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History

Now something about the program history. You don't have to read this ;-).

CD2HTML v4.3

Improvements:

  • Better Language support (easy and flexible way to translate)
  • Improved PNG support
  • Sorting by filename, -size and -date (ascending/descending)
  • Option to switch off the search for a program update
  • Tags inside the included file (included with <%include file%>) will now be parsed (so you can write tags in the include file)
  • Switch to prevent the program from zooming small images and icons to fit into the thumbnail
  • The converting of spaces to "%20" can now be switched off (caused some problems when opening links with external programs)
  • Progressbar and other improvements in status window
  • Improved help (tips and tricks section)

Removed bugs:

  • Solving problem with <%include%> tag
  • Stopping the creation of HTML files is now possible too

CD2HTML v4.2.1

Improvements:

  • New status window which gives more information when scanning and saving files

Removed bugs:

  • CD2HTML v4.2 was wastimg masses of system memory because of too many open file handles and too many open bitmap handles. This could cause a 'out of systems ressources' message. This bug is now solved.

CD2HTML v4.2

Improvements:

  • Tiff and Windows Bitmap support (Tiff except Fax CCITT3 and Huffman coding). Thumbnails for both types will be created as PNG images.
  • Possibility so switch between a fast and a correct method of resampling thumbnails. The correct method creates thumbnails with a much higher quality
  • New tags: <%url%> (URL as text inside an *.url file), <%is_dir display_text%>, <%is_file display_text%>, <%dircountabs%>, <%dircount%>, <%itemscountabs%> and <%itemscount%>
  • Changed tags <%filecountabs%>, <%filecount%> (they will now counts only files and not files and directories)
  • Improved <%onliner%> tag containing also information about MP3s and Pictures
  • Nearly complete recoded part of creating HTML files (increased speed and improved stability)
  • Improved Options -> Image dialog
  • The error log errors.txt can now be opened from options dialog
  • Automatic informations about new program releases via Internet
  • JPEG exceptions can now also be logged
  • Tips and tricks area in program help
  • Statusbar shows the files found or the update progress of the listview (because if you had a large amount of files the update progress for the listview could take a while and some users thought the program hangs)
  • Some new templates and template improvements
  • Test for IE ActiveX control

Removed bugs:

  • Changing some jewel case parameters could make the program deleting all files in its directory
  • Thumbnail problem with spaces in its filename solved
  • <%linkparent%> returned always lowercase letters for the parameter display_text
  • <%linkparent%> returned always absolute filenames and not relative ones
  • Problem with invalid descript.ion's solved (e.g. zero bytes long)
  • Problem raising an exception when trying to analyze an HTML file with unicode name is fixed (but unicode filenames are still not supported)

CD2HTML v4.1

  • Install/unistall feature
  • Including a german documentation in addition to the english documentation (german users will automatically see the german help, all others the english one), I have also improved the documentation
  • In some circumstances it could happen that you get an exception while deleting an item from the listview. This bug is hopefully solved
  • It could happen that CD2HTML deletes all files inside its directory after saving a preset under another name and restarting CD2HTML
  • Improved real time help for each option
  • Better support for menu shortcuts (also shortcut support for presets)
  • Redesigned and improved menu
  • Problems of wrong relative HTML paths removed if you trying to make an index rooted at the root of a partition (e.g. generating an index for drive 'd:' created links like '../d:/directory/filename' instead 'directory/filename')
  • Wrong duration for MP3 files smaller than 1 minute fixed (e.g. 12min instead 00:12 min)
  • Option to set the title automatically to the name of the scanned directory
  • Some corrections in various translations
  • Better restoring of the main windows state (maximized, width, height)
  • Notepad.exe as standard editor for HTML templates (set automatically)
  • Splash screen

