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ezEdit Revision History

Historical information on changes, enhancements and corrections to ezEdit by version number and date. For the most recent changes and enhancements, see the Release Notes.

Version 2.4.4.691 - 07/03/2008

  1. Enhancement. A keyboard shortcut to "Save Log As.." has been implemented for log editing. [Shift-F10] displays the the save log dialog.

  2. Fix. A situation where the database table containing stations did not get activated if there are no stations defined has been corrected. This prevented the end-user from adding stations in the preferences area.

Version 2.4.3.690 - 05/30/2008

  1. Change. Version numbers of the "ez" series of products, including ezEdit, have been synchronized. These products share several pieces of core functionality and the version numbering change was made to reflect this.

  2. Enhancement. When editing a cart (spot) record or a play cart directive record, each character of the cart number is now checked to be sure it is valid. This prevents entry of invalid cart numbers. Valid characters for a cart number include: A..Z, 0..9, {, }, !, #, %, ^, @, =, +.

  3. Enhancement. Changes have been made to the way ezEdit handles loading and saving preference information to improve performance. Improvement is particularly noticeable if ezEdit is launched from a network drive.

  4. Fix. When exporting a Log Validation report to file, the text had very narrow margins, resulting in a less-than-readable report. The exported report now formats properly when saved to file.

  5. Fix. An eDatabaseError that could occur when installing and starting ezEdit for the very first time has been corrected.

  6. Fix. A spelling error on the configuration password dialog has been corrected.

Version 2.4.1.686 - 07/02/2007

  1. Change. Since log templates and XStudio emergency logs are considered "undated", date-checking of carts is no longer done when working with these types of logs. Missing carts, though, continue to be flagged if you have an inventory loaded and Cart Status Display is enabled.

  2. Change. The exclamation point ( ! ) has been added to the list of acceptable cart mask characters. Although DCS and Maestro documentation indicate it is an invalid character to use when naming carts, it is not enforced.

Version 2.4.0.685 - 06/01/2007

  1. Change. The ezEdit preferences file is now kept in the application directory (install folder). If you updated the software using the standard installer, the installation process should have been able to move the preferences file from the Windows folder, where it had been located in previous versions. If the move failed, you can still manually copy the preferences file to the application folder.

  2. Change. The PC characteristics considered when registering ezEdit has been changed. If you updated the software using the standard installer, the installation process automatically updated your registration. On rare occasions, the automatic update could fail, particularly you updated from a very old version of ezEdit. If the automatic registration update failed, contact your vendor to obtain a new registration key. You will need to supply the original registration serial number and machine ID information to obtain your new registration.

    		 If you previously experienced a problem with ezEdit complaining that your registration was invalid as a result of either adding or removing a USB device that registers itself as fixed disk, you should now be able to add or remove the device without a registration error.

  3. Change. The help documentation has been updated to work with Windows Vista. Vista does not as a default support the traditional help file (*.HLP). The help documentation is now supplied as a compiled HTML file (*.CHM).

    		 See the ezEdit help or manual documentation for more details on this change, including issues with running CHM help files from a network or UNC path.

  4. Enhancement. The ability to save a log using old-style 4-character log length data has been added. See the help topic Log Options in Preferences for additional information. This option should be used only if you are working with another application that cannot handle the default 5-character (mmmss) log lengths.

  5. Enhancement. In addition to the standard list of Commercial Types provided, you can now manually enter a commercial type code.

  6. Enhancement. Log Templates can now be opened from the main dialog. Previously, users had to first open a log editing dialog before being able to open a log template.

Version 2.3.3.682 - 12/12/2006

  1. Enhancement. Support for creating, editing, saving and inserting log templates has been added (*.FMT files). Users can now save any log as a template, edit the template and insert the template in a log or another template.

  2. Enhancement. Users can now import/export cart category information. The features are accessible via a pop-up menu on the cart category maintenance page in Preferences.

  3. Enhancement. The application event log, where details of program operation are stored, is now automatically maintained so as not to grow beyond 1MB in size. Additional detail on user actions is now placed in the event log.

  4. Enhancement. The dialog for creating and editing log Directives has been enhanced to add support for XStudio-specific directive keys "Hard Sync" and "Resume Automation".

