stltask-log.txt

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STLTask Revision Log
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05/06/2003 (STLTask v3.05)
    Shortened some title-bar text that was overflowing its available space.

04/11/2003
    Thanks to Graeme Prentice, the STLTask tray icon no longer disappears
    after a Windows Explorer / system  taskbar re-initialization! This was
    a shortcoming of the wxWindows library, in which the message Windows
    sends when the taskbar is being reset was not being processed by the
    library.  Graeme figured out how to patch the taskbar.* files in the
    wxWindows distribution to correct the problem, and I now compile with
    those updated taskbar components (and supply them in the STLTask source
    archive, part of the standard distribution for the MSVC, gcc and Intel
    versions of STLFilt). This problem has been driving me crazy for almost
    two years, so I'm truly appreciative of Graeme's accomplishment.
    Thank you, thank you, thank you! 

04/08/2003 (STLTask v3.04)
    The Proxy-CL/GCC/ICL.INI configuration parameter for naming the 
    native compiler executable was not being managed consistently across
    the different platforms STLTask supports. For MSVC, the name of the 
    parameter is NATIVE_CL, but for the other platforms the name is
    supposed to be different: NATIVE_GCC for gcc, NATIVE_ICL for Intel.
    Unfortunately, on those two non-MSVC platforms, STLTask was still looking
    for a parameter named NATIVE_CL. It now looks for the correct name
    under each platform. Note that this only effects Proxy-*.INI, NOT
    the STLTask.INI multi-platform configuration file (where NATIVE_CL 
    is in fact the correct name to use within *all* the platform sections.)

03/21/2003 (STLTask v3.03)
    Quotation marks (single or double) may now be placed around pathname
    and filename parameters in both the primary (Proxy-*.INI) and secondary
    (STLTask.INI) configuration files. They are not necessary, but at
    least now they are tolerated.

    Fixed a slew of messages that were still hard-wired to say "Proxy CL"
    instead of using the name appropriate to the currently selected
    platform in multi-platform mode.

    Removed bogus parameter COMP_BASENAME from the description of the 
    platform-specific configuration parameters described in
    README-STLTask.txt. This parameter was never actually implemented.

03/20/2003 (STLTask v3.02)
    Added single/multi-platform status information to status dialog.
    Removed a bunch of old debugging code from source.

03/19/2003 (STLTask v3.01)
    Thanks to Charlie [I won't wait to find out his last name...not that
    he'd necessarily want to give it out ;-) ], STLTask.cpp now compiles
    with wxWindows 2.4. It no longer compiles with 2.2.9, however, but
    I'm not too worried about this...

    One that slipped through: STLTask.INI, as distributed 3/18 and 3/19,
    used quotation marks around the cl_dir parameter for the MSVC platform
    definition. The problem: quotation marks weren't supported. Oops. As
    a stopgap I've removed the quotation marks in the distribution, but
    soon I'll update STLTask to be able to handle them if they're there.

03/18/2003  (STLTask v3.00)
    STLTask has received a *major* face-lift. The new version's source
    code is now unified across all the platforms in which it is included
    (as of this writing, that's MSVC, gcc and Intel) with default paths
    and filenames switchable with a simple symbol change up at the top.

    More significantly for users, a single instance of STLTask now has
    dynamic multi-platform switching capability. You configure up to 
    ten separate compiler platforms in the new secondary configuration
    file, STLTask.INI, and select between them from the STLTask context
    menu. For all the details, see the new README-STLTask.txt.

    Both of these changes have sure made *my* life a lot easier ;-).

10/20/2002 (STLTask v2.6)
    Fixed infinite dialog-box looping upon detection of corrupt configur-
    ation in certain cases. Clarified status dialog text a bit.

8/24/2002 (STLTask v2.5)
    STLTask is now checked out for concurrent multi-platform support, so
    long as the platforms associated with each instance have a distinct
    base directory and toggle file directory (as specified by the .INI file
    parameters cl_dir and toggle_file_dir. Note that the specific .INI
    file to use may be specified as a command-line parameter to STLTask.EXE;
    the default, if none is given, is Proxy-CL.INI in your %Systemroot%
    directory as distributed with the MSVC version, or Proxy-gcc.INI as
    distributed with the gcc version.)

    Added compiler directory (cl_dir) information to dialog captions, the
    context menu and all Tooltips. This allows concurrent STLTask instances
    (say, one for MSVC6, one for MSVC7 and one for gcc3) to be easily 
    differentiated. Simply place the mouse over the taskbar icon to pop
    up a Tooltip identifying the platform and showing decryption status.

