Welcome to XaAES beta 6....

It's been monthes in the making, and really doesn't include enough new
stuff to justify the wait - all I can say is that I've been real busy
at work, and I bought a sports car (so when the sun shined I went driving
instead of working on XaAES). I was hoping to try this with the new
MiNT kernal with the virtual memory support, but unfortunately VM
doesn't like my f030 very much at all.

It's (fairly) stable compared to beta 5, and probably a little quicker
- depending on what you are doing of course).

New stuff in this beta includes:

o Widgets are now in a resource file.
o One version runs in all modes.
o Works in 256 colour mode now.
o Fixed compatibility problems with EGEM applications, so LHAshell & ESS-Decode
  both work now.
o Moose device driver is now accessed directly, so the seperate MOUSESRV
  program is no longer required.
o Improved menu handling (point-to-drop after initial click, 
  Click..hold..select-on-release)
o Windows can be moved off-screen (bottom & right-hand edges only
  at the moment).
o New object display routines, and a new scrolling list object.
o Live/realtime window scrolling (WinX style) - right button is normal scroll, 
  left button is live scroll.
o New video mode select code that actually works with NVDI4 :)
o New task manager window providing:
   - Program launch
   - Client Kill
   - Suspend / hide app (not done yet)
   - Resume    
o File Selector - not yet the finished article, but getting there.
  Optional alpha sort (build switch), upper/lower case + long filenames,
  u: relative paths (always), fsel_input() & fsel_exinput(), filters.
  More to come in the next release....
o Rectangle list handling is totally re-vamped to improve stability,
  speed and remove all those display bugs that were such a pain in
  beta5.
o Now works with MiNT memory protection turned on. At last.
o Blitting now used for top window moves (no WM_REDRAW sent to app)
  - this speeds up the feel of XaAES quite nicely....

Outstanding GEM compatibility issues:
o 'Live' window move+resize.
o Better mono support (again).

Other outstanding issues:
o Window Manager API. As discussed on the XaAES mailling list, the
  underlying stuff is already in place to allow alternative window
  managers to load after XaAES. What should the API be like?
o Docked toolbars - they're cool, and the widget structure of XaAES
  would make them dead easy to do.

If anyone fancies doing a re-build with sockets instead of pipes, I'd
love to see it.

Craig Graham.

