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Hi erno! first of all thanks for the bug reports in the other posts if you enable the OVERWRITE mode (Insert) and press CTRL-DEL the block will not be deleted but cleared there are differences for INSERT and OVERWRITE modes very often i see, you are right, this is a bit strange i will add it to the todo list you mean expanding the selection to "> 12" automatically? this is very special and only useful in this case i think maybe you can do a SWAP macro in the HGL file? hm, i just tried... it seems a bit to complicated but what about an option to swap 2 words? this would be more generic and useful in fact i would use something like this too quite often bye Stefan / AH

Hey naX. Before I start, thank you for your post and interest in NDN remember that all wishes may not occur in a very long time, especially if you look at my TODO list in the whatsnew.txt file. and i will only comment the questionable wishes, the rest will appear in my todo list :) 2. do you mean to switch the cursor to the panel where you selected the drive? if yes don't answer, i added it to the list 3. i think about a change in this: remove the hard coded handling of system drives and add a text config file where the users can add paths as they want 4. shift up/down is already used for the commandline history, maybe alt + up/down 5. this is too much windows :) but if i fix the bugs in the context menu code this would be possible via the context menu copy and paste commands 6. there's CTRL+ENTER to do that, i think that is enough 1. this already works 2. we also need similar keys to make this for case switch and capitalize operations and at the moment the Ctrl-K+?? works quite well. if i ever add hotkey configuration to NDN everyone can customize keys as he wants 3. not sure... emphasize = uppercase? this i a codepage problem, which is hard for me to fix since i don't work much with this maybe this can be fixed if i add mutliple codepages to the editor (like in the viewer) bug 1.: see 3. 1. ftp is implemented, the rest is nice but a lot of work... 2. already works: don't use ctrl-cxv but shift-insert/delete and ctrl-insert have a nice weekend Stefan / AH

Hey Dan! can you be more specific about the OS? I have tested in W2K and it doesn't happen. Maybe you may want to wait for the new release and test again before answering. Thank you as always :) Stefan / AH

Hey Garl! yes, it is and it is fixed in the next release (this weekend) Have a nice weekend Stefan / AH

Hi OArkh! I think it will not be easy to use both of them without side effects. The very first versions i uploaded years ago contained both the W32 and D32 files, but when i started the LNX one i had to separate the versions. Now a lot of config code is simply using the same constant in different context for all the 3 ports (LNX does not need "Clear read only flags" for example). Even the language files are different for the 3 ports (f.ex. D32 only has a CD player at the moment). I think you should not waste too much time on this, since there are too many differences for the ports. I am glad you like NDN and hope you will continue supporting it in future :) Have a nice weekend Stefan / AH

Hey! In fact it is not inconsistent: if you select ONE object in a directory NDN takes it's name and removes the extension (else you will get archive creation problems if the archiver, like RAR which takes the ".c" as the extension without adding ".rar") if you select multiple files then NDN uses the current directory name without removing the extension, and if you select ".." then you are actually selecting all files in the directory which means the complete directory name is used thanks anyway for the info since i was able to clean up some code as i found the location of this issue :) have a nice weekend Stefan / AH

Hello everyone! unfortunately i had to come home again this weekend, but fortuntely this enables me to release a quick bug fix for some bugs which are not tolerable at all sorry for any problems with the last release whatsnew: [*] changed the color of a highlighted line in a block in the editor in palette AH.PAL [-] D32: the misc. setup didn't show the history menu and crashed [A] (Garl) -> resources included the OS setup in the subgroups but not in the list box selection; now disabled if target is OS2 or DPMI32 [+] added stringsx.PosRev() which works like system.Pos() but searches for the last position VIEWER [-] CRLF detection always failed for the first time [A] -> rearranging of HGL code in fviewer.TFileViewer.ReadFile() moved also code which had nothing to do ith HGL and broke the CRLF detection EDITOR [-] editor did not use tabsize from HGL file when loading files [A] -> rearranging of HGL code because of reading HGL after reading the file for the new content HGL match microed2.EditorLoadFile() was wrong, now reading 64 bytes and giving to HGL init in microed.TFileEditor.InitHighLight() before reading the file for the editor [-] search path search did not work correctly when the name was constructed out of "<validfilename>.<identifier>" like in pascal or java [A] -> searchf.FindFileWithSPF(): creates a list of all possible extensions out of the complete list provided to it, not only the first filename -> microed2.EditorOpenFileAtCursor(): now shows the list provided to the search code and not only the last name added to the list for better understanding of search/find problems [*] UnComment operation now also removes comments even if comment characters are not at pos #0 of the string -> micro_1.EdHandleBlockCmd() [+] comment code with multiline comment strings: /**/ {} ... useful for strict ANSI C code f.ex. -> new HGL option to choose between commenting each line and multiline comment: use multiline comments to (un)comment (generalflags 4096) -> highlite.TCommentTypeCollection.FirstLastLine was removed and PCmntStr pointers Comment(Start|End) was added SCREEN/VIDEOMODES [-] W32 NT: crash if started from a new install and the current screen Y buffer size was too big; standard in W2K seems to be 80*300 [A] -> added boolean NotToLarge to video.SetCrtData(): because the current mode was stored to the mode list NDN thought it was a valid mode -> this also fixed the "clearing of screen content on first start in new console" bug until next time Stefan / AH download: http://ndn.muxe.com/beta.php (even if the beta page is not yet updated don't worry, the links point to the new version already)

