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Changes in MUSH Formatter version 2.53

• The system tray popup menu is no longer displayed on a left-click. This solves some display problems with it.

• Significant speed enhancements when doing function and command checking (approx 50% faster).
• Open and Save dialog boxes now use new style in Windows 2000 and ME.
• Slight interface changes to the text preferences dialog.
• Format Style option added to the system tray popup menu.
• Command, function and comment lists are correctly reset when Cancel is clicked in the preferences dialog.
• Main form adjusted to work better with skins under Windows XP.

• Bug fix: Escaped brackets are no longer mistaken for function calls when formatting Pretty Code to MUSH Code.

• Customised command and function lists are preserved across re-installs and updates
• Bug fix: Blank entries in command and function lists are now removed and no longer cause GPFs
• New command-line option: /mush
• Program now remembers its minimized/maximized state correctly
• Bug fix: Brackets preceded by "%" or "\" are ignored correctly.
• Bug fix: GPF could occur when activating a previous instance.
• New formatting style, MUSH code to Pretty code does the reverse of code formatting. Code formatting, unformatting and text formatting now grouped under Formatting Styles.
• MUSH Formatter COM object exposes most of the program's functions, for both development and scripting environments.
• Support of the formatting report (line totals etc.) has been improved.
• Meta commands can now also be used in text formatting.
• Handling of the #include option has been vastly improved.
• Installing over an old version will no longer damage old command and function lists.
• New meta command: #version
• New #option: check_commands
• New #option: show_report
• New #option: report_warnings
• New #option: strip_comments
• Documentation: removed erroneous referrence to the metas_only #option.
• Brackets preceded by "%" or "\" are ignored during function checking and bracket matching
• #option report_meta changed to report_metas.
• Width of main window is now adjustable
• Bug fix: a line beginning with "(" is now handled correctly
• Bug fix: fixed a font leak in the Preferences dialog when running on Windows 95/98. This was due to an error in Borland's TTreeView component.

2.1-2.4

• Internal, unreleased versions.

2.0

• 1 Megabyte limit on clipboard text has been removed.
• File reading and writing changed to Streams - should improve performance somewhat.
• New %d substitution for output file template added - expands to the drive (%p no longer includes the drive.)
• Extended text-formatting abilities, adding support for any number of comment-out characters.
• Added meta-command support and extended the #-comment abilities.
• Input and output file inputs (and their dropdown lists) now optionally follow the current working directory.
• Input and output file inputs can optionally autocomplete, based on their dropdown lists.
• Support for a default search directory has been added.
• Improved drag-and-drop support.
• The /QUICK command-line option has been deprecated. Formatting now takes place automatically if some form of input (either a filename or the /clip option) is specified on the command-line.
• A new command-line option, /NOEXIT, has been added.
• Confirmation is required when formatting is cancelled mid-processing.
• The registry is now used to save options, instead of an .ini file.
• When running, the program can now be displayed on the Taskbar, in the System tray, or in both.
• System tray icon has a right-click activated popup-menu.
• Automatic update checking via WWW added.
• A few other cosmetic changes have been made.
• The 'Text Formatting' option has moved to the preferences box.

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