CD2HTML v4.0

  • CD2HTML is now shareware
  • Full PNG support
  • Tags are now marked by <% ... %> instead of <$ ... $> because the HTML Validator by AI Internet Solutions ignores text in <% ... %>. This makes a sense because server side scripts for Microsoft IIS and PHP blocks are using the same syntax. So, if you want to use old templates you have to replace all <$ with <% and all $> with %>.
  • The tags <%thispage%> and <%pages%> return the current page and the total number of pages for mode with limited entries per page (e.g. 'this is page <%thispage%> of <%pages%> pages total').
  • Drag and Drop of directories from the Windows Explorer
  • The <%picturepath%> tag creates a thumbnail and gives you simply the thumbnail path back. So you can create your own <img src="<%picturepath%>" ...> directives.
  • New <%dltime56k%> and <%dltime2m%> tags
  • Some new fresh templates
  • The JPEG reading scale is now automatically set to the optimal value regarding the reading performance and image quality
  • The thumbnail background is now changeable
  • <%picture%> and <%picturelink%> supporting optional parameters for the picture resolution (overwriting the defaults). Syntax: <%picturelink widthxheight%>, <%picture widthxheight%>
  • New <%oddeven odd="..." even="..."%> tag, which results the corresponding text (odd="..." for an odd output line or even="..." for an even output line) as result (Example <td bgcolor="<%oddeven odd="#ffffff" even="#eeeeee"%>">...</td>).
  • The section separations in HTML templates are now like <!---HEADLINES---> instead of <$---HEADLINES---$>. This makes it easier to work on templates with external HTML editors.
  • <%filepath%> gives the relative file path. Now you can create your own link code (e.g. <a href="<%filepath%> target="sample_frame"><%name%></a>)
  • <%picture%> has now the attribute border=0
  • Use of external templates
  • Internal preview of the resulted HTML (using the Internet Explorer OCX)
  • Possibility to log all error messages to a file (errors.txt in the cd2HTML directory).
  • <%filecount%> gives the files/directories inside the actual HTML file and <%filecountabs%> gives the absolute files/directories.
  • New tag for linking back to the parent HTML file <%linkparent display_text%>. If you have multiple HTML files created, this tag helps you to link back from one HTML file to the parent HTML file. Alternatively you can get the path only by using the <%parentpath%> tag.
  • Support for IE bookmarks (*.url files)
  • Improved speed by avoiding double counting of directory sizes and using of faster number types (Int64 instead Comp)
  • Now restoring the last working dir
  • New: <%prevnextsimple%> (only <-prev|next->, without 1|2|3 ...) and some improvements in <%prevnextlist%> (if you had only one pic per page, the program created always one page more than necessary)
  • The HTML code for the prev/next list will now be saved

CD2HTML v3.4.2

  • Sorting the treeview
  • Searching for <filename>.ext didn't work
  • Bug from the last version removed, were files from the list could be only removed with the <DEL> key
  • Now handles MP3 files with a bad bitrate index. In this case the song duration is set to zero
  • Some partial translations

CD2HTML v3.4.1

  • "Index List out of Bounds (0)" problem when editing descriptions for HTML files solved (were descriptions can be read but not written yet)
  • 0x0 Pixel thumbnails for programs and directories solved
  • Language settings can be canceled if you changed the preset after changing the language
  • Some option changes were available after a restart
  • New format of text indexes (supports more than two levels)
  • HTML link problem when saving multiple HTML files with only one subdirectory in the search
  • <BR> at the end of empty online descriptions removed
  • Filename.ext wasn't supported at the last version
  • Some small layout changes in the options dialog (HTML I, HTML II)
  • Path Tag doesn't show the correct path. Only a pice of a file's name is shown in Preview Mode. In final mode it shows the HTML file path instead of data file path.
  • Deletion of items caused caused system error
  • Endless loop removed if the program finds an archive but not the corresponding archiver
  • Removing of ANSI graphics didn't work
  • Problem writing files.bbs's has fixed. Please notice the following facts:
    • The filename for a files.bbs will be always 'files.bbs', it doesn't matter which filename you choose
    • The files.bbs contains only the file descriptions for the root path (if you wish to save them recursively, so feel free to send me an email)
    • Files.bbs can be also written for images and MP3's, for images the following informations will be written:

