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- Perfect Screens for Windows 95 and NT
- Copyright (c) 1996, 97 Pitrinec Software, All rights reserved.
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-
- Readme.txt content:
-
- 1. Overview
- 2. Installation
- 3. Requirements
- 4. License agreement
- 5. Contacts
- 6. History
-
-
-
- 1. OVERVIEW:
-
- Perfect Screens is a virtual screens (virtual desktops) manager. It allows
- a user to organize work on several screens (desktops) and make the user to
- feel like having several monitors. Organizing windows on several virtual
- screens decrease the number of windows displayed on the screen at the same
- time and allows the user better orientation and faster switching among
- applications. The Taskbar is not full of buttons of all running applications
- but only the buttons of applications presented on the given screen are in
- the Taskbar. Windows can be copied/moved among screens very easily if
- necessary.
- Perfect Screens also dramatically simplifies launching applications and
- accessing desired files. Each screen has its own Screen menu and toolbar
- containing applications and files associated with the given screen. On each
- screen, the user is only one click far from opening desired application or
- file (or URL location).
- Having several screens, each for a typical activity like document processing,
- networking, file management, system management, gaming, etc., allows the user
- to logically divide work on several screens, be more efficient and have
- clearer desktop.
-
-
- 2. INSTALLATION:
-
- To install the Perfect Screens to your system run SETUP.EXE program.
-
-
- 3. REQUIREMENTS:
-
-
- - Microsoft Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.x
- - 1.5 MB free disk space
-
-
- 4. LICENSE AGREEMENT:
-
- Upon your acceptance of this Agreement, Pitrinec Software (Author) grants to
- you a nonexclusive license to use the Perfect Screens software (Software).
-
- 1.Use of the Software.
-
- The Software has been released for distribution as a SHAREWARE and
- may be distributed at no cost.
-
- You are granted a license to try the Software for 30 days. After this time,
- the Software must be registered or removed from the system.
-
- You may install the Software on a hard disk or other storage device;
- install and use the Software on a file server for use on a network for
- the purposes of (i) permanent installation onto hard disks or other
- storage devices or (ii) use of the Software over such network; and make
- backup copies of the Software.
-
- 2.Restrictions.
-
- Unregistered use of the Software after the 30-day evaluation period is in violation
- of international copyright laws.
-
- You are not allowed to modify, translate, reverse engineer, decompile,
- disassemble or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the Software.
-
- The number of the (licensed) Software instances running at the same time may
- not exceed the number of licenses purchased.
-
- You are not allowed to redistribute or provide to 3rd party already registered
- versions of the Software as well as you may not publish the registration number(s)
- that unlock the Software.
-
- The Software can be distributed only as the package provided by the Author.
- This package cannot be change in any way without written Author's permission.
-
- 3.No Warranty.
-
- ALL WARRANTIES ARE DISCLAIMED, WHETHER EXPRESSED OR
- IMPLIED, IN THIS SOFTWARE. THE ENTIRE RISK OF THE USE OR
- THE RESULT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE REMAINS WITH
- THE USER.
-
- Unpublished-rights reserved under international copyright laws.
-
- Registration price list:
-
- License: Price (US $):
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Upgrade from version 1.x or 2.x 5.00
- 1 User (copy) 29.00
- 5 Users (copies) 99.00
- 10 Users (copies) 149.00
- 25 Users (copies) 299.00
- 50 Users (copies) 449.00
- * Site license 790.00
- ** World-wide license 2290.00
- * Site license (educational organizations) 290.00
- ** World-wide license (educational organizations) 490.00
-
- Multiple users license (e.g., 10 users license) can be either used so that there
- are several users using the same copy of the program installed on a network
- server or there are several copies of the program installed on users' workstations
- (each user has own copy installed on the computer). In any case the number of
- users running the program at the same time cannot exceed the number of copies
- licensed.
-
- * Site license is for unlimited number of users at one organization, and within
- a radius of 100 miles (160 km) from one central location.
