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For support, more information and help please visit jackforamigaos.wordpress.com
Concieved, Designed and Developed by Richard Lake ( rikki.lake()ntlworld.com )
(15/01/2016).
The Jack Drawer icon and Program icon are designed by Frank Ruthe aka Cha05e90.
The icons that appear in Jack are part of the AISS set currently maintained
Martin 'Mason' Merz. Any other imagery that may appear are copyright of their
respective owners.
A big thank you to Nikola Tomic who created the skin interface. Thanks! :-)
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1. What is Jack? - "All about Jack"
2. Features - "Jam-packed"
3. Installation - "Wherever"
4. Requirements - "System friendly"
5. Keyboard Shortcuts - "Everyone loves 'em"
6. Known Bugs and Limitations - "Sad, but true..."
7. Changes / History - "Things can only get better..."
8. Arexx Support - "Connecting the AppStore with your Apps..."
9. Legals - "Boring"
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1. What is Jack?
Jack is a dedicated AppStore for AmigaOS which integrates nicely with OS4Depot
as the backbone download repository.
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2. Features
* Comprehensive AmigaOS App-Store piggy-backing onto the already brilliant
OS4Depot.net. Includes integrated Arexx Support for developers
* Donate easily to your favourite AmigaOS third-party developers
* Add your own Sofware Reviews
* Advanced Installer Recognition
* Keep all your Software Downloads in one place
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3. Installation
Thanks to the APPDIR system Jack can be installed wherever you want. Although I
do suggest you install Jack away from the system partition.
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4. Requirements
Jack is very system friendly, if you don't have something installed, fine, Jack
will disable associated features. Nevertheless as a minimum Jack requires:
* AISS v4.12
http://www.masonicons.info/resources/aiss412.lha
* TheBar.mcc which is available via the following URL:
http://www.os4depot.net/share/library/mui/mcc_thebar.lha
+ You should always keep up to date with all available software updates
available through AmiUpdate.
If you want to fully enjoy Jack as intended you should install Martin 'Mason'
Merz's Push4Dock... read on.
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5. Keyboard Shortcuts
General
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ESC, c - Close / Cancel operation
6. Known Bugs / Limitations
;; KNOWN BUGS
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1. Re-Downloading doesn't always warn that the archive already exists locally
and just goes straightahead and re-downloads.
7. Changelog
17 March 2016 - Code updated regarding server migration, picking a store
category will work again.
16 March 2016 - The AppStore Database has moved to a more powerful Dedicated
Server solution, older versions of Jack will stop working later this month.
;; CHANGES SINCE 5.1
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* Error in parsing community statistics data reported by Niclas Eriksson fixed.
;; CHANCES SINCE 5.0
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* Recognises 'AmigaOne A1222' hardware in Community Stats
;; CHANGES SINCE 4.8
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* Jack is now just the App-Store, with everything non-Store related becoming a
separate application called Jill.
* Added download percentiles to the Download Manager
* Removed in-app advertising
* Recognises 'Final Edition' hardware in Community Stats
* Recognises 'AmigaOne X5000' hardware in Community Stats
* Search gadget moved to a wider position extending across the top of the window
* Added icons for Software and Hardware in Community Stats
;; CHANGES SINCE 4.7
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* Opening a shell window now opens the window as a Tabbed-interface
;; CHANGES SINCE 4.6
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* Added latest version of MUI Royale into the distribution - should have been
in 4.5 but was missing.
* Further sanity check of AISS version installed by user.
* Expanded action description for when second instance of Jack occurs.
* Removed Python installation instructions from Installer script.
;; CHANGES SINCE 4.5
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* AppStore Bundles tab - this has been re-factored. Replaced the previous
layout with a listview - this will allow the interface to re-size better.
I found this after changing to a monitor with a lower 4:3 resolution, the store
window simply refused to open.
MUI Royale 1.1 update, change list:
* Promote to Screen: All child windows will now correctly follow the main
dashboard to the selected screen.
* Execute Command menu item: Pressing Enter on Keyboard will Advance focus to
next gadget in Window.
* Column sorting implemented as per imposed HW algorithm which is very basic
MUI Royale 1.2 update, change list:
* Introduction of Icon Tabs
* Introduction of sortable columns on listviews, works on almost all listviews
* Quiet refresh enabled during listview column sort, leads to smarter/quicker
sort and refresh
;; CHANGES SINCE 4.4
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* Special OS4 Kernal update release. Fixes issues surrounding DownloadFile().
Thanks must go to Andreas Falkenhahn for supplying an intermediatory release.
* Minor: Domain name changes.
;; CHANGES SINCE 4.3
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* Knowledge Base: Switched from Double-click events on both listviews to
active selection.
* Dashboard: Reorganised buttons into a listview as a better layout solution.
* News: Added new column at beginning of listview to show icon against each
entry on the list.
* News: A new window created that allows you to add, edit or remove RSS Feeds.
* Corrections to GetDevices(), no problems with Path row data in the Search
window. As a result the Context menus options working again.
;; CHANGES SINCE 4.2
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* Filemanager: APPDIR: appeared under 'Drives', identified found elsewhere in
4.0.9 and removed. I am certain APPDIR: never appeared in the output of C:Info
in previous versions of the OS. This seems to stem from a system update as
APPDIR: is now accessible from the shell as well.
* Dashboard: Clicking the 'Go' button works again if the URL in the field is
valid.
* Dashboard: New Tab Added showing some Tech RSS NewsFeeds including AmigaWorld
and officialHyperion Entertainment feeds.
* Knowledge Base: Fixed 'Go to website' button.
;; CHANGES SINCE 4.1
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* Community Stats: Re-organised the GUI and added icons into table rows to make
the layout look more attractive.
* AppStore Store Tab: Saved User Comments/Reviews were being retrieved from the
database improperly. Stored Comments/Reviews were being stored inproperly too.
* Add Review: No longer possible to submit an empty review. User review must
be more than a determined length in order to be accepted.
* Search: Didn't always search every device, miscount device error.
;; CHANGES SINCE 4.0.9
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* Search: Fixed Rename / Delete / Add Comment, no more [5345dfsd35] errors.
* Search: Export button icon changed to something less incorrect!
* Search: Matches in APPDIR: are now excluded.
* AppStore: A new page has been added into the Information window that allows
the user to read user reviews/comments. In addition a user who has signed up to
the AppStore can also add their own review or comment to the AppStore.
* AppStore: If the Information window is open, selecting an App on the Store,
will update the text in the information window accordingly.
* AppStore: Identified an mui.DoMethod error/loophole relating to the Bundle
page that I was able to jump through as a result of the above change. Loophole
closed.
* DashBoard: Somehow APPDIR: found itself listed in the menu Jack->Volumes.
* Dashboard: The Push4Dock default paths mentioned in the menu Jack->Volumes
were not set correctly.
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* Fixed missing arrow left and right for traversing through the months of the
year.
* QT Bundle updated with a succession of new contributions, personally approved
by myself with a few reservations on some of these. ClipGrab is a personal
favourite right now.
* Removed JackTunes due to limitations that still exist between Arexx, AmigaOS
and Audio playback via AHI. JackTunes will reappear as a separate application
with no Arexx port.
* Reset button in Config Window: Small correction on how default path to Home
Directory is determined.
* Removed some guy called Fred from the Twitter search filter lol
;; CHANGES SINCE 4.0.7
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* Fixed missing brush error on Weather Refresh button, reported by samo79, thank
you.
;; CHANGES SINCE 4.0.6
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* MACE added to Entwickler-X Games tab
* It is now possible to type more symbols and importantly a 'space' in the
Search field within the AppStore, please note the results will returning matches
containing the entire string; no 'OR' logic is taking place.
* Added new Bundle to AppStore - the QT Bundle - I am sure this will grow over
time as the number of QT ports continues to grow.
* Renamed Office Bundle to AmiCygnix Bundle.
* Removed AmiCygnix Base from AmiCygnix Bundle, advised user to download
separately.
