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                       Revision history for V3.x



          Author:

          Harry Doldersum
          Weerselose straat 26
          7623 DA BORNE
          The Netherlands, Europe.

          Phone:         +31 (0) 74 266 8480
          Fax:           See phone. Standby on request.
          
          E-mail :       info@Doldersum.com
          Website:       www.Doldersum.com






MCBase V3.x revision history list:


januari 2nd, 01     Updated version 3.1.0.35 to 3.2.1.40: a new release.

               Following improvements were made: 

               - a) Corrected a bug in the Preference settings dialog. When switching
                    between the tab pages of the Preference dialog, altered settings
                    were being reset to the value as had been in use previously - over
                    writing any changes made. Now, all changed values remain as they
                    should.

               - b) Jump buttons to the "View album by title" dialog have been added
                    on both the "(Edit) Song data dialog" and "View song by title"
                    dialogs, to facilitate additional jumping and/or data switching
                    capabilities while working with the collection's data.

               - c) Added the "Media" and "Location" data fields to the "View album
                    by title" dialog. These fields had already been present in the "(Edit)
                    Album data dialog", but had been omitted from the "View..." dialog
                    up until now.

               - d) Added code to handle significantly modified settings for Windows
                    Desktop appearance. Severe changes to these settings could cause
                    elements, who's font and icon settings are controlled by these
                    desktop appearance settings, to appear enlarged. Under circum
                    stances, these settings could even cause some components to be
                    shifted out of user's reach. (These modifications have also been
                    implemented in the utility programs).

               - e) Other minor changes to various sections of the program, the order
                    information file and the helpfile.


august 27th, 00     Updated version 3.0.2.31 to 3.1.0.35: a maintenance release.

               Following improvements were made:

               - a) Modified the graphic memo containers to always maintain a correct
                    image height/width ratio. During the container's "Fit = on" mode,
                    images could get distorted when their image height/width ratio did
                    not match the graphic memo container's height/width ratio.

               - b) The standard MCBase printjobs were also updated with a similar
                    image height/width ratio routine as mentioned above, to prevent
                    image distortion during printing. (Custom made printjobs, within
                    the User Report Designer, remain unaffected by this change).

               - c) Added scrollbars to the graphic memo containers for use with
                    larger images  during the "Fit = off" mode.

               - d) Minor modifications have been made to the online helpfile.


august 30, '99 Updated version 3.0.1.30 to 3.0.2.31: a maintenance release.

               Due to the ongoing changes in the world of the online registration services
               (one moved to a different address, one left the business, one was taken
               over by a different firm), we needed to update our order information file
               ORDER.DOC. Please be informed that this new ORDER.DOC file
               supersedes all previous versions.

               To the MCBase program itself, following improvements were made:

               - a) Corrected a bug in the registration key routines that could cause a
                    DLL to appear as missing. (Could occur under Windows NT only).

               - b) Corrected a bug in the "View Songs by Title" routines: when
                    returning from a memo record edit, the dialog could lose focus of
                    it's (original) record and jump to another entry in the database.

               - c) Corrected the behaviour of the routines in the multi media memo
                    dialogs: after an import/export function, the dialogs remained
                    focused at the last directory/folder, while it would be preferable to
                    focus on MCBase's own directory/folder again. 

               - d) Corrected a bug in the "Producer data dialog": when adding a new
                    entry, the "Overwrite record" message dialog could come up, which
                    should not be the case.

               - e) Corrected a bug that caused the navigation comboboxes (selectors)
                    in some of the dialogs to ignore the setting on the "Preferences" tab
                    for the number of items to display.


Feb. 27th, '99 MAJOR NEW RELEASE.

               Release of the new MCBase V3.0 (3.0.1.30):

               Harry Doldersum has released MCBase V3.0 for Windows95/98/NT, a
               program that assists music collectors in managing their multi media music
               collection. 

               MCBase V3.0 will not only store your music collection's data, but will also
               store graphics, sound and video clips of any format required. The
               collection's data itself is maintained according to the "relational" database
               model, where all your data is unique by nature: once you've entered a
               certain artist, producer or other item for the first time, you will not need to
               enter it again - you can simply reselect it for use in a next song or
               albumtitle by using selectors, provided for that purpose.

               Apart from the various "standard" reports, built into the program, a User
               Report Designer has also been included. Using this User Report Designer,
               a user can create any specialized report required. The features of the User
               Report Designer include SQL capabilities, but other methods of data
               retrieval are also possible.

               MCBase V3.0 costs US$30,=. (equals EURO 25,=. or NLG 55,=.).
               Upgrades are free, when downloaded from the support website at
               http://www.Doldersum.com

