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!Help file for FontRun
verson 1.01 (26-Apr-95)
© 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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