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- A M I G A M O S A I C H O T L I S T
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- AMHotlist V1.50, (c) 1994, Berend Ozceri
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- I. Legalities
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- This program is provided as is, as a public domain program and no guarantees
- are made by the author. As Dave Haynie quoted Jimmy Buffet in the A3000/A4000
- hardware notes, "What works for me, might work for you." Use this program at
- your own risk as I do not assume any responsibility for any physical/electrical
- /mental/etc damage caused by this program.
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- Feel free to distribute this program as much as you want but do not make any
- profit from it! If you like it some much that you want to send me a donation,
- feel free to do so! ;)
-
- Please report any bugs/problems/suggestions to me. You can contact me at:
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- E-Mail: bo24@andrew.cmu.edu
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- Snail-Mail: Berend Ozceri
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Box 4930
- 5115 Margaret Morrison
- Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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- This program uses MUI. MUI is (c) 1993,1994 by Stefan Stuntz.
-
-
- II. Changes From V1.00
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- The most important change is that if you select the "Add to Hotlist" menu
- entry under the AMosaic's Rexx menu while you have the hotlist window open, the
- hotlist listview will actually be updated.
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- AMHotlist now has menu entries for its functions.
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- The program now accurately reflects the hotlists's current state (asleep/
- awake) with the normal/busy mouse pointers.
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- The rest of the changes are mostly user friendliness changes of the program's
- error messages. In V1.50 pretty much all errors will pop up a requestor to
- tell the user what is wrong and ask for what to do.
-
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- III. Introduction
-
- As you well know, the AMosaic development team has done a great job of
- porting Mosaic to the Amiga, bringing an invaluable net resource to the Amiga
- world. However, one of the shortcomings of the latest version of AMosaic
- (version 1.2) is the support for hotlists (or lack thereof ;) ). Apparently the
- developers tried to address this problem by putting in an ARexx script into the
- distribution to create pseudo-hotlist support. However, I find the idea of
- using a seperate HTML page as a hotlist a major kludge. So what did I do? I
- performed a smaller kludge! I wrote an MUI program that can be invoked from
- AMosaic (via ARexx) and will give you complete hotlist control.
-
-
- IV. Installation
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- The installation is straightforward. Copy the executable AMHotlist to any
- directory you want. Add the following lines to your ENVARC:Mosaic/Prefs:
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- RexxMacro1 Add to Hotlist | "ADDRESS COMMAND 'C:RUN <>NIL: MOSAIC:AMHotlist QUICKADD'"
- RexxMacro2 Hotlist... | "ADDRESS COMMAND 'C:RUN <>NIL: MOSAIC:AMHotlist'"
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- (Make sure you replace MOSAIC:AMHotlist with wherever you decide to install the
- executable in your system. For example, if you install the AMHotlist program
- in your C: directory, replace the MOSAIC:AMHotlist in those lines with
- C:AMHotlist)
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- Copy the .mosaic-hotlist-default file to your ENVARC: directory as follows:
-
- COPY .mosaic-hotlist-default ENVARC:Mosaic
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- Copy the ENVARC:Mosaic directory to ENV:Mosaic as follows:
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- COPY ENVARC:Mosaic ENV:Mosaic
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- You are set!
-
- (Note: The hotlist program requires you have a MUI, but since you are already
- using AMosaic that step should already have been taken care of.)
-
-
- V. Usage
-
- Start AMosaic. Under the Rexx menu you should see two entries "Add to
- Hotlist" and "Hotlist..." Select "Hotlist..." The hotlist window will open on
- your default MUI screen (this is normal for any MUI program that does not have
- any configuration saved). If you are running AMosaic on a screen other than the
- default screen, close the hotlist window, start up MUIPrefs and set
- AmigaMosaic-Hotlist's screen prefs so that it opens on that screen too. Then
- reopen the window. If you copied a .mosaic-hotlist-default file to your
- ENV:Mosaic directory, it should automatically have been loaded by now.
-
- i) Adding New Entries
-
- There are two ways to add new entries to the hotlist. The first way is by
- using the "Add" button in the hotlist window. If you click on "Add" a dialog
- window will come up preloaded with the information regarding the current
- page loaded into AMosaic. If you want to add that page as is, just click on
- "Done", and it will be added. If you want, you can do editing on the "Title"
- and "URL" fields before you click on "Done". If you decide not to add, just
- click on "Cancel"
-
- The other way to add an entry to the hotlist is by using the "Add to
- Hotlist" menu option under AMosaic's Rexx menu. If you perform this menu
- selection, AMosaic's current page will be added to your hotlist without
- bringing up any dialog windows.
-
- Note that everytime you add an item, AMHotlist will update the
- .mosaic-hotlist-default file in your ENVARC: and ENV: directories.
-
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- ii) Deleting Entries
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- Deleting a hotlist entry is easy. Just select the hotlist entry from the
- listview and click on "Delete."
-
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- iii) Editing Entries
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- If you decide at any point to change anything about a hotlist entry that
- you already have, use the "Edit" button. Selecting a hotlist entry and
- clicking on "Edit" will bring up an editing dialog. Edit the entry as you
- wish and click on "Done" if you want the changes to take effect. If you want
- to scratch the changes, click on "Cancel"
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- The editing window is asynchronous from the rest of the program so you can
- be double-clicking on entries to jump to while the edit window is open.
-
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- iv) Jumping to Entries
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- If you want to jump to an entry, just double click on it! Presto! You are
- there. You will realize that when you perform a jump, the hotlist window
- will be put to sleep until AMosaic confirms via ARexx that the jump has
- worked.
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