What's new in Finders Keepers™

------------------------- 2.02.4 03/06/2003 1) Fix: The 'Set Options' dialog did not accept the date formats in some European locales, and consequently, the dialog did not close properly. 2) Fix: 'Touch | Use this date' did not accept some European date formats. ------------------------- 2.02.2 01/14/2003 1) Fix: Zip-search handling of invalid files or passwords sometimes caused zip searches to bog down. 2) Fix: Zip-search handling of read-only files bogged down and failed to return perfect results in some circumstances. 3) Fix: Opening a folder node in the Folder(s) dialog was slow with many subfolders and appeared to hang with hundreds of subfolders. 4) Added: Pop-up menu for Folder(s) dialog treeview. 5) Added: New options for zip searches, "skip EXE's" and "omit error messages." 6) Added: Improved status messages for zip searches. 7) Other minor fixes and changes. ------------------------- 2.02 07/24/2002 1) General public release of Version 2. 2) Changed unlock system: one license allows use on work and home computers. ------------------------- 2.01 05/22/2002 1) Changed: Slightly modified some HTML help pages. 2) Fix: Forced a final buffer flush for replace operations on binary files. 3) Changes: Minor cosmetic change for drag-and-dock visual indicators. ------------------------- 2.00 04/11/2002 1) Added: Zip / Unzip facility. Users can zip found files with two clicks. 2) Added: HTML Help. Windows 95-style help is still available for the few systems that can not open HTML help. 3) Added: Support for large fonts. 4) Changed: Searches now can include folders with system-file attributes. 5) Changed: Licensing system. Proprietary code replaced third-party code. The user can recover the license easily after hard drive crashes, reinstallation of Windows, and so on. ------------------------- 1.10 06/16/2001 1) Enhanced: User interface. 2) Added: User's positioning of Folder(s) and File(s) dialogs is restored on restart. 3) Fix: A small minority of machines, especially those with Windows 98 SE, failed to return folders alphabetically in the Folder(s) dialog. ------------------------- Version 1.08 05/16/2001 1) Fixed some incompatibilities with Netscape browsers. ------------------------- Version 1.07 04/08/2001 1) Fix: The new (1.06) Folder(s) dialog failed to show some drives on some systems (when the Windows function GetDriveType() did not recognize them). 2) Fix: In Keepers, Quick View could not open a file with spaces in its name. ------------------------- Version 1.06 02/25/2001 1) Added: Subfolders may be excluded from searches by preceding their names with '<' in the Folder(s) edit box. 2) Enhanced: The Folder(s) dialog now is a tree view of drives and folders, allowing one or multiple folders to be chosen visually for a search, using check marks on the tree. Folders may be excluded visually as well. 3) Enhanced: The extensions dialog (used to select extensions for File(s)) now has two check mark lists, Windows associated extensions and custom extensions, which allow one or multiple file extensions to be chosen visually for a search, using check marks on the lists. Commonly searched extensions or file masks may be added to the custom extensions list. 4) Changed: The File(s) dialog allows multiple file selections with the shift or control key. 5) Fix: fShellExt.dll bug caused an access error if the Windows Explorer context menu was invoked repeatedly for "Find words in files." ------------------------- 1.05 01/24/2001 1) Fix: Multi-user access to Keepers index on a networked computer. 2) Fix: Minor bugs in manual (phone) unlock. If demo was expired, user got a "Cannot make visible window modal" error. 3) Added: Automatic packing of updated index and option to disable it. 4) Changed: Files dragged from Windows Explorer to the File(s) edit box now appear in the persistent files list. ------------------------- 1.04 11/10/2000 1) Fix: Help | Transfer failed to transfer license if demo license did not have a computer number. 2) Enhanced: Help | Transfer. 3) Fix: If user entered an invalid date on the Set Options | Exclude page, changed pages, then clicked Apply or Close, an error occurred, "Cannot focus disabled or invisible window." 4) Fix: With FK active on Explorer's context menu, via Options | Set Options | System | Explorer Shortcut Menu | Add "Find Words In Files", a click on the MS Office shortcut bar would generate an error message from Explorer that it could not read a particular address (in fshellext.dll). ------------------------- 1.03 10/06/2000 1) Added: Main Menu selection Help | Check for Update in evaluation copies. 2) Enhanced: Help | Check for Update proxy-handling procedures in retail copies. ------------------------- 1.02 09/24/2000 1) Added: Import-index function in Keepers | Manage indexes. 2) Added: Progress meter in Keepers | Make index. 3) Fix: Some external viewers failed to open files with names containing spaces. ------------------------- 1.01 09/05/2000 1) Added: Extended File Information window via Main Menu | View | File Information. From the window, files can be opened by a popup menu or a double click on a file name. Files can be sorted on any of several fields. A click on a file name in Finders' results or Keepers' indexes produces relevant data in the File Information window. 2) Added: Popup menu to Keepers | Indexes | Contents list box to provide another way to open any file in the user's index. 3) Added: After manual unlocking, the user gets a dialog asking for name and company name, which are then entered into the license file, and presented in the About dialog. 4) Enhanced: Horizontal positioning of found words in the Text editor. 5) Fix: After a Find in Keepers, click and double-click on Results in Finders failed. 6) Fix: Memory leak in approximate searches. 7) Fix: When trying to order online, some customers on a LAN with a proxy got an error message, 'WINSOCK CANNOT CONNECT TO SERVER', and the ordering could not continue. 8) Other: Minor speed and display enhancements. ------------------------- 1.00a 07/20/2000 1) Fix: The window for 'Main Menu | Retrieve Backups' got garbage characters during horizontal resizing. 2) Fix: 'Skipword.txt'--used in 'Indexes | Make'--was omitted from an installation file (fndkp100.exe).

What's new in Book Writer™ 

------------------------- 3.00.0 02/10/2005 1) Added: Web Tools for easy access to web pages used for research, word look-ups, news, etc.. 2) Changed: License now allows a user to run the program on any machine used personally as long as only one copy is running at any one time. 3) Changed: Minor editing and additions to the help files. 4) Fixed: Minor bugs that surfaced on machines with Win 95/98/ME. ------------------------- 2.00.2a 12/14/2004 1) Updated the installer for changes in Windows installation procedures. ------------------------- 2.00.2 01/14/2003 1) Added: Option to use UK English dictionary for spell check. 2) Added: Set Options | Use centimeters, and ... | Use comma for decimals. 3) Added: Edit | Edit Frames/Drawing Object | Move/Resize. 4) Added: Main Menu | File | Reopen. 5) Added: Added "Clear all" and "Clear obsolete" to the Reopen submenus. 6) Added: Disk Data / Editor Move dialog docks to the Project Commander. 7) Added: "Dock" menu items for Disk Data / Editor Move and Project Commander. 8) Fixed: If BW closed with a maximized window, it did not save the "normal position." 9) Other minor fixes or additions. ------------------------- 2.00 07/24/2002 1) General public release of Version 2 (from release candidate 1.96). 2) Changed unlock system: one license allows use on work and home computers. ------------------------- 1.96 06/18/2002 1) Fixed: If no Book Writer Project (.BWP) file was open, the editor's Open and Save dialogs produced an error. 2) Minor changes in code for speed (C++ to ASM). ------------------------- 1.95 06/2/2002 1) Added: An option to keep the thesaurus/dictionary open and responsive to double clicks in the editor (Active Thesaurus). 2) Added: Project Manager Options to control starting folders for Open and Save As dialogs in each project individually. 3) V. 1.95 is a release candidate for v. 2.0. ------------------------- 1.94 05/22/2002 1) Fixed: Check Thesaurus function sometimes returned a word when the Close button was clicked. (Only Accept button should return a word.) 2) Fixed: Shift-navigator-key block marking did not update toolbars. 3) Fixed: Editor's refocusing. 4) Changed: Behavior of "Open in New Editor". User now may select any number of files. 5) Fixed: Dragging items in treeview scrolls nodes that are off screen. 6) Added: A dialog, Disk Data/Editor Move, was added to view file data from disk and to facilitate repositioning of open files within the editor. ------------------------- 1.93 04/23/2002 1) Changed: Streamlined the interface and enabled docking of the Project Commander. 2) Fixed: "Modified" notice for Open (in same editor) dialog. ------------------------- 1.92 04/5/2002 1) Changed: Replaced WinHelp with HTML Help. 2) Fixed: On some systems, the Project Manager dialog appeared incorrectly. ------------------------- 1.91 01/29/2002 1) Added: Hints were added for Project|Copy/Move and Project|Zip dialogs. 2) Enhanced: Help file. ------------------------- 1.90 BETA 01/21/2002 Released BETA 1.90 to subscribed BETA users.