***** Gui4Cli - GHANGES ***** Version 2.1a - 1 NOVEMBER 1996 - Bug Fix - Fixed some bugs.. Mainly the Launch and LVDIRHOOK command IDs which got mixed up with the GadIDs, the resizing on Radio buttons and some icon & GUI changes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 2.1 - OCTOBER 1996 - more big changes... - xLISTVIEW can now become a File Manager with multiple selections etc etc. You can also have normal listviews with multi-selection. Read the manual - see the demo - live the experience! - New commands for multiple listviews : - LVDIR GuiName GadID Parent|Root|Disks|All|None|Refresh|#DirName will allow you to control the directory listviews. - LVMULTI GuiName GadID First|Next will allow to read the multi-selections made. - LVMOVE GuiName GadID +-OffSet - is for all listviews and shifts their display left-right. - New recursive commands : ACTION COPY|COPYNEW|MOVE|DELETE|SIZE|PROTECT File/Dir Dest|REQ|NOREQ|Var|ON|OFF will recursively copy/move etc a single file or a full directory. LVACTION COPY|COPYNEW|MOVE|DELETE|SIZE|PROTECT GuiFile GadID Dest|REQ|NOREQ|Var|ON|OFF will recursively copy/move etc all selected files/dirs & update the DirListview accordingly. COPY From(with wildcharacters) ToFile/Dir DELETE can now also delete directories. - New Internal Variables for MultiLVs, giving info on the Current entry : $$LV_TYPE - will be DIR, FILE, VOL, ASN, DEV or NONE (has conditions) $$LV_TOTAL - will give you the total number of entries (NOT YET) $$LV_DIR - the current directory the fileviewer is suposed to be at $$LV_GUI - will be the name of the GUI the LV resides in $$LV_ID - is the id number of this listview (or 0 if no id) ListView Gadget modifiers : - LVCOLORS Foreground Background Dirs Selected is a gadget modifier for all listviews, to change their colors - LVDIRHOOK HookID - is for directory listviews only and is the number of an event which will be executed every time you change directories. - xLVDIRHOOK HookID - is the event which will be executed when the Dir Listview with the same HookID changes directory. - A very nice new FONT containing graphic characters (arrows, disks etc) made by Graham Maddox is included. Copy it to your fonts dir. - LAUNCH LaunchID CommandLine - xOnReturn LaunchID These 2 will allow a degree of multitasking in Gui4Cli, allowing you to launch a program and know when it has finished, without holding up the rest of the GUIs (as CLI would have done). All this, thanks to the help of Michael Van Elst. - New variable commands - EXTRACT Var Device|File|Path|Guipath|Clean|Unquote DestinationVar will extract the above items from a Variable. - JOINFILE Path File Variable will join the Filename to the path and put it into Variable (quoted if needed). - TTGet FullPath (no .info) - will try to load the icon of the given full path + filename and will convert all the tooltypes it finds therein into variables. - CONTROL-J will now cause your window to magically jump to the next available Public Screen - if there is one. - xONJUMP NewScreenName - is the event that will be executed (if defined), allowing you to setscreen any accompanying GUIs - Caught a bug whereby ListViews and some other gadgets were not freed correctly if a GadFont command had been declared for them. Also, placed some more error checks, fixed the H= operator and the escape key handling. Also made parsing a little faster. - Added wildcard matching to the delvar command, so you can delete many variables at once - ex: DelVar myvar#? - Added 3 new operators - look at the manual. - CHANGEGAD can now be used to change the window size, by giving a GadID of 0. - Added commands : GUIRENAME which will rename a loaded gui. ASSIGN Device: Path|REMOVE - for assigning (no multiple assigns yet) RENAME OldName NewName - Set LOAD_DIR "dh0:PlaceIKeepMyGuis" - will now reset the default gui load directory that the status requester LOAD button will take you to. - Added the HIGH keyword for the GadTitle command, which is supposed to HighLight the Gadget Label. It doesn't on my system... maybe it will on yours. ------------------------------------------------------------------- ******************************************************************* Version 2.0 - August 1996 - Major Changes.. - WINDOW BACKFILL : You can now have a SOLID color or a PATTERN of 2 colors or a ICON tiled as the background of your window, adding a dash of flash to your GUIs, with the command : WinBackground SOLID-PATTERN-ICON Color1 Color2 Thanks to Michael Van Elst for the code & the help. - RESIZABLE WINDOWS : Windows may now be resizable. You do it by adding the appropriate right or bottom border sizing gadgets with the WINTYPE command. WinType 11110011 - is a typical window with all gadgets. - The