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- * FullView *
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- * © Copyright 1989,1990 by Jonathan Potter *
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- FullView v1.1
-
- FullView is a text viewer, with one basic difference to all other text viewers
- I have seen - the up/down gadgets are at the bottom of the screen, instead of
- on the side of the screen. This means that you get the full 80 columns across,
- instead of only 78. FullView will also open up to the height of the Workbench
- screen, meaning you get the maximum possible screen size.
-
- To start FullView, type from the CLI
-
- FullView filename
-
- or from the Workbench, doubleclick on a project icon that has FullView as its
- default tool.
-
- FullView consists of a hi-res screen, 3 gadgets and 2 menus. The gadgets are
- at the bottom of the screen. The up and down arrows move you in that direction
- through the text. The status bar between the two arrows tells you your
- current posisition in the file. The close gadget at the top provides a way to
- exit the program.
-
- The first menu, Project, contains the following options :
-
- [NB A-xx means RIGHT-AMIGA + xx]
-
- Load (A-L) - allows you to load a new text file from within FullView.
- Save (A-S) - allows you to save the current file as straight ASCII text.
- Print
- Screen (A-C) - allows you to send the screen as ASCII text to the printer.
- All (A-P) - allows you to send the whole text file to the printer.
- Search (A-E) - allows you to search for a specified text string in the
- text.
- Scroll (1-4) - allows you to change the scroll speed, 1 being the slowest,
- and 4 the fastest.
- About (A-A) - Displays a requester giving short program info.
- Iconify (A-I) - Iconifies FullView to a small window on the Workbench
- screen.
- Quit ESC, Q - exits FullView.
-
- The second menu, Move, contains the following options :
-
- Top (A-T) - Move to the top of the current text
- Bottom (A-B) - Move to the bottom of the current text
- Page Up (A-U) - Move one page upwards
- Page Down (A-D) - Move one page downwards
-
- The following keys may be used in FullView :
-
- Up Arrow
- Left Arrow
- - Move one line up
- With SHIFT, move one page up
- With CTRL, move to top of file
-
- Down Arrow
- Right Arrow - Move one line down
- With SHIFT, move one page down
- With CTRL, move to bottom of file
-
- ESC, Q - Quit
- 1-4 - Change scroll speed
- SPACE - Start/stop forwards scrolling (also left mouse button)
- BACKSPACE - Start/stop reverse scrolling (also right mouse button)
-
- FullView also allows you to load files compressed with the FVCompress
- program accompanying FullView. The compression generally yields between
- a 30% and 50% reduction in size.
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- FullView 2.0
-
- Major changes to FullView in v2.0 are :
-
- a) Use of the ARP library. The results in a better file requester, slightly
- smaller executable size, and full wildcard support in searching.
- b) Loading and Saving are much faster.
- c) The old FullView compression routines (Huffman) have been replaced by
- the PowerPacker decrunch routines. PowerPacker gives better compression,
- and the decrunching is much faster.
- d) FullView now opens to the full width of the Workbench screen, as well as
- the height.
- e) Scroll speed has been removed from the menu. The scroll speed and
- direction are based on the vertical position of the mouse pointer.
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- FullView 2.01
-
- Major changes to FullView in v2.01 are :
-
- a) Don't use ARP anymore.
- b) Wildcards no longer supported in searches.
- c) Shows IFF files either from within FullView or from CLI/Workbench.
- From Workbench, set picture's ToolTypes to read FILETYPE=ILBM.
- From CLI, enter +p after filename. Eg,
-
- FullView picture.pic +p
-
- Press TAB to turn cycling on or off. PowerPacker-crunched IFF files can
- also be shown.
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- FullView 2.02
-
- A few bugs fixed. IFF viewer now much better. Slowest scrolling speed is
- slow enough to read comfortably.
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- FullView is freely redistributable, but is not Public Domain.
- If you use FullView, please give credit where credit is due, and
- if FullView is used on a Commercial product, please send a $20 donation to the
- author.
-
- Jonathan Potter
- P.O. Box 289
- Goodwood, SA 5034
- Australia
- ph : (08) 293 2788
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