------------------------------------------------------------------------- Offline Orbit Update History Copyright © 1993 by Janne Siren, All Rights Reserved ------------------------------------------------------------------------- RELEASE: 0.22a DATE: August 21, 1993 o Sometimes reading a long message could crash OO, fixed. o Quote prefix now has writers initials and a space after '>'. o LIST selector also displays message number. RELEASE: 0.22 DATE: August 20, 1993 o You can now scroll messages with a scroller gadget. o Fixed some problems with BBS Preferences listview controls. RELEASE: 0.21 DATE: August 15, 1993 o Slightly incorrect packer defaults, fixed. o Header now looks better and supports longer strings. o If message didn't fit the memory Offline Orbit used to crash, fixed. o OO will say 'processing' when reading a message longer than 10k. o You can now set size of the memory block allocated for messages. o Jump to Message command is now available in Messages menu. o Better system list handling, slightly faster message pointers etc. o Message number in a saved message header was incorrect, fixed. o BBS Preferences is now available, see docs for more information. o Scands in WWF system and sysop name weren't converted, fixed. o Minor fixes and optimizations. RELEASE: 0.20c DATE: August 11, 1993 o Fixed problems with reading personal area messages with arrow keys. o Mark Yours option didn't update area list correctly, fixed. o Currently used message format is now displayed in screen title bar. o Some files in work directory weren't closed properly, fixed. o WWF personal area message headers were sometimes incorrect, fixed. o PTQWK 1.05 bundles are now patched to work in spite of all the bugs in them. If bundles by other mail doors refuse to work, let me know. RELEASE: 0.20b DATE: August 10, 1993 o Fixed a bug that caused system crashes while reading messages. o OO now uses registerized arguments that make code smaller and faster. o Pressing backspace in first areas first message caused a crash, fixed. o Minor fixes and optimizations. RELEASE: 0.20a DATE: August 9, 1993 o Area string in header wasn't updated correctly, fixed. o Fixed few bugs in Mark Message and Jump to Marked. o Save Message header wasn't working properly, fixed. o Appending WWF replies didn't actually do anything, fixed. RELEASE: 0.20 DATE: August 9, 1993 o All files in work dir are removed when opening and closing a bundle! o Previous version created file S:OO.palette, make sure you remove it. o Your own messages can be marked as read when bundle is opened. o I changed all keyboard equivalents in Prefs Menu, check it out. o Palette is now saved when you select 'Ok' in Palette Preferences. o OO will display packer output. Remove '-q' options in Packer Prefs. o You can open a shell to the OO screen, select New Shell in Project. o You can now open a new bundle even if you already have one open. o Fixed few bugs in Skip Read and arrow keys support. o Space can also be used to read messages, it's like return. o You can now mark a message and jump back to it later. o File requesters had sometimes strange defaults, fixed. o Close visitor windows requester wasn't working correctly, fixed. o Fixed lots of small bugs and optimized code. o Save Message is now a sub menu with three different options. o Open Area List and Move Workbench Front are new in the preferences. o Included optimized version (OO_020) for 68020 and better processors. o Offline Orbit now supports also WWF message format! There are no specs released yet, so all great features are not supported. You don't need to change anything in your configuration, just open a bundle and read. RELEASE: 0.12 DATE: August 2, 1993 o Offline Orbit now requires reqtools.library V38 or better. o Reqtools requesters look better and are font sensitive. o Documentation is now distributed in AmigaGuide format. o Console snap can be also aborted by pressing right mouse-button. o Palette Preferences is now available, but changes are not yet saved. o Offline Orbit will return error code 20 if something failed. RELEASE: 0.11 DATE: July 29, 1993 o Message pointers really didn't work very well, now they should. o Messages were marked replied even if you selected cancel, fixed. o Area selector sometimes created only an empty list gadget, fixed. o Incorrect area name was displayed in personal area messages, fixed. o Optimized memory allocation, OO now takes a little less memory. o Replies to personal area messages were placed to wrong areas, fixed. o Console snapping is now supported, see documentation for more info. RELEASE: 0.10 DATE: July 26, 1993 o Save Prefs keyboard equivalent was incorrect again, fixed. o Changing area from reply window changed message position, fixed. o OO now remembers what messages you've read. These messages are skipped when you enter the area again and press enter to read next message. If you select LIST, read messages are marked with a symbol. Read docs for additional information. Skip Read option