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- WindowTiler 2.1b - 6/25/92 by Doug Dyer
- 100% PD and freely distributable
- The Complete Funola for the whole family!
-
-
- Folks, thought Id update the old commodity with a version that
- I never put on aminet. I updated my contact information as
- well. Ignore the "New" in "What's New" :)
-
- Also, REFUSESCREEN works but does not pass on the commodity
- event to the screen. So if you were using TERM and wanted
- a key equivalent (say F1) that was being used by windowtiler
- to do a term specific thing, pressing F1 would not arrange
- the windows, but term wouldn't know about the F1 press.
- To work around this, you'll just have to pick your key
- equivalents well.
-
- bye,
- Doug
-
- ---------------------------
- What's New?
-
- I have addressed almost all known problems and finally added virtual
- screen support. Everything is now "solidified" and I can spend more
- time playing with a cute GUI for it.
-
- New tooltypes since v2.0 are: VISIBLE, VISIBLETOGGLE.
-
- In general, everything works better and safer than v2.0. The only
- known bug that irks me is the fact that you can "zipwindow" the
- workbench screen as if it is a window. I've tried comparing this
- and that flags for both the workbench screen and window, but no luck
- (I can stop the problem if I treat the wbench window AND screen as
- being illegal for zipping). Its best to use C='s IHELP or FKEY for
- this.
-
- Fixed double-clicking problems (see the history table at the end of
- this file for details).
-
- The "b" in 2.1b is cosmetic (see the history table at the end of
- this file).
-
- A quick note on "EXPLODE". This is not the cute rubber-banding of
- windows ala macs. It is the enlargement of a window to fill the screen
- (and come up front) ala turbo-c, windows environments (and others).
- ---------------------------
- What is this thing?
-
- WindowTiler is a simple commodity for os2.X users that allows you
- to map certain Windows3.X/TurboC++ type window management to a key
- combination. NOTE: if it does nothing try (using commodities exchange)
- disabling any commodities that conflict for the same hotkeys. Although
- it takes some getting used to, tiling/cascading the windows and zooming
- one up to work & placing it back is a great way to handle large project.
-
- ---------------------------
- Instructions:
-
- Select the WindowTiler icon, and then "information" in the workbench
- menu. Then, in the list box add or edit the tools listed to conform to
- keyboard equivalents you want. For instance, to set CASCADE to alt-f10,
- just type (with no extra spaces, and CAPITALIZATION MATTERS)
- CASCADE=Alt F10.
-
-
- Keyboard Equivalents (well, not very documented..):
-
- Alt (any alt key)
- RAlt
- LAlt
- Shift (any shift key)
- RShift
- LShift
- RCommand
- LCommand
- Control
- Numericpad
- Rbutton (mouse buttons)
- Lbutton
- A,B,...
-
-
- ----------------------------
- CUSTOM Tool types available:
-
- CASCADE Cascades all resizeable windows.
-
- CASCADELEFT Cascades windows with right sides inset.
- This one also leaves a bit of space on the right
- side of the screen (I use that to get to my dock
- window). This one is also easier to use since it
- gives you access to the front/back gadgets.
-
- TILE Tiles windows
-
- VTILE Lists windows vertically
-
- HTILE Lists windows horizontally
-
- MINIMIZE Shrinks windows
-
- MAXIMIZE Enlarges windows
-
- REFUSEWINDOW Use cli arguments to omit windows from windowtiler
- such as REFUSE=~(#?shell#?) would let windowtiler
- only affect windows with a title with "shell" in it.
- Use this for windows such as "Clock", and others
- that you wish refused. For example,
- REFUSEWINDOW=(Workbench|Clock|#?shell) would not move
- the workbench, clock windows or any window ending in
- "shell".
-
- DCLICK This is a double-click feature with three options:
-
- "EXPLODE" explodes the window up to front. Pressing
- the zoom gadget places it back where it came
- from (ie: tile position). Activated by
- double-clicking on window TITLE BAR.
-
- "TOFRONT" brings window to front. (click anywhere)
-
- "BOTH" Clicking on the title bar performs a ZOOM
- and anywhere else, a FRONT.
-
- "NONE" anything else will disable this feature.
-
- NOTE: clicking on the zoom gadget in the window will
- place it back into its tiled or cascaded place.
-
- EXPLODE Same as DCLICK's EXPLODE, but allows for a keyboard
- equivalent.
