E! for Windows - Complementary documentation ******************************************** You'll find here the documentation for last minute changes and for features that have been added since your manual was printed. Reading this file and CHANGES.TXT will also give you a good overwiew of what's new in E! for Windows. Version 1.10 02/06/93 - Added Control Area in the Edit Windows ************************************************* Lines of text are no more displayed close to the left Edit Window border. Moreover, the small area between the first column of the displayed text and the left internal window border is now called the Control Area. Some interesting new functions can be triggered with the mouse from this Control Area: Clicking with the left mouse button in the Control Area will select the corresponding line in the text area. Clicking with the same button and dragging with the mouse will select multiple lines of text exactly as this would happen with the Alt + up/down arrow keystroke or by dragging the mouse with the Alt and Shift keys depressed. Double-clicking with the left mouse button in the Control Area will duplicate the corresponding line of text. If you have selected one or more lines of text in LINE or BLOCK mode, you can shift the whole block of lines to the right by clicking with the right mouse button anywhere in the Control Area. Maintain the mouse button depressed to accelerate shifting. If you have made a BLOCK mode selection, right shifting will begin at the block left margin. In that case, left shifting will destroy data existing on the left of the shifted block. The marked block will be destroyed if you shift left past the first column. If necessary, use the Undo function to retrieve the lost data. Shifting text to the left is the same process as right shifting, except that you have to depress the Ctrl button before clicking on the right mouse button. All these functions move the cursor to the beginning of the processed line. Of course, the Undo function will restore any change made using these functions. 02/14/93 - Added Jump on Home/End option **************************************** The default behavior of E! is to jump to the next line when the user hits the END key while the cursor is already located at the end of the line. Likewise, the cursor is moved to the beginning of the previous line when the HOME key is pressed while the cursor is already located at the beginning of the line. This behavior can now be disabled by unchecking the "Jump on Home/End" option in the Edit Options dialog box of the Control Center. 02/14/93 - Font Selection dialog boxes changed ********************************************** Internal processing of fonts has been enhanced. Consequently, there's a small change in the Font Selection dialog boxes. You may now specify a font size for all fonts (not only the True Type fonts). Also, instead of displaying all fonts in the listbox and using one line per available font size, each font appears only once in the listbox. Predefined sizes now appear in the "Font Size" combo box. 02/19/93 - Caret thickness control ********************************** On some hardware configurations, the caret (keyboard cursor) may appear too thin and difficult to see. To increase the thickness of the caret, just add a thickness=n entry to the [showopt] section of ew.ini, n being the new thickness in pixels. 02/23/93 - Set Default Size command (Windows Menu) ************************************************** The default size computed by E! for the Edit Windows may not be well suited for your system configuration. You can now change this default size by either editing EW.INI (see the EW.INI section in EW.WRI) or by merely selecting the Set Default Size command from the Windows menu while the window has the appropriate size. This default size will apply to any new editor created by E! unless the file has been recently edited. In that case, the recorded size for that file will prevail. 02/27/93 - Added CompKeywords entry in EW.INI ********************************************* compkeywords= When compiling, depending on the length of the project file list and on the position of the files in error in that list, scanning the compiler output may last more time than you may want to accept. The reason for that is explained in the Compiler Support section. To shorten the time needed to scan the compiler output file, you may specify that an output line must contain a certain keyword to be considered as an error message (typical keywords would be 'error' or 'warning'). Specify these keywords here. Please read more detailed explanations in the Compiler Support section. ************************************************************************ Version 1.20 There are numerous changes in this version but they are all self-explanatory. The only function requiring some explanations is the new Drag and Drop server capability of the Control Center. 04/24/93 - "Files" listbox in the Control Center is a Drag and Drop server ************************************************************************** Until now EW was only able to accept filenames dropped from other applications (mainly the File Manager or a replacement program). Now, EW is itself a Drag and Drop server. That is, you can select a filename from the "Files" listbox of the Control Center and drop it onto another application's window or icon. Of course, the result of this operation depends on the target application but it will be the same as if you had dropped the files from the File Manager. Since the "Files" listbox already accepts drag movements of the mouse to select a file, you have to indicate to EW that you are beginning a Drag and Drop process by depressing the Control key before beginning to drag with the mouse. ************************************************************************ Version 1.20a 05/23/93 - Time stamp checking ****************************** While running an EW session, the user can switch to any other Windows application at any time and modify text files currently edited by EW. Obviously, this may lead to problems if the user forgets to refresh the files when returning to EW. Now, EW will automatically warn you if the time stamp of any file that is currently edited has been changed since the file has been loaded or saved. You'll be prompted whether you want: 1. to retain the file version currently in memory (which is older than the version now present on your disk). 2. to replace the version in memory with the disk version. This will prevent from having consistency problems when regularly switching to and from an integrated development environment having its own text editor. ************************************************************************ Version 1.20b 06/08/93 - Added EWGetEditorLocalFlag and EWSetEditorLocalFlag functions to the API *********************************************************************************** The existing functions (EWGetLocalFlag and EWSetLocalFlag) were acting on the local options stored in the Control Center. These new functions have exactly the same syntax. The only difference is that they modify or read the current Editor's Local Options only. They leave the Control Center Local Defaults settings unchanged. More on the EWEditFile function ******************************* The documentation fails to mention that trying to load a file that is already edited will cause this function to return a null value. The Editor containing this file will be put in the foreground. 06/19/93 - Passing Column and Row information on the EW command line ******************************************************************** Some integrated environments have a "Tools" menu for external programs and special macros allowing to pass customized parameters to the called program. To make the integration of EW in those environments easier, you can now specify the initial cursor position for any file loaded from the command line. Here is the syntax to use: ew myfile.txt (col,row) The "(col, row)" sequence should not contain any space and must immediately follow the filename to which it applies. There must be at least one space between the filename and the first brace. If the filename contains wildcards, the "(col, row)" sequence will be ignored. Here is a sample command line: ew myprog.c (12,40) myprog.h (15,23) will load both files at the requested position. Any position stored in EW.INI for that file by the "Log Session" mechanism will be ignored. Please see Technical Note #007 to see how to implement this feature when using the Microsoft (tm) Visual C++ Workbench. 06/25/93 - Added EWSaveAll function to the API. *********************************************** function EWSaveAll : integer; int FAR PASCAL EWSaveAll(); Save all modified files. Return Value: This function always returns 0.