
 -- Release history [legacy versions] ----------------------------------


    Version 4.1.0 - May 28th, 2000
        Added  a  "Set PassWord"  item  in  the  "NotePads Management"
            submenu.
        Added a "Switch Case" item in the "Edit" menu.
        Added the command line parameter "/open:".
        Added a new popup menu in the toolbar of available notepads.
        Fixed a bug in the "Quit" routine: it could cause a GPF.
        Fixed a bug in the "CBHistory" routine: it could crash AAA.
        Fixed a bug in the "TabClick" routine:  it seldom did not work
            properly.
        Compiled with Visual Basic 6.0 in P-Code.
        Minor cosmetic changes.

    Version 4.0.1 - September 3rd, 1999
        Reactivated "/m" (command line parameter).
        Improved "Load" routine: it works faster with large notepads.
        Fixed a bug in the  "Alarm"  window:  "Exhibit Delayed Alarms"
            did not work any longer and crashed AAA.
        Fixed a bug in the "TabClick" routine: it could crash AAA.
        Minor cosmetic changes.

    Version 4.0.0 - September 1st, 1999
        Added support for multiple notepads again.
        Added a  "NotePads Management"  submenu  in the "Edit" menu to
            create, open, rename and delete notepads.
        Added a "Justify" item in the "Edit" menu.
        Added a toolbar in the "Options" window with six buttons.
        Added support to delete a tab even if it is not the last one.
        Added support to set an alarm on weekdays or on weekend.
        Completely  rewritten  and improved the popup menu of the main
            toolbar.
        Improved the "CBHistory" routine: it checks if the copied text
            is too large to be managed.
        Improved the "Resize"  routine:  now AAA should look fine with
            any desktop setting.
        Improved the  "Add"  routine:  it adds the new tab next to the
            selected one.
        Fixed a  hideous bug in the  "Scheduler"  routine:  it did not
            manage properly command line parameters.
        Fixed a bug in the "Print" routine:  it did not print selected
            text.
        Fixed a bug in the "Alarm" routine:  it did not update the tab
            to show when the order of the tabs was changed.
        Fixed a bug in the "SaveINI" routine:  it rarely did not write
            the right length of the text of the tabs.
        Fixed  a  bug  in  the  "Shift"  routine:  it did not preserve
            selections.
        Some cosmetic changes.

    Version 3.0.2 - August 11th, 1999
        Fixed a bug in the  "Restore"  routine:  it crashed AAA if the
            scrollbars of the selected sheet were changed.
        Fixed a bug in the "Alarm" routine: the "Message" window could
            not be on top and with the message focused.
        Fixed a bug in the "Alarm" window:  it did accept texts longer
            than 999 strokes.
        Fixed  a bug  in  the  "TabClick"  routine:  it seldom did not
            update the text of the selected tab.
        Fixed a bug in the "SaveINI" routine: it could wrongly write a
            line in the [Windows] section.
        Fixed a bug in the  "Load"  routine:  it did not open notepads
            with 100 backup files.
        Fixed a bug in the  "ErrorManager"  routine: it could describe
            errors not very clearly.
        Fixed a bug in the "PopUpMenu" routine:  it did not update AAA
            buttons if the click were outside the main textbox.
        Fixed a bug in the "ReplaceAll" routine: it did not enable the
            autosave feature.
        Fixed a bug in the  "AlwaysOnTop"  routine:  it did not enable
            the autosave feature.
        Fixed a bug in the "Replace" routine:  the button could not be
            disabled when it should.

    Version 3.0.1 - October 8th, 1998
        Added support to  save a notepad  even if there are no changes
            from the last (auto)saving.
        Added a popup menu to the main toolbar with four items.
        Added five new items to the popup Menu of the main tabstrip.
        Fixed a bug in the "Options" routine:  it crashed AAA when the
            scrollbars of the selected sheet were changed.
        Fixed a bug  in the  "CBHistory"  routine:  it did not work if
            MaxLength=0 and the "Bottom" option was checked.
        Fixed a bug in the  "SaveINI"  routine:  it did not update the
            position of the cursor in the selected sheet.
        Minor cosmetic changes.

