ChangeLog

Thu  Dec 12 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Removed the "Are you sure you want to show the whole database" 
       popup box, as searches of the whole database now take under a second.
     * Tagged Version 1.7

Wed  Dec 11 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Use a progress bar to show the status of the initial time
       conversion.

Tue  Dec 10 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Put in code to check if the database is at 1.7 levels, and if
       it's not, convert the database.

Tue  Dec  3 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Store the song length time in the database now.  This speeds
       up searches to an absurd rate.

Wed  Nov 13 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Removed the "Assign Hotkey" button from the bottom of the main
       window.  Apparently nobody was using it anyway.
     * Relocated the Stop button to the bottom-right corner.

Tue  Nov 12 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Changed the status bar display for playing a song from
       the filename to a title/artist view.

Sat  Nov  9 2002        H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Changed the Drag and Drop code to display an icon when
       dragging a song, instead of the title.

Thu  Nov  7 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Added a "dump database" option from the File menu.
     * Added an "import database dumpfile" option from the File menu.
     * Other minor cosmetic fixes.

Wed  Nov  6 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Made a change so that when you load hotkeys, the hotkey
       box will display.  Bugzilla ID #10

Sat  Nov  2 2002        H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Fixed a bug I introduced that would lead to the $filepath
       variable getting overwritten.

Fri  Nov  1 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Auto-populate on Oggs, too.

Mon  Oct 21 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Auto-populate the Title/Artist if the ID3 tags exist on 
       the file that you're adding.

Thu  Oct 17 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Added support for .m3u or .pls playlist files.
     * Added alt-key accelerators for the top menu bar.  Suggested by 
       Rick in Spokane.
     * Added a "preview song" feature to the Add New Song box.

Mon  Sep 16 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * By default, make the first selection of a search active.

Thu  Sep  5 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Changed the hotkey box so that it removes from the right when 
       the box is resized narrower, instead of from both sides.

Mon  Sep  2 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Fixed a bug where the file selector box in "Add File" wouldn't 
       leave you in the directory you want.

Fri  Aug 30 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Made "Ok" the default button in the Edit Song dialog, instead
       of "Cancel"

Wed  Aug 13 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Tagged Version 1.6.
     * Updated the documentation for 1.6.

Tue  Aug 12 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Gave up on using WM_COMMAND to communicate with WinAmp via the
       Windows API.  Too gimpy.  Instead, I'm going with the WinAmp
       httpQ plugin (http://www.csc.uvic.ca/~karvanit/) to do advanced
       things like fade-stop.
     * Bumped the version number to 1.5.5.

Mon  Aug 11 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Added requirement on the Ogg::Vorbis module, and code to determine
       the playing time of Vorbis files.

Mon  Jul 15 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Added a feature so that if you get an error while adding a new
       song, you can start over with the already-supplied information
       filled in.  Suggested by Bill C. in Portland.

Tue  Jul  9 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Fixed it so that Ctrl-P will play the currently-selected song in
       the holding tank, if the holding tank window is the active one.
       Suggested by Bill C. in Portland.

Sun  Jul  7 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Big update from my Long Island trip. 
     * Fixed a bug that was preventing date-based searching from working
       under Windows.
     * Added hooks into WinAmp for stopping MP3s.  Also, shift-clicking
       on the stop button, or shift-escape, will activate WinAmp's
       "fade out to stop" function.  (Suggested by Randy in KC)

Tue  Jul  2 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Added (finally) the code to edit a category's description.

Fri  Jun 28 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Added code to check for spurious spaces in front of a search
       term, and delete them if found.

Mon  Jun 24 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Fixed the dynamic documents menu so that, if a file is already in
       the list, it just moves it to the front of the line, rather
       than adding it twice.

Fri  Jun 14 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Got the arbitrary-date searching working well enough.
     * Incorporated a Tk::Wm patch from c.l.p.tk to compensate for
       some KDE braindead-ness.

Thu  Jun 13 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Fixed a bug in timespan-based searches.
     * Added an elapsed-time counter for searches.
     * Significant work on arbitrary-date searches.
     * Carolina is eliminated in the Stanley Cup finals 4 to 1.  A 
       disappointing end, but it was an incredible season and a great run
       through the finals.  Go Canes!

Fri  May 24 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Putting the framework in place for advanced, date-based searches.

