D-Fend Reloaded

Changelog as text file: Changelog.txt

Version 0.4.1 (05/22/2008)

When using the option to minimize D-Fend Reloaded while DOSBox is running and DOSBox is changing the resolution, D-Fend Reloaded will no longer rely on the Windows window placement and restore its correct position itself.
Some smaller speed improvements when working with large profile lists.
[Fix] Access violation when opening a screenshot from a profile containing more than one screenshot.
[Fix] Error message when trying to run a D-Fend Reloaded desktop game link while "Minimize when DOSBox starts" is activated.
[Fix] When selecting the default template in the template editor the "Delete" menu item was not disabled (like the toolbar icon and the item in the context menu).
[Fix] DOSBox did not start if the given DOSBox language file did not exist.
[Fix] Closed some memory leaks in screenshot viewer, setup dialog and program info dialog.

Version 0.4.0 (05/14/2008)

Simplified Chinese language file (thanks to muzuiget)
The new profile wizard has been completely redesigned. With the new auto setup templates new profiles (for games known by the D-Fend Reloaded database) can be setup by only entering the game name and the filename.
ScummVM based advantures can be configurated and listed together with the DOSBox based profiles now.
If you define a QBasic interpreter in the setup dialog, you can define bas files as normal program files for games. When executing a bas file profile D-Fend Reloaded will automatically execute it in QBasic in DOSBox.
A new first run wizard makes setting up language and updates for new users much easier.
The content of image files can be extracted to a folder now.
You can build a floppy image from the content of a folder now.
If you copy prof files to the "Confs" folder while D-Fend Reloaded is running they will be added to the games list immediately.
Icons form outside the "IconLibrary" folder can now also be used as profile icons (and can be transfered with the profile and included to installers just like the icons in the default icons folder).
If you delete a profile file while D-Fend Reloaded is running it will ask you if you want to restore the deleted file.
Now you can setup a codepage to be used in DOSBox for each profile. Additionally there is a default codepage stored in each language file which will be used if the codepage is set to "default" in the profile.
Now you can (optionally) define a key mapper file for each profile. (If no key mapper file is defined, the DOSBox default key mapper file will be used.)
A list of batch commands which DOSBox will run after the end of the game can be defined now (some kind of complement of the Autoexec.bat commands).
Now you can also make installer packages from your profile templates.
The templates dialog now has an option to change multiple templates at once (like the multi profile editor for normal profile).
More option to configurate low-level access to mounted CDROMs.
When creating floppy images you can choose to make the image bootable now.
The tray icon has a context menu for direct starting and adding of profiles.
The transfer profiles function can create a portable version of D-Fend Reloaded (by copying files from the current installation and modifing the configuration) in the destination folder before copying the profile data.
Now you can define if the path to the game and the setup exe file should be interpreted absolute (in the physical file system) or relative (to the file system in DOSBox).
Now you can configurate in the setup dialog if D-Fend Reloaded should show configuration options in the profile editor which can only be used with DOSBox CVS builds (like multiple floppy images per drive, PhysFS support, setting the number of text mode lines, VGA chipset and video RAM, Glide emulation and printer support).
When changeing multiple profiles, creating installers etc. now you can select and unselect profiles also by any user defined information. (Until now selecting was only possible by the predefined fields like language, developer, year, etc.)
Profiles (conf and prof files), screenshots and captured sound can be imported by drag&drop now. Dragging program files to the D-Fend Reloaded program window will open the new profile wizard with the chosen file.
Within the multi profile editor you can add, change and delete user-defined information fields now.
For each profile you can define some extra files which will be transfered, uninstalled and packed into installer packages together with the other game files (like it is already possible with the extra directories).
The profile editor will show a warning if the user trys to create a new profile with no game program filename (and is not using a boot image option).
When opening the select game exe or select setup exe dialog from the profile editor or the wizard the path of the setup exe or the game exe (if already defined) will be used as initial directory instead of the games base directory.
When a checksum error (changed or exchanged game program file) is detected, D-Fend Reloaded now also offers the option to turn off checksums for the profile (until now only keep old checksum or create new checksum).
The checksum driven game file change detection can be turned off in the setup dialog now.
The mount dialog will show a warning if the users trys to use the same drive letter for two mounted drives.
The mount dialog will show a warning message if the users trys to mount the the root directory of a drive.
The dialog for playing captured game sounds has been improved: You can jump to any position in the file via a slider and the captured wave sound can be encoded to mp3 or ogg directly from the dialog now.
The screenshot view dialog has been improved: You can cycle though the screenshots of a profile via two new toolbar buttons (or by using the cursor keys or the mouse wheel) without closing the dialog. Additionally the zoom level is set to 100% when a new image is loaded.
The import conf file function now trys to make mount records from the mount commands of the autoexec section.
Now you can setup which icons should be visible on the toolbar.
The tooltips in the games list now also show the last modification time of each profile.
Some new icons in the modern and classic profile editor (thanks to Banjo).
[Fix] Even if you choose "Restore profile on disk with version from memory" when a file conflict occures the profile on disk will not be changed and the version in memory will be lost as long as you do not make any changes to the profile in memory before closing D-Fend Reloaded.
[Fix] The boot from floppy image function did not work if you used a single image file.
[Fix] When using D-Fend Reloaded in portable mode the path to the DOSBox language file was not updated properly what could DOSBox prevent from starting.
[Fix] The main activation of DOSBox IPX support is not written to the DOSBox conf file when starting a profile with IPX support enabled.
[Fix] When installing D-Fend Reloaded in user directory mode (the default installation mode) the templates were only created for the user account the installer was run from.
[Fix] The column visible status was not saved when closing the setup dialog if the columns were not in default order.
[Fix] When changing the filename of a profile all character after the first "." in the new filename were removed.
[Fix] The capture folder settings were ignored when importing conf files.
[Fix] User defined fields were ignored when exporting a games list.
[Fix] Wrong language in dialogs after changing the program language but closing the setup dialog with "Cancel".
[Fix] When using the "Minimize to tray" option together with "Start minimized" the application is minimized to the taskbar instead of the tray area on programm start-up.
[Fix] When adding a new profile via the wizard the information fields (genre, developer, etc.) of the new profile always showed "Not set" until restart of the program.
[Fix] Wrong default icon in the profile select dialog which opens when clicking on "Template from profile" in the templates dialog.

