ARACHNE TODOLIST  - PROPOSED SOFTWARE CHANGE DETAILS
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Item numbers refer to the 2DoList table.


ITEM_44 Core version labelling

Could a line of text be added to the CORE.EXE that would be displayed
when entering CORE.EXE /ID at the DOS prompt?
I have seven versions of CORE saved sas COREnnnn.EXE, being different
versions that I have tried. I have made up a CORE.TXT file to go with
them so I can identify which is which. But there is always the chance of
error. With an identification hard-wired inside the executable, there 
would be no chance of error.


ITEM_45 &-amp-bug.htm

Some links do not work when displaying the following htm from
http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/testing_&_symbol/&-amp-bug.htm
<br>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/testing_&amp;_symbol/and_another&amp;/">Works fine</a> http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/testing_&amp;_symbol/and_another& amp;/
<LI><A HREF="../testing_&_symbol/and_another&/">Works fine</a> ../testing_&_symbol/and_another&/
<LI><A HREF="and_another&/">Works fine</a> and_another&/
<LI><A HREF="./and_another&/">Works fine</a> ./and_another&/
<LI><A HREF="../testing_&amp;_symbol/and_another&amp;/">Works fine</a> ../testing_& amp;_symbol/and_another& amp;/
<LI><A HREF="./and_another&amp;/">Does not work</a> ./and_another& amp;/
<LI><A HREF="and_another&amp;/">Does not work</a> and_another& amp;/


ITEM_46 Obscure Problem with &nbsp;

V1.77 fails to correctly interpret an occurrence of the html code:
	&nbsp;
V1.75 does not have this problem, but a development version of 1.75 
does!
Something really strange, why does it happen just in this table
cell and not in other identical ones? Moreover, it disappears
when any of `width=...` or `height=...` attributes is deleted
from the corresponding <TD> tag, and also when a third one
(e.g., a dummy `style=...`) is added. Also when other changes 
are made to the file. The bug definitely seems to be related to the 
exact position within the html file. 


ITEM_47 Additional Mouse Options 

I wonder how much extra code would be involved in
 teaching Arachne to accept a double click?  or mouse chords or 
mouse button with shift/ctrl/alt combinations. I can think of several 
useful chords for Arachne.
Eg: any link within arachne I can hit the right mousebutton. This link is 
highlighted now and written in the clip.tmp-file. I would like to have 
the option of CTRL + right mouseclick. This should highlight the link 
too, but write it in a seperate file ( for testing purposes ),let's say
clip2.tmp.If I repeat this action:  ctrl + rightclick - the second link 
should be appended in the next line of the clip2.tmp .
I hope you understand what I mean. Any operations with linklists are now very easy.


ITEM_48 Wide Images

See Link to example at ArachneBugs (Yahoo  ID needed) of a wide GIF 
which doesn't display properly in Arachne. All versions back to and 
including v1.70;r3 show the same results.
This image is wider than the maximum size intended to be handled by
the routines in HDRAWGIF.C. There must be some bug in the code which
handles such images. Time to have HDRAWGIF.C rewritten, it seems ;-)
BTW, the new BMP routines are compiled with MAX_PIXELS = 2048, and
wider images are not displayed at all (just a red box). This can
be changed later, when all the image rendering code becomes more
modular.


ITEM_49 Unwanted BCC Copies

When a mail is send to one or more addresses in the BCC field, these
addresses are used by default for any subsequent replies to other
emails, thereby making it possible (and highly probable) to accidentally
send them to any addresses that were not meant to receive the mail. All
recent versions of Arachne, including 1.75 and 1.77 seem to be affected.
This potentially dangerous behaviour should be changed or at least be
made configurable.
SOLUTION from Glennmcc :
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To stop using my new feature of the BCC being updated in Arachne.cfg
edit both reply.htp and resend.htp

Remove name="$BCC" from this line in reply.htp
<B><FONT 3D>&nbsp;&nbsp;BCC:&nbsp;<INPUT TYPE=TEXT SIZE=26 name="$BCC" ARACHNECFGVALUE="Bcc">

Remove name="$BCC" from this line in resend.htp
<b><FONT 3D>&nbsp;&nbsp;BCC:&nbsp;<INPUT TYPE=TEXT SIZE=26 name="$BCC" VALUE="$BCC$">

To stop using arachnecfgvalue=bcc, 
On the personal settings setup page.... remove any email address
which is in this box and save the changes.

Always send BCC to (user@domain)

| remove the address from here |
________________________________
Leave any of the above blank to
exclude from outgoing messages. 

OR IF YOU WANT to continue to use BCC but don't want it used over-and-over.
OK, put name="$BCC" back into both files.

Edit these files instead .

reply.htp
\system\gui\sendmail.ah
\system\gui\sendfile.ah

In all 3 of those, make this change.
ARACHNECFGVALUE="ABcc" instead of "Bcc"

<B><FONT 3D>&nbsp;&nbsp;BCC:&nbsp;<INPUT TYPE=TEXT SIZE=26 name="$BCC"
 ARACHNECFGVALUE="ABcc">

Also make the same change to both "Bcc"s in \system\gui\opt_pers.ah

<B>Always send BCC to</B> (user@domain)<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT ARACHNECFGVALUE="ABcc" Name="ABcc" SIZE=32>

There you go.

BCC will still work but ABcc can only be changed from opt_pers.ah

(Glennmcc) will make a more permanant fix in the code so that this problem will
not happen again.

While working on the BCC problem I found the the REPLY-TO field
was doing the same thing.
All needed updated files are now in this ZIP file.
http://www.cisnet.com/glennmcc/my-stuff/bcc-rt.zip