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Short: TapeCover V2.20 - Cass.Cover Printer
Author: c_wich@river.prima.ruhr.de (Carsten Wich)
Uploader: c_wich@river.prima.ruhr.de (Carsten Wich)
Version: 2.20
Type: text/print
Replaces: text/print/tapecover*
Replaces: text/print/tc213_no*
What is TapeCover
=================
TapeCover is a very simple to use and short program to print tape covers.
I have written it because I didn't know any program of this kind that satis-
fied me one hundret percent.
It should even run on a stock A500 with 512K and OS2.1 (although this has
not been tested, but anyway, is there anybody out there still using this
kind of environment ???).
As of now TapeCover only uses Text Printing for output but this may change
future releases.
Advantages
==========
- The program does not need any GUI enhancement tools like MUI or any other
libraries than the ones distributed with the official OS2.1 release
(actually you only need the V38 asl.library, all the other needed libraries
require a minimum version of 37 only).
- Requires only minimum system resources.
- Programmed according to the Commodore Guidelines (e.g. it runs fine on a
third party graphics board in high resolution).
- Uses the Preferences Printer Driver for output (output is currently only
possible in text mode, but maybe future versions will also support the
graphic mode printing using the density setting to scale the output).
- Own input routine that lets you jump between every text gadget by using the
cursor keys (Does anybody know how to realize this with Intuition
gadgets ?).
- Will be able to import data from future database applications that are under
developement (e.g. CD-Archive and LiveTape-Manager).
Disadvantages
=============
- Static data structure for the text input (but that is the reason why this
program is so short compared to the other contestants).
- Needs a printer which is capable of printing text in 15cpi mode (that
shouldn't be a problem these days, but who knows...).
- Needs at least a 640x256 screen when using topaz 8 font and with options
NOGADGETS and OLDLOOK invoked. Sorry for all NTSC Users but this is the
smallest possible window height (A possible solution for NTSC users without
a flickerfixer / AGA chipset / graphics board can run TapeCover on it's own
Hires NonInterlace Screen with the autoscroll option).
Systemrequirements
==================
The program only needs a minimal Amiga System :
- Any Amiga with at least 512 KB RAM
- min. OS 2.1 (2.04 ROM & WB 2.1)
- min. a NTSC Hires Interlace Screen
The minimal window height ist 374 pixels (when using topaz 8), which is
sadly not enough to fit on a non interlaced screen. This should be no
problem today to display a productivity or DblPAL / DblNTSC screen mode.
If there are many complaints about this I may make a preferences option
to reduce the window height (this would obviously look not so nice as it
is now).
From Version V2.20 on you can set the NOGADGETS and OLDLOOK options
which shrink the window height so that you can display TapeCover on a
PAL Hires Noninterlace Screen using topaz 8.
- A printer that is supported by the standard Preferences and which can
print 15cpi !!!
TapeCover has been positivly tested on HP Deskjet, Panasonic KX-P1124
and the Epson Stylus Series.
History
=======
V2.20 - Release : 15.10.1995 (Fourth AmiNet Release !!!)
- Changed the rendering of the text boxes in the mask. All boxes are
rendered raised now, only a box that is currently edited is recessed
- Changed the way shell arguments are parsed. Now the dos.library
function ReadArgs is used. You can can get help when starting Tape-
Cover from cli with a questionmark.
- Fixed bug in the prefs-routine for converting a modeid into a screen-
mode name.
- Made the distances between the gadgets in the prefs window smaller
which results in a smaller prefs window that now fits on a PAL Hires
screen.
- Made the main, info and print window some pixels smaller.
- Added Tooltype / Shell argument NoGadgets.
- Added Tooltype / Shell argument OldLook.
V2.13 - Release : 19.07.1995 (Third AmiNet Release !!!)
- Bugfix: Ugly bug in printing routine removed. Every label was printed
twice beneath each other. I accidently left the beta code for the
print_dat procedure in the release version. Big Sorry
- Removed the second E-Mail address because it exists no more
- Changed the pixels inbetween text lines in the info window from two to
four
V2.12 - Release : 20.06.1995 (Second AmiNet Release !!!)
- Changed the Prefs TapePath and ExpPath gadgets from TextEntry to Text-
Display type
- New E-Mail address. Now full internet account, so every sent mail should
arrive at my site. The previous one was just an german Z-Net account,
which was not capable of sending / receiving mails to other states than
germany
V2.11 - Internal Version : 24.02.1995
- Bugfix: When you choose Cancel in the preferences window the preferences
were not reset to the old ones
- Bugfix: When using another language than german the printer output was
wrong for the Side line
- The feature of clearing the filename after erasing the side fields only
is removed
V2.10 - Release : 17.02.1995 (First AmiNet Release !!!)
- Now requires at least OS2.1 because of the asl screenmode requester
- Makes use of some special OS3.x features, e.g. scalable checkboxes,
radio buttons and the default busy pointer if available
- Some complete rewritten routines using new data structures including a
new preferences data structure (TPCV2.1C) which is incompatible with the
older ones
This makes it alot easier to use some of the routines from TapeCover in
future projects
- Removed Settings Menu and introduced a Preferences Window instead
- Can now open its own Public Screen
- Implemented the option to choose between centering the mainwindow on the
used screen or to save the current window position
- Removed the PUBSCREEN Tooltype / Shellargument in favour of the new
preferences screen options
- Now scans the PROGDIR: first for the TapeCover.prefs file and only if
that fails it checks the TapeCover: path for it
- Implemented the feature to load a file using the project option
- Added AppWindow to the mainwindow for loading project files
- Removed some bugs, e.g. the one that draws the menu black on black when
running under OS2.04 (sorry but I have got the 3.1 ROM)
- Some internal changes
- Currently I am heavily in my studies so that the german documentation
has been dropped for this and future versions