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From: micke@slaka.sirius.se (Mikael Karlsson)
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Subject: New Snap available soon
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Date: 27 Jun 90 03:18:25 GMT
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A new version of Snap will be available soon.
It works, as far as I know, with AmigaOS 2.0.

Here's the 'changes' file:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Changes. (Initiating source in parantheses.)

1.51
    * Font argument parsing. (Internal, ie me.)
    * Signal handling when a snap fails. (Internal.)
    * Improved font handling. Fonts with kerning and optimized
      bit arrays, eg Courier, are now handled correctly.
      (Internal.)
    * An old debugging DisplayBeep() in the simple refresh
      routine removed. (Roger Nordin.)
    * The graphics snap window title said ") 1989". Changed
      to ") 1990". (Roger Nordin.)
    * The following sequence in a script, eg startup-sequence,
      could cause problems:
        run >nil: snap
        endcli
      William Hawes solved this for me. Thanks, Bill. It turned
      out to be a bug in Manx' (and Lattice's) startup code.
      A file that explains how to fix this is included in this
      distribution. (Lars Wiklund.)
    * Explanation of compiler switches added to the makefile.
      (huver%amgraf@uunet.uu.net).
    * Check for failed Open() in SaveGfx. Volume might be
      write-protected. (Ismo Suihko.)
    * Support for fonts higher than 16 points. (Dale D. Snell).
    * Smarter font opening modelled after Dave Haynie's code
      in SetFont 2.7. (Internal.)
    * Ismo Suihko solved the memory loss problem that occured
      when graphics snap windows. (Ismo Suihko.)

1.5
    * Reverse engineering of InputEvents completely rewritten.
      (Multiple requests & bug reports.)
    * Alternate font (Why do I support CygnusEd when they
      don't support the clipboard?). (Internal + UseNet.)
    * Fonts added to the caching mechanism. (Internal.)
    * Default input handler priority raised to 52 to avoid
      problems with CygnusEd. (Internal.)
    * Specifying a combination of qualifiers now requires that
      ALL of the qualifiers are down for Snap to respond.
      (Popular request, ie Christopher A. Wichura.)
    * No automatic detaching. (Lack of documentation, Aztec 5.0)
    * Arp.library replaced by req.library for file requester.
      (Internal. It looks much nicer.)

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And here's some of the changes that hasn't been made:

* Proportional fonts (maybe in Snap 2.0).
* Gfx snap to clipboard (Anybody got any good docs on this?).
* Probably a lot of other things.


This version will be the last major one for pre-2.0. Bugs will be
fixed, of course.


Well, I guess that's it. If you've got any terrific ideas, I need
to hear them as soon as possible.

Comments and complaints are (as always) very welcome.

/Mikael

PS. It does paste more than 256 chars into A-Talk III, right Marco. ;-)


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