becap@cs.mcgill.ca (Brian CAPSON) (02/07/91)
There's a couple of new WinApps on CICA that I think (IMHO) are worthy of note, but haven't yet received any comments on the NET. They've made my Windows life more bearable, and I thought I'd draw some attention to them for those who haven't yet seen them. The first is a macro script for Word for Windows called Dinger that adds an Insert Chararacter command to the Insert menu. It allows the insertion of any character from a particular font, and gives you a nice grid of all the possibilities so that you just have to click on the one you want, and the character is inserted, making all the necessary font changes in the process. It's especially useful for the Zingbats and Symbol fonts because it shows you all of the possible characters, you just click on the one you want instead of looking the character up in a table! . The other program is one that I know I've been eagerly awaiting and is finally available is a sound driver for Adlib and Soundblaster cards for Windows. This driver allows all of your regular Windows sounds to be played in Stereo from you sound card. I realize that this probably only effects the few people who have these cards, but it will probably make alot of people buy them. You can taylor the standard windows beep to any one of about 50 included instruments, and can play sound files in the background. But much more importantly, the developers of the driver have said that they will be announcing libraries that will allow WinApps to call the sound routines on the card. We'll soon see Windows games with great stereo sound, and the opportunity for great Windows-based multimedia software. The developer also writes that he will soon have specific drivers for the Sound Blaster card that take advantage of the digital recording and playback features, and the FM sound capabilities of the card. Finally this will allow the IBM to combine a graphical interface with great sound a la the Mac and NeXT machines. Hats off to these developers who have given their time and talents to produce affordable well-working software that the big houses seem unable to produce! . - Brian Capson McGill University Montreal, Quebec Canada
jset_cif@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Jeff Setzer) (02/07/91)
I'd like to second your accolades! I've been waiting for a Windows driver for my SoundBlaster for a long time, and now, here on the Net, it looks like one is finally available...great job, folks. -- ASTROSETZ | Internet: jset_cif@cc.rochester.edu (U of Rochester, NY) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Heavens Declare | ...but it's hard to tell with those | CONTEXT IS The Glory Of God..." | seven waves of spherical aberration! | EVERYTHING
mr@ogre.cica.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli) (02/07/91)
In <1991Feb6.230513.13538@cs.mcgill.ca> becap@cs.mcgill.ca (Brian CAPSON) writes: >There's a couple of new WinApps on CICA that I think (IMHO) >are worthy of note, but haven't yet received any comments >on the NET. For your reference, these files are currently in the "uploads" subdirectory as "gading.zip" and "gpsenv.zip". They'll be moved into the winword subdirectory soon. Thanks for the uploads! -- michael regoli mr@ogre.cica.indiana.edu regoli@iubacs.bitnet ...rutgers!iuvax!cica!mr
ms33@prism.gatech.EDU (Mike Sullivan, a.k.a. Sully) (02/08/91)
In article <1991Feb6.230513.13538@cs.mcgill.ca> becap@cs.mcgill.ca (Brian CAPSON) writes: >There's a couple of new WinApps on CICA that I think (IMHO) >are worthy of note, but haven't yet received any comments >on the NET .... The first is a macro script for Word >for Windows called Dinger that adds an Insert Chararacter >command to the Insert menu. It allows the insertion of any >character from a particular font, and gives you a nice grid >of all the possibilities so that you just have to click on >the one you want, and the character is inserted, making all >the necessary font changes in the process. It's especially >useful for the Zingbats and Symbol fonts because it shows >you all of the possible characters, you just click on the >one you want instead of looking the character up in a table! Where is this? Maybe I'm blind, but I looked all over Cica. I looked for anything with Dinger in it, I also looked in winword\gtools.zip. I searched the INDEX file. Maybe other people are having problems finding it too. It sounds like a great utility and I'd really like to try it. If you could tell me where it is, I sure would appreciate it. Thanks, Mike Sullivan One of many Michael P. Sullivans, my views are expressly my own, and are not endorsed by my boss, fellow workers, or any other Mike Sullivan. :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet: ms33@prism.gatech.edu | Ga.Tech, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
) (02/09/91)
In article <1991Feb6.230513.13538@cs.mcgill.ca>, becap@cs.mcgill.ca (Brian CAPSON) writes: > The other program is one that I know I've been eagerly awaiting > and is finally available is a sound driver for Adlib and > Soundblaster cards for Windows... Is this driver somewhere in Cica? The two files in the upload directory are for WfW. Does anyone know the exact name of this file? -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Santanu Sircar BITNET: ssircar@umaecs.bitnet | | University of Massachusetts/Amherst INTERNET: ssircar@ecs.umass.edu | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+