l-rittle@uiuc.edu (Loren J. Rittle) (04/28/91)
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Loren J. Rittle Software is happy to announce that NewPop v4.0 is now
available from ab20.larc.nasa.gov. NewPop has its roots in PopCLI III,
but has far eclipsed the functionality contained with that program.
NewPop v4.0 sports the following features:
* screen blanking with cute Q*X pattern display on blanked screen.
* cli/command popper.
* instant- and defeat-blanking via HOT KEYS and pointer position.
* titlebar CPU usage (actually # of task switches/second) monitor.
* titlebar SCSI I/O usage monitor.
* titlebar memory (graphics and fast) monitor.
* titlebar clock.
* joystick movements are detected and counted as `input events'.
* lock/password to restore from a blanking.
* detects 2.0 and uses 2.0's System() call, if available.
* quite robust, due to extensive beta testing, with respects to
different OS's and computer models. [this was not true with v3.2]
* fully configurable, in that:
- you can turn off any feature you don't want.
- you can set many parameters controlling how NewPop should act
e.g. NICENEWPOP NEWPOPLITE WEWANTWINDOWDRAG LOCK
BACKDROPWINDOW WIMPYCLOCK MAXSCSIUSAGE SCSIIOMONWIDTH
CPULOADMONWIDTH SCSITASKNAME FONTNAME COMMAND PASSWORD
MEMORYMONWIDTH GAPBETWEEN3 GAPBETWEEN2 GAPBETWEEN FONTSIZE
STARTYOFFSET MAXTEXTWIDTH STARTXOFFSET WINDOWHEIGHT TIMEOUT
POPKEY BLANKERPRIORITY ULC LLC LRC URC INSTANTKEY DEFEATKEY
all control some aspect of NewPop.
Programmers will enjoy the fact that NewPop is multithreaded with
up to three separate tasks interacting with one another to get the
job done. AND source is included for interested parties.
Thanks to:
* the beta testers: Ed, Ken, Aris, Chris and Thomas
* bug reporters from v3.2
* The Software Distillery (for PopCLI III, upon which NewPop is based)
* Rob Peck (for the input.device example upon which PopCLI was loosely based)
* Ed A. Hutchins (for early (pre v2.0) inspiration)
* John Riley, Lattice, Inc (for the line drawing example)
* Tomas Rockiki (for Mackie just because it is cool and inspired some aspects
of NewPop)
* Matt Dillon (for showing the WindowToFront() work-around in DMouse source)
Legal junk:
Copyright (c) 1986 The Software Distillery. All Rights Reserved
Additions and modifications Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1991 Loren J. Rittle
Modifications Copyright (c) 1990 Ed A. Hutchins and Loren J. Rittle
* As stated in the original POPCLI documentation file:
*
* Permission is hereby granted to distribute this program provided
* both the documentation accompanies the executable and that no
* charge is made for its distribution.
* I assume that this statement includes the right to modify the source
* and futher distribute the modified work under this same agreement. - LJR
* (Actually, at this point, 'diff newpop.c popcli3.c | wc'
* > 'wc -c newpop.c' + 'wc -c popcli3.c'. :-)
Loren J. Rittle
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