Kinook Software Forum - Version 3.6a

Release on January 22, 2002

Added 'Build from Current Step' capability (accessed from the Project menu or Alt+F7).
Added asterisk (*) marker in title bar as indicator that project has been modified since last save.
Fix bug causing Visual Build to hang when the LOGFILE macro contained undefined macros.
Enhanced VSMake to create the executable target directory before building a VB project if it doesn't exist yet.
Added /targdir and /compatdir flags to VSMake to set the compiled executable path and the compatibility path to specific values before building (VB projects only).
Added /fveronly and /pveronly flags to VSMake to set or increment the fileversion or productversion values individually (normally, both fields are set or incremented) for VC projects.
Fixed bug preventing override of LOGFILE macro to take effect.
Fixed problem in VSMake where updating of references in dependent VBPs was written with decimal instead of hex version numbers.
Fixed bug causing GPF when performing a find if there was no current selection.
Added several macros for integrating with the Microsoft .NET Framework and/or Visual Studio.NET. Lookup '.NET' in the Visual Build help for details. Go to View|Options|Macros and click 'Reload Predefined Global Macros' to initialize the .NET global macros.
Added support for Windows XP themes.
Change VSMake to not point the binary compatible exe/dll to the project target exe/dll when /bincompat flag is used and the binary compatible exe/dll has already been set.
Fix bug in VSMake causing /getver to fail on VC projects if the VERSIONINFO resource wasn't in the first RC file in the project.
Improved handling of paths using slash (/) for separators instead of backslash (\).
Add LOGMSG system macro for logging messages to the build output.
Modify REG_READ macro parameters to require double quotes around values containing spaces to be consistent with the REG_WRITE macro. This could require changes to some existing projects (when passing parameters that contain spaces to REG_READ).
Remember the last opened project path and the last browsed step command/start in/file path in separate registry entries.
Fix duplicate keyboard mnemonics (Alt+X and Alt+W were used twice) on the step properties dialog.
Update help and create a sample to simplify setting up scheduled builds on Windows NT (see 'scheduling builds' in the help index and the NT.bld sample).
Improve truncation of long tooltips to prevent flashing of the tooltip window.
Don't allow changing the step selection while rebuilding selected steps.
Don't set up read pipes on child processes for steps set to read output from a file.
Enhance macro expansion to support nested parameterized macros.
Fix inconsistent paste behavior when no steps are selected but the focus rectangle is displayed.
Fix the /L option of the SSHELPER utility to work correctly.
Add help text for Windows keystroke (Ctrl+Enter) to insert newline characters into multi-line text controls (useful for including line breaks in step command values).