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- NAME
- tl - install the Turbo Layers Real Time Window Moving System
- on the Workbench Screen
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- DESCRIPTION
- Intuition is quite a powerful windowing system. However, if you
- try to move a window with the mouse, only an outline box is
- is displayed instead of the entire window. TurboLayers tries its
- best to cure this problem, making use of the Amiga's Blitter chip.
-
-
- INSTALLATION
- Drag the "tl" icon into the WBStartup drawer of your boot partition
- or boot floppy disk, so it will be activated at boot time.
-
- If you don't have a WBStartup drawer, you are probably running
- an ancient version of the operating system, and should upgrade as
- soon as possible. TurboLayers requires at least Kickstart 2.04.
-
-
- NOTES
- · When you move a window, it blocks for a short time before it
- starts moving. This is necessary because the windows which are
- located behind this window need the time for refreshing.
- This time can be controlled by the DELAY tool type. On the A3000,
- a value of 2 is long enough in most cases. However, if you have
- a slower machine or a heavily loaded system, some windows may
- need more time for refreshing, and you may need to increase this
- number.
-
- · While TurboLayers is active, the Workbench screen cannot be closed.
- So if you see the requester "To reset the Workbench screen, please
- close all windows expect drawers", you must close TurboLayers first
- by double-clicking its icon, and then select "Retry" in the
- requester.
-
- · Due to implementation details, you should switch off the
- "AutoScroll" feature in the ScreenMode Preferences program. If
- AutoScroll is switched on, you may encounter a strange effect:
- First pull down the Workbench screen to about half the screen
- height. Now take a window and move it down as far as possible, and
- watch a magic screen appearing behind the "Workbench screen"...
- If you move that window fast enough, it is even possible that the
- WB screen jumps to an invalid position and stays there, and you
- can see some fireworks on the display. Be warned!
-
- · While TurboLayers is active, if you move an icon out of the right
- screen border, it magically appears at the left side. This is
- normal.
-
- · TurboLayers can also be used from the CLI, try "tl ?"
-
- · For you Assembler freaks out there: TurboLayers is written 100% in
- the only language which lets you do this in one afternoon: C!
-
-
- WARNING
- Being a low level hack, TurboLayers plays some nasty tricks with
- the Workbench screen. It may break on new versions of the OS...
- but will it ever become superfluous? ;-)
-
-
- HISTORY
- 26-Jun-91 V1.0 first public release (no Big Agnus/A2024 code yet)
- 02-Jul-91 V1.1 Some input.device deadlock problems removed
- 18-Sep-91 V1.2 Refresh improved, general speedup
-
- AUTHOR
- Christian A. Weber, Bruggerweg 2, CH-8037 Zürich, Switzerland.
-
- Internet: weber@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (preferred)
- weber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch
- UUCP: chris%mighty@cbmswi.commodore.com
- AUGL: Chris Weber
-
- Suggestions and bug reports are welcome.
-
-
- THIS PROGRAM IS IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
- THE AUTHOR IS NOT LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES RELATED TO THE USE
- OR INABILITY TO USE THIS SOFTWARE.
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