History of Changes for the Zeus for Windows Editor ================================================== Version 1.00 ------------ Initial release of the Zeus for Windows Version 1.00 Version 1.01 ------------ 1) Fixed: Problem with electric keyboard expansion. The electric listbox is case insensitive but the search was done as case sensitive. This meant the following expansion did not work. "T" 1 "TRUE" Note: That the keyboard expansion is still coded to be case sensitive. 2) Fixed: Tab characters where not being processed correctly in the preprocessor string. For example the following would paint incorrectly. #ifdef 3) Fixed: Tab characters where not being processed correctly when place within strings. For example the following would paint incorrectly. "this is a string with a tab in it" 4) Added: Added electric expansion "\b" control character and changed search to limit words with delimiters characters also (ie "(ifg" would now expand out). 6) Added: Backup interval edit field to editor options dialog box was added. 7) Added: If Zeus is minimised and a file is opened by double clicking or dropping on the Zeus for windows icon (using the File Manager, Zeus file associations) then Zeus will be restored to normal size. 8) Added: The Open dialog now has persistence. It remembers the file extension filter last used (for the period of the edit session only). Version 1.02 ------------ 9) Added: New functions, Close, Close All and Save All added to the toolbar and Save All option added to the File menu. 10) Added: Standard CUA keyboard mappings for cut, copy, paste and marking have been added to editor. 11) Added: Better use of the hourglass for operations requiring CPU time. 12) Added: Brief Ctrl-F5 toggle case sensitivity command was added. 13) Fixed: Tab and Shift-Tab of a marked area now moves the area with tabs or spaces depending on the options editor "Replace tabs with space" option (old version would always use spaces). Version 1.03 ------------ 14) Fixed: Major problem with non US keyboard drivers now fixed. For example Zeus would cause crash if keyboard was set to German and an extended (Non ASCII) key was pressed. 15) Fixed: Problem with compiler not working over different disk drives. ie c:\zeus could not compile file located in e:\project. 16) Added: Error listbox font now matches the font selected for editing. This should allow more of the error message to be seen (in the case of very long error messages). 17) Fixed: When the compiler is run in minimized mode, Zeus for Windows does not loose active status any more (it would incorrectly switch to the program manager if the PM was visible). 18) Added: Brief Ctrl-K Kill to beginning of line command added. 19) Added: Multiple file selection to the File Open dialog box added. 20) Added: Extra messaging reporting added to the status line. 21) Added: Ability to define two file open and file save as filters was added to the editor setup dialog box. 21) Fixed: Problem found when a stream marked area that contained tabs characters was deleted or cut has been fixed. NOTE: Version 1.03 Frozen ========================= Sold first copy of Zeus for Windows V1.03 Editor. Zeus for Windows frozen at this version while work starts on the platform portable version of Zeus. Version 1.04 (Start of portable version) ---------------------------------------- 22) Fixed: Any multi select file open on any root directory (ie a:\\filename.txt) would cause an error opening the selected files. 23) Fixed: Double click on error list box would loose the status bar error when the document was activated. Now the error is not lost on double click activation. 24) Fixed: Added feature to editor setup that enables the size of the newly created MDI window to be controled. 25) Fixed: Smart indenting in overwrite mode would delete characters from the line below. This has now been fixed. 26) Added: Goto dialog and bookmark dialog now remember the last valid value entered. Also better feedback via the status line was added. 27) Added: The Error listbox now supports a horizontal scroll bar. 28) Added: A Online Help QuickSearch feature was added to the Help menu popup. 29) Fixed: The compiler error processing has been reworked in an effort to remove a few strange bugs that would sometimes occur while compiling. Also a third parameter was added to the comand line arguments passed to compiler batch file (see online help for details). 30) Added: Added a new improved toolbar and status bar. It paints better, have less flicker and removes some of the keyboard problems (ie using the old toolbar the alt key would not work if the mouse pointer is on a toolbar button). 31) Added: Added a the ability to show and hide the toolbar and status bar using the menu options. 32) Fixed: Hitting backspace with the cursor at column position 0 does not delete the character like it use to. 33) Fixed: Searching for whole words was not working. This is now fixed. 34) Fixed: The Replace dialog find and replace buttons where not working as would be expected. This has now been fixed. 35) Fixed: Reduced the amount of screen flicker when opening and closing the MDI windows. 36) Fixed: Added error message if you try to compile a file that is changed and somehow becomes write protected. Previously Zeus would just abort the compile without an error. 