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Tron's Window Activator 1.2 - Manual
NAME
SYS:WBStartup/TWA
SYNOPSIS
TWA [CX_PRIORITY ...]
DESCRIPTION
TWA is a commodity which remembers the last active window on any
screen. If screens are shuffeled these windows are automatically
activated.
Imagine:
You've an editor on a screen and want to look at another source code
with e.g. "More".
without TWA:
Switch to the workbench screen, grab the mouse activate a shell
window call "More". After looking at the source code switch back
to the editor's screen reactivate the window.
with TWA:
Simply switch back to the workbench screen. The shell window is
activated automatically (The one the editor was started from.) and
you can call "More" immediately. After looking at the source code
switch back to the editor's screen and the window is automatically
reactivated. Nice, isn't it ?
The first commodity which did this job was Stefan Stuntz's MWA
(Magic Window Activator). But MWA caused lots of system lock-ups e.g.
with DPaint IV or Imagine 2.0. I reported the bug to Stefan, but ONE
day later I had still no update :-). So I decided to write TWA which
seems to be more stable :-).
PATCHES
TWA patches graphics.library/LoadView, intuition.library/CloseScreen
and intuition.library/CloseWindow. So if your virus killer find these
vectors changed it's probably NO virus.
HISTORY
1.0 (01.12.92)
- first release
1.1 (03.01.93)
- improved the which-window-to-activate-detection algorithm
1.2 (15.02.93)
- removed an enforcer hit which showed up e.g. with ASwarm II
(the hit showed up inside ASwarm II's process)
- return code of intuition.library/CloseScreen() is now treaded as
32 bit, because some bad programs seem to need that
CREDITS
Stefan Stuntz for the gread idea
Mario Kemper, Markus Illenseer, Ralph Schmidt and Markus Stipp for
testing TWA
SAS/C group for SAS/C 6 which enabled me to write this "hack" without
any system crash :-)
COPYRIGHT
TWA is free to be spread on public-domain and shareware disks as
long as they are sold for a reasonable charge that is less than $6.
This applies not to Fred Fish, he and ONLY he can take more money.
For use in commercial products the permission of the author is
required.
AUTHOR
Matthias Scheler
Schützenstraße 18
D-4799 Borchen
InterNet: tron@uni-paderborn.de
FidoNet: Matthias Scheler@2:247/600.10
Z-Netz: TRON@HSP.ZER