george@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (George Browning) (01/17/91)
Thanks for all the interest in Usher. I've been swamped with
email messages requesting a uuencoded version. If you're
interested in a version emailed to you then please write.
If you've already written then I've got your name on file.
If you have ftp access use that instead. I do need to work on
some of my classes :-).
I'll probably upload the next release to GEnie and CompuServe
if all goes well.
The new release will come out this weekend. I'll upload
to cica (of course). It will go into pub/pc/win3/uploads as
usher101.zip. I imagine the sysop will move the file to
pub/pc/win3/util. Hopefully, he/she will remove the old usher.zip.
New features I will add:
- A way for you to add separating lines to your personal menus.
Probably @@LINE@@ or something like that in the usher.ini file.
- I'll move About, Reload, and Close under a hierarchical menu
Close already goes away if Usher is the shell (since you can't
really close the shell). A person suggested keywords similar to
@@LINE@@ for these menu options. That would be OK but I think
these are important enough so that they should always be
available. Especially the About!! :-)
- I'll add Button=left or Button=right support from the
usher.ini file. That way those who like the right button
activating the menu will be happy. The default will be
the left button.
- I'll look into adding an option for keeping the menu up
instead of having to hold the button down. I think this
is an easy addition but I'm not sure.
- For those concerned about size, these additions shouldn't add
much to the overall code size.
Thanks again for your interest in Usher. Feel free to email or
post any other suggestions. If you write before the next release
I'll try to put it in Usher 1.01.
george
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In article <1991Jan16.222658.4806@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> george@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (George Browning) writes: > >Thanks again for your interest in Usher. Feel free to email or >post any other suggestions. If you write before the next release >I'll try to put it in Usher 1.01. > The only other option I would like to see is the amount of free memory available (ala the date & time lines). This way I could see just how much memory Usher is saving me (unless of course adding this option would eat up too much of that memory itself :-) -Steven T. Ansell Computer Center Consultant Computing Services U.C.D.
ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Chris Newbold) (01/18/91)
I have one suggestion for you (otherwise I love Usher). In the "Run..."
dialog box, there seems to be a peculiar facination with requiring the
extention and full pathname for the app to run. Just typing "notepad"
results in nothing (not even an error). Unless I'm already in my /windows/bin
directory, I must enter the full name. Can it be fixed to search the PATH?
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ctne_ltd@uhura.cc.rochester.edu * uhura.cc.rochester.edu!ctne_ltd@uunetdoug@hparc0.HP.COM (Doug Parsons) (01/18/91)
Hi George. Just tried USHER and it seems to be what I'm looking for. I normally use unix X11/windows and our implementation has the same idea for the menus. I noticed that you'v posted a note saying that you will be updating USHER with enhancements. One thing that our x11 windows menu can do that you may want to include is seperate menus for each button. Normally, our users have the left button loaded with applications, te right button loaded with utilities, and the middle button (or both together) loaded with major functions like exit, refresh, and re-init. This could be a good place to put the About... and time/date stamp. The way that our menu works when it is near an edge is slightly different. Not necessarily better, mind you, but different: If you bring up the menu when it is close to the right edge of the screen, the menu and all submenus will align to the righthand edge (ie. overlap one another). I've found it confusing to the eyes when the sub menus jump to the left on USHER. One anomaly I noted was that the win.ini entries for load= and run= were not being executed when I ran USHER as a shell. The reason came to me when I was watching the Gulf news last night (strange where the mind wanders in times of duress): I keep my windows programs in a sub-directory called PROGRAMS and reference the files in it thus: load= programs/MYPROG.EXE programs/ABC.EXE When I changed them to be load=c:\windows\programs\myprog.exe then USHER loaded them correctly. I suppose that Windows/3 is looking for the files relative to the Windows3 directory, whereas USHER is looking for them relative to the directory where WIN is issued (the root, normally). Oh - a good reason to add the multiple menu functionality (left, right, and middle/both) would be to get rid of the competition. It's too confusing/ complex/frustrating to have 2 programs doing one job. Hope this helps. I'll send my s/w money as soon as I can get some converted (I'm in Australia). Doug Parsons, Hewlett Packard Australia [standard disclaimer]
riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) (01/19/91)
In article <2770010@hparc0.HP.COM> doug@hparc0.HP.COM (Doug Parsons) writes: >Just tried USHER and it seems to be what I'm looking for. Can I get Usher by anonymous ftp from somewhere? Carl Riehm.
george@hobbes.ncsu.edu (George Browning) (01/21/91)
In article <279752B7.25239@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes: >In article <2770010@hparc0.HP.COM> doug@hparc0.HP.COM (Doug Parsons) writes: >>Just tried USHER and it seems to be what I'm looking for. > >Can I get Usher by anonymous ftp from somewhere? Carl Riehm. Soon you'll be able to get Usher 1.1 from cica. I'll post it on Monday. Just finished adding a whole bunch of features!!! I'm testing and updating the documentation now. Stay tuned to this newsgroup! george -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | o | George Browning george@catt.ncsu.edu | o | | o | NC State University Raleigh, NC | o | ------------------------------------------------------------------------