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- Version 1.41 of !FinalLook
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- Only two real changes since the last version ... but I'm back at Uni so
- contact me as M.R.Godbolt@ex.ac.uk !
-
- Directory open has been fixed (I think) but there are lingering problems
- with window redrawing ... if anyone can figure out what it is PLEASE
- CONTACT ME !!!!!!
-
- Again I tempt fate by saying 'I think I've got the textures to work' !!!!
- Please please please tell me if I'm wrong! Unless I'm right of course :-)
-
- Thanks
-
- Matt
-
- Release Notes
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-
- I'm on holiday at the moment - 5 weeks off to lounge around and program!
- This means e-mail takes a while to get to me - I'm currently using a
- friend's modem to contact Exeter. However my own 14.4k modem and Demon
- account are pending as soon as possible! Apologies for any low-res
- graphics that may have crept into the works during this release as my own
- SVGA monitor blew up! Many thanks to Mag (Chris Hayman) for the loan of
- his low-res monitor - it's better than using the telly in the lounge!
-
- P.S. If anyone knows how to get 256-colour SVGA-resolution modes please tell
- me! I would dearly love to have this mode! In theory there will be
- enough memory for the mode - but does this exceed VIDC's clock rate?
- Thanks :-)
-
- And so the notes ...
-
- • I've sorted out lingering problems with menus - non-indirected menus (such
- as the main menu of !Draw) work fine now as do *all* hot-keys such as
- PRINT.
-
- • The 'orrible grey blobs the WIMP puts behind text in non-filled sprite/
- text icons have been removed at last! Not without problems though - the
- WIMP is expecting them there so when any changes occur to the text ie
- during selection of the icons it simply overprints the fonts over the top
- of whetever was there before! To alleviate this I have decided to remove
- the inverting of selected icon text in this case. Instead I have made the
- font 'bold' - by making its background colour black as well as its fore-
- ground colour. I can't use the actual bold version as the two versions
- must be pixel-perfect the same as each other. The only problem I have
- found so far is with icons on the iconbar - as I write this text in
- StrongED I have RayShade tracing a piccy - as it updates the percentage
- completed under its icon it 'smudges' over the previous reading. Any
- suggestions on this problem?
-
- This feature can be disabled.
-
- • I have put in a few more safeguards against my patch patching at the wrong
- time. This also has the advantage of making it faster when dealing with
- non-patch SWIs. Hopefully this will alleviate any problems with other
- products such as !Plot - can you get back to me on this one please Andy?
- One or two things to note, however - NEVER *EVER* RmFaster either the
- WindowManager or Filer 'cos the patch will stop working immediately. I
- don't think it will crash but I'm using the fact that the SWIs are called
- from ROM to safeguard other programs.
-
- • I now reckon I've sorted out choosing the correct font colours - thanks
- to Erwin Gerrits in sunny NZ for his help! Currently I am distinguish-
- ing title bars in windows by them having a fore- and background colour of
- white in their icon data. If anyone can tell me how to *properly* work
- out whether an icon is a title bar armed only with the information the
- WIMP passes to its internal icon processing routines please tell me!!
-
- • I have finally decided to put the source code in general release! Don't
- faint - I'm normally *very* protective of my programming methods but now
- you'll be able to see what the heck it does from my point of view.
- Please excuse the label names - I'm not a particularly structured person
- and so a label name of .Feedle really *does* mean something to me.
- Feel free to tinker with it - at your own risk of course - but *please*
- don't distribute your tinkered-with versions without first contacting me
- so I can update the source/whatever!
-
- Erm, !FLConfig pending ....
- I have only included three windowdrops as it costs me more 'phone bill
- to upload any more!
-
- For those so inclined you can contact me at :
-
- Matthew Godbolt
- Touchwood
- Forest Lane
- East Horsley
- Surrey
- KT24 5HU
- (01483) 285824
- M.R.Godbolt@exeter.ac.uk
- Matt@moog.demon.co.uk
- unix talk or ntalk or ytalk or whatever - py94mrg@newman.exeter.ac.uk
- Try telnetting moog.demon.co.uk if I'm on at my end :-)
- Also try IRC: I'm TheMoog on #acorn, #exeter, #themoog, #wandera, #physics
- If you're really mad I'm also Khirsah on MadROM - ( 128.100.5.10 1536 )
-
- I'm a fairly easy-going lad so please don't be afraid to bombard me (within
- reason) with ideas/mad conversations/gripes/moans/money. Especially the
- money :-)
-
- Happy Arcing,
-
- Matt
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