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- Short: Extended control to intuition windows (V1.9.30)
- Type: util/misc
- Uploader: swaz@iconz.co.nz (David Swasbrook)
- Author: swaz@iconz.co.nz (David Swasbrook)
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- TITLE
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- Window Daemon - Control Intuition Windows and Screens
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- VERSION
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- Distribution version 1.9
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- AUTHORS
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- David Swasbrook
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- E-mail address: swaz@iconz.co.nz
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- DESCRIPTION
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- Window Daemon gives extended control to intuition windows
- and screens through HotKeys and Arexx. In addition there
- is better workbench drawer manipulation, you can close
- the current drawer window when opening another drawer,
- and when closing a drawer can open its parent
- automatically. Using a hotkey you can manage the task
- priority owning the current window and even suspend the
- task. Also the active window can be brought to the front
- or pushed to the back by simply holding down both mouse
- buttons.
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- FEATURES
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- 1. Arexx, Commodities and Locale Support.
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- 2. HotKey and Arexx support to manipulate the currently active
- window and screen. Standard window controls are avalable
- such as Zip, Close, Size, ToFront, ToBack, NextScreen, etc...
- Also can suspend tasks and modify priorities.
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- 3. Able to close the parent window of a drawer when opened on
- "Workbench" if QUAALIFIER is held down. (Only available under
- kickstart V39 or higher)
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- 4. Can open parent window of a "Workbench" drawer when the
- drawer closed if QUALIFIER is held down.
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- 5. Closes all "Workbench" drawers when a drawer is closed if
- either of the ALT keys are held down.
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- 6. Specialized options to forcefully close windows and screens,
- and also to remove tasks that own the active window.
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- 7. Font sensitive interface.
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- 8. DEL key can be used to DELETE icons on workbench.
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- 9. HELP key can be used to get INFO on icons on wrkbench.
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- 10. Screen/Window selection requestor
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- SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
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- OS release 2.04 or newer is required.
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- "matrix.library" version 23.1916 required. (included in archive)
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- Hypertext compatable document. (ie. MultiView/AmigaGuide)
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- Commodore installer.
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- Distribution is archived with lha so program to
- un-archive them is needed.
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- UPDATE
- This archive is an update of the WindowDaemon18.lha archive.
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- New features:
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- * Configuration is now saved in ENV: so there is
- no need for all the tool types now.
- * Minor bug in DEL/HELP code fixed.
- * The qualifier for workbench window manipulation
- for drawer open/close can be selected from
- Control, Shift or MiddleMouseButton.
- * Screen/Window selection requestor by pressing
- the right mouse button in the top right hand
- corner of a screen.
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