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Short: Powerful script based launching tool.
Author: di3andpe@ida.his.se (Anders Persson)
Uploader: di3andpe@ida.his.se (Anders Persson)
Version: 7.0
Type: util/misc
Replaces: util/misc/selector60.lha
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* Description *
Highly configurable launching tool for almost ANY purpose. But
it is not yet another program like toolsdeamon or toolmanager.
Selector serves as a complement to these types of programs. It's
more like a script language.
You can for example make a button panel that follows you from
screen to screen when changing screens. Or a button panel (or menu)
that pops up ANYWHERE when pressing your middle mouse button.
(Or when pressing both mouse buttons together.)
You can make a button for starting a program if it's not allready
open, else just jump to that programs screen. This is very comfortable,
as you allways press the same button to get to the programs screen,
regardless if it's open or not.
You can make a special window only available on (for example) your
word processors screen, with buttons for starting different arexx
scripts for that program.
Selector is a powerful tool to use within shell scripts or to
make a little GUI for your CLI type program. I have for example
made a GUI for GMPlay (mus/midi/GMPlayGUI15.lha on Aminet) using
selector.
The possible use of selector is almost unlimited, yet the syntax
is very simple.
It is really easy to produce a button panel, info window or a little
requester with selector.
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* Requirements *
Selector needs AmigaDos 2.0 or better.
Some of the included examples need AmigaOS 3.0+
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* What's new in Selector 7.0 (980203) **
-With the new "pattern" command, you can use IFF brushes as background
images for buttons and text etc. A bunch of patterns is included.
-New command: "KeepImages", related with the loading of pattern images.
-The Buttons have a new better 3-D look.
-The "Popup" options for the mouse buttons (RMB, LMB, and MMB) does no longer
require lowlevel.library (AmigaOS 3.1). If you have it, then it will be
used. If you don't, then the button states will be read directly from the
hardware. This means that Selector now works fully under AmigaDos2.0+.
-New command: "Columns", as a complement to the "Rows" command.
-New command: "Flow", concerned with in what order the items are placed
in the window.
-New option: "Exec" to replace the old way of starting AmigaDos commands,
and allow syntax checks on the options. But don't worry, your old scripts
will work anyway.
-New command: "CheckOptions", that turns the options syntax checks ON and OFF
-New option: "Run", to replace "run >nil:"
-New option: "ScreenRun", to replace the external bonus tool "psrun".
(psrun is no longer included)
-New options: "Setenv" and "Unsetenv", to use instead of the AmigaDos
commands with the same names.
-The error messages now gives the right line numbers and filenames, even
when you are using includes.
-The "Color" command was extended with the * option. It can now also
be spelled "Colour". The same goes for "darkcolor" and "lightcolor" that now
can be spelled darkcolour and lightcolour.
-Bugfix: The Color command had no effect if it wasn't spelled with only low
case characters.
-Bugfix: The commands didn't get their default values if they were followed
by a comment...
-The "ClosePopup" option is now changed to "PopupClose", to get a better name
connection to the "OnPopupClose" command. But "ClosePopup" is still
available for full compability with old scripts.
-The guide was reworked some, and a new "shortway to your panel" was added.
-New bonus tool: "MagicColors", by Volker Rudolph.
-The copyrights are changed (again). Please read them through!
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* Copyrights *
Selector is Copyrighted (C) 1998 by Anders Persson.
Selector is SHAREWARE!!!
Please read the guide documentation for information about payment and
specific copy- and distribution rights.
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* Also Try *
Aminet: comm/misc/BorayLetter53.lha
Boray Letter, "The king of letter programs". Maybe you
don't know what a letter program is. Well, it was something that
started on the C64. You could use the keyboard to write a message
to your friend, and when he looked at it, it was played in the same
way it was written.... BorayLetter is that, and much more. You can
for example draw lines, wait for a key to be pressed or even
animate and make your own little cartoons!!!
When you for example draw a line in your letter, only the
coordinates for the line are saved to the file. All graphics works
in this way. This leads to an extremely spacesaving fileformat.
For example, the demo letter "Cecdic" contains 4:30 minutes of
cartoons. And it's only 32K big (uncompressed). Yes, it's not even
compressed. If you pack it with SHRINK, it will be 21K, or 24K
with lha.
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* Also Try *
Aminet: mods/boray
My DigiBooster and Protracker music modules.
Why not try the 4 latest:
mods/boray/DayUnknown.lha (DIGI Booster module by Boray 97/12/01)
mods/boray/HELGON.lha (DIGI Booster module by Boray 97/11/02)
mods/boray/PsalmAP2Alt.lha (DIGI Booster module by Boray 97/09/23)
mods/boray/IAmGenerated.lha (DIGI Booster module by Boray 97/09/15)
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* Also Try *
Aminet: mus/midi/GMPlayGUI15.lha
Nice GUI for GMPlay1.3!!! (Made with selector)
Features:
* Play all midi files in a directory in random order.
* Play Next -button (the current playing tune is stopped,
and the next will be played)
* Pause button
* Choose singel file to play
* Alter PlayDir
* Get information about current playing tune
* Options: like Frequence, Priority, Unpacking, Stereo,
filters, font, color and more
* Possibility to save separate options for each midi file.
* Move midi files
* External Play-next command that can be used to get a
Play-next-hotkey
Update Note: You can update GMPlayGUI by copying Selector/Selector
to GMPlayGUI13/Selector
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============================= Archive contents =============================
Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
-------- ------- ----- --------- -------- -------------
1188 539 54.6% 04-Feb-98 14:13:14 Selector.info
434 127 70.7% 14-Jan-98 20:31:16 +ClickMeForColors
4296 1384 67.7% 01-Feb-98 20:40:40 +ClickMeForColors.info
528 199 62.3% 01-Jan-97 17:08:16 +allexamples
67 54 19.4% 25-Apr-96 14:44:30 +arg
42 36 14.2% 25-Apr-96 14:35:38 +arg.sel
97 70 27.8% 26-May-96 20:23:42 +argtest.sel
28 28 0.0% 26-May-96 20:50:04 +argtest2.sel
111 86 22.5% 22-Apr-96 19:16:36 +b1.sel
112 86 23.2% 03-Feb-98 11:49:30 +b2.sel
129 100 22.4% 24-Apr-96 09:52:32 +b3.sel
186 113 39.2% 23-Apr-96 17:42:56 +b4.sel
220 97 55.9% 03-Feb-98 11:50:54 +b5.sel
172 106 38.3% 07-May-97 13:13:46 +bigmess
118 82 30.5% 06-Dec-97 00:37:22 +blank.sel
51 49 3.9% 05-Dec-97 16:30:00 +blanker.sel
148 106 28.3% 27-May-96 12:45:04 +ChArgs.sel
110 92 16.3% 15-Nov-97 14:19:12 +clock.sel
193 140 27.4% 23-Jan-98 19:36:44 +co2
1083 206 80.9% 17-Jan-98 12:45:00 +columns.sel
298 192 35.5% 17-Jan-98 22:57:58 +comeon
44 44 0.0% 25-Apr-96 14:46:30 +confirm
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