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Short: V0.52 - A nice textviewer
Author: chris.planb@dnet.co.uk (Chris Perver)
Uploader: chris.planb@dnet.co.uk (Chris Perver)
Version: 0.52
Type: text/show
Requires: Kickstart 37+, reqtools.library 37+ included
Replaces: text/show/EvenMore.lha
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_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ .
_/ _/ _/ : Beta testers:
_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/_/ :.
_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ¦: Johan Björnson
_/_/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ |¦ Mikael Grahn
___________________________________________ || Per Reidar Verlo
www.real-ireland.com/evenmore/ || Dominique Neveu
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Program : EvenMore || Andrew Holt
Type : Text viewer (Freeware) || Roland de Herder
Version : 0.52 ||
Code : AmigaE 3.3a ||
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EvenMore ©1996-1998 by Chris Perver ||
ReqTools ©1991-1994 Nico François, ||
©1995-1998 Magnus Holmgren ||
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I am sick of the ugly looking non-proportional text viewers. So I decided to
write my own viewer that would be font-sensitive, and blend in with all your
other nice patches, as so not to spoil the look and feel of your Workbench.
Well I was sick of non-proportional text viewers until I made horizontal
scrolling in this version. Now EvenMore doesn't support proportional fonts. But
IMHO, even though EvenMore isn't as powerful as the rest, it still looks far
nicer than the competition, and is increasing in functionality at every release.
Here are the main features of 0.52
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o Scroller window allows easier moving about documents.
o AppWindow, AppIcon and AppMenu makes opening files easy. Not only can you
drag files onto them, but also drawers, and a requester will appear!
o Totally font sensitive.
o Tooltypes and preference file(s) for configuring settings.
o Can open the window on any public screen and move between them.
o Can create it's own public screen to run on.
o ARexx port for remote control.
o Supports the numeric keypad and mouse movement.
o Very clean and smooth scrolling.
o String and pattern finding functions with search hilighting.
o Bookmarks for remembering positions in the document.
o Quick load listview for opening documents fast.
o Configurable GUI for quick access to features.
o File loading uses AsyncIO for speed.
o Can open multiple files. Up to 1000 files can be stored in memory.
o Help available by pressing the help key.
o Gadget help bubbles.
o User-configurable filetypes, for passing certain files to different programs.
o Uses EasyGUI, the best GUI in the history of the world.
o Can use Asl or ReqTools library for filerequesters.
o Can zoom text in or out.
o Option to save the file.
o Send the file to an editor.
o Print the file.
o Conifurable information bar.
o Execute commands or open a shell on the window.
o XPK compression supported.
o File history menu.
o Locale support.
and more...
Here are the recent features
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o If you switched between files and got the file statistics a number of times,
the statistics wouldn't reset, but kept adding up.
o The palette wouldn't change after you loaded the preferences.
o Removed the name of the current file from the appicon and appmenu.
o EvenMore config file is now a binary file.
o Fixed two bugs in the Add and Copy gadgets in the Quickload window.
o Moved the text offset setting to the GUI page in the preferences.
o The first file wouldn't load from wbargs due to a small bug. Thanks to Thomas
Lorenz for telling me.
o ARexx commands are now checked using a hash table.
o Modified some ARexx commands. Removed LOADPREFS, POSWINDOW, added VIEWFILE,
CURRENTFILE, PRINT, CLOSEALL, renamed GETFULLPATH to GETFILENAME and replaced
APPIFY with ICONIFY.
o Uses ResetMenuStrip() for modifying the currently selected history menuitem
instead of removing and adding the menu again.
o Added %cf and %nf keywords to infobar for current file and number of files
open.
o Decided to remove Soft fade GUI preset.
o Recalculating the GUI should be slightly faster now I am passing rectangle
OBJECTs to procedures instead of 4 coordinates.
o Removed some redundant code in the Appicon/menu/win procedure.
o Fixed bug which caused filerequesters not to recognise directories passed on
to them instead of files, which occured due to the multiple files feature.
o Fixed several Enforcer hits. Forgot to allocate helpfile memory, accidentally
tried to StrLen() a NIL pointer and calculated the text dims of the GUI with
uninitialised variables! (Temporary fix for this one)
o If you tried to load a file named "file" from the current directory, it would
fail because of the argument keyword "FILE".
o Fixed a number of bugs which confused the helpfile with the currently open
file.
o No longer messes about with copying multiple strings into a buffer for the
helpfile. Instead it is copied in one block.
o Running EvenMore with filetype files and textfiles together in the arguments
messed up. Also optimised argument handling.
o Now the file statistics are only calculated if you go to the File page of the
information requester.
o The close file function allowed you to keep closing files even though there
were none open.
o Fixed several bugs in the catalogs.
o Now when you load a file, if EvenMore is already open (With a port name of
EvenMore.1), that EvenMore will be signalled to load the file instead.
o OPEN arexx command can now handle multiple files.
o Changed the way the icon paths are stored in the preference file to save
on the executable size. Now it would be possible with a bit extra
programming, to let the user add his own icons (for launching programs etc),
but I don't think this would be useful for EvenMore.
o Scrolling, searching and getting the file stats should be faster now I am
keeping a list of the length of each line instead of having to find it out
when I want to parse a line.
o Default document settings now support multiple files.
o You can now use the cursor keys to scroll up and down the screen and
quickload listviews.
There are still a few things to be ironed out though. Please read the docs
before you delete as soon as you set your eyes on it.
All hints, tips, examples of code, etc., will be appreciated!
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| URL:[www.real-ireland.com/evenmore/] | ::
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I cannot expect to be able to develop this program much further, as I am a
Christian and believe Jesus Christ will return very soon. If I do not reply to
any mail for months and months, then the development of this program has ceased.
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THANKS
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This archive was put together by:-
Me - Everything :)
Mum & dad - RKRM manuals, Amiga 3000... (you name it, they provided it)
Johan Björnson - AmigaGuide, program icons...
Per Reidar Verlo - Norsk Install script, locale translations
Roland de Herder - Nederlands locale translation
Girish Nath - Program Icons
Without the following people, writing this program would have been virtually
impossible...
Nico François - ReqTools
Magnus Holmgren
Dietmar Eilert - GoldEd
Wouter van Oortmerssen - AmigaE and EasyGUI
J R Hulance - AmigaE and EasyGUI help
Ilan Sharoni - Word wrapping help
Marco Talamelli - ReqTools help
Eric Sauvageau - Screenmode help
Victor Ducedre - dclistview EasyGUI plugin
Ralph Wermke - register EasyGUI plugin
Ali Graham - multitext EasyGUI plugin
Sven Steiniger - patternStringF, runback modules
Will Harwood - gadgetinfo module
A.F.C. - rexxer, localer (www.intercom.it/~fsoft/afc.html)
Piotr Gapiïski - iconifyb module
If you are not listed here and you have helped me produce EvenMore, then I have
probably just forgotten about you :). But don't fear, get in touch and let me
know!