@DATABASE "Multitudinous" @NODE "MAIN" "MAIN" @TOC "MAIN" Multitudinous. Version V5.5 K.Winspear 1995. All Rights Are Reserved Worldwide. @{" " LINK "What_is_Multitudinous"} What is Multitudinous @{" " LINK "How_to_start_Multitudinous"} How to start Multitudinous @{" " LINK "HD_Install"} HD_Install @{" " LINK "Disclaimer"} Disclaimer @{" " LINK "Shareware!"} Shareware! @{" " LINK "Main_Part"} Multitudinous Main Screen @{" " LINK "Editor"} Multitudinous Editor @{" " LINK "Thanks"} Thanks To... @ENDNODE @NODE "Shareware!" @TOC "MAIN" Multitudinous V5.5 is Shareware, register and you will get a .Key File and no Shareware requesters/waiting time... All upgrades will be FREE... @ENDNODE @NODE "What_is_Multitudinous" @TOC "MAIN" The following is available:- - Multitudinous is a HD-Menu or Disk-Menu. - With Multitudinous programs can be started with a click of the mouse. - Displays the time date and memory at all times. - Has Workbench support - starts program as double-clicked from WB. - The Editor is a separate program. - Full online Amigaguide Help. - Each Menu holds 55 gadgets. - Has it's own Palette. - Each menu can have it's own colours. - Each gadget has it's own colour and font. - Five fonts. - Appicon, drag an icon onto the Appicon to Read, Edit etc. - Make new menus, the number of menus is endless, 55 gadgets to a menu. ------------------------------------ When Multitudinous is run for the first time, it will search for it's own fonts, these are Topaz.font 8 & 11, GTBMenu.Font 8, 2001 8, Helvetica. If it can't find them, it will alert you to the fact and then abort. ------------------------------------ It also looks for a file named 'M.config' in the MConfigs: Directory. If 'M.Config' wasn't't found, it will alert you of the fact and abort. You can edit 'M.Config' BUT DO NOT RENAME IT? But don't worry the Install program will install these for you. ------------------------------------ You will now be presented with the main screen. You are ready to use Multitudinous. @ENDNODE @NODE "How_to_start_Multitudinous" @TOC "MAIN" How to start Multitudinous:- The easiest way to start Multitudinous is by putting it into the WBStartup-drawer on the boot-harddisk or WorkBench disk. It will be started automatically after each reset. Or you can double-click on the Icon at any time to start Multitudinous. @ENDNODE @node "HD_Install" @TOC "MAIN" INSTALLER:- Simply double-click on the `InstallMultitudinousV5.5' icon, After a few moments the installer will step you through the installation procedure. MANUAL:- You can drag Multitudinous V5.5 and MConfigs directory into the Directory of your choice, Multitudinous V5.5 and the MConfigs directory MUST be in the same Directory, other wise Multitudinous V5.5 won't find M.Config. These four fonts must be copied to your SYS:Fonts directory:- Topaz.font 8 & 11 GTBMenu.Font 8 2001 8 Helvetica. That's it you are ready to use Multitudinous. @endnode @NODE "Disclaimer" @TOC "MAIN" Disclaimer:- A Friend tells me I need this.. I, Kevin Winspear, take no responsibility for any thing that goes wrong with this progam (although it shouldn`t!), accidental or otherwise. Or, in other words, if any thing goes wrong, you can`t sue me. If you have any problems contact me at the address at the bottom of this doc file. The copyright does remain with me, so don`t go creating a progam called Multitudinous because if I find out, your dead (financially!) The shareware version is freely distributable if distributed along the following guidelines:- 1. The files are not altered in anyway whatsoever. 2. The files are not to be crunched, apart from archiving with LHA or LZX (nice proggy! shame about the bugs in 1.20!). 3. The archive must contain the following:- Multitudinous Multitudinous.info MConfigs/AppIcon.info MConfigs/M.Config MConfigs/M.GamesConfig MConfigs/M.Grafixconfig MConfigs/M.Musicsconfig MConfigs/M.Prefsconfig MConfigs/Utilsconfig MConfigs/MHG MConfigs/Multi.Key MConfigs/Multiprefs MConfigs/Multitudinous-Editor 4. Multitudinous is not allowed to be distributed for profit. 5. Permission is required to place this program on a coverdisk, or inclusion of a compilation (Fred Fish and Amiga Shopper don`t need permission because I love them so much!), See @ENDNODE @NODE "Main_Part" @TOC "MAIN" Multitudinous's Main Screen:- @{" " LINK "Main-Screen"} Main-Screen @{" " LINK "Four Button Gadgets"} Four Bottom Gadgets @{" " LINK "Three Top Gadgets"} Three Top Gadgets @{" " LINK "HotKeys"} HotKeys @{" " LINK "Right Mouse button"} Right Mouse button @ENDNODE @NODE "Main-Screen" @TOC "MAIN" The Main-Screen:- The main screen has 55 gadgets for the user to click on one of the gadgets to start a user - defined program. @ENDNODE @NODE "Four Button Gadgets" @TOC "MAIN" Four Button Gadgets:- Along with normal gadgets there are four gadgets at the button right. Quit:- Quit's Multitudinous, after asking you, are you sure? Info:- For information about the Author. Edit:- Will load up the Editor, which is a separate program, when clicked the editor will load the menu you had displayed in the main part of Multitudinous at the time you clicked on the edit gadget. App:- The App gadget will close the main part of Multitudinous and put an Appicon onto your Workbench for you to drag other icons to read, edit etc. @ENDNODE @NODE "Right Mouse button" @TOC "MAIN" Right Mouse button:- If the right mouse button is Pressed, the screen closes and opens a window on the Workbench screen, to get back to the main screen click the right mouse again, this will return you to the main screen. @ENDNODE @NODE "HotKeys" @TOC "MAIN" HotKeys:- Pressing the HOTKEY, which is, 'left control, left shift and s' will return you to the main screen. @ENDNODE @NODE "Three Top Gadgets" @TOC "MAIN" Three Top Gadgets:- The far right is the Depth Gadget, next in clicking on this will scroll Multitudinous down, revealing the Workbench, next to this will scroll Multitudinous back to the top. And not for getting the Close gadget at the top left, this will Quit Multitudinous, after asking you, are you sure? @ENDNODE @NODE "Editor" @TOC "Main" Multitudinous's Editor. Version V5.5 K.Winspear 1995. All Rights Are Reserved Worldwide. @{" " LINK "Four_Column_titles"} Four Column-titles @{" " LINK "ListView_Gadgets"} ListView Gadgets @{" " LINK "Gadget_Name"} Gadget Name @{" " LINK "Filename"} Filename @{" " LINK "Password"} Password @{" " LINK "Start-Mode"} Start-Mode @{" " LINK "TEST_Gadget"} Test Gadget @{" " LINK "Colour_Gadgets"} Colour Gadgets @{" " LINK "Palette"} Palette @{" " LINK "Preferences"} Preferences @{" " LINK "App-Window"} App-Window @{" " LINK "Fonts"} Fonts @{" " LINK "Copy&Delete"} Copy & Delete @{" " LINK "About"} About @{" " LINK "Help"} Help @{" " LINK "Re-Load"} Re-Load @{" " LINK "Save_Gadget"} Save Gadget @{" " LINK "Save_As"} Save As @{" " LINK "Cancel"} Cancel @ENDNODE @NODE "Four_Column_titles" @TOC "Editor" Four Column-titles. Can be changed by clicking in one of the four boxes and entering the new titles and then press return. @ENDNODE @NODE "ListView_Gadgets" @TOC "MAIN" ListView Gadgets. The four listview-gadgets represent the four gadget-columns. Clicking on one of the listview gadgets presses it in so you know you are editing that listview gadget. You can select the gadget to be edited in these by clicking on your left mouse button and a bar will highlight that name (gadget). @ENDNODE @NODE "Gadget_Name" @TOC "Editor" Gadget Name. When a gadget is selected from one of the listview gadgets, it can be edited. By using the GadgetName under the Listview Gadgets. So for example when you click on this gadget in the main part of Multitudinous you want to start Opus you would, Click in the Gadget Name box, (delete any existing name with the Del or back space key) and then type in Opus, then press return. @ENDNODE @NODE "Filename" @TOC "Editor" Filename. When a gadget is selected from one of the listview gadgets, it can be edited. By using the Filename under the Listview Gadgets. Click on the blue box next to Filename will bring up a File requester for you to look for a program, It's best to click on the right mouse button to get the full path of your program, like most file requesters find the program you want then double-click on the program, this will put the full path and the name of your program in the string gadget next to the blue box. So as for our example, we would click on the blue box to bring up the file requester then click on the right mouse button and go through the directories for Opus, once we've found opus we double-click on opus, this will put the full path and the name opus in the string gadget next to the blue box. You can always click in the string gadget and type the full path and name of the program. BUT YOU MUST KNOW THE FULL PATH WHERE THE PROGRAM IS. Please remember any programs with a space in the name you try to start from Multitudinous will not work, the Amiga dose like spaces in filenames or directories. If for example you had a program called 'Multitudinous V5.3', notice it has a space, rename it