Info-File for ´ALERT 3.6 ´ An Alert is the red blinking box on the upper side of your screen . If you make a mistake this box will appear and shows your error . The most of the users or programmers are very unhappy if this box appers . Another name for this box was "GURU-MASSAGE" . ´ALERT 3.6´ produces own Alerts ( GURUs ) ... In this Alert can be 7 Lines with 77 ASCII-Codes . You can save the Text of the Alert and you can save an executeble File who make the GURU . -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Program : You can start ´ALERT 3.6´ from Workbench with a click or ... Go to the CLI and type ".../alert3.6" . The program will be started . A window on the Workbench-Screen will be open . In the window you see 7 String-Gadgets for the 7 Lines and 5 other Gadgets . Also you have 2 Menus ( Copyright and Special ) . The Gadgets : Test-Gadget : The text for the Guru will be tested ( you see a GURU with you text inside ) ... Save-Gadget : A filerequester ( an info for the filerequester comes later ... ) comes and you must type a file . If you click in the OK-Gadget of the filerequester the text of the GURU will be saved . Load-Gadget : The same as the Save-Gadget but the text will be loaded and not saved . Program-Gadget : The same as the Save-Gadget but not for Text . ´ALERT 3.6´ will create an executeble file and save them . You can start this file from Workbench and from the CLI . Quit-Gadget : The Programm will be quit . Lines-Gadget : You can type a Number from 1-7 for the Lines . If you type 5 , 5 Lines you can see . The Menus : In the Copyright-Menu you can the name and adress of the author . Special-Menu - Reset : ´ALERT 3.6´will be reset the computer . This reset is a hard reset ( all virus go to hell ) . Special-Menu - 60 Hz : This option was made for PAL-Users . If you click this Menu-Point the Screen will go from 50 Hz to 60 Hz . If you mix ´60 Hz´ and ´Reset´ you have a NTSC ( 60 Hz ) - Amiga . A lot of Games ( Xenon II ... ) and Utilities ( DPAINT II ... ) or very greatfull . Special-Menu - 1 Bitplane : This option will make a Workbench with 2 colors ( one bitplane ) . Special-Menu - New Alert : The active Guru-Text will be deleted . All Menu-points you can also make with a Shortcut ... The Filerequester : This Filerequester is my Standart-Filerequester . In a lot of programms ( from my ) you can see it . You can see 5 normal Gadgets ... The ´OK´-Gadget : With this Gadget you tell the program that the name and the direktory are corect . With the ´DF0:´-Gadget the program will bring the direktory from Drive 0 . The ´Cancel´-Gadget ( and the Close-Gadget ) tell the program that the Name and the direktory are uncorect . In the ´Drawer´-Gadget ( Direktory ) you can see the name of the directory . If you want you can edit the name ( "ram: ... " ) . In the ´File´-Gadget you can see the name of the file . You can edit , delete or change the name . The Name of the files you can see in the middle of the window . You can click with the Mouse in one of the Names . If the name was a direktory ( another color ) the program will read this direktory . ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ´ALERT 3.6´ was written by Thomas Jansen Hauptstraße 21 4773 Möhnesee - Körbecke W - Germany 02924 / 5780 !!! ´ALERT3.6´ is Shareware . Please test the programm one or two weeks if you find it good and usefull , send me $10 or 20 DM to my adress !!! ( I need the money ... ) Greetings to : Peter Händle ( Thanks for the talk on the Programmer-meeting ) Oliver Wagner , Fridtjof Siebert , Roger Fishlin ... -------------------------------------------------------- The Versions of ´ALERT x.x´ : V 1.0 ( Basic ) - 02.02.1989 ( --- ) V 2.0 ( Basic ) - 02.07.1989 ( --- ) V 2.3 ( Assembler ) - 10.01.1990 ( --- ) V 3.5 ( Assembler ) - 31.10.1990 ( --- ) ---> V 3.6 ( Assembler ) - 16.11.1990 ( Fish-Disk ) The Future of ´ALERT´ : V 3.7 - The Guru will be saved on the Bootblock ... V 4.0 - The Guru can work with 2-Color-Grafic ( Thats not a dream , thats reality ) If you want you can have a disk with GFX-Alerts . I hope you have some fun with this and my other programs ... T. Jansen