| System |
- The CVW 3.2 client is available for the following platforms: SPARC Solaris 2.6, i386 Linux.
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- MIME-DB macro support added to mime-db file.
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- The shell script now exports CVW_OSTYPE as an environment variable.
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| User Interface |
- Login/Logout feature added to the File Menu.
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- Any valid URL that appears in the scrollback will automatically hot.
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- All URL lookups will occur in background now and no longer freeze the client.
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- Added an input pane scrollbar. If your input text spills over two lines, a scrollbar appears.
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- All writable text and entry widgets are white. Widgets that are for display purposes only (user has no permissions to write to) remain grey (Except for the scrollback).
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- Toolbar buttons are flat and raise when the pointer is over them.
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- Map updates is self properly when floors are removed and when room names are changed.
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- All Tcl tracebacks and bugs will appear in a CVW look&feel dialog as opposed to the Tk default dialog.
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- Changed online users window to display a static online users list.
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| Shared Whiteboard
Enhancements |
- Whiteboard uses sockets rather than Tk send.
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- Single source base is now in use in the Tk and Java clients
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- Uses IMG package (replacing DJPEG) to display JPEG, TIFF, and PNG backgrounds. However, IMG is not mandatory for the whiteboard to work.
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- Changed default tool to the selection arrow.
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- The client no longer restricts image types when making a whiteboard.
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| User Preference
Enhancements |
- Made sure prefs window disappears when logging out and minimizing.
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- Web Browser option allows for any web browser, not just Netscape or Mosaic.
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- Added new window/frame option to Web Browser prefs.
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- Redesigned the Misc preference page.
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| Document Enhancements |
- All file transfers between document server and the client (export, import, open for view, ..) will all occur in the backgound and no longer freeze the client.
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- All file transfers between document server and the client will be indicated with a progress meter in the status bar.
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| General Bug Fixes
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- If no name is entered in login box, the client will no longer crash. Instead, it will reprompt the user for a name.
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- Fixed bug where bugforms could not open when somebody else had them.
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| System |
- The CVW 3.2 client is available for the
following Windows platforms: Windows 95/98 and Windows NT 4.0. It now requires 30MB of disk space
and 64MB of RAM.
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| User Interface |
- A Status bar was added to the bottom of the
client to indicate the name of the CVW server, the current room location, audio
conferencing enabled, video conferencing enabled, idle on, and server status messages
(such as document server communications).
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- Right mouse menu options which are the default command invoked
when the user double clicks are now displayed in bold.
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- The scrolllock button was moved to the command entry area.
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- A item count was added to all folders including the room
contents. A user count was also added to the User panel.
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- Some of the command entry hot keys have been changed:
- Emote and Emote privately is now Ctrl+M and Ctrl+Shift+M, respectively
- Find user is now Ctrl+Shift+F
- Send popup is now Ctrl+Shift+P
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| Performance Enhancements |
- Online user list is no longer automatically updated. The user
must push the "Refresh" button to request current user status from the CVW server.
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- The server no longer sends the list of all users when the
Information dialog is opened on an object but rather when the Permissions of the object is accessed.
This is also true for Members of a Group or the Access list of a Room.
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| Find |
- The find capability
(Edit->Find...) has been added to locate People, Places (rooms and floors), and Things (Files, Notes,
Web References, Whiteboards, Folders, Shortcuts, Groups) in CVW.
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| Scrollback |
- A search scrollback
capability (Edit->Search Scrollback...) has been added to search for a text pattern in the scrollback
window.
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- The ability to page the scrollback up and down by one page
has been added by using the Page Up and Page Down keyboard buttons.
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| Preferences |
- The ability to send audio as RTP has been added
to the "Advanced Conferencing" tab.
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- The ability to set
color highlight preferences to color code text chatter from specific users has been added
to the "User Highlights" tab.
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- The ability to see the default command in the
command entry area has been added to the "Display" tab.
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- The preference for
for selecting local time of the client workstation or Greenwich Mean Time as the
display format for all dates in the client has been added to the "Misc" tab.
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- The Windows client provides keyboard shortcuts
for editing the content of the command entry area using a subset of Emacs commands
(Ctrl+K to delete from cursor to end of line, Ctrl+A go to the beginning of the line, etc)
if the preference is selected in on the "Misc" tab.
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| Miscellaneous |
- When the user chooses to go home either using the
toolbar button or by typing "home" in the To: field of the command entry area, the user is now teleported.
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- Command history is now saved.
To cycle through the previous and next commands, Ctrl+P and Ctrl+N can be used,
respectively. Also, Ctrl+UP and Ctrl+DOWN arrow keys can be used.
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| System |
- The Windows CVW client does not have
administration capabilities. CVW administration must be performed with the Unix CVW
Client.
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- The Windows CVW client must be installed on
the user's local workstation.
