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GLUE_K V1.0 © OCTOBER 1994 BY KENNETH J. McCORMICK. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
THIS PROGRAM IS, AS IS MY USUAL PRACTICE, GIFTWARE. YOU MAY
GIVE IT TO ANYONE AS LONG AS IT IS NOT ALTERED IN ANY WAY AND CONTAINS
ALL OF THE FOLLOWING FILES:
GLUE_K
GLUEICON
GLUE.HELP
ERASE_GLUE.CONFIG
GLUESOUNDS
OTHER_PROGRAMS
GLUEICON IS A INFO FILE FOR A GLUE ICON. IT MUST BE IN THE SAME
DIRECTORY AS THE GLUE_K PROGRAM. IT IS USED TO COPY THE GLUE
ICON DATA TO YOUR GLUE ICON.
GLUE.HELP IS THIS HELP FILE KEEP IT IN THE SAME DIRECTORY AS
GLUE_K.
GLUESOUNDS THE SOUND EFFECTS FILE. IT IIS NOT REALLY NECESSARY
BUT I HAVE INCLUDED IT INCASE THERE IS SOME SORT OF PROGLEM IN
THE FUTURE WITH THE SOUND FX. KEEP IT IN THE SAME DIRECTORY AS
GLUE_K. IF THERE IS A FUTURE PROBLEM HOPEFULLY THE GLUE_K
PROGRAM WILL AUTOMATICALLY SEEK IT OUT AND LOAD IT.
ERASE_GLUE.CONFIG WILL ERASE THE GLUE CONFIG FILE. ONLY CLICK
IT IF YOU ARE MOVING THE LOCATION OF YOUR GLUE_K PROGRAM.
HOPE YOU FIND IT USEFUL!!!
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WHAT IS GLUE_K ?
GLUE_K IS A PROGRAM THAT WILL MAKE AN ICON THAT WILL RUN UP TO 13 PROGRAMS
FROM ANYWHERE ON YOUR HARD DRIVE OR FLOPPY, WHEN IT IS CLICKED.
FEATURES:
SUPER AUTOMATED AND MANUAL BUTTON HELP
EASY OPERATION
NICE ICON
TEXT READER
FILE DELETER
FILE COPIER
ACCESS TO WORKBENCH WHILE RUNNING
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INSTRUCTIONS: THE BASICS
BUTTONS DISCUSSED - CREATE, GLUE AND SET MAX
USE THE SUPER AUTOMATED BUTTON HELP BY CLICK ON THE BUTTON MARKED '?' AND THEN
CLICKING ON THE AUTOMATION BUTTON IN THE CENTER OF THE SCREEN. IF YOU
PRESS 'W' ON THE KEYBOARD BEFORE CLICKING THE HELP BUTTON, YOU CAN
INCREASE OR DECREASE THE LENGTH OF TIME FOR READING THE HELP
INFORMATION.
STARTING:
THE VERY FIRST THING YOU SHOULD DO IS SET THE 'SET MAX' BUTTON BY
CLICKING ON IT. THIS WILL ALLOW YOU TO SET THE MAXIUM AMOUNT OF
PROGRAMS THAT CAN BE ATTACHED TO A GLUE ICON.
* YOU DO NOT HAVE TO KEEP SETTING PROGRAMS TO THE GLUE ICON UNTIL
YOU HAVE REACHED THE MAXIUM. JUST CLICK ON 'OK' IN THE FILE SELECTOR
AT ANY TIME IN PLACE OF SELECTING ANOTHER PROGRAM AND THE SELECTION
PROCESS WILL END THERE. THE PROGRAMS ALREADY SELECTED WILL BE GLUED
TO YOUR ICON AFTER YOU FOLLOW THE REQUIRED STEPS *
AS A PRACTICAL MATTER YOU WOULD PRESS THE 'CREATE BUTTON' TO BEGIN. YOU
WOULD THEN BE ASKED TO SELECT THE DIRECTORY WHERE YOU WANT TO -PUT- YOUR
GLUE ICON. YOU CAN PUT A GLUE ICON ANYWHERE AND IT WILL STILL BE ABLE TO
RUN YOUR SELECTED PROGRAMS. GIVE IT A TEST, IF YOU WANT, BY CREATING IT IN
THE RAM: DIRECTORY, THEN CLICKING ON IT.
AS YOU SELECT PROGRAMS OR COMMANDS THEY WILL APPEAR ON THE SCREEN. YOU
WILL BE ASKED TO SELECT EITHER E,R OR N FOR EACH SELECTED PROGRAM.
E = EXECUTABLE PROGRAMS AS IN DOS SCRIPTS
R = PROGRAMS TO RUN IN MULTITASK MODE
N = CLI COMMANDS
AFTER YOU HAVE FINISHED SELECTING PROGRAMS TO ATTACH TO YOUR GLUE ICON,
YOU WILL BE ASKED TO ENTER A NAME FOR YOUR GLUE ICON.
AFTER ENTERING THE NAME PRESS THE GLUE BOTTON TO 'GLUE' YOUR PROGRAM
SELECTIONS TO YOUR GLUE ICON.
YOU HAVE NOW CREATED A MULTITASKING ICON.
===========================================================================
INSTRUCTIONS: EXTENDED
JUST KNOWING THE ABOVE WILL ALLOW YOU TO CREATE GLUE ICONS. THIS PART OF
THE INSTRUCTIONS WILL DETAIL THE REST OF THE PROGRAM.
READ BUTTON - READ A GLUE ICON FILE TO SEE WHAT PROGRAMS ARE ATTACHED TO
THE ICON. AS A BONUS YOU CAN READ -ANY- TEXT FILE.
