From NETNEWS@CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE Thu May 6 14:04:44 1993 Received: from beaver.cs.washington.edu by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.2) id AA00782; Thu, 6 May 93 14:04:41 PDT Received: from cc1.kuleuven.ac.be by beaver.cs.washington.edu (5.64a/7.1be) id AA11274; Thu, 6 May 93 14:04:25 -0700 Return-Path: Received: from CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE by cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 8318; Thu, 06 May 93 23:03:54 +0200 To: Path: blekul11!stud16 Message-Id: <19930506.230353.231757.NETNEWS@CC1.KULEUVEN.AC.BE> Nntp-Posting-Host: 134.58.8.1 Date: Thu, 6 May 1993 23:03:41 +0200 Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce From: stud16@cc4.kuleuven.ac.be (Kurt Haenen) Distribution: world Organization: KU Leuven Subject: The Promotor v1.02 uploaded to Aminet Keywords: Screen Promotion, AGA, 3.0 Status: R TITLE The Promotor VERSION 1.02 3-May-1993 This is an update to version 1.01 released on the 19th of April 1993. AUTHOR Kurt Haenen Homsemstraat 53 B-3891 Borlo Belgium email Internet : fhgaa99@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (will not be read the next few months) DESCRIPTION The Promotor is *THE* screen promotion utility every AGA user ever wanted. Amiga2xxx wasn't bad, ForceMonitor is nice and PKludge was rather good, but they all lack the features the Promotor has to offer. Well, here's a list of what you can do ... o Specify specific screens to be promoted using the following criteria: - Name of the task requesting the screen - In case the screen is opened as a public screen, the name of that public screen. - The default title of the screen - The screen-mode requested for this screen. For this you can use any AmigaDOS wild-card pattern. o Change position and dimensions of the screen even the depth can be changed. o Change the screen-mode to use for this screen. Screen-modes can be entered using their name or using their hex ID (useful if the mode doesn't have a name). o Change the overscan mode : standard, text, graphics or video overscan ? o Change the number of Colourmap entries, whether or not to use auto-scroll, whether or not the screen should have a full intuition palette, should it be draggable, have exclusive rights for the display, have shared dripens, should it look like the workbench, have an interleaved bitmap, use the old or new system-font. o Change the dripens of the screen or use the Promotors default dripens. Specify whether 2.x or 3.x like dripens should be used. Any of these changes can be forced so that they will be used, even if the task opening the screen requested other values than the ones you specified. This is a full-functioning evaluation version of the Promotor. It pops up a requester to remind you to register, everytime you open a screen. NEW FEATURES Version 1.01 ------------ Version 1.01 fixes a bug in the registration check. Registered version would do some strange things and give some enforcer hits. Nobody will have noticed this, since nobody subscribed yet. Well, maybe noone knows this program exists ... Better post an announce to comp.sys.amiga :-) Version 1.02 ------------ Version 1.02 fixes a bug in the font handling for the screen. The previous versions didn't allow tasks to specify their own font for a screen, due to a bug in the handling of the SA_Font and SA_SysFont tags. This bug should now be fixed. In addition I've added SYSFONT and FORCESYSFONT options so the user can dictate what system font (the old topaz one or the one in the Preferences) should be used for the screen. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS The Promotor requires kickstart 3.0 or higher. I don't think I'll bother programming around the bugs in ReadArgs of 2.x! The Promotor is most useful for people with the AGA chipset, to get rid of the interlace screen, but it could also be used by A3000 owners running 3.x (developers only :-) who want to change the screenmode of their favourite application. Pre 3.0 users won't be able to use it though! HOST NAME amiga.physik.unizh.ch (130.60.80.80) or any other Aminet site DIRECTORY /pub/aminet/os30/util. FILE NAMES Promotor_1.02.lha, Promotor_1.02.readme PRICE The Promotor is shareware. If you find the program useful, or need anything added, and want to encourage me, or just want to get rid of the requester, a donation is welcome. As stated in the doc file, the shareware fee is $20 US or an equivalent amount in some other currency my bank will accept. Don't worry to much about the exchange rate, if it's about $20 US, you'll get your registration. The money would go into a modem, so I could still contact the rest of the world when my account disappears. At the moment, only bureaucracy is delaying the closing down of it, so it may be possible tha emailing me won't work anymore. DISTRIBUTABILITY Shareware. You may distribute it as much as you want, but you aren't allowed to distribute anything but the archive as I presented it. No file may be removed nor added. If you DO want to change something, you will need approval from me first.