Thu  May 23 2002        H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Added an encoded PNG logo.
     * Fixed a bug WRT static hotkeys.
     * Tagged 1.5.3

Tue  May 21 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Added Control-P as the hotkey to play the currently-selected song.
       Thanks to Randy in KC and Bill in Portland for the idea.

Thu  May 16 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Tagged 1.5.2, before starting some big work.

Mon  May 13 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Added a warning popup dialog when people do "blank" searches that 
       would result in the entire database getting displayed.  Thanks to
       Randy in KC for the idea.

Thu  May  9 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org) 
     * Added Scrollwheel mouse support in the scrolled listboxes.  Thanks
       to Bling-Bling in Raleigh for the idea.

Wed  May  8 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Released version 1.5

Thu  May  2 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Added some hardcoded "use" lines at the top of the script.  This
       is required by perl2exe, which I am investigating using for
       the Windows builds.
     * Added code to check for a file named "default.mrv" in the hotkey
       save directory.  If that exists, load up those hotkeys when
       the program starts.  Suggested by Randy at CSZ-KC.
     * Fixed a bug where the "Number of items returned" count wouldn't
       decrement when an MP3 is unavailable/unreadable.

Wed  Apr 24 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * More documentation work between 4/15 and now.
     * Placed requirement on new module to show length of WAV files 
       (Audio::Wav).
     * Broke out song-length code into its own function to better
       abstract that part.

Mon  Apr 15 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Sent the taxes off.  Yuck.
     * Clarified some stuff in the docs in preparation for shipping
       the software to Buffalo and KC.
     * Removed the dependancy on Data::Dumper, since I don't think that's
       needed.

Mon  Feb 11 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Released version 1.4

Thu  Feb  7 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Changed the Add Song box to use color instead of *'s to denote
       required fields.
     * Switched the documentation screenshots from .jpg/.eps (which
       were not working well) to .png.  Seems to be better for both
       PDF and HTML.

Wed  Feb  6 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Took a first stab at adding an icon for the program.  Maybe one
       of these days Holly will draw me one that looks better.

Tue  Feb  5 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Minor change to the "Open File" box, so that it searches
       for both upper and lowercase in file extensions (*.mp3 and
       *.MP3 both)

Mon  Feb  4 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Celebrated the Patriots' Super Bowl win.
     * Changed the main menubar to use the new-style system
       described in Mastering Perl/Tk, Chapter 12.

Fri  Feb  2 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Changed the Entry widgets to BrowseEntry widgets in the search
       area, so now you have a quick-reference to things you have
       recently searched for.

Sun  Jan 27 2002	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Changed code so that it does file types other than MP3.  

Fri  Dec 22 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Using Makefiles for the docs now.  Yes, I'm bored.

Thu  Dec 21 2001        H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Moved the PHP frontend file into the tools subdirectory.
     * Fixed bug that kept the Play option on the right-click menu
       from working.

Wed  Dec 20 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Created a "tools" subdirectory to hold useful utilities.
     * Added orphans.pl - a utility to report on and delete orphaned
       MP3 files.

Fri  Dec  8 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Changed preferences menu to use a tabbed-notebook-style widget,
       instead of just displaying everything on one window.

Tue  Dec  4 2001        H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Fixed bug with Dynamic Documents menu.
     * Added screenshots for documentation.
     * Improved presentation of screenshots in documentation.

Sat  Nov 17 2001        H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Fixed a bug that was preventing File->Open from working.

Fri  Nov 16 2001        H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Added a "holding tank" feature, requested by K. Christie and J.
       Spencer.

Thu  Nov 15 2001        H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Change the layout of the search fields so that the text boxes
       are justified.
     * Added a busy/unbusy call to the search function, so that the cursor
       changes to a watch while the search is in progress.

Mon  Nov 12 2001        H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Using Win32::Process to start/stop the MP3 player on Windows.  A much
       cleaner (and working!) solution.
       Thanks to Jack D.<goodcall@oanet.com> for the tip.
     * Clicking the "close window" X in the window manager will now call the
       clean-shutdown "do_exit" function.

