GoodNews The Official Site

GoodNews The Official Site - History

Authors: Jean-Marc Xiumé and Jérôme Fleury

GoodNews 2.0.9 (beta release) - 13 december 1997

Start working on the detection and parsing of MIME messages, using the ZMIME program and its script. New items in the post window.
Fixed the bug that crashed the program when quitting from the article window. Now you go back to the Group window before quitting.
In the article selection window (search window of the article list), search by flags, maximum age, MsgID, Comments and MsgText are now implemented. All items should work.
Warning: while searching, dont press the ESC key cause there's still a bug somewhere :) Instead, click on the cancel button.
In the "Organisation:" header, added the string " / Universal Message System (UMS)" after the goodnews version number.

GoodNews 2.0.8 (beta release) - 16 october 1997

Bug fix: no more crash with Login window on startup.
Article selection is now made through the same window as global search window. NOT ALL GADGETS ARE WORKING YET.
Added a string gadget for special atributes: RfcAttr, FtnAttr, ZerAttr and MausAttr in Mail/Post windows.
Moved some submenu items to more logical places.
Added search in Comment field (currently only for global search).
Added a quick locating function in the Book window: if you search for "John Q. Publique" in the address book, type "John" in the string gadget et use the "up" arrow key. The Book window will popup pointing on the closest entry. (Mail and Post windows)
Bug fix: "Add to address book" menu item is no more disabled under some circumstances.
Some internal fixes and rewriting.

GoodNews 2.0.7 (beta release) - 3 september 1997

"Message List" Menu:
- Added 'Invert selection'
- Added 'Select Same Author'
- Added 'Select Same Subject'
Bug fixs:
- Group list is no more working when scanning a group.
- Fixed problems with Drag&Drop of buttons in Message window.
New variable:
- GoodNews.ExtraSigStarts

GoodNews 2.0.6 (beta release) - 30 august 1997

Huge internal rewriting.
Mailtext 'context-menu like' menu is now localized
New Arexx command:
- "SCANMODE INCMODE/A,ALLMODE/A"
New variables:
- GoodNews.QuoteEmptyLines
- GoodNews.QuoteSignature
- GoodNews.QuotePostFix
- GoodNews.QuoteForward
- GoodNews.TreeOpen
- GoodNews.Notify
GoodNews now handles "--" and "---" as signature start.
Mail/Post window
- Added a 'Quote' menu to dynamically change quote mode, quote signature and quote empty lines.
Search window:
- Added search by minimal/maximal sizes
- Flags cycle gagdgets are now radio buttons.
About requester.
- Added a 'Contact support...' button
Removed gauge window while searching messages and scanning groups: a gauge now appears dynamically in windows.
bug fixs:
- Distribution field is now correctly updated in Mail and Post windows.
- the NList patch made the 'Save' function save both the last selected message.
- Various Drag&Drop operations
- And yet few enforcer hits removed :)
Scanmode cycles are now disabled when displaying a search result.
Added a 'Start GUI Editor...' menu item for an eventually future external mcc library.
You can add users to the Address Book Editor by dragging the From: field of the Message window in the Address Book Editor List.

GoodNews 2.0.5 - 04 August 1997

Shift and Alt shortcuts are working again in the Article window when the Message window not open.
Corrected enforcer hits in buttons Drag&Drop.
New menu item "Show -> same author / same subject" in Articles and Message windows.
In Mailtext mode, messages text is now displayed in a group which is a custom class. This will allow to add new features.
The layout of Groups, Articles and Message windows is now completely changeable by Drag&Drop. You can exchange the position of action buttons, group containing those buttons, the listview and the window header.
Position of groups and buttons is now saved as a standard IFF prefs file in ENVARC:GoodNews.cfg.
You can delete .GroupButtons, .ArticleButtons and .MessageButtons config variables in ums.config.
Better handling of NLists in normal mode. Theactive item is now handled correctly even when not selected.
New item "Display as tree" in the "Preferences" menu of the Groups window, allowing you to switch on the fly between the two modes.

