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- Tron's Window Activator 1.4 - Manual
-
-
- NAME
- SYS:WBStartup/TWA
-
- SYNOPSIS
- TWA [CX_PRIORITY ...]
-
- DESCRIPTION
- TWA is a commodity which remembers the last active window on any
- screen. If screens are shuffeled these windows are automatically
- activated.
-
- Imagine:
- You've an editor on a screen and want to look at another source code
- with e.g. "More".
- without TWA:
- Switch to the workbench screen, grab the mouse activate a shell
- window call "More". After looking at the source code switch back
- to the editor's screen reactivate the window.
- with TWA:
- Simply switch back to the workbench screen. The shell window is
- activated automatically (The one the editor was started from.) and
- you can call "More" immediately. After looking at the source code
- switch back to the editor's screen and the window is automatically
- reactivated. Nice, isn't it ?
-
- The first commodity which did this job was Stefan Stuntz's MWA
- (Magic Window Activator). But MWA caused lots of system lock-ups e.g.
- with DPaint IV or Imagine 2.0. I reported the bug to Stefan, but ONE
- day later I had still no update :-). So I decided to write TWA which
- seems to be more stable :-).
-
- PATCHES
- TWA patches graphics.library/LoadView, intuition.library/CloseScreen
- and intuition.library/CloseWindow. So if your virus killer find these
- vectors changed it's probably NO virus.
-
- HISTORY
- 1.0 (01.12.92)
- - first release
-
- 1.1 (03.01.93)
- - improved the which-window-to-activate-detection algorithm
-
- 1.2 (15.02.93)
- - removed an enforcer hit which showed up e.g. with ASwarm II
- (the hit showed up inside ASwarm II's process)
- - return code of intuition.library/CloseScreen() is now treaded as
- 32 bit, because some bad programs seem to need that
-
- 1.3 (18.07.93)
- - if no window is active after CloseWindow() the first window of the
- first screen is activated.
-
- 1.4 (17.01.94)
- - fixed problem which made it impossible to autoscroll on a screen
- which is partially in the background
-
- CREDITS
- Stefan Stuntz for the gread idea
-
- Mario Kemper, Markus Illenseer, Ralph Schmidt and Markus Stipp for
- testing TWA
-
- SAS/C group for SAS/C 6 which enabled me to write this "hack" without
- any system crash :-)
-
- COPYRIGHT
- TWA is free to be spread on public-domain and shareware disks
- especially on Fred Fish's AmigaLibDisks, as long as they are sold for
- a reasonable charge that is less than US $6 or DM 8.- .
-
- TWA may be distributed on freely available CD-ROM. This CD-ROM should
- not be used for commercial obstinacles like professional copying.
- The price of the CD-ROM is not important.
-
- For use in commercial products the permission of the author is
- required.
-
- TWA may be copied and distributed via electronic networks such as the
- Internet, also it may be held available on anonymous FTP servers,
- mail-boxes or BBS's.
-
- TWA may not, or is not allowed to be used by any military institution
- or any civil institution which makes any research or products which is
- used by military institutions.
-
- AUTHOR
- Matthias Scheler
- Schützenstraße 18
- D-33178 Borchen
-
- InterNet: tron@lyssa.pb.owl.de
- tron@uni-paderborn.de
- FidoNet: Matthias Scheler@2:2432/360.10
-