@DATABASE "Documentation of FrontEnd V1.0" @NODE MAIN "Documentation of FrontEnd V1.0" --------------- FrontEnd V1.0 --------------- © Arturo Roa Ros 1996 @{" Legalities " Link 0.} And more serious things @{" Copyright " Link 1.} @{" Introduction " Link 2.} What is FrontEnd? @{" Requirements " Link 3.} What I need? @{" Installation " Link 4.} How install this? @{" Using FrontEnd " Link 5.} How use this? @{" Acknowledgments " Link 6.} Thanks a lot @{" Author " Link 7.} This grey person with four eyes @ENDNODE @NODE 0. "Legalities, and more serious things." This program is FreeWare, this mean that you can do what you want with it, while you observe this conditions: 1st-This program can't be used by military people. 2nd-Can't be modified, for distribution purposes, the archive that contains the program and the adds. 3rd-No charge may be made for this program, other than a reasonable copying fee, and/or the price of the media. This fee must not be more than US 4$ for floppy disks and US 35$ for CD-ROMs. 4th-If you want to include this program in magazine disks (Floppy or CD-ROM), you must obtain the author permission, this can be obtained sending a copy of the magazine than contains the program in the disk FREE to the author of the program (exception to the Blitz User Group Magazine). 5th-This program cant be included or used in commercial programs without written permission of the author of the program. This Software comes with no warranty. The author is in no way responsive for any damage or loss that may occur due to direct or indirect usage of this Software. @ENDNODE @NODE 1. "Copyright" This software is of free distribution, BUT all the programs and documents are Copyright of Arturo Roa Ros. © Arturo Roa Ros 1996 @ENDNODE @NODE 2. "Introduction, What is FrontEnd?." One of the advantage of use a modern and "Friendly" computer like the Amiga if the GUI (Graphic User Interface) that make easy his use. Sometimes the user of Amiga finds programs very useful but these don't use all the potential of the GUI of the Amiga (file requesters, string requesters, etc), and only can be used from the Shell. FrontEnd has born to simplify a tedious process like execute animation viewers, sound players, and more utilities that have a complex syntaxis and have no file requester. The same thing that do this program you can do with programs like DOPUS, but there are users that can't lose half megabyte of memory to view animations, pictures or hear samples. @ENDNODE @NODE 3. "Requirements, What I need?." This program requires an Amiga computer with Workbench 2.x . Hard Disk is advised, because FrontEnd needs a Font and save a program in the C: directory. This program needs ReqTools.Library V38 or better (© Nico François). @ENDNODE @NODE 4. "Installation, How install this?." The install is automatic running the install script included in the archive. If you want to do the install manually, is easy: Copy FrontEnd to C: Copy Fonts/XEN.font to FONTS: Copy Fonts/XEN/9 to FONTS: Copy FrontEndPrefs to the place in your HD where do you want it Copy Data (directory) to the same place where FrontEndPrefs Copy Catalogs/"YourLanguage"/FrontEnd.catalog to LOCALE:Catalogs/"YourLanguage"/ Copy Examples (directory) to the same place where FrontEndPrefs In FrontEnd V1.0 there is only localization to spanish, if you want FrontEnd in your language, you can translate the catalog with programs like CatEdit (© Rafael D'Halleweyn) or EasyCatalog (© Vektor Software Developement), and send it to me (if you want, of course!!) to include it with the next release of this program (It will show at the credits). @ENDNODE @NODE 5. "Using FrontEnd, How use this?." The use of FrontEnd is easy, you have to create a preferences file for every program you want to use with FrontEnd, this preferences file is created with FrontEndPrefs. FrontEndPrefs. When you execute this program, a window is opened with these gadgets: -Program: In this gadget we introduce the program that we want to use with FrontEnd. -Options: In this gadget we introduce the options of the program that we are using with FrontEnd. -Requester: In this gadget we select the type of file requester we want to use, ASL are the file requester that came with the workbench, and ReqTools are requesters more complex and complete that need ReqTools.Library (© Nico François), I advise the use of this last. -1st: In this gadget we select what we want that go first in the syntax of the program, the options or the file. -Stack: In this gadget we introduce the stack that the program needs to be executed, for the majority of the programs we can leave 4096 bytes like puts FrontEndPrefs by default, but some programs needs a different stack. -Pattern: In this gadget we introduce the pattern we want to use in the file requester. Here only explain that by default (#?) shows all the files, and to show only files with a determined extension we have to introduce #?.extension (#?.FLI #?.IFF). -Title: In this gadget we introduce the title we want in the file requester, something like: Select the animation to play. -Save: This gadget opens a file requester to save a preferences file created. -Load: This gadget opens a file requester to load a preferences file created previously by FrontEndPrefs, and then you can modify it. -About: This gadget opens a window with information about the program like the author, version and finish date. -Quit: This gadget leaves the program, obvious, or not?. One example: I have a anim viewer called SAnim in C:, his syntaxis from the shell is C:SAnim +Ae +f AnimationFile, and previously i have to execute Stack 20000 because it needs 20000 bytes of stack. To do this from the workbench I only have to load FrontEndPrefs and select: In Program: C:Sanim In Options: +Ae +f In Requester: The one I prefer In 1st: Options (they are before the name of the file) In Stack: 20000 In Pattern: #? In Title: Select the anim to view. Save a file with a name like "Dh1:SAnimWB", quit from FrontEndPrefs and to execute the program double click the icon of the file generated by FrontEndPrefs. The default icon of the preferences file in the "Data" directory, "FrontEndDefIcon.info" have as Default Tool "C:FrontEnd", if you want to install the FrontEnd executable in other place than C: then you have to change the path in the Default Tool of this icon to the new place of the FrontEnd executable. @ENDNODE @NODE 6. "Acknowledgments, Thanks a lot." This program has been developed with BlitzBasic II, the best basic around the Amiga world, thanks to the people who support BB2 developing new libraries: -Steven Matty. -Neil O'Rourke. -Richard T. Elmore. -Aaron Koolen. -Stephen McNamara. -Andre Bergmann. -Lee Packham And the people that give support to the users: -Matthew Tillett and the other people of the Blitz User Group Magazine. **********This program is dedicated to the DISOBEDIENTS TO THE ARMYS prisoners and the other CONSCIENCE PRISIONERS of the world.*********** @ENDNODE @NODE 7. "Author, This grey person with four eyes." The author of this program is Arturo Roa Ros, this is my address to those of you that want to write me to contact, swap information about Blitz Basic II, Bug Reports (I think no), or anything: Arturo Roa Ros C/F.Garralda 10 4°D Burlata CP31600 Nafarroa Spain ^ | | My language is spanish, so don't expect too good documents in english. Other useful address, the Blitz User Group magazine: Blitz (Matthew Tillett) 27 Hillside Avenue Worlingham Beccles Suffolk NR34 7AJ England @ENDNODE