    Version 3.0.0 - October 4th, 1998
        Changed files format.
        Deleted support for multiple notepads.
        Alarms/Scheduler  now  works  better and if it can not start a
            file it generates an error.
        Added  support  to  separately  customize  each  sheet (fonts,
            colors, word wrapping and sorting).
        Added support to customize the main toolbar.
        Added support to customize tabstrip font.
        Added support for non-truetype fonts.
        Added a "Restore" window.
        Added a "Restore" item in the "File" menu.
        Added a "Count All" button in the "Find" window.
        Added support  to  find  or  replace  multiline text but, when
            quitting AAA, the strings are not saved any more.
        Added a popup menu to the main tabstrip with eight items.
        Added a "Find Next" item in the "Edit" menu.
        Added a "Delete" item in the "Edit" menu.
        Added a "Refresh" button in the "Statistics" window.
        AAA remembers  the position of the cursor and of the selection
            for each sheet.
        AAA generates  an error  if an automatically repeated alarm is
            in the past.
        Several  code  optimizations  (e.g.:  the  "Backup" routine is
            twice faster).
        Carriage  returns  are  not any longer added by default in the
            clipboard history separator.
        At the start now AAA deletes  all its old temporary files that
            Windows may forget to erase.
        Fixed a bug in the "AlarmWrong" routine: it did not update the
            "Alarm/Scheduler Settings" window.
        Fixed a bug in the  "Find"  routine: it started to search from
            the wrong place and it did not stop when it should.
        Fixed a bug in the "Replace" routine:  the button could not be
            enabled when it should.
        Fixed a bug in the "ShowMessage" routine:  the "Repeat" window
            could be hidden by the "Alarm" one.
        Fixed a bug in the  "Print"  routine: it could waste paper and
            behave not properly with old B/W printer drivers.
        A lot of cosmetic changes.

    Version 2.5.0 - August 8th, 1998
        If not required,  nothing  is  shown  during  an alarm, so the
            scheduler goes on and works even without the user.
        Added support for  setting alarms in the n-th  (or in the n-th
            last) week of the month.
            WARNING:  if  you  are  updating a previous version of AAA
            this  means  that  you MUST set up again the month and the
            day of your alarms!
        Added support for automatically saving delayed alarms when AAA
            is closed.
        Added support for editing delayed alarms.
        Added "Shift" buttons in place of the "Arrange" window.
        Improved the  "AlwaysOnTop"  routine:  it does not "flash" any
            longer and it works even with children windows.
        Messages of the  alarm/scheduler  are shown with the same font
            of the notepad.
        In the  "Alarm/Scheduler Settings"  window alarms are properly
            arranged by date.
        Fixed a bug in the  "Alarm"  routine: it was not able to delay
            an alarm if it rang at hh:00 o'clock.
        Fixed a bug in the "Repeat" routine: it was impossible to
            eliminate an illicit repetition of an alarm.
        Fixed a bug  in the  "Browse"  routine:  it might not show the
            "Browse" window.
        Fixed a bug in the  "Arrange"  routine:  it did not update the
            number of the starting tab.
        At the  start  AAA  deletes  some  of its temporary files that
            Windows may forget to erase.
        Minor cosmetic changes.

    Version 2.4.2 - June 10th, 1998
        Fixed a bug  in the  "UnLoad"  routine:  it did not manage the
            requests of the Task Manager and of Windows any longer.
        Added support for rebuilding the System Tray icon of AAA every
            n minutes, n from zero to sixty.

    Version 2.4.1 - June 9th, 1998
        Replaced all the toolbar controls with  graphic CommandButtons
            and CheckBoxes: they were only a bunch of bugs!
        Fixed a hideous bug in the "Delay" routine: it crashed AAA.
        Fixed a bug of  Windows:  if Explorer is restarted  the System
            Tray icon of AAA will be rebuilt in five minutes.
        Fixed a bug in the "AlwaysOnTop" routine: alarms were hidden.
        Fixed a bug in the  "Sum Up"  routine:  it mistook "+" and "-"
            for a zero.
        Fixed a bug in the "Replace" routine:  the button could not be
            disabled when it should.
        AAA now remembers the position of the "Statistics" window.
        A lot of cosmetic changes.

