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ViNCEd Version 3.17
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This is the latest version of my full-screen window handler!
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Please, before installation, look in the directory
GUIDES in this archive and read the LICENCE!
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If you want to find out more about this fine program, read the guide, too.
For installation, the path of the default tool of the installer scripts
must be changed. Select the installer icon with the mouse, and choose
the "Info" menu from workbench. Change then the path of the "Default-Tool"
of the icons. I can't provide the Installer program or the AmigaGuide
and Multiview programs itself, since they are copyrighted. Usually, these
programs come with your workbench, but are available thru AmiNet, too.
The Extras-Drawer contains some additional programs, which are independent
of ViNCEd.
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PatchAlloc: Removes a bug in the AllocMem procedure of the OS.
Allocating memory with the REVERSE flag may cause a hang if no memory is
available. This bug has been removed in the version 3.0 of the OS and is
now part of the SetPatch program. But if you have older versions of the OS,
copy this file to your C: drawer and insert the command
PatchAlloc
in your startup-sequence near to the SetPatch-call.
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PatchRAM: Removes some bugs in the RAM disk. First, the RAM disk shows
after installation of this patch the real size of memory it needs - it is
no longer always 100% full - and second it allocates big memory chunks in
reverse order, to avoid unneccessary defragmentation of the memory. You
should copy PatchRAM to your C: drawer and insert it in your
startup-sequence, somewhere below the place where the RAM disk gets accessed
first. A good place is below the line
makedir RAM:t
PatchRAM ;<- insert patch here.
If you use PatchRAM together with an older release of the OS, install
PatchAlloc first, as described above.
This program is available from AmiNet, independent of the ViNCEd package.
It's also from THOR.
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FastFonts: Speeds up text output of topaz.8 and topaz.9, even under
the (faster, but still not fast) Os 2.04 and above. This program should
be inserted in the startup-sequence as well, if you usually work with the
topaz fonts. I know that these fonts are more or less obsolete now....
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StringSnip: Improves string gadget editor features in a way compare-
able with ViNCEd. The installer script will do the installation for you.
Here are the additional keys:
Alt+Cursor : Jump to the beginning/end of the next/prev word.
Ctrl+Cursor : Jump to the start/end of the input.
Alt+Del : Erase complete input (like Amiga-X before)
Shift+Del : ditto.
Shift+Alt+BS : Erase text in front of cursor to start of line.
Shift+Alt+Del : Erase text behind cursor to end of line.
Amiga-X : Cut text from gadget into clipboard.
Amiga-C : Copy the text from the gadget into the clipboard.
Amiga-V : Paste the text in the clipboard into the gadget.
Commodore-key : Turn of the extensions.
A similar edit hook can be found in MultiCX, however it does not handle
things compareable to ViNCEd, and for another reason (see below) I recommend
you NOT to use MultiCX.
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TrueMultiAssigns: Starting with AmigaDOS 2, an assign might include
several directories. However, these so called "MultiAssigns" are not
handled very consistent by AmigaDOS. This patch fixes the pattern matching
routines of AmigaDOS to operate propably with multi directory assigns.
Quite a lot of solutions to the multi assign problem can be found on AmiNet,
but all I had a look on are broken in one or another way (like the 1.02
TrueMultiAssigns by Marcus Wild, or the patch that comes with MultiCX) and
don't operate properly with ViNCEd. As usual, the THOR solution is best!
As with StringSnip, TrueMultiAssigns will be added to your startup sequence
by the installer script on request.
Thomas, December 1996