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ICFS - What's that? August 6, 1995
Since version 1.07, Atari's MultiTOS has a new feature, called
"iconify". It means that you can shrink a window down to the size of
an icon (hence the name). A very useful feature since it enables you
to get windows out of the way if you don't need the program (which
they belong to) at the moment. With a click on such a shrinked window
it regains it's original size and place.
Unfortunately, all MultiTOS versions haveing this feature are not
available for the general public at this moment in time. Apart from
that, it would be nice to have this feature with SingleTOS and MagiC,
too. It would be no problem, implementing a similar solution in an
application. But if more than one program does this, the place of the
shrinked windows must be coordinated between them - and that's exactly
what ICFS does (ICFS stands for "IConiFy Server").
MultiTOS places the shrinked windows on the lower edge of the screen,
starting in the lower left corner, going left to right and up. This is
therefore the default method used by ICFS. Use ICFS.CPX to change this
behaviour.
MagiC!3 and MagiCMac both support MultiTOS-like iconify. Here you can
use ICFS to select the size of icon windows, the starting corner, etc.
All programs supporting MagiC's iconify will automatically support
ICFS there.
Installation
Copy ICFS.PRG into your AUTO folder and reboot. That's all.
If you are using MagiC!3 or MagiCMac then place ICFS.PRG in your APPS
folder (the folder where all your autostart programs are) and reboot.
Again, that's all.
How do I use this?
To iconify a window, click on the window's closer and hold down one of
the following keys:
[Alternate] - shrink a single window
[Control] - shrink all windows to one
[Shift] - shrink all windows, one by one
This must be supported by the program, otherwise it won't work!
If you are using MagiC!3 or MagiCMac you can use the "smaller" symbol
in the upper right corner of the windows. All programs which support
this type of iconify will automatically support ICFS here.
Which programs support ICFS?
At this moment in time the following programs support ICFS (as of
August 6, 1995; please contact me if you have any corrections)
programm version type author
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800XL-Deejay 2.30 drive emulator Kolja Koischwitz
ACDP 1.00 CD player Christian Mittendorf
APP_List 0.3 system utility Ralf Zimmermann @ OF2
Avalon 3.72 shell Stephan Slabihoud
Avalon4Semper 3.72 shell Stephan Slabihoud
Ballerburg2 2.00 game Kolja Koischwitz
Casio-SF 1.25 transfer prg. Stephan Slabihoud
Chatwin 3.01 shell Dirk Haun @ WI2
Dialler alle tel. data base Christoph Spengler @ RS
DomesTOS alle shell Christoph Spengler @ RS
DWBH 1.00 game Dirk Hagedorn @ MK2
Égale 2.0 file utility David Reitter @ WI2
EGEM-Utilities Rel. 2 11 utilities Christian Grunenberg @ LB
Freedom 0.999 file selektor K. Koischwitz, Ch. Krüger
GEM-Solitaire 1.13 game Dirk Hagedorn @ MK2
Gewicht alle weight control Christoph Spengler @ RS
IconMan 0.63 icon utility Dirk Haun @ WI2
IdeaList 3.60 printing prg. Christoph Bartholme @ KA2
Jedi 0.29 GAL assembler Ralf Zimmermann @ OF2
Kandinsky 1.69 drawing prg. Ulrich Rossgoderer @ M
Lazaz! 2.07 shell Andreas Papula @ WI2
McFli 0.5 animation player John McLoud @ WI2
MoveIt 1.01 game Dirk Hagedorn @ MK2
SCANGENI 1.0 scanner driver Christian Mittendorf
SysInfo 2.10 system info Thorsten Bergner @ B
Tel-Upate alle tool for Rufus Christoph Spengler @ RS
Tricky 1.00 game Dirk Hagedorn @ MK2
WinLupe 6.70 utility Christian Grunenberg @ LB
XAcc-Spy 25.03.94 XACC utility Thomas Much @ KA2
Yukon Rel. D cards game Dirk Haun @ WI2
zControl 0.20 control panel Ralf Zimmermann @ OF2
Zeig's mir 0.22 file viewer Reiner Rosin @ WI2
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(e-mail addresses: MausNet, Germany)
The following libraries also support ICFS:
library version prog.language author
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EnhancedGEM 2.00 PC, LC, GC Christian Grunenberg @ LB
ObjectGEM 1.11 Pure Pascal Thomas Much @ KA2
STJ-Oberon-2 2.05 Oberon-2 Stephan Junker @ AC2
SysGEM 1.10 PC, PP Andreas Pietsch @ WI2
Windoze PL 0 Pure C Dirk Haun @ WI2
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(PC: Pure C, PP: Pure Pascal, LC: Lattice C, GC: GNU C)
The following authors are not on german MausNet:
Christian Mittendorf: chris@ostkupan.ct.se
Kolja Koischwitz: joust@cs.tu-berlin.de
Christian Krüger: chrisker@cs.tu-berlin.de
Stephan Slabihoud: Stephan Slabihoud @ 2:2448/2020.6 (Fido)
Who's responsible for all this?
Nobody, since you use this software (as any other) at your own risk.
The original idea however is by
Rosin Datentechnik
Reiner Rosin
Peter-Spahn-Str. 4
D-65375 Oestrich-Winkel
Germany
Telefon 06723 4978 Fax 7190
email Reiner Rosin @ WI2 (MausNet) / Reiner_Rosin@wi2.maus.de
whereas the program ICFS and this text were written by
Dirk Haun
Europastr. 8
D-64569 Nauheim
Germany
e-mail: Dirk Haun @ WI2 (MausNet)
ICFS is freeware. You are allowed to include ICFS into your own
software. If you only include part of the package please make sure
that this includes at least ICFS.PRG and ICFS.TXT (or ICFS.ENG).