
History: 
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If  you  have any ideas how to improve MovieMUI, don't hesitate to write an
E-Mail with your suggestions to: Andre Bernhardt <amiga@imdb.com>

3.5.1 14.05.97 released on AMINET as MovieMUI 3.5a
               - bugfix:  fixed bug in the new substring-search routine for persons
               - bugfix:  fixed bug in that caused MovieMUI to crash on KS2.x-systems
               - bugfix:  fixed problem with too long movie-titles.
               - feature: new AREXX-command 'getwindow'

3.5.0 12.01.97 released on AMINET as MovieMUI 3.5
               - bugfix:  MovieMUI will now correctly handle movies and persons 
                          with the same hash-values
               - bugfix:  Certificates of award winning movies are now displayed 
                          correctly (The award and certificate entries used be
                          merged together)
               - bugfix:  fixed a bug that screwed up the URLs of persons with a 
                          biography entry (text-output)
               - bugfix:  fixed URL in ARexx-output
               - feature: year of release is not required for direct search anymore
               - feature: roman numbers in names are not required for direct search anymore
               - feature: it is now possible to abort a substring or pattern search.
               - feature: added support for complete-cast.list
               - feature: added support for language.list
               - feature: added support for special-effects-companies.list
               - feature: added support for new biographies tag (salary)
               - feature: certain entries (e.g. genres, locations) are now 
                          separated by ';'
               - feature: completely rewrote text-output.
               - feature: added date of listfiles to statistic window and output
               - feature: display a warning when the database becomes too old.
               - feature: reverse person names from (lastname, firstname) to 
                          or (firstname lastname) for output.
               - feature: rearrange movietitles for output:
                          year-of-release removed and reorderd articles. 
               - feature: added option: add aka-titles and/or locale aka-titles
                          to filmography output.
               - feature: now displays a gauge when reading additional rating/aka-
                          title info in filmography output
               - feature: added ARexx-script for AMMS & C-NET-BBS
               - feature: new ARexx-commands 'getaka' & 'setaka'
               - change:  rewrote GUI.
               - change:  jollied-up the About-requester :-)
               - change:  modified installer script

3.4.0 10.09.96 released on AMINET as MovieMUI 3.4
               - bugfix:  doubled the maximum size for a database entry. I'm curious how
                          long this will last...
               - bugfix:  MovieMUI will now correctly add movies including round brackets
                          in the title.
               - feature: added support for alternate-versions.list
               - feature: added support for business.list
               - feature: added support for mpaa-ratings-reasons.list
               - feature: added support for new technical tag (camera)
               - feature: added new information listview in title windows
               - feature: adds URL to text output
               - change:  changed layout of title window
               - change:  changed sort order of miscellaneous crew (GUI only)
               - change:  updated documentation (MovieDatabase.guide, Additions.guide, etc)

3.3.0 04.04.96 internal release
               - bugfix:  now correctly supports different locale aka-titles.lists
               - feature: added support for new biography tags (articles, interviews)
               - change:  copyright status of the database has changed. See docs.
               - change:  updated documentation (MovieDatabase.guide, Additions.guide, etc)

3.2.0 01.03.96 released on AMINET as MovieMUI 3.2
               - bugfix:  fixed a bug that caused mungwall-hits during database-
                          update.
               - bugfix:  fixed a bug that crashed MovieMUI during database-update 
                          when lists are badly formatted, i.e. lines exceed 255 
                          characters
               - bugfix:  now prevents progress windows from becoming too big and 
                          thus the fonts that MUI chooses from becoming too tiny
               - feature: sort cast in credits order (GUI only - yet) 
               - feature: added support for new biography tags (Trademark & Where now)
               - feature: added MUI 3.x balance-group in title & person windows
                          (only if muimaster.library >= V 11 installed)
               - feature: added MUI "About MUI..." - menu-entry
               - feature: doublecheck (requester) before aborting update process
               - change:  "Shall I perform substring search..."-requester now 
                          defaults to substring
               - change:  changed sort order of cast & crew
               - change:  increased "min. nb. of votes" to 1000
               - change:  removed support for (now) unused director-trivia
               - change:  updated documentation (MovieDatabase.guide, Additions.guide, etc)

