Short: TheChoice V1.05 - Simple Program Selector Author: c_wich@river.prima.ruhr.de (Carsten Wich) Uploader: c_wich@river.prima.ruhr.de (Carsten Wich) Type: util/boot =================== = TheChoice V1.05 = =================== Copyright 1993-95 by Carsten Wich Hagebuttenweg 34 44289 Dortmund Germany Phone +49-2304-43692 E-Mail c_wich@river.prima.ruhr.de The Choice is a small Program Selector especially useful for Game Partitions of Harddisks (or SyQuest etc.). It allows up to 102 entries to be displayed on a PAL HiresLace Screen or 48 entries on a PAL Hires Screen. All the Programms appear as Intuition Gadgets and can be easily selected by a Left Mouse Click. Installation is quite simply. Just place TheChoice in a path of your choice and create a config file. The config file has to be located in S: Directory and has to be named "TheChoice.config". The Contents of this file breaks down as follows : . . . . The Text appears in the Gadget and the will be executed after selection of the appropiate gadget. That's basically all you have to know (Quite simply, eh). I also included the Source Code in this release, feel free to take a look at it. If you have any proposals or find any bugs then let me know. I would also like to hear some opinions about this little program so that I can see if there is a need in the Amiga World for it or if I should waste my time on something other. History: 1.0 - 23.11.1993 First Release 1.01 - 13.03.1994 Bugfixed Release TheChoice crashed if the Config-File had more than 77 Programs 1.02- 1.03 - internal beta Versions 1.04 - still beta, but several bug fixes and improvements... - only PAL screen possible -> more max entries possible - TheChoice now searches for the config script in S: rather than in Games:S - TheChoice now copies the choosen script to the file "RAM:Script" which you have to execute after you started TheChoice 1.05 - 27.07.1995 First AmiNet Release - Removed some beta code so the executable is now a bit shorter - Removed the switch between PAL and NTSC because NTSC is not supported in this Release - TheChoice excutes the script again (due to some complaints by a friend of mine Future: I am currently planning the new version 2.0 of TheChoice. It will be entirely written in SAS-C and will automatically fit its window to the choosen PubScreen or creates its own one. The ModeID, Font and location of the config file can be choosen via tooltypes / shell-arguments. Don't expect this version before September '95 because I am going on vacation the whole August. So long, tramps like us... ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 1233 595 51.7% 28-Jul-95 15:19:52 TheChoice.info 143 91 36.3% 23-Nov-93 16:55:50 +TheChoice.config 40 40 0.0% 23-Nov-93 16:18:18 +BoulderDash 43 43 0.0% 23-Nov-93 11:37:04 +E_II 61 60 1.6% 23-Nov-93 13:13:28 +GS2000 60 60 0.0% 23-Nov-93 15:46:36 +Syndicate 41 41 0.0% 23-Nov-93 11:45:10 +WingComm 13500 7595 43.7% 28-Jul-95 14:47:56 +TheChoice 682 454 33.4% 28-Jul-95 15:19:52 +TheChoice.info 5943 1892 68.1% 28-Jul-95 14:46:36 +TheChoice.mod 3294 1449 56.0% 28-Jul-95 15:16:48 +TheChoice.ReadMe 1432 538 62.4% 28-Jul-95 15:19:52 +TheChoice.ReadMe.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 26472 12858 51.4% 29-Jul-95 01:16:00 12 files