As a general change, this release will most probably no longer run on Warp 3 since I am overriding quite a number of WPS methods now that are specific to OS/2 Warp 4. I was getting tired of hacking around menu specifics for Warp 4 and am now using Warp 4's interfaces for that.

I have gotten no reports about Warp 3 recently so I assume this will not break &xwp; for a lot of people. To those who are still running Warp 3, I am sorry, but Warp 4 is six years old by now as well and it should be possible to get it cheap somewhere. Otherwise, stick with &xwp; V0.9.20.

&xwp; 1.0.0 (November 24, 2002)

New features:

• Common: Added "Report bug" button to &xwp; product info dialog. Please use that button for all bug reports from now on. Thank you.

• Startup: &xwp; is now checking the WPS's class replacements list on startup to make sure that XFldObject is the first replacement of WPObject. This should fix the problems with the "Speech" tab missing when VoiceType is installed, hopefully.

• Folder split views. Enable them in "XWorkplace Setup" and select "Split view" from a folder's "open" menu.

• OS/2 Kernel, program files: bldlevel parser can now handle the weird format that is used by IBM TCP/IP.

• Disks: Fixed a bunch of weirdos in the WPS disk context menus. For one, the IBM peer class replacements kept showing the "drive not ready" hard error TWICE when requesting the context menu for a drive with no media. Secondly, the WPS seemed to be using the system uptime to determine whether "Lock" and "Eject" should be shown for removeable disks. "Lock" and "Eject" are now always shown. Both features are only enabled when the "Replace drive not ready" feature is enabled, for security.

• &pgr;: Martin Lafaix added "Sticky" menu option to system menus.

• Common: Rewrote large parts of the dialog formatter to allow for easier handling of nested subtables in dialog descriptions.

• Common: Me smartass finally figured out that declaring functions as "static" will never put them into the linker's map files. As a result, they didn't end up the SYM files either, which made &xwp;'s trap logs a lot less informative. Fixed, I removed all "static" declarations for now. Note: I discovered a problem with XWorkplace's SYM files since XFLDR.DLL has finally become too big to handle all the symbols. As a result, the trap logs might contain some garbage lines. I am still thinking about how to fix this.

• Folder menus: Rewrote and adjusted large parts of the internal menu hacks to get split views to work. I hope this hasn't broken anything for the default (icon, tree, details) folder views.

• Folder menus: Turned "Copy filename" into a submenu to get rid of the unintuitive shift-click thing and added a few more menu items if multiple files are selected.

• Folder hotkeys: Martin Lafaix rewrote the respective page in "Workplace Shell".

• Common: Executable header parser was completely broken for files without extensions (e.g. OS2KRNL). Fixed; "Module" page now displays correctly.

• Common: &xwp; kept the default OS/2 shutdown from finishing, at least with IBM MCP2. Fixed.

• Common: Changed a a number of places that requested object mutexes too frequently and made them use private mutexes instead. That fixed several situations where the WPS deadlocked because of mutexes requested in reverse order by two different threads. Among others, this fixes the hangs during installation (instl001.cmd) on SMP and when dragging attachments from PMMail to the Desktop. Thanks to Knut St. Osmundsen for helping with debugging this.

• Folders: "Create new" from template in config folder never worked really well in Tree views. Fixed a few things.

• Folders: Status bars produced vertical scroll bars for all folders that had "always sort" off. Fixed.

• Folders: Paul Ratcliffe fixed several duplicate menu items and added a config option for "Restart Desktop".

• Folders: If always sort was off, scroll bars would keep popping up randomly. Fixed, I hope.

• Folder hotkeys: Martin Lafaix rewrote the settings page in "Workplace Shell".

• Folder hotkeys: Disabled select by name, select all, and deselect all for Tree views finally.

• Folder sort: Settings were quite broken for newly created folders sometimes. Fixed.

• Select by name, Batch rename: Always popped up twice when invoked from a context menu. Fixed; added folder title to dialog title while I was at it.

• Startup and Shutdown folders: Folder titles were never localized. Fixed.

• Folder painting: "shadow icons" produced strange display for shadowed folders in Tree view. Fixed.

• Extended associations: "Export" facility did not escape attribute values like & properly. Fixed.

• Extended associations: After setting the icon of a data file object, changing its title would replace the custom icon with that of the associated program. Fixed.

• File operations: If deletion of a data file failed, e.g. because it was currently used, the WPS object was removed anyway without an error message. Fixed, added meaningful error messages also.

• File dialog: Mostly reimplemented to share the new split view code.

• Programs: Fixed problems with %* replacements. For one, %**N and the like are now case-insensitive (as with the WPS, that is, %**n is recognized also). Secondly, &xwp; put quotes around %* placeholders (including %**N and the like) when the result had spaces, but the WPS doesn't. Fixed.

• Programs: Replacement icon code for program objects never looked for .ICON EAs with executable, but always searched the executable resources only. Among others, PMView suffered from this, displaying a dull standard PM icon. Fixed.

• Programs: Knut St. Osmundsen fixed some problems with passing environments on program startup.

• &xcenter;: Mostly rewrote pulse widget graph painting to fix the vertical lines on the left if a high load was displayed. Optimized the code at the same time to save a few hundered Gpi* calls.

• WPS class list: crashed when selecting an orphaned WPS class. Bug was introduced with 0.9.20, fixed.

• OS/2 Kernel: Syslevels page didn't find syslevel files if they were not on the boot drive. Fixed, we now search the PATH for where the networking components might be.

• OS/2 Kernel, program files: bldlevel display missed single-character substrings in extended bldlevel format (e.g. DANIS506.ADD). Fixed.

• Hook: Martin Lafaix fixed a few weirdos with auto-hide mouse.

• Netscape DDE: finally passes URLs with "?" characters correctly.