A-Flow - Software Applications Visual Designer. Version 3.10

RELEASE NOTES AND SHAREWARE NOTICE

This file contains release notes for the software product identified above
(SOFTWARE) and other useful information not included in other files.

There are two versions of the SOFTWARE: evaluation (UNREGISTERED SOFTWARE) and
registered (REGISTERED SOFTWARE).

ATTENTION! THIS IS IMPORTANT!
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The SOFTWARE is SHAREWARE, NOT FREE. You need to REGISTER your copy of the
UNREGISTERED SOFTWARE in order to be able to continue using it legally after
the EVALUATION period.

REMEMBER! By registering SHAREWARE applications, you encourage their authors to
continue to develop and enhance them and provide technical support.

For more information, refer to license.txt.

WHY TO REGISTER

The UNREGISTERED SOFTWARE at startup/shutdown time brings up the About dialog
box and enforces a short delay. This is precisely because the SOFTWARE is
UNREGISTERED and never happens with the REGISTERED SOFTWARE.

Also, the UNREGISTERED SOFTWARE does not provide some features, which are
present in the REGISTERED SOFTWARE.

When you register the SOFTWARE you will get:

* No "nag" screens, that About dialog box with a short delay, shown by the
  UNREGISTERED SOFTWARE at startup/shutdown time.

* Unlimited-time license to use the REGISTERED SOFTWARE.

* Ability to create standalone applications for distribution and execution
  without the SOFTWARE development environment.

* Royalty-free license to distribute your applications created with the
  SOFTWARE. This includes applications created with the UNREGISTERED SOFTWARE
  as well.

* Ability to merge two or more application projects, which enables some kind of
  your visual code reuse.

* Optionally, the users of the REGISTERED SOFTWARE can receive the application
  project files converter, which can help automatically convert application
  projects created with the previous versions of the SOFTWARE without any loss.

The users of the UNREGISTERED SOFTWARE have the rights to access technical
support and other electronic services related to the SOFTWARE, but REGISTERED
users are attended first (prior to UNREGISTERED users). Although these services
are provided without warranties of any kind, we will be trying to keep them as
much useful as possible to all of our customers.

WHAT'S NEW (in comparison to version 3.02)

* The SOFTWARE is now a native 32-bit application. That is, all of its modules
  (executable files and DLLs) were carefully revised and rebuilt as
  PE-executables.

* As the result, many limitations have been overcome: the number of objects,
  which may exist simultaneously in the application project at design time and
  at run-time, has substantially increased; the maximum string length is now
  set to 16777215 characters; the size of graphic metafiles is now not
  limited, etc.

* The user interface has changed toward a more modern "look-and-feel". In
  particular, the "new style" scrollbars are now used everywhere and the
  Windows explorer-like file dialogs are now used when selecting pictures to
  load into an application project. The development environment main window has
  now a Status Bar. Note that you may turn it off to save you some extra screen
  space.

* Increased performance: the application execution is now about 3 times faster
  than is was before, depending on the nature of your application.

* Help files updated according to the changes.

* The installation program was completely revised and now provides the
  automatic Uninstall option.

* Improved the runme.exe behaviour. You can now have a file yourapp.exe, which
  launches your application! (see Demo\howto.txt)

* The DemoApp folder was renamed to simply Demo.

CO-EXISTENCE WITH THE PREVIOUS VERSIONS

Simply launch the setup program (usually called af310.exe) and follow the
instructions. The installation of the new version should not interfere with the
operation of a previous version, should you are using one, with the small
exception: the file extensions .afp and .afx will be re-associated to refer to
the new version. To revert it back, if you care about it, just launch the
previous version. This will effectively restore these file associations.

CONVERTING YOUR APPLICATION PROJECT FILES TO THE NEW FORMAT

IMPORTANT: The application project file format has changed. The REGISTERED users
may request us for free a small utility program to convert existing application
projects as well as databases (i.e. files created with the "Tables. Save All"
element) to the new format. The new version won't recognize the old style
projects (or databases) nor the old version will accept application projects in
new format. The conversion is done without any loss in regard to the application
project content.

If you have any questions in regard to the SOFTWARE, contact AUTHORS via:

mailto:support@aflow.cjb.net
http://aflow.cjb.net
