AppleCommander/VERSIONS

1.3.1 (2003-12-12)
* Short-cut keys have been implemented.
  - From AppleCommander window:
    - CTRL+O = Open a disk image
    - CTRL+C = Create a new disk image
    - CTRL+A = About...
  - From disk window
    - Toolbar shortcuts:
      - F2 = Standard file view
      - F3 = Native file view
      - F4 = Detail file view
      - F5 = Show deleted files
      - CTRL+I = Import files wizard
      - CTRL+S = Save
      - CTRL+SHIFT+S = Save As
    - Directory shortcuts (in addition to toolbar shortcuts)
      - "+" = expand one level
      - "-" = close one level
      - CTRL+"+" = expand fully
      - CTRL+"-" = close fully
    - File shortcuts (in addition to toolbar shortcuts)
      - CTRL+E = Export file wizard
      - CTRL+C = Compile BASIC program (BETA)
      - CTRL+V = View file (later version)
      - CTRL+D = Delete file
* Spent time ensuring that buttons, context menus, and shortcuts are enabled or
  disabled as appropriate.
* Save does not allow the disk image location to be chosen for new images. (Maybe
  the wizard should pay more attention?)
  - Implemented Save As
  - A save on a new image invokes Save As
* File preview supports:
  - BASIC programs (Applesoft and Integer BASIC); Applesoft BASIC is colored
  - Graphics images (same as supported by the graphics export function)
  - Appleworks (database, spreadsheet, word processor)
  - Text files
  - Hex dump of all the above
  - "Raw" format of all of the above; this includes all data as read from disk
    including length and starting address as well as full sectors/blocks
  - Shortcuts available:
  	- F2 = Native format view (as applicable)
  	- F3 = Hex dump view
  	- F4 = Raw hex dump of disk bytes (includes length or address start along
  	       with all bytes stored on disk - a multiple of 256 or 512 depending
  	       on disk format)
  	- CTRL+A = Select all (only text formats)
  	- CTRL+C = Copy to clipboard (only text formats)
  	- CTRL+P = Print
* Printing is available from the file preview.
* Copy is avilable from file preview except for images.
* Opening an invalid disk image (or a file that is not a disk image) no longer
  crashes AppleCommander.
* Provide a command-line interface - John Matthews "ac" is now supplied as part
  of the AppleCommander distribution.  If AppleCommander gets no command-line
  arguments, the GUI version is launched.  Otherwise, AppleCommander reserves
  the following messages:
  		-swt = force SWT version
  		-swing = force Swing version (N/A - may be removed)
  		-command = force command interpreter (not done - may be superceded by
  		    the "ac" utility)
  		-help or -? = general help messages
  Everything else is passed on to John's "ac" command-line version (from the
  application help):
		AppleCommander command line options:
		-l <imagename> list directory of image.
		-e <filename> <imagename> export file from image to stdout.
		-g <filename> <imagename> get raw file from image to stdout.
		-p <destname> <type> <addr> <imagename> put stdin
		   in destname on image, using file type and address.
		-d <filename> <imagename> delete file from image.
		-p140 <imagename> <volname> create a 140K ProDOS image.
		-p800 <imagename> <volname> create a 800K ProDOS image.

1.3.0 (2003-12-05)
* HDV disks are not always created to their full capacity.  AppleCommander, however,
  assumes that the size of the file on disk is the size of the disk.  (Really!)
  This is an issue because the ProDOS bitmap indicates there is a certain
  amount of space and AppleCommander just assumes that the data exists.
* Incorporated fixes from John Matthews.  See:
	http://www.wright.edu/~john.matthews/ac.html
* Early release of Applesoft BASIC compiler.  This currently is limited to assembly
  of small programs.  If a command is not compiled, you are likely to just get an
  error about expecting a line number.  Expressions are not very complete.  Supported
  commands are:
  		  END, FLASH, FOR, GOTO, GR, HCOLOR, HGR, HGR2, HOME, HPLOT,
  		  HTAB, INVERSE, NEXT, NORMAL, PRINT, RETURN, TEXT, VTAB
  Unsupported commands are:
          ABS, AND, ASC, AT, ATN, CALL, CHR$, CLEAR, COLOR=, CONT, COS,
          DATA, DEF, DEL, DIM, DRAW, EXP, FN, FRE, GET, GOSUB, GR, HIMEM:, 
          HLIN, IF, IN#, INPUT, INT, LEFT$, LEN, LET, LIST, LOAD, LOG, 
          LOMEM:, MID$, NEW, NOT, NOTRACE, ON, ONERR, OR, PDL, PEEK, PLOT, 
          POKE, POP, POS, PR#, READ, RECALL, REM, RESTORE, RESUME, RIGHT$, 
          RND, ROT=, RUN, SAVE, SCALE=, SCRN, SGN, SHLOAD, SIN, SPC, 
          SPEED=, SQR, STEP, STOP, STORE, STR$, TAB, TAN, THEN, TO, TRACE, 
          USR, VAL, VLIN, WAIT, XDRAW, &
  Note that the compiler is not very sophisticated.
* Updated build notes and process.
* DELETE does not seem to delete in all circumstances.  (JM caught this one.)