    Version 2.4.0 - June 5th, 1998
        Added support for delaying alarms.
        Added  support  for  automatically  repeating  alarms  after a
            prearranged time interval.
        If AAA.ini is deleted AAA will keep every preexistent notepad,
            in particular AAA.txt (the default one).
        Improved the  "Sum Up"  routine:  it is smarter and it manages
            tabulations and numbers between texts.
        Improved the  "AlarmChangeYear"  routine:  it always  adds the
            right century to the typed year.
        Fixed a bug in the "Find" routine:  it could not recognize the
            end of the search.
        Fixed a bug in the "Replace" routine:  the button could not be
            enabled when it should.
        Fixed a bug in the  "Print"  routine: with some printer driver
            it wasted a sheet of paper.
        Fixed a bug in the  "Main"  routine: it wrongly managed errors
            concerning AAA.hlp (help file).
        Fixed a bug in the "Alarm" routine:  it did non disable "Hide"
            button (so AAA could rarely crash).
        Fixed a bug in the "PasteNewAlarm" routine:  it could modify a
            non-selected alarm and/or add more than 2,001 alarms.
        Fixed  a  bug  in  the  "AlarmMultiSelect"  routine:  it could
            wrongly display messages.
        "OK" button in the  "Alarm/Scheduler Settings" window executes
            "Cancel" if there are no changes.
        Minor cosmetic changes.

    Version 2.3.2 - February 9th, 1998
        Improved  front end  of the  alarm/scheduler:  addition of new
            alarms is faster than before.
        Fixed a bug  in the  "Load"  routine:  it did not manage texts
            larger than 32,767 bytes.
        Fixed a bug in the "CBHistory" routine:  it crashed on attempt
            of copying a text larger than 32,767 bytes.
        Fixed a bug in the "AlwaysOnTop" routine: modal windows of AAA
            were hidden.
        Compiled with Visual Basic 5.0 (SP3) in P-Code.

    Version 2.3.1 - February 2nd, 1998
        Added support for choosing which tab AAA shows at the start.
        Fixed a bug in the "Quit" routine:  it could perform "Hide" or
            "Show" while Windows was shutting down.
        Fixed a bug in the "UnLoad" routine:  it could lose the latest
            notes when AAA was closed with the Task Manager.
        Fixed a bug in the "CBHistory" routine:  it could crash if the
            clipboard was busy.
        Minor cosmetic changes.

    Version 2.3.0 - January 27th, 1998
        Compiled with Visual Basic 5.0 (SP3) in native code.
        Fixed  a  bug  in the  "SaveINI"  routine:  it was not able to
            create the file AAA.ini from scratch.
        Fixed a bug in the "Main" routine:  it removes the System Tray
            icon if AAA stops because of an internal error.
        Minor cosmetic changes.

    Version 2.2.2 - January 22nd, 1998
        Improved the "Alarm" routine:  it also detects events occurred
            while AAA was not working.
        Added a "What's New..." item in the "Help" menu.
        Minor cosmetic changes.

    Version 2.2.1 - January 19th, 1998
        Added browse buttons to the help file.
        New  entries  of  the  clipboard history  are now added at the
            beginning of the list.
        Minor cosmetic changes.

    Version 2.2.0 - January 15th, 1998
        Added clipboard history.
        Added an "Always On Top" item in the "File" menu.
        Added AAA.hlp (WinHelp format).
        Added support for deleting non-empty sheets.
        Added support for command lines in the alarm/scheduler.
        Fixed a bug in the "Alarm" routine: it did not show messages.
        Minor cosmetic changes.

    Version 2.1.0 - December 7th, 1997
        Added a "Statistics" report.
        Improved the look of the front end of the alarm/scheduler.
        Fixed a hideous bug in the "Alarm" routine: it could not start
            the selected file.
        Fixed  a  bug  in  the  "Sum Up"  routine:  it showed only the
            absolute value of the summation and of the mean.
        Fixed a bug in the  "Hide"  routine:  AAA could crash if there
            was an alarm while the "Sum Up" window was shown.
        Minor cosmetic changes.

