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PublicManager V1.2
© 1992 by Michael Watzl
freely distributable as long as no profit is made with this
program and all documents are included to the distribution.
If you want to use this program as a part of a commercial
distribution you have to ask me first!
PublicManager is written with DICE (thanks Mat!)
>OS 2.04 only!
Read this fictive interview and you know everything about
PublicManager or simply skip it.
User: What does your new PublicManager do?
Mike: Well, the PublicManager makes it easy to work with public
screens.
User: Hey, Mike! There are already tools which handle public
screens like PSX.
Mike: Yes, there are. But none of them has its own menu, in
which the user can configure nearly everything which is
possible.
User: Ok. But do you really need such a tool. I mean - it just
opens a screen and "shanghai"s around if you want, and you
may make some programs open their windows on this screen.
Isn't it a litte bit USELESS?!
Mike: Well, I don't think so. Look, if you use the new features of
Kickstart 2.0 like other fonts, new displaymodes, and and
and, a lot of programs, tools and utilities do not support
the new features: their GUI (graphical user interface) looks
awful or they just won't open another screen than PAL:HIRES
(flicker, flicker). Now you can use bigger fonts in WB, and
open a PublicManager-Screen with topaz 80 font (maybe in
productivity or ntsc:hires) grabbing all the applications
windows that wanted to open on the Workbench. Your Workbench
remains clean AND the tool's window is ok. But this is only
one aspekt: with PublicManager V1.2 you can also configure a
tools-menu. It's a little bit simple at the moment (I will
improve this) but all your importand tools may be started via
the publicscreen's menu!
User: Ok, ok. But there are much better tools allowing me to
configure my menus like the great ToolManager V1.5.
Mike: Yes, you are right. But it wasn't my intention to write
program like the toolmanager. The original intention was to
create a utility which makes it easy for everyone to handle
public screens and the toolsmenu is just a useful "goodie".
User: Yeah, let's try it out!
Well, maybe I'll write a little letter with bug reports,
suggestions, congratulations, ...
WORKBENCH TOOLTYPES:
NAME= The Name of the public screen.
If this screen already exists a "." will be appended
to the name.
DISPLAYID= The displaymode of the screen.
Look at the Wbstartup/modenames file for more info
COLORS= It is much easier to set the colors with the palette
on the public screen and to select "save prefs" than
editing the colors in the tooltype.
The colors are saved in the form RGBRGBRGB...
R, G, B can be from 0 to F, and one RGB builds one
color.
OSCAN= can be NO, TEXT or STANDARD and specifies the overscan
charateristics of your screen.
DEFAULT (Boolean) if this tooltype is given your public screen
will be made to the default public screen.
SHANGHAI Turns the "SHANGHAI" mode on
It will grab any window of an application which wants
to open on the wb and puts it onto the default public
screen
POP Turns on the "POPPUBSCREEN" mode.
If a window opens on a public screen, this screen will
be popped to front.
BACKDROP The public screen window will open as an backdrop
window like the Workbench window.
FONT= WB means the same font like the wb font
TOPAZ topaz.font, size 8
or "anyfont.font,SIZE", e.g. ruby.font,8
You must not use capital letters for the fontnames!
SIZEX= The screens width, if not specified, the standard
values (relating to the selected overscan) are taken.
SIZEY= Height
CONFIG= Full name (including path) of a ascii-file with the
executables that shall appear in the tools menu
A short walk through the menus:
1. Project:
Backdrop
Toggles between a backdrop window and a normal window (like
Backdrop in the Workbench menu).
Update Screnn
Tries to close the public screen and reopen it.
This is only possible when no other windows are on the screen.
Update Modes
Since there are other tools modifying the public screen flags and
probably setting another default public screen you can update your
selected modes. The modes shown by the checkmarks in the menus are
used.
Palette
Opens a palette which allows you to change the color of this
screen. The selected (USE) colors may be saved via "save prefs".
About
Some information about the author, the number of visitors on this
screen, ...
Save Prefs
Saves the selected options as tooltypes. That is the reason why
PublicManager must be started from the Workbench.
Quit
Closes the screen and exits.
This is only possible if there is no other window on this screen.
Preferences
Default PubScreen
Checked means that your public screen was
set to the default public screen.
To ensure that this screen is actually the
default public screen you have to select
"update modes" because any other program (like
PSX) could have been changed this.
Shanghai
Enabels/disables the SHANGHAI-mode. See also at
Workbench tooltypes and above
Pop to front
Enables/disables the POPPUBSCREEN-mode. See
also at Workbench tooltypes and above.
Screenmode
Here you can interactively select the
display mode. Remember that there must not be
any window on the screen if you want to open
a screen with some other characteristics.
Overscan
You can set no overscan, text overscan or
standard overscan. To modify the overscan
size you have to use the workbench preferences.
Depth
You can set the number of colors.
Remember that in any VGA display mode (like
Productivity, Superhires,...) there are only
4 colors allowed.
Font
You can choose between Workbench font, topaz
(the standard font) and any diskfont.
ScreenSize
A requester will appear and ask you for the
desired screen size. You may choose (nearly)
any size. If the selected screen size is bigger
than the overscan your public screen will be
scrollable.
The configuration file:
It is a very simple type of configuration file.
It should look like the following example:
Work:tools/PSX
WB:Utilities/IconEdit
WB:Utilities/Clock
and in the Tools Menu will appear this:
TOOLS
-----
PSX
IconEdit
Clock
If you select any tool now, it will be executed (run >NIL:).
Different forms of starting (like WB-Start) an application are not
yet supported.
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If you find this tool useful, be happy. If you don't, throw it
away. If you find any bugs or if you have any suggestions for the
next version please let me know.
Michael Watzl
Konradstr. 11
W-8850 Donauwörth
Germany
Tel.: (Germany) 0906 / 5834
(sorry, no modem)
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