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- ViNCEd Version 3.43
- ---------------------
-
- This is the latest version of my full-screen window handler!
-
- ******************************************************************
-
- Please, before installation, look in the directory
- GUIDES in this archive and read the LICENCE!
-
- ******************************************************************
-
-
- If you want to find out more about this fine program, read the guide, too.
-
-
- -------- history ----- this is not the complete history, read the guide!----
- Changes made since 3.42:
-
- Removed a bug in public screen support and another in the
- font loader. Added path truncation and "Jump to Next Screen"
- menu item.
-
- Changes made since 3.41:
-
- Much smoother scrollers if enough CPU power available.
- Tiny bugs fixed, partially left over from 3.40.
-
- *****************************************************************************
-
- To update from 3.32 to 3.43:
-
- Re-install, since A LOT of stuff changed!
-
-
- To update from 3.4x to 3.43:
-
- - Copy and decode SetVNC.coded to C: with Extras/decode
- - copy vnc.library to LIBS:
- - copy the new guide to where you kept the old one
- - copy the new include files
- - copy the locale databases
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- ANNOUNCEMENT:
- If you selected the "Disable full screen Edit" setting on the
- system page of SetVNC as setting for ViNCEd, you will have noticed
- that the RETURN key does not operate like expected in the SHELL.
-
- THIS IS NOT A BUG!
-
- This edit mode is for programs that wants to read masks from the
- input, UNLIKE THE SHELL. DO NOT TURN IT ON FOR THE SHELL!
-
- If you like to glue the cursor to the edit position and don't want
- it moving 'round the screen if marking blocks or scrolling, turn on
- the XTerm Cursor Mode in the edit pages of SetVNC!
-
- If you prefer single TAB requesters, turn on both the "Requester if
- expansion is not unique" and the "First TAB expands fully" flag
- in the Shell pages of SetVNC.
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- ANNOUNCEMENT: Co-Authors wanted !
-
- 1) Localization:
-
- If you like to localize ViNCEd to your language, please send me some mail!
-
- You need to provide:
- - some knowledge about AmigaDOS and locales.
- - some knowledge of your native language (-;
-
-
- 2) MUI Prefs editor:
-
- I'd like somebody to write a MUI version of a prefs editor. This can't be a
- full replacement for SetVNC, but at least the global prefs should be edit-
- able with it. Some limitations of MUI (no intuition requesters) limit the
- possibilities of a MUI version of SetVNC, but this is O.K. for a prefs editor.
-
- You need to provide:
- - some knowledge about a programming language,
- preferably assembler or C.
- - knowledge about how to write GUIs with MUI.
- - a registered version of MUI or at least the MUI include files
-
- You'll receive a documentation on how ViNCEd saves its preferences and on
- how to call the library functions to install the prefs, see also the include
- files!
-
-
- I'm sorry, but I can't offer any money for these jobs cause ViNCEd is
- freeware. It is expected that you provide your work as freeware, too. I
- won't claim any copyright on these programs or databases, but I need your
- O.K. to include them in the ViNCEd archive. Contact me at the address below
- if you think you like to do the job(s).
-
- Thanx, Thomas
-
- ****************************************************************************
-
- Another note:
-
- VirusWorkShop seems to have trouble with overlays!
-
- THIS IS NOT A VIRUS!
-
- VirusWorkShop will be updated soon, as soon as Markus has
- enough time and did his diploma! Good luck, Markus!
-
- Thanks Urban, for reporting!
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Some virus checkers might complain about the set PktWait() pointer
- of the VNCFiler.supervisor. Again:
-
- THIS IS NOT A VIRUS!
-
- Anti-Beol has been updated to handle this case, please update your
- copy as well!
-
- ****************************************************************************
-
-
- The Extras-Drawer contains some additional programs, which are independent
- of ViNCEd.
-
- _____________________________________________________________________________
-
- PatchAlloc: Removes a bug in the AllocMem procedure of the OS.
- Allocating memory with the REVERSE flag may cause a hang if no memory is
- available. This bug has been removed in the version 3.0 of the OS and is
- now part of the SetPatch program. But if you have older versions of the OS,
- copy this file to your C: drawer and insert the command
-
- PatchAlloc
-
- in your startup-sequence near to the SetPatch-call.
-
- ____________________________________________________________________________
-
-
- PatchRAM: Removes some bugs in the RAM disk. First, the RAM disk shows
- after installation of this patch the real size of memory it needs - it is
- no longer always 100% full - and second it allocates big memory chunks in
- reverse order, to avoid unneccessary defragmentation of the memory. You
- should copy PatchRAM to your C: drawer and insert it in your
- startup-sequence, somewhere below the place where the RAM disk gets accessed
- first. A good place is below the line
-
- makedir RAM:t
- PatchRAM ;<- insert patch here.
-
-
- If you use PatchRAM together with an older release of the OS, install
- PatchAlloc first, as described above.
-
-
- This program is available from AmiNet, independent of the ViNCEd package.
- It's also from THOR.
-
- _____________________________________________________________________________
-
- FastFonts: Speeds up text output of topaz.8 and topaz.9, even under
- the (faster, but still not fast) Os 2.04 and above. This program should
- be inserted in the startup-sequence as well, if you usually work with the
- topaz fonts. I know that these fonts are more or less obsolete now....
-
- _____________________________________________________________________________
-
- StringSnip: Improves string gadget editor features in a way compare-
- able with ViNCEd. The installer script will do the installation for you.
- Here are the additional keys:
-
- Alt+Cursor : Jump to the beginning/end of the next/prev word.
- Ctrl+Cursor : Jump to the start/end of the input.
- Alt+Del : Erase complete input (like Amiga-X before)
- Shift+Del : ditto.
- Shift+Alt+BS : Erase text in front of cursor to start of line.
- Shift+Alt+Del : Erase text behind cursor to end of line.
- Amiga-X : Cut text from gadget into clipboard.
- Amiga-C : Copy the text from the gadget into the clipboard.
- Amiga-V : Paste the text in the clipboard into the gadget.
-
- Commodore-key : Turn of the extensions.
-
-
- A similar edit hook can be found in MultiCX, however it does not handle
- things compareable to ViNCEd, and for another reason (see below) I recommend
- you NOT to use MultiCX.
-
- _____________________________________________________________________________
-
- TrueMultiAssigns: Starting with AmigaDOS 2, an assign might include
- several directories. However, these so called "MultiAssigns" are not
- handled very consistent by AmigaDOS. This patch fixes the pattern matching
- routines of AmigaDOS to operate propably with multi directory assigns.
- Quite a lot of solutions to the multi assign problem can be found on AmiNet,
- but all I had a look on are broken in one or another way (like the 1.02
- TrueMultiAssigns by Marcus Wild, or the patch that comes with MultiCX) and
- don't operate properly with ViNCEd. As usual, the THOR solution is best!
-
- As with StringSnip, TrueMultiAssigns will be added to your startup sequence
- by the installer script on request.
-
- _____________________________________________________________________________
-
- Decode: Used to decode the "SetVNC" file in this archive with
- a pretty dump algorithm. Shouldn't be used for anything else...
-
-
- Thomas, May 1997
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