History Manager Versions

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Version 2.1

Released 6/7/2002

Build 34

• Add: Include Tempest web and email information in About box

• Add: Update attribute list to match History Data White Paper version 2.3

• Add: Include Component Number in Browser Chronology logic (Parse, Details view, Check Chronology)

• Add: Install program shortcut to Programs\History (same as Stamp)

• Add: \Sample subfolder under installation folder with sample image files

• Add: Option to remember window sizes/positions for Browser, Editor, Viewer between sessions

• Add: Choice of which forms to open on startup

• Add: Option to auto-load last used folder in Browser on startup

• Add: Display results summary when ChangeDate completes processing

• Add: Default Apply button in ChangeDate, ChangeSequence, AddContent, RemoveContent, Select

• Add: Option to set starting number and positive/negative increment when generating sequence numbers

• Add: Browser status bar now says "1 file" instead of "1 files"

• Add: Editor saves settings (path, status bar panels) between sessions

• Add: Browser saves settings (paths, status bar panels, list views, etc.) between sessions

• Fix: Sync with Editor/Viewer lags by one file when selecting in browser with shift+arrow

• Fix: Cancel during load, first file of all subsequent sibling subfolders gets loaded anyway

• Add: Remember shared output path for "Copy/Move/Create Shortcut" between sessions

• Add: Create shortcuts to selected files in on-the-fly selected folder

• Fix: Click "X" button in Browser doesn't work once Tools dialogs have been used

• Fix: Shell Open only works for executables

• Add: Select files by filename or attributes (add to selection/sub-select within selection)

Version 2.0c

Released 6/27/2001

Build 91

• Add: Generate/replace/shift sequence numbers

Version 2.0b

Released 4/14/2001

Build 90

• Add: Remove attributes/values

• Add: Move to previous/next Browser file from within Editor

Version 2.0

Released 11/11/2000

Build 89

• Add: Support for Pump 2.8 Device attributes

• Add: Add attributes/values

• Add: Auto-date based on Create Date, Modified Date, or earlier of the two

• Add: Replace/Round/Shift dates and times

• Add: Rebuild filenames

• Fix: Length doesn't get updated when using Browser Tools dialogs to change filename

• Add: Simulate Browser File menu keyboard shortcuts using KeyDown event handler

• Add: Options form accommodates Long values in number fields

• Add: Browser menus organized like Windows Explorer

• Add: Pressing Enter in Browser opens file in Editor and moves focus to TreeView

• Add: Options form supports standard OK, Cancel, Apply functionality

• Add: Save settings in Registry

• Add: "Move files to folder...", "Copy files to folder..." in Browser menu

• Add: Change default maximum filename length from 230 to 200

• Add: Trigger Cancel button in Progress form when pressing Escape

• Add: Clear Viewer before loading new picture (reduce memory footprint)

• Add: Indicate number of loaded files, selected files in Browser status bar

• Fix: Click on file, edit file, save file, click on next file, get "not saved" message (trap letting go of Ctrl)

• Fix: Browser status bar rightmost panel should extend "under" sizing handle

• Add: Indicate filename length dynamically in Editor status bar

• Add: Request confirmation upon Delete in Browser

• Fix: Uncheck "Editor" in Browser, say "no, don't close without saving", gets unchecked anyway

• Fix: Preview doesn't work for files in subfolders

• Add: Move Put on/off code for "Browser", "Editor", "Viewer" in mnu_click subs

• Add: Make frmBrowse check if need to save before loading filename into frmEdit

• Fix: frmBrowse passes root BrowsePath to frmEdit for files loaded from subfolders

• Add: Saving file in Editor auto-updates file in place in Browser

• Add: Change "Preview" to "Viewer"

• Fix: Progress form not modal (while Browser loading files, can initiate new load before current one finishes)

• Add: "Type" column in Browser

• Fix: Crash when selecting File:Open and choosing namespace object like "My Computer"

