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- Written using DICE v2.06.37 and Aztec 5.2a Developer
-
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-
- COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
- FontViewQ is copyrighted 1992 by Dieter Temme. All rights
- reserved. This program is Freeware, so no financial donations
- required. Redistribution allowed if the package is left
- unchanged except for addition of new language catalogs. The
- author is not responsible for any damage caused by the use or
- misuse of this documentation and/or the program(s) it describes.
-
-
- Overview
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
- This directory contains the following files:
-
- - ReadMe (this file)
- - ReadMe.info (icon)
-
- - DMakefile (makefile for DICE)
- - FontViewQ.c (source code)
- - FontViewQ.c.info (icon)
- - FontViewQ.cd (original catalog description in english)
- - FontViewQ.h (original header file created by CatComp)
- - empty.ct (empty catalog translation file for localization)
- - #?.ct (catalog translation files)
-
- - FontViewQ (executable)
- - FontViewQ.info (icon)
- - catalogs/#?/FontViewQ.catalog
- (catalog files, can be copied to LOCALE:catalogs/#?/)
-
- To use FontViewQ you have to work with:
- - an Amiga running at least AmigaOS 2.04
-
-
- Description
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
- You can start FontViewQ from Shell or Workbench. It then shows a
- table of all characters using the current used system font. The
- gadgets are all font-adaptable. FontViewQ is a commodity, this
- is the system compatible way to insert hot key driven
- applications into the system. You can pop up FontViewQ with a
- hot key and put it to silence to wait for the next time you need
- it quickly. If you use Workbench 2.1, FontViewQ will localize
- itself, if the right catalog file is existent. You can select
- another font, if you want to see, which characters are defined
- and how they are looking.
-
-
- Start from Shell
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
- The format is »FontViewQ CX_POPUP/K,CX_PRIORITY/K,CX_POPKEY/K«.
- Each parameter is optional. For a description of the parameters
- see the Commodities chapter of your AmigaOS 2.x Guide.
-
-
- Start from Workbench
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
- Just double-click on the icon of FontViewQ. Then you will see
- the FontViewQ window, which contains the following gadgets:
-
- - Select Font... lets you choose a font using the standard
- system font requester. The name and size is shown in the text
- display below of the select gadget.
-
- - Character and Decimal are for display only and can be changed
- clicking on one of the shown characters in the table.
-
- - Keystroke is also a display-only field to show you, which
- keycaps you have to press to get the character currently
- highlighted in the table. The keystroke combinations shown are
- compatible with key definitions used for commodities' hotkeys.
-
- - Page is used if the whole font doesn't fit on the Workbench
- screen. You can alter the page number by clicking in the
- container, moving the knob or alternatively clicking on one of
- the arrow gadgets.
-
- - Hide makes the commodity disappear, but not quit. You can open
- it again by hitting the hot key which is displayed in the title
- of FontViewQ's window or alternatively by calling it from the
- Commodities Exchange program which is supplied to you on your
- Extras disk.
-
- - Quit will end FontViewQ. The same action can be taken from the
- Commodities Exchange program.
-
- Instead of clicking on the gadgets you can press the underlined
- keys. For the next or previous page you can press PageDown (=
- SHIFT 3) and PageUp (= SHIFT 9), for the first or last page you
- can press Home (= SHIFT 7) and End (= SHIFT 1).
-
-
- The tool types
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
- There are only the standard tool types CX_POPUP (default is
- 'YES'), CX_PRIORITY (default is '0') and CX_POPKEY (default is
- 'ctrl alt f'), which are described in the Commodities chapter of
- your AmigaOS 2.x guide.
-
-
- Programming features
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
- For the Keystroke gadget I tried to use the keymap.library's
- function MapANSI() first, but that wasn't satisfying, because
- some keys are converted into rather complicate sequences. So I
- had to write my own routine MapANSIChar_() in order to provide
- the user the simpliest keystroke combination for whatever keymap
- (or let's say: keyboard) she/he is using.
-
-
- Version history
- -----------------------------------------------------------------
- 1.0: only one-page view, compilable under DICE, Lattice/SAS C
- and Aztec C with localization starting with OS 2.1.
- 1.1: Page gadget and logic added.
- 1.2: Keystroke gadget and logic added.
- Busy mouse pointer added.
-
-
- Sorry: Even locale.library cannot localize this ReadMe file.
-
- If you add one or more catalog translation files I would get a
- copy to hold all translations together. This can even be helpful
- while creating new programs with all translations in it from the
- first distribution on.
-
- Please send bug reports, ideas and new catalog translation files
- to:
-
- Dieter Temme
- Freiherrenstr. 15
- 5100 Aachen
- Germany
-
- FidoNet 2:242/7
- Dieter_Temme@MOWGLI.FIDO.DE
-