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- MachII - Mouse Accelerator with Hotkeys (and other stuff).
- Version 2.4c 09-23-88.
-
-
- This program may be freely distributed but may not be used in any
- commercial product without prior written permission.
- Source available. Shareware donations ACCEPTED.
-
-
- For those who hate doc files, just type "run MachII" and then
- "Cancel" the "Can't Open Configuration File!". Now activate the
- clock window with your mouse and press the right button. The
- requester displayed has all of your options and hotkeys. Change
- them to what you like and save it. AND TRY THIS; hit Alternate-
- Escape then Amiga-F1 then type (for example) "diskcopy df0: to df1:"
- then hit Alternate-Escape again. Now press Amiga-F1. Also look at
- F1 in the requester. Read on if you're still interested.
-
-
- FEATURES
-
- Hotkeys 30 macros activated with the Function keys or the
- Amiga or Ctl-Amiga-Function keys or by typing the
- first few letters of the macro. Macros may be
- automatically recorded and may include mouse
- buttons.
- Auto Execute Automatically execute macros at startup or at a
- specific preset time.
- Help Screen Display a chart with the current macro definitions.
- Accelerator Speeds up mouse movements. Adjustable.
- PopCli Execute a NewCLI or any other command.
- Screen Blanker Blank or dim the screen after an adjustable
- period of time.
- Mouse Off Turn off the mouse after a specified number of
- seconds with no mouse activity.
- SunMouse Activate a window by moving the mouse into it.
- ClickToFront Move a window to the front by single or double
- clicking in any part of it.
- Cycle Move a window (or screen) to the back with the
- left then right mouse button combination.
- Screen Shuffler Use Left_Amiga-M to push ANY screen to the back.
- Clock Optional title bar clock with memory display, date
- and low memory warning.
- Alarm Set an alarm.
- Beeper Beep every 15 minutes. Adjustable.
- Meter Maintain online costs. Adjustable rates.
- Qualifier Accum Accumulate qualifiers to be added to a key or to
- mouse activity such as Workbench's extended
- selection.
-
- All features may be turned off. Unused hotkeys are passed through
- and may be defined on the fly. Configuration file is saved to disk.
- See the SPECIAL KEYS section near the end for a description of all
- definable keys.
-
-
-
- UPDATES:
- 2.4c a. A primitive method for recording mouse button clicks is now
- included.
- b. \annnn may be used to automatically execute macros upon
- startup if nnnn = 0 or at the time nnnn (24 hour format).
- c. The clock now has a "Memory Only" display option.
- d. The date is displayed whenever the clock window is active (if
- you are in the clock + memory mode).
- e. The word "Time" has been removed. (By popular demand)
- f. The clock window will now have a border on 1 plane screens.
- g. \Pnn may be used to pause nn seconds. Used mainly to delay
- between mouse clicks but can also be used to allow user input.
- h. \G may be used to beep.
- i. \Q may be used to remove MachII.
- j. \h or \hnnn may be used to pop up a help screen with macro
- definitions. The optional nnn specifies the screen height.
- k. When using Amiga-N or Amiga-M, the window under the pointer
- will become the active window (if SunMouse is active).
- l. The screen blanker has been changed to dim the front screen.
- The brightness level is adjustable. A value of 0 will blank
- the screen in the same way as before.
- m. A mouse off feature as been added. Adjustable delay.
- n. A subtle bug in event timestamps that caused sporadic lockups
- is fixed. (Finally!)
- o. Macros invoking other macros now function in a true recursive
- manner.
- p. A \ may be used to terminate a \fstring or \Xstring.
- q. ESCape will abort an executing macro.
- r. Task priority is lowered to 4 (below con:) during macro output
- s. Moving icons with no clock now works.
-
- 2.4b Internal upgrade.
- 2.4a Internal upgrade.
-
- 2.3 a. The clock can be placed on other screens and it can pop to
- the top screen. Use the gadget WBscreen/Screen Depth/Clock
- To Top to select.
- b. Another new gadget allows you to toggle "Cycle" on and off.
- "Cycle" allows the cycling of windows and screens with the
- left-right mouse buttons.
- c. You can use the Function keys alone for a total of 30 hotkeys.