      Imagetype (x-res x y-res x colors)

      for MP3's the written infos will be:

      Artist - SongName (Album, Year)
      Comment (if any)
      BitRate kbps MPEG Version Layer (MPEG mode, SampleRate Hz)
      Duration sec / Duration min

  • Textformat for saving changed

CD2HTML v3.3

  • New look and feel because of using a tree view and a list view like the Windows Explorer. This causes also many internal changes and improvements and also the handling is easier.
  • Now for creating HTML files there is also a depth farther than two levels possible (which was often wished). The maximum depth now is 99, which is limited by the file systems path length.
  • Exclude lists for files and directories. So you can exclude e.g. the thumbnail directory or description files from the search (they will be only not listed, but further used as description).
  • Support for the hispanic and polish language (there are now 9 languages supported).
  • Full support for MP3 files. Not only the ID3 tag is supported, now there are all MP3 informations available (like song duration, encoding, bitrate ...). The corresponding HTML tags are <$MP3original$>, <$MP3copyright$>, <$MP3samplerate$>, <$MP3durationmin$>, <$MP3durationsec$>, <$MP3mode$>, <$MP3layer$>, <$MP3version$> and <$MP3bitrate$>.
  • File descriptions for unknown file types will be written in a files.bbs if the file had no description yet. Write me if you have better ideas. Picture descriptions will be written in descript.ion's (so they are compatible to ACDSee) and directory informations in file_id.diz's.
  • Sometimes the thumbnails in HTML files were shown in a wrong size, this bug is now fixed.
  • Wrong file sizes greater 2 GB solved (now cd2HTML supports sizes up to 2^64 = 9.223.372.036.854.775.807 Bytes)
  • If you run cd2HTML from the Windows temp path, all cd2HTML files (except cd2HTML.exe) were deleted (because [WINTEMP]\cd2HTML\ was also the temp path for cd2HTML which is always cleaned up when closing cd2HTML). This problem is likely to have been solved (the temp path for cd2HTML is now [WINTEMP]\cd2HTML~.tmp\, e.g. c:\windows\temp\cd2HTML~.tmp\).
  • <$root$> tag, which gives the name of the top directory in the search (the search root). It's a good replacement of the <$title$> tag.
  • The state images (the small images beside the list item captions) now shows if a description is available or not
  • I have removed the command-line options for sorting, because only one searchmode makes a sense which is now hard-coded. Also column-clicks doesn't change the alphabetical order out of the same reason.
  • Improved edit item dialog. Now you only see what you need, nothing else (which confusing sometimes).
  • In most cases the <$prevnextlist$> tag leaves the last page number off. This bug is fixed.
  • The prev|next buttons in EditHeadline will be now disabled at the beginning|end of the list.
  • The <$piccomment$> tag always passed the second line of a picture description.
  • "OLE-String impossible to read" problem in directory browser solved (Win2000, WinNT)

