------------------------------ The program history of Scout ------------------------------ 16-Sep-2002 Release 3.1 Program version 37.237 o all functions that access non-public lists and lists without locking mechanism are changed that these lists are "locked" by Forbid()/Permit() and all necessary data is copied to a temporary list before it is displayed. This makes Scout work MUCH more safer, causes less crashes, less lock-ups. And somehow the lists are displayed a bit faster, but maybe this is just an illusion and thus my very personal and very subjective opinion :) o fixed several bugs in many small function, far too much to list them all here. o the Task window now shows more exact task states when a task or process is waiting for certain single signals only, instead of just "waiting". If a task is waiting for more than one signal then it is still declared as "waiting". o the Vectors window swallowed the last character of each address due to too small MUI objects. Fixed. o the Interrupt window now shows all interrupts in the system, not just the interrupts in use. Additionally the interrupt priority level (IPL) is shown. o a semaphore's priority is now shown in the Semaphores window and the priority can be changed, too. o added a ResetHandler window, which lists the handler that will be invoked when you press the magic reset key combination :) o the InputHandler window now get it's list in a system clean way to be able to work with future versions of input device, like the input.device V50 included in MorphOS (Harry 'Piru' Sintonen ). o the function to get the task name of certain structures is now much more fail-safe, especially for BCPL strings which where falsely considered to be NUL-terminated, which is not necessarily the case (Harry 'Piru' Sintonen ). o NSD device recognition had a little bug that caused some devices not be recognized as NSD-compliant ones (Harry 'Piru' Sintonen ). o The System window crashed when identify.library wasn't available. Now it will display many messages saying that you don't have identify.library (Todd A. Oberly ). o Scout now tries to open identify.library from LIBS: first and from PROGDIR: afterwards in case you don't have it stored in LIBS:. Requested by Todd A. Oberly o the last alert information in the System window can now be displayed without forcing an Enforcer-Hit if you have THOR's mmu.library installed. Without mmu.library you'll have to live with these unevitable hits. It is simply not possible to show the real last Guru without making Enforcer scream. o AmigaE programs with own stack swapping mechanism are now detected and the free stack size in the Tasks window is no longer calculated for such tasks (Harry 'Piru' Sintonen ). o AmigaDOS error requesters ("Please insert volume...") are now disabled while looking for .fd files. This affects the Patches and the Functions windows (Gunther Nikl ). Additionally the hexadecimal offsets now are preceded by "$" to make it easier to recognize them as hexadecimal numbers o the Remove function in the Tasks window didn't work anymore due to a wrong invocation of the RemoveTask command. Fixed. 16-May-2002 Release 3.0 Program version 37.227 o Scout has been rewritten nearly completely. All lists have been replaced by the much more advanced NList/NListtree classes. Thus the "sort" buttons below the lists are gone, because you can either sort the lists by clicking on the desired list column, or the lists don't need any sorting, because they are sorted "by nature" (ie interrupts and BOOPSI classes), and therefore displayed in a treeview instead of a list. Additionally I have converted every single window into a MUI custom class. This makes further development much easier and more safe. o when gathering system information only "safe" string functions are used. This means that these functions take care of the maximum size of a string, there can't be any "string overflows" anymore. o the tasks window now shows the remaining free stack of each task, too. So you don't need to open the detail window to see the current stack usage. If the remaining stack size is less then 512 bytes the stack entry will be highlighted. You should have an eye on such tasks, or (even better) increase the stack size if possible. o Scout is now partitially localized. All the button texts and requester messages are available in the catalog description. Currently only the built-in english strings are available. o all windows feature a "parent mode". Imagine the following: you open the ports window, after that you open a port detail window via the "More" button and finally you open the flags window for this port. After all that you close the ports window and both the ports detail window and the flags window will be closed, because their "parent" window has been closed. This is a much more intuitive behaviour than having open sub windows while the window, which lead to these sub windows, has been closed already. o Scout can now show a list of all patched functions (libraries, devices and resources) if you have either THOR's SaferPatches or SetMan 2.x installed. I recommend SaferPatches, because it is written with much more sensibility for AmigaOS and it's fragile SetFunction() problems. o Scout can now show a list of all locale catalogs currently in memory. o the devices detail window has been prepared for the forthcomming SANA2-R4 standard, which offers new commands. Anyway, currently no network driver supports these new commands (as far as I know). o Scout can now a list of all available AHI audiomodes and all available information for each audiomode. 13-Feb-2002 Release 2.15 Program version 37.216 o the Appear/Disappear buttons in the commodities window no reflect the ability of the selected commodity to appear/disappear, just like the Exchange program does o the Enforcer-hit-on-task-window-closure is fixed now. Many, many stupid bugs had to be fixed. It's really a shame in which way official Autodocs are ignored and programs are written agains any sane human intelligence :( C= offered enough ways to initialize certain structures by official library functions. Why the hell don't some people use them? o timer routines during CPU usage calculation cleaned up, no more pending messages when DeleteMsgPort()ing the reply port. A really stupid bug :( o the CPU patch semaphore had been initialized completely wrong, causing Enforcer hits and many strange things. I really don't know what Scout's former programmers had in mind, but it must have been very weird :( o additional assigns established via "assign add" are now sorted correctly, and not vice versa o I don't know why, but somehow the 2.14 release didn't appear on Aminet, but just the source code archive. So, here is a new release which fixes a few more bugs, too. 06-Feb-2002 Release 2.14 Program version 37.212 o included latest fixes