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Contents:
Release Notes
About this module
Description
Feature summary
Distribution
Contacting the author
Disclaimer
• Release Notes:
Version 2.0.1 - Nov. 14, 1995
• Fixed a small bug that caused quickly clicking on a key icon to sometimes fail.
• The Debugger menu item is not shown if no low-level debugger is installed.
• Extensions Strip savvy. This means that when your module host is ES:
- Clicking on me with modifier key(s) down, while the CPU is busy, will still work if you later release the key(s).
- Clicking and releasing the mouse over any spot of the module will "type" the appropriate key. (Under other module hosts, the click must be directly over the icon, and cannot be in the boundaries of the module, since there is no way to calculate this area.)
- No idle time is used. (All modules open by other module hosts, that strictly follow the Control Strip API, eat idle time.)
• File size is about 1400 bytes smaller, because 8-bit icons aren't really needed.
Version 2.0 - June 25, 1995
• Whenever you select an item from the menu, it will be represented by an icon on the strip. If you click on this icon like you would a normal button, the key will be pressed. If you click and hold down the mouse, or drag the mouse outside of the icon's box, the popup menu will appear, allowing you to choose another key. Special thanks to Toby D Sanchez for this idea and for making the icons.
• If you select a key in the menu while holding down a modifier (ex. shift, option, ect.), it will be combined in the posted event with the selected key. This was requested by a QuicKeys user for special combinations that use the Option key.
• The code is 342 bytes smaller now, even though I added many features!
Version 1.1 - May 26, 1995
• Added a menu item allowing you to switch into a low-level debugger.
Version 1.0 - August 1994
• Initial release.
• About this module:
Description:
Keyboard Extender is a control strip module for easily accessing all the keys not present on old style PowerBooks, and older keyboards like the one on my SE/30.
Feature summary:
• Click the module to show popup menu of all the keys. These keys are: all the Fkeys, clear (num lock), help, forward delete, Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down.
• Whenever you select an item from the menu, it will be represented by an icon on the strip. If you click on this icon like you would a normal button, the key will be pressed. If you click and hold down the mouse, or drag the mouse outside of the icon's box, the popup menu will appear, allowing you to choose another key.
• If you select a key in the menu while holding down a modifier (ex. shift, option, ect.), it will be combined in the posted event with the selected key.
• If you have a debugger installed, then you can switch into it.
• Distribution:
Keyboard Extender may be distributed freely, but it must remain in its unmodified entirety. It can be put on disks and CD-ROMs that charge a reasonable fee for the cost of distributing it. I would appreciate a copy each of any such disks or CD-ROMs so that I know what it is being distributed on, but it is not a necessity. Thank you.
I also ask that you contact me about the latest version so that only that version is distributed. The latest version is always available at this internet World Wide Web location:
http://www.shore.net/~chanson
• Contacting the author:
The author, Ammon Skidmore, can be reached by sending e-mail to <skidperfect@kagi.com>, which currently gets forwarded to my regular address of <ammon@cs.byu.edu> here at Brigham Young University.
Note: rarely, the CS alias file here becomes temporarily corrupted, in which case mail will never get to me, yet will not bounce! So, if I do not respond to an email message within 3 business days, please send it again, and also forward it to the actual account address: <ammon@bert.cs.byu.edu>
If you're bored you can also check out my aging WWW homepage:
http://bert.cs.byu.edu/~ammon/ammon.html
• Disclaimer:
I hate these. Anyway, it's the usual stuff:
Use at your own risk. The author accepts no liability for any damage caused. All other copyrights are held by their respective owners. Etc, etc, etc.
Just for kicks, here's the tiny print that I borrowed from somewhere…
In using this software, you understand and agree that this software is provided “as is” without warranty of any kind. The entire risk as to the results and performance of using this software lies entirely with you, the user. The author does not make any warranties, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose, with respect to this software. This application has been extensively tested and should do no damage, but if it does then you will be on your own.