* Updated AmiCygnix Bundle and Entertainment Bundle with new downloads.
* Fixed some display bugs in the hastily written VAT Calculator, still not
perfect padding to two decimal places, but much better than before.
* Application Switcher population is now exclusive to selecting the associated
page tab as originally intended.
* A few layout refinements of the dashboard.
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* The Add button inside the Application Switcher has been fixed and more sanity
checking has been added.
* A 'Remove' button has added inside the Application Switcher which allows the
user to remove an application from the list. It is not possible to remove an
application that resides on the system partition. You are not one of those
users who store non-AmigaOS software of the system partition are you?
* Application Switcher is now first populated when the corresponding tab is now
selected for the first time rather than every time Jack is launched.
* Thanks to Hollywood 5.3 there is no longer a cap on URL length which now means
that all 'Star Data' is shown completely from top to bottom regardless of how
many items are present in the listview. This is instantly noticeable on the
'Store' tab where in prior versions of Jack I had no choice but to introduce an
artificial cap to avoid an unwanted DSI.
* Screen promotion of Jack should now be restricted to 24 bit screens only,
hard to test was unable to work out how to create a screen with less bits.
* Added information about which Hollywood version Jack was compiled in.
* Removed Check for Update button/menu items. Future updates will now be
delivered by AmiUpdate.
* As requested AmigaOS on Google+ has now been added into the Popular Bookmarks.
* AppStore Downloads Tab: When selecting to 'Show in Drawer' a check is now
made to find out whether the archive has since been deleted and if so give the
user the opportunity to remove it from the list.
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* Default location for a first-time run of Jack is now top-right as per previous
versions - not top left!
* Configuration Window: Now possible to save position of the Calendar/Weather
window, corrections to X and Y fields in moving the Window after entry.
* Configuration Window: Cancel button will also move back the Window to its
previously saved position.
* Fixed a myriad of image/icon and text field issues in the AppStore.
;; CHANGES SINCE 4.0.3
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* Added check for TheBar.mcc and TheBar.mcp. Jack will not start without them
and will inform the user where to download.
* Updated AISS version check string to 4.12
* Reflection cycle gadget saving state now fixed
* iTunes Player is only available to me, the developer whilst I resolve existing
bugs, which is why it is currently disabled in this version.
* Volume names with an ampersand in them are currently excluded from the
'Open Volumes' menu option attached to the Dashboard window.
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* Change Password, closed potential security breach. Fields are now emptied
on re-opening the window.
* Change Password button, broken, now fixed.
* Sign-up button, corrected keyboard shortcut.
* Closed another potential security breach, instead of an Email Reminder the
user opts to Reset their password. A new random password is sent instead.
* Added more sanity-check within the JackTunes configuration window and with
the actual loading/copying of the iTunes Library file from a remote or local
source.
* Removed the 'Mount JackTunes' script and icon from the distribution as they
are no longer required.
* Updated skins, made interface a little more transparent and a three new
buttons.
* The new buttons all the user to change the global volume level of AmigaOS.
Mixer is required in order to allow this functionality otherwise the buttons do
nothing.
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* Save button in the Configuration Window was broken, fixed.
* AppIcon images relating to the 'Application' tab in the dashboard are now
saved to disk resulting in quicker load times.
* The 'applaunchicon' error reported by 328gts and a few other users should now
be fixed, however unable to test so don't quote me on it.
* NEW: A small but useful VAT Calculator has been added into the dashboard.
* Some left-over debug messages removed from the AppStore.
;; CHANGES SINCE 4.0
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* Push4Dock no longer required, instead Push4Dock file structure is enforced.
* As part of the above change, Downloads are now installed into the
'Application Files' drawer.
;; CHANGES SINCE 3.2.6
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* Removed the button that returned the calendar to the current month as it was
a little unnecessary and was broken anyway.
* Added string focus (also known as activeobject) into several windows, this
works well with the 'advanceoncr' property to increase userability and removes
unnecessarily clicks and keboard tabulation on several interfaces.
* Removed OpenURL from MorphOS distribution as apparently it is not required
because it comes with MorphOS as standard. Reported by Tom01 via Jack website.
Thank you.
* Added TIFF Plug-in into the installation and distribution of Jack.
* Now requires mcc_thebar available at:
http://www.os4depot.net/share/library/mui/mcc_thebar.lha
MCCBar has no support for WarpOS and Amiga Classic removed completely because
Jack is geared towards computers with faster CPUs and to be honest it is going
to be pig slow on anything than a PowerPC processor or AROS.
* Now will handle 'stuck' downloads correctly on starting Jack by moving them
from the list/disk if found without inteferring with other partial downloads
that maybe on the list.
* New Applications tabbed into the new dashboard. This will allow you to launch
any application and other features including revealing them on the Workbench
and adding comments. Comes complete with search engine and the ability to add
new applications to the list. Applications are retrieved via the AmigaOS AppDir
system. Thus AmigaOS4 is mandatory for this page tab to enabled. FYI Jack will
attempt to make the Application's filename more meaningful, converting '-' and
'_' where necessary. It will also uppercase known acronyms. The same routine
is used throughout the AppStore as well.
* AppStore: If an archive filename contained both '-' and '_' only '-' was
being replaced and displayed to the user. Fixed.
* After capturing the screen the file manager window no longer opens, removed
because after a while I found it quite annoying.
* In the Calendar window the Previous and Next months correctly disable and
re-enable when switching between Calendar and Weather displays now. The right-
mouse clicks for colouring the interface also correct disable/enable between
displays.
* Drag 'n' Drop has been removed in favour of using the 'Action' button in the
file manager.
* All MacOS/Win32/Linux support code I had been introducing over recent updates
has been now been removed since Jack has been refactored to use MUI extensively.
* Arexx support has been improved further with the introduction of App-Store
specific Arexx Commands. Any Amiga Application can now Download, Query or even
Install applications from the Jack AppStore and even check what versions of
software the user has downloaded and if a newer version is available Download
and Install that too. Of course Jack has no real way of checking whether
certain downloads have indeed been installed correctly (or at all) so
foreinstance with a Library you will still need to carry out your own sanity
checks. This feature is only as good as the developers that choose to use it
and the quality of installation scripts that have been written for existing or
future software. Please use it!
* Removed internal calculator in support of the native application.
* During first time install, users who are found not to have Push4Dock installed
will be asked to specify a Download Path for the AppStore. This is a mandatory
requirement of running Jack. It is not possible to set a download path to a
common system Drawer such as. C:, DEVS, L:, Libs: etc... nor is it possible to
select the RAM: or RAM Disk. Circumvention is discouraged. I do want any users
to save any downloads to any volatile destination.
* Removed caching from the App-Store, I believe MySQL can quite easily handle
the number of current data requests from my online database for the foreseeable.
* Global AmigaOS environmental variables are now set matching some of those
specified by the user in configuration window. Foreinstance $JDOWNLOAD contents
the path to the users download drawer. This can be useful for developers when
writing future scripts and compliments the new Arexx AppStore interface.
The following variables are available: JCLOCK - whether the user prefers a
12 or 24 hour clock, JDOWNLOAD - the user's AppStore Download Path, JICONHELPER
= specified tool that opens Icon Files, JLOCATION = the user's (weather)
location, JPDFHELPER = specified tool that opens PDFs, JTEMP = whether the user
prefers temperatures displayed in (C)elsius or (F)ahrenheit and JTXTHELPER =
specified tool that opens Text-based files.
* Jack is no longer a File Requester replacement, it can no longer be started
from the Shell nor does it accept any arguments.
* With the change to MUI window it is now only possible to Mute any playing
music from non-MUI windows, i.e. the Calendar Window.
* Slideshow Mode - It is now possible to turn the Reflections off to improve
system performance. The option is available in the main Configuration window.
* Configuration: The Download Path is now checked to find out whether it exists
or not, if its doesn't the configuration cannot be saved through the interface.
* Configuration: Stupidity checks added to all fields on Saving. Foreinstance if
a Helper application doesn't exist fields and configuration return to defaults.
