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- RndWbPix 39.5
-
- COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
- RndWbPix is copyrighted 1997-2000 by Stephan Rupprecht. All rights
- reserved. This program is freeware, so no financial donations
- required. Redistribution allowed if the package is left unchanged.
- The author is not responsible for any damage caused by the
- use or misuse of this documentation and/or the program(s) it
- describes.
-
- Starting with version 37.1, RndWbPix is EMAILWARE. So if you
- like (and use) RndWbPix you should send the author an email.
- This way the authors knows that there is somebody out there
- who uses his program.
-
-
- REQUIREMENTS
- Any Amiga® (compatible) computer with at least OS3.
-
-
- DESCRIPTION
- RndWbPix is a small program that provides random backdrop
- pictures for your wbscreen, wbwindow and drawer windows.
- It runs from the startup-sequence each reboot and picks (a)
- random picture(s) from the specified directory/ies.
-
-
- INSTALLATION
- 1. Copy RndWbPix to your C: directory.
-
- 2. Next edit the file s:startup-sequence and add the follow-
- ing line somewhere BEFORE C:IPrefs
-
- C:RndWbPix <ROOTPATH> <DRAWERPATH> <SCREENPATH> <IO=INORDER>
-
- where ROOTPATH is the directory that you have your back-
- drop pictures for your wbwindow in eg. SYS:Prefs/Backdrops
-
- DRAWERPATH is the same as ROOTPATH, except that this option
- specifies the directory where you have stored the pictures
- for the drawer windows.
-
- SCREENPATH is the directory where you have stored your back-
- drops for the wbscreen.
-
- Examples:
- C:RndWbPix SYS:Prefs/Backdrops
- RndWbPix changes each boot up the picture for your wbwin.
- C:RndWbPix SYS:Prefs/Backdrops SCREENPATH SYS:Prefs/Scrbdrops
- Same as above but the wbscreen backdrop is also changed.
- C:RndWbPix DRAWERPATH SYS:Prefs/Backdrops
- RndWbPix changes only the backdrops of the drawer windows
- each reboot.
-
- The '|' sign can be used to specify more than one path for each
- PATH option. For example:
-
- ROOTPATH=Art:images/woods|Art:images/houses
-
- Setting the INORDER (abrev. IO) option tells RndWBPix to select
- the pictures in order of their appearance in the drawer instead
- of random order.
-
- 3. Save the changes :-)
-
- TIPS
-
- - When FastIPrefs by H.W. Schober is installed, the picture display
- doesn't need to start at the upper left corner. It may be centered
- or split up centered. Starting 39.2 of RndWBPix each picture can
- have its own placement setting (keywords: TILE,LEFT,CENTER,FILL.
- Use spaces to combine them!). RndWBPix reads this setting from
- the filecomment. For example, if you want to have a picture
- centered on the display, simply use the following command line:
-
- C:FileNote APicture CENTER
-
- This will set the comment of "APicture" to "CENTER".
-
- NOTE TO OS3.5 USERS: IPrefs v44 supports the CENTER option.
-
- The default placement can be specified via the RA=ROOTALIGNMENT/K,
- DA=DRAWERALIGNMENT/K,SA=SCREENALIGNMENT/K commandline options.
-
- - When you change the contents of your picture drawers, you need to
- rebuild the index. This can be done by deleting the RndWBPix.index
- file found in the picture drawer(s) or by invoking RndWBPix with
- the BUILDINDEX (abrev. BI) option set. If you have an Amiga with
- a battery backed-up clock, simply add AUTOBUILDINDEX or ABI to your
- c:RndWbPix line. This tells RndWbPix to recreate the index file
- when the drawer contents has changed. NOTE: By default, subdrawers
- are ignored. The ALL option can be used to change this.
-
-
- TECHNICAL
- Each time you start RndWbPix it modifies the file
- ENV:sys/wbpattern.prefs. The ENVARC: file stays untouched.
-
-
- HISTORY
- 37.0 first public release
- 37.1 small rework, added os3 version (= 39.1)
- 39.2 rewrote most parts. implemented index function for fast directory
- scanning. added support for some FastIPrefs specific features
- (placement of pictures).
- 39.3 implemented INORDER option <Stéphane PAYET>. Fixed a very old
- bug if one of the picture drawers had subdrawers, there was a
- chance that RndWBPix told IPrefs to use the drawer as backdrop
- (which doesn't work;). When at least two of the three PATH
- options were set to the same drawer, the program didn't really
- calculate a random number.
- 39.4 each PATH option can accept more than one path, now. scans sub-
- drawers when ALL option is used in conjunction with BUILDINDEX
- <Georges Heinesch>.
- 39.5 added ABI=AUTOBUILDINDEX/S,RA=ROOTALIGNMENT/K,DA=DRAWERALIGNMENT
- /K and SA=SCREENALIGNMENT/K options. reads the ENV: file instead
- of the ENVARC: one, again.
-
-
- SPECIAL THANKS GO TO
- Ralf Stecher for his suggestions, betatesting and the german
- guide.
-
-
- AUTHOR
- Send bug reports and suggestion to
-
- Stephan Rupprecht
- Apfeldweg 1
- 44359 Dortmund
- Germany
-
- eMail
-
- stephan.rupprecht@gmx.de or
- stephan.rupprecht@web.de
-
- WWW
-
- http://stephan.2xs.de
-