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WinBack Utility v 1.1 - modified by Rick Suntag
Description of version 1.1
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When I first used the Winback utility by Robert Mahoney, I thought it
was a great idea. Previosly, I had been ALT-Escaping and then finding
the correct window. Sometimes, this led to a full screen group or even
the Dos group being selected...a real pain. The original utility opened
a PM window and gave the user the ability to turn WinBack on and off. As
I said above, this utility is a great idea and I saw no need to ever turn
it off. Since there is no need to disable the utility, there is also no need
to clutter PM with another window. The following changes have been made:
1) When the program is started, a 4 second dialog box with program
info is displayed on the screen.
2) WinBack does not appear in the Task List and runs in the
background.
Changes have been made to winback.c,winback.h,winback.rc,winback.dlg
No changes have been made in the winhook.c (DLL source) from Robert Mahoney.
I can be reached at the following address:
Rick Suntag
21 Meadowpark Avenue West
Stamford, CT 06905-2225
Email:
attmail!rjsuntag
AT&T Easylink 62206830
or on various OS/2 BBS systems.
The changes in version 1.1 are minor. Full credit belongs to Robert Mahoney.
His documention follows.
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WinBack Utility v1.0 - Robert Mahoney
DISCLAIMER
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The Program is supplied "AS IS" without any warranty of any kind,
either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the
implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular
purpose.
In no event shall Robert Mahoney be liable for any damages, either
direct or consequential, caused by the use, or inability to use,
this program, even if Robert Mahoney has been advised of the
possibility of such damages.
DESCRIPTION
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This utility will allow you to push any active window to the
bottom of the window pile.
INSTALLATION
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Place WINBACK.EXE on your PATH. Place WINHOOK.DLL on your
LIBPATH. Put an entry for WINBACK.EXE in a group and set the
open when system started option.
USAGE
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Double-click with the right mouse button on the titlebar of an
active window.
DETAILS
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I developed this utility after being exposed to Sun's Unix GUI,
OpenLook. One of the neat features of this GUI (the only neat
feature IMHO) is when you click with the right mouse button
anywhere on the titlebar, you get a menu similar to PM's system
menu. But it also includes a choice: BACK which will push the
window to the bottom of the pile. I thought this would be very handy
for PM, especially with my small screen.
Using a sysem input hook, it was amazingly easy to do. Now all I
have to do is double-click with the right mouse button on the titlebar
and the window goes to the bottom of the pile.
It took me about 3 hours of coding. Input hooks really should be
written in assembler because *all* messages pass through the hook
procedure, but as long as you only have a few input hooks, and they
don't do any kind of real processing then you shouldn't notice any
slowdowns.
If anyone has any comments you can reach me on
BIX as RMAHONEY
Fidonet OS/2 echos - OS/2 Shareware (1:109/347)
703-385-0931 (HST DS)
703-385-4325 (HST DS)
Robert Mahoney
27 East Jackson Ave
Babylon, New York 11702