Contents
Kframe

Copyright 1994 by Kaoru Nakajima

Contents

Introduction

Liability

Options

Warnings

Distribution and Copyright

Support


Introduction

  Thank you for down-loading kframe.  Kframe is a utility to display frames when window is minimized or restored and to flash selected items.

Requirements

Hardware:

    80386 or higher machine

    4MB or more RAM memory

Software:

    Windows 3.1

Acknowledgments

  I would like to thank the following people who have made kframe possible.

First of all, I would like to thank the people who first thought of displaying window frames and have added this function in Macintosh OS.

Secondly, I want to thank take-e who developed of frame.exe for Windows.  His program has inspired me to develop kframe.

I also want to express my gratitude to takeshif, makoto, kojiw, naokii, and isaoa who have helped me test kframe.  I also want to appreciate people in testlab on ASCII-NET, who have generously given their permission to allow me to place beta version of kframe on their network.

Finally, I want to thank everybody who have send me bug reports and suggestions.  Without them, Ikframe would not have been what it is now.


Liability

  The author and the developer of this software will not take any responsibilities for any damages that may occur with the use of this software.  The files contained in KFRAME.LZH file are distributed "as is" and without any expressed and implied warranties.  The user assumes the entire risk of using the software.


Properties
Options

  To change kframe properties, click the left mouse button on the kframe icon and select Options.  A dialog box will be displayed with following options:

Moving Wait: [wait time]

Set the speed at which frames are displayed.

Larger wait time will slow the frame display speed.

Thickness: [Narrow / Thick]

Set the width of a frame.

Choose Narrow or Thick depending on screen mode and wallpaper.

Draw: [1Frame / 2Frame]

Number of frames drawn at once.

React: [Menu | Create/Close | Move | Maximize | Size

| Parent Only]

Set whether to draw frames when user executes the listed operation.

When Parent Only is checked, frames will be displayed only on parent windows.

Blinking Menu: [Blink Enable / Blink of...]

When checked, selected menu will blink.  The number of times the menu will

blink is set by Blink of.

Add to Control Panel:

When checked, kframe icon will be added to the Control Panel.

Even when Hide kframe Icon is checked, adding kframe icon to the Control Panel

will allow users to change kframe properties and to exit kframe.

Note: kframehk.dll will be added to the Control Panel.

      *.CPL file is not used in this operation.

Hide kframe Icon:

When checked, kframe icon will not be displayed on the Desktop nor will it be

listed in the Task List.

To change kframe properties and to exit kframe when kframe icon is hidden,

re-execute kframe to display kframe icon.


Warnings

1. Frames will not be displayed on System menus.  Displaying them slows the basic windows operations too much.

2. Item selected in the pop-up menu that are displayed when the right mouse button is clicked will not blink.  There were just too much problems.

3. Frames will not be displayed from the icon in the Program Manager.  It just was too difficult to make kframe work with progman.exe.

4. Frames might not be properly displayed on some applications that uses customized window control (e.g. Excel, Word).

5. kframe will not work with some applications.  If it does not seem to work properly, try changing the execution order.  If might work better.

6. Undocumented Windows interface are used.  Therefore, kframe might not work with Windows emulation programs such as SoftWindows.

7. kframe is a 16 bit Windows application.  It will not work properly on Windows NT.  It will work on Windows95 as a 16 bit application, but it uses too much resource to be worthwhile.


Distribution
Distribution and Copyright

Distribution

  This file can be freely distributed if the following conditions are obeyed:

1. If it is to be copied to another forum or to another distribution channel, please contact the developer to let us know exactly where it is to be copied.  We will need this information to maintain and upgrade kframe at all locations.

2. This program can be distributed only in the original archived KFRAME.LZH formatted file.  Do not change this file or any files within.

3. Please make it apparent that kframe is a FREEWARE.  It is necessary to state this in the program description.

4. If this program is to be mentioned in any article, please send a E-mail to one of the developers.  If it is going to be distributed in any other ways (e.g. CD-ROM), please contact the developer.  The developer is willing to discuss other means of distribution.  Please send a mail to one of the E-mail addresses in the support section below.

Copyright

 kframe is copyrighted to Kaoru Nakajima.  No part of this program or data may be reproduced, in any form or by any means, without a written permission from Kaoru Nakajima.


Support

  Support for kframe is provided by CompuServe E-mail.  If you have any question, opinion, suggestions, or any other comments, please send an E-mail to:

  Kaoru Nakajima Nifty Serve:	PGB01747

  Hitoshi Ozawa	 CompuServe:	100220,3402