Short: v3.13 of the BEST MC&DAT cover printer Author: enderle@alpha.fh-furtwangen.de (Frank Enderle) Uploader: enderle@alpha.fh-furtwangen.de (Frank Enderle) Type: text/print Replaces: text/print/audioed.lha This is the best cover print program for the Amiga. It prints tapecovers in the highest possible quality and offers a MUI 3.3+ user interface. Works on every workbench printer which is able to print graphics! Small registration fee! Needs at least OS 3.0. This is a complete reprogrammed version which features many new features and a completely reworked GUI. Provides an English and a German manual. Provides locale support for English, German and Svenska. CHECK THIS OUT! YOU WON'T REGRET IT! ====================================================================== Feature-List ------------ I highlighted here some -- in my opinion -- interesting features of AudioED: * prints covers in the highest possible quality * prints using Bitmap and Compugraph fonts * offers the possiblity to save the tape covers into a database. This database can be extended till there's no more storage for it * programmed according to the Commodore Style Guide * offers an online-help * prints tapecovers for normal and slimline tapes * every by the workbench supported printer is supported by AudioED * thanks to MUI AudioED works on every screen resolution * a preview function helps you to save paper * AudioED is able to print a graphic on the title page of a tape * own fontrequester with fontcache and preview * supports DAT (Digital Audio Tape) covers ======================================================================= What's new? ----------- * There were many cosmetic changes. The GUI is now clearly arranged and there should be less problems on screens with lower resolutions. * AudioED is now programmed in an object oriented way which shows up in a more stable program. Currently the OOP is only implemented with MUI. The support routines (there're not many) are not programmed in C++ currently. But I think that this will change in one of the next releases. * MUI 3.x is now full supported. Due to that fact you also nee at least MUI 3.3. Therefore AudioED offers an extensive bubble help and all the other advantages of MUI 3.x. A new version of AudioED was really required since version 2.xx had problems with the new MUI and the GUI was nearly impossible to use. * Drag'n'drop is now full supported wherever I felt that it's an useful thing. * Song entries can now be numbered and highlighted by attributes (italics, bold and underlined). * The songtimes can now optionally be displayed as counter-units. A seconds means then one counter-unit. * AudioED now offers local popup menus (only MUI 3.6+) * Due to the revised databank system I increased the number of entries on DAT tapes to 86. But you'll have to glue the cover a bit ;) * Printing of covers is now asynchron. This was implemented through a background task. * AudioED now finally offers the possiblity to open more than one window at the same time. So you can open for example a print window for DAT and MC tapes at the same time. Same applies to all fontset- and fontrequesters. AudioED is only blocked while printing a cover. * Nearly all configuration are saved seperated within each tape (MC and DAT). * New and more comfortable registration utility. * The size limit of the fonts was removed. Therefore the user has to take more care of selecting not too big fonts. * On DAT tapes it's now possible to print three title lines. * Unfortunately this version doesn't offer the announced MD and DCC support. I ran simply out of time since I have no sample cover and due to the fact that my semester starts soon. Yes... the study is also guilty because it made it impossible for me to develop this version earlier... * On printing MC-tapes you now get also the two little stickers to glue them on the tape. ====================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This history starts at version 3.00 which represents the 5th Aminet release of AudioED. The old history up to version 2.87a was discarded since the program was completely redesigned. AudioED is now programmed according to the OOP design of MUI and BOOPSI. One of the next releases may feature full C++ code. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Legend: ------- B - bugfix I - improvement F - future enhancement S - suggestion ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version Date ID Comment ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.00 27-Aug-96 ---- BETA released to BETA testers. enderle@alpha.fh-furtwangen.de 3.01 28-Aug-96 B--- While rendering the DAT contents comment part the fontset wasn't changed to the info-font. u.kretschmer@bbrandes.berlinet.de 3.02 29-Aug-96 -I-S Multiselect feature added for tape contents to enable multimanipulation for numbering, underlined, bold and italics. u.kretschmer@bbrandes.berlinet.de 3.03 29-Aug-96 B--- Preview is not closed when the print window is closed. This caused an enforcer hits and sometimes a complete system fault. u.kretschmer@bbrandes.berlinet.de 3.04 29-Aug-96 B--- Had to change the popup menu stuff since MUI 3.6 seems to have some bugs in the rendering routine. enderle@alpha.fh-furtwangen.de 3.05 30-Aug-96 B--- The windows of the application weren't blocked while the working window is open. This is now fixed. enderle@alpha.fh-furtwangen.de 3.06 08-Sep-96 B--- AudioED forgot to create the ENV:AudioED and the ENVARC:AudioED directories if they don't exist. enderle@alpha.fh-furtwangen.de 3.07 08-Sep-96 B--- The popup menus of dat.class and mc.class had problems with enabling/disabling of some items. This was fixed. enderle@alpha.fh-furtwangen.de 3.08 08-Sep-96 B--- If Import Tape was called and no filename was given AudioED crashed. enderle@alpha.fh-furtwangen.de 3.09 11-Sep-96 -I-- I thought it would be nice to have those little papers which are glued to the tape sides and so I included them to my print routine for MC covers. enderle@alpha.fh-furtwangen.de 3.10 12-Sep-96 B--- The Preview and the Print buttons in the print requesters weren't disabled after they called the render routines. The user was able to call the Preview two times which would have may caused a crash of AudioED. enderle@alpha.fh-furtwangen.de 3.11 12-Sep-96 -I-S Amiga Technologies said that developers shouldn't use their own trap handler and so I decided to remove the AudioED trap handler from AudioED. This should make no difference for the user. enderle@alpha.fh-furtwangen.de 3.11 15-Sep-96 --FS AudioED should save it's preferences in the common IFF file format. This would make the conversion of the configuration files unnecessarry and will be implemented in the next public release. enderle@alpha.fh-furtwangen.de 3.11 15-Sep-96 --FS The clipboard shouldn't be internal and should also use the IFF format. This makes it then possible to exchange the data between the several classes of AudioED. This will be implemented in the next public release. enderle@alpha.fh-furtwangen.de 3.11 15-Sep-96 --FS Implentation of a ratio to calculate between time and counter setting. This also makes it possible to calculate the total time in counter mode. enderle@alpha.fh-furtwangen.de 3.12 15-Sep-96 -I-- AudioED now recognizes the country's measuring system and switches between metric and inch if required. enderle@alpha.fh-furtwangen.de 3.13 06-Oct-96 -I-S The print windows now uses groups to show the four subgroups which should be of advantage on systems with smaller screens. louvel@dig-isim.univ-montp2.fr 3.13 01-Nov-96 B--- The print task doesn't free it's resources on an abort. enderle@alpha.fh-furtwangen.de