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OVERVIEW:
wOpenOn is a companion program to wIconify. It allows you to change the
current settings of the OPEN WINDOWS sub-menu of the wIconify SCREEN menu.
It is intended to be used in the startup-sequence in conjuntion with
wIconScreen to allow you to start up programs on a wIconify screen during
system bootup.
USING WOPENON:
wOpenOn lets you specify where wIconify will open windows that are destined
for the Workbench screen, and whether it will resize windows to fit onto the
specified screen. To format for wOpenOn is:
1> WOPENON [ACTIVE_SCREEN | CURRENT_WB | REAL_WB] [[NO]RESIZE]
where brackets enclose optional items, and vertical bars separate choices.
The meaning of the different flags are as follow:
ACTIVE_SCREEN windows should open on the currently active screen
(the one with the active window)
CURRENT_WB windows should open on the current WB screen as
maintained by wIconify (the current WB screen will
have the MAKE WB menu item disabled)
REAL_WB windows should open on the real WB screen (i.e.,
wIconify should not open windows on other screens)
RESIZE if a window's size is too large for the screen where
it is to be openned, and if it allows for resizing,
wIconify should size it to a size that fits on the
screen
NORESIZE wIconify should not adjust the size of windows
(some programs use the failure of an OpenWindow() call
to determine the size of the screen)
You need not specify both a screen option and a sizing option; non-specified
options will be left unchanged by wOpenOn.
For example,
1> WOPENON CURRENT_WB NORESIZE
specifies that windows will open on the current WB screen, and no resizing will
be performed, while
1> WOPENON CURRENT_WB
specifies that windows will open on the current WB screen, but leaves the
present setting of the SIZE TO FIT menu unchanged.
USES FOR WOPENON:
Some people like to have their editors and other programs start up
automatically when they boot their computer. wIconify allows you to have
the windows these programs may open appear on screens other than the WB
screen. To do this, use the wIconScreen command to open a new wIconify
screen from within your startup-sequence; this will become the current WB
screen for wIconify. Then use WOPENON CURRENT_WB to make sure that windows
will open on the current WB screen, and RUN the programs that you want to
have openned automatically at boot up (you can open additional wIconify
screens if you want programs to open on separate screens). Once all the
programs have openned their windows, use WOPENON ACTIVE_SCREEN to reset the
wIconify menu to its default value, if desired.
AUTHOR:
Davide P. Cervone
Mathematics Department
Brown University
Providence, Rhode Island 02912
ST402523@BROWNVM