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- +--------------+ v0.03 (23-Aug-1994)
- | The Bin! |
- +--------------+
- by Andrew Hunter
-
- The storyline...
-
- OK, to be completely ridiculous, here is the story behind the bin...
- It all started oot onna PC (one of them things) an' I 'ad got this 'ere
- bin proggy off some mag disc or other. It was shareware... £10 for a
- bin with non-pretty grafix, an' which was to much boffa to use.
- (File manager is useless... an' merkysoft will never get the whole idea
- of drag-an-drop). So... I found an arc version. It was a module. 64K,
- but it did 'ave a really pretty animation sequence. Still, the bin itself
- wos still ugly. So I did some grafix, an' then I wrote this. Thankyou.
- A little later on, I wrote v0.02.
-
- Instructions for dummies
-
- So, you have a huge ol' pile of files full o' rubbish. Simply drag 'em to
- this 'ere bin. If you do sommink stoopid, and delete a file ya want, open
- the bin (by clicking on it, u fool), and drag it out again. And when it
- gets too full, use da menu to empty it!!
-
- Cor, good innit?
-
- Copee it outta the archive first and stick it somewhere where there is
- read & write access.
-
- Yes, this is A. PD, and B. It ain't my fault if you lose any data through
- using this proggy... you see, thats the idea, innit?
-
- Copying:
- U may freely copy this proggy so long as all files within the !Bin directory
- are kept intact and not altered in any way. U may also install this on a
- network, if ya want.
-
- Fer you tekkies out there, here are the all-new, all-singing (ok,
- bog-flushing), all-dancing (?) feetures:
-
- Thees thingmes are got at through that there options sub-menu. You've
- got yer Sound FX option, which does the bog-flush when you empty da trash.
- More exciting is the Confirm Deletion, which you nervous peeple might wanna
- turn on. Fer you Mac-Fans, or peeple who hate da icon bar, choose Sit on
- backdrop... it doesnee seem to do nofink, but you just try draggin' that
- icon. Fer those peeple who canne be bothered to click Empty Trash and are
- thusly getting a small landfill site on their hard disc, try choosin'
- Auto-Delete. Finally, for you peeple who like to do other things while
- the compoota chucks out yer rubbish, choose Multi-task, which uses the
- FilerAction module. If ya think everythings setup to your perfect
- satisfaction, choose Save, or if ya jus' wanna try, choose OK or,
- if ya think ya've made a fool of yerself, choose Cancel.
- Phew! Wiv all them noo feetures, there must be a buglet somewhere...
- Oh, yeah, I wonder if anyones gotta better sample, 'cause I don't have a
- sampler.
-
- Even moor noo feetures...
-
- Roight. You can now have the ootline fonts in der menus and template...
- open up the directory, an' copy the file 'Fonts' over 'Templates'.
- Load up !Bin agin and marvel. There is a Merkysoft-style feeture here:
- if you change from a square-pixel mode (31,20,9 (9??), etc), to a
- rectangular pixel mode (12,35,40,39,etc) the fonts don't update. See
- feetures below for the pathetic excuse. You can change the name from
- 'Trash' to 'Bin' or whatever using the options menu, an' to top it off,
- I've added a 'Lock' function. Ooh, yes... ya can also set it not to copy
- stuff to the binned directorie, jus' ta delete it, an' click adjust ta
- bring up the options window.
-
- Some techn'cle stoof:
-
- Feetures:
-
- 1. Uses only 32k
- 2. Pretty sprites
- 3. Written in BASIC (that's not a bug... it's a feeture)
- 4. Multi-tasking deletion
- 5. Can be made Mac-style, or Arc-style, via stylish dragging
- 6. Auto-delete
- 7. Sound FX!
- 8. Now... All new improved... Hi-rez sprites
- 9. Animation option... that doesnee work!
-
- Feetures as in boogs:
-
- 1. The fonts don't change wiv the mode... this is far, far, far, far
- too difficult to implement. Acorn please note fer RISC OS 4/3.60...
- WE NEED A NOO SWI CALL - Wimp_ReBindHandles p'haps?
- 2. Me speeling.
-
- Feetures for the next release:
-
- 1. Rewriting it into a module (still...)
- 2. Delete old files.
- 3. That animation fing.
-
- Tryin' yer own sample
-
- Roight, get yer FX module (if it ain't a module, yoose something like
- !SampConv to make it one.), take a backup of the !Bin applic, an' copy
- it as 'FX' inside the directorie (if ya don't know how to do that, it's
- SHIFT+Double-click it...). Then, load the !RunImage file inta !Edit or
- sommink, and look at the section of variables YOU can change (its roight
- at the beginning, dummy). Change the string in quotes in modname$ to
- wotever the module shows as when ya type *MODULES. Change voicename$ to
- the name that appears when you type *VOICES (at the command prompt,
- y'know). The numbers followin' pitch% & freq% specify 'ow fast it goes.
- Fiddle with 'em until it sound roight. Maximum values are 255, by the way.
- voicelength% is the length of time the voice lasts, in centiseconds.
- It probably isn't wise to alter anything beyond here, so don't. Save it
- and run it. If ya did it wrong yool get an error, and if ya did it roight,
- yool get a noo noise.
-
- Other pieces of programming by me:
-
- !SPFont - a simple font loading speed up type of thing - RISC OS 3 only
- !Back - a nice ol' shareware backdrop utility... wiv virtual desktop,
- and lots more. Ooh, yes, it supports outline fonts and some nice
- keyboard shortcuts to make desktop navigation that much easier
- Libstore - Unoriginally titled BASIC library fer beginners & experts
- at WIMP programmin'. Comes with tutorial fer total beginners and
- an indexing program fer experts.
-
- Coming soon:
-
- !KeyTask - Pretty bloomin' good keyboard shortcut adder, plus manages
- tasks in a grafical way and has 'task hiding'. Get it to find out wot
- that does. Probably gonna be released as shareware.
- !Cophy - put a cophy mug on your desktop!
- PreEmpt - pre-emptive multi-tasking module! Cor! C proggies/assembly
- language only, fer the moment, sorry BASIC peeple...
-
- History:
-
- v0.01 - the original and still, erm, the best.
- v0.02 - so many noo feetures that I can't be bothered to count 'em:
- multi-tasking deletes, etc.
- Sound FX (bogflush)
- Options window
- Mac-style sit on backdrop, or Arc-style sit on iconbar (you choose).
- Auto-delete on startup (optional)
- Confirmation of deletion made optional,
- Bug fixes,
- Hi-rez and B&W sprites added
- Animation option added but not implemented yet.
- v0.03 - one or two noo feetures...
- Fonts (wiv a feeture/boog/wotever...)
- Option to turn off move files to temp. dir.
- Ability to change name on backdrop.
-
- Contacting me:
-
- Contact me on Arcade, as 'Ahunter', or at:
-
- 18 Warren Close,
- Elmswell,
- Bury St. Edmunds,
- Suffolk.
-
- Send any suggestions, improvements, bugs, demands, or wotever to me.
-