Topic : TosWin2 Author : Christian Felsch Version : 2.7 Subject : Documentation/miscellaneous Nodes : 31 Index Size : 838 HCP-Version : 3 Compiled on : Atari @charset : atarist @lang : en @default : @help : @options : -s -t4 +z @width : 75 View Ref-FileDevelopment history Version 2.7 from 07.04.01 ∙ changed default cursor to underline (ugly block cursor is still available as "very visible", i. e. "tput cvvis") ∙ colors are now fully ansi-compatible ∙ terminal capabilities `bold' and `dim' are now represented using light resp. half-bright colors where applicable ∙ support for alternate character set (pc graphics) ∙ TERM is automatically set to `tw52-m' or `tw100-m' if less than 8 colors are available ∙ terminfo source files updated (many bugfixes), recompile it with tic on the target system ∙ environment variable COLORTERM is set to 1 if color support available ∙ The horizontal slider has vanished. If you want to get it back call me at office hours and keep your credit card at hand. Please allow six weeks for delivery. ∙ The checkbox for so-called auto-wrapping has vanished. Explanation: It really enabled semi-automatic margins, i. e. printing in the last column caused a line-break. Now both tw52 and tw100 have proper automatic margins and there is no more need for such a user-definable feature. ∙ Ultra-smart srcolling. ;-) Displaying large amounts of data is now 3-9 times faster. ∙ Implemented origin mode. ∙ Implemented full (RSI) and soft (DECSTR) terminal reset. Version 2.6 from 09.09.00 ∙ If no font selector is available and you try to change the font anyway, the font data will no longer be destroyed. ∙ Fixed the tw100 emulation 'bell' problem. ∙ Timeout when tw-call does not answer. ∙ NULs in outputs are ignored. ∙ TW2 uses the new color popup from Heiko Achilles (CF-Lib). Version 2.5 from 19.09.99 ∙ Since TW2 does not completely map vt52 and vt100 emulators, TERM is set to tw52 or tw100 again. ∙ Window icons redraw corrected. ∙ Marked text can be dragged into other windows using D&D, and ".TXT" D&D files are now also accepted. ∙ tw-call logs onto the AES using the TOS program name, so an appl_find (TOSName) returns the tw-call ID and can therefore be reached via the window. Version 2.4 from 16.04.99 ∙ TW2 is now compiled with PureC, resulting in significantly smaller code. ∙ Text marking beyond window borders. ∙ "Auto close window" is now a local option. ∙ New console functions: Open at output, Log output to file, visually display new output on the icon. ∙ TW2 now uses vt52/vt100 standard terminals instead of tw52/tw100. ∙ Various bug fixes and corrections. Version 2.3 from 29.10.98 ∙ Marked blocks can be sent to ST-Guide or to StringServer (thanks to Jo Even Skarstein) ∙ Selectable character table (Atari, ISO Latin1) (thanks to Jo Even Skarstein) ∙ Windows foreground/background colors can be configured. ∙ RSC version control Version 2.2 from 19.07.98 ∙ Switched to CF-Lib ∙ Menu shortcuts are now setup in the RSC. ∙ Windowed font selector (xFSL, FONTSERVER, MagiC) ∙ TW2 answers to VA_START with AV_STARTED, so that the calling program may free the memory. (in version 2.1 there was memory corruption which lead to faulty font data or crashes) ∙ Dialogs are now also taken into account when cycling windows. ∙ Window cycling made possible by using AV-Server. ∙ New menu switch for menu shortcuts usage. ∙ New menu switch to start shells as login shells. ∙ Current window size saved in the CFG, previously the window was always opened at maximum size (rows/columns). Version 2.1 from 19.02.98 ∙ Parameter change: If tw-call.app is started without paramaters it will only launch TW2. "-l" (toswin2.app and tw-call.app) starts the login shell. ∙ There was windows management issues when topping/untopping windows that led to key strokes being sent to the wrong window. ∙ D&D corrections when dragging multiple files. ∙ New termcap/terminfo and a few color display patches by Petr Stehlik. ∙ A few corrections to USERDEFs for proportional system fonts. ∙ Window redraw correction in high/truecolor resolutions. ∙ Font protocol (Thanks to Jo Even Skarstein). ∙ Window dialogs. ∙ No English Hyp yet, but at least a RSC. Version 2.0 from 05.08.97 First public version. The following things have changed since the previous version ("-": removed, "+": new): - The "Application Menus", i.e. the menus that were defined for each program in a MNU file, have been removed. - The copyright box has been replaced by a normal one. - There is no more distinction between "Std Window" and "Alt Window". Additionaly, TosWin2 no longer makes any direct access to Line-A. - The clipboard can be configured without erasing its contents. - Menu shortcuts can no longer be set in the program. - Environement configuration is no longer possible. - Several global options ("Florishes", "Point to type" and "Smooth scrolling") have been removed. "Align Windows" is now a default setting that cannot be switched off. - New menu for triggering window actions (Gadges). - Because it led to a waste of computing time, the cursor no longer flashes. - The TOSRUN pipe is no longer required. + External resource. + New and smaller Menu. + Hypertext and menu help. + New, more modern dialogs. + New Clipboard management. + New function: Shell. + New function: Console. + New concept for Window settings. + TosWin2 can now read its command line. + TW-Call + TosWin2 can now use VT52 and VT100. VT100 can be used with a suitable font. + Drag&Drop. + Recognizes UFSL font selectors (XUFSL, Calvino, HuGo). + Various little things such as real iconify, used in MiNT , that allows windows to be reduced at the bottom of the desktop.