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Customizing the look of WANT
This section covers the tooltypes available for WANT.
If you are not familiar with tooltypes, please refer
to the operating instructions provided with your Amiga.
WANT will accept five tooltypes:
FILEREADER, EDITOR, HIGHLIGHT, COLOR, SOURCE
If for any reason the tooltype you invoke does not seem to work,
please examine your entry for spelling or syntax errors. WANT will
not report these errors to you. To remove a tooltype, enclose it in
parentheses, then SAVE.
We all have our favorite filereaders. WANT won't limit you to using
any one filereader. You may specify the reader of your choice in the
icon's tooltype.
The default filereader is AmigaGuide. If you prefer More or MultiView,
or any other reader, just change the tooltype. The proper syntax is:
FILEREADER=DH0:UTILITIES/MULTIVIEW
The filereader MUST include the full path, like this:
FILEREADER=DH2:TEXTREADERS/LOOKER
Note: WANT expects to find More in SYS:UTILITIES. This is an
internal default that you cannot change. This is done so that WANT has
a standard default in case AmigaGuide is not present on your drive.
If you are using V34 of the AmigaGuide.library, WANT will automatically
turn off highlighting, since this version will not allow it.
Several filereaders were tested for compatibility with WANT. Here are
some that worked well with WANT:
AmigaGuide
Multiview
More
MuchMore
PPMore
CType
Etale: (efr) will not show colors, but works well in
all other respects. If you use this reader, set
the color tooltype to: (COLOR=)
View80: Will not display highlighting or colors. To use
View80, enter the tooltype HIGHLIGHT=OFF.
For more on Filereaders, see Hot Tips
You may direct the output of WANT to a text editor. The tooltype is
EDITOR. You MUST enter the full path of the text editor.
EDITOR=SYS:C/ED
Highlighting is set to OFF when using the editor. This way, the
output file will not contain any of the Escape characters that
WANT uses for highlighting.
Highlighting options
When WANT gets a 'hit' on a keyword, that word is highlighted in any
combination of the following ways:
Bold Underline Italic Reverse
Bold is the default, but you may change to any other. You may
actually select all of them, but before you do that, test the effect
first by checking the boxes on the GUI. Whatever highlighting
options you select in the tooltypes will be reflected as default
values on the screen.
To set the highlighting options in the icon, follow these examples:
HIGHLIGHT=ITALIC
HIGHLIGHT=REVERSE|BOLD
HIGHLIGHT=BOLD|ITALIC|REVERSE
Notice the vertical bar separating the options. This is the SHIFTED
BACKSLASH key. By using the vertical bar, you may select more than
one option.
You may choose not to have Highlighting and Colors as a default. Select
this by adding the word OFF to the HIGHLIGHTING tooltype. Example:
HIGHLIGHT=OFF
This option will disable all highlighting modes and colors.
Colors
The highlighted words can be made to print in one of the four basic
colors of the WorkBench. You may have reset these color values from
the original Gray, Black, White, and Blue. WANT can't tell what
shades are actually being displayed. You will have to be the final
arbitor of the colors. You may select, through the COLOR tooltype
any one of these colors. Black is the default. If you have changed
the palette preferences, Black may now be Mauve. You may have to
experiment. Remember, select only one color:
COLOR=WHITE (or BLACK, BLUE, GRAY)
Default Directory
Through the use of the SOURCE tooltype, you can select the path and
filename that WANT will display in the listview. If you usually
search files in the same directory, this is a timesaving feature. You
can specify a directory or a directory and a filename. Here are some
examples:
SOURCE=AAMYFILES:
SOURCE=AAMYFILES:INDEX
Tooltype Summary
FILEREADER=<path>filereadername
EDITOR=<path>texteditor
HIGHLIGHT=OFF
BOLD
ITALIC
UNDERLINE
REVERSE
COLOR=WHITE
BLACK
BLUE
GRAY
SOURCE=<path><filename>