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Fr Informationen wie Hal optimal im Internet verwendet werden kann lesen Sie bitte die folgenden Dokumente, die im Hal Installationsverzeichnis im Unterverzeichnis "Docs" zu finden sind (standard ist C:\Programme\Snova95\docs bzw. C:\Programme\SnovaNT\docs):-

1. Tech89_201.DOC - dieses Dokument heit "Guide To Internet Accessibility", es bietet Informationen, wie Hal am besten im Internet verwendet werden kann.

2. InstallingMSAA.DOC - dieses Dokument erklrt wie man Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) installiert und wie man Hal's Einstellung so ndert, dass MSAA verwendet wird.

3. WebAccessories.DOC - dieses Dokument beschreibt die Microsoft Web Accessories.

4. OutlookExpress5.DOC - dieses Dokument bietet Informationen wie man Microsoft Outlook Express 5 konfiguriert und verwendet um E-mails zu senden und zu empfangen.


Dieses Dokument enthlt eine Liste von Versionsunterschieden zwischen dieser Version und frheren Versionen von Hal.


Version 4.50
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NEU: Verbesserte Kompatibilitt mit fernstlichen Betriebssystemen, einschlielich traditionellem und vereinfachtem chinesisch.

BEHOBEN: Verschiedene Erkennungprobleme in Tabellenkalkulationsprogrammen in Windows 2000 und Windows ME.

BEHOBEN: Kleinere Probleme mit Videokarten-Kompatibilitt in Windows 2000.

BEHOBEN: Einige Webseiten die vorher nicht gelesen wurden knnen jetzt gelesen werden.

BEHOBEN: Windows ME Hilfe- und Supportsystem wird jetzt gesprochen.

NEU: Navigationsmodus 'auf Dokumentfenster beschrnkt'.


Version 4.04
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NEU: Kontrollkstchen zur Ansage von Leerzeilen in den Spracheinstellungen fr Dialogfelder, sagt Grafiken ohne MSAA Namen an (entspricht keinem Alt-Text im IE)

NEU: Erkennung von gepunkteter Fokus-Linie funktioniert nicht nur mit rechteckigen Feldern (z.B. IE: Link ber mehrere Zeilen)

BEHOBEN: Einige Grafikobjekte konnten nicht dauerhaft benannt werden, dieser Fehler wurde behoben.

NEU: MSAA Option um Namen von umbekannten Grafiken mittels Microsoft Active Accessibility zu bekommen

NEU: Fernstliche Versionen von Windows 9x werden untersttzt.

NEU: Chinesische BIG5 Braille-Tabelle

NEU: Suchmodus im Navigationsmodus. F3 um zu Suchen, F4 und F2 um nchstes und vorhergehendes Vorkommen zu finden.

NEU: Zustzliche Hotkeys um zwischen Popup-Fenstern bzw. zwischen Dokumentfenstern einer Anwendung zu wechseln falls die Anwendung die Bedienung mit der Tastatur nicht ausreichend untersttzt.

BEHOBEN: Die Namen der Standard-Stimmen sind jetzt in der korrekten Sprache.

BEHOBEN: Die Erkennung des aktuellen Fensters liefert jetzt das korrekte Ergebnis in ein paar Fllen in denen es bisher nicht richtig funktioniert hat. Die einzige beachtenswerte Anwendung die dies betrifft ist Microsoft Developer Studio.

BEHOBEN: Der Hotkey "Lies Zeile" funktioniert jetzt auch im Navigationsmodus.

Version 4.03
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FIX: Einstellungen fr Navigationsmodus sind jetzt Anwendungsspezifisch und werden in der Atlas-Datei statt in der globalen Einstellungsdatei gespeichert.

FIX: Der gelegentliche Absturz beim wiederholten Wechsel der Sprache der Benutzerschnittstelle wurde behoben.

FIX: Der Absturz beim Start in NT VGA Modus worde behoben.

FIX: Hal "hngt" nicht mehr in Delphi 4. Zuvor mute das Layout-Gitter ausgeschaltet werden um das Hngen zu vermeiden. Dies knnte auch andere Probleme mit "Hngen" von Anwendungen beheben.

FIX: Atlas-Dateien knnen ins Root-Verzeichnis eines Laufwerks exportiert werden.

FIX: Die Netzwerkversion erkennt SAM jetzt korrekt (Dies war ein Fehler in SAM).

Version 4.02
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FIX: Im Internet Explorer wurden die folgenden Fehler behoben:
	Optionsfelder (Radio buttons) werden gesprochen.
	Beschriftungen einiger Kontrollelemente werden gesprochen.
	Der Hotkey "Lese aktives Kontrollelement" liest die ganze Webseite, auer Text wird editiert.

Diese Version von Hal NT ist jetzt mit Windows 2000 kompatibel. 

FIX: Einige Grafiken konnten nicht benannt werden.

