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* Hot Saver Program 1.6 *
* by John Eidsvoog *
* Copyright 1990 John Eidsvoog *
* *
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Release date: Saturday, May 11, 1991
SEE BELOW FOR NEW FEATURES OF THIS VERSION.
HotSaver is shareware and may be distributed freely as long as this text
file is included, but may not be sold commercially or included with a
commercial product without written permission from John Eidsvoog. If
you have paid for HotWire, you are already registered for HotSaver.
What it is
----------
HotSaver is a screen saver specially designed to work in conjunction
with CodeHead's HotWire program (although it will work quite well
without HotWire). It communicates with HotWire to provide special
features, many of which are not available from any other screen saver
for any computer system.
A screen saver is a program which will help save your monitor display
from developing "burn-in". Burn-in will leave an image permanently on
the computer's monitor and is caused by leaving the same or similar
screen displayed for long periods of time, usually when the computer is
left unattended with no activity. A screen saver will shut down the
screen after a certain length of time in which there is no user input.
When HotSaver kicks into screen-saving mode, the HotWire logo will begin
bouncing around on a black screen. HotSaver will also communicate with
HotWire (if present) to tell it whether or not to show the time or date
or an elapsed inactivity timer, and whether to take this time into
account when making ledger entries showing the time spent within a
program. You can manually kick the saver into effect, locking out the
use of your computer until the correct code is entered. You can also
have HotSaver park your hard drive(s) for you.
You can reconfigure HotSaver after it is installed to alter any of its
options and optionally save the changes permanently. HotSaver may be
configured to save memory (typically 32K) by not allocating a backup
screen. You can also select whether you wish to watch RS-232 (modem)
activity so that the screen saver will not kick in while uploading,
downloading, or capturing text for long periods of time. Besides modem
activity, the HotSaver can selectively monitor disk access, printer use,
text output, and graphics output.
New Features in HotSaver 1.4
----------------------------
o HotSaver now works as an accessory, too!
o The time and date will now optionally appear within the HotWire logo
itself, following it around the screen.
o A completely configurable mouse accelerator is now included allowing
nearly infinitely adjustable mouse movement setups.
o You can use HotSaver to automatically or manually park your hard drives.
o An optional package, HotSwap allows you to install your own custom
icons into HotSaver.
o A keypress used to exit from screen-saving mode will no longer be
seen by the current application, causing no undesired actions within
programs.
o When booting up with HotSaver in the AUTO folder on a monochrome
monitor and a large-screen monitor, HotSaver will blank out the
monochrome monitor as soon as the desktop comes up on the
large-screen monitor.
New Features in HotSaver 1.5
----------------------------
o The inverse "blink" rate with a monochrome monitor and "RESERVE
SCREEN" off has been set to 10 seconds. Two seconds was too fast and
distracting.
o A manual kick-in now stops any "watched" event from returning the
screen to normal. Previously an event such as modem activity could
restore the screen but the keyboard and mouse were still locked.
New Features in HotSaver 1.6
----------------------------
o This version fixes the animation glithes on the TT including
especially TT low res.
o The crashing that has been reported should be fixed. This usually
occured only when a key was press to stop animation that began with a
timeout.
o HotSaver now correctly ignores incoming MIDI bytes. Previously
the screen saver would not kick in if MIDI was being received, such
as active sensing bytes.
o While in manual "freeze-out" mode, none of the watched events will
kick it out. Entering the "code" is the only way to break out.
Previously a watched event such as modem (or erroneously MIDI) would
pop the screen out but leave the computer frozen until the code was
entered.
o There is a new hard drive parking mode. The button in the dialog box
now has three modes, NO PARK, AUTO-PARK, and SELF-PARK. NO PARK and
AUTO-PARK are the same as the previous auto-park-off and auto-park-on
states. If you click on the button again, it will change to
SELF-PARK. In this mode, the drives will not be parked by a timeout
but can be parked by the manual kick-in command. If you press
Control-LeftShift-Alternate Tab, the drives will park (with the usual
animation display) and the screen will return to normal. To unpark
the drives, press the same key combination again. If there is BIOS
access to any drives other than A and B, the drives will unpark
automatically. When SELF-PARK is enabled, there is no manual
"freeze-out" mode available.
o The HotWire corner clock will no longer appear during animation when
the logical screen is being used. This includes Moniterm, ISAC, and
TT screen resolutions.
o HotSaver now does an appl_exit when quitting as a program. This bug
previously caused PopIt to be confused and not allow its hot keys to
work.
o Some shells put a $FF in the first byte of a non-existent command
line. This caused HotSaver to automatically install as if a command
line existed. It now will ignore this.
o Previously, if HotSaver was installed as a program after MultiDesk
and a "Clear All" was performed, HotSaver's mouse routine would not
be reenabled. This has been fixed.
o Included in this version is Image-to-Icon, a free program by Chet
Walters that converts image files to Degas icon files. This allows
you to use Dr. Bob's MultiViewer Graphica (MVG) to create images for
HotSwap (or SwapDemo) to replace the HotSaver images used for
animation. Image-to-Icon is in the SwapDemo folder. Also included
are two more sample icons, WizWorks and Dr. Bob. For information
about HotSwap, see below. Thanks Chet and Dr. Bob. (The SwapDemo
archive may be in a separate file).
How to set it up
----------------
HotSaver can be installed from your AUTO folder, from the desktop, or as
a desk accessory either within or without MultiDesk. To install it from
the AUTO folder, simply copy the HOTSAVER.PRG file into a folder named
AUTO on your bootup disk. It will then install itself any time that you
boot your computer from that disk. You will see a small box appear
during the bootup process showing that HotSaver is installing. You may
also run HotSaver from the desktop, at which time a dialog box will
appear allowing you to set the options. Clicking on the "Install"
button or hitting return will install HotSaver just as if it were run
from the AUTO folder.
If HotSaver is run with a command line (any characters at all), it will
immediately install as if it were run from the AUTO folder. This allows
it to be installed in your HotWire menu as the auto-run program. Simply
install HotSaver and select "Command Line" and "AUTO". Then click on
the entry and type a tilda (~) character. This will tell HotWire not to
bring up the command line box in the future. Make sure to save your HOT
file before rebooting. If you have another program that you wish to
auto-run, you can chain from HotSaver into it.
To install HotSaver as an accessory, rename the extension