* Gator Edit 32 1.5 VERSION.TXT provides information about
* changes and coming attractions for the product *

* Known bugs and limitations are explained in this file *

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Gator32 version info: see below for changes per each version.

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[] Features not yet implemented but coming in a later release:

1.   Option to not add removable and network media to MRU list
2.   Background file saving, printing
3.   Wait cursor for long operations not applied everywhere
4.   Column marking
5.   Registry editor
6.   User friendly window tiling
7.   Blank line management on text menu.
8.   Background Power Replacer
9.   Support for complex expressions in open file searches.
10.  Spacer buttons for toolbars.  (Almost ready)

[] Known bugs not fixed:

1. Need to be able to increase spacing during toolbar edits without button order
   shifting.
2. Speller:  If Ignore HTML checked and document contains a '<' with no
   matching '>' the speller will ignore everything after the '<'
3. Orpheus editor will not insert spaces or tabs at beginning
   of word-wrapped lines.
4. Print preview 2 page view with non-standard document sizes.
5. If Gator closed minimized with Tracker or Window Manager rolled up
   you have to drag window size to get size correct.

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Version 1.5.06

[] Bugs fixed this version

Sort code for date column in CMPQwk viewer patched to handle
various system date formats.  Should do actual date sort now
on all systems without errors.
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Version 1.5.05

[] Bugs fixed this version

Since not all message dates are valid dates an error was occurring
when sirting messages on the date column in the cmpqwk viewer.  Had
to change to just a straight ascii sort of the date column.

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Version 1.5.04

[] Bugs fixed this version

Error in CMP Viewer edit window when saving a changed message
caused by the new date column.
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Version 1.5.03

[] Features implemented in this version:

Added Sortable date column to CMPQwk Folder Viewer.

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Version 1.5.02

[] Features implemented in this version:

Added Prev/Next Folders buttons to the CMPQwk message editing dialog.

[] Bugs fixed in this version:

Main form popup menu CMPQwk item was not enabled.

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Version 1.5 B
* Public Build Beta 07 *

[] Features implemented in this version:

New gatres.dll includes new splash screen, new about dialog bitmap,
new buttons for CMPQWK, and a disabled version of the Open File
Bitmap.  Note:  To fix the bitmaps used on any of your File Open
buttons on custom toolbars you need to drag them off the toolbar
and then back on from the setup dialog.  If you don't do this these
buttons will not display their bitmaps correctly.

The Help/Search menu option and button have been enabled.

Program credits are viewable by double-clicking the eraser in the
About dialog bitmap.

If you have set your Bark options on the Bark options tab of the
configuration dialog then when minimized you will see a small 32X32
animation in the center of your screen while Gator barks before
minimizing.

You can now drag selected items from the Power Finder Results window
to Gator and it will open them for you.

Added multi-selection capability to the File Tracker dialog so you
can select multiple files and open them, delete them, or drag them
to Gator to be opened!

When opening a file or files from the MRU List, FileTracker, via the
Reload Last Open Files option, Power Finder Results, and Fast Finder
if any of the files do not exist anymore you will be given a dialog
listing the files not found where you can select any or all of them
and have Gator set up and run a search with Power Finder for the files
you select.  If Power Finder is already running a search you will get
the same dialog except with the option to have the Power Finder dialog
set up so that the next search it would run when displayed will be a
search for these files.

**** CMPQWK Folder Support *****
Finally we have added support for working with CMPQWK folder files!
See the help file for details but you should find the dialog very
similar to the one in CMPQWK with the following exceptions:

        Do not attempt to edit folders in Gator and CMPQWK at the
        same time!  You will corrupt your folders.  You have been
        warned and will be warned again the first time you run
        the folder viewer in gator.

        You can select more than one message in the message list to
        be moved to another folder, deleted, or viewed in gator as
        a *.trd file that will be deleted automatically on exit! These
        temporary files will not be added to your MRU List or Tracker
        so don't worry about having a list of files that don't exist.

