OmegaWindow is a mouse-free window manipulating and application managing program for Apple® Macintosh™. OmegaWindow provides keyboard shortcuts for things that normally have to be done using the mouse. The heart of the OmegaWindow package is a system extension (OmegaWindow INIT). The package also includes an application for customizing OmegaWindow’s features. Currently OmegaWindow has the following features implemented using keyboard shortcuts:
The main OmegaWindow has the three items shown below below.
(1) Just drag and drop the “OmegaWindow INIT” on your system folder icon.
(2) Press the OK button if the Finder notifies you that the “OmegaWindow INIT” should be in the Extensions folder.
(3) Restart your Mac.
(4) You can put the OmegaWindow application any place you like. Double-click “OmegaWindow” application to set up your personalized command shortcuts.
(5) After you finish setting up your command shortcuts, you can quit “OmegaWindow” application if you want.
(5) You can then use your keyboard commands.
• You can try OmegaWindow for 30 days of free trial period. After the period, you must register your copy of OmegaWindow if you want to keep using it.
I must warn you that your personalized command settings will only last 30 days but you can disable this initialization by registering your version of OmegaWindow.
Compatibility problem
Before using OmegaWindow’s feature to any application you haven’ t tested with, please make sure that they are compatible with your application. This will prevent you from loosing a significant amount of your work.
Copyright notice
OmegaWindow is shareware and is Copyright 1993-1995 by Hyo E. Ahn. Unregistered copies of OmegaWindow can be distributed freely through the internet archives, BBSs, users’ groups and the like, provided there is no charge except for reasonable usage and/or duplication fees. Registered copies of OmegaWindow should never be distributed under any circumstances. It is prohibited to distribute the OmegaWindow package for a profit without written permission from author.
Registration
Registration fee for a single copy is $20.
If you are a student, the fee is $10.
To register your copy of OmegaWindow, you can do one of the following: pull down the “Registration” menu from the OmegaWindow application and select the “About registration” menu item, and then press the “Print registration form” button, or use the form found at the end of this document.
Bugs
If you find bugs, have comments, or want to see any new features added to OmegaWindow, please report it to me by E-Mail (Internet: ow@shreddin-fx.atdiv.lanl.gov, CompuServe: 102202,2337, America Online: HyoEAhn) or by regular mail (Hyo E. Ahn, 1259 Cheyenne St, Los Alamos, NM 87544, U.S.A.). Thanks.
New features and bugs fixes:
Version 1.41 (7/18/95)
• Spinning cursor implementation for the version 1.4 brought a bug with it. When you open "OmegaWindow" application, you may see your Mac get freezed after the stop of a spinning cursor. This problem is fixed in this version.
Version 1.4 (7/11/95)
• Implement a spinning cursor for OmegaWindow application in the beginning (Thanks to Geoffrey Meissner for asking this feature).
• GetAnyApp command now works well with both After Dark 3.0 and Japanese system extensions (in-ra-in tsu-i-ka ki-noh).
• Now window will never be under the tool bar in the following applications when you are executing a window changing command: Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and Word Perfect.
• Window setting conflict with Netscape 1.1N is eliminated.
• Window setting problem with 4th Dimension is solved.
• You don't need to have a editor to read OmegaWindow User’s Guide which is given as an application.
Version 1.3 (1/24/95)
• Now OmegaWindow works well with WindowShade of System 7.5.
Version 1.2 (7/10/94)
• Now You can switch to any application through a pop-up box (Thanks to Frank Holcomb for asking this feature).
• OmegaWindow now supports multiple monitors (Thanks to Lars Oestreicher for beta testing).
• The keyboard shortcuts support both numeric keypad and extended keyboard.
• Three new shortcuts added to simulate the system menu (Hide front application, Hide Others, and Show All).
Version 1.1 (5/1/94)
• Initialization time is extend from one week to two months.
• All of buttons and check boxes are changed to 3D.
• Default setting changed not to hide other applications automatically.
• Memory problem occuring on a monitor with more than 256 colors eliminated. Now you don't need to give more memory on OmegaWindow application when you are using a monitor with thousands or more colors.
Version 1.05 (3/14/94)
• Now you can move and resize a window with no zoom box (i.e., a window with both a title bar and a size box). If a window has a title bar only, then it will move to the presetted position and no resizing of the window will occur.
• You can move and close desk accessories.
• You can move and close control panels.
• OmegaWindow application has a problem of updating Omegawindow I or II when both OmegaWindow I and OmegaWindow II are opened and one of the windows is selected by clicking on the title bar from other application. This problem is eliminated now.
Version 1.04 (2/14/94)
• You can move and resize the windows of Microsoft Word™ and MacDraw Pro™.
• Some problems with WorldScript II are solved.
Version 1.03 (1/11/94)
• Version 1.02 introduced a critical bug which have the system to crash frequently. It also made the customized settings from OmegaWindow application not to work until the Mac gets restarted. All these problems are corrected in version 1.03.
Version 1.02 (11/21/93)
• Fixed a bus error occuring in II FX.
• OmegaWindow now works well with WordPerfect™ 3.0.
• Now you can move and resize the windows of Microsoft Excel™ and VersaTerm Pro™.
Version 1.01 (10/22/93)
• Fixed the bus error: When a user open the omega window application to modify some things, it will not open and says an error of type 1 occurred. Then if the user try to open it again, it says that the INIT is not installed.
• Fixed the problem of not quitting an application after selecting “Shut Down” or “Restart” from the special menu.
• The problem of slowing down Microsoft® Excel™ solved. You can now use OmegaWindow shortcuts at Excel™ with 32-bit mode turned on.
• OmegaWindow shortcuts now work on WordPerfect™ with 32-bit mode turned on.