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

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                             = TheChoice V1.05 =
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                              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 :

  <Name of Program 1>
  <executable script for Program 1>
  <Name of Program 2>
  <executable script for Program 2>
  <Name of Program 3>
  <executable script for Program 3>
  .
  .
  .
  .
  <Name of Program 78>
  <executable script for Program 78>

The <Name of Program> Text appears in the Gadget and the <executable script for
Program> 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...