dpvc@ur-tut.UUCP (Davide P. Cervone) (03/13/88)
OK Gang,
I've sent my latest utility program to the moderators of the
comp.{sources|binaries}.amiga groups. It's called vScreen. What does it do?
Well, have you ever wanted to have a screen larger than 640 x 400, say
1024 x 512? Well, vScreen allows you to create "virtual" screens that are
larger than the display area of your monitor. When you move the mouse off the
edge of the display, the virtual screen will scroll to show more of the
screen in that direction. For instance, you can make the workbench 600 lines
tall and stretch an editor window so that it is a full page high. Of course,
you still can only see 200 (non-interlaced) lines at a time, but it is very
easy to scroll to see the rest of the window.
Included with vScreen are some utilities to help you manipulate windows that
do not include drag bars or sizing gadgets, or that have the maximum size set
too small for the virtual screen.
Not all programs will work with vScreen, unfortunately. For instance, neither
DPaint II nor DigiPaint are set up to take advantage of larger screens. You
can enlarge an Aegis Images screen, but the frame does not work over the
complete area, and it does not save the entire picture (you have to use a
screen-to-IFF-file program). VizaWrite, however, has no problems with a
larger screen (once you fix the maximum size of the window with one of the
utilitiy programs), nor does the Workbench.
Most programs that open windows with sizing gadgets should be able to take
advantage of vScreen. Programs that don't use sizing gadgets may not benefit
from vScreen.
vScreen started out as a display hack, but it seemed to be useful, so I
added a few more features, and put it into a finished form. See the document
file distributed with the executables for more information on how to use it,
and how it works.
If you find any interesting uses for vScreen, please let me know. I would be
intereseted in knowing which programs work with it and which do not. I don't
have a lot of commercial software to test it with myself.
As usual, I am willing to send vScreen to anyone who wants it before it gets
posted to the moderated groups. Those of you who are on my mailing list
because you requested wIconify or wKeys should receive separate notices of the
availability of vScreen.
Davide P. Cervone
dpvc@tut.cc.rochester.edu
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