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- Lupe
-
- Version : 1.9
- Date : 21-Oct-97
- Author : Frank Toepper
-
-
- COPYRIGHT
-
- This program is Public Domain, everybody can use it without charge and you
- can copy it freely.
-
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
- This program magnifies an area of the screen and displays it in a seperate
- window.
-
-
- USAGE
-
- This program can be started from Workbench or CLI.
- It will try to evaluate the following tooltypes:
-
- CX_PRIORITY : A number between -128 and 127 which set the priority of
- the commodity. With that the system decides in which
- succession the commodities gets the messages.
- The commodity with the highest priority gets the
- message first.
- Default is 0.
- FAST : The window will often redrawn.
- Default is NO.
- SCALEFACTOR : Default is 5.
- MAXSCALEFACTOR : The maximum scalefactor (between 5 and 30)
- Default is 15.
- COORDINATES : In the bottom border the mouse coordinates will be
- displayed.
- Default is NO.
- CROSSHAIR : A crosshair visualised the position of the mouse.
- Default is NO.
- FIXED : When this flag is YES/ON the center of the magnified
- area was not described by the mouse coordinates but
- it's fixed until you clicked into the window.
- Now with the holded left mousebutton you can move the
- area.
- Default is NO.
- SETORIGINKEY : A hotkey to set an imaginary origin.
- Default is 'lalt o'.
- RESETORIGINKEY : A hotkey to reset the imaginary origin to 0,0.
- Default is 'lalt r'.
- SHOWHIDEKEY : A hotkey to open/close the window.
- WINLEFT
- WINTOP
- WINWIDTH
- WINHEIGHT : These values describes the position and dimension of the
- window.
- ICONIFY : The window will not opened.
- Default is NO.
- ICONIFYONCLOSE : If you press the closebutton the program will not be
- ending.
- Default is NO.
- GRID : This turns on the grid.
- Default is OFF.
- SHOWRGB : In the bottom border the color values will be displayed.
- Default is OFF.
- IFFFILE : Pfad und Name des Iff-Files.
- Default is 'ram:Lupe.iff'
- JUMPTOACTIVESCREEN : The window will always be jumping to the active
- screen.
- Default is OFF.
-
- By starting from CLI you can specify these arguments and override the
- tooltypes.
-
- "CX_PRIORITY=P/N/K, FAST=F/S/K, MAXSCALEFACTOR=M/N/K, SCALEFACTOR=S/N/K,
- WINLEFT=L/N/K, WINTOP=T/N/K, WINWIDTH=W/N/K, WINHEIGHT=H/N/K,
- COORDINATES=C/S/K, CROSSHAIR=R/S/K, SETORIGINKEY=O/K, RESETORIGINKEY=K/K,
- FIXED=D/S/K, SHOWHIDEKEY=SH/K, ICONIFY=I/S/K, ICONIFYONCLOSE=IOC/S/K,
- GRID=G/S/K, SHOWRGB=RGB/S/K, IFFFILE=IF/K, JUMPTOACTIVESCREEN=JAS/S/K,
- LANGUAGE=U"
-
- The values are the same as the tooltypes.
-
- The scalefactor can be set with the proportional gadget nested in the right
- windowborder.
- To move the surrounding area in the 'fixed'-mode click in the window and
- hold down the mousebutton. Now you can move the surrounding area until you
- release the mousebutton.
-
-
- The menu:
-
- Jump : Jumps to the next screen.
- Jump To Screen : A submenu with the actually opened screens. The
- window was opened on the selected screen.
- Jump To Active Screen : Jumps always to the active screen.
- Save IFF... : Saves the actual contents of the window as iff file.
- Enable : Here you can enable or disable the lens.
- Fixed : Switches the Fixed-mode on/off.
- If it's on the center of the magnified area was not
- described by the mouse coordinates but it's fixed
- until you clicked into the window.
- Now with the holded left mousebutton you can move
- the area.
- Fast : Switches to the Fast mode.
- Coordinates : Shows the mouse coordinates in the bottom
- windowborder.
- Crosshair : Switches the crosshair ON/OFF.
- Grid : This turns on/off the grid.
- Show RGB : In the bottom border the color values will be
- displayed.
- About : Shows program information.
- Iconify On Close : If you press the closebutton the program will be
- iconified.
- Iconify : Closes the window. You can open it again by pressing
- the hotkey or with the program 'Exchange'.
- Quit : Leaves the program.
-
- The keys:
-
- '+' : Scalefactor + 1
- '-' : Scalefactor - 1
- 'J' : Jump to next screen.
- 'A' : Jump to active screen.
- 'S' : IFF save.
- 'E' : activates/deactivates the lens.
- 'F' : Fast mode on/off.
- 'C' : Coordinates on/off.
- 'R' : Crosshair on/off.
- 'O' : set the imaginary origin to the actuall mouse coordinates.
- 'K' : reset the imaginary origin to 0,0.
- 'D' : Switches the Fixed-mode on/off.
- '?' : Shows program information.
- 'N' : If you press the closebutton the program will be iconified.
- 'I' : Closes the window.
- 'G' : Turns on/off the grid.
- 'W' : Turns on/off the show RGB.
- 'Q',ESC : Leaves the program.
- Additionally in Fixed-mode the area can be moved by the cursorkeys.
- Whereby the area will be moved by one 'page' with pressed shift-key, to
- the extremity with pressed alt-key or else 1 pixel.
-
- The hotkeys:
-
- 'lalt l' : Iconify/uniconify.
- 'lalt o' : Set origin.
- 'lalt r' : Reset origin.
-
-
- DISCLAIMER
-
- Allright, here it is : you use Lupe at your own risk. I cannot be
- responsible for any damage happening caused by using it.
-
-
- AUTHOR
-
- Bugrepots or what ever you want to:
-
- Frank Toepper
- Maxim Gorki Straße 5A
- Greifswald
- 17491
- Germany
-
- or via e-Mail (prefered): toepper@rz.uni-greifswald.de
-
- WWW: http://www.user.fh-stralsund.de/~rwermke/di.html
-
-
- CREDITS
-
- Thanks goes to Thomas Byrer, Allan Odgaard, Tilo KÜhn, Troels Walsted
- Hansen, Olaf Groener, Philippe Casidy, John Wehler and Stephane Dudez for
- their ideas, to the betatesters Meni Berman, Georges Goncalves, Ralph
- Wermke, Ronny Dudeck and Michael Knoke.
-