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- !Help file for FontRun
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- verson 1.01 (26-Apr-95)
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- © Andrew Ayre 1995
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- INTRODUCTION...
-
- When FontRun is added to your boot sequence, it allows you to choose when
- resetting your machine, whether to boot your font folders or not by pressing
- a hotkey.
-
- RUNNING...
-
- If FontRun is double-clicked on (ie. run), then it will boot any font
- folders that it has been told about. To configure FontRun, double-click on
- the icon while holding down the right Alt key.
-
- FontRun will load onto the iconbar. Clicking on the icon brings up the
- main window.
-
- CONFIGURING...
-
- Drop your font folders onto the 'drop box' in the configure window (it
- is at the top).
-
- To remove a font folder, click on 'Remove' and choose the folder name from
- the menu.
-
- Note: font folders must be applications with a '!Boot' file, ie. a
- standard font folder as supplied with RISC OS 2 and 3.
-
- To set the hotkey, click on 'Change' and press the hotkey. Most keys on
- the keyboard can be used. There are a few exceptions, and these won't do
- anything when pressed. Most noticeably, you can't use the right Alt, as this
- will load FontRun in if pressed when resetting.
- If the hotkey is ok to use, then it will appear in the cream box.
-
- When everything is set up, then click on 'OK'. This will save a file
- called 'Folders' inside the application directory.
-
- If you want to ignore the changes that you have made, then quit FontRun in
- the ususal way from the iconbar menu.
-
- ADDING TO BOOT SEQUENCE...
-
- In the file that you run when your machine is reset, remove the lines that
- read something like:
-
- Run idefs::4.$.Fonts.!Fonts1.!Boot
-
- and replace with a single line that runs FontRun.
-
- Now, when you reset your machine, nothing should happen. But if you reset
- your machine and hold down the hotkey until the desktop appears, then you
- should find that you have no fonts, or only the ROM fonts.
-
- RUNNING FROM READ-ONLY MEDIA...
-
- It maybe desirable to run FontRun from an enviroment which is read only,
- such as an archive. To enable this to be possible, you can change the place
- that the 'Folders' file is saved to.
-
- In the !Run file there is a line that reads:
-
- Set FontRunRes$Dir <Obey$Dir>
-
- Change this line to specifiy the location, ie:
-
- Set FontRunRes$Dir idefs::Andy.$.Temp
-
- or for saving in !Scrap:
-
- Set FontRunRes$Dir <Wimp$ScrapDir>
-
- EPILOGUE...
-
- This application was written using the DrWimp desktop programming system,
- which was written by me. It is included with the system, but with the source
- code, which is fully commented.
-
- For more information contact me at:
-
- Andrew Ayre
- 24 Skirbeck Road,
- Gillshill Road,
- Hull.
- East Yorkshire
- HU8 0HR
-
- E-mail: A.J.Ayre@e-eng.hull.ac.uk
-
- DrWimp can also be obtained from the DataFile PD library.
-
- CREDITS...
-
- Thanx to Jon Noble for testing FontRun on his RiscPC, and for adding the
- instalation instructions for RiscPCs.
-
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- This software may be freely copied as long as none of the files are altered
- or tampered with, and no profit is made. The files may not be distributed
- seperately.
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