VisitURL: Release history
VisitURL was originally released on April 1, 1998.
This program is no longer developed. There are too many bookmark managers, freeware and shareware, for me to continue the development. Instead, I will concentrate on other programs.
30 November
- Updated web site URLs and contact info in documentation. (The website is gradually moving to a new domain at www.tranglos.com.)
4 June 2002:
- Fixed a bug which prevented VisitURL from launching URLs in browser if the column order was reversed, i.e. if the URL description was shown in the first column.
- Version number is now 1.73
22 December August 2000:
- Minor fixes; the program will no longer ask for confirmation when exiting while being closed by Windows (if the Confirm Exit option is ON); The warning about failure to assign hotkey can now be turned OFF in the INI file (set "HotKeyWarn" to 0).
- Version number is now 1.72
21 August 2000:
- Minor bug fix.
- Version number is now 1.70
15 July 2000:
- Version 1.66 had a major bug that would sometimes corrupt the data file. Fixed.
- Version number is now 1.67
15 July 2000:
- Added hotkey activation feature: VisitURL can be activated
with a keypress and brought to front when it's minimized to
the tray icon. Default hotkey is Shift+Ctrl+F9. It may be
changed by editing the "Hotkey=<KEY>" line in the INI file.
In the Options dialog box, the hotkey activation fature may
be turned ON or OFF. (It is ON by default.)
- Changed the Visit file setting in Options to behave in a more
logical manner. You can now choose what Visit should to at
startup: (a) open the file that was last opened when the
program was used, or (b) always open the same file, whose name
you specify.
- The Most Recently Used file list was always displayed as a submenu
off the File menu. Now the MRU files can also be displayed in
the main File menu (configurable in the Options dialog box).
- Version number is now 1.66
4 June 2000:
- Added option to minimize Visit when launching an URL
- Version number is now 1.64
23 May 2000:
- Last added URL is now automatically selected in the listview
(except when many URLs are added at one time)
- Alt+Enter will always execute the "Edit URL" function, regardless
of which function the Enter key itself is assigned in Options.
- Fixed bug in InjectURL, where editing the HTML document title
had no effect on the "Title as Filename" option (the original
document title was always used even if it was manually edited).
- Version number is now 1.63
17 April 2000:
- URLs can now be dragged from MS Internet Explorer or Netscape
Navigator and dropped on the main program window.
- Version number is now 1.62 (this release was not made public)
12 April 2000:
- Fixed problem where injecting URLs into certain HTML documents
would sometimes cut off part of the document.
- "make backup" checkbox in InjectURL dialog box is never disabled
any more
- "Open file" dialog boxes which browse for HTML-type files now
also list files with '.asp' and '.php' extensions, since many
WWW documents are saved as these file types.
- Version number is now 1.61 (this release was not made public)
11 March 2000:
- Minor fixes
- Version number is now 1.60 (this release was not made public)
20 November 1999:
- Lots of minor fixes in program and setup routine. A few typos corrected, toolti hints added.
- Version number is now 1.58
4 November 1999:
- Fixed a bug where Visit could not process a file whose names contained embedded spaces. Thanks to Szilvia Nagy for spotting the problem!
- Version number is now 1.56
23 October 1999:
- Fixed a horrendous bug introduced in previous release. When adding multiple URLs, the program would run into an infinite loop - essentially freeze and need to be killed by Ctrl+Alt+Del. <FACE COLOR="#FF0000">!
- Version number is now 1.55
18 October 1999:
- Improved handling of duplicate URLs. When adding single URLs, Visit will now allow you to replace the already existing URL with the newly added one, if the URL is the same but the new description is different. This can be performed automatically, or you can choose to be prompted before replacing. (This function does not yet work when adding multiple URLs.)
- Version number is now 1.54
14 October 1999:
- Fixed error where the "No Duplicates" option was ignored when adding URLs from browser. (Thanks to Dennis Lemon, again, for spotting this.)
- Added MRU (most recently used) file list to the File menu. (Uses Brad Stowers' MRUFileList component, see http://www.delphifreestuff.com.)
- Rearranged controls in Options dialog box (looks cleaner now)
- Version number is now 1.52
5 October 1999:
- Filtering capability: Try the "Find all" command in the "Find" dialog box. (Choose "View->Clear filter" to restore ful, unfiltered listing.) Thanks to Dennis Lemon for suggestiong this feature.
