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- PROCUREPENS and SETPENS
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Color setting software for AGA and Workbench release 3.0 (V39) or higher.
-
-
- Copyright ©1993, 1994 by Joseph Luk. All rights reserved.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------ README FILE
-
-
- Requirements
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- OS3.0 and AGA for 8-bit color. Will work under ECS also (as long as you have
- Workbench 3.0 or better), but the colors will be rounded to four bits
- per gun.
-
-
-
- History
- ~~~~~~~
- V1.14 3/16/94 - Okay, I gave up with the complicated scheme that was
- being used when a screen close notification was
- received. For those of you interested, I now poll
- IntuitionBase->ActiveScreen until it changes. This
- is significantly more convenient than the old way,
- at least on my machine. If ProcurePens now fails
- to reallocate its pens on your machine, it's more
- than likely that you're running some sort of mouse
- blanker type commodity that messes with screen
- depth arrangement. Please notify me if you have
- problems.
- - Fixed a bug that caused PP to fail when reading
- config files that didn't terminate immediately
- after the "END". (thanks Stefano for your report!)
-
-
- V1.13 1/8/94 - Now unlocks config file while not in use and alloes
- you to modify it while ProcurePens is running.
- - Pen reallocation timing reduced by 1/3 -- if you are
- having problems with ProcurePens reinstating its
- locks too soon, notify me or reduce the number of
- windows on your screen.
- - Some minor optimizations.
- - Fixed minor pre-localization bug -- NEXT version
- will localize, I promise!
-
- V1.12 12/26/93 - Code optimized
- - Obsolete CLI options removed: LOCKSCREEN, DEBUG
- - Fixed NOTIFYNAMES deallocation bug
- - Ready for localizaion
- - Messages cut down; VERBOSE now gives you the old
- display (most people were running the program
- with redirection to NIL: anyway)
- - Added notification for ENV:Sys/Palette.prefs (oops!)
- - New file size: 13372 bytes (gained 664 bytes!)
- - SetPens completely rewritten based on PP 1.12 code,
- file size = 11932 bytes (gained 48 bytes), ready
- for localization.
-
- V1.11 12/20/93 Smarter waiting after receiving notification that an
- IPrefs file has been changed. Instead of waiting for
- a specific amount of time (3 seconds was the default)
- before reinstating all locks, ProcurePens now temporarily
- changes its task priority to -2 so that Workbench can do
- its cleanup. Users were having problems because
- Workbench was still in the process of closing windows
- when ProcurePens reinstated its locks.
-
- V1.10 12/19/93 MAJOR rewrite! ProcurePens now uses DOS StartNotify() on
- key IPrefs files to prevent the pen settings from being
- wiped out in the event of the Workbench screen reopening.
- (thanks a mil Martin!)
-
-
- V1.01 11/12/93 GrabCMAP added to package. This program takes the color
- palette off an IFF file and saves it in a Procure/SetPens
- compatible format.
-
-
- V1.00a 10/18/93 OOOOPPSS!! I accidentally distributed the wrong archive,
- which came sans SampleConfig. This version has the
- correct files. (thanks to D.CCHRISTY for telling me)
-
-
- V1.00 10/16/93 Initial release. Beta testing wasn't too extensive, so
- if you encounter bugs, PLEASE drop me a line!
-