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Version 2.77. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_77'

Requires BuildSys-6_91.

Version 2.76. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_76'

Detail:
  s/Desktop - Escape some dollars contained in strings to avoid warnings from objasm
Admin:
  Resulting binary unchanged


Version 2.75. Retagged as 'Desktop-2_75'

Detail:
  s/Desktop - displaywindow wasn't balancing the stack properly when calling ExitDisplay on errors, leading to aborts when things go wrong
Admin:
  Tested on Pandora
  Fixes "abort on instruction fetch" when entering the desktop - but root cause of error still needs to be determined


Version 2.75. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_75'

Detail:
  s/Desktop - "Floppy boot" option is now omitted from boot error message if machine has no ADFS floppy drives
  Resources/Germany/Messages, Resources/UK/Messages - Add new messages string for floppyless boot options
Admin:
  Tested on Raspberry Pi


Version 2.74. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_74'

Shouldn't affect any builds, tagged as Desktop-2_73.

Resources phase also simplified a little, given recent AasmModule makefile improvements.

Version 2.73. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_73'

Morris4 => ART logo
Ursula => ray traced big green Acorn
Not tagged.

Derived from the Iyonix ones, but with a Castle shield instead of a
jellybean.
Other variants unchanged, tag Desktop-2_72 applied.

To save the effort of the annual change to this module's resources, new option "DateFromKernel" will get the year from OS_Byte 0 and patch the template at time of display. If any part of it fails the banner just shows (C) Owner by default with no year.
Changed 'true' to objasm {TRUE}.
Optimised away a whole word of workspace (WindowHandle) by more cunning stack push and pop before displaying the banner.
Added check that the file passed to Squash is actually a Squash file, otherwise module exploded if soft loaded onto old resources.
Fix problem of oflaofla error if the Squash module was exhausted (ie. status code was non 0), previously this was treated as an error block and passed via R9 to OS_GenerateError - now both duff squash files and failure to decompress give a 'Bad sprite area' error.
Updated comment about Wimp 2.00.
An ADR to Desktop_Title didn't reach for the old banner case.
ExitDisplay2 optimised away.
Tested softloaded on top of 5.17 ROM.

Version 2.72. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_72'

Detail:
  Makefile - Use Squash to compress the startup banner spritefile. Saves about 40k of ROM space.
  s/Desktop - Add code for loading the squashed sprites.
Admin:
  Tested in ROM softload on Iyonix


Version 2.71. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_71'

Detail:
  (list files and functions that have changed)
Admin:
  (highlight level of testing that has taken place)
  (bugfix number if appropriate)


Version 2.70. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_70'

Detail:
   Resources.Templates updated
Admin:
   John Ballance. Castle

Version 2.69. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_69'

Detail:
Admin:


Version 2.68. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_68'

Changed the end date of the copyright string in the Desktop welcome screen to be 2005 (this was already wrong in RISC OS 5.09).

Version 2.67. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_67'

Detail:
  Tightened up BBE resources export, to exclude in appropriate files (this
  component has a non-standard resources directory structure).
Admin:
  Tested in a Tungsten BBE build.

Retagged, since this won't affect any existing builds.

Version 2.66. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_66'

Tagged as 'Desktop-2_65a'

Now gets the sprites for the startup banner from its own personal resources rather than from the Wimp pool,then frees them once the banner has gone.

3 sets of sprites added here
Iyonix = used on Tungsten
Morris4 = L7205 demo actually
Ursula = big green Acorn logo

Version 2.65. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_65'

Templates file updated to "Iyonix" one, for now.

Version 2.64. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_64'

Now ignores the first Message_ModeChange received but does act on the second one in the manner intended (ie closes banner window). The first message is generated by the Wimp during one of the first Wimp_Polls, but old Wimps corrupted the message list pointer they were passed if the task didn't follow Wimp_StartTask (which is the case with the initial *Desktop that launches the desktop) so this bug was never apparent before.

Version 2.63. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_63'

  Updated to build using objasm instead of aasm.
  Sources changed to be objasm-compatible.
Admin:
  Requires Library 0.71 or later.
  Requires BuildSys 3.06 or later.
  Requires Env 0.65 or later.

Version 2.62. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_62'

Detail:

  * No longer relies on the STB flag; instead utilises "Hdr:UserIF.<UserIF>"
    to provide the Embedded_UI flag.

Admin:

  * Built and tested on Lazarus 32-bit build.  Code is binary identical
    to previous version in both STB and non-STB cases.

  * Requires HdrSrc 1.17 or later.

Version 2.61. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_61'

Detail:
  Old hack removed.
Admin:
  To be tested in STB ROM.

Version 2.60. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_60'

Detail:
  STB builds now have the error message "Temporary loss of service"
  rather than "Machine startup failed".
Admin:
  To be tested in ROM 16

Version 2.59. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_59'

Version 2.58. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_58'

Detail:
When Boot$Error is set to a non-empty string on exit to this module,
an error box is displayed. For STB's, this error box only has one
button, 'Retry'.
Selecting the 'Retry' button will reboot the box. Usefully, if you
select 'Retry' and hold down (return), you will enter the
Engineering menu.
Admin:
Untested (but looks like it should work).

Version 2.57. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_57'

Detail:
	Needed the localres alterations off the Spinner branch that had been
added since the branch was last merged.
	Added strdepend to the clean phase.

Admin:
	Built locally and on STB build machine.

Version 2.56. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_56'

  Removed dynamic dependencies from Makefile.
  Merged updated desktop startup banner (to RISC OS 4 version)
Detail:
  Banner file updated to RISC OS 4 version in favour of the previous
    RISC OS 3.7 banner.  Does not affecet STB builds.
Admin:

Version 2.55. Tagged as 'Desktop-2_55'