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- Apple II
- Sample Code Notes
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- Developer Technical Support
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- #22: AutoLaunch
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- Version: 3.0 June 1990
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- MPW Components: Globals.c
- Start.c
- Debug.c
- Event.c
- File.c
- Menu.c
- Utils.c
- AutoLaunch.h
- AutoLaunch.r
- MakeFile
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- AutoLaunch is a useful application for testing Apple II applications in a two-
- computer development environment where one computer is used for the
- development system and an Apple IIGS is used to test the completed
- application. AutoLaunch automatically launches an Apple II application when
- it sees a new version of that application. AutoLaunch is particularly useful
- when the development system and the test system are both connected to an
- AppleShare file server, but can also be used when the application is passed
- from the development system to the test system on a disk.
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- To use AutoLaunch, you must choose a trigger file, the application to launch,
- and the time between trigger tests. AutoLaunch checks the modification date
- and time of the trigger file as often as you tell it, and when AutoLaunch sees
- that the modification date and time of the trigger file has changed, it
- launches the application. The time between trigger tests can be in the range
- of 0 to 9999 seconds where 0 means as often as possible. You may not want to
- set the trigger time to anything less than 1 when using a file server, because
- AutoLaunch can cause a lot of network traffic.
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- AutoLaunch lets you save the Application Launch information so if the program
- you are testing crashes, you can reboot your test system and restart
- AutoLaunch without the need to choose the trigger file, application to launch,
- and time between trigger tests again.
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- MPW IIGS users need MPW v.3.0, MPW IIGS Tools v.1.1, and MPW IIGS C v.1.0 or
- later. The name needed by the MPW Build menu's Build option can be found in
- the MakeFile.
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