Similar with the Downloads Path, if it doesn't exist or is left empty this will
default to RAM.
* Configuration: Warning message added when Saving the configuration if apps
have already been downloaded and the user attempts to change the Download path.
* App-Store: Resuming of partial downloads on an unexpected quit of Jack has
always been working unknown to the user - however now the user is now told that
this is happening. A notification message will be sent to Ringhio on starting
Jack when this happens.
* Screen Capture: On saving capture, you are now told where the image has been
saved.
* App-Store Donations: Now only available to users who have signed-up/into the
AppStore.
* App-Store: Download options are available throughout the Store not just on
the Download tab. Foreinstance it is possible to Rate a download from the
Search results or the Recent List.
* Featured Software: Downloads are now asynchronous.
* App-Store Donations: Fixed the problem regarding the currency code.
Donations are now set against the developer's own currency code preference.
* Sharing links in the App-Store, the URLS are now correctly converted into
lower case INCLUDING the category, i.e. links are now correct when sharing to
Facebook, Twitter (new) and Clipboard.
* Entire Recent list is now shown in the App-Store, not just the top 12 uploads
* For those users who love to tinker, the Bookmarks in the App-Store can be
configured manually via gui.xml, however make sure the columns are balanced - in
other words the number of bookmarks must be an Even number.
* Searching the App-Store is no longer case sensitive (!)
* It is now possible to turn ON and OFF the Reflections in the Slideshow mode
* Enhancements to the Information Window in the File Manager
* Date of the month is now sent to the Google - Add an Event function correctly
* Introduced handling of ENVARC:, ENV:, RAM: and T: devices for non-AmigaOS like
operating systens.
* Fixed cross hair pointer not appearing in Color Wheel window.
* GetPixel: The missing font error has been fixed. You can now press 'G' again
from the Commodity Window to open obtain the Hex value of any colour on the
screen.
* Animated GIFS: It is now possible to drag and drop animated GIFs on to Jack,
all frames are played in a continuous loop.
* Screen Promotion: You can now press P to promote Jack to another public
screen. Please note unfortunately it is not yet possible to perform a screen
grab of any public screen aside from the Workbench. *AmigaOS and compatibles
only.
;; CHANGES SINCE 3.2.5
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* JackTunes: Change the Volume Level with the mouse.
* JackTunes: Improvements to display of title/artist/album text in full display
window.
* JackTunes: Change the Seek Position within the track with the mouse.
* General: CPU Architecture now shown in Info window.
: General: Plug-ins installed now show in Info window.
;; CHANGES SINCE 3.2.4
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* AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5's introduction of asynchronously loading the TCP/IP at
Workbench startup exposed a new bug in Jack. The DELAY tooltype was previously
being ignored, this has now been fixed. If you still see an error message if
starting Jack this way simply increase the value of the DELAY tooltype. Value
is no. of seconds.
* Python ITC Extractor has been updated to version 0.3.2 which adds support for
Apple's use of ARGB images in album cover artwork.
Thanks to Simon Kennedy. www.sffjunkie.co.uk/python-itc.html
* Moved php scripts to another server, older versions of Jack will continue to
run for a limited time only.
;; CHANGES SINCE 3.2.3
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* Local playback functionality (of an iTunes Library) in JackTunes is now
working, however, there are a still a number of known bugs and features yet to
be implemented. Please feel free to have a play around.
* Improved AmigaOS Version detection (Community Stats/Get Info)
* AmigaOne 500 is now identified under CPU detection (Community Stats/Get Info)
* Improved identication of SAM 440 EP and Pegasos
* Colour Commodity changes caused Jack problems with running from the command
line, now fixed.
* JackTunes: Notification messages are now sent to Ringhio as a new song starts
- but only when music interface is closed.
* JackTunes: Returning into the interface will always show the correct Artist
and Title for the currently selected track.
* JackTunes: Configuration window will now dismiss on selecting Later/Cancel.
* JackTunes: Mini Window now includes Title and Artist text.
* AppStore: Small advert area with links to my company Lake Marketing and Events
( www.lakemarketingandevents.co.uk )
;; CHANGES SINCE 3.2.2
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* Music player: A lot of work has been done on the music player, but there are
still a number of jobs outstanding that I am fully aware of. However feel free
to have a play. Ps. Local playback hasn't been started yet.
* Alarms: The Alarms were not being freed from memory on sample end this
blocked other Hollywood applications running from reaching AHI, fixed in
configuration window as well.
* Colour Commodity Window: It is now possible to customise the Text Colours
of most information shown in the main Commodity window. Simply right-click on
any text to change the colour - a Color Wheel will open - pick a colour and the
text is instantly changed. Changes are automatically saved.
* M is a Global Key to Mute any Music that may be playing.
* Changed keyboard shortcut from 'm' to 't' in Image Save window.
* Changed keyboard shortcut from 'm' to 't' in File Search window.
* Caps Lock position is no longer relevant for shortcut keys, some keys where
case sensitive in various windows of the application.
* Commodity Window: It is no longer possible to use LEFT/RIGHT arrows to switch
through months when the weather is being viewed, the forecast stays in view.
;; CHANGES SINCE 3.2.1
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* Fixed mouse pointer not changing state.
;; CHANGES SINCE 3.2.1
* Fixed mouse pointer not changing state.
;; CHANGES SINCE 3.2
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* Video End: After a video ends the mouse pointer was remaining hidden.
* Gtmooya: Removed rogue debug output.
* App-Store: Fixed download path for non-Push4Dock users - fixes double-RAM:
assignment.
;; CHANGES SINCE 3.1.3
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* WarpOS compile now available on Aminet.
* (MorphOS Only) Debug output removed.
* Check for New Updates (of Jack) has been removed for all non-AmigaOS4
operating systems.
* JackTunes restricted to AmigaOS 4 for the time being due to its reliance on
Python and SMBFS.
* AppStore: All downloads (apart from Featured Downloads) are now asynchronous.
In plain english this means multple downloads are now possible, even if you
close the Appstore window and move into any other part of Jack the download(s)
will continue in the backgrond. (AmigaOS 4 Only) Outside of the Appstore you
will be notified by the Ringhio notification system that a download has been
completed and is available to install as normal through the Download Manager.
* The state of the download list is updated as each download finishes, if you
end up with a partial download (computer crash/lost connection) during
downloading - on restarting Jack- you will be given the opportunity to either
re-download the partial download(s) or remove them from the list.
Notice I said 'the list is updated as each download finishes' - if you only
downloaded 1 item you will not necessarily be given this same opportunity.
* It is currently not possible to quit Jack if downloads are in progress or
partial downloads exist in the Download Manager. Please visit the download
manager and rectify. Might newbie-fy this behaviour in the future.
* (AmigaOS 4 Only) Every 4 hours news from Amigaworld is shown as a ringhio
notification assuming your rexx server is running; I know some weird Amiga users
love to turn stuff off unnecessarily!
* Apologies for delay, fixed the malformed url string for adding events to
Google Calendar. Days and months are now zero-padded correctly.
* (MorphOS Only) All PDF calls are pre-configured to Apdf on the system
partition inside the Applications drawer.
* The filesize is more correctly positioned underneath each download that is in
progress.
* Fixed possible inaccessiblity of the 'Install Now' option in the Download
Manager.
* Added Jack Icon to the Ringhio notification messages
* Jack now has an Arexx port. A small number of initial arexx messages have
been added. See Jack_Arexx_Commands.rexx included for the current list. This
will be much improved in a future release foreinstance being able to process
images and applying Image Effects and Watermarks.
* Removed redundant locale strings
* (Other OS) Corrections in AmigaOS Knowledge base with regard to local files
and helper applications.
* (AmigaOS 4 Only) During installation the user will now be asked whether they
wish to add Jack to the Dock (rather than auto-detection/auto-placement) and
they will be asked whether they want Jack to be added to WBStartup
(recommended).