-
- ZOOMTOGGLE Same as pressing the window ZOOM gadget.
-
- TOFRONT Same as DCLICK's TOFRONT, but allows for a keyboard
- equivalent.
-
- TOBACK Keyboard equivalent for sending a window to the very
- back.
-
- REFUSESCREEN Another DOS pattern string, this one allows
- windowtiler to decide whether it should do anything for
- a given screen. For instance, to have it do nothing
- when you are using prowrite, you might try
- REFUSESCREEN=ProW#?
-
- NOHEIGHT For high resolution screens, it is annoying for cascading
- to give huge windows. This tooltype will let windowtiler
- only change the height of the window when needed (TRUE or
- FALSE)
-
- NOWIDTH Same as NOHEIGHT except for window width (TRUE or FALSE)
-
- SHOWTITLE All arranged windows will display the screen title when
- this is TRUE (even zooming windows).
-
- STEPDOWN Now you can control the distance windows are "stepped"
- for cascading. This is for the downward step.
-
- STEPLEFT Same as above except stepping left.
-
- CASCADEHEIGHT Fix the height of windows when they are cascaded.
- NOHEIGHT overrides this.
-
- CASCADEWIDTH Fix the width of windows when they are cascaded. NOWIDTH
- overrides this.
-
- VISIBLE This is for VIRTUAL screens. If VISIBLE is set to TRUE or
- YES, all arranged screens do so within the current visible
- screen area. Otherwise, the virtual screen is used.
-
- VISIBLETOGGLE This is for VIRTUAL screens. You can toggle the default
- option you selected with VISIBLE with a keyboard equivalent.
-
- ----------------------------
- Furthermore...
-
- If you place this tool in your wbstartup drawer, don't forget the
- DONOTWAIT (it should already be there). I find the most useful setup
- IHELP's cycle and zoom on f1, f2 and tile, cascadeleft on f3,f4 along with
- DCLICK=BOTH (actually, set DCLICK to EXPLODE and use C='s click-to-front
- utility, its faster). If you are a keyboard nut, get WindowShuffle by Stefan
- Sticht. Nice to step through cascaded windows :)
-
- The REFUSESCREEN is set to ~(#?Workbench#?), and CASCADEHEIGHT,
- CASCADELEFT are set to 200 and 140 respectively (NOHEIGHT and NOWIDTH
- are set to FALSE).
-
- Any bugs or suggestions (this is an "amiga learning" project for me) ...
- Thanks all who have suggested improvements or reported problems! Special
- thanks to Franz Schwarz for the great input!
-
- Enjoy!
-
- Doug Dyer
- dyer@alx.sticomet.com
-
- 5124 Observation Way
- Alexandria, VA 22312
- USA
-
- -----------------------
- Version History:
-
- 1.0 1/17/92 Inception.
-
- 1.1 1/19/92 Added CASCADELEFT tooltype. Enhanced cascading to
- ignore non-sizeable windows (so things like toolmanager
- dock are left alone). Improved depth arranging of cascading
- (now using MoveWindowInFrontOf).
-
- 1.2 1/25/92 Added REFUSE tooltype. Added DCLICK tooltype.
- Enhanced performance. Added ZOOMIT, FRONTIT tooltypes.
-
- 1.2.1 1/29/92 Fixed a bug: ZOOM did the same as BOTH.
-
- 1.3 3/21/92 Fixed a bug: seems htile and vtile were.. ah.. switched.
- Added REFUSESCREEN, NOHEIGHT, NOWIDTH, STEPLEFT, STEPDOWN,
- SHOWTITLE tooltypes.
-
- 2.0 5/30/92 Better use of LockIBases... (oops). Cleaner code and
- internal organization. I changed some tooltype names to make
- more sense. Added TOBACK, ZOOMTOGGLE, CASCADEHEIGHT and
- CASCADEWIDTH. Constructed a GUI for configuring it, but haven't
- hooked it in yet...
-
- 2.1 6/17/92 Better use of everything. Virtual screen support via
- new tool types VISIBLE, VISIBLETOGGLE. Double clicking on front-
- back gadget will not explode windows. Double clicking on drawer
- will not explode new window if title happens to now be under the
- pointer. GUI still not linked in yet, but the commodity is now
- "mature" and highly useable by a wide variety of tastes.
-
- 2.1.b 6/25/92 Purely cosmetic (SHOWTITLE arrangements look better).
-