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- Short: Powerful script based launching tool.
- Author: di3andpe@ida.his.se (Anders Persson)
- Uploader: di3andpe@ida.his.se (Anders Persson)
- Version: 7.1
- Type: util/boot
- Replaces: util/boot/selector70.lha
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- * Description *
-
- Highly configurable launching tool for almost ANY purpose. But
- it is not yet another program like toolsdeamon or toolmanager.
- Selector serves as a complement to these types of programs. It's
- more like a script language.
-
- You can for example make a button panel that follows you from
- screen to screen when changing screens. Or a button panel (or menu)
- that pops up ANYWHERE when pressing your middle mouse button.
- (Or when pressing both mouse buttons together.)
-
- You can make a button for starting a program if it's not allready
- open, else just jump to that programs screen. This is very comfortable,
- as you allways press the same button to get to the programs screen,
- regardless if it's open or not.
-
- You can make a special window only available on (for example) your
- word processors screen, with buttons for starting different arexx
- scripts for that program.
-
- Selector is a powerful tool to use within shell scripts or to
- make a little GUI for your CLI type program. I have for example
- made a GUI for GMPlay (mus/midi/GMPlayGUI15.lha on Aminet) using
- selector.
-
- The possible use of selector is almost unlimited, yet the syntax
- is very simple.
-
- It is really easy to produce a button panel, info window or a little
- requester with selector.
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- * Requirements *
-
- Selector needs AmigaDos 2.0 or better.
- Some of the included examples need AmigaOS 3.0+
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- * What's new in Selector 7.1 (980313) **
-
- -Now possible to unload patterns that was loaded in the settings file, by
- setting a pattern to "*none*". Example: pattern 3 *none*
-
- -Patterns that have more bitplanes than the screen that the window is
- opened on, is no longer shown at all. This because magicWB-patterns
- often look dreadful on a 4-color screen.
-
- -The error message window has now two buttons: "Edit" and "Cancel". If
- you press "Edit", the script file causing the error will be loaded
- into your favourite text editor. The env variable "SelectorEditor"
- specifies this editor.
-
- -You can now press "Ctrl-E" to edit the script for the active window.
-
- -You can press "Ctrl-L" to reload the script and update the window.
-
- -Selector is a bit faster, specially if it's a large script that
- don't have to be updated.
-
- -Scripts can now be 365 lines long (260 before). Selector needs 30K
- more memory for this. If you have a problem with this, please let
- me know.
-
- -New bonus tool: SelectorScreens, that simply makes
- a selector script for choosing the different pubscreens.
-
- -Bugfix: Selector didn't work with executehack.
-
- -Bugfix: The opening of files or env variables sometimes made selector to
- error. This if another program was writing to the file in question at the
- same time. Now, selector waits and tries again.
-
- -Bugfix: The Popup command with the "First" option, opened the window
- even if the current screen wasn't the specified one.
-
- -Bugfix: Most of the 4-color patterns in the patterns drawer was in
- fact 8-colors patterns with one bitplane unused.
-
- -New popup script that awaits a screen.
-
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- * Copyrights *
-
- Selector is Copyrighted (C) 1998 by Anders Persson.
-
- Selector is SHAREWARE!!!
- Please read the guide documentation for information about payment and
- specific copy- and distribution rights.
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- * Also Try *
-
- My homepage: www.ida.his.se/ida/~di3andpe/
-
- Lots of free software, latest versions of my programs and support.
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- * Also Try *
-
- Aminet: comm/misc/BorayLetter53.lha (english version)
- comm/misc/BorayLetter53S.lha (svensk version)
-
- Boray Letter, "The king of letter programs". Maybe you
- don't know what a letter program is. Well, it was something that
- started on the C64. You could use the keyboard to write a message
- to your friend, and when he looked at it, it was played in the same
- way it was written.... BorayLetter is that, and much more. You can
- for example draw lines, wait for a key to be pressed or even
- animate and make your own little cartoons!!!
-
- When you for example draw a line in your letter, only the
- coordinates for the line are saved to the file. All graphics works
- in this way. This leads to an extremely spacesaving fileformat.
- For example, the demo letter "Cecdic" contains 4:30 minutes of
- cartoons. And it's only 32K big (uncompressed). Yes, it's not even
- compressed. If you pack it with SHRINK, it will be 21K, or 24K
- with lha.
-
- "BorayLetter är ett roligt och lättanvänt program"
- -InternetGuiden nr 2, 1998
-
- "BorayLetter is a funny and easy-to-use program"
- -InternetGuiden nr 2, 1998
-
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- * Also Try *
-
- Aminet: mods/boray
-
- My DigiBooster and Protracker music modules.
-
- Why not try the 4 latest:
-
- mods/boray/DayUnknown.lha (DIGI Booster module by Boray 97/12/01)
- mods/boray/HELGON.lha (DIGI Booster module by Boray 97/11/02)
- mods/boray/PsalmAP2Alt.lha (DIGI Booster module by Boray 97/09/23)
- mods/boray/IAmGenerated.lha (DIGI Booster module by Boray 97/09/15)
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