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- AutoActivate
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- (Commodity)
-
- by
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- Stefan Sticht
-
- This program (binary), sourcecode, documentation is
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- PUBLIC DOMAIN.
-
- You may do anything with it!
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-
- Purpose of this commodity:
- --------------------------
- AutoActivate always activates the window under the mouse pointer when
- any key on the keyboard is pressed. Please note that Autopoint, a
- commodity which comes along with the 2.0 Extras-disk, already has this
- feature, so it's obsolete using this commodity when you normally run
- Autopoint.
-
- Requirements:
- -------------
- This commodity requires at least Kickstart 37.#? and Workbench 37.#?.
- Please check this out using Version in the Shell or About from the
- Workbench's Workbench menu. You also need to have the
- commodities.library in your libs: directory. Please check this out:
- type "dir libs:" in the shell.
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- How to start a commodity:
- -------------------------
- First there are two basically different ways to start a commodity:
- via Workbench or via Shell.
-
- Starting it via Workbench is extrem simple: just doubleclick on
- its icon and the commodity gets started. Perhaps you might change
- some parameters of the commodity. You do this with tool types. Tool
- types can be changed by clicking at the commodities icon and selecting
- Information from the Workbench's Icon menu. In the window which opens
- you see a listview gadget in which all tool types are listed. Please
- refer to your Workbench documentation on how to change this tool
- types. Which parameters you can change for this specific commodity is
- described below.
- Please note that another double click on the commodity's icon
- forces the commodity to quit, if it's already running. Running two
- copies of this commodity at the same time isn't useful and therefore
- possible.
- To start a commodity via shell you type in its name. If you get
- an "Unknown command ???" error message, you have misspelled the
- commodity's name or the commodity isn't in your current directory or
- in the current search path. The easiest way is to change your current
- directory to the location of the commodity using the CD command. You
- can change parameters of a commodity by command line options. The
- available options are listed with ? as the first parameter:
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- AutoActivate ?
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- gives you a list of the command line options. The explanation of each
- option is below. Starting the commodity once more while it is already
- running forces the commodity to quit.
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- If you want the commodity to be started at every boot-up, it's
- best to add this line to your User-Startup file:
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- <path>AutoActivate <options>
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- Don't forget to replace <path> by the path to the commodities's
- location and <options> by the options you want to change. For example
- add this line if your commodity is located in the Tools drawer of your
- boot disk:
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- Tools/AutoActivate
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- Another way to start the commodity at every boot-up is to drag its
- icon in the WBStartup drawer of your boot disk. Then the commodity
- gets started as if you had double clicked on its icon. But you have
- to add the tool type DONOTWAIT to the icon.
-
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- Using Exchange:
- ---------------
- Exchange is the commodities controller program. With Exchange you can
- control all commodities: you can kill, disable, enable, show and hide
- commodities.
- Start the Exchange program, which usually is in the Utilities
- drawer of your boot disk, by double clicking its icon. Now you see a
- list of the available commodities. Select the commodity you want to
- control. The commodities title, description and status is shown now
- below the listview gadget.
- You can kill the commodity using the Kill gadget... If the
- commodity has a window to open, in which you usually change some
- parameters, you can open this window using Show. Hide closes this
- window. AutoActivate has no window, which can be opened.
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- Changeable parameters:
- ----------------------
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- CX_Priority:
- ------------
- You can specify the priority of the Commodity within the commodities
- queue using the tool type or commandline option CX_PRIORITY=<number>,
- where <number> is the decimal value for the priority. Default priority
- is 0.
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- Send bug-reports, enhancement-requests, questions, gifts(!) to:
- ---------------------------------------------------------------
- Stefan Sticht
- Bibereckerweg 40a
- D-8390 Passau 18
- FRG
-
- or (better) EMail to:
- cbmvax.commodore.com!cbmehq!cbmger!edith!sticht
- or IWSTICHT@ibm.rz.uni-passau.de
- Fido-Net: Stefan Sticht (2:242/77:4)
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- Please include the version number of the commodity in every bug report.
- You get the version number using the Version command:
- Version [<path>]<commodity>
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