New features:

• Common: Instead of adding the "Object" page, &xwp; now completely replaces the "Icon" page in every settings notebook.

• Common: Added "Replace file dialog" feature. This only replaces file dialogs within the WPS, not globally on the system. If enabled, XWorkplace code will use a replacement file dialog with full WPS support instead of the dull default OS/2 file dialog. Try the "Browse" button on the new "Icon" page.

• Folders: Added new "turbo folders" feature.

• Folders: Finally documented that setup string objects can be put into the &xwp; Configuration Folder as well to have the setup string invoked on the folder whose context menu was selected. This feature has been active for a while, but I forgot to document it.

• Folder content menus: The folder's "Include" criteria are finally fully respected so that objects which do not match those criteria do not appear in the folder content menus either.

• File types: Added icon display to "File types" page in "Workplace Shell". Also added "Properties" and "Open folder" items to association context menu.

• Programs: If extended associations are enabled, all program files will now be started by &xwp;, circumventing any WPS code around WinStartApp. As a side effect, this will give you more detailed error messages if the program could not be started.

• Trash can: Added EMPTYTRASH=IMMEDIATE setup string.

• &xcenter;: "Add widget" menu is now sorted alphabetically. This was confusing.

• &xcenter;: Pulse widget now supports more than one CPU on SMP systems, thanks to Bart van Leeuwen. As a result the display is painting lines instead of filled areas now.

• &xcenter;: Added "Properties" dialog to "Pulse" widget to allow color configuration, finally.

• &xcenter;: Pulse widget now opens "OS/2 Kernel" object on double-click.

• &xcenter;: When &xcenter; is newly created, it comes up with a standard widget setup now. The empty bar confused many people initially.

• &xcenter;: Added setting for whether object button widgets should show in-use emphasis (hatching).

• &xshutdown;: Screen is now dimmed as with Win95 while confirmation dialog is displayed.

• &xshutdown;: Pressing Alt+F4 while the Desktop has the focus can now start shutdown.

• Netscape DDE: Added more command line options for specifying the DDE server name and the startup directory, which can make NetscDDE work with Mozilla too. Also removed the dull dialog explaining the command line options and added a proper help panel (shows up if you double-click on NETSCDDE.EXE only).

• xfix: Added object IDs display and deletion.

• Common: Moved more pages from the INF to the HLP file, such as setup strings. In addition, WPProgram setup strings are now documented also.

• Common: Reworked many dialogs and settings pages to use my dialog formatter now. This makes changes much easier and saves everyone from using the stupid DLGEDIT any more (for those dialogs at least).

• Common: Rework of the query-setup-string interfaces to be less CPU-intensive. Also got rid of the danger of synchronization problems between the two calls to xwpQuerySetup that were always required.

• Common: Rewrote TMF loader to be much faster now. XWorkplace now keeps its TMF file open all the time and thus doesn't have to rebuild the strings buffer for every message that is needed.

• Common: Rewrote Henk Kelder's WPS handles engine to be much faster now.

• Common: Did lots of page tuning, both for frequently used code and for the &xwp; private heap. This might result in speedups for certain time-critical places such as folder populate and extended associations.

• Common: Rewrote &xwp; log file routines to use DosWrite directly since the buffered fprintf() calls sometimes didn't end up in the log at all (especially on crashes).

• Common: Per popular request, finally gave the status dialogs the usual thick dialog borders.

• Common: Per popular request, reworked folder content menu painting to always use at least the height of the system mini icon size to avoid overlapping icons.

• Folders: A private PMSHELL send-msg hook was registered on WPS startup but never released even though it was only used for the first folder that was ever opened. Fixed; now removing the hook after the first folder open.

• Archiving: Changed the settings format for the WPS extended archiving. Please reconfigure.

• Font folder: Per popular request, the font sample display now displays fonts with the smallest sizes on top.

• Status bars: are now respecting the default font setting on the "Paranoia" page and using WarpSans by default.

• &xcenter;: Stopped monitor widgets from shrinking all the time.

• &xcenter;: Window list widget now always ignores the Desktop and all open XCenters regardless of the filters that were set.

• &xcenter;: Tray icon is now displayed vertically to use up less space.

• &xcenter;: Added error logging around DosFreeModule for widget DLLs; this might result in log entries for some older widget DLLs which fail to unload themselves. The most probable cause for this is that the DLL registered an exit list entry which causes DosFreeModule to fail always.

• Install: "Mouse" shadow was never created in install folder since IBM changed the object ID for the thing for some reason. Fixed.

• Install: Finally fixed the stupid error that CHECKINI always reported on the <XWP_SEP42> object. Thanks to John Small for the fix.

• Common: Run dialog would diplay the full path of directories too, e.g. if "install" was entered. Fixed; directories are now properly ignored.

• Common: Fixed several small memory leaks in various places.

• Common: Fixed major/minor settings pages subtitles (for notebook context menus) in various places.

• Common: Removed all remaining must-complete sections in the code which sometimes prevented PMSHELL from exiting on kill or crashes.

• Common: Fixed a build problem which caused XWP to fail on some Warp 3 systems since some of the Warp 4 SOM imports cannot be resolved there.

• Common: Paul Ratcliffe fixed a couple of cosmetic things with the exception trap logs.

• Common: Fixed a bunch of wrong default template settings for the XWP classes.

• Common: Fixed wrong owner windows for dialogs created by the new dialog formatter, which, among other things, affected the &xwp; message boxes. Fixed many misaligments and other cosmetic issues too.

