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- Autopoint was written by Jude Katsch, formerly of Commodore-Amiga,
- now of Byte by Byte.
-
- To set up autopoint, create a directory named bgtasks and place the
- file 'autopoint.bg' in that directory. Then, in your startup sequence
- or at the CLI do an 'assign bgtasks: bgtasks'. If you wish to use
- autopoint from the workbench, you will have to rename the file
- 'autopoint.in' to 'autopoint.info'. You may now double click on the
- autopoint icon or simply type 'autopoint' from the CLI to begin.
-
- Autopoint serves two functions: it automatically selects the window
- underneath the mouse pointer and it provides a very nice screen save
- facility. After a predetermined length of time, when no keyboard or
- disk activity has occured, autopoint will blank the Amiga screen and
- place a checkmark on the screen that continually changes position.
- As soon as the mouse is moved or a key is pressed, the screen is
- restored to it's previous state. Autopoint will default to a special
- mode called 'tofront' which automatically moves the window under the
- mouse pointer in front of all other windows. If you don't want the
- windows automatically moved to the front, invoke autopoint with the
- argument 'notofront' - WorkBench users can place the word 'notofront'
- in the comment field to accomplish this. For the life of me, I can't
- remember how to specify the timeout for screen blanking, but I've
- been perfectly happy with the default.
-
- You can manually invoke Autopoint's screen saver by hitting right-Amiga
- right-shift. Autopoint may be exited by hitting a left-Amiga right-shift
- (yes, the right shift key must be used - before exiting, Autopoint will
- put up an autorequester to verify if you wish to quit).
-