- Minor bug fixes (program should re-minimize itself properly after it has prompted you for URL description)
- Minor enhancement to templates: the __LINK__ token definition can now span multiple lines
- Version number is now 1.51 (Mmm... I should probably add "beta")
19 September 1999:
- Big change: You can now use a TEMPLATE to build the output HTML file! This is in addition to the already-available HTML-formatting options (Ordered list, Unordered list Table, etc). In the "HTML" tab, you can now choose "Template" in the "Display format" drop- down list (previously these were radio buttons). You should also set the template filename in the "Template file" edit box. The template allows you to format the HTML document in any way you please; you are no longer limited by the clunky one-line strings in the Visit options. A simple default template ("TEMPLATE.TPL") is provided with the program to illustrate various possibilities. See file "TEMPLATE.TXT" for a list of all tokens currently supported.
- Minor change: Previously the program never prompted for URL description when URLs were automatically captured from clipboard. (Rationale: There may be more than one URL in clipboard data. Users will be annoyed if the program prompts them 20 times in a row.) There is now an additional option ("URLs" tab, prompt "...in capture mode") that allows such prompting to be turned on. Note that even with this option checked, Visit will only prompt if it cannot find the description automatically, which usually means when only the URL was copied to clipboard.
- Version number is now 1.4
15 September 1999:
- Minor fixes to file saving and loading routines, further safeguards against clobbering the data file in case of an unexpected error. In particular:
- URL file will NOT be saved if the list is empty. In the past, if there was an error loading the file, the list came up empty. If the file was then saved (manually or automatically), it overwrote the original, good file, and you could lose all URLs stored there.
- It should be now safe to Inject URL into a Unix-type text file (i.e. a file with lines are terminated with the #10 character, instead of the DOS-style #13#10 sequence.
- Added the "Misc" tab to the Options dialog box:
- You can set the characters considered valid for a filename (used when auto-renaming HTML files). Note: All printable characters can be used, except for SPACE. The string MUST contain the underscore ("_") character. If it is missing, it will be automatically added to the string.
- You can also specify the characters used for HTML "delimiters", i.e. those that CANNOT be part of a URL. Note: you can only specify PRINTABLE characters there. Visit always considers certain non-printable characters (CR, LF, TAB) and the SPACE as URL delimiters. This cannot be changed, nor would it make sense to. Also note that the characters '#' and '?' (hash and question mark) CANNOT be considered delimiters. If used, they will be automatically removed. Instead, use the "Clip past hash mark" and "Clip CGI strings" options.
- Version number is now 1.3
3 September 1999:
- Changed icons again.
- Forced sorting if the "Keep URLs sorted" option is set. (TExtListView ought to auto-resort, but it doesn't, so we tell it to.)
- The main toolbar can now be hidden
- Minor changes in the routine that saves data file to disk to make it safer in case of a problem.
- Version number is now 1.28
31 August 1999:
- Changed the URL-scheme icons (which were originally selected more or less at random from various system DLLs) to a much nicer set provided by MrC.VxR (derived in part from KDE icon set). Thanks, Marco!
- Fixed a serious bug that could in come situations cause Access Violation error. Oops.
- Important change: If Visit is configured to look for URL description and to prompt if none found, it pops up a dialog box that lets the user add their own description text. Originally, clicking Cancel in this dialog box would only cause the description not to be added, while the URL itself was still added. (Yes, even if the user clicked Cancel! This was done on purpose.) I decided that this behavior was not logical and now clicking Cancel in that dialog box will abort adding the URL.
- Version number is now 1.27
25 August 1999:
- Another fix to the sorting routine: the list should now be saved the way it was last sorted when you clicked on one of the column headers. Note that the list is not saved immediately after a sort, but only when an URL is added, edited or removed, or when you exit the program (provided that AutoSave is ON). This is done on purpose, so that you can return to the state of the list before you sorted it. Otherwise there would be no way to undo the sort.
- The Save button and menu option are no longer disabled when AutoSave option in ON. This means you can save the file at any time, even if the list of URLs has not been modified. The disabled button was really used as an indicator of the AutoSave state. Now, if AutoSave is on, the text 'auto' is displayed in the second panel of the StatusBar. As before, the text 'MOD' is displayed there if AutoSave is OFF and the list has been modified (incl. by sorting).