- d. You can use \Y in macros to write the date. Use \y for the
- short date form.
- e. Accelerator events now have a time stamp so it works properly
- with programs like Shanghai.
- f. The clock has a title ("MachII") so other programs can find it
- g. You can use a clock left edge larger than 350 (494 for clock
- only).
-
- 2.2 a. There are NO commandline arguments. All options are selected
- and changed in the requester.
- b. The time and memory display alternates with the date. The
- number of seconds that the time is displayed is adjustable
- with the `Date Delay' gadget. With clock only, the date and
- time are displayed together in the format "mm-dd-yy hh:mm:ss".
- c. If free memory falls below 50k, the time and memory display is
- shown in red (pen 3). This value is adjustable.
- d. You can execute commands in macros by using \X. Using
- "\XNewCli >nil: <nil:" in a macro is the same as using the
- Amiga-Esc Popcli feature.
- e. The extra keys of the 500 and 2000 are supported.
- f. Using ClickToFront on an already up front window does not
- try to do a WindowToFront.
- g. You cannot create an icon and run this from the Workbench, you
- should put it in your startup-sequence.
- h. Pressing the right mouse button will reset the qualifier
- accumulator.
-
- 2.1 a. All options are saved in the config file.
- b. You can now load a config file with a hotkey macro by using
- "\fname".
- c. Use "\b" in a macro for instant screen blanking.
- d. Use single or double click for ClickToFront.
-
- 2.0 a. This is a major rewrite of Mach 1.6. Although it can still
- do everything that the old one could (and more), the method
- of setting your variables and hotkey macros has changed. It
- is about 8k larger (about 20k) but if this is to big, you can
- always use the old Mach. The nicest thing about this version
- is the ability to define a hotkey macro on the fly and if
- needed, edit it in a string gadget. There are now 20 hotkeys,
- the Amiga-Function keys and the Ctl-Amiga-Function keys.
-
- OVERVIEW:
-
- MachII is a utility program that provides many optional features
- for both CLI and WorkBench users (although it cannot be started from
- an icon). Your own configuration may be saved to disk. Each function
- key may be used as a hotkey and hotkeys may be defined on the fly.
- They may also include mouse button clicks.
- Other features include a SunMouse that automatically activates the
- window that the pointer is over, ClickToFront which allows you to
- bring a window to the front by single or double clicking in any part
- of it and many clock features. It is very easily configurable to your
- own desires. If you don't like a feature, just turn it off. Pop up
- the configuration requester by either activating the clock and
- pressing the right button or by typing Control-Amiga-Escape. A
- configuration file is not neccessary but without one you will get the
- defaults. You will also get a "Can't Find Configuration File"
- requester. After you have setup your macros and other options, you
- can save this to the file s:mach.config.
-
- USAGE:
-
- Run MachII
-
- After it is running, you may either activate the clock with the
- mouse and press the right button or press Control-Amiga-ESC.
- This will pop up a requester jammed full of gadgets. All options
- and hotkeys may be modified here.
-
- The gadgets are:
-
- 1st ROW
- 1st: Toggle between Amiga, Control-Amiga and None hotkeys.
- 2nd: Clear all hotkey definitions.
- 3rd: Abort a macro definition.
- 4th: Change the maximum macro size.
- 2nd ROW
- 1st: Select each hotkey with the 'Fn' gadgets.
- 3rd ROW
- 1st: Selected hotkey macro definition.
- 4th ROW
- 1st: Amiga-ESC execute string.
- 5th ROW
- 1st: Activate/deactivate SunMouse.
- 2nd: Select 0, 1 or 2 clicks for Click To Front.
- 3rd: Select Cycle on or off.
- 4th: Activate/deactivate the Amiga-M Screen Shuffler.
- 6th ROW
- 1st: Activate/deactivate the Qualifier Accumulator.
- 2nd: Toggle the Clock.
- 3rd: Toggle Online Meter.
- 4th: Reset Online Meter.
- 7th ROW
- 1st: Select Clock Front or Clock Depth gadget.
- 2nd: Select WBScreen, Screen Depth, or Clock To Top.
- 3rd: Select Clock Only, Mem Only or Clock+Mem.
