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- Title: QUICKCARET
- Author: Richard Millican, Thomas Hawtin, Ernie Ong, Reuben Thomas
- Version: 1.04
- Title From: Documentation
- Author From: Documentation
- Version From: Documentation
- Supplier: Reuben Thomas <rrt1001@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 15/10/96
- Keywords: Display managers ; Window managers
- Shareware: No
- Machine: Archimedes
- Operating system: RISCOS
- Memory requirements:
- Peripherals needed:
- Other s/ware needed:
- Directory: micros/arch/riscos/a/a256
- Date mounted/updated: 17/10/96
- File names: quickcaret.arc
- a256.arc
- Unarchived files: 12
- Unarchived size: 19 kbytes
- Omissions:
- See also:
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-
- Acquiring the package:
-
- Download the archive file(s) and extract using SparkPlug 2 (see the "tools_help"
- file in arch/riscos/tools for further info).
-
-
- Description:
-
- QuickCaret will move the caret from window to window automatically when you
- move the pointer removing the need to click in each window first.
-
- a256.arc contains the original version 1.01.
- quickcaret.arc contains the latest version with changes and bug fixes.
-
- Version 1.04 Changes:
-
- * Rewritten in BASIC assembler (all changed from v1.01 noted in source)
- * More discriminating about which windows it will put the caret in (only
- changes to windows which have a window button type 2-9 and 15 (RO3 PRM
- p. 3-94))
- * Not an application any more (run the module "QuickCaret" e.g. by double-
- clicking to install it, or put it in your Boot sequence (but DON'T start
- it before the desktop!))
- * Incorporated Ernie Ong's v1.01a (actually, I almost had, but had
- forgotten to insert a TEQ!) and fixes a problem: in his version, if a
- new window appears with the caret, it'll keep it (good), but then if
- you move to it and back to the old window, the focus doesn't move
- (bad).
- * Sleeps for 50cs between polls. Even less processor power taken, and it
- has the good side-effect that if you whip from one side of the screen
- to another, it generally doesn't distribute the focus to lots of
- windows all the way across, but changes straight to the one in which
- you stop.
-