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- READ-ME for Hack-it v2.0
- -------------------------
- FIRSTLY:
-
- I made this program for everyone to enjoy. I expect only one thing.
- I want you to send me email on anything you can! Have an idea for a
- program? for a feature of Hack-It!? Tell me everything! and visit my
- WWW Pages too! I know you are a net-junkie like me, so just do it.
- Copy-paste my address right now: nutt0006@maroon.tc.umn.edu
- If I don't get mail, I won't make the next versions.
-
- Background:
-
- Hack-it is a little program the I made for myself and a friend,
- mainly for use with another wonderful program, Wintalk, which
- brings up a small chat window and connects to another person
- on the net also running wintalk. We wanted to make it so the
- small chat window would stay above all other windows, so we
- could work on other things without losing sight of the Wintalk
- window.
-
- Top-It! and Hide-It! Use:
-
- For normal use, just select a window name form the top or bottom
- lists and select the button you want to act on it with. The window
- will be topped, hidden, un-topped, or un-hidden accordingly. To
- use the Auto-Top list, choose the Auto Top button, and add, edit,
- and delete window titles as needed. Wildcards (* and ?) are
- supported. (Thanks to Lee Perkins, aka LeEpR_MaN, for the wildcard
- code.
-
- Tray-It! Use:
-
- This is the newest feature in v2.0. By selecting a window from the
- first list, you can choose to put it in any of the three "Tray-It!"
- slots. The program will then be hidden, and a placemarker will be put
- on the tray. To use the placemarker, left-click to show the window,
- right-click to hide the window, and double-click to clear the slot.
- If you put a program in an already-taken slot, the former program will
- be shown and the new program will go in its place. Note: Some programs
- will not show an icon on the tray. I am working on a way to fix this.
- I have to admit, I like this feature.
-
- Revision History: (Short but sweet)
-
- v1.0 - First release version
- Very basic, nothing special to it, just choose the window to act
- one and press a button. Basic Layout: Two listboxes, one for visible
- windows and one for hidden windows. Buttons for the first list:
- Top-It!, Hide-It!, Un-Top-It!. Buttons for the second list:
- Top-It!, Un-Hide-It!, Un-Top-It!.
-
- v1.1 - Not released
- Added the Auto-Top list which allows the use of wildcards to choose
- certain windows that will always be "topped" automatically. Basic
- Layout of Auto-Top dialogs: List of wildcard specs, with buttons to
- add, edit, and delete them.
-
- v1.11 - Second release version
- Bugfix to v1.1. No new features.
-
- v1.12 - Re-Bugfix to 1.11
- Apparantly, that last .01 didn't cut it.
-
- v2.0▀ - Version 2.0 beta 1
- Added the Tray-It! feature, and cleaned up a few things. Still has
- some problems that are being difficult with me. Tray-It! allows you
- to run any program "on" the tray. It's nice for programs that you
- don't normally need to have shown, but that you run for long periods
- of time.
-
- v2.0 - Version 2.0
- I FINALLY found the problem with the beta. It all works well now, but
- I have new ideas already. 2.1 is in the works, and 3.0 is on the board.
-
- -=Charles Nutter=-
- nutt0006@maroon.tc.umn.edu
- http://umn.edu/~nutt0006