- The description panel can now be hidden: click the View|Description panel menu option. You can also hide the description panel by right-clicking it with the mouse and clicking the Hide option. (Thanks to MaRcO for the suggestion.)
- Program hints are now displayed in the last (fourth) StatusBar panel. This should help make them visible in full, since you can resize the program window if the hint text dooes not fit.
- The name of the current file is now displayed in the third StatusBar panel. Because the panel is relatively short and non-resizeable, only the file name is displayed, without the path. However, when you position the mouse over the StatusBar, the full path and filename are displayed in the hint area.
- You can now double-click the description panel to edit the selected URL.
- A hint has been added to indicate what action is performed when you double-click an URL in the main list. (The action is configurable in the Options dialog box, Interface tab, as always.)
- Version number is now 1.26
23 August 1999:
- In InjectURL function, improved the routine deriving local filename from URL, making it behave more like Netscape does (to increase correct guesses) and work properly with URLs that contain only path and no filename.
- Version number is now 1.25
5 August 1999:
- In addition to ordered list and table, you can have the URLs saved as an unordered (bulleted) list, or as a simple paragraph of text, i.e. the links follow each other immediately instead of being broken into separate lines. The page is less legible that way, but more links fit on screen. (Note: for the bulleted list, you can't choose the type of bullet, i.e. circle, square, etc. - for the simple reason that there's no space left in that dialog box, and it will take some time to redesign it to make room for the additional option... (Thanks to Rafael for the suggestion.)
- BUGFIX: Sorting URLs is now immediately reflected in the HTML file, i.e. autosave does recognize that the file has changed and needs to be saved.
- BUGFIX: When a new .VIS file was opened, the description pane erroneously displayed the description for the selected item in the previously-loaded file. The description is now correctly updated.
- The "open" and "save" dialog boxes now only allow you to specify a file with the .VIS extension. I hope this makes sense, since this is the only type of file that Visit saves and loads. (For other file formats, see the Export and Import functions, as before.)
1 August 1999:
- The InsertURL dialog box now has a function that captures URL and page title from currently running browser (Netscape or Internet Explorer). A minor bug in the InsertURL dialog was fixed.
28 July 1999:
- Added option to the Find dialog to always search the entire scope of the URL list, i.e. start searching from the top, rather than from the current cursor position. Also added the currently selected URL number to the description pane. (Thanks to Dennis Lemon for the suggestions.)
8 July 1999:
- Added option to strip HTML codes from URL description strings when adding automatically from clipboard.
- Added option to set minimum description length. When a description added automatically from clipboard is shorter than the preset value, it will be discarded.
25 June 1999:
- Version 1.23 released. Various fixes; two optional functions added to the Inject URL feature:
- automatically remove the URL that has been successfully injected into a file. The prompt before delete setting is honored.
- try to guess the name of local file name based on the filename part of the URL to be injected. Works out the filename similarly to the way Netscape Navigator does when saving Web documents to disk. Assumes the 'html' extension if the URL contains none. Replaces spaces in filename with underscores. If a file with a matching name is found, it is automatically inserted for you in the 'filename' edit box. Most of the time you just click 'OK', no need to manually select or enter the filename.
- Made some error messages more informative. You are now correctly notified if a URL was not added from clipboard becaause an identical URL already exists in the list. (Previously, this triggered the Could not find URL in clipboard data message, which was confusing.)
1 April 1999:
- Fixed the problem where bookmarks added from browser had their URL and description fields reversed.
- Improved a little the logic of finding and adding URL descripions when multiple URLs are added at one time (Ctrl-U)
24 March 1999:
- Added a function to add URL from currently running browser (Choose "URL->Get from browser"). This will only work with Netscape Navigator or MS Internet Explorer.
- Added a 'Setup' item to the 'Help' menu. This can be used to help install or uninstall the program, in place of a fully-fledged InstallShield (which bloats up the distribution package to over a megabyte). The setup creates or removes file associations, registry entries and Start menu links.
- Removed a bug where the dialog boxes and messages may have been unreadable if the Verdana font was not installed. All dialogs now use the default font (typically MS Sans Serif), with Verdana font optional.
- Added ability to export to a delimited file (.CSV, you can specify the delimiter to be used) and to Netscape Navigator's bookmark file (the list of URLs is added as a separate folder).
- Added ability to import Internet Explorer 'favorites' (i.e. so-called Internet Shortcuts).
