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UPLOADERS COMMENTS
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This is a useful, fairly evolved program. However, it has some
peculiarities. The basic idea is that in stead of having multiple open
windows stacked on top of one another, so that you have to shove them
around to find the one underneath that you want, or find a corner of the
right one, so you can click it to the top,.... in stead you have a little
box with 6 buttons. Each button can bring in a specific running
application from outside the monitor's field of view. This can be
extremely useful on slower computers where large windows applications take
some time to load. If you have 4 megabytes of RAM, it is better to leave
them stored in RAM, once loaded.
Peculiarity 1. The shareware nag screen cannot be clicked away. It will
not go away unless you hit any keyboard key. The author is changing this.
Peculiarity 2. The author tried to assign a different Windows wallpaper
to each different workspace. However, this has unpredictable results in
resolutions higher than standard 640 x 480, and with shell managers other
than Windows 3.1, such as Norton Desktop. I believe this feature is being
removed. It does no harm, though it might surprise or confuse you, if you
had an other than standard Windows setup.
Peculiarity 3. There is a bug in relation to Dr. Watson. Do not run this
version at the same time Dr. Watson is loaded as a TSR. There will be no
harm done, but you will get many annoying Dr. Watson messages which will
render the program extremely inconvenient.
Peculiarity 4. There is a rather good Windows help facility for the
program. However, this cannot be accessed directly from the program
itself. Rather it must be "Run" separately, or perhaps "viewed" using some
windows compatible viewer.
Peculiarity 6. The program may operate confusingly with Norton Desk Top.
The author has not tested it at all with NDW. I have played with it a
little, and it seems to operate normally and usefully, in an 800 x 600
resolution mode, though the wall paper is screwed up. I believe it works
OK because the program expects a normal screen size, and that is what it
sizes its workspaces to. In my particular case, my desktop icons are at
the left and bottom margins of my desktop. These are not overlapped at all
by WORKSPACE program's main windows. This might not be the case at normal
resolution, which might lower the utility of the program for those NDW
users.
The author is aware of the above problems, and will probably be correcting
them soon.
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3/6/93