KingFisher v1.15 fixes two bugs that could hang the program and one
  that was just plain annoying, and adds several new features.  With
  this release, the program has reached its most stable state ever: all
  known and reported bugs are fixed.  From here on it's back on the road
  of big features.

BUG FIXES (with respect to version 1.11):

  -  A bug involving characters in the upper half of the Amiga's character
     set (äöüéèêçïã ... etc.) is now fixed.  The presence of one of these
     symbols in a description would cause KingFisher to lock up.

  -  A bug involving very wide fonts could also hang KingFisher if long
     words would not fit on a single line of the display.  This, too, is
     fixed.

  -  A bug was fixed that would not allow proper canceling of the save
     operation if the KingFisher.config file could not be written for
     one reason or another.


ENHANCEMENTS

  -  KingFisher's word-wrapping code now can break lines in places other
     than blank spaces: it honors dashes "-" and slashes "/" for this
     purpose, and is now also able to force an arbitrary line break if
     necessary.

  -  KingFisher's word-wrapping code is now fine-tuned to allow text to
     fit better into the window space by dropping "trailing" spaces on a
     line.

  -  Added gadgets to jump to the first and last entries in the database.
     These gadgets are relatively small, and located next to the disk
     number gadget.

  -  The font that KingFisher uses for the description can now be supplied
     with style codes to make it bold, italic, and/or underlined.

  -  When operating under Kickstart 2.0 the menu option 'Description Font'
     (it used to say 'Fonts') is now available and will provide the means
     to select a font for the description, including font styles.

  -  A new menu option ('Safe Iconify') now provides the means to prevent
     KingFisher from saving the KingFisher.config file when the program is
     iconified.

  -  The width of exported text can now be set in the KingFisher.config
     file to any value from 40-240.  This width used to be a fixed value
     of 72 columns.

  -  KingFisher can now operate with screens of 1, 2, or 3 bitplanes.  This
     can be used to save some Chip RAM, or speed up some display functions.
     If you use fewer than 3 bitplanes, KingFisher will not use the bubble
     pattern for the background, and the visual appeal of the GUI will
     suffer.
          When using only a single bitplane, most of the gadgets will fail
     to provide selection feedback (i.e. when you click on them, they do
     not change.)  It is recommended, therefore, that you do not use the
     program with only one bitplane.
          This is the first result of my effort to make KingFisher able to
     work with Public Screens.  Further improvements will be forthcoming.

  -  A new menu item under FISH has been added: 'Copy from,' allowing the
     duplication of another Fishtank's contents.  This can be used to reset
     the current string gadgets and the position in the database to some
     value defined by the contents of some other Fishtank.


REFERENCES INTO THE "KINGFISHER.DOC" FILE

The following changes are made to the KingFisher.doc file since the release
of version 1.11.  Read these sections for a better understanding of changes
and enhancements:

  1. Section REQUIREMENTS
     (description)

  2. Section UPGRADING FROM V1.0
     (description)

  3. Section CONCEPTS
     Entry 'Cut & Paste'
     Entry 'Display Database'
     Entry 'Fishtanks'
     Entry 'Fonts'
     Entry 'Iconify'
     Entry 'KingFisher.config'
     Entry 'Name.index'
     Entry 'Printing and Exporting'
     Entry 'Reindexing'

  4. Section MENUS
     Entry 'Description Font'
     Entry 'Safe Iconify'

  5. Section VOLUME REFERENCES
     (description)

  6. Section QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
     (numerous additions)


 ._.  Udo Schuermann
 ( )  walrus@wam.umd.edu