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!Mode?
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Simon Foster.
21st October 1994.
ver. 2.01
Description
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A Risc PC style mode selector. Well what more can I say,
you've probably seen or heard of it.
How to use it
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Load by double clicking as normal, the icon will then
appear on the iconbar, and depending on how the
preferences are set the palette icon will disappear as
well. The palette utility though is still resident so
any programs that use it will still function.
When run, the application may need to scan the currently
installed modes on your system. This normally happens in
the background, but if you click on the icon with SELECT
or ADJUST, or select PREFERENCES... from the menu, then
the hourglass will appear with a percentage done
indicator. Please be patient the scanning only takes a
few seconds.
Clicking with SELECT or ADJUST on the icon brings up the
Risc PC style mode selector. This operates basically in
the same fashion as the Risc PC one. (I hope) You simply
select the resolution and the number of colours that you
require, click on CHANGE and that mode appears. If when
selecting the number of the colours, the currently
selected resolution is not available in that many
colours, an appropriate resolution will be selected for
you. The same happens when selecting a resolution, if the
number colours isn't available, an appropriate number of
colours will be selected for you.
Clicking with MENU on the icon brings up the following
menu;
+------------------+
| Info ⇨ |
| Mode ⇨ |
| Preferences... |
| Default Palette |
| Quit |
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These options are as follows;
• Info
This displays the standard program information
dialogue box.
• Mode
This allows you to select a mode by entering the mode
number, or selecting from some predefined ones, just
as you would do from the Palette Utility.
• Preferences...
This displays the preferences dialogue box which
allows you to set various aspects of the application.
• Default Palette
This resets the desktop palette to the default, this
would be used when another application changes the
palette.
• Quit
This quits the application, restoring the palette
utility in the process.
The preferences dialogue box provides the following
options;
• Show mode number on iconbar
If this is selected then the current mode number will
be displayed on the icon on the iconbar.
• Re-position window on open
If this is selected then when the icon is clicked on
with either SELECT or ADJUST the mode selector window
appears in the bottom right hand side on the screen.
If not then the mode selector window appears where
is was before when closed.
• Close window on mode change
When the CHANGE button is selected if this option is
set then the mode selector window is closed. If not
then the window remains open after the mode change.
• Remove palette icon
If this is set then the palette utility icon is
removed from the iconbar.
• Show colours
Clicking this brings up a menu of all the different
numbers of colours that are available on the your
system. Beside some or all of them will be ticks,
these indicate that that colour will appear in the
colour selection menu in the mode selector window.
• Show resolutions
This allows you to select which resolutions appear in
resolution selection menu in the mode selector
window.
Six buttons are at the bottom of the preferences window;
• Change Window Position...
This is explained further on.
• Alter Mode Menu...
This is explained further on.
• Reset mode information
This rescans the available modes on your system. This
could be used when any extra modes are added by
loading any modules that add more modes.
• Cancel
Cancels any changes made to the preferences.
• OK
Sets the preferences to the currently selected ones.
• Save
Saves the currently selected preferences. The mode
information for your system is also saved. This
means that when !Mode? is next run it does have to
scan the available modes.
The Change Window Position dialogue box
This allows you to change where the mode selection window
appears on the desktop when to click on the iconbar icon.
There are nine different positions to choose from.
The Alter Mode Menu dialogue box
This allows you to change what is displayed in the
mode submenu on the iconbar menu. In this window there
is a list of 5 entries. The button on the left of each
of them (apart from the last) allows you to edit the
aspects of that entry. The button on the right depicts
whether that entry will be on the menu or not. The last
entry is a special one, this is the one where you can
enter a mode number manually. Clicking on one of the
buttons on the left brings up another dialogue box.
The Alter Mode Entry dialogue box
This allows you to alter the aspects of a menu entry.
• Mode Description
This is the text that appears on the menu.
• Colours & Resolution
This allows you to select the mode by the number of
colours and resolution.
• Mode Number
If you know the mode number, enter it here.
Suggestions
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Please send any suggestions, and dare I say bug reports
on Email to -
u9219587@sys.uea.ac.uk