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- NextWindow V2.2 (17-Feb-1995)
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- 1. INTRODUCTION
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- Many people like to work with their keyboard without touching their mouse
- very much. If you are one of them, you have probably noticed that it's hard
- to activate a window without using mouse. The solution is NextWindow.
- You can use it to cycle through the windows in the screen, until you reach
- the window you want to use, without using your mouse. How about this:
- you have loaded your favorite text editor, and have a shell activated in
- another screen and you are doing dirs etc. Then you want to write some
- text with the editor. You of course press Amiga-m and start to write, and
- all the text you wrote, went to the shell. NextWindow also has a hotkey
- for activating the frontmost screen, avoiding this problem.
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- 2. USAGE
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- Please read the Disclaimer-section before installing the program.
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- If you are using workbench, just click on the NextWindow icon, and you're
- ready to go. You can use the tooltypes of the icon to change the hotkeys,
- or to activate options.
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- If you want the activated windows to also pop to front, add the TOFRONT
- tooltype.
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- If you want to skip the backdropped windows (eg. the Workbench if the
- backdrop option is turned on), add the SKIPBACKDROPS tooltype.
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- If you are using cli, just type NextWindow and you're ready to go. Of course,
- you might want to type "run NextWindow", if want to use the shell for
- something else. You can quit the program with ctrl-c. The hotkey is set
- using command line arguments, and you can enter the tooltypes into the
- command line e.g:
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- NextWindow "NEXTHOTKEY=control a"
- NextWindow "PREVHOTKEY=control ." TOFRONT SKIPBACKDROPS
- NextWindow "SCREENHOTKEY=control s" "PREVHOTKEY=lcommand q"
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- NextWindow is a commodity, so you can quit or deactivate it with Exchange or
- anything similiar.
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- The default hotkeys are:
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- NextHotkey "lcommand comma"
- PrevHotkey "lcommand ."
- ScreenHotkey "lcommand l"
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- 3. THE AUTHOR
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- Future plans include a patch for the amiga-m to automatically activate
- the frontmost screen, and remembering the activated windows in each
- screen, so you won't have to start cycling everytime you activate the
- frontmost screen, and bringing the window to front after releasing the
- qualifier key.
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- Many thanks to everyone who has sent me feedback!
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- If you find any bugs, have any ideas, have trouble with the program, want
- to say your opinion on it etc., don't hesitate to contact me by email or
- normal post. You can also get the source code in C or newest version from
- me. Any feedback is welcome!
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- EMail: linna@mits.mdata.fi (the better way)
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- Snail-mail: Heikki Linnakangas (if you can't use E-Mail)
- Porvoonkatu 19 A 25
- 00510 Helsinki
- Finland
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- 4. HISTORY
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- I can't remember the history before 2.1a version very well, and I'm too
- lazy to find out, so I decided to just leave it out. :)
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- --- V2.1a - Made some changes in the documents
- - Fixed a bug with backdrop windows popping up (Thanks Magnus!)
- - There was some debugging information left into the
- executable. Now removed, making the code smaller
- - Changed the default NEXTHOTKEY to "lcommand comma"
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- --- V2.2 - Added SKIPBACKDROPS option
- - I don't know why, but the examples mentioned in the documents
- didn't seem to work. I remember they used to work, though...
- - Made some changes in the documents
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- 5. DISCLAIMER
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- THE AUTHOR IS NOT LIABLE IN ANY WAY FOR ANY DAMAGE ARISING OUT OF
- THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
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- This program is FreeWare. You may use and distribute it unless told to not
- do so by the author. You may charge a nominal fee to recover distribution
- costs. The distribution fee must not exceed 15 FIM or 3 USD + distribution
- expenses. The distribution of an incomplete or changed package is prohibited.
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- You may copy and distribute this package, as long as the contents of the
- package are not changed in any way. The package must include the following
- files:
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- NextWindow 3620 bytes
- NextWindow.info 620 bytes
- NextWindow.doc 4167 bytes
- NextWindow.doc.info 528 bytes
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