This document consists of three sections:
1) Release Notes for current version
2) Licence Agreement
3) Background Information on Hot Potatoes

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Release Notes for Java Hot Potatoes 6.1.0.5
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Thanks for your interest in our software.

FIRST:

You are using this software entirely at your own risk, and agree not to hold the authors or anyone else responsible for any loss or damage you incur in connection with use of this software.

JAVA PLATFORM:

This release is designed to run on the Java Virtual Machine version 1.4.2 and newer. 

The primary target for this release is Macintosh OS X. If you are updating your Mac properly with the Software Update... item in the Apple menu, the Java Virtual Machine running on your computer will support Hot Potatoes.
As a Java release, this program may also work in the Java Virtual Machines available for other Operating Systems (Windows, Linux etc.), but we make no claims about interoperability of the Java code. 

THIS RELEASE

JCloze : there was a bug in the code that calculated the length of gaps for non-Roman characters, that bug has been fixed.

SHORT-CUT KEYS

Use these keyboard accelerators to insert html tags into text fields. To invoke these, you'll need to hold down Command-Ctrl-Shift- and then the appropriate key:

  uparrow for superscript tag around selected text
  dnarrow for subscript tag around selected text
  return for br tag after selected text
  , for smaller span tag around selected text
  . for larger span tag around selected text
  8 for unordered list delimited by carriage returns around selected text
  a for anchor tag around selected text
  b for strong tag around selected text
  c for div align center tag around selected text
  d for javascript alert tag around selected text
  f for font span tag around selected text
  g for img tag after selected text
  h for hr tag after selected text
  i for em tag around selected text
  k for link to block that can be shown/hidden around selected text
  l for ltr span tag  around selected text
  o for ordered list delimited by carriage returns around selected text
  q for quotation marks around selected text
  r for rtl span tag around selected text
  u for underline span tag around selected text
  w for link to open in new window tag around selected text
  z for hidden reading div around selected text (useful only in JQuiz question field)

In JCloze, the accelerators will work only if you have not got any gaps created yet.

USER GROUP:

The Hot Potatoes users group is at 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/hotpotatoesusers

Please check those pages before emailing the authors directly.
If you have a bug report, note the following:
	look for the file hotpotbug.txt on your computer and attach it to your email
	Please be as precise and descriptive as possible about what you were trying to do and what happened.
	Email Stewart at sarneil@uvic.ca.

TO INSTALL THE APPLICATION (for Mac OS X users only):

The download file is JavaHotPot6.zip
When you unzip that file, you will have a folder called JavaHotPot6.
Drag that folder into your Applications folder.

TO START HOT POTATOES:

Double-click on the Hot Potatoes application icon in the JavaHotPot6 folder.
When the Hot Potatoes Chooser window appears, click on the JCloze, JMatch or JQuiz button at the bottom of that window to launch the potato. 


TO UNINSTALL HOT POTATOES:
Drag the MacHotPot6 folder from the application directory to the trash.
On non-Mac systems, delete the JavaHotPot6 folder from the install directory.


IF YOU WANT TO DELETE THE HOT POTATOES PREFERENCE FILE:
Find the file hotpot6prefs.xml in the folder /Users/[yourUserName]/Library/Preferences/com.halfbakedsoftware/ and drag it to the trash.
On non-Mac systems, find the file hotpot6prefs.xml and delete it.


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2) Licence Agreement
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By installing and using Hot Potatoes, you acknowledge that you have read and understood these terms and conditions:

 1. Distribution

The HOT POTATOES suite is FREE. 

Copyright laws apply to both commercial and freeware software, and the copyright holder retains all rights. Copyright laws apply to both commercial and freeware software, and the copyright holder retains all rights. You may distribute HOT POTATOES to other users free of charge, PROVIDING THAT YOU PASS ON THE WHOLE SUITE IN ITS ORIGINAL ARCHIVE FORM, DO NOT ADD OR REMOVE ANY FILES FROM THE ARCHIVE, AND DO NOT MAKE ANY CHARGE FOR IT, AND THAT YOU OBTAIN THE WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA AND HALF-BAKED SOFTWARE FIRST. We do not usually give permission for distribution online or on CD-ROM.

 2. LIMITED WARRANTY AND DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY 

THIS SOFTWARE AND ACCOMPANYING WRITTEN MATERIALS (INCLUDING INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE) ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. FURTHER, THE AUTHORS DO NOT WARRANT, GUARANTEE, OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE, OR THE RESULTS OF USE, OF THE SOFTWARE OR WRITTEN MATERIALS IN TERMS OF CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, CURRENTNESS, OR OTHERWISE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE RESULTS AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS ASSUMED BY THE USER. IF THE SOFTWARE OR WRITTEN MATERIALS ARE DEFECTIVE YOU, AND NOT THE SOFTWARE'S AUTHORS OR ITS DISTRIBUTORS, ARE LIABLE FOR ANY COSTS INCURRED. HALF-BAKED SOFTWARE AND THE UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA ASSUME NO LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES, DIRECT, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL.