Sidenote to developers/how to do: WBStartupCTRL ADD <path>/<filename> >nil:
;; CHANGES SINCE 3.1.2
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* Jack no longer requires an Internet connection to startup. Instead dialog
boxes will appear over relevant icons and buttons to inform user of functions
that are inaccessible.
* Whenever Jack needs to access a remote resource it will now always check an
internet connection is available first before attempting anything else.
* Connections: All data connections have been tidied up and consolidated where
possible. HTTP error handling has now been implemented for handling 404 errors
and lost in connection will be picked up. HTTP Resume has not been looked at
this stage.
* Renamed and expanded the Audio and Music bundle to include the Video player-
Mui-Mplayer.
* Entering a http:// address in the File Manager path will now check for OpenURL
and use that instead of defaulting to Jack's backup URL handler.
* Slideshow: Fixed position of Reflections.
* Slideshow: Fixed traversing Volumes/Drawers.
* Slideshow: Fixed errors in loading images without an Alpha-channel.
;; CHANGES SINCE 3.1.1
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* During a resync of the App-Store the 'cache' drawer was inadvertedly being
deleted rather than just it's contents. Resolves crash when selecting 'Recent
Uploads' after a resync during the same session.
* Added new window, the Commodity Help window. Click the Yellow bulb icon to
open it. Shows what each of the buttons does in the commodity window.
;; CHANGES SINCE 3.1
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* Began adding connection detection around downloading of data across the
internet; due to this being a quick fix release this has yet to be implemented
into the App-Store. More to do here.
* Donation database broken due to error in decryption algorithm.
* Fixed error in opening file manager from the shell using arguments.
* File Manager: Fixed downloading of URLs that contained uppercase.
* App-Store: Fixed error with Recent Uploads and Bundles both appearing in Red
under AmigaOS4; seems to have cleared up double buffering error present in 3.1.
* Commodity Window: Added temporary warning requester to JackTunes in case the
user presses this icon by mistake.
;; CHANGES SINCE 3.0.1
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* Image Editor in Single-image mode: Saving of Watermark was broken under 3.0.1
- now fixed.
* Expanded Community Statistics and GetSystemInfo() to include AROS and MorphOS
systems.
* AppStore: Increased archive name recognition database, e.g. Liboauth becomes
LibOAuth, Libflac becomes LibFLAC, Muiowb becomes MUI-OWB, Netsurf becomes
NetSurf, Wookiechat becomes WookieChat, Simplemail becomes SimpleMail, Mysql
becomes MySQL, 'up ep' becomes UP-Rough EP, Sketchblock becomes SketchBlock,
Lodepaint becomes LodePaint, os4 becomes OS4 etc... to improve readability-
downside = a little slow on first daily retrieval.
* Appstore: Archive name recognition database is now cached to improve speed of
access for multple-reads within a 24-hour period. When a re-build takes place
the data is re-cached immediately.
* Appstore: Increased recent list pool data beyond 30 entries. User is still
restrictured to seeing the first 15 entries.
* Began making the code platform-independent, please note however that when Jack
is released for your OS some features will become inaccessible or may act
differently.
* All Wget, Curl, GetVideo, FileNote, Yae, AOrganiser dependancies removed
* Confirmation that the OpenURL() command uses the OpenURL Team's implementation
as opposed to the default AmigaOS configuration and so all internal calls to
SYS:C/OpenURL have been replaced with the direct OpenURL() command. Users might
note a very slight speed-up. OpenURL dependancy included in the archive as
before with optimised preferences for OWB and SimpleMail.
* App-Store: Added Download Manager with a number of options including:
Install Now/Extract, Send a Donation, Show in Draer, Tell a Friend, Share on
Facebook and more.
* Add Events: Events can now only be added to Google Calendar, AOrganiser
support removed to increase consistency between platforms and to reduce
housekeeping. Might not work with Google+/ or Google has changed the API.
Further investigation required.
* Warning if WordNet is not installed. (AmigaOS4)
* System Information: Added 'Send a Bug Report' button.
* Currency Converter: Labels now updated when switching currencies.
* Knowledge-base: YouTube window removed, clicking icon will now simply open up
the Gtmooya YouTube Channel in a browser instead.
* Knowledge-base: Video links which did nothing before will now open up the link
in your browser for viewing.
* Knowledge-base: All mouse rollovers are working again, seems HW5 introduced
a behaviourial problem in TextOut(), using Create/DisplayTextObject() instead.
TextOut() wouldn't understand the X-coord for some reason, strange because if I
replaced the X-coord with #CENTER it worked just fine. Very strange because
TextOut() works just fine everywhere else.
* Knowledge-base: Using the Close Gadget in the Article Submission window no
longer quits Jack.
* Knowledge-Base: Software download links are now restricted to OS4Depot only.
* Knowledge-base: Submissions are restricted to AmigaOS4 users only.
* App-Store: Added link to AmigaOS Wiki
* Added comments to Installation File
* All fonts are now anti-aliased
* Replaced old references to C:FileNote from the early days of Jack with
SetFileAttributes().
* System Info: Operating System was missing from the dialog box.
* Early factoring-in that adding Comments to files is restricted to Amiga-like
OSes only.
* Other OSes: Images cannot be saved in the WebP format. Image loading is
supported if the WebP datatype is installed.
* Calculator: Now uses internal Eval() command instead of relying on Yae.
* Lha: Extract/Send to Archive restricted to AmigaOS4 in the file manager
at present until further investigation of other OSes.
* All OSes: General info, if Mplayer is resident in SYS:C/ file manager will
return video information when clicking the File Info button. Jack will look in
SYS:C/ across all systems attempting to find it. If this location is incorrect
for AROS/MorphOS please tell me. If Mplayer is not found, File Info will just
return bog-standard info.
* On clean-exit of Jack some temporary files stored in T: are removed.
* Removed Aminet reference from the Knowledge-base as HW5 DownloadFile() having
trouble downloading from this server.
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* Commodity Window: ESCape will now Iconify this window.
* Submit Article Window: (Required) message removed.
* Submit Article Window: Description, altered right-margin so it doesn't spill
outside message box.
* Commodity Window: Tweaked drop area so a harder to get stuck with the mouse
pointer on the wrong state when moving the pointer out of the window.
* App-Store Recent List: Parsing bug fixed.
;; CHANGES SINCE 2.9.3
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* Start up: Jack will now close gracefully and with a message via Ringhio if no
internet connection can be found. Don't forget if you have Jack installed in
WBStartup you can use the DELAY Tooltype to determine how long Jack should wait
before checking for a connection.
* Installation script: Prefs.info was being overwritten during the installation
of Jack. OpenURL with icon now copied into Prefs correctly.
* Image Editor: Extensive selection of new image effects added.
However, contrast, hue, colour balance modulation and more still to come.
* Image Editor: All image manipulations are now stackable.
* Image Editor: All image crops are now stackable in other words you can do
multiple crops.
* Image Editor: Quality of rotated images is much improved.
* Image Editor: Crop has been adapted to a few changes in the interface the
following limitations and behaviour apply.
1) You will NOT be able to crop images smaller than the interface window.
2) You will NOT be able to crop images larger than your screen (as before).
3) If you resize the window larger than the actual dimensions of the source
image and then try to crop- when you release the mouse button the window will
first resize allowing you to re-crop correctly; as long as the image meets rule
1 above.
* Image Editor: When opening the image editor the tint slider knob was drawing
in the wrong position. Fixed.
* Image Editor: When resizing the image window the image filename would
disappear from the window title.
* Image Editor: Reverting an image now takes into account whether you are
viewing the image in Resize to Fit mode.
* Image Editor: First/Last buttons on post processed window (available during
a batch image processing) were working - but Next/Previous did not work at all.
All four buttons now work correctly.
* Image Editor: Repaired missing shortcut keys.
* Image Editor: A color wheel is provided for selecting a tint color.
* Image Editor: Fixed errors inside the Image Resize window which didn't allow
the toggle 'Resize?' inside the Image Save window to function and inadvertedly
resized the actual working image instead of a temporary image.
