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What's new in 2.5b7 (Sun, 18 Jun 2000)
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o PalmRC compatability (merging)
- support for HEX tag 
- support for DATA tag 
o MANUAL errata

What's new in 2.5b6 (Sat, 10 Jun 2000)
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* PilRC licensing issues - please READ
o VC++ error/warning message syntax fix
o VC++ compilation error fixes
o MANUAL errata

What's new in 2.5b5 (Wed,  7 Jun 2000)
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o updated "example" for prc-tools 2.0
o VERSION tag ID defaults to 1 if NONE supplied
o -V option to generate M$ (VS-type error/warning output) 
o PNM support added
o .java -> multiple depth "package" definitions
o RGB -> System Palette(s) fixed 
  - 1bpp palette definition adjusted to "standard"

What's new in 2.5b4 (Tue,  6 Jun 2000)
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* PilRC website location change (please update everyone)
* http://www.ardiri.com/index.cfm?redir=palm&cat=pilrc
o autoconf + automake support
o MANUAL overhaul (finally)
o RGB -> System Palette(s) fixed 
  - no more inverted 4bpp bitmaps
o VC++ compilation errors fixes
o Japanese Language "shift jis" handling bugfix
o Bugfixes

What's new in 2.5b3 (Wed, 13 Apr 2000)
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o TRANSPARENTINDEX added to ICON and BITMAP configuration
o RGB -> System Palette(s) implemented 
  - no more inverted 1bpp bitmaps (outputed from xv etc)
o COLORTABLE support added for ICONS
o Warning messages now in GNU format (for parsing by IDE's)
o ICONGREY, ICONGREY16, ICONCOLOR items removed
o ICONFAMILY requires that 1bpp bitmap exists
  - application launcher must have AT LEAST 1bpp bitmaps

What's new in 2.5b2 (Mon, 11 Apr 2000)
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o PBM, PPM, PGM image support (1bpp, 2bpp, 4bpp and color)
  - "ppmquant" palette files added to match PalmOS palettes
o NOSAVEBEHIND (forms) option now working correctly :P
o ICONFAMILY, BITMAPFAMILY bug fix
o BITMAP transparency support added
o .BMP color table entries can be VARIABLE (not 1, 16 or 256)
o Japanese Language "shift jis" handling bugfix
o Korean Language support
o Error messages now in GNU format (for parsing by IDE's)
o Bugfixes

What's new in 2.5b1 (Tue, 8 Feb 2000)
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o ICONFAMILY, BITMAPFAMILY fixes (optional bitmap depths)

What's new in 2.5a
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o ParseDumpString bug fix

What's new in 2.5
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* MAINTENANCE of PilRC passed onto Aaron Ardiri (ardiri@palmgear.com)
* http://www.hig.se/~ardiri/development/palmIII/pilrc/index.html
o COLOR support!
o *GREY, *GREY16 and *FAMILY resources added for Bitmap/Icon resources

What's new in 2.4
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o Category support
o default button in alerts
o Longer lists allowed.

What's new in 2.3a
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o Compilation fix for *nix users

What's new in 2.3
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o Parens supported in expressions
o Font resources
o No limit on the number of forms.
o Comments anywhere in the .rcp file
o C style /* */ comments.
o Support for Hebrew, Japense and Chinese fonts. (-Fh, -Fj and -F5 and -Fg)
o Support for 'XXXX' hex constants
o Support for -rtl flag and | operator (for BiDi Hebrew)
o Support for Bold12 fonts
o FILE keyword for STRING 
o Menu width calculation fixes

What's new in 2.2
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o Support for Small Icons (finally!)
o Changed system ID conflict error to warning.

What's new in 2.0a
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o SCROLLBAR removed for FIELDS -- it broke normal SCROLLBAR controls

What's new in 2.0
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o Support for greyscale bitmaps (BITMAPGREY). 
  For a 2bpp Win* drawing routines, check out ScumbySoft's Win2 2bpp library.
o AUTOSHIFT, NUMERIC, SCROLLBAR now supported for FIELDs 
o CENTER@ allows you to specify x or y coordinate to center contr
o RIGHT@ and BOTTOM@ specifies left/top coordinate.
o Bug fixes with AUTO, FONT 6.

What's new in 1.9
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o ID id.n for controls may be replaced by AUTOID. 
  PilRC will autoassign ids when AUTOID is specified. 
o PilRCUI now works with XWindows (xwin.c). main() moved to main.c 
o OS/2 makefile included (makefile.os2). 
o Support for TRAP resources for writing HackMaster system extensions.

What's new in 1.8
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o Fixed some bad bugs in scrollbar generation
o Fixed bug in duplicate control detection code.

What's new in 1.7
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o Incorporated code to read PBM, PBITM, and XBM bitmaps.
o Bitmap compression may be specified (COMPRESS, AUTOCOMPRESS, NOCOMPRESS).
o Automatic ID assignment (-H command line option)
o Support for new PalmOS 2.0 scrollbar control

What's new in 1.6
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o Fixed bug that prevented it from working on non Intel platforms 

What's new in 1.5
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o Now checks for duplicate form, menu, string, alert and form object ids
o Also checks for invalid ids (not in 0..9999)

What's new in 1.4
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o New -R command line argument: emits .res files 
o New -q command line argument: Quiet mode -- less noisy output
o Sample .c file now builds and loads correctly on Pilots

What's new in 1.3
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o Support for .java include files
o New BITMAP and ICON commands convert Windows .BMP files to pilot bitmaps
o Sample .rcp file, .c and .asm files with examples for each control type
o New -I command line argument to specify include search paths
o Updated user manual
o Bug fixes