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TEXVIEW II
By
K. SHARKEY
3 Gumnut St
Albion Park Rail
N.S.W. 2527
Australia
June 1992
This Text displayer is Public domain. I use it to
display short .doc files and as an easy way to view IFF
pictures from the Workbench. To use the reader simply click
on the TEXVIEW icon and select a file from the standard Amos
file selector. If you wish to use the program from the CLI
then you can include the filename of the file to view
directly after the TEXVIEW command, for example
SYS:Utilities/TEXVIEW Ram:File.ext <RETURN>
Once TEXVIEW has examined and formatted the file it
will display it for you to view. If the file you have
selected is a Iff picture file then Texview will display the
picture for you if it is able to be loaded. If the file is a
music file which has been saved in standard Amos format (
intend working on other formats) the program will
automatically play the music.
The following keys are now available to you.
<UP ARROW> or select up icon Scrolls page towards top of
file
<DOWN ARROW> or select down icon Scrolls page towards bottom
of file
<T> or select icon Moves to top of file
<B> or select icon Moves to bottom of file
<F1> or select disk icon Load a new file
<Q> or select off button icon Quits and returns to
Editor/WBench
<P> or select document icon Prints current file/part file on
printer (Except music/pic files, Press F2 for pic files)
<HELP> Displays a help screen
<Left Amiga + A> Toggles between Texview & W/Bench (This
allows you to use other programs at the same time)
<F2> Graphic dump of picture. (New feature)
You can also point to the slider at the right side
of the screen and click the left mouse button to move to any
midpoint of the program.When answering Yes/OK or No/None at
any of the requesters the "Y" and "N" keys will work in
place of the mouse click if you prefer. When you wish to
print a file an option screen will be offered asking how
much you wish to print. Clicking on the (<>) arrows where
the screen numbers are displayed will change the range of
screens to print either up (>) or down (<). If you then
select "OK" the portion of file you have selected (measured
in screens) will be printed.
In case you are unfamiliar with the Amos standard file
requester I will describe it. The requester loads the
directory from the current directory. Simply click on the
file you want to view (or double click) and select OK to
load the file.The two arrows at the top left of the
requester scroll up and down the directory. The small
circular icon (o) at the very top left loads the parent
directory.Click on the sort box to sort the directory
alphabetically at any time.The quit box quits the requester
without loading anything.Setdir makes the directory/volume
on display the current directory for all future
access.Clicking on the right mouse key will display all
available volumes and let you choose any volume on display
with a click of the left key.Alternatively you can click
directly in the bottom directory and filename boxes and type
the names you want on the keyboard.
Recently, I sent for A. Grants Dos Printer Utility. I have
installed a printer dump utility in the program using this
excellent program, so that now Texview will also allow you
to print out the picture files you are viewing. A
preferences screen will come up if you press F2 while
wiewing a picture. You can click to set various options
including the size of the resultant printout in 1/1000 ths
of an inch, and the keep (or don't keep) normal aspect
ratio feature.
The size of the printout is altered by clicking on the +/-
symbols on the right of the window. Clicking with left mouse
alters value by 1, clicking with right mouse alters by 10
and both mouse keys alters the value by 100. If you choose
to keep normal aspect ratio the printout will retain the
correct x and y axis ratio. Clicking on the WB Prefs flag
will reset all the preferences to the default values. The
workbench preferences will be used for all other printout
features.
The bottom of the screen now carries three new features as
well. CR (Carriage Returns) , TAB and WORD WRAP appear on
the screen, Click on them to toggle the feature on or off.
CR (|P) allows you to merely view a carriage return or print
it as normal. TAB will either show you a TAB symbol (>>) or
prints a space in place of a tab. WORD WRAP breaks lines at
spaces instead of inside a word on files with line lengths
longer than 80 columns. If your file looks strange or
overscrolls the length of the page try clicking this, it
will usually fix it without much fuss.
I hope you find Texview handy to have sitting on the
WorkBench, I know I do. I would appreciate any comments or
bug reports or for that matter any communication with other
Amos users with similar interests. It would also be
interesting to learn how far this program travels.
ENJOY
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