like this 'Multitudinous_V5.3'. @ENDNODE @NODE "Password" @TOC "Editor" Password. You can add a password to a gadget, after selecting a gadget from the listview(s), click in the Password string gadget and type in anything up to 10 characters. The password will have to be exactly the same as you type in this string-gadget. Example:- Typing 'PPP' in capital letters, when prompted to enter a password you must type in the password in capital letters, you can mix like so 'PpP' or 'P*P' etc. @ENDNODE @NODE "Start-Mode" @TOC "Editor" The Program start-mode:- Now you have to select the Start-mode. After selecting Start-Mode six gadgets will drop down. @{" " LINK "Launch"} Launch @{" " LINK "WBRun"} WBRun @{" " LINK "Execute"} Execute @{" " LINK "CLI"} CLI @{" " LINK "Options"} Options @{" " LINK "Script"} Script @{" " LINK "Menu"} Menu @ENDNODE @NODE "Launch" @TOC "Start-Mode" Startmode Launch. In the mode Launch the program will be started normally and Multitudinous quits. @ENDNODE @NODE "WBRun" @TOC "Start-Mode" Startmode WBRun. In the mode WBRun, the program will be started normally, Multitudinous closes the screen and iconifies. WBRun will run all programs which support Workbench as double-clicked from Workbench. If a program is not Workbench supported then a requester will alert you that the program is not a Workbench supported and try CLI as Startmode. @ENDNODE @NODE "Execute" @TOC "Start-Mode" Startmode Execute. In the mode Execute, the program will be started. Multitudinous screen stays open, other programs can be started by clicking on gadgets. @ENDNODE @NODE "CLI" @TOC "Start-Mode" Startmode CLI. In this mode `CLI` a requester pops up for you to enter a CLI command, for example if you entered in the Full-Path String-Gadget c:Ed and programstart- mode was CLI when the requester pops up and you type in S:Startup-Sequence it will Run 'Ed S:Startup-Sequence'. @ENDNODE @NODE "Options" @TOC "Start-Mode" Startmode Options. After assigning this for your program-startmode will bring up a window letting you choose from Cli, Run, Launch, Execute or None. @ENDNODE @NODE "Script" @TOC "Start-Mode" Startmode Script. Selecting this will let you execute AmigaDos Scripts. For example you could make a script like the following lines:- c:cd work:mp c:stack 40000 runback work:mp/mediapoint @ENDNODE @NODE "Menu" @TOC "Start-Mode" Startmode Menu. In the mode Menu, a new configfile will be loaded after the gadget has been selected form the main part of Multitudinous. All gadgets, titles, colours, fonts and the entries specified in the new configfile will be loaded. Here is an example for an entry for a Gadget in the Editor. Gadget Name:- Graphic FileName:- DH0:MConfigs/M.graphicconfig StartMode:- Menu After this gadget has been selected, again from the main part of Multitudinous, the configfile "DH0:MConfigs/M.graphicconfig" will be loaded. All Gadgets will now become new functions, declared in the new-loaded configfile ("M.GraphicConfig"). If the configfile was not found it will not load and alert you what went wrong - Go back in the editor and check the full path of the configfile. If you have click on Startmode and wish to cancel StartMode without selecting one, Press your right mouse button. @ENDNODE @NODE "Test_Gadget" @TOC "Editor" The Test-Gadget:- It's for viewing what the selected gadget will look like. This Gadget is the same size as the Main Gadgets. @ENDNODE @NODE "Colour_Gadgets" @TOC "Editor" The Colour-Gadgets:- With this, you can select the background colour for the selected gadget. @ENDNODE @NODE "Palette" @TOC "Editor" Colour Palette:- You can change the Gadget colours to suit you. After clicking on this gadget will bring up a window containing the 8 Colours for the gadgets. Click on the colour you want to change and then use the slider gadgets on the left to change the colours, if you want to reset to default click on the gadget at the top right of this window, named Reset or click on the gadget next to this called last saved to load the last saved colour palette. @ENDNODE @NODE "Preferences" @TOC "Editor" Preferences:- Clicking on Preferences will open a window, from here you tell Multitudinous how to start by clicking on the cycle gadget, Normal, AppIcon, Iconify. Next you can select which program you want to run when you drag an Icon on to the AppIcon. Use the blue file gadget box to bring up the file requester to locate the program, this will put the full path into the string gadget for you. At the bottom of this window you can type in the two string