Sat  Nov 10 2001        H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Several changes:
       + Added Control-key accelerators to quit, load/save hotkeys, and open
         hotkey box.
       + Generalized some window functions.
       + Made sure only one copy of the hotkey box can be open at a time.
       + Fixed bug in open file status message (spurious newline).
       + Set the Unix MP3 player start to use fork/exec and kill, while Windows
         still uses open() and close()

Sat  Nov  3 2001        H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Changed dynamic document menu to be a cascade off of the File
       menu, rather than having the files appear at the bottom of the 
       File menu.

Mon  Oct 29 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Version 1.3 released.

Fri  Oct 26 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Fixed bug with the dynamic document menu, which would cause
       the Exit option to get erased.
     * Had to redefine a Perl/Tk function to fix a problem with
       dragging-and-dropping.  Thanks to Slaven Rezic <slaven.rezic@berlin.de>

Thu  Oct 25 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Added label to show you which category is currently selected.
     * Added preferences option to choose the number of dynamic
       documents to keep in the File menu.
     * Changed drag-and-drop to show just the song title, not the entire
       line.
     * Right-clicking a song now gives you the option to play it.

Wed  Oct 24 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Changed hotkey display to side-by-side instead of top-bottom.
     * Added color to the play/stop buttons.
     * Added drag-and-drop support for the hotkeys.
     * Thanks to Larry and Kasey for the suggestions!

Wed  Oct 17 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Added a right-click menu to enable editing and deleting
       songs right from the listbox.

Fri  Sep 28 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org) 
     * Fixed bug to enable hotkeys from subwindows.
     
Thu  Sep 27 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Cleaned up the path handling for Windows and Unix.
     * Pretty much finished the documentation.
     * Upped version number to 1.2 in preparation for release.
     * Released version 1.2

Wed  Sep 26 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Added the ability to have a C:\mrvoice.cfg file, the equivalent
       of ~/.mrvoicerc under Unix.
     * Removed the README.windows file, as part of the overall docs
       cleanup and reorg.

Tue  Sep 25 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Switched from Tk::FileDialog to getOpenFile/getSaveFile.  This 
       has the benefit of removing a module dependency, and also using
       the native file dialog boxes on Windows.  Sweeeeet....

Tue  Sep 18 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Fixed minor bug where clearing hotkeys wouldn't save old keys
       for later restoration.

Tue  May 08 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Added the Restore Hotkey feature.
     * Added a "recently accessed" list under the File menu.
     * Upped the version number to 1.1

Mon  May 07 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Added the ability to source a ~/.mrvoicerc file for 
       database variables.
     * Implemented a "restore hokeys" function.

Tue  Mar 06 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Cleaned up a lot of documentation.
     * Minor fixes in preparation for 1.0 release.

Mon  Mar 05 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Got song additions working.
     * Got song edits working. 
     * Declared it 1.0-pre

Sun  Mar 04 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Finished the Category add/delete.
     * Got song deletes working.

Sat  Mar 03 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Got most of the Category add/delete functions working.
     * Added a test for the MP3 player.  Pops up an error box if
       the player isn't found.
     * Switched to Tk::FileDialog for the file dialogs.

Thu  Mar 01 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Got most of the save/load functions working.
     * Using DialogBox for a couple of static dialogs.

Tue  Feb 27 2001	H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Fixed a couple of fairly serious bugs that would prevent
       MP3s from playing.
     * Released version 0.8.1 (Bugfix)

Sun Feb 25 2001		H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Added a category-modification PHP script.
     * Added delete/modify to the mrvoice PHP script.
     * Marked this as Release 0.8 (first public release)

Fri Feb 16 2001		H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Cleaned up code in preparation for releasing mrvoice to the 
       general public (shudder).

Tue Jan 30 2001		H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Released version 0.7.
     * Fixed resize bug - resizing will now change the size of the listbox
       and not much else.
     * Added static hotkeys for often-used MIDIs.

Mon Jan 29 2001		H. Wade Minter (minter@lunenburg.org)
     * Released version 0.6.
     * Started changelog (finally)
     * Fixed bug that caused searches to crash when a file in the database
       did not exist on the disk.
     * Added Escape as a hotkey to stop the currently-playing MP3
     * Added ability to clear selected hotkeys, instead of having to clear
       all hotkeys.
     * Added F11 and F12 as usable hotkeys.  NOTE: F11 and F12 cause
       problems under WindowMaker by default.
     * Added more status notes for status line.
     * Disabled the ability to resize the main box, until I figure out how
       to get things to resize nicely.

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