INTRODUCTION
What is it: a file launcher
Developed on: A4000, Cyberstorm 060/50, 82Mb Ram, Picasso IV + Picasso96,
Software Used: Blitz Basic 2.1
Why you need it:
Written with Blitz Basic II It dosen't take up much screen room.
Tooltype prefs. Upto 100 gadgets (if your screen's big enough)
It's written by *ME* If an icon is found for a program it's run with
wblaunch or else its run from cli.
It's easy to configure Drag'n'drop onto prefs window.
COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Launch is copyrighted © 1999 - 2001 by Nick Clover
all rights reserved.
Launch is FREEWARE.This program may be freely Distributed as long as:
* The executable and the documentation remain unchanged and are included
in the distribution archive.
DISCLAIMER
No Warranties of any kind are made as to the functionality of this program.
You are using it ENTIRELY at your own risk.
FEATURES
Here is a list of the main features of Launch.
* Upto 32 menus, maximim of 100 entires in each one.
* Fully user definable colours.
* All prefs now available from system menus.
* Animated gadgets.
* Now uses screen font as default.
* Optional bold, underline and italic hilighting.
* Left, center or right justified menus.
* Over/under titlebar or bottom of screen options.
* Drag and drop configuration.
* Can run/open ANY FILE with a correctly configured icon including partitions and
directories OS3.5+ ONLY.
* Config file in plain ascii for easy editing by hand, if you REALLY want to...
* Scrolling, fast scrolling, shadows etc...
* Free keyfile.
* Source available for a keyfile to your own progam :)
TOOLTYPES
Here are the TOOLTYPE Settings.
SCROLLING Turns scrolling on
FASTSCROLL Turns on fast scrolling
FONT Sets the font, defaults to screen font
HEIGHT Sets the font height
MENUWIDTH Sets the width for each main window gadget
XPOS Sets the left edge of the main window
SHADOW Draws a solid shadow on the 'menus'
DITHEREDSHADOW Draws a 'see-through' shadow
BACK Colour setting in html format eg. "5577DF"
TEXT -" as above "-
HIBACK -" as above "-
HITEXT -" as above "-
LIGHT -" as above "-
DARK -" as above "-
SHADE -" as above "-
FSPEED Sets the speed of the flashes when an item is selected
FLASHES Sets the number of flashes (0=off)
BOLD Sets the highlight style for the 'menus'
UNDERLINE Sets the highlight style for the 'menus'
ITALIC Sets the highlight style for the 'menus'
ZIPGADGETWIDTH Sets the width of the left hand gadget
JUSTIFY Sets the text justification of the 'menus'
VPOS Sets the vertical position of the main window
ANIMATED Turns on Animated Gadgets
VPOS has three options:
OVERTB - Over Title Bar
UNDERTB - Under Title Bar
BOTTOM - Bottom of the screen
DEFAULTS to UNDERTB
JUSTIFY has three options:
LEFT-CENTER-RIGHT
DEFAULTS to LEFT
The colour settings are only a rough guide, THEY WILL CHANGE when you save
your prefs, Launch uses the value given to find the closest match in the
workbench palette. When you save your prefs it writes the data for the
actual colour it's using.
The HTML format for colours is RRGGBB, a hexadecimal value from 00 to FF
for each of the red, green and blue values.
HISTORY
V4.01 Added Animated/coloured gadgets, Colour prefs and help menu.
V4.00 Major rewrite, too many fixes / optimisations and features added too list.
V3.54 Not released to the public.
V3.99 Not released to the public.
V3.53 Added menu shadows.
V3.52 Many minor bug fixes and tweaks - Not released to the public.
V3.51 Many minor bug fixes and tweaks - Not released to the public.
V3.04 Major rewrite to add multiple menus.
V3.03 Not released to the public.
V2.42 Not released to the public.
V2.41 Minor update, Fixed Cybergraphics bug.
Fixed font display bug in prefs.
Fixed terminal bug when returning to workbench and pressing a key
caused a " Software Failure ".
V2.40 First release on aminet.
V2.39 Not released to the public.
THANKS
Many thanks to the following people who have helped in the
development of Launch.
* Steve Hargreaves - for lots of help with beta testing and the tricky bits.
* David McMinn - for lots of help with the tricky bits and beta testing.
* Steven Croy - for lots of help with OS3.5 workbench.library stuff
and beta testing.
* Malcolm Farley - for help with beta testing and writing ALL the documentation.
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