CygnusEd Professional 4.2 ReadMe Late Breaking News and Manual Corrections Contents: o Obtaining Technical Support o Last-Minute Features, Changes, and Clarifications o User Manual Corrections =========================================================================== Obtaining Technical Support Whenever you call us for technical support, please have your CygnusEd Professional serial number, as well as the exact version number of the program (found by selecting the About... menu item under the Project menu in the screen of the CygnusEd Professional application) handy. Having this information available will allow us to better serve you. You can reach us at the phone number listed in your manual. =========================================================================== Last-Minute Features, Changes, and Clarifications We're sorry...we added a few new features to the CygnusEd Professional package after the user manual went to the printers. Listed in the next few sections are descriptions of these new features, as well as any changes and clarifications that need to be made. They include: o Important Notes for Workbench 1.3 Users o Notes For Floppy Disk Users o Notes About Auto-Save Files o Public Screen Requester Additions o Variable Number of Spaces After Punctuation o Special, Format ARexx Commands o Changes to ACTIVATE NEXT CED ARexx Command o New GETDIRNAME ARexx Command --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Notes for Workbench 1.3 Users Use of req.library Due to a last minute difficulty in the ASL emulator library (asl13.library), the CED, RecoverCEDFiles, and MetaMac programs have been modified to use req.library's file requester ONLY UNDER Workbench 1.3. What this changes is the look of the file requester used in these programs. The syntax of the ARexx commands dealing with file loading or saving have not been changed. The version of req.library included is version 2.8, which is a patched version of req.library 2.7. The only difference between the two is that a library closing bug that would cause graphics.library to be closed twice and rexxsys.library to not be closed was fixed. Search history Also, search history will not work under Workbench 1.3 because the functionality to detect when the Up and Down Arrow keys are pressed when the cursor is in an input field is not supported. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes For Floppy Disk Users If you are editing files off of a floppy and have the auto-save feature turned on, please be warned that if you remove the floppy disk from the drive during th editing of the file, anytime you open a new file over it, clear the file, save the file, or quit the program, CED may display a requester asking for you to put the disk back in the drive. This is required in order to remove any auto-save (.auts) files still on the disk. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notes About Auto-Save Files If, when you try to load in a file, an auto-save file exists for it and you decide to load in the auto-save file, the Changes indicator will be set to 1 rather than 0. This is done to protect you from exiting CED without saving the auto-saved version. However, if you decide not to load in the auto-save file, CED will delete the auto-save file without warning when you exit from that file or when CED next does an auto-save on that file, which is probably not what you want. In both cases, exiting from that file will cause CED to delete the auto-save file. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public Screen Requester Additions After selecting a public screen to open CED on, you can now press the Return key to accept the choice. This is in addition to the OK button. In order for a screen to show up in CED's list of public screens, the public screen must be at least 640 by 200, which is why some public screens, such as ADPro's, don't show up in the list. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Variable Number of Spaces After Punctuation A new command called "Post period spaces..." has been added to the Special, Format menu subitems. When selected, it will display a numeric requester, from which the user can specify the number of space characters to add after end-of-sentence (period, question mark, exclamation mark) punctuation and the color character. You can now specify 0 through 10 spaces after these characters. This addition to the program was added due to the large response we received from our users. In addition to this new menu command, an equivalent ARexx command has been added. It is as follows: POST PERIOD SPACES Syntax: POST PERIOD SPACES (1) POST PERIOD SPACES s (2) The first form will display the numeric requester, from which you may enter a new number of spaces. The second form will set the number of spaces to the given value (s). The operation returns RESULT = 1 if a valid number is given, RESULT = 0 if an invalid number is given or if the user cancels the requester. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special, Format ARexx Commands The following ARexx commands were inadvertedly left out of the manual: WITH FILL Syntax: WITH FILL (1) This command will reformat the current paragraph using full (both left and right) justification. The operation always returns RESULT = 1. WITHOUT FILL Syntax: WITHOUT FILL (1) This command will reformat the current paragraph using left justification. The operation always returns RESULT = 1. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes to ACTIVATE NEXT CED ARexx Command If there are multiple copies of CED running, issuing the ACTIVATE NEXT CED via ARexx will return the ARexx port name of this next copy of CED in the RESULT variable. Otherwise, RESULT will be set to 0. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New GETDIRNAME ARexx Command The following ARexx command was added at the last minute: GETDIRNAME Syntax: GETDIRNAME (1) GETDIRNAME defaultdir (2) GETDIRNAME defaultdir title (3) The first form displays a directory requester from which a directory can be selected. No default directory is given. The second form displays a directory requester with the contents of the given `defaultdir' directory shown. The third form displays a directory requester with the contents of the given `defaultdir' directory shown and the text `title' in the requester's title bar. If a directory was selected, RESULT = selected directory. Otherwise, RESULT = blank or "RESULT". =========================================================================== User Manual Corrections p. 11 [Within Section 1.9.1, Documentation Conventions] The phrase, "(with a space between the two keys)", should be removed. p. 16 [Within Section 2.1.1, Input Fields] The word "either" should be removed from the sentence beginning "Input fields are areas within windows that either have a ...". p.153 [Within Section 9.2, ARexx Command Reference] The second form of the "INSTALL DOS/AREXX COMMAND" command should not have a double quote (") after the number. p.158 [Within Section 9.2, ARexx Command Reference] The second form of the "LL" command should not have the slash between the line and column parameters. ===========================================================================