Short:    ViNCEd 3.70 beta 3
Uploader: thor@math.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Richter)
Author:   thor@math.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Richter)
Type:     util/shell
Version:  3.70ß3
Requires: Any Amiga, Kickstart 2.0 or better.

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Warning: The 3.69 was is the LAST releases that still supported Os 1.x
	 You have been warned.
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-------- history ----- this is not the complete history, read the guide!----

Changes made for 3.70:

	- Lots of housekeeping work:
		- Removed all obsolete Os 1.x handling code:
			- The code does no longer try to use arp if V37
			  dos.library is not available.
			- I will now use EasyRequester() instead of the
			  obsolete AutoRequest().
			- Menu construction will use gadtools routines now.
			- File requester requires asl now and will no longer
			  fall back to arp.
			- ViNCEd requires now V37 boopsis and will no longer
			  be able to build its own gadgets in case boopsis
			  are not available.
			- A lot of fallback code to V33 releases has been
			  removed. Finally.
			- As a result of all this work, the library shrunk
			  in size even though new features have been 
			  included.
		- Rewrote the startup code completely. The pre 3.70 code
		  was more adapted to the V33 ramlib mechanism and tried to
		  work around some ramlib features which are no longer an
		  issue. It therefore might have run into some race conditions
		  that have been removed for the new code. As a side effect,
		  the "GlobVec" entry of the mount list should be set to -2.
		  (For the experts: Yes, ViNCEd knows how to handle the race
		   conditions caused by this. Don't worry...)
	- Added multiple "screen" handling which is owner-specific. Hence, a
	  ViNCEd window is now able to hold more than just "one buffer". The
	  contents of the ViNCEd "screens" can be exchanged by a single CSI
	  sequence, as in XTerm. Useful for terminals. (Typically used by
	  programs like "elm" or "emacs")
	- Added mouse tracking support, mainly for "VIM". ViNCEd is now able 
	  to support X10 mouse button messages, XTerm and XTerm2 mouse 
	  tracking commands. XTerm "interactive" mouse tracking is not
	  supported due to some limitations the intuition world sets. The
	  documentation does not yet cover this feature fully, sorry.
	- Added a keyboard function to iconify the window. The old SetVNC
	  should already be able to handle this, it is flexible enough.
	- Fixed a tiny bug in the preferences handling; the default 
	  preferences location used to be the old instead of the new location.
	- Fixed a bug in ESCc, reset handling. ESCc did not reset the cursor
	  rendering CSI0p. 

To do:

	- MORE testing. VinCEd 3.70beta3 runs now stable on my machine since
	  october this year, but you'll better have a look.
	- Update the guide even more. Mouse tracking is not yet documented.
	- Check multiple screen handling even more.
	- Check mouse tracking even more.
	- Update the localization of SetVNC.
	- Update SetVNC.

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Send ideas, improvements, bugreports (please as concrete as possible) to:


        Thomas Richter


EMail:  thor@math.tu-berlin.de

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March 2000

        Thomas