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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. PMEYES - Eyes to watch you work! ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Abstract:
PM Eyes places a pair of eyes on your screen that follow your cursor. PM Eyes
takes advantage of Presentation Manager's capabilities to exploit color,
non-rectangular clipping, smooth animation, application control over its frame,
and remembering user customizations and positioning information. In short,
it's a fun way to show off Presentation Manager.
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1.1. Installation ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
Use LoadRam2 (supplied on the diskette) to unpack the PMEYES.RAM file (in the
PROGRAMS directory of the diskette) into a directory specified by the path
statement in your CONFIG.SYS.
For example, from the diskette drive prompt (eg. A:), type:
LOADRAM2 A:\PROGRAMS\PMEYES.RAM C:\PSTOOLS /D
This should unpack the following files into the PSTOOLS directory on your C
drive (providing that this directory exists):
README TXT // General guidelines
PMEYES EXE // executable
PMEYES INF // help file
(For more information on LoadRam2 see the help provided with LoadRam2, or type
"LoadRam2 ?" ).
ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1.2. Using PM Eyes ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
PM Eyes may be invoked from an OS/2 full screen or window session. The
following command arguments may be specified for special purposes. The
arguments are not remembered and must be respecified each time you want to use
them. If conflicting arguments are used the rightmost one prevails.
D Disable the "hide/show" frame function
F Start with the frame showing
H Start with the frame hidden
T Try to keep the client area at the top of the Z-order
when the frame is hidden.
X Simulate a transparent background effect when the frame
is hidden.
Options may be specified with or without the use of switch characters (- or /)
and specified individually or in combination. For example, all of the
following commands are equivalent:
PMEYES /thx
PMEYES t h x
PMEYES -t -hx
1. PM Eyes has two modes of operation: a transparent background mode, and a
"rise" mode. These modes may be combined or specified independently from
the "Options" dialog, but they only take effect when you hide the PM Eyes
frame.
a. Transparent background mode - PM Eyes attempts to simulate a
transparent background so that the contents of windows lower in the
Z-order are not obscured. This gives the appearance of separate
non-rectangular windows for the 2 eyes.
Note: due to lack of support for transparent windows in Presentation
Manager itself, this effect is not foolproof. You may occasionally have
to click on PM Eyes or rearrange the desktop to force a redraw.
b. Rise mode - PM Eyes attempts to stay at the top of the Z-order, so that
if another window obscures it, it pops to the top automatically. When
combined with the transparent background mode just the eyes may appear
to break through dialogs and menus to have a look around at what you
are doing.
2. The eyelids automatically lift as the pupil moves around. This makes it
more useful to employ the "drowsy" effect.
3. The "Defaults" button in the Colors dialog doesn't dismiss the dialog.
After it displays the default color choices for your review, you must
press "OK" or "Cancel" to accept or reject them.
4. If you "switch" to PM Eyes from the Presentation Manager Task Manager, it
automatically attaches a frame and pops to the top where you can find it
(unless the /d command line option has been used to disable the frame).
5. The dialog boxes position themselves such that they never obscure the
client window.
6. This version of PM Eyes tries to respond to mouse button 2 regardless of
where the mouse pointer is currently positioned. As before, the "Options"
dialog determines whether it winks or blinks