11/07/2002 Build 1.01.015

Features:

Bugs Fixed:

· Itool incident 110610: VxHelp chinese help not loaded for GB18030
- Viewer is forced to read all help information in utf-8 format, rather than system specified format.

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07/24/2002 Build 1.01.014

Features:

Bugs Fixed:

· Itool incident 101909: addHelpSet should ignore duplicate helpsets
- Rolled back the changes, user can add duplicate helpsets using addHelpSet() API.

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07/10/2002 Build 1.01.013

Features:

Bugs Fixed:

· Itool incident 102816: History file should not mention release level.
- Release level removed from History file

· Itool incident 102934: Title of error message dialog is "vxhelp error".
- Tile is changed to “Error”..

· Itool incident 103144: Veritas logo missing on the Japanese error page.

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06/19/2002 Build 1.01.012 Gold Release

Features:

Bugs fixed:

· Itool incident 99039: Compressed helpset file (.vxa) having child helpsets gives problems.

· Itool incident 101909: addHelpSet should ignore duplicate helpsets
- Check has been added to ignore addition of the already added helpset

· Itool incident 88524: The find button does not work from the menu under Edit in the help menu.
- Functionality works as expected, but the error message was not intuitive. Now, error message is displayed in error dialog in addition to status bar.

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05/23/2002 Build 1.01.011 Beta Release

Features:

Bugs fixed:

· Itool incident 100098: Help window does not come up when disconnected to VEA Server
· Itool incident 99523: Topic not found error msg contains bogus text.
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05/02/2002 Build 1.01.010 Beta Release

Features:

Bugs fixed:

· Itool incident 98401: Exception in the search module while searching for help in the VM helpset.

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04/30/2002 Build 1.01.009 Beta Release

Features:

• Modified makefile so as to put in HISTORY.HTML into both the viewer jar files (to facilitate one to know to which version a given jar belongs).
• Added feature to clean up RHS of viewer’s splitpane completely after all helpsets are removed.

Bugs fixed:

• Itool incident 97908 : Null pointer exception in viewer when all helpsets are removed!

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04/25/2002 Build 1.01.008 Beta Release

Features:

• Modified French, Japanese and Chinese error pages. (Added meta tag).

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04/10/2002 Build 1.01.007 Beta Release

Features:

• Added French and Chinese resources support.
• Sample updated to specify helpid for Help button on test dialog.

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03/25/2002 Build 1.01.006 Beta Release

Features:

• Added Japanese resources for help on help.

Bugs Fixed:

· Itool incident 90914: SPC 'manuals and help' has different look from two launch points.
- Command line parameter “-laf” is added to set the look and feel of the standalone viewer. Usage “-laf native” or “-laf <laf class name>”

· Itool incident 93394: The Release level "Gold" should not appear in About vxhelp viewer dialog box.
- Removed, only version number will be displayed in About box.

· Itool incident 86322: Replace ‘VxHelp’ with ‘VERITAS Help’ in About dialog box.

· Itool incident 94565: Index keyword entry adjusts focus regardless of index item hierarchy
- Index behavior corrected. Lookup will jump to only first level entries, and if not found then lookup in second or higher level keyword entries.

· Non-printable characters removed from help-on-help pages

· DDTS-RSVmn28372: VxHelpViewer version 1.0-21 bad link from its help page.
- English keyboard navigation pages corrected. Also added Japanese pages.

· Itool incident 93857: Need to refresh status bar for successful find.

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02/20/2002 Build 1.01.005 Beta Release

Bugs Fixed:

· Itool incident 91720: Error of index file invalid.
- Error was due to nullpointer exception while parsing Java helpset index file. Check is added to avoid exception and call proper method.

· Itool incident 91462: Null pointer exception when all helpsets are removed and viewer.
- Nullpointer check is added before calling set focus on selected tab. In case of remove all helpsets, there is no tab to set the focus to.

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02/18/2002 Build 1.01.004 Beta Release

Bugs Fixed:

· Itool incident 91374: Problem with disable tooltip API.
- Corrected tooltip handling in webwindow.

· Itool incident 89982: vertical scrollbar in TOC does not work
- Defaults scroll bars are used instead of customized scrollbars to handle windows certification issue. For VEA, still customized scrollbas are used.

· Itool incident 89379: VxHelp context sensitive help connects to incorrect location.
- Proper anchor handling is added which will ensure to jump to the correct location.

· Itool incident 91451: A dot follows tooltips on html pane and in TOC.

