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- Update to version 4.46
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- This file gives a brief description of the new features added to version
- 4.20 to create version 4.46.
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- 1. ARM code is used for character input/filtering/spooling screen scrolling.
- To get the best from this you need to run the TNC-ARC link at 9600 baud.
- RISCOS 3 still has an interrupt latency problem so characters can get
- lost at higher baud rates.
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- 2. When first run !ComLink loads the WimpKey definitions from the WimpKeys
- directory within !ComLink. It will look for files with names in the range
- 1 to 8. The script file "0" will be run when !ComLink is installed on the
- icon bar.
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- 3. The WimpKey 'definitions' are stored in program memory for quick access
- to each set without hard disc access being required.
-
- 4. Each yellow WimpKey can now:-
- - Send up to 128 characters to the TNC (stored in memory)
- - Run a script
- - Send a file to the TNC
- If the file path for the script or file is not specified, then it is
- assumed to be in the WimpKeys directory. The files and scripts are
- accessed on hard disc.
-
- Control codes and system variables can be included in the text
- definitions of the wimpkeys.
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-
- 5. Clicking 'menu' over the WimpKey panel pops up the wimpkey edit panel.
- The key 'type' can be changed from 'None' to 'File' to 'Script' to
- 'Text'. The label can be different from the text/file name definition.
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- Controls in the edit window are:-
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- The 'Yellow keys' button swops to the 'White keys' as desired to allow
- these to be viewed/altered.
-
- The 'Use' button makes !ComLink use any changes you have made, without
- saving the new definitions to disc.
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- The 'Save' button..... saves the new definitions to disc and also makes
- !ComLink use the new definitions.
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- The 'Clear' button clears the definitions on view, without the results
- taking effect, the old definitions can be recovered using the 'Restore'
- button. After a 'Save' or 'Use' the old definitions can not be restored!
-
- If you type in a label for a 'File'/'Script'/'Text' type key but not the
- definition and then press 'Use' and 'Restore', then the definition field
- will be filled in for you using the label as the file name/text.
-
- Text strings must end in [13] to be sent. Just pressing any control
- sequence eg 'Ctrl+C' or 'Return' will enter the code in the definition.
-
- Clicking Select on the "WimpKey Set" icon increments the set number,
- clicking 'Adjust' decrements it.
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- 6. The WKEY: script command has changed from previous versions of !ComLink
- however the old form of the command will still be correctly interpretted.
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- 7. There is a scroll back facility in the tx area of the terminal window.
- Use the cursor up/down keys. The scroll back is 50 lines, after 50 it
- wraps back around to the start again, ie its a circular buffer. The 'Page
- Up' and 'Page Down' keyboard keys also move back/forwards through the tx
- buffer. The facility is dead handy in a 'live' QSO to look back through
- the sent text and also when a link is lost to send again the last few
- lines. Use "Shift + Return" to send old lines, this will prevent the
- next line 'below' the tx window from being cleared when the tx window
- scrolls up if the caret is on the bottom line.
-
- 8. A 'word grab' facility has been added to put a word/callsign/number into
- the selected (green) wimpkey. Simply click the mouse 'select' button
- on the word. This allows callsigns to be grabbed for a connect or message
- numbers to be grabbed to read/killed etc.
-
- 9. A 'line grab' facility has been added to allow lines from the rx window
- to be put into the bottom line of the tx window. To use this facility,
- double click on the line in the rx window. The line can then be eddited
- and sent.
-
- 10 The number of lines in the rx window is configurable, the minimum is 100
- lines. The maximum is only limited by your memory!!! (I've had an 18,000
- line window!!). !ComLink cleverly optimises the use of memory allocated
- by the task manager. (160K total application size gives approx 500 lines)
-
- 11 Built in !Help application, can be installed on the bar and gives a
- summary of !ComLinks facilities. This is useful until you become familiar
- with !ComLink.
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