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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.
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- INSTALLATION
- ------------
- 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
- -----
- 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