Re: A complete list of changes from 3.0 -> 3.1
Thorsten Kober <[email protected]> Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:35:14 -0700
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Hi Gregg!
So far so good.
I had to reinstall my registration code - but it worked fine afterwards.
Thanks - looking forward to the next version with all the goodies ( roughly
next week right? :-) )
Thorsten
At 07:53 AM 9/10/2005, you wrote:
>As announced earlier, 3.1 is now available. We would, of course,
>appreciate whatever feedback you would care to offer (publicly or
>privately). Things have been surprisingly quiet and all I know so
>far is what we already knew (the *big* problems are all fixed, many
>Treo/T5 "thank-you" notes are coming in). I have had 1 report of an
>off-the-beaten-path crash and 1 user whose registration is no longer
>working. We are working on both.
>
>Here are the changes new in release 3.1 on September 9, 2005 (from
>3.0):
>
>* Added new "PgDown+Next Unread" & "PgUp+Prev Unread" Article
>ButtonActions
>* Fixed Left/Right/Center FiveWay ButtonAction support for Treo 650
>devices
>* Ensure the "NG Prefs" field to receive the input focus is
>usable/visible
>* NG Polls always poll (override the fact that host server's "Poll"
>pref is off)
>* Fixed several Global Find quirks/crashes (especially when app not
>running)
>* Upgraded to latest palmresize (1.2.2 -> 1.2.5) w/ many DIA/resize
>bug fixes
>* If "Lines" header is missing, count actual lines of the body & kill
>if exceeds
>* Auto-select server to edit when user attempts to post w/ unmodified
>dummy data
>* Changed leftmost buttons from "OK" to "Back" (split width w/ next
>buton over)
>* Added a "real" default News server (news.readfreenews.net)
>* Added "real" default NGs (comp.sys.palmtops.pilot &
>soc.religion.christian)
>* Do not prompt about overdue MID purging if MID DB is empty
>* Fixed MID (History) DB search/compare bug (sort might crash)
>* Disallow use of gmane news server when subscribing to non-gmane NGs
>* Added "over the air" character to all network activating
>actions/buttons/menus
>* Added Form Letter feature ("Fix-Your-Sig", "Fix-Your-Style", etc.)
>* Added "Visit Homepage" button to "About" screen
>* JogDial/FiveWay controls now access 3 Poll progress dialog's
>buttons (Yanoff+)
>* Filtered fields no longer beep for cursor movement (FiveWay)
>character inputs
>* Added filtering of "name" field of "NG Prefs" to disallow invalid
>characters
>* Correctly re-highlights text on re-enter (even last char in message)
>* All (i.e. Treo/T5) devices scroll even if text field doesn't have
>focus
>* Moved "Follow-Up Intro" string configurations to 2nd screen
>of "Misc Prefs"
>* Expanded "Re/F'Up"" ("Reply/Followup") labels on 2nd screen
>of "Misc Prefs"
>* Partial ButtonAction hard button labels based on HW model (e.g.
>Treo)
>* "!!!!Lost" and "!!!Sent" NGs are once again unsubscribable
>* Defaulted "Scroll Cue" feature to OFF (0) instead of ON.
>* Ensured "News" is NEVER allowed/available as the "Type" of first
>server
>* Changed the name of the bogus default mail server to "Dummy Mail
>Server"
>* "Select" hard button relabeled "Center" (for clarity) on
>ButtonAction Prefs
>* Updated many of Yanoff- ButtonAction Prefs' default actions
>* Last soft ButtonAction always settable when it should be on Prefs
>screen
>* Removed headings and widened most fields for single string input
>dialogs
>* Added our "official" slogan/tagline to the "About" screen
>* Change several instances of "Yanoff" text to "New Yanoff" (e.g.
