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- ClickRead 2.1 by Ray Anderson 3-1-88
-
- ClickRead was designed as a text file reader for the ".doc' files that
- often accompany programs. It was written small enough to fit comfortably
- in your c: directory but still has enough features to make it real easy
- to use. It has a slide gadget (at the bottom of the screen where it belongs)
- for positioning in the text and for paging one screen at a time. It has
- buttons for smooth scrolling up or down, has a simple and intuitive search
- mode, displays the current line number, and as a neat little feature, it can
- "park" itself to uncover the Workbench when you want it to. This "park"
- feature lets you keep the docs for a program close at hand while you work
- with it, but out of the way until you need them with only a click of
- the mouse.
-
-
- Version 2.1 Differences:
-
-
- This version will try to avoid reading non-ascii files. Version 2.0 would
- make no distinction and display garbage if the selected file was not text.
-
- ClickRead now scans the file in memory and removes most unprintable
- characters. These include the escape sequences found in "notepad" type
- files and other common control codes.
-
- Files that contain no linefeeds will now display correctly. The "alt" key
- screen shift from the old version has been removed.
-
- String searches will operate in less than half the time as the old version
- due to some fine tuning of the code.
-
- "Parking" many ClickRead windows on the workbench screen works better now.
- Before, unparking one tiny window would sometimes unpark them all. In this
- version, sliding the windows away so that they do not overlap will prevent
- this.
-
-
-
- Here is how to use ClickRead:
-
-
- LOADING A FILE:
-
-
- From the CLI: Cr [textfilename] [-p]
- (or batch file) The -p option will load the textfile and park immediately.
-
- From Workbench: Select the file to read by clicking once on it's icon,
- and then, while holding down the shift key, click twice
- on the CR icon.
-
- or Double-click the CR icon, and when it opens, it will allow
- you to type in a filename directly.
-
- or You may enter CR as the Default Tool in the icon.info
- file of a text file you use a lot. This way, CR will be
- called just by double-clicking on the text file icon.
- You can also rename CR as anythying you want, More or Less,
- to match the Default Tool of many existing text files.
-
-
- MOVING THROUGH TEXT:
-
-
- You may scroll up or down in the text by clicking on the " U P " or " D N "
- gadgets in the lower right corner of the screen. Moving the slide bar will
- position you at different places in the text quickly, while clicking at
- either end of the gadget frame ( not on the slide bar ) will move up or
- down exactly one screen page.
-
- The "Line" number displayed in the upper right corner corresponds to the
- topmost displayed text line on the screen.
-
-
- SEARCHING:
-
-
- Clicking the " S " button at the lower left of the window will allow you to
- enter a word or phrase to search for. Any spaces before or after the word
- will be a part of the search string, but no distinction is made for capital
- letters. Cr will immediately search downward in the text beginning with the
- line at the top of the screen. If a match is found, the line containing the
- search string is placed at the top of the screen. To keep searching, hold
- down the shift key and click either the " UP " or " DN " buttons to signal
- a direction to search relative to the top line displayed. If no match is
- found the screen will "BEEP" you by flashing yellow. The "UP/DN" buttons
- can be locked into the search mode by releasing the shift key while the
- select-button is still being held down. Every click on the buttons will
- then search in that direction regardless of the shift key. Press the shift
- key to unlock the buttons and they will function normally.
-
-
- PARKING THE WINDOW:
-
-
- Clicking near the top of the window in the titlebar will cause the window to
- shrink tiny and park at the top of the WorkBench screen or the last place
- you moved it to. If there is a file loaded, it's name will be displayed.
- To unpark, click in the lower part of the tiny window.
-
-
-
- PROGRAM EXIT:
-
- Clicking the "close box" in the upper left corner while a text file is loaded
- will clear the file out of memory. It will also display the CR title screen
- and allow you to type in another filename. Notice that the directory path
- you typed in previously is retained. Click once again to exit.
-
-
-
- NOTES:
-
-
- CR opens its main window 1 pixel smaller than the WorkBench screen so that
- you may still slide down the WorkBench screen if you are careful.
-
-
- There are no text "speed up" routines included in the program. You may use
- one of the popular resident type programs such as "BlitzFonts" or "FastFonts"
- with excellent results.
-
-
-
- POLICY:
-
-
- This program is shareware and not public domain. I am asking only five dollars
- for it since it is really a short program. To make things easy on you I am
- including in this arc file a short program that will print out the envelope
- and fill in a check for you. The program is called PayRay5 and has it's own
- docs. Try using Cr to read them.
-
- You may leave comments and bug reports (if any) on Compuserve (76046,2634) or
- Genie (XTH63916).
-
-
- Ray Anderson
- 2380 Ventura
- Walled Lake MI 48088
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