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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. PMEYES - Eyes to watch you work! ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- Abstract:
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- PM Eyes places a pair of eyes on your screen that follow your cursor. PM Eyes
- takes advantage of Presentation Manager's capabilities to exploit color,
- non-rectangular clipping, smooth animation, application control over its frame,
- and remembering user customizations and positioning information. In short,
- it's a fun way to show off Presentation Manager.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1.1. Installation ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- Use LoadRam2 (supplied on the diskette) to unpack the PMEYES.RAM file (in the
- PROGRAMS directory of the diskette) into a directory specified by the path
- statement in your CONFIG.SYS.
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- For example, from the diskette drive prompt (eg. A:), type:
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- LOADRAM2 A:\PROGRAMS\PMEYES.RAM C:\PSTOOLS /D
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- This should unpack the following files into the PSTOOLS directory on your C
- drive (providing that this directory exists):
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- README TXT // General guidelines
- PMEYES EXE // executable
- PMEYES INF // help file
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- (For more information on LoadRam2 see the help provided with LoadRam2, or type
- "LoadRam2 ?" ).
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1.2. Using PM Eyes ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- PM Eyes may be invoked from an OS/2 full screen or window session. The
- following command arguments may be specified for special purposes. The
- arguments are not remembered and must be respecified each time you want to use
- them. If conflicting arguments are used the rightmost one prevails.
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- D Disable the "hide/show" frame function
- F Start with the frame showing
- H Start with the frame hidden
- T Try to keep the client area at the top of the Z-order
- when the frame is hidden.
- X Simulate a transparent background effect when the frame
- is hidden.
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- Options may be specified with or without the use of switch characters (- or /)
- and specified individually or in combination. For example, all of the
- following commands are equivalent:
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- PMEYES /thx
- PMEYES t h x
- PMEYES -t -hx
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- 1. PM Eyes has two modes of operation: a transparent background mode, and a
- "rise" mode. These modes may be combined or specified independently from
- the "Options" dialog, but they only take effect when you hide the PM Eyes
- frame.
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- a. Transparent background mode - PM Eyes attempts to simulate a
- transparent background so that the contents of windows lower in the
- Z-order are not obscured. This gives the appearance of separate
- non-rectangular windows for the 2 eyes.
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- Note: due to lack of support for transparent windows in Presentation
- Manager itself, this effect is not foolproof. You may occasionally have
- to click on PM Eyes or rearrange the desktop to force a redraw.
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- b. Rise mode - PM Eyes attempts to stay at the top of the Z-order, so that
- if another window obscures it, it pops to the top automatically. When
- combined with the transparent background mode just the eyes may appear
- to break through dialogs and menus to have a look around at what you
- are doing.
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- 2. The eyelids automatically lift as the pupil moves around. This makes it
- more useful to employ the "drowsy" effect.
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- 3. The "Defaults" button in the Colors dialog doesn't dismiss the dialog.
- After it displays the default color choices for your review, you must
- press "OK" or "Cancel" to accept or reject them.
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- 4. If you "switch" to PM Eyes from the Presentation Manager Task Manager, it
- automatically attaches a frame and pops to the top where you can find it
- (unless the /d command line option has been used to disable the frame).
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- 5. The dialog boxes position themselves such that they never obscure the
- client window.
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- 6. This version of PM Eyes tries to respond to mouse button 2 regardless of
- where the mouse pointer is currently positioned. As before, the "Options"
- dialog determines whether it winks or blinks
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