DOCK-IT
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                                   Ver 3.7

                          Copyright © 1996 Mike Hughes.


      In the time honoured tradition of seeing a PC prog that was Ok and
             making it better on the Amiga I bring you "DOCK-IT!"


                        Got a WB screen full of icons?

                     Tired of double-click, double-click?

            Want to use CLI arguments instead of memory hungry WB?

                    Want to save screen and memory space?


                                 Use DOCK-IT!


     INSTALLATION:

     Put "Dock-It" in the drawer of your choice (WBStartUp?), make a
     directory called Dock and put the brushes in there, put "DOCK.CFG" 
     in your S: directory and that's it!

	Example.
	
	Path:		Name:
	
	DH0:S		Dock.cfg
	
	DH0:Dock	Brushes 
			Dock_Ed
			
	DH0:WBStartUp	Dock-It 
			Dock-It.info
	

     OPERATION:

     A window containing 20 buttons appears at start-up.
     The brushes supplied and the CFG file are my own setup.
     You can alter these using DPaint or any other paint prog.
     Click ONCE on the button corresponding to the action you require.
     Use the slider gadget at the right side of the window or use the 
     vertical column of number pad keys "/","9","6","3" and "." to 
     instantly view the other pages of buttons.
     
     
     SETTING UP:

     The set up is stored in the "S:Dock.cfg" text file.
     Tooltypes are no longer used because with 300 items to edit this 
     method was found to be too cumbersome.

     The format is:

     Line 1: The name of your preferred text editor. 
     This will auto-load the cfg file when the "Config" menu option is used.

     Line 2: When the ESCAPE key is pressed this line will be executed.

     Line 3: Full name of command ( e.g. RUN DH0:DPaint noicons )
     Line 4: Full name of directory to change to prior to executing command
     Line 5: Full name of icon to display for this entry
     .
     .
     .
     .

     Repeat for each of 100 icons.

     Qoute marks are not needed. Parameters may be added.
     Leave a blank line for each empty command, dir to change and icon.


     EDITING THE SETUP

     The setup may be altered either by loading the "S:Dock.cfg" text 
     file into a standard ascii text editor OR by using the 
     right Amiga + S key press to actuate your own text editor.
     

     NEW for Version 3.5+
     
     Press right Amiga + E and guess what happens?!  If you were in
     WorkBench you would be presented with the "Execute a File" requester.
     Dock-It now has its own more powerful version of this facility.
     Try it and see!


     TOOLTYPES:

     APPICON	The name of the icon to use when Dock-It is iconified.
     
     TITLE	The text to appear in the window title.
     
     (Most others don't allow you to change these, but I'm more generous!)
     
     X		X position on WB screen.
     
     Y		Y position on WB screen.



     AUTHOR:

     Mike Hughes. 21 Lee St, Sutton, St. Helens, Merseyside. ENGLAND.
     
     EMail: 	  mike@hughes.mersinet.co.uk

     IRC:         I am known as UGOG on #AmIRC (Evenings and weekends).
     
     This program is SHAREWARE. You may copy and distribute this entire
     archive providing nothing is altered and no profit is made.

     The registration fee is a bar of chocolate sent to the above address.
     Feel free to contact me via Email if you have any queries.


     A Brief History:
     
     V1.0  Written with CanDo and _very_ basic - but it worked a treat!
    
     V1.5  Added Scrollbar and extra pages.
     
     V2.0  General tidying up for aesthetics more than anything.
     
     V3.0  Re-written in BlitzBasicII - what a difference!
     
     V3.1  Added appicon option.
     
     V3.2  Fixed appicon option!
     
     V3.4  Now instead of using tooltypes, an external text file is used.
     
     V3.5  Extra options like "Command" incorporated.
     
     V3.55 Changed Shareware fee from £10 to a bar of chocolate - a bargain!     

     V3.6  Fixed screen font "anomyly". Sizes window properly etc now.
     
     V3.61 Added X/Y tooltypes to position Dock-It on WB screen.
     
     V3.62 Added "Snapshot" and changed "Setup" menu entry to "Config".
     
     V3.7  Interim release. See below.


     PROBLEMS PROBLEMS......

     
     Well not so much a problem, more a "technical difficulty". If your
     Workbench screen font was not the one I expected you to have then the
     window dd not always size itself properly.  Hmmm... scratch of head.
     I know there is a command withing Blitz to find the font size but could
     I find it?  No, I searched high and low to no avail.  I remember seeing
     it in the Blitz newsgroup on the 'net and one time I did downlaod and
     save it - but now its gone.

     To get round this I wrote a version with a tooltype whereby you could
     enter the size manually and Dock-It would read this and make use of it
     but I wasnt really satisfied with this technique.

     What I really need is that little piece of code to find the WB Screen
     font size.  Then if the size changes Dock-It will function properly.

     So, what this release does is assumes you have an 8 point screen font.
     By all means, use a hex editor to change the value until I get it
     sorted properly.  If you have the info I need please contact me!!

     Of course, if you decide to register your Dock-It, the version you
     receive will be tailor made to suit your screen font size - that is
     until I get this crucial information! (Don't I go on?)