FIX: Die Netzwerkversion speichert die Benutzereinstellungen korrekt (fr Version 4.01 gibt es einen Workaround)

FIX: Einige kosmetische Mauszeiger-Probleme in der Vergrerung wurden korrigiert.

FIX: Die Formatierung in der digitalen Version des deutschen Installationshandbuches (INS00049.DOC) wurde korrigiert.

Version 4.01
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NEU: Vllig berarbeitete Systemsteuerung um die Benutzerschnittstelle zu vereinfachen.

Navigationsmodus, Laufschrift, Keyboardecho sind jetzt Anwendungsabhngig.

Die Hal Systemsteuerung hat Ihre eigene festgelegte Einstellungsdatei.

NEU: Braille Navigations-Funktionen:
	Zeilenumbruch
	Umschaltung zwischen Zeilenmodus / Layoutmodus
	Umschaltung zwischen logischem und physischem Modus
	Zustzliche Optionen fr den physischen Kompressionsmodus.

NEU: Braille Kurzschrift (Grade 2 Braille) ist mglich. 

NEU: Kontext sensitive Online Hilfe. Drcken von F1 auf einem Kontrollelement ffnet ein Popup-Hilfefenster zu diesem Element, Drcken der Hilfe-Schaltflche ffnet das Online-Handbuch.

NEU: Direct Draw in NT wird jetzt vom Anzeigeinterzeptor untersttzt.

Objektverwaltung in 95 wurde beschleunigt.

FIX: Einige kleinere Probleme mit Anzeigetreiberkompatibilitt in 95 wurden korrigiert.

NEU: Kommandozeilenparameter zum Beenden des Produkts.

NEU: Option da beim Beenden des Produkts gleichzeitig SAM geschlossen wird.

NEU: Beim Navigieren durch die Stimmen Auswahl-Liste wird Beispieltext gesprochen.

FIX: Die Drehfelder (Spin controls) laufen jetzt alle in die richtige Richtung. Cursor auf erhht den Wert und Cursor ab vermindert den Wert.

Version 3.03
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(erste deutsche Version von Hal)

Corrected a detection problem with Office 95 and 97 which would cause
it to read the menu bar and tool bars when switching to the application
window. 

Corrected problem with checkboxes and radio buttons. On some machines 
these would occasionally stop talking.

Corrected problems with reading some menu bars in Windows 98. Notably the
first menu item in Notepad and WordPad would not speak.

Corrected the use of cursor keys in the control panel. Some control 
groups allowed you to cursor out of the group.

Version 3.02
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Sometimes settings would not be saved if you made changes and exited
Windows without using or exiting the product control panel first. This 
is now fixed. Only settings which have not been 'applied' are not saved
if you exit windows with the product control panel open.

Fixed crash which could occur in Windows 95 if you close down Windows
or logged on as another user when the product control panel was open.

Fixed problems with detection of some windows in Microsoft Access.

Fixed a small memory leak in process detection.

Version 3.01
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Various problems with graphics cards have been fixed. All PCI and AGP graphics cards tested now work properly with Hal.

FIX: After using overview mode the hotkeys which return from navigation mode did not work.

FIX: When in Navigation mode - SPACEBAR does not click on correct character in a line of text.

NEW: creen refresh key

FIX: Changed cursor position routine so that MS Sans Serif font on desktop works, but now developer studio doesn't. Dev Studio does not put the cursor in the correct place. 

FIX: Fixed bug which caused title bars of windows to change colour for no apparent reason! Problem only occurred in NT and was caused by some uninitialised data.

NEW: Added 'Move mouse pointer' option to navigation mode . This can turn off the mouse pointer tracking to prevent applications from doing things in navigation mode. Speech and braille is unaffected.

FIX: Pasting of Selected formula cells in Excel now does not mess up.

FIX: Accented characters were not always treated as letters.

FIX: Added detection to locate dashed boxes (cut/copy box in Excel). This fixes the stuttering problem in Excel when you copy a selection.

NEW: Voice and braille settings are now saved in a file instead of the registry.

NEW: Changed how it remembers which synth was in use. It will now remember if 'no synth' is implicitly selected by the user.

FIX: Implemented a maximum limit to the size of the OSM message buffer. Previously if Hal crashed or hung, the system could crash because it would eventually use up all of kernel mode memory.

FIX: Some text was being lost due to a 8K limit on the size of a string. Removed the limit on length of text string, it now accepts up to 64K per string.

FIX: fixed several colour problems - colours were being incorrectly reported as palette indexes instead of logical colours. Some objects which were previous of unknown colour now are described correctly.

FIX: found some missing text from the off screen model. problem occurred when you had complex clipping regions.

FIX: Fixed crash in NT with latest S3 graphics card drivers.

FIX: Underlined text is now detected properly. Also underlined shortcuts are detected even if they are an incidental label.
	