hi! from the release before the current one: [*] added timeout for double keypresses (0.25s) -> drivers.GetKeyMouseEvent().DoubleKeyTimer [*] delay dead keys (shift,ctrl,alt,caps,win keys) for double assignments: NDN will wait for a second keypress for 1/4 second before sending the single one - behaviour like in LINUX with TAB possible -> drivers.GetKeyMouseEvent() to be able to use a double alt and a single alt for different operations i had to do this delay i will think of a way to make this selectable, for example if you selected alt as hotkey for quick search but this may disable 2* alt for the name completion code no search in help pages bye Stefan / AH

Hey stonehead! Thanks for your nice words. If you would have read the whatsnew file and the online help you should have been ready what to see when using NDN under X :). Unfortunately the X support for console programs is the worst i've ever seen. While the linux terminal almost feels like our good old DOS i am simply not able to get at least the keyboard shortcuts working correctly. There's simply no way to configure them for a console program. At least noone was able to tell me otherwise and i have nowhere seen a howto (and believe me, i read a lot to make the linux port better) if you have ANY console program, which can hook the X messages f.ex., please let me know i will write down your crash reports, but at the moment i am not very motivated to work on the X-parts of NDN, since i know i won't get far... If you want please try the new version in a real terminal, and i guess you will like it better :) about rar: i am compiling, editing and packaging on a multi-os-system i know linux people prefer tgz, but it is simply much easier to use one archiver (not to mention, one of the best) for all my work the multi-os environment is also the reason for why ndn has the execution bit not set if someone knows a way to configure that let me know thanks for the bug reports Stefan / AH

