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AutoBMP Version 1.0
Have a new BackGround on your DeskTop each time OS/2 is started. Why look at
the same thing each day, have a new LockUp BackGround each day too, if you
like. AutoBMP can do both, and save you disk space for storing these images
as well.
IF ALL ELSE FAILS, READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS
Licensing Information:
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AutoBMP is Copyright (C) 1994 by ATN Enterprises.
AutoBMP is not public domain software, nor is it free software.
Full licensing information is provided in the License.Txt File.
Ordering Information:
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The registration fee for continued use of AutoBMP after the 30 day
evaluation period is $19.95. Full ordering information is provided in
the Order.Txt file.
Files Included:
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The following files should be included with the Evaluation Copy of AutoBMP.
If you did not receive all of these files in the archive that contained
AutoBMP then you have an unauthorized copy of AutoBMP and should inform
the source that provided this archive to you of this fact.
AutoBMP.Exe - The AutoBMP program
AutoBMP.Ico - WPS Icon
Install.Cmd - The AutoBMP automatic installation program
Order.Txt - Ordering instructions and order form
License.Txt - ShareWare 30 day evaluation license agreement
Manual.Txt - Operating instructions (This file)
BBS.Txt - Instructions for posting AutoBMP to public BBS systems
Purpose:
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The AutoBMP utility is used to change the WPS OS/2 DeskTop Background
each time that the computer system is started or rebooted and to store
the BitMaps to be used in a compressed archive file to save disk space.
This change is done without manipulating the WPS settings or making any
changes to the OS2.INI or OS2SYS.INI files. The archive contaning the
BitMaps can be placed on any fixed drive on the system, it does not have
to be on the OS2 default drive.
Installation requirements:
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1. AutoBMP requires OS/2 Version 2.x or OS/2 for Windows. AutoBMP will not
install on OS/2 Version 1.x or on any version of DOS.
2. AutoBMP requires an external archiving utility to be used to process the
BitMaps to be used, into an archive file to save space. All access to the
archive and its processing are controlled by AutoBMP, however, the actual
archiving utility is not included with AutoBMP. The following archiving
utilities are supported: (only OS/2 versions of these utililties should
be used)
Actual Exe File Name: Source:
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a. PKZIP2.EXE / PKUNZIP2.EXE (C) PKWare Inc.
PKZIP.EXE / PKUNZIP.EXE (C) PKWare Inc.
b. LH.EXE Peter Fitzsimmons
c. InfoZip as: (C) Mark Adler, Richard B. Wales, Jean-loup
Gailly, Kai Uwe Rommel
ZIP.EXE / UNZIP16.EXE or UNZIP32.EXE
These utilities can be obtained from almost any BBS, CompuServe, Prodigy,
America On Line, or any source of ShareWare applications.
3. The archive utility to be used must be located in a directory that
is contained in the OS/2 path statement in the config.sys file.
4. OS/2 Rexx and the OS/2 Rexx Utilities must be installed for AutoBMP and
the AutoBMP installation program to be used. These are normally installed
as part of the normal installation process, if they are not installed then
select the OS2 System Folder , Setup, Selective Installation Object to
install Rexx prior to using AutoBMP.
Installation procedure:
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Automatic Installation
1. Copy all of the files that you received with AutoBMP to a temporary
directory on any fixed drive, or to a floppy disk.
2. Set the default drive and directory to the location in 1. above.
3. Type INSTALL, press ENTER.
4. The Install program will determine the location of OS/2 on your system,
find all supported archive utilities that are in the OS/2 search path,
determine if the VROBJ.DLL is already installed on the system, and install
it if necessary, create a DeskTop WPS object for AutoBMP, and create an
AutoBMP object in the StartUP Folder to automaticly change the DeskTop when
the system is booted.
5. After the installation is completed, AutoBMP will be started, you
should then switch to the OS/2 WPS DeskTop, you now can begin to add the
BitMaps desired to the AutoBMP archive as outlined in the Operating
Instruction portion of this manual.
6. When at least one BitMap has been added to the AutoBMP archive, select
"SETTINGS" from the tool bar, then select "LOAD NEXT BITMAP FROM ARCHIVE."
This will create a BitMap named "AutoBMP.BMP" in the OS2_Drive:\ OS2\BitMap
directory. This BitMap will contain the image of the first BitMap in the
AutoBMP archive.
7. Once the AutoBMP.BMP BitMap has been created in 6. above, open the
DeskTop Settings Folder using the right mouse button on an empty part of
the DeskTop, select the BackGround Tab and select the AutoBMP.BMP
BitMap as the default BackGround BitMap, close the DeskTop Settings Folder.