>Global Find)
>* Fix incorrect "Server Prefs" error label for "Address"
>(was "Newsserver")
>* New "Com" menu on article screen
>* New "Go on-/off-line" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
>* New "Reply" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
>* New "Forward" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
>* New "Followup" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
>* New "New article" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
>* New "New eMail" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
>* New "eMail the author" menu item under "Com" menu on article screen
>* New "Test SMTP server" menu items under "Com" menu on article screen
>* Preview of "Browser Launch" feature infrastructure (4.0 feature)
>including:
>* Single Tap of email address in message text initiates email
>composition
>* Single Tap of URL in message text launches brower dialog
>* New ButtonActions (up to 6 flavors) for all screens
>* New menu items (up to 3 flavors) under all screens' "Com" menu
>* Rocker up/down updates selected list item for Server Selection &
>URL Prefix
>* Complete logical default FiveWay support on most dialogs
>(left/right/select)
>* As a result of above, changed several shortcut letters
>* Some help text typos cleanup (especially "Misc Prefs")
>* Restored left/right movement function to some broken input dialogs
>* Removed "keyboard" ButtonAction (no screens are editable so its
>useless!)
>* Fixed title bar vestiges on Article View with DIA closed when long-
> >short
>* Fixed "liar" outgoing "Content-Transfer-Encoding:" MIME headers!
>* Encode trailing spaces when Content-Transfer-Encoding is "Quoted-
>Ptrintable"
>* Fixed ButtonAction menu items where "...EtScrn" should have
>been "...ExScrn"
>* Added "Info" menu with "List Subscribed NGs" option to "Server
>Prefs" screens
>* Fixed "Purge killfile" crash
>* Validate/repair "Followup-To:" headers in outgoing articles
>* Enforce rule: "Followup-To:" header must be subset of "To:"
>(except "POSTER")
>* Fixed crash when "too long since last MID Purge" dialog not on NG
>list screen
>* User is pushed into ButtonAction prefs on first visit to 3 main
>screens
>* Do not prompt user to purge MIDs if "Save MIDs" Poll Pref is
>unchecked
>* Modified (again) confusing "mail server not ready to use" error text
>* Made "Go on-/off-line" and "Network Prefs" work from within Yanoff-
>* Fixed incorrect hard button (FiveWay) override when menu bar is
>first opened
>* Fixed over-drawing of open menu list with message body text during
>redraw
>* Removed erroneous "crashed" dialog when returning from "Network
>Prefs"
>* Removed JogDial/FiveWay support from Yanoff- (expires in Yanoff+
>now, too)
>* Upgraded to new SDK from PocketPurchase to fix these 4 problems:
>* Pocket Purchase: nag displayed when returning from "Network
>Prefs"
>* Pocket Purchase: nag-if-key-present-at-first-run error
>* Pocket Purchase: FiveWay center button no worky in their dialogs
>* Pocket Purchase: crash when entering crdit card expiration month
>* Fixed hollow-rectangle-instead-of-ellipses bug for Find results (OS
>3.1 only)
>* Default blank sig lines changed from 0 to 1
>
>
>Here are the bugs that are outstanding:
>
>* Cursor sometimes misplaced when returning to NG list screen
>* Occasional post-poll crash on some devices when memory is low
>(<600KB)
>* If poll started inside NG with 0 articles, screen improperly
>refreshed
>* Popup keyboard used to insert <Return> into field such as "T:" may
>lock field
>
>
>Here are the features on our ToDo list:
>
>* Color support
>* RSS Support
>* HTML plain-text redering/conversion
>* SSL Support
>* Full MIME support
>* Don't split mid-word when encoding Quoted-Printable
>* format=flowed support (support infrastructure currently exists)
>* Multi-language support
>* Memory Free in upper-right corner updated during purges
>* Turn off backlight during article thread/index
>* Export article to address book (Name=Name/Email=Email/Note=article)
>* Beam article as Memo
>* VFS support (including log-to preference)
>* Preference: Exported Memo destination category
>* Take WordWrap setting into account when Quoting article text for
>F'Up/Re
>* Custom-Headers-Exist indicator on NG Prefs
>* XFace support
>* Mail-Copies-To support
>* Left-handed scrollbar support (infrastructure exists now)
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