hey bmw fixed in the new release Stefan / AH

hi everyone after 4 weeks in munich i am back with a new release there are a lot of new things, and i know of a few things that i broke but maybe you won't realize it at all whatsnew: [!] first of all: sorry to everyone who wrote email or posted to the forum and waited for a reply by me, but as i told you all i cannot do that at the moment as i would like to you can be sure that i do get all reports and messages and i am working a lot on NDN [-] closing the System Dialog 'Abort,Retry...' randomly crashed (BMW) [A] -> drivers5.SystemError calculated wrong size for clearing the error dialog buffer with ' ' (now MemSize / 2) [-] "Ignore All" of drivers5.SystemError didn't react to it's hotkey [A] -> drivers5.SystemError had an error in the if/then/else statement [-] stringsx.DelChar didn't handle empty strings [A] [*] LNX: removed Options.Configuration.System Setup.Clear read-only from CD usage (commands.ossRemoveCD_RO) [+] LNX: added vpsyslow.tSysOptions/SysOptions: configure LNX RTL operations [*] added misc (multiple dialog) configuration setup: regex, name completion [+] Filename/Keyword completion: filename completion works on the commandline and in all inputlines, the keyword completion works in the internal editor -> updated help: editor, dialogs, commandline, options.configuration menu -> created new help topics: NameCompletion & Setup -> changed options.configurations menu help: regexsetup -> misc setups -> added (cm)CompleteKeyword editor command, added to edcom.dnr -> added highlight keyword completion options -> extended stringsx.FormatStrCase to format a range in a string -> added stringsx.DeleteX: works like standard Delete but returns the deleted data -> modified flpanel, dialogs.microed6/micro_3, highlite, stringsx, dialmult, dblwnd -> added cmdline.TCommandLine.HandleNameComp() [*] added TCL to ndn.ext and ndn.hgl [*] LNX RTL: vpsyslnx.SysFindFirst() now supports '~/*' paths [-] fileio.IsDir() now returns data correctly for C: and C:\ [A] [+] added Options.Configuration.Misc Setups.OS Setup: W32: store position and state of console window to desktop on exit -> added commands.osRestoreWindowState LNX: a few options concerning the screen drawing: direct screen access, G1/G0 selection and UTF-8 mode. (experimental) [+] added stringsx.PasStrCmp() which works like StrCmp but handles pascal strings, used in: collect.TNoCaseStringCollection, highlite.TKeywordCollection.Compare, highlite.TCommentTypeCollection.Compare, pcregexp.TRegExpCollection.Compare [*] improved: video.TVideoModeByModeCol.Compare [+] added stringsx.PCharCopy(): works like standard copy but with pchars [+] added stringsx.PosX(): like the standard system.Pos() but handles escaped characters and accepts a starting index [+] colors: (re)get colors for views only on palette change or (re)start -> added views.TView.UpdateColors(), called from views.TGroup.Redraw -> removed highlite.THighliteParams.ColorsInited and color get code from microed7.EditorDraw() and fviewer.TFileViewer.Draw() FILE COPY/MOVE/OPEN/CREATE/DELETE [-] Copy/Move: "Reset copy options" was always on [A] -> filecopy.CopyDialog() didn't use current dialog options to check for cpoResetOptions [-] Copy/Move: "Preserve dir structure" when copying dirs crashed and base dir was created but source dirs were not created inside it [A] -> missing check for Own=nil in CopyFile, target dir structure was stored to DirsPreCreate but not to Dirs in CopyDirectories [-] D32 NT: couldn't delete read only directories [NC] -> lfn.lRmDir always resets file attributes to 0 before deletion [-] Move from CDROM: prints a warning/error message when trying to delete a file or directory [DNOC] -> checking CD_DRIVES/IsCD 2 times in filecopy.MaxWrite -> added disk.TDriveInfo.(IsCD|GetDriveTypeA) [-] Copy/Move: didn't set source time/date on directories [DNOC] -> filecopy.CopyI sets it after creation of the directory [*] Copy/Move: set all time/date information, not only last write -> modified filecopy collections to store tFileTimes instead of only last write time -> filecopy.MaxWrite only set last write file time [*] Delete: added progress bar and counter, deletion of unicode LFN (D32/W32) {G} -> eraser.EraseFiles() SCREEN/VIDEOMODES [-] W32 NT: setting (f.ex.) 94x25 from 80x30 didn't work [V/WinNT] -> vpsysw32.SysSetVideoMode now resets SetConsoleWindowInfo() before setting new video data [*] W32 NT: now stores current video mode to mode list if it doesn't exist VIRTUAL FILE SYSTEMS (VFS) [*] PROC: signal NDN (self) in list by comparing it's PID -> vfs_proc.TProcDrive.GetDirectory.FinishProcInfo changes TFileRec.LName to '<<< NDN >>>' [*] FIND: several improvements * starting a search inside a FIND PANEL will search files inside the panel by default (selected files or total find drive) (MiB); if a new search doesn't use data from this panel the panel will be deleted * search in selected files/dirs (Alex Grishanov) -> moved dnutil.TDnApplication.HandleCommand().cmFindFile into flpanelx.TFilePanelRoot.CommandHandle() -> vfs_find.FindFile() now receives the Panel from where the command was started -> a lot of changes and improvements to vfs_find.FindFile|FindFiles TURBOVISION: VIEWS/DIALOGS/MENUS/OBJECTS [*] added views.TGroup.GetFirstTypeOf(): helper to check for Checkboxes or Radiobuttons [-] dialogs.TCluster.SetButtonState only worked for TCheckBoxes, added it to dialogs.TRadioButtons [*] added filescol.TFilesCollection.Clone() constructor and TFilesCollection.CloneItem() to copy items based on the current collection - NOTE: tries to do a object based implementation in collect.TCollection with a virtual CloneItem() failed because the Clone constructor didn't use the CloneItem of TFilesCollection [*] collect.TCollection: added flag to signal that only the container should be disposed, not the items; items are only deleted from list, not freed: collect.TCollection.OnlyDeleteItems: Boolean -> collect.TCollection.Done uses it -> fltools.GetSelection() automatically sets this flag -> removed GetSelection + DeleteAll/Dispose combinations from: 1*vfs_find, 3*flpanelx, 1*diskimg, 6*fltools -> also solved some memory leaks due to undisposed collections: fltools.cm_Print [*] implemented dialogs.CheckBoxesE/RadioButtonsE.SetButtonState(): receives no bit mask but the value of one button to disable/enable [+] added generic code to views.TListViewer: QuickSearch, GetQuickSeachChar -> possibility to quickly search for chars inside of all list boxes; the first character only -> removed first implementation from TComboBox [*] added filescol.TFilesCollection.GetSelection(): creates new collection with (depending on parameters) OnlyDeleteItems set from all items which are (not) Selected (TFileRec.Selected) [*] added collect.TCollection.Merge(): collection A takes the items of collection B and Disposes B [*] added collect.TCollection.Iterate(): return items of a collection until list end; checks for nil internally [+] implemented dialogs.ListBoxE: receives items in a Collection or SItem list, handles scrollbar and list internally, only returns focused value [*] TComboBox [ESC]/[ENTER]: first hit closes the expanded box, next hit closes dialog [+] filescol.TFilesColletion: added GetFileNameCollection() which returns all files in a string collection [*] collect.TUnSortedStrCollection now handles duplicates [*] collect.TCollection.Insert() now returns a boolean if the value was actually added -> converted from procedure to function [*] views.TWindow: windows which cannot be zoomed (dialogs f.ex.) will be centered on double click on the top frameline, added "Center" to Window menu -> views.TWindow.HandleEvent() handles cmCenter, sent by views.TFrame.HandleEvent() -> added views.TView.CenterView(), removed center code from views.TGroup.InsertBefore [*] TComboBox: discard changes if clicking besides the box (Dandv) -> dialogs.TDialog.HandleEvent(): clicking to an "empty" area will reset the focus on the object -> added views.TView.ResetView() which releases and gives focus [-] validate.TValidator.Options was 0, hence no data was gotten/set [DNOC] [+] added collect.TNoCaseStringCollection which sorts strings case insensitive [+] added views.TWindow.HandleEvent().cmGetName: needed for Window.Window List HISTORIES [+] QuickSearch, see update to views.TListViewer (Basil/2) [+] setup for max edit/view/directory/command history length/size, added Options.Configuration.Miscellaneous Setups.History Setup -> now saves histries.MaxCmdHistorySize to ini file -> added hcHistorySetup COMMANDLINE [+] added delete word right of cursor: [CTRL-SHIFT-BACKSPACE] -> cmdline.TCommandLine.HandleEvent LFN [-] lfn.zlfSplit() didn't split '.\' correctly -> returned '.\' as ext [NC] -> commented "and ((B > 2) or not HasColon)" hopefully w/o side effects KEYBOARD [*] LNX T: [CTRL-SPACE] works [*] added timeout for double keypresses (0.25s) -> drivers.GetKeyMouseEvent().DoubleKeyTimer [*] delay dead keys (shift,ctrl,alt,caps,win keys) for double assignments: NDN will wait for a second keypress for 1/4 second before sending the single one - behaviour like in LINUX with TAB possible -> drivers.GetKeyMouseEvent() RCP/RESOURCE [+] implemented MultiDialog: SUBGROUP/END,COMMONRECT SUBGROUPS are basically DIALOGS (without buttons), SUBGROUP bounds are relative to COMMONRECT -> dialogs from ndn.dnr can be copied into a subgroup w/o changing the bounds/coordinates/sizes of the subviews -> see Options.Configuration.Miscellaneous Setups [+] added ListBoxE [*] all dialog content (PVIEWs) can now be scanned recursively, now only one implementation of the parsing code exists -> added rcp.CompileDialog().ScanDialogContent() [+] added "IntInputLine <min>,<max>,<bounds>,<maxlen>,<history>" -> converting from integer to string and vice versa internally using validate.TRangeValidator; receives and returns an integer instead of a string [*] removed the D^.Awaken call from rcp.ProcessDLGs.CompileDialog() -> added setups.TSysDialog.Init() which calls awaken EDITOR/VIEWER [*] several changes in drawing output to remove linux/dos ifdefs: bookmark line (now '-'), filtered characters (now '.') VIRTUAL FILE SYSTEMS (VFS) [-] FTP: still some files could be overlooked when parsing the incoming file list and remove '/' when getting current directory [A] {G} -> vfs_ftp.TFTPConnected.(GetFilesCol|GetCurrentDir) EDITOR [+] new feature: delete empty lines at the end of the file when saving -> added editor option "Del. empty lines" -> works if "Optimal fill" or "Del. empty lines" are enabled -> microed2.WriteBlock, used in microed2.Editor(SaveFile|SaveFileAs) -> microed7.EditorDraw(): better view setting of Pos.Y [*] delete word to the right now behaves as delete word left (stop at breakchars and delete breakchars separately) -> commented additional line in micro_4.EdDelWordRight [-] file > 1 lines, move cursor to end, cursor right, backsp: cursor left AND 1 line appended (GPFault) [A] -> micro_4.EdMakeBack() sets cursor to EOL, but only if line contains data to support indent on empty lines [*] keyword comp: collect all words (word/char count code) -> at the moment collected with each name completion event maybe: on load (microed2.EditorLoadFile) and line update/next completion event?! -> modified micro_3.