CD2HTML v3.2

  • massive internal changes, so the program is much more stable (even with more than ten thousand files to scan), also the WinNT error message: "No More Internal File Identifiers Available" shouldn't be seen any more
  • CD2HTML's own file format (.c2h) is now more 'stable' (but incompatible to the previous version). If you create simple HTML files (without thumbnails or icons) you don't need the described files anymore; all informations (without pictures) are now contained in the .c2h files.
  • descriptions will now also be find for documents in the search root and they can be used also in the <$---tableheader---$> section
  • new help file
  • slightly improved HTML presets (more will follow)
  • naming of files in 'limited files per page' and 'multifile' mode has improved (e.g. for the first mode the files will be named file_01.htm, file_02.htm instead of file1.htm, file2.htm, in the multifile mode the files get names like system.htm for the directory named system)
  • a IE5 bug is passed round by changing the HTML header (if a picture is viewed out of a HTML document and you press the back button, the IE5 showed the directory list instead of returning to the HTML file)
  • detection by file header for JPEG, GIF, bmp
  • wrong size information for interlaced GIF files has been solved
  • problem with the same thumbnail for pictures with an identical filename but different paths solved
  • the program handles UNC paths (network paths) like \\computername\directory
  • on some older Win95/NT systems the buttons in the print preview were invisible
  • if the description text for an image was changed, the bbs/file_id was refreshed, but not the StringList inside the program
  • thumbnail path and name prefix are now changeable
  • border and background for thumbnails can be switched off
  • OEM (DOS) conversion for 'descript.ion' and 'files.bbs' can be switched off
  • file attributes for 'descript.ion' and 'files.bbs' can be switched to 'hidden'
  • sometimes it could happen, that the thumbnails in HTML files are always shown (not saved) in 150x150 pixels
  • the first line of a description (files.bbs, descript.ion or added by hand in cd2HTML) will now be used as ALT tag to describe an image (<$dpiclink$>, <$picture$> and <$picturelink$>) inside a HTML document (if no description is available, the filename of the image will be used)
  • the directory sizes were sometimes wrong (if you just searched for some filetypes, but there were also other filetypes in the given directory; CD2HTML added always the size of all files in a dir)

CD2HTML v3.1

  • the were still some problems regarding to relative paths (major bug)
  • exclude files smaller than a certain size

CD2HTML v3.0

  • now supporting Dutch and French
  • the language is set automatically (if you wish :)
  • some language mistakes
  • now a files.bbs is automatically created if you type a description for any file (except zip files, there is a file_id.diz written inside the archive)
  • capital letters are no longer ignored (up to this version links were always written in small letters, this caused problems if you uploaded the created HTML files to a UNIX system)
  • relative and absolute now are right if you save the HTML files in a higher path as the scanned files are
  • problems realizing changes of picture options in option dialog removed
  • now descriptions of pictures are automatically saved if glanced to the next picture in EditHeadline
  • problems with descript.ion's (for pictures) fixed
  • wrong result (always 0:00) in <$dltime$> tag fixed
  • user defined file size display
  • now descriptions of EXE files will be saved
  • the bug which causes a deletion of the cd2HTML temporary directory were removed

CD2HTML v2.01

  • &copy; for ©
  • "Picture list (prev/next)" used absolute paths
  • now it's possible to type a value for "Options/Files/Entries per Page"
  • · relative paths where wrong when path depth were greater than two
  • some language mistakes

CD2HTML v2.0

  • spaces in links as %20
  • WIDTH and HEIGHT HTML info for pictures
  • Italian and Portuguese language added
  • new MP3 ID3 tags added (<$MP3title$>, <$MP3artist$>, <$MP3album$>, <$MP3year$>, <$MP3comment$>, <$MP3genre$>)
  • reading/writing of ID3-tags and files.bbs
  • <$REPEAT=x$> ... <$ENDREPEAT$>
  • <$picxres$>, <$picyres$>, <$picdepth$>, <$pictype$>, <$piccomment$>
  • correct converting of the OEM and ANSI charactersets
  • reading pic-info in files.bbs, index.txt, descript.ion and writing them to descript.ion
  • supporting text description of pictures (compatible with ACDSee)
  • improved entry option dialogs
  • <$dpiclink$> for the direct linking of pictures (e.g. for animated GIF's or a collection of small Internet pictures)
  • new BrowseForFolder
  • limited entries per page, one page for each directory
  • correct error-handling for reading/writing JPEG files
  • problem with write-protected cd2html.ini has been removed
  • <$INCLUDE file$> to include files into the HTML file (e.g. header/footer)
  • save the print-dialog settings
  • new command line option '/sort:' (filename/size/date/path) and '/sorttype:' (normal/inverse)
  • internal RAR (thanks to Ales Berka for his RARARC Delphi component, http://jakub.naf.cz)

