
        
                        Runner -- A Desktop Alternative
        

                              KEYBOARD EQUIVALENTS
                            AND ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS

                 Keys / Colors / Pic selection / Disk Selection


                       Copyright (C) 1993 by Dave Thorson
                       Version 1.61     November 18, 1993


        Note: While this file doesn't necessarily contain more advanced 
        material, it assumes you already know a lot about Runner.  
        Before reading this, you should have read SETUP.HLP, 
        STARTUP.HLP, MENU_BAR.HLP and DIALOG.HLP.  You should also have 
        tried to use Runner a bit to understand the basics.
        
        
$$      Keyboard Equivalents

        Anything you can do with a mouse in Runner can be done without a 
        mouse as well (in fact, there are some things you can't do with 
        the mouse).  If your mouse should die, something in the ST lets 
        you use the arrow keys to move the mouse pointer.  Press 
        Alternate and the arrows to move in any direction.  Alternate 
        and Insert are like pressing the left mouse button, and 
        Alternate and Clr Home give a right mouse click.  For finer 
        positioning use Shift Alternate and the arrow keys.  (hey, this 
        was built into the machine by Atari, give them credit, not me!)

        Runner improves on this basic idea: you can also use the up and 
        down arrow keys without Alternate to move the mouse up an down 
        in menu lists.  A right arrow selects a program to run or menu 
        to open, and a left arrow moves up one menu level.  Insert acts 
        like a left mouse click and Clr Home acts like a right mouse 
        click.

        In addition, Runner supports keyboard equivalents for almost 
        every GEM menu bar action.  In the menu bar, there is always 
        one upper case letter for each action.  Press that key as a 
        shortcut (upper and lower case both work).  For those items with 
        alternate functions, you can hold down Control with either a 
        mouse click in the GEM Menu Bar or with its keyboard 
        equivalents [Note for users of older versions: the Alternate key 
        used to work the same way as the Control key, but now it's been 
        reassigned to call a file selector for the desired drive -- 
        press Alt-a for drive A:, Alt-b for drive B:, and so on.  Use 
        Control instead of Alternate to be safe].


        Keyboard Equivalents for Pull-Down (GEM) Menus in Runner
                
        Desk:
               A - About RUNNER
               U - Use accessories
        
        File:
               L - Load RUNNER.CFG
               S - Save RUNNER.CFG   
                   ^S (Control/S): saves pic config file only
               I - Installed applications list
               B - Background load/clear
               ^F - Fix RUNNER (hold Control down and press F)

        Menus:
               P - add Program
               M - add Menu
               C - Change prog/menu
               D - Drop prog/menu
               R - Restore prog/menu
               Q - QuickKeys Show/Hide

        Colors:
               N - iNitial palette
               K - desKtop palette
               G - backGround palette
               T - Text palette
               (with Control, these use selected color palette for 
               background pic also)


$$      Several other keys are important to Runner's main screen (in 
        fact, the only keys that are NOT currently used are W, E, J, V, 
        ", \, Delete and keypad "."):

        Help - views the file RUNNER.HLP if it is available.  You can 
           change this file to add new information or drop things you no 
           longer need (use any word processor that lets you save the 
           file in "ASCII" mode, or turn off Word Processing mode).  In 
           File View, pressing Help displays a key reminder box.

        Undo - quick exit from Runner - dialog box makes sure.

        Esc  - cycles through the following (shown in upper right 
             corner):
           MINI-RUN: runs next program from Mini-Run.
           HOLD SCR: holds screen after next program exits
           MRUN/HLD: both Mini-Run and Hold Screen will be used
           normal:   displays time/date or blank

        Tab - forces display of all menu items, regardless of the 
           current resolution.  This lets you Change or Remove programs       
           without switching resolution.  Press Tab again to hide items 
           for wrong resolution.  The "registered" symbol (an "R" within 
           a circle) appears next to all programs or menus not normally 
           visible in the current resolution.  Think of the "R" as a 
           Resolution warning.

        Backspace - switches time/date display in upper right corner 
           through each of the following display types:
               a. None
               b. Time display
               c. Date display
               d. Alternating Time and Date display
           Note: MINI_RUN, HOLD SCR or MRUN/HLD will replace time or 
           date display (see Esc key, above).

        [ - switches time format between 12 and 24 hour display

        ] - switches date format between mm/dd/yy and dd/mm/yy

        Space - displays file selector open to last used directory.  
           Programs selected will be run, other files will be viewed 
           unless they are for an installed application (then it will 
           run and load the selected file).

