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- BlocNotes v3.1
- Shareware $10 fee
- © 1994 Roberto Ferorelli
-
- e-mail: mc2068@mclink.it
- -----------------------------------------------
-
- DESCRIPTION
- BlocNotes it's a WB commodity that permits to take some notes.
- When you hit a custom hotkey it opens a window: in that window
- you can insert as much text as you want. All the text will be
- stored, together with a description of the window, in a file, so,
- at startup, all the previously opened windows will be reopened,
- each one with its text.
-
- It's possible to open a great number of windows(in theory there's
- no limit but Intuition can't look at too much windows together).
- For each window you can set the textfont, the size and position
- and some other stuffs(as GADGETLESS or EDITABLE). You can set for
- each thing a default value.
-
- It supports completely the clipboard, so you can copy text from a
- shell to a note-window or viceversa. You can also import or
- export files. All the windows can be closed or completely deleted
- with a simple command.
-
- Every window has simple editing functions, word wrapping and text
- scrolling, so it's not necessary to size the window at its max
- dimensions. You can import text automatically dropping an icon in
- one of the windows.
-
- If you want you can fix a window to a particular public screen, so
- when that public screen is opened, the notewindow appears and when
- the screen is closed the notewindow disappears.
- It is also possible to specify a standard screen where the windows
- will be opened.
-
- INSTALLATION
- The program must be copied to the WBStartup drawer for best use.
- It needs a directory where store all the notes to. You can supply
- the name of this dir specifing it in the tooltype DIRECTORY
- or simply starting the first time the program: it will appear a
- FileRequester and then the name will be stored in the tooltype.
- You can set the hotkey to open a note-window through the tooltype
- NOTEKEY. The default is: NOTEKEY=<CONTROL ESC>.
-
- If you insert the program in the WBStartup drawer and want to
- avoid the disk noises that Blocnotes produces when it searches its
- files while the Workbench is still loading some other program, you
- can use the tooltype DELAY followed by the number of seconds BN
- must wait before accessing the disk: (i.e. DELAY=5 for a 5 seconds
- wait).
-
- USE
- To open a window you must hit the hotkey (NOTEKEY), the window
- will be opened in a standard position; you can then insert text,
- change the position or the size of the window(through gadgets
- or with CONTROL or ALT keys together with mouse button), set a new
- font(through menu), enable or disable Insert-mode(<Ins> key on the
- numeric pad), make the window editable or not, make it gadgetless,
- and even enable or disable the scroll bars.
- Every window has a menu bar and supports the clipboard with
- standard keys:
- <AMIGA+B> toggles <Mark Block Mode>.
- <AMIGA+V> inserts text from the clipboard.
- <AMIGA+C> copies text to the clipboard.
- <AMIGA+X> deletes text and inserts that in the clipboard.
- and also:
- <AMIGA+K> deletes line.
- <AMIGA+L> undeletes line.
- Each change will be stored in a file in the choosen directory.
- With the Import command you can load an external file in the note,
- with the Export one you can save the note in a file.
- The second hotkey(defined with CX_POPKEY and <CONTROL ALT n> for
- default) opens the interface window where you can set all the
- default settings for the new windows.
-
- From the 2.0 version it's possible to make the program open a
- window and import a text automatically. The file of text can be
- in the directory choosen at startup, or can be inserted in this
- dir at any time. Blocnotes uses Notify system to hear of a new
- file in this directory and then load it.
- A possible use it's to "leave out" the icon of the notes-directory
- so leaving an icon of a text file above this one will open a
- window and import the text. The original text files will be left
- untouched or will be deleted depending from the DELETEFILES
- switch.
-
- Another way to import a file in a note-window (it's possible only
- if the window is on the WB Screen) is simply to drag the icon of
- the file in the note-window. Every window is a WB AppWindow.
-
- Every notewindow can be moved in the screen even if it hasn't the
- dragbar(if GADGETLESS), you must simply press the CONTROL key and
- then,with it pressed,press the left mouse button inside the window
- and move the pointer. In a similar way it is possible to size the
- window without using the sizing gadget, the key for sizing is ALT.
-
- The background of the windows is yellow, but if you want a normal
- backcolor you can disable that, specifing tooltype: YELLOWBACK=NO.
- With WB3.0 it uses pen sharing to obtain a light yellow.With older
- versions it searches in the colormaps of screens for the closest
- color to yellow and uses it. So with AmigaOS before version 3.0 is
- suggested to set through WBPalette prefs a yellow color for WB.
-
- If you want to fix a note to the public screen where the window of
- the note is, you have to select the menu item <Fixed Screen>.
- The window will always be opened on that Pubscreen, if it exists,
- or will wait for the screen to be opened. If you set in the GUI
- the <fixed screen> gadget all the new windows will be fixed.
-
- You can also specify a screen, where all the new notes and the
- notes not fixed will be opened, with the SCREEN tooltypes:
- "SCREEN=default" for windows opened on default public screen.
- "SCREEN=<Public screen name>" for windows opened on specified
- pubscreen.
-
- A window can be opened automatically at startup or can be always
- hided. So it's possible to use BlocNotes as a real block of notes.
- Open a window, insert your data, make the window not AutoOpen and
- then hide it. The note will be accessible simply using the BN gui.
