ency news

As of ency 0.8.5

User:

Searches ignore accented characters, so you can search for "Cortez", "Vis A Vis", "Deja Q", etc.
ENCY_FILENAME has been replaced with ENCY_DIR; Now you set the directory that the data files are in.
st_set_filename(), st_get_filename() and st_autofind() have been replaced by st_open_ency(), st_get_directory() and st_is_ency() respectively,
(See the API docs for the new usage).
Show 'Resource' links in the media section - they can't be used though
Speed improvements, memory savings, bug fixes, etc.

Developer:

curr_open() can no longer be recursive, initial encyclopedia detection is in st_init() where it belongs.
es_list and es_slist structures added. es_list is a generic linked list, es_slist is 27 of them (A-Z and 'other').
es_slist used for most linked lists generated from data in the files
This is a nice speed improvement! Also, more data is loaded on-demand through these, so memory usage is good
st_ptbl removed and replaced with seperate long-to-short and short-to-long lists from the data file
A new function, st_load_all(), has been added - it loads all of the attribs tables etc. in one hit
gtkscan, a graphical tool for examining dxr & cxt tools, has been added to the tarball.

As of ency 0.8.4

A number of internal code cleanups
Support for multiple files per encyclopedia
(I changed the rc file structure very slightly)
Thumbnail support
Better support for accented characters
Added '-u' option to findenc and htmlenc to drop accented characters
Handle the "..." in "All Good Things..." properly
Slightly better DOS/Win32 compilation (under cygwin)

As of ency 0.8.3

If there is no match during a full-text search, it no longer crashes.
Full-text searches are much faster! And chew less RAM!
'normal' searches are faster too (by > 0.8s on my machine :-)
The API documentation is finally up-to-date.
libxml is no longer used, a simple rc file parser removes that dependancy
Various internal code clean-ups
- Removed some useless options etc. internally.
- Removed a few global variables.
- Fixed never-seen buglets :)
- Minor speedups in media code
- Fixed a few compiler warnings
- Changing files on-the-fly works again :-P
- We don't load the rc file in st_init() if another one has already been loaded.
- The entry list is only loaded for the section that is needed, in both normal and full-text searches.
  A nice little speed-up for quick searches!
- There are also now a lot more comments :-D
Oh, ency now installs into /usr/local instead of /usr by default, and encyfiles.rc belongs in /usr/local/share/ency/ or /usr/share/ency/ (not /etc/).
Again, prodding from Lee :-D

As of ency 0.8.2

As of ency 0.8.1

As of ency 0.8.0

libency now uses libxml (I have 1.8.10 from www.helixcode.com)
Support for all encyclopediae other than the '98 & '99 ones is temporarily gone.
This means 'Unknown' file support too.
Full-text searches are working. (Though only for one word at a time ATM.)
(Try 'findenc -f kirk'. You can do fulltext searches of the other sections, too: 'findenc -ef kirk' & 'findenc -cf kirk')
Episodic sorting is in. ( Try 'findenc -ec tng')
Searching should be faster
Heaps of bug fixes.

As of ency 0.7.11

As of ency 0.7.10:

Added caching (Only really noticible in gnometrek)
Added support for opening unknown files
... and for searching them (Everything is dumped in the encyclopedia section though)
... and caching for them as well
Fixed a (minor) memory leak
ency now prepends years to chronology entries, meaning more photos match up
... and appends (TNG) etc. to episode names
new 'scanenc' program to scan an unknown data file

As of ency 0.7.9:

As of ency 0.7.8:

As of ency 0.7.7: