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- BorderBlank
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- Copyright (c) 1991 by Fabio Rossetti
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- Freely Redistributable Software
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- What you need to run this program.
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- You need an A500,A2000,A2500,A3000* (or later :-) with ECS SuperDenise
- (the 8373 chip ) and OS 2.xx (version 36 or later). Otherwise
- BorderBlank will simply flash the screen and exit.
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- What this program does.
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- Besides the new graphics modes, one of the new features of the ECS
- SuperDenise is the ability to blank one screen's border to black
- instead of using color 0 (the background color) as usual.
- On some multiscan monitors using severe overscan the display looks
- much better with a blanked border. If a 2320 or a 3000's Video Display
- Enhancer is used, blanking the border to black will also eliminate the
- silly flickering line at the top of the screen.
- BorderBlank will alternatively activate and deactivate this option for
- all Intuition screens. You run it the first time, the border goes off,
- you run it a second time and the border comes again and so on.
- You get the idea.
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- How this program is run.
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- BorderBlank can be run both from Workbench and both from the Shell.
- If you are using a Shell, you will need to RUN or to '&' borderblank.
- Usually you will simply drag the BorderBlank icon into the WBStartup
- drawer and leave it there, to have a display with no border at
- startup. Note that the BorderBlank icon must have the ToolType DONOWAIT
- set to behave properly at startup (the icon included has it set).
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- Caveat.
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- BorderBlank is implemented by SetFuction()ing these intuition.library
- functions: OpenWorkbench(); OpenScreen(); OpenScreenTagList(). If you
- happen to have other programs patching the same functions, run BorderBlank
- AFTER these programs. This is because when BorderBlank is called
- every other time to restore the border, the function vectors are restored
- too, so running it before those programs would cause them to have no
- (or very bad..) effects.
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- That's it.
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- BorderBlank is freely redistrutable, but NOT public domain: this means
- you can copy it as much as you like, but only a for a small fee and
- you are not allowed to modify it in any way. You are also prohibited
- to use BorderBlank for any kind of military purposes.
- If you want to send comments,praise,criticism,loathing or just flames,
- you can reach me here, at the extreme borders of cyberspace:
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- Fidonet : Fabio Rossetti, 2:332/109.2
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- Internet: ross@teafi.sublink.org
- Fabio.Rossetti@p2.f109.n332.z2.fidonet.org
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- or you can send snail mail to:
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- Fabio Rossetti
- Via Valdorcia, 22
- FIRENZE I-50127
- ITALY
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