* Image Editor: It is now possible to up open vector graphics inside the Image
Editor for converting into a bitmap format.
This includes the W3 Scalable Vector Format (SVG), other formats are unknown at
this time.
* Drag n Drop: It is now possible to drop Videos on the drop area for playback.
The following video formats are supported OGG/AVI/MPEG/MPG/MOV/FLV/MP4/WMV, XL
and CDXL. Unfortunately stability and compatibility with the aforementioned
formats isn't that great through the codec plug-in provided with Hollywood.
Rewind and Fast forward are currently disabled as well again due to stability
issues. Hopefully the situation may improve in the not too distant future.
* Drag n Drop: Dropping documents written in the Rich Text Format will now open
in NotePad. As will XML files and LOG files and files with the name 'Project
Notes' in them.
* Drag n Drop:It is now possible to drop scalable graphics on to the drop area.
This includes the W3 Scalable Vector Format (SVG), other formats are unknown at
this time.
* App-Store Caching: Recursive file deletion, updated against HW 5.0 API.
* App-Store: Brief black flicker associated the the download progress bar
window has been removed.
* File manager: Filters/File extension matching updated against HW 5.0 API.
* Calculator: Removed black flicker on opening window.
* Knowledge-Base: Updated Samba for Idiots Guide website link.
;; CHANGES SINCE 2.9.2
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* 2.9.1 introduced a bug where the days of the month were clickable when viewing
the Weather forecast. Fixed.
* Community Statistics: Added support for the AmigaOS 4.1 Update 5 version
string.
* App-Store: Every time the user successfully logs into their account, technical
data* is now updated in Community Statistics. Previously the technical data was
only being stored on sign-up. *Screen Resolution, AmigaOS version, Memory and
Computer model.
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* Send to archive: This will now pick up all associated .info files of the
selected files that reside in the root directory.
* Drag n Drop: Supports archive extraction once again. Drag an archive over
drop area on calendar window and select the destination.
* Screen cropping: You can now accurately crop an area of the screen before
entering the image editor. Slight limitation when you need to crop stuff near
the edges of the screen.
* Drag n Drop: Fixed bug when drag and dropping a drawer/volume onto the drop
area of the Calendar window.
* Calendar: Window can now be iconified. Keyboard shortcut is H.
* Calendar: Time display can now be changed between 12 and 24-hour.
* Weather: The AppIcon will now be updated when it becomes night-time.
* Calendar: New 'Hidden Key' added - press G. After a two second delay (time
to prepare/activate a window) Jack takes a snapshot of the screen and overlays
a zoom window in the bottom right of your screen. In the top-left it shows the
Hexadecimal value of the pixel underneath the mouse-pointer.
This can be helpful for web designers and graphics artists. Instead of saving a
snapshot of the screen and importing it into an art package, perhaps one that
exists on a different platform you simply press G and can quickly do the same
thing.
* OpenURL: This is now included inside the distribution as standard; the Prefs
icon was set incorrectly to Project instead of Tool in the original archive on
OS4Depot this has now been updated in this distribution accordingly as has the
naff custom icon.
I prefer OpenURL over the standard UrlOpen as OpenURL Prefs allows you to
specify arexx commands as well. If you do not have OpenURL it will be installed
along with preferences for both OWB and NetSurf. OWB is set as default, you
can change priority by opening SYS:Prefs/OpenURL. Please note that the
parameter NEWTAB isn't understood in NetSurf v2.8, however it has been specified
anyway in case one day its fixed.
* Clock: It is now possible to play a sound on the stroke of each hour. There
are four samples with which to choose from. Volume level is set to 100%, users
might notice the volume is a little low; however this is dictated by the
Hollywood language itself and not Jack.
* Gtmooya: Updated against Daniel Hutchinson's latest GTMOOYA pdf document.
* Gtmooya: Expanded the knowledge-base beyond Daniel's and my original work,
there are now more than 200 articles available.
* Gtmooya: Added additional code to handle the ability to link to a locally
stored PDF document; in other words AmiPDF is called. One occurence at present
under article 'Keyboard Shortcuts'. Also added support for opening files with
README, .TXT and .DOC in the filename - as used in Developer articles, e.g. SSL.
* Auto-updates: Fixed breakage caused from moving from lha to zip.
;; CHANGES SINCE 2.9
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* Startup/Locale corrections
* Added Dansk to the list of supported langauges
;; CHANGES SINCE 2.8
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* New funky interface consolidating the features of the previous Commodity and
Calendar windows into one interface. Also the interface is now opened up in a
truly transparent window.
* Locale: The program will no longer hang on start-up to users whose primarily
locale is not set as English. However it comes at a small price, the user
cannot enter Calendar mode in this version instead the Weather for your location
is always shown.
* Fonts: All fonts are now Anti-aliased.
* Calendar: Funky 'Hidden' keys added.
Lets start with the most useful, time-saving shortcut!
Pressing F, if Filer is installed, will open TWO instances of Filer
side-by-side!
Pressing D, if DOpus is installed, will open up Directory Opus for those
who resist change.
Pressing N, if Notepad is installed, will open up Notepad.
Press TAB and type in a URL to open site/address in your browser.
Press S to open up a Shell window
Regular keys:
Press W to toggle between Weather and Calendar
Press C to open configuration
Press I for program and system information
Press J for help / website
* Corrections in Configuration Editor on Save, sometimes your location wasn't
saved, now fixed.
* Calendar: Traversing through months is quicker.
* Calendar: OUTSTANDING BUG: The Reset to current month button does not work
as planned. If you notice the days are incorrect either restart Jack or move
forward one month and back again using the arrows and then press Reset.
* GetVideo, Rexx script now included in distribution, thanks to Thematic for
spotting that it was missing.
* WordNet: Fixed excessive HDD access.
* Google Currency: Extended GUI Toolkit into this module.
* Calculator: Extended GUI Toolkit into this module.
* Calculator: Now handles decimal numbers by using a third-party Eval tool,
installed along with Jack.
* Calendar: You can now drag either a drawer containing images OR a file to
be actioned to just one single drag and drop area. Top left icon.
* Calendar: Drag n Drop area. Please note ALTHOUGH you can drag and drop
webpages, if you have Odyssey set up as your default web browser through
OpenURL or you select Odyssey from the URL-Window - the current 1.9 version
does not correctly identify the path to the file.
* Calendar: Drag n Drop area. Squashed a bug, you can now drop a volume (or
any drawer) and it will enter slideshow mode even if there are no images in
the target directory. You can then traverse the up and down the drawer
structure as before.
* Calendar: Drag n Drop area. Dropping .lha, .tar, .zip and other compressed
archive formats will bring up the standard Info window instead of attempting
to extract the archive somewhere. Extraction has been disabled for now as it
needs more work and will be re-implemented at a later date.
* Add Event: Removed the text '(required)' which could partially be seen in
the interface connected to the first textfield.
* Add Event: Closing via the Cancel button and quickly moving the mouse could
on occasion cause the program to hang. Fixed.
* Slideshow mode: It is now no longer possible to drag the display away from
the top of the screen.
* Search Window: Those annoying ._ files created by Mac OS X that typically end
up on USB devices are automatically filtered from the results. Also entries
with .Trashes somewhere in their file path are also filtered.
* Search Window: Clicking an Image from the search results will no longer result
in windows being open that shouldn't be.
* Search Window: Clicking a single Image from the search results sends the user
into the Image Editor as before, but no longer in 'batch-mode' which resulted
in unexpected bugs. A crash which sometimes occurred after saving the image
after this process has also been fixed.
* Search Window: Selecting multiple images from the search results sends the
user to the Image Editor as before, but no longer in 'batch-mode' despite the
message to the contrary. The program will select the last image that has been
double clicked. This behaviour maybe reviewed in the future.
* Thanks to Tuxedo, Samo79, Toaks, Thematic, Tekmage and anyone I've missed for
support with reporting bugs, errors and mistakes.
