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ICFS - What's that? June 13, 1994
Since version 1.07, Atari's MultiTOS has a new feature, called
"iconify". It means that you can shrink a window down to the size of
an icon (hence the name). A very useful feature since it enables you
to get windows out of the way if you don't need the program (which
they belong to) at the moment. With a click on such a shrinked window
it regains it's original size and place.
Unfortunately, all MultiTOS versions haveing this feature are not
available for the general public at this moment in time. Apart from
that, it would be nice to have this feature with SingleTOS and Mag!X,
too. It would be no problem, implementing a similar solution in an
application. But if more than one program does this, the place of the
shrinked windows must be coordinated between them - and that's exactly
what ICFS does (ICFS stands for "IConiFy Server").
MultiTOS places the shrinked windows on the lower edge of the screen,
starting in the lower left corner, going left to right and up. This is
therefore the default method used by ICFS. Use ICFS.CPX to change this
behaviour.
Installation
Copy ICFS.PRG into your AUTO folder and reboot. That's all.
ICFS installs a cookie, with which programs can get a position for
their shrinked windows. ICFS does not allocate any processor time
since it is not installed in any traps or vectors. The use of ICFS
should not cause any problems since it is only called by programms
which are aware of it.
How do I use this?
To iconify a window, click on the window's closer and hold down one of
the following keys:
[Alternate] - shrink a single window
[Control] - shrink all windows to one
[Shift] - shrink all windows, one by one
This must be supported by the program, otherwise it won't work!
Which programs support ICFS?
At this moment in time the following programs support ICFS (as of
June 13, 1994; please connect me if you have any corrections)
programm version type author
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Chatwin 3.01 shell Dirk Haun @ WI2
IconMan 0.63 icon utility Dirk Haun @ WI2
Kandinsky 1.69 drawing prg. Ulrich Rossgoderer @ M
ObjectGEM 1.11 PP lib Thomas Much @ KA2
SysGEM 1.10 PC/PP lib Andreas Pietsch @ WI2
SysInfo 2.10 system info Thorsten Bergner @ B
Windoze PL 0 PC lib Dirk Haun @ WI2
XAcc-Spy 25.03.94 XACC utility Thomas Much @ KA2
Yukon Rel. D cards game Dirk Haun @ WI2
Zeig's mir 0.22 file viewer Reiner Rosin @ WI2
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(PC: Pure C, PP: Pure Pascal; e-mail adresses: MausNet)
Who's responsible for all this?
Nobody, since you use this software (as any other) at your own risk.
The original idea however is by
Rosin Datentechnik
Reiner Rosin
Peter-Spahn-Str. 4
D-65375 Oestrich-Winkel
Germany
Telefon 06723 4978 Fax 7190
email Reiner Rosin @ WI2 (MausNet) / Reiner_Rosin@wi2.maus.de
whereas the program ICFS and this text were written by
Dirk Haun
Europastr. 8
D-64569 Nauheim
Germany
e-mail: Dirk Haun @ WI2 (MausNet)
ICFS is freeware. You are allowed to include ICFS into your own
software. If you only include part of the package please make sure
that this includes at least ICFS.PRG and ICFS.TXT (or ICFS.ENG).