- The Unix client is most commonly installed
on an NFS Server and mounted on the user's local workstation.
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- The Unix client provides the ability to add
additional servers to the server list in the cvw.res file. Users can also provide
additional servers to the server list in the Servers preferences. This combined list
is presented to the user upon login in the server connection dialog.
- The Windows client uses a
"Server.cvw" file, located in the cvw program directory, to provide server
settings. One file per server must be configured. Shortcuts to these files
can be placed on the user's desktop or in a program group in the user's Start menu.
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- The Unix client can be made into a default
startup application by creating a cvw startup script launching CVW with the -login option
(see CVW Administrator's Guide or CVW man page for more detail).
- The Windows client can be made into a
default startup application by creating a Shortcut to the Server.cvw file (typically
located in C:\Program Files\Mitre\CVW) and placing it in the "StartUp" folder in
the "Programs" folder of the Start menu.
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| User Interface |
- The Windows client provides a toolbar button
to bring popup messages to the foreground.
- The Unix client does not have this
capability.
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- The All Users list in the Unix client
displays user email address and phone as additional information.
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- The Unix client provides an advance
scrollback function (Ctrl+L) to advance the scrollback by one screen.The Home and End
keyboard buttons position the scrollback at the beginning and end of scrollback
text.
- The Windows client does not provide this
capability.
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| User Items |
- The Windows client provides a list of all
items a user has created and all items the user has been given permissions to modify
(View->My Items).
- The Unix client provides a text command
(@audit) to display this information.
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| Commands |
- The Windows client provides a user interface
for facilitating command entry. A drop down menu provides commands (with hot keys)
for say, say privately (page in Unix client), popup, emote, emote privately, phone, join,
go, idle, find user (who in Unix client).
- The Unix client provides textual commands
for these actions (say, sayto, page, page !, :, +, join, goto, idle, who). The Unix
client does not provide a textual command for phone; it is only available as a right mouse
menu option on a user in the user panel, online users list, and all users list.
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| Rooms |
- The Windows client displays information
about the current room (Room->Information) and the room managers for the current room
(Room->Permissions).
- The Unix client does not display this
information.
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- Users can be admitted to a locked room from
the Online users list as well as the Room menu (Room->Admit user...) in the Windows
client.
- The Unix client only allows users to be
admitted to a locked room from the Room menu (Room->Admit User...).
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| Proxies |
- The Windows client provides a menu item to
display the proxy window (View->Proxy).
- The Unix client displays the proxy window
when the user invokes the command to place the proxy in a room (pput).
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- The Windows client provides a user interface
for facilitating proxy command entry. A drop down menu provides commands (with hot
keys) for say, emote, go, join and a toolbar provides buttons for displaying room
information, displaying a user panel, paste text to users in room, paste web reference to
users in room, and switch location with user.
- The Unix client provides textual commands
for these actions (psay, :, pput, pget, switch).
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| Groups |
- The Group Manager in the Unix client can be
displayed in icon or detailed list format (View menu in Group Manager window). The
detailed list format displays group name, modified date, modified by, create date, created
by. The list can be sorted by any of the categories.
- The Group Manager in the Windows client is
displayed as a detailed list and lists group name and group creator. The list can be
sorted by either of the categories.
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- The Windows client provides a command entry
style window for group communications (say privately, popup) accessible by right mouse
clicking on group name and selecting Say privately... or Send popup...
- The Unix client provides a text input window
for group communications (page, popup) accessible by right mouse clicking on group name
and selecting Page... The Unix client also supports group page as a textual command
(gpage or gpage !).
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| Room Contents and Folders |
- The Room Contents, Folders, and Carrying
Folder in the Unix client can be displayed in icon or detailed list format (View menu in
upper right of Room Contents panel or View menu in Folder window).
- The Room Contents, Folders, and Carrying
Folder in the Windows client is displayed as a detailed list.
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| Preferences |
- The Unix client provides a preference for
setting the output device for audio conferencing (speaker or headset).
- The Windows client does not provide this
preference since the audio tool does not support this capability.
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- The Unix client provides a preference for
customizing display font settings for text input and output windows, menus and frames,
warning popup messages, and notify popup messages.
- The Windows client does not provide this
capability.
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- The Unix client provides the ability to set
color highlight preferences to color code regular expression matches that occur
in the scrollback.
- The Windows client does not provide
capabilities for regular expressions.
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- The Windows client provides the ability to
set color highlight preferences to color code the user's name, private communications
directed to the user, and public communication directed to the user.
- The Unix client client provides the ability
to set color highlight preferences to color code the user's name and any communications
directed to the user.
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- The Unix client provides preference settings
for selecting the default web browser (Netscape or Mosaic) in the Misc preferences.
- The Windows client uses the default browser
registered with Microsoft Windows.
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