        You can Print a message and it will use all of your settings
        for a regular Quick Print letting you do pages, copies, collating.

        Most important, you can EDIT messages and save them back to the
        folders they came from!  Select a message and Click the Edit
        button and you will see the message header above and the contents
        below in an editable window.  Strip out stuff and then save it!

Added an Always Delete Files From Disk option to the File Tab of the
Configuration dialog.  Use with caution as if this is selected you
will have no chance to confirm single file deletes done by selecting
File/Delete current file or when deleting files from Private Clipboard.
However, files deleted from multi-select windows will always give you options
on how to handle the deletions.

Added a Trim trailing blanks on save to the File Tab of Config Dialog.

[] Bugs fixed in this version:

When deleting a gator config the entry for that config in the speller.cfg
file is also removed to prevent a future config of the same name from using it.

The Speller will now properly highlight misspelled words when using Real tabs!

When reopening a file over 1 meg with background loading on you would get
an invalid line or paragraph error when gator would try to restore your previous
cursor position before all lines had been loaded.  Now previous settings for
background loaded files will not be restored until the load is completed.

New gatres.dll fixes incorrect transparency on large Clear All Markers and Clear
a Text Marker toolbar button bitmaps.

If you open a binary or read-only file and it somehow gets deleted before you
respond to the prompts the resulting error is correctly trapped.

The Search/Replace dialogs and Special Character map edit controls fonts are now
changed to the current edit window font so you can see special characters exactly as they will be searched for in the document.

If you have the Toolbar Builder dialog showing you can drag buttons
on existing toolbars back and forth to reposition them or from one
toolbar to another.

When you open files from Tracker, PowerFinder Results, Fast Finder,
or Private ClipBoard the dialog should come back to the front when
finished opening files.

When opening the Power Finder Results the first time, if your list
contained more than 750 items, the progress dialog that displayed
let the main form stay active.  This has been fixed.

Sortlines was not clearing its buffers resulting in blank lines being
replaced with text that was previously deleted.  Thanks to Mark for
finding this one!

Fixed a bug in Boolean AND searches in Power Finder that would cause them
to all fail to find matches.

If running in Large Font mode the toolbar buttons on the toolbar setup
dialogs would scale to larger than the ones on your toolbars.  When you
would drag one to a toolbar it would be inserted in this larger size and
looked terrible.  Buttons are now always sized properly when dropped on
a toolbar.

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Version 1.5 B
* Public Build Beta 06 *

[] Features implemented in this version:

Added sound events for:

        Power Finder
        Window Manager
        File Tracker
        Private Clipboard
        Power Finder Results
        Paste from private clipboard
        Copy to private clipboard
        Open CMPQWK

When a file has been modified in another editor and you load
it into Gator, the warning dialog about not restoring bookmarks
and cursor position has a checkbox to turn of these warnings for
the remainder of the gator session.  This helps if you have modified
a large group of files in an editor other than Gator (shame on you!)

Added code that when you delete a Gator config asks for confirmation
before deleting that config's clips and searchresults directories.

When you clone a config also clones the clips and searchresults
directories.

If you have text selected and do Search or Search/Replace you will
be given a choice of using the selection as the search string or
restricting the search to the selected text.  Dialog options are
set accordingly.

Added message dialog to fast finder when a file cannot be opened for
some reason or other.

Small performance improvement in Fast Finder by adding a file i/o
buffer for expression searches.

Power Finder:  (finally)

Now you can search in the background for multiple file masks in
multiple drives/directories for multiple boolean AND or OR
expressions and each of these expressions can be complex using
all of the operators discussed in the help file.  Note that use
of multiple masks and search expressions will increase search time.
See the help for more details on use of this tool.  You can also
save and restore search results and look at them in any text editor!

Changes to Power Finder:

When the Power FInder dialog is displayed clicking the Help
button will take you to general Power Finder help.  Pressing
the F1 key will bring up a help section pertaining to the
currently selected dialog tab.

