NewView

NewView is a program for viewing OS/2 or eComStation help files, which replaces IBM's original View program. NewView offers improvements such as a nicer user interface and more options.

NewView was developed by Aaron Lawrence.

At the end of 2005 Aaron decides to stop working on NewView. Therefore i start to take over the development. There is still a lot of work but the first things are done.

Screenshots

Discussion Group

newview2user@yahoo.com

Problem Reports & Source Repository

NewView@Netlabs

email

newview@rbri.org

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Version 2.19.4 bugfix release of NewView

Version 2.19.3 bugfix release of NewView

Version 2.19.1 bugfix release of NewView

Version 2.19 release (at the moment only english, french and german version)

Version 2.18.1

Changes

Changes

Version 2.19.4 updated (2008-09-01)

• Swedish translation added (Thanks to Björn Söderström)
• Fix: NewView is now able to open really large help files (e.g. jdk14corba.inf with 11921536bytes).
• Fix: In some situations the highlighting of the search results marks to many places in a topic.

Version 2.19.3 updated (2008-08-03)

• Support for 'Internet-Application-Integration' added.
  NewView is now able to start different applications for news, mail and ftp.
• Fix: More link fixes.
• Fix: Searching all drives works again.

Version 2.19.1 updated (2008-04-28)

• Fix: Broken link hanlding; NewView was unable to start a program or open the web browser.
• Fix: Detection of links pointing to a url was not working.

Version 2.19 updated (2007-06-22)

• french translation (gui and help file) added
• german help file added

Version 2.19 (2007-05-14)

• the display of a bubble help at some places of the left panel is removed
• the default of the option 'Show left panel for - Online help for applications' is changed to true.
• new toolbar icon added for toggling the left panel
• all toolbar icons replaced by now ones (copied form lucide)
  the order of the icons is changed
• some problems with various cml line options fixed
• global search in selected help path directories searches in all; fixed
• starting 'newview -lang:en' produces some problems with translations
  e.g. in the global search dialog; fixed (#16)
• some layout problems with the gloabal search dialog fixed (includes the fix for #15)
• New command line parser
  The command line syntax is changed.
  Samples:
    newview cmdref copy
    newview /s cmdref copy
    newview /s cmdref "net access"
    newview /g cmdref help
    newview /g help
• many fixes for links
• other small fixes (see trac)
• many changes for the debugging support
• There was a blank at the beginning of a paragraph after a graphic; fixed
• In some other situations there was a blank to much at the beginning of a paragraph; fixed
• Version numbering changed
• Menu entry 'Save as IPF' translated to german
• many refactoring changes to remove unused source and add as many unit tests as possible
  yes we have (356) unit tests! (at the moment manly for the command line)
• some backup files removed
• ACLCtl10.DLL, ACLCtl10.h, ACLCtl10.pas, ACLCtl10.zip removed form my local build \components directory
• Test.pas removed form my local build \components directory
• fix for unused vars in sibyl\addon\gradient.pas
• fix for unused vars in sibyl\addon\ScktComp.pas
• fix for missing bitmap cool1.bmp in components

Version 2.18.1 (2006-06-03)

• Tools - Save as IPF