OneStep is an extension that transforms your Mac's user interface into one based on the NEXTSTEP look and feel. Features include NeXT-like windows, menus, pop-ups, scroll bars, buttons, folder and trash icons, and more.
OneStep is not just another NeXT imitation on the Mac: for the first time, it genuinely introduces on the Mac the NeXT user interface, based on screen shots from computers running the NEXTSTEP operating system.
OneStep requires System 7.0 or better. The current version of OneStep does not support Mac OS 8.
Installing ONESTEP
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Just double-click the "OneStep Installer", click Continue, then click Install to install the following items:
• the OneStep extension into your Extensions folder,
• OneStep Fonts into your Fonts folder,
• a standard OneStep Preferences file into your Preferences folder,
• a "OneStep Folder" on your startup disk, containing this Read Me file, the Register application and everything you need to customize OneStep.
Custom Install:
Two sample custom preference settings are provided, which give you even more NeXT-like features:
• "MiXT Look", with "solid drag" of windows, grouped scrollbar arrows, and a window miniaturization widget,
• "True NeXT", with the same features as above, plus black window title bars with a close box on the right, more NeXT-like menus and popups, etc.
You can also install a OneStep Appearance file, which gives you different folder, trash and widget icons. To try out these various settings, choose Custom Install and select the items you wish to install or look at the "Customizing OneStep" folder after installation.
The Custom Install also provides special versions of OneStep for international users (see below, "Note for international users").
Paying for ONESTEP
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OneStep is shareware; it is not free. If you use OneStep for more than a week or two, you should pay a $15 registration fee. Registrations for OneStep are handled by the Kagi Shareware service. After you register, you'll receive information on how to remove the "OneStep was not registered yet" reminder text that appears in scroll bars.
Paying for OneStep is simple. You can register one of two ways: on-line registration using a web browser, or off-line registration using the Register program.
Our online registration can be found at:
<http://order.kagi.com/?HL&S>
or <http://order.kagi.com/?HL> (if your browser cannot handle secure transactions)
or using the Objective Software WEB at:
<http://www.netinfo.fr/objectivesw/>
Or, using the enclosed Register program, you need to:
1. Run the Register program and fill out the form: Enter your name, email and/or postal address, and the number of single user (or site, or worldwide) licenses you desire to purchase. The form accepts many different payment methods such as: US Check, Money Order, Cash (in many different currencies), Visa, Mastercard, American Express, First Virtual, and Invoice (to be given to your accounts payable department).
2. Send it to Kagi Shareware: Either email the data generated by the Register program or print it and send it via postal mail or fax. Credit card information is encrypted by the Register program. The address to send the completed form is output by Register when you Print or Copy the completed form. The addresses are:
Email: <sales@kagi.com>
FAX: +1 510 652 6589
Snail-mail:
Kagi Shareware
1442-A Walnut Street #392-HL
Berkeley, California, 94709-1405
USA
Features
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• Replaces the windows, menus, scroll bars, push buttons, check boxes, radio buttons, and popup menus with ones reproducing the NeXT look.
• Enables solid drag of windows (not just their outline) in real time.
• Provides a thick bottom border to windows (allowing to modify their size in the vertical or horizontal direction), and an optional "miniaturization" widget in the title bar.
• Substitutes OneStep 12 (inspired by Espy Sans 10) as the system font (in Roman - English, French, etc. - and Central European Systems only).
• Installs replacement icons for generic folders, the System folder and its subfolders, and the trash, based on those found in NEXTSTEP.
• Alert boxes and Finder windows have a gray background.
• Gives you color alert icons (stop sign, caution, and note).
• Gives the disclosure triangles in the Finder a slight 3D effect.
• Provides a 3D progress bar, with colors reflecting the user's choice in the Color control panel.
Most features of OneStep are highly customizable. In this first version, only experienced users will be able to use customization options (see "Notes for hackers" below). A future version will provide Preference settings through a Control Panel...
• Pressing on the spacebar at init time, just before the OneStep icon appears, will temporarily inactivate OneStep.
• As mentioned above, most features of OneStep are highly customizable: you hackers can explore and modify with ResEdit the 'PREF' resource of the enclosed "OneStep Preferences" file. A template is provided. Do not modify the OneStep extension file itself.