Added wait cursor when loading and saving search results files.  If
results file contains more than 750 items a small dialog will display
when loading or saving to let you know what it is doing.

If the directory edit box contains an entry that doesn't end in a comma
(manually entered) and you add a drive/directory by clicking the Add
button the comma is inserted for you.

Added code to the File mask, Directory, and Search Expression edit controls
that will strip leading and trailing blanks from each item in the string
before passing to the search engine.  So now it is OK to separate multiple
items with spaces in addition to the comma delimiter for readability.

Added three options to the How to Search tab for handling of file open
errors during a search:

        Suppress file open errors (but log them)
        Warn about file open errors when done (and log them)
        Don't warn about or log file open errors

If you check Suppress then errors will be logged to a file named
search errors.err in your current Gator config's searchresults
subdirectory, but you will not be notified of these errors when
the search is done.  If you check Warn then errors are logged as above
and when search is done you are given the opportunity to view the error
log file in Gator.  If you check Don't Warn then no log is created and
you are not notified of any errors .... they are ignored.

Added pause/resume capability:

When doing a background search left-clicking the animated button will
ask if you want to stop the search.  Right clicking the button will
bring up a pop up menu with options based on current search status:

Pause search -  available if search is running.  Will temporarily
                suspend the search thread.

Stop search -   will ask if you want to stop the search where it is
                and if you say yes will then process results normally.

Resume search - available if paused.  Will continue the search where it
                left off.

Note - if a search is paused left-clicking on the button will start the
search back up again.

All of the above options are available when doing a non-background search
(results window is visible) except you use the Stop light button instead of
the animated button.  This way you can pause the search and take a look at
the results so far and even open and delete files.  Then you can resume
the search where it left off or stop it.

File deletions done from the Power Finder Results window:

Since you can multi select files in the results window we thought it safer
to change the way multiple files marked for deletion are handled.  When you
delete files from the results window by selecting them and pressing the DEL
key or clicking the Delete button you will be shown a dialog with various
options depending on if you are running Win95 or NT4 or NT 3.51.

If you are running under NT 3.51 options are:

        Confirm each file deletion
        Delete all files from disk (No confirmation - Use Caution!)

        If you check Confirm then for each file you will be asked if
        you are sure you want to delete it or not before the delete
        takes place.

        If you check Delete then you will be given one more chance to cancel
        the operation.  If you don't cancel then all selected files will be
        deleted from disk with no chance of recovery so be careful with this!

If you are running Win95 or NT4 options are:

        Ask to recycle or delete each file
        Send them all to the recycle bin (No confirmations)
        Delete them all from disk (No confirmations - Use Caution)

        These options are self explanatory and again if you choose
        to Delete them all you get one last chance to cancel.  If you
        choose the Ask option then for each file you can either cancel,
        recycle, or delete it and is by far the safest option to use
        or use the recycle all so you can get them back if you make a mistake.


[] Bugs fixed in this version:

If deleting the last line in an edit window would eliminate the
need for vertical scroll bars would cause an access violation.
Please test this for me.

If a file was created in gator and then saved to the clips directory
it was still being added to the MRU list and Tracker database.

When saving a clip file the Save directory is now preset to your
clips directory.

If a file was opened in Gator and then deleted from disk outside of
Gator you could not close Gator.

If you try to open a file in Gator that another application has an
open file handle to you will be told that gator can't open it.  This
is mostly with files opened with Word or files in use by Windows.

Print settings and Private Clipboard settings were not being cloned
when you cloned a Gator config using the Clone Config option.

Some dialogs were not scaling properly when running in 800X600 or
1024X768 resolution and using large font mode.  Please test this.

If selected text in other than first line and then did a replace all
you would get a double replacement of the first matching string.

In Power Finder errors caused when trying to search in windows swap
files are now properly handled.

