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Jo Even Skarstein

021299 - Taskbar 2.70 beta 2

Changes and bugfixes:

• Evaluates the environment-variable FINDER. Set this to point to your favourite search-utility, e.g. export FINDER=c:\thing\thingfnd.app.
• "Start shell" is now completely removed from the Start-menu when appropriate.
• It should now work properly in monochrome again :-) It still needs atleast 16 colours to display icons though.
• "Shutdown" now works under MagiC if the environment-variable SDMASTER is set.
• Greatly improved Geneva-support. Should now work 99% under Geneva. Only tested with Geneva 006.
• Improved MagiC-support. Still not perfect though, but I'm working on it.
• Killed a really serious bug which caused a bus-error at startup if index.grp wasn't present.

Known bugs:

• "Start shell" bombs under Geneva+MiNT. I haven't really looked into this yet, but it might be a problem with TosWin under Geneva.
• Topping an application under MagiC will bring the menu-bar to focus, but not actually top any windows. Strange... Other than that I believe MagiC-support is complete.
• I've removed a lot of kludges in the font-code, a side-effect is that the system-font is not centered correctly in the buttons.
• I'm still using Prenice() to change a process' priority, this doesn't work correctly with MiNT >= 1.15.3.
• One person has a problem with DHST-support, Taskbar crash as soon as it tries to install or remove the DHST-cookie. I have not been able to reproduce this bug, but some of the fixes I've implemented this weekend might have fixed this.

281199 - Taskbar 2.70 beta

Changes and bugfixes:

• Experimental support for MagiC and Geneva. Please try it out if you have one of these AESes, but don't expect too much. There are still a lot of problems with hiding/showing/killing applications. I'm hoping to fix this sometime after Christmas.
• It now supports icons in the application-buttons. These are stored in icons.rsc. You can add icons yourself, but so far these must be 16x16 pixels!
• Lots of changes to the code due to MagiC- and Geneva-support. I might have introduced bugs here...
• Lots of changes to config.app (which now is called config.ovl btw.) to support MagiC. Linked it with CF-Lib pl11 which apparently fixed a few problems I had with MagiC.
• Fixed a few minor bugs in the Start-menu.

Known bugs:

• I've removed a lot of kludges in the font-code, a side-effect is that the system-font is not centered correctly in the buttons.
• I'm still using Prenice() to change a process' priority, this doesn't work correctly with MiNT >= 1.15.3.
• One person has a problem with DHST-support, Taskbar crash as soon as it tries to install or remove the DHST-cookie. I have not been able to reproduce this bug, but some of the fixes I've implemented this weekend might have fixed this.
• Mono-support is still bogus :-(

Important!

270699 - Taskbar 2.60 beta 2

Changes and bugfixes:

• Bug: The heap was corrupted, which lead to serious problems with the CPX-menu on certain systems.
• Bug: Using *.grp-files in separators didn't work.
• Added checksum-testing of Taskbar.inf. Taskbar will complain about a corrupted Taskbar.inf, just load the file anyway and save the configuration again.
• It's now a couple of steps closer to full MagiC-compatibility.

160699 - Taskbar 2.60 beta

Changes and bugfixes:

• There was a small bug in the AV_DRAGACCWIND-handler which caused a memory-violation.
• Start-menu totally re-organised. Just try it out, there should be plenty of bugs there for you to find ;-)
  • Index.grp is moved to the first level, this means that it's now possible to have four levels of groups instead of three.
  • Added a sub-menu with all active CPX-modules. This is currently hardcoded to look for *.cpx in c:\cpx.
• The popups was not displayed properly in mono.
• Cleaned up a lot of code.

100499 - Taskbar 2.51 beta

Changes and bugfixes:

• Several problems re. non-proportional bitmap-fonts should be resolved.
• If an accessory owned the only open window and it was closed, it's button on Taskbar was not updated.
• Put in a lot of sanity-checks to prevent possible crashes when a lot of Start-menu objects was loaded.
• The popups can no longer be larger than the screen, if this happened Taskbar (or to be more presise, the AES) would crash. I'm trying to implement scrollable menus, but haven't succeded yet.
• The looks of the popups is slightly changed. Mono-users, please let me know if they still work! Since "upgrading" to NVDI5 I'm no longer able to use my graphics-card in mono.

Taskbar 2.11 beta

Changes and bugfixes:

• Colours for text, selected text, background, selected background and shadows can now be configured individually for the Start-button, application-buttons, accessory-buttons, desktop, background and clock.
• New (again, sorry...) Taskbar.inf, please delete the old and reconfigure. It won't be the last time, please be patient with me. The good news is that Taskbar now performs a version-check on the config-file.
• More intelligent checking of applications, Taskbar is now faster and more efficient. It will improve even more in the next release.
• It's now possible to not display accessories ("Show accs" in config-program).
• The seconds are removed from the clock.
• Clock now visible in mono, configuration-program works better in mono.
• Killed 20 or so bugs ;-)

081198 - Taskbar 2.10 beta

Lots of changes since 2.03...

• Better handling of quotes filenames. Quoted filenames can be unquoted by holding right shift while dragging the file to the Taskbar.
• Lots of changes in the redraw-code which should result in more accurate redraws.
• The text in the start-button is now editable. It's also possible to use $HOSTNAME.
• Taskbar will look for 'sendto.grp' if 'Index.grp' can't be found. When/if Thing supports a hierarchial sendto-menu you can use the same menu for both sendto and Taskbar's "Applications"-menu.
• All keypresses are redirected to the AV-server.
• Better BubbleGEM-support.
• Autohide can be toggled on/off with single left-click on Taskbar's background.
• A clock is added. Try clicking on it.
• Removed the "Run program..."-dialog, it never worked as intended anyway. I have some plans for this, but for now it only opens Thing's "Open object"-fileselector.
• Lots of internal changes, large parts of the code is now rewritten. Hopefully this will ease the MagiC-port...
• Completely new configuration-program. This is compiled with gcc and linked with CF-lib and MiNTlibs. As a result the code is now about 10 times as large as the previous version...
• The syntax of Taskbar.inf is changed, so please delete the old Taskbar.inf and reconfigure!.

080898 - Taskbar 2.03 beta

Bugfixes/changes:

• Redraws should now be flicker-free and faster.
• DHST finally properly implemented.
• Fixed bug in "Documents"-menu where long entries was bugged (The "CAB-bug" mentioned in 2.01b).
• Taskbar now supports quoted filenames, both in Drag'n Drop and DHST. Please test this if you can!

190798 - Taskbar 2.02 beta

Some small fixes, one major bug eradicated:

• Bug: Shortened application-names wasn't redrawed correctly.
• If the mouse-pointer rests over a button with a shortened title, a BubbleGEM-bubble will pop up and display the full title.
• Hypertext updated.

120798 - Taskbar 2.01 beta

Just some small fixes:

• It's now possible to delete all entries in the "Documents"-menu with a simple [Control] + left-click on the "Documents"-entry in the Start-menu.
• Swapped "Quit" and "Shutdown".
• The config-program's menu-text was too long for N.AES, although menu_register() should accept upto 31 characters...
• It seems like N.AES < 1.1.7 doesn't handle popups wider than 32 characters. I've added a check for this, please let me know if you still experience problems with long DHST-entries.

  The problem with CAB and DHST is known, and ATM I believe CAB is the guilty part here.