The first BitMap that was added to the AutoBMP archive is now displayed as
the DeskTop WPS BackGround.
8. After adding additional BitMaps perform step 6. above again. This
will change the AutoBMP.BMP to the next BMP in the archive, so that when
the system is rebooted this will become the new DeskTop WPS BackGround.
If this is not done, then at the first reboot after installation the system
will display the same BitMap again, however, all reboots after this initial
one will change the BitMaps properly. See 10. below for details.
9. The installation is now complete. Each time that the system is rebooted
AutoBMP will be run from the AutoBMP object in the StartUp Folder, this will
automaticly change the DeskTop BitMap to the next one in the archive, when
the last BitMap in the archive is used, the system will reset and start
from the first BMP in the archive.
10. REMEMBER, the BitMap being displayed is the image that was in the
AutoBMP.BMP BitMap when the system was booted, after booting and automaticly
running AutoBMP, the AutoBMP.BMP will contain the image that will be
displayed at the next reboot of the system.
11. When the installation has been completed delete the temporary directory
that was used to hold the AutoBMP files during installation.
Manual Installation:
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1. Create a directory for AutoBMP on any system fixed drive.
2. Copy AutoBMP.Exe and AutoBMP.Ico to this directory. You should also
copy the Order.Txt and License.Txt files to this directory for your
future reference at the end of the Evaluation Period.
3. Copy the file VROBJ.DLL to any directory that is contained in the OS/2
config.sys file LIBPATH.
4. Change to the directory containing AutoBMP and enter START AUTOBMP.
5. Switch to the WPS DeskTop and perform 6. thru 10. of the "Automatic
Installation Instructions" above.
6. You must manually create the DeskTop Objects for AutoBmp and the
StartUp Folder Object for AutoBMP. To cause AutoBMP to start in the
"Change BitMap Mode," that is to automaticly load the next image from the
archive into the AutoBMP.BMP BitMap during OS/2 Boot up, and object for
AutoBMP must be placed in the StartUp Folder or a line placed in the OS/2
StartUp.Cmd file in the following manner: AutoBMP must be started with the
following Command Line option: CHANGE if you place this in your STARTUP.CMD
file the Syntax is: START AUTOBMP CHANGE if you create an Object in the
STARTUP FOLDER for AutoBMP then CHANGE should be entered in the
"OPTIONAL PARAMETERS" entry on page one of the Object.
To start AutoBMP in the normal user entry mode, simply enter AUTOBMP at a
command line prompt, after changing to the dir containing AutoBMP or
create a DeskTop Object for AutoBMP.
Method of operation:
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AutoBMP makes use of the fact that the BitMap (BMP) that is used for the
WPS background is loaded into memory during the initialization of OS/2
when the system is booted. This is the only time that this BitMap is loaded
unless there is a system (WPS) failure during the operation of OS/2 which
would require the WPS to reboot. The method that AutoBMP uses to change
the DeskTop is to set the WPS Background (DeskTop) (via the DeskTop Settings
Folder) to use a specific named Bitmap (AutoBMP.BMP) and then after the
DeskTop has been loaded from that BitMap during booting, changing the
content of that BitMap to be the new background BitMap that will be used
at the next reboot. This also allows an interesting method of changing the
lockup BitMap display at the same time, since the lockup screen background
is loaded into memory each time that the lockup funciton is called, if the
lockup BitMap selection is also set to use the AutoBMP.BMP BitMap then it will
display the BitMap that will be used at the next reboot, which is different
from the one that is being used by the current DeskTop background. This
allows both the Desktop Background and the Lockup Screen background to be
changed each time the system is rebooted and have only one BitMap using
space on the system to accomplish this, (two for the disk space of one).
If you elect to also use the AutoBMP.BMP BitMap for the LockUp Screen
background and have set the LockUp function to lock the DeskTop during
OS/2 startup, this initial LockUp screen will display the same background
as the DeskTop, since the AutoBMP.BMP file has not yet been updated during
the boot process, however, all subsequent LockUp screens will display the
new image contained in the AutoBMP.BMP file after AutoBMP has been run
from the StartUp Folder or the StartUP.Cmd file during the completion of
the OS/2 boot process.
Operating Instructions:
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AutoBMP runs in two modes:
The NORMAL mode of AutoBMP is started either by clicking the mouse on the
DeskTop AutoBMP object or from the command line by issuing the command
START AutoBMP in this mode, the user interface window is started and
BitMaps can be added or deleted and all functions of AutoBMP can be
accesed.