37) Fixed: Zeus would let you start mutiple compiles while the first compile was still in progress. This eventually caused the system to GPF. Zeus has been fixed, so that it now only allows one compile at a time. 38) Added: The error window now supports the Control+Minus key (or file close menu) option. If the error windows contains compiler output the control minus returns you to the file that had been compiled and so it behaves like a revesrse to the Control+P list errors keystroke. 39) Fixed: The Open and Save As file dialog where modeless. The have now been made modal to the main application. 40) Added: The file restore on startup feature now restores the file and the line number on startup. 41) Added: The insert/overwrite now have proper insert and overwrite carets (cursors) respecively, giving better visual feedback on the current insert mode. 42) Fixed: The word highlighting code will highlights quoted strings differently to normal text. This algorithm would work for the first quoted string but not for the second of two quoted strings on the same line. For example: VALUE "CompanyName", "Xidicone Pty Ltd", "Zeus for Windows" for the line above Atl-h would correctly highlight the first but not the second or second strings. It now works correctly for all strings. 43) Added: The compile process now reports if the compile was successful, has warnings or has errors. Previously it only reported the compile was complete. 44) Fixed: If the Enter key was hit while text was highlighted, the highlighted text was not replaced by the enter key. This has now been fixed (NOTE: this ONLY applies when the editor is in insert mode). Version 1.05 (Start of Windows 3.x Windows 95 Combined Development) ------------------------------------------------------------------- 45) Fixed: Fixed a few /****/ comment painting problems. I'm sure there are still a lot more to come! Bug #1: Put the cursor on the middle of the first comment line and then hit the Alt-K key. Then hit undo and the painting does not return to the correct comment state. /*************************************************************/ This should return to none commented after the undo is done! /*************************************************************/ Bug #2: Insert line number one into the the block comment then hit undo. /* This is line number one (copy this line only) */ /* * This is the block comment * Insert the the one line above here! */ 46) Added: The search and replace dialog gives the user better feedback by using the status line to display a message when things go wrong. 47) Added: The editor setup option now allows you to toggle a left hand margin on or off. 48) Fixed: Fixed 3 bugs with the comment /* ie comments */ processing. The old code was getting out of synch after line insertions and deletions. The new code has at least 3 less bugs to worry about. 48) Fixed: Improved the background compile processing. For example by improving the message dispatch a typical background compile time has been reduced by 50% and loads from floppy disk are much faster. 49) Added: Added limited keyboard macro support to allow the recording and playback of simple key strokes macros. Now supports F7, F8 and Ctrl-R commands. 50) Added: Configurable colorize support based on file extension. This also allows things like the keywords, comment character, preprocessor character, string character and delimiters characters to de defined for each file type. 51) Added: The editor now supports a basic line wrap feature. This allows you to define a column at which the editor will automaticly line wrap, breaking the line on a word boundry. 52) Fixed: Fixed a bug in the options editor dialog where the backup interval entry field was getting disabled incorrectly. 53) Added: The file open can now be configuired to allow/not allow single or multiple loads of files. This means that if the file is already loaded Zeus can be made to restore the original rather than loading a second copy, or a second copy can be opened if required. 54) Fixed: Fixed a problem wil Zeus trying to open a file that was already opened by another application. After the sharing violation message Zeus would protection violate. This has now been fixed. 54) Added: Added the ability to read and write unix text file in addition to the default standard MS-DOS text file formats. 55) Added: I have added as restore size feature. Zeus now remembers the size and position of the main frame window between editing sessions. 56) Added: If the error handler finds the error in and external file and that error is selected from the error output window, the error handling will no try to open up the external file and goto the line at fault. 57) Added: Support for setting up and running external tools has been added to the main menu. Piping of the results to an output window has also been added. Files can be loaded from the output window by just double clicking on any line in the output window, provided the line selected contains a valid file name. 58) Fixed: The print support in Zeus has been totally re-worked. This has improved the printing and hopefully fix the numerous problems with the old printing code. 59) Fixed: The CUA marking has been fixed to also allow CUA marking while using the word left or word right keys. Also the ghost mark sometimes seen when CUA marking has been fixed. 