· Itool incident 91445: Problem when two helpset contain same file names
- Corrected the functionality of the displayHelpTopic method to pickup the correct file from proper helpset for given Id.

· Japanese resources updated, SLO team updated this files to follow the consistent terminology..

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02/01/2002 Build 1.01.003 Beta Release

Bugs Fixed:

· DDTS RSVmn27064 : Tooltips are not seen completely.
- AWT tooltips in html control are replaced with Swing tooltips, this resolves the problem.

· DDTS RSVmn27183 : Host Prop: Panel Client Attributes-Problem on accessing link within Help
- History in viewer was not use to remember anchors in html text, it was only keeping track of the pages.

· Itools incident 89379: VxHelp context sensitive help connects to incorrect location

· Removed debug message “Menu font”, which use to appear on Linux.

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01/18/2002 Build 1.01.002 Beta Release

Features:

• Improved memory utilization.

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01/11/2002 Build 1.01.001 Beta Release

Features:

• Initialization performance improved. Search data will be loaded in the background(daemon) thread with lowest priority.
• More diagnostic features added to help writer identify the problem with helpset and improve on usability.

Bugs Fixed:

· Itool incident 87312 : VXhelp: Help content is not visible on Linux 7.1.
- Menu font is set as default font on linux for help contents.
- Exception in ContainerView.reset() is handled.

· Itool incident 84757 : Viewer throws nullpointer exception if content file (.vxc) is not available.

· Itool incident 84362 : VxHelp keyboard navigation help pages are not inlcuded in package.
- Added help pages for keyboard navigation.

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Branched v1.01 for NBU and SPC, maintenance branch for v1.0

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11/26/2001 Build 1.00.019 Beta Release

Features:

Bugs Fixed:

· Itool incident 83742 : VxHelp Linux 7.2: Help content is not visible on Linux 7.2.
- Helvetica is set as default font on linux 7.2.

· Itool incident 83842 : rundemo.csh under bin/Java/samples/Locale does not run.
- Script corrected.

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11/20/2001 Build 1.00.018 Beta Release

Features:

· API is added to enable/disable printing support. Signature for the api is as follows…
public void enablePrinting(boolean b);

Bugs Fixed:

· DDTS-RSVmn23007 : Synchronize menu item of VxHelp should be disabled if no Navigation tab.

· DDTS-RSVmn19159 : ja locale, Japanese text shows up in VxHelp when NetBackup not localized.

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11/01/2001 Build 1.00.017 Beta Release

Features:

· Mnemonics added for menus and UI components for Japanese locale.

· File-Exit is replaced by File-Close when Viewer is invoked from application.

· Case sensitive find in topic operations.

· API is added to enable/disable tooltips on the help pages. Signature for the api is as follows…
public void enableToolTips(boolean b);

Bugs Fixed:

· DDTS-RSVmn21923 : Scrolling line by line instead of pixel by pixel for HTML view.

· Itool incident 74892: Functionality to select the helpset to search on Search View.

· Itool incident 81895: Resolved problem with splitbar re-sizing.

· Itool incident 78689: Printing in background thread.

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10/12/2001 Build 1.00.016 Beta Release

Features:

· Viewer adjusted to accommodate the new index format for Beta8 Templates.

Bugs Fixed:

· Itool incident 78481: Parallel scroll bar in "Search" tab of VxHelp is missing.

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10/04/2001 Build 1.00.015 Beta Release

Features:

· Proper formatting of the about dialog. OK button is properly centered.

· Ctrl-tab support is added to shift the focus out of html content pane using keyboard.

Bugs Fixed:

· Defect 34474: HTML viewer improperly aligning bullets along text baseline in ordered lists.

· Defect 34471: Font settings are not handled properly. The face attribute is not treated properly.
- Workaround is provided, proper fix will be provided in next release.

· Itool incident 78481: Explicit memory clean-up.
- de-referencing of object and explicit gc() call added for memory cleanup.

· Itool incident 78483 : Copyright notice for source code.

· Itool incident 78688 : Removal of Helpset does not clean up the right hand panel content
- Right hand pane will be cleared if required.

· Itool incident 78485 : Loading of the all index/content/search/map files specified in the master help file
- All specified files in .vxh will be loaded.

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9/25/2001 Build 1.00.014 Beta Release

Features:

· Thread safety for Viewer is added so that no thread will access the Viewer simultaneously.

· Printer support re-enabled, recommended patches need be installed for JDK. Patch information is available with jdk installation packages.

· On selecting Content/Index/Search tabs, focus is given to the first accessible field on the tab. Both VIP and NBU agreed to behavior.