GoodNews 2.0.4 - 28 July 1997

The article list and the address book editor main list now use the NList external class.
Now you can use Drag&Drop to change the position of buttons at the bottom of the Group, Article and Message windows.
New item in the Preferences menu to save the buttons' layout.
Bug fix: when rescanning the article list, the new list is now sorted correctly.
Added titles in the ABE main list.
Nearly all Article and Message windows ReturnIDs are now methods.

GoodNews 2.0 - 10 June 1997

Public distribution on Aminet.
Added the new features, corrected and updated the english and french versions of the amigaguide documentation GoodNews.guide .
Some bug fixes.

GoodNews 1.5.11 (beta release) - 31 May 1997

New "Sort" button in the address book editor.
"Edit" and "Delete" buttons in the address book editor now support Drag&Drop.
New config variable GoodNews.RexxMenu allowing to configure a new menu called "Rexx", used to start ARexx scripts from any GoodNews window.

GoodNews 1.5.10 (beta release) - 11 May 1997

Fixed some layout problems in the Global Search window.
You can now open only 1 Address Book Editor at the same time.
Some cleanup in Custom Class and memory handling.
Internal changes.
New config variable: ( GoodNews.QuitConfirm "yes|no" ) If set to "yes", GoodNews opens a confirmation requester when quitting (default to "no")
Better layout in the Article Window with the Set Flags buttons.
ScanMode1 and ScanMode2 now correctly initialize cycle gadgets on startup.
Added a "Save" button in the Address Book Editor.
Fixed a bug when using the "Del" button in an empty list of an Edit User/Group window of the Adress Book Editor.
The menu item "Add to address book" now uses the Address Book Editor.
Added titles in the list of the Edit Group window.
The Address Book Editor can now be open from any window (Group, Article and Message).
More Drag&Drop support:
- from Article list to the main Address Book Editor list, in order to add users in the list.
- from the Article list to an Edit Group window of the Address Book Editor, to add users in the list.
- Edit User/Group windows are now "drag sortable".
- from the main Address BookEditor list to the list of an Edit Group window, to add the user to the group.
- from the list of an Edit Group window to the main list of the Address Book Editor, to copy a user.
New config variable ( GoodNews.Picture iff_file_path ) to allow displaying picture in front of a group name in the group list.
(see above)
New config variable ( GoodNews.GroupHeight nb ) to specify the height of the pictures that will be displayed.
(see above)
Removed some bugs in the Adress Book Editor.
The Select window (which allows selecting articles) is now fully independent.

GoodNews 1.5.9 (beta release) - 16 April 1997

GoodNews now features a full working Address Book Editor:
- Fully independent: you can still use GoodNews while editing the address book
- Fully multiwindowing: you can edit many users/groups at the same time
- Drag&Drop support:
  - You can sort the list with Drag&Drop
  - You can drop main list items into already existing edit windows.
More Drag&Drop support:
. From the Article List to the Message Window, it acts like the "Read..." button.
. String gadgets in the Global Search Window can now be be dragged and dropped.
New About requester with logo (Thanks to Eric Gerard).
Fixed the problem of Cycle gadgets not using the same font as standard buttons (reported by Michael Prix)
Fixed the problem of external MUI libs (especially listtree.mcc) not being closed on exit.
Changed the behaviour of the variables GoodNews.GroupTitles and GoodNews.Articles. See the documentation for more details.
Major internal changes.
Bug fix: the distribution field wasn't updated while editing a mail.

GoodNews 1.5.8 (beta release) - 02 April 1997

GroupTree mode should now work correctly.
The "Old" flag can now be toggled, using the config var ( GoodNews.SuperFlags "yes" )
GoodNews now uses and writes GoodNews.DontTouch variable instead of IntuiNews.DontTouch

GoodNews 1.5.7 (beta release) - 24 March 1997

Fixed stupid bug when Article List had exactly 3 entries.
Definitely fixed stupid bug when closing BookList window in the Mail Window

GoodNews 1.5.6 (beta release) - 23 March 1997

Some enforcer hits removed (while opening/closing the BookList window of the Mail window)
GroupTree mode has now infinite depth level, the separator for group names is the dot '.'
Added new variable GoodNews.GroupTitles "yes|no" to display Group List titles.
Added support for Reader.* variables. These are the first searched variables. GoodNews.* and IntuiNews.* variables are still supported.
Few internal changes.

