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| \|(_) |_(/_|_)(_|(_| Version 2.10 © 1996 Spidersoft
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Credits
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Program Design and Coding by Stuart Marshall, 1996.
Additional Design, Graphics and Templates by Martin Tillman, 1996.
Copyright
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This program is Freeware and is supplied on the understanding
that :-
Any copies made of this application, contain ALL files in the
directory (Including this one).
• It may not be sold for a profit.
• It may not be included on any Public Domain disk costing more
than £2 without prior agreement with Spidersoft.
• It may NOT be included on any CD ROM collection where the price
of the CD is in excess of £15 without prior agreement with
Spidersoft.
• The copyright of Notepad remains with Spidersoft at all times.
Contact Details
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Please use the following contact addresses if required :-
• Spidersoft email spidersoft@argonet.co.uk
snail mail Spidersoft
355 Salterhebble Hill
Halifax
West Yorkshire
HX3 OQA
• Stuart Marshall email d.s.mars@argonet.co.uk
Most BBs's 'Stuart Marshall'
• Martin Tillman email m.tillman@argonet.co.uk
Latest versions of all Spidersoft software should be available on
the World Wide Web. Point your browser at :-
http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/d.s.mars/
Usage
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Notepad is a simple desktop program which allows 99 pages of Notes
to be stored easily.
Loading Notepad is identical to loading any other Risc OS
application, simply double-click it's icon.
Once loaded, the Notepad icon will appear on the left hand side of
the icon bar. Clicking <menu> on this icon shows two menu options.
The first to quit the application, the second showing details about
it.
Clicking <select> over the Notepad icon brings up the main window.
This window is where you type your notes in. There are 9 lines (per
page) available to type in such notes, next to each line is an icon
labelled "abc...". Clicking on this icon with the <select> button
will cause the contents of the corresponding icon to be typed
wherever the caret is located. Clicking <adjust> will do the same,
except a return character (13) will be entered after the text. This
really, is the main purpose of Notepad. Notes can be stored, and
passed to other applications quickly and easily using this method.
A title icon is displayed at the bottom of each page. Here you can
input whatever you like as the title of each page. Next to this is
the Page icon. Typing in a page number (between 1 and 99) followed
by pressing the RETURN key will take you directly to this page.
Finally, at the bottom right of the window are six different forward
and backward icons. These can be used to quickly navigate through
the Notepad. Clicking the leftmost icon always takes you directly to
page 1, whereas the rightmost icon always takes you directly to page
99. The next icons in on each side respectively move forwards /
backwards 10 pages at a time. The inner most icons move forwards /
backwards 1 page at a time.
Clicking <menu> whilst inside the main window brings up a menu
containing 6 choices as follows :-
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: Insert >
: Save >
: Search F4 >
: Delete >
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:Setup... >
:Help... >
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The first menu 'Insert' has 13 different choices. The first nine
perform exactly the same nine functions as the 'abc...' icons on the
main window. These menu options also show the associated hotkey keys
to perform the functions. For example, pressing CTRL SHIFT F2 will
enter the text currently stored in the first line of the current
page. This is extremely useful for fussy applications which keep
closing their windows whenever you move the mouse. It is also often
quicker to use this method rather than use the icons.
Towards the bottom of this menu are four further options, these add
specific text, again at the present caret position. Again, hotkey
combinations can be used to select these options.
The next menu option relates to saving your notepad. The first
option in this menu tree is 'Save Default'. Selecting this option
saves your current notepad file as a file called 'Default' which is
stored within the !Notepad application. This has the advantage that
whenever Notepad is loaded, this file will automatically be loaded
immediately. The second save option brings up the standard Risc OS
save box, dragging the icon to a directory viewer allows you to save
your Notepad file wherever you like.
The final save option allows you to save the currently displayed
page as a standard text file. This may be useful if, for example, you
wish to load the page into another program (for example) Impression -
which would then allow you to print your page.
The third option on the menu tree is the 'Search' option. Following
the arrow for this option brings up a simple Search window. Entering
some text into the Find icon will cause Notepad to search through
each of the 99 pages looking for a match. If a match is found,
Notepad will then display that particular page, and flash the
relevent icon (incase the text you searched for isn't visible) so you
can find it. If this isn't the match you were after (for example if
you were searching for someone's name and you just entered their
first name in the find icon, then you can click the 'Go' icon to
resume the search. Also on the 'Search' window is an option to
ignore or match the case. This be toggled by either clicking the icon
or by pressing CTRL + C.
The fourth option on the menu tree allows you to either delete the
current page, or the entire Notepad. This should be straight forward
enough to use.
Selecting the fifth option 'Setup...' brings up another window.
This window is where the way in which Notepad functions can be
somewhat customised.
On the Configuration window there are two sets of options. The
first six options are global. This means that they are stored within
Notepad itself and take effect on any Notepad file you might load.
The final two options are individual to each Notepad you save.
The global options perform functions as follows :-
'Load Default File' : If this option is selected then
whenever Notepad is loaded it will
attempt to load the Default file stored
within it.
'Save Default on Quit' : If this option is selected then
Notepad will save the Default file
whenever it is closed down.
'Justify Caret to Right' : If this option is selected then the
caret will always be positioned to the
right of any text in the current icon.
This can be extremely useful if the
text stored exceeds the displayable
limit as whenever the caret moves to
this icon, the text displayed is the
text justified from the right hand side.
'Unsaved File Warning' : If this option is enabled then Notepad
will warn you of any unsaved data if
you exit, or if you try and load another
file.
'Open Main Window' : If this option is selected then Notepad
will always open its main window after it
has been loaded. Note, this option
overrides the option (below) relating to
individual Notepad files.
'Enable Smart Dragging' : If this option is enabled then Notepad
allows you to drag a standard ASCII text
file to any icon on its main window.
Notepad will then attempt to extract the
first line of text from the file and
enter it into the relevent icon.
The Notepad options perform functions as follows :-
'Open Window After Load' If this option is selected, then whenever
the notepad file is loaded, the main window
will open (if it is not already).
'Enable Write to Caret' This option allows you to disable the
text typing functions of Notepad. This
might be necessary if an application you
are using uses the same hotkey combinations
as Notepad.
Also on the Configuration window are three options. 'Save' saves the
current (Global) configuration options. 'Cancel' aborts any changes you
might have made to (any of) the configuration. Finally 'Ok' accepts the
current configuration, but does not save it. This can be mainly used
whenever you change the Notepad choices.
Finally, the last option on the menu tree is 'Help...', this brings up
this file!
That's about it! I hope this application proves useful. If you wish to
send any comments, criticisms, donations you are more than welcome. :-)
One other thing, I'm currently working on a number of filters which will
allow various other file formats to be imported by Notepad. The first of
these (which are present within THIS version) are support for ANT
Internet Suite's Hotlist files. These should be stored within
!InetSuite.Internet.Files.Hotlist
Dragging one to Notepad should allow you to quickly import WWW addresses
into Notepad.
Finally, I would like to give my sincere thanks to Martin Tillman, who
not only encouraged this project from the start, but who contributed
ideas as well as designing most of the superb templates and graphics
which Notepad uses. Thank you.
Please note, this application supports Acorn's !Help application.
Thanks
Stuart Marshall, Spidersoft.