What's new since PTVIEW version 1.0? Not much. Except:

- There is a new command line syntax. It is a little bit more flexible.
- There are some UI changes. These UI changes should make PTVIEW a little bit 
  esaier to use.


PTVIEW (Program Text Viewer) version 1.1 is a small Windows 3.1 utility which 
helps you to read dazzling C/C++ program text files, which may possibly be 
clustered up by conditionally compiled segments. It can hide/highlight the 
code segments which are not going to be compiled; it can outline statement 
blocks mangled among these segments; and it can even print them out to your 
printer. The features of PTVIEW are:

-- Tab characters control/conversion. PTVIEW allows you to change tab size
   easily so that you can try out different tab sizes on a text file created
   with tab size unknown to you. Moreover, you can choose to get rid of the tab
   characters, or to use your favourite tab size, with just a button click.

-- C/C++ preprocessing. PTVIEW is able to perform some simple C/C++
   preprocessing in order to hide/highlight conditionally compiled away code
   segments. For example, PTVIEW is able to prepocess the following piece of
   code and find out which code lines will actually be included for
   compilation, which will not:
        #if defined (WIN32)
            // This line will be compiled if the target system is 32 bits.
        #else
            // This line will be compiled if the target system is 16 bits.
        #endif

-- C/C++ statement block highlighting. PTVIEW is able to find out program text
   lines belonging to different statement blocks after preprocessing. It will
   outline the different statement blocks like:
        if (...)
    +---{
    |       if (...)
    |+--    {
    ||          ...
    |+--    }
    +---}

-- Macro symbol definitions lookup. PTVIEW is able to tell you the definition,
   and evaluated value if possible, of a macro symbol at a particular line
   after preprocessing.

-- C/C++ comments highlighting. PTVIEW is able to hightlight C/C++ comments
   without preprocessing. Note that PTVIEW cannot correctly highlight comments
   if they are nested. Actually, PTVIEW will have trouble dealing with nested
   comments.

-- Regular expression text search. PTVIEW allows you to search for pattern
   specified in regular expression. The regular expression syntax used is the
   same as the syntax used by the UNIX VI editor.

-- 1up, 2up or 4up printing with line width control.


Components:

-- PTVIEW.exe
   - The executable of PTVIEW. It is developed to run on Windows 3.1 or higher.
     I have tried to run the program on other platforms like Windows 95 and
     Windows NT; it seems that PTVIEW runs fine on both platforms.
-- PTVDEF.dll
   -- A supporting DLL that deals with compiler system specific settings.
-- BWCC.dll
   -- Another supporting DLL.
-- PTVIEW.hlp
   -- PTVIEW on-line help file.

For simplicity, put all these four files in the same directory; then, you 
should start PTVIEW from that directory. If you are sure that there is alreay 
a copy of BWCC.dll in your Windows system directory, you can safely delete 
this copy of BWCC.dll that comes with the program.


Bugs fixed since version 1.0:

- Fixed program termination problem. The problem was that PTVIEW 1.0 doesn't
  behave correctly when you try to cancel saving of unsaved file during program
  termination.
- Fixed printing problem. The problem was that some printer drivers refuse to
  print more than one page of PTVIEW 1.0 output.


PTVIEW version 1.1 is a FREEWARE. It can be distributed freely for non-
commerical use. However, I still retain the rights to the source and binary 
of the program. PTVIEW is distributed AS-IS. It doesn't come with any support 
or warranty. I am not responsible for any damage caused due to the use of the 
program.




Trevor W.S. Lee

74512.1047@compuserve.com

320 E 50th Avenue
Vancouver, B.C.
Canada V5X 1A8

(604) 323-8303