* Updated program credits to include Nikola Tomic who kindly provided the Skins
for the new interface.
* Special thanks to Kas1e for providing inspiration and setting the bar high for
me.
; CHANGES SINCE 2.7
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* AppStore: After downloading a file the DetectInstaller routine could fail if
if could not find the Workbench Rexx port.
This only affects those of you that strangely choose to turn off RexxMast.
* The whole program would not previously launch correctly to any user that's
locale was not set to English. Jack now supports launching in the following
languages: Deutch, English, Espanoal, Suomi, Francais, Italiano, Norsk,
Portgués and Swedish.
* AppStore: If Jack could not find the Kicklayout file for any reason Jack will
now record the AmigaOS version as Unknown.
; CHANGES SINCE 2.6
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* GUI: Numeric fields are no longer padded with leading zeroes when requested
not to.
* GUI: Buttons now have a gradient applied to them in the AmigaOS style.
* GUI: Square brackets can longer be entered into any text field gadgets.
* About Box: Now shows System and Network Information
* Image Editor: New Button - Open in LoView (if available) - only available
when single image selected
* Codebase: Partially updated codebase functions to object functions.
* Slideshow Mode: You can now use the mouse scroll wheel to Zoom In and Out of
an image.
* Shell: New Argument -sysinfo
If you are experiencing problems please run Jack from the Shell with this
argument.
; CHANGES SINCE 2.5
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* Serious fix to broken HTML and URL encoding and decoding.
* Slideshow Mode: It is now possible to Zoom In and Out of any image using
plus (=) and minus (-) on the keyboard.
* App-Store: No crash when closing Sign-up window via the Cancel button or
keyboard shortcut.
* WBStartup: New tooltype 'DELAY'. On first-run Jack will pause for specified
number of seconds before trying to make a connection to the internet. Users
who don't plan to add Jack to their WBStartup can safely set this to zero.
* App-Store: Rate It buttons working again.
* General: Handling tooltypes and command line arguments has been improved.
; CHANGES SINCE 2.4
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* Commodity Window: Fixed display of the tooltip text when the Icon Toolbar
isn't in display.
* Commodity Window: Can now be closed to leave the Calendar Window open.
* Calendar Window: It is now possible to move through the months of the year.
* Calendar Window: New icon to toggle the display of the Commodity Window.
* Calendar Background Window: Selecting the top right icon will make the
Calendar window transparent and borderless. Its not true transparency, but if
Jack is installed in your WBStartup you'd never know the difference.
; CHANGES SINCE 2.3
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* Server: The log-in problem associated with the App-Store has been corrected.
Existing users will have to sign-up again as old accounts have been removed as
it is understood that the bug has been present for some time.
* Native textfields added through Jack's many interfaces.
* App-Store: Remove Storage overview feature, it proved much too slow.
* Global: Third-party application detection routine has been updated again,
APPDIR: is checked first and if still not found - for a select number of
applications another common/usual location is checked. Configuration window
has been updated to reflect these changes.
* Global: Excluding the http:// handler in the File Manager, all other Url
requests now have OpenURL Support if available.
* Calculator: Updated to open below the Commodity Window at the correct
position. However, does not auto-snap when Calendar Window is opened/closed.
* Currency Converter: The Currencies button will now open the associated text
file.
* Commodity Window: SideBar and BottomPanel can now be hidden. Changes are
saved automatically.
* AppStore: Now supports users running on a 1024x768 resolution as originally
intended.
* AppStore: No crash when exiting Sign-up window via the Cancel button.
* Capture Screen: Now passes through the File Manager to reach the Image
Editor. Removes all associated 'CloseWindow' crashes.
* Consolidated Window, Drag and Drop, DropFile and Keyboard event-handling into
a new p_InstallEventHandler() function.
* Further modulisation of core components within the source code.
; CHANGES SINCE 2.2
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* Image Save: The Resize? option wasn't clickable with the mouse. Fixed.
* Weather: If the Weather Provider supplies invalid Gifs, Jack will still open.
* Commodity Window: Amiga+Q is now the keyboard shortcut to close the
application.
* Image Resize Window: Width/Height fields use the new Text Entry gadget.
; CHANGES SINCE 2.1
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* Commodity WIndow: Drag and Drop areas working again.
* Quick Fix release: Fixed auto-update
;; CHANGES SINCE 2.0
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* Image Editor: Saving and then exiting the Image Editor could cause Hollywood
to crash.
* AppStore: Wrong error message being displayed if screen resolution is too low.
Nothing to do with Curl.
* General: Check for updates button added into About box. Also when Jack starts
and there is a network connection available, Jack will check to see if the
current version is the latest available. If not, will offer the user the
opportunity to download and install the latest version.
* Helpers: Helpers are now surrounded by double quotes which will solve problem
if a user selects a different helper and the path has spaces in it.
* Command Line: Calling Jack with no arguments in the command line bug fixed.
;; CHANGES SINCE 1.9
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* Commodity Window: New keyboard shortcuts F1-F12 mapped against the first 12
icons within the sidebar.
* Installation changes: Jack now uses APPDIR: for some of its more critical
helper applications.
During theinstallation process if these particular applications do not exist on
the APPDIR: 'device' they are ran silently so that they are available to Jack
upon launching.
* Installation changes: The file 'Calculate Media' was missing from the
installation script. This is now correctly copied its required drawer.
* AppStore: Readme Downloads with two extensions names are now correctly
handled.
* AppStore: OnMouseOvers hand<->normal pointers working in all windows.
* Appstore: More keyboard shortcuts added into buttons and the like.
* General: Restructed toolbar and keyboard handling to provide visual feedback
of icons and buttons on a keystroke.
* File Manager: New keyboard shortcut added, F5 to Refresh directory.
* Image Editor: New keyboard shortcut added to the 'Resize?' checkmark inside
the Save Window.
* Image Editor: New keyboard shortcut added to select the 'Custom Watermark'
option inside the Watermark Window.
* Image Editor: New keyboard shortcut added to toggle the 'Keep Aspect Ratio'
option inside the Resize Window.
* Batch-image Processing: Use of keyboard arrows now keep within processing
boundaries and will no longer crash Jack on the Post Processing Window.
* Community Stats: Spelling correction on 'Email Client'.
* Commodity Window: A Currency Converter which uses the Google API has been
added into the toolbar.
* GTMOOYA/Assist: New Contributions Form added so you, the community can submit
articles to the database.
* Source Code: Created new function p_DeleteFile() to replace HW DeleteFile
command that will also check file exists before attempting to delete and return
error value where applicable.
;; CHANGES SINCE 1.8
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* Welcome Window: Removed and replaced with the Jack Commodity Window. In
fact this is a big change than it seems as the Commodity Window has a
huge amount of features consolidated from the File Manager.
* Commodity Window: Drag and Drop files to open them in helper applications
or give information.
* Commodity Window: Drag and Drops volumes or drawers and browse through
them full screen. Particularly useful for drawers containing images and
photos.
* File Manager: Removal of the Quick Access Bar, access is instead by the
Jack Commodity Window.
* Weather Forecast: The new Commodity Window features a 5-day weather
forecast for locations across the world.
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* App-Store : Correct parsing of .avi, .tar and .tar.bz2 which were causing
big headaches in the display and successful downloading of software
in the category selections. - BUGFIX
* App-Store: You can sign-up to an account on the Jack's App-Store and rate
software. - MAJOR ENHANCEMENT
* App-Store: Signed-up users can take a look at survey results and community
statistics.
* App-Store - Now correctly handles downloading of non-Lha archives. BUGFIX
* App-Store - There are small handful of 'Rogue Files' that have been
uploaded to OS4Depot over the years. These are ones which have no
file extension (!). These are now correctly greyed out and
unavailable. BUGFIX
* Configuration Editor: Non-configurable helpers are now saved in the
configuration editor. BUGFIX
* Source code
- Function naming conventions
- Optimisation between MakeButtons and Callbacks
* Toolbar and Icon Image loading
- Replaced load routine, any resources that fail to load (cannot be
found) will now result in an error message allowing safe
closure of Jack. - ENHANCEMENT
;; CHANGES SINCE 1.6
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* App-Store: Storage Overview - This option will show you storage totals of
media contained on your computer.