(EdCountCharsWords|EdCompleteKeyWord) [*] the bookmark and infoview lines were not redrawn when the state sfSelected or sfActive were off -> microed.TEditWindow.SetState() did only draw info/bookmarks when above states were enabled [*] confirmation option: modify read only files -> one confirmation for editor and viewer: Options.Configuration.Confirmations.Modify read-only files (startup.Confirms.Options and commands.cfModifyReadOnly) -> rus and eng resources have been modified accordingly [*] search info window when searching in search paths (SPF) -> searchf.FindFileWithSPF(): added PTimedWhileView and now receives a list of filenames to look for -> microed2.EditorOpenFileAtCursor() provides a list of possible filenames and only calls FindFileWithSPF() once [-] 1 lined files always get CRLF as line divisor (GPFault) [DNOC] -> microed2.EditorReadBlock.CountLines() did always set CRLF even if no line ending was detected at all, now uses default value from editor setup (files with 1 line don't have a line ending) [-] ruler with RMB over window moved cursor after release (GPFault) [DNOC] -> restructured code in micro_3.EdHandleMouse(), now no editor content is modified anymore (cursor, blocks) [-] Smart tab now also uses the first line for indenting information [A] -> micro_4.EdDoTab().GetSmartTabStep() used 'I > 0' instead of '>=' [-] Smart tab did not work if the preceeding line was empty, or one of the preceeding lines was more indented than one of it's succeeding lines [A] -> micro_4.EdDoTab().GetSmartTabStep() skips directly preceeding empty lines -> micro_4.EdDoTab().GetTabStep() ignores 'out of order' lines FILE PANEL [-] QuickSearch: pressing [ALT] quit the quicksearch mode but didn't remove the search from the panel [A] -> flpanel.TFilePanel.HandleEvent didn't draw the information view of the panel after leaving the quicksearch mode [-] flpanel.QuickDirArr was not disposed [A] -> flpanelx.CleanFlPanelX disposes it [-] LNX: "cd path+filename" didn't work [A] -> sk.__CheckDirectory.ValidPath LINUX code didn't check trailing parts of the given directory for validity [-] LNX "Show hidden files" had no effect (.*) (Sir_Yaro) [V] -> vpsyslnx.DoFindFile now sets the hidden attribute HIGHLIGHT GROUPS [*] move: indicates when user is moving a group -> groupdlg.TGroupViewer.NewItemPos() shows info in subtitle [*] file group list, color info line didn't use it's the whole size.x to display the mask -> groupdlg.TGroupInfoPane.Draw SYNTAX HIGHLIGHT [*] flag values can now read a list of bit values, not only one value -> highlite.MakeValue() using stringsx.ParseLineSpace() -> example: "1 2 32 1024" [*] improved the very slow loading of large files with a lot of multiline comments or strings (f.ex. windows.pas) [NC] -> about 50% faster = highlite.TMultiCommentCollection.NewFreshLine(): modified for construct which increased all line data when inserting new lines from 0 to count-1, now goes from count-1 to 0 and breaks at the very first line < new line same modification to highlite.TMultiCommentCollection.CleanLine() (which is almost unused) [*] (correct) use of '\' as escape char in keyword and comment highlight data - "REM " comments or ',' in comment(start|string) was not possible [NC] -> highlite.InitHighLight.FixHighliteParams() treats every character succeeding a '\' literally -> highlite.InitHighLight.MakeStrings() checks if a ',' is preceeded by '\' and looks for the next ',' - "RegKeywords color red bug\\,bug2" == "bug\,bug2" but should be 2 keywords (GPFault) [NC] -> highlite.InitHighLight.MakeRegKeywordsColl() now skips all escaped characters - Stringflags 1+2 didn't work correctly: \'abc\' still highlighted the first ' (Dandv) [NC] -> highlite.Highlites.CheckString(), only when MultilineString disabled, didn't check the first found ' or " for escape - Keywords with escaped characters -> highlite.InitHighLight.MakeKeywordsColl() handles escaped characters - escaped multiline comments are now supported -> highlite.InitHighLight.MakeDefaults() [+] new regkeyword and colored keyword color values: string, comment, number, symbol, normal (GPFault) -> modified highlite.InitHighLight.GetCurrentColor() and added highlite.InitHighLight.ReadColor(), used in following 2 methods -> Keywords: highlite.InitHighLight.MakeColoredKeywords() -> RegKeywords: highlite.InitHighLight.MakeRegKeywordsColl() [+] RegKeyWords[1-8] using the KeyWord[1-8] colors (GPFAult) -> modified highlite.InitHighLight.MakeDefaults(), highlite.InitHighLight.MakeRegKeywordsColl() and added highlite.InitHighLight.MakeColoredRegKeywords() [+] match not only file mask, but content of file -> normal search pattern: inside <> regex pattern: inside >< -> case insensitive -> modified microed2.EditorLoadFile() and fviewer.TFileViewer.ReadFile(): load the HGL data after loading the file data -> microed.TFileEditor.InitHighLight() provides first line and fviewer.TFileViewer.ReadFile() first Min(64, filesize) bytes -> added highlite.InitHighLight.FirstMatch() which matches mask & content -> added pattern for *.SH files to ndn.hgl REGULAR EXPRESSIONS/PCRE [*] pcregexp.TpcRegExp now inherits from TObject (FreeObject) DBF VIEWER [+] CSV file support (*.csv, *.rep, *.spr) {G} -> dbfview -> @Garl: please read the dbfview-source code for some notes by me TVHC/HELP [-] big screen video mode, editor help, cannot select "system clipboard" [DNOC] -> helpfile.THelpViewer set it's limit to 78, now always sets Size.X [*] open help like a standard window with switching etc... -> added stdefine.NEW_HELP_WINDOW (to see old help code) -> modified dnutil.TDnApplication.HandleCommand().cmHelp: * using ExecView() if top view is user screen, in dragging mode or already started via ExecView() else Insert() into desktop * commented the unused dnutil.HelpInUse with the define above -> modified helpfile.THelpWindow.Init() helpfile.THelpViewer.HandleEvent() -> Options.Configuration.Interface.Allow multiple help windows: commands.ouiAllowMultiHelpWin -> added global views.ExecViewActive: if a view is executed via ExecuteView this value is true (255 nested calls possible) -> help window in Window.List also shows the current topic: added helpfile.THelpWindow.HelpFile and helpfile.THelpWindow.HandleEvent() WINDOW MANAGER [-] set-on-next-viewer/editor-window code always used english window strings and always used the first editor window, even if current was a viewer -> using getstring to get the dlViewTitle and dlEditTitle language strings -> code will now select exactly according to what the current view is see you soon Stefan / AH download: http://ndn.muxe.com/beta.php (even if the beta page is not yet updated don't worry, the links point to the new version already)

