Version History

0.3.1.0

• Add help button to convert dialogs
• Make target name different from source name when convert is asked to "convert" to the same format as the source.
• Fix audio player and mmfind so they play MIDI files if TimidityMCD is installed
• "Keys" help now displays the CWMM keys help instead of the WPS keys help
• Remove copy create shawdow and move from popup menus in folder where they don't work

0.3.0GA

• Got CDDB working again
• Save debug/trap logs to LOGFILES
• Update Spanish, German and Russian tranlations
• Get all mediafldr_xx.inf file to build completely
• Change Freedb to CDDB.
• Cleanup some help menus
• Lxlite and add headers back to all executable files

0.3.0RC4

• Fixed file identify code so the internal audio player will play MIDI files
• Added a midiplayer INI key (ab.exe fails to play midis) also added to help
• Removed remaining code added to block using TimidityMCD
• Fixed an issue with duplicate "About" dialogs in the TW version of the media folder dialogs
• Removed Audio editor from MIDI Open as menu

0.3.0RC3

• Fixed the help file build so country, codepage and language are all picked up correctly
• Fixed failure of M3U list to save and close properly
• Added M3U and Media player specific help to their respective help menus
• Fixed the creation of the non-English mediafldr_xx.inf files

0.3.0RC2

• Removed the configuration program
• Added all available translations and fixed some codepage definition issues
• Changes so mov avi and jpeg file are all played by a modern video player found in the PATH.
• The mplayer in winos2 is no longer found when searching the path for mplayer.
• Mplayer vio window starts minimize and both Mplayer and ffplay close when video finishes.
• Updated mediafldr.inf to include new and missing ini entries under hidden features.
• Fixed the MMOS2.ini updating

0.3.0RC1

• Everything is now built with VAC 3.08
• Add commands to make files to build the RU media folder help
• Prevent CD tracks from being droped on launchpad and M3U lists Netlabs Ticket 19 (from Lars Erdmann)
• Fix 2 traps (from Lars Erdmann)
• Include all the language files in the package
• Add code to open modern video formats from MMOS2 using mplayer/smplayer or ffmpeg
• Added a program to configure the ini settings

0.2.9pre4 (9/28/23)

• Correctly fix memory leak in the mmfolder draw code (from Lars Erdmann) AN ticket 2756 NL ticket 22
• Remove stray @ in some About dialogs. AN Ticket 2947
• Update server in CDDB.ini to one the actually exists (from Dave Yeo) AN Ticket 3539
• Add a candidate CWMMConfig.exe to make it easier to update CWMM ini settings. AN Ticket 2944

0.2.9pre3 (9/21/23)

• Get CD Digital Audio working. Thanks Lars NL ticket 2 AN ticket 1991
• Support modern video formats (requires installing FFMPEG or Mplayer/SMplayer)
• Fixed memory leak in the mmfolder draw code AN ticket 2756 NL ticket 22
• Fixed time being appended to title instead of replacing the last line AN ticket 2696
• Got TimidityMCD working with CWMM

0.2.9pre2: (11.08.05)

• Close confirmation dialog of media folder will be dismissed automatically after 60s (use INI key to change)
• MM-find: app opens audio files in editor now (used to open default view and the folder)
• MM-find: video files are opened in player. No opening of the folder anymore
• MM-find: app loads NLV strings from resource DLL
• MM-find: query system for user added audio extensions for insertion into the search dialog
• MM-find: improved handling of image extensions
• MM-find: added to tasklist
• MM-find: added play controls for audio files
• MM-find: save last visited audio directory
• Helper apps (converter etc.) create their INI file in the users home directory now
• MMAudio class claimed to support *.wav extension while MMWAV should be the only one doing that (audioext.rx)
• MMVideo: associate extensions added by third party IO procs with it automatically (videoext.rx)
• MMVideo: defined type "Digital video"
• MMMPG: associate extensions added by OpenMPEG with it automatically (mpegext.rx)
• Improvements to the build process of the helper apps
• createcd.exe takes the name of created CD-folders from the resource DLL
• CWCDFolder: improved sorting (hope so, never saw problems on my system)
• CWCDFolder: No more hic up at start of track
• MM classes: fixed boot hangs because of endless loops in *.rx files under some circumstances

0.2.9pre1:

• Don't show a message box if resource DLL can't be found.
• Changed DLL finding algorithm. Should be more robust, when classes are improperly registered.
• New method cwmmRequestBmpDeletion() for WPS-wizard to trigger background BMP deletion.
• Help for audio stream class.
• Close confirmation dialog of media folder is now modal to the folder
• Audio information for shadows in media folders wasn't shown when linked object wasn't touched first.
• Mediafolder refresh triggers new time calculation.
• Stop menu item of audio stream objects didn't work.

