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PublicManager V1.4
© 1993 by Michael Watzl
freely distributable as long as no profit is made with this
program and all documents are included to the distribution.
If you want to use this program as a part of a commercial
distribution you have to ask me first!
PublicManager is written with SAS/C 6.2
>OS 2.04 only!
Read this fictive interview and you know everything about
PublicManager or simply skip it.
User: What does your new PublicManager do?
Mike: Well, the PublicManager makes it easy to work with public
screens.
User: Hey, Mike! There are already tools which handle public
screens like PSX.
Mike: Yes, there are. But none of them has its own menu, in
which the user can configure nearly everything which is
possible.
User: Ok. But do you really need such a tool. I mean - it just
opens a screen and "shanghai"s around if you want, and you
may make some programs open their windows on this screen.
Isn't it a litte bit USELESS?!
Mike: Well, I don't think so. Look, if you use the new features of
Kickstart 2.0 like other fonts, new displaymodes, and and
and, a lot of programs, tools and utilities do not support
the new features: their GUI (graphical user interface) looks
awful or they just won't open another screen than PAL:HIRES
(flicker, flicker). Now you can use bigger fonts in WB, and
open a PublicManager-Screen with topaz 8 font (maybe in
productivity or ntsc:hires) grabbing all the applications
windows that wanted to open on the Workbench. Your Workbench
remains clean AND the tool's window is ok. But this is only
one aspekt: with PublicManager V1.4 you can also configure a
tools-menu.
User: Ok, ok. But there are much better tools allowing me to
configure my menus like the great ToolManager V2.0.
Mike: Yes, you are right. But it wasn't my intention to write
program like the toolmanager. The original intention was to
create a utility which makes it easy for everyone to handle
public screens and the toolsmenu is just a useful "goodie".
User: Yeah, let's try it out!
Well, maybe I'll write a little letter with bug reports,
suggestions, congratulations, ...
---------------------------------------------------------------------
A short walk through the menus:
1. Project:
===========
Update Screen
Tries to close the public screen and reopen it.
This is only possible when no visitor windows are on the screen.
Update Modes
Since there are other tools modifying the public screen flags and
probably setting another default public screen you can update your
selected modes. The modes shown by the checkmarks in the public
mode window are used.
Toggle Workbench
Tries to close the workbench screen. This will save chip memory.
(Works only if there are no application windows on the wb screen)
About
Some information about the author, the number of visitors on this
screen, ...
Save Prefs
Saves the selected options as 'Publicmanager.prefs' in the home
directory of the main program. PublicManager no longer should be
started from workbench.
Quit
Closes the screen and exits.
This is only possible if there is no other window on this screen.
2. Preferences
==============
Public Modes...
---------------
Opens a window with 3 checkbox gadgets.
- Default Publicscreen
If selected it makes the PublicManager screen to the
default public screen. If not the workbench screen
will be the default public screen.
- Pop publicscreen to front
Sets the POPPUBSCREEN flag. This means that the public
screen will be brought to front if a window opens on it.
- Shanghai
Sets the SHANGHAI flag. All the windows (like shell window,
application windows which would open on wb, ...) will appear
on the default public screen.
Public Name...
--------------
Here you can specify the public screen name. With this name you
can force windows to open on this screen although the shanghai flag
is not set, e.g. 'NewShell CON:0/0/640/200/PublicShell/SCREEN<name>'
Palette...
----------
Opens a palette requester.
Screenmode...
-------------
Opens the screenmode requester (lores is no longer supported).
Font...
-------
Opens the font requester.
Menus...
--------
Opens the Menu configuration window.
(See below)
3. Configuring the Menus
========================
a) Menus (left side)
--------------------
Gadgets:
--------
New Creates a new menu named 'new menu'.
Edit Opens the 'edit menu' window.
(the window can also be opened by doubleclicking
a menu name)
Up Moves the active menu one step upwards (if possible).
Down Moves the active menu one step downwards (if possible).
Remove Removes the active menu.
Sort Sorts the list of menus.
Edit window:
------------
Name Here you can edit the menu title.
Disable If selected the menu (and all the items) appear
disabled (ghosted).
b) Items
--------
Gadgets: (also accessable via SHIFT + underscored key)
--------
New to Sort is the same as above.
Barlabel Appends a barlabel to the items list.
Edit window:
------------
Alias The name which will appear in the menu.
Name string gadget:
Name can be manually edited.
button gadget:
Opens a file requester. If a file has
been selected the filepart will be used
for the alias and name gadget; the
path will be used for the driectory.
If there is an icon the stack will also
be set to this value.
Directory string gadget:
Directory can be manually edited.
button gadget:
Opens a directory requester. The selected
directory name will be copied to the
string gadget.
Arguments Here you can insert special arguments for this
application.
Example:
Name: Newshell
Args: CON:0/0/640/200/SpecialShell
Disabled If selected the application's name will appear
ghosted in the menu.
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CHANGES:
V1.2 First release as FD.
V1.3 Internal revision:
- Editing tools with GUI
- Configuration via tooltypes dropped
Now it I use a .prefs file in the current
directory.
- Internal changes (lots of work...)
V1.4 BIG rewirte:
- Only dynamically handled lists
- Packer (ByteRun0) for configuration files
(Don't like saving 000000000000...)
- No more Enforcer hits (I hope so :-) )
- More than one menu supported
- Easy to use configuration via GUI
- 'Toggle Workbench' added
TODO:
- Patching the OpenWindow / OpenWindowTagList
for local shanghais.
It nearly works but it is not yet usable.
What it does:
Shanghais windows by name
- Backgroud graphic...
-----------------------------------------------------------------
If you find this tool useful, be happy. If you don't, throw it
away. If you find any bugs or if you have any suggestions for the
next version please let me know.
Michael Watzl
Konradstr. 11
W-8850 Donauwörth
Germany
Tel.: (Germany) 0906 / 5834
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