WWW Index Wizard Release Notes and History File
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(newest on top)

(c) 1997 - 2001 - bMAD Computing, All rights reserved

V 2.3 June 2001 Functional Update (mainly based on customer feedback)

- Added: Handle numbered HTML character entities (e.g. &#129;)
- Added: Handle UTF-8 coded documents
- Added: User defined anchor and location when modifying the HTML files is choosen
- Added: New index style: One file book index style

- Improved: new database structure will generate much smaller
            index databases (rebuild of all V2.2 projects is required)
- Improved: default characters to ignore does include image chars above 128
- Improved: performance increase for build of index pages
- Improved: Collected Abstract will be stored as HTML text

- Fixed: problem with empty quoted strings

>> If you had already have an installed version 2.1 or 2.2:
   The original master database has to be updated and can be found as
   w3iw_230.mdb. The old database file is not deleted but not longer used.

>> If you had already have an installed version 1.2:
   The original master database is now in the installation directory rather
   than in the Resource subdir. The V 1.2 master db however is left there.
   Please do not copy it to the new location as the structure is not longer
   compatible. All projects have to be run without using an existing DB in
   order to reflect the updates for V 2.3.

  Thanks to all who contributed to the new and improved WWW Index Wizard V 2.3


V 2.2d February 2001 Service Pack 4 - Update for installed V 2.2 only

- Fixed: Missing words in index 

V 2.2c October 2000 Service Pack 3 - Update for installed V 2.2 only

- Fixed: In w_0.htm produced for OneABC some HREF tags included trailing spaces
         (not a real problem but incorrect HTML)

V 2.2b October 2000 Service Pack 2 - Update for installed V 2.2 only

- Fixed: Long META tags (>255 chars) crash W3IW

V 2.2a July 2000 Service Pack 1 - Update for installed V 2.2 only

- Improved: Table example (for this update really 'NewTable')

- Fixed: Problem of incorrect HTML while generating index files 
         (Netscape Browsers do not show contents if tables are used)
- Fixed: Autorun (Finish) crashed W3IW when using no In- or Exclude Filter
- Fixed: Task setup was not updated after clicking one of the Default buttons in Options 
- Fixed: Task setup with preconfig. modes did change when opening the Options window

V 2.2 June 2000 META processing Functional Update (mainly based on customer feedback)

- Added: Configuration to exclude certain directories from indexing (Frontpage issue)
- Added: Ignore words option to exclude words while reading files
- Added: Several META tag collection and indexing options
- Added: New placeholders to customize generated index pages
- Added: Support to use CSS as index file templates (see css-sample)

- Improved: Window Control Box behavior
- Improved: Table example (NewTable)
- Improved: Database version check to avoid unexpected effects

- Fixed: META tag collection after TITLE in 'faster mode'
- Fixed: Memory leak using VB objects; led to massive slowdown while processing
- Fixed: Some minor glitches found and corrected while developing V 2.2

- Tests:   Processing of 16'800 files in total with one directory having 7'294 HTML files
           Processing of broken HTML files
           Processing of reference files to prove integrity with chapter link insertion

- W3IW V 2.2 is built with VB 6.0 SP3 using DAO 3.51 object library and a third 
  party ASM library (Stamina STAMIN32.DLL) for faster processing.

>> If you had already have an installed version 2.1:
   The original master database has to be updated and can be found as
   w3iw_220.mdb. The old database file is not deleted but not longer used.

>> If you had already have an installed version 1.2:
   See below for the comments on version 2.1

  Thanks to all who contributed to the new and improved WWW Index Wizard V 2.2

V 2.10 November 1999 Huge Functional Update (mainly based on customer feedback)

