@database "OO_history.guide" @(C) 1993-1997 by Janne Siren, All Rights Reserved @author Janne Siren @remark gconv:40 @node main "Offline Orbit Update History - Table of Contents" Offline Orbit Update History Copyright © 1993-1997 by Janne Siren, All Rights Reserved @{b} Table of Contents @{ub} 1. Introduction @{" Update History " link UPDATE_HISTORY} 2. Updates @{" 0.82 March 8, 1997 " link OO-0.82} @{" 0.81 May 5, 1996 " link OO-0.81} @{" 0.80a November 12, 1995 " link OO-0.80a} @{" 0.80 September 16, 1995 " link OO-0.80} 3. Miscellaneous @{" User's Guide " link OO.guide/main} @endnode @node UPDATE_HISTORY "Offline Orbit Update History - [1] Introduction" This document describes the changes in Offline Orbit since version 0.80. History.lha contains older update histories. The first public version of Offline Orbit (0.02) was released on July 11, 1993. @endnode @node OO-0.82 "Offline Orbit Update History - Release 0.82 (March 8, 1997)" @{b}Announcements: @{ub} o Epsilon Indi, the support BBS, is no longer in operation. All registration keyfiles will be sent out on floppies. @{b}New features: @{ub} o All names in message headers are now automatically recapitalized by Offline Orbit. This will fix the problems people have been having with PCB-OMEN and scandinavian characters (eg. in MBnet). o Messages can now be sorted by their numbers (see Message Threading). @{b}Fixes: @{ub} o Some menu items were ghosted when they shouldn't have been and viceversa. Fixed. o The message header wasn't properly updated after writing a message in the Replies Area. Fixed. o Resizing the puzzle many times easily caused an stack overflow due to the recursive nature of the function. Fixed. o OMEN reply headers contained some inaccurate data that sometimes posted messages to wrong areas. Fixed. @endnode @node OO-0.81 "Offline Orbit Update History - Release 0.81 (May 5, 1996)" @{b}Announcements: @{ub} o Apologies for the long time it took for this minor update to get released. The author has been busy with his studies and other work. He has every intention of developing Offline Orbit further. o Finnish users can now pay registrations directly to the authors bank account. o If you use localization, remember to update the catalogs! @{b}New features: @{ub} o OMEN: Offline Orbit now supports the extensions in OMEN revision I. o OMEN: Offline commands for moderating messages (moving, deleting, etc.) are now supported. o OMEN: Point addresses are now removed from netmail messages before they are packed. OMEN doesn't support points. o "%d" in the packing command is now properly replaced with file names instead of using a wildcard (#?) that causes headache for certain packers (eg. old ZIP archivers). o Delete Message and Move Message in Messages menu. o Expert User in General Preferences. o New advanced options for editing replies. o Extra spaces after BBS and sysop names are now removed. o When opening a new bundle while one is already open, you have the option to start a new session for the second bundle. o Clicking the middle mouse button (if your mouse has one) on the Offline Orbit window now opens the area selector (or the Open Bundle requester if no bundle is open). @{b}Fixes: @{ub} o Control Panel keyboard equivalents didn't always work. Fixed. o OMEN: Private flag of private messages wasn't saved. Fixed. o The internal file copying routine didn't free it's memory on pre-3.0 machines causing severe memory loss. Fixed. o Some messages were accidentally shown as addressed to "Shell". Fixed. o A few fixes in the documentation. @endnode @node OO-0.80a "Offline Orbit Update History - Release 0.80a (November 12, 1995)" @{b}Announcements: @{ub} o Visit Offline Orbit's home page at http://www.mikrobitti.fi/~siren/oo/ @{b}New features: @{ub} o Number of the message for which the currently displayed message is a reply is now shown in brackets in the Number gadget. o New character conversion option ("-") for disabling the conversion. o Shell window's title is now localized. o Used language is now displayed in the About window. @{b}Fixes: @{ub} o Window Settings' Mode gadget's titles weren't localized. Fixed. o Packer Preferences' Stack gadget's value wasn't saved. Fixed. @endnode @node OO-0.80 "Offline Orbit Update History - Release 0.80 (September 16, 1995)" @{b}Announcements: @{ub} o Offline Orbit is now shareware. After an evaluation period of twenty days you must either register Offline Orbit or discontinue using it. You may naturally continue using 0.76 free of charge. This is also why the version number suddenly skipped three steps - to clearly separate the shareware versions from older freeware releases. Hopefully you will find the small compensation for the author's efforts acceptable and register. Please, see the manual for further information. o To contact the author via Internet, send e-mail to siren@mikrobitti.fi. Don't use any of the old Internet addresses or the old Fidonet address. @{b}New features: @{ub} o Listviews can now be scrolled using a joystick. Trigger equals enter. o When browsing messages using a joystick, pressing trigger will now open the area selector. o Steal Tag Lines in Messages Menu. it allows you to "steal" tag lines from messages. o You can now use the arrows, Pg Up, Pd Dn, Home and End keys on the numeric keypad to browse messages. o When reading a message, pressing Alt and either one of the vertical arrow keys now moves to the beginning (or end) of the message. o You can now open a bundle by entering it's file name (with full path) as a command line parameter when starting Offline Orbit. o Case Sensitive checkbox in Search window. o Better error checking for packing replies. If appending fails or the packer fails without returning an error code, no replies are destroyed. o Localization. Description file, as well as translation files for Finnish, can be found in the Catalogs directory. o Quote Header gadget in BBS Preferences. @{b}Fixes: @{ub} o OMEN: Message status was by default set to private in areas where both public and private messages could be written. Fixed. o Blue Wave: Offline Orbit had troubles opening bundles from systems that use 8 characters long identifiers. Fixed. o There was a scroll bug in the new listview routines. Fixed. o Selecting names from the Select User Name list didn't always work properly. Fixed. o Keyboard equivalents of From and To button gadgets in Edit Message window weren't disabled when there was no entries in the User List. Fixed. o Address gadget in Edit Message window was sometimes enabled or disabled without a valid reason. Fixed. o Blue Wave and OMEN: Fixed a bug in packing replies that, among other things, caused incorrect netmail addresses to be saved in reply headers. o Listviews in BBS Preferences, Packer Preferences and User List unnecessarily displayed the currently selected item. Fixed. o Saving message pointers failed if BBS's name contained non-printable characters. Fixed. @{b}Miscellaneous: @{ub} o Revised brag line. o Icons for the Icons directory and it's contents. o Revised icons in the Icons directory. @endnode