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README.TXT for EtCetera ETC-DEM0 1.25 & 2.10
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Contents
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Installation
Changes from Previous Versions
Installation
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To install EtCetera, copy the EtCetera files into your Windows directory,
and then create the program icon using whatever method your shell program
requires. For Program Manager, choose the New option from the File menu.
Choose "Program Item". Then type in the name of the program file,
ETCETERA.EXE, and press Enter. The EtCetera icon will appear.
EtCetera comes with a copy of Microsoft's COMMDLG.DLL to provide file/
directory dialog boxes. If you already have this file (it would be in
your Windows SYSTEM subdirectory), do not copy the one provided by
EtCetera. The file is included with Windows 3.1. You may already
have it with Windows 3.0 if any other program you have requires it (in
which case that program would provide it). EtCetera also includes
DDEML.DLL, another file which is necessary for DDE support, and also
included with Windows 3.1. Follow the same procedure for DDEML.DLL
as for COMMDLG.DLL.
ETCETERA.HLP is the on-line documentation. This can be accessed via
the Help menu in EtCetera. You can also run it yourself using the
Windows Help program, WINHELP.EXE. Refer to the help file for
information on using EtCetera.
ETC_DEMO.ETC is a sample EtCetera batch file. It shows off some of
EtCetera's capabilities. In order to use ETC_DEMO.ETC, you must copy
the SAMPLE.BMP bitmap file into the same directory where EtCetera is
located. This file is included with EtCetera. You must also have a
copy of Write, Notepad, and Calculator in your Windows directory.
As noted in the next section, included with EtCetera 2.10 is ETCETERA.386,
which allows some special features which would not otherwise be
possible. The description of ETCETERA.386 describes how to install it.
Changes from Previous Versions
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EtCetera 2.10 differs substantially from previous versions. The
descriptions which follow describe differences between 2.10 and
earlier 1.2X releases.
EtCetera 2.10 now supports sending keystrokes to a DOS window as well as
a Windows window. To send keystrokes to a DOS window, use the Type
command. Type does not work with Windows windows. In order to use
Type, however, you must install the file ETCETERA.386 as a device driver
into the SYSTEM.INI file and restart Windows for it to take effect.
There are several other commands which require this driver and would not
be otherwise available. See the help file for details. Use the line
device=ETCETERA.386
in the [386enh] section of SYSTEM.INI. You should copy ETCETERA.386
to your Windows System subdirectory (i.e. C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM).
Other items supported by EtCetera 2.10 are rudimentary DDE commands,
error trapping, and simulating mouse input. View the help file for
details.
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, we would greatly
appreciate hearing from you.
All written correspondence will be handled through:
Alpha Computer and Graphics
6138 Zelzah Avenue
Reseda, CA 91335
Via CompuServe: 73340,3452
Any comments you send in will receive our immediate attention.
NOTES.TXT: A word from Thetaware Development regarding
EtCetera 1.25/2.10
EtCetera 1.25 and 2.10 contain a few enhancements based on user
suggestions, as well as some bug fixes. Also included with EtCetera
1.25 and 2.10 are some additional sample batch files.
Some of the bug fixes are as follows:
Ctrl+Break stopped working. The algorithm used to determine when
Ctrl+Break has been pressed has been completely rewritten to bypass
a documentation error in the Microsoft Windows SDK which, peculiarly,
did not prevent Ctrl+Break from operating in previous versions.
SendKeys would send inappropriate data which would affect its behavior
with applications which define individual keys, particularly terminal
emulators which define the standard and enhanced versions of keys
differently (i.e. PageDown in the edit cluster versus PgDn on the
numeric keypad). An error in the translation to 2.00 from a previous
version was resulting in the wrong value being sent to applications.
SendKeys now simulates keystrokes by sending them through the same
mechanism as the keyboard driver, rather than sending them to the
active window, and the correct keystroke data is sent. Also note that
new key representations have been added for Alt, Ctrl, and Shift, so
that these keys can be sent as actual keys rather than simply as
key modifiers. Refer to the help file for details.
Errors would occur when attempting to use TitleFill when no windows
were visible. The errors would appear as blank entries in the string
array structure. In this case, using Unhide would result in an
error, since a blank string cannot be used with the Unhide command.
The method used to get window information has been modified to
compensate for the previous method's inability to handle this special
case.
Sample batch files:
Besides ETC_DEMO.ETC, there is also PLAYWAVE.ETC, NOTE_TUT.ETC, and
NOTESTUT.ETC. PLAYWAVE.ETC simply plays all WAV files in your
Windows directory, in succession, while simultaneously displaying
the name of the file which is being played.
NOTE_TUT.ETC is a BRIEF "tutorial" using Notepad. It demonstrates
how to choose an item from the menu bar in Notepad. NOTESTUT.ETC is
the same demo, but it also adds sound. It requires the use of the
eleven WAV files included with EtCetera. You will need to modify the
NOTESTUT.ETC file so that the line
$D = "C:\ETCETERA\"
actually reflects the directory where the WAV files (NOTE*.WAV) are
located. The voice used is the best willing voice we had available
to record the data. We apologize for the nasal quality.<g>
One other note:
Due to an oversight on our part, the routines used to store string
data rely on Windows to store the data for them. Windows does not
make a distinction between case, however, so if a string already
exists, even though the cases of the letters in the strings differ,
Windows will store the new string as the old string. In other words,
after the following statements:
$C = "Yes"
$D = "YES"
the string "Yes" is stored in both $C and $D. $D will NOT contain
"YES". Consequently, the string comparison operators EC and NC,
"equal, case sensitive" and "not-equal, case-sensitive", behave just
like EI and NI, respectively.
In a future release of EtCetera, the entire string data storage
routines will be changed to correct this behavior. We apologize for
any inconvenience this may have caused.