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Compose for Windows, V1.67
21-May-1993
Copyright (c) 1991-1993 by Digital Equipment Corporation.
All Rights Reserved.
You are free to use and distribute Compose for noncommercial use
as long as:
* No fee is charged for use, copying, or distribution.
* The files are not modified in any way.
* All files are distributed together.
This software is distributed "AS IS". DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF THIS SOFTWARE, WHETHER EXPRESSED OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, FUNCTIONALITY
OR DATA INTEGRITY OR PROTECTION. IN NO EVENT SHALL DIGITAL EQUIPMENT
CORPORATION BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE, OR
INABILITY TO USE, THIS SOFTWARE.
Please note that for reasons of economy, Digital Equipment Corporation
cannot provide this software through any media other than electronic
bulletin boards and repositories.
Jerry Cummings
Internet: cummings@xanadu.enet.dec.com
CompuServe: 71232,2221
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Compose is a Windows application with four major uses:
1. Allows easy mnemonic access to characters not found on your
keyboard such as "1 2" for the ╜ (1/2) character, "c /" for
the ó (cents) character, "a^" for the Γ (a with '^' accent
mark) character.
2. Allows easy dialog box access to the individual characters of
a font. This can be quite helpful for symbol and dingbat fonts.
A listbox with all of the characters of a font is displayed;
double click on the desired character and it will be sent
to the current application. No more guessing or searching
around for symbol and dingbat font reference cards.
3. Allows easy access to the current date and time. A quick
mnemonic sequence of keys send the characters of the current
date and/or time to the current application.
4. Previewing of the many scalable typefaces (commercial and
public domain) that are available for Windows. You can preview
a font from a window or you can preview all the characters on
paper by printing the entire font in the point size and style
that you desire. Technical information about the font can also
be printed. There is also an option to print sample strings of
all fonts.
Installing Compose
Simply unzip the Compose .ZIP file into to your desired directory,
use Program Manager to add a new item specifying COMPOSE.EXE as the
command and the directory in which you unzipped the file as the
working directory. You may wish to add this to your Start Up group.
Compose Help
Once Compose has been started, you may get an overview of what
Compose is by selecting "Overview" from the "Help" menu.
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Files:
COMPOSE.EXE Executable
CMPS_DLL.DLL DLL for intercepting keystrokes
CMPS_USA.DLL United States User Interface
COMPOSE.DAT Data file for compose sequences
COMPOSE.HLP Online help (WINHELP)
COMPOSE.TXT This file
COMPOSE.INI Not part of the kit, but is created later.
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V1.33 13-Apr-1992
Corrected minor bug in Print Font Samples. Text was getting wrapped
inside an incorrectly sized rectangle.
V1.34 23-Apr-1992
Print Font with Technical Info wasn't drawing good cell boxes on
non-PostScript printers.
Print Font now allows multiple fonts to be printed at a time.
V1.35 28-May-1992
Finally got around to cleaning up debug kernel errors.
Compose no longer reads/writes preferences to WIN.INI; COMPOSE.INI
is used instead.
V1.36 01-Sep-1992
Moved to Windows 3.1 and Microsoft C/C++ 7.0. Windows 3.0 is no longer
supported. A noticeable downside to not supporting Windows 3.0 is that
OS/2 2.0 users cannot use this latest release.
Eliminated code that tried to be smart when printing font names on
the first page of a sample font. Compose will simply use a font that
is supposed to represent ANSI characters.
Print Font now queues each font as a separate job instead of all
fonts as a single job. Print Font Samples has also been modified to
submit each page of output as an individual job. These changes reduce
the chances of the printer running out of memory.
If a non-compose key is pressed while the compose key is down,
Compose will not enter Compose mode but will pass that keystroke
on. For instance, with the default Compose key of the right hand
control key on 101 key enhanced keyboards, only a press and a
release of that key will enable Compose mode. Key strokes such
as Ctrl-Home with the right hand control key will simply be passed
on to the application.
V1.4 15-Sep-1992
Corrected a bug where font selection was lost when going to the
Print Font dialog box from the Peruse Screen Fonts and Choose
dialog boxes.
Corrected a bug where the Compose indicator would be positioned
incorrectly if the option for not flashing the indicator was
chosen.
Pressing the Compose after key entering Compose mode, cancels
compose mode, in a fashion similar to the way the Alt key works
with the menu bar. (Esc and Backspace also cancel compose mode).