• Common: Paul Ratcliffe fixed bad AM/PM display for 12:00 noon in a library routine which, among other things, affected the "Time" widget.

• Common: Added additional checks to an internal populate routine which should now handle removeable drives correctly. This should fix the problems with folder content menus that removeable media changes weren't picked up.

• Startup: Fixed endlessly looping startup folders.

• Icon replacemements: While working on the program icons replacement, I pretty much had to rewrite most of the icon handling code in the WPS altogether. As a side effect, I believe the problems with disappearing icons and icons changing during refresh are now fixed for good.

• Object Details dialog: Fixed crash if "No" was selected in the confirmation dialog after changing the object ID.

• Programs: Added more error checking to progOpenProgram. Fixed more problems with programs not being started from WPS thread 1, which can cause system hangs. Also fixed problem that executable would not start if it was not fully qualified in the program settings object, but on the PATH only.

• Disks: Added more "drive ready" checks to context menus and settings view to avoid some more "drive not ready" popups. Note that context menus still show "drive not ready" since that problem is in a WPS routine I can't easily replace.

• Folders: MENUBAR setup string had a wrong default value on Warp 4 and above.

• Folders: If the default folder view was set to something other than "inherit" in "Workplace Shell", changes in a folder's default view via the "Menu" page (or the context menu item) were never picked up until a Desktop restart. Fixed.

• Folders: Replacement refresh code never picked up RCNF_CHANGED notifications (which are quite rare though). Fixed, as well as some other missing notifications.

• Folders: Added exception handling to an internal populate helper which tended to crash on certain WPS networking classes at times.

• Extended associations: If a data file had a type set (either explicitly or automatically) but no associations existed for that type, the "Open" submenu was empty. Fixed; this now adds the associations for "Plain text" to those objects too.

• Status bars: For remote disk objects (WPSharedDir), the status bars kept querying drive A: for the free space, which was kind of annoying. The reason was that WPShared::wpQueryLogicalDrive returns 1 always for some reason only IBM can explain. Added a special case check in a couple of places.

• Status bars: Fixed bad check for tree views which sometimes failed to update themselves.

• Status bars: Fixed a bad exception handler cleanup.

• &xcenter;: Removed all the special window actication handling for now. Besides, the XCenter frame is no longer a PM WC_FRAME instance. Hopefully this doesn't break anything else but fixes the stupid Mozilla problems many people were having.

• &xcenter;: Fixed the 100% CPU load problem when mouse was over &xcenter; while a settings dialog was showing.

• &xcenter;: Battery widget didn't repaint its background properly when the power icon was changed. Fixed.

• &xcenter;: Fixed some bad clipping with object buttons.

• &xcenter;: Source emphasis for menus wasn't always removed from client. Fixed.

• &xcenter;: Fixed crashes with objects from other processes being dragged over &xcenter;.

• File operations: Mostly rewrote the "Replace File Exists" dialog to finally handle the "Create another" and "Create from template" conditions correctly. Besides, all the special case checks for FAT drives were removed because the WPS handles all this correctly already.

• File operations: Replacement delete never respected the "Confirm folder deletion" setting from the "Confirmations" page. Fixed; if this is enabled, you now get an extra prompt before &xwp; kills a folder.

• Trash can: Fixed wrong error message if "delete to trash" was still enabled internally but the trash can had disappeared for some reason. XWP is now offering to recreate the trash can instead.

• Trash can: Fixed problems with UNC files.

• Trash can: Dropping objects on the shredder would move them into the trash can instead. Fixed; they are now properly nuked.

• Trash can / true delete: Paul Ratcliffe fixed a bunch of potential traps with NULL object titles.

• Trash can: Disabled the stupid "File exists" dialog that popped up if some other object with the same title already existed in the same hidden trash directory. Note that this will only work if you have "Replace file exists" enabled, unfortunately.

• Object hotkeys: It was impossible to set a hotkey into the "Hotkey" entry field that was already occupied. Even worse, if the object had been lost, this kept the entry field from working at all. Fixed; note that this implies that you can now use the same hotkey for several objects at once.

• &pgr;: &xcenter;s are now sticky always and do not have to be added manually to the "Stickies" list any more.

• &pgr;: System window list would sometimes be moved off to another screen and then be hard to see. Made window list sticky always now.

• &pgr;: Repaint broke after &pgr; was disabled and then re-opened. Fixed by Paul Ratcliffe.

• Hook: Object hotkeys stopped working after screen lockup, unless &pgr; was enabled. Fixed. Also fixed the problem that it was possible to use hotkeys before the Desktop was ready and during shutdown.

• Hook: Now disabling sliding focus while "move ptr to default button" is in progress.

• &xshutdown;: Paul Ratcliffe fixed bug trying to close the first switch list item twice.

• &xshutdown;: I believe I have traced down and fixed the problems with XShutdown and the "Desktop not found" problem if XWorkplace is installed on multiple OS/2 partitions. The problem was quite deep in the WPS internals and actually a WPS bug that was exposed by the &xwp; "save objects" function. For some reason, the WPS kept deleting the <WP_DESKTOP> object ID (and other object IDs) if they didn't match the data in the current INI file, which of course they don't if the object ID is from another WPS. Fixed that; the object's instance data is now hacked to keep the old object ID.

• &xshutdown;: Fixed hang on "Releasing filesystems" on some systems, hopefully. I can't really assure this since the bug never occurred on my system, but &xwp; attempted to load one string resource after DosShutdown, which really isn't a good idea... fixed that.

• Treesize: Fixed a couple of long-standing cosmetic problems. Added a decent help panel.