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- ETH PlugIn Oberon for Windows 9x / ME / NT / 2000
-
- Oberon is both the name of a programming language and operating system
- developed at ETH Zuerich. This particular distribution contains an
- implementation of ETH PlugIn Oberon Release 2.4 for Windows 9x / ME / NT /
- 2000.
-
-
- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
-
- Hardware:
- - 20 MB of hard disk space.
- - Preferably a screen with a resolution of 1024 by 768 pixels with at
- least 32768 colors.
- - Preferably a three-button mouse and a mouse driver that supports all
- three mouse buttons. A 2-button mouse may be used instead but with less
- comfort.
-
- Software:
- - Microsoft Windows 9x / ME / NT / 2000
-
-
- INSTALLATION OF OBERON
-
- Oberon is delivered as a number of self-extracting EXE files.
-
- System1.exe - Oberon and Gadgets system files, tools, libraries, panels
- System2.exe - Oberon and Gadgets object files
- Docu.exe - Documentation and books
- Src.exe - Source code for all system modules
- Fonts.exe - Windows display fonts (*.FON)
- PrFnt.exe - 600 and 200 dpi printer fonts.
- AppsAH.exe - Application Packages A .. H
- AppsIZ.exe - Application Packages I .. Z
-
- Installation step-by-step
-
- If you re-install Oberon or upgrade your Oberon version, it is strongly
- recommended to install Oberon in a new directory. Once you have configured
- your new Oberon system you can copy files from the old installation as you
- need them. To remove registry entries of a previous Oberon installation use
- the OberonReg.exe utility.
-
- 1. Create a new directory, e.g. C:\ETHOberon. This newly created directory
- will be called "Oberon directory" for the rest of this document.
-
- 2. Extract the files System1.exe, System2.exe, Docu.exe and Src.exe to the
- Oberon directory, by executing the EXE files.
-
- 3. Merge the settings in oberon.reg with your windows registry by selecting
- the "Merge" entry in the context menu of the oberon.reg icon.
-
- 4. Drag the Oberon.EXE file from the Oberon directory to your desktop to
- create a shortcut. Double-click the Oberon icon to start Oberon.
-
- 5. In older version of Oberon for Windows you could use the "Ctrl" key to
- simulate a missing middle mouse button. This version features a new
- emulation scheme for your missing middle mouse button. See
- Distribution.Text for more details.
-
- 6. The command System.Quit terminates the Oberon application. The Oberon
- application may also be terminated by closing all windows.
-
- 7. For faster text output you may install the Windows versions of the Oberon
- bitmap fonts. Extract the files in Fonts.exe to a temporary directory and
- start the "Fonts" control panel application and choose the "File /
- Install
- New Font" menu entry. A "Add Font" dialog will pop-up, locate the Oberon
- font files (*.Scn.Fnt) in the temporary directory and start the
- installation by clicking on "Ok".
-
- 8. For further setup steps see: Setup.Tool.
-
-
- RELEASE NOTES
-
- "Oberon System 3" and "ETH Oberon"
-
- As you may allready have noticed, that we use now the name "ETH Oberon" for
- "Oberon System 3".
-
-
- Mouse
-
- In older version of Oberon for Windows you could use the "Ctrl" key to
- simulate a missing middle mouse button. Since this conflicts with commonly
- used shortcuts (Clipboard, ...), you must use the context menu key (Win95
- keyboard) as middle mouse button replacement. Note: this release does also
- support 2-button mice directly, see: Mouse.Text.
-
- To check how mouse buttons are mapped by your Windows mouse driver use the
- TestMouse.exe utility.
-
-
- Registry
-
- By default module Registry stores settings under the key:
-
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ETH PlugIn Oberon\Release 2.4
-
- This key is constructed using the version resource entries "FileDescription"
- and "FileVersion" found in oberon.exe (or oberon.dll). You can override the
- "FileVersion" part by providing a new version string as command line
- parameter to oberon.exe.
- E.g.: oberon.exe -Registry=MyVersion will start an Oberon system which
- reads its settings from:
-
- HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ETH Oberon\MyVersion
-
- Note: command line parameters passed to oberon.exe are append to the
- Oberon.Text in a section called CommandLine. Thus to get the value for a
- command line parameter named "Name" use Oberon.OpenScanner(S,
- "CommandLine.Name").
-
-
- Display
-
- Module Display is now based on a new module Displays. This makes it possible
- to use multiple logical displays. Where a display is either an application
- window, control window or an offscreen bitmap. This is the basis for
- technologies like "Oberon Documents on the Windows Desktop", "ActiveX
- controls" or the "Netscape Browser Plugin".
-
-
- Fonts
-
- The Fonts module has been split into the modules Fonts and WinFonts. By
- default module WinFonts handles both screen (.Scn.Fnt) and printer
- (.Prx.Fnt, .Mdx.Fnt) fonts.