- 8th ROW
- 1st: Set the Clock's left edge.
- 2nd: Set the Clock's top edge.
- 3rd: Set the seconds to alternate time and date. 0=time only.
- 4th: Select online rate. ($00.00 - $99.99)
- 9th ROW
- 1st: Select blanking interval (0-99 minutes).
- 2nd: Dimness level. 0 = Black, 15 = no change.
- 3rd: Mouse off delay (0-99 seconds).
- 4th: Select beep interval (0-999 minutes).
- 5th: Set the alarm time. 24 hour format.
- 6th: Change the acceleration rate (0-9).
- 10th ROW
- 1st: Step through the 4 special functions.
- 2nd: Select a key for the special function.
- 3rd: Set the memory level to receive low memory warning.
- 11th ROW
- 1st: Select the Alternate qualifier for a special function.
- 2nd: Select the Control qualifier for a special function.
- 3rd: Select the Shift qualifier for a special function.
- 4th: Select the Amiga and C= qualifiers for a special function.
- 12th ROW
- 1st: Configuration file name.
- 13th ROW
- 1st: Done.
- 2nd: Load configuration file.
- 3rd: Save configuration file.
- 4th: Remove MachII.
-
-
- HOTKEYS:
-
- There are 30 hotkeys; 10 Function keys, 10 Amiga-Function keys and
- 10 Ctl-Amiga-Function keys. "Hotkey" referred to here will mean any
- one of these. Macro will mean the definition given to a hotkey. In
- the requester you can select each Function key with the 'Fn' gadgets
- and select the Ctl-Amiga/Amiga/None gadget. The macros may be edited
- in the string gadget. The default maximum macro size is 255 charac-
- ters but this may be changed in the size gadget. You cannot change
- the size while you are creating a new macro and the new macro size
- will not take effect until you select "Done". This controls the size
- of dynamic buffers which are allocated only during macro definition
- or when the requester is up. The actual macros take up only as much
- space as they need.
-
- Macros are invoked either by hitting the hotkey or by hitting Shift-
- Alternate-Escape and then type some of the first letters of the
- macro and then return. The first macro found that matches will be
- executed. If none is found there will be a beep. See the Special
- Keys section for changing the keys used.
-
- Defining Macros:
-
- To define a macro, type Alternate-ESCape, then a hotkey and the type
- your macro. During these steps, you will be prompted by messages in
- the clock and by beeps. You may use any keys including qualifiers,
- arrow keys, numeric keypad keys and mouse buttons. When finished,
- hit Alternate-ESCape again. You may now use your macro by hitting
- the selected hotkey or by hitting Shift-Alternate-ESCape, enough
- characters to uniquely match the macro followed by return. You may
- also edit the macro in a string gadget by hitting Control-Amiga-
- ESCape or by activating the clock window and pressing the right
- mouse button. All of these special keys can be changed to your own
- preferences. You may also enter your macro directly in the string
- gadget.
-
- Sample recording and playback session: (Special keys are shown in <>)
-
- <Alt-ESC><Amiga-F1>Diskcopy df0: to df1:<Alt-ESC>
-
- 'Diskcopy df0: to df1:' is now bound to the Amiga-F1 combination.
- To play this back, you can type either:
-
- <Amiga-F1>
-
- Or
-
- <Shift-Alt-ESC>dis<Return>
-
- The second method searches until it finds a macro whose first letters
- match 'dis' and then plays the rest back. This is useful if you don't
- remember the function key but do remember what it begins with. If you
- also had a macro that began with 'disp' and it was before 'diskc...',
- and you typed only 'dis' the first one matching 'dis' would be played
- back. In this case you would need to type 'disk'.
-
- You may start a learning period, do a series of complex editing
- commands and then replay all of it. Or edit it and save for later
- use. This is especially useful when using word processors that don't
- have macro abilities built in.
-
- Help Screen:
-
- A help screen with the macro definitions partially displayed in a
- chart can be popped up by using \h in a macro. Executing that macro
- again will close the screen. \hnnn may be used to also specify the
- height of the screen. You could use a height of 200, push the clock
- to that screen and open the requester and have both available at all
- times. 52 is the minimum height. The screen opens an interlaced screen
- if the front screen is interlaced.
