PBlanker V37.04             17 Jul 1991
                             ===============

©1991 by Bernd Preusing
         Gerhardstr. 16
         D-2200 Elmshorn
         Germany
         email: b_preusing@bpamsoft.hanse.de

PBlanker is copyrighted by the author, Bernd Preusing, but it may be
freely distributed  as long as the following terms are agreed to:

1.      No profit may be made with the distribution of PBlanker, i. e.
        the fee you may  charge  for  PPrint  may not exceed the fee
        Fred Fish takes for one disk (international value) or 4.50 DM
        (german value).

2.      PBlanker must be redistibuted completely, that means the
        following files must be present:
            PBlanker          (the executable itself)
            PBlanker.info     (the worbench icon)
            PBlanker.doc      (this file)
            PBlanker.doc.info (doc's workbench icon)

3.      None of the files listed above may be altered in any way.

4.      The  package  may not accompany any commercial product without
        obtaining a written aggreement from the author.

5.      The author can not be made responsible for any damage the
        program may cause.

Any  violation of the terms listed above is considered as breaking
the copyright laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, and will be
punished.

(Thanks to Marc Jackisch for the prototype of this disclaimer.)

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PBlanker is a fully compatible WB 2.0 commodity. It is designed to
replace the original "Blanker" commodity which is shipped with your
WB 2.0. You _need_ Kickstart version 37.xxx to run this program!

PBlanker works just like Blanker. As an enhancement PBlanker can
separately hide the mouse pointer. So there is no need to move your
mouse pointer to the corner of your windows. No boring pointer is
hiding your texts.

The screen blanks if keyboard or mouse is idle for SECONDS secs.
The mouse pointer blanks if the mouse is idle for MSECONDS secs.
Any input event will unblank the screen. Any mouse event will
unblank the mouse pointer.

The value of MSECONDS must be less than SECONDS. Both vaules must
be >0, of course. If you give wrong values on startup or in the
window's gadgets, the screen will flash, and both keywords will get
reasonable values.

Installation:
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Be sure to delete the original Blanker from your system startup!
Blanker and PBlanker _can_ run simultanously, but that would make
no sense and confuse you.

You have two choices to install PBlanker in your system startup:

a) Workbench:
   Just move PBlanker into the WBStartup drawer and adapt the
   tooltypes to your personal preferences (Workbench menu
   "Icons/Information...").
b) User-Startup:
   Make sure PBlanker is in the current path (a good place would be
   sys:tools/commodities/) and add some line like

   run >nil: PBlanker cx_popup=no "cx_popkey=shift f1" seconds=500

   Please note that you need quotes for the second parameter
   because of the space between 'shift' and 'f1'. This is only an
   example.


Default tooltypes settings:
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CX_PRIORITY=0
CX_POPUP=YES
CX_POPKEY=ralt -caps f9
SECONDS=200
MSECONDS=3

Source:
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PBlanker is written in Modula-2 with M2Amiga V4.? :-)
The source is not included for two reasons:
a) I signed a non disclosure agreement with Commodore
b) You have no compiler for it.

History:
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V 37.04 first public release