RISC User Series

Hints & Tips

General hints & tips about the use of Acorn computers

Hints & Tips by various authors

8:2			Using Acorn's Paint in 16 and 32-bit modes Waiting for a Keypress on the Desktop Converting Fonts to Paths in Draw Altering the Frame Rate on a Risc PC Sharing the Pinboard Longer Interactive Help Text Photodesk and Sprite Files Closing Files With Dustbin
8:3			Reducing Flicker when Updating Icons Correcting Typing Transpositions More on Masks in Draw ...And Yet More on Masks with Draw Pinboard Roots 16 million Greyscales with PhotoTouch Problems on the Risc PC with Games and CMOS RAM Total automation in C with DeskEdit 4
8:4			Risc PC Mode Changes in Non-Wimp Programs Draw Zoom Curing a Printing Problem with Ovation and ArtWorks Acorn Find Function Keys in Task Windows Two-column Basic Listings Rubber-banding in Wimp Programs Using the RAM Disc to Speed up Image Conversions Gold Contacts on Circuit Boards
8:5			Murdering Modules Beware of Unassigned Registers in Assembler Converting PC Fonts Using Flood Fills on Large Sprites Using Find & Replace with Fireworkz Changing the Colours Used by Draw Problems with Early Versions of SysMerge Printing Single Envelopes with a BJC-600
8:6			Master Text Frames in Publisher Tippex on Discs Text with Thick Outlines Using the SWIs Wimp_StartTask and TaskManager_TaskNameFromHandle Aborting a File Copy Operation Closing a Directory after Copying Fast Wipe for High Density Floppies Saving Disc Space with Impression Documents Expanded Strings with Function Keys Changing Mode Using Obey Files
8:7			Avoid Oversized Disc Labels Menu Width under RISC OS 3.5 Justification on Menu Items under RISC OS 3.5 Limiting Window Movement to Screen Boundaries Using Null-terminated Strings in Basic Calculating Interest Using Sound Samples with ErrorBox Reconfiguring After Badly-Behaved Games Backing up Different Disc Formats Converting PC Fonts
8:8			Using Dynamic Areas Keeping File Icon Sprites under Control Windows 3.1 SETUP.EXE and the Risc PC 486 Card Using Hearsay for the Internet Speeding up Sleuth SWI MessageTrans_ErrorLookup Printer Calibration Tables in Photodesk Altering Response to Ctrl Key in NewChars2
8:9			Mouse Clicks over Pop-up Menu Icon Keeping Applications in Directories Impression Abbreviation Dictionary Using Wimp Messages to Set Alarms 3D Characters Quick Screen Redraw
8:10			Scaling Objects in Draw Full Scrap Directory Machine Usage Monitor Printing to File Pocket Book Dialogue Boxes A No-GOTO Area in BPrint Repeating Task Alarms
9:1			*LoadFontCache after a Risc PC VRAM Upgrade Pocket Book Alarms Uses for XCLI Using More Memory for File Copying Checking if a System Variable Exists
9:2			Restoring a corrupted alphabet Speeding up conversion with ChangeFSI Dodgy logic Comma entry in Basic programs Peculiarities of 256-colour sprites Toolbox button gadgets with sprites Problems relocating SlideShow on a Risc PC A simple alternative to Alarm Publicising Acorn
9:3			Icon bar problems More about covering the icon bar Scaling objects in Draw Keeping track of Message_ModeChanged Outline fonts in icons Preemptive strike Data in template files not word-aligned Groups on the Pocket Book II
9:4			Using Print Speed under new versions of Printers Non-Latin1 alphabets for outline fonts Custom alphabets Problems with the DrawFile module
9:5			Multiple launches Module help text More problems relocating SlideShow on a Risc PC Calculating Easter Sunday
9:6			Inconsistencies with OS_GBPB Risc PC desktop fonts Using Pocket Books with an A-Link Shortcomings of mode 32 Centring the display in Kaleidoscope Problems with icon button type 1
9:7			Font expander Saving application space Pushing VIDC20 to the limit Reopening a filer action window Beware of the Big 'F'
9:8			Watch your back! Importing sprites Exporting sprites Fax and figures Flying mice
9:9			Creating variables from Basic RISC OS on overdrive Printing to disc saves time
9:10			Extending Basic with dynamic functions An English-friendly sort-character Saving pictures on the Pocket Book Creating drop caps
10:1			More accessible task windows Playing forced tunes on Adjust Taking care with FTP downloads on the Internet
10:2			StrongARM hints Cacheing in your chips Obeying the cache Hacking for compatibility's sake Editing fonts on StrongARM
10:3			Pantone for Photodesk Viewing frames on the Web Automatically enabling the StrongARM
10:4			Viewing frames on the Web Making anti-aliased bitmaps All at sea with C in C
10:5			StrongARM cache control revisited Smaller task window slots Beware of low-flying Risc PCs
10:6			Fuzzy Logic A different pinboard picture for each day of the week Speeding up your copies Confusion with cables
10:7			Pocket Book Hints & Tips Saving battery power Updating file lists Saving memory A-Link and Flash SSDs Snapshots Recording quality Chars on the Pocket Book Kill vs close Jumping to the desktop
10:8			Having a fine time Auto-starting PC Exchange Using Ovation and Ovation Pro together
10:9			Copying down the pipe Application date-stamps Free disc space: more for less
10:10			Mangled MIME NexusFS file saving problem Warning! Saving files under a new name PocketFS problems
11:1			Hidden features in Draw Sounding normal
11:2			Labelling pictures in Draw
11:3			Compressing a PC partition Beware of Microsoft! Saving Basic as text More PocketFS problems Pocket Book programming
11:4			Updating the ANT Internet Suite front-end Losing your selection in Edit MSB and LSB explained
11:5			Internal cropping with ImageMaster Finding and editing Ovation Pro effects
11:6			Stuck Pointer Stuck SCSI Organising folders in Newsbase
11:7			Window casements in C Identifying archive types Speeding up directory exploration Bleeping errors Line spacing in Ovation Pro
11:8			Pocket Book Hints & Tips Keeping programs on SSD Write overflow problems Using outline as an indexer JBData as a language tool Battery tips
11:9			Schizophrenic ellipses Multitasking Obey files Wolfenstein 3D cheat mode Share and share alike
11:10			Funny Faxes Remember Resize Removable Media The Magnifying Desktop