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Program: !AltTab 0.16
Here is a little task switcher which I hope will be a useful alternative to
!CoolSwitch. The encoded ZIP archive contains these files:
!AltTab.!Help Text 11:46:01 29-May-1998 2841 bytes
!AltTab.!Run Obey 04:30:55 06-Jun-1998 225 bytes
!AltTab.AltTab Module 04:30:24 06-Jun-1998 852 bytes
!AltTab.makefile Makefile 21:34:19 16-May-1998 178 bytes
!AltTab.mk TaskObey 01:25:14 17-May-1998 43 bytes
!AltTab.o.AltTab Data 04:30:23 06-Jun-1998 1096 bytes
!AltTab.s.AltTab Text 04:30:09 06-Jun-1998 5 Kbytes
ReadMe Text 12-Aug-1998
In the tradition of CoolSwitch, source is included. AltTab is one tenth the size
and hence has a far simpler operation; please read the !Help file for details. I
find it much easier for quickly locating buried windows, without having to worry
about which task owns what window, and without disturbing the layering of the
window-stack.
To install it, just copy the !AltTab application to your hard disc, floppy,
wherever you want to keep it. If your machine has Acorn's new Boot structure,
such as found in RiscPCs, you might want to put !AltTab in the <Boot$ToBeTasks>
folder (which is usually !Boot.Choices.Boot.Tasks) so that it automatically
loads when your machine starts up.
It needs RiscOS 3's FilterManager to work. I've been able to test it on my
RiscPC600 with RiscOS 3.5 and A5000 with RiscOS 3.11. I've also tested some
earlier versions on a StrongARM RiscPC. A handful of people have tried earlier
versions with no complaints, but of course YMMV. AFAIK it _should_ work on any
RiscOS 3.xx version and any ARM, but I haven't been able to test it exhaustively
myself (such is life... ;-)).
I've been programming RiscOS machines since 1992, but AltTab will be the first
thing of mine to be released to the world at large. It has a history of several
years and has evolved with my understanding of the finer points of RiscOS. (For
example, one earlier version used Wimp_Poll message events to detect screen mode
changes; now it uses the appropriate service call.) I'm only sorry I didn't keep
a history file.
Regards, Christopher Martin