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Reanimator Version History

2.0.7 (April 1998)

• Fixed a long standing bug in the registration code validation algorithm that caused the control panel to crash occasionally on 68k machines.
• Removed any reference to FTP application in the control panel.

2.0.6 (March 1999)
General:

• Updated author's e-mail and Web site URLs in both software and documentation.

Control Panel specific:

• Increased Appearance Manager compliance under Mac OS 8.5 (Appearance Manager 1.1).
• Increased compatibility with Kaleidoscope schemes under Mac OS 8.5.
• Internet Config Extension 2.0 or later is now required to launch URLs with the proper helper application (note: this extension is part of the Mac OS installation starting from version 8.5).

2.0.5 (October 1998)

• Fixed a bug that caused daemon's messages issued through the Notification Manager not being correctly displayed.
• Updated author's e-mail, Web site and FTP URLs in both software and documentation.

2.0.4 (September 1998)

• Fixed a bug that caused the daemon to ignore Apple Events on 68k machines.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Control Panel to sometimes ignore Edit menu commands issued using command-key equivalents.

2.0.3 (August 1998)
General:

• Fixed or removed outdated URLs in the documentation.
• Updated currency conversion rates in the register application.
• Now the installer puts an alias to the control panel into the installation folder.

Control Panel specific:

• Fixed a bug that caused some messages not to be displayed correctly.
• Fixed pictures in dialogs not showing up on some pre-8 (7.5.5) system (the 'purgeable' attribute of picture resources was incorrectly set).
• Now URLs in the About dialog are draggable to the desktop or to any open window accepting text drops.
• Added the "Select All" item to the Edit menu.
• Now the Edit menu items are enabled/disabled consistently with the actual text selection and Clipboard contents.
• Enhanced Balloon Help text for menus.
• Introduced support for Appearance Manager 1.1 and Allegro themes.
• Increased compatibility with Kaleidoscope 2.0 schemes.
• Other small bug fixes and minor refinements.

Daemon specific:

• Fixed error in system version checking in the "loader" INIT.

2.0.2 (May 1998)
General:

• Recompiled with CodeWarrior® Professional release 3.
• Changed postal address in the software and the documentation.

Control Panel specific:

• Fixed a bug that caused the daemon to hang during abnormally long reanimations, for example when the Finder requested to insert a diskette or other types of removable media. To avoid this problem, the control panel now deactivates the daemon during reanimations.
• Fixed a cosmetic bug that caused dialog items with focus rectangles not being properly drawn when selecting the Black & White theme in the Appearance control panel or setting the monitor to 1 bit depth.
• Now the enabling/disabling of the Edit menu is correctly handled within all dialogs.
• Updated URLs in the About dialog.
• Changed Balloon Help icon to a more consistent one.
• Removed some unused resources.
• Various small bug fixes and code improvements.

Daemon specific:

• Fixed a bug that caused error messages issued through the Notification Manager not being displayed when the error forced the daemon to quit.
• The daemon now responds to the 'activate' and 'deactivate' Apple Events.

2.0.1 (February 1998)
General:

• Recompiled with CodeWarrior Professional release 2.
• Mac OS 7.1 or later is now required for running Reanimator.
• Fixed problem with icons and Balloon Help not showing up properly in the Finder.
• Added support for Conflict Catcher 4.1 vendor information format.

Control Panel specific:

• Fixed a bug that caused the control panel to hang or crash in some cases when displaying the message dialog.
• Increased compatibility with the Appearance Manager under Mac OS 8.1.
• Added support for the Appearance Manager under Mac OS 7 (Appearance Extension 1.0.2 or later required).
• Fixed a cosmetic problem occurring when selecting the Black & White theme in the Appearance control panel.
• Increased compatibility with Kaleidoscope, especially under Mac OS 7.
• Added support for the new Kaleidoscope 1.8 features.
• Now the checkboxes in the scrolling list are drawn using icons from the currently selected Kaleidoscope scheme.
• A few minor cosmetic enhancements.

2.0 (December 1997)
General:

• This is a major update to Reanimator. It sports brand new functionalities, like the ability of quitting all active processes for a perfect later reanimation, and many enhancements to both interface and code. Please refer to the "Using Reanimator" and "Configuring Reanimator" sections in the Read Me file for a complete description of all the new options.

Application specific:

• Fixed a subtle bug that was a potential cause of crashes when trying to resolve aliases pointing to moved (not deleted) items.
• Now the Reanimator application acts like a "real" application (in fact, an application control), with the three standard menus (Apple, File and Edit) and the ability to switch to other applications.
• Added Balloon Help support to the main window, dialogs and menus.
• Added support for Internet Config. Clicking on the URLs and e-mail addresses in the about dialog automatically launches your Web browser or e-mail application (requires IC 1.1 or later).
• In the main window, you can select from a scrolling list the processes to be reanimated or terminated. You can start a reanimation or a termination operation by clicking on the buttons named respectively "Reanimate..." and "Terminate..." and control all other application's functionalities using the relative buttons or menu commands.
• Reanimator is now 100% Mac OS 8 Appearance Manager and Kaleidoscope savvy.
• Increased the memory partition to 256k.

Daemon specific:

• The daemon has been renamed so that it is launched before other processes at startup (I put an invisible character at the beginning of the file name). Also, the application now relaunches the daemon before reanimating other processes, not after. All this to avoid those situations in which the daemon was caught updating the aliases in the middle of a sequence of 'quit' events launched by an application to all other open processes, resulting in only partial reanimations.
• Fixed possible heap corruption when running under Mac OS 7.5.3 or older (in fact, there was a bug in the Process Manager that was fixed in Mac OS 7.5.5).

1.0.1 (July 1997)

• Recompiled with CodeWarrior Professional 1.
• Fixed B&W icons in both application and daemon.
• Fixed a bug that caused the application not to properly recognize the absence of the folder named "Reanimator ƒ" in the Preferences folder.
• Now Reanimator handles all kinds of applications, including new kinds of Control Panel items and Apple Menu items (see the "Technical details" section in the Read Me file).
• Now aliases created by the daemon have the correct Finder file types.
• The application's settings dialog is now movable.
• Improved error checking and handling.
• A few minor cosmetic enhancements.
• Added a "Technical details" section to the Read Me file.

1.0 (March 1997)

First public release.