  5. Enhancement. Support for creating, editing and saving XStudio emergency logs has been added.

  6. Fix. If a user cleared the Description field when editing a log Directive and then selected a different directive type, a program AV would occur. This has been corrected.

Version 2.3.1.680 - 06/26/2006

  1. Fix. When dragging a log item to a later time, auto-scroll would not work if the log's horizontal scroll bar was not visible. The inventory list area and the status bar now detect the log drag operation and enable auto-scroll.

Version 2.3.0.677 - 03/07/2006

  1. Enhancement. Users can now set text and background colors for defined cart filters (cart categories). The Preferences | Cart Filters page has been re-designed to provide the means to assign text and background colors to each defined cart filter. The color combinations selected are applied to matching audio items on the log, providing a quick visual indicator of the items' category.

  2. Enhancement. Users can now select a font style of their choosing for log text, along with the font size (in a range of 8 - 20 points) and whether or not the audio items will be displayed in bold text. Log font settings are located on the Preferences | Misc page.

Version 2.2.4.667 - 02/08/2006

  1. Fix. An exception would occur if the last hour of the log - the 11:00 PM hour - had content that exceeded 1 hour and an element in the hour ended up with an estimated airplay time of exactly 24:00:00 (midnight of the following day).

  2. Fix. If a cart's length was edited, but nothing else changed, the hourly totals display was not being updated correctly.

  3. Change. The visual appearance of certain controls in the application now conform to the Windows XP look.

Version 2.2.2.665 - 10/10/2005

  1. Enhancement. Minor changes have been made in the format of the debug log text.

Version 2.2.1.664 - 08/19/2005

  1. Fix. A change was made to correct a problem where the type code for a program title log item was being stored incorrectly.

Version 2.2.0.663 - 06/06/2005

  1. Enhancement. An option has been added to display log times as estimated air play times. The estimated play time is hour-based, meaning that the first item in a given hour is estimated to play at the straight-up of the hour. This option is useful mainly for stations running local automation.

  2. Enhancement. Log display column widths can now be modified by the user. The changed widths are restored at program startup.

  3. Enhancement. Users can now hide the tool bar if desired. The tool bar state (visible or hidden) is saved and restored on program startup.

  4. Enhancement. Event log display and search settings are now saved on exit and restored the next time the event log is viewed.

Version 2.1.7.662 - 04/04/2005

  1. Enhancement. The directive edit dialog has been revised to support additional directive types, including suspend automation.

Version 2.1.6.661 - 02/14/2005

  1. Fix. Handling of malformed logs, specifically invalid cart lengths in spot records, has been improved.

Version 2.1.5.660 - 12/08/2004

  1. Enhancement. Commercial Type "Sponsor" (SPN) has been added to the list of available types when editing an audio element.

Version 2.1.5.659 - 12/05/2004

  1. Enhancement. On-demand updating of log spot records, including Description and Length, has been added. Users can choose to update all audio records in a log - cart length only, description only or both cart length and description. This is particularly useful if a log was edited and saved with an editor that does not support the newer cart length style (mmm:ss).

    		 CMED versions prior to 2.4 do not support the extended 999 minute 59 second cart length field - earlier log editor versions supported only 99 minutes 59 seconds for a cart length.

  2. Enhancement. Users can now enable or disable extended text logging, using the Help | Debug Mode menu item.

  3. Enhancement. When viewing a text file, users can now search the displayed text for any combination of information. Searches can be forward or backward from current location and can be case-sensitive, if desired.

  4. Enhancement. Additional error logging has been added to better support end-users.

  5. Fix. When a log validation dialog was closed, other remaining dialogs' status bars were not updated correctly.

Version 2.1.4.658 - 12/02/2003

  1. Enhancement. Log validation has been revised to optionally include cart length-checking. Users can select a +/- range of zero (disabled) to 30 seconds in 5-second increments. The validation report will indicate those carts that have a length problem, i.e., a 60-second spot is ordered, but the inventory cart length is 30 seconds.

  2. Enhancement. The log validation error display now includes the ability to do some additional data views, enhancing the drill-down capabilities of log validation. Users can now display date problems only, length problems only, missing carts only and grouped views of the data, including grouping by error and grouping by cart number.

Version 2.1.3.657 - 09/27/2003

  1. Fix. Corrected a problem with inventory or validation reports not printing the last page of a report in some cases. The problem manifested itself mostly in Win9x OS's, but could also show up in Windows NT v4.