- ** An organization that has offices further than that and wants to use the product
- in these distant locations, should buy a world-wide license
-
- ALL WARRANTIES ARE DISCLAIMED, WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, IN THIS SOFTWARE.
- THE ENTIRE RISK OF THE USE OR THE RESULT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE REMAINS WITH
- THE USER.
-
-
- 5. CONTACTS:
-
- Postal: Pitrinec Software
- Petr Pitrinec
- Severni 1025
- 54941 Cerveny Kostelec
- Czech Republic
-
- E-mail: pitrinec@kagi.com
- WWW: http://www.softwareutilities.com
-
-
-
- 6. HISTORY
-
- * Version 3.25 - September 15, 1998
-
- New features & changes:
- -----------------------
- 1) Automatic recovery after crash. If PS crashes (for
- whatever reason) just restart it and PS will start
- in the state left before the crash.
- 2) Items in toolbar (Screen menu) can be easily sorted
- using new "Move" functionality available on right
- click on an item.
- 3) "Paste Item" command added to the main menu.
- 4) Improved drag & drop.
- 5) Drag & drop on a submenu item causes the dragged file
- is added to the submenu.
- 6) Improved application starting.
- 7) Mouse cursor is not moving to the center of screen
- menu's first item.
- 8) New option "Automatically switch to screen with
- active application" (in Advanced properties). If checked,
- the Perfect Screens automatically switches to the screen
- with active application (if application was activated by
- some event, for example opening file from File Explorer).
- 9) Integration with Perfect Keyboard's macros! Macro items
- can be added to Screen menu and toolbar.
- 10) Copy/paste works on whole submenu.
- 11) "Shift+click" on an item shows property dialog box.
- 12) Auto hide menu item in main menu
-
-
- Bugs fixed:
- -----------
- 1) "Copy" and "Copy to all screens" is available also if
- "All Taskbar buttons" option is checked.
- 2) Ocasional loosing windows from the screen.
- 3) When in autohide, the toolbar is not shown if screen
- saver is running (Win95).
- 4) MS TaskBar buttons ordered is not changing when
- switching screens.
- 5) Windows are properly updated (painted) when switching
- screens.
- 6) 'Screen icon' is showing immediately after an application
- is started.
- 7) Toolbars cannot appear out of screen when in autohide mode.
- 8) Tooltip is showing on newly added screen.
-
-
-
- * Version 3.0 - released in January 1, 1998
-
- New features:
- -------------
- 1) New toolbar look and feel ("jumping" buttons).
- 2) New type of items - hot key. If button of such item is
- clicked specified hot key is pressed. This allow to
- run macros (defined in MS Word or other programs) on mouse
- click.
- 3) The "Submenu" item can be put to the toolbar as another
- items. Clicking such button will pop up the submenu.
- 4) Auto-hide. Each toolbar can have auto-hide specified.
- 5) Integrated bar. Both screen toolbar and application
- toolbar can be put to one integrated bar. Integrated
- bar looks and behaves as MS TaskBar (including auto-hide).
- 6) Network support. Default configuration can reside on
- a network drive and can be shared by many users. Users
- still can customize the shared screens by adding their
- own (private) items to the screen menu (application
- toolbar).
- 7) Multiple user support. Many users can share the same
- Perfect Screens copy because each of them has its
- own profile.
- 8) Improved password protections. There is more levels
- of protection including network administrator password.
- 9) Integration with MSIE 4.0 active desktop technology.
- 10) Autorecovery after crash. When PS crashes and is
- launched again it recovers screens (applications on
- screens) as it was before crash.
- 11) Improved big screen feature.
- 12) "All taskbar buttons" feature allows to switch on that
- buttons of all running applications are in the TaskBar.
- Default is that only application presented on the
- active screen have buttons in the TaskBar.
-
-
- * Version 2.6 - released in March 6, 1997
-
- Bugs fixed:
- -----------
- 1) Alt+right click in some cases caused that Perfect Screens
- crashed. This terrible bug is fixed in this version.
