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Scout 3.6 released
Scout 3.6 has just been released!
Scout comes in 3 builds: OS2.x/3.x, OS4.0 and MorphOS.
These are the release notes. They are quite short because of too many mini
changes. A complete list of changes can be found in the ChangeLog file in the
archives.
24-Apr-2006 Release 3.6 Program version 37.290
o scout_window_detail.c: now displays correctly number of colours for
32bit screens.
o scout_resethandlers.c: the OS4 specific list of reset callbacks is now
also scanned for entries, because the list of reset handlers is normally
not used anymore.
o scout_fonts.c, scout_fonts_details.c: added tf_Extension field, if a font
offers this.
o scout_arexx.c: added the missing remove function for reset handlers.
Until now this has never been implemented. Also the last direct poking in
the base structure of input.device to obtain the list of input handlers
has been replaced by a proper function which acts the same way as does
the scanning function in scout_inputhandlers.c.
o scout_tasks.c: added now function which returns the usual name of all
known signal bits.
o scout_tasks_details.c: the old Task field tc_TrapAlloc and tc_TrapAble
don't exist anymore for OS4. Instead they always represent a pointer
called tc_ETask. Hence this one is shown now. Furthermore Scout can now
recognize a process' code type by using the new V51 DOS function
GetSegListInfo(). Additionally for OS4 the SegList pointers are now
obtained via GetProcSegList() instead of hacking through pr_SegList and
pr_CLI->cli_Module. If there is a clean way, then USE IT!
o scout_tasks_details.c: added the extended V50/V51 process fields. These
will only appear in the OS4 build.
o scout_window_details.c added the embedded fields ViewPort, RastPort,
Bitmap (and all attributes) and LayerInfo of "struct Screen". Therefore
the entries "UserPort->SigTask" and "WindowPort->SigTask" of "struct
Window" have been dropped since these can be inspected by clicking on
the port button.
o scout_mount_details.c: the capacity calculation is now done with native
64bit math for the OS4 and MorphOS builds. Hence i64.c is no longer
needed for these, but only for the OS3 build, because SAS/C cannot do
64bit math itself.
o scout_extras.c, tblib/errormsg_ErrorMsg.c: somehow I never realized that
exec/RawDoFmt() cannot do parameter sorting by using something like
"Hello %2$s %1$s", "second", "first". Hence the function ErrorMsg() got
always passed one parameter too less and that completely crashed on OS4.
The catalog description has been modified accordingly. The prototype for
ErrorMsg() was missing the usual "VARARGS68K" definition anyway.
All in all this made Scout crash when it tried to complain about outdated
or missing external MUI classes.
o scout_print.c: somehow I deleted a NULL-check before copying one string
to another, which caused crashes when trying to print information of a
window to a file.
o lots of minor changes.
2006-04-24 19:47:02 UTC by thboeckel
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Scout 3.5 released
Scout 3.5 has just been released!
Scout now comes in 3 builds: OS2.x/3.x, OS4.0 and MorphOS.
These are the release notes. They are quite short because of too many mini
changes. A complete list of changes can be found in the ChangeLog file in the
source archive.
12-Mar-2006 Release 3.5 Program version 37.285
o Too many changes to list them all. All in all there were almost next to no
functional changes, but lots of system specific additions. The biggest
change however is that Scout now comes in a native OS4 flavour :) That means
we now have three different builds: OS2/3, OS4 and MorphOS. The OS3 build
should run under both, OS4 and MorphOS, but cannot really make any real
advantage of the new system enhancements. The OS4 and the MorphOS builds
however will make use of system specific enhancements as far as this is
possible and gives any advantage.
o all builds may list PCI boards in the expansion window. The OS4 build uses
the PCI interface of expansion.library, while the MOS build will use
openpci.library to query all the details. OS3 support for openpci.library
will hopefully come in the next release, together with a detail window for
PCI boards.
2006-03-12 13:46:38 UTC by thboeckel
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MorphOS native version updated
The MorphOS native version has been updated. Although it is still release 3.4, there have been some MorphOS specific bux fixes.
As with the former release, please contact either Nicolas Hennes (henes at biclodon dot com) and Ilkka Lehtoranta (ilkleht at isoveli dot org) if you encounter any MorphOS specific bugs.
2005-04-14 19:37:43 UTC by thboeckel
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MorphOS native version released
Thanks to Nicolas Hennes (henes at biclodon dot com) and Ilkka Lehtoranta (ilkleht at isoveli dot org) there is finally a MorphOS native version of Scout!
Please note, that this release also contains a native version of identify.library.
If you should have any problems with this MorphOS version, then please contact either Nicolas or Ilkka.
2005-04-04 18:59:12 UTC by thboeckel