        Return - selects program to run or menu to open.

        Keypad - 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,(,),/,*,-,+ select color registers 
           to change.  The Enter key normally works as Return, and 
           keypad "." is not used.  See Color Changes below for more.

        ; - changes menu background space mode.  Try this with a picture 
           displayed to see what it does.  Pressing ";" key cycles 
           between each of three display modes.

        < - moves menu left one space; press rapidly (but do not hold 
           down) to move several spaces without waiting for redraw.

        > - moves menu right one space (see "<").

        / - centers menu on screen (default position).

        H - hide text - lets you see whole background picture.  Move 
            mouse or press a key (it will be ignored) to restore screen.

        Z - sleeps (hides text and picture) to blank out screen (see "H").

        O - turns menus On and Off (different than Hide or Sleep because 
           mouse and other keys can still be used when menus are off).

        X - swaps previous path used in file selector with current path; 
           press X before going to file selector.

        Y - calls the Regions program.


        For keys associated with using a file selector or with File 
        View, see the file FILSELCT.HLP.


$$      Picture Loading

        Shift 1, shift 2, shift 3,... shift 9, shift 0 all can be used 
        to load picture files and related configuration files.  Picture 
        file names can only be assigned to these keys or changed in the 
        Regions program.


$$      Colors

        Runner Version 1.30 added support for changing the Current 
        Palette from within Runner.  Runner supports four different 
        color palettes (sets of colors):
        
          Initial - the colors Runner first uses when it starts)
          Desktop - colors used on the desktop before starting Runner
          Background - colors used by the current background picture
          Text - colors used only in File View
        
        The Current Palette is one of these four, noted by a check mark 
        in the Colors pull-down menu.  The Current Palette is the set of 
        colors used when accessing a file selector or running a program 
        from Runner.
        
        When viewing files from the file selector (File View), only the 
        text palette is changed.  From Runner's main screen, any of the 
        palettes can be changed, but they must FIRST be made the Current 
        Palette by selecting them in the Colors menu.  To change colors 
        within the Current Palette, simply select the color register you 
        want to change on the keypad.

        This diagram shows each key and    +------+------+------+------+
        the symbol appearing on it, with   | ( 10 | ) 11 | / 12 | * 13 |
        the color register (r0, r1 and     +------+------+------+------+
        so on up through 15).  Background  | 7 r7 | 8 r8 | 9 r9 | - 14 |
        is always register 0.  Text color  +------+------+------+------+
        varies with resolution.  In high   | 4 r4 | 5 r5 | 6 r6 | + 15 |
        res (mono) it's the opposite of    +------+------+------+------+
        the background color (reg.0).  In  | 1 r1 | 2 r2 | 3 r3 |      |
        medium res, register 3 controls    +------+------+------+ Enter|
        text color, while 1 and 2 are for  |    0   r0   |      |      |
        any other colors.  In low res,     +-------------+------+------+
        register 15 (the + key) controls
        text color.
        
        Once you have selected a color register, press the R, G and B 
        keys to change the color.  With Shift, these keys increase the 
        Red, Green and Blue content.  Without Shift, they decrease it.  
        The color value is displayed (for example, 777 for a bright 
        white or 005 for a medium blue).  Increasing R, G, or B when 
        it's already at 7 wraps it around to 0, and decreasing from 0 
        wraps around the other way to 7.  Another color register can 
        also be selected by pressing another keypad key.  A color block 
        to the right of the RGB values will help you know which register 
        affects which color.  When all the colors are set the way you 
        like, press Enter or Return to accept them.  Press Esc instead 
        if you don't want to keep the changes (you'll still need to 
        press Return to exit).

        Colors changed in this manner from Runner's main screen become 
        the new Current Palette.  What happens next depends on what 
        palette (iNitial, desKtop, backGround or Text) was selected in 
        the GEM menu bar as the current palette before changing colors:
        
        *  If iNitial was selected and you Save Runner's config file, 
           then these changed colors will be saved as Runner's iNitial 
           palette and will be used the next time you start Runner.

        *  If desKtop was selected then when you exit Runner, these 
           changed colors will be used for your ST's desktop.
        
        *  If backGround was selected, then these colors will be saved 
           in the picture configuration file for the current background 
           picture, if you save Runner's config file or use Control-Save 
           to force a save of only the picture config file.
        
        *  If Text was selected and you save Runner's config file, then 
           these changed colors will be saved as Runner's Text palette 
           for future use.                


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