hey dan! yes, i am sorry, this has to do with the fact that i added the feature that the current video mode, if ti doesn't exist in the current list, is added to the vm-list and, when you start ndn in a standard w2k+ console you have a window buffer of 80x300 (!). so, since the mode was in the list and NDN found the current mode to be set it tried to set it, but i tested it once and the max possible screen sizes are a less than that i have fixed this in the release i will upload in a few minutes (yes, i had to come back home again...) about the color problem: my work w32 dir (where i compiled my work into) had an additional color dir i have removed this and it shouldn't appear anymore check my next post in this forum Stefan / AH

hey dan! nope, no ideas at all fact is: X has almost no support for complex terminal programms, when it comes to keyboard reconfiguration which means, about 95% of the keyboard hotkeys are completely useless under a terminal NDN LNX is only really usable in the real linux console i have no idea how to change that the ctrl/alt stuff is even worse, because there's no way to read them at all (look at the statusline when pressing alt, shift or ctrl) we would have to think about completely new hotkeys for the linux terminals and as long as there's no possibility to completely configure NDN hotkeys via a config file this is useless IMO sorry Stefan / AH

hi! it's usually a good idea to run drivers before running file managers (i remember that from my past...) i have a "tiny-d32-version" on my todo list but i have never started to work on it i don't know what else to do about this :) i tihnk a smaller/tiny version of NDN would not help you in this case Stefan / AH

hello! sorry for the late reply there's no possibility to do that from inside NDN ndn reads /proc/mounts and gets all drives from there if i remember correctly the drives are sorted by their paths so it should not make sense to reorder this file if anyone of you has a nice idea how to sort or order these paths (options, algorithms) let me know have fun with the upcoming release Stefan / AH