can be found from the prefs. o OO will now open an error requester if saving a message failed. o Included OO.info for Workbench users. o Fixed more than one minor bugs. RELEASE: 0.09 DATE: July 23, 1993 o Offline Orbit screen is now public and can have visitor windows. o Changing screen width from preferences didn't work, fixed. o When you are writing a new message, To is automatically set to 'ALL'. o Storing bundles is not yet available, this feature will be included in the near future with message pointers. o Some minor fixes and code optimizations. RELEASE: 0.08a DATE: July 21, 1993 o Replies were often placed to wrong areas in latest versions, fixed. RELEASE: 0.08 DATE: July 21, 1993 o Some menu commands weren't properly ghosted in empty areas, fixed. o Special ASL save requesters are used when saving a message. o LIST button now allows you to select next message from a requester. RELEASE: 0.07b DATE: July 20, 1993 o Word wrapping lost some characters and words, fixed. o Signatures weren't working correctly, fixed. RELEASE: 0.07a DATE: July 19, 1993 o Character conversion had a major bug that made it unusable, fixed. RELEASE: 0.07 DATE: July 18, 1993 o Character conversion optimized with help from Heimo Laukkanen. o You could scroll, with arrow keys, area selector too far, fixed. o Offline Orbit finally supports more than 256 message areas (65536). o You can now read messages addressed to you by pressing PERSONAL gadget in the area selector window. o Subject gadget is automatically activated when starting to write a new message, you can also leave To empty to address message for everyone. RELEASE: 0.06a DATE: July 17, 1993 o Area selector should finally look correct under KS2. o If you don't select a bundle to open, reader will gracefully cancel. o After replies are packed, size of the archive is reported. RELEASE: 0.06 DATE: July 17, 1993 o Rewritten requester routines for full keyboard support. o Documentation has also been reorganized. o If packers fails, returned error code is displayed to the user. o Packing replies before closing didn't work, fixed. RELEASE: 0.05 DATE: July 15, 1993 o Reader will now open area selector when there are no more messages. o Added Screen Flash checkbox to the General Preferences. If this box is checked, screen will flash when message addressed to you is displayed. o You can now read messages backwards also by pressing backspace. o Area selector should now look correct also under KS2. o Only areas with messages are listed when selecting area for reading. o Fixed few spelling mistakes. RELEASE: 0.04 DATE: July 14, 1993 o Support for optional message signature file added, see Editor Prefs. o Character conversion rewritten in assembler for better speed results. o Word wrap also rewritten and is now much faster than before. o OO now also runs from Workbench and can be made resident. o Packer Extract must now have another '%s' instead of those DAT's. (LhA -q x %s %s %s) o You can now append new replies to end of the old archive when packing. RELEASE: 0.03b DATE: July 12, 1993 o Character conversions didn't work correctly, fixed. Check your prefs! o Few short lines of help texts added for beginners. o Fixed bug that caused attempts to allocate hundreds of mega bytes when only several bytes of memory was needed. This only happened with C-Net bundles that were in slightly incorrect format. RELEASE: 0.03a DATE: July 12, 1993 o Not enough memory was allocated for archive name so it crashed, fixed. o If you select current area again, message position remains the same. o Index files weren't removed from the work directory, fixed. o Aborting area selector didn't work if selected area was empty, fixed. o Title bar was sometimes filled with strange characters, fixed. o Closing bundle didn't correctly clear all variables, fixed. RELEASE: 0.03 DATE: July 12, 1993 o Packed should now only extract CONTROL.DAT and MESSAGES.DAT files from QWK bundle, as only these are currently used and removed when closing. (LhA -q x %s %s CONTROL.DAT MESSAGES.DAT) o Save Prefs keyboard equivalent was incorrect, fixed. o Area selector is now aborted when inactivated so bottom gadgets work. o Screen title contains now also sysop name and bundle creation date. o Character conversion now also converts BBS and sysop names. o You can now save message body with the Save Message menu command. o ASL requester results weren't handled quite correctly, fixed. o If packer failed reader returned an out of memory alert, fixed. RELEASE: 0.02a DATE: July 12, 1993 o There are now some defaults in preferences. o Only QWK related files are removed from work dir. o Packer Extract can now also have %s for work dir. (LhA -q x %s %s) o You have option to remove old bundle when closing. RELEASE: 0.02 DATE: July 11, 1993 o First public beta release. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Offline Orbit Update History Copyright © 1993 by Janne Siren, All Rights Reserved -------------------------------------------------------------------------