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M e g a W B
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(c) 1988 by Fridtjof Siebert
Nobileweg 67
7000 Stuttgart 40
Description:
This Program makes it possible to make your Workbenchscreen as large as
you like! All the problems you've had with programs like TurboBackup,
KwikBackUp, AudioMaster etc. are gone now. You can easily drag their
Window away or use the Workbench area around them!
To be able to use the hole Workbench, it scrolls everytime you move the
mouse.
There are two different methods to scroll the Workbenchscreen. You can
select proportional scrolling. Then your workbench will scroll anytime
you move the mouse. If you don't select this mode, the workbench scrolls
everytime the pointer hits the Workbench's edges.
How to use it:
You can start MegaWB by doubleclicking its Icon or by typing its name
into your CLI window.
Usage: MegaWB [P] [WIDTH HEIGHT]
The Option "P" selects proportional mode.
WIDTH and HEIGHT specify the size your Workbench should have. If you
start MegaWB without specifying the size, it'll create a 1024 x 512
pixels large Workbench.
Example: MegaWB P 800 400
If you start MegaWB by clicking it's Icon, it'll read its parameters from
the toolTypes of its Icon. The ToolTypes "WIDTH" and "HEIGHT" specify the
Workbench's size. IF you set "PROP" in the "FLAGS"-ToolType, your
Workbench will scroll proportionally to your mousemovements.
Example:
FLAGS=PROP
WIDTH=1024
HEIGHT=512
The Workbench's width and height shouldn't be higher than 1024, 'cause
that's the maximum size of a bitmap blitter can handle. If your workbench
is too large, you may accidentally make a window higher or wider than
1024 Pixels. This causes strange things to happen.
If you start MegaWB within your Startup-Sequence ("RunBack MegaWB 800
400"), before you execute LoadWB, the Workbenchwindow will be as big as
your Workbench. Then the Disk-Icons will appear at the very right border
of your MegaWB-Screen.
How to quit MegaWB:
To get back your ancient Workbench, just start MegaWB once again. You
have to have smallened all your Windows and have moved them to the upper
left corner of the Workbench, else MegaWB won't quit. If there isn't
enough Chip-Memory available to allocate the original Workbench's BitMap,
MegaWB won't quit or will open a 1 plane deep Workbench.
Tricks:
MegaWB starts to be really funny when you've installed Mathew Dillon's
DMouse (Fish-Disk 145, 160 and 168). Then you can scroll through your
great Workbench with an accelerated mousepointer. To use DMouse
together with MegaWB, you have to set DMouse's Inputhandler-priority to a
value higher than MegaWB's, i.e. at least 52.
It's very useful to have a memory extension (more than 1MB), because a
1024 x 1024 pixel large Workbench eats 256 KB!
My favorite Workbenchsize is 704 x 1024 (I use an overscan 704x278
Workbench). This way I am able to use several texteditors (DME's) and I
can put them directly above each other.
Bugs:
The large Workbench doesn't have any ScreenDepth-Gadgets. I never use the
Workbench's ScreenDepth-Gadgets, that's why I didn't even try to remove
this bug. Just use C=-M and C=-N!
Some programs are not written to run on a very large workbench so they
get a bit confused if you make their windows bigger than the size of the
original Workbenchscreen.
It is sometime possible to drag a window one pixel over the
Workbenchscreen's right border. This trashes the display a bit but
doesn't cause any serious problems.
Copyright:
MegaWB is Public Domain. It is free to be copied and to be given to other
Amiga-Users. The only limitation is that you have to leave my Name in the
program, in its source and in the documentation files.
Who makes any changes in the program is allowed to add his name in the
programs head, but he mustn't remove my name. I think that it would be
good if anybody who has made any improvements or has any suggestions
sends them to me.
If there's anyone who would send a Shareware-fee to me if this program
was ShareWare, he can do this anyway. He can decide which amount he'd
like to send. I'm not only interested in money, but also (maybe even
more) in new and good public domain software.
--- Fridtjof.