CONTROL-W shortcut will allow you to save the default window size you want for each window, on your system. - FONT SENSITIVE WINDOWS : All windows will now be checked, to see if the screen font used fits in the GUI's gadgets, and if not, the GUI will be resized accordingly. This is still in the early stages actually, but we'll get there.... - TRANSLATION is now done on ALL arguments of ALL Event Commands. Oh.. the Power to be felt.. :-) - You now have the ability to CHANGE GUIs DYNAMICALLY (i.e. while the program is running), by using the following commands : - SETGAD which now has 2 new keywords : SHOW and HIDE. These will enable you to make gadgets appear or disappear in your windows. CHANGEARG GuiFile GadID ArgumentNumber NewValue -> very powerful command. Will change any of a given gadget's arguments to the new value specified. CHANGEGAD GuiFile GadID L T W H Title -> like ChangeArg, but changes 5 arguments at once to new values. REDRAW GuiFile -> redraws the window with any changes you made (if any). CHANGEICON GuiFile GadID L T NewIconName (no .info) -> Change an Icon (of an xICON or IMAGE gadget). - Also, GRAPHICS commands, (LINE, BOX, CTEXT etc) can now have a GadgetID and be also changed dynamically with the above commands. - The ESCAPE key is now used to immediately stop all command execution and processing and return Gui4Cli to it's waiting state. It works in any of Gui4Cli's windows, for all windows. A requester will pop-up telling you you aborted. - Use of Wait or IfExists on a non existant file or dir no longer causes error requester. Buffer overflows and errors in if, while, docase, goto statements now make themselves known through error requesters. Error reports have generally goten better.. - Fixed incorrect handling of nested if/else/endif & mark/goto constructs. They now work perfectly. (If God did actually help, like I asked him to..) - IMAGE graphics command. This takes exactly the same arguments as the xICON gadget, i.e. : IMAGE LeftEdge, TopEdge, IconName (no .info) and draws the icon in your window. The difference with xICON is that this icon is not clickable. It's just a background image. - IMAGES in MENUS It's now possible to have ICON images in you Menus. Look at the xMENU event for details. - Other New Commands : SETCOLOR GuiFile ColorNumber R G B -> will set the ColorNumber color of the screen the GuiFile is or will be open on, to the specified RGB values. - IMPORTANT CHANGES : The following changes have been made to the templates of Gadgets, which you MUST change in any GUIs you may have made up to now, since otherwise you will get "syntax errors" : xRADIO type gadgets now have Width and Height. CTEXT Now has an extra argument, the UL|BD|IT mask, (like GadFont) also : The Width and Height of the xCHECKBOX type gadgets now HAVE meaning. Look at the respective commands for more details. - xTEXTIN type gadgets now retain what you write in them, even if you do not press "ENTER" at the end. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ************************* OLDER VERSIONS ***************************** Version 1.0d - NewLookMenus (i.e. colour 1 on 2) enabled. - $Variable\n did not work, since parser did not stop at the \ - fixed. - Fixed minor errors in manual... (to be continued..) - LVSave command now works. - LVDel command now works. - Added command : LVGet GuiName GadID LineNumber Variable Will put the text of the LineNumber of the given Listview gadget into Variable. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.0c - Fixed bug in UnFilled square drawing - Reported by John Collett (forgot to move to new position before starting to draw the square). - Big Bad Mama of a Bug - Circle FILL - Reported by John Collett Using completely wrong function. Anyway... Fixed it. - Have added CLI/ToolType switch named NOREQUEST This will disable the requester which comes up if you start the program without giving it a file name and will therefore allow you to put the small GUI program (with its icon) into the WBStartup drawer and not get a requester at startup time. - If you specify OUTPUT=ConsoleSpec as a CLI option Gui4Cli will now actually create the console you specify - used to only use the shell it started from. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Version 1.0b - ListViews now handle tabs correctly. - ListView sorting sorted out. - SetGad xTEXTIN-type-gadget ON, will now also activate xTEXTIN gadgets. - Added Internal variable : $$LASTLV : The Number of the record clicked on the latest ListView to be clicked upon. (This, because listviews can either return a NUM or a TXT and you may need both). ------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.0 (1st version - sometime during October 1995, I think)