BY USING ANY VERSION OF HOT POTATOES YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS LIMITED WARRANTY, UNDERSTAND IT, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. 

This Limited Warranty shall operate in accordance with the laws of Canada.

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3) Background Information on Hot Potatoes
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    HOT POTATOES v6 by HALF-BAKED SOFTWARE

 CONTENTS

1. What is HOT POTATOES?
2. History and Previous Versions
3. Licencing and Distribution
4. LIMITED WARRANTY AND DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
5. Registration


 1. What is HOT POTATOES?

HOT POTATOES is a suite of six programs for creating interactive educational exercises for the World Wide Web. These are the programs included, along with the types of exercise they create:
 JQuiz: multiple-choice, true-false,text-entry or short-answer 
 JCloze: gap-fill 
 JCross: crosswords
 JMix: jumbled-sentence 
 JMatch: matching and ordering 

All of the exercises use JavaScript and HTML for their functionality. 

The version 6 output will work only in Internet Explorer 6+, Mozilla 1.2+ and Netscape 7+. This output can also be automatically uploaded to the www.hotpotatoes.net hosting service. This output format will be the core format for the future. It is fully XHTML 1.1-compliant.

You do not need to know JavaScript or HTML in order to use these programs -- all you need to do is to enter your data (questions, answers etc.) and press a button, and the programs will create Web pages for you automatically. It couldn't be easier!

HOT POTATOES was created by: 

 Stewart Arneil (Mac and Web programming)
 Martin Holmes (Windows and Web programming)

Commercial aspects of Hot Potatoes (such as licencing) are handled by Half-Baked Software Inc:

http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com


 2. History and Previous Versions

Five of these programs were originally written for Windows95 by Martin Holmes, and released as freeware in 1997, under the names JBC, JQuiz and MiniTools. Version 2 of Hot Potatoes was released in August 1998, with a maintenance release of 2.01 in the following weeks. Version 3 was dated December 1998, with a maintenance release of 3.01 for all six of the applications in January 1999. Version 4 was released in beta in December 1999, with a full release in February 2000. JMix was updated to 4.01 in March 2000. Version 4.1 was released in June 2000.

Version 5.0 was first released in BETA in December 2000, and the final release was in February 2001. Version 5.1 was released at the beginning of March. Version 5.2 was released at the end of March, and updated to 5.2.0.1 in earlyApril 2001, and then to 5.2.0.2 and 5.2.0.3 in early May. A further minor update to 5.2.0.5 was released in June. 5.3 was released in beta in December 2001, then put on full release in January. 5.3 is the first version to include the Masher. Version 5.4 was released in early March 2002. Version 5.5 (the first with support for www.hotpotatoes.net) was released in September 2002.

Version 6 betas began appearing in spring 2003.  The first full release of version 6.0 was in December 2003.

Visit The Hot Potatoes Web site for updated information, new versions, and other downloads:

 http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/


 3. Licencing and Distribution

The HOT POTATOES suite is distributed as freeware. You may use Hot Potatoes free of charge. 

Copyright laws apply to both commercial and freeware software, and the copyright holder retains all rights. You may distribute HOT POTATOES to other users free of charge, PROVIDING THAT YOU PASS ON THE WHOLE SUITE IN ITS ORIGINAL ARCHIVE FORM, DO NOT ADD OR REMOVE ANY FILES FROM THE ARCHIVE, AND DO NOT MAKE ANY CHARGE FOR IT, AND THAT YOU OBTAIN THE WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA AND HALF-BAKED SOFTWARE FIRST. We do not usually give permission for distribution online or on CD-ROM.

 4. LIMITED WARRANTY AND DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY 

THIS SOFTWARE AND ACCOMPANYING WRITTEN MATERIALS (INCLUDING INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE) ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. FURTHER, THE AUTHORS DO NOT WARRANT, GUARANTEE, OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE, OR THE RESULTS OF USE, OF THE SOFTWARE OR WRITTEN MATERIALS IN TERMS OF CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, CURRENTNESS, OR OTHERWISE. THE ENTIRE RISK AS TO THE RESULTS AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE IS ASSUMED BY THE USER. IF THE SOFTWARE OR WRITTEN MATERIALS ARE DEFECTIVE YOU, AND NOT THE SOFTWARE'S AUTHORS OR ITS DISTRIBUTORS, ARE LIABLE FOR ANY COSTS INCURRED. HALF-BAKED SOFTWARE AND THE UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA ASSUME NO LIABILITY FOR DAMAGES, DIRECT, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL.

BY USING ANY VERSION OF HOT POTATOES YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS LIMITED WARRANTY, UNDERSTAND IT, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS. 

This Limited Warranty shall operate in accordance with the laws of Canada.

 5. Registration

In order to unlock all the features of the freeware HOT POTATOES suite, you will need to enter your name into the programs. You can do this by starting any of the programs in the Hot Potatoes suite and choosing "Register" from the "Help" menu. The Masher has a separate registration system, so you must enter your name into that program specifically. 


The HOT POTATOES suite is copyright Martin Holmes, Stewart Arneil, Half-Baked Software, and the University of Victoria 1996-2009. 