-
- *****************************************************
- *****************LIST OF TOOLTYPES*******************
- *****************************************************
- CXPOKEY=<hotkey>
- Hotkey for user interface. (<CONTROL ALT n> is default)
-
- NOTESKEY=<hotkey>
- Hotkey to open a new note. (<CONTROL ESC> is default)
-
- DIRECTORY=<path>
- The directory where the notes will be saved.
- ("NOTES:" is default)
-
- DEFFONTNAME=<fontname>
- DEFFONTSIZE<fontsize>
- The name and the size of the default font.
-
- YELLOWBACK=<YES or NO>
- If actived, the background of the windows will be yellow.
-
- DELETEFILES=<YES or NO>
- If enabled, when you put a file in the Notes directory
- the file is loaded and then deleted(at next startup).
-
- DELAY=<seconds>
- Number of seconds to wait before loading notes.
-
- SCREEN=<screenname>
- The name of publicscreen where the windows will be opened or
- default for default public screen. If omitted->default.
-
- The next are for new windows opened:
-
- FIXEDSCREEN=<YES or NO>
- If YES, the new windows will be fixed to their screen.
-
- INSERT=<YES or NO>
- Insert mode enabled or disabled on new notes.
-
- GADGETLESS=<YES or NO>
- New windows will have gadget or no?
- YES means "no gadget", NO means "with gadget".
-
- WORDWRAP=<YES or NO>
- Enable or disable Wordwrap.
-
- SCROLLER=<YES or NO>
- Enable or disable scrollbars.
-
- *****************************************************
- **********************HISTORY************************
- *****************************************************
-
- Version 1.5: 5-6-94
- First Public Release, rewritten from scratch (the old version
- used simply a CON: window and had no other features).
-
- Changes in version 1.7:
- -> Fixed some bugs.
-
- Changes in version 2.0: 3-10-94
- -> Better selection of blocks, Now it works like the system shell.
- -> Makes use of the locale system. Language supported are english and
- italian(at the moment!).
- -> General cleanup and fixing of minor bugs.
- -> Imports automatically an extern file at startup.
- -> Opens a window and imports a file exactly at the moment the file
- is copied to the directory choosen(NOTIFY).
- -> Every future enhancements will be more simple and files will be
- always compatible with older ones.
-
- Changes in version 2.1:
- -> With wb 3.0 or greater the backs of the windows are yellow, to
- make the windows more in evidence. You can turn off this option
- with the tooltype YELLOWBACK=<YES or NO>.
- -> If you press the left mouse button in a noteWindow while pressing
- the CONTROL key, you can move the window in the screen. It's so
- simplier to use GADGETLESS windows.
- -> Added the DELETEFILES tooltype.Normally if you save a file to the
- notes directory it's loaded in a notewindow and the original file
- is left untouched; with this option active the original file will
- be deleted. (DELETEFILES=<YES or NO>) Default is: not active.
- -> Added the DELAY tooltype to avoid disk noise at startup.
-
- Changes in version 2.2:
- -> Completely rewritten the editing routine. Now act in a way more
- similar to a normal text editor.
- -> Added the delete line function and the undelete line.
- -> Better support of locale with use of national specific chars.
- Removed RLE routine that hit with ASCII-extended chars. Automatic
- conversion routine created.
- -> With DELETEFILES active, BN didn't delete the .info file together
- with the text file, fixed.
-
- Changes in version 2.5:
- -> Added text scroll. Now the cursor is always visible; the text
- scrolls to follow it.
- -> Added scroller gadget to allow viewing of an entire note using
- mouse.
- -> FIXED a probably dangerous bug: when a note was not editable some
- editing function could take to a deadlock.
- -> Added SCROLLER tooltypes to enable or disable window scrollers.
- -> Rewritten CONTROL-dragging routine and added ALT-sizing.
- -> Fixed a problem that showed during passage of text from a window
- to another window through clipboard.
-
- Changes in version 3.0: 14-11-94
- -> Added screen attached windows.
- -> Added FIXEDSCREEN Tooltype.
- -> Added Listview to interface window.
- -> Changed <Hide/Show All> to <Enable/Disable>
- -> Enable(or disable) from Exchange now shows(or hides) all windows.
- -> Yellow background extended to all OS. It searches in the colormap
- of screen the closest color to yellow and uses it.
- -> Added SCREEN Tooltype and gadget.
- -> Added wordwrap mode and tooltype WORDWRAP.
- -> Fixed enforcer hits.
- -> Added AppWindows feature.
-
- Changes in version 3.1: 19-12-94
- -> Added AutoOpen switch. Window can be hided from startup.
- -> Fixed bug in Clipboard functions.
- -> When a window was not editable, selecting the mark block
- function take to a deadlock: fixed.
-
- I think/hope that this one should be the last version!!
- (I didn't study to complete this version.....
- ......not so bad, after all!! ;-)
-
- If you like this program, let me know and...consider registering it!
-
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- If you had any request or want to report a bug or want to register to BN
- you can contact me through:
-
- e-mail: mc2068@mclink.it
-
- or simple mail:
-
- Roberto Ferorelli
- Via Amendola 201/9
- 70126 BARI
- (ITALIA)
-