Hello everyone! again sorry for the long delay, i had a lot of private things to do. before i post the news, i need to say a few things: i will be in munich for the next 4-6 months (maybe longer) for an internship at a big company, and i hope i can also do my diploma thesis there too. i hope to have a lot of free time for NDN - no more studying :). but the MAIN problem that arises because of this is that i don't have an internet connection at the moment. i am looking for reliable and cheap possibilities (DSL/CABLE). i don't know when i will be able to be online every day again. therefore i would like to ask everyone of you to wait with source code/bug reports via email until i repost here to tell you that i have access to internet again. or, of course, post all of your bug reports to the forum, but i won't be able to answer until i return home 1-2 times each month or have my internet account in munich. that's it for now. on to the news: [!] version was set to 2.30 because this is my first release in my 4th year of working on NDN (v?.3? = 3 years) [!] congratulations to Garl: all the best for your marriage from the NDN team [+] added "Ignore All" option to drivers5.SystemError (copy, delete etc...) [-] D32/W32 fixed several problems concerning Options.Configuration.Startup/Shutdown."Smart windows box close" [ANC] - D32 NT ...doesn't work since WinOldAPI is not supported - W32 there's no way to prevent the window from closing, therefore removed this option and always exit -> removed dnutil.W95QuitSent [-] LNX added SIGTERM handling; NDN quits on receiving it -> added vpsyslnx.SigHandler(), used from SysCtrlSetCBreakHandler caught in drivers4 [-] W32 TrayIcon wasn't removed when closing window via [X] (Vladimir Bochkarev) [A] -> NDN has not quit correctly after receiving the closing event in drivers4.TVCtrlBreak() [*] added Options.Configuration.Color Setup.Dialogs.Cluster Disabled (Checkboxes/Radiobuttons) to the color setup [Z} [-] LNX modified/created files got 0200 access rights afterwards [V] {P} -> vpsyslnx.SysSetFileAttr() [*] added Oracle SQLPlus highlighting [-] D32/LNX/OS2 tetris/piton gameplay was too fast (Rugxulo) -> LastDelay code used different multiplier for W32 [*] updated russian resources {P} [*] LNX: Reseting NDN produced an error message because ECHO was not found -> lowercased the ECHO in *.dnl [*] HGL: added GRUB and TASM MAKEFILE highlight data [*] D32: VPC.EXE can now also be used in pure DOS with the HX DOS Extender UPDATE: the RTL can be compiled w/o problems, but trying to build NDN hangs VPC ARCHIVES [+] added overwrite files (force) option to extract archive dialog -> changed *.dnr and archiver.UnarchiveFiles.MakeATypeStr [*] russian characters correctly shown in CAB archives [NC] {G} -> arc_cab.TCABArchive.GetFile uses keymap.Ansi_Ascii() FILE COPY/MOVE/OPEN/CREATE/DELETE [*] filecopy and advance0 had almost identical CRC code, commented filecopy [+] reset copy options option (Dandv) and delete/keep partial files option [*] merged the copy/rename move dialogs into one, only changing title and using checkbox states -> added views.TWindow.SetTitle, commented dlgRenameDialog, enhanced filecopy.CopyDialog [-] LNX: deleting symbolic/soft links still handled the target and not the linkfile in subdirectories (GPFault) [A] -> eraser.EraseFiles.DOSDelDir checks if file is a link [+] Copy/move option: Preserve directory structure (Garl) {Z} (destination path = <destpath>+<srcpath>+<filename>) [+] concurrent/background Copy/Delete is possible - not FTP (Mansoor/Dandv) -> while copying only few time for other tasks, only one copy/delete process allowed -> filecopy/eraser.Info.Options.ofSelectable, gauge.DisPatchEvents*App*, define filecopy.BACKGROUND_COPY/eraser.BACKGROUND_ERASE, fltools.CM_EraseFiles.Active/ChangeLocked gauge.TWhileView.HandleEvent.evBroadCast.cmFindView [-] D32/WINDOWS COPY/MOVE: when trying to copy DIZ for a file on a drive which has LFN disabled NDN couldn't handle the DIZ file [A] (Eugeniusz Kosek) -> fileio.lFileNameOf() didn't check lFile.AssignFileMode correctly DNEXEC/EXTERNAL VIEWER/EDITOR DNEXEC.EXECUTEFILEEXT/LOCAL_GLOBAL_MENUS [-] W32 !: & ~! still sometimes returned crap (GPFault) [A] -> lfn.lGetShortFileName was not 100% in every case (usermenu.MakeString) [-] LNX: screen output was bad sometimes when executing files [V] {P} -> vpsyslnx.SysExecute called SuspendTerm after Fork() VIRTUAL FILE SYSTEMS (VFS) [-] NETWORK: correct display of russian filenames [A] {G} -> keymap.Ansi_Ascii: removed from network.GetResources, added to vfs_netw.TNetDrive.GetResourceList [*] FIND/BRANCH: loaded file lists after starting NDN... - multiple duplicate selected files were not reselected correctly [NC] -> added filescol.TFileRec.NameCRC which holds a CRC32 based on the complete filename: faster and 100% compare for equal names (since filescol.TFileRec.Owner isn't stored to disk) * reading list (with marked files) took very long -> flpanelx.TFilePanelRoot.RereadDir was improved: faster and smaller (about 3 times faster) -> new desktop version! [*] FTP: sockets now are created with the SO_KEEPALIVE flag [+] FTP: implemented a keepalive function to prevent disconnection -> views.TView now stores/loads UpdTicks to/from disk, added updview, views.RegisterTo(Prior|Background) init the views.TView.UpdTimer, added vfs_ftp.TFTPConnected.Update [-] FIND: giving sizes to the advanced dialog like 1M didn't work [DNOC] -> modified stringsx.StoI() to except strings with a trailing char: KGMT, basically all number inputlines should now be able to correctly read '12k' as 12*1024 -> also added stringsx.StoZ() for 64-Bit integers [*] FIND: multiple concurrent searches are not possible; when a file search is active and a new search is started NDN will select the active window [*] added vfs_driv.TDrive.CanHandleDiz():Boolean [-] TEMP/FIND: DIZ was not (correctly) handled (Eugeniusz Kosek) [DNOC] - no desc. display in panel: CanHandleDiz in vfs_drive.TDrive.GetFull - toggle descs didn't work (CTRL-K): CanHandleDiz in fltools.CM_ToggleDescriptions - edit DIZ (ALT-INS) support: modified vfs_driv.TDrive.EditDescription, flpanelx.TFilePanelRoot.CommandHandle.cmEditDiz; corrected dizfiles.CalcDPath - DIZ handling in COPY/MOVE (F5) and FAST RENAME (ALT-F6) operations: added dizfiles.GetPDIZ(), used * 3 times in filecopy.FilesCopy before ImportDiz() blocks * 2 times in fltools.CM_RenameSingle after RenameF() - get PFILEREC.DIZ while creating/rereading lists (like TDrive): * 2 times in vfs_find.FindFiles after NewFileRec [-] FIND: bug when searching <name>.*: '.*' removed completely [A] -> vfs_find.FindFiles removes .* but adds a '*' -> maybe this needs more work [+] TDrive.GetDriveID(): A-Z?#* used in flpanelx.(_ChangeDrive|_DoCtrl) DBF VIEWER [-] fixed view of empty dbase7 files {G} [*] now NDN can view DBF with corrupted header {G} !!! Modifing this file can corrupt data !!! -> if Messagebox(GetString(dlDBViewHeaderError) , nil, mfYesNoConfirm) = cmNo RCP/RESOURCE [-] Color setup contained rest of the diskfixer colors (Vladimir Bochkarev) [A] -> added IFDEFs for terminal and diskfixer color data CLIPBOARD [*] LNX: mouse clipboard actions only copied/pasted 15 chars (GPFault) {P} [V] -> removed KbdBuffer limitation of 15 in vpsyslnx.KbdTerminalThread TURBOVISION: VIEWS/DIALOGS/MENUS/OBJECTS [*] added views.TView.(|De)RegisterSelf(ToPrior|ToBackground) [*] improvements to the display of current/max items in ListBox views -> removed SetSubTitle() from views.TListViewer.Draw() and added it to views.TListViewer.HandleEvent() [+] added TComboBox: can replace any TRadioButton and save quite some space in dialogs (thanks to DN/2 for the idea) -> added.dialogs.TComboBox, works like common Windows/GUI implementations -> used in dlgFMSetup.Quick Search dlgInterfaceSetup.Drive Info dlgConfirmations.Open new window? dlgEditorDefaults.Default code page/Line divisor dlgViewerDefaults.Default ~V~iew Mode dlgDisAsmDefaults.Size display dlgSystemSetup.Use Config 1/2 -> updated the *.pal files DIRECTORY TREE [+] added [CTRL-HOME/END] and improved mouse wheel handling -> tree.TTreeView.HandleCommand FILE PANEL [-] slow compare directories even for small filecounts (Dandv) [A] -> fltools.CM_CompareDirs: [ESC] was polled too often [*] unmark based on NameCRC's, which should be faster -> filescol.TFilesCollection.Compare: using TFileRec.NameCRC for smCopyUnselect, smGetSelection, smUndefined..., added USE_FILEREC_CRC define [*] Quick Dir Window (ALT-SHIFT-0) didn't handle '~' in pathnames -> dnutil.TDnApplication.HandleCommand().DoQuickChange() [-] drive letter invisible when selecting drive from FIND/BRANCH (Dandv) [A] -> flpanel.TDriveLine.Draw didn't draw correctly if dtFind; changed vfs_find.TFindDrive.GetRealName() to return the actual base directory, used in flpanelx.TFilePanelRoot.CommandHandle._DoCtrl [*] using TDrive.IsUp (also via Changeup) in flpanelx.(_CtrlPgDn|_CtrlPgUp|_CtrlHome) [*] Options.Configuration.System Setup - single disks can be removed from DriveLine display (Necromancer) -> added commands.ossNoDriveLine, used in flpanel.TDriveLine.MakeDriveLine; modified flpanelx.TFilePanelRoot.CommandHandle.HandleCommand: added cmRereadForced handling - LNX: "Don't use LFN" was removed [-] LNX X: file execution via mouse (double click) hung up NDN (GPFault) [V] -> vpsyslnx.SysTVInitMouse didn't init MouseBuffer(Mutex|Count) SCREEN/VIDEOMODES [*] LNX: now using SIGWINCH to detect window/screen size changes -> disabled previous method in dnapp.TProgram.Idle, added SIGWINCH handling to vpsyslnx.SysCtrlSetCBreakHandler and drivers4.TVCtrlBreak (works in X and real terminals) MOUSE [+] D32: added CuteMouse v2.0 alpha 4 mouse wheel support have fun, and see you soon hopefully Stefan / AH download: http://ndn.muxe.com/beta.php