3.1.3 30.10.95 released on AMINET as MovieMUI 3.1a
               - bugfix:  fixed a bug that crashed MovieMUI when sorting the
                          movie-plot.link file.
               - bugfix:  fixed a bug with errorfile-handling: MovieMUI will 
                          now correctly tell about entries with the same hash-
                          numbers (!)
               - bugfix:  MUIA_Application_Title according to "MUI-style-guide".

3.1.2 25.01.95 released on AMINET as MovieMUI 3.1
               - bugfix:  fixed little problem with start of data in biographies.list
               - bugfix:  removed bug that caused MovieMUI to fail to create
                          some existing links between movies & persons when
                          updating the database
               - bugfix:  removed a bug with the update-database progress indicator
               - bugfix:  fixed bug that skipped actresses in text-output
               - bugfix:  size and position of windows are saved correctly now
               - feature: added support for locations.list (not very satisfyingly though)
               - feature: added support for release-dates.list
               - feature: added support for taglines.list
               - feature: added new menuitem 'Iconify'
               - feature: added 'print' & 'save' for show-windows
               - change:  removed entries from paths- & options-window
               - change:  removed 'select'-button from show-window 
               - change:  removed unused tag from plot.list 
               
3.1.1 27.10.94 - bugfix:  fixed problems with multiple plots
               - bugfix:  don't add information on movies that are not in
                          the movies.list (012-20-1 bug)
               - feature: support new tag in plot.list 
               - feature: support new cast & crew sorting (Beta-Testers only)
               - feature. added ARexx-script to mail votes (Beta-Testers only)
               - feature. added ARexx-script to view MultiMedia-files (Beta-Testers only)
               - feature: added support for technical.list
               - feature: added support for literature.list
               - feature: added support for reviews (Beta-Testers only)
               - feature: added support for pictures & sounds & mpeg etc. (Beta-Testers only)
               - feature: add date & time to errorfile
               - change:  completely rewritten database update routines

3.1.0 15.10.94 - bugfix:  fixed little bug with running-times.list
               - bugfix:  fixed counting problem with aka-lists
               - feature: added voting facilities (Beta-Testers only)
               - feature: added support for certificates.list
               - feature: added support for color-info.list
               - feature: added support for countries.list
               - feature: added support for genres.list
               - feature: added support for miscellaneous.list
               - feature: added support for production-companies.list
               - feature: added support for sound-mix.list
               - changed: added new biography tags
               - changed: removed 'more Info'-Button in Output-Windows


3.0.6 12.12.94 released on AMINET as MovieMUI 3.0c
               - bugfix:  removed bug that only affects the new trivia.list
                          => increased the size of various buffers
               - feature: added ARexx-Scripts for 'TechnoBBS'
               - feature: added ARexx-Scripts for 'Excelsior! BBS'
               - changed: updated docs and changed Licence!


3.0.5 10.11.94 released on AMINET as MovieMUI 3.0b
               - bugfix:  removed bug that crashed MovieMUI on 68000 AMIGAs
                          when performing a substring/pattern search
               - bugfix:  can now recognize different database versions
               - changed: now needs MUI 2.2
               - changed: MovieMUI can cycle through registers in Title Windows


3.0.4 01.10.94 released on AMINET as MovieMUI 3.0a
               - feature: added ARexx-Script 'mguide'
               
3.0.3 26.09.94 - changed: initstring of plot.list corrected
               - changed: changed some labels to lowercase
               - changed: rewrote the pattern-search routine (hopefully MovieMUI 
                          stops crashing on some machines)
               - feature: improved error-message, when neither movies.list 
                          nor movie.hash can be accessed.