Revamped the method used to push characters to the target window. Used
to PostMessage(...WM_CHAR...), but this would cause problems with
seqeunce results that had '\n' or '\t'. Compose now slips into a
Windows Journal Playback mode to feed the application keystrokes that
emulate using Alt/nnnn on the numeric keypad for most characters and
emulates press the Enter and Tab keys for the '\n' and '\t'.
Corrected Debugging Windows warnings.
Compose now remembers its window size and position across sessions. If
the position is off the screen (perhaps after switching video drivers),
the window will be placed using default calculations instead.
Fixed a dlgbox sensitive help problem and updated the Help file.
V1.41 21-Sep-1992
Corrected bug where print dialog boxes were being removed too soon.
Print Font now queues each page as a separate print job, not just
each font, further reducing printer memory requirements.
Added a somewhat simple-minded SETUP program.
V1.42 29-Sep-1992
Added names of days and months to COMPOSE.INI. Before editing the
text strings for days and months, you must run Compose once so that
it can write the defaults which will serve as a guide for your edits.
This makes it possible to change the text for days and months from
English to another language. Some sort of dialog box for doing this
would make sense, but I don't have the time right now.
V1.50 30-Sep-1992
Ripped country specific UI into a DLL. Compose can now switch
languages using the "CountryCode=USA" setting in COMPOSE.INI.
Replace USA with a three letter code of the desired/supported
country. Naturally, the vast selection of countries is currently
limited to one: USA. (e.g. USA requires the CMPS_USA.DLL file).
Converted Open and Save As dialog boxes to Windows 3.1 Common
Dialog Boxes.
V1.51 06-Oct-1992
Removed the automatic addition of a space to date/time strings. If
the space is desired, edit COMPOSE.INI and change the value of
AppendSpaceToDateTime to 1.
V1.52 13-Oct-1992
Modified the COMPOSE.EXE so that it had the Compose icon in it.
V1.53 15-Oct-1992
Compose no longer supports the little used feature of discardable
memory. Tables of compose sequences etc., are still not loaded
until they are explicitly needed.
UI DLL need more heap.
V1.54 16-Oct-1992
Reworked the guts of CMPS_DLL so that Compose will work with the
Recorder application. For best results with recorded macros that
utilize Compose sequences, set the recorder to playback those macros
at recorded speed (instead of fast speed).
V1.55 23-Oct-1992
Choose dialog box "sample" field was not updating correctly as new
fonts were chosen.
Ensure readable heading for Print Font output.
Changed the Choose dialog box so that multiple characters can be
chosen at a time. This was done by adding each selected character
to the edit field at the bottom of the dialog box. Pressing Ok
causes all characters in that field to be sent. Choose Copy from the
dialog box's system menu copies all characters in that field to the
Windows clipboard. It is still possible to double click on a
character if you only want one character at a time.
1.60 27-Oct-1992
Moved options from menu into dialog box.
Added an option controlling whether or not multiple characters could
be chosen from the Choose dialog box or not.
Eliminated the right aligment of the Help submenu.
Eliminated the beep that occurred when aborting a compose sequence.
V1.61 05-Nov-1992
Fixed bug where Compose was playing back in an extremely slow and
choppy fashion.
V1.62 11-Nov-1992
Minor tweak for spaces in compose sequence results.
V1.63 17-Nov-1992
Fixed problem where descenders of some small fonts were getting
clipped.
Fixed bug where Choose dialog box was getting snapped to the lower
right corner of the screen whenever the font size is changed such
that the entire dialog box is resized.
V1.64 20-Nov-1992
Sample string for Choose and Print dialog box can be set from the
Options dialog box.
COMPOSE.DAT had a bad definition of the "TM" sequence.
Miscellaneous bug fixes.
V1.65 03-Mar-1993
Minor tweak to allow the Compose data file to be specified through
the command line:
COMPOSE C:\COMPOSE\SPECIAL.DAT
V1.66 26-Apr-1993
Allow applications that do not handle Alt-NumericKeypad sequences
to work with Compose in a limited fashion. This requires a new
section in COMPOSE.INI, [ProblemAppsKeypad], which can identify
problem apps: e.g. WINQVT.EXE=True
V1.67 21-May-1993
V1.66 was brain damaged. The correct method for specifying
applications that have problems with the numeric keypad is to
add a line to the [ProblemAppsKeypad] section e.g.:
WINQVT=1
Note that unlike the above release note for V1.66, the application's
filename extension should NOT be used and instead of True and
False, 1 and 0 should be used.