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- Wind-XES (c) 1991, Charles Medley/ENiGMA Software
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- How To Use Wind-XES (No, Not a Glass Cleaner!)
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- Wind-XES is a modular accessory/control panel that lets you
- load in .WNX ("winks") applications which run concurrently under
- its environment. It works with GEM, not under, around, or over
- it. This means it works with your favorite programs, provided
- they are GEM-based.
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- To get started:
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- First, you might want to play with Wind-XES a bit as a
- program. It will run fine as a program if you just rename it and
- give it the extension .PRG. When it first pops up, it will
- present you with the Configuration Menu, where you can load in a
- .WNX application by just clicking on the empty text field next to
- "Filename".
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- The file selector will now appear and you should then choose
- a .WNX. PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO LOAD ANY .PRGs or .ACCs IN TO
- WIND-XES UNLESS THEY ARE SPECIFICALLY WRITTEN FOR IT. (e.g.,
- BIN2C.PRG will run as a .PRG, an .ACC and as a .WNX, and you can
- load it in to Wind-XES as a .PRG or .ACC and it will work fine,
- even if you don't rename it...).
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- If you have enough RAM, enough screen space (for the Wind-
- XES window to contain the .WNX's graphic interface), and you have
- done everything correctly, you will see the .WNX's name pop up,
- and now you can hit return to exit the Configuration Menu.
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- Now you can move the .WNX's interface around in the Wind-XES
- window. With just one resident, this isn't much fun. If you
- want to load more, just hit Alt-W or "full the window" and you
- can get back to the Configuration Menu where you can load another
- .WNX in. Experiment with this, and then close the window (also
- accomplished with Alt-Q).
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- Now Wind-XES acts just like a normal program. Play with
- it... See what the .WNXes are capable of. When you have a setup
- that you like, go back to the Configuration Menu and click on
- Save, and save the configuration to the WIND_X_1.ACX file (which
- you probably have renamed by now). When Wind-XES is run again,
- it will automatically look for the WNXes you have currently
- loaded where you loaded them from, and will try to fit them in to
- the window in the same way you have it now.
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- Commands
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- From Configuration Menu:
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- Button Keyboard Equivalent Purpose
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- Unload none. Clears out one .WNX.
- Unload All none. Unloads ALL .WNXes.
- Load none. Load a .WNX.
- Save none. Save Configuration.
- Exit <Return> Goto Configuration Mode.
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- From Configuration Mode Window:
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- Button Keyboard Equivalent Purpose
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- Full Window Alt-W Goto Configuration Menu.
- Close Window Alt-Q Goto Normal Mode.
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- From Normal Mode Window:
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- Button Keyboard Equivalent Purpose
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- Full Window Alt-W Goto Configuration Menu.
- Close Window Alt-Q Close Window.
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- History
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- Wind-XES (neé Wind-X, neé UCP: Ultimate Control Panel) was
- born out of a conversation I had with Jim Allen during a series
- of phone calls when I was inquiring about the Turbo16 accelerator
- board shortly before I bought one.
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- One such call diverged on to a topic about the Mac CDEV-
- based control panel, and I was thinking about writing something
- for fun (ok, for profit) and this seemed perfect.
-
- I had UCP up and running within about a month, but after
- finding out about XCONTROL in December '90, decided to take UCP
- to the "next" level and make it more flexible (i.e., better) and
- worth someone spending their hard earned $$$ on.
-
- Well, the concept changed from a control panel that allowed
- access to a single utility at a time to a *real* control panel
- where everything is sitting before the user like a console from
- Star Trek: TNG, and they can watch all these utilities at work,
- doing "incredibly important things" for them.
-
- However, I never have found time (with school and/or other
- stuff) to write the "incredible" application that I felt was
- required to make this accessory worthy of being commercial. It
- didn't make sense to sell a great "engine" and not have a car
- around it.
-
- So here it is, placed out to you as FreeWare. This means,
- by definition, that I have the copyright to it, and the code is
- MINE. However, I hope everyone copies Wind-XES in its current
- incarnation and distributes it widely so that when/if I make a
- commercial version (maybe?), this might help me both in terms of
- "free advertising" as well as giving everyone a chance to find
- any likes/dislikes in the program so I can make improvements. I
- figure it worked for D. Mihocka with Quick ST, heck, it'll work
- for me...
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