DIR - PRESSING THIS BUTTON ALLOWS YOU TO VIEW ALL DIRECTORIES
AND FILES ON ANY DEVICE. THIS WILL NOT ALLOW YOU TO
PERFORM ANY ACTION ON THEM.
ABORT - DISREGARDS ALL PREVIOUS SETTINGS, THEY ARE LOST FOREVER.
COPY - COPY ANY GLUE ICON FILES FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER. USING
THIS UTILITY TO COPY OTHER FILES MAY RESULT IN AN ERROR
UNLESS THEY HAVE AN ICON.
DELETE - DELETES -ANY- UNPROTECTED FILE. PLEASE BE CAREFUL.
EXIT - THIS BUTTON ALLOWS EXIT FROM 'GLUE_K'.
COMPUTER - CLICKING ON THE COMPUTER ICON GIVES YOU A STATUS REPORT
ON YOUR SYSTEM.
HELP KEY - READS THE HELP FILE.
KEYPAD '*' - TOGGLES THE WARNING SOUND FOR ALERTS BETWEEN A LAUGH OR A
BELL
W KEY - USE THIS KEY TO INCREASE OR DECREASE THE TIME FOR THE SUPER
AUTO HELP KEY VIEWING.
L KEY - SHOWS THE LOCATION OF THE GLUE_K PROGRAM.
TO MAKE THE OUTPUT BIGGER WHEN CLICKING ON THE GLUE_K ICON:
CLICK ON THE GLUEICON ONCE SO THAT IT IS DEPRESSED.
GO TO THE ICON MENU IN THE WORKBENCH AND CLICK ON INFORMATION.
CLICK ON WIND=ETC AND IT WILL APPEAR ON THE BOTTOM LINE AS:
WIND=0/0/640/20/EXECUTING GLUE ICON/CLOSE
CHANGE /20 TO ANYTHING UP TO 200 THEN AFTER CREATING A NEW GLUE
ICON YOU WILL NOTICE WHEN IT IS RUN THAT THE INFO WINDOW WILL
BE LARGER.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS PROGRAM WILL CREATE A 'GLUE.config' FILE AND PUT
IT IN YOUR T DIRECTORY ON YOUR WORKBENCH STARTUP DISK OR PARTATION THE
FIRST TIME YOU RUN IT. IF YOU MOVE THE PROGRAMS LOCATION AT A LATER DATE
YOU WILL HAVE TO GO TO THE 'T DIRECTORY' AND ERASE THE 'GLUE.CONFIG' FILE
AND A NEW 'GLUE.CONFIG' FILE WILL BE CREATED WHEN YOU RUN THE PROGRAM
AGAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME.
WHEN THE GLUE_K PROGRAM IS RUNNING:
HOW TO GET TO WORKBENCH - PRESS LEFT 'A' + letter A
HOW TO RETURN TO GLUE_K - PRESS LEFT 'A' + letter A
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ONE WORK OF CAUTION:::
IF YOUR PROGRAMS DON'T RUN FROM YOUR ICON HERE ARE SOME OF THE
REASONS :
1. YOU USED THE WRONG FORM OF COMMAND
E.G. YOU ENTERED A 'E' FOR EXECUTE WHEN THE PROGRAM
WASN'T A SCRIPT OR CLI COMMAND.
E.G. YOU ENTERED A 'R' FOR RUN AND THE PROGRAM WAS
A SCRIPT OR CLI COMMAND
E.G. YOU ENTERED A 'N' FOR A PROGRAM OR SCRIPT. THERE
IS A CHANCE YOUR FIRST PROGRAM MIGHT RUN THIS
WAY BUT YOU WON'T BE MULTITASKING TO THE OTHER
PROGRAMS.
2. YOU SELECTED A PROGRAM THAT REQUIRES OTHER FILES AND IT
CAN'T LOCATE THEM.
3. YOU LEFT THE GLUE PROGRAM RUNNING AND IT IS SLOWING DOWN
EVERYTHING.
WHEN A PROGRAM USES THE WRONG FORM OF COMMAND IT USUALLY WILL NOT
ALLOW ANY PROGRAMS THAT ARE AFTER IT ON THE 'ICON LIST' TO RUN, BUT
PROGRAMS THAT ARE ON THE 'ICON LIST' BEFORE IT USUALLY DO RUN.
THE MORE PROGRAMS CONNECTED TO YOUR GLUE ICON THE SLOWER THEY WILL
ALL RUN.
SOME PROGRAMS DO NOT HAVE WINDOW FRONT AND BACK GADGETS SO IF YOU
RUN THEM YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO GET TO THE PROGRAMS BEHIND THEM
WITHOUT USING A SCREEN MANAGER PROGRAM.
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MACHINE I TESTED THIS PROGRAM ON:
A1200 - MX1200 CARD WITH ADDITIONAL 8 MEGS RAM AND 120 MEG H.D.
68020 AND 6882 CHIPS. WORKBENCH 3.0.
A500 - SUPRA WITH 4 MEGS INSTALLED AND 1 MEG VIDEO, 40 MEG H.D.
68000 CHIP. WORKBENCH 2.0.
BUGS:
I HAVEN'T FOUND ANY BUGS YET.
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PROGRAMS I TESTED WITH THE 'GLUE_K' PROGRAM
WORKBENCH:UTILITIES/CLOCK
DOSTRACEV2.20
SNOOPDOSV3.0
SNOOPYV2.0
TRACERV1.01
DPAINTIV
FINALCOPYV1.3.2
PROWRITEV3.3
PORTFOLIOV2.1A
DISKEDITORV1.1
AZAPV2.40
LUNA
PLANETVIEW
MOONTOOL
MANY C COMMANDS
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