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- AutoCentre Version 1.0 © Copyright 1991 Colin Bell
-
- Background: In Workbench 2.0 you can have your workbench set to any size
- you like. So if you have a Commodore 1950 monitor you will probably want
- to set up a workbench that fills the entire screen (approx 704 wide).
- This is nice because you can fit a lot more on screen. Unfortunately,
- some programs open screens that are only 640 wide and they are aligned
- with the leftedge of the screen so you end up centering them with the
- mouse pointer.
-
- I've been using the CentreScreen Commodity by Stefan Sticht for a few
- weeks (this util centres the frontmost screen when you press a key combo)
- & started getting sick of pressing alt-C every time a program opened a
- 640 wide screen on my 704 wide Workbench.
-
- AutoCentre to the rescue: AutoCentre is a 2.0 only program that wedges
- into the Intuition OpenScreen and OpenScreenTagList Library Vectors
- (in a sensible manner) and attempts to centre any new screen as it is
- opened by adjusting the leftedge parameter in the newscreen structure.
- AutoCentre is not a commodity as I wanted it to be as small as possible
- (plus, I dunno how to make a commodity 8-).) Once run it only uses 248
- bytes of memory and no CPU time. If you run this program with anything
- less than intuition version 37.xx(2.0) it will just exit and say nothing!
- AutoCentre is fully compatible with Centrescreen & it is still useful to
- run Centrescreen as you might pull down the screen with the mouse & find
- that you've thrown it off centre.
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- Usage: Place AutoCentre in the C: directory of your system disk and edit
- your startup-sequence so that it runs Autocentre.
-
- Bugs: Dpaint 3.25 is the only program I have seen so far that does not
- work with AutoCentre but it works fine with Dpaint4 so I will blame
- Dpaint3.25 for the problem. If you do encounter this problem where half of
- the tool window gets cut off just press F10 twice & all will be restored.
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- Legal: AutoCentre is Freely Distributable. No charge apart from nonprofit
- charges may be made for this program.
- This doc file must always be distributed with the program.
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- Contact: Send messages/bug reports/flames to me at Fidonet 3:712/512
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