riscosselect [2]

ChangeFSI, Draw, edit, Paint and SciCalc now (in RO4+) use the ClipHolder module. at last the global clipboard is used for the standard apps and there is no longer any excuse for other software writers to ignore the facility.
The ClipHolder module provides simplified Clipboard facilities for applications exporting a single file using standard Clipboard protocols.



Draw, Edit and Paint now have menus that are more style-guide compliant - again other writers please note!



CDPlayer is a new application. It runs automatically from the CD icon if a music CD is present. It‘s a basic program - leaving the beels and whistles to 3rd party programmers. It does link with AcornCD to extract track and disk names from the web database.



ChangeFSI can import PNGs (not masked) and doesn‘t keep popping over to the centre. Where before it used long silly names it now uses sensible ones. Speed decoding progressive JPEGS using djpeg is much improved.



Draw will now export simple SVGs - the vector graphics format to be used on web sites and presumably elsewhere.



Paint is (more) stable after having many bugs withdrawn! It supports dynamic areas for workspace, import JPEGs (reliably) and PNGs (not masked) and save sprites as JPEGs.



Squash will compress and decompress GZip files. [what difference will this make anyone?]



RISCOS Ltd were at pains to point out that Puzzle has been extended and is more devious. They‘re sadists!


I already have my own list of things to do to improve Draw (readers of my Acorn User column won‘t be surprised at this!) and I‘m hoping some might be included in later releases of Select.


What do you think ROL have missed (so far) in updating the apps?