Bugs Fixed:

· Defect 34791 : Error dialog box needs better text formatting.
- Error dialog and about dialog formatting corrected.

· Itool incident 78479 : Genarate the samples for VxHelp package with latest templates and frame docs
- Sample added, generated with latest vxhelp templates beta7.

· Itool incident 77839 : VxHelpViewer fails windows certification tests
- Windows certification issues resolved.

· Itool incident 77654 : cert: Cannot close Help window by using ESC key
- Support is added to close the dialogs using ESC key.

· Itool incident 78484 : Load errorpage and help-on-help html pages through resources

· Itool incident 78480 : Thread safty for VxHelp Viewer

· Itool incident 76682 : Link within a page is not responding correctly

· Itool incident 78495 : Passing .vxa file as URL doesn't work

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9/06/2001 Build 1.00.013 Beta Release

Features:

· Improved data structures for the search data to achieve memory improvement.

· Printer is disabled, due to core-dump problem on Solaris 5.7 machine.

Bugs Fixed:

· Defect 34828 : Webwindow: page up/page down using scrollbar.
- Scroll bar look and feel issues is resolved.

· Itool incident 73493 : VxHelp menus issues - new api to hide Help menu item
- Hiding Help menu for the modal dialogs was not working, which is resolved.

· Itool incident 76637 : Empty index list view throws an exception
- Index tab won’t be displayed, if there is no index data.

· Itool incident 76638 : Search functionality for an empty string changes mouse pointer to the wait cursor

· Itool incident 76641 : VxHelp viewer throws exception if search file is not given

· Itool incident 76650 : Menu select View-Content/Index/Search always display splash screen

· Itool incident 76678 : VxHelp viewer displays an Index tab when no index is defined
- Tabs will be displayed only if the corresponding data is available. If there is no index defined, index tab won’t be displayed.

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8/28/2001 Build 1.00.012 Beta Release

Features:

• Added API for disabling Help menu.
• Added API for setting icon and title for viewer window.
• Sample application to test the localization API’s. (bin\Java_2.jdk.1.3\samples\Locale)
• Sample application to test initializeHelp-closeHelpViewer api. (bin\Java_2.jdk.1.3\samples\sampleinticlose)

Bugs Fixed:

· Defect 34715 : Tables do not properly wrap on Japanese Win NT systems.
- Japanese text will be wrapped along the character bondaries. It is an workaround, proper fix will be available in later version.

· Defect 34884 : Develop sample demonstarting the L10N API.
- Sample for testing L10n is added in bin/Java_2_jdk.1.3/samples/locale folder.

· Defect 34879 : Performance at startup needs to improve.
- Is improved by differing of loading search data.

· Defect 34878 : Memory utilization needs to improve. Index entries use a lot of memory.
- Memory used for each index item is reduced, also number of instances are reduce to half.

· Defect 34876 : Enable printer support.
-Anabled printer support.

· Defect 34577 : Can't run run.cmd without making changes to the file.
- run.cmd is modified to pick-up default JVM available in system path.

· Defect 34900 : Register button API doesn't work.
- It was working, but fails to make viewer visible, which is resolved.

· Defect 34828 : Webwindow: page up/page down using scrollbar.
- Functionality added but scroll bar looks little different than default system scroll bars. Need to be resolve in later versions.

· Defect 34841 : TEMPLATE: <tocitem> tag in VxHelp .vxc file.
- This is due to missing TOC level, <tocitem> is replaced by <branch>.

· Defect 34686 : Merged help files not correctly displayed in Contents pane.
- Dynamically merged helpset will be displayed on the same level as root helpset.

· Defect 34917 : Error page is not I18Ned
- Error page will be displayed according to locale settings. Japanese error page is added.

· Defect 34885 : Java HTML control : Loads graphics very slowly.
- Image loading is faster now, there should not be any flickering while loading images.

· Itool-incident 73618 : Error dialog while displaying the topic id in the help
- Error dialog is removed.

· Itool-incident 73489 : API to set the icon and title
- To use customize icon and title for the viewer window.

· Itool-incident 73493 : The user of VxHelp should be able to disable VxHelp Help menus
- API is provided to disable the Help menu.

· Itool-incident 73496 : The Find dialog is not modal and I can open as many as I want at the same time
- Find dialog is made modal, indication for if there are no more occurrences is added.