The AUTOMATIC BitMap CHANGE mode is started by the AutoBMP Object in the
StartUp Folder or, in the command line mode, by an entry in the StartUp.Cmd
file. This mode automaticly changes the image contained in the AutoBMP.BMP
(the next DeskTop background that will be displayed) each time the system
is rebooted. This mode will display a window showing the current DeskTop
background image and the image that will be displayed the next time the
system is rebooted. This window has no user access and will be displayed
for a period of 10 seconds after both BitMap images have be updated from
the AutoBmp archive. The total time that this window displays is
dependent upon the speed of the archive utility that was selected to
process the BitMap BMPs. The command line instruction for this mode is
START AUTOBMP CHANGE.
Operating AutoBMP In The Normal Mode:
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Adding BitMaps, Creating AutoBMP Archive:
To Create an archive of BitMaps simply click the SELECT button to select a
BiTMap, this BitMap will be displayed in the BitMap Window, and its name
placed into the "New BitMap(s)" List. When you have finished selecting the
BitMaps you want, then click the ADD button to add the BitMaps to the
archive, if there is a BitMap in the list that you decide you do not wish
to add just unhighlite it prior to clicking the ADD button. If you already
have BitMaps in the archive, you will not be able to place a BitMap in the
"New BitMaps(s)" List that is already in the archive.
Deleting BitMaps From The AutoBMP Archive:
Highlite the BitMaps to delete in the "AutoBMP List" window, then click on
REMOVE. The selected BitMaps will be removed, and the BitMap window will
display the current AutoBMP.BMP.
Tool Bar SETTINGS Selections:
1. Change Next DeskTop BitMap:
This selection allows you to change the next BitMap to be displayed to
any BitMap that is in the archive, and to optionally change the display
count to point to next BitMap after the one selected.
2. Load Next BitMap From Archive:
This selection will cause the AutoBMP.BMP BitMap to be updated with the
image from the next BitMap in the archive, and the BitMap count to be
set to the next BitMap after the one just loaded. This has the same effect
as if you had started AutoBMP with the CHANGE Command Line parameter.
3. ReSet AutoBMP Archive:
This selection will cause AutoBMP to read the names of all BitMaps currently
in the AutoBMP archive and set its list of BitMaps to match, it will also
reset the next BitMap to be displayed count to the first BitMap in the
archive. You should use this selection if your archive contents get out
of sync with the INI files settings of AutoBMP, or if you would manually
change the contents of the AutoBMP archive.
Help:
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At the bottom of each window a short discription of each control, list box,
and window item is displayed when the mouse cursor is placed on that item.
Pressing F1 will display addition help for some items when that item has the
action focus.
Errors:
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Error recover is built in for most processing/install errors that may occur.
However, in the event of an external archiver error, the Vx-Rexx console
screen will be brought to the foreground and display the error message, you
may then take the necessary action to correct the error and continue
processing with AutoBMP. This console screen will normally remain in the
background as it will be blank as long as no errors occur.
Addition OS/2 BitMap Display Information:
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1. The OS/2 2.x WPS DeskTop BackGround is displayed by a fixed palette
application, this means that all colors that are in the BitMap to be
displayed must be in the OS/2 default palette in order for the BitMap to
be displayed properly. Many BitMaps have more than these colors in them,
these types of BitMaps will be displayed with shifted colors and may or may
not be usable as DeskTop BackGrounds.
2. The BackGround display BMP is loaded into memory during the OS/2 boot
process, this memory is lost to the system for all processing functions
from that time on. You should consider using small size BMPs if you have
limited memory resources in your system. If you are using a BitMap that
has a small picture image in its center and this is surrounded by a solid
color for the remainder of the image, you should crop this BitMap to the
size of the picture at its center. The color that has been set for the
DeskTop color, using the settings folder BackGround settings, will then
be displayed around this image. This may make a significant decrease in
the size of the BitMap, which will save both disk storage space and memory
as well. This smaller image will also cause the screen displays to change
more quickly during the operation of OS/2. There are many ShareWare
image processing utilities that can be used for BitMap cropping.
3. The speed of processing of the archived BitMaps and the compressed size
of the archive will depend upon the type of archiver that you select to use.
Some of the supported archivers compress quickly, but do not make as small an
archive as one that processes slower. You should consider this when selecting
the archiver to use.
Problem Reports, Comments, or Questions:
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These may be mailed to the address listed for Registration/Ordering or
may be Emailed on CompuServe to 71021,2531.
IF ALL ELSE FAILS, READ THESE INSTRUCTIONS