- Added: bMAD target in addition to <Hn>
- Added: control statement to enable/disable collecting of words
- Added: Index ALT Image text
- Added: Index quoted entities
- Added: Index hyphenated entities
- Added: Index META tags task specific with given setup file
- Added: Index abstract (first n words) n can be changed
- Added: Tabbed task setup window
- Added: Task overview (double click a task name)
- Added: Soundex include filter
- Added: Allow number of occurence in generated pages
- Added: Allow order by occurence in genereated index pages
- Added: Allow stacked windows  in genereated index pages
- Added: Allow to preserve case of indexed words in generated pages
- Added: Support indexing of multisession CD-RW
- Added: Allow usage of synonym lists
- Added: Text corpus inspection window
- Added: Wordlist file generation (registered version only)
- Added: Estimated time indication for indexing and page production
- Added: Preconfiguration of fast index modes (one click setup)
- Added: HTML V 4.0 update (character formatting)
- Added: Setup of file pattern to be recognised as HTML files
- Added: Setup of characters to be ignored and replaced with a blank
- Added: Nice Splash screen (can be disabled in registered version)
- Added: Logfile in app dir 'W3IWmsg.log' contains some helpful hints
         in case of troubles
- Improved: Speed-up of all file scan, index and build routines
- Improved: End of scan if only TITLE, META or ABSTRACT is required
- Improved: Datastructure of database (results in smaller databases)
- Improved: Config-File and setup concept allows full file backup and 
            transfer of all user configuration data (not longer in registry)
- Improved: language file in installation directory 'langres.rcx'
            plain textfile open for translations (please backup the original)
- Improved: Using Install Shield instead of VB Setupkit
- Updated: Lots of updates to avoid troubles with Win98, IE5 and its system files
- Updated: Help file with context sensitive help
- Updated: Some possibly lengthy operations will show progress reports to avoid
           anticipated inactivity
- Fixed:   Incorrect Sz (ß) handling
- Fixed:   Some possible error causes with broken HTML files
- Fixed:   Limitations due to windows controls (number of files to scan)
- Fixed:   A problem with very long filenames
- Fixed:   Silent dead with character 0xA0 as first char (pseudo blank used by some
           HTML editors)

- Tests:   Processing of 16'800 files in total with one directory having 7'294 HTML files
           Processing of broken HTML files
           Processing of reference files to prove integrity with chapter link insertion

- W3IW V 2.1 is built with VB 6.0 SP3 using DAO 3.51 object library and a third 
  party ASM library (Stamina STAMIN32.DLL) for faster processing.


>> If you had already have an installed version 1.2:
   The original master database is now in the installation directory rather
   than in the Resource subdir. The V 1.2 master db however is left there.
   Please do not copy it to the new location as the structure is not longer
   compatible. All projects have to be run without using an existing DB in
   order to reflect the updates for V 2.1.

  Thanks to all who contributed to the new and improved WWW Index Wizard V 2.1

V 2.00 was never released due to required updates for Win98/IE5 and development
       environment.

V 1.20 February 8, 1998   Functional Update
- Added: 'Tasks' to save build steps of different projects
- Added: Finish button (unattended run of a task)
- Added: Skip scan of HTML files button (if a database exists)
- Added: multiple template support
- Added: scan options for TITLE and META tags
- Added: language support for tasks 
  (choose from a list of available languages)
  This will affect the collating (sort) of the indexed words
  using the localization feature of the Access database engine.
- Added: additional template examples to be used to build own index pages
- Improved: user interface - streamlined according to
  usability survey.
- Changed: path name resolution relative vs. absolute
  (forced only if source and destination is on different
   drives - otherwise optional)
- Changed: path name not longer forced lowercase in 
  hyperlinks, follows Win directory names now
  (UNIX Web Server issue)
- Fixed: treatment of accented characters
- Fixed: minor issue with template files
  (did not generate correct HTML code - but browsers
   did not complained about it)

>> If you had already have an installed version 1.0(a) you will see
   a directory Standard.100 in the Resource path of W3IW. This is 
   the backup of your potentially modified templates and skeleton
   files- you may want to update these files according to the 
   original templates of V 1.2 in Standard.

V 1.0a September 5, 1997  Maintenance Release (a)
- Fixed a serious defect which may cause to remove character 
  formatting tags (e.g. <font ..>) when option 'Index chapter 
  level' is set.
  *Connie thank you for reporting it*
- Added more documentation
- New packaging (Main wrapper SFX w3iw10a.exe contains now
  docs and the zipfile w3iw.zip)

V 1.0  July 30, 1997  Initial Release