NEW: The prompt file now loads up to 40x faster. This reduces the loading time by 10 seconds on a typical machine.

NEW: Speed adjustment hot keys.

NEW: Hotkeys now saved in files instead of in the registry.

NEW: Braille physical layout mode.

NEW: Changed hot keys to include numeric keypad, function and Jaws keys as built in defaults. 

NEW: Added Application dependent Settings files.
- New Control panel layout
- New directory file structure
- New application detection

NEW: Added ability to cope with an underline cursor.  Not yet in control panel but will be used automatically when in a "Console" window in NT.

NEW: Prompt file has been split into speech and braille so you can have different prompts for the two systems.

NEW: The braille in the "focus type" status cell now contains more info, for control status.

NEW: Braille layout mode.

FIX: Fixed NT compatibility with VGA mode. Now works in VGA 640x480x16 and 800x600x16 in NT4. (Including tracking of menus)

FIX: Lack of support for Right Control + Cursor keys.

FIX: Various memory leaks in the braille system.

Version 2.50
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NEW: Added code to display beta number from the registry information if we are a beta version.

NEW: Changed splash screen to new corporate style. Also reduced them to 16 colours for speed and simplicity.

FIX: There was a problem with some key releases not speaking properly.

FIX: if you had more that 650+ fonts in Windows 95, lots of things would go wrong. This was caused by a memory heap not being big enough.

FIX: No longer crashes if graphics database is corrupted.

FIX: NT - background text colour could be incorrect. It sometimes detected as a colour when in fact it was transparent.

NEW: up-down navigation mode from braille display 

NEW: Added more class names into the detection database to improve compatibility with Windows 98

Version 2.03
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FIX: In Office 97 Page setup property sheet margins do not speak.

NEW: "Assign Hot Keys" tab in the control panel. Redefinable hot keys

NEW: Braille display support and new braille property page.

NEW: Redesigned control panel - various controls relocated.

NEW: Single line tab control in control panel to reduce space.

Version 2.02
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FIX: Adjusted OSM interceptor so that text in IE4 in Windows 98 is now detected correctly. Various memory locations had changed in Windows 98.

NEW: Added more braille translation tables.

FIX: Hal NT - If closed down then some 16-bit apps could crash.

FIX: Excel 97 spreadsheet foci not detected if cell height > about 25 pixels.

FIX: Read to cursor hot key did not speak caps or some attributes due to error in hotkey definition table.

FIX: In Excel 97 the window+document title is respoken when switching from editing a cell to not editing. 

FIX: In Excel 97 when NOT editing a cell the cell is still seen as an edit area sometimes.

FIX: Shortcut characters are not detected in NT. The underline detector has now been improved.

FIX: Tristate checkboxes. HAL does not detect the third state. The third state now says 'partially selected'. Sometimes the third state means 'disabled' but very rarely and then cannot be tabbed onto anyway.

FIX: In the Graphic Edit dialog box the state list box does not work if the state prompts are not in alphabetical order.

FIX: In Excel repeated speech when editing a cell. This was caused by some incorrect source code which was not picked up as an error by the compiler. The compiler simply skipped the offending code!

FIX: Automatic bitmap labelling will now work in Corel WordPerfect and Quattro-Pro Suite 8.

FIX: Demonstration version goes wrong if time-up occurs during bitmap labelling or navigation mode.

NEW: Created a NT demonstration version.

FIX: The tool tip detector for Automatic Bitmap labelling now does not rely on Class names. It looks for little yellow windows!

FIX: In Windows 95 some graphics in Corel Suite 8 dialog boxes are not recognised.

FIX: Display properties, Settings sheet, Resolution trackbar is not detected.

FIX: Word 6.0 "Save As" dialog, buttons Options... and Network... do not say "button"

FIX: Radio button in a menu does not say selected.

FIX: There is a slim but real possibility that two versions of HAL can be started and run consecutively - which makes the system unusable. There is now a new approved system for making an "already running" test.

FIX: Read Window key speaks more than the window.

FIX: Teach Bitmap keys do not work in Function key mode.

FIX: Hal crashes if a SAM driver does not report that it has a language parameter.

FIX: HalNT - If closed down then restarted then the Hot keys stop working properly.

Version 2.01
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FIX: In Office97 Word the lines of text in the edit window can overlap by 1 pixel which leads to 2 lines being treated as 1 and (sometimes) in reverse order. The sorting algorithm has been changed to use object rectangles reduced in height by 1 pixel.

FIX: Office97 menus do not speak.

FIX: In Office97 Word dialogs sometimes hot number-pad keys get through to the dialog.

NEW: Shift Numpad - will speak the shortcut character (or "no shortcut")

FIX: With regards to speaking caps and attributes the same keys in Navigation and Live mode do not speak exactly the same.

NEW: Windows NT version

Version 1.04
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Change information prior to version 1.04 is not available.


ENDE-DER-DATEI.