• Fix: ItemClick in frmBrowse loses focus on Preview

• Add: progress indicator with cancel button to frmBrowse UpdateStatus

• Add: Make browser window with ListView that auto-loads each file "on current"

• Add: Make Parse1x/ParseBatch/Build1x use new Parse2x/Build2x syntax rules

• Add: All warning messages say "should" and fail messages say "must"

• Add: Make ParseValueDate tolerate 1-digit Month, Day, Hour, Minute, Second

• Add: Improve/make consistent error messages in ParseValueDate

• Add: Make ParseFilename2x return only "Good" or "Fail", but only Fail if can't parse reversibly

• Add: Extension length should be flexible and parameterized (e.g., so can handle ".ra")

• Fix: open file, save file, still thinks need to save before exiting

• Add: Make all frmOptions ComboBox controls use ListIndex 0=No, 1=Yes/Mode1, etc.

• Add: Create Sub ParseFilenameBatch for Batch format: "0-6 + ## . 3"

• Add: Create Sub BuildFilename1x

• Add: Build ProcessSemantics functionality and sync w/frmOptions Semantics tab

• Fix: Clean up Tab order

• Add: Validate Options form controls (e.g. make sure numbers are numeric and within bounds)

• Add: Auto-refresh Parse/Build whenever relevant Option control values change

• Add: Get rid of either edit translate option & control

• Add: Make move up/down, promote/demote, insert before/after/child immune to consolidation

• Add: Suspend reordering and consolidation during keyboard-invoked move up/down, promote/demote

• Add: When saving, Good=go ahead, Warn=ask for confirmation, Fail=prevent

• Fix: if typing in Filename and consolidation removes value cursor "loses its place"

• Fix: (LastSource syncing) open new file, change attribute sort order, filename doesn't update

• Fix: if edit tree and get Fail error thinks OK to File:New and fails to clear tree

• Fix: if edit tree and get Fail error thinks OK to exit/open without saving first

• Fix: if inserting new node and new node gets removed by consolidation SelectedItem gets "lost"

• Fix: MoveNodeUp/Down, InsertBefore/After when semantics controls attribute or value order

• Add: Make ParseFilename use new node image index values

• Add: Make BuildFilename set node images according to good/warn/fail

• Add: Make single semantic processing function

• Add: Use different icons for good/warn attributes & values

• Add: Create 3-level Parse/Build result system (Good/Warn/Fail)

• Add: Options controls for all remaining ParseFilename1x and BuildFilename1x delimiters and options

• Add: Separate Preview window

• Fix: open file A, say Save Onto file B in same folder and get error, then say Open and get bogus "file not saved message"

• Fix: Select File:Exit, say "no, don't exit", exits anyway

• Fix: Crash when previewing invalid image file

• Add: Redo FileSave and FileSaveAs with new UpdateStatus, UpdateStatusReport, and UpdateStatusLocate

• Add: Get rid of all local declarations of Format, Message, ProblemIndex, ProblemPosition, ProblemLength

• Add: Move most Tree... procedures into mnu_Click procedures

• Fix: Make File:Save and File:Save As work

• Add: Make "Edit Filename" form sizable with menu and just 5 controls: name, tree, status, 2 x bmp

• Add: Separate Options form with tabs for all option controls

• Add: Create form option controls for and pass primary ParseFilename1x parameters

• Add: Tune performance by setting ClipControls to false for form and all frames

• Add: Allow choosing which format to use for building (2x, 1x, etc.)

• Add: Allow choosing which formats to attempt for parsing (2x, 1x, "0-6 + ## . 3", etc.)

