***  Welcome to The Aurora Editor/32 version 3.0!  ***
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                     All rights reserved worldwide.


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  This file highlights the new features available in Aurora/32, and
  lists the differences between Aurora/32 and the previous Dos version
  of Aurora. For more information, see the User's Guide, Language
  Reference, and Function Reference.
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New Features and Changes:
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* 32-bit power:

    Aurora/32 is a 32-bit console-mode program designed for Windows/95
    and Windows/NT.


* More Video modes:

    In windowed-mode, Aurora/32 will support nearly any video mode you
    can think of, such as: 80x25, 85x37, 100x60, 140x90, etc.

    The Video Options configuration dialog box was altered to accomodate
    new video modes, and added to the Set menu for easy access.


* More Key combinations are available, including:

    <alt center>
    <alt f13-f24>

    <ctrl '>  <ctrl ,>  <ctrl .>  <ctrl />  <ctrl 0-1>  <ctrl 3-5>
    <ctrl 7-9>  <ctrl ;>  <ctrl =>  <ctrl `>  <ctrl esc>  <ctrl f13-f24>

    <shift backspace>  <shift enter>  <shift esc>  <shift f13-f24>
    <shift grey+>  <shift grey->  <shift grey/>  <shift greyenter>


* Increased Capacity:

    Virtual memory size increased to 4 Gigabytes.

    Maxmimum line length increased to 32000 columns.

    The amount of text that can be cut/pasted to/from Windows is now
    limited only by Windows memory.


* Mouse Options removed:

    The following Aurora mouse configuration settings are not needed in
    a Windows environment and have been removed from Config.aml and the
    Mouse Options configuration dialog box:

      Mouse
      MouseOpt
      MouSenX
      MouSenY
      MouDST


* File Manager changes:

    File Copy/Move now has more options when replacing an existing file:
    Replace, Replace All, No Replace, and Cancel.

    <f5> refreshes the File Manager.


* Macro changes:


* Other changes:

    Shiftblock for line marks will now always expand real tabs before
    shifting the text.

    Command line option 'd' (use short file names) has been removed.

    Other minor changes.



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(The following section is primarily of interest to macro programmers)


Library Statement:
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A new 'library' statement allows Win32 DLL functions to be called from
within the macro language. See the Language Reference and Function
Reference for details.


Macro Language Changes:
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Keycodes and eventcodes are different.

Executable macro file (.X) formats have changed slightly. Aurora/Dos .X
files will not run under Aurora/32 and vice-versa.


Increased Capacity:
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* maximum string length increased to 64k
* maximum array size (for a single dimension) increased to 8000
* unlimited macro file size
* maximum function size (compiled) is now 64k


New Functions:
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The following new functions and events were added to Aurora/32. See
Function.dox or Language.dox for more details:

* builtin functions:

  addr          // return the physical memory address of an argument


Functions Removed:
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The following macro language functions are no longer supported for
Aurora/32 and have been removed:

* builtin functions:

  blink         // not needed - blink is always off
  closemouse    // not needed - mouse is always open
  hidemouse     // not needed - mouse is always visible
  maxems        // not needed - no ems memory
  maxxms        // not needed - no xms memory
  mousepos      // not needed
  mousesense    // not needed - set by Windows control panel
  openmouse     // not needed - mouse is always open


Functions Altered:
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The following functions were altered in some way for Aurora/32:

Builtin functions:

* button?, getmousex, getmousey

  Unlike Aurora/Dos, the values returned by these functions reflect the
  state of the mouse when the last mouse event was dispatched to the
  interpreter, not the actual real-time state of the mouse.

* cursorsize

  This function now takes only two arguments representing the height of
  the cursor from the bottom of the character cell in insert and
  overstrike modes.

* event?

  A new option 'u' was added to test only for user events.

* getos

  Option 'l' (long names supported) was removed.

* kbdoptions

  Options 'e' and 'w' were removed.

* memoptions

  Two new parameters - 'blocksize' and 'blockcount' were added to
  control the amount of operating system memory used by the editor.

* priority

  Only two priority values are now supported: 0=normal, 1=above normal.

* showcursor

  This function now takes only one argument representing the height of
  the cursor from the bottom of the character cell.

* system

  This function now takes only one option 'w'. If 'w' is specified, the
  interpreter waits for the spawned program to end before 'system'
  returns, otherwise 'system' returns immediately.