In Power Finder if running in large font mode the animated bitmap
was not scaling properly.
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Version 1.5 B
* Public Build Beta 05 *

[] Features implemented in this version:

Added show splash item to help menu.

Current sort status panel added to File tracker, Window Manager, and
Private Clipboard windows.

If no text selected and you Copy to New Private Clip or Append to
Selected clip you are given the option to copy or append the entire
document.

If no text selected and you Copy, Copy and Append, or Copy to New Window
you are given the option to use the entire document.

Drag and drop from Private Clipboard:
The first time you display the Private Clipboard window you will see
a dialog letting you set drag and drop options for clip files dragged
from the clipboard window to the active edit window.  You can have it
drop the clip at the last cursor position or at the mouse cursor position.
You can also set these options by clicking the new "Sliders" button on
the Private Clipboard title bar.  To drag a clip to the active editor
just click on it in the clip list and drag with the left mouse button
over the edit window and release it.

Recycle Bin Support:
Under Win95 and NT4 you will see options available on the File Tab of the
Configuration dialog that let you either "Always put deleted files in the
Recycle Bin" or "Always ask where to put deleted files".  If you choose the
"Always Ask" option then each time you delete a file or clip you will be
given a choice to either move the file to the Recycle Bin or delete the
file from disk.  These settings work for clips deleted from Private Clipboard
as well as files deleted using Delete Current File menu item or deleted from
the File tracker window.

Added File/Rename menu item to File Menu ... shortcut is Shift-Alt-R.  This
will allow you to rename an open file without doing Save As and then deleting
it.

[] Bugs fixed in this version:

Underlined shortcut keys for dialog buttons have been removed except for
Cancel, Close and OK buttons to eliminate conflicts with application hot
key combinations.  Also the following hot keys have changed to eliminate
duplicates:

Edit/Copy to New Window         Shift-Alt-E
Edit/Delete to BOL              Shift-Ctrl-B
Edit/Insert Line Before         Ctrl-I
Edit/Repeat Line                Shift-Ctrl-R

In some cases a fresh install of Gator would not find the help file on first
run.

Status panels for all windows now resize proportionately when the window is
re-sized.

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Version 1.5 B
* Public Build Beta 04 *

[] Features implemented in this version:

New gatres.dll with Private clipboard bitmaps and new pester splash.

Private Clipboard - when you first run this version Gator will
create a directory in your config's working directory named clips.
After this any files that you copy into this directory or save to
this directory will be shown as available clips in the Private
Clipboard manager window.  These can be DOS, UNIX, MAC files.
Buttons on the toolbar have hints explaining function ... in addition
if a clip is selected in the Clipboard manager window then the
following keys have these effects:

  ENTER - Will paste the selected clip into the current edit window.
          Also available from the main window with Shift Ctrl V.
  INS   - If text is selected in the active edit window and the
          Clip Manager has focus then this will create a new clip
          containing the selected text and let you name it.
          Also available from the main window with Shift Ctrl C.
  DEL   - Will delete the selected clip file after confirmation.

  Shift Ctrl X - If text selected in active edit window will cut
                 the selected text from the editor and create a new
                 clip from it.

  Double clicking an item will open the clip for editing in gator.

Added Print and Help buttons to default toolbar.
Added message dialog when first display Toolbar Builder that explains
that the Default toolbar cannot be edited but can be hidden and you
can create your own toolbars to replace it.
Added code to enable/disable buttons in Window Manager, Tracker,
and Private Clipboard based on what functions are available to you.

[] Bugs fixed in this version:

Alt F/P will do quick print.
Alt E will drop down Edit menu.
Alt H will open Help menu.
Initial focus forced to text entry field for Search/Replace dialogs.
Insert File code would not properly convert MAC and UNIX files.

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Version 1.5 B
* Public Build Beta 03 *

[] Features implemented in this version:

Added Delete to Beginning of Line Item to Edit Menu and MDI pop up Menu.  Also
added a button for this function to the Toolbar Setup Dialogs.