1.2.3 (2003-04-13)
* Separated image support for GraphicsFileFilter.  This allows easier preparation
  for compiling AppleCommander as a Windows executable (and allows limited image
  support to boot).
* Compile into native executable (Windows works now).
* Work on identifying why GCJ introduces slow performance to some areas.  This
  appears to be resolved with an early build of GCJ 3.3.

1.2.2 (2003-03-15)
* ProDOS disks now re-use deleted file entries.  Prior to this fix,
  deleted entries were never re-used.  If importing many files, a 
  "Disk Full" error would be generated rather quickly.
* ProDOS file entries do not generate spurious file entries.  There
  was no method of detecting unused entries in pre-1.2.2 code.
* Import file specification should only allow address editing if the filetype
  requires it.
* Fixed parsing of filetype definitions for ProDOS volumes.
* Need to be able to import into a directory in ProDOS.  This will most
  likely involve adding an interface indicating a (writable) directory.
  This interface would be applied to both disks as well as file entries,
  if appropriate.
* ProDOS subdirectories need to allocate another block as they fill up; otherwise
  the directory is limited to the number of entries that fit within the allocated
  space.
* Import now sports a progress indicator and identifies which file is being
  imported.
* Popup dialogs are now centered above the controlling window instead of popping
  up randomly.
* Added a Hex Dump file filter that displays offset into file, hex bytes, and
  the ASCII code.
* AppleCommander is now being built by an ANT script instead of by the
  Eclipse menu pick.

1.2.1 (2003-03-01)
* Now carries margin setting through, sets font to Courier New (more
  realistic formatting), and fixes boldface not being turned off
  correctly when converting AWP files to RTF format.
* Import could/should choose the filetype based upon the file extension for files
  being imported. Mostly useful for ProDOS; unless a filetype mapping is 
  introduced.
* Export of AppleWorks Data Base files.
* Export of AppleWorks Spread Sheet files.
* Fixed minor issue with ProDOS disks where files at the 128K border would
  be grown (incorrectly) into a Tree file (instead of a Sapling).
* Import of multiple files fails after multiple imports.  This was an issue
  with ProDOS files >128K ("Tree" files).  The delete code didn't handle the
  master index block appropriately when blocks numbered zero were present
  (normally indicating the end of file).
* DOS 3.3 was not writing correct number of sectors if a file was more than
  256 sectors long.
* DOS 3.3 was not managing deleted file entries appropriately and tried to
  work with track $FF.
* Fixed offset calculation for 800K DOS organized disks.  This primarily 
  affected UniDOS.
* Import menu should be in directory pane instead of file pane.
* The information tab does not get updated.  Now that the disk can be modified,
  this page needs to be updated when shown.

1.2.0 (2003-02-11)
* Can now create disk images. For the moment, these images are not 
  bootable (including hard disk images) - they do however boot a 
  nifty title screen... 
* Files can now be imported into disks. Formats that support this 
  are DOS 3.3 and ProDOS formats. (Pascal and RDOS will come at a 
  later point.) 
* The AppleWorks export now has an option for exporting to 
  Rich-Text Format (RTF). This format can be loaded into many 
  word-processors easily. 
* The graphics export option now supports Super High-Res images. 
  Both unpacked and packed formats. These are essentially raw dumps 
  from the IIGS memory that were saved to disk. 
* Files can be deleted. 
* Any changes to a disk image can be saved. Please be careful! It's 
  easy enough to keep a backup copy of your work these days. 
* Two new DOS derivitaves are available: UniDOS and OzDOS (both are 
  800K formats). 
* Import from right-click menu needs to be enabled.

1.1.1 (2002-11-23)
* Fixed AppleWorks upper/lower case filename resolution.  Human memory 
  proves to be rusty - fortunately, the folks at gno.org have a good 
  reference.  See:
        http://www.gno.org/pub/apple2/doc/apple/filetypes/ftn.1a.xxxx
* Extract AppleWorks word processor (AWP) files.  Extracts as raw text 
  or HTML (semi formatted).  See
                http://www.gno.org/pub/apple2/doc/apple/filetypes/ftn.1a.xxxx
  for a description of the AppleWorks Word Processor file type.
* Expanded wizard to include AppleWorks Word Processor format/rendering 
  options (text or html).
* If a filter is chosen via the drop-down menu on the button, the button 
  thinks it was clicked.  Fixed.
* Exporting a file now warns that a file exists and will as if it should 
  be overwritten.
* Reorganized the user-interface classes.  In particular, segmented 
  DiskWindow into multiple classes (each tab is a separate class now).
* Added user preferences to AppleCommander.  Currently only tracks the disk 
  image directory and the export directory.
* Attempt to identify file filter based on file type, size, and whatever 
  else makes sense.
* Mark all files as GPL.
* Allow multiple file exports.

