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- VSWITCH
- =======
-
- About VSWITCH
- =============
-
- Do you like being able to quickly switch between full-screen
- sessions? Are you tired of waiting for OS/2 to swap in half of the
- Presentation Manager code and redraw your screen every time you
- press <Ctrl-Esc>?
-
- If so, VSWITCH may be for you. VSWITCH is a text-based (VIO) task
- list, providing the same functionality as the task list displayed by
- <Ctrl-Esc>. Instead of switching your computer into graphics mode,
- VSWITCH simply uses a pop-up VIO screen to display the task list, so
- you don't have to wait when you want to switch tasks.
-
-
- Installation and Invocation
- ===========================
-
- To install VSWITCH, add a "RUN=VSWITCH.EXE" to your CONFIG.SYS, or
- enter "detach vswitch" at the command prompt. To activate the
- VSWITCH task list, hold down the RIGHT <Alt> key and press the
- forward slash key at the same time. These two keys are right next
- to each other, so the combination is easy to remember.
-
- This keystroke causes a task list window to appear over the current
- screen. A session can be selected by using the arrow keys, or by
- entering the first letter in the session title.
-
- Once a session has been selected, you can enter any of the following
- keys:
-
- <ENTER> or <SPACE> - switches you to the highlighted session
- <ESC> - places you back in the session you started in
- <ALT-X> - uninstall VSWITCH
-
-
- Known bugs/limitations
- ======================
-
- - VSWITCH may not display the task list properly if you have more
- than 23 active sessions. I don't know about OS 2.00, but I know
- that OS/2 1.x won't even let you open that many sessions, so I
- don't think this will be a major problem.
-
- - When you initially bring up the task list, the highlighting bar
- may not always appear over the current session. When VSWITCH asks
- OS/2 for the 'foreground process' identifier, OS/2 sometimes seems
- to return the identifier for the previous full-screen session, or
- on occasion, even the identifier for VSWITCH itself (which can
- never be in the foreground, since it is a detached process!).
-
- This problem seems to be worse under OS/2 2.0 than it is under
- 1.3. If anyone knows how to fix this, please let me know.
-
-
- Credits
- =======
-
- VSWITCH is based on the public domain "HOTKEY" program by Peter
- Fitzsimmons and Dave Burton. VSWITCH is also public domain, and the
- source code is provided. This code was compiled with MSC 6.0, but
- chances are that it will work with other compilers such as WATCOM
- and JPI.
-
- This code is free, and it was a quick hack to get around the
- slowness of the OS/2 task list. This product is officially
- unsupported. If you do have a problem, please drop me a note, but I
- can't guarantee a fix or a response.
-
- - Scott Dudley
- August 8th, 1992
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