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- This is !Notepad, Version 1.30 (4th February 1992)
-
- It is copyright © Andy Piper and Steve Tudway 1992
- (Andy is only first due to the alphabetical arrangement, or so Steve
- keeps telling me...)
-
-
- **************************** Important *******************************
-
- The software contained within is Public Domain. You may copy and
- distribute it freely, with a small charge for distribution ONLY, and
- provided that it is supplied in its complete form. We do not accept
- the responsibility for any damage that this application may (but
- should not) cause. Thank you.
-
- **********************************************************************
-
- !Notepad - a desktop notepad and clipboard utility
-
- Introduction
- ------------
-
- !Notepad is a fully desktop-compatible application. It allows you to
- make important notes in a simple way. It can be used, for example, to
- make notes on a DTP document or a program, without the need of a pen
- and paper. It also has an option to transfer the contents of a line
- into a writeable icon somewhere on the desktop (this is the clipboard
- facility). There is also a NEW hotkey option, allowing the notepad to
- be called up from the keyboard.
-
-
- Using !Notepad
- --------------
-
- Double-click on the !Notepad sprite in the Filer window and a similar
- icon will appear on the icon bar.
-
- The menu (called up by clicking Menu over the icon) of the task from
- the icon bar contains the standard items : Info (leading to our great
- revolutionary new "Info" box), and Quit (which kills the application).
-
- Clicking Select on the icon will call up a window whose maximum size
- will fill up a Mode 15 screen. Clicking on the grey background of this
- window gives the window the input focus with a green caret positioned
- at the line of the mouse click. From here dark blue text can simply
- be typed in. When the end of the line is reached Return should be
- pressed to go to the beginning of the next. If the window is closed
- the text within it will be preserved for when the icon is clicked on
- again. There are facilities to use CTRL-U to clear a line, and the
- application supports use of the cursor keys in editing. The caret may
- also be repostioned using the mouse.
-
- The option bar at the top of the window allows several things to be
- done. Firstly, there are 10 pages to the notepad (0-9), and the first
- set of icons allow access to these either via a writeable icon or using
- the arrows. The next icon will entirely destroy the contents of the
- current page. Finally the clipboard option is controlled by using the
- page/line icons. These are writeable, and by altering the values it is
- possible to select an exact piece of text. The pages are numbered 0-9
- and the lines are numbered 0-18. With these figures selected, when the
- caret is next in a writeable icon, pressing Shift-Insert will transfer
- the text in the line into the icon.
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- The new hotkey option allows the window to be called up using the key
- combination of CTRL-Insert.
-
- Quitting the application will destroy any data currently in memory.
- The window has 19 lines of about 70 characters, so it will take a
- maximum of 1400 or so characters. This means a total of 190 lines will
- accept about 14000 characters, a truly massive amount!
-
-
- Credits
- -------
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- Main Program :
- Andy Piper
- Steve Tudway
-
- ...and NO-ONE else to speak of...
- (but with help from Andy C. and Andy V.)
-
-
- Please send comments, donations and all the general fan mail to :
-
- Andy Piper,
- 72 Frosthole Crescent,
- Fareham,
- Hampshire,
- PO15 6BG
-
-
- Enjoy - and look out for more PD applications from The Datafile,
- exclusive suppliers of our software!
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