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- MemoMetri
- ~~~~~~~~~
- Version 2.0 (22-May-94)
- Copyright © 1992, 1993, 1994 Petri Airio
-
- INTRODUCTION
-
- MemoMetri is a yet another memory gauge. Nothing special,
- you say! But hold on a minute, there's something that holds
- a wide gap between MemoMetri and all the rest similar
- programs - it's that magic thing called configurability!
- Have you ever seen a typical memory or a disk gauge? They
- have constant window size, constant look and two menu
- options, About and Quit. Even IF (I'm yet to see one) they
- allow you to select the color pens used, the author is
- usually stucked with his/her four-color out-of-dated
- Kludgebench Screen, and is unable too see the world around
- him...
- Well, as I've said, MemoMetri really is configurable...
- You can define pens, you can define window size... And much
- more! And everything via a nice Intuition interface!
-
- USING THE PROGRAM
-
- MemoMetri can be executed via "run" from
- s:Startup-Sequence OR you can alternatively drop it into
- your WBStartup drawer.
- The window has two gauges, one for Chip and one for Fast
- RAM. By default they show the RAM available, but you can
- alternatively tell MemoMetri to display the RAM used.
- OK, now try the menues! "About"... Nothing spectacular.
- "Menufy"... Try it and look at the Tools menu! "Quit" is
- obvious.
- But then, there's the magic: "Preferences"!
-
- KEYCOMMANDS
-
- ESC/q - quit
- s - save prefs (save to envarc: and env:)
- u - use prefs (save to env:)
- m - menufy
- p - open preference window
- a - toggle availwindow on/off
- f - flush memory
- r - reset snapshot value
-
- Keycommands can be used in both windows.
-
-
- THE PREFERENCES WINDOW
-
- Color Pens:
-
- Window background - obvious
- Bar background - yep
- Bar fill - the same
- AvailW background - SEE BELOW!
- AvailW text - SEE BELOW!
-
- Easy! Just activate an option and point the color you
- want it to be - the MemoMetri window is immediately updated!
-
- Task Priority:
-
- Can be anything within range -127 ... 10. Values higher
- than 5 are not recommended. MemoMetri doesn't take much CPU
- time, so specifying 1 as priority makes everybody happy -
- other, priority 0 programs won't interfere (So it's REAL
- TIME) and important system processes/tasks will go on.
-
- Refresh Time:
-
- Time (1/100th seconds) between refreshes, that is, how
- often MemoMetri checks the situation.
-
- Titlebar:
-
- Toggle titlebar on and off.
-
- Avail Window:
-
- MemoMetri can open another window displaying specific
- information about the situation in memory in a similar way
- the C command Avail does. The background and text pens are
- freely definable.
-
- Save, Use, Cancel:
-
- MemoMetri keeps it's config file (MemoPrefs) in ENV: and
- ENVARC: volumes, like the Prefs editors do.
-
- LEGAL
-
- This program is MODWARE. You can freely distribute it as
- long as it stays in it's original package. All rights are
- reserved - you may NOT modify it. And the MODWARE concept
- means, if you like my product, send new hc/trance/techno
- modules to me!
-
-
- THE AUTHOR
-
- Any suggestions, bug reports etc. should be sent to:
-
- Petri Airio
- Itäinenrantakatu 52 D55
- 20810 Turku
- Tel: +358-21-2344110
- Finland
-
-
- HISTORY
-
- v2.0 - Source code tottally rewritten. Added invisible window-
- sizinggadget. Prefswindow redesigned. Flush command
- added.
-
- v1.3 - MANY bugs fixed.
- Key commands and menus now works from availwindow too!
-
- v1.25 - Many bug fixes
- Snapshot function to the avail window. You can reset snapshot
- values by pressing invisible gadget:
-
-
- --------------------------------------------
- |##########################################|
- | Type Available In-Use Largest Used |
- | Chip 621K 402K 616K 5K |
- | Fast 5794K 1886K 5775K 1K |
- | Total 6415K 2288K 5775K 6K |
- | |
- --------------------------------------------
-
-
- Area marked with # = resetgadget
-
-
- v1.21 - Added a invisible window dragging gadgets; now you
- can drag both windows at any point you wish to!
-
- v1.20 - Preference window now work asynchronously with main
- window(s)!
-
- - Following key command added:
-
- ? - show about requester
-
- v1.16 - Bug fix: Did not close the availwindow on menufy!
-
- - Following key commands added:
-
- a - toggle availwindow
- esc - quit
- m - menufy
- p - open preferences window
- s - save settings
- u - use settings
-
- v1.15 - This, first official, release!
-
- v1.0 - You may find it somewhere, however, it was
- accidentally spread and may contain some bugs. It
- has no prefs window; all settings are in menues.
-
- THE FUTURE
-
- - Correct all (?) the bugs!
- - Maybe I should think about people without flickerfixer and
- make the preferences window little bit smaller?
- - Maybe add ability to use tooltypes in Memo's icon
- - Everything YOU ask!
-
- THANKS TO
-
- - Wouter van Oortmerssen for the Amiga E compiler!
- MemoMetri began as an assembler project, but is nowadays
- completely written in E!
-
- - Nuutti Koskinen for intuitive ideas and this document!
-