GoodNews 1.5.5 (beta release) - 21 March 1997

Some enforcer hits removed (while rescanning the group list in tree mode)
The Article Flags window is now a panel button implemented in the message window, as requested.
Few internal changes.

GoodNews 1.5.4 (beta release) - 17 March 1997

Yet major internal changes.
Grouptree mode should not display trash anymore. Could still be unstable.
Drag&Drop in the Group window:
- from the list to the buttons "Read...", "Post..." and "Mail...". Buttons can react or not depending on the selection.
Bug fix in the cyclechain of the Group Window when activating the list.
Bug fix in Grouptree mode when clicking on "Read..." with an empty list.
Drag&Drop in the Article Window:
. from the list to the buttons "Write..." (only if one list entry is dropped on it, acts then like "Follow up...") and "Read selection..."
In MailText mode, the container is now a NListview object: you can disable wordwrapping and play with NListview prefs.

GoodNews 1.5.3 (beta release) - 27 feb 1997

Major internal changes (code rewrite using custom classes).
Scanmode cycle gadgets are now independant within the two different windows (article list and group list).
Date format changed in the version string.
GoodNews.* variables are now supported. A variable is first searched under this name, and if it doesn't exist it is then searched under the IntuiNews.* form. The GoodNews.moderated and GoodNews.groups variables hasn't been tested yet, please report if they work or not !
New "GroupTree" variable to display the grouplist in a list tree (very simple for now : only one level). Some crashes may happen depending on your config, please test.
Some changes in the "About" window.
Drag&Drop in the Mail and Post windows :
- from the list subwindow (newsgroups or addressee) to the main list.
- from the main list to the "Delete" button.

GoodNews 1.5.2 (beta release) - 02 feb 1997

Column titles in the article list, switchable by the config variable IntuiNews.ArticleTitles.
You can now specify an ArticleFormat variable for each group.
Ability to search also for the "Exported" flag in the global search window.
New entry in the ScanMode1 cycle gadget, named "Not Exported", to scan for messages that have not been exported yet.
It works perfectly in the article list window but not in the group list window. It seems this cannot be done, due to a limitation in UMS local flags (the 16 available flags are already used).
Improved the memory handling of the article list window and the menus localisation.
Bug fix: "Forward as mail" and "Forward as news" menus are again functional within the article list window.
Bug fixed on the arexx RESCAN command that wasn't working any more after custom class oriented rewritings.
The version string now contains the date in the right format.

GoodNews 1.5.1 (beta release) - 19 jan 1997

Displaying of the Groups and Articles windows are now configurable using 2 new config variables. The syntax follows directly the MUI multi column lists template.
Some improvements and cleanup in the source code. Group list and article list are now implemented as custom classes.
New menu items "MUI Settings..." and "About MUI..." to follow MUI3 Guidelines.
New warning requester when forwarding a mail to a newsgroup.
Localization of the date in the message window and in the article list.

GoodNews 1.5 - 28 dec 1996

The article list displays the date and the name of the recipient name (if available).
Changed the header of the message window :
Displays the date, hour, and flags.

Moved the name of the current newsgroup (or folder) to the window title. Allows to display a larger subject.

Balance object between to: and from: fields.
French catalog with new strings, update of the German catalog.
Possibility to followup a mail to a newsgroup.
Cycle buttons to choose the messagebase scan mode (ScanMode1 and ScanMode2) from the article list. That choice is local to this window and doesn't change the choice made in the group list window.
New MagicWorkbench icon by Eric Gerard.
Added the MessageWindow config variable to ums.config, allowing you to customize the message window : the lower buttons can be displayed on 2 lines as before, or on 1 line in order to gain some space in height.
Added the ArticleWindow config variable to ums.config, allowing you to customize the article list window : the lower buttons can be displayed on 1 line as before, or on 2 lines in order to make the 2 new buttons fit on small screens or with big fonts.

IntuiNews 1.4

Original version by Matthias Scheler and Markus Stipp.