NextWindow V2.1a (5-Feb-1995)


1. INTRODUCTION

Many people like to work with their keyboard without touching their mouse
very much. If you are one of them, you have probably noticed that it's hard
to activate a window without using mouse. The solution is NextWindow.
You can use it to cycle through the windows in the screen, until you reach
the window you want to use, without using your mouse. How about this:
you have loaded your favorite text editor, and have a shell activated in
another screen and you are doing dirs etc. Then you want to write some
text with the editor. You of course press Amiga-m and start to write, and
all the text you wrote, went to the shell. NextWindow also has a hotkey
for activating the frontmost screen, avoiding this problem. 


2. USAGE

Please read the Disclaimer-section before installing the program.

If you are using workbench, just click on the NextWindow icon, and you're
ready to go. You can use the tooltypes of the icon to change the hotkeys,
or to deactivate the "TOFRONT"-option (not only activates the window,
but also brings it to front).

If you are using cli, just type NextWindow and you're ready to go. Of course,
you might want to type "run NextWindow", if want to use the shell for
something else. You can quit the program with ctrl-c. The hotkey is set
using command line arguments. e.g:

  NextWindow NEXTHOTKEY"control a"
  NextWindow PREVHOTKEY"control ." TOFRONT
  NextWindow SCREENHOTKEY"control s" PREVHOTKEY="lcommand v"

NextWindow is a commodity, so you can quit or deactivate it with Exchange or
anything similiar.


3. THE AUTHOR

Future plans include a patch for the amiga-m to automatically activate
the frontmost screen, and remembering the activated windows in each
screen, so you won't have to start cycling everytime you activate the
frontmost screen, and bringing the window to front after releasing the
qualifier key, as was suggested by a user (thanks!), whose name I don't
happen to remember right now.

Many thanks to everyone who has sent me feedback!

If you find any bugs, have any ideas, have trouble with the program, want
to say your opinion on it etc., please contact me by email or normal post.
You can also get the source code in C or newest version from me. Any
feedback is welcome!

EMail: linna@mits.mdata.fi (the better way)

Snail-mail: Heikki Linnakangas   (if you can't use E-Mail)
            Porvoonkatu 19 A 25
            00510 Helsinki
            Finland


4. HISTORY

I can't remember the history before this version very well, and I'm too
lazy to find out, so I decided to just leave it out. :)

--- V2.1a - Made some changes in the documents
          - Fixed a bug with backdrop windows popping up (Thanks Magnus!)
          - There was some debugging information left into the
            executable. Now removed, making the code smaller
          - Changed the default NEXTHOTKEY to "lcommand comma"


5. DISCLAIMER

THE AUTHOR IS NOT IN LIABLE IN ANY WAY FOR ANY DAMAGE ARISING OUT OF
THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.

This program is FreeWare. You may use and distribute it unless told to not
do so by the author. You may charge a nominal fee to recover distribution
costs. The distribution fee must not exceed 15 FIM or 3 USD + distribution
expenses. The distribution of an incomplete or changed package is prohibited.

You may copy and distribute this package, as long as the contents of the
package are not changed in any way. The package must include the following
files:

  NextWindow             3544 bytes
  NextWindow.info         594 bytes
  NextWindow.doc         3689 bytes
  NextWindow.doc.info     528 bytes