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; 0.9.21 (August 11, 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. 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 shared function that requested the object mutex too frequently and made it use a private mutex 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.

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

• 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.

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