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- M e g a W B
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- © 1988 by Fridtjof Siebert
- Nobileweg 67
- 7000 Stuttgart 40
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- Description:
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- This Program makes it possible to make your Workbenchscreen as large as
- you like! All the problems you've had with programs like TurboBackup,
- KwikBackUp, AudioMaster etc. are gone now. You can easily drag their
- Window away or use the Workbench area around them!
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- To be able to use the hole Workbench, it scrolls everytime you move the
- mouse.
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- There are two different methods to scroll the Workbenchscreen. You can
- select proportional scrolling. Then your workbench will scroll anytime
- you move the mouse. If you don't select this mode, the workbench scrolls
- everytime the pointer hits the Workbench's edges.
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- How to use it:
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- You can start MegaWB by doubleclicking its Icon or by typing its name
- into your CLI window.
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- Usage: MegaWB [P] [WIDTH HEIGHT]
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- The Option "P" selects proportional mode.
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- WIDTH and HEIGHT specify the size your Workbench should have. If you
- start MegaWB without specifying the size, it'll create a 1024 x 512
- pixels large Workbench.
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- Example: MegaWB P 800 400
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- If you start MegaWB by clicking it's Icon, it'll read its parameters from
- the toolTypes of its Icon. The ToolTypes "WIDTH" and "HEIGHT" specify the
- Workbench's size. IF you set "PROP" in the "FLAGS"-ToolType, your
- Workbench will scroll proportionally to your mousemovements.
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- Example:
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- FLAGS=PROP
- WIDTH=1024
- HEIGHT=512
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- The Workbench's width and height shouldn't be higher than 1024, 'cause
- that's the maximum size of a bitmap blitter can handle. If your workbench
- is too large, you may accidentally make a window higher or wider than
- 1024 Pixels. This causes strange things to happen.
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- If you start MegaWB within your Startup-Sequence ("RunBack MegaWB 800
- 400"), before you execute LoadWB, the Workbenchwindow will be as big as
- your Workbench. Then the Disk-Icons will appear at the very right border
- of your MegaWB-Screen.
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- How to quit MegaWB:
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- To get back your ancient Workbench, just start MegaWB once again. You
- have to have smallened all your Windows and have moved them to the upper
- left corner of the Workbench, else MegaWB won't quit. If there isn't
- enough Chip-Memory available to allocate the original Workbench's BitMap,
- MegaWB won't quit or will open a 1 plane deep Workbench.
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- Tricks:
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- MegaWB starts to be really funny when you've installed Mathew Dillon's
- DMouse (Fish-Disk 145, 160 and 168). Then you can scroll through your
- great Workbench with an accelerated mousepointer. To use DMouse
- together with MegaWB, you have to set DMouse's Inputhandler-priority to a
- value higher than MegaWB's, i.e. at least 52.
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- It's very useful to have a memory extension (more than 1MB), because a
- 1024 x 1024 pixel large Workbench eats 256 KB!
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- My favorite Workbenchsize is 704 x 1024 (I use an overscan 704x278
- Workbench). This way I am able to use several texteditors (DME's) and I
- can put them directly above each other.
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- Bugs:
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- The large Workbench doesn't have any ScreenDepth-Gadgets. I never use the
- Workbench's ScreenDepth-Gadgets, that's why I didn't even try to remove
- this bug. Just use C=-M and C=-N!
-
- Some programs are not written to run on a very large workbench so they
- get a bit confused if you make their windows bigger than the size of the
- original Workbenchscreen.
-
- It is sometime possible to drag a window one pixel over the
- Workbenchscreen's right border. This trashes the display a bit but
- doesn't cause any serious problems.
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- Copyright:
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- MegaWB is Public Domain. It is free to be copied and to be given to other
- Amiga-Users. The only limitation is that you have to leave my Name in the
- program, in its source and in the documentation files.
-
- Who makes any changes in the program is allowed to add his name in the
- programs head, but he mustn't remove my name. I think that it would be
- good if anybody who has made any improvements or has any suggestions
- sends them to me.
-
- If there's anyone who would send a Shareware-fee to me if this program
- was ShareWare, he can do this anyway. He can decide which amount he'd
- like to send. I'm not only interested in money, but also (maybe even
- more) in new and good public domain software.
-
-
- --- Fridtjof.
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