Those who have not registered to the
TNHH group can now also get version 3.8 of The Neighborhood Handler. This new version was released to the group a week ago, and now everybody can work with this improved version. There are many fixes when it comes to previews of houses, areas and families. Indeed, families are now also previewed,
including family member names, picture and biography. I don't think there will be another 3.x version for The Neighborhood Handler. The next version will be 4.0, and I've got quite a few changes in my mind for that. You can download the latest TNHH version from
this page.
This is the full list of updates and fixes in this new version (from the readme file):
Restore didn't completely delete the neighborhood you restore to anymore, but only the necessary subdirectories and files. This to prevent that it deletes the configuration, web pages templates, etc.
"Repair a neighborhood" could now only be performed on neighborhoods and back-ups that exist. Before you could also repair non-existing
back-ups, which caused errors.
Install a Lot/Family now copied additional .pub files for families. .srf files for exported downtown and vacation areas are also installed.
Saving a preview as bitmap now made the background white instead of pink.
Install a Lot/Family option could now also install exported downtown and vacation areas.
"Copy a House", "Copy Downtown Lot" and "Copy Vacation Lot" options had moved to one single "Copy a lot" option.
The "Copy a Downtown Area" and the "Copy a Vacation Area" were deleted from the manual.
The "Copy a Family" and "Install a Lot/Family" could now also preview the house and family members of families.
When installing a lot, by default all items were selected.
"Select All" and "Select None" buttons had been added in the "Install a Lot/family" option.
In the "Install a Lot/Family" option, you could not install 2 files with the same filename at once anymore.
Preview of houses and lots had moved around so it's all on one screen (in the "Copy a lot" and "Install a lot/family" options).
Several improvements and fixes in the start-up and saving options
code had been made.
For more information, visit the Neighborhood Handler site. If you have a site yourself, and you want to put this new version on it: feel free to do so. It has to be available for free though.
Written at 16:04 on Sunday, 23 June 2002 by
the Webmaster.