Version 2.1.3.656 - 09/20/2003

  1. Enhancement. Column widths of the data views in log validation are now saved and restored. If you change the width of a column in one of these dialogs, that width will be restored next time you use the dialog. Use the menu item "Help | Reset Display Defaults" to re-set the column widths to the defaults next time the program is started.

  2. Enhancement. Print preview is now available for inventory reports in log editing and log validation reports. Where applicable, users can choose to preview all data in the report or just items that you have selected.

  3. Fix. Changes have been made to the main log edit display to prevent a reported error that reads similar to "Cannot focus on a disabled or invisible window".

Version 2.1.2.655 - 05/05/2003

  1. Fix. A change has been made to the saving of edited log files to ensure that the date/time stamp of the saved file is updated. A very few users reported that when using an NT Gateway to a NetWare server, the newly-saved log file's date/time stamp was not changed. The result was that the DCS or Maestro machine using the log did not recognize the log had been changed and did not refresh the log.

  2. Fix. A minor change to process of loading a log has been made to ensure that a log saved by another application and somehow corrupted will load properly. The problem seen by a few users was that the application saving the file would inadvertently not properly terminate a log record (item) and ezEdit would subsequently save the log, after editing, with this improper termination.

  3. Enhancement. The About display has been updated to include more information about the PC on which ezEdit is running. Users can now save this information to a text file, if needed, for troubleshooting. The display will now appear more quickly, too, as the calculation of the host PC's CPU speed has been improved and takes less time to complete.

  4. Enhancement. Changes have been made to the routine that attempts to "fix" log times when a log is loaded. This process tries to correct invalid log times - times that are out-of-sequence (i.e., a log note with a time of 10:13 appearing on the log AFTER another non-spot time with a time of 10:14). Logic has been improved to catch and correct more of these kinds of input log problems.

    		 The log fix up report that is generated when changes are made to log times now includes changes made to spot times, too. The spot time changes appear at the end of the report.

Version 2.1.1.653 - 03/07/2003

  1. Enhancement. Changes have been made to the directive edit dialog to better identify the original directive when editing. The edit process now correctly adds or removes the characters '~' and '$' when changing directive types from or to time-approximate and cast-off directives.

  2. Fix. When a user's registration expired by date, the application would close without allowing the opportunity to re-register. This has been corrected.

  3. Enhancement. Additional log fix up logic has been added to handle malformed logs that contain a colon (:) in the spot length field. If such spot records are found during the loading of a log, they will be corrected and the user is notified changes have been made.

Version 2.1.1.652 - 02/10/2003

  1. Enhancement. Minor cosmetic changes have been made to some of the dialogs for readability.

  2. Enhancement. Generating the machine ID for registration and copying the ID to the clipboard now includes the machine's name in the text copied to the clipboard. This was done to make identification of which ID is for which machine easier when registering more than one copy of the application.

Version 2.1.1.651 - 12/20/2002

  1. Enhancement. Support for Maestro station numbers that do not conform to the published specification has been added. 2-digit station numbers like "13" (instead of the documented "SD") are now supported. You can now enter any 2-character combination in a station's Station Number field in Preferences.

  2. Fix. Corrected a minor problem where not all of the user settings were being erased if the user elected to reset the display settings.

  3. Fix. Corrected a problem where inventory display columns became unique to each log edit window opened. Now, the settings are global rather than per open window.

Version 2.1.0.650 - 12/02/2002

  1. Enhancement. This version of ezEdit is now an MDI application, meaning the user may open multiple logs, each within its own window. Typical MDI (Multiple Document Interface) functionality is supported, including cascading, tiling of windows, etc.

  2. Enhancement. The Log Validation dialog has been completely re-designed. It now appears as another window in the application, allowing the user to toggle back and forth among logs and validation reports.

  3. Enhancement. Validation now includes the ability to filter the validation results (errors) by cart masks. The cart mask definitions used are the same as those used for inventory filtering in the log editing dialog and are created and maintained in Preferences, as before.

  4. Enhancement. Printed validation reports are completely new. Changes include only displayed items are printed, you can select multiple items on the validation error list and print ONLY those items, and the printed output is improved to be more visually appealing than the original printed reports. The print dialog is different, offering the user the ability to select the printer and choose whether to print all displayed items or ONLY SELECTED ITEMS (checkbox near bottom of dialog).

