CHANGES.TXT FILE FOR CLIPBOARD EXTENDER 3.0

See README.TXT for information regarding installation.
See CLIPEXT.WRI for information regarding usage of Clipboard Extender

This file is intended to provide a description of some of the changes to 
versions 2.2 and greater.


The following applies to version 2.21:

* The most noticeable change is that Clipboard Extender will now open and save
  files in the clipboard format (.clp).  This includes clipbook pages saved by
  Windows for Workgroups Clipbook program.

  NOTE: For Clipboard Extender to open a.clp file, it MUST contain text.  
  Clipboard Extender will NOT open a .clp file that contains picture data.

* Clipboard Extender now distinguishes between a file that has been opened and
  a file that has been saved and maintains each name separately in memory.  
  What does this mean and what is its advantage?  Well, it means that you can 
  open multiple files and save or append the data from each of those files to
  a single, different file without having to re-specify the name of the save
  file each time.

* Clipboard Extender will display text using the same text formats that Windows'
  Clipboard Viewer uses.  These formats are Text, for most Windows-based apps, 
  and OEM Text, for most DOS-based apps.

The following bugs were fixed:

- With Stay On Top active, Clipboard Extender could be positioned on the
  screen so that it covered the About box's OK button, preventing the user
  from being able to close the box.  Clipboard Extender will now never cover 
  any part of the About box, even when the Stay On Top feature is active.

- When the clipboard's contents were deleted from the Windows Clipboard Viewer 
  program, Clipboard Extender failed to also delete its display of the text,
  which was then being placed right back in the clipboard the next time text
  was copied.

- If the clipboard contained more than 30k of text when Clipboard Extender was
  started, a message box was continously repeated until the clipboard's
  contents were deleted or reduced to less than 30k.  This was causing confusion
  as people were believing their system had locked up because they kept pressing
  the OK button and getting the same message displayed.  If Clipboard Extender
  is now started under these conditions, a clearer message is displayed and
  the program will close automatically.  You should still delete or reduce the 
  text in the clipboard and then start Clipboard Extender again.

The following changes apply to version 3.0:

* Clipboard Extender integrates itself more closely with Windows.  What this
  means is that Clipboard Extender does NOT need to manually and periodically
  check if the clipboard's contents have changed.  It is automatically 
  notified by Windows when any cut or copy operations are done.  This results 
  in significantly less system overhead than previous versions, since Clipboard
  Extender remains almost completely idle, when running in the background,
  until it receives such a notification from Windows.

* Due to user request, Clipboard Extender will now open files containing
  non-ansi characters (as defined for Windows).  Many people are using 
  Clipboard Extender in conjunction with downloading files from news services,
  etc.  These files usually contain some non-ansi characters, which Clipboard 
  Extender previously could not open.

* Clipboard Extender can accept a single filename as a command line 
  parameter, the contents of which is immediately placed into the clipboard.

* Text can easily be converted to all upper case or all lower case characters.

* Most of the options have been placed into a single dialog box, making it 
  easier to change several options at once.

* A toolbar has been added, making it easier to execute common commands.

* During drag and drop operations, you can now choose between inserting either 
  a line, the filename, or nothing to separate dropped files.

* Support has been added for dragging and dropping .CLP files from File Manager.

* A Windows Help File has been added.