* App-Store: Support for Installation Utility (Python) and the old 53.1
Installer. Jack will attempt to locate an installer in the archive and
launch it for you.
:Developer Notes - In order for the installer to automatically launch you
need to adapt your archive against these notes.
Whether use still use the old 53.1 Installer or the current Python
Installation Utility the archive MUST contain an outer drawer.
If you don't create an outer drawer then frankily you suck, enough said.
--- Python Installation Utility ---
- Each python installation setup should have a Project Icon set-up with the
efault tool set to: SYS:Utilities/Installation Utility.
- Configure this icon as you normally would do.
- Jack will traverse through the archive looking for the install.py file.
Once found Jack will look for a line containing 'AddPackage', on finding
this line it will expect the 'name' argument to fall on THE NEXT LINE BELOW
by.
See the Timberwolf install.py script for a perfect example of how the
'AddPackage' command should be laid out.
- In order to obtain the name of your project icon Jack will grab the
contents of the 'name' argument to build the filename.
Eg. Install YouApp.info
Please do not use an underscore instead of a space. As AmigaOS doesn't
care about Case it doesn't matter as long as they match.
If your mirror the directory structure that the Frieden's have used for
Timberwolf you cannot go wrong, here it is: (with comments in brackets)
Install Timberwolf/ (outer drawer)
Install Timberwolf/Install Timberwolf.info (project icon that calls
SYS:Utilities/Installation Utility)
Install Timberwolf/install.py (your working python script)
Install Timberwolf/Installation Utility (this was included in the
distribution for some reason, you probably won't need to)
Install Timberwolf/installer-logo.png (your logo as referenced in the
project icon's tooltypes, 640x86 pixels)
Install Timberwolf/Other stuff (everything else in the distribution)
Old 53.1 Installer
: Jack will search inside the root drawer of the archive for any Project
Icon that's default tool contains the word 'installer'.
: Additionally this Project Icon filename must contain the word 'install'.
: Archives containing multiple instances will be ignored.
ANY OTHER INSTALLATION METHODS WILL NOT BE SUPPORTED AT THIS STAGE
* App-Store: Search results are correctly cleared between searches.
* App-Store: Featured Products - A fully working new page has been added
into the App-Store with download and web links.
* Image Editor: Images that contain an Alpha Channel/Transparency are now
correctly loaded.
* External Helpers: All external helpers now run asychronously.
* Gtmooya: Back/Forward will now load images on entry to an article. BUGFIX
* Gtmooya: Error when launching multiple-download requests has been solved.
BUGFIX
* Gtmooya: Base dictionary file has been updated. ENHANCEMENT
* General: Jack now fully supports the loading, saving and viewing of
images in the WebP format. Required software components are put in place as
necessary when you install Jack.
* General: Most pointer changes state when over buttons or other gadgets
excluding the Image Editor where there is a bug present.
* JackTunes: Program will no longer hang if no music is found in library.
* Extract Archive: Crash removed, path transferred correctly between Jack
instances.
;; CHANGES SINCE 1.5
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* Slideshow mode: Double-clicking an image works as expected, no error
message or refreshing of directory occurs. BUGFIX
* All remaining references to Downloads: have been removed, AppStore
should be much approved as a result. BUGFIX
* Startup: Jack will now start-up much faster in both file-requester mode
and regular mode.
* Non-Jack mode: All remaining errors relating to file/drawer selection
have been eliminated. BUGFIX
* AppStore: Will now open if files in the Recent index fall below 12.
BUGFIX
* Welcome Window added to Jack giving options how to start. This is
bypassed in File-Requester mode. ENHANCEMENT
* Preferences: Applications are now launched asynchronously.
* Cancel Buttons: Some cancel buttons showed formatting tags, now shows
correctly. BUGFIX
* Calculator Window will now auto-close at all times. BUGFIX
* Configuration Window: Keyboard shortcuts added. ENHANCEMENT
* Screen Capture: Capture filename will no longer contain multiple .png
filename extensions during a multi-capture session. BUGFIX
* Slideshow Mode: Parent and Close slideshow buttons are now animated.
BUGFIX
* Image Editor: The default image type is now relative to the chosen image
opened. BUGFIX
* Image Editor: Closing the Image Editor window no longer re-loads the
directory. BUGFIX
* Image Editor: Warning before Closing the Image Editor if changes were
made to the Image. ENHANCEMENT
* Image Cropping: Although cropping is still from the top-left corner
outwards its usability is much improved.
* Configuration Editor: The Save configuration now works properly as
expected. You will no longer have to restart Jack in order realise ALL
changes that have been made. BUGFIX
* Helper - UnArc: Jack will now let you extract from archives.
* Helper - AmiPDF: If AmiPDF is chosen as the helper for PDFs they now
open full screen as opposed to windowed.
* Helper - AmiGS: Added helper for opening supported PS/EPS files through
AmiGS. Currently non-configurable.
* Send to Archive: Sometimes the destination path would end up ending with
//. BUGFIX
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* AppStore v2.0 is introduced in this version.
* Configuration Editor: There is now a complete configuration editor for
helper applications supported by Jack.
Non-Push4Dock users can set the default download path in here. Push4Dock
users cannot edit this field see below.
Configuration is saved in XML format and is compatible with the standard
AmigaOS PrefsObjectEditor which incidentally is also available through
Jack's Quick Access bar.
The configuration file is created on first-run, consequently if the file is
deleted for any reason it will be recreated with the default settings.
NEW FEATURE
* Downloads Assignment: You may have noticed that Jack used to assign
Downloads to RAM: for non-Push4Dock users. This is no longer the case; you
can set the actual download path yourself in the new Configuration Editor.
Push4Dock users will notice that Jack still enforces the Downloads assign to
the appropriate drawer in the Push4Dock installation, this is currently
restricted to the DH1: volume as dedicated by Push4Dock.
This situation will be updated with the next release of Push4Dock or when it
is bundled with AmigaOS whichever comes earlier; this is a hopecast not a
certainty. ENHANCEMENT
* Image Resize Aspect Lock: When asking for custom width/height Jack no
longer crashes when you cancel input. BUGFIX
* Pointers: Jack now uses the Wait Pointer where it is appropriate to do so.
* Open on Workbench: It is now possible to open a drawer on the Workbench
from within Jack. Simply CTRL+Click a drawer.
* Open on Workbench - View By Name: Like above except hold CTRL+SHIFT
Click a drawer.
* Wheel scrolling: In a lot of AmigaOS applications I have noticed that
they don't seem to take into account by how much the wheel is moved the
quicker something is to scroll. If you wish to scroll faster in a directory
with a lot of files, simply hold down the mid button and scroll the wheel
once, when you let go of the wheel it will have jumped further down.
* Non-Push4Dock users will now see ghosted icons and text of the Push4Dock
drawers to encourage them to upgrade to Push4Dock which I highly recommend.
Also the shortcut to the Downloads drawer in the left panel is now available
for everyone thanks to the Configuration Editor. ENHANCEMENT
* Deleting files: It was possible that the lister wouldn't refresh the
drawer. BUGFIX
* Helper File Operations: Correction to handling mixed case extensions.
BUGFIX
* It is now possible again to open local html documents using OpenURL.
BUGFIX
* Calculator: Removed quotes around calculation, caused unexpected results
with multiplication symbol.
* Visit AmigaOS: Correctly opens URL Window without refresh mess from
hidden App Store window. BUG FIX
* Lister: Drawers/files containing the characters [ or ] are replaced with
a hyphen when displayed in the lister, you will still be able to perform
operations as normal on the file(s) in question. This is hopefully a short
term workaround as I cannot seem to get the square brackets to appear
without Jack crashing.
* PageUp/Down: Now operate as expected.
