AmigaTalk© 1998-2002 Programming System by J.T. Steichen 

          HISTORY of AmigaTalk© for the Amiga-series of PC's:

FUTURE:

V1.9 (Released on --2002)

   * Removed the Editor Window from TheBrowser (it was too much of
     a headache to maintain!).
     
   * Added the ability to process an Initialization script & an
     update script to the program.
   
   * Added BOOPSI, IFF, & GadTools Classes & support.
     
   * Singleton Classes are now indeed Singletons!

   * Increased the program stack size from 4000 to 50,000.

   * Added some new ToolTypes to the Icon.
      
   * Fixed a bug in the Parse program in AmigaTalk:c/ that led to
     placing a null pointer into the interpreter stack, leading
     to an internal error.  This means that any classes you've written
     that led to the Internal error requester might be fixed if you
     simply send them through the Parse program again.
     
   * Changed the input line buffer size from 8192 to 32768 for some
     large methods in system.p.
     
   * Re-wrote the library.st source for System.p.  This means that any
     classes you might have derived from the Library class are now
     broken (sorry!)

   * Re-wrote the BitMap & Border classes & sourcecode.  This means 
     that any classes you might have derived from them are now
     broken (sorry!)

   * A lot of other Intuition & System Classes were re-written.  This means 
     that any classes you might have derived from them are now broken
     (sorry!)   
     
   * Added the Classes SafeDOS, UnSafeDOS, DangerousDOS & VeryDangerousDOS
   
   * Added the PrinterDevice class.
   
   * Added the DataTypes classes.
      
V1.8 (Released on 14-Dec-2001)

   * Added the following class file:  Amigatalk:Intuition/Icon.st
   
   * Added documentation for the Upcoming DataType Classes.
         
V1.7 (Released on 19-Mar-2001)

   * Added the following Methods to the Integer Class:
      asHex     "Return the Integer as a HexaDecimal String."
      asBinary  "Return the Integer as a Bianry      String."
      asOctal   "Return the Integer as a Octal       String."
     
   * Changed GeneralClasses.guide to reflect added methods.

   * Added getDeviceAddressList method to System/Device.st

   * Added the following classes to Amigatalk:System/
      Clipboard.st
      Narrator.st
      ParallelDevice.st
      
   * Added the following methods to AmigaTalk.st:
      showTaskProcessList           "Show all known Tasks & Processes."
      showScreenWindowList          "Show all known Screens & Windows."

      getProcessAddress: procName
      getTaskAddress:    taskName
      getScreenAddress:  screenName
      getWindowAddress:  windowName

      getTaskAddressList    "Return an Array of Task    addresses."
      getProcessAddressList "Return an Array of Process addresses."
      getScreenAddressList  "Return an Array of Screen  addresses."
      getWindowAddressList  "Return an Array of Window  addresses."

      displayProcessInfo: procAddress
      displayTaskInfo:    taskAddress
      displayScreenInfo:  screenAddress
      displayWindowInfo:  windowAddress

      newIO: msgString title: title "Must be used before gets or displays:"

      setIOMessage:    newMessage
      setIOTitle:      newTitle
      setIODirectory:  newDirectory
      setIOScreenName: newScreenName

      getString                     "Return a String from the User."
      getInteger                    "Return an Integer from the User."
      getFileName                   "Get a filename from ASL."
      getScreenModeID               "Get a ScreenModeID from ASL."

      displayFile:    fileName
      displayString:  string
      displayInteger: integer

V1.6 (unReleased)

V1.5

   * First stable, working release of AmigaTalk©.  Once the original source
     code for Little Smalltalk V1.0 was cleaned up (removed all macros
     that should have been functions, placed Global variables & flags in
     one file, re-formatted all code to make it readable, & changed the
     function declarations to static wherever possible), the last few
     bugs were found in the ByteCode interpreter & the code started 
     working correctly.  (NOTE to all Programmers out there:  Remove the
     TAB key from your keyboard, no two editors or printers treat them the
     same, so they just have to be transformed to spaces anyway!)

   * All Intuition objects (except for Alerts) were given Classes.
     Gadgets & Menus will be re-done for a later revision of AmigaTalk
     to use NewGadgets & NewMenus.
     
   * Classes for the following System Devices & parts were added:
      Device.st       "Abstract Class."
      GamePort.st     "Access to the Mouse & GamePort devices."
      Library.st      "Access to shared Library information."
      MsgPort.st
      SerialDevice.st "Access to the Serial    device."
      Timer.st        "Access to the Timer     device."
      TrackDisk.st    "Access to the TrackDisk device."
     
V1.0

   * Bug-ridden version of AmigaTalk©