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- Short: Extended control to intuition windows (V1.9.30)
- Type: util/misc
- Uploader: swaz@iconz.co.nz (David Swasbrook)
- Author: swaz@iconz.co.nz (David Swasbrook)
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- TITLE
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- Window Daemon - Control Intuition Windows and Screens
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- VERSION
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- Distribution version 1.9
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- AUTHORS
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- David Swasbrook
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- E-mail address: swaz@iconz.co.nz
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- DESCRIPTION
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- Window Daemon gives extended control to intuition windows
- and screens through HotKeys and Arexx. In addition there
- is better workbench drawer manipulation, you can close
- the current drawer window when opening another drawer,
- and when closing a drawer can open its parent
- automatically. Using a hotkey you can manage the task
- priority owning the current window and even suspend the
- task. Also the active window can be brought to the front
- or pushed to the back by simply holding down both mouse
- buttons.
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- FEATURES
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- 1. Arexx, Commodities and Locale Support.
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- 2. HotKey and Arexx support to manipulate the currently active
- window and screen. Standard window controls are avalable
- such as Zip, Close, Size, ToFront, ToBack, NextScreen, etc...
- Also can suspend tasks and modify priorities.
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- 3. Able to close the parent window of a drawer when opened on
- "Workbench" if QUAALIFIER is held down. (Only available under
- kickstart V39 or higher)
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- 4. Can open parent window of a "Workbench" drawer when the
- drawer closed if QUALIFIER is held down.
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- 5. Closes all "Workbench" drawers when a drawer is closed if
- either of the ALT keys are held down.
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- 6. Specialized options to forcefully close windows and screens,
- and also to remove tasks that own the active window.
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- 7. Font sensitive interface.
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- 8. DEL key can be used to DELETE icons on workbench.
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- 9. HELP key can be used to get INFO on icons on wrkbench.
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- 10. Screen/Window selection requestor
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- SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
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- OS release 2.04 or newer is required.
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- "matrix.library" version 23.1916 required. (included in archive)
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- Hypertext compatable document. (ie. MultiView/AmigaGuide)
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- Commodore installer.
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- Distribution is archived with lha so program to
- un-archive them is needed.
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- UPDATE
- This archive is an update of the WindowDaemon18.lha archive.
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- New features:
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- * Configuration is now saved in ENV: so there is
- no need for all the tool types now.
- * Minor bug in DEL/HELP code fixed.
- * The qualifier for workbench window manipulation
- for drawer open/close can be selected from
- Control, Shift or MiddleMouseButton.
- * Screen/Window selection requestor by pressing
- the right mouse button in the top right hand
- corner of a screen.
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- ============================= Archive contents =============================
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- Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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- 637 285 55.2% 12-May-94 01:03:20 WindowDaemon.info
- 3137 1089 65.2% 12-May-94 01:03:20 WindowDaemon/Install
- 711 363 48.9% 12-May-94 01:03:22 WindowDaemon/Install.info
- 43748 24853 43.1% 12-May-94 01:03:20 WindowDaemon/matrix.library
- 16976 10916 35.6% 12-May-94 01:03:22 WindowDaemon/WindowDaemon
- 5034 1848 63.2% 12-May-94 01:03:24 WindowDaemon/windowdaemon.cd
- 24915 8677 65.1% 12-May-94 01:03:24 WindowDaemon/WindowDaemon.guide
- 468 221 52.7% 12-May-94 01:03:24 WindowDaemon/WindowDaemon.guide.info
- 3871 814 78.9% 12-May-94 01:03:22 WindowDaemon/WindowDaemon.info
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- 99497 49066 50.6% 12-May-94 14:17:04 9 files
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