* Datestamps: In rare cases it is not possible to get the date stamp of a
file, a hyphen will now be shown when this happens and also Jack will
no longer crash as a result of this. BUG FIX
* Basic file operations: Yet more error handling for when Jack is unable to
perform an action on a file.
* Jack will now also delete any associated .info file along with the
directory or file. BUG FIX / ENHANCEMENT
CHANGES SINCE 1.3
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* QUICK FIX: Repaired broken links when Jack is required to call itself eg
Search Results, LHA other drawer, Custom Watermarks etc.
* Arexx: All messaging now passes through one routine, if Jack cannot open
a Rexx port for any reason it will continue as normal. BUGFIX
CHANGES SINCE 1.2
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* Tooltypes: Tooltype support as requested has been added to Jack. NOTE:
Command line arguments have changed in this version so they are more
readable when used in Icon information. As a result, the For Your AmiDock
scripts have also been changed. This will be final and last change to the
current argument names. NEW FEATURE
* AppStore: New Pages added and layout changes. Requires screen resolution
of at least 1024x768 in order to open. ENHANCEMENT
* Some Watermarks were missing from the distribution.
* Opening URLs: Makes use of Ringhio to display messages. NEW FEATURE
* File Requester Mode: Corrected a argument documentation error in regard to
file output. BUGFIX
* Calculator: Error Output from C:Eval is now removed and a system
requester is shown instead. BUGFIX
* IconEdit: Helper application will now open. BUGFIX
CHANGES SINCE 1.11
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* Send to Archive: Makes use of Ringhio to display messages. NEW FEATURE
* Sent to Archive: It is now possible again to send to a different
destination drawer (and not the current one!). BUGFIX
* Screen Capture: Now uses Ringhio to tell you that it is about to capture
the screen. NEW FEATURE
* AppStore: Now uses Ringhio to keep you informed about the download.
NEW FEATURE
* AppStore: Once a download is complete, Jack will (thanks to Arexx will
attempt to open the outer drawer containing the application/download.
NEW FEATURE
* Removed tooltips from Quick Access bar, they are just getting in the way.
CHANGE
* WordNet Support: If WordNet is installed correctly you can do a Thesaurus
check on a word or phrase from the Quick Access bar / F6. Not available in
File Requester mode. NEW FEATURE
* Date/Time: Added to Quick Access bar / F5. Show current date and time.
NEW FEATURE
* Fkeys now act as a toggle, opening and closing the associated Quick Access
tool where appropriate. CHANGE
* Calculator: Inspired by Spotlight in Mac OS X I have added a Calculator
into the Quick Access bar. Not available in File Requester mode. NEW FEATURE
* Image Cropping: Now works as expected, with a minor restriction on large
images.
You can only crop images that are being shown in 1x1 pixel mode. In other
words you can only crop images that you can a) fit on your screen and b)
without using the Resize to Actual button to Zoom in on smaller images than
800x600.
If you are doing a screen capture and do need to crop, I suggest you first
resize the image to a more managable size; users with Widescreen monitors
should resize using the aspect ratio lock instead.
* Make New Drawer: The keyboard shortcut wasn't available in the root of a
volume. BUGFIX
* Selecting Drawers: You can now go into drawers which have been scrolled
down in the lister. Spotted by TiredOfLife. BUGFIX
* Custom Filter Groups: It is now possible to use Custom Filter groups
again from the command line. BUGFIX
* Search Window: Now complete. Works correctly in Jack Mode and in the
file requester mode with all filters being correctly handled. ESC key will
now stop the search engine in its tracks. NEW FEATURE
* Device Group: Hard Disks/other: if you have more than 17 devices in this
group you should be able to select as you scroll down. Not willing to
test! ;p POSSIBLE BUGFIX
CHANGES SINCE 1.1
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* Presently Jack will only re-download the RECENT file from OS4Depot only
once every 24 hours. I just started Jack this morning and it failed with
APPDIR:c/wget does not exist and failed to open. Typo fixed.
* Search Window: You will notice the keyboard is now fully supported for
scrolling up and down the lister. It also now supports Filters in file
requester mode, if asking for Images, only images will be listed in the
Search Window. Custom filter group still to support.
CHANGES SINCE 1.0
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* Search Window: Preliminary search engine window implemented. Probably
won't find it of any use as yet as you cannot click through any of the
found files. Also cannot get ESC to respond to cancelling the search.
Work in progress, stay chooned.
* Image Editor: You can now add Watermarks to any image. Comes pre-loaded
with 11 watermarks to choose from. Additionally you can select your own
custom watermark to apply to an image. Feel free to place your own
watermarks in the Resources drawer if you wish, although you can save them
anywhere you want. It is also possible to Watermark many images in one go.
NEW FEATURE
Thanks to Daytona675x for creating the default watermarks.
* Image Editor: In single-image mode, images can be successfully cropped.
Limited to highlighting out from the top-left corner only. NEW FEATURE
* Image Editor: You can now resize the images using an Aspect Ratio Lock.
ENABLED FEATURE
* Lister Window: Drag and Drop support added to change the directory being
shown. Either drag a file or a directory into Jack to update the lister.
NEW FEATURE
* Image Processing Window: Sometimes the preview image was scaled
incorrectly and overlaid the Finish button and paging arrows across the
bottom. FIXED.
* Lister Window: If there was no scroll bar, the datestamp for any files
shown was missing. FIXED.
* Info Window: The height of a scaled image is now at a fixed value rather
than maintaining aspect ratio which was causing images to drop out of the
visible window. CHANGE
* Startup: Volume names are now obtained directly from the Unit ID using
GetVolumeInfo(). Thanks to Tompelli for his patience and his extensive
testing.
* APPDIR vs SYS: Third-party applications are looked for in APPDIR first
then SYS:C and/or SYS:Utilties before launching. Thanks to Tompelli for
his patience and his extensive testing.
* Spurcious empty lines or characters at the end of OS4Depot's readme list
are now correctly ignored and Jackcan open. Thanks to Tompelli for his
patience and his extensive testing.
* Lister Window: Keyboard shortcut for slideshow mode is now accessed by
pressing V to make way for another important feature.
CHANGES SINCE 0.99 Beta
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* Send to Archive should now be available to everyone that has LHA
installed.
* Downloads via HTTPS: Thanks to Kas1e's recent submission of Wget onto
OS4Depot it now possible to download from a secure server. (NOT TESTED AS
YET).
* View as Slideshow: It is now possible to view the whole volume in
slideshow mode, meaning you can navigate in and out of drawers.
* App-Store and System Preferences are no longer accessible in file
requester mode.
* Info Window: If you select a single drawer, information is now shown
about its contents.
* Info Window: Filesize is now shown in Bytes, or rounded into KB, MB, GB
or TB.
* Lots of fixes in the detection of third-party software tools and other
programs.
* Image Editor: The window can now be resized at will.
* Tooltips have been added to the Main Window and the Image Editor.
* When a Device Group is selected Jack will now refresh the device list.
In other words if you insert a USB or CD you can select the Device Group
again and it will appear.
* Device Group - Optical: Units that begin with CD and now ICD are put into
this Device Group.
* Device Group - Samba: Units that begin with SMBFS are placed in this
Device Group.
* Device Group - USB: Units that begin with USB are placed in this
Device Group.
* Device Group - Hard Disks: All other Units appear in this Device Group.
You can of course click the directory path and enter the device, volume
name or an assignment by hand for access.
8. Arexx Support
Full documentation about the Arexx capabilities of Jack can be found in the
Arexx drawer where you choose to have installed Jack.
The drawer also contains some example Rexx scripts for to exploit.
You can also bring up Arexx Support help via the Dashboard Menus at the top of
the screen.
9. Legals
The audio contained in this package are covered by a Creative Commons License
and may be copied, distributed and used for non-commercial purposes only.
All third-party software is included for smooth running of Jack, all rights to
these software titles remain with their original author(s), documentation is
included where required to do so.
Every attempt has been made to the installation script to ensure that nothing
you currently have installed is overwritten unnecessarily.
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