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- !Mode?
- ------
- Simon Foster.
- 21st October 1994.
- ver. 2.01
-
- Description
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- A Risc PC style mode selector. Well what more can I say,
- you've probably seen or heard of it.
-
- How to use it
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- Load by double clicking as normal, the icon will then
- appear on the iconbar, and depending on how the
- preferences are set the palette icon will disappear as
- well. The palette utility though is still resident so
- any programs that use it will still function.
-
- When run, the application may need to scan the currently
- installed modes on your system. This normally happens in
- the background, but if you click on the icon with SELECT
- or ADJUST, or select PREFERENCES... from the menu, then
- the hourglass will appear with a percentage done
- indicator. Please be patient the scanning only takes a
- few seconds.
-
- Clicking with SELECT or ADJUST on the icon brings up the
- Risc PC style mode selector. This operates basically in
- the same fashion as the Risc PC one. (I hope) You simply
- select the resolution and the number of colours that you
- require, click on CHANGE and that mode appears. If when
- selecting the number of the colours, the currently
- selected resolution is not available in that many
- colours, an appropriate resolution will be selected for
- you. The same happens when selecting a resolution, if the
- number colours isn't available, an appropriate number of
- colours will be selected for you.
-
- Clicking with MENU on the icon brings up the following
- menu;
- +------------------+
- | Info ë |
- | Mode ë |
- | Preferences... |
- | Default Palette |
- | Quit |
- +------------------+
- These options are as follows;
- Å Info
- This displays the standard program information
- dialogue box.
- Å Mode
- This allows you to select a mode by entering the mode
- number, or selecting from some predefined ones, just
- as you would do from the Palette Utility.
- Å Preferences...
- This displays the preferences dialogue box which
- allows you to set various aspects of the application.
- Å Default Palette
- This resets the desktop palette to the default, this
- would be used when another application changes the
- palette.
- Å Quit
- This quits the application, restoring the palette
- utility in the process.
-
- The preferences dialogue box provides the following
- options;
-
- Å Show mode number on iconbar
- If this is selected then the current mode number will
- be displayed on the icon on the iconbar.
- Å Re-position window on open
- If this is selected then when the icon is clicked on
- with either SELECT or ADJUST the mode selector window
- appears in the bottom right hand side on the screen.
- If not then the mode selector window appears where
- is was before when closed.
- Å Close window on mode change
- When the CHANGE button is selected if this option is
- set then the mode selector window is closed. If not
- then the window remains open after the mode change.
- Å Remove palette icon
- If this is set then the palette utility icon is
- removed from the iconbar.
- Å Show colours
- Clicking this brings up a menu of all the different
- numbers of colours that are available on the your
- system. Beside some or all of them will be ticks,
- these indicate that that colour will appear in the
- colour selection menu in the mode selector window.
- Å Show resolutions
- This allows you to select which resolutions appear in
- resolution selection menu in the mode selector
- window.
-
-
- Six buttons are at the bottom of the preferences window;
- Å Change Window Position...
- This is explained further on.
- Å Alter Mode Menu...
- This is explained further on.
- Å Reset mode information
- This rescans the available modes on your system. This
- could be used when any extra modes are added by
- loading any modules that add more modes.
- Å Cancel
- Cancels any changes made to the preferences.
- Å OK
- Sets the preferences to the currently selected ones.
- Å Save
- Saves the currently selected preferences. The mode
- information for your system is also saved. This
- means that when !Mode? is next run it does have to
- scan the available modes.
-
-
- The Change Window Position dialogue box
-
- This allows you to change where the mode selection window
- appears on the desktop when to click on the iconbar icon.
- There are nine different positions to choose from.
-
-
- The Alter Mode Menu dialogue box
-
- This allows you to change what is displayed in the
- mode submenu on the iconbar menu. In this window there
- is a list of 5 entries. The button on the left of each
- of them (apart from the last) allows you to edit the
- aspects of that entry. The button on the right depicts
- whether that entry will be on the menu or not. The last
- entry is a special one, this is the one where you can
- enter a mode number manually. Clicking on one of the
- buttons on the left brings up another dialogue box.
-
-
- The Alter Mode Entry dialogue box
-
- This allows you to alter the aspects of a menu entry.
- Å Mode Description
- This is the text that appears on the menu.
- Å Colours & Resolution
- This allows you to select the mode by the number of
- colours and resolution.
- Å Mode Number
- If you know the mode number, enter it here.
-
-
- Suggestions
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- Please send any suggestions, and dare I say bug reports
- on Email to -
-
- u9219587@sys.uea.ac.uk
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-