Hello! Yes, i forgot to disable this for the release: dialogs are not suposed to be zoomed or resized. Sorry Stefan / AH

hi!! @haman thank you, i will take a look at it @dan winrar 3.20 indeed shows no error, but the cmdline version displays "unexpected end of archive" when listing the archive contents the compressed file is alright though i also will take a look at it the next weeks bye Stefan / AH

Hi! i have uploaded a fix to this short time after the release maybe you still have the version with this bug? Stefan / AH

Hi Yaro! thank you for the bug report Stefan / AH

update: because of a bad bug in the system error dialog (abort, retry, ignore...) i have uploaded a quick fix to the beta page (v2.30.0024)

hi bmw! indeed, very strange i tihnk it only happens in del code thank you Stefan / AH

hi vasily! i would say it's a bug put it to the todo list thanks Stefan / AH

hi FDF! sorry, i was not expressing myself clear enough: of course i got the W32 version of VPC running and compiling the VP-RTL in DOS (DOS 7.0 of W98) with HX. but the problem is that it hangs when i try to compile the NDN sources. i didn't have much time yet to check what exactly hangs VPC. maybe it's a little bug in the HX WINAPI library i think it can be "easily" found using the HX debugger, but i can't do that at the moment i would be very happy if someone else could check this ok, a quick braindump regarding the VP install: - install VP - install VKs files over it (simply extracting i think) - run APPLYDIF.EXE from the VP base directory NOTE: VKs v279 applydif versions crashed on my system(s) (also PE2LE.EXE) if it happens for you too try the older VP D32 archives from VK and copy/use these exe files, that worked for me - goto VP\SOURCE\RTL\ and run _all.bat, this compiles the new/updated RTL i hope you can get it to work now bye Stefan / AH

Hi Vasily! no no, it's really ok LINUX C API SHOULD never change, but if you look through all the APIs you can also find quite some deprecated APIs. can we rely on the different versions of libc.so.x ? look at \vp\lib.lnx\defs\libc_5.def, there you can add all lib calls you want, like in \vp\lib.w32\defs\win32.def but i haven't checked it out myself yet one problem i see is: what happens if we need libc.so.6 and there will be a libc.so.7 in a new linux release?! is it safe to create a link to libc.so.7 with the name libc.so.6? at the moment i don't believe that there's any int 80h call that has to do anything with the current problems all i can say is that it works :) only the D32 RTL has built in thread support OS2, W32 and LNX use system/kernel threads there's no reason IMO to do EVERY string in unicode for speed reasons alone and to support older OS's and PCs i will never do that that's what the RTL is there for we detect the OS, we need to know what to do with it i tihnk it can be done, if we need it at all i partially agree *I* have to focus on all 3 ports, because i use all of them and i don't want to drop any port one problem is that i don't have that much time to focus on LNX, because i have a big todo list of features and bugs to solve, not only focused on LNX another problem is linux itself, which is so much different from DOS/W32/OS2 i have worked on NDN/LNX for much too long time to drop it now even if it will progress slowly, i will continue working on it, with VP best regards Stefan / AH PS: i have succeeded in making a D32 version of VPC.EXE, which runs in pure DOS with the help of the HD-DOS Extender. Just in case someone might want to develop directly in DOS.