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7/20/2001 Build 1.00.011 Beta Release

Features:

• Support for Java Help Set.
• Demo sample application updated to take the java help set.
• Support to handle an empty help set.
• Any help set can be removed.
• Content tree displays the dynamically added help sets at the same level.
• New java sample help sets are added into the sample/helpsets/javahelpsets folder

Bugs Fixed:

· Defect 34792: Viewer is launched when modal dlg is closed.

· Defect 6001237: VxHelp viewer hangs on by giving empty search string in Search Tab

· Defect 34803: Incorrect behavior in modal dialog’s scenario.

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7/4/2001 Build 1.00.010 Beta Release

Features:

· HelpSet file can be provided as URL string (helpsetURL.toString()).

· Sample helpsets updated with new template.

Bugs Fixed:

· Defect 34688: Demo sample throws NULLPointer exception.
- Check is added to verify non-NULL ID is returned.

· Defect 34689: VxHelpViewer throws exception and hangs in JRE 1.2.2
- Replaced the part of code with JRE 1.2.2 compatible equivalent.

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6/29/2001 Build 1.00.009 Beta Release

Features:

· Help on Help updated.

· Japanese resources added.

· New sample added with new format. Japanese sample is packaged in samples/helpset/Japanese folder.

Bugs Fixed:

· Defect 34660: setSize(..) throws an exception on windows
- Check is added to verify that the viewer is already initialized or not.

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6/14/2001 Build 1.00.008 Beta Release

Features:

· Help on Help feature is added. Use menu Help-Help to display the Help for Viewer.

· API setErrorLogFile(..) added to enable the error logging to the file. Also added command line parameter
-logfile to set the log file for standalone viewer.

· New command line option –version is added, when specified it will display the version of the vxhelp and quit.

Bugs Fixed:

· Defect 34473: Previous/Next graphics getting gold outline on mouse-down
- No outline would be shown on mouse down for the images with the link in html control pane.

· Defect 34539: Search should support multiple word searching
- Search will provide the support to perform OR search with multiple words.

· Defect 34198: Java HTML control: support for selecting all text in topic page.
- Select All functionality is added. User can select all text for topic using menu Edit-Select All.

· Defect 34197: Java HTML control: support for copying the selected HTML content to clipboard
- Copy functionality is added. User can copy the selected content from the topic text to the system clipboard.

· Defect 34527: html control apparently not properly handling TH tag's align attribute
- Bug in 3^rd party control fixed.

· Defect 34597: ENHANCE: Better error reporting for Help authors
- Viewer will log all possible error to the log file if specified, otherwise display only first error in error dialog.

· Defect 34595: Find next throws exception
- Bug in 3^rd party control, workaround is provided to resolve the by resetting the search onward position counter.

· Defect 34602: Error messages should be log to the file instead of displaying error dialog
- API is provided to set the log file and hence enable/disable error logging to the file.
If API is not being called errors will be displayed in error dialog.

· Defect 34603: Text field not getting focus in 'Index' and 'Search' tabs
- Focus is given to the text fields whenever tabs receive the focus.

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6/07/2001 Build 1.00.007 Beta Release

Changes:

· Index and Search tab will respond to single mouse click and display help page.

· Mouse cursor will change to hand when moved over links in index, any item in content and search tab.

Bugs Fixed:

· Defect 34572: VxHelp initialization problem with Beta 1.0 #4

· Defect 34535: Index auto scroll is inconsistent

· Defect 34565: Case sensitive and case insensitive searches do not work correctly

· Defect 34533: Index doesn't indicate what entries are hyperlinks

· Defect 34545: Determine usefulness of Refresh and possibly remove

· Defect 34526: toolbar icon tooltips should match menu commands; menus should follow GUICON

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5/31/2001 Build 1.00.006 Beta Release

Features:

· API to set the localization specific data.

Bugs Fixed:

· Defect 34361: VxHelp and modal dialog

· Defect 34543: Recommend: Provide accelerator key for "Find Next", remember setting from "Find"

· Defect 34526: toolbar icon tooltips should match menu commands; menus should follow GUICON

· Defect 34505: Java HTML control: color preferences

· Defect 34495: The tool tip background color and the selected text color

· Sample is updated with more test cases.

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5/16/2001 Build 1.00.005 Beta Release

Changes:

· Error messages updated. (Edited by Adam Newton)

Bugs Fixed:

· Defect 34476: VxHelp Viewer Look & Feel will not change

· Defect 34375: VxHelp Index window doesn't show a "hand" when the cursor is placed over a link.
Mouse cursor will show 'hand' over the topics in the content tree.
Underline for the links in index tab is removed.

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5/10/2001 Build 1.00.004 Beta Release

Changes:

· Resources are being loaded from .properties files instead of loading it from resource classes .