  5. Enhancement. All columns of the validation error list can be used for sorting, either ascending or descending. A "tick mark" visually shows the sorted column and its direction.

  6. Enhancement. You can now validate a log without first opening it in an edit window. Select the menu item for validating a log in a new window, then select the log from the dialog. A check is made to ensure the selected station has an inventory assigned, along with ensuring a log file actually exists before allowing the user to proceed.

    		 Users can still validate a log they are editing, as before. The difference from previous versions is that the validation window is now another window within the interface.

  7. Enhancement. The Copy Spot to Clipboard feature now works across all opened logs. In other words, if you're editing a log for today on station XXXX, you can copy a spot record, then switch editing windows to a log for today on station YYYY, select a position on the log and paste it into the station YYYY log. Simply put, the spot clipboard is GLOBAL to the application and can be used by any editing session.

  8. Enhancement. The prompt that warns the user of an unsaved log when closing an edit session has been revised to contain more information. This was needed because the user may have several edit windows active, all with unsaved changes, when trying to close the application.

  9. Enhancement. Added support for relay numbers up to 9999. This applies to Maestro only. Maestro will support an unlimited number of relay functions but only supports 9999 being initiated from the log. DCS supports relay numbers 1-99 ONLY.

    		 The Load Window and Execute Function dialogs now fully support relay numbers up to 9999, and if you are using DCS, it is the user's responsibility to ensure no values larger than 99 are used.

  10. Change. Support for command-line loading of a log and/or inventory file has been removed. These actions are no longer applicable to the application, which now supports multiple log windows.

  11. Fix. Previously, if a user selected a different user cart mask to filter the inventory list, the sort order of the list would be set to the default (cart number). Now, the sort order selected by the user is maintained when the cart mask is changed.

  12. Fix. Double-clicking on a date in the Log Save As.. dialog now works (if enabled in Preferences).

Version 2.0.3.648

  1. Enhancement. An option to enable double-click action in the log calendar dialog has been added. Enable the option on the Preferences | Misc page.

Version 2.0.2.647

  1. Enhancement. Copy and Paste of spot record functionality has been added. You can now copy a "C" (commercial or spot) record on the log to a special "spot clipboard", then paste it into the log, which inserts the copied spot record into the log at the selected log row position. This is ONLY for spots - no other records (non-spot records) will be copied or pasted. Access the functionality from the main menu Edit item or the log's pop-up menu or via shortcut keys. [Ctrl-F3] copies to the clipboard, [Ctrl-Ins] pastes from the clipboard. The "clipboard" is special and separate from the standard Windows clipboard.

  2. Fix. The user could load a malformed log that has a structure like:

    00:01:59 Spot Record
    00:02:00 Spot Record
    00:02:01 Spot Record
    00:02:02 Spot Record
    00:02 Directive (or other non-spot record)

    The log fix up routine that runs as a log is loaded would not catch this. A common cause would be where a user had more than 59 spot records associated with a directive, followed by a directive (or other non-spot record) at the next minute. An unusual case, but was discovered when testing the paste from clipboard routines and pasted 80 records in the same location. It is now corrected.

  3. Fix. Similar to above, on completion of a spot record insert, an update routine that updates spot times on the log for records, following an inserted spot, was not catching this same situation. It is now corrected and a log fix up is run when encountered, thus showing the user the changes that had to be made to the log to accommodate the rolling over a minute" effect of having more than 59 spot records within a single minute AND non-spot record at the very next minute.

Version 2.0.1.645

  1. Enhancement. Log search functionality has been added. You can now search for a cart number or a description. The search functionality is available from the main display Edit menu item, or you can use function keys. The [F11] key brings up the search dialog and allows you to select the type of search and enter search text. The [F12] repeats the last search that was executed, starting from the last successful search position in the log.

  2. Fix. If an Execute Function log item had a relay number that included a space, the edit dialog would fail to open. An example would be a relay number of " 1" instead of the correct "01". This could occur when editing the function, not when creating one, as ezEdit properly pads single-digit values with a leading zero.

  3. Fix. Relay numbers in log print or print preview were placed in the wrong column.

Version 2.0.0.644

  1. Initial release of ezEdit.
 For the most recent changes and enhancements, see the Release Notes.