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- FLIP
- Version 2.0 by Lars Eggert in May 1990
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- About the program
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- Ever had to switch between screens that had no back/front gadgets? Pressing
- ´LeftAmiga´ and ´n´ or ´m´ often does not help. We need a program that can
- switch between screens at any time. We could use ScreenX, but I find it too
- large and too difficult to use quickly.
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- Flip can be the solution. It has several remarkable features:
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- * Flip opens a small window on the screen we are currently working on. We
- just click on the arrow and the next screen appears. Flip opens its
- Window on our new screen and we can either switch again or stay here and
- terminate Flip.
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- * Flip allows us to bring the Workbench to front at any time, from any
- screen with only one simple mouse click.
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- * Flip can close any screen and all Windows on it. Useful to free some
- resources of crashed tasks.
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- * Flip has an unique ability: It can sort the screens, so that the title
- bars of the all screens are visible at one time.
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- * Flip can pull all screens up at one time.
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- * Flip can bring all Windows of a screen to front one after the other.
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- * Flip can be fully used without mouse. Programmers do not have to leave
- the keyboard to use Flip.
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- How to use Flip
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- Just start Flip from Workbench or from CLI.
- The window which will open looks somehow like this:
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- |[ 1 ] TITLEBAR ============= |
- |-------------------------------|
- | |
- |[ 2 ] |-----| |-----||
- | | 7 | | 8 ||
- |[ 3 ] |-----| |-----||
- | |
- |[ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ]|
- | |
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- All gagets are numbered here, to ease explanation:
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- [1] CloseWindow gadget (or use ESC key):
- Terminates Flip.
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- [2] FRONT gadget (or use ´f´ key):
- Brings a new window to front. The Flip window will be the first,
- though.
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- [3] UP gadget (or use ´u´ key):
- Pulls all screens up. Useful after SORTing the screens (look [5]).
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- [4] NUKE gadget (or use ´n´ key):
- Nukes (closes) the active Screen and all windows on it. Be careful!
- This will immediately crash the system if any program wants to use the
- screen for output. USE ONLY IF NO VALUABLE DATA IS IN THE SYSTEM!
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- [5] SORT gadget (or use ´s´ key):
- Sorts all the screens in a way, that all titlebars are visible at one
- time. Useful to get a quick look at all open screens.
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- [6] INFO gadget (or use ´i´ key):
- Displays program information.
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- [7] WB gadget (or use cursor up or down keys):
- Brings Workbench to front no matter what screen is active.
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- [8] NEXT gadget (or use cursor left or right keys):
- Brings the next screen to front.
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- What you should not do with Flip
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- THIS WILL CRASH YOUR SYSTEM FOR SURE:
- * If you nuke a screen while a program is running on it.
- * If you nuke the Workbench.
- * If you nuke a screen if there is only one opened.
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- THIS MAY BE UNHEALTHY TO YOUR SYSTEM:
- * If you close a screen by ending a program if flip has its window open on
- that screen.
- * If you nuke a screen without exactly knowing that no task will use it any
- longer.
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- OTHER RISKS OF USING FLIP:
- * Flipping while some task opens or closes its screen. I do not know
- what will happen, because this never occured to me. But I can imagine it
- could be fatal.
- * Bringing windows on the screens of other programs to front. This may make
- the output of the program unreadable, because it presumes that its windows
- have a certain order.
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- In spite of all those risks I described above, Flip seems to be rather safe.
- It has never crashed since I use it.
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- FLIP is Public Domain. You may copy or swap it as you like. Note that you
- use this program at your own risk. I will not be liable for any damage the
- usage of this program might do to your data. (It never did any damage to my
- own files, but heaven knows...)
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- I would like to get comments and suggestions on how to improve the program.
- Source code is available by sending me a disk and $5 or equivalent amount in
- any other currency.
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- Lars Eggert
- Im Flutgraben 23
- 6337 Leun-Bissenberg
- West Germany
- Phone: 06473 / 1695
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- Hey, if you like to, you can send me some of your programs. But please do not
- send any pirated software. I will use your disk for harddisk backups then.
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