-
- * Version 2.5 - released in March 5, 1997
-
- New features:
- -------------
- 1) Configuration assistant that helps you to configure Perfect
- Screens.
- 2) Screen buttons can be reordered (see "Screen settings"
- dialog box.
- 3) Screen switching is faster and smoother.
- 4) The number of windows opened on each screens is (optionaly)
- displayed on screen buttons (set up it in "Application
- settings/Advanced").
- 5) On-line registration.
-
- Bugs fixed:
- -----------
- 1) Installation program creates Start menu group also in NT.
- 2) Right click on Screen menu works without any problems in NT.
- 3) Screen cannot be switched when screen saver with password
- protection is running.
- 4) The problem with GDI resources when Perfect Screens is
- in TaskBar is fixed.
-
- * Version 2.1 - released in December 15, 1996
-
- New features:
- -------------
- 1) There is a new item "Original screen" in the menu allowing you
- switch on/off the button of the Original screen.
- 2) Registration numbers are incompatible with previous versions
- (2.0 and older). The upgrade to this version is free. Already
- registered user will by re-registered for free.
-
- Bugs fixed:
- -----------
- 1) If big screen is checked and there is not a window on the screen
- the programme crashed when moved mouse cursor to the edge of the
- screen. This bug is fixed.
-
- * Version 2.0 - released in November 25, 1996
-
- New features:
- -------------
- 1) Big screen - you can "scroll" screens to left and down if there
- is some programm on the screen exceeding the screen's edge.
- You can scroll it by mouse movement to edges of screen.
- You can switch it on/off for each screen in screen settings.
- 2) New (standard) setup.
- 3) You can change some screen settings (sound, ToolBar look)
- globally. There is new Configuration/Global settings...
- menu item.
-
- Bugs fixed:
- -----------
- 1) The programm doesn't "eat" resources (version 1.6 did).
- 2) "Toolbars have grey color" setting works again.
- 3) Some other minor fixes.
-
- * Version 1.6 - released in September 5, 1996
-
- New features:
- -------------
- 1) The program supports drag & drop of shortcuts (*.lnk files).
- 2) Autosave - the program automatically saves all changes made
- in settings.
-
- Bugs fixed:
- -----------
- 1) Bugs that may cause unstability were fixed.
- 2) Program folows color settings set in standard Windows dialog
- "Display properties".
-
- * Version 1.5 - released in July 29, 1996
-
- New features:
- -------------
- 1) Program runs under Windows NT 4.0 without problems (for more
- information read "NT users" topic in the help and "Requirements"
- in the readme file).
- 2) Program runs fine under Windows NT 3.51 with some functionality disabled
- (for more information read "NT users" topic in the help and
- "Requirements" in the readme file).
- 3) When you switch to a screen a sound can be played. This option
- is a part of "Screen settings" now.
- 4) Better font used.
- 5) Tab-like buttons. (Can be selected in "Application settings",
- "Buttons and Icons" section.)
- 6) Splash screen can be switched off. (Can be switched off in "Application
- settings", "Advanced" section.)
- 7) Perfect Screens checks for already used shortcut keys.
- 8) Drag a window and drop it on another screen. Drag a window and move it
- to the left or right side of the screen like you want to move it
- outside of the screen. When the cursor is on the edge of the screen
- the Perfect Screens automatically switches the screen to the next one.
- If you release mouse buttons then the window you originally caught is
- moved to the current screen. This require to have switched on the option
- Go to next/previous screen... in the Application settings in the Advanced
- section.
- 9) Perfect Screens Help allows you to use Find function. This allows you
- "full text" searching in the help.
- 10) Perfect Screens window can overlap TaskBar (if "Always on top" option
- is set on).
- 11) New help file - Perfect Screens Quick Help -was added. The file name
- is psqh.hlp.
-
- Bugs fixed:
- -----------
- 1) Several bugs that may cause unstability were found and fixed.
- 2) Bug in drag & drop of long file names was fixed.
- 3) Help allows to use Find function.
