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- DeskModes Version 2.1 June 1992
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- DeskModes is Copyright D.J.Holden 1991 but may be freely distributed, copied
- and used provided that only minimal charges to cover distribution costs are
- made. No fee may be charged for the program itself. It must always be
- distributed unaltered complete with any documentation (this) file. If you
- include it as part of any other program or application you must still
- include the documentation and acknowledge its use in your program and/or
- documentation.
-
- I reserve the right to withdraw this licence at any time from any individual
- or organisation without explanation. Distribution after licence has been
- withdrawn will be treated as breach of copyright.
-
- If you are running a PD library or a Bulletin Board I would appreciate it if
- you would inform me if you are including DeskModes so I can provide updates.
-
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- DeskModes is a Module which will give you 16 new screen modes. These are all
- 'stretched' versions of Mode 12 (16 colours) and so are ideally suited for
- the standard Acorn or Philips colour monitor.
-
- The mode numbers start at 84 and go up to 99. They are in four 'blocks' with
- base mode numbers of 84, 88, 92 and 96. Each base mode has the number of
- columns which correspond to its mode number, eg. mode 84 has 84 columns,
- mode 88 has 88 columns, etc. The 'in between' numbers then have additional
- rows. The base number +1 has one additional row (33 rows), +2 has two (34
- rows) and +3 has four (36 rows). If this sounds complicated the table below
- should make it obvious.
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- Rows 84 88 92 96
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- |
- C 32 | 84 88 92 96
- o |
- l 33 | 85 89 93 97
- u |
- m 34 | 86 90 94 98
- n |
- s 36 | 87 91 95 99
- |
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-
- Because there are now many other modules which give extra modes and the
- numbers of these might clash DeskModes has another command which can alter
- the numbers of all these modes. This command is *MODEBASE <number> where
- <number> is the 'base' number for the modes. Normally this is 84 but you can
- change it to anything you like to avoid clashes. If you just type *MODEBASE
- on its own the current base number will be shown.
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- So that you don't need to change the base number each time you load
- DeskModes the base number is stored in Byte 45 of CMOS RAM and DeskModes
- will automatically use the stored base number whenever you load it.
-
-
- There are two ways in which you can use DeskModes. The simplest is to
- double-click on the DeskModes module to load it and then click 'Menu' (the
- middle mouse button) on the Wimp 'Palette' icon at the right hand end of the
- icon bar. Put the mouse pointer on 'Mode' on the menu which will appear and
- slide it to the right. You will see that the caret has appeared on the
- bottom (blank) row of the mode menu. Just type the number of the mode you
- want and press RETURN and the desktop will be redrawn in that mode.
-
- The best way is to put a line in your '!Boot' application to load DeskModes.
- Follow this with a command to set the WimpMode to your chosen mode, eg.
- *Configure WimpMode 92. Now you need a command to actually change the Mode
- before the desktop starts up. This is easily done using the ECHO command, eg
- *ECHO <22><92>. The desktop will now start up in the chosen mode.
-
- You can of course change modes again from within the desktop at any time
- using the first method described above.
-
- If you use the larger screen sizes you will find that you need to change the
- Width and Height controls on your monitor or the edges of the desktop will
- dissapear off the screen. Normal screen modes will then have a larger than
- usual border but this is not big enough to cause problems. The normal
- screens will still be correctly centred.
-
- There is a problem with the 96 column modes. This is stretching the 'parent'
- mode to its limits and it is not able to display the two right hand columns.
- These will be 'clipped' at the right hand edge of the screen. If you are
- using a scrollable window such as Edit and you click on the 'toggle size'
- icon to make it full size the right hand scroll bar will therefore dissapear
- off screen. Don't worry, you can still find it. If you want to reduce the
- window size slightly put the mouse pointer on the bottom scroll bar (you
- should be able to see the right hand scroll arrow) and move it to the right
- until it just dissappears. It will now be over the 'change size' icon so
- hold down the left mouse button and move the mouse to the left and the
- pointer should reappear dragging the right hand side of the window with it.
-
- In fact the 96 column modes are not normaly needed as the 92 column modes
- are just wide enough for working with Impression on an A4 sheet at 100% and
- don't require so much screen resizing as the Impression NewModes Mode 66.
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- David Holden
- 39 Knighton Park Road
- Sydenham
- London SE26 5RN
- 081 778 2659
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