| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 17 Mar 2001 at 22:51:02 |
| Subject: | Re: <FRAMESET>s again |
Don Cox said,
>>> The Scala-substitute would need a special browser that filled the
>>> display with the page, with no strip of Back/Home/Refresh etc at the
>>> top. That would make a useful Amiga product, if there were BoXeRs or
>>> similar to run it on.
>>
>> Have you used an AACD? :)
> Yes. That comes up in a window without the top bar. On my screen, it is
> about 3/4 the width of the screen,
Drag to full screen and select snapshot fro the settings menu.
> and you still have all the usual
> Amiga window furniture. For kiosk use, you wouldn't want this.
I'm not up on Intuition programming, but I believe it should be
possible to open a window with no Intuition gadgets.
> AACD works quite well but there are some glitches on my usual setup, which
> has the CD on a second Amiga accessed via Envoy.
I've used them on NFS mounted drives, but haven't tried with Envoy.
> I still get the old error message "wrong number of arguments" when the
> "Welcome" starts up,
Old message? No one's told me about it :(
> then an error message from AWeb "cannot open file
> ++>"
That looks like it may be Envoy induced.
> Then there is an AWeb window without frames, headed AACD
> NewsFlash!
That's what you should get. The first time you run Welcome on each AACD,
you get the Newsflash page that details any changes, with a link to the
main page. The next time you run Welcome on that or previous CDs, you go
straight to the main page.
> Selecting "Home Document" from AWeb's menu gives a request for AACD01.
That's unavoidable, the Home document is saved in the prefs, as with any
other browser.
> One thing I don't like about Windows is that CDs have to be "installed".
> You don't know what rubbish is being copied to your hard drive during
> this process. I don't normally run AACDs for the same reason. All kinds
> of changes are being made to the hard drive without any warning. Maybe
> they are all safe, maybe not.
Two executables, three ARexx scripts a prefs file and some MUI bits, the
first time you run the CD. It's not absolutely necessary to copy them,
but not doing so would mean putting a bunch of assigns in Welcome and
requiring you to run it each time. The files are only copied if not
already present, you probably already have most of them.
There is a link in the CD's documentation detailing the changes made,
there's even a commented copy of Welcome for the terminally paranoid.
It's only a DOS script, not an executable, so you can see for yourself
what it does.
Neil
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