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Documentation for Quick View 1.4
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(C) 1989 by Darek Mihocka and Ignac Kolenko
Quick View runs on any ST, color or monochrome.
Quick View - the ST File Reader
-------------------------------
Quick View is a program developed for viewing text files. Although it may
usually suffice to "Show" a file from the ST's desktop, this does not allow
the file to be viewed randomly. Quick View allows a file to be loaded into
memory and viewed. The file can also be printed to the printer.
For example, Quick View can be used to flip through an issue of ST Report
or ZMAG ST. The handy "flip topic" feature allows you to quickly scroll
over some sections to reach the sections you wish to read.
To use Quick View, double click on the file QV14.PRG. A dialog box will
appear, and the screen colors will change to white, black, red and green
(on a color monitor only!). Click on the "Load & View" button. A file
selector will appear, prompting you to pick a text file.
Once the file is loaded into memory, and verified to be a text file, the
"View" button will become enabled. When you click this button, an 80 column,
24 line display will appear. Even if you booted in low resolution, it will
appear in 80 columns.
Use the up and down cursor keys to scroll through the file. To scroll a
screen at a time (24 lines at a time), hold down the Shift key while
pressing the up or down cursor keys.
To jump to the top of the file, press the Home key, and to jump to the
bottom of the file, hold down Shift while pressing Home.
The / and \ keys are used to toggle 50 row mode and inverse mode. 50 row
mode is only available on monochrome monitors.
Press the Esc key to exit back to the main dialog box.
Note that only buffer #1 is selected. Buffers 2 through 4 will be available
in future versions which will be available to registered users.
To view another file, just "Load & View" again.
Quick View can also be configured as a desktop application. This allows you
to automatically load Quick View whenever you double-click on a text file.
To configure, do the following. On the ST desktop, open a window so that
the file QV14.PRG is shown. Click on this file (do not double click!) and
select the menu option "Install Application". Now type in the file
extension you wish to install it for, for example, DOC or TXT or ASC.
Then do a "Save Desktop" to store these settings.
You are now ready. For example, if you installed Quick View for DOC files,
click on this file, QUIKVIEW.DOC. Within a few seconds, Quick View will
load and take you directly to the view buffer.
Note: due to a bug in TOS, the DEKSTOP.INF file will not store the full
path for QV14.PRG. Therefore if you are using a hard disk, it may not find
it. You need to edit your DESKTOP.INF file. Search for the line that looks
similar to this:
#G 03 04 QV14.PRG@ *.DOC@
and modify it to include the full pathname. In this example, Quick View is
on the hard disk, in the E: partition, in the QUIKVIEW.140 folder.
#G 03 04 E:\QUIKVIEW.140\QV14.PRG@ *.DOC@
Due to a similar bug in TOS, the desktop does not pass to Quick View the
full pathname of the file that was clicked on, so this will only work
if the file is not in a folder, or Quick View is in the same folder as the
text file.
TOS 1.4 is supposed to fix these bugs. Who knows. Note that you can also
repeat this line several times, to install Quick View for several different
file types. For example:
#G 03 04 E:\QUIKVIEW.140\QV14.PRG@ *.DOC@
#G 03 04 E:\QUIKVIEW.140\QV14.PRG@ *.TXT@
#G 03 04 E:\QUIKVIEW.140\QV14.PRG@ ST*.*@
#G 03 04 E:\QUIKVIEW.140\QV14.PRG@ README*.*@
Quick View can also be used with desktop shells such as Hotwire and
Neodesk. These program allow for Quick View to be called up with a
single keystroke.
Quick Print - fast screen dumps
-------------------------------
Be sure to also download our Quick Print desk accessory. It speeds up
text-only screen dump by a factor of 10 or more, by emulating the
IBM-PC print screen key. Works with in all screen formats: 25 lines,
50 lines, 40 columns, 80 columns, color and monochrome.
Use Quick Print to generate screen dumps of Quick Ciew screens. We chose
not to implement a screen dump feature since this would overlap the
functionality of Quick Print. Quick Print is a small desk accessory and
should be available where ever you obtained Quick View.
Pay for shareware
-----------------
Quick View, along with the whole series of Quick utilities, is shareware.
One contribution of $30 makes you a registered user of the whole set
of programs. The Quick utilities have been around for about two months
now, and we are getting ready to mail out the first updates to registered
users. All disks are sent as single sided disks.
To become a registered user, send a $30 check or money order to:
Darek Mihocka
Box 2624, Station B
Kitchener, Ontario N2H 6N2
Canada
You can reach us by modem on the following networks:
Darek Mihocka:
Compuserve: 73657,2714
BIX, Delphi, GEnie: DAREKM
Ignac Kolenko:
UNIX mail: watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac
We thank you for supporting shareware and encourage you to support other
shareware authors. You may distribute copies of Quick View and Quick Print
under the condition that you also include this documentation file. You may
not charge a fee or in any way try to sell this software.
Please report any bugs you may find in Quick View. We regret that version
1.3 had a bug when used in color. We know of no bugs in this versions,
except "bugs" which might be classified under "wish list for version 1.5".
Be sure to also check out Quick Inf, the GEM based DESKTOP.INF editor,
and Quick Index, the ST benchmarking program which evaluates the performance
of your STs disk drive, CPU, and version of TOS. It can be used to test
the effectiveness of accelerator programs (such as disk caches), or
accelerator hardware such as the blitter chip and 16 Mhz boards.