Quick docs to WindowDialer v0.62a: WHAT IS IT? ----------- WindowDialer was written to be a small, fully multitasking dialer for whatever purpose you people out there want it for. It's less than 10K long when uncrunched, so won't take up much memory. You can use either the mouse or the keyboard to dial, and all dialer features are available from the keyboard. WD version 0.62a is an update to version 0.51a which had some major problems, namely that if you ran it twice in a row the second time you quitted the programme it would crash the computer. The reason for that being that since it was my first amiga programme I hadn't got to grips with the machine. It's been a few months now and I was asked to come back to this dialer by one of my friends who uses it and add Bell & DTMF tones to it. When I did this I also fixed that bug & added some new buttons for you. You may see a macro function later on if I develop this further that will allow you to store dial commands including tone changes, eg. DTMF to CCITT, as well as the usual numbers. Perhaps I may even add a pause option so that you can dial in parts, who knows... it all depends. The small "a" at the end of the version means that it's an Alpha release, ie. still to have planned features added. When all planned features are in it becomes a beta release, eg. v0.95b whilst it is being bug tested. The first full release is version 1.00. Version 0.62a now has KickStart 1.x/2.x auto-detect, ie. if you are running under KS2.x the programme's idea of colours 1 & 2 will be reversed, so that the bas-relief graphics will still look correct. HOW DO I USE IT? ---------------- You won't have to have an IQ of 200 to use this one. You can dial via the keyboard or the mouse, you choose whichever is easiest for you. I'll cover the mouse first... The keypad is obvious, you just click on the number to dial. Below the numbers are the letters A, B & C. These are included since they're a part of all tone types. Below the ABC keys you'll see a gadget which reads CCITT. This is a cyclic gadget, and by pressing it you can change between CCITT 5, CCITT 5 Reverse (Exchange), BELL & DTMF tone types. In DTMF mode you also have an extra letter, D, which you'll find on the right of the dialer and is labelled "D (DTMF)". This button will only function in DTMF mode. At the top of the screen in a long bar with an arrow at each end. This is your scrollback. Everything you type, up to 255 characters, is stored for you to review at any time. By pressing the arrows you can move forwards and backwards through the scrollback. Below that you'll find two boxes with arrows on either side, and the words "Length" and "Gap" beneath then. You can increase and decrease the length of time that a tone sounds by clicking on the arrows, and the same goes for "Gap", which is the delay inbetween playing one tone and the next. The "RESET" button to the right of these two will put them back at their default settings of 5 and 2 respectively. These delays are measured in 50ths of a second. Now we reach the "PLAY" button. To the left of this button are two numerical gadgets into wich you can type frequencies in hertz (cycles per second). Just above and below the "PLAY" gadget are two thin gadgets. These gadgets activate and deactivate their respective frequencies, ie. the lower thin gadget deactivates the lower tone, and vice versa. If you have one frequency already deactivated and you try to deactivate the other then the two will alternate, the one your are trying to deactivate will be turned off and the other will be reactivated. To reactivate a currently inactive tone simply click its respective activation button. Hitting "PLAY" will cause whichever tone(s) are currenty activated to be played. Experiment a bit and you'll understand what I mean. There are also three more buttons underneath the "D" gadget. These read "2400+2600", "2400 Hz", and "2600 Hz". These buttons play tones at frequencies of 2400 and 2600 hertz simultaniously for the first, 2400 hertz alone for the second and 2600 hertz alone for the third. These all play their tones for a length of 20 regardless of what you set in the Length gadget. This is at the request of one of my users, and shouldn't cause any of you any problems. And last but not least... HOW DO I GET OUT OF HERE?! -------------------------- Up in the top left of the dialer is a button marked "QUIT", no prizes for guessing what it does. WHAT ABOUT THE KEYBOARD? ------------------------ Okay, I did say that you could use the keyboard... First of all, a word of warning. This programme uses what are known as Raw Key Codes. This is so that you don't have to SetMap USA1 all the time to be able to use the ()/* keys on the keypad. This means, however, that all the keys are hard coded and that keymaps will not affect the programmes idea of what each key is, so I'll include a list of symbols and their relevant key at the end of this text in case odd things seem to happen. Now, onto the keyboard... I'll start with the keypad and go on from there. You can operate almost all of the programme from the keypad. The numbers 0 to 9 do the logical thing. The ()/ keys are used for A, B & C respectively, with the asterisk "*" acting as the D in DTMF mode. The - key plays the 2400+2600 Hz tone, and the + key looks after the 2400 Hz tone. The 2600 Hz tone is catered for by the "Del" key, the one to the left of the "Help" key. The keypad "Enter" button has the same result as clicking on the asterisk gadget with the mouse. The period "." key takes the place of the hash "#" gadget. You can alter the dial mode by pressing the "Help" key. The left and right cursor keys move back and forth throught the scrollback. That's it for the keypad, now onto the keyboard... Again, the numbers 0 to 9 do the obvious, and you can use the letters A to D. The hash (shift-3) and asterisk (shift-8) are the same as on-screen. You can use the exclamation mark (shift-1) in place of the Del key to play a 2600 Hz tone. The plus and minus keys (shifted and unshifted) play the 2400+2600 & 2400 Hz tones as per the keypad. These two keys are the ones to the right of the "0" for those of you with odd keyboards. You can use the RETURN key in place of the Enter key, and pressing "P" is the same as clicking play. You can press the ESCape key to quit. THE END... ---------- That's basically it, just the keyboard equivalants for those with strange looking keyboards... Key : 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - = Symbol: ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ + That's the numbers from left to right. The symbol is the shifted version of that key. The keyboard this programme expects is a QWERTY, not an AZERTY as in France or whatever, so I'll map out my keyboard for you... Q W E R T Y U I O P [ ] A S D F G H J K L ; ' Z X C V B N M , . / If you have any keyboard problems I hope that'll sort them out. Have fun! Maybe I'll see you in the next version???