D B

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                  The small and powerful database program

                    by David Ekholm and Marcin Orlowski

         e-mail: carlos@amiga.com.pl   WWW: http://amiga.com.pl/db/

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  * V3.6 (15.11.99)  ** THIS IS SNAPSHOT OF THE BETA VERSION! **

                    - DEFPATTERN argument was always ignored by previous
                      version of db
                    - You can now change the type of any field from within
                      the edit field window
                    - New ARexx command "SortOrder" allows you to switch
                      sorting order between ascending and descending
                      (equivalent of Settings/SortOrder menu item)

                     BAD NEWS:
                     The last modification I've done in the DB's sources
                     are dated 14.03.1998, so they ain't fresh. As you
                     probably guessed, I am not doing DB development
                     any longer (after using DB for many years, I've now
                     switched to Amiga port of mSQL which I found more
                     flexible for my purposes and very fast for the amount
                     of records I've had in all my databases). Thanks to
                     msql.library (with ARexx port!) using SQL engine is
                     now as powerful as it should. Give mSQL a try as well
                     (shall be on Aminet as well). Companion tools are
                     also available (search for "msql")
                     
                     I've released the sources as well. Anyone who wish
                     to continue the development, please feel free to
                     grab them and do anything you want.


  * V3.5 (24.09.97) - As David's dropped the DB project (at least for now),
                      starting from version 3.5 DB is developed by
                      Marcin Orlowski, so all your bug reports, oppinions
                      etc concerning DB should be mailed to him. Don't
                      forget to visit the DB home page (URL is placed above).
                    - Added TEXT type to view design toolbar.
                    - Added TEXTFIELD type to view design toolbar
                      (however you can't change its height in editor yet)
                    - Added abbreviations to Shell template
                    - Trailing ':' is no longer added to selector window's
                      title if the record label the title is based on,
                      already has it.
                    - Edit view related strings are now localized
                    - New CLI/tooltype DEFPATTERN (def. "#?")
                    - New CLI/tooltype DEFREXXPATTERN (def. "#?.(db|rexxdb)")
                    - Toolbox items call be also accessed via F1-F5 keys
                      directly from edit view window
                    - New menu item - reload current project
                    - New menu item - relaunch recently selected ARexx script
                    - Hungarian translation added. DB now supports 14 languages.
                      Unfortunately, most of existing translations
                      are a little bit outdated with this edition. Hope that
                      will change with next release, when all will finish their
                      holidays. For now you can use old catalogs but all newly
                      localised strings will appear in english.