NoteCards 1.3 Release Notes Addenda Frank Halasz Randy Trigg Kirk Kelley Intelligent Systems Laboratory Xerox Palo Alto Research Center First written: 8/7/86 Last updated: 8/15/86 This document describes various changes to NoteCards 1.3k and new information about the release since the official 1.3k Release Notes were published: Link icon display New global parameter: NewNoteFileInitialSize Link Icon display Several of the bugs that existed with regard to proper display and especially hardcopy of link icons have been fixed. In addition, there is one increase in functionality - the attached bitmap can vary in height to match the height of the rest of the link icon (containing title and/or link type). This is done by caching copies of the bitmap (representing the card type) having various heights. The more different sizes of bitmaps that are cached, the closer will be the match to the exact height of the link icon box. Users can adjust this list of heights through the use of the globalvar NC.DefaultLinkIconAttachedBitMapHeights. (This is in an INITVAR so that its value can be redefined before NoteCards is loaded.) The default value is: (11 13 15 17 18 19 20 21 23 25) which is sufficient for most link icons having normal sized fonts. Another advantage of this scheme is that the original bitmap chosen to represent the card type need not be any special size. Copies will be made and cached that are scaled to the correct heights. Global Parameter A new global (i.e. session) parameter has been added: NewNoteFileInitialSize -- If this is 1000, new NoteFiles will be initialized with slots for 1000 cards and will occupy 58 pages. If ÿÿNewNoteFileInitialSizeÿ is 100, then 100 slots will be initialized and the new NoteFile will occupy 9 pages. You may set the initial number of slots to any value. Besides using up less disk space, smaller initial files are faster to create. Compacting a NoteFile automatically increases the number of slots if it is over 75% full. If you manage to use up 90% of the slots in a NoteFile before compacting, you will start to receive warning messages whenever a new card is created. ÿÿNewNoteFileInitialSizeÿ default value is 1000.  (($$ ( ((((((($(( TIMESROMAN  TIMESROMAN TIMESROMAN  TIMESROMAN TIMESROMAN  TIMESROMAN  TIMESROMAN       –-      6 m/Ð/É9zº