Release history

FrontPage MenuPlus Components Release history

Release History

V3.6はFrontPage 2003が必要です。FP2002/2000ではインストールできません

V3.6	Changes to installation to support FrontPage 2003 and future versions. Installation support for FrontPage 98 and earlier versions removed. Some problems with Registry access fixed.
V3.52	Changed the way MenuPlus detects the Home page. This fixes a problem with some webs.
V3.5	Fixed a problem causing the server to hang and lock up when publishing a web.
V3.4	Fixed crash which occurred in some configurations. Believed to be only when using FrontPage 2002. For the technically minded: If you look at the HTML generated by a component, you will see the component parameters in a comment preceding the output. There were two problems: (1) The method of reading these parameters when expanding components caused the crash, only seen in FP2002. (2) The "style" parameter name appears to have been taken over as a reserved word in FP2002, which meant that the component style could not be changed after initial insertion. The name has been changed to "mpstyle" and will be updated automatically the next time the component is expanded (on page save, or recalculate hyperlinks).
V3.3	Technical release only (packaging changes).
V3.2	Components New features 1. Added font control options for the Navigation Bar. The font face, color and size can now be set easily from a new Font tab on the properties dialog. 2. Added color selection to the existing Font tab on the Table of Contents properties dialog. A color setting other than default causes links to be displayed in the specified color, overriding default behavior. Fixes 1. Problem running on FrontPage 2002 when (Microsoft) Link Bars are included in the web. 2. Corruption of Navigation Bar preview when comments were embedded (such as when a substitution component has not been substituted). 3. The setting 'Apply to Parents' in Navigation Bar did not work in all cases. 4. Component error when file names or folders contain special characters. 5. Major changes to process the different Japanese character set encodings correctly. Install/Uninstall 1. Updated preset styles with additional defaults. 2. Fixed Uninstall for Server-only installations. 3. Added logging to Uninstall. Style Manager The changes made in this release mean that you can now fully back up and restore Navigation Bar styles and Link styles that you have created. Earlier versions only saved partial information. 1. Added save/restore and new view dialog for Link Styles. 2. Added new items to save/restore (fonts etc.). Also some existing items that were previously omitted. 3. Disabled trace left on in earlier versions. This would have resulted in a trace file being generated each time the Style Manager was run. Help Updated for new and changed items.
V3.1	(This version was not generally released. Changes are shown under V3.2)
V3.0	Components Registration for server-only installations has been fixed. Install / Uninstall Changes to support FrontPage 2002. Style Manager No changes Help References to FrontPage 2002 added.
V2.6	Components Table of Contents Added an option to allow line breaks. Normally, long lines (such as those including description text) do not wrap, but instead cause a horizontal scroll bar to appear. Wrapping could occur in a narrow border and can have an undesirable effect on the appearance of the table. [Japanese users have requested the line break feature]. Navigation Bar Saved styles now include link style information. The link style information determines how a link is displayed (colour and display attributes) when, for example, the mouse hovers over a link or a link has been visited. Previously this information was not saved together with other style information in named styles. Both components 1. Fixed a bug which caused bookmarks on non-navigable pages to be displayed (introduced in V2.5). 2. Added an option to open External Links in a new window. You would use this if you want to keep your own site on the screen in its original window while the user visits the external site. 3. Added an option to display the target page for any link in the full window. You would typically use this to break out of a frame in a framed page. Style Manager Style Manager updated to handle the new target options. Help Help has been updated to include the new options.
V2.5	Components 　 1. Style strings for the Navigation Bar were restricted to 127 characters in length. If any string was longer, it was replaced with an empty string when the component was generated. This length restriction has now been removed. 2. MenuPlus Navigation Bars can now be inserted in pages which are themselves excluded from navigation bars ('Included in Navigation Bars' is unchecked in the page's right-click menu in Navigation View). Previously this gave an error. The page must still, however, be present in Navigation View (it will be greyed out). 3. Registry access improved and some redundant registry reads avoided. Install / Uninstall 1. Further fixes for server-only installation. 2. Fixes for registry access. 3. Better clean-up when installation fails due to insufficient user privilege. 4. Start Menu links are now placed in the "All Users" section and not just the current user's. This means that when installing as Administrator, the links appear on all users' Start Menus. Style Manager 1. Length restriction of 127 characters when viewing registry styles removed. 2. Fixes for registry access.

V2.4

Components
Added customised display of links. Colour and text decoration can now be specified for Unvisited and Visited links (any browser), for the Active link (Internet Explorer only) and for a link when the mouse is positioned over it (Internet Explorer only).