• In addition, if you put in the Extensions folder a file named "OneStep Appearance", containing appropriate icons, these icons will be used instead of the ones in OneStep.
• Any Apple Menu item with a name ending with "-***" is considered a divider line. This is the same method used by the cool OtherMenu extension by James Walker <JWWalker@kagi.com>.
• OneStep is compatible with the SmartScroll control panel by Marc Moini <marc@kagi.com>, which enhances standard scroll bars by adding proportional tabs and active scrolling capabilities. Since this feature exists on NeXT computers, running both OneStep and SmartScroll will make your Mac even more NeXT-like.
• If the styleBitRemapping bit is set in the Preferences, menus can display command-shift key equivalents; in this case, normal (w/o shift) key equivalents are displayed as lowercase letters; if a menu item with a key equivalent has a style comprising "extended", it is then understood as having a command-shift key equivalent, which is drawn as an uppercase letter. It's up to the programmer to detect the choice of such a menu item.
• There are yet other features to discover...
Note for international users
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Localized versions of OneStep are available for:
• users with East-European (Czech, Polish, etc.) Systems,
• users with Japanese (KanjiTalk) Systems.
The installer program automatically installs the version of OneStep corresponding to your System software. The choice of a localized version is also available in the "Custom Install" panel of the Installer.
Distribution
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Please do NOT distribute modified versions of OneStep. Any distributed copy must be an unregistered copy, identical to the original OneStep package with no modification whatsoever. It would be difficult for us to support modified versions.
OneStep may be copied and distributed freely for non-commercial use : on-line services (Internet archives, BBSs, etc.), magazine disks or CD-ROMS , etc., without the authors' permission , provided the charges levied are reasonable distribution or download costs. Prior to any commercial use explicit permission must be obtained from the authors.
• Menus in Canvas 3/3.5 (5 is OK) and in MacWrite II do not currently work when OneStep is installed.
• OneStep is not designed for black and white screens.
• If you use the Japanese Language Kit, you may experience some instability in the choice of the System font, which may sometimes revert to Chicago or Osaka.
• The default icon for folders does not reflect the label selected using the "Labels" menu.
And surely other ones... we trust you to find them!
Support
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Support is available via e-mail. You can send your questions, comments and bug reports to:
<mailto: onestep-objectivesw@dial.oleane.com>
Thanks to…
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A great "thank you" to Masatsugu Nagata and all our beta-testers: Odile Brasier, David-Arthur Daix, Patrick Emond, Hubert Figuière, Jean-Philippe Guihard, Fabrice Guillemot, Eric Miclo, Fabrizio Oddone, Philippe Potier, Alberto Ricci, Martin Sassenberg.
The installer for this product was created using Installer VISE Lite
from MindVision Software. For more information on Installer VISE Lite,
contact:
MindVision Software
7201 North 7th Street
Lincoln, NE 68521-8913
Voice: (402) 477-3269
Fax: (402) 477-1395
E-mail: mindvision@mindvision.com
Website: www.mindvision.com
Disclaimer
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Harry Alloul, Bernard Frangoulis and Alessandro Levi Montalcini (thereafter "the authors") disclaim all warranties relating to this software, whether express or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. The authors will not be liable for any special, incidental, consequential, indirect or similar damages due to loss of data or any other reason, even if the authors or an agent of theirs has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall the authors be liable for any damages, regardless of the form of the claim. The person using the software bears all risk as to the quality and performance of the software.
US Government:
If you are acquiring the Software and fonts on behalf of any unit or agency of the United States Government, the following provisions apply. The Government agrees:
(i) if the Software and fonts are supplied to the Department of Defence (DoD), the Software and fonts are classified as "Commercial Computer Software" and the Government is acquiring only "restricted rights" in the Software, its documentation and fonts as that term is defined in Clause 252.227-7013(c)(1) of the DFARS; and
(ii) if the Software and fonts are supplied to any unit or agency of the United States Government other than DoD, the Government's rights in the Software, its documentation and fonts will be as defined in Clause 52.227-19(c)(2) of the FAR or, in the case of NASA, in Clause 18-52.227-86(d) of the NASA Supplement to the FAR.
Apple, the Apple logo, Mac, Macintosh, are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. Finder is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. NeXT, NEXTSTEP, OPENSTEP are trademarks of NeXT Computer, Inc. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
