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DIcEd v1.2 release notes DAL Systems
P.O. Box 287
by David A. Lyons 25-Feb-89 North Liberty, IA 52317
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[CompuServe 72177,3233; GEnie D.LYONS2; AppleLinkPE Dave Lyons]
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Changes in DIcEd v1.2:
o Edit Attributes now knows about all the new filetypes and
auxtypes defined in the January 1989 Filetype Notes.
o The menus are prettier. (Separate dimmed-out dividing
lines appear between groups of items.)
o When you Save an icon file window and there are Edit Icon
windows belonging to it that have not been saved back to
the main window, a dialog appears and asks if it's okay
to save the icons back to the main window before saving
the file.
o When you Save an icon file window and there are Edit Icon
windows belonging to it that have not been saved back to
the main window, a dialog appears and asks if it's okay
to save the icons back to the main window before saving
the file.
o If there is no FONTS folder in your SYSTEM folder, DIcEd
asks for permission to create one. The FONTS folder is
required for the Font Manager. (DIcEd uses the Font
Manager even though it doesn't use any fonts other than
the system font (Shaston 8). But DIcEd's clipboard can
display pictures, stored in PICT format, and this requires
the Font Manager to be active.)
o No changes have been made to Save As Source yet. Sorry.
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Bug fixes in DIcEd v1.1.1:
o Using New (or Apple-N) to create an empty icon file from
scratch in previous versions _seemed_ to work okay, but
it resulting in a file that was ignored by the Finder.
(DIcEd was not storing a $0001 at offset 4 in the file.)
o The correct parts of an Edit Icon window are now redrawn
if color replacement (option-click) or icon repositioning
(shift-drag) were done while the window was not scrolled
to the top-left position.
o DIcEd no longer reports fatal errors if a toolset returns
an error when it is shut down. This is not the ideal
solution, but it should clear up the Fatal Error $0002
problem many users have been having when using the Show
Text NDA, v1.2.
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New features in DIcEd v1.1:
o The Edit Attributes filetype window knows about some new
special filetypes used under Finder 1.2 on System Disk 4.0
(GS/OS).
o The Help and view-text-file windows are 4.7 zillion times
faster now.
o Four sizes of fat pixels are available in Edit Icon windows
(see View menu).
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Bug fixes in DIcEd v1.1:
o Clicking in the icon area of an icon file window while
the Edit button was disabled (when positioned at icon
#0, before all the icons in the file) would let you
edit this nonexistent icon, possibly leading to a crash.
o Some users have had DIcEd 1.0 crash while quitting. I
believe this was because of some buggy code in the TML
Pascal 1.50A library, and I now bypass that code. If
you still get crashes, I want to hear about it.
o The rectangle around the sample icons will always be
redrawn properly now.
o Bogus redrawing of the fat-pixel images used to happen
after drawing pixels and releasing the mouse if the window
was scrolled vertically by a sufficient amount.
o The hot spot of the Pencil cursor has been moved down
and right by one pixel.
o The Watch cursor is displayed while printing a text file
to the printer.
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