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* VirusZ II Preferences 0.90ß *
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As I promised in the last release of VirusZ, I have something totally
new for you: external VirusZ preferences!
Why?
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The main idea was the following: All the setup functions are only
required if the user wants to change something. The rest of the time,
they only use precious memory without reason.
What's new?
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So here they are, the external prefs! As I extracted all the
necessary code from VirusZ, I had an even better idea. Why not create
a nicer GUI for the preferences that offers up-to-date features like
font-sensitivity and locale support (in the future)?
But therefore I needed a totally new window support code, because
everything must be pre-calculated before opening a window. This
finally took me about a month of evening work, but now it's finished.
Why a beta-release?
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I've written about 2000 new lines of assembler code only for the
window management (which is actually even more comfortable to use from
within a program as the old was), so it is likely to have some hidden
bugs that don't appear on my machine. That's why I want to use YOU
(the public) as beta-tester.
I've tested everything on a plain A3000 with Kickstart 40.68/37.175
and it worked fine. Now I want feedback from you if it works with
graphic-cards, weird gadtools-patches or anything else you have
installed on your machine.
My size/position calculation does only depend on some defined sizes
from standard gadtools gadgets, it doesn't use any illegal hacks. So
if it doesn't work properly with any strange 'WB-enhancers', kick them
but not me.
Features
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I don't want to write a full documentation as the prefs are exactly
the same as in VirusZ itself. As this is a beta-release, I haven't
removed the preferences from VirusZ yet, this will happen in the next
releases.
The preferences program is at the moment a stand-alone, it doesn't
communicate with VirusZ. This will be added in the future too.
Future
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If the window management works properly, I will step by step add it to
VirusZ too. This may take some time as I don't have enough at the
moment, but I will do my best.
PS:
Finally I want to apologize for this poor text (in poor English), but
it's very late and I want to release this stuff NOW and not in a week
just because of the documentation...