-
- Recording mouse clicks:
-
- Mouse clicks may be recorded or entered in the gadget. When a click
- is detected, MachII puts in the mouse's position, which button and
- whether it is pressed or released. For example: "\Mx155\My075\Mld"
- when played back, the mouse will be moved to x = 155, y = 75 and a
- left button down will be sent. A \P will be inserted for every
- second delay between clicks. This will allow for menus to drop or
- requesters and windows to open. You may delete them from your macro
- when not needed. Do not depend on the SunMouse to activate a window
- on playback. The mouse will be moved to the same position as when
- recorded which may not be over the desired gadget or icon. A
- qualifier such as Shift (\S) will be placed before the first \M and
- will have effect over the mouse positioning and the first click.
- e.g. \S\Mx330\My122\Mld.
-
- Escaped keys: (all case sensitive)
-
- The escape character "\" may be used for the following:
-
- \N Newline (return).
- \T TAB.
- \E ESCape.
- \D DELete.
- \B BACKSPACE.
- \\ Backslash.
- \H HELP.
- \u Up arrow.
- \d Down arrow.
- \l Left arrow.
- \r Right arrow.
- \0 Numeric pad 0.
- .
- .
- \9 Numeric pad 9.
- \. Numeric pad ".".
- \- Numeric pad "-".
- \e Numeric pad ENTER.
- \( Numeric pad "(". (Amigas 500 and 2000 only)
- \) Numeric pad ")". (Amigas 500 and 2000 only)
- \* Numeric pad "*". (Amigas 500 and 2000 only)
- \+ Numeric pad "+". (Amigas 500 and 2000 only)
- \/ Numeric pad "/". (Amigas 500 and 2000 only)
- \F1 Function key 1.
- .
- .
- \F0 Function key 10.
-
-
- \Y Write the current date in the long form.
- \y Write the current date in the short form.
- \b Instant screen blanking.
- \f Load config file using name following f.
- \X Execute the string following X.
- \Pnn Pause nn seconds.
- \Q Quit. Remove MachII.
- \G Beep.
- \a Automatically execute the macro following "\a" upon startup.
- More than one macro may have the \a and all will be executed.
- First executed are the Amiga Function keys 1-10, then the Ctl-
- Amiga Function keys 1-10, then the Function keys 1-10 with
- no qualifiers.
- The \a may be followed by a time in 24 hour format. The macro
- will be executed at that time. e.g. "\a1045\G" At 10:45, beep.
- \h Display or close a help screen with macro definitions. Use
- \hnnn to specify the screen height. Minimum height = 52.
-
- These last ten are unique in that they cannot be recorded
- live but must be entered in the string gadget. (The \P is
- however also recorded during mouse clicks).
- \ffilename and \Xstring must be terminated with a "\" if not
- at the end of the macro. e.g. "\XNewCLI\Dir\N" or
- "\XComm\\F1\F2". Note the 2 \s after "Comm". One terminates the
- "\XComm" string and one introduces a function key.
- Following a \ffilename with more commands may cause problems
- when the new config file is loaded unless it has an identical
- macro in the same location.
-
- \M Mouse info follows this.
- \Mxnnn Send Mouse x coordinates.
- \Mynnn Send Mouse y coordinates.
- \Mld Send left button down.
- \Mlu Send left button up.
- \Mrd Send right button down.
- \Mru Send right button up.
-
- Qualifiers modify the character or mouse activity immediately
- following these:
-
- \C Control.
- \S Shift (either one).
- \A Alternate (either one).
- \L Left-Amiga.
- \R Right-Amiga.
-
- An example:
-
- \Cc\u\A\S\l
-
- This plays back the key combinations:
- 'Control-c' 'up arrow' and 'alternate shift left arrow'
-
- Auto Execution:
-
- \annnn is the auto execution command. If nnnn = 0 or is omitted,
- the macro will be automatically executed when MachII is started
-
- An example:
- "\a\XNewCli <Nil: >Nil:" will open a new CLI window automatically.
-
- If nnnn equals a time of 0001 to 2359, the macro will be executed at
- that time.
