CleverWIN
         © 1997 by Stephan Rupprecht
             All rights reserved.
    

COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMER
 CleverWIN is copyrighted 1997 by Stephan Rupprecht. All rights 
 reserved.This program is freeware, so no financial donations 
 required. Redistribution allowed if the package is left unchanged.   
 The author is not responsible for any damage caused by the 
 use or misuse of this documentation and/or the program(s) it 
 describes.


REQUIREMENTS
 Any Amiga® (compatible) computer with at least OS2.04.


DESCRIPTION
 The AmigaOS knows two methods of refreshing the contents of a window.
 The first one (simple refresh) is slow but only requires a small amount 
 of memory, whereas the second one (smart refresh) is much faster, but 
 requires a larger amount of memory.
 CleverWIN is small patch which forces all programs to open their windows
 in smartrefresh mode. Unfortunely, there are some programs which does
 not work correctly when smartrefresh is used, for this purpose CleverWIN
 allows you exclude certain tasks and pubscreens from getting patched.
 This is especially useful for console windows (shell) which only feature
 cut'n'paste in simplerefresh mode.


INSTALLATION AND START
 To install CleverWIN just drop its icon on a directory of your choice.
 You can start CleverWIN either from shell or from workbench, the follow-
 ing tooltypes/shell options are recognized:

 PUBSCREEN
   This option allows you to define a pattern of all public screens which
   should be patched by CleverWIN.

   Examples: 
   PUBSCREEN=(Workbench|TCalc)
	only windows opened on Workbench and TCalc screen will be 
	patched.
   PUBSCREEN=~(Workbench)
	patch all windows, except those opened on Workbench.
 
   NOTE: This option does only affect public screens, standard
      	 custom screen are not affected by it. Use the IGNORETASK 
         option for custom screens instead!
	 Alternative choices (eg. Workbench|TCalc) and negated
	 expressions (eg. ~Workbench) must be placed in round 
	 brackets (as shown in the examples)!

 IGNORETASK
   This one allows to exclude certain tasks from patching, this is
   useful when a certain program doesn't correctly refresh its windows 
   in smartrefresh mode.

   Examples:
   IGNORETASK=Workbench    
	This keeps CleverWIN from patching windows which are opened
	by the workbench task.
   IGNORETASK=(CON#?|dpaint#?)
	CleverWIN will not patch console windows (Shell) and dpaint 
	windows.

   NOTE: You should always use this pattern to make sure that
         the cut`n`paste feature of console windows does not get 
      	 lost. DPaint 4 does not work correctly in smart refresh 
      	 mode!

 NOBACKDROPS
   This option disables the patching of backdrops windows.

   NOTE: If you have a backdrop wb window, you should switch on this option 
         to avoid graphical trash.

 QUIET
   This option supresses the 'CleverWIN installed/removed' messages.


 You can remove the patch by starting CleverWIN a second time. 


SPECIAL THANKS TO
   Damian Jurzysta for his error report and sending me a
   newer version of notifyintuition.library.
   Dirk Neubauer for his emails.
   
   
HISTORY
   37.0  first public release
   37.1  error in the doc fixed, added Installer script
   37.2  removed Enforcer hit, which was caused by write
	 access to rom. added PUBSCREEN option, removed
      	 (buggy) SCREEN option.
   37.3  improved PUBSCREEN option. CleverWIN is now a
	 commodity.
   37.4  recompiled with MaxonDEVELOP, minor optimiziations,
	 changed version id from 39.x to 37.x 
   37.5  added NOBACKDROPS option
   37.6  internal release
   37.7  totally rewritten: CleverWIN is no longer a commodity,
	 removed support for notifyintuition.library,
	 program terminates after patch has been installed
	 -> saves about 15-20kb of memory!
   37.8  bugfix: patch code did not check all tags passed to
	 OpenWindowTagList(), fixed wrong example in the docs
	 (~Workbench -> ~(Workbench)), minor improvements
   37.9	 problems with PPaint 6.4 and Digita Organizer should
	 be fixed now.


AUTHOR

Please send bug reports and ideas to:

 Stephan Rupprecht
 Apfeldweg 1
 D44359 Dortmund
 Germany

 Send emails to

 stephan.rupprecht@metronet.de