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- Virtual 1.95 Demonstration Version for NEXTSTEP Release 3
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-
- Virtual is a virtual screen management package composed of VirtScreen, an
- extremly powerful virtual screen manager, and VirtStart, a utility to be used
- with VirtScreen.
-
- A companion package is VirtualIntro, containing english and french introduction
- files to the Virtual package.
-
- VirtualIntro Introduction Files for Virtual 1.95
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-
- This package contains introduction files about the Virtual virtual screen
- management package. The files are available in english and in french.
-
- VirtScreen 1.95 Demonstration Version for NEXTSTEP Release 3
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-
- VirtScreen is an extremely powerful virtual screen manager, with a lot of
- interesting unique features. Some features are:
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- - User control of the size and scale of the virtual screen.
- - Applications names in the windows, with user-settable font.
- - Different defaults colors for different windows kinds.
- + Custom colors for the windows (with transparency enabled).
- - Sticky windows.
- + Protected windows.
- - True view of the windows.
- + Automatic scrolling of the virtual screen in eight directions.
- + User-settable grid, letting the user move on grid boundaries.
- + Panner letting the user move in various ways.
- + Easily movable virtual screen.
- - Real-time moves.
- + Automatic screen-switching when double-clicking an application tile.
- + Resources letting you specify where an application should be launched, if
- its windows must be stuck, what the windows color will be, and more; these
- resources are maintained at the VirtScreen level, the host level and the
- user level for ease of sharing.
- + Inheritance of windows properties (defaults, then per-application,
- per-context and per-window).
- + Touched windows that do not inherit anymore.
- + Fine control over what is displayed in the VirtScreen window.
- + Comprehensive set of preferences for the expert user, defaulting to
- intuitive values for the novice user.
-
- + And a lot more...
-
- The demonstration version is a full-featured version of VirtScreen; however, it
- is running only for a limited time and it does not read nor save resources or
- user preferences.
- The author releases only this demonstration version because he is looking for
- a firm that will be interested in a commercial distribution of the application. Please contact him if you are interested.
-
- The demonstration version is running on both Motorola and Intel processors, and
- has a comprehensive english on-line hypertext help.
-
- Feel free to copy and distribute this demonstration version. Get the VirtStart
- companion utility for VirtScreen, too.
-
- VirtStart 1.80 for NEXTSTEP Release 3
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-
- VirtStart is a utility intended to be used with VirtScreen. It can be run as a
- login hook in order to help VirtScreen know all applications names when it is
- run, and not only after it has been started.
-
- The application is running on both Motorola and Intel processors, and has a
- comprehensive english and french on-line hypertext help.
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- Available files
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- The following files for Virtual are available for downloading by anonymous FTP:
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- VirtualDemo.README This file. (The other *.README
- files document the * packages.)
- VirtualIntro.pkg.compressed.README
- VirtualIntro.pkg.compressed English and french introduction
- files to the Virtual package.
- VirtScreenDemo.pkg.compressed.README
- VirtScreenDemo.pkg.compressed Motorola and Intel demo version
- of VirtScreen for NEXTSTEP 3.x.
- VirtStart.pkg.compressed.README
- VirtStart.pkg.compressed Motorola and Intel version of
- VirtStart for NEXTSTEP 3.x.
-
- The archive directories to which these files were submitted are:
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- cs.orst.edu:/pub/next/submissions/
- sonata.cc.purdue.edu:/pub/next/submissions/
-
- Yves Arrouye (Yves.Arrouye@imag.fr --- NeXT Mail)
-