-
- Another example:
- "\a930\XNewcli CON:220/50/200/50/Alarm\Call Joe\G\P3\CXEndCLI >nil:\N"
- At 9:30 this will open a newcli in the center of the screen, print
- the text "Call Joe", beep, pause 3 seconds, delete (control-x) the
- text and end the CLI window. Note the "\" terminating the newcli
- string.
-
- The first hotkeys executed are the Amiga Function keys 1-10, then
- the Ctl-Amiga Function keys 1-10, then the Function keys 1-10 with
- no qualifiers. \a macros may also be executed manually. The clock
- need not be displayed for this feature to work.
-
- Miscellaneous:
-
- Function keys not assigned to a hotkey string are passed through.
- Escaped letters are case sensitive.
- Note above that function key numbers are single digits. This means
- that 0 is F10, 1 is F1, 9 is F9.
-
- Macros may not be used for input during a \Pause.
-
- A macro may be aborted during execution with the ESCape key.
-
- Use \A for any Alternate key sequences rather than entering the
- actual Alternate-key in the string gadget.
-
- If a hotkey is embedded in a macro and the macro for that hotkey
- is null, the key is passed through. Otherwise the macro is executed.
- Got that?
-
- ACCELERATOR:
-
- The accelerator speeds up mouse movements. Its speed is set 0 - 9.
- 0 = no acceleration.
-
- NEWCLI:
-
- The Amiga and ESCape combination will create a NewCLI. You need to
- have NewCLI and Run in the c: directory. The NewCLI will have the
- same size stack as MachII. You can change this command in the
- execute string gadget. A full window example is "NewCLI
- CON:0/0/640/200/MyCLI". You can also use the \X feature in a macro
- to execute a string.
-
- SCREEN BLANKER:
-
- After 5 minutes of no mouse or keyboard activity, the screen will
- dim. You can change the time and brightness defaults in the "Blanking"
- gadget. The first number is the time delay in minutes and the second
- number is the brightness. 0-15 with 0 black and 15 no dimming. The
- numbers 0-6 are the only really useful values. 0 blanks the screen
- by opening a new screen in front. The other values dim only the front
- screen.
- You can use \b in a macro for instant blanking.
- 0 delay disables blanking.
-
- MOUSE OFF:
-
- After 10 seconds of no mouse activity, the mouse pointer will dis-
- appear. This is adjustable with the third number of the "Blanking"
- gadget. CAUTON: be sure that your pointer is visible when saving
- Preferences. It is best to turn off the Mouse Off feature by setting
- its value to 0 before running Preferences. Mouse Off may affect the
- Preferences settings changed by other programs. When the mouse comes
- back on, ALL Preferences settings are set to what they were when the
- mouse went off.
-
- SUN MOUSE:
-
- The window that the pointer is over becomes the active window after
- the first mouse movement. To be able to drag icons, the SunMouse is
- disabled while the left button is held down. The window under the
- pointer will also become active when Amiga-N or Amiga-M is used.
- Turn on or off with the "SunMouse" gadget.
-
- CLICK To FRONT:
-
- You can single or double click in any part of a window and bring it
- to the front.
- Select 0, 1, or 2 clicks with the "Click" gadget.
-
- CYCLE:
-
- You can push the window that is under the mouse to the back by
- holding the left button down and clicking the right button (the
- opposite of extended menu selection). If there are no windows or
- just one window, the screen will be pushed to the back.
- Turn on or off with the "Cycle" gadget.
-
-
- SCREEN SHUFFLER:
-
- Left_Amiga-M will push the front screen to the back instead of
- pushing workbench to the back. Left_Amiga-N will still bring the
- workbench to the front. This is useful if you have more than two
- screens on at once, especially if they don't have screen depth
- gadgets. The window under the pointer will become the active
- window if SunMouse is active.
- Turn on or off with the "Amiga-M" gadget.
-
- QUALIFIER ACCUMULATOR:
-
- Many disabled people find it difficult if not impossible to type key
- combinations such as Control-Shift-F1. MachII has the ability to
- remember qualifiers that are pressed and add them to the first
- non-qualifier key pressed. So you could for example, type Control,
- Alternate, and then F1. The Control and Alternate would be added to
- the F1 just as if they were pressed at the same time. This is not
- intended for someone who doesn't need it as it sometimes may cause
- unexpected results. For example, if you type Control and then change
- your mind, the Control will still be added to the next key pressed.