• Add: Parse support for History Data 1.x format

• Add: Set CommonDialog.Filename to CommandLineArgument1 on Form_Load

• Add: Streamline redundant uses of ContainsIllegalCharacters

• Add: Get rid of LastNodeID and all use of .Key by using Set X = Y.Nodes.Add()

• Add: Expand attribute names when adding/changing attribute names in tree

• Fix: Initial tree build expands nodes based on ShowLevels but uses closed folder icon

• Add: Review style and consistency of all Parse/Build error messages

• Add: Make TreePromoteNode and TreeDemoteNode

• Add: Get rid of TreeMoveNodeAheadOf using new TreeCopyNodeHierarchy relationship feature

• Fix: Trap {Enter} in Filename textbox

• Add: Allow passing filename as command-line argument

• Add: When saving, update not only OriginalFilename but also CommonDialog1.Filename

• Add: Prompt for confirmation if user tries to close app without having saved modified filename

• Add: Prompt user for confirmation when opening new file without having saved edited name

• Add: Change "Apply" button to "Save" and allow dynamically choosing file to save name onto

• Add: Make EditHistoryFilenameInitialize fast (no FileSystem verification)

• Add: Validate form Option controls (e.g. make sure numbers are numeric and within bounds)

• Add: Move master Parse and Build code into separate module with no context/scope dependencies

• Add: Form Option controls for temporary declarations settings variables

• Fix: Parse: thinks "{S.jpg" is a valid filename

• Add: Browse for file and rename with OK/Cancel command buttons (maybe "default" and "cancel" properties too?)

• Fix: Make form non-sizable

• Add: Check if built filename is longer than maximum length (e.g., 230 characters)

• Add: Single StatusUpdate function called by TreeChange, Filename_Change, and OKButton_Click

• Add: Make Filename textbox auto-update attributes treeview (remember to trap delimiter changes)

• Add: Changes in TreeView auto-update Filename

• Add: Verify that form setting delimiters don't contain illegal characters

• Add: Verify that form setting delimiters don't overlap

• Add: Revert button

• Add: Trigger StartLabelEdit when pressing F2 while on editable node

• Fix: Prevent editing Root Node label

• Add: Handle delimiters in attribute names/values for Parse/Build

• Add: Handle illegal filename characters in Parse

• Add: Pass TreeView control as argument to Parse/Build functions

• Add: Handle illegal filename characters in Build

• Add: Handle Attributes with no Values

• Add: Handle Extension sub-attributes

• Add: Handle no Extension, Extension but no values

• Add: Allow adding even when no nodes (add Root)

• Add: Allow deleting nodes down to nothing (including Root)

• Add: Change error messages to say "no nodes" instead of "not parsed yet"

• Port application from Access 2000 to Visual Basic 6

Version 1.5

Completed 9/17/2000

• Add: Browser to load, parse, and manage groups of History Data files

• Add: Support for History Data 2.x filename syntax

• Add: Support for History Data 2.x expanded attribute list

Version 1.4

Completed 8/10/2000

• Fix: Non parsed files incorrectly reported as excluded by filter

• Add: Create separate batch utility that prepends DateCreated to file name

• Add: More filtering options, including Topic length from/thru and Topic includes...

• Add: Allow auto-using parent folder name as new Topic

• Fix: [between 1/1/1998 and 12/31/1999] should come out as 1998~1999 but instead comes out as 1998-01-01 ~ 1999-12-31

• Fix: When Input Folder = Output Folder and IncludeSubfolders = True and ReplicateSubfolders = False files from Input Subfolders get processed twice (once in Input Subfolder and then again in Input Folder)

Version 1.3

Completed 6/5/2000

• Add: Automatically generate History Data filenames using FileSystem dates

Version 1.2

Completed 6/4/2000

• Add: Improve form data validation

• Add: More filtering options

• Add: Change Topic

• Fix: several minor bugs

Version 1.1

Completed 6/3/2000

• Add: More options
• Add: More safety features
• Add: More field updating features
• Add: Ability to process a folder tree in place (previous version insisted that Input and Output folders be different)
• Fix: Several minor bugs

Version 1.0

Completed 6/2/2000

• Rebuild sets of History Data 1.x filenames

• Filter filenames by attribute

• Add/replace/shift dates and times

• Add/replace/shift sequence numbers

• Create application in Access 2000