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- From: sarrasin@disuns2.epfl.ch (Christian Sarrasin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications,comp.sys.amiga.programmer,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: TurboText & ARexx Q's
- Message-ID: <5047@disuns2.epfl.ch>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 22:35:24 GMT
- Reply-To: sarrasin@disuns2.epfl.ch (Christian Sarrasin)
- Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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- TurboText (1.03) SetPrefs's ARexx command has a fairly complete control
- over the program's settings. Yet one of them is missing: Does anyone know
- if there is a way to change TurboText's screen colors, short of loading a
- preference files using OpenPrefs. This method is quite inconvenient,
- because it would require something like the following process:
-
- 1) Store all current individual preference settings using GetPrefs calls
- 2) Load the file including colors definitions using LoadPrefs
- 3) Set back all saved settings from 1) using SetPrefs
-
- Needless to say, this is pretty painful, since you need about 30 calls to
- GetPrefs/SetPrefs to save/restore the original environment.
-
- You might wonder why I am want to change the screen colors? Well, I am
- working with two monitors: a 1950 and a 2024. The problem when swithing
- from one to the other is that the colors used on the 1950 are unusable on
- the 2024, and the ones suitable for the 2024 look *ugly* on the 1950.
-
- Also, if someone has "magic" macros that will allow:
-
- 1 single click+drag mouse to select individual characters, double
- click+drag to select words, and so on...
- 2 automatically arrange windows to arrange them at popup time, so that
- the first open at the top of the screen, the second a tad lover, just
- letting the titlebar of the firt visible, the third below the title bar
- of the second, etc...
-
- Well, I'd be very interested...
-
- Appart from that, does anyone know if TurboText is going to be updated
- one of these days? I heard Oxxi is not used to realeasing lots of updates
- to the programs they publish. I sure hope it's wrong, because TTX is such a
- nice program, though it is lacking some minor, yet important features
- (like multiple undo's...)
-
- Thanks for any clues.
-
- Christian.
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