- Pressing Caps Lock or the right mouse button will reset the
- qualifier accumulator.
- This may also be used with Workbench's extended selection. Hit the
- Shift key, then click on your icons. Hit any non-qualifier key or
- the right mouse button to clear the Shift.
- Turn on or off with the "Qual Accum" gadget.
-
- CLOCK:
-
- There is a title bar clock that displays available memory and the
- time. The clock is updated every second and brings itself to the
- front (if covered up) every 4 seconds except when the left button is
- held down. Sometimes this covers up information in the title bar so
- if you don't like this use the "Clock Front"/"Clock Depth" gadget.
- This disables the auto upfront and adds an (almost) invisible depth
- gadget. The date can alternate with the time and memory display. The
- length of time that the time is displayed is adjustable with the
- "Date Delay" gadget. Select 0 to display the time only. The date
- is also displayed when the clock window is active.
-
- Clock and Memory Only:
-
- You can select "Clock Only" and get the clock and date displayed
- together in the format "mm-dd-yy hh:mm:ss" or select "Mem Only" and
- get the memory display without the clock.
-
- Low Memory Warning:
-
- The time and memory are displayed in red (pen 3) if your total free
- memory falls below 50k. You can change this value in the "Low Mem"
- gadget.
-
- Positioning the clock:
-
- You can change the clock's left and top edge in the requester
- gadgets "Clock LE" and "Clock TE". These are the current left edge
- and top edge for the clock. There are 3 methods for setting these.
-
- 1. You can position the clock then pop up the requester and save the
- new position.
- 2. Enter -1 and 'return'. The gadgets will then be updated.
- 3. Enter the desired values in the gadgets.
-
- The width for the clock alone is 146 pixels. Memory only display is
- 170 pixels. The clock with memory display is 250 pixels wide.
-
- The Clock and other screens:
-
- There is a gadget above the "ClockTE" gadget that will let you make
- three choices.
- 1. WBScreen - The clock will remain on the workbench screen.
- 2. Screen Depth - This adds an invisible depth gadget to the left edge
- of the clock. With it you can place the clock on other screens.
- 3. Clock To Top - The clock will automatically pop to the top screen
- when this is selected.
- Options 2 and 3 replace the CloseScreen vector to allow MachII to
- close its windows. Selecting option 1 or removing MachII will put
- back the original vector. If another program also replaced the
- vector, you will be given the opportunity to terminate that program
- before the original vector is replaced. If you get a requester with
- the message "CloseScreen Vectors Were Changed!", either terminate
- the program that changed the vectors and click Retry or just click
- Cancel. You cannot change these options while on another screen.
- If WBScreen is selected, the vectors are NOT changed.
-
- Turn the clock on or off with the "Clock" gadget.
-
- ALARM:
-
- You may set 1 alarm time in 24 hour format. When it goes off, it
- will beep longer than the interval beeper and the screen will
- flash. Set to greater than 2400 for no alarm. Note that with the
- auto execute feature (\annnn) you may create all sorts of fancy
- alarms.
-
- BEEPER:
-
- There is a beeper (to keep you awake) which defaults to a 15
- minute interval. Change this in the Beeping gadget.
- \G may be used in a macro to beep; prompt for user input for
- example.
-
- METER:
-
- MachII has an online cost meter. Use the "Meter" gadget to toggle
- between the meter and the clock. Use the "Reset" gadget to reset the
- meter. The rate that it uses may be set in the "Rate" gadget.
- The meter runs continuously whether visible or not. The default rate
- is $4.75.
-
- SPECIAL KEYS:
-
- There are 4 special functions selectable from 33 (or 38 for the 500
- and 2000) special keys and 5 qualifiers. They all have default
- values but these may be changed in the requester.
-
- Start/Stop - This starts or stops a macro definition or learning
- period. Type the key combination, then type the hotkey
- that you want this macro to be bound to, then type your
- macro. When finished, type the key combination again.
