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Warning: The 3.69 release is the LAST release that still support Os 1.x
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This archive upgrades ViNCEd 3.6x to version 3.69. To perform the upgrade,
rename the ORIGINAL ViNCEd archive on your HD to "ViNCUpdate", then unpack
this archive ON TOP of this. The result is the full 3.69 distribution,
except for the 3.69 guide which is not included - however, not too much
changed anyways.
About ViNCEd
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The latest version (3.69) of my full screen shell editor (CON: replacement)
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Features:
-Extremly flexible
-Comes with prefs program with nice GUI
-User defineable macros and buttons (gadgets) with parameters
-Full screen editor, not line limited
-Compatible to CON: and ConMan
-VT-220 emulation build in
-ANSI (VT-xxx) colors on request
-Freely configurable keyboard
-ASCII prefs, a standard editor is enough to change them by hand.
-Keypad mode on request (numeric keypad for cursor control)
-Supports control sequences of:
-CON:
-VT-220
-DEC
-XTerm (Unix Shells)
-SGI winterm
-plus private stuff (set keyboard, colors and font by ctrl seqs)
-TAB expansion, with different TAB requesters as option
-TAB expansion cache
-Colored cursor on request
-Menu, clipboard support build in (no ConClip needed)
-"More than complete" online help plus documentation
-C include files, autodocs for the library included
-Screen title might contain path/fail codes/CLI number & more
-Localizeable (German available, more locales welcome)
-Job control á la unix with Ctrl-Z
-suspends shell jobs
-sends shell jobs to forgeground & background
using tiny shell scripts "fg" and "bg" like unix
-documented library for own applications and editor programming
-iconification support
-uses public "tbiclass" gadgets of VisualPrefs, or Massimo's
toolbutton images if available.
-easy installation
-full control by single program (SetVNC)
-clipboard support, snip control with middle mouse button or Ctrl-left-Mouse
-can create private screens on request
-font & monitor selectable by prefs
-icon drop, with modifiers for path/name only
-100% assembly language => fast & short (err, as short as I could do it.)
Plus: It's 100% free! Hey, I must be crazy!
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-------- history ----- this is not the complete history, read the guide!----
Changes made for 3.69.1:
The SetVNC color selector did not work on hicolor or true-color
screens, fixed.
SetVNC allocates a hardware sprite in case no free pen is avail-
able. Unfortunately, the Os sprite allocation function of the V39
graphics library (and propably that of V40, too) seems to have
problems to allocate a hardware sprite in case the intuition
mouse pointer is in AGA hires mode. The result is unpredictable:
The Os manages to remap the hires pointer to lores from time to
time, of course loosing precision; sometimes it does not and leaves
a corrupt sprite and a hires sprite to SetVNC, unlike desired.
There is currently no way of allocating a sprite in a given mode
without causing this problem, so there is unfortunately no fix.
To work around this problem, give the workbench more colors.
Changes made for 3.69:
The color of the dots in the default cursor could have been wrong.
The calculation of the window height in the window open routine was
wrong by as much as one pixel and therefore failed.
Re-enabled the automatic resizing of the window because this makes
indeed some sense.
The SetVNC "Save To" and "Load From" functions used to be broken,
they even didn't show an error requester in case they failed. Urgh!
Changes made for 3.68:
ViNCEd will now switch back to the system default font in case it is
opened on a screen with a proportional font; this mimicks the CON:
behaiviour. Thanks Raphael!
ViNCEd will no longer try to resize a window to make its contents
visible. If the window is too tiny, no output will be shown.
This is again identically to the CON: behaivour; however, unlike
for CON:, the cursor movement sequences remain working as ViNCEd
emulates a tiny 1x1 window if required. The guru 0x1e080001 is
now obsolete.
Fixed a bug in the tool button allocation, used the wrong font for
estimating the remaining size of the window title. Fixed!
Added the %w and %W screen title commands.
ViNCEd removes now the cursor if a "set border" command is sent.
Since nobody seems to read this guide, ViNCEd drops now a
trailing ".info" in the icon name for iconification.
Due to an oversight, the colored cursor and the ANSI colors
did not work at the same time. Ouch!
The version string in SetVNC wasn't correct.
Fixed a bug in the character overwrite routine... again!
Fixed a hit of SetVNC when inserting more buttons.
Changes made in 3.67:
Added the %l and %o window title command to insert the state of the
NumLock and Overwrite qualifier.
ViNCEd will now try to adjust its icons correctly if some other
program hacked more than the system default icons into its title
("PowerWindows").
The shortcuts of the ViNCEd windows can now be localized.
Fixed a bug in the TAB expansion cache handling of
multiassigns.
Added a workaround for a bug in VIM.
Changes made in 3.66:
Fixed the broken "Insert CSI" and "Insert ESC" sequences.
Included an italian catalog by Francesco Leoni
and Francesco Mancuso. Thanks!
Added the "Restore Window" menu item.
Added mouse wheel support for serial mice.
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Notes:
Check the TOP_SECRET or ReadMe.First file in this archive!
Especially, these SHOULD BE RUN FIRST before you start with
the installation.
VirusWorkShop seems to have trouble with the overlay file structure
that is used by the SetVNC program.
THIS IS NOT A VIRUS! It is a bugfix of the oldish CBM overlay
manager which is really buggy!
To trick VirusWorkshop, the SetVNC program in this archive is
encoded. Use the "Decode" program from the "Extras" drawer to
decode manually. The installer script has been updated to do
this for you.
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Send ideas, improvements, bugreports (please as concrete as possible) to:
Thomas Richter
EMail: thor math.tu-berlin.de
or "Wisit the Web" site:
WWW: http://www.math.tu-berlin.de/~thor/thor/index.html
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April 1999
Thomas
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