CD2HTML v1.0 Final

  • save as files.bbs
  • multilingual (English, German, French)
  • something like a "usermenu" were you easily could have several setups stored, and changed "on the fly"

CD2HTML v1.0 b90

  • it's now written in Delphi 3
  • preview for GIF and JPEG images with size parameters (Thumbnails)
  • internals support for Zip/UnZip (33% faster)
  • register/unregister CD2HTML in the registry
  • <$size$> is now changed after an deletion of a file from the list-view
  • supports one custom archive-program
  • creates now an "auto-description-for-HTML" for any found HTML (uses the tag).
  • reverse-sorting in list-view is possible
  • new <$onliner$>-tag
  • bugfixed <$date$> and <$links$> tags
  • enter own descriptions for zip-files
  • command-line support
  • Save and SaveAs (CTRL+S for quick-save)
  • ESC for stop-search
  • search for specified description-names in zip-files
  • search-depth is now really saved
  • search for the current filename plus a variable extension
  • delete lines were aren't at least defined count of letters like 'A'..'Z' or 'a'..'z'
  • problems using Drag & Drop has been removed
  • compiled with English Delphi

CD2HTML v1.0 b80

  • new concept of creating HTML-files (full user-defined HTML-export)
  • providing automatically created icons in HTML-code as GIF (thanks to Theodor Kleynhans for his component; http://members.gem.co.za/~theodor/index.HTML)
  • automatically created picture-descriptions (JPEG, GIF, PNG)
  • program won't hang when external zip-program is hanging
  • remove empty lines in file-descriptions
  • new icon (ladybird)
  • many internal improvements

CD2HTML v1.0 b70

  • providing archives (PkZip, ZipSFX, ARJ, ARJSFX, RAR, RARSFX) for extracting the description
  • new help-file (written by Oden Eriksson; http://www.algonet.se/~fuzzbox/oe/)
  • some problems with the list-view fixed
  • ini-file-format changed (now it uses the standard windows ini-format)
  • 'cancel'-problems option-dialog in main-window ('cancel' had the same effect as 'ok' on some switches)
  • extended selections in 'search for files'
  • option to include a background-image
  • menu added
  • outfit changed to the explorer button-style (thanks to Fabrice Deville for his component; http://www.tornado.be/~fdev/)
  • some spelling corrections
  • a lot of internal changes
  • switch for auto-save the options
  • new HTML-table-options

CD2HTML v1.0 b60

  • implementing the functionality to add links in the HTML-file to all files in the search-path you want
  • improved outfit (dialog-boxes)
  • easy creating and/or editing of program-descriptions (e.g. file_id.diz)

CD2HTML v1.0 b50

  • now reading program descriptions like 'file_id.diz' from directories and save them in the HTML-output
  • advanced print-options
  • now saving all options (except print-options)
  • EMF in normal Save-Dialog removed (now only in print-preview-dialog)
  • new buttons in print-preview

CD2HTML v1.0 b40

  • black font-background on some graphic-cards fixed
  • Save instead Load-button in Load-Dialog fixed
  • added EMF in normal Save-Dialog
  • new buttons

CD2HTML v1.0 b30

  • temp-file-removing after HTML-preview fixed
  • print-preview:
  • repaint-problem fixed
  • space between lines changeable
  • now new export as EMF (Enhanced Metafile) possible (to change the layout of the CD-cover in another program)
  • associations of c2h-files with CD2HTML are possible
  • in the HTML-index:
  • border-width is now changeable
  • fixed table-width as new option
  • files in the root now are also taken into account while observing the full-size
  • headers in the List-View have now the same as in the Options-Box
  • the options will be automatically saved