- This ends the learning period. You may now execute the
- macro by typing the hotkey. You may also view or edit
- the macro in the string gadget in the requester.
- Default key = Alternate-ESCape.
-
- Execute - This executes the NewCli command. You may change the
- executed command in the requester.
- Default key = Amiga-ESCape.
-
- Requester - This pops up the requester just like the pointer over
- the clock and the right button does.
- Default key = Control-Amiga-ESCape.
-
- Matcher - This is used to find and execute a macro. To match,
- type the key combination, then type enough letters
- to match the desired macro, then type 'return'. The
- rest of the macro will be executed.
- Default key = Shift-Alternate-ESCape.
-
- Note that selecting 'C= / Amiga' allows you to use either the Left
- Amiga (C=) key or the Right Amiga key. Clicking on the left half of
- the Special Key gadget steps down through the keys, clicking on the
- right half steps up. The special keys are: Tab, Escape, F1-F10, Del,
- BackSpace, Return, Help, all arrow keys and all numeric keypad keys.
- The 500 and 2000 have 5 keys that the 1000 doesn't, the numeric pad
- keys "(", ")", "*", "+", "/".
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- UNINSTALL:
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- Use the Remove gadget to uninstall MachII or \Q in a macro.
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- MISCELLANEOUS:
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- When a string gadget (or any gadget anywhere) is active, the
- SunMouse will not work.
-
- When WordPerfect has a requester up, it tries to keep the requester's
- window active. If MachII has the SunMouse option on, every mouse
- move will activate a window and then WP will activate its requester's
- window. The only thing to do is turn off the SunMouse or hold down
- the left button.
-
- This program will NOT work from Workbench. Put it in your
- startup-sequence. Use RunBack or ARun to allow the CLI window
- to close.
-
- MachII may fail to run for any number of reasons (e.g. no free
- signals, insufficient memory). You will be informed of this if it is
- started with the Run command. If started from RunBack (public domain
- program that will allow the CLI window to close and available on
- Fred Fish disk # 65) and MachII fails, you won't get any messages.
- The ARP command ARun may also be used.
-
- The NewCLI brought up by Amiga-ESC will have a stack the same size
- as MachII. Many programs that you may run from this CLI need a
- larger stack so either run MachII with a larger stack or, after you
- get a NewCLI, use the stack command to set your stack to a larger
- value. If programs mysteriously crash when run from the NewCLI, it
- may be caused by the stack size.
-
- If the macro size is set too small and you try to load a config file
- with longer macros, the macro size gadget will be updated to the
- largest macro . If you set the size too small and then select "Done"
- then activate the requester again, the macro size will be set to the
- size needed for the largest macro.
-
- Let me know if you find any incompatibilities with other programs.
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-
-
- Copyright 1988 by Brian Moats
- Polyglot Software
- 10431 Ardyce Court
- Boise, Idaho 83704
- (208) 375-3741
-
- PeopleLink - BrianM
- CI$ - 76167,2334
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- Other programs for the Amiga 500/1000/2000 from Polyglot Software:
-
-
- M18Cheater - Lets you cheat in Mean 18 by causing your opponent to
- slice. Public domain.
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- FunBut - Lets you use the F1 key instead of the left mouse button.
- It's useful when playing games like Defender of the Crown
- because it sends repeat mouse clicks. Public Domain.
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- 4 IN ONE - Four easy to play games on one disk.
-
- SlotCars For 1 or 2 players, arcade type driving and
- shooting game. Seven screens, great graphics.
-
- CircuitMania For 1 or 2 players, surround your opponent
- in a maze of wires.
-
- ShufflePuzzle Like the sliding number puzzles that you used
- to play as a kid but this uses beautiful color
- pictures.
-
- Follow That Tune Follow the bouncing boy as he jumps from
- pedestal to pedestal playing musical notes.
-
- These games are integrated into an easy to use package.
- Enjoyable for all ages. All use digitized sound. $29.95
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-
- Dominoes - 3d graphics, speech, tutorial. More entertaining and
- challenging than Shanghai. $24.95
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-
- The Crossword Creator - Make or solve crossword puzzles. 40,000+ word
- pattern matching dictionary, med-res or interlace,
- IFF compatible and many more features. $49.95
-