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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>