60) Added: The command line processing has been improved to allow the '?' and '*' wild card characters. This enabled multiple files to be loaded via the command line, for example when Zeus is run from File Manager or Program Manager menu run commands. Version 1.05.3 -------------- NOTE: Zeus Windows 3.x Version complete and tested while Zeus Windows 95 awaits the final release of Windows 95 to allow testing to be completed. Version 1.06 Alpha Started (programmable keyboard and better macro support) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 61) Added: Support for the Alt-B list file buffer function was added. 62) Added: Support for the Ctrl-G list file functions in file was added. This will only work with C\C++ type function prototypes. 63) Added: Support for regular expression search and replace was added. 64) Added: The search and replace dialog now support the tab search and replace on the tab character using the '\t' search and replace strings. 65) Added: The contents of the output window and the compiler message window can now be copied to clipboard. 66) Fixed/Added (take your pick): The line goto command now retains the current cursor position. 67) Fixed The backspace command would incorrectly do a character delete when the cursor was located past the EOL. This has been fixed to only move the cursor in this case. 68) Fixed The captured output window was getting cleared every time a tool was run regardless of whether the tool was run with the capture output option enabled. This has now been fixed. 69) Added: Zeus can take any line of text in a file, parse it for a valid file name and then try to load the file. This function is attached to the Ctrl+E command or the right mouse button single click. Use this function to open in clude files. 70) Added: The Windows 95 version has had long file name support added. 71) Added: The following Brief keystrokes where added: Ctrl-Home - Top of page Ctrl-End - Bottom of page Ctrl-PageUp - Start of document Ctrl-PageDown - End of document Ctrl-b - Bottom of page Ctrl-t - Top of page Ctrl-d - Scroll down a line Ctrl-s - Scroll up a line (remapped) Ctrl-e - Locate file on current line 72) Added: The following CUA keystrokes where added: Ctrl-A - Redo changes Ctrl-Backspace - Redo changes Alt-Backspace - Undo changes 73) Added: The MDI Tile Vertical and Horizontal windows options have been added. 74) Added: The toolbar now has a find and replace buttons. 75) Added: The the search, replace, goto and goto bookmark functions now position the jump to new line in the center of the window, not at the top or bottom of the window as the previously did. 76) Added: The the search, replace, goto and goto bookmark dialogs remember their screen positions and restore to their old locations. 77) Fixed: Fixed a problem with the auto indenting not working in line wrapping mode. 78) Fixed: Fixed a problem with maximum line length auto wrapping feature used on file load. In trying to wrap the line on a word break it would sometimes corrupt the wrapped line. 79) Fixed: The right mouse button upper case, lower case and toogle functions did not work correctly in overwrite mode. This has now been fixed. 80) Fixed: The saving of the startup files on exit did not always save the files correctly, resulting in not all files getting reloaded on startup. This problem has now been fixed. 81) Fixed: The tokenizer code could not distinguish like words for example, if you had the following keywords: right rightof then the 'rightof' keyword would never get recognized. Version 1.07 Windows 3.x, Windows 95 and Windows NT Release ----------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: The Zeus for Windows product is built from a single code base so now all products irrespective of platform share the same version numbers. Version 2.00.01 Alpha Started (new keyboard manager, new memory manager) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 81) Fixed: If you ran a compile where the compiler EXE was not found the error window incorrectly reported no errors found. This has now been fixed. 82) Added: The abitlity to match the following braces have been added "{}[]<>" and the function was bound to the Ctrl+']' key. 83) Fixed: An obscure command line bug has hopefully been fixed. For some machines with some command lines rentered, the F10 command would lock up after running the same command after a few times. This bug was very hard to replicate but I it seems to have gone away so I think it may have been fixed (seemed to be some type of timing problem). 84) Fixed: The double click close of an MDI window was not closing the message and output windows correctly (only in Win 3.x). This could result in a GPF if these windows where then put to use (ie compile or run a tool). The normal file close or Ctrl + Minus method would work correctly. 85) Fixed: The output window would no longer function once a Ctrl+G scan function was run. This has now been fixed. 86) Added: New user configurable keyboard mapping allows Zeus to support multiple keyboard mapping, including WordStar, Epsilon and Brief. 87) Added: Support for TAG characters via command line added. 