History of development of FreeDock
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1.01 alpha - First release to Angus, Neil & Martin

1.02 alpha - Fixed 2 bugs discovered by Martin :
             1) I windows directory is a SUBST'd drive, when the dock
                creates the path name to the program manager for files 
                which have no icons (.PIF, .COM etc.) the path was incorrect
                since it contained an extra \ i.e. p:\\progman.exe, this
                has been corrected by checking for the presence of a 
                trailing \ and only adding one if required.
             2) When starting a DOS session from a .PIF file, with a 
                stored window position, the FreeDock window was moved to 
                the stored position & size, this was caused by getting the
                active window too soon. It was solved by adding a loop which
                retries 25 times to get the active window which is not the 
                dock window, if this fails it does not try to position the
                window.

1.03       - Added the ability to drag slots around the dock, dropping a slot
             in an empty position moves the slot to that position. Dropping
             a slot in an occupied position swaps the location of the two
             slots. Dragging a slot off the dock, indicated by the cursor
             changing to a skull and crossbones removes the slot from the
             dock.
             Removed save option, .ini file now saved after any changes made.
             Removed confirmation dialog from Exit Dock & remove slot options.

1.04       - Fixed bug which was only partly fixed in 1.02 (1), the fix
             prevoiusly provided correctly for .PIF, .COM & .BAT files, but
             not for DOS .EXE files, this has now been corrected.


1.05       - Improved slot moving, icons do not now flicker when being moved,
             and picking up a slot now causes it to be picked up from the dock
             instead of only picking up a copy as was the case before.

1.06       - Added Choose Icon option which displays all icons in a file in
             pages of 50 icons at a time and allow the user to click on the 
             icon they wish to choose.
             Added Browse options to the App name and Iconfile fields, selecting
             a new app results in the icon file being changed to match the app
             ,if it contains any icons, otherwise the icons file is set to the
             program manager & Icon 2 is selected. If the App contains icons, 
             the first icon in the file is selected.

1.06a      - Minor addition, when files are associated, in the program manager,
             with an executable which is given as prog.exe (i.e. only the name
             and not a full path) the dock would fail to find the exe correctly
             and therefore be able to get the icon required. This has been 
             solved by doing a searchpath() on all exe's for associated files.

1.06b      - Minor modification to the logic which detects when a slot has been
             dragged off the dock, to stop all slot redraws whilst it is not 
             visible (i.e. outside the dock) this also had the effect of 
             stopping the skull & crossbones (Slot Remove Cursor) from 
             flickering.

1.06c      - Minor modification to the logic for detecting the diference
             between the first click of a double-click and a click or button
             down prior to dragging. Problem was causing icon to jump around
             in the dock when it was doubleclicked, this was caused by it
             momentarily being picked up and then dropped as the first click
             of the double click was processed. This has now been fixed.


Things still to be done
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1) [Most important] Write the manual !

2) Add a mechanism for viewing/previewing/modifying the stored window position 
   for an application.

3) More testing of current release before general release.

4) Addability to add/remove special built-in slots in the current session, 
   i.e. don't need to restart FreeDock to get built-ins to appear. 
   [Not terribly important]

5) Consider idea for having slots which are groups, this causes the associated 
   icons to pop out at 90 degrees to the dock when the slot is selected.
   Problems : How to add/move/remove slots in a group ?

6) Possibility of a 4 sided dock, this should be fairly easy to implement, the 
   only problem might be the rotation animation. Possibly add a scroll bar 
   before the Main Free dock slot.

7) Possibility to add ability to drag dock around, probablily only in an 
   up/down direction if the dock is on the left/right or in a left/right 
   direction if the dock is in a top/bottom position.