Maverick ~~~~~~~~ WWF Message Reader Version 1.00 Released: 10-Mar-96! ©1995,1996 SH-Ware Introduction Maverick is an easy-to-use offline reader. It supports the WWF message format. Maverick is primarily intended as a tool for sysops who want to check out message bundles. Using Maverick you can do this very quickly and easily. Anybody can use Maverick to take a look at a message bundle perhaps to find a particular message or just to read a message or two. Maverick has no message writing facilities. Warning This is version 1.00 and a finished product, but this does not mean that it is quaranteed to work correctly. It may do some weird things and may not totally work. Use Maverick at your own risk. The author accepts no responsibility whatsoever for any damage caused by the use of Maverick. Permission is granted to operate and redistribute Maverick freely for no charge. Usage Format: Maverick [CFG CfgFile] Template: BUNDLE,CFG/K Operation: Maverick wants to get the name of the bundle you want to take a look at as its first argument. You may specify a full path name, but if you do not, the bundle will be looked for in the default directory for bundles. Set the directory name in the configuration file, which defaults to Maverick.cfg. You can change this by specifying the CFG option. If the option is not specified, the configuration file will be looked for in the current directory, and if not found there, then in the program directory. An example configuration file, that also has explanation about the configuration entries, accompanies the program. If you do not specify a bundle on the command line, a file requester will be brought up, and you may select a bundle then. You can enter the full name of the bundle, or just the identification part, and let Maverick add the WWF extension. If the bundle exists, it will be unpacked and the first message of the first area displayed. Maverick opens a public screen and a window with some controls. In the top of the window below the title bar there is a control bar, which consists of six buttons. Look below for explanation. Below the buttons there is the actual message, presented to you in six text boxes and one listview gadget, which contains the message text. The six text boxes show the originator, recipient, time of writing, number and subject of the message plus the name of the current message area. In the number of message box the real message number is followed by an expression like "[2/4]". This means that the currently displayed message is number two of four messages in the current area in this bundle. If the message text does not fit in the area of the window assigned to it, you may scroll the message text using the scroll bar on the right or clicking the up and down buttons below it. The arrow keys also work. Click the close gadget of the window to exit Maverick. Each area will remember the number of the message you last read in it. It will be updated each time you read a new message. Buttons Area brings up an area list, where you can also see the numbers and amount of messages in each area, as well as the number of unread messages in each area. Select one, and you will next be displayed the first unread message in the selected area. List shows a listing of the messages in the currently selected area. You will see the number, recipient, originator and subject of each message. You may select one of them, and it will be displayed to you next. Previous takes you one message back in the current area. Next shows the next message in the current area. Pressing equals clicking the Next button. Original shows the message the currently displayed message is a reply of. Save asks you for a file name, and then saves the message currently displayed in the file. A brief header will be written in the beginning. Note! You may only have one of the selectors open at any one time. Make a selection first, and then open the other, if still required. Final word Maverick has been developed to be a tool performing an explicit function, and it currently does what it was designed to do. Simply put, it is a finished product. Therefor, no new releases will be made available in the future. History 0.60 adds keyboard shortcuts for the buttons (they were forgotten from the 0.50...) and corrects the bug that caused the reader to jump to the next area before displaying the last message in the current area. This was Release 2. The first released version was the previously mentioned 0.50. 0.64 was a minor upgrade changing the Reply button to Save button. I think the First Reply field of the WWF message header does not really (always) do what I think it should be supposed to be doing, so I decided to change it totally. This version was never released. 0.80 added some little things and implemented a real message processor, that proprely handles messages before displaying them, making sure that there are no lines too long, text flows right and getting rid of all control lines. The code for the message processor was taken from Elina. This version was not released, and was shortly (in a matter of hours) followed by 0.99, which then became 1.00 after it was made sure that it worked for good. 1.00 finally opens some file requesters. Now Maverick asks for a bundle if not specified on the command line. There are also some little things new in this version. This is the final version and as far as I am concerned, Maverick is now finished. No further development has been planned.