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Update to version 4.46
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This file gives a brief description of the new features added to version
4.20 to create version 4.46.
1. ARM code is used for character input/filtering/spooling screen scrolling.
To get the best from this you need to run the TNC-ARC link at 9600 baud.
RISCOS 3 still has an interrupt latency problem so characters can get
lost at higher baud rates.
2. When first run !ComLink loads the WimpKey definitions from the WimpKeys
directory within !ComLink. It will look for files with names in the range
1 to 8. The script file "0" will be run when !ComLink is installed on the
icon bar.
3. The WimpKey 'definitions' are stored in program memory for quick access
to each set without hard disc access being required.
4. Each yellow WimpKey can now:-
- Send up to 128 characters to the TNC (stored in memory)
- Run a script
- Send a file to the TNC
If the file path for the script or file is not specified, then it is
assumed to be in the WimpKeys directory. The files and scripts are
accessed on hard disc.
Control codes and system variables can be included in the text
definitions of the wimpkeys.
5. Clicking 'menu' over the WimpKey panel pops up the wimpkey edit panel.
The key 'type' can be changed from 'None' to 'File' to 'Script' to
'Text'. The label can be different from the text/file name definition.
Controls in the edit window are:-
The 'Yellow keys' button swops to the 'White keys' as desired to allow
these to be viewed/altered.
The 'Use' button makes !ComLink use any changes you have made, without
saving the new definitions to disc.
The 'Save' button..... saves the new definitions to disc and also makes
!ComLink use the new definitions.
The 'Clear' button clears the definitions on view, without the results
taking effect, the old definitions can be recovered using the 'Restore'
button. After a 'Save' or 'Use' the old definitions can not be restored!
If you type in a label for a 'File'/'Script'/'Text' type key but not the
definition and then press 'Use' and 'Restore', then the definition field
will be filled in for you using the label as the file name/text.
Text strings must end in [13] to be sent. Just pressing any control
sequence eg 'Ctrl+C' or 'Return' will enter the code in the definition.
Clicking Select on the "WimpKey Set" icon increments the set number,
clicking 'Adjust' decrements it.
6. The WKEY: script command has changed from previous versions of !ComLink
however the old form of the command will still be correctly interpretted.
7. There is a scroll back facility in the tx area of the terminal window.
Use the cursor up/down keys. The scroll back is 50 lines, after 50 it
wraps back around to the start again, ie its a circular buffer. The 'Page
Up' and 'Page Down' keyboard keys also move back/forwards through the tx
buffer. The facility is dead handy in a 'live' QSO to look back through
the sent text and also when a link is lost to send again the last few
lines. Use "Shift + Return" to send old lines, this will prevent the
next line 'below' the tx window from being cleared when the tx window
scrolls up if the caret is on the bottom line.
8. A 'word grab' facility has been added to put a word/callsign/number into
the selected (green) wimpkey. Simply click the mouse 'select' button
on the word. This allows callsigns to be grabbed for a connect or message
numbers to be grabbed to read/killed etc.
9. A 'line grab' facility has been added to allow lines from the rx window
to be put into the bottom line of the tx window. To use this facility,
double click on the line in the rx window. The line can then be eddited
and sent.
10 The number of lines in the rx window is configurable, the minimum is 100
lines. The maximum is only limited by your memory!!! (I've had an 18,000
line window!!). !ComLink cleverly optimises the use of memory allocated
by the task manager. (160K total application size gives approx 500 lines)
11 Built in !Help application, can be installed on the bar and gives a
summary of !ComLinks facilities. This is useful until you become familiar
with !ComLink.