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- Why Surveyor? When I made pcopy, I arranged gadgets and texts in
- the windows by trial and error. I even used a ruler and
- calculator. It took a lot of time. The making of surveyor took
- very much more, but ok, here it is.
-
- Surveyor is a window that is exactly large enough to display some
- data about the pointer. It always appears on the frontmost screen.
- At the moment that another screen becomes frontmost, the window
- will be closed and reopened on the new screen. It takes the
- screen's properties. The window also becomes frontmost.
-
- In the window below the 'A', the absolute position of the pointer
- on the screen is displayed. Below the 'R', the position of the pointer
- relative to a selected point is shown. The numbers are expressed
- in the screen's resolution. The color represents the value as
- composed by the bit planes the screen is built from.
-
- Due to the sprite characteristics of the pointer, it is always
- displayed in low resolution. With this, you cannot position things
- accurately. Therefore, if you press the menubutton inside surveyor's
- window, the pointer is replaced by a single dot in the screen's
- resolution. This dot color-cycles to be visible everywhere. Also,
- to make positioning easier, the mousespeed is slowed down to the
- lowest speed available in preferences. (I wanted it slower (8) but
- that went wrong.)
-
- When a window is opened, the relative point is always in the
- upperleftmost corner of the screen. The dot becomes visible when
- the menubutton is pushed. If you now press the selectbutton (the
- menubutton still down), then the relative point is moved to the
- present pointer position.
-
- The 'Q' is the close-gadget. (The default was not constant
- enough in its size at different resolutions).
-
- The best way to use is: "run surveyor", and then start the
- target program. If this opens a screen of its own, you'd better
- stop surveyor before the target program. Surveyor will not close
- a window on a non-existing screen, so if the screen is gone
- before surveyor, the window's memory is lost. This costs about
- 600 bytes. The in depth switching of screens causes no
- problems. If surveyor does not succeed in opening a window, then
- it will terminate.
-
- I like to receive mail, so if you have anything to report..
-
- Dirk Reisig
- Woudweeren 10
- 1151 AV Broek in Waterland
- Nederland (or Holland if you like)
-