0.2.8:

• Icon view removed for media folders.
• Icon view page removed for media folders. This removes it also from CD folders which never supported icon view anyway.
• Compact view improved.
• Track information in switch list and titles.
• Opening of Media folder wasn't possible when settings already open.
• Fixed a memory leak for image files.
• Fixed deadlock when copying image files in light table folders.
• Background bitmap deletion of image files to give memory back to the system.
• English distribution included german help file for the classes.
• Audio objects stopped playing after a second if not started from a folder.
• Workaround for WPS crash with Timidity. No, It's still not working with the classes.
• Fixed possible crash with abstract objects in light table folders.
• Fixed CD querying for LVM systems (not for dynamically attached USB drives yet).
• Audio file scanning now stops when folder is closed.
• No scanning for CD tracks.
• Video player didn't work at all.
• ID3 info for artist was overwritten with the album name when using setup strings.
• Trap when Quicktime for OS/2 was installed during scanning of MP3 files.
• Marking image files as invalid for the WPS when caused a trap.
• Only create thumbs when image is visible in container. Esp. useful when WPS-Wizard is installed.
• When first creating ID3 tags the genre was always set to 'blues'.
• CD objects are no longer created automatically. This will fix most lock ups people experienced.
• Slide show program for displaying the contents of one or more directories

0.2.7b:

• New creatobj.cmd.

0.2.7

• Renamed method cwmmAddWaveInformationPage() to cwmmAddAudioInformationPage().
• Added container handle to parameter list of methods cwmmPlayTrack() and cwmmPauseTrack()
• If several audio files in a folder are started at once they will be played consecutively.
• Image information in popup menu
• Added audio information for midi files in details view.
• Audioplayer playback always started with default volume setting (70%).
• Master volume item added to sys menu of audio player.
• Language now derived from LANG setting not the country code.
• URL of audio stream objects was truncated to 4 chars when reopening the settings.
• Audio-Stream objects lost their type after changing settings.
• Bitrate display for MP3 files if MMIOMP3 0.4.2 or above is installed.
• Bitrate display for OGG files if MMIOOGG 0.3.1 or above is installed.
• ID3 tag handling completely rewritten. Track information may be 256 bytes long per entry.
• ID3 tags are handled separately now.
• Volume for audio files adjustable now. Volume menu no longer starts master volume.
• Modified settings page handling for audio objects on CD
• Added INI key to disable audio file scanning for certain drives.
• Added INI key to disable ID3 tag reading for certain drives.

0.2.6

• Audio extensions added in the MM configuration notebook are recognized.
• createcd compiled with VAC
• helper progs statically linked.
• No template for CWMMDataFile.
• New FLAC class.
• New EA MMNUMAUDIOBYTES containing the number of audio bytes of the file.
• M3U playlist editor failed using M3U lists created by Rockbox.
• Play menu for M3U objects.
• Hilighting of play and pause buttons during device sharing corrected
• You can't start more than 3 audio files at a time now, preventing problems when a whole folder of audio objects was accidently selected.
• Support for converting to OGG-Vorbis. Any future write enabled audio IO-Proc will be automatically supported now.
• Default audio player replaced
• Opening of folders with image files is faster now
• Image spacing in lighttable folders improved
• Image converter dialog had german resources in the english language version (obviously nobody cared...).
• Preview in image converter
• PNG files are recognized as image files. Automatic support of future image IO procs.
• PNG image class
• Only one INI file for MM class helpers.

0.2.5

Media folder:

• Popup menu on time control for changing display
• New playlist editor
• Shadows for fly over help

MMClasses:

• DLLs needed by specified players or editors weren't found if not in LIBPATH.
• You may specify a different mp3 player
• Fixed wrong icon size for standard classes in details view of light table folders.
• Added support for animated folder icons in lightable folder
• Templates were not drawn in light table folders icon view
• Pause function for audio files
• Fixed asscociations for image files.
• Fixed image conversion.
• Renamed REXX functions. The old names are still working but shouldn't be used longer.
• Added new REXX function cwmmQueryImageInfo()
• Added method cwmmQueryImageInfo().
• ID3 tags of MP3 files weren't set when using setup strings. Only EAs were updated.
• No more garbled characters with some players when reading the ID3 tags.
• Black and white images are properly drawn in lightable folders

JPEG IO procedure

• Procedure now accepts 8 bit input images.