Note: The data-initstring of the plot.list has changed!


3.0.2 27.07.94   MovieDataBase3_0 released on AMINET
               - bugfix:  fixed a major bug in database maintenance routine 
                          (thanks to Gio!)

3.0.2 25.07.94 - changed: finished new docs (thanks to Col and Dirk)
               - changed: updated Helpnodes in MovieMUI to work with the
                          new docs
               - changed: finished new Installer script

3.0.2 15.07.94 - bugfix:  test for correct muimaster.library works
               - bugfix:  corrected bug, when a library could not be opened

3.0.2 10.07.94 - bugfix:  add ratings to titles-text-output
               - feature: support amigaguide
               - changed: rearranged & renumbered errorcodes

3.0.2 04.97.94 - changed: improved ARexx-Scripts
               - changed: slightly reformatted text-output

3.0.2 03.07.94 - bugfix:  person-info-output is sorted correctly now
               - feature: added ARexx-Scripts 'listall' & 'mtrace'
               - feature: new ARexx-commands 'getpath', 'getflag', 'getmax'
               - feature: new ARexx-commands 'setsort' & 'getsort'
               - changed: text-output header

3.0.2 28.06.94 - bugfix:  fixed bug with crazy-credits
               - bugfix:  application-quit works now in all but the maintenance 
                          windows.
               - bugfix:  remove double entries from selection
               - feature: sort Text-Output (Title & Person)
               - feature: add ratings to Person-Output
               - feature: menus for all but maintenance windows
               - feature: save position & dimenson of windows
               - changed: Use plural-form in statistic-window
               - changed: set background of stringgadgets to default value

3.0.2 23.06.94 - bugfix:  name of a person will be added to textoutput even if
                          no biographies have been added.
               - bugfix:  saving & printing now works correctly
               - bugfix:  check if person- or title-window is already open
               - bugfix:  endstrings in trivia-lists are handled correctly
               - bugfix:  hashfiles are closed correctly in every (?!) case
               - feature: save state of cycle-gadget in Main-Window in  Prefs 
               - feature: new ARexx-commands 'saveprefs' & 'loadprefs'
               - feature: new ARexx-command 'setpath'
               - feature: new ARexx-command 'getranking'
               - feature: new ARexx-command 'update'
               - feature: substring-requester may be answered with 's' & 'Return' 
               - feature: top/worst movies are numbered
               - changed: ARexx returns error-number instead of error-penalty

3.0.2 07.06.94 - feature: new ARexx-command 'getfromselection'
               - changed: new Parameter 'FORMAT' to ARexx-command 'getselection'

3.0.2 05.06.94 - bugfix:  if database is not created ARexx-queries are prohibited
               - bugfix:  if the computer crashes for any reason during database-
                          creation, the old values will be deleted.
               - feature: it is possible to have up to 10 show-windows open 
                          at the same time.
               - feature: PATTERN-Search with ANY works
               - feature: improved error-handling
               - feature: new ARexx-command 'geterror'
               - feature: new ARexx-command 'setflag'
               - feature: new ARexx-command 'setmax'

3.0.2 31.05.94 - bugfix:  Option-Prefs: options are handled correctly now. 
                          'Cancel' works correctly.
               - feature: almost completed selection-routines
               - feature: Multi-title/person searches (=> selection)
               - feature: Double-clicking in the main-window starts single search
               - change:  Increased Maximum buffer to 5000 entries.

3.0.2 29.05.94 - bugfix:  new ratings (marked with '*') are added correctly
               - feature: improved update-handling. No need to sort 
                          already sorted data again.

Note: The format of the actors and actresses-lists has changed!
      The char-lists are obsolete now. Several files have been renamed.

3.0.2 24.05.94 - bugfix:  multiple awards are added correctly now
               - feature: supports new format of the Actors/Actresses.list

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