Colour selection for Table of Contents borders and background has been extended from the 16 standard colours to the full set of defined web colours.

Other minor fixes.

Install program
Several problems with the Install program have been fixed. The components can now be installed on a server where there is no installation of the FrontPage client software and installation is automatic for both client and server. A problem with setting up the Registry correctly for server installations has been fixed, so that components are expanded on Windows NT and Windows 2000 servers.

V2.32

Fix for corrupted external links in both Navigation Bar and Table of Contents when the component is on a page in a sub-folder of the web.
Version number now displayed on properties dialogs.

V2.31

Minor change to Install program only. Uses alternate path for log file if preferred path cannot be found.

V2.3

This release contains the following enhancements and bug fixes:

Performance
Bookmark processing is compute-intensive. This was being done for all components, regardless of whether bookmarks were required or not. This meant that when a component in a border was changed (causing all pages containing the border to be saved) or many pages in a large web were saved (such as when recalculating hyperlinks) an excessive time was being taken. Now bookmark processing is only done for those components that actually require them.

Operation on Server
When the components were installed on a server, they could cause the server to lock up in certain circumstances.

Table of Contents
1. In some cases the theme applied to a page was not recognised correctly, causing incorrect output.

2. On the Bookmarks tab, the selection "Show bookmarks instead of children" was changed to "Show bookmarks as well as children" (and vice versa) on exiting the dialog.

Navigation Bar
1. When the parent of the current page is also the Home page, duplicate output could occur.

2. If a custom style is saved more than once with the same name, the entry was duplicated in the drop-down box.

Install program
1. If Web Server Extensions are installed, the components may optionally be installed on the local server as well.

2. The Readme file is now displayed by default when the installation is complete.

3. The installation log file is now written by default.

V2.2

A new mini-application (MenuPlus Style Manager) is included which allows custom styles created using the MenuPlus Navigation Bar to be backed up from the registry to a text file. As well as providing backup, this also allows custom styles to be shared between users. This is particularly useful when two or more users are co-operating on the same web.

Timestamps have been added to styles saved in Registry to allow synchronisation with backup/restore using Style Manager.

Fixes a Navigation Bar problem. When Top Level hyperlinks are chosen and current page is at top level, only the current page was shown instead of the whole level.

This Readme file converted to HTML format for easier navigation and direct linking to our web site and email support.

V2.1

Links have been added to the Start Menu. These give easy access to MenuPlus Help and Readme files and also to the Uninstall program.

Fixes a problem when a page title includes a comma. This caused component errors.

New "Block 2" fixed style for Navigation Bars.

Error reporting has been enhanced to give more information if a component has a problem.

Fix for logging: the Install log file (if requested) was placed in a temporary folder which was deleted by WinZip Self-Extractor on completion of installation. This was not particularly useful! The log file now goes to the Windows temporary folder and Install displays its location on completion.

A separate Uninstall program is now provided.

V2.0

More bookmark features for Table of Contents:

Can now choose whether to include or exclude children of page when displaying bookmarks.
Can choose between display of selected bookmark text or bookmark name (uses name if no text, i.e. bookmark just inserted at cursor).

Table of Contents properties editor layout changed to use tabbed sections. This removes clutter from the dialog and removes the secondary dialog for advanced functions (now incorporated on tabs on main dialog).

Table of Contents bullets for some themes were oversized. This has now been fixed.

The Install program now uses the Registry instead of searching hard disks for installed files. This makes the process more robust and significantly reduces installation time.

V1.32

Fix for bookmarks - name was being converted to lower case.
Install program fix - remove function was not removing .gid and .fts help files.

V1.31

Technical upgrade:
Repackaged as self-extracting archive.
Makes file names 8.3 compliant.
Adds optional logging to the installation procedure.

V1.3

Added advanced functions to Table of Contents.
Improved display of bookmarks to use text rather than bookmark name.
Added support for external links defined in Navigation View (FP2000 only).
Fix for pages set non-navigable in Navigation View (FP2000 only).
Re-instated fix for Table of Contents sometimes not displaying theme bullets.
Fix for problem in Installation program (caused some installations to fail).

V1.2

Re-packaged as single image requiring key to register.
Somehow managed to lose theme bullets fix.

V1.1

Changes to support FrontPage 2000.
Initial fix for Table of Contents not displaying theme bullets.

V1.0

Initial release for FrontPage 98. Packaged as two images: a trial version and a full version.