- 4) Bug that caused Perfect Screens crashs when switching screen
- by moving mouse to an edge of the screen was fixed.
- 5) Several bugs in help were fixed.
-
-
- * Version 1.4 - released in May 25, 1996
-
- New features:
- -------------
- 1) Password protection.
- 2) Global items.
- 3) Alt + click is turnable on/off.
-
-
- * Version 1.3 - released in April 18, 1996
-
- Bugs fixed:
- -----------
- 1) The program was not able to run without MFC40.DLL dynamic link
- library (shipped with MS Visual C++ 4.0 and maybe with other
- Microsoft products).
-
- New features: None.
- -------------
-
- * Version 1.2 - released in April 12, 1996
-
- Bugs fixed:
- -----------
- 1) Program automatically saves all settings when Windows is exiting.
- 2) Strange cursor movements that sometimes appears in the version
- 1.1 is fixed.
- 3) Perfect Screens window is possible to place directly to the bottom
- of the screen.
- 4) Previous version of the Perfect Screens sometimes crash when you
- quickly switch screens several times. This is fixed in this version.
-
- New features:
- -------------
- 1) It is possible to place screen buttons (icons) to the TaskBar (click
- on the yellow mouse cursor icon, select "Application settings" item
- from menu shown, choose windows position "On TaskBar")
- 2) It is possible to place ToolBar buttons (icons) to the TaskBar (click
- on the cyan mouse cursor icon on the TooolBar, select "ToolBar settings"
- item from menu appeared, choose windows position "On TaskBar")
- 3) You can set the default screen (this is the one the Perfect Screens
- switchs to after start). (Do right mouse click on the screen icon
- and from the menu appeared choose "Screen settings" item.)
- 4) ToolBars color may be either gray or the same as the screen
- background color. (To set this click on the yellow mouse cursor
- icon, select "Application settings" item from menu appeared, select
- "Advanced".)
- 5) ToolTips. Each icon in both the Perfect Screens window and
- ToolBar shows the name if you move the mouse cursor over the icon
- and wait for a while.
- 6) Application you launch from the ToolBar (or screen menu) may be
- automatically visible (accessable) on all screens. There is
- new check button in the Screen menu (ToolBar) item "Properties"
- on the bottom of the dialog window.
- 7) Right click on the yellow mouse cursor icon may pops up the Screen
- menu associated with the current screen. (To set this click on the
- yellow mouse cursor icon, select "Application settings" item from
- menu shown, select "Advanced".)
- 8) There are new shortcut keys for switching among screens that replace
- Alt+left arrow, Alt+right arrow, Alt+down arrow keys. These shortcut
- keys are optional. (click on the yellow mouse cursor icon, select
- "Application settings" item from menu appeared, choose "Shortcut Keys".)
- 9) Context sensitive help.
- 10) If you do left mouse button click together with Alt key press on
- title bar of a window the menu with copy/move/remove window operations
- is shown. This is (sometimes) faster way how to copy/move/remove
- window to/to/from screen.
- 11) You can save settings manually. This protects you from loosing your
- settings if your system crashes from any reason.
- 12) Switching among screens is a little bit faster now.
- 13) You can switch to next/previous screen if you move and keep for a while
- mouse cursor on right/left margin of the screen. This is optional and
- you can switch on/off this feature in "Advanced" section of
- Application settings.
- 14) Tabbed dialog windows.
-
-
-
- * Version 1.1 - released in February 29, 1996
-
- Bugs fixed:
- -----------
- 1) Version 1.0 didn't cooperate correctly with Xmouse utility
- from Microsoft Power Toys package.
- 2) Version 1.0 didn't cooperate correctly with some system
- utilities (Xmouse, compress agent) because of bug in ps32dll.dll
- library. (The program didn't call mouse and keyboard next hook.)
-
- New features:
- -------------
- 1) The program allows user to choose screensaver to performe
- when the mouse cursor is moved to the upper right corner
- of the screen (this is optional; maybe set-up in the
- advanced options).
-
- * Version 1.0 - released in February 13, 1996
-
-