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- Configure+ patcher
- Version 1.00 © Sam Kington September 1994
- See Configure+ documentation for more info
-
- About this program
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-
- This program will add Configure+’s stuff to the standard Configure resources
- – Sprites, Sprites22, Templates and Messages. This is necessary for two
- reasons:
- • There are (at least) two major versions of Configure, for respectively
- RISC OS 3.1 (A5000 and later, and upgraded machines) and RISC OS 3.5
- (RISC PC only). The windows and messages are quite different.
- • Because Configure is © Acorn Computers Ltd., I cannot legally distribute
- modified versions of the files. I *can*, however, use a program to patch
- the files you already have.
-
- How it works
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-
- When you run the application, it will put up a window where you should
- drag the directory or application that contains Configure's files. For RISC OS
- 3.10 users this should be Resources:$.Resources.Configure, for RISC OS 3.50
- users this should be something like $.!Boot.Resources.!Configure – in other
- words, either a directory in the Resources filing system, or the main
- !Configure application itself.
-
- Once you’ve dragged the application to the window, it will be replaced by
- another window, where you should select the version of RISC OS you’re running
- – it should be correct, but if for some reason it isn’t you can change it.
- Clicking on “OK” will start the patching business. The first window will
- reappear, and will be continuously updated to show you what the program is
- doing. In addition, while it’s patching the windows (i.e. most of the time),
- the currently-patched window will be displayed on the screen. The hourglass
- percentage should give a pretty good idea of how much is left to do.
-
- Which versions will it patch?
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-
- Most programs that patch a module or something (Filer+, KeyMouse et al)
- will only work on one particular version of a module. Not only does this
- patcher support two versions, but because it is intelligently adding things
- to files rather than inserting code at a certain position, it will probably
- work with other versions as well.
- It has been tested with version 1.41 (14 April 1992), the RISC OS 3.10
- version, and with version 1.62 (25 February 1994), the RISC OS 3.50 version,
- running on a RISC OS 3.10 machine. If you don't manage to get it working
- satisfactorily on these versions, I will be very surprised.
- I don't know how many intermediate versions are floating around (RISC OS
- 3.11, German RISC OS 3.15, etc.) and if they are any different – I think
- I’ve catered for the two main versions. The only real problem is if the
- number of icons in the main window (“Configuration”) is different – you might
- think there are only 12 icons in the window, but Acorn has a nasty habit of
- pushing old icons off to one side without actually deleting them. When
- ConfPatch patches the Messages file it assumes there will be a certain number
- of icons in the window; if it gets it wrong, interactive help will not work
- properly. If you know what you’re doing you can modify the Messages file (the
- added messages are at the end of the file), but it’s not *that* important to
- warrant a full explanation here.
-
- Miscellanea
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-
- Yes, I know that the !Sprites23 aren’t monochrome (they’re the same as
- !Sprites22) but Acorn’s !Sprites23 aren’t all monochrome either...