Short: Nice Scrolling Program Launcher Author: Nick Clover - bauk@tinyonline.co.uk Uploader: Nick Clover - bauk tinyonline co uk Type: util/wb Version: 4.01 Architecture: m68k-amigaos Requirements: OS3.5+, Reqtools.library 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.