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- ^2H I N T S F O R B E T T E R P R O G R A M M I N G .
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- ^5 To start with, here are a couple of commands that (again) are not in
- ^5the Amos Manual.
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- ^2 Amos Lock Amos Unlock
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- ^5 Amos Lock disables the <LEFT AMIGA + A> from being used together to
- ^5toggle between different programs in memory. This in effect stops the
- ^5Amiga multi-tasking on more than one program.
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- ^5 Amos Unlock enables these keys.
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- ^2 Request Off Request On
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- ^5 This command will turn off the System Request box that pops up from
- ^5time to time to tell you that your disk is write protected etc. You
- ^5will probably have found out by now that you cannot always get back
- ^5to to your program after one of these boxes has appeared.
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- ^5 Request On turns the box on again.
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- ^4 This next tip solved a problem that was occurring in some programs
- ^4where we needed to stop the user moving the mouse around clicking all
- ^4over the screen while certain other things were being transacted eg
- ^4an animation sequence where unwanted movement of the pointer could
- ^4cause glitches to appear in your display. (a glitch is a corruption
- ^4of the graphic display which can include flickering, bits of bobs
- ^4left on screen etc)
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- ^2 Use Limit Mouse with the same start and finish coordinates to limit
- ^2the mouse to a single pixel until you want it to move freely again.
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- ^4 eg Limit Mouse 160,100 to 160,100
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- ^1 To free the mouse pointer, use Limit Mouse without coordinates.
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- ^4 This use of Limit Mouse is very useful if you have a bob attached to
- ^4your pointer as it will not cause the image to shudder as it would if
- ^4you use X Mouse, Y Mouse.
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- ^2 Thanks to Paul of Technical Fred Software for solving this problem.
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- ^2 If you have tried messing about with the Amos commands and found
- ^2something interesting, please let us know!
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- ^2 It proves that you shouldn't assume anything, ie that Limit Mouse
- ^2has to have different start and end coordinates to work. The above
- ^2tip proves otherwise!
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