    Corrected button sizes so some labels display better with "large" fonts.

    Context menu selection "Prepare to apply Visual Studio Service Pack" is
    now enabled only when the active compiler name is "cl.exe" (case-
    insensitive). Since STLTask may now be used with gcc, we don't really
    want to see that option if gcc is the active compiler. 

5/23/2002 (STLTask v2.4)
    Enhanced the taskbar icon repertoire: There are now specific icons
    to indicate an uninstalled Proxy CL (a big X through the icon) and
    Clipboard-Only mode (a paper clip holds the icon to the taskbar).    

    Corrected bug causing a mostly blank initial dialog to appear upon 
    start-up in Clipboard-Only mode.

3/30/2002 (STLTask v2.32)
    Comments (introduced with ";" characters) at the end of configuration
    file (Proxy-CL.INI) options are now supported (they get stripped).

3/5/2002 (STLTask v2.31)
    Was still getting cascading "Could not set icon" dialogs under certain
    circumstances, so I threw another status flag at the problem. Now, while
    it is still possible to end up with zombie STLTask.EXE processes, at
    least they don't seem to interfere with new instances.

2/13/2002 (STLTask v2.30)
    In preparation for the soon-to-be-released g++ versions of the Decryptor
    package, I've overhauled STLTask to be less MSVC-specific. Version 2.30
    supports a new option in the [stltask.exe] section of the configuration
    file:
        CL_EXE=cl.exe
    This lets you specify the "natural" name of the native compiler. For non-
    MSVC platforms, this could be "g++.exe", "gpp.exe" or whatever (Up to this
    release of STLTask, the name was hard-wired to "CL.EXE").

    Status messages that used to refer to MSVC and CL.EXE are now worded more
    generically (and where it now says "CL.EXE", that string tracks the CL_EXE
    configuration parameter.)

    Now that the STLTask icon changes state in sync with STLFilt.BAT (or any
    other manual method of toggling the toggle file), context menu items 
    automatically come up enabled or disabled, tracking the current 
    installation and filtering status.

    The status window now displays the full pathname of the "active compiler".
    In case you choose to use STLTask with more than one platform (say,
    both MSVC and g++) at different times, the status window will remind you
    of which one you're controlling with STLTask. I have not implemented 
    simultaneous platform support for more than one proxy compiler, however.
    If someone actually wants to have two STLTasks running at the same time
    supporting different compilers, let me know (but I'm not making any 
    promises...)

    Instead of manually hard-wiring all the text positions in the status
    window, I now let wxWindows take care of positioning the text (this
    definitely made modifying the status window's text messages a whole 
    lot easier!)

2/11/2002 (STLTask v2.23)
    Settled on a state-based strategy for avoiding unnecessary SetIcon()
    calls in the timer service function. SetIcon() is now only called if
    the state of the toggle file is known to have changed. Since the original
    problem (described below) was happening intermittently, I can't tell
    for sure if all spurious "cannot set icon" dialogs have been truly avoided
    with this scheme, but I'm going to give it a shot. 

2/10/2002 (STLTask v2.22)
    More fallout from the Magically Changing Icons feature: under certain
    circumstances, most notably under Windows 2000 during session startup
    (but I've also seen it happen on Win98 during shutdown), numerous "Could
    not set icon" error dialogs could start spewing from the app. I "fixed"
    this, for the time being, by suppressing all such dialogs. Eventually,
    when I figure out how to tell when it is safe to use SetIcon and when
    it is not, I'll decide whether or not to bring the dialogs back.

2/6/2002
    Added a note in README-VC7.txt regarding the DLL that comes up missing
    if you run STLTask on a system that does not have VC6 installed.

1/31/2002 (STLTask v2.21)
    Fixed up some icon image issues.

1/29/2002 (STLTask v2.20)
    Thanks to Marco Welti, STLTask now indicates filtering status via two
    different taskbar icons: one when filtering is on, another when it is
    off (I had tried to do this a while back and gotten stuck; Marco found
    my bug and got it to work. I love this Open Source thing!). Since the
    icon gives visual feedback of filtering status, a dialog box no longer
    comes up just to indicate a change in filtering status. Now, the *really*
    cool part: if you toggle filtering status using STLFilt.BAT (or any 
    mechanism at *all* that renames the toggle file accordingly), the STLTask
    icon reflects the change automatically! (Timer code courtesy of Marco.)

11/1/2001 (STLTask v2.12)