1.1.0 (2002-11-12)
* AppleCommander still not starting in Windows 98.  InputStream used in 
  image loading was not being closed.  Did not resolve issue.
* Raw extract of file data.
* Extract binary files (differs from raw extract by paying attention 
  to file lengths and any additional overhead which the operating system 
  may store.
* Extract files as text.
* Extract Applesoft files by converting tokens to strings.
* Extract Integer Basic files by converting tokens to strings.
* RDOS files are not being read correctly; maybe this is an issue with 
  the sector skew? Resolved that RDOS images are apprantly 13 sectors. 
  Updated accordingly.
* Fixed bug in DOS Applesoft and Binary file length calculations.  
  Deleted file entries were (a) not being detected correctly which 
  caused (b) the read of file data to crash AppleCommander.  (The initial 
  bytes for A and B file types indicate file length.)
* Updated FileFilter to suggest an appropriate file name.
* Extracting black & white or color (user selected) HGR file format to 
  PNG/JPEG (user selected).  GIF is not a part of ImageIO for writing 
  (apparantly is avilable for reading).
* Fixed issue in determining DOS format disks.  Originally was only 
  checking 3 bytes of the VTOC for valid values.  Extended to check for 8 
  valid values in the VTOC.  Fixed known problem with Crisis Mountain.
* Allow graphic extraction to happen with JDK 1.3 (currently limited to 
  JDK 1.4).  If not possible, disable graphics filter.  Change export 
  options appropriately.
* Extract Apple double hi-res image formats (B&W, color) and convert to 
  PNG/JPEG.  Technical specs are available at - 
  	http://web.pdx.edu/~heiss/technotes/aiie/tn.aiie.03.html
* Double hi-res images are extracted at 560x384 pixels to maintain 
  appropriate aspect ratio.
* Changed method of loading images. This fixed the Windows 98 startup issue.
* When opening a disk image on Linux, the tab is now selected.  This is 
  done implicitly under Windows.  When running under Linux (motif to 
  be precise), there is no default tab and it must be explicitly selected.
* Export wizard. Allows filter to be chosen along with any filter settings 
  (just graphics right now) and export directory.  Settings are remembered 
  between exports.

1.0.1g (2002-10-31)
* AppleCommander would not start under Windows 98.  Looking at where 
  the crash happened, it was the only PNG image in the system.  Converted 
  this PNG image to GIF format and will re-release.  No other code changes.  
  Does not resolve Windows 98 issue.

Website (2002-10-28)
* Make website and announce on comp.sys.apple2.

1.0.1 (2002-10-27)
* Fixed a number of JDK 1.3 issues - code where JDK 1.4 is fine, but 
  the method is not available in JDK 1.3.  These were:
  - NumberFormat.getIntegerInstance() ==> NumberFormat.getNumberInstance().
  - BitMap set(int, boolean) ==> set(int) if true and clear(int) if false.
* Sort bug - if sorting a string that is null or zero length, a 
  NumberFormatException could occur.

1.0 (2002-10-27)
* Change to JDK 1.3 for compile. Needed to change entire workspace.
* Show/hide deleted files. Should be available only on disks which can hold 
  deleted files.
* Support .zip or .gz compression.  Added support for GZIP.  Unable to find 
  an example of a ZIP compressed archive.  Deprecated DiskHelper class - 
  seemed to make sense to merge into the Disk interface itself.
* Modify Disk interface to give a list of file types - in a generic manner - 
  which would be used by the GUI instead of trying to keep GUI in synch with 
  the Disk interface.  Added FileFilter to Disk and added getFileFilters 
  class method.
* Double-click on directory should expand that item.
* Fixed ProDOS filename recognition in the case of a deleted file.
* Right-click menu for directories - expand/collapse; expand all/collapse all.
* Add sorting to file table.

0.92 (2002-10-24)
* Fix icon transparency. Needed to change from PNG to GIF; apparantly SWT 
  does not do PNG transparency.
* Don't use large font in disk usage map; on some displays, the words are 
  cut off and the legend doesn't fit in the window.
* Remove getDirectoryString from FileEntry interface and replace with 
  getFileColumnData.
* In ProDOS view, if address is $0000, it should not be displayed.
* Remember column sizing in file view.
* Improved initial width guess for columns in file view.
* Do not always redraw table - do it intelligently.  Checking both the list 
  of files and the format before deciding upon an action.
* Need icons for delete file and save image.

0.91 (2002-10-21)
* Implement changing views (standard, native, detail).

0.90 (2002-10-17)
* Initial release - basic reading of disks.