects any more if you try to read the contents of an archive (M. Silfver) - If MTool can't close its screen, it will continue to try to close it twice a second until it succeeds. (A. Sjøgren) - If you cancel the parameter string requester while executing a command, the command will be cancelled (J. Billing) - No lost locks any more, if you remove a disk that had been displayed. MTOOL PREFS EDITOR: BUGFIXES: - If a file requester is cancelled, its action is cancelled, too. So you won't loose all settings if you cancel the "load prefs" requester. (M. Hank) KNOWN BUGS: - Keyboard shortcuts not yet implemented ------------------------------------------------------------------------ V2.0 - 06.02.1994 released MTOOL MAIN PROGRAM: NEW: - Notify on prefs file. MTool adapts immediately to changes. - Close=Hide => ESC=Hide - Protection bits stay unchanged in copied files (M.Silfver) - Notify changed. Only working, while MTool waits for user interaction. -> Dirs are no longer scanned twice in some cases. - Dirs are only scanned if they actually changed (datestamp) - String requester accepts 80 chars now. (J. Billing) - Cancel small copy window by closing it or pressing any key (C. Krenner) BUGFIXES: - Screen title and pubscreen title are correct now (A. Baum, M. Silfver, J. Bönisch) - Version string changed (date is now DD.MM.YY) (A. Baum) - Checkmark "Custom Screen" works now. (all ;-)) - No delete requester while scanning dirs for "Info" (A. Baum, M. Silfver) - Destination display in copy requester reenabled (A. Baum) - Small bugs in display fixed (A. Baum) - Wrong background color in status display after keyboard control of device list (M. Silfver) - Changes of protection bits are updated immediately (M. Silfver) - Pattern matching isn't case sensitive any more. Sometimes, it didn't work at all (M. Silfver) - Error message, if you try to delete a file that's protected from deletion - Improved display of version strings in copy and analyze requesters (A. Baum) - AutoDir checkmark works now. (A. Baum) - No system crash if an error occurs during startup. - No alert if public screen can't be locked - device list optically responds to mouse clicks (J. Bönisch) - No enforcer hit if you move files within a device (J. Bönisch) - Copy requester works now if you move files within a davice - Device list is sorted case-independent (J. Bönisch) - End of status line could be trashed in some localized versions (J. Billing) - Flags weren't set in copy requester sometimes (M. Silfver) MTOOL PREFS EDITOR: NEW: - Window opens on same screen as MTool and makes this screen the frontmost - Included menus - Lists can be sorted BUGFIXES: - String gadgets don't have to be "returned" any more - File requester in "Icons" now shows icon files and not everything except icon files ;-) - topaz 8 in listview - Number of colors in screenmode requester initialized correctly - During path selections via file requester, only drawers are displayed - default path "SYS:" in file requesters - removed enforcer hits during startup ------------------------------------------------------------------------ V2.0ß - 12.09.1993 internal version MTOOL MAIN PROGRAM: NEW: - Preferences editor. New prefs file format. - Reworked analyzing and actions. - Selection of a drawer by simply dropping its icon in the window of MTool. (AppWindow) (Christian Krenner) - Keyboard control of the device listview. Use "Del" to switch cursor keys to devlist control. - Configurable action list that can be displayed in the device listview. (Christian Krenner) - Copy requester waited for one IntuiTick for every file. fixed. (Jens Bönisch) - Max. block size for copying of 65KB. Fixes problems with IDE drives on A1200. - Display date/time in file lists. (Marc Duponcheel) - very simple requester for copy/move/delete on request. - Small gadget "?" or "!" besides the gadgets for copy, move, delete, Select All, Select Nothing and Icon. - Double click on a file in an archive is now possible (everybody asked me to do it ;-), Mikael Silfver persuaded me) - Activate string gadget above the active file list by pressing Return (Mikael Silfver, Adam Sjøgren) - Notification - If you change the parameters in the copy requester, copying stops and must be re"start"ed. (Mikael Silfver) - A file can be given an icon according to its file type. - MTool can open its window on public screens (Mikael Silfver) - Close gadget can be used to hide MTool (Mikael Silfver) BUGFIXES: - small graphics bug in string requester when big fonts are used (Jens Bönisch) - Triple clicking in file list makes dir change twice (Jens Bönisch) - "Amiga A" symbols are scaled wrong sometimes (OS3.0+) (Robert Peter Poole) KNOWN BUGS: - AutoDir checkmark in menus gets lost during closing and reopening MTools window (Mikael Silfver) - Enforcer hits when no config file was loaded (Robert Peter Poole) - If an options request is canceled during menu action, the action should be cancelled, too. (Jens Bönisch) - Bugs in Copy requester (Gregor Wenkelewski) - Sometimes enforcer hits during move. MTOOL PREFS EDITOR: NEW: everything :-) NOT YET IMPLEMENTED: - Keyboard control - Menus ------------------------------------------------------------------------ V1.5 - 08.09.1993 released NEW: - MTool is a commodity now (C. J. Ellerbeck) - You can't work with two MTools simultanously. Starting a second one will open the window of the first one (if it was closed) and bring to front its screen/window. - Improved English texts (C. J. Ellerbeck) - Barlines in menus (C. J. Ellerbeck) - NewLookMenus with OS3.0 (C. J. Ellerbeck) - Proportional fonts for gadgets (C. J. Ellerbeck) - Maximum font size is 50 pixels now (was 20) - Straight insertion instead of bubblesort (faster) - New "about"-window (C. J. Ellerbeck) - Abort rename of multiple files via close gadget (C. J. Ellerbeck) - Jump to beginning of the file list if you reach the end of the list with the cursor keys. (C. J. Ellerbeck) - Spanish catalog file (José Garcia) - new key words to control analyzing: TYPE, FILT and HFIL. (C. J. Ellerbeck) - Configuable device list with new key word CDEV (Markus Mönig, Reinhard Kunter) - Thicker frame on gadgets, that can be activated by pressing Return. - Parent of assigns works now. (Parent of DEVS: will give you WB_2.x:) - If MTool is displayed on the Workbench screen, Parent can be reached by clicking on the broad right window frame. (Holger Trapp) - Changed manual to AmigaGuide (C. J. Ellerbeck, Andreas Baum) - Visible response of the Gadgets if you use the Keyboard shortcuts (Brian Jacobson, thanks for your code!) - Jump to beginning/end of a file list with Ctrl-Cursor (Matthias Hank) - Screen mode requester enables selection of number of colours. (C. J. Ellerbeck) - MTool is shareware now BUGFIXES: - No guru if you open archives with path names with more than 80 chars length. - No error message if you select Info without having selected a file. (C. J. Ellerbeck) - No trashing of the title bar of the string requester if you are using a big screen font. (Christian Krenner) - Font requester always opened on the Workbench screen on OS2.0 (Marc Necker) - No false "Disk full" messages any more during copy. - "Change Name" in the copy requester now works. - If an error occured during "Move", the original file was deleted anyway. Fixed. (Bernd Johannes) - If an error occured on resizing the window, MTool didn't free all resources (memory loss). Fixed. (Bernd Johannes) KNOWN BUGS: none.