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!Help file for Pin - a superior Pinboard program
© 1993 Alan Donovan - All rights reserved.
Have you noticed how slow the window redraw is on
RISC OS 3? Without the Pinboard module, they go
at the normal, smooth RISC OS 2 rate. Don't you
also hate the way the backdrop requires saving
every time you make a change?
If so, you'll understand the use of this program.
It mimics the action of RISC OS 3 pinboard (Unplug
this module first) but saves itself to hard disc
every time you add or move an object, plus it
doesn't slow down the windows - which is strange,
considering it's in BASIC.
One other feature of this application over some
others is that it doesn't store a pool of sprites
of all the pinned objects. This is wasteful of
space and utterly pointless when the generic icons
'file_xxx' and 'application' can be used instead.
It still isn't quite as functional as Acorn's
version however: all objects can be loaded, run or
dragged into filer windows, but drags to the icon
bar can be a little unpredictable.
Supported: Running applications
Running files
Opening directories
(supports J.H.Oveson's Filer+)
Shift-Drags to Edit (loads filename)
Drags to most windows
Alt, Ctrl, Shift Double clicks
Unsupported: Drags to some windows
Shift-Drags to Filer
Drags to some icon bar applications
If anyone knows how the WIMP/Filer messages work,
or has the PRM's, try and work out what's wrong.
History
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v1.00 First solid working version. Menu neatened
up, unnecessary options removed. Saves all
objects whenever any change is made into a binary
file (i.e. not easily readable). Thanks to the
authors of many other backdrop programs for one or
two lines of Filer WIMP message code.
v1.50 !RunImage condensed and dead wood removed.
Error trapper rewritten to cope with files
on the backdrop not being found when Pin was
loaded. This was pretty devastating before, but
now causes no problem. Files now appear as empty
squares if no icon exists for that filetype, and
applications now have the Archimiedes 'A' symbol
if they have no sprite.
v1.80 Objects are now stored in a script file, not
in a "PRINT#..." format, which now makes it
easily readable.
v2.00 More dead wood removed. Now does not save
state after every file of a selection is
pinned, but waits until they are all there. One
or two routines using FOR...NEXT changed to use
REPEAT..UNTIL for more flexibilty and speed. One
really *stupid* bug in error trapper corrected.
Bugs in error trappers bug me... :-(
© 1993 Alan Donovan Software - All rights reserved.
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This program is freeware. You may distribute or
copy it freely, so long as no alterations are made
and no credit to me as the author is removed. If
you wish to make any alterations or find any bugs,
please send them to me so that can include them in
future versions. You will, of course, be credited.
For further releases, etc.:
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Contact me at:
Alan Donovan Software
28 Attwood Road
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP1 3PR
or (during term-time only) at:
Pembroke College
Cambridge
CB2 1RF
email: aad1001@hermes.cam.ac.uk