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- T R E X X
-
- Video Toaster ARexx Script Writer
- (complete with an Intuition interface)
-
-
- Copyright 1991 by Kurris (a.k.a. Keith Williams)
- and
- Kludge Code Software
- "If it's a good program, then it MUST be a Kludge!"
-
-
- Version 1.05 Update
- 9/3/91
-
-
-
- - What's new? -
-
- There were too many things being done to v1.04, so I decided that this latest
- fix merited a new version number (even though I never released v1.04 to
- anyone).
-
- First off, some keyboard commands have been added. They are:
-
- Space Auto
- Return Take
- [ Turn on Key on Black
- ] Turn on Key on White
- O Turn off Key mode
- L Load a TRexx Script
- S Save/Generate a TRexx Script
- I Insert
- D Delete
- C Clear
- W Wait
-
- More may be on the way, but I doubt it (yeah, right).
-
-
- Since its inception, there has been a bug in TRexx that caused the Toaster
- Switcher to crash. This occurred when TRexx was called up and then exited
- BEFORE the Switcher was run. I searched and searched for where the problem
- might be, but could never find it (and since it only happened in that one
- instance, I wasn't overly concerned). It didn't help matters any that this
- bug did NOT occur at all under KickStart 2.0.
-
- But today I had the Toaster lock up on exit as well as call up. That annoyed
- me, so I took another look at it. The only part of my code that I had not
- previously modified (for testing purposes) were the Open and CloseLibrary()
- calls, since I ASSUMED that they should work fine (being system calls and
- such).
-
- Well, so much for that. I was opening the MathBase ROM library, never using
- it, and then closing it. For some reason, this seems to have been the problem
- (which, I guess, explains why it never crashed under 2.0: since 2.0 supplies
- a new MathBase).
-
- Now the program works fine, all the time, which is very reassuring to me (and
- should be to anyone using it). Have fun, and I'll TRY to go more than two
- days without updating this stupid thing!
-
- -Keith
-