Bugs Fixed:

· Defect 34373: Synchronize feature is not working correctly.

· Defect 34441: ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException occured in VxHelp Viewer.

· Defect 34390: Search file .vxs contains invalid entries
Search file will be loaded ignoring the bad entries.

· Defect 34454: invalid mnemonics.

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4/27/2001 Build 1.00.003 Beta Release

Features:

· Sever errors are being displayed in error dialog instead of logging it to console window.

· Version information is added.

Bugs Fixed:

· Defect 34373: Synchronize feature is not working correctly.

· Defect 34377: ENHANCEMENT: Change the way that Show/Hide contents tab works.

· Defect 34427: Java HTML control: scrolling of tooltips

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4/20/2001 Build 1.00.002 Beta Release

Features:

· Internationalization/Localization. (Titan bug: 34144)

Bugs Fixed:

· Defect 34142: VxHelp outputs un-necessary messages.

· Defect 34200: Java HTML control:Focus handling.

· Defect 34199: Java HTML control:Accessibility issues.

· Defect 34144: Internationalization/Localization.

· Defect 34377: Change the way that Show/Hide contents tab works.

· Defect 34383: VxHelp mnemonics issues.

· Defect 34287: Remove the "Print" button from teh Java version.

· Defect 34288: Support the same level of accessibility as NBJava.

· Defect 34284: Cannont use 'Page Up/Down' to scroll the right frame.

· Defect 34139: Incomplete package.

· Defect 34374: VxHelp Tab & Menu names are incorrect.

· Defect 34376: VxHelp throws exception when loading search file (vxs file).

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4/05/2001 Build 1.00.001 Beta Release

Features:

· Compression support. ( Titan bug id : 34138 )

· Samples updated.

· SIG standards compliance.

Bugs Fixed:

· Defect 34344: VxHelp throws exception for invalid topic id.

· Defect 34345: Viewer throws exception for invalid help files.

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3/30/2001 Build 1.00.000 Beta Release

Features:

· API that enables context-sensitive calls from application to a help viewer.

· Full-text search of help information. Similar to JavaHelp and Microsoft HTML Help.

· Expandable/collapsible table of contents (TOC). Similar to JavaHelp and Microsoft HTML Help.

· Index of keywords with which you can navigate to specific help topics in the viewer/browser. Similar to JavaHelp and Microsoft HTML Help.

· Be able to handle, at a minimum, 500-3000 html files

· Support existing Documentation content specifications

· Multiple language (including double-byte) support. First version in English, but localizable to other languages as required.

· Single-instance viewer (viewer—that when already running—does not spawn another instance when called a second time).

· Print help topics from viewer.

· Compression option for help information.

· Merging of the help set documentation.

Bugs fixed:

· Defect 34194: Java HTML control: HTML Anchor is being ignored.

· Defect 34192: Java HTML control: Internationalization/Localization support

· Defect 34193: Java HTML control: Tag is being ignored.

· Defect 34092: VxHelp Viewer needs to display a customizable window title.

· Defect 34095: ENHANCEMENT: Ability to specify specific help topic ID at run time (standalone).

· Defect 34166: Java HTML control: Double instances of letters in Java browser.

· Defect 34135: Modal dialog issue .

· Defect 34137: Merging of the helpsets

· Defect 34138: Compression of the help files.

· Defect 34142: VxHelp outputs un-necessary messages.

· Defect 34145: Accessibility.

· Defect 34284: Can’t use 'Page Up/Down' to scroll the right frame.

· Defect 34312: Most links in the right pane don't work.

· Defect 34289: VXHELP No feedback on a failed search from the Search Panel.

· Defect 34294: 'View' 'History' menu item is always disabled.

· Defect 34303: Ability to control the placement and size of the viewer

· Defect 34309: CLICKING ON A BAD LINK IN A DOCUMENT CAUSES THE RIGHT FRAME TO GO BLANK

· Defect 34290: There is no way to advance to subsequent occurrences of the search string

· Defect 34291: Ability to hide or not to hide the contents pane on a 'context sensitive' call

· Defect 34292: Need an 'Edit' + 'Find Previous' (Shift F3) menu item.

· Defect 34320: VxHelp Windows Java console displays debug line '=iso-8859-1'

· Defect 34321: VxHelp Java Viewer throws exceptions

· Defect 34209: Handling of the hidden topics.

· Defect 34200: Java HTML control: Focus handling using keyboard.

· Defect 34153: Contents pane not navigating properly