MultiTool II
                                 V1.5
                              08.09.1993

                           LIST OF CHANGES



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This file is a "quick and dirty" translation of the German history file.
It contains a list of all changes performed to MTool since V1.4.
The names of the people that suggested a feature or found a bug are
noticed in brackets.
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Future enhancements/suggestions:

- other archivers (Harald Schneider)
- automatic installation of disks
- find a pattern in a directory tree (Jochen Schiller)
- sort by file size or date (Marc Duponcheel)
- palette requester (C. J. Ellerbeck)

These features are planned for MTool V2.0:

- Selection of a drawer by simply dropping its icon in the window
  of MTool. (AppWindow) (Christian Krenner)
- directory history, including selections.
- Listview window to select dirs from the history
- Copy and delete requester can be switched off
- Listview window to select a command (Christian Krenner)
- A file can be given an icon according to its file type.
- Display dates in the file lists (Marc Duponcheel)
- Preferences window
- All new features are accessible only if you own a keyfile.
  See manual about how to register.

Other suggestions and bug reports are welcome...

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V1.5 - 08.09.1993 released

NEW:

- MTool is a commodity now (C. J. Ellerbeck)
- You can't work with two MTools simultanously. Starting a second one
  will open the window of the first one (if it was closed) and bring
  to front its screen/window.
- Improved English texts (C. J. Ellerbeck)
- Barlines in menus (C. J. Ellerbeck)
- NewLookMenus with OS3.0 (C. J. Ellerbeck)
- Proportional fonts for gadgets (C. J. Ellerbeck)
- Maximum font size is 50 pixels now (was 20)
- Straight insertion instead of bubblesort (faster)
- New "about"-window (C. J. Ellerbeck)
- Abort rename of multiple files via close gadget (C. J. Ellerbeck)
- Jump to beginning of the file list if you reach the end of the list
  with the cursor keys. (C. J. Ellerbeck)
- Spanish catalog file (José Garcia)
- new key words to control analyzing: TYPE, FILT and HFIL. (C. J.
  Ellerbeck)
- Configuable device list with new key word CDEV (Markus Mönig,
  Reinhard Kunter)
- Thicker frame on gadgets, that can be activated by pressing Return.
- Parent of assigns works now. (Parent of DEVS: will give you WB_2.x:)
- If MTool is displayed on the Workbench screen, Parent can be reached
  by clicking on the broad right window frame. (Holger Trapp)
- Changed manual to AmigaGuide (C. J. Ellerbeck, Andreas Baum)
- Visible response of the Gadgets if you use the Keyboard shortcuts
  (Brian Jacobson, thanks for your code!)
- Jump to beginning/end of a file list with Ctrl-Cursor (Matthias Hank)
- Screen mode requester enables selection of number of colours. (C. J.
  Ellerbeck)
- MTool is shareware now

BUGFIXES:

- No guru if you open archives with path names with more than 80 chars
  length.
- No error message if you select Info without having selected a file.
  (C. J. Ellerbeck)
- No trashing of the title bar of the string requester if you are using
  a big screen font. (Christian Krenner)
- Font requester always opened on the Workbench screen on OS2.0 (Marc
  Necker)
- No false "Disk full" messages any more during copy.
- "Change Name" in the copy requester now works.
- If an error occured during "Move", the original file was deleted
  anyway. Fixed. (Bernd Johannes)
- If an error occured on resizing the window, MTool didn't free all
  resources (memory loss). Fixed. (Bernd Johannes)

KNOWN BUGS:

none.