-
- The metric problem with Syntax20b.Scn.Fnt (and other Fonts) has been
- fixed in Win32.FontRes.Mod. The new .fon files can be found in Fonts.exe.
-
-
- WinPrinter
-
- Printing of color text using Oberon bitmap fonts still does not work with
- all printer drivers. The problem seems to be, that some drivers do not
- implement all features of GDI32.BitBlt. When using true-type fonts printing
- of color text should work with any driver.
-
- Using the postscript driver provided by Adobe (see:
- http://www.adobe.com/supportservice/custsupport/LIBRARY/pdrvwin.htm)
- color text is printed correctly.
-
- Suggestion: If printing using WinPrinter does not work with your setup use
- either the postscript driver provided by Adobe or use a PSPrinter based
- printer driver. If you do not have a postscript printer, I recommend using
- Ghostscript (see: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/).
-
-
- PSPrinter
-
- There are two new variants of the Oberon PSPrinter.
-
- GhostPrinter:
- Postscript is printed using your existing Ghostscript installation. For
- installation details see: Printers.Tool.
-
- WinPSPrinter:
- The postscript output of PSPrinter is redirected to any Windows (postscript)
- printer queue. For installation details see: Printers.Tool.
-
-
- Timer overflow
-
- The time value returned by Input.Time or Oberon.Time is a signed 32 bit
- value. After 25 days this counter will overflow. If you use Oberon.Task,
- Displays.SelectMsg or Oberon.SelectMsg you should use the following work
- arounds:
- Oberon.Task:
- Initialize the time field with Oberon.Time. If you initialize time to 0,
- the task may not run for the following 25 days!
-
- Oberon.GetSelection, Gadgets.GetSelection:
- time is set to -1 if no selection exists. Thus checking time > 0 does only
- work within the first 25 days!
-
- Oberon.GetSelection(text, beg, end, time)
- IF time # -1 THEN
- (* selection available *)
- END
-
- Displays.SelectMsg, Oberon.SelectMsg:
- Initialize the time field to -1 before broadcasting a SelectMsg.
-
-
- Oberon Documents on the Windows Desktop
-
- In this release Documents and Desktops can be opened in their own window
- using the commands Desktops.OpenWinDoc and Desktops.OpenWin. To use this
- kind of desktop as default, install the package Win included in System1.exe
- (see "Configuring the Display Screen" in Setup.Tool).
-
- Note that new windows use the default placeing and sizeing of Windows. Once
- you have stored a document, it will remember its position and size on the
- Windows desktop. This values are used the next time the document is opened on
- the Windows desktop.
-
-
- Application Packages
-
- All the available application packages are distributed in 3 self-extracting
- EXE files PrFnt.exe, AppsAH.exe and AppsIZ.exe. The packages TUI, GUI, Desk,
- Win, Network and PictConverters are included in System1.exe. The
- package Developer is included in Src.exe.
-
- For networked installation of application packages you must first install
- the Oberon Web browser (Packages.Install Network.oaf). A complete list of all
- available packages and some browser plugin examples can be found at:
-
- "http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/~zeller/Apps/"
-
-
- Netscape Browser Plugin
-
- This release includes an alpha version of the Oberon Netscape browser plugin.
- (see: PlugInsGuide.Text and NPPlugIn in Packages.Tool).
-
-
- OLE / ActiveX Server
-
- This release includes an experimental version of an Oberon ActiveX server.
- Thus you may use any Gadget as a visual or none-visual ActiveX component in
- popular ActiveX containers like VisualBasic, Internet Explorer, WordPad ....
- To learn more about the OLEObjects package see PlugInsGuide.Text.
-
-
- Known Problems and Bugs in this Release
-
- - Module Display does not support palette animation
- - Window updates are slow
- - Print preview does not work with the Netscape browser plugin
- - WinPrinter and color text printing using Oberon fonts
- - pressing all three mouse buttons on Windows ME does not work
-
-
- LEGAL INFORMATION
-
- ETH Oberon & ETH PlugIn Oberon
- Copyright (C) 1990-2000 Institut fuer Computersysteme ETH Zuerich
-
- Permission to use, copy, modify or distribute this software and its
- documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided
- that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both
- that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
- documentation, and that the name of ETH not be used in advertising or
- publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without
- specific, written prior permission.
-
- ETH disclaims all warranties with regard to this software, including
- all implied special, indirect or consequential damages or any damages
- whatsoever resulting from loss of use, data or profits, whether in an
- action of contract, negligence or other tortious action, arising out
- of or in connection with the use or performance of this software.
-
- Oberon, Gadgets, Native Oberon, Oberon System 3, ETH Oberon and ETH PlugIn
- Oberon are trademarks of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich.
- Microsoft, MS, MS-DOS, NT, Win32, Win32s, Windows, Windows 95, Windows 98,
- Windows NT and Windows 2000 are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
- IBM and OS/2 are trademarks of IBM Corporation.
- Intel and Pentium are trademarks of Intel Corporation.
-