    Version 2.0.0 - November 11th, 1997
        Added an alarm/scheduler.
        Added the  filename  of the current notepad in the System Tray
            tooltip.
        AAA now refuses to open/modify its own executable files.
        Fixed a bug in the  "Hide"  routine:  it could not save latest
            changes.
        Fixed a bug in the  "Save As"  routine:  it did not update the
            notepad name in the caption of the main window.
        Fixed a bug  in the  filename  check:  AAA  behaved wrongly if
            Windows adjusted the case of 8.3 filenames.
        Improved the "Restore" routine: it can open all backups.
        Added a warning if you start AAA with a wrong command line.
        Several cosmetic changes: AAA should look fine even if you set
            (in the Control Panel) very large fonts.

    Version 1.2.5 - November 1st, 1997
        Added an option to close AAA without confirmation.
        Added support for closing the  "Find and Replace"  window also
            from the main toolbar.
        Fixed a bug in the  menu  manager:  "Print"  and  "Select All"
            could not be enabled/disabled when they should.
        Fixed a bug  in the  "Print"  routine:  "1 Page/Tab"  wasted a
            sheet of paper for each printing.
        Optimized several pieces of code.
        Some cosmetic changes.

    Version 1.2.4 - October 31st, 1997
        Multiple  printings  are always collated,  even if the printer
            driver does not support it.
        Fixed  a bug  in the  "Print"  routine:  ",,"  printed all the
            sheets of the current notepad.
        If the  information files of  AAA  (FILE_ID.DIZ or ReadMe.txt)
            are corrupted only the first warning is shown.
        Minor cosmetic changes.

    Version 1.2.3 - October 15th, 1997
        Improved the "Print" routine:  in too long lines now words are
            wrapped, not truncated.
        Minor cosmetic changes.

    Version 1.2.2 - October 11th, 1997
        Improved the "Print" routine: no more tiny fonts!
        Fixed  a  bug  in  the  "Sum Up"  routine:  it wrongly managed
            numbers at the end of a line.

    Version 1.2.1 - October 10th, 1997
        Added a tool to sum up the numbers in selected columns.
        Increased the maximum length of Tabs captions to 64 chars.
        Minor cosmetic changes.

    Version 1.2.0 - September 28th, 1997
        Added support for restoring backups.
        Added command line parameters: /? /h /help /m /minimized.
        AAA now starts even if its information files  (FILE_ID.DIZ and
            ReadMe.txt) are corrupted.
        Fixed a bug in the "Load" routine: now only existing files are
            accepted.
        A lot of cosmetic changes.

    Version 1.1.1 - September 23rd, 1997
        Added keys to automatically insert current time and date, even
            in reverse format.
        Fixed a bug in the menu manager: "Print" and "Paste" could not
            be enabled when they should.
        Minor cosmetic changes.

    Version 1.1.0 - September 11th, 1997
        Deleted setup.exe and browser.dll: they were only a bother!
        Added support for choosing if the standard  "Close" buttons of
            Windows will hide or close AAA.
        Added support  for recognizing  and reading notepad files even
            if you change the path of AAA.
        Improved the "Hide" routine: it works faster.
        Fixed the bug that made AAA sometimes crash at startup on slow
            or too loaded systems.
        Fixed  a bug  in the  "Quit"  routine:  sometimes it performed
            "Quit" instead of "Hide".
        Some cosmetic changes.

    Version 1.0.3 - September 5th, 1997
        Improved management of backups: it works faster.
        Minor cosmetic changes.

    Version 1.0.2 - September 4th, 1997
        Fixed a bug in the  "Sort"  routine: it wrongly managed a text
            with no carriage return at the end.
        Added support for closing  AAA  only by clicking "Quit" in the
            toolbar or in the menu.

    Version 1.0.1 - August 14th, 1997
        Added  support  for  renaming  a tab with a right click of the
            mouse in the tabstrip.
        Minor cosmetic changes.

    Version 1.0.0 - August 10th, 1997
        First public release.


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