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Bugs reported for Windows 4.0
Calling baFileDateEx more than 256 times caused a crash.
Version 4.01 is
available to fix this.
Bugs reported for Macintosh 4.0
baGetFolder does not not set the Start Folder correctly.
There are various problems when using HFS format names with files containing
accented characters.
baMsgBox and baMsgBoxEx do not display characters with
accented characters correctly.
baGetFilename when used with the "save" option, and returning HFS
names, included a Unix folder separator.
Version 4.04 is
available to fix these problems. Other changes include:
baSysFolder changed to allow 'user' folder to be explicitly searched.
baDisableSwitching added.
HFS file names can now contain Unicode characters and names longer that 31
characters.
Some registration problems with User names with Unicode characters were
found. New versions of the registration programs are available to fix this.
The original version 4 registration programs can not be used with the
current version 4 releases.
Bugs reported for Windows Version 3.7
Passing an extension or file name longer than 14 characters to baFindApp
will result in a crash.
Under XP SP2, baCommandArgs did not work if a file was associated to
a projector, and started by double-clicking the file in Explorer.
baOpenFile does not work on .fdf files with Acrobat 7.0 - Adobe did
not implement an 'open' association for .fdf files. There is a similar
problem with PowerPoint 2003 viewer.
The progress copy routines could sometimes fail when copying files
larger than 2gb under Win98.
Using baVersion( "qt3" ) more than once when QuickTime 7 was
installed would cause a crash.
baFindApp( "mov" ) failed on Windows 2000 with QuickTime 7 because
Apple did not correctly enter registry information.
Version 3.74 progress copy functions did not work when using the callback
function without a dialog.
Added a new function baGetFilenameEx that can set the initial view of the
file dialog.
baFindFirstFile locked the folder passed in, and any subfolders, so they
could not be deleted.
baVersion( "os" ) now returns "WinVista" on Vista.
Version 3.79 is
available to fix these problems.
baGet/SetVolume does not work in Vista. A new
xtra is available to
change volume on Vista.
Bugs reported for Macintosh Version 1.7
When returning Unix names, some file names with accented characters were
not returned properly.
baUserName, baUserShortName, and baComputerName crashed
under some 10.4 systems.
baGetFileName returned a maximum of 200 characters when returning
multiple files names You can now use up to 10 extensions to filter the
displayed file names.
An option added to baSysFolder to get the common preferences folder.
baFileAge failed when run on Intel Macs. This also caused the copy progress
functions to crash when the IfNewer option was specified.
Version 1.79 is
available to fix these problems.
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