from Richard Körber, that were available on Aminet o somehow I forgot the version string. Now it is back again :) o the buttons in the main window are now sorted alphabetically and have all the same size. o the screen depth in the screen detail window is now determined via graphics/GetBitMapAttr(), instead of direct peeking. This always gives the correct depth, and not the depth the programm wanted. o fixed bad return code when creating custom classes. This could lead to non-functioning font display. o the program icon is now used as iconify icon, instead of the MUI default icon o the interrupt window now shows the interrupt names instead of interrupt numbers o the ports window now show the flag entry of each message port o when removing tasks you are asked if you want to remove message ports, close opened windows, etc. by this task. Please remember: AmigaOS never had a thing like resource tracking, so you cannot free everything that was allocated by a task. Also remember that this function is a HACK, that means anything can happen, and it is DANGEROUS to hardly remove this stuff, because other tasks can still try to access this stuff. You have been warned... o the font window now show the font's tf_XSize, too. o the task list can now be sorted by CPU usage, too. This makes Scout to a kind of Unix' command "top". Unfortunately this consumes a little bit more CPU time than the other sorting modes. All tasks with the same CPU usage will be sorted alphabetically. o the assign list can now be sorted by path name, too. Thus it is easier to search for assigns to certain directories. o the font preview now shows character 0xa4. If you have installed the Euro update from H&P then you can see the Euro and the Cent sign for the updated fonts. 26-Nov-2001 Release 2.13 Program version 37.210 o devices detail window now shows the device's NewStyle commands, if supported o detail window for FileSystem.resource now shows all currently available filesystems o font window now shows a sample of the selected font o libraries/devices/resources list now includes the version number o all listviews are part of the MUI cycle chain. This allows you to control Scout completely by keyboard. o the BoopsiClasses window now shows the superclasses by name and not as addresses o the Locks window can now show the path of exclusively locked files or directories o the Mounted Devs window now shows the devices filesystem o the "MUI lock" problems seems to be fixed. At least for me there are no more lockups. I hope this is a general "feature". o Removed many, many internal "crap", like uninitialized variables, simply wrong code, etc. This reduced the code size by ~20K, although many new features have been added! o Many, many, many minor internal cleanups and optimizations. Far too many to mention every single change... o Development took over by Thore Böckelmann 30-Oct-97 Release 2.10 Program version 37.204 o Menu shortcuts set to uppercase (style guide) [Marcin Orlowski] o Print filerequester opened in Save mode [Marcin Orlowski] o identify.library is optional now, but Scout will then have a few restrictions [Daniel Lundberg] o Implemented BOOPSI classes window o Improved the System window, now using identify V8 and showing Cache state; added an Update button o All identify strings are in English now, no more language mixture o The Expansion window is consistent now, but not compatible to older Scouts. Make sure to run Scout R2.10 on the remote system as well when using TCP/IP. o Board names are now shown in the expansion list o Re-arranged the main window buttons. Sorry but this was necessary. o Re-arranged the devices and resources window buttons so the window can be sized smaller. [Andreas Benden] o Some minor internal cleanups and optimizations 22-Sep-97 Release 2.9 Program version 37.192 o Forgot to free some memory o Implemented Allocations window o Implemented Timer window o Added the new menu gadgets to the cycle chain o Fixed minor bug in LowMemory window o Recompiled with SAS/C 6.58 o Scout is FreeWare now 01-Aug-97 Release 2.8 Program version 37.184 o "C" is now a valid shortcut for "COMMAND" o Implemented Low Memory window o Implemented Commodities window o Implemented ScreenMode window o Implemented System window o Further minor MUI optimizations o CPU/Chipset info transferred from Expansion window to System window o Function list of Libraries/Devices/Resources available if the appropriate .fd file can be found in the FD: assign. 25-Jul-97 Release 2.7 Program version 37.156 (internal release) o Development continued by Richard Körber o Some minor MUI optimizations o "Scout" logo added =) o CPU usage is now nicely displayed in a gauge o Removed PatchWork hits o Using identify.library for identifying hardware expansions __________________________________________________________________________ 15-Feb-96 Release 2.6 Program version 37.138 o The custom chips was not correctly displayed. (Reported by Marius Sundbakken and Christoph Rickers) o Changed some details of expansions display. o Fixed bug by displaying the CPU usage of tasks in per cent. The stack size of Scout's cheat task was not correctly set. (Reported by Peter Kaltstein and Andreas Fredriksson) o Changed scan routine of locks (with help from Gary Duncan). Perhaps a bug was removed by getting the list of locks. o Fixed portlist killing bug. (This bug happened sometimes, if Scout was started more than once.) =¦^( o Scout did not correctly recognize the 68060 cpu. (Reported by Lee Huggett) o Now all flags should be displayed with their names. (Hi Marius! =¦^) o Fixed MEMSIZE display bug in expansions detail window. (Reported by Tony Leneis) o Fixed small enforcer hit that sometimes appeared at the detail window of windows and screens. (Reported by Mario Kemper) 12-Dec-95 Release 2.5 Program version 37.124 o Fixed small bug in the display of expansion data (AmiTCP). o Changed window titles by using Scout as TCP/IP client. =¦^) o The option 'STARTUP' can also be used for single ARexx commands. Example: 1> scout startup "OpenWindow Tasks" o Now there's no border for an active object by opening a list window. If you want to use the cursor keys for the listview gadgets, you have to press TAB first. o Added command 'PrintList '. This command is available via ARexx and shell (as parameter). o Small memory eating bug fixed. It only appears by using Scout as client or daemon (TCP/IP). o Now the expansion list window also includes informations about the processor(s) and the custom chips. o Patch output removed ('Patches installed!'). o Some minor bug fixes made. 04-Jul-95 Release 2.4 Program version 37.116 o Fixed enforcer hit at freeing assign pool. o Changed routine for getting screen mode names (with help from Stefan Sommerfeld). =¦^) o Fixed enforcer hits at the beginning. (Oh no...) [earlier history stripped]