Doc's House Review For those that remember "Exploding Windows V1.4", this is a DOS 2.xx version. It is not as dramatic in the default as EW 1.4 was, but it adds another missing effect from 1.3x. I made a little WBstartup dir, so all you have to do is drag it over and perhaps edit a couple tooltypes after reading the docs. Or you can (my choice) stay "pure" and add it to your startup-sequence. [Sorry!! I just have this thing about draggin things here...there...everywhere. Startup-sequences should remain pure so you can see what is going on and easily edit them without dragging 50 icons around.] Doc's House 614-855-3114 "The Thinking Man's BBS" 24hr 350meg HST V.42bis ============================================================================ =================================================== E x p l o d i n g L a y e r s V 1.0 A window exploder and imploder. (c) copyright 1992 by Andreas Schildbach =================================================== 1. Legal Stuff -------------- Exploding Layers is FreeWare. Exploding Layers and the related documentation are copyrighted by Andreas Schildbach, but may be freely distributed and copied for non-commercial purpose only. Under no circumstances may you redistribute a modified version of the distribution. Neither may any redistribution for profit be made. Exploding Layers may not be included in a commercial or shareware packet or any Public Domain disk series without the written permission of the autor. If you use Exploding Layers, you do this entirely at your own risk. This program is provided 'as is' without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied. The entire risk as to the results and performance of the program is assumed by you. 2. Introduction --------------- I think everyone knows what a "window exploder" is. If not, just try it out! I wrote this program because of since Kickstart 2.04 is out, I've never seen a working window exploder again. 3. Features ----------- - Explodes and implodes windows in a fancy manner. - Catches all window resize and move events (including zip events). - Works with all OpenWindowTags. - Fully features Commodity environment. - 2.04 only! 4. How to install ----------------- Workbench: Just drag Exploding Windows to your "sys:WbStartup/" Drawer and edit the tooltypes of the supplied icon if necessary. Shell: Edit your "s:User-Startup" so that Exploding Windows will be run in the background. Append all tooltypes you need. Example: "run sys:Tools/ExpLayers CX_PRIORITY=0 STEPS_OPEN=40" Supported tooltypes: CX_PRIORITY = : Priority to start the commodity with. Meaningless for this type of commodity. FRAMES_OPEN = : Number of frames to be drawn at every OpenWindow. FRAMES_CLOSE = : Number of frames to be drawn at every CloseWindow. FRAMES_MOVE = : Number of frames to be drawn at every Move-/SizeWindow. DONOTWAIT: [ Workbench only! ] Forces workbench to NOT wait for ExpLayer's return when started from "WbStartup". STARTPRI = : [ Workbench only! ] Tells workbench in which order to start all programs in "WbStartup". 5. Usage -------- Just open, close and drag aroud windows. (-: If you want to quit Exploding Layers, use the Commodities Exchange program supplied on your 2.04 Workbench Disk. You may also want to temporary enable or disable explosions. Use Exchange for this. If Exploding Layers was started from Shell, a CTRL-C sent to the console window Exploding Layers was started from will also terminate it. 6. Known problems: ------------------ Windows with the maximum screen size will not implode and explode when opening and closing (though they will "replode" while resizing and moving). This is due to a comparison that is made for filtering out maximum size backdrop windows that can be found on nearly every screen. Exploding Layers currently patches the functions "CreateUpFrontLayer", "CreateUpfrontHookLayer", "DeleteLayer" and "MoveSizeLayer" of the layers.library. If some other program also patches one of these functions, you must quit the other program _before_ you quit Exploding Layers. 7. Acknowledgements ------------------- Thanks to Stefan Stuntz for some of his routines and beta testing. Thanks to you for using this tool and reading the docs. Thanks to Amiga for being the best computer ever. 8. Revision History ------------------- V1.0 (21.Mar.92): First public release. 9. The Author ------------- If you encounter some problems with Exploding Layers, please feel free to contact me: /* Snailmail: */ Andreas Schildbach Possenhofener Str.21 D-8130 Starnberg Germany Tel. (08151) 3401 FAX (08151) 78880 Mailbox (08151) 78880 /* E-Mail: */ Fido: 2:246/46.0 (Andreas Schildbach) I do not want to force you to pay any money for using this tool. But if really want, I'm not the one to stop you... 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