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SunWindow V2.0
This file documents SunWindow, a sweet little tool for enhancing the
use of windows and public screens.
Copyright (C) 1993 Bernhard Scholz.
This is the second edition of the SunWindow documentation.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
preserved on all copies.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of
this manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that
the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
permission notice identical to this one.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this
manual into another language, under the above conditions for modified
versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a
translation approved by Bernhard Scholz.
SunWindow
*********
SunWindow is a commodity tool for the Commodore Amiga with at least
an OS-Version of 2.0 or higher. It allows the user to control the
graphical user environment (GUI) in a more intuitive way as usual. In
short, SunWindow simplifies the usage of windows and screens, by adding
keyboard shortcuts for most of the window operations, usually only
accessable via the mouse. It is also capable of controlling big
autoscrolling screens with a new method on the Amiga platforms.
This is Edition 2 of the SunWindow documentation, for SunWindow
Version 2.
WARNING: The information described in this manual may contain errors
or bugs, and may not function as described. All information is subject
to enhancement or upgrade for any reason including to fix bugs, add
features, or change performance. As with all software upgrades, full
compatibility, although a goal, cannot be guaranteed, and is in fact
unlikely.
Amiga is a registered trademark of Commodore-Amiga, Inc. Amiga 1000,
AmigaDOS, Amiga Workbench, Amiga Kickstart, AmigaGuide are trademarks
of Commodore. Commodore is a registered trademark of Commodore
Electronics Limited.
SunWindow Copying Conditions
****************************
SunWindow is copyrighted by Bernhard Scholz. The program currently
distributed includes portions of the ReqTools package (C) by Nico
Francois. For more informations on the ReqTools package, please read the
`REQTOOLS.readme' file on the distribution disk.
SunWindow is distributed under the concepts of "SHAREWARE". This
means: If you are using SunWindow frequently (I understand a period of
time, not longer than four weeks), you have to be registered as a user
of SunWindow by Bernhard Scholz.
Permission is granted to make verbatim copies of SunWindow of the
whole package, and process it with any packer.
Permission is granted to distribute SunWindow in a non commercial
(this includes other "SHAREWARE" products) way provided the copyright
notice and this permission notice are preserved in all copies under the
conditions of verbatim copying.
Permission is granted to distribute SunWindow on public electronic
networks, on public mailboxes or disk based PD-series, without profit
for the distributor, and the conditions of verbatim copying providing
the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved.
Introduction To SunWindow
*************************
In this chapter the concept of SunWindow is described in brief. You
find informations about whether you can use the program or not, what
are the benefits and other useful things, you might want to know, to
get a fast impression of what SunWindow is capable to do.
The Concept Of SunWindow
========================
The user interface the Amiga offers to an user is very nice and was
something revolutionary when the Amiga started its career. The "
Workbench" is the main working area, and Intuition -- a part of the
operating system -- serves for the graphical-user-interface (GUI).
Many years have gone now, since the first release of the Amiga's GUI,
but only since release V2.0 of the OS some great enhancements to the
GUI were added, but most of them refer to the lookout of the graphics.
Also new features were added: the public screens (screens, where any
programm can open its windows) and autoscrolling screens (screens, which
are bigger than the visible size will scroll with the mouse to make
other parts of such a big screen visible). Although these two features
are really great, they are not used very often. To make the use a
little bit easier and intuitive to the user, and nearby enhance the
control over the GUI, SunWindow was born.
SunWindow offers several things to make the life easier with your
daily work. Some of these features are now described:
* SunWindow offers several *hotkeys* for controlling windows and
screens, therefore it serves as a kind of replacement for FKey (by
Commodore). Windows can be moved, sized, zipped and closed by
hotkeys. Sizing has been enhanced in a way which makes it now
possible to size a window in any direction. Screens can be moved
and shuffled, as you would do it with the mouse.
* *Public screens* are automatically under SunWindow's control (and
they are the *only* kind of screens on which all of SunWindow's
screen and window operations will take affect). If such a screen
is bigger than the displayable area of your monitor, SunWindow
offers you the possibility to display the whole screen as a
thumbnail display in a seperate small window. On this display all
of the screen's windows are redisplayed, and you can perform
several actions on these windows, like bringing a window to front,
making a selected window visible or just moving the windows around
to get the screen cleaned up.
* SunWindow offers you a *SunMouse* feature. This means, if your
mouse stops over a part of a window, the window will become the
active window, could be made visible or just brought to front.
* SunWindow offers you also the unique possibility to *remember* up
to ten different positions of your mouse (also on different
screens). With just a fingertip on a hotkey you can jump back to
any or these remembered positions, without looking through
different screens and searching around a big screen to find the
desired window/position.
* On big public screens new windows may not be visible, when they
are opened. This can be controlled by SunWindow, so that the user
will notice every new window, by just centering the display around
every new window (this means making the window visible). In
addition, if the last active window becomes the active one after a
window is closed, the former window can be made visible by
SunWindow.
Again, to offer you a example of the SunWindow's thumbnail display
option of a big public screen, here's a small graphic:
< ---- visible area of the ----> < -- only reachable with -- >
public screen autoscroll feature
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