Improved checking for valid BDE install before enabling tracker.

Added FileName with Path Variable to Page Setup Dialog.

First find/replace will start at first line ... subsequent searches will start
at cursor position.

Removed hard-coded beta expiration date.

New gatres.dll due to new toolbar button for Delete to Beginning of Line
function.

Printing Changes:

Reverse order printing now enabled for both Quick and Preview Print.
Will work even if not supported by your particular printer and works
with or without collating and single or multiple copies.

Blank lines are stripped from tops of printed pages to ensure top
margins align.

Added user selectable number of blank lines after header and before footer
to the Page Setup Dialog.

Added Bold, Italic, and Underline Fonts for header and footer to Page Setup
Dialog .... note that not all combinations will work with all printers.

[] Bugs fixed in this version:

Extra blank line between body and footer.

Gator's idle time loop was taking 98-100% of CPU cycles.

Some menu and menu item hot keys have been changed to eliminate duplicates.

Access violation error if Gator closed minimized with tracker or WinMgr open
when restart and restore gator.

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Version 1.5 B
* Public Build Beta 02 *

[] Features implemented in this version:

Added print status dialog to Quick Print so user can abort print job.
Note that printer will still print whatever has already gone to the print spool
after you abort the print job.

Note:  Print collating and number of copies are supported even if your printer
does not have these capabilities!  That's right ... we coded it into the app
so it will work for all printers.

Print Preview

Print preview is now functional and will use headers, footers, and margins
set up on the PageSetup dialog.  Default is to use editor font but have added
a Font button to the preview dialog that lets you change the font to be printed
with and updates the preview accordingly.  Also added Page Setup button to the
preview so you can jump to the page setup dialog and change your headers,
footers, or margins and have the preview instantly updated.  When you print
from preview you will get a page count and be able to print all pages, range
of pages, or selected text as well as collate and number of copies.  Headers
and footers can be turned on and off from the Page Setup Dialog.

Quick Print

Quick print is just that ... it does a quick print of all or a portion of the
current edit window without headers and footers but uses the margins from the
Page Setup Dialog.  Default is to use the editor font but have added to the Page
Setup Dialog a Font button which will let you select a printer font to use and
a checkbox that lets you decide to either use the editor font for quick print or
use the font selected with the Page Setup font button.

[] Bugs fixed in this version:

Default margins for Page Setup Dialog changed from printer non-printable
areas to one inch all around.

If gator was run without database support and then database support was
installed File tracker column widths would get set to zero and could not
be changed.

Users should no longer get extra blank pages at the end of each print job.

When closing a modified file and answering yes to the save prompt Gator
would not always update the MRU list and Tracker database.

When closing a group of files with Close All and one or more files were modified
and needed saved Gator would often leave at least one file unclosed.

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Version 1.5 B
* First Public Build Beta 01 *

[] Features implemented in this version:

If cursor is on a line with a book mark set and you select
Clear Marker, the proper marker will already be selected for
you when the dialog displays so you can just press enter to
clear it.

Quick Print:  The quick print menu item has been updated so
that it can do the following:

* Display a page count.
* Print all pages, page range, selected text.
* Print a number of copies.
* Collate multiple page documents and copies.

Note: Quick print will use the margins set on the Page Setup
dialog which defaults to the minimum margins for your printer
and it will always use the font from the active edit window.

Changes:  The headers, footers, and font on the Page Setup
dialog have been disabled while Print Preview is being finished.
Print preview has been shut off while I rewrite it to use your
custom headers and footers and do everything Quick print does.


[] Bugs fixed in this version:

Access violations when using Speed Search in File tracker and
Window Manager.

Copy & Paste were not working in Find, Find/Replace, and Fast
Find Dialogs.

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For product support write to: tech.support@patchbay.com

To report bugs during the beta cycle write to: gator.author@patchbay.com

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