gadgets the X & Y of the iconify window, in other words where about on your Workbench you would like the Iconfiy window to open. @ENDNODE @NODE "App-Window" @TOC "Editor" App-Window:- After you have selected a gadget from one of the listview gadgets you can then click on App-Windpw, this will put an App-Window on the Workbench, clicking on the close gadget will close the App-Window and will not set anything. Now you can click 'n' drag an icon into this window, this will return you to the editor and everything will set for you, all you have to do is select the gadget colour/font. @ENDNODE @NODE "Fonts" @TOC "Editor" You can assign one off the five Fonts to each gadget. Select one of the gadgets from one of the listview gadget then select a font by clicking on it, if you can not see the font you want then use the scroll bar at the right. @ENDNODE @NODE "Copy&Delete" @TOC "Editor" Copy/Delete-Gadget:- With these gadgets you can Copy or Delete Gadgets. To Copy a gadget, Select the Gadget to be copied - Click on Copy - Select destination by double-click. Delete:- Select the Gadget to be deleted - Click on Delete then double-click on the Gadget to confirm. In both cases you will be ask to confirm if you want to delete or copy the selected gadget. Status:- Lets you know what is happening By printing Copying..., Deleting... or Waiting... Don't for get to click 'OFF' when finished, if you do make a mess and Delete some thing's you did not want to, click on Re-Load, explained later. @ENDNODE @NODE "About" @TOC "Editor" About:- This will display information about the Author and Version number. @ENDNODE @NODE "Help" @TOC "Editor" The Help Gadget:- This is the Online-Help. When this help is activated a requester will pop up letting you know Help is now activated. The gadget will be pressed down until you click on the help again to turn it off. Any gadget can now be selected and the appropriate help-message will be displayed in full Amigaguide, once the amigaguide comes up you can always brows through the guide, or you can click on the amigaguide's close gadget and then click on another Multitudinous gadget you need help on and again the amigaguide will come up. To quit the help-mode, click onto the Help-Gadget again. @ENDNODE @NODE "Re-Load" @TOC "Editor" Re-Load:- This re-loads the configfile you are editing, first it will ask you to confirm this. All changes will be lost. @ENDNODE @NODE "Save_Gadget" @TOC "Editor" The Save Gadget:- All changes are saved. Then the EDITOR quits and the main part of Multitudinous Re-Loads the configfile. @ENDNODE @NODE "Save_As" @TOC "Editor" The Save AS Gadget:- You can save the configfile you are editing with another name. With this, you can create new configfiles easily. All the Gadgets and colours are saved as well. When you config a Gadget to load the new configfile just Delete the Gadgets and change names, colours, fonts, to suit you. You can always make a gadget load the M.NEWConfig, this is a new menu with only the 5 Menu gadgets and all the rest are blank gadgets, ready for you to assign a programs, colours, fonts, etc. to each gadget. @ENDNODE @NODE "Cancel" @TOC "Editor" Cancel:- Clicking on this will quit the EDITOR and all changes will be lost and the main part of Multitudinous will Re-Load the configfile. A requester will come up and ask you to confirm this option. @ENDNODE @NODE "Thanks" @TOC "Main" A big THANKS to.. All the people who registered their copies of Multitudinous ...Thank you.... And my wife and daughter for putting up with me after spending hundreds of hours on the Computer compiling this program. Lee Packham, The cool programmer `ere Down South', For his help and support. Thanks Lee... Matthew Tillett, For trying to get people to support BLITZ BASIC II... Anyone I've forgotten.. The End:- Well, that's it. I hope that you enjoy using Multitudinous and get some use out of it. Don't worry if it seems a little complicated at first, it really is quite simple to use once you've got the hang of it. Practice makes perfect If you are having trouble with Multitudinous or wish to contact me in regard to suggestions, general enquiries etc. then you can do so by writing to me at this address. K.Winspear Multitudinous Support 10 Colenso St Hartlepool Cleveland TS26 9BD ENGLAND With all correspondence, please enclose a pre-paid self addressed envelope, and a blank disk if you require any code. Would you please also include the following details about your Amiga. Model: Processor: Memory: Hard Disk?: OS Version: @ENDNODE