88) Fixed: The online help has been totally re-written, hopefully making it easier to use Zeus and it's many features. 89) Fixed: Maximum file size increase to 60,000 lines, up from the original 10,000 line limit of earlier versions. 90) Fixed: There was an obscure bug that would cause a GPF once in a while. This was tracked down to an error in the MDI window management, so hopefully this occasional GPF has been fixed. The aim is to make sure Zeus never GPF's. 91) Added: Project support has been added to Zeus. This allows you to build a project from within Zeus. 92) Added: Compiler support now supports multiple command lines. The compiler that is used to compile the active file is choosen using the file extension. 93) Fixes: A large number of smaller fixes have also been applied, fixing things like painting problems, improved error handling and other minor problems. 94) Added: Version information has been added to all Zeus data files. This was done to make Zeus more stable and allow easier backward compatability in future versions of Zeus. The only draw back is that Zeus 2.00 data files are NOT compatabile with earlier Zeus data files. 95) Added: Zeus now does a basic form of Smart Bracing. Zeus will automaticlly add a matching brace and indent the cursor for the '{' brace character. Version 2.00 ------------ Initial release of the Zeus for Windows Version 2.00 (Febuary 1996) Version 2.01 ------------ 96) Fixed: The support for long file extension has finally been fixed (hopefully!). Zeus would not initialise the extension information when long file extensions was used. Note Zeus still only recognizes the first 3 characters of the extension to provide 8.3 backward compatibility, so long extensions are identified by their first three characters only. 97) Fixed: Sometimes Zeus would not paste the last line from the clipboard. This has now been fixed. 98) Fixed: The backspace key would sometimes delete a line if once the backspace reached the column 0 position. This has now been fixed. 99) Fixed: The in Options | Compiler "Normal" radio button would stay activate once pressed. This has been fixed. 100) Added: A literal character key has been added to the extension dialog. This allows you to define a literal character which is the used by the colorizer as a way of ignoring the qutoe characters. For example: "this is quote \" is not the end of the string" 101) Fixed: Fixed the DDE problem with the Win32 version of Zeus. You would get a GPF if you double clicked a WinFile file, during the DDE connection. 102) Added: The Print dialog FilePrint() function will now automaticlly select the print marked area if it is activated will text in the current document is marked. 103) Fixed: The F10 dir command would incorrectly detect a line nume in the captured output of the DIR command in Windows 95. This would result im a file load to a incorrect line number. 104) Added: Increased the column position display to 4 digits. 105) Fixed: The Zeus dialog box's would only save there position on cancel, not on the Ok or close commands. The dialogs now save their position whenever the dialog is closed. 106) Added: The printout will automaticlly wrap the print output to the next line if the line length exceeds the page width. 107) Added: The printout will now filter all non-printable characters from the printer output stream. 108) Fixed: When using the Options | Compiler dialog and trying to delete entries from the "Installed Command Line" either the line is not deleted or wrong line is deleted from the list. This has now been fixed. 109) Fixed: When using the Options | Compiler dialog and trying to define a command line, Zeus did not process command lines where the options follow the file name, for example: "c51 SAMPLE.C large debug code" 110) Added: The ERR files produced by Zeus for the compile process could get large in number so I added a feature where by Zeus will clean up these files once they are no longer required. 111) Fixed: The support for long file extension has finally been fixed again! Found a bug with Zeus compiling long file extensions like 'java' files. 112) Fixed: Zeus had a sizing problem when the Option | Editor Display Mode was set to create default. Once created the cursor would get lost of the bottom of the page and would not auto scroll. The scroll bars would also not work and sometimes would not be shown. 113) Fixed: Zeus would not load binary files because they contained null characters. If a binary file was loaded Zeus would get caught in a infinite loop. Now Zeus loads binary files but any null characters are replace with white space and the file is loaded as read only. 114) Fixed: The FileReloadCurrent() edit function would cause a GPF sometimes. This has now been fixed. 115) Added: Support for reading and writing OEM text files was added. This feature allows you to edit ANSI text files (character set used by Windows) even if the source is an ASCII (OEM) text file (character set commonly used under DOS). 116) Fixed: The $Column and $Line TAG macros where returning incorrect results. 117) Fixed: If you start a second version of Zeus with the -S(econd) option Zeus will just re-activate the previous versions. Version 2.15 Windows 3.x, Windows 95 and Windows NT Release -----------------------------------------------------------