Version 0.3.2 (02/29/2008)

French language file (thanks to Christophe Bertrand)
Russian language file (thanks to Alexander Katz)
The installer and the data package installers are now also available in all five currently supported languages.
All available CDs can automatically be mounted at DOSBox start (optional, configurateable per profile).
Floppy images can be written back to real floppy disks.
The profile files will only be updated on disk on program close if this is really needed. (This makes using multiple instances of D-Fend Reloaded at the same time easier.)
A warning message will appear if you try to run a game from a profile made for some other game. (With each profile checksums for the game and the setup exe will be stored automatically compared with the real exe when trying to run the game.)
A warning message will appear if you try to run a program file which is not reachable via any mounted folder.
The function that builds the autoexec commands to run the game now also looks on mounted CDs for a path to the file and when there are overlapping mounts it will use the shortest path instead of the first matching path.
The screenshot capture folder will be chosen automatically for new profiles (until now screenshot capture folder was only setup automatically when adding profiles via the wizard). This feature can be turned off in the setup dialog.
It can be configurated now what should be shown in the games list if there are undefined values for genre, developer, etc. (by default "not set").
[Fix] Mounting of real CD drives does not work if no CD is in the drive when starting DOSBox.
[Fix] Changes made to "Window resolution", "Fullscreen resolution" and "Scale" in the multiple profile were not saved.
[Fix] The default profile cannnot be changed with the modern style profile editor because when closing the dialog an "You have to define a name for the new game." error occurs.
[Fix] In the language editor the last language string of each section was not shown.
[Fix] The "Set default screenshot folder" button in the profile editor does not detect and remove illegal characters in the profile name.
[Fix] The sound prebuffer value written from the profile to the DOSBox config file was wrong.
[Fix] The "Reopen last active profile editor page" does not work when using the modern profile editor.
[Fix] When changing the language in the setup dialog the "window size at program start" dropdown box was reset to the default value.
[Fix] When starting the first run wizard by deleting the DFend.ini a second "DOSBox DOS" profile was created instead of reseting the existing one to the default values.
[Fix] Pressing the "Insert" and "Delete" keys in the environment variables editor table may changes the the list of environment variables in unexpected ways.
[Fix] When browsing for a installation directory in the program installer and in data packages installers always a "\D-Fend Reloaded" was added to the choosen folder.
[Fix] When opening the multi profile editor the second tab (things to change) instead the first tab (selecting profiles for change) was active.
[Fix] Untranslated button caption in language select dialog for language editor and misspelled string in profile editor.

Version 0.3.1 (02/18/2008)

CDs can be ripped to ISO images and used as DOSBox drives.
Floppy disks can be ripped to IMG images and used as DOSBox drives.
Screenshots and captured sounds can be renamed.
Captured screenshots can be set as windows wallpaper image.
If DOSBox is started in window mode, the DOSBox window can be centered on screen.
[Fix] CPU cycles settings "Auto" and "Max" in the modern profile editor dialog did not work.
[Fix] In the "Edit multiple profiles" the "Fullscreen resolution" did not work.
[Fix] When using the "Restore window size on program start" option the games list keeps empty until you click on a category on the left at program start.
[Fix] When pressing enter in the setup dialog shown at first program start you got an "No game is selected in list." error.
[Fix] Choose DOSBox directory as current directory when starting DOSBox to make DOSBox find files in its own directory.
[Fix] The "Use as default profile" option in the template profile editor did not work.
[Fix] When changing the language in the setup dialog the "Mode" dropdown box shows an empty value until you choose one of the two modes again.
[Fix] Default values for "Resolution" corrected.

Version 0.3.0 (02/08/2008)

Completely new designed and more clearly arranged profile editor (the classic D-Fend style profile editor is still available and can be activated in the setup dialog).
D-Fend Reloaded can look for updates on start up and via menu now.
Captured wave sounds for each game can be listed, saved, deleted, played and encoded to mp3 (encoder not included) or ogg.
For each profile a DOS version number which should be reported by DOSBox can be configurated.
You can (optional) define a custom DOSBox installation for each profile to be used to start the game.
You can define additional information of the type key=value for each profile and filter the games by this new categories.
Font sizes and colors and balckground colors and images in the main window can be configurated.
The multi profile editor can change window resulution, fullscreen resolution and scaling method now.
If a conf file on disk is changed using a text editor while D-Fend Reloaded is running, it can load and keep these changes or overwrite them with the copy in memory.
You can define for each profile to activate, deactivate or keep the status of the num lock, the caps lock and the scroll lock when starting DOSBox.
New profile settings: Switch mouse to 2-button mode and change mouse buttons.
New profile settings: Sound volume for the different virtuel sound devices (master, disney sound system, speaker, GUS, SoundBlaster and FM).
The conf file, which will be used when opening DOSBox, can be opend in a text editor now.
Making translations of D-Fend Reloaded is now much easier with the new buildin language editor.
The icons in the program (toolbar, menu and profile editor) are not exchangeable via an ini file.
The profile icon can be used as the link icon when making desktop or startmenu links now.
External image files can be added to the screenshots list via the screenshots popup menu now.
The file names of the profile files can be changed from within the profile editor now.
In all dialogs with a games selection list where games could be selected by genre, now games can also be selected by developer, publisher, year and language.
More view options for the games list (simple list, report, small icons, icons; simple list and report with and without icons).
The setup dialog has two different feature sets "easy" and "advanced" now.
New menu item for direct D-Fend prof file import.
New setup option: Start maximized.
A new statistics window has information about the number of profiles, the number of templates, the number of icons and the number of profiles per genre.
Some more icons in the menu and the dialogs.
[Fix] The path comparison for making paths relative worked case sensitive, so some paths abbreviations may be missed until now.
[Fix] The select buttons in the multiple profile change dialog had no function.
[Fix] The "Free virtual space" value in the "Folder as hard disk" section of the mount edit dialog was not saved.
[Fix] Changed genre, publisher, ... in the multiple profile editor did not appear in the games list until a restart of D-Fend Reloaded.
[Fix] Changed default values in the setup dialog were may not saved.
[Fix] When resetting the default values in the setup dialog not all avaible values were written to the lists.
[Fix] The setup dialog function "Make absolute to relative paths" did not change the extra directories if more than one extra directory was defined.
[Fix] The setup dialog default values for the video card types were ignored in the profile editor.
[Fix] Misaligend window elements when stating maximized.
[Fix] Corrected untranslated menu item.

Version 0.2.0 (01/16/2008)

New dialog for changing multiple profiles at once.
The serial port settings can be changed via a dialog now.
If installed with the FreeDOS commandline tools, 4DOS can be set up as commandline interpreter in profile editor.
If installed with the FreeDOS commandline tools, DOS32A can be used as a replacement for the DOS/4GW protected mode extender.
Now you can specify multiple CD images for one drive mount and switch between them at DOSBox runtime.
Now you can specify multiple floppy images for booting from floppy image and switch between them at DOSBox runtime.
If a game has a data folder, D-Fend Reloaded can not only open this folder but also open a specific file in the data folder now (selectable via a directory list in form of menu).
Installer packages for single games can be built directly from the the profile context menu.
The DOSBox png screenshots can be saved as jpeg, gif or bmp image files now.
The creation of the games list is much faster now.
The DosBox program icon is used for the "DosBox DOS" default profile.
The game info tooltips in the games list can be turned off and on now.
More icons in the menu.
Updated DOSBox links in the help menu.
Added the vogons to the "Old games" link collection.
[Fix] The serial port settings were ignored when starting DosBox.
[Fix] Long lines in "Autoexec.bat" and "Custom setting" were split into two lines which can damage commandlines.
[Fix] Numerial values were not stored when closing profile editor if you entered less digits than the edit field allows.
[Fix] Added missing default value "auto" for joysticks.
[Fix] Fixed some spelling mistakes in the English language file.
[Fix] Wrong info text in DOSBox folder select dialog in setup dialog.
[Fix] I/O control is always shown as "No" in the drives list independend of the real state of I/O control.

Version 0.1.2 (01/04/2008)

[Fix] Missing translations for Shortcuts
The function of the add button in the toolbar is now configurable (normal add, add with wizard or popup menu for operation).
[Fix] After changing the program language the categories list on the "default values" page of the setup dialog contained the values in the old and the new language.
New setup option: Start on Windows boot (default: off)
New setup option: Start minimized (default: off)
[Fix] Missing translations for menu items in the games list popup menu and the screenshots popup menu
[Fix] Missing translation of message dialog captions and buttons
The program info dialog shows the names of the authors of the language files.
The games list can now be sorted by any column just by clicking the column header.
Spanish language file (thanks to Neville from vogons.zetafleet.com)

Version 0.1.1 (12/18/2007)

[Fix] Missing space between programfile und parameters when running a game
More icons in treeview and in profile editor dialog
Changelog viewer in programinfo dialog
[Fix] Wrong tab order in some dialogs
New "By genre" button in "Export|Create conf" dialog
The "Edit drive" dialog now opens faster
[Fix] The alternative profile edit hotkey F2 was linked to profile add instead of profile edit
In the transfer dialog, the uninstall dialog and the build installer dialog the "DosBox DOS" default entry is not shown but the genre of this profile has been used when building the "by genre" menu.
Additional start menu link "Manuals folder" to access the manual and game data folder.
[Fix] When copying a profile "not set" was shown in the info columns (genre, ...) of the new profile.
More abandonded games links in the help menu.
Progress dialog when deinstalling or transfering games.
"Auto create" button in mounting section of profile editor to create default drive c: with one click.
New options "retry" and "ignore" when files are protected when deinstalling games.
New buttons "Previous" and "Next" in profile editor to switch between games.
Now you can choose between "DirectX" and "WinDIB" als SDL videodrivers. ("WinDIB" is slower than the default "DirectX" but may solve some keyboard problems.)
New profile menu option "Add from template" allows to create new profiles from templates without opening the template dialog.
Setup dialog language will change immediately when another language is selected in the dialog.
[Fix] Icon files were ignored when copying and uninstalling game and when building installers.
[Fix] The GUS enabled/disabled setting was not correctly shown in the profile editor.

Version 0.1.0 (11/08/2007)

First Version at all, everything is new.