X-Arc's past, present and future.

• Version 1.0 [April 15th, 1998] AmyResource preview version
  • First public release
  
  
  
• Version 1.1 [May 15th, 1998]
  • Public demo presented at WOA
  • Radically changed the adder window
  • Minor changes
  
  
  
• Version 1.2preview [September 15th, 1998] AmyResource preview version.
  • 4 months spent to rewrite almost all program's basic routines
  • Several bugs fixed, some of which where severe ones.
  • Fixed some illegal memory accesses
  • Loading and parsing routines totally rewritten
  • All secondary routine has been adapted to the new internal program design
  • You can now update the contents of a directory of loaded archive without having to reload the whole archive
  • If you perform an operation within one branch of the arvhive (e.g. adding a file), only this branch is updated. The whole archive is not reloaded again.
  • New routines can handle flawlessly even archives version 1.1 had problem to manage.
  • Version 1.2 is 1.5 times faster than the previous version, which is a good result since new routines are more sophisticated and reliable.
  • Introduced support for Scalos drag&drop. It stills need some adjustments.
  • If X-Arc is launched when the user is conncected to the Internet, it checks if a new version has been released. If so, asks the user if he/she wants to download it.
  • Some minor changes to the interface
  • You can now have X-Arc open the destination window automatically whenever you want to extract files, by activating the proper checkmark in the preferences.
  • A file-attributes column added.
  
  
  
• Version 1.2 [September 21, 1998]
  • Scalos support is now complete
  • Clicking on name of the column used for sorting exchanges the sorting order
  • Other minor adjustments
  • Finally a public release :)
  
  
  
• Version 1.3 [January 26, 1999]
  • Installer support
  • Several major and minor bugfixes
  • Speed improvement
  • Some GUI redesign
  • Some new small functions and optimized old ones
  • Some new settings in the preferences
  
  
  
• Future [No timeline..!]
  • Search files into the archive (half done)
  • Asyncro functions
  • Floating toolbar
  • External images
  • Brand new module system (working on...)
  • Pre&Post filters on the archive (pgp, uu, gz, mime64, etc)

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