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Short: V044 - Now with icons for gadgets!
Author: chris.planb@dnet.co.uk (Chris Perver)
Uploader: chris.planb@dnet.co.uk (Chris Perver)
Version: 0.4beta4
Type: text/show
Requires: Kickstart 37+, reqtools.library 37+ included
Replaces: text/show/EvenMore.lha
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_/_/_/_/ _/ _/ _/_/_/_/ _/_/_/ _/ .
_/ _/ _/ : Beta testers:
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_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ ¦: Johan Björnson
_/_/_/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ |¦ Mikael Grahn
___________________________________________ || Per Reidar Verlo
http://planb.thegap.com/ || Dominique Neveu
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ || Tony Hazel
Program : EvenMore || Andrew Holt
Type : Text viewer (Freeware) ||
Version : 0.4beta4 ||
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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WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
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THIS IS A SHORT README FILE! READ THE DOCS FOR THE FULL INFO! THAT'S RIGHT! I
SAID READ THE DOCS BEFORE YOU EVEN THINK ABOUT DISTRIBUTING THIS ARCHIVE IN ANY
FORM!
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 0.4beta4
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o Scroller window allows easier moving about documents.
o AppWindow, AppIcon and AppMenu makes loading files easy. Not only can you
drag files onto them, but also drawers, and a requester will appear!
o Totally font sensitive, and you can select which font to view the text in.
o Tooltypes and preference file(s) for configuring, and you can configure
the settings while EvenMore is running too.
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 Developing 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.
o Bookmarks for remembering positions in the document.
o Quick load listview for loading documents fast.
o Slightly configurable GUI for quick access to features.
o File loading uses AsyncIO for speed.
o Can load multiple files.
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 Uses ReqTools library.
o Can zoom text in or out.
Here are the recent features
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o Replaced some WHILE loops with FOR loops, which may speed them up slightly.
o Tidied up a few Move()'s in scrolling.
o Hopefully speeded things up slightly by checking whether we need to scroll
before calling the procedures to scroll during IDCMP_INTUITICKS.
o Optimised border drawing routine.
o Added Double bevel and Double bevel recess borders to GUI.
o Tidied up window locking.
o Replaced text and string gadgets with icons for gadgets.
o Drew those awful looking icons for the gadgets.
o Wrote preferences for selecting which icons you want for each gadget.
o Wrote Gadgets page in preference window for selecting the icons for the
gadgets, and moved the gadget position preference from the GUI page to this
page.
o Removed one of the gadget rows, and moved the search gadgets onto one row, as
the gadgets now take up far less space.
o Removed the ability to change the preferences from ARexx. It's not really that
useful, and wastes a lot of bytes.
o Now keywords in the preferences need to begin at the first character
otherwise they won't be recognised, to avoid keyword confusion, eg
LOADICON and RELOADICON would be confused.
o Fixed bug were quickload and filetype list couldn't handle huge file paths.
o Renamed border types to more understandable names, and added Wide ridge type
to preferences.
o Split border settings into type and recess settings, with the RECESSBORDERS
keyword.
o Reorganised preference GUI.
o Seperated history of EvenMore into this file, and removed great chunks of the
documents about the preference file help. You shouldn't need to edit the
preference file manually anyway, but it is pretty self explanitory.
o Decided to replace ON and OFF keywords in the preference file with their
numerical equivalents, to save bytes.
o You can now select the fill pens from a palette requester.
o Pressing S will now bring up the search window.
o You can now save some colours of the palette using the CUSTOMPALETTE keyword.
o Added Palette button to the Screen page of the preferences.
o Fixed stupid bug which would cause EasyGUI to freeze before opening a window
on various compilations.
o Drew those lovely MWB icons. All my own work :). (Except the eye in the
search icons).
o Merged the gadget and text offsets and border types into two keywords,
BORDERTYPES and BORDEROFFSETS.
o Now saves the preference file formatted.
o Sorted out the prefernce file loading into its proper order.
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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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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THANX 'N' GREETZ (In no particular order)
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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, lots of suggestions, icons...
Mikael Grahn - Suggestions
Per Reidar Verlo - Lots of suggestions
Damien McKenna - Suggestions
Girish Nath - 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 - EasyGUI and AmigaE help
Ilan Sharoni - Word wrapping help
Marco Talamelli - ReqTools help
Eric Sauvageau - Screenmode help
Victor Ducedre - dclistview EasyGUI plugin
Ralph Wermke - Register EasyGUI plugin
Sven Steiniger - patternStringF, runback code
Will Harwood - GadgetInfo code
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!