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- the license and README files that are included in the installer
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- redistributable Windows runtime libraries (only needed on WinXP?)
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- NiftyList data file
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Future Trouble Spots
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--------------------
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Microsoft generally does an excellent job of maintaining backward
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compatibility, but as Windows and the build tools continue to evolve it is
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likely that some things will break. The original version of CiderPress was
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written to work on Win98, using tools of that era, and quite a bit of effort
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in the 4.0 release was devoted to bringing CP into the modern era.
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In another 15 years things may be broken all over again. Some areas of
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particular concern:
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1. File + folder selection. The dialog that allows you to select a combination
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of files and folders is a customized version of the standard file dialog.
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There is no standard dialog that works for this. The original version, based
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on the old Win98-era file dialogs, worked fine at first but started to fail
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in Vista. CiderPress v4.0 provided a new implementation, based on the
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Win2K "explorer" dialog, which works well in WinXP and Win7/8. However,
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WinVista introduced a new style, and those dialogs have a very different
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structure (and don't work on WinXP). At some point it may be necessary
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to replace the dialog again.
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2. Help files. CiderPress initially used the old WinHelp system. v4.0
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switched to the newer HtmlHelp, but judging by the level of support it would
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seem that HtmlHelp is on its way out. The favored approach seems to be to
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just pop open a web browser to a web site or a document on disk. The pop-up
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help text, which currently comes out of a special section of the help file,
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would instead use MFC tooltip features, with strings coming out of the
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resource file. (This is probably more convenient and definitely more
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flexible, so switching the pop-up help messages may happen sooner.)
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3. Unicode filenames. CiderPress cannot open most files with non-ASCII,
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non-CP-1252 characters in their names (e.g. kanji). This is because the
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NufxLib and DiskImg libraries use narrow strings for filenames. The libraries
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are expected to build on Linux, so converting them is a bit of a pain. At
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some point